Publisher and ISSN

• UPGRADE, The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, is published, on behalf of CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), by Novática, bimonthly journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Spain).
• ISSN 1684-5285

General Info

Founded in October 2000, UPGRADE is The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, a technical, independent, non-commercial, and freely distributed electronic publication, promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), an organization that unites 36 Informatics Professional Societies from 32 European countries and is the voice of above 400,000 ICT Professionals in our continent. 

UPGRADE appears bimonthly in English in this website (no printed edition is available) and its monographic section is also published In Spanish (full edition printed; summary, abstracts and some articles online) by Novática, UPGRADE partner in Spain.

In UPGRADE outstanding international specialists cover research and technical developments of current or future interest that serve the IT professionals, in Europe mainly but also worldwide, in developing their technical expertise and broadening their professional knowledge.

UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork)

Created in April 2004 and promoted by CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork) is the network of publications, paper or electronic, from CEPIS member societies.

With UPGRADE as its anchor point, the main purpose of UPENET is to make available to the Information and Comunication Technology comunities (professional, academic, business, government), mainly in Europe but also worldwide, the wealth of knowledge and experience accumulated by CEPIS member societies' publications. To this end UPGRADE republishes articles from these publications, while these can republish, in their own languages, articles published in UPGRADE and in any of the syndicated publications.

Structure of Contents and Editorial Policy (modified as of February 4th, 2008)

Our contents and our editorial policy stem from the principal objective of UPGRADE: to provide its readers with high quality contents, ranging from practical business experiences to academic research. Our aim is that the papers published in UPGRADE combine a high technical standard with a good legibility and usefulness of the information.

To this end we have established a structure for our contents, organised in several sections, with a given set of procedures for each one:

• Editorial: piece written by the publisher and/or the Editorial Team on a topic of interest; it expresses an official view about the topic being addressed.

• Monograph: it contains several articles selected by our guest-editors, covering a given ICT subject proposed by the Editorial Team of UPGRADE and approved by the Editorial Boards of UPGRADE and Novática. The Editorial Team selects the guest editors, who are recognised experts in the field. The guest editors further define the concept and are able, through their reputation, to motivate first-class authors to submit papers on different facets of the topic, papers that they peer-review and approve.

• UPENET: inaugurated in our April 2004 issue, in this section we republish, in English, articles from the publications that make part of the UPGRADE European NETwork. These articles are selected by the editors of these publications.

Editorial Team

• Chief Editor: Llorenç Pagés-Casas, <pages AT ati DOT es>. Click here for his CV.
  
• Deputy Chief Editor: Francisco-Javier Cantais-Sánchez, <fjcantais AT gmail DOT com>. Click here for his CV.
• Associate Editors:
• Rafael Fernández Calvo, in charge of the section UPENET, <rfcalvo AT ati DOT es>. Click here for his CV.
• Fiona Fanning, in charge of the section CEPIS News, <fanning AT cepis DOT org>. Click here for her CV.
  

Note: E-mail addresses written with anti-spamming disguise.

Llorenç Pagés-Casas is a Computer Engineer (1986) and a postgraduate diplomate in "Object Oriented Design", both degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. He has 25 years’ experience as an IT professional and has held positions of responsibility in the fields of Systems and IT Services Consulting in several companies in the electricity and technological sectors. He is currently a senior consultant in Indra Sistemas, a leading Spanish company in Software Services. He is a senior member of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI (Asociación de Técnicos de Informática).  Co-editor of the "Internet" section of Novática since 1997, he has authored several papers for Novática and UPGRADE.

Francisco-Javier Cantais-Sánchez has a Bachelor's Degree in Law and a Bachelor's Degree in Busines Administration, both from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain), a Postgraduate Diplomate in Internet Solutions from the Universidad de Deusto (Bilbao, Spain) and a Postgraduate Diplomate in e-Learning Project Management from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). He is currently Director and founding partner of Mantra, a small Spanish IT company. In the past he worked as an IT consultant for several leading firms like Andersen Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting and Indra, among others.

Rafael Fernández Calvo has a MSc in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, a Bacherlor's Degree in Journalism from the Escuela Oficial de Periodismo de Madrid, and a Postgrade in Business Administration from ESADE Business School (Barcelona, Spain). After a long career in the Information Technology industry as software developer and Infomation System Consultant, he is currently journalist and teacher. He is Associate Editor of UPGRADE and Coordinator of UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork), the network of publications, paper or electronic, from CEPIS member societies. He was Chief Editor of Novática from 1996 to June 2006 (Novática, founded in 1975, is the bimonthly magazine and journal of the Spanish CEPIS society ATI, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Spain), as well as co-founder and Chief Editor of UPGRADE from 2000 to June 2006. He collaborates with the News Service of Cadena Ser, the leading radio broadcasting network in Spain, and with the Latin American Service of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) on topics related with ICT and Internet. He is an Associate Professor in Computing Law at the Faculty of Law / ICADE of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, and is a member of the Board of ATI.

Editor of the Spanish Edition

• Llorenç Pagés-Casas, Chief Editor of Novática, Madrid (Spain)
  

Editorial Board

• Prof. Vasile Baltac, CEPIS President
• Prof. Wolffried Stucky, CEPIS Past President
• Hans A. Frederik, CEPIS Vice President
• Nello Scarabottolo, CEPIS Honorary Treasurer
  
• Fernando Piera Gómez and Llorenç Pagés-Casas, ATI (Spain)
• François Louis Nicolet, SI (Switzerland)
• Roberto Carniel, ALSI and Tecnoteca (Italy) 

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English Language Editors
 

Cover page design (and slide show of cover pages) 

• Concha Arias Pérez (for the slide show of all the UPGRADE cover pages click here - former cover artists Antonio Crespo Foix and Rafael Fernández Calvo's creations are also included)
  

• François Louis Nicolet

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