Season's Greetings to all of you from Switzerland, too!
The weatherman has now promised snow for Christmas; if you would
like some, I will wish some for you, too!
Wishing you all the best for the rest of this year,
and a good start for the new year,
-Harry
Dear colleagues,
please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an
environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive,
gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within
the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or
secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular
persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice
religious or secular traditions at all . . .
. . and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically
uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar
year 2002, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other
cultures whose contributions to society have helped make society great, and
without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious
faith, choice of computer platform, hosting provider or sexual preference of
the wishee.
Wish Disclaimer
(By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is
subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no
alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to
actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void
where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the
wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual
application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the
issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and
warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at
the sole discretion of the wisher.)
Best wishes
Otto
Dear friends
I wish you all a merry Christam and a very happy
new 2002 year.
With my best regards.
Samir
Samir TOHME
Professeur
Departement Informatique et Reseaux
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
46 Rue Barrault. 75634 Paris Cedex 13. France.
Tel : 33 1 45 81 78 61
Fax : 33 1 45 81 31 19
Email : tohme(a)inf.enst.fr
Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement!
Please feel free to distribute a copy of this call for paper to those
who might be interested.
This CfP is also available from http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02/CfP.pdf.
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Call for Papers
Third COST 263 International Workshop on
Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS'02)
co-located with the
Second International Workshop on
Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'02)
"From QoS Provisioning to QoS Charging"
October 16-18, 2002
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland
URL: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02
Scope
Key issues for competitive communication systems include the
design,implementation, and provisioning of Quality-of-Service (QoS).
These tasks require for tomorrows Internet an emerging research and
new methods, which combine technical and economic parameters related
to networks, services, and applications. The QofIS'02 workshop is the
third international event organised by the COST 263 Action "Quality
of future Internet Services" and the ICQT'02 workshop is the second
joint meeting of network specialists and economists. Therefore, these
two colocated workshops determine a highly qualified forum for the
presentation and discussion of relevant approaches to Internet QoS
and their economics, bringing together researchers, developers, and
practitioners sides of academia and industry.
While the emphasis of QofIS'02 is on technology for an end-to-end and
top-down provisioning of QoS, covering the Internet and the
end-system, ICQT'02 focusses on the economics of QoS and the required
technology in support of charging. 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 QoS-based services in
the Internet.
List of Topics
QofIS'02 ICQT'02
Traffic modelling and classification Economic models for the Internet
Traffic policing and scheduling Internet pricing and tariffing
QoS mapping and negotiation Internet charging technology
QoS routing Internet accounting and billing
QoS signaling ISP cost and business models
Traffic engineering Charging for differentiated services
End-to-end QoS support Charging for mobile services
Policy-based QoS control Application service provider models
Middleware QoS Security mechanisms for charging
Active Internet services Monitoring and measurements
End-to-end services Management of Service Level Agreements
QoS in mobile environments
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 follow already the author guidelines as
specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations,
100-word abstract, and a list of maximum 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.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02 for further
submission instructions or contact qofis02(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch for
additional information. The conference proceedings are published as
hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany,
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be
availabe 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: May 6, 2002
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2002
Camera-ready version: August 2, 2002
Workshop dates: October 16-18, 2002
General Information
The final program will accommodate in sequence on October 16 and 17,
2002 the single-track QofIS'02 workshop and on October 18, 2002 the
single-track ICQT'02 workshop. The registration fee for this event
will include both workshops. For more information on the co-located
events QofIS'02/ICQT'02 please visit the following URLs
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02 or http://www.ftw.at/icqt02 or
contact by e-mail qofis02(a)tik.ee.e.ethz.ch or icqt02(a)ftw.at.
Committees
General Chair: Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland
Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, Uni. of Cambridge, UK
James Roberts, France Telecom R&D, France
Michael Smirnov, FhG FOKUS, Germany
Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
QofIS'02 PC Co-chairs
Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zürich, TIK, Switzerland
Michael Smirnov, FhG FOKUS, Germany
ICQT'02 PC Co-chairs
Martin Karsten, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Peter Reichl, FTW, Vienna, Austria
QofIS'02 Program Committee
A. Azcorra, UC3M, Spain
D. Bauer, IBM Research Laboratory, Switzerland
H.v.d. Berg, KPN Research, Netherlands
C. Blondia, Uni. Antwerp, Belgium
F. Boavida, Uni. of Coimbra, Portugal
O. Bonaventure, FUNDP, Belgium
G. Carle, FhG FOKUS, Germany
O. Casals, UPC, Spain
J. Crowcroft, Uni. of Cambridge, UK
M. Diaz, LAAS, France
J. Domingo-Pascual, UPC, Spain
H. Esaki, Tokyo Uni., Japan
D. Hutchison, Lancaster Uni., UK
G. Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
R. Kantola, HUT, Finland
K. Kilkki, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Y. Koucheriavy, TUT, Finland
M. Luoma, HUT, Finland
H. de Meer, Uni. College London, UK
E. Monteiro, Uni. Coimbra, Portugal
R. v.d. Mei, KPN Research, Netherlands
G. Pavlou, Uni. Surrey, UK
M. Popa, Procetel, Romania
J. Roberts, France Telecom R&D, France
D. Serpanos, Uni. of Patras, Greece
M. Smirnov, FhG FOKUS, Germany
J. Solé-Pareta, UPC, Spain
I. Stavrakakis, Uni. of Athens, Greece
B. Stiller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
H. Stüttgen, NEC, Germany
P. Van Mieghem, Delft Univ. of Tech., Netherlands
G. Ventre, Uni. Napoli, Italy
J. Virtamo, HUT, Finland
L. Wolf, Uni. of Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany
J. Wroclawski, MIT, U.S.A.
A. Zehl, T-Systems, Germany
M. Zitterbart, Uni. of Karlsruhe Germany
ICQT'02 Program Committee
J. Altmann, HP Palo Alto, U.S.A.
R. Andreassen, Telenor, Norway
T. Braun, Uni. of Bern, Switzerland
C. Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece
L. Heusler, IBM Research Laboratory, Switzerland
M. Karsten, TU Darmstadt, Germany
C. Linnhoff-Popien, LMU München, Germany
S. Leinen, SWITCH, Switzerland
R. Mason, University of Southampton, UK
A. Odlyzko, Uni. of Minnesota, U.S.A.
H. Oliver, HP European Labs, UK
H. Orlamünder, Alcatel SEL, Germany
M. Ott, Semandex Networks, U.S.A.
K. Park, Purdue Uni., U.S.A.
D. Reeves, North Carolina State Uni., U.S.A.
P. Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria
B. Rupp, Arthur D. Little, Germany
V. Siris, ICS Forth, Greece
D. Songhurst, BT, UK
O. Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
B. Stiller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
L. Wolf, Uni. of Karlsruhe, Germany
QofIS'02/ICQT'02 Local Organizing Committee
J. Gerke, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
D. Hausheer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
H. Hasan, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
P. Kurtansky, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
A. Schicker, Hinwil, Switzerland
