M-Zones - - Publications - D5.1, Evaluation and Dissemination Report

2.4 Publication Evaluation

Quality in all academic matters is usually a case for peer review. The M-Zones team have established an internal peer review process so that the outputs can be seen as having a hierarchy of quality checks, but even the entry point includes internal peer review with the M-Zones partners:

· M-Zones white paper (internal peer review multiple partners, iterative)

· National conference and/or workshop (externally peer-reviewed, once off)

· International conference and/or workshop (externally peer-reviewed, once off)

· Journal publication (externally peer-reviewed, iterative)

In addition, the plan has been to leverage the annual M-Zones workshop from a national to an international status in terms of the range and quality of the paper submissions, and for the papers submitted from the programme to directly compete with externally submitted papers of high quality.

This integrated strategy has enabled the M-Zones research programme to produce a very significant number of peer-reviewed outputs, with a gradation of scale. The procedures for evaluation of academic papers (and the exposure to external panels of experts in International conferences and Journals) is relatively well understood in the academic community, and there is little need to justify this approach here. Therefore this section summarised the total publications in terms of these quality levels.

M-Zones researchers have, from the start of the programme until the end of 2004, published 101 peer reviews papers in 3 journals and at 40 conferences (6 national and 36 international). The following table list all conferences:

Year	Short Name	Long Name	Org 1	Org 2	Typ
2004	eChallenges	eChallenges	EC	IST	int
	E-Learn	World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education			int
	HP-OVUA	Workshop of the 11th HP Open University Association	HP		int
	Hypermedia	Adaptive Hypermedia			int
	ICAC	International Conference on Autonomic Computing			int
	ICAP	12th International Conference on Antennas & Propagation	IEEE		int
	ICEIS	6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems			int
	Intermon	Inter-domain Performance and Simulation Workshop
	ISSC	Irish Signals and Systems Conference	IEE		nat
	IST	IST Mobile Summit 2004	IST		int
	ISWCS	1st IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems	IEEE		int
	IT Mgmt &T	4th annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunications	TecNet	CSSN	nat
		Annual Conference of the Irish Academy of Management			nat
	MUCS	Second International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services	M-Zones		int
	NOMS	Network Operations & Management Symposium	IFIP	IEEE	int
	Policy	5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks	IEEE		int
	RAWON	IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference	IEEE		int
	SAC	19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing	ACM		int
	VTC2004-Fall	60th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2004-Fall	IEEE		int
	WAC	The 1st IFIP TC6 WG6.6 International Workshop on Autonomic Communication	IFIP		int
	Wireless	The 16th International Conference on Wireless Communications			int
2003	3G	Fourth International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies			int
	CIC	8th International Conference on Cellular and Intelligent Communications	IEEE		int
	DAIS	4th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems	IFIP		int
	ED-Media	World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications			int
	E-Learn	World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education			int
	Hypertext'03	14th Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia	ACM		int
	ICCT	International Conference on Communication Technology	IEEE		int
	IITE	International IT Events			int
	IM	IFIP/IEEE Eighth International Symposium on Integrated Network Management	IFIP	IEEE	int
	ISICT	International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies	ACM		int
	IT&T	3rd annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunications	TecNet	CSSN	nat
	ITSRS	Telecommunications Systems Research Symposium	IEE	IEEE	nat
	MobiDE	3rd International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access	ACM		int
	MUCS	First International Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services			int
	Wireless	The 15th International Conference on Wireless Communications			int
	WPMC	6th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications	IEEE		int
	WWW	12th International World Wide Web Conference			int
2002	Eurescom	Eurescom Summit 2002: Powerful Networks for Profitable Services	ETSI	OMG	int
2002	IT&T	2nd annual Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunications	TecNet	CSSN	nat

Papers have been published in the following journals:

Year	Name	Publisher	Typ
2004	IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine	IEEE	int
2003	Radioengineering, Vol. 12, No.4		int
2002	Journal of Network and Systems Management, vol 11, no. 1		int

The following statistical information can be provided:

· 16 papers have been produced in cooperation with non-M-Zones researchers.

· 2 papers have been jointly written between M-Zones researchers.

· The overall rates are CIT: 49 papers, TCD 34 papers and WIT 20 papers (101 overall, two papers credited to two partners)

· The M-Zones participation on national conferences (IT&T 2002, IT&T 2003, IT&T 2004, ITSRS 2004) and conferences hold in Ireland (MUCS2003, MUCS2004, ISCC 2004, ISICT 2003) rates at 50% (with 50 papers).

· IEEE, IFIP and ACM conferences rate with 42% (with 42 papers).

· EC and IST conferences rate with 5% (with 5 papers).