Minutes of the 

  Meeting at the  Tableaux Conference in St Andrews, 2000
  Thursday July 6, 8 - 10pm

Agenda

1. Report on the Tableaux Conference in St Andrews 

2. Report on the state of planning for IJCAR 2001 

3. Adoption of the Steering Committee rules 

4. Election of the first Steering Committee

5. Tableaux Conference 2002

6. IFCoLog membership

7. Any other business



Before entering in the above agenda David Pearce, designated member of the
IFCoLog Executive Council, gave a short presentation of the goals and
the structure of IFCoLog.

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Roy Dyckhoff gave a short summary of the Tableaux conference, so far.
In particular he emphasized that the joint event with FTP was a
success: the number of participants to Tableaux was 88, an all time high,
and both communities interacted easily and intensively.

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Fabio Massacci reported on the state of the preparation of the IJCAR
conference next year.

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After a thorough discussion the proposed STC rules were unanimously
accepted with two minor changes. The new version is appended.

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Collecting and counting the votes was done by Harrie deSwart assisted
by Marta Cialdea Mayer.

The elected members for the first Tableau Steering Committee 
are, in order of votes cast:

  Reiner Haehnle
  Peter H. Schmitt
  Melvin Fitting
  Marcello D'Agostino
  Uli Furbach
  Didier Galmiche

The remaining candidates will be on the reserve list in case replacments
should be necessary.

In addition Roy Dyckhoff, Fabio Massacci and Rajeev Gore are 'ex officio'
mebers of the TSC.

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The final decision on this issue is to be taken by the TSC. The poll of 
opinion after a controversial discussion showed a solid majority for
not joining the FLoC in 2002. The alternative is to have a separate
Tableaux Conference in Vienna.

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Again a final decision should be taken by the TSC. A poll of opinion
showed a slight majority for joining IFCoLog. There was  a significant 
number of abstentions.

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Neil Murray reported that the Tableaux Conference 1999 ran a slight
surplus which was, in liquid form, handed over to Roy Dyckhoff.


APPENDIX 1

                Tableaux Steering Committee Rules


1. The Tableaux Steering Committee (TSC) consists of six elected
   members and the Conference and Program Chair(s) of the current 
   and the previous Conference. The elected members serve for three 
   year terms. The STC may decide to introduce for its elected members
   overlapping terms not all ending at the same time.

2. The responsibilities and obligations of the TSC consist of
   * Select venues for future Tableaux Conferences
   * Select program and conference chairs for future Tableaux 
     Conferences. Program and conference chair may be the same
     person.
   * Make decisions concerning the future of the Tableaux Conference
     series
   * Call a business meeting at each Tableaux Conference. At the meeting
     the President shall report on the activities of the TSC during
     the previous year and put controversial issues to a vote.
   * Initiate elections

3. The TSC appoints among its members a President and Vice President
   to conduct its duties and represent the TSC.

4. The members of the TSC will be elected by the Tableaux community.
   Votes may be cast in person, by mail, fax or electronic mail.
   The Tableaux community consists of all people that have been
   registered participants in at least one Tableaux Conference 
   during the last 3 years and all members of the current Program Committee.

5. Transitional path. The first TSC will be elected at the business 
   meeting during the Tableaux Conference at St Andrews, 2000, by
   the members of the Tableaux community then present.