Phipps Arabie, President
Mel Janowitz, President-Elect
Jennifer Pittman, Editor
At the end of the year there will be election of two new members of the Board of Directors. If you have suggestions for nominees, please send them to me or to Phipps Arabie, President. The names will be passed on to a Nominating Committee.
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Dear colleagues,
Until the end of the year 2004 there are several positions to be filled and determined inside the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) since the terms of offices of current officers went to their end. So we must have elections for
The IFCS president, Henk Kiers, has assigned the following members to the IFCS Election Committee that have to organize these elections:
Being the chair of this Committee I have to contact the IFCS Member Societies and ask for candidates, in a first round. Later on I will send you a voting list etc. Note that these elections are based on the Constitution of IFCS (in particular chapter IV) and the IFCS Election Rules, both from 2004. In the annexe, I send you the most recent version of both texts for your information (see below). So I would like to ask you to discuss this matter with your colleagues inside your classification society/group and to decide if you want to propose a candidate for one or several of the positions mentioned above. In the affirmative case please send me the names and (e-mail and postal) addresses of the candidates until November 5, 2004.
I will then combine your proposals with those from the Executive Committee and set up a voting list in cooperation with the other members of the Election Committee. Then I will contact the candidates and ask for their willingness to serve, and finally send out the voting list to the members of the IFCS Council (in its current composition) for the final vote. The elections should be terminated in the end of 2004.
With my very best wishes
[ed: the IFCS election rules, constitution, and bylaws can be accessed at: http://www.isds.duke.edu/~jennifer/csna/ifcsselect.doc http://www.isds.duke.edu/~jennifer/csna/ifcscon.doc http://www.isds.duke.edu/~jennifer/csna/ifcsbylaws.doc].
The "Classification Literature Automatic Search Service", now in its 32nd year, is provided on CD with the first issue each year of the Journal of Classification. From a "profile" of 92 journal articles or books, in 2003 there were 4239 citations to one or more of them. On the CD is the cumulative bibliographic data, from 1994 to date (2003) - ten years data, about 25,000 citations.
Appearing on the CD are also the following books, in their entirety
A list (abbreviated) of "profile" literature references can be downloaded from http://www.isds.duke.edu/~jennifer/csna/profile_citation.txt. The first three columns give number of citations in the Science and Social Science Citation Indexes (SCI, SSCI), provided by ISI.
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