IFIP TC-6 Working  Group  6.7 
Smart Networks
Working Group Report 1/2003

Report for meeting 
IFIP TC6 Meeting 2003/1
Budapest, Hungary

Source: Dominique GAITI – Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
Date: May 2003

1. Reports from conferences and workshops held

Workshop:
WG 6.7 Workshop and Eunice Summerschool on 
Adaptable networks and teleservices, 2 – 4 September, 2002, Trondheim, Norway
Prof. Finn Arve Aagesen (finn.aagesen@item.ntnu.no)
Complement of information:
25 papers
2 rejected
4 invited papers
54 attendees

Working Conference
MATA’02, 22-24 October, 2002, Barcelona, Spain.
General chair: J. Delgado
Prog. Co chairs: A. Karmouch and T. Magedanz

 Kluwer published the proceedings: 
Editors: Ahmed Karmouch, Thomas Magedanz and Jaime Delgado
Title: " Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, 4th International Workshop, MATA 2002 Barcelona, Spain, October 23-24, 2002"
Vol. 2521, n° ISBN: 3-540-00021-6, 2002.
29 papers presented in a one single track
6 short papers in two parallel sessions
Countries represented in the program of the conference: Finland (2), Portugal, Spain (4), USA, France (2), Korea (2), Canada (5), Japan, Switzerland (2), UK (3), Hungary, Greece (2), Ireland, Sweden, India, Germany (2), Columbia, Brazil, Italy, Sri Lanka 
Registration fee:
Regular: 400 – 500 €
Speakers: 360 – 450 €
Spanish universities staff: 360 – 450 €

Working Conference:
IWAN'2002, 4-6 December, 2002, ETH Zurich
General Chair: Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland 
General Co-Chair:Tadanobu Okada, NTT, Japan 
Program Co-Chairs: James P. G. Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, Cambridge MA, USA and Osamu Takada, Hitachi Ltd., Japan  and Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University, Sweden 
50 attendees
20 papers presented
Countries represented: USA (7), Switzerland (2), Germany (2), Spain, UK (2), Belgium, Japan

Registration fee:
Regular: 500 CHF
Students: 300 CHF
Tutorial: 600 CHF (regular) and 300 CHF (student)

Working Conference
NetCon’2002, 21-25 October, 2002, ENST, Paris.
General co chairs: Prof. Guy Pujolle (Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr) and Michel Riguidel (ENST)
Program co-chairs: Prof. Dominique Gaiti (UTT) and Nadia Boukhatem (ENST)
Jointly with WG 6.2, WG 6.6, WG 6.7 and WG 6.8
100 papers have been submitted: 30 papers and 8 posters were selected.
Single track
Countries represented in the program of the conference: Italy (6), Finland (3), Portugal (1), USA (2), France (11), Taiwan, Singapore, Canada (4), UK (3), Norway, Greece (2), Sweden, China, Tunisia (2), Brazil (2)
Registration fee:
Student: 300 – 350 euros (conference); 390 - 440 (Conference + tutorials)
Academic: 490 – 560 euros (conference); 650 - 770 (Conference + tutorials)
Industrial: 590 – 670 euros (conference); 800 - 920 (Conference + tutorials)

Kluwer published the proceedings: 
Editors: D. Gaïti, N. Boukhatem 
Title: "Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility"
480 pages, n° ISBN: 1-4020-7268-6, 2002. 

2. Plan for the next conferences and workshops 

Working Conference
NetCon’2003, 11-15 October, 2003, Oman.
General chair: H.E. Dr. Saud Al-Riyami
Program co chairs: Dr. Hadj Bourdoucen and Dr. Ahmed Al-Naamany
International chairs: Prof. G. Pujolle (France), Prof. I. Zaabalawi (UAE), Prof. Mauro Oliviera (Brazil), Prof. A. Casaca (Portugal), Prof. O. Spaniol (Germany), Prof. D. Gaiti (France)
Jointly with WG 6.2, WG 6.6, WG 6.7 and WG 6.8
http://www.squ.edu.om/eng/ece/Net-Con'2003
Kluwer will publish the proceedings.

Working Conference
MATA’03, 8-10 October, 2003, Marrakech, Morocco.
http://www-rp.lip6.fr/MATA03
Title: 3G Networks an Beyond, Ambient Intelligence and Spontaneous Networking
Organized by the LIP6 (France) and the University of Ottawa (Canada)
IFIP logo on the call
General Chair: Eric Horlait
Program co chairs: R. Glitho (Canada) and T. Magedanz (Germany)
Full paper submission due: April 30
Use of the EDAS Software
Springer Verlag will published the proceeding.

Working Conference:
IWAN'2003, 27-29 October, 2003
Nara City - Japan
General chair: Prof. Yasuda (Tokyo University) 
Program chair: N. Wakamiya (Osaka university)
Waiting for the committee and the announcement (mail from Eckhard Moeller the 12 February 2003)

Working Conference;
Smartnet’2003 is cancelled
Smartnet'2004; Proposed to Vietnam, The date is still open (end of the year 2004)
Dr. Cao Tru (Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam)
With the help of Vilas Wuwongse (AIT, Thailand)

EUNICE 2003
9th Open European Summer School and IFIP Workshop on
Next Generation Networks
Hungary, Budapest - Balatonfüred
8-10 September 2003
http://w3.ttt.bme.hu/eunice-2003
submission deadline: 15 May 2003

3. WG meetings

The last WG meeting was in Paris in October 2002 during the NETCON conference

The place and date of the next WG 6.7 meeting are not decided yet.

4. WG 6.7 Steering Committees:

SMARTNET
Olli.Martikainen@icon.fi
Finn.Aagesen@item.ntnu.no
Harmen.R.van-As@tuwien.ac.at
Villy Iversen, vbi@tele.dtu.dk
Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr

IWAN´2002 Europe:
Michitaka Kosaka (kosaka@sdl.hitachi.co.jp), Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Eckhard Moeller (moeller@fokus.gmd.de), Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Olli Martikainen (olli.martikainen@icon.fi), IFIP TC6 WG6.7, Finland
Jonathan Smith (jms@central.cis.upenn.edu), University of Pennsylvania, USA
Radu Popescu-Zeletin (zeletin@fokus.fhg.de), Technical University Berlin, Germany

NETCON 2002 France:

A. Casaca (INESC - Portugal) 
A.A. Lazar (Columbia University - USA) 
A. Al-Naamany (Sultan Qaboos Univ. - Oman) 
O. Martikainen (Necsom - Finland) 
J. Slavik (Testcom - Czech Republic) 
O. Spaniol (Aachen University - Germany) 

NETCON 2003 Oman:

Eng. Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Wahaibi 
Executive President Omantel – Oman 
Sayyid Dr. Fahad bin Julanda (SQU – Oman)
Dr. Mr. Said Ismailly (Ministry of National Economy - Oman)
Mr. Mattar Al-Maamary (Diwan of Royal Court)
Dr. Taher BaOmar (SQU – Oman)
Dr. Amer A. Al Rawas (SQU – Oman)
Dr. Ali S. Al-Bemani (SQU – Oman)
Dr. Amer Al Rawas (OmanTel)
Mr. Michael Parfitt (PDO)
Dr. Adel Gastli (SQU – Oman)
Dr. Ali Al-Lawati (SQU – Oman)

MATA’02 Barcelone (Spain):

E. Horlait, LIP6, France
R. Impey, NRC, Canada
A. Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada (chair)
T. Magedanz, IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany

MATA’03 Marrakech (Morocco):
H. Berndt, DoCoMo Eurolab, Germany
P. Buckle, emorphia, UK
J. Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
R. Glitho, Ericsson Research, Canada
E. Horlait, LIP6, France
A. Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
T. Magedanz, FhG FOKUS / TU Berlin, Germany

5. WG 6.7 Members

New members for the WG 6.7:

Raouf Boutaba		rboutaba@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Nazim Agoulmine		Nazim.Agoulmine@iup.univ-evry.fr 
Jose Neuman de Souza	neuman@ufc.br
Alan Marshall		a.marshall@ee.qub.ac.uk

6. Minutes of WG meeting

The last meeting was during the Netcon conference (21 to 25 October 2002) in Paris France. Some people were present : D. Gaiti, Nazim Agoulmine, Hadj Bourdoucen, Nadia Boukhatem, Georg Carle, Alan Marshall, Jose Neuman de Souza, Guy Pujolle, ...

1.	The meeting was in conjunction with Netcon 2002 conference.
2.	About the aim and scope of the WG: smart networks remains an excellent term but some works has to be done to clarify the meaning for everybody. This term includes mobile agents in telecommunication area, active networks, adaptability in terms of services, artificial intelligence, customized QoS, intelligent service and QoS negociation, …
3.	About Smartnet 2003: We propose first to organize it in France (Troyes) but Dominique Gaiti will be in a sabbatical leave in 2003 (at Columbia University in New York) and it seems difficult to organize it in Troyes for that reason. We decide to organize the smartnet 2003 in New York (autumn).
4.	About to join Smartnet and IWAN: it has to be discussed further more; the two covered areas can be grouped on the thematic basis but many issues remain open: active networks have a public and we can loose people in this community (less visibility); Smartnet may remain the global conference on smart networking with specialized workshops like IWAN; if we keep the two conferences we have to be careful with the dates (they are too close for the moment), … Nobody really involved in IWAN was there to help us with this point.
5.	About keeping MATA in the WG6.7 area: the area covered by MATA is really in our competence area but MATA in with the WG “by chance”. In 2003 the organization will be done by Paris 6. We will see what they will propose.
7. Others

The Smartnet 2003 conference is cancelled because of a problem of location.