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TC6 meeting dates and time
by Augusto Casaca 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, Another message from my side just to tell that the planned timing for the TC6 meeting is: Sunday (18/5): 9.00am - 6.00pm Sunday (18/5): TC6 dinner in the evening Monday (19/5): 9.00am - 4.00pm. The agenda will be sent later on. Best regards Augusto

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Final call for papers to QoFIS 2003
by Gunnar Karlsson 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Apologies for multiple copies. ---------------------- N.B. The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 is Tuesday April 22. ---------------------- Call for Papers Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS 2003) October 1-3, 2003 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden URL: http://www.qofis.org Call for Papers The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss design and implementation techniques for providing quality of service in communication systems. This workshop is the fourth international event organized by COST263 Action "Quality of Future Internet Services" and it explicitly focuses on the provisioning of quality of service in the Internet, including wireless network access and host system support. The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and maturing approaches to QoS, and for bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from both industry and academia. Along with presentations of papers and keynote speeches, QoFIS 2003 will offer a seminar day on October 3 with invited speakers on the topic "Quality of Service in Wireless Networks." The seminar is organized in cooperation with the KTH Center for Wireless Systems. List of Topics We are inviting research contributions on topics strongly related to the offering of quality of service in the Internet. These include, but are not limited to: - Traffic modeling and classification - QoS requirements, mapping and negotiation - Denial and theft of QoS - Policing, scheduling and metering - QoS routing, inter and intra domain - Signaling, session management - Traffic engineering, service dimensioning - End-system QoS support - Policy-based QoS management - QoS in wireless networks - QoS in peer-to-peer networks - Active networking for QoS - Charging for quality Papers and Submissions Papers are solicited in full length in English. All papers will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should follow the author guidelines specified at http://www.qofis.org. The conference proceedings are published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Best Ph.D. student paper award Papers that are candidate for the best PhD student paper award should be clearly identified as such in a cover letter, which should be signed by the student's supervisor. To be eligible for the award, the PhD student should be the principal author and presenter of the submitted paper. The selection will be based on both the quality of the written paper and its presentation. Important Dates Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2003 Camera-ready version: July 17, 2003 Workshop dates: October 1-3, 2003 General Information The final program will be offered in a single-track over two days, Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2003. An associated seminar on Quality of Service in Wireless Networks will be held on Friday October 3, 2003, at the KTH Center for Wireless Systems, http://wireless.kth.se/. The registration fee will include both the workshop and the seminar day. For more information on the co-located events please visit the URL http://www.qofis.org/. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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IFIP I3E2003- Deadline Extended 21st April
by manuel mendes 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. ##################################### I3E2003 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government(I3E 2003) Sponsored by IFIP, international Federation for Information Processing September 21-24, 2003 Casa Grande Hotel, São Paulo, Guarujá, BRAZIL ************************************************* Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference ************************************************* + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + Next important Dates!! + + ---------------------- + + + + Papers Deadline (extended):April 21st2003 + + Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This conference is the third IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: eCommerce * Marketplaces, Portals, eHubs * B2B and B2C models * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Content management, ePayment systems * Agent-mediated electronic commerce * Case studies in electronic commerce * Consumer protection in electronic commerce * Costs and benefit aspects * Digital goods and products * Electronic commerce application fields eBusiness * Enterprise Portals * Innovative business models * Supply, Demand and Value chains * Business Process Re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * eCommunities * Workflow management and Collaboration * Management of dynamic collaborative networks * Complex adaptive and selforganising systems * Distributed work and knowledge flows in business networks * Business data exchange format and standards eGovernment * Digital cities, Digital regions, Rural networking * eGovernance and eInclusion, * Electronic Public Services for Citizens and enterprises:One-stop Government, Single-Window-Service, Seamless Government * E-Local administration * G2G, G2B, G2C and G2E models * Government Process Reengineering and redesigning cooperation within and between agencies * Frameworks and guidelines for e-Government * Transnational e-Government projects and standards * International and regional projects, case studies and international comparisons * Strategies, implementation policies and best practices Related Technical aspects * Technologies for interoperability and aplication integration * Information & communication OPEN platforms * User Mobility * Unified messaging * Agent and Grid technologies * Information retrieval and extraction and data mining * Knowledge Management * Security, privacy, Trustability * Smart Cards and biometrics * Digital signatures and Certificates * Standards for information interchange and processes, interoperability and semantic standardisation * Web Technologies: - Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Web data models and metadata - Knowledge discovery of Web data - Web data mining and analysis * E-(WEB) services - E-service location, selection, brokering - E-service composition, invocation and delivery - E-service monitoring, personalization, management and life cycle - XML-based protocols and description language - Service-based architectures and their underlying technology - Service-oriented application development - Standards for e-services Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * socio-economic research in the governance of networked organisations * e-government models and legal issues. * e-Inclusion * e-Democracy strategies, citizen participation in local public affairs * e-Governance tools for policymaking in governments and in policy networks * New organisational arrangements: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships * Institutional change and IT-driven modernisation of public governance structures * Intellectual property licensing * Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues MAIN TRACK, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************** The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics above and several workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS *********************** Paper submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page, identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format. INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *************************************** Proposals for workshops should describe the title, scope and organizational structure. Workshop chairs are responsible for both organizing the review process and promotion of their workshop. Tutorial proposals should include the tutorial title, the names and a brief biography for each presenter (approximately half page) and a summary of the tutorial contents (approximately 1-2 pages . Proposals should be send electronically as Word or PDF files following the link at the conference homepage. INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM AND POSTERS *************************************************** Research Colloquium offers PhD and Master students in themes related to I3E the opportunity to present and discuss their work with each other as well as a number of experienced international researchers. Students from all the I3E related disciplines are encouraged to apply, although numbers will be limited. Submissions should outline current research in progress and be no longer than 3 pages in length. An abstract and biographical note should be included. Poster submissions graphically illustrating original contributions on eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment are invited. Successful posters will be on show for the duration of the conference. Submissions should be comprised of a 2 page description of the theory, method, or technology the poster will illustrate. Final descriptions of posters will be included in the Conference Supplement. ******************** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** Papers ------ Deadline: 21st April , 2003, Notification of acceptance: May 30th , 2003, Camera-ready papers:June 30th , 2003 Workshops --------- Deadline: 28th February 2003 (closed) Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003, Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003 Tutorials --------- Deadline: 30th April 2003, Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003, Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003 Posters ------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 Research Colloquium ------------------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th Juni 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION ******************* Conference site for more information: http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference ********* COMMITTEE ********* Honorary Chairs --------------- Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu Zeletin, FOKUS, De Dr. Arnaldo Madeira, State Government of São Paulo General Chair M. Mendes, mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br Programm Co-Chairs Reima Suomi, Reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi Carlos Passos, carlos.passos(a)cenpra.gov.br Organizing Committee ******************** Organizing Co-Chairs Romildo Monte, romildo.monte(a)cenpra.gov.br Roberto Agune, ragune(a)sp.gov.br Workshops Chair, Clenio Figueiredo, clenio.salviano(a)cenpra.gov.br , Government Liaison Chairs, Agnaldo Lopes, alopes(a)sp.gov.br , Maurício Moraes, mauriciomoraes(a)sp.gov.br Treasurer Chair Jarbas Cardoso, jarbas.cardoso(a)cenpra.gov.br, Tutorials Chair Clever Farias, cleverfarias(a)unisantos.edu.br , Industry Liaison Chair, Jorge Silva, jorge.silva(a)cenpra.gov.br , Publication Chair, Marcos Rodrigues, marcos.rodrigues(a)cenpra.gov.br , Posters Chair Luiz Camolesi, lcamole(a)unimep.br Publicity Chair Ronaldo Lemos, ronaldo.lemos(a)cenpra.gov.br Local Arrangements Chair Marta Rosatelli, rosatelli(a)unisantos.edu.br Hermes Senger, senger(a)unisantos.edu.br Research Colloqium Co-Chairs, Fabrício Silva, fabricio(a)unisantos.edu.br, Frederico de Freitas fred(a)unisantos.br Conference Secretary, Monica Berton, monica.berton(a)cenpra.gov.br International Program Committee ******************************* J. M. Adán Coello, Unisantos, Brazil C. Ary Mendez, Univ. Punta Arenas, Chile D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, France M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, Austria L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Portugal W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, Polland N. Cerpa, Univ. of Talca, Chile Y. F. Chen, ATT, USA J. Cooper, UTP, Australia R. Debreceny, Nanyang Bus.School, Singapore A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece M. Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan B. C.Glasson, Univ.of Notre Dame, Australia W. Golden, National Univ. Of Irland, Irland R. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia D. Khakhar, Lund University, Sweden C. Kirner, UNIMEP, Brazil A. Iyengar, Watson-IBM, USA W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, Netherlands C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, Germany T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, Germany W. Meira, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil J. Miettinen, Finland A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK J. Monteiro, Univ. Minho, Portugal V. Ouzounis, CEC-EU C. Passos, Cenpra, Brazil (Programm Co-Chair) H. Pohl, Univ. Appl. Sciences, Bonn, Germany R. Rabelo, UFSc, Florianopolis, Brazil K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ, Germany B. Roberts, Kingston University, UK H. Rudin, Switzerland B. Schmidt, UNISG, Switzerland D. Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil M. Singh, RMIT University, Australia J. Soto Mejia, Univ. Pereira, Colombia K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland C. Steinfield, Michigan State Univ., USA L. A.M. Strous, IFIP, Netherlands R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., Finland P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz, Germany S. Teufel, Freifourg University, Switzerland R. Traunmueller, UNI Linz, Austria A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, Greece V. Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany V. K. Tuunainen, Helsinki Sch. Econ., Finland M. Waidner, IBM, Zürich, Switerland H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, Netherlands H. Werthner, University of Trento, Italy J. Wielki, Poland H. D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, Switzerland Y. Zhang, Univ. of South. Queensland, Australia IFIP STEERING COMMITTEE *********************** K. Bauknecht, CH B.C. Glasson, AUS D. Khakhar, S J. Miettinen, FIN J. Monteiro, PT H. Rudin, CH S. Teufel, CH V. Tschammer, D ************************** ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS ************************** Organizers ---------- * CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, Campinas (main organizer) * Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos Supporters ---------- * IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11 (main supporter) * State Government of S.Paulo * SBC, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação * SBA, Sociedade Brasileira de Automática ##################################### I3E2003 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government(I3E 2003) Sponsored by IFIP, international Federation for Information Processing September 21-24, 2003 Casa Grande Hotel, São Paulo, Guarujá, BRAZIL ************************************************* Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference ************************************************* + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + Next important Dates!! + + ---------------------- + + Workshop Proposals due: 28th February 2003 + + Papers Deadline (extended):April 21st2003 + + Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This conference is the third IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: eCommerce * Marketplaces, Portals, eHubs * B2B and B2C models * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Content management, ePayment systems * Agent-mediated electronic commerce * Case studies in electronic commerce * Consumer protection in electronic commerce * Costs and benefit aspects * Digital goods and products * Electronic commerce application fields eBusiness * Enterprise Portals * Innovative business models * Supply, Demand and Value chains * Business Process Re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * eCommunities * Workflow management and Collaboration * Management of dynamic collaborative networks * Complex adaptive and selforganising systems * Distributed work and knowledge flows in business networks * Business data exchange format and standards eGovernment * Digital cities, Digital regions, Rural networking * eGovernance and eInclusion, * Electronic Public Services for Citizens and enterprises:One-stop Government, Single-Window-Service, Seamless Government * E-Local administration * G2G, G2B, G2C and G2E models * Government Process Reengineering and redesigning cooperation within and between agencies * Frameworks and guidelines for e-Government * Transnational e-Government projects and standards * International and regional projects, case studies and international comparisons * Strategies, implementation policies and best practices Related Technical aspects * Technologies for interoperability and aplication integration * Information & communication OPEN platforms * User Mobility * Unified messaging * Agent and Grid technologies * Information retrieval and extraction and data mining * Knowledge Management * Security, privacy, Trustability * Smart Cards and biometrics * Digital signatures and Certificates * Standards for information interchange and processes, interoperability and semantic standardisation * Web Technologies: - Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Web data models and metadata - Knowledge discovery of Web data - Web data mining and analysis * E-(WEB) services - E-service location, selection, brokering - E-service composition, invocation and delivery - E-service monitoring, personalization, management and life cycle - XML-based protocols and description language - Service-based architectures and their underlying technology - Service-oriented application development - Standards for e-services Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * socio-economic research in the governance of networked organisations * e-government models and legal issues. * e-Inclusion * e-Democracy strategies, citizen participation in local public affairs * e-Governance tools for policymaking in governments and in policy networks * New organisational arrangements: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships * Institutional change and IT-driven modernisation of public governance structures * Intellectual property licensing * Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues MAIN TRACK, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************** The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics above and several workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS *********************** Paper submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page, identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format. INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *************************************** Proposals for workshops should describe the title, scope and organizational structure. Workshop chairs are responsible for both organizing the review process and promotion of their workshop. Tutorial proposals should include the tutorial title, the names and a brief biography for each presenter (approximately half page) and a summary of the tutorial contents (approximately 1-2 pages . Proposals should be send electronically as Word or PDF files following the link at the conference homepage. INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM AND POSTERS *************************************************** Research Colloquium offers PhD and Master students in themes related to I3E the opportunity to present and discuss their work with each other as well as a number of experienced international researchers. Students from all the I3E related disciplines are encouraged to apply, although numbers will be limited. Submissions should outline current research in progress and be no longer than 3 pages in length. An abstract and biographical note should be included. Poster submissions graphically illustrating original contributions on eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment are invited. Successful posters will be on show for the duration of the conference. Submissions should be comprised of a 2 page description of the theory, method, or technology the poster will illustrate. Final descriptions of posters will be included in the Conference Supplement. ******************** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** Papers ------ Deadline: March 28th , 2003, Notification of acceptance: May 2nd , 2003, Camera-ready papers:June 13th , 2003 Workshops --------- Deadline: 28th February 2003 Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003, Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003 Tutorials --------- Deadline: 30th April 2003, Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003, Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003 Posters ------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 Research Colloquium ------------------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th Juni 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION ******************* Conference site for more information: http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference ********* COMMITTEE ********* Honorary Chairs --------------- Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu Zeletin, FOKUS, De Dr. Arnaldo Madeira, State Government of São Paulo General Chair M. Mendes, mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br Programm Co-Chairs Reima Suomi, Reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi Carlos Passos, carlos.passos(a)cenpra.gov.br Organizing Committee ******************** Organizing Co-Chairs Romildo Monte, romildo.monte(a)cenpra.gov.br Roberto Agune, ragune(a)sp.gov.br Workshops Chair, Clenio Figueiredo, clenio.salviano(a)cenpra.gov.br , Government Liaison Chairs, Agnaldo Lopes, alopes(a)sp.gov.br , Maurício Moraes, mauriciomoraes(a)sp.gov.br Treasurer Chair Jarbas Cardoso, jarbas.cardoso(a)cenpra.gov.br, Tutorials Chair Clever Farias, cleverfarias(a)unisantos.edu.br , Industry Liaison Chair, Jorge Silva, jorge.silva(a)cenpra.gov.br , Publication Chair, Marcos Rodrigues, marcos.rodrigues(a)cenpra.gov.br , Posters Chair Luiz Camolesi, lcamole(a)unimep.br Publicity Chair Ronaldo Lemos, ronaldo.lemos(a)cenpra.gov.br Local Arrangements Chair Marta Rosatelli, rosatelli(a)unisantos.edu.br Hermes Senger, senger(a)unisantos.edu.br Research Colloqium Co-Chairs, Fabrício Silva, fabricio(a)unisantos.edu.br, Frederico de Freitas fred(a)unisantos.br Conference Secretary, Monica Berton, monica.berton(a)cenpra.gov.br International Program Committee ******************************* J. M. Adán Coello, Unisantos, Brazil C. Ary Mendez, Univ. Punta Arenas, Chile D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, France M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, Austria L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Portugal W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, Polland N. Cerpa, Univ. of Talca, Chile Y. F. Chen, ATT, USA J. Cooper, UTP, Australia R. Debreceny, Nanyang Bus.School, Singapore A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece M. Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan B. C.Glasson, Univ.of Notre Dame, Australia W. Golden, National Univ. Of Irland, Irland R. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia C. Kirner, UNIMEP, Brazil A. Iyengar, Watson-IBM, USA W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, Netherlands C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, Germany T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, Germany W. Meira, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil J. Miettinen, Finland A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK J. Monteiro, Univ. Minho, Portugal V. Ouzounis, CEC-EU C. Passos, Cenpra, Brazil (Programm Co-Chair) H. Pohl, Univ. Appl. Sciences, Bonn, Germany R. Rabelo, UFSc, Florianopolis, Brazil K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ, Germany B. Roberts, Kingston University, UK H. Rudin, Switzerland B. Schmidt, UNISG, Switzerland D. Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil M. Singh, RMIT University, Australia J. Soto Mejia, Univ. Pereira, Colombia K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland C. Steinfield, Michigan State Univ., USA L. A.M. Strous, IFIP, Netherlands R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., Finland P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz, Germany S. Teufel, Freifourg University, Switzerland R. Traunmueller, UNI Linz, Austria A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, Greece V. Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany V. K. Tuunainen, Helsinki Sch. Econ., Finland M. Waidner, IBM, Zürich, Switerland H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, Netherlands H. Werthner, University of Trento, Italy J. Wielki, Poland H. D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, Switzerland Y. Zhang, Univ. of South. Queensland, Australia IFIP STEERING COMMITTEE *********************** K. Bauknecht, CH B.C. Glasson, AUS D. Khakhar, S J. Miettinen, FIN J. Monteiro, PT H. Rudin, CH S. Teufel, CH V. Tschammer, D ************************** ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS ************************** Organizers ---------- * CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, Campinas (main organizer) * Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos Supporters ---------- * IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11 (main supporter) * State Government of S.Paulo * SBC, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação * SBA, Sociedade Brasileira de Automática ______________________________________ Prof. Dr. Manuel de Jesus Mendes Home Phone: +55-19-32874003 Mobile Phone: +55-19-9604 5003 Mail Address: mjmendes(a)unimep.br mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br _______________________________________

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IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003: Deadline extended: May 1;
by Marcus Brunner 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ -------------------------------------- Dr. Marcus Brunner Network Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd. E-Mail: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de WWW: http://www.ccrle.nec.de/ Phone: +49 (0) 6221 905 11 29 personal home page: http://www.brubers.org/marcus

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WG Reports
by Augusto Casaca 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Dear colleagues, Please send your WG reports for the TC6 meeting in Budapest until 7th of May. I need some time to extract the data included there to update the TC6 statistics. Please use the submission via the TC6 web site. You have already received an invitation for the Budapest meeting and hotel information from Sarolta. Please indicate your presence in the meeting by sending a mail to Sarolta and myself. I will be absent on holiday next week. I wish a happy Easter to all of you and your families Best regards Augusto

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FW: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat
by Augusto Casaca 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, I am sending this message again as I am afraid there has been problems with the TC6 server yesterday. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Abril de 2003 12:54 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat Importance: High Dear represenrtatives of IFIP member societies, Dear TC chairs, it is with personal regret that I have to inform you that on Friday April 4th 2003 I was obliged, with the agreement of the members of the Executive Board (EB), to terminate Plamen Nedkovs role as IFIP Executive Director. During meetings of EB in Bilbao various issues were raised concerning the work of the EB and the Executive Director which EB agreed should be investigated by the IFIP Secretary. This esp. included cases of decisions on personell where ED informed EB only about arguments supporting his suggestions but leaving out essential decisions of previous presidents which explicitly contradicted those suggestions. I expressly instructed EB and the Executive Director that the issues were not to be discussed publicly until that report was received. Following the EB meeting, and in direct contravention of my instruction, the Executive Director sent an email to a large number of those who had attended the Bilbao Council meeting discussing some of the issues. I sent him an email reminding him of my instruction. Plamen Nedkovs response was to send a further email to the Council members, which included an admission that he had breached the Presidents earlier instruction against discussing the issues publicly. As a result of this deliberate breach of my instruction I had no alternative but to ask Plamen Nedkov to sign a short statement apologising to EB and agreeing to respect the confidentiality of EB discussions in future. He declined to sign the letter. Consequently on Thursday March 27th 2003 the IFIP Secretary and I met with Plamen Nedkov to discuss the matter with him. Plamen Nedkov was again invited to sign the statement but declined. Consequently we discussed, at his suggestion, possible terms for a mutually agreeable termination of his employment. On behalf of EB I made an initial offer which was significantly more than the terms specified in his contract concerning termination of the contract and invited him to respond. He asked for a weeks delay to consider his position, to which we agreed. Because of the seriousness of this matter, in addition to EB, I consulted a number of recent IFIP Presidents who all expressed their support for the way the matter was to be handled. Our discussion resumed on Friday, April 4th 2003. I again invited him to sign the statement but he declined. I restated EBs previous offer and invited his response. Plamen Nedkov requested a financial package far in excess of the terms that EB considered appropriate. Despite our requests, Plamen Nedkov declined to negotiate further. Consequently I had no alternative but to terminate his role within IFIP with immediate effect and in accordance with the terms in his contract. IFIP staff are employed on our behalf by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Before taking these final steps, I had consulted their Director of Human Resources and acted in accordance with her guidance. The final contractual matters will now be formally concluded by the Academy in accordance with Austrian labour practice and law. Until these formal steps have been concluded I do not feel it appropriate to give more details of the offers made on either side. I very much regret that I have had to take these steps. EB is convinced that Plamen Nedkovs behaviour constituted a fundamental and repeated breach of the trust that is essential to the success of IFIPs work. For the moment, Dorothy Hayden will take over the running of the office in Laxenburg. EB is taking immediate steps to ensure that the essential work of IFIP is maintained. EB is actively examining a number of options for the future and I will be in touch with you again as soon as there is more news to give you. Finally, I wish to add a word of appreciation of the work which Plamen did esp. for Technical Committees and Working Groups. As I experienced myself during my time as TC-9 chair and TA chair, Plamen indeed supported TC and WG work in a friendly and efficient way. I had sincerely hoped and repeatedly tried my best to reconstruct the atmosphere of trust and cooperation which was the basis of my previous work with Plamen, but he refused my suggestions which would have been a fair basis of continued cooperation. Yours sincerely Klaus Brunnstein

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FW: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat
by Augusto Casaca 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, For your information I forward the message that I received from the IFIP President. Best regards Augusto Casaca -----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Abril de 2003 12:54 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat Importance: High Dear represenrtatives of IFIP member societies, Dear TC chairs, it is with personal regret that I have to inform you that on Friday April 4th 2003 I was obliged, with the agreement of the members of the Executive Board (EB), to terminate Plamen Nedkovs role as IFIP Executive Director. During meetings of EB in Bilbao various issues were raised concerning the work of the EB and the Executive Director which EB agreed should be investigated by the IFIP Secretary. This esp. included cases of decisions on personell where ED informed EB only about arguments supporting his suggestions but leaving out essential decisions of previous presidents which explicitly contradicted those suggestions. I expressly instructed EB and the Executive Director that the issues were not to be discussed publicly until that report was received. Following the EB meeting, and in direct contravention of my instruction, the Executive Director sent an email to a large number of those who had attended the Bilbao Council meeting discussing some of the issues. I sent him an email reminding him of my instruction. Plamen Nedkovs response was to send a further email to the Council members, which included an admission that he had breached the Presidents earlier instruction against discussing the issues publicly. As a result of this deliberate breach of my instruction I had no alternative but to ask Plamen Nedkov to sign a short statement apologising to EB and agreeing to respect the confidentiality of EB discussions in future. He declined to sign the letter. Consequently on Thursday March 27th 2003 the IFIP Secretary and I met with Plamen Nedkov to discuss the matter with him. Plamen Nedkov was again invited to sign the statement but declined. Consequently we discussed, at his suggestion, possible terms for a mutually agreeable termination of his employment. On behalf of EB I made an initial offer which was significantly more than the terms specified in his contract concerning termination of the contract and invited him to respond. He asked for a weeks delay to consider his position, to which we agreed. Because of the seriousness of this matter, in addition to EB, I consulted a number of recent IFIP Presidents who all expressed their support for the way the matter was to be handled. Our discussion resumed on Friday, April 4th 2003. I again invited him to sign the statement but he declined. I restated EBs previous offer and invited his response. Plamen Nedkov requested a financial package far in excess of the terms that EB considered appropriate. Despite our requests, Plamen Nedkov declined to negotiate further. Consequently I had no alternative but to terminate his role within IFIP with immediate effect and in accordance with the terms in his contract. IFIP staff are employed on our behalf by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Before taking these final steps, I had consulted their Director of Human Resources and acted in accordance with her guidance. The final contractual matters will now be formally concluded by the Academy in accordance with Austrian labour practice and law. Until these formal steps have been concluded I do not feel it appropriate to give more details of the offers made on either side. I very much regret that I have had to take these steps. EB is convinced that Plamen Nedkovs behaviour constituted a fundamental and repeated breach of the trust that is essential to the success of IFIPs work. For the moment, Dorothy Hayden will take over the running of the office in Laxenburg. EB is taking immediate steps to ensure that the essential work of IFIP is maintained. EB is actively examining a number of options for the future and I will be in touch with you again as soon as there is more news to give you. Finally, I wish to add a word of appreciation of the work which Plamen did esp. for Technical Committees and Working Groups. As I experienced myself during my time as TC-9 chair and TA chair, Plamen indeed supported TC and WG work in a friendly and efficient way. I had sincerely hoped and repeatedly tried my best to reconstruct the atmosphere of trust and cooperation which was the basis of my previous work with Plamen, but he refused my suggestions which would have been a fair basis of continued cooperation. Yours sincerely Klaus Brunnstein

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TC6 meeting in Budapest venue + Hotel info
by Sarolta Dibuz 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Dear IFIP TC6 members, The venue of our next TC6 meeting will be Ericsson's premises in Budapest, Hungary. Address: Budapest, Irínyi József u. 4-20. The meeting room is on the ground floor (for English people first floor ;-) ) close to the reception. I am sending you enclosed the information about hotels that we recommend for your to stay during the TC6 meeting. If you choose Hotel Korona please indicate that you come to Ericsson, to the IFIP TC6 meeting, because the 88 EUs price is a special Ericsson price. In case you have any problems or you need help please do not hesitate to contact me or my assistant: Gabriella.Batai(a)eth.ericsson.se We are looking forward meeting you in Budapest! Best regards Sarolta My tel: +36-1-4377784 Mobile: +36-30-202-6180 HOTEL MERCURE KORONA Highly recommended. To reach Ericsson Hungary at Science Park: - 15 minutes by public transport one stop by metro line 3 to Ferenc körút, than change tram 4 or 6 towards Buda side - three stops. - 10 minutes by car / taxi Location of Hotel In the heart of the City of Budapest, opposite the National Museum. Strolling in the City you can reach the bank of the Danube within 5 minutes. Room rate: 88 EUR/ night Access >From the airport: The main road to the City leads straight to the hotel. Distance approx. 18 km. >From railway stations: >From Déli (Southern) and Keleti (Eastern) railway stations by metro line 2 (red), change at Deák tér for line 3 (blue line) to Kálvin tér. By car: >From Vienna or Lake Balaton along motorways M1 and M7, respectively, crossing the Danube via Elisabeth Bridge. By public transport: Tramways 47, 49, bus 15 and metro line 3, Kálvin tér station. Address of Hotel: H-1053 Budapest, Kecskeméti u. 14. Telephone: (36-1) 317-4111 Fax: (36-1) 318-3867 More information on the Hotel Mercure Corona webpage: http://www.mercure-korona.hu/koronaangol/ HOTEL MERCURE DUNA Highly recommended. To reach Ericsson Hungary at Science Park: - 5 minutes by public transport : one stop by tram 4 or 6 towards Buda side - 3 minutes by car / taxi - 10 minutes of walk over a long bridge (Petofi bridge) Location of Hotel Situated very near to the city centre, the Mercure Budapest Duna's traditional "Mercure comfort" and truly friendly atmosphere provides a much more comfortable stay. Room rate: 75 EUR / night >From the Airport: On the way to the city centre on Üll?i út turn left to the Haller utca. The distance from the Airport is approximately 16 Km. >From the railway stations: The metro line 2 from the Déli (Southern) railway station to the Kossuth tér, than change to tram No 2 towards the south and alight at Boráros tér. The same metro can also be used from the Keleti (Eastern) railway station to Blaha Lujza tér, than change to tram No 4 or 6. From the Nyugati (Western) railway station the tram No 4 or 6 leads straight to the Boráros tér. By car: The highways M1 and M7 from Vienna and Lake Balaton lead you to the Pet?fi híd from where you can see the hotel to the right. From the M0 across the Lágymányosi híd, than turn left. From Szeged on M5 highway drive to the Könyves Kálmán körút, than turn to the Soroksári út. By public transport: The trams No. 2, 4, 6 and buses No. 23, 54, 15 and 12 stop at a walking distances from the hotel. The metro line 3 (Ferenc körút station) is 5 minutes walk from the hotel Address of the hotel: H-1095 Budapest, Soroksári út 12. Telephone: (36-1) 455-8300 Fax: (36-1) 455-8385 e-mail: h2025(a)accor-hotels.com More information on the Hotel Mercure webpage: http://www.mercure-duna.hu Other possibilities: http://inside.ericsson.se/hotelguide Budape

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IFIP Secretariat
by Otto Spaniol 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Dear colleagues, it appears that there are serious problems in the IFIP secretariat. When I phoned three days ago to the secratariat in order to reach Plamen Nedkov (the executive director, you may know him since he attended meeting 2/2002 in Lisbon) I was informed by Dorothy Hayden that Plamen has been put out of his job (and is not any more allowed to enter the secretariat) since last Friday. I wanted to speak to Plamen in order to inform him about very good progress regarding the "IT and sports" initiative, especially about the possibility of organizing a first conference in Cologne in September 2004. When I made the first the contact with Deutsche Sporthochschule Koeln (German Sports University Cologne) concerning IT and sports (an initiative which was started by Plamen Nedkov one year ago) I did that without asking GI (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik, the national IFIP partner in Germany) in order to get the official permission to establish such a contact. Indeed, my discussions with the Sports University were absolutely informal until February 2003. At the occasion of the council meeting in Bilbao (March 2003) when Plamen reported on these contacts, apparently the IFIP president (Klaus Brunnstein) got the impression that Plamen and myself wanted to establish an IFIP event in Germany without any involvement of GI. Please believe me that this impression is not correct. I could clarify that with Klaus Brunnstein in a telephone call - and Klaus as well as GI (which has meanwhile been officially informed) declared that they support my initiative. *However* my action (for which I apologize without feeling guilty in the slightest way!) as well as maybe some other events (perhaps of similar "relevance") appear to have disrupted the atmosphere between Klaus and Plamen in a way that dramatic actions have been taken with Plamen as an obvious victim. As former TC6 chairman and as German delegate to TC6 I declare that I have always appreciated the work done by Plamen. Visibility of IFIP (and particularly of IFIP TC6) has been improved considerably by him. I feel that the preparation of activities would be significantly damaged without such an experienced person. Thus I have two points: a. Clear information of what happened in the IFIP secretariat (and why it happened). Would you, Augusto, ask for that information in your position in TC6 chairman? You could mention my phone call to Dorothy Hayden and my irritation about the IT and sports conference preparation (which has been sorted out but which still appears to remain in the backyard). b. Secondly: Even if there have been problems or mistakes: Would it be impossible that the different parties come together and sort them out for the benefit of IFIP? This would be enormously welcomed by me and probably by lots of others. Personally, I foresee severe problems for IFIP if we cannot come to such a solution. Best regards Otto Spaniol (TC6 delegate of Germany and former TC6 chairman)

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Call for Papers, IFIP International Conference I3E2003
by manuel mendes 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Apologies for any duplicates. Please note the extended submission deadline by April , 21 2003. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers ##################################### I3E2003 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government(I3E 2003) Sponsored by IFIP, international Federation for Information Processing September 21-24, 2003 Casa Grande Hotel, São Paulo, Guarujá, BRAZIL ************************************************* Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference ************************************************* + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++++ + Next important Dates!! + + ---------------------- + + + + Papers Deadline (extension): April 21th 2003 + + Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This conference is the third IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: eCommerce * Marketplaces, Portals, eHubs * B2B and B2C models * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Content management, ePayment systems * Agent-mediated electronic commerce * Case studies in electronic commerce * Consumer protection in electronic commerce * Costs and benefit aspects * Digital goods and products * Electronic commerce application fields eBusiness * Enterprise Portals * Innovative business models * Supply, Demand and Value chains * Business Process Re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * eCommunities * Workflow management and Collaboration * Management of dynamic collaborative networks * Complex adaptive and selforganising systems * Distributed work and knowledge flows in business networks * Business data exchange format and standards eGovernment * Digital cities, Digital regions, Rural networking * eGovernance and eInclusion, * Electronic Public Services for Citizens and enterprises:One-stop Government, Single-Window-Service, Seamless Government * E-Local administration * G2G, G2B, G2C and G2E models * Government Process Reengineering and redesigning cooperation within and between agencies * Frameworks and guidelines for e-Government * Transnational e-Government projects and standards * International and regional projects, case studies and international comparisons * Strategies, implementation policies and best practices Related Technical aspects * Technologies for interoperability and aplication integration * Information & communication OPEN platforms * User Mobility * Unified messaging * Agent and Grid technologies * Information retrieval and extraction and data mining * Knowledge Management * Security, privacy, Trustability * Smart Cards and biometrics * Digital signatures and Certificates * Standards for information interchange and processes, interoperability and semantic standardisation * Web Technologies: - Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Web data models and metadata - Knowledge discovery of Web data - Web data mining and analysis * E-(WEB) services - E-service location, selection, brokering - E-service composition, invocation and delivery - E-service monitoring, personalization, management and life cycle - XML-based protocols and description language - Service-based architectures and their underlying technology - Service-oriented application development - Standards for e-services Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * socio-economic research in the governance of networked organisations * e-government models and legal issues. * e-Inclusion * e-Democracy strategies, citizen participation in local public affairs * e-Governance tools for policymaking in governments and in policy networks * New organisational arrangements: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships * Institutional change and IT-driven modernisation of public governance structures * Intellectual property licensing * Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues MAIN TRACK, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************** The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics above and several workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS *********************** Paper submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page, identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format. ******************** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** Papers ------ Deadline: April 21th , 2003, Notification of acceptance: May 30th , 2003, Camera-ready papers:June 30th , 2003 Tutorials --------- Deadline: 30th April 2003, Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003, Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION ******************* Conference site for more information: http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference ********* COMMITTEE ********* Honorary Chairs --------------- Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu Zeletin, FOKUS, De Arnaldo Madeira, State Government of São Paulo General Chair M. Mendes, mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br Programm Co-Chairs Reima Suomi, Reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi Carlos Passos, carlos.passos(a)cenpra.gov.br (NN) Organizing Committee ******************** Organizing Co-Chairs Romildo Monte, romildo.monte(a)cenpra.gov.br Roberto Agune, ragune(a)sp.gov.br Workshops Chair, Clenio Figueiredo, clenio.salviano(a)cenpra.gov.br , Government Liaison Chairs, Agnaldo Lopes, alopes(a)sp.gov.br , Maurício Moraes, mauriciomoraes(a)sp.gov.br Treasurer Chair Jarbas Cardoso, jarbas.cardoso(a)cenpra.gov.br, Tutorials Chair Clever Farias, cleverfarias(a)unisantos.edu.br , Industry Liaison Chair, Jorge Silva, jorge.silva(a)cenpra.gov.br , Publication Chair, Marcos Rodrigues, marcos.rodrigues(a)cenpra.gov.br , Posters Chair Luiz Camolesi, lcamole(a)unimep.br Publicity Chair Ronaldo Lemos, ronaldo.lemos(a)cenpra.gov.br Local Arrangements Chair Marta Rosatelli, rosatelli(a)unisantos.edu.br Research Colloqium Co-Chairs, Fabrício Silva, fabricio(a)unisantos.edu.br, Frederico de Freitas fred(a)unisantos.br Conference Secretary, Monica Berton, monica.berton(a)cenpra.gov.br International Program Committee ******************************* J. M. Adán Coello, Unisantos, Brazil C. Ary Mendez, Univ. Punta Arenas, Chile D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, France M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, Austria L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Portugal W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, Polland N. Cerpa, Univ. of Talca, Chile Y. F. Chen, ATT, USA J. Cooper, UTP, Australia R. Debreceny, Nanyang Bus.School, Singapore A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece M. Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan B. C.Glasson, Univ.of Notre Dame, Australia W. Golden, National Univ. Of Irland, Irland R. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia D. Khakhar, Lund University, Sweden C. Kirner, UNIMEP, Brazil A. Iyengar, Watson-IBM, USA W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, Netherlands C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, Germany T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, Germany W. Meira, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil J. Miettinen, Finland A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK J. Monteiro, Univ. Minho, Portugal V. Ouzounis, CEC-EU C. Passos, Cenpra, Brazil (Programm Co-Chair) H. Pohl, Univ. Appl. Sciences, Bonn, Germany R. Rabelo, UFSc, Florianopolis, Brazil K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ, Germany B. Roberts, Kingston University, UK H. Rudin, Switzerland B. Schmidt, UNISG, Switzerland D. Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil M. Singh, RMIT University, Australia J. Soto Mejia, Univ. Pereira, Colombia K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland C. Steinfield, Michigan State Univ., USA L. A.M. Strous, IFIP, Netherlands R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., Finland P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz, Germany S. Teufel, Freifourg University, Switzerland R. Traunmueller, UNI Linz, Austria A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, Greece V. Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany V. K. Tuunainen, Helsinki Sch. Econ., Finland M. Waidner, IBM, Zürich, Switerland H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, Netherlands H. Werthner, University of Trento, Italy J. Wielki, Poland H. D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, Switzerland Y. Zhang, Univ. of South. Queensland, Australia IFIP STEERING COMMITTEE *********************** K. Bauknecht, CH B.C. Glasson, AUS D. Khakhar, S J. Miettinen, FIN J. Monteiro, PT H. Rudin, CH S. Teufel, CH V. Tschammer, D ************************** ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS ************************** Organizers ---------- * CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, Campinas (main organizer) * Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos Supporters ---------- * IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11 (main supporter) * State Government of S.Paulo * SBC, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação * SBA, Sociedade Brasileira de Automática Sponsors -----------

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