Svetan Ratchev - 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2020, Virtual Event, December 14–15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Editor-in-Chief

Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Editorial Board Members

TC 1 Foundations of Computer Science

Lus Soares Barbosa (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5037-2588), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

TC 2 Software: Theory and Practice

Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

TC 3 Education

Arthur Tatnall (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4317-971X), Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

TC 5 Information Technology Applications

Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria

TC 6 Communication Systems

Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Zrich, Switzerland

TC 7 System Modeling and Optimization

Fredi Trltzsch, TU Berlin, Germany

TC 8 Information Systems

Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark

TC 9 ICT and Society

David Kreps (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5776-2888), National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

TC 10 Computer Systems Technology

Ricardo Reis (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5781-5858), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

TC 11 Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems

Steven Furnell (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0984-7542), Plymouth University, UK

TC 12 Artificial Intelligence

Eunika Mercier-Laurent, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

TC 13 Human-Computer Interaction

Marco Winckler (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0756-6934), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

TC 14 Entertainment Computing

Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen, Germany

IFIP The International Federation for Information Processing

IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the first World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. A federation for societies working in information processing, IFIPs aim is two-fold: to support information processing in the countries of its members and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As its mission statement clearly states:

IFIP is the global non-profit federation of societies of ICT professionals that aims at achieving a worldwide professional and socially responsible development and application of information and communication technologies.

IFIP is a non-profit-making organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates through a number of technical committees and working groups, which organize events and publications. IFIPs events range from large international open conferences to working conferences and local seminars.

The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high.

As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.

The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group and attendance is generally smaller and occasionally by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is also rigorous and papers are subjected to extensive group discussion.

Publications arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP World Computer Congress and at open conferences are published as conference proceedings, while the results of the working conferences are often published as collections of selected and edited papers.

IFIP distinguishes three types of institutional membership: Country Representative Members, Members at Large, and Associate Members. The type of organization that can apply for membership is a wide variety and includes national or international societies of individual computer scientists/ICT professionals, associations or federations of such societies, government institutions/government related organizations, national or international research institutes or consortia, universities, academies of sciences, companies, national or international associations or federations of companies.

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