ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. The printed edition of the current number has a circulation of about 9,000 copies.

ERCIM News is published by:

ERCIM EEIG, B.P. 93, F-06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex, France
E-mail: contact@ercim.eu

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Director:

Jérôme Chailloux

Editorial board

Central Editor: 
Peter Kunz (peter.kunz@ercim.eu)

Local Editors:

• Austria: Erwin Schoitsch, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology/AARIT (erwin.schoitsch@ait.ac.at)
• Belgium: Benoit Michel, Université catholique de Louvain (benoit.michel@uclouvain.be)
• Cyprus: Ioannis Krikidis, UCY (krikidis.ioannis@ucy.ac.cy)
• Czech Republic: Michal Haindl, CRCIMl (haindl@utia.cas.cz)
• Finland: to be nominated
• France: Steve Kremer, INRIA (steve.kremer@inria.fr)
• Germany: Michael Krapp, FhG (michael.krapp@scai.fraunhofer.de)
• Greece: Eleni Orphanoudakis, ICS-FORTH (eleni@ics.forth.gr), Artemios Voyiatzis, ISI (bogart@isi.gr)
• Hungary: Andras Benczur, SZTAKI (andras.benczur@sztaki.mta.hu )
• Italy: Carol Peters, CNR (carol.peters@isti.cnr.it)
• Luxembourg: Thomas Tamisier (thomas.tamisier@list.lu)
• Norway: Poul Heegaard, NTNU (poul.heegaard@item.ntnu.no)
• Poland: Nguyen Hung Son, Warsaw University (son@mimuw.edu.pl)
• Portugal: José Borbinha, Technical University of Lisbon (jlb@ist.utl.pt)
• Spain: Silvia Abrahão, SpaRCIM (sabrahao@dsic.upv.es)
• Sweden: Kersti Hedman, SICS (kersti@sics.se)
• Switzerland: Harry Rudin (hrudin@smile.ch)
• The Netherlands: Annette Kik, CWI (Annette.Kik@cwi.nl)
• W3C: Marie-Claire Forgue (mcf@w3.org)