Our apologies if you have received multiple copies -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 7th IEEE/ACM* MSWiM 2004 The Seventh International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 4-6, 2004 Venice, Italy http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2004/ * IEEE and ACM Pending Upon Approval 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 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 * 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 * Wireless data dissemination * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor 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 Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere.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. Instructions for paper submission will be posted at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2004/ Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings. A Journal Special Issue will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 10th, 2004 Notification: July 20th, 2004 Camera Ready due: August 10th, 2004 Organizing Committee General Chair Simonetta Balsamo Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Email: balsamo@dsi.unive.it Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini@polito.it Lorenzo Donatiello Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: donat@cs.unibo.it Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, Brazil Email: mirela@barddal.br Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it Program Committee Rassul Ayani, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Anand Balachandran, Intel Research, Seattle, USA Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 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, IEIIT-CNR, 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 Francesco Lo Presti, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore 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 Geoff Voelker, University of California at San Diego, USA Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada 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.