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FW: [ifip-tc6] CFP IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conference on Management ofMultimedia Networks & Services 2003
by Augusto Casaca 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of Ahmed Mehaoua Sent: terça-feira, 8 de Abril de 2003 18:11 To: mea(a)prism.uvsq.fr Cc: mboned(a)network-services.uoregon.edu; manet(a)ietf.org; policy(a)ietf.org; cost263(a)fokus.gmd.de; sip(a)ietf.org; tcpp-announce(a)eece.unm.edu; mmb(a)ira.uka.de; aaa-wg(a)merit.edu; ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca; gsmp(a)ietf.org; confs-conferencesa(a)comsoc.org; rmt(a)lbl.gov; kom-meeting(a)KOM.th-darmstadt.de; netnomics(a)listserver.tue.nl; nemo(a)nal.motlabs.com; seamoby(a)ietf.org; all(a)inf.ethz.ch; kuvs-elg(a)fokus.gmd.de; itc(a)i-teletraffic.org; liste_cfip(a)info.uqam.ca; giga(a)tele.pitt.edu; itc(a)comsoc.org; mpls(a)uu.net; spects02(a)comp.leeds.ac.uk; avt(a)ietf.org; comswtc(a)ieee.org; nichains(a)BXL.DG13.cec.eu.int; enternet(a)bbn.com; issll(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu; snmpv3(a)lists.tislabs.com; cfp(a)mmlab.snu.ac.kr; KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; dares-announcement(a)enst-bretagne.fr; TCPC.Mail(a)rome.ece.cornell.edu; arl(a)arl.wustl.edu; mmusic(a)ietf.org; multicomm(a)research.panasonic.com; RHDM(a)lip6.fr; lacomsoc(a)lrg.ufsc.br; tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org; disman(a)dorothy.bmc.com; diffserv(a)ietf.org; nanog(a)merit.edu; pilc(a)grc.nasa.gov; "Georg Carle"; cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br; xtp-relay(a)cs.concordia.ca; rm(a)openmash.org; sming(a)ops.ietf.org; all_ifi(a)ifi.unizh.ch; tcgn(a)ieee.org; tccc(a)comsoc.org; commsoft(a)ieee.org; conf(a)colmar.uha.fr; news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de; itc(a)ieee.org; reres(a)laas.fr; dnac_2002(a)yahoo.fr; cost264(a)lip6.fr; sigmetrics-bb(a)haven.epm.ornl.gov; tik(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch; wiss-mitarb(a)ee.ethz.ch; int-serv(a)ISI.EDU; multicomm(a)comsoc.org; mobile-ip(a)sunroof.eng.sun.com; rmonmib(a)ietf.org; members(a)ngni.org; amlist(a)takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp; gi-fb3(a)fokus.gmd.de Subject: [ifip-tc6] CFP IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conference on Management ofMultimedia Networks & Services 2003 Dear Colleagues, Apologize for any duplicates; ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people to encourage contributions ans submissions to the 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 . ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the extension to the deadline for submission of papers to MMNS2003 is 18th April 2003. Please circulate to your colleagues to ensure a good turnout. For further information about the conference please see the web site at http://ee-server.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/ Best Regards, Ahmed Mehaoua (Publicity chair) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 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, Queens University of Belfast, UK Professor Nazim Agoulmine, nazim(a)rp.lip6.fr, University of Evry, France Qiang Gu Advanced Telecommunication Systems Laboratory School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland. BT9 5AH Email: qiang.gu(a)ee.qub.ac.uk Telephone: +44 -2890-274142 Fax: +44 -2890-274417 --------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Mehaoua University of Versailles - CNRS PRISM Lab. 45 av. des etats unis 78000 Versailles - France Email : mea(a)prism.uvsq.fr Tel : +33 1 39 25 40 45

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FW: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003)
by Augusto Casaca 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Klaus Herrmann Sent: terça-feira, 8 de Abril de 2003 14:17 To: itc(a)i-teletraffic.org Subject: CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003) Apologies if you receive this more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Call for paper Fourth International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2003 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes: In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions: DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: June 2, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee: M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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FW: [ifip-tc6] Call for Papers, IFIP International Conference I3E2003
by Augusto Casaca 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

-----Original Message----- From: ifip-tc6-bounces(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE [mailto:ifip-tc6-bounces@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE]On Behalf Of manuel mendes Sent: terça-feira, 8 de Abril de 2003 09:16 To: itc(a)ieee.org; ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca; kom-meeting(a)KOM.th-darmstadt.de; cost263(a)fokus.gmd.de; tcpp-announce(a)eece.unm.edu; mmb(a)ira.uka.de; confs-conferencesa(a)comsoc.org; netnomics(a)listserver.tue.nl; gi-fb3(a)fokus.gmd.de; conf(a)colmar.uha.fr; all(a)inf.ethz.ch; kuvs-elg(a)fokus.gmd.de; itc(a)i-teletraffic.org; giga(a)tele.pitt.edu; spects02(a)comp.leeds.ac.uk; comswtc(a)ieee.org; ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de; enternet(a)bbn.com; snmpv3(a)lists.tislabs.com; cfp(a)mmlab.snu.ac.kr; stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch; KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de; TCPC.Mail(a)rome.ece.cornell.edu; arl(a)arl.wustl.edu; rm(a)openmash.org; RHDM(a)lip6.fr; lacomsoc(a)lrg.ufsc.br; carle(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de; disman(a)dorothy.bmc.com; int-serv(a)ISI.EDU; cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br; xtp-relay(a)cs.concordia.ca; all_ifi(a)ifi.unizh.ch; tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org; tccc(a)comsoc.org; commsoft(a)ieee.org; news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net; tcgn(a)ieee.org; sigmetrics-bb(a)haven.epm.ornl.gov; manet(a)ietf.org; cost264(a)lip6.fr; tccc(a)ieee.org; tik(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch; wiss-mitarb(a)ee.ethz.ch; issll(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu; multicomm(a)comsoc.org; pilc(a)grc.nasa.gov Subject: [ifip-tc6] Call for Papers, IFIP International Conference I3E2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------- _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6

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CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003)
by Klaus Herrmann 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Apologies if you receive this more than once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for paper Fourth International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2003 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes: In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions: DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: June 2, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee: M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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NGC'03/ICQT'03 Final Call for Papers and Deadline Extension
by reichl＠FTW.at 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

Dear colleagues, that is to notify you that, due to various requests, we have decided to extend the submission deadline for the Fifth International Workshop on Network Group Communication NGC'03 and the Third International Workshop on Charging and QoS Technology ICQT'03 (both of them colocated at Munich, Sept 16-19, 2003). The deadline has been extended until April 10, 2003. You are encouraged to register submissions by April 7, 2003. Please find the Final Call for Papers enclosed. For further information and submission guidelines we refer to www.ngc2003.org. Best regards B. Stiller G. Carle M. Karsten P. Reichl NGC'03/ICQT'03 Program Co-chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Apologies for any duplicates. Please note the extended submission deadline by April 10, 2003. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03) Organized by UniBwM and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM co-located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03) Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models September 16-19, 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/ Scope ----- Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics: NGC'03 ------ - Multicast applications and services - Multi-player games - Novel group communication architectures - Group and session management techniques - QoS and traffic control for groups - Peer-to-peer systems and applications - Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms - Content distribution systems - Wireless group communications - Security for group communications - Heterogeneous group communications - Multicast deployment mechanisms ICQT'03 ------- - Economic models for the Internet - Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing - Internet charging technology - Monitoring, measurements, and accounting - ISP cost and business models - Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games - Charging and QoS for multicast - Charging for QoS services - Pricing mobile and wireless services - Application service provider models - Security mechanisms for charging - Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ---------------------- Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003 Camera ready version: July 1, 2003 Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003 General Information ------------------- The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/ or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03(a)ftw.at. Location and Date ----------------- The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus. Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train (S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside. Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich. Committees ---------- General Chair Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee NGC'03 Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K. Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A. NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany NGC'03 Program Committee Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Mostafa Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Bauer IBM Research Zurich Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee University of Maryland Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies John Byers Boston University Georg Carle University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Walid Dabbous INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Hiroshi Esaki University of Tokyo Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffmann Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Roger Kermode Motorola Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc Universite de Liege Brian Levine University of Massachusetts Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Oeznur Oezkasap Koc University Istanbul Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos University of Southern California Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Ralf Steinmetz University of Darmstadt Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II Lorenzo Vicisano Cisco Systems Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria ICQT'03 Program Committee Ragnar Andreassen Telenor Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna Torsten Braun University of Bern Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business Chris Edwards Lancaster University Richard Gibbens Cambridge University Martin Karsten University of Waterloo Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Muenchen Simon Leinen SWITCH Zurich Robin Mason University of Southampton Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Huw Oliver UK Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks Kihong Park Purdue University Guido Petit Alcatel Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University Peter Reichl FTW Vienna Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little Vasilios Siris ICS Forth David Songhurst BT exact Technologies Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Forte 2003: Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Hartmut König 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Forte 2003 IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1 The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems The 23rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (Forte 2003) will be held in Berlin,Germany, September 29th - October 2nd, 2003. We are currently seeking out individuals to present tutorials on topics of interest to this community. FORTE denotes a series of international working conferences on formal description techniques (FDTs) applied to computer networks and distributed systems. FORTE 2003 is especially dedicated to the application of formal description techniques to practice, especially in communication and Internet domain. For possible tutorial topics which may be of interest, please see the conference website at http://www.forte2003.de.vu/ for more information. Proposals for related topics not included in the conference CfP are also welcome. Proposals should be no more than four (4) pages and include the following: * Abstract describing the tutorial (including whether the tutorial will be 1/2 day or a full day). * A description of the target audience including prerequisite knowledge and experience. * A high-level table of contents and/or syllabus. * Speaker bio. * A/V equipment requirements. Please send proposals via email directly to the conference co-chairs: forte-org(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Important dates: * May 5th: Deadline for tutorial proposals * May 15th: Notification of acceptance ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Hartmut K–nig Tel: +49 355 69 22 36 koenig(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Fax: +49 355 69 21 27 BTU Cottbus LS Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme PF 10 13 44, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de ________________________________________________________________________

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IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 05 Apr '03

05 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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ACM MSWiM 2003 - Call for Papers
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

============ Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ MSWiM 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 mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul(a)it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo(a)polito.it

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SNPA2003-EarlyRegistrationDeadlineApproaching
by erdal＠itu 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Early registration deadline for First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA2003) which will be held in conjunction with ICC2003 is April 10, 2003. You can register online SNPA2003 together with ICC2003 at http://www.icc2003.com. You can also download the registration form from http://www.icc2003.com/RegistrationPage.pdf and register SNPA by faxing or mailing the form. The program of SNPA is at http://www.icc2003.com Best regards, Erdal Cayirci

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CfP SIGCOMM 2003 Workshop MoMeTools
by Hartmut Ritter 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Call for Papers WORKSHOP ON MODELS, METHODS AND TOOLS FOR REPRODUCIBLE NETWORK RESEARCH (MoMeTools) in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany 25 August 2003 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Compared with other scientific areas such as experimental physics, network research appears significantly less mature concerning methodology. Internet research is affected by models that sometimes are poorly suited to the problem under investigation, by lack of understanding of properties and limitations of the models used, and by tools that have various limitations and that are poorly integrated. While each of the methods analysis, simulation, emula-tion, testbed experiments and Internet-wide experiments have their own particular strengths and shortcomings, typically only one of these methods is used to investigate a particular problem. Certain weaknesses of the chosen methods can have unwanted implications on the results and deductions made from them. There appears to be insufficient comparison or adjustment between results obtained by different methods. The goal of this workshop is to critically assess the current models, methods and tools for identifying shortcomings of the state-of-the-art, and to discuss approaches for improvements and innovation. The workshop aims for sharing knowledge about how to apply today's tools most successfully, and for generating a common understanding about what is needed for net-work research to progress more rapidly and to ensure widely reproducible results. The workshop solicits submissions that improve our understanding of the current state-of-the art, and that help to identify improved models, methods and tools. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest could include, but are not limited to: - Reproducibility of experimental network research - Investigation of scaling effects - Common code basis for simulation and implementation - Mathematical methods for error assessment - Examples and review of commonly observable mistakes - Simulation vs. emulation vs. testbed experiments - Comparison of practical, analytical and theoretical evaluations - Benchmarking and measurement techniques - Tools for visualization of network behaviour; usage and assessment of tools - Generation of realistic network topologies and traffic patterns Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings published by ACM SIGCOMM and will be placed in the ACM Digital Library. Following the workshop, a report on the discussions and conclusions of the workshop will be published. WHAT AND HOW TO SUBMIT The workshop solicits the following types of submissions: 1) Full papers, 2) Position papers on potentially controversial or provocative topics, and 3) Tool demonstration papers. These will be presented in a practical session consisting of short presentations combined with live demonstrations of tools. The corresponding papers undergo a review process. For illustration purposes of a tool, it is also possible to submit an online video clip in addition to a papers. Papers should be no longer than 14 pages; shorter and concise papers are also highly welcome. Papers should not be anonymized. See the submission webpage (not yet available) for full submission requirements in the near future. For any questions please contact MoMeTools(a)tm.uka.de. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline May 4, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 26, 2003 Camera ready papers June 12, 2003 Workshop date August 25, 2003 ORGANIZERS, PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Hartmut Ritter, Freie Universität Berlin, hritter(a)inf.fu-berlin.de Klaus Wehrle, ICSI/University of Karlsruhe, wehrle(a)icsi.berkeley.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joachim Charzinski, Siemens Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Christophe Diot, Sprint ATL Anja Feldmann, University of Munich Sally Floyd, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Eddie Kohler, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Jay Lepreau, University of Utah Kathleen Nichols Vern Paxson, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Research Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Jim Roberts, CNET, France Telecom Ralf Steinmetz, University of Darmstadt Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe FURTHER INFORMATION Please look at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/mometools/ or contact MoMeTools(a)tm.uka.de I apologize for receiving multiple copies of this CfP. --- Hartmut Ritter Freie Universität Berlin, Germany http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~hritter

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