IMS Archive Project 1

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IMS Archive Project (1)

• What is this?
• One stop resource for IMS Chairs their
  committees
• IMS Handbook, IEEE Meeting Manual, links to IEEE
  conference planning sites, .
• MOUs -- ARFTG. RFIC, Sponsorship, HH
  responsibilities
• Past individual IMS information
• Multiyear summaries / trends (Papers, Attendance,
  Fees, Financials, Hotel,)
• Long term archive
• Nearing completion, fairly complete back into
  early 90s
• Data is disappearing fast due to retirements,
  more frequent job changes,
• electronic information disappears easier than
  paper
• Significant inconsistency in data reporting, we
  need to fix that
• IMS CC needs to decide if additional items should
  be tracked
• Some data back to 1957 -- of Papers,
  Attendance, basic Fees
• Thanks to Ted Saad

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IMS Archive Project (2)

• Some interesting trends IMS CC should look
  closer at data
• of technical attendees appears flat, individual
  event registrations are dropping
• Technical portion is running at a loss but is
  improving what should target be?
• Exhibition income flattening??
• Registration fees have grown at 9 annually
  well above CPI
• Surplus has been in a window of 400K-600K
  more-or-less (except for 01)
• Historical surplus was close to 40, what should
  target be?
• Hotel pickup seems to be worsening plus rates
  are not competitive
• Papers submitted growing at 7-8 annually (not
  including RFIC)
• Acceptance percentage holding in the range of
  50-60
• Interestingly??, Registration Fee / Accepted
  Papers ratio fairly constant since 91
• of Workshops have grown significantly, while
  total attendance is lower
• Peaks of Average Attendance per Workshop of
  140-150 have dropped to 60s