Foreword

In the days when the proceedings of conference were produced as printed books, the foreword was assumed to be where delegates to the conference would start reading, and also a formal record of the kind of information that might be presented in the introductory session of the conference, and so it was customary to begin it with a welcome to the conference. Since CSEE&T has now moved over to having its proceedings distributed only in electronic forms, the assumption that delegates will be reading this prior to the start of the conference may well not be a valid one, although it is still important that it should provide a formal record of some information about the conference that is presented in the introductory session.