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

FW: call for IWAN
by Augusto Casaca 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

-----Original Message----- From: Dominique Gaiti [mailto:Dominique.Gaiti@utt.fr] Sent: terca-feira, 26 de Agosto de 2003 12:09 To: augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt Subject: call for IWAN Dear Augusto, Can you make the announcement for IWAN 2003. The call is at this address mail: http://www.iwan2003.org/index.html Thank you! Dominique

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FW: [Ifip_nm] DSOM 2003 Early Registration ends 15 September
by Augusto Casaca 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

-----Original Message----- From: ifip_nm-admin(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:ifip_nm-admin@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca]On Behalf Of Alexander Keller Sent: quarta-feira, 10 de Setembro de 2003 23:31 To: ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca; cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br; tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Subject: [Ifip_nm] DSOM 2003 Early Registration ends 15 September Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION October 20-22, 2003 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.dsom2003.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" *** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 15 SEPTEMBER, 2003 *** 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 technical 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 specific focus of DSOM 2003 is "Self-Managing Systems", reflecting the current interest and development in the field. DSOM 2003 is organized as a single-track program in order to stimulate interaction among participants. The workshop theme is "Self-Managing Systems", reflecting the current interest and development in the field to address the ever-increasing complexity and heterogeneity of today's distributed systems, their operation and management. The majority of the papers, presented in 8 sessions at DSOM 2003, address some important aspect of this highly relevant problem area. The level of interest in DSOM has been growing steadily over the years. This year we were fortunate to receive a record submission of 84 high quality papers from 22 countries, of which 20 were selected for the 8 technical sessions. The acceptance ratio was below 24%, thus making DSOM 2003 the most selective DSOM ever. In addition, we received 21 work-in-progress papers, of which 6 were selected. DSOM 2003 will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems. The 8 Technical Sessions focus on the following Topics: * Self-Configuration * Peer-to-Peer Management * Self-Optimization and Performance Management * Utility Management * Self-Protection and Access Control * Manageability and Instrumentation * Context-Awareness * 6 Short (work-in-progress) Papers KEYNOTE SPEAKER Thomas Studwell IBM Corporation, Autonomic Computing Architecture and Technology Group, USA PROCEEDINGS The DSOM 2003 Proceedings are published by Springer Verlag as Volume 2867 of the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. IMPORTANT DATES Hotel Reservation Deadline (for DSOM Reduced Rate): 15. September 2003 Early Registration Deadline: 15. September 2003 CORPORATE PATRON IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA 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 GENERAL INFORMATION For the detailed Technical Program and Registration Information, please visit the DSOM 2003 Website: http://www.dsom2003.org 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 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 S. Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph L. 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, Korea Telecom, Korea Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, 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 Jurgen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK Rolf Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _______________________________________________ IFIP_NM mailing list IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm

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re:[ifip-tc6] TC6 Meeting at Oman
by Ramon Puigjaner 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Dear Ahemd, There is no way of displaying the attachment of your message. could you resend it? thank you in advance. By the way, in Budapest you asked me to propose a totrial to be given eventually at Net-Con conference. have you taken any decisisson? Is it retained? If sao, whan I would give this tutorial? Best regards Ramon > > > <center> <b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica"><a href="/webmail&cmd_showpart=1&uid=735&partnum=0">Display > Attachment</a></font></b> </center> > [attachment] ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es ========================================================================= -- This message was sent using Sake Mail, a web-based email tool from Endymion Corporation. http://www.endymion.com/products/sake

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I2TS'2003 - Call for Papers
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS I2TS'2003 - International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium Florianopolis, SC, Brasil - November 26-29, 2003 http://www.inf.barddal.br/i2ts IMPORTANT DATES 27 September 2003 Electronic Paper Submission 30 October 2003 Acceptance/Rejection Notification 26-29 November 2003 Symposium in Florianopolis SC Brasil SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES *IEEE Pending Approval The International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS'2003) will take place at Barddal University, at Santa Catarina Island, South Brasil. I2TS'2003 serves as a forum for people from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Information Technology Applications. I2TS'2003 includes Technical Sessions, Tool Sessions, Poster Sessions, Panels, Tutorials, MiniCourses and Workshops. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: . Information Technology . Distributed Information Technology . Parallel and Distributed Systems . Retrieval Information Technology . Optical Networks . Computer Networks . Software Telecommunication . Wireless and Mobile Networking, Computing and Telecommunication . Broadband and Telecommunication Networks and Software . BioInformatic Technology and Biological Inspired Techniques . Software Agent Technology and its Applications . Real-Time and Multimedia Systems . Modeling and Simulation . Security and Privacy . Web-Based Systems and their Applications . Formal Methods and Validation Techniques . Applications and Case Studies Authors of both regular and tool papers are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form (PDF or PostScript). Papers should be written in English or Portuguese and should not exceed 8 pages (see 'Instruction for Authors' in the web page). Each submission, must be sent to i2ts(a)barddal.br and accompanied by the following information: (i) title of the paper; (ii) authors - names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses; and (iii) abstract. (i.e., the paper first page in ascii, in the email body) The proceedings will be published in hard copy and CD-ROM - both with the same ISBN number. WORKSHOPS . III CBComp Best Papers - anita(a)cttmar.univali.br . WWS' 2003 - I Workshop em Computação Distribuída com Serviços Web - www(a)inf.ufsc.br . I GCHA Grid Computing and High-Availability - mario(a)inf.ufsc.br The workshop papers will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated workshops session. TOOL SESSIONS and POSTER SESSIONS The tools and poster (abstract) papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tool and poster sessions, respectively. Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration. Standard microcomputers will be available for tool sessions. Required poster size is 1,2 x 0,8 m for the poster sessions. TUTORIALS and MINI-COURSES Proposals for half-day or full-day Tutorials/MiniCourses are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The proposal must include description and biographies. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cláudia Barenco Abbas, UnB University, Brasil Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait Regina Borges de Araújo, UFSCar University, Brasil Karina Acosta Barbosa, Barddal University, Brasil Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, USP University, Brasil Teresa Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Mario Dantas, UFSC University, Brasil Júlio César Hernandez, University Carlos III, Spain José Antônio Jardini, USP University, Brasil Helen Karatza, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mohamed M. Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece Jeimy José Cano Martinez, University de los Andes, Colômbia Joberto Sérgio Barbosa Martins, Unifacs University, Brasil Jaime Velasco Medina, University Del Valle, Colômbia Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo, UnB University, Brasil Michela Meo, University Politecnico di Torino, Italy Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Manoel Camillo de Oliveira Penna Neto, PUC-PR University, Brasil Bernardo Goncalves Riso, UFSC University, Brasil João Bosco Mangueira Sobral, UFSC University, Brasil Arceloni Volpato, Barddal University, Brasil Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Austrália ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal Program Co-Chairs Bernardo Goncalves Riso, UFSC Manoel Camillo de Oliveira Penna Neto, PUC-PR Workshops Co-Chairs Anita Maria da Rocha Fernandes, Univali Joao Bosco Mangueira Sobral, UFSC Mário Dantas, UFSC Tools Co-Chairs Raphael Winckler de Bettio, Barddal Valter Oliveira, Barddal Panels Co-Chairs Eduardo Rezende, BrasilTelecom Lourdes Alves, Barddal Posters Co-Chairs Patricia Fisch, Barddal Saulo Popov Zambiasi, Barddal MiniCourses Co-Chairs Anderson Luiz Fernandes Perez, Barddal Maurício Fiorese, Barddal Tutorials Co-Chairs Karina Acosta Barbosa, Barddal Yara Lemr, Barddal Publicity Co-Chairs Marcia Cristina Schiavi Dazzi, Barddal Nelson Abu Samra Rahal, Barddal Nelson Segoshi, IEEE Sul Brasil Rudimar Luís Scaranto Dazzi, Univali Publication Co-Chairs Arceloni Volpato, Barddal Jacir Casagrande, Barddal Rogério dos Santos Silva, Barddal Registration Co-Chairs Donaldo Pinheiro Jr, Barddal Janaína Zandoná Deitos, Barddal Márcia Kuhn Arroyo, Barddal Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Francisco Tadeu Negreiros, Barddal Ivete Rossato, Barddal Jose Newton Perão, Barddal Mauricí Dutra, Barddal Finance Chair Dascomb Barddal, Barddal José Carlos Matos, Barddal --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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I2TS'2003 - Call for Papers
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS I2TS'2003 - International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium Florianopolis, SC, Brasil - November 26-29, 2003 http://www.inf.barddal.br/i2ts IMPORTANT DATES 27 September 2003 Electronic Paper Submission 30 October 2003 Acceptance/Rejection Notification 26-29 November 2003 Symposium in Florianopolis SC Brasil SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES *IEEE Pending Approval The International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS'2003) will take place at Barddal University, at Santa Catarina Island, South Brasil. I2TS'2003 serves as a forum for people from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Information Technology Applications. I2TS'2003 includes Technical Sessions, Tool Sessions, Poster Sessions, Panels, Tutorials, MiniCourses and Workshops. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: . Information Technology . Distributed Information Technology . Parallel and Distributed Systems . Retrieval Information Technology . Optical Networks . Computer Networks . Software Telecommunication . Wireless and Mobile Networking, Computing and Telecommunication . Broadband and Telecommunication Networks and Software . BioInformatic Technology and Biological Inspired Techniques . Software Agent Technology and its Applications . Real-Time and Multimedia Systems . Modeling and Simulation . Security and Privacy . Web-Based Systems and their Applications . Formal Methods and Validation Techniques . Applications and Case Studies Authors of both regular and tool papers are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form (PDF or PostScript). Papers should be written in English or Portuguese and should not exceed 8 pages (see 'Instruction for Authors' in the web page). Each submission, must be sent to i2ts(a)barddal.br and accompanied by the following information: (i) title of the paper; (ii) authors - names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses; and (iii) abstract. (i.e., the paper first page in ascii, in the email body) The proceedings will be published in hard copy and CD-ROM - both with the same ISBN number. WORKSHOPS . III CBComp Best Papers - anita(a)cttmar.univali.br . WWS' 2003 - I Workshop em Computação Distribuída com Serviços Web - www(a)inf.ufsc.br . I GCHA Grid Computing and High-Availability - mario(a)inf.ufsc.br The workshop papers will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated workshops session. TOOL SESSIONS and POSTER SESSIONS The tools and poster (abstract) papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tool and poster sessions, respectively. Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration. Standard microcomputers will be available for tool sessions. Required poster size is 1,2 x 0,8 m for the poster sessions. TUTORIALS and MINI-COURSES Proposals for half-day or full-day Tutorials/MiniCourses are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas. The proposal must include description and biographies. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Cláudia Barenco Abbas, UnB University, Brasil Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait Regina Borges de Araújo, UFSCar University, Brasil Karina Acosta Barbosa, Barddal University, Brasil Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Pedro Luiz Pizzigatti Correa, USP University, Brasil Teresa Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Mario Dantas, UFSC University, Brasil Júlio César Hernandez, University Carlos III, Spain José Antônio Jardini, USP University, Brasil Helen Karatza, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mohamed M. Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece Jeimy José Cano Martinez, University de los Andes, Colômbia Joberto Sérgio Barbosa Martins, Unifacs University, Brasil Jaime Velasco Medina, University Del Valle, Colômbia Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo, UnB University, Brasil Michela Meo, University Politecnico di Torino, Italy Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Manoel Camillo de Oliveira Penna Neto, PUC-PR University, Brasil Bernardo Goncalves Riso, UFSC University, Brasil João Bosco Mangueira Sobral, UFSC University, Brasil Arceloni Volpato, Barddal University, Brasil Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Austrália ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal Program Co-Chairs Bernardo Goncalves Riso, UFSC Manoel Camillo de Oliveira Penna Neto, PUC-PR Workshops Co-Chairs Anita Maria da Rocha Fernandes, Univali Joao Bosco Mangueira Sobral, UFSC Mário Dantas, UFSC Tools Co-Chairs Raphael Winckler de Bettio, Barddal Valter Oliveira, Barddal Panels Co-Chairs Eduardo Rezende, BrasilTelecom Lourdes Alves, Barddal Posters Co-Chairs Patricia Fisch, Barddal Saulo Popov Zambiasi, Barddal MiniCourses Co-Chairs Anderson Luiz Fernandes Perez, Barddal Maurício Fiorese, Barddal Tutorials Co-Chairs Karina Acosta Barbosa, Barddal Yara Lemr, Barddal Publicity Co-Chairs Marcia Cristina Schiavi Dazzi, Barddal Nelson Abu Samra Rahal, Barddal Nelson Segoshi, IEEE Sul Brasil Rudimar Luís Scaranto Dazzi, Univali Publication Co-Chairs Arceloni Volpato, Barddal Jacir Casagrande, Barddal Rogério dos Santos Silva, Barddal Registration Co-Chairs Donaldo Pinheiro Jr, Barddal Janaína Zandoná Deitos, Barddal Márcia Kuhn Arroyo, Barddal Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Francisco Tadeu Negreiros, Barddal Ivete Rossato, Barddal Jose Newton Perão, Barddal Mauricí Dutra, Barddal Finance Chair Dascomb Barddal, Barddal José Carlos Matos, Barddal --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A gentle reminder: Coordination2004 Deadline is approaching
by etuosto＠di.unipi.it 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

[[ -- Apologies for multiple copies of this message -- ]] COORDINATION 2004 Second Call for Papers Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages 24-27 February 2004 -- Pisa, Italy =============================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstract: September 22, 2003 Submission of Papers: September 29, 2003 ** FIRM ** Notification of Acceptance: November 14, 2003 Camera-Ready Copy: December 4, 2003 TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to): * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination * Coordination middlewares * Specification, refinement, and analysis of software architectures * Architectural, and interface definition languages * Agent-oriented languages and models * Dynamic software architectures * Component Programming * Web Services * Coordination in Peer to Peer and Grid Computing * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures * Domain-specific software coordination models and case studies. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For submissions and further information see: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004

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TC6 Meeting at Oman
by Ahmed AL-Naamany 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Please receive the visa Info details as promised (Below). If your country is not included in the list please send me your Copy of Passport and 2 Photos I will arrange to get you VISA. Concerning hotels we now understand that Ramada Inn has more rooms than Howard Johnson so if you have problem reserving at H. Johnson please contact Ramada. Regards Ahmed Al-Naamany NEW VISA RULES New visa procedures and facilities have been introduced in the Sultanate of Oman from July, 2003. Single Entry Visit Visa This visa is issued to two groups of Nationals as mentioned in List No.1 and List No.2. For nationals in list No.1, the single entry visa is issued upon arrival at all land, sea and air terminals whether individually, or as part of a group. Nationals mentioned in list No.1 can also obtain this type of visa when they apply to Oman diplomatic missions and commercial representation offices. The cost of the visa is R.O.6. The validity period of the applicant's passport should not be less than six months. The visa is valid for one month. This visa may be extended for one month for the same fee. A fine of R.O.10 per day is charged for an overstay beyond the validity of the visa. For nationals set out in List No.2, visa is issued on arrival in Oman through air entry points only either individually or as part of a group. They should have purchased a complete tourist package from specific tourist companies in their countries which are approved by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Oman. The package should include accommodation and the air ticket using a national airline i.e. Oman Air or Gulf Air. The cost of the visa is R.O.6. The validity period of the applicant's passport should not be less than six months. The visa is valid for one month. This visa may be extended for one month for the same fee. A fine of R.O.I0 per day is charged for an overstay beyond the validity of the visa. Multiple Entry Visa All nationals in list 1 and list 2 are eligible for this type of visa. The visa is issued upon arrival at all land, sea and air entry points. It is also possible to get such visas through the Oman diplomatic and commercial missions. The fee for this visa is R.O.10. The validity of the applicant's passport should not be less than one year. This type of visa allows the holder to stay in Oman for three weeks on each visit during the validity period. A minimum of three weeks must elapse between each visit. This type of visa cannot be extended. It is possible to apply for a fresh visa when the previous visa expires. A fine of R.O. 10 per day is charged for an overstay beyond the validity of the visa Express Visa This visa is issued for nationalities not mentioned in List No.1 and list No.2. through the Directorate General of Passport and Residency and its sections in the regions on presentation of an application by an Oman commercial, or tourist establishment. It shall be issued on Omani working days within 24 hours unless there are justifications which hinder the issue of the visa. An application may also be made directly to diplomatic missions and commercial representation offices abroad. The validity of the applicant's passport should not be less than six months. The cost of the visa is R. O .7. It is valid for two weeks. This visa cannot be extended. A fine of R.O. 10 per day is charged for an overstay beyond the validity of the visa. Common Visa Facility with the Emirate of Dubai Nationals in List No 1 arriving from the Emirate of Dubai bearing an entrance visa or stamp from the Emirate of Dubai are not required to obtain a separate visa for Oman. The Entry Stamp/Visa for Dubai is recognised for entry to Oman, whether. individually or as groups and entering through land, air or sea terminals. No fees are charged. The visa may be obtained on completion of the joint facility form available at the airports and sea ports and at Hatta Hotel for those arriving through Al Wajaja terminal. The visa is valid for the period of the visa issued to the person from the relevant authorities in Dubai, or for a maximum of three weeks for nationals who do not require entrance visas to the Emirates. This visa may not be extended and the visitor is required to leave when the period expires. As per the law, a fine of R.O. 10 per day is charged for an overstay beyond the validity of the visa. Existing Arrangements The following procedures previously announced and currently in place shall remain without any change: Entrance Visas for Arrivals on Tourist Ships Visas shall be granted upon arrival at sea tenninals for all nationalities without a fee if the visit is for a period less than 24 hours and with a fee of R.O. 2 if the visit period exceeds 24 hours. ViSas of GCC States Residents Visas shall be granted at all air and land tenninals against payment of a fee of R.O. 3. Servants and employees may obtain a visa if accompanying a family residing in a GCC state. joint Visa with the State of Qatar Nationals set out in list No.3 may enter the Sultanate of Oman if they have obtained tourist visas issued by the relevant authorities in the State of Qatar or reciprocally may enter the State of Qatar if they have obtained visit visas issued by the relevant authorities in the Sultanate of Oman. This advantage shall not apply if the bearer of such visa departs to a third country. The bearer of such visa may also enter any of the two countries without having first to visit the country, which issued the visa. Fees of the visa are R.O. 6 if issued in the Sultanate and Q.R. 70 if issued in the State of Qatar. It is issued for a non-renewable period of one month. List No.1 Europe Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, liechenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldavia, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia*, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine*, Vatican. South American Countries Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile*, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela. Other Countries Australia, Brunei Dar al-Salaam, Canada, China*, Hong Kong, Indonesia, japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, United States of America. *Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian nationals may obtain visit visas following the same procedures approved for the nationals set out in list No.1 provided that they are part of tourist groups arriving in the Sultanate through a local tourist agent or a hotel or as a family. In the case of groups the number of females must not exceed the number of males. List No.2 Egypt, Iran, India, jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia. List No.3 List of the countries which are eligible to the joint tourist visa between Oman and the State of Qatar . United States of America, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Finland, Spain, Monaco, Vatican, Iceland, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Brunei Dar al-Salaam, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea.

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FW: Call for Participation: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003, Theme: Self-Managing Systems
by Augusto Casaca 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-itc(a)www.i-teletraffic.org [mailto:owner-itc@www.i-teletraffic.org]On Behalf Of Alexander Keller Sent: terca-feira, 26 de Agosto de 2003 18:59 To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu; itc(a)comsoc.org; itc(a)i-teletraffic.org; calls(a)omg.org Subject: Call for Participation: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003, Theme: Self-Managing Systems Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION October 20-22, 2003 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.dsom2003.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" *** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 15 SEPTEMBER, 2003 *** 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 technical 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 specific focus of DSOM 2003 is "Self-Managing Systems", reflecting the current interest and development in the field. DSOM 2003 is organized as a single-track program in order to stimulate interaction among participants. The workshop theme is "Self-Managing Systems", reflecting the current interest and development in the field to address the ever-increasing complexity and heterogeneity of today's distributed systems, their operation and management. The majority of the papers, presented in 8 sessions at DSOM 2003, address some important aspect of this highly relevant problem area. The level of interest in DSOM has been growing steadily over the years. This year we were fortunate to receive a record submission of 84 high quality papers from 22 countries, of which 20 were selected for the 8 technical sessions. The acceptance ratio was below 24%, thus making DSOM 2003 the most selective DSOM ever. In addition, we received 21 work-in-progress papers, of which 6 were selected. DSOM 2003 will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems. The 8 Technical Sessions focus on the following Topics: * Self-Configuration * Peer-to-Peer Management * Self-Optimization and Performance Management * Utility Management * Self-Protection and Access Control * Manageability and Instrumentation * Context-Awareness * 6 Short (work-in-progress) Papers KEYNOTE SPEAKER Thomas Studwell IBM Corporation, Autonomic Computing Architecture and Technology Group, USA PROCEEDINGS The DSOM 2003 Proceedings are published by Springer Verlag as Volume 2867 of the prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. IMPORTANT DATES Hotel Reservation Deadline (for DSOM Reduced Rate): 1. September 2003 Early Registration Deadline: 15. September 2003 CORPORATE PATRON IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY, USA 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 GENERAL INFORMATION For the detailed Technical Program and Registration Information, please visit the DSOM 2003 Website: http://www.dsom2003.org 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 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 S. Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph L. 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, Korea Telecom, Korea Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, 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 Jurgen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK Rolf Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Sincerely, The co-chairs, Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany, brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, alexk(a)us.ibm.com

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3rd IFIP I3E International Conference LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by manuel mendes 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Our apologies if you have received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- ************************************************************************ ************ LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ************************************************************************ ************ The Third IFIP Conference on E-Commerce, E-Business and E-Government I3E2003 21-24 de Setembro de 2003, São Paulo Brazil Casa Grande Hotel, Guarujá, SP http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference Tel Nr. +19 3746 6293 Fax No. +19 3282 2006 Email: ifipbr_2003(a)cenpra.gov.br ************************************************************************ ******************** KEYNOTE Speakers ************************************************************************ ******************** Popescu-Zeletin (GMD-FOKUS/TU-Berlin) Towards I-centric Communications Systems: A new dimension of the future services, Rudi Studer (Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) The Semantic Web: Methods, Applications and Future Trends, , Roland Traunmüller (Linz University, Áustria) e-Government a roadmap for progress Ralf Guido Herrtwich (Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany) E-Cars - Communication on the Road, Rosalie Zobel (DG Information Society, European Commission eGovernment Technologies and Policies in FP6 Karl-Heinz Löper (Ministry of Interior, Land of Berlin, Germany) e-Society: myth, strategy, implementation, reality and what comes next?, Masanori Kataoka (Hitachi INS Software, Ltd., Japan) Mapping "Enterprise Business Architecture" to "Information Systems Framework" Chris A. Vissers (Telematics Institute, Twente, Netherland) Models for advanced e-services ************************************************************************ ****** TECHNICAL SESSIONS ************************************************************************ ****** About 50 papers selected by the International Program Committee, from more then 20 countries, distributed in 17 sessions ************************************************************************ ****** TUTORIALS ************************************************************************ ****** Tutorial T1: Towards a Global Information Society: Prof. Wojciech Cellary, (Poznan University of Economics, Polland Tutorial T2: Model-driven architecture: core technologies, models and application,Dr. ir. Marten van Sinderen, Dr. Luís Ferreira Pires , University of Twente, Netherlands Tutorial T3: XML in e-Business - Lessons learned from industrial use and challenges for the future, Dr. Michael Merz , Ponton Consulting GmbH, Germany Tutorial T4: Ontologies: Representation, Engineering, Learning and Applications, Prof. Rudi Studer (FZI Research Center for Information Technologies), MSc. Raphael Volz (AIFB, Karlsruhe University), Germany Tutorial T5: Computational grids: architecture, technologies and applications, Dr. Walfredo Cirne, MSc. Glaucimar da Silva Aguiar, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brasil ************************************************************************ ************************ WORKSHOPS ************************************************************************ ************************ WS1: e-Government - Best practice solutions and standardization activities Coordinators: Gerd Schürmann, FOKUS,Berlin,Dr. Michael Tschichholz, FOKUS, Berlin Dr. Evangellos Ouzunis, European Commission, WS2: eBusiness: The role of information technology in supply chain management Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Sílvio R.I. Pires, UNIMEP-PPGEP, Brasil, Prof. Dr. Rafael Alves, UNIMEP, Brasil, Prof. Dr. Paula Swatman, Koblenz University, Germany WS3: e-Government and Citizenship, Best practices in health, education,security and governance Coordinators: Agnaldo do Carmo Lopes, PRODESP, Mauricio Moraes,PRODESP,Brazil Workshop WS4: Digital citizenship: building new rights and looking for solutions Coordinators: Sérgio Amadeu da Silveira (ITI) ,Renato Silveira Martini. (ITI),Brazil Workshop WS5: Electronic Governments: Innovation and Challenges Coordinators: Ciro Fernandes, SLTI/MP, Brasil , Marcos Ozorio de Almeida, SLTI/MP, Brasil, Raimundo Costa, SERPRO, Brasil PANELS, POSTER SESSIONS AND RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM ************************************************* Main Organizers *************** CENPRA and UNISANTOS Main Supporters *************** IFIP and State Government of S.Paulo ______________________________________ Prof. Dr. Manuel de Jesus Mendes Home Fax/Phone: +55-19-32874003 Mobile Phone: +55-19-9604 5003 Mail Address: mj.mendes(a)terra.com.br _______________________________________

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7th IEEE DS-RT'2003 - Call for Participation
by Prof Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you have received multiple copies --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ October 23-25, 2003 Delft, The Netherlands in conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) http://www.scs-europe.org/conf/ess2003/ October 26-29, 2003 Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology Early registration deadline 25th September 2003 http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Additional information (registration, travel details, hotel information...) is available via the DS-RT 2003 website http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ (Early registration: September 25, 2003) Keynote speakers Stewart Robinson (Warwick Business School) "Distributed Simulation and Simulation Practice" Paul Sharkey (University of Reading) "Distributed Stiffness" Panel Chair: Agostino G. Bruzzone, MISS DIP University of Genoa "Critical Issues on Distributed Simulation Project Management" ==================================================== TECHNICAL PROGRAM ==================================================== Wednesday 22nd October 2003 16:00-17:30 Registration and Reception Day 1 (Thursday 23rd October 2003) 08:45-09:00 Welcome 09:00-10:00 Session 1 Session Chair: Simon. J. E. Taylor (Brunel University) Keynote speaker: Stewart Robinson (Warwick Business School) "Distributed Simulation and Simulation Practice" 10:30-12:30 Session 2: HLA and Grid Issues Session Chair: Simon. J. E. Taylor (Brunel University) Zajac, K., Bubak, M., Malawski, M. and Sloot, P. "Towards a Grid Management System for HLA-based Interactive Simulations" Yuan, Z., Cai, W. and Low, M.Y.H. "A Framework for Executing Parallel Simulation using RTI" Wang, L., Turner, S.J. and Wang, F. "Interest Management in Agent-based Distributed Simulations" Reynolds, R.A. "Architectures for the Simulation of the Natural Environment" 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Session 3: Real Time Systems Session Chair: Wentong Cai (Nanyang Technological University) Moen, D.M. and Pullen, J.M. "Enabling Real-Time Distributed Virtual Simulation over the Internet Using Host-based Overlay Multicast" Mathuré, M.A., Jonnalagadda, V. and Zalewski, J. "A Heterogeneous Architecture and Testbed for Simulation of Large-Scale Real-Time Systems" Kim, J. and Lee B. "Adaptive scheduling techniques for multimedia computing in hard real-time systems" Ferscha, A. and Keller M. "Collaborative Real Time Inspection of Hidden Worlds" 15:30-16:00 Coffee 16:00-17:30 Session 4: Model Composition Session Chair: Stephen J Turner (Nanyang Technical University) Hu, Y., Tan, G.S.H. and Moradi, F. "Automatic SOM Compatibility Check and FOM Development" Simon, R., Pullen, J.M. and Chang, W.S. "An Agent Architecture for Network Support of Distributed Simulation Systems" Canonico, R., Emma, D. and Ventre, G. "An XML Description Language for Web-based Network Simulation" 17:15 Close ==================================================== Day 2 (Friday 24th October 2003) 09:00-10:30 Session 5: Quality of Service and Multimedia Session Chair: A Santoro (University of Rome) Scherpe, C., Wolfinger, B.E. and Salzmann, I. "Model Based Network Emulation to Study the Behavior and Quality of Real-Time Application" Bouras, C. Kapoulas, V. and Primpas, D. "Performance Evaluation of the Managed Bandwidth Service with QoS guarantees" El Saddik, A. and Dufour, A. "Peer-to-Peer Suitability for Collaborative Multiplayer Games" 11:00-12:30 Session 6: Parallel and Distributed Simulation Session Chair: Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University, Linz Kelly IV, C. and Manohar, R. "An Event-Synchronization Protocol for Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale Wireless Networks" Santoro, A. and Quaglia, F. "PCI-DMA/CPU Handoff for Increased Effectiveness of Checkpointing Functionalities in CCL" Iskra, K. A., van Albada, G. D. and Sloot, P. M. A. "Time Warp Cancellation Optimisations on High Latency Networks" 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-15:30 Session 7: Methodology and Web-based Simulation Session Chair: Mark Pullen (George Mason University) Anagnostopoulos, D. and Nikolaidou, M. "Executing a Minimum Number of Replications to Support the Reliability of FRTS Predictions" Biles, W.E. and Kleijnen, J.P.C. "Statistical Methodology for Web-Based Simulation" Wang, Y.-H. and Liao, Y.-C. "Implementation of A Collaborative Web-based Simulation Modeling Environment" Igbe, D., Kalantery, N. Ijaha, S. and Winter, S. "An Open Interface for Parallelization of Traffic Simulation" 16:00-17:30 Session 8: Panel Discussion "Distributed Simulation Project Management" Panel Chair: Agostino Bruzzone (University of Genoa) 17:30 Close 19:30 Conference Banquet (TBA) ==================================================== Day 3 (Saturday 25th October 2003) 09:00-10:00 Session 9: Keynote Speaker Session Chair: Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas) Keynote speaker: Paul Sharkey (University of Reading) "Distributed Stiffness" 10:30-12:30 Session 10: Haptic Audio Visual Collaborative Virtual Environments and Applications Session Chair: Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa) Linebarger, L.M., Janneck, C.D. and Kessler, G.D. "Shared Simple Virtual Environment: An Object-Oriented Framework for Highly-Interactive Group Collaboration" Souayed, R.T., Yu, W. , Gu, Q., Gaiti, D., Pujolle, G. and Marshall, A. "Haptic Virtual Environment Performance Over IP Networks: A case study" Laberge, D., Lapointe, J.-F. and Petriu, E.M. "An Auto-Calibrated Laser-Pointing Interface for Large Screen Displays" Otto, O and Roberts, D. "Importance of Communication Influences on a Highly Collaborative Task" 12:30 Closing Remarks Afternoon: XMSF/CSPIF workshop Notes: all DS-RT Participants are welcome to attend the workshop free of charge. For more information, please contact Dr. Simon. J.E. Taylor ========================================================= IEEE DS-RT 2003 SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS ========================================================= General Chair Stephen J. Turner (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Program Chair Simon J. E. Taylor (Brunel University, UK) Local Arrangements/European Simulation Symposium Liaison Alexander Verbraeck (Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands) ============================================================================ =====

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