January 2003 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

TC6 meeting in Oman
by Augusto Casaca 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Dear TC6 members, After receiving some answers from your side considering the new dates proposed for the meeting in Oman I conclude that there is a preference for October 16+17. The answers split as follows: Oct. 11+12: Otto, Peter Oct. 16+17: Harry, Finn, Lyman, Miquel Don't care: Koes, Guy Pujolle, Lorne, Ramon, Villy, Augusto. So the meeting will take place on October 16 and 17th in Oman. I asked Ahmed to confirm that there is no problem with these dates. Have a nice weekend. Augusto

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CfP: NGC'03 and ICQT'03 - September 2003 in Munich, Germany
by Burkhard Stiller 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Sorry for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03) Organized by UniBwM and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM (approval pending) co-located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03) Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models September 16-19, 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/ Scope ----- Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics: NGC'03 ------ - Multicast applications and services - Multi-player games - Novel group communication architectures - Group and session management techniques - QoS and traffic control for groups - Peer-to-peer systems and applications - Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms - Content distribution systems - Wireless group communications - Security for group communications - Heterogeneous group communications - Multicast deployment mechanisms ICQT'03 ------- - Economic models for the Internet - Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing - Internet charging technology - Monitoring, measurements, and accounting - ISP cost and business models - Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games - Charging and QoS for multicast - Charging for QoS services - Pricing mobile and wireless services - Application service provider models - Security mechanisms for charging - Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ---------------------- Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003 Camera ready version: July 1, 2003 Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003 General Information ------------------- The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/ or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03(a)ftw.at. Location and Date ----------------- The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus. Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train (S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside. Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich. Committees ---------- General Chair Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee NGC'03 Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K. Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A. NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany NGC'03 Program Committee Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Mostafa Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Bauer IBM Research Zurich Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee University of Maryland Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies John Byers Boston University Georg Carle University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Walid Dabbous INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Hiroshi Esaki University of Tokyo Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffmann Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Roger Kermode Motorola Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc Universite de Liege Brian Levine University of Massachusetts Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Oeznur Oezkasap Koc University Istanbul Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos University of Southern California Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Ralf Steinmetz University of Darmstadt Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II Lorenzo Vicisano Cisco Systems Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria ICQT'03 Program Committee Ragnar Andreassen Telenor Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna Torsten Braun University of Bern Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business Chris Edwards Lancaster University Richard Gibbens Cambridge University Martin Karsten University of Waterloo Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Muenchen Simon Leinen SWITCH Zurich Robin Mason University of Southampton Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Huw Oliver UK Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks Kihong Park Purdue University Guido Petit Alcatel Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University Peter Reichl FTW Vienna Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little Vasilios Siris ICS Forth David Songhurst BT exact Technologies Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen -------------------------------------------------------------------

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FW: [IFIP] Lottery result and Friday's special
by Augusto Casaca 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: sexta-feira, 24 de Janeiro de 2003 10:08 To: All Subject: [IFIP] Lottery result and Friday's special Dear All, Re: New Year's Lottery This lottery was organized in association with the hosts of the 18th IFIP World Computer Congress , 23 to 26 August 2004 in Toulouse, France. We are now pleased to announce at http://www.ifip.or.at/ifip_lottery.htm the correct answers, the person with the fastest reply (awarded a free IFIP book published in 2002) and the lucky winner of a free Congress registration for WCC 2004. If you took part in the lottery check the link and the site. YOU might be the grand winner!!! Congratulations to the winners and good wishes for a nice weekend to everyone! The Delivery Co. P.S. And here's your Friday's Special Fun zone - joke lover's only!! "Italiano" A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several years. One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back. He would then arrange for child support payments to begin. One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. 'Honey, you received a very strange post card today,' she said. 'Oh, just give it to me and I will explain it later,' he said. The wife obeyed, and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted. On the card was written: 'Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with meatballs, one without.' -------------------------------- Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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FW: IFIP WG6.8 PWC2003
by Augusto Casaca 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

CFP: IFIP WG6.8 PWC2003 -----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Marco Conti Sent: quinta-feira, 23 de Janeiro de 2003 14:13 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: CFP: IFIP WG6.8 PWC2003 [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS PWC 2003 The Eighth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Sponsored by the IFIP WG 6.8 - Mobile and Wireless Communications http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 September 23-25, 2003 Telecom Italia Future Centre - Venice, Italy http://www.futurecentre.telecomitalia.it/eng/ PWC is the premier international forum for discussions between researchers, practitioners and students interested in the symbiosis of mobile computing and wireless networks. PWC 2003 is the eight conference of this series and is sposored by IFIP WG 6.8 The PWC 2003 technical program committee is soliciting papers describing original, previously unpublished, completed or on-going research, on topics. including, but not limited to, the following: - Mobile Web Access - Mobile and Wireless Applications - Pervasive computing - Mobile and Wireless Networking - IP-based Mobile Networks - Mobility Management - QoS in the Mobile and Wireless Networks - Real-time voice/video over mobile and wireless networks - Multicasting in Wireless Services - Analysis, Simulation and Measurement of wireless and mobile systems - Mobile ad hoc networks - Wireless BAN, PAN and LAN - Wi-Fi - Third and Fourth Generation Systems - 3G/WLAN internetworking - Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management This year conference includes two special tracks to address hot topic issues: sensor networks and wireless security. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.iit.cnr.it/pwc2003 All papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due: February 10, 2003 Notification: May 10, 2003 Camera Ready due: June 10, 2003 GENERAL Chair: Enrico Gregori, IIT - CNR, Italy GENERAL Vice-Chair: Fabrizio Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM Chair: Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy SPECIAL TRACKs PROGRAM Co-Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA PUBLICITY Co-Chairs: Raffaele Bruno, IIT CNR, Italy Alexandros Kaloxylos, University of Athens, Greece STEERING COMMITTEE Members: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy (Chair) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA Guy Omidyar, National University of Singapore, Singapore Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Members: Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France, Andrea Baiocchi, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC Santa Barbara, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy, Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Holger Karl, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Mohan Kumar, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Laura M. Feeney, SICS, Sweden, Gabor Fodor, Ericsson, Sweden Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrey Lyakhov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, Martin Mauve, University of Mannheim, Germany Franco Mazzenga, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Refik Molva, Institut EURECOM, France Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Michael Paterakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Apostolis Salkintzis, Motorola, Canada Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece. Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada, Samir Tohme, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST), France Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Sami Uskela, Nokia Networks, Finland Andras Valko, Ericsson AB, Sweden Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany

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FW: [IFIP] WITFOR: Commission 4 Empowerment
by Augusto Casaca 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov Sent: quinta-feira, 23 de Janeiro de 2003 09:07 To: All Subject: [IFIP] WITFOR: Commission 4 Empowerment Importance: High Dear All, Re: The World Information Technology Forum and Commission 4 on Empowerment and Participation Since September 2001, IFIP and our Lithuanian colleagues are busy in putting the WITFOR organization in place: At UNESCO's 31st General Conference in (October 2001) there were consultations with a number of national delegates, NGOs and UNESCO officials to solicit their support. In 2002, the conference organizers and hosts and IFIP centrally worked hard to build a coalition of partners, solicit UNESCO's active engagement including its auspices for WITFOR, produce and distribute an excellent brochure... In December ' 02, a meeting of the Co-chairs of the 8 program Commissions (Streams) was held in Vilnius. This launched the most important stage of preparations of the program, themes, specific topics, recommendations and projects of the 8 Commissions comprising WITFOR. Commission 4 on "Empowerment and Participation" reflects WITFOR's drive, objectives and efforts. For this commission we have put together an alliance of partners -- representatives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Science Council (ICSU), the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee and its Commission on New Technologies, and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) -- whose mandate, representation and recognition makes it indispensable for getting across policy statements, recommendations and projects of major professional and societal significance and impact. The partners in this alliance have the past experience of close interactions on which we intend to build for further results. We have structured our work in a way allowing coordinators of specific projects to develop their part on the basis of their organization's experience and also accounting for the input of other members and the ICT community. To augment this activity and the finalized Commission report we intend to organize a panel during WITFOR with the participation of 4 distinguished personalities whose experience and wisdom transcend the boundaries of leading national and international institutions. This is just the tip of the concept. For the fine print and who are the members and distinguished panelists click on http://www.ifip.or.at/comm4.htm . With this introduction may I invite you to visit the WITFOR website and the brand new site of Commission 4 on Empowerment and Participation at http://www.ifip.or.at/comm4.htm . The link to WITFOR gives you access to the broader picture and the scope of activities of all 8 commissions. We hope you would contribute to the work of Commission 4 with your comments, ideas, recommendations via our online Forum or by writing directly to the project coordinators and the Commission co-chairs. We hope you would also contribute to the work of the other commissions. The commission 4 website is shiningly new and I count on your tolerance for any errors or omissions. We look forward to your contributions and participation. Greetings, Plamen Nedkov Executive Director, IFIP Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169 http://www.ifip.org/

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CfP: JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT - Special Issue on Distributed Management
by Burkhard Stiller 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/ Special Issue on Distributed Management The recent rapid increase in the complexity of networks is mainly due to the expanded range of network devices and systems, multiple inter-connected networking technologies, and intricate services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Voice over IP (VoIP). The intricacies in the services have been supported by increased capabilities in network elements and have compounded the difficulties in maintaining Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The increased complexity in networks poses tremendous challenges for management in terms of functionality, the amount of data to be processed, and the types of data. It is envisioned that distributed management will play a strong role in managing complex networks where the distribution of the various aspects of management such as monitoring, configuration, provisioning, accounting, billing, fault, and performance becomes imperative for greater reliability, scalability and efficiency. This special issue is intended to present the crucial issues and efficient solutions in the distributed management of current and future networks. The focus of this special issue will include the following topics: · Distributed Management Architectures · Distributed Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service · Distributed IP Traffic Management · Distributed Management for Intra and Inter-domain Bandwidth Brokerage · Distributed Management of IP Services such as VPN and Voice Over IP · Distributed Management of Mobile Systems and Wireless Networks · Distributed Management of IP Over SONET/SDH, WDM, and CATV · Distributed Charging and Accounting for IP Services · Distributed Fault, Performance, and Security Management · Distributed Configuration and Policy-based Management · Directory, Web, and XML technologies in Distributed Management · Frameworks for developing Distributed Management Applications · Scalability, Reliability, and Performance Issues in Distributed Management · Case Studies of Distributed Management Systems · Experiences with Commercial Distributed Management Systems Instructions to Contributors: We invite prospective authors to submit high quality journal papers via e-mail to one of the guest editors, depending on their geographic zone. Only electronic submissions in PDF or PS are acceptable. Please prepare the manuscript according to the "Instructions to Contributors", which can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the JNSM Web site at http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/. Guest Editors: Dr. Ajita John Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller (Contact for US submissions) (Contact for non-US submissions) Avaya Labs Univ. of Federal Armed Forces Munich 307 Middletown Lincroft Rd Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 Room 1N 267 D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany Lincroft, NJ 07738 and ETH Zurich USA Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland E-mail: ajita(a)avaya.com E-mail: stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch Schedule: Manuscript due: September 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004 Final manuscript due: March 31, 2004 Publication: 3rd Quarter

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Call For Papers: 2003 Int'l Conf. in CS & CE - Las Vegas, June 23-26, 2003
by Hamid Arabnia 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

C A L L F O R P A P E R S The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (15 Joint Int'l Conferences + ...) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 23-26, 2003 http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences Dear Colleagues: Any help in distributing this announcement would be most appreciated. Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of computers (please refer to the scope of each conference - provided below.) All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. The 2003 International Multiconference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering is composed of the following 15 conferences (+ workshops) - each event is the premier conference for presentation of advances in its respective subject. All conferences will be held simultaneously (same location & dates: June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, USA): 1. The 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'03) 2. The 2003 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'03) 3. The 2003 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'03) 4. The 2003 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'03) 5. The 2003 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'03) 6. The 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'03) 7. The 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA) 8. The 2003 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'03) 9. The 2003 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'03) 10. The 2003 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'03) 11. The 2003 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'03) 12. The 2003 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'03) 13. The 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'03) 14. The 2003 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'03) 15. The First International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'03) Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines. You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconference chair whose address appears below (The Chair may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). CONFERENCES CONTACT: H. R. Arabnia, Ph.D. Chair, The 2003 Int'l Multiconference in CS & CE The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 email: hra(a)cs.uga.edu HISTORY: The International Multiconference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering is a major annual international research event. The last Multiconference attracted over 1,550 computer science and Engineering researchers from 72 countries. It is anticipated that The 2003 Int'l Multiconference will attract about 2000 participants. The 2003 event is composed of 15 (planned) major conferences - attendees will have full access to all 15 conferences' sessions & tracks. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by the due date (who may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). E-mail & Fax submissions are also acceptable. The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, & soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one person. PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy/book. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD.) All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, ...). ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS: A number of university faculty members & their staff in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conferences. The conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of Sciences & co-sponsored by Computer Science Research, Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers, international associations, international research groups, & developers of high-performance machines & systems. The complete list of sponsors & co-sponsors will be available at a later time. (Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA, the National Supercomputing Center for Energy & the Environment - DOE, The Int'l Association for Mathematics & Computers in Simulation, The Int'l Technology Institute (ITI), Java High Performance Computing research group, World Scientific & Engineering Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., Computer Vision R&A Tech., Hewlett-Packard Inc., Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS), Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), IEEE, a number of publishers of books & journals, ...) LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport. This hotel has many vacation & recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable (79USD + tax) per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference. The hotel is within walking distance from most other Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street shows, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: (Some tracks have different deadlines - check the web site) Feb. 17, 2003 (Monday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due March 21, 2003 (Friday): Notification of acceptance April 22, 2003 (Tuesday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 23-26, 2003: All 15 Int'l Conferences Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted as soon as possible. PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS: Each technical session will have at least 6 papers. The session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors on the cover of the conference proceedings. After the conference, some sessions will be considered for publication in relevant journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as the Guest Editor of the journal. Proposals to organize technical sessions should include the following information: name & address (+ E-mail) of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session, & a short description on how the session will be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers from colleagues & researchers whose work is known to the session proposer). Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia; E-mail submissions are preferred. MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The Program Committees are currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committees should email H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation & position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, name of the conference offering to help with, a short biography together with research interests. EXHIBITION & ROBOTICS COMPETITION: An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conferences. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conferences. There will also be a Robotics Competition (refer to the following url for regulations and more information: www.cs.uga.edu/~potter/robotics/RoboticsCompetition.htm TOPICAL SCOPE FOR EACH CONFERENCE APPEARS BELOW (the list of topics that appear below should be regarded as a partial list of topics. each conference considers papers in ALL ASPECTS of its domain.) SCOPE OF PDPTA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications) O Parallel/Distributed applications O Parallel/Distributed architectures O Building block processors O Networks & Interconnection networks O Reliability & fault-tolerance O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ... O Real-time & embedded systems O Parallel/Distributed algorithms O Mobile computation & communication O Object Oriented Technology & related issues O Multimedia Communications, Systems, & Applications O Software tools & environments for parallel & distributed platforms O High-performance computing in Computational Science O Information & data fusion O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools & applications O Web-based simulation & computing O Education: parallel & distributed processing in computer science curriculum O Recent history (last decade) of parallel/distributed processing & what to expect in the next decade: New Horizons O Other aspects & applications relating to high-performance computations SCOPE OF CISST'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, & Technology) O Image generation, acquisition, & processing O Image display techniques O Image data structures & databases O Convergence of imaging media (video & computer) O Virtual reality O Image compression, coding, & encryption O Multimedia / Applications O Tools for multimedia production & services O Digital imaging for film & television O Visualization O Scene & object modeling O Knowledge acquisition O Visual inspection O Document image understanding O Image algebra O Optical image processing systems O Mathematical morphology O Architecture of imaging & vision systems (including parallel architectures & algorithms) O Neural network techniques & fuzzy logic O Performance analysis & evaluation O Software tools & environments for imaging O Animation O Geometric modeling & Fractals O CAD/CAM systems O Rendering techniques O Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS, remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision), nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ... O Multi-resolution & multi-spectral image processing O Image sequence processing O Indexing and Retrieval of Images O Information fusion O Other aspects & applications relating to imaging science SCOPE OF IC-AI'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence) O. Intelligent Information Systems O. Intelligent Software Engineering O. Intelligent Agents O. Intelligent Networks O. Intelligent Databases O. Brain Models O. Evolutionary Algorithms O. Data mining O. Reasoning Strategies O. Automated Problem Solving O. Distributed AI Algorithms & Techniques O. Distributed AI Systems & Architectures O. Expert Systems O. Fuzzy Logic O. Genetic Algorithms O. Heuristic Searching O. Knowledge Acquisition O. Knowledge Discovery O. Knowledge Representation O. Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques O. Languages & Programming Techniques for AI O. Software Tools for AI O. Natural Language Processing O. Neural Networks & Applications O. Multisource Information Fusion: Theory & Applications O. Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion O. Learning & Adaptive Sensor Fusion O. Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural & Fuzzy Techniques O. Integration of AI with other Technologies O. Evaluation of AI Tools O. Social Impact of AI O. Applications: Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Military, Surveillance, Robotics, Medicine, Pattern Recognition, Face Recognition, Finger Print Recognition, Finance & Marketing, Stock Market, Education, Emerging Applications SCOPE OF IC'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Internet Computing) O Internet Security O Internet Applications & Appliances O Performance Evaluation of the Internet O Resource Management & Location O Design & Analysis of Internet Protocols O Web based computing O Network Management O Network Architectures O Network Computing O Network Operating Systems O Quality of Service O Wide Area Consistency O Electronic Commerce O The WWW & Intranets O Metacomputing O Grid based Computing & Tools O Languages for Distributed Programming O Cooperative Applications O Tele-Medical & other applications O Internet Telephony O Mobile Computing O Educational Applications O Digital Libraries/Digital Image Collections O Web Interfaces to Databases O User-interface/Multimedia/Video/Audio/User Interaction O Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML O Java Applications on Internet O Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ... O Caching Algorithms for the Internet O Traffic Models & Statistics O Server Space/Web Server Performance O Web Monitoring O Web Documents Management O Web Site Design & Coordination O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing SCOPE OF ESA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications) O Object Oriented Technologies for Embedded Systems O Assemblers & Cross Assemblers O Bluetooth & Embedded Systems O Languages for Embedded Systems O Memory Management Issues in Embedded Systems O Communication Tools O System-on-a-Chip Technologies O Embedded Programming Issues O Designing for Low-Power Operations O Development Tools O Distributed Real-Time Systems O Embedded Processors O Next Generation of Handheld Devices O Embedded Programming Standards O Testing Techniques O Embedded Microcontrollers O Emulators & Simulators O Flash Memory Chips O Managing Embedded Projects O Embedded Engineering O Multitasking Design for Embedded Systems O Embedded Internet Tools O Optimization Issues O Power Management Circuits O Real-Time Kernels O Real-Time Operating Systems O Safety Critical Systems O Signal Processors O System Design Tools O Task Scheduling Techniques O Compilers O DSPs O Debuggers SCOPE OF ICWN'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Wireless Networks) O Mobile wireless QoS, radio resource management O Mobile wireless Internet, IPv6 O Heterogeneous wireless networks, radio access networks O OFDM O W-CDMA, cdma2000, TD-SCDMA O MIMO, adaptive antenna O Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks O Wireless security O Wireless applications, mobile e-commerce, wireless multimedia O Modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless systems O Satellite-based systems O Broadcast networks O High altitude platform O GPS, location-based service O Mobile agents O Wireless & mobile applications O Multiple access O Routing, multicasting, ... O Resource management, wireless QoS O Mobile Internet O Transport-layer issues O Wireless security O Wireless network architectures O Mobile computing O Modeling, simulation, & measurement of wireless systems/networks O Ad hoc networks, sensor networks, ... O 4G, 3.5G, and 3G wireless systems O Personal area networks, body wireless networks, Bluetooth O Wireless sensor networks O Coding & modulation O Multi-user detection O Power management & control, low-power protocols O OFDM O Wireless IP networks, interworking O Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation O WAP, mobile e-commerce O Location-based service, GPS O Distributed algorithms for wireless networks SCOPE OF MLMTA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications) O Artificial Neural Networks & Learning O Fuzzy Logic O Fusion & Learning O Information Retrieval & Data Mining O Inductive Learning & Applications O Knowledge Representation & Management O Knowledge Acquisition & Discovery Techniques O Machine Learning in Problem Solving O Statistical Methods in Learning O Evolutionary Algorithms O Bayesian-Based Methodologies O Reinforcement Learning Methods O Grammatical Inference O Learning Models O Multi-Agent Learning O Cognitive Modeling O Hybrid Techniques O Hierarchical Learning Models O Collaborative Filtering O Case-Based Reasoning O Semantic Indexing O Natural Language Processing O Machine Translation O Markov Decision Processes (including Semi-Markov DM) O ODE Methods & Machine Learning O Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning O Temporal Abstractions O Relational Learning Models O Feature Selection & Classification O Speedup Learning Techniques O Computational Needs of Learning Models O Learning by Examples O Formal Learning Methods O Graph-Based Learning O Theory Refinement Methodologies O Probabilistic Reasoning O Decision Trees O Learning Based on Adaptive Techniques O Learning Topological Maps O Verification Models O Mobile Robotics O Learning in Planning O Query Learning O Active Learning O Memory-Based Learning O Instance-Based Learning O Self-Adaptation Techniques O Requirements Models O Machine Learning & Software Engineering O Game Playing (Chess, ...) O Performance Analysis O Transformation-Based Learning O Simulated Annealing & Learning O Life-Long Learning O Q-Learning O Predictive Learning Models O Text Categorization & Classification O Machine Learning Applications (Medicine, Games, Biology, Industrial Applications, Robotics, Security & Terrorism Prevention, ...) SCOPE OF METMBS'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Mathematics & Engineering Techniques in Medicine & Biological Sciences) O Bioinformatics O Cheminformatics O Data mining in medicine & biological sciences O Pattern recognition in medicine & biological sciences O Signal processing in medicine & biological sciences O Image processing in medicine & biological sciences O Medical decision-making O Medical Physics O Biomedical Engineering O Biomedical Electronics O Biosignal interpretation O Any application of computers in Medicine & biological sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug & protein design, molecular modeling & simulation, ...) O Application of information technology in biomedicine (e.g. medical database management, information retrieval & use of computers in hospitals) O Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, & evolutionary computing) in medicine & biological sciences O Medical & bio-computing O High-performance computing as applied to natural & medical sciences O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...) O Recent history (last ten years) of Mathematics & engineering techniques in medicine & biological sciences, & what to expect during the next decade; New horizons. Review articles ... O Other aspects & applications relating to technological advancements in medicine & biological sciences SCOPE OF CIC'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Communications in Computing) O High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific, commercial, ...) O Distributed Systems & Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia, cooperative systems) O Grid computing O Scalable & Interoperable Systems & Associated Standards O Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware, ...) O Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, vector, systolic, reconfigurable, ...) O Interconnection networks (e.g. bus-based, optical) O ATM based networks O Communications (e.g. routing, wireless, mobile) O Visualization (e.g. scientific visualization, debugging & load balancing tools) O Photonics & Optical Computing O Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement, evaluation & prediction) O Modeling & Simulation of High Performance Systems O Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers) O Programming Languages for Parallel & other High Performance Computing O Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms O Reliability & Fault Tolerance O Embedded & Real Time Systems O Digital Signal Processing O Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms O Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms, O Internet & web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication network, cluster-based computing SCOPE OF ERSA'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms) O Theory, Mapping & Parallelization: Theoretical models of computing in space-time & adaptive computing. Mapping algorithms into hardware & synthesis of regular arrays. Parallelization & (space-time) partitioning of algorithms. System architectures using configurable computing platform. Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on reconfigurable systems. O Software, CAD & Operating Systems: CAD, specification, partitioning & verification. Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, developing correct circuits. High & low-level languages & compilers, design environments. Operating systems & run-time reconfiguring. IP-based & object oriented models & mapping methods. O Adaptive Hardware Architectures: Adaptive & dynamically reconfigurable systems. Reconfigurable processor architectures. Complex systems using reconfigurable processors. Application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip. Low power systems on reconfigurable platform. O Applications: Wireless communication systems. Multimedia & virtual reality. Automotive industry. Security systems. Classical image & signal processing. O Focus Sessions: High-level Synthesis of Reconfigurable Systems. Operating System for Reconfigurable Hardware. Java-based Environment for Reconfigurable Systems. Configurable Computing Architectures & Hardware. Configurable Systems-on-Chip. Emerging Devices for Reconfigurable Systems. Low Power Systems Using FPGAs. Reconfigurable Floating Point Processing. Software Defined Radio. Custom Computing Machines for Image Processing. SCOPE OF VLSI'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on VLSI) O Quantum Computing O Nanoelectronics O Molecular & Biological Computing O MEMS O Circuits & Systems O Novel Design & Methodologies O System-on-a-Chip: Design & Methodology O Low Power VLSI System Design O Complexity Issues O Simulation Tools O Algorithm Design Approaches (AI, Genetic, ...) O High-Level Design Methodologies O ASIC Architectures O Reconfigurable Systems Design O Novel Devices & Circuits O Emerging Trends O High-Performance Circuits O Reusable Architectures O Test & Verification O Synthesis O Mixed-Signal Design & Analysis O Electrical/Packaging Designs & Co-Designs O Applications (all applications will be considered) SCOPE OF IKE'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering) O Client-Server Architectures O Information & Knowledge Engineering O Mobile Agents O Web-Based Design & Development O Knowledge & Information Management Techniques O Data Mining Techniques O Database Engineering & Systems O Knowledge Delivery Methods O Data Security O Knowledge Life Cycle O Business Architectures O Formal & Visual Specification Languages O Software Tools & Support O Performance Evaluation Techniques O Knowledge-Based Systems O Clustering Techniques O Web Technology & Systems O Dataweb Models & Systems O Data Warehouses O Workflow Management O Knowledge & Information Extraction & Discovery Techniques O Service Recovery O Large-Scale Information Processing Methods O Data & Knowledge Processing O Database Engineering & Systems (Distributed, Video, ...) O Information Quality (Quality Metrics) O E-Libraries (Digital Libraries) O Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems O Agent-Based Techniques & Systems O Content Management O Information Reliability & Security O Hardware Architectures O Modeling & Simulation O Decision Support Systems O Expert Systems O Aspect-Oriented Programming O Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information O Privacy Issues O Interoperability Issues O Object-Oriented Modeling & Systems O Knowledge Classification Tools O Case-Based Reasoning O Bayesian Techniques O Managing Copyright Laws O Digital Watermarking O Data/Information/Knowledge Models O Digital Typography O Electronic Publishing O Data Fusion O Applications (Image Processing, OCR, Artistic Imaging, e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, GIS, Banking, ...) SCOPE OF SERP'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice) O Software architectures O Object-Oriented technology O Measurement, metrics & analysis O Survivable systems O Requirements engineering O Reverse engineering O Software domain modeling O Software process modeling O Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) O Project management issues O Distributed & parallel systems O Legal issues & standards O Configuration management (issues & tools) O Automated software specification O Automated software design & synthesis O Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...) O Domain modeling & meta-modeling O Evolution & maintenance O Knowledge acquisition O Reflection & metadata methodologies O Artificial intelligence approaches to Software Engineering O Automated software engineering O Component-based engineering O Data mining O Interoperability O Intelligent CASE tools O Multimedia in software engineering O Hypermedia O Software reuse O Verification, validation & quality assurance O Performance critical systems O Engineering practices O Programming languages O Program understanding issues O Education (software engineering curriculum design) O Software engineering versus Systems engineering O Software documentation O Technology adoption O Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) O Architecture tradeoff analysis O Novel software tools & environments SCOPE OF SAM'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The 2003 Int'l Conference on Security and Management) O Security Protocols O Mobility Management O Security Algorithms O Location Management O QoS Management O Key Management Techniques O Security in E-commerce & M-commerce O Security Policies O Resource Management O Mobile Network Security O Channel Management O AAA O Encryption O Security in Mobile IPv4/IPv6 O VPN O Firewall O IDS (Intrusion Detection System) O Digital contents copyright protection techniques O Watermarking O Secure OS O Honeypot O Virus Issues (Detection, Prevention, ...) O Tracing Techniques in Internet O Active Networks O Security in CDN (Contents Distribution Networks) O Hacking Techniques & Related Issues O Security in GRID O Biological Security Technologies O Surveillance Technologies O High-Tech Systems at Airports O Face Recognition Systems O Signature Recognition Systems O Network Management O System Management O Network Security Management O Management in Network Equipments O SAN (Storage Area Networks) Management O GRID Middleware O GRID Applications O GRID Networks O Security for Protocol Management O Management Protocol (SNMP, CMIP, etc) SCOPE OF ICWS'03 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to): (The The First International Conference on Web Services) O Web Services architecture O Web Services security O Frameworks for building Web Service applications O Composite Web Service creation and enabling infrastructures O Web Services discovery O Resource management for web services O Solution Management for Web Services O Dynamic invocation mechanisms for Web Services O Quality of service for Web Services O Web Services modeling O UDDI enhancements O SOAP enhancements O Case studies for Web Services O E-Commerce applications using Web Services O Grid based Web Services applications (e.g. OGSA) O Business process integration and management using Web Services O Multimedia applications using Web Services O Communication applications using Web Services O Interactive TV applications using Web Services

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FW: Netcon 2003 dates changes!!
by Augusto Casaca 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

-----Original Message----- From: Ahmed M. Al-Naamany [mailto:naamany@squ.edu.om] Sent: quarta-feira, 8 de Janeiro de 2003 11:25 To: augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt Subject: Netcon 2003 dates changes!! Dear Augusto Due to location arrangements at our University we are now forced to change the dates of NETCON to 13-15 October instead of 15-17 October. I hope this will not cause any inconveniences. Please note that the meeting of TC6 can be the same or we may have to change to fit the new schedule in our next meeting at Budapest. I am attaching the first call for papers and tutorials for your info. Regards Dr. Ahmed Al-Naamany

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meting in Oman
by Ramon Puigjaner 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Augusto, Forme both alternatives are equally acceptable, as I said in a previous message. Best regards Ramon ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07071 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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Re [ifip-tc6] FW: Netcon 2003 dates changes!!
by Radford, Peter 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

My preference would be for October 11 & 12. (October 16 & 17 would probably be OK but the earlier dates are better, so far as I can predict art the moment.) Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to IFIP Technical Committee 6 -----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 15 January 2003 19:12 To: Otto Spaniol; naamany(a)squ.edu.om; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: RE: [ifip-tc6] FW: Netcon 2003 dates changes!! Dear TC6 members, I feel that Otto Spaniol is right on his suggestion to change the TC6 meeting dates in Oman. Although I usually do not like to move the meeting dates after they are agreed, I think that in this case it is justified and we still have time to try to do it. Also I agree that the two options indicated by Otto are the possible ones. So let me try to find a solution to this issue with your help. Plase indicate your option (Oct 11+12/ Oct 16+17) or if you have a different opinion from mine and Otto's please tell. I thank that your mails are sent to the TC6 list and let us fix Friday next week (24/1) as the deadline for your mails. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-admin(a)Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-admin@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Otto Spaniol Sent: segunda-feira, 13 de Janeiro de 2003 13:43 To: augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt; naamany(a)squ.edu.om; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: [ifip-tc6] FW: Netcon 2003 dates changes!! Dear Augusto, dear Ahmed, dear all, > Ahmed wrote: > >Due to location arrangements at our University we are now forced to change >the dates of NETCON to 13-15 October instead of 15-17 October. >I hope this will not cause any inconveniences. Please note that the meeting >of TC6 can be the same or we may have to change to fit the new schedule in >our next meeting at Budapest. > The origional schedule of the TC6 meeting was Oct. 18+19, i.e. after the original dates of NETCON. Since these dates have been changed now, the meeting dates appear to be inconvenient and a rescheduling in Budapest seems to be too late. (Of course we could have two days for sightseeing in Oman after the conference but October is a very packed month and therefore this "solution" which would keep the old dates appear to be questionable). To my opinion, we have two more suitable possibilities for the meeting: a. Sat. + Sun. before the conference, i.e. Oct. 11 + 12 b. Thu. + Fri. after the conference, i.e. Oct. 16 + 17. I think that we should do an electronic mail voting for that with a decision well before the Budapest meeting. Augusto, do you agree? If yes, would you start this discussion. Best regards Otto _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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