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This page contains news regarding UPGRADE, The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 32 European countries and is the voice of more than 200,000 ICT Professionals in our continent. 

Comments, criticisms, suggestions are welcome and should be sent to the editors of UPGRADE.

Our 6/2002 issue (December 2002) about "Security in e-Commerce" is now available. It has been guest edited by Javier Areitio-Bertolín, Javier López-Muñoz, José A. Mañas-Argemí, and Stephanie Teufel.

The core idea this issue has been built upon is that the key to e-Commerce lies in establishing a relationship of trust between buyer and seller, just as there should be in traditional commercial transactions, and therefore a high level of accessibility, reliability and confidentiality are a must. Under this scenario Security is a critical factor; a matter of capital
importance in the development of any initiative in the area of electronic commercial activities. 

The Spanish and Italian editions of this issue will be available soon thanks to Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI, and to the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca, respectively.
 

A preview of our 6/2002 issue (December 2002) "Security in e-Commerce" is now available. It has been guest edited by Javier Areitio-Bertolín, Javier López-Muñoz, José A. Mañas-Argemí, and Stephanie Teufel.

The full issue will be published shortly in this website.
 

Two articles of Upgrade 4/2002 on XML have been fully translated into Italian, by initiative of the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

Click here to see the list. 

The Spanish edition of Upgrade issue 5/2002 on "Inteligencia Artificial: una tecnología con futuro" ("Artificial Intelligence: Technology with a Future") (abstracts and some articles online; full edition printed) is available now, published by Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI. 

Click here for the English edition.

Upgrade is now two years old!

Our 5/2002 issue (October 2002) on "Artificial Intelligence: Technology with a Future" is now available. It has been guest edited by Federico Barber, Vicente J. Botti (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain), and Jana Koehler (IBM Research Lab, Zürich, Switzerland.) 

The articles included cover several AI areas from multiple viewpoints --generalist, scientific and applied-- with a special emphasis on future developments. They should give the reader an idea of the historical perspective, the current state and the future possibilities of AI. 

As a demonstration of the European-wide reach of Upgrade, the Spanish and Italian editions of this issue will be soon available thanks to Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI, and to the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca, respectively.

The Italian edition of Upgrade issues 4/2002 and 3/2002 on "XML: The ASCII of the 21st century?"  and "Information Retrieval and the Web", respectively, are now available online (abstracts and presentations only), thanks to the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

The Spanish edition of Upgrade issue 4/2002 on "XML: ¿el ASCII del siglo XXI?" ("XML: The ASCII of the 21st century?") (abstracts and some articles online; full edition printed) is available now, published by Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI. 

Click here for the English edition.

Our 4/2002 issue (August 2002) on "XML: The ASCII of the 21st Century?" is now available. It has been guest edited by Luis Sánchez-Fernández and Carlos Delgado-Kloos (Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain). It includes both technical articles and articles referring to case studies involving the use of XML in different fields, assuming that although XML is a standard developed by W3C, its applications go beyond what can be strictly speaking considered as the scope of the Web. 

A preview of our 4/2002 issue (August 2002) "XML: The ASCII of the 21st Century?" is now available. It has been guest edited by Luis Sánchez-Fernández and Carlos Delgado Kloos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.) 

The full issue will be published shortly in this website.

UPGRADE has been assigned ISSN 1684-5285. 

The website of EUCIP (European Certification of Informatics Professionals), pan-European certification scheme aimed at the informatics professional, developed by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) is now operative.

Click here to visit the EUCIP website. 

A number of Upgrade articles have been fully translated into Italian, by initiative of the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

Click here to see the list.

Click here to see the schedule of the issues of Upgrade for the rest of the current year.

The Spanish edition of Upgrade issue 3/2002 on "Information Retrieval and the Web" (abstracts and some articles online; full edition printed) is available now, published by Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI. 

Click here for the English edition.

Our 3/2002 issue (June 2002) on "Information Retrieval and the Web" is now available. It has been guest edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile)  and Peter Schäuble (Eurospider, Switzerland), who have selected a wide range of interesting articles on a discipline (Information Retrieval, IR) often associated with search engines and Internet, but which evolved from an academic discipline which has its roots back in the fifties.

• INFORMATIK/INFORMATIQUE, bimonthly journal of SVI/FSI (Switzerland), one of the two CEPIS societies journals that have supported UPGRADE from its creation, has ceased its publication with issue its issue of April 2002 and has joined Informatik Spektrum, the journal of the German CEPIS society GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik). For details see <http://www.svifsi.ch/revue/pages/issues/n022/in022Edito.html>, in German and French.
• The publisher, CEPIS, remains committed to this worthy initiative. In this sense, NOVÁTICA will maintain its editorial support of UPGRADE and the editors remain the same: François Louis Nicolet and Rafael Fernández Calvo, editors of INFORMATIK/INFORMATIQUE and NOVÁTICA, respectively. The Swiss CEPIS society SI (Swiss InformaticiansSociety), member of the SVI/FSI, remains committed too.
• Roberto Carniel, editor of the Italian version, joins the Editorial Board of UPGRADE, in recognition of his role in promoting our digital magazine and of the participation of the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

A preview of our 3/2002 issue (June 2002) on "Information Retrieval and the Web" is now available. It has been guest edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University of Chile)  and Peter Schäuble (Eurospider).

The Italian edition of Upgrade issue 2/2002 on "eXtreme Programming" (abstracts only) is now available, thanks to the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

The Spanish edition of this issue (abstracts and some articles online; full edition printed) is available too, published by Novática, journal and magazine of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI. 

Click here for the English edition.

Accesses to our site for the period January-May have increased by a factor of 5.3 in 2002 compared to the same period of year 2001. This figure, although highly satisfactory, is only a stimulus for further improvement of our digital magazine.Your criticism is very important for this purpose. 

Thanks a lot for your support!

Our 2/2002 issue (April 2002) on "eXtreme Programming" is now available. It has been guest edited by Luis Fernández Sanz (Universidad Europea-CEES, Madrid), who has done a remarkable job collecting papers that review from several standpoints this new streamlined way of approaching software development.

The Italian edition of Upgrade issue 1/2002 on "Knowledge Management and IT" (abstracts only) is now available, thanks to the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca.

As of today the five most visited articles amongst those published in Upgrade are the following:

1. "A Tool for the Construction of Adaptive Web sites" [PDF: 5 pages, 2.9 MB], by Rosa Carro, Estrella Pulido and Pilar Rodríguez.
2. "Journal File Systems in Linux" [PDF: 7 pages, 181 KB], by Ricardo Galli.
3. "Efficient Management of Multilingual Electronic Conferences (Knowledge Management in a Latin American Virtual Community)"  [PDF: 5 pages, 1,394 KB], by Daniel Pimienta and Catherine Dhaussy. 
4. "Signalling in Voice over IP Networks" [PDF: 8 pages, 257 KB], by José Ignacio Moreno, Ignacio Soto and David Larrabeiti.
5. "Free Software Today" [PDF: 8 pages, 164 KB], by Pedro de las Heras Quirós and Jesús M. González-Barahona.

An Italian edition of Upgrade (abstracts only) is now online as a result of the collaboration between the Italian CEPIS society ALSI and the Italian IT portal Tecnoteca. Welcome!

Upgrade has also a printed Spanish full edition, published by Novática, its partner in Spain, and is also published, printed, in English, German, or French by its partner in Switzerland, Informatik/Informatique.

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