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5th IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ****************************************** ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ******* ****************************************** IEEE MWCN'2003 The Fifth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks Singapore in 27 - 29 October, 2003 http://www.icr.a-star.edu.sg/mwcn2003/ You are invited to submit original papers addressing topics in all areas of wireless communication systems and networks. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the technical subject categories listed below: Management - Resource and Information Management - Pricing and Billing Issues Architecture - Convergence of Fixed and Mobile - Hybrid Communications System Devices - Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications Security - Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks QoS - Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning - End-to-end Quality of Service Mobility Support - Handoff Algorithms - IP and Mobility - Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - Policy-based Mobility Management Applications - Personal Communications - Location and Context Management - Smart Media - Mobile Code - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications Access - Wireless IP - Wireless Multimedia Services - Wireless Local Loop (WLL) - Multiple Access Technology - Broadband Wireless Access Networking - Wireless Personal Area Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Mobility and Nomadic Computing - Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols - Home Networking - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing - Satellite Networks The official language of the conference for submission of a paper and or an extended abstract and view graphs is English. This conference will identify the theoretical and actual problems that face designers of today's complex problems associated with mobile and wireless communications networks. The participants will show test results of experiments from building prototype systems, explore modeling and simulation tools as well as analytical methodologies and techniques for dealing with wireless systems. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-moving field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers, speaking on recent advances in theory and practice. This conference also intends to bring together various mobile and wireless network systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of workshops, business applications sessions and tutorials. It is also intended to provide a timely forum for exploratory research and practical contributions from North America, Europe, The Middle East, and the Far East. Guidelines for Submission Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. The original submission containing affiliation and full contact information of the authors should be addressed to the TPC chairs by the date indicated above based on the following instructions: Extended abstract should be in English, with no more than 1500 words and submitted to http://mwcn2003.lri.fr/REG-paper/ The paper should include an abstract of about 150 words, and must not exceed Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript and PDF. Authors must state that their paper have neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will have to expanded into full paper to be distributed on the conference proceedings and or CD-ROMS, and will also be made available in the IEEExplore. Dates to Remember Deadline for submitting an extended abstract : May 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2003 Papers received in camera ready form to MWCN 2003: July 1, 2003 Conference Date and place: 27-29 October, Singapore Organizing Committee Conference General Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Technical Program Chair Khaldoun Al-Agha Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Email: alagha(a)lri.fr Conference Technical Program Co-chairs and area Coordinators Asia-Pacific: Boon Sain Yeo Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email: boonyeo(a)ieee.org North and South Americas: Azzedine Boukerche University of North Texas, USA Email: boukerche(a)cs.unt.edu Middle-East and Far East: Khaled Elsayed Cairo University, Egypt Email: khaled(a)ieee.org Tutorial, Workshop, Panel Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Organizing Chair Ms Patricia Loh Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Email:patricia@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Finance Chair S Kunaselvam Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:kuna@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Secretariat Please contact mwcn(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Web Chair Gek Hiong Tan Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:tangh@icr.a-star.edu.sg Steering Committee Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Omidyar, ICR-NUS, Singapore (Chair) Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Boon Sain Yeo, ICR-NUS, Singapore Technical Scientific Program Committee Hossam Afifi, INT, France Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Hamid Aghvami, Kings College of London, UK André-Luc Beylot, IRIT, France Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, US Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Olga Casals, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Colin Chandler, Qualcomm Europe, France Francois Chin, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Sajal K. Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA Khaled Elsayed, Cairo University, Egypt Markus Endler, IME/USP, Brazil Serge Fdida, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, France Afonso Ferreira, CNRS INRIA, France Adolf Finger, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Jamshid Khun Jush, Ericsson, Germany Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada Xavier Lagrange, ENST Bretagne, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, HK Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., KTH, Wireless Center, Sweden Jon W. Mark, University of Waterloo, Canada Geraldo Robson Mateus, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia, USA Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ayman Naguib, Qualcomm, USA Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Elena Pagani, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gregory P. Pollini, Telecordia, USA Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Christopher Rose, Associate Director, Rutgers WinLab, USA Elisabeth Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Jan Slavik, Testcom, Czech Republic Kelvino S. Sousa, University of Toronto, Canada Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Sumei Sun, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore T.T. Tjhung, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Guillaume Vivier, Motorola Labs, France Branimir Vojcic, George Washington University, USA Ivan Vukovic, Motorola, USA Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

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LANOMS 2003 - 3rd Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium
by Carlos Becker Westphall 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

* Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement * ### #### # ## # # #### # # #### # # # # # # ## # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # #### # # ### # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### # # #### ### #### LANOMS 2003 ----------- 3rd Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium Iguassu Falls, Brazil September 4-6, 2003 IEEE ComSoc CNOM Technically Co-sponsored http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms lanoms(a)inf.ufpr.br Call for Papers --------------- The Third Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium - LANOMS, to be held in Iguassu Falls (Foz do Iguaçú), Brazil, is the result of the great success of both LANOMS'1999 which was held in Rio de Janeiro and LANOMS'2001 which was held in Belo Horizonte, as well as the other events in the area of network management known as NOMS and APNOMS. NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) was originally created 13 years ago, and nowadays constitutes a worldwide event for the researches in the area of network management. The Asia/Pacific community promoted the APNOMS (Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium), which is an event more oriented to the research and development community in that region. Continuing the success of the second LANOMS, we will promote the third edition of LANOMS (http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms) on September 4-6 2003, in Iguassu Falls, Paraná, Brazil. The symposium is a promotion of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil, technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, and supported by IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The main goal of the LANOMS is to create a forum more specific to the necessities of Latin America in the area of network management involving networking and telecommunication companies, academic institutions and equipment vendors. LANOMS is an event open to participants from all over the world who are interest in having, or already have, research or commercial liaisons in Latin America - one of the fastest growing regions in the world in networking. This year, we intend to increase the submissions from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Integrating Intrusion Detection and Network Management - Intrusion Policy Management - Web Services Security - Business and Service Management - Management Platforms, Interoperability, Standards and Protocols - Management of Networks and Services: VPNs, Optical Networks, CATV Networks, Mobile/Wireless and Ad-Hoc Networks, Voice over IP, Transaction-Oriented Services, Electronic Commerce, Active and Programmable Networks, Sensor Networks - Management Technologies and Frameworks (Web, XML, CORBA, DEN, etc) - Management Aspects of Service Pricing, Accounting and Billing - Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service - Bandwidth Brokerage - Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Management - Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Management - Network and Systems Monitoring - Fault and Performance Management - Security Management - Configuration Management and Policy-Driven Management - Information Modeling - Traffic and Performance Management - Open-Source Management Software - Management of Grid Computing, Clusters, Peer-to-Peer Applications, and Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Operations Support Systems - Business Processes for Network and Service Management - Peer-to-peer Network Technologies for Management - Management of Distributed Systems - Case Studies and Experiences in Management Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers, which are not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers are to be submitted in English. Submissions should be complete, full-length papers and should not exceed 12 pages. Electronic submission of papers is mandatory. Full instructions for the electronic submissions are available on the LANOMS Web page. Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF (preferred) or PostScript format via web. The manuscript should include an abstract and three key-words. The format is size A4 (preferred) or Letter, single column, font size 12. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three international experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality. Important Dates: - --------------- Deadline for receipt of papers: May 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2003 Final camera ready paper due: July 15, 2003 LANOMS 2003 Committee --------------------- General Chair: Elias Procópio Duarte Jr., Brazil elias(a)inf.ufpr.br TPC Chair: Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, Brazil edmundo(a)ic.unicamp.br Tutorial Chair: José Marcos Silva Nogueira, Brazil jmarcos(a)dcc.ufmg.br Publicity Chair: Carlos Becker Westphall, Brazil westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br International Liaisons: Asia: Masayoshi Ejiri ejiri(a)jp.fujitsu.com Australia: Abbas Jamalipour abbas(a)ee.usyd.edu.au Europe: Rolf Stadler stadler(a)ctr.columbia.edu North America: Mehmet Ulema mehmet.ulema(a)manhattan.edu Technical Program Committee: Abdelmalek Benzekri - Université Paul Sabatier, France Ahmed Karmouch - Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Antonio Alfredo F. Loureiro - Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil Bruno R. Schulze - LNCC, Brazil Carlos Becker Westphall - Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Carlos de Castro Goulart - Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Brazil Elias P. Duarte Jr. (General Chair) - Federal Univ. of Paraná, Brazil Edmundo Monteiro - Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Edmundo R. M. Madeira (TPC Chair) - State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Edward L. Pinnes - Telcordia, USA Elizabeth Specialski - Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Fernando Boavida - Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Germán Goldszmidt - IBM, USA Iara Machado - RNP, Brazil James Won-Ki Hong - Postech, Korea Javier Diaz - Univ. of La Plata, Argentina José Marcos Silva Nogueira - Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil José Neuman de Souza - Federal Univ. of Ceará, Brazil Liane Tarouco - Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Lisandro Z. Granville - Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Luciano P. Gaspary - Univ. of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil Lundy Lewis - Aprisma Management Technologies, USA Manu Malek - Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Masayoshi Ejiri - Fujitsu, Japan Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Nazim Agoulmine - Univ. of Evry - France Nelson L.S. Fonseca - State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Otto C.M.B. Duarte - Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Raouf Boutaba - Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Thomas Magedanz - IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany

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FW: Netcon2003 Conference @ Muscat
by Augusto Casaca 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: naamany [mailto:naamany@squ.edu.om] Sent: terca-feira, 15 de Abril de 2003 16:46 To: 'Augusto Casaca' Subject: FW: Netcon2003 Conference @ Muscat Augusto Please help in spreading the attached call for paper. Best Regards, Hadj Bourdoucen & Ahmed Al-Naamany, conference co-chairs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Net-Con'2003 Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility IFIP and IEEE Conference, Muscat, OMAN Conference: October 13-15, 2003 Tutorials: October 11-12, 2003 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Jointly Organized by Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Communication Research Center and IFIP TC6 (WG 6.2, WG 6.6 and WG 6.7) For more Details please visit the conference web site @: http://www.squ.edu.om/eng/ece/Net-Con'2003/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----

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FW: Request for CFP broadcast
by Augusto Casaca 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: Debashis Saha [mailto:ds@iimcal.ac.in] Sent: sexta-feira, 18 de Abril de 2003 06:09 To: augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt Subject: Request for CFP broadcast Dear Prof. Casaca: May I request you to kindly broadcast the attached CFP of IWDC 2003 (TC6 is involved with it) in the IFIP mailing lists that you handle. With Regards, -Debashis ----------------------------------------------------------- *** please accept our apologies in case of multiple postings *** ----------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), 2003 Calcutta, India December 27-30,2003 http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jointly organized by ==================== Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India & Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India Co-Sponsored by =============== IEEE AES-COM-LEO SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA in cooperation with =================== IFIP TC6 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: ====== Organized since 1999, the International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC) is a forum for presenting the latest research on distributed/networked computing systems. IWDC 2003 is the fifth workshop in this series. This year it will be jointly organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. The workshop will cover all the facets of distributed computing including theory, systems and applications. The topics of interest include, but are but not limited to: > Mobile and Pervasive Computing > System Management and Security > Fault Tolerance and Reliability > Distributed Objects, Data Management and Algorithms > Network Protocols and Internetworking > Real-Time and Embedded Systems > Web-based Systems and Distributed Multimedia > Middleware > Distributed Database > Distributed A.I. > Multi-agent Systems > Agent-based Systems Important Deadlines: ==================== * Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2003 * Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: September 15, 2003 Manuscript Submission Guidelines: ================================= Papers should be a maximum of 15 pages in length (in single or double column), formatted using at least a 10 point font and 1 inch margins. Please number the pages. (These are review copies. Instructions for final paper preparation will be available at the workshop website.) This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Shorter papers are both reasonable and encouraged. Reviewers will favor clarity and crispness of presentation over length. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers in the students' track. Please submit papers in MS_Word, postscript or PDF format by email to either of the program chairs. Please make sure that your paper is readable and understandable in black-and-white. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper. Please avoid the use of color, particularly to convey important content or meaning. Questions about the workshop content, paper preparation, etc. may also be emailed to them. Please see the workshop website for further information. The detailed Call for Papers is available in http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm Tutorial Submission Guidelines: =============================== Proposals for half- or full-day tutorials are solicited related to the topics of interest. Proposals should include the abstract of the tutorial and brief biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be emailed to the tutorial chairs by the paper submission deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Proceedings of the IWDC 2002 was published by Springer Verlag as LNCS 2571, vide link http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacts: ========= General Chairs: --------------- Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Email: ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: pkdas(a)ieee.org Program Chairs: -------------- Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Email: samir(a)cs.sunysb.edu Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University ,India Email: chandanm(a)vsnl.com Organising Chairs: ----------------- Asim K Pal, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Email: asim(a)iimcal.ac.in Suranjan Ghose, Jadavpur University, India Email: suranjanghose(a)yahoo.co.uk Publication Chair: ------------------ Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Email: das(a)cse.uta.edu Tutorial Chairs: -------------- Ambuj Mahanti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: am(a)iimcal.ac.in Swapan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: bswapan(a)hotmail.com Student Activity Chairs: ------------------------ Ranjan Dasgupta, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India E-mail: ranjandasgupta(a)hotmail.com Sankhayan Choudhury, Calcutta University, India E-mail: csankhayan(a)hotmail.com Industry Chairs: ---------------- Rabindra N. Lahiri, TCS Calcutta, India E-mail: rnl(a)tcscal.co.in Rajeev Shorey, IBM Solutions Research Lab, New Delhi, India E-mail: srajeev(a)in.ibm.com Publicity Chairs: ----------------- Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: ds(a)iimcal.ac.in Rajkumar Buiyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia E-mail: raj(a)cs.mu.oz.au Finance Chairs: --------------- Avijit Kar, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: avijit_kar(a)vsnl.com Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta Univeraity, India E-mail: nabendu(a)ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Steering Committee: Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA : Chair Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Prasanta K. Nandi, Bengal Engineering College (DU), India Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Sanjib C. De Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Shyamal Majumdar, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,India Subhangsu Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta University, India T. Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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FW: Deadline extended: May 1; CfP: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003
by Augusto Casaca 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Alexander Keller Sent: terca-feira, 15 de Abril de 2003 03:37 To: news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net; cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br; tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu; itc(a)comsoc.org; itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: Deadline extended: May 1; CfP: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003 Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1 MAY, 2003 *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS October 20-22, 2003 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.dsom2003.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" The fourteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management will be held October 20-22, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks with co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop location is the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EURESCOM), beautifully situated above the romantic city of Heidelberg with its unique blend of river landscape, historic town, and hillside castle. WORKSHOP SCOPE The scope of this workshop will be on the operations and management of distributed systems, networks, application software, and services and the impact of advanced computing and network technologies on management. The theme of this workshop will be "Self-Managing Systems". Recent activities in distributed processing and network management aim at building self-managing and self-organizing computing systems and networks whose purpose is to automate some or all of the tasks typically carried out by an administrator or management system. This concept takes the distributed management paradigm one step further by providing managed resources with a very high degree of autonomy. Self-managing systems will be able to detect failures or performance degradations, initiate diagnostic procedures and carry out corrective actions on their own. Their ability to discover changes in the environment will enable Self-managing Systems to adapt and optimize their behavior. Self-management is particularly important for mobile systems, since mobile environments are highly dynamic and consist of a very large number of managed systems. The workshop will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems, as well as research results on other topics related to distributed management. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks and Platforms for Self-managing Systems * Case Studies and Experiences with Self-managing Systems * Self-healing Systems and Networks * Using Peer-to-peer Technologies for Management * Management Issues in Grid Computing and Grid-based Management Systems * Application of Service oriented Architectures (Web Services, Open Grid Services Architecture) to Self-managing Systems * Implementation and Integration of Self-managing Systems with standardized frameworks, management architectures and APIs (OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, WBEM/CIM, JMX) * Experiences with Distributed Management of Systems, Applications and Services * End-to-end Service Provisioning * Monitoring, Event and Fault Handling * QoS Management in Distributed Systems and Networks * Transaction Monitoring and Management * Automated Instrumentation of Distributed Applications * Management Information Models * Inter-Domain Management * Adaptive Services and Applications * Active Technologies for Management * Policy-based Management * Configuration Management and Self-Configuration * Security and Trust Issues in Distributed Management * Mobility Management WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The workshop is an effort to bring together people actively working in the management area. This international workshop is the 14th in a series of highly successful annual workshops on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM)". Recent DSOM workshops were held in Zurich (1999), Austin (2000), Nancy (2001), and Montreal (2002). Selection of contributions will be based on reviews of the papers submitted. We also plan to hold a work-in-progress session where early work will be presented. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2003. *** Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2003 *** Authors are requested to submit: - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Workshop web site http://www.dsom2003.org/. The Proceedings of the Workshop, comprising both the accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. If accepted, the camera-ready copy of each paper will have to comply with the instructions available from the Springer web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Note that a paper does not have to follow this style for submission; however, being aware of the LNCS requirements may help save extra work later. A Best Paper Award will be presented. Candidates for the award will be identified during the regular review process; an independent awards committee will evaluate the candidate papers together with their presentations and select the best paper. IMPORTANT DATES EXTENDED(!) Deadline for Receipt of Full Papers: May 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance mailed: June 30, 2003 Author Registration and Final Camera Ready Papers Due: July 31, 2003 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marcus Brunner Alexander Keller NEC Europe Ltd. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kurfuersten-Anlage 34 P.O. Box 704 D-69115 Heidelberg Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Germany USA Email: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Email: alexk(a)us.ibm.com TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Metin Feridun, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Olivier Festor, LORIA/INRIA, France Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany German Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gautam Kar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryotaro Kawamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan SeongBeom Kim, R&D Group Korea Telecom, Korea Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya, USA Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA Juergen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Radu State, LORIA/INRIA, France Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil CORPORATE PATRON: IBM Corporation GENERAL INFORMATION For tourist information on Heidelberg and directions to the workshop location, please visit the following web sites: Heidelberg Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de EURESCOM (workshop location): http://www.eurescom.de Heidelberg City Information: http://www.heidelberg.de _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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FW: Netcon2003 Conference @ Muscat
by naamany 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

_____ Net-Con'2003 Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility IFIP and IEEE Conference, Muscat, OMAN Conference: October 13-15, 2003 Tutorials: October 11-12, 2003 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS Jointly Organized by Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Communication Research Center and IFIP TC6 (WG 6.2, WG 6.6 and WG 6.7) For more Details please visit the conference web site @: http://www.squ.edu.om/eng/ece/Net-Con'2003/index.html _____

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Netcon 2003; 13-15 Oct. 2003
by Otto Spaniol 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Dear all, please find enclosed the second Call for Papers for the conference Netcon 2003 in Muscat (Oman). - Conference: 13-15 Oct 2003 - Preceding Tutorials: 11+12 Oct 2003. The TC6 meeting is scheduled for Oct. 16+17, i.e. after Netcon 2003, also in Muscat. Best regards Otto

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Fw: CFP IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services 2003
by Ahmed Mehaoua 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Dear Colleagues, /* PLEASE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT * / /* LAST DAYS FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS TO IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2003 /* THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 18th APRIL 2003 */ Best Regards A. Mehaoua (Univ. of Versailles) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people to encourage contributions and submissions to MMNS 2003 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003 Second Call For Papers Multimedia services over IP networks are proliferating at an enormous speed. There is also increasing demand for solutions which provide assured levels of service quality. All of these require novel paradigms, models and architectures for realising integrated end-to-end service management rather than managing network elements in isolation. Providing scalable Quality of Service (QoS) while maintaining fairness, along with secure and optimal network resource management are key challenges for the future Internet. These challenges apply to both fixed and wireless networks. The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services will hold its sixth annual meeting from September 7th to September 10th, 2003 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MMNS provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate. In just 6 years, MMNS has established itself as one of the premier conferences with a focus on the management of multimedia networks and services. The conference objective is to bring together researchers working in all facets of network and service management as applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. MMNS deals with all aspects of designing, developing and deploying networked multimedia systems and it serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and development results. MMNS 2003 will also include panel sessions in which experts offer their observations and opinions about current hot topics. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology who will present a vision of future interplanetary network architectures. Professor Derek McAuley, head of Intel's recently formed laboratory at Cambridge, UK, will describe some of the new research being undertaken on global overlay networks and applications. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Active multimedia network management * Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Augmented and Virtual Reality Networks * Billing and Accounting * Cable multimedia network management * Content distribution internetworking * Deployment of multimedia services * Distributed multimedia service management * End-to-end IP multimedia network and service management * IP Video, streaming, interactive video service management * Middleware support for management * Multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization * Multimedia traffic management * Multimedia content protection * Multimedia session management * Multi-point, multicast services management * Network management models and architectures * Network programmability for multimedia services * Optical multimedia network management * Policy-based management for multi-media services * Provisioning of multimedia networks and services * QoS in WLANs * QoS management * Resource, performance and fault management * Security and Authentication * VoIP service management * Web Services * Wireless and mobile multimedia network management Papers must be submitted electronically in postscript or PDF format. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference web site, http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003. Submission date: 18th April 2003 Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2003 Final version: 4th July 2003 Conference Chairs: Professor Alan Marshall, a.marshall(a)ee.qub.ac.uk, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Professor Nazim Agoulmine, nazim(a)rp.lip6.fr, University of Evry, France

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Request for broadcast of CFP
by Debashis Saha 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Dear Jan: May I request you to kindly broadcast the attached CFP of IWDC 2003 in the IFIP mailing lists that you handle. With Regards, -Debashis ----------------------------------------------------------- *** please accept our apologies in case of multiple postings *** ----------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), 2003 Calcutta, India December 27-30,2003 http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jointly organized by ==================== Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India & Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India Co-Sponsored by =============== IEEE AES-COM-LEO SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA in cooperation with =================== IFIP TC6 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: ====== Organized since 1999, the International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC) is a forum for presenting the latest research on distributed/networked computing systems. IWDC 2003 is the fifth workshop in this series. This year it will be jointly organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. The workshop will cover all the facets of distributed computing including theory, systems and applications. The topics of interest include, but are but not limited to: > Mobile and Pervasive Computing > System Management and Security > Fault Tolerance and Reliability > Distributed Objects, Data Management and Algorithms > Network Protocols and Internetworking > Real-Time and Embedded Systems > Web-based Systems and Distributed Multimedia > Middleware > Distributed Database > Distributed A.I. > Multi-agent Systems > Agent-based Systems Important Deadlines: ==================== * Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2003 * Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: September 15, 2003 Manuscript Submission Guidelines: ================================= Papers should be a maximum of 15 pages in length (in single or double column), formatted using at least a 10 point font and 1 inch margins. Please number the pages. (These are review copies. Instructions for final paper preparation will be available at the workshop website.) This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Shorter papers are both reasonable and encouraged. Reviewers will favor clarity and crispness of presentation over length. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers in the students' track. Please submit papers in MS_Word, postscript or PDF format by email to either of the program chairs. Please make sure that your paper is readable and understandable in black-and-white. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper. Please avoid the use of color, particularly to convey important content or meaning. Questions about the workshop content, paper preparation, etc. may also be emailed to them. Please see the workshop website for further information. The detailed Call for Papers is available in http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm Tutorial Submission Guidelines: =============================== Proposals for half- or full-day tutorials are solicited related to the topics of interest. Proposals should include the abstract of the tutorial and brief biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be emailed to the tutorial chairs by the paper submission deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Proceedings of the IWDC 2002 was published by Springer Verlag as LNCS 2571, vide link http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacts: ========= General Chairs: --------------- Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Email: ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: pkdas(a)ieee.org Program Chairs: -------------- Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Email: samir(a)cs.sunysb.edu Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University ,India Email: chandanm(a)vsnl.com Organising Chairs: ----------------- Asim K Pal, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Email: asim(a)iimcal.ac.in Suranjan Ghose, Jadavpur University, India Email: suranjanghose(a)yahoo.co.uk Publication Chair: ------------------ Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Email: das(a)cse.uta.edu Tutorial Chairs: -------------- Ambuj Mahanti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: am(a)iimcal.ac.in Swapan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: bswapan(a)hotmail.com Student Activity Chairs: ------------------------ Ranjan Dasgupta, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India E-mail: ranjandasgupta(a)hotmail.com Sankhayan Choudhury, Calcutta University, India E-mail: csankhayan(a)hotmail.com Industry Chairs: ---------------- Rabindra N. Lahiri, TCS Calcutta, India E-mail: rnl(a)tcscal.co.in Rajeev Shorey, IBM Solutions Research Lab, New Delhi, India E-mail: srajeev(a)in.ibm.com Publicity Chairs: ----------------- Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: ds(a)iimcal.ac.in Rajkumar Buiyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia E-mail: raj(a)cs.mu.oz.au Finance Chairs: --------------- Avijit Kar, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: avijit_kar(a)vsnl.com Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta Univeraity, India E-mail: nabendu(a)ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Steering Committee: Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA : Chair Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Prasanta K. Nandi, Bengal Engineering College (DU), India Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Sanjib C. De Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Shyamal Majumdar, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,India Subhangsu Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta University, India T. Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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7th IEEE DS-RT'2003
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Call for Papers DS-RT 2003 Seventh IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 23-25, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands. http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ In conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) October 26-29, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology *IEEE Approval Pending Scope In its seventh year, the 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) will take place at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, just before the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. Workshop Objectives DS-RT 2003 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2003 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2003 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: o- Interactive Virtual Reality, Multi-User Virtual Reality, Interactive Simulation in Entertainment; o-Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols (e.g., HLA, DIS); o-Implementation issues; (e.g., general purpose distributed simulation); o-Algorithms and Methods for Distributed Interactive Simulation; (e.g., o-event synchronization, network time protocols); o-Applications of Distributed Simulation (e.g., Real Time DS, large distributed simulation systems); o- Distributed Models and Simulation for Analysis; o- Data Distribution Management and Interest Management; o- Multi-resolution modeling; o- Current Critical Design Issues (e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time); o- Methodology for Distributed/Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modelling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation; (e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies); o- Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Visual Interactive Simulation (e.g., generic animation, visual o- interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning); o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Process under Simulation; o- Language and Modeling Issues; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems (such as Java, and DCOM) on DIS; o- Interoperable Communication Networks; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems (QoS requirements and their realization, multicast for distributed/ real-time simulation systems); o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation (e.g. Modeling Global Internet); o- Integration of DIS and HLA with Web Technologies. Important dates Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready version due: August 15, 2003 Symposium presentation: October 23-25, 2003 in Delft, The Netherlands IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2003/ by June 1, 2003. Questions from authors may be directed to Simon Taylor (simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. Organizing Committee General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Chair Simon J. E. Taylor Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 3PH Email: simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk Phone: +44-1895-203389 Fax: +44-1895-251686 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece Mirela M. S. A. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Program Committee Lee Belfore, Old Dominion University, USA Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University Judith Dahmann, MITRE Corporation, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University at Linz Robert Fransechini, SAIC, USA Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Katherine MorseSAIC, USA Anand Natrajan, University of Virginia Mikel Petty, Old Dominion University Mark Pullen, George Mason University Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Doug Schmidt, DARPA, and University of California at Irvine Roger Smith, Model Benders Corp., USA Gary Tan, National University of Singapore Simon Taylor, Brunel University, UK Stephen Turner, Nanyang Technological University Richard Weatherly, MITRE Corp., USA Philip Wilsey, University of Cincinnati Steering Committee Azzedine Boukerche (Chair), University of North Texas Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia Advisory Board Committee Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas K. M. Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Doug DeGroot, Texas Instruments, USA Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa, Canada Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Gabriel Silberman, IBM Research, USA Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore G. Zobrist, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Local Arrangement Chair: Alexander Verbraeck, Systems Engineering, TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands Registration Chair Susan Standing, Brunel University, UK Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Delft see www.delft.nl!

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