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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Computer Communications
Internet Pricing and Charging: Algorithms, Technology and Applications
Guest Editors:
Martin Karsten (Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany)
Peter Reichl (FTW Vienna, Austria)
Burkhard Stiller (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
PUBLICATION: WINTER 2002
With the advent of differentiated Internet services, both at the transport
as well as at the application layer, the need for differentiated pricing and
efficient charging options has become apparent. Within the emerging area of
Network Economy, an explicit view on the integration of technological and
economic aspects for Internet services provisioning is essential for
achieving a better understanding of today's dramatic changes and close-ups
between Internet technology and economics in the field of networking.
The future evolution of the Internet will crucially depend on the
development of sound business models and an economic understanding of
technological alternatives. Therefore, it is increasingly important to
develop an integrated view of technical proposals and their economic
implications, and vice versa. Another important research field is given by
the potential for economy-based market management of networks and services.
This special issue of Computer Communicationsis seeking new and unpublished
contributions addressing issues on Internet Pricing and Charging including,
but not limited to:
* Internet Charging Technology
* Economy-based Policy Management Mechanisms
* Internet Pricing and Tariffing
* Economy-based Resource Management and Congestion Control
* Internet Accounting and Billing Tasks
* Internet Service Level Agreements and their Management
* Security Mechanisms for Charging Systems
* Internet Service Characterizations
* ISP Business Models
* Internet Bandwidth Exchange Models
* Application Service Provider Models
The main goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for the most
recent results on technology and algorithms for pricing and charging Internet
services and their economic effects in an open Internet services market.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: June 1 2002
Notification of acceptance: September 1 2002
Publication: Winter 2002
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at
http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/authors (Step 2). Authors are invited to
submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to:
Dr Martin Karsten
FG KOM, FB 18
Darmstadt University of Technology
Merckstr.25
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
Email: Martin.Karsten(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de
Full details of submission or further information are available from the
journal's web site (www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom), or from the General
Editor, Jeremy Thompson (comcom(a)troubador.co.uk). Electronic submission
guidelines are available at www.elsevier.nl/homepage/authors.
Dear IFIP TC 6:
Please distribute the following Call for Papers announcement for WITASI
2002. This workshop is being sponsored by IFIP WG 6.4 on Internet
Applications Engineering.
Best Regards,
Arun Iyengar
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2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact
WITASI'02
Wroclaw, Poland
October 10 - 11, 2002
Submission Deadline: April 7, 2002
http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/
Announcement and Call for Papers
The 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal
Impact (WITASI'02) will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, on October 10 - 11, 2002.
WITASI'02 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform
service vendors, and users to review, discuss and learn about new concepts,
approaches, technologies and experiences related to the Internet. Attendees
will participate in a high quality scientific and technical workshop with
specialists in Internet technology from all over the world.
The scope of WITASI'02 includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Internet technologies: coding multimedia data, security, multicast techniques,
virtual private networks, agent technologies.
Internet performance: caching, quality of service, scalability aspects,
traffic characterization.
Web technologies: searching and querying, navigation strategies, multilingual
services, markup languages, virtual reality.
Applications: communications, collaboration, commerce, virtual enterprises,
education, healthcare, entertainment, etc.
Impact on: society, economy, education, culture, etc.
The WITASI'02 program will contain invited and regular papers. The event is
organised by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw
University of Technology and sponsored by IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet
Applications Engineering.
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit papers relevant to the scope of the workshop. The
submitted papers must be original, unpublished and must not be considered for
publication elsewhere.
Submissions of papers according to Kluwer style guidelines available at
http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ is strongly encouraged but not required.
All submitted papers should be in pdf format, not exceeding 4500 words
(comparable to 10 pages prepared according to Kluwer style).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
Schedule
Deadline for full paper submissions: April 7, 2002
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2002
Final versions and Authors registration July 1, 2002
Submission method
Papers should be submitted electronically via the URL:
URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/submission
E-mail submission is also possible at:
witasi-papers(a)ists.pwr.wroc.pl
Proceedings
All papers accepted for publication and presentation at the workshop will
appear in the conference proceedings published by Kluwer. Final versions of
accepted papers have to be formatted according to guidelines specified by
Kluwer. Instructions for authors of accepted papers will be on the WITASI'02
web site.
General Chair
Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Program Co-Chairs
Wojciech Cellary Poznan University of Economics, Poland
Arun Iyengar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Program Committee
Leszek Borzemski Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Soumen Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Technology, India
Yi-Farn Robin Chen AT&T Labs, USA
Tadeusz Czachorski Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Dave De Roure University of Southampton, UK
Nicolas D. Georganas University of Ottawa, Canada
Claude Godart LORIA, France
Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Sumi Helal University of Florida, USA
Katsuo Ikeda Kyoto University, Japan
Henryk Krawczyk Technical University of Gdansk, Poland
Kazimierz Krzysztofek Research Institute for Culture, Warsaw, Poland
Winfried Lamersdorf University of Hamburg, Germany
Steve Lawrence NEC Research Institute, USA
Jozef Lubacz Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Michael Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tadeusz Morzy Poznan University of Technology, Poland
San Murugesan University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia
Wee Keong Ng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marian Niedzwiedzinski Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Guenther Pernul University of Essen, Germany
Franz-Josef Radermacher FAW Ulm, Germany
Cormac Sreenan University College Cork, Ireland
Zdzislaw Szyjewski Technical University of Szczecin, Poland
Volker Tschammer GMD Fokus, Germany
Joseph Urban Arizona State U., USA
Krzysztof Zielinski University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland
Jaroslaw Zendulka Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
Mary Ellen Zurko IBM Software Group, USA
Further information
Information and new developments are described at the WITASI'02 web site.
Questions may be directed to the Organizing Committee using the addresses
below.
Address for correspondence
Postal address:
WITASI 2002
Institute of Control and Systems Engineering
Wroclaw University of Technology
Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27
50-370 Wroclaw
Poland
E-mail: witasi2002(a)ists.pwr.wroc.pl
Phone: +48 71 320 33 28, +48 71 3212 62 26
Fax: +48 71 320 38 84
URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/
Dear Friends,
To all of you I wish Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year.
Best regards
Kiril
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Prof. Kiril Boyanov
BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing (CLLP)
Sofia 1113, acad.G.Bonchev str.Bl.25A
phone (+359 2) 703260
fax (+359 2) 707273
E-Mail boyanov(a)acad.bg
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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The 2002 International Multiconferences in Computer Science
(13 Joint Int'l Conferences)
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 24-27, 2002
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 5 pages and/or
a proposal to organize a technical session. All accepted
papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings.
THE NAMES OF TECHNICAL SESSION ORGANIZERS/CHAIRS WILL APPEAR AS
ASSOCIATE EDITORS ON THE COVER OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS.
The thirteen conferences are:
1. The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
2. The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
Systems, and Technology
(CISST'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
3. The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(IC-AI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
4. The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing
(IC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
5. The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences
(METMBS'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
6. The 2002 International Conference on Communications in
Computing
(CIC'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
7. The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms
(ERSA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
8. The 2002 International Conference on VLSI
(VLSI'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
9. The 2002 International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Engineering
(IKE'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
10. International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
Reasoning and Applications
(CMSRA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
11. The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications
(ICMLA'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
12. The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks
(ICWN'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
13. The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering
Research and Practice
(SERP'02: June 24-27, 2002, Las Vegas, USA)
(a link to each conference's URL is available
from http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences)
Please regard this announcement as General Guidelines.
You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconferences
chair whose address appears below.
CONFERENCES CONTACT:
H. R. Arabnia
Chair, The 2002 Int'l Multiconferences in Computer Science
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
email: hra(a)cs.uga.edu
HISTORY:
The International Multiconferences in Computer Science
is a major annual international research event.
The last Multiconferences attracted over 1400 computer
science researchers. It is anticipated that The 2002
International Multiconferences will attract about 2000
participants. The 2002 event will be composed of 13
(planned) international conferences - attendees will have
full access to all 13 conferences' sessions and tracks.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:
Prospective authors are invited to submit three copies
of their draft paper (about 5 pages - single spaced and
font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by the due date
(who may be forwarding the papers to respective conference
chairs/committees).
E-mail and Fax submissions are also acceptable.
The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be
limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been
previously published or currently submitted for publication
elsewhere.
The first page of the draft paper should include:
title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address,
E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for
each author. The first page should also include the
name of the author who will be presenting the paper
(if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords.
PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING TECHNICAL SESSIONS:
Each technical session will have at least 6 paper
presentations. The session chairs will be responsible
for all aspects of their sessions; including, soliciting
papers, reviewing, selecting, ... The names of session
chairs will appear as Associate Editors on the cover of
the conference proceedings. After the conference, some
sessions will be considered for publication in relevant
journals as Special Issues with the session proposer as
the Guest Editor of the journal.
Proposals to organize technical sessions should include
the following information: name and address (+ E-mail)
of proposer, title of session, a 100-word description of
the topic of the session, and a short description on
how the session will be advertised (in most cases,
session proposers solicit papers from colleagues and
researchers whose work is known to the session proposer).
Mail your proposal to H. R. Arabnia; E-mail submissions
are preferred.
EVALUATION PROCESS (General):
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance,
clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by
two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready
papers will be reviewed by one person.
PUBLICATION:
The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA
Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available
at the conference. Some accepted papers will also be
considered for journal publication (soon after the
conference). (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also
planned to publish the papers on a CD.)
All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are
considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are
designed to provide easy access to the current literature of
the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific,
IEE INSPEC, ...).
ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS:
A number of university faculty members and their staff
in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference
Division, Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conferences.
The conferences will be sponsored by World Academy of
Sciences and co-sponsored by Computer Science Research,
Education, & Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal
EIN # 58-2171953) together with research centers,
international associations, international research groups,
and developers of high-performance machines and systems.
The complete list of sponsors and co-sponsors will be
available at a later time.
(Previous conferences' sponsors included: CSREA,
the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the
Environment - DOE, The International Association for
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, The International
Technology Institute (ITI), The Java High Performance
Computing research group, World Scientific and Engineering
Society, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc., the
Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech., The Korea
Information Processing Society (KIPS), Information Processing
Society of Japan (SIGMPS/IPSJ), ...)
LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:
The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort
hotel Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at
other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega
hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport
with 24-hour shuttle service to and from the airport.
This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions,
including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools,
sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with
cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout
equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality
game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of
restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these
attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for
families and children. The negotiated hotel's room rate
for conference attendees is very reasonable (79USD + tax)
per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the
duration of the conference.
The hotel is within walking distance from most other
Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational
destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street
shows, ...).
For the benefit of our international colleagues: the
state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California,
Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is only a
few driving hours away from other major cities, including:
Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ...
EXHIBITION:
An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conferences.
Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is
given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the
co-sponsors of the conferences.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb. 22, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due
March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
June 24-27, 2002: All 13 Int'l Conferences:
PDPTA'02 + CISST'02 + IC-AI'02
+ IC'02 + METMBS'02 + CIC'02 + ERSA'02
+ VLSI'02 + IKE'02 + CMSRA'02
+ ICMLA'02 + ICWN'02 + SERP'02
Proposals to organize technical sessions should be submitted
as soon as possible.
MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:
The Program Committees are currently being formed. Those
interested in joining the Program Committees should email
H. R. Arabnia (hra(a)cs.uga.edu) the following information:
Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address,
email address, tel/fax numbers, name of the conference offering
to help with, a short biography together with research interests.
SCOPE OF PDPTA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications)
O Parallel/Distributed applications:
Numerical computations/methods, neural networks and
fuzzy logic, medicine, remote sensing, GIS, computer
vision, computer graphics and virtual reality,
parallel/distributed databases, banking, financial
markets, ...
O Parallel/Distributed architectures:
Clusters and parallel systems of various topologies,
supercomputers, shared memory, distributed memory,
general- and special-purpose architectures,
instructional level parallelism, ...
O Building block processors:
Applications of processors that can be used as basic
building blocks for multicomputer systems.
O Networks and Interconnection networks:
Scalable networks, Reconfigurable networks, routing
issues, general-purpose network performance for
distributed applications, network protocols, ATM-based
systems, internet technology, Optical interconnections
and computing, ...
O Reliability and fault-tolerance:
Software and hardware fault-tolerance (system- and
application-level), fault diagnosis, fault-tolerance
measurement.
O Performance analysis, evaluation, prediction, ...
O Real-time and embedded systems:
Small-scale parallel systems for high-performance
control, data acquisition, and analysis; configuration,
routing, scheduling, performance guarantees.
O Parallel/Distributed algorithms:
Algorithms exploiting clusters and general-purpose
distributed and parallel systems, new vector/pipeline
issues, shared memory, distributed memory,
virtual memory, ...
O Mobile computation and communication.
O Object Oriented Technology and related issues.
O Multimedia Communications, Systems, and Applications:
High-speed networking, multimedia architectures and
protocols, multimedia applications, quality of service
support, operating system and networking support,
internet tools and applications, audio/video delivery
over the internet, ...
O Software tools and environments for parallel and
distributed platforms: Operating systems, compilers,
languages, debuggers, monitoring tools, software
engineering on parallel/distributed systems, ...
O High-performance computing in Computational Science:
Intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research
programs and applications.
O Information and data fusion.
O Petri Nets: theory, analysis, tools and applications
O Web-based simulation and computing.
O Education: parallel and distributed processing in
computer science curriculum (both graduate and
undergraduate levels.)
O Recent history (last decade) of parallel/distributed
processing and what to expect during the next decade
if history repeats itself; New horizons.
O Other aspects and applications relating to
high-performance computations.
SCOPE OF CISST'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Imaging Science,
Systems, and Technology)
O Image generation, acquisition, and processing
O Image display techniques
O Image data structures and databases
O Convergence of imaging media (video and computer)
O Virtual reality
O Image compression, coding, and encryption
O Multimedia / Applications
O Tools for multimedia production and services
O Digital imaging for film and television
O Visualization
O Scene and object modeling
O Knowledge acquisition
O Visual inspection
O Document image understanding
O Image algebra
O Optical image processing systems
O Mathematical morphology
O Architecture of imaging and vision systems (including
parallel architectures and algorithms)
O Neural network techniques and fuzzy logic
O Performance analysis and evaluation
O Software tools and environments for imaging
O Animation
O Geometric modeling and Fractals
O CAD/CAM systems
O Rendering techniques
O Applications including: medicine, robotic, GIS,
remote sensing, industrial inspection (or machine vision),
nondestructive evaluation (or NDE), ...
O Multi-resolution and multi-spectral image processing
O Image sequence processing
O Information fusion
O Other aspects and applications relating to imaging science
SCOPE OF IC-AI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
O Intelligent Information Systems
O Intelligent Software Engineering
O Intelligent Agents
O Intelligent Networks
O Intelligent Databases
O Brain Models
O Evolutionary Algorithms
O Data mining
O Reasoning Strategies
O Automated Problem Solving
O Distributed AI Algorithms and Techniques
O Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
O Expert Systems
O Fuzzy Logic
O Genetic Algorithms
O Heuristic Searching
O Knowledge Acquisition
O Knowledge Discovery
O Knowledge Representation
O Knowledge-Intensive Problem Solving Techniques
O Languages and Programming Techniques for AI
O Software Tools for AI
O Natural Language Processing
O Neural Networks and Applications
O Multisource Information Fusion: Theory and Applications
O Multisource-Multisensor Data Fusion
O Learning and Adaptive Sensor Fusion
O Multisensor Data Fusion Using Neural and Fuzzy Techniques
O Integration of AI with other Technologies
O Evaluation of AI Tools
O Evolutionary Computation
O Social Impact of AI
O Applications - Computer Vision
O Applications - Signal Processing
O Applications - Military
O Applications - Surveillance
O Applications - Robotics
O Applications - Medicine
O Applications - Pattern Recognition
O Applications - Face Recognition
O Applications - Finger Print Recognition
O Applications - Finance and Marketing
O Applications - Stock Market
O Applications - Education
O Emerging Applications
SCOPE OF IC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Internet Computing)
O Web based computing
O Network Management
O Design and Analysis of Internet Protocols
O Network Architectures
O Performance Evaluation of the Internet
O Network Computing
O Network Operating Systems
O Quality of Service
O Resource Management and Location
O Wide Area Consistency
O Internet Security
O Internet Applications and Appliances
O Electronic Commerce
O The WWW and Intranets
O Metacomputing
O Grid based Computing and Tools
O Languages for Distributed Programming
O Cooperative Applications
O Tele-Medical and other applications
O Internet Telephony
O Mobile Computing
O Educational Applications
O Digital Libraries/Digital Image Collections
O Web Interfaces to Databases
O User-interface/Multimedia/Video/Audio/User Interaction
O Markup Languages/HTML/XML/VRML
O Java Applications on Internet
O Alternative Web lifestyles, role-playing, chat, ...
O Caching Algorithms for the Internet
O Traffic Models & Statistics
O Server Space/Web Server Performance
O Web Monitoring
O Web Documents Management
O Web Site Design and Coordination
O Other aspects & applications relating to internet-based computing
SCOPE OF METMBS'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and
Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences)
O Data mining in medicine and biological sciences
O Pattern recognition in medicine and biological sciences
O Signal processing in medicine and biological sciences
(e.g. biomedical signal processing, ...)
O Image processing in medicine and biological sciences
(e.g. biomedical image processing, biomedical imaging, ...)
O Medical decision-making
O Medical Physics
O Biomedical Engineering
O Biomedical Electronics
O Biosignal interpretation
O Any application of computers in Medicine and biological
sciences (protein structure-function analysis, drug and
protein design, molecular modeling and simulation, ...)
O Application of information technology in biomedicine
(e.g. medical database management, information retrieval and
use of computers in hospitals)
O Application of Computational Intelligence (artificial
neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary computing)
in medicine and biological sciences
O Medical and bio-computing
O Computer-based medical systems (automation in medicine, ...)
O Recent history (1990-2001) of Mathematics and engineering
techniques in medicine and biological sciences, and what to
expect during the next decade (2001-2010); New horizons.
Review articles)
O Other aspects and applications relating to technological
advancements in medicine and biological sciences
SCOPE OF CIC'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Communications in Computing)
O High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific,
commercial, ...)
O Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia,
cooperative systems)
O Grid computing
O Scalable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards
O Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware,
environments, tools, distributed objects)
O Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, vector, systolic,
reconfigurable, special-purpose)
O Interconnection networks (e.g. bus-based, optical)
O ATM based networks
O Communications (e.g. routing, wireless, mobile)
O Visualization (e.g. scientific visualization, debugging
and load balancing tools)
O Photonics and Optical Computing
O Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement,
evaluation and prediction)
O Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems
O Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers)
O Programming Languages for Parallel and other High Performance
Computing Environments
O Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms
O Reliability and Fault Tolerance
O Embedded and Real Time Systems
O Digital Signal Processing
O Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms
O Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms,
grand challenge problems)
O Internet & web based processing, E-commerce, telecommunication
network, cluster-based computing
SCOPE OF ERSA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Engineering of
Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms)
O Theory, Mapping and Parallelization.
Mapping algorithms into hardware, space-time mapping and
synthesis of regular arrays, IP based methods, dataflow and
functional programming approaches, formal methods using
logical specification and verification, developing correct
circuits, the impact of reconfigurable hardware architectures
onto algorithm parallelization, biologically inspired
methods etc.
O System Architectures, Aspects and Evaluation.
Complex systems using reconfigurable processors,
application-tailored reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip (SoC),
architectures of SoCs, adaptive and evolvable systems, rapid
system prototyping, ...
O CAD: Specification, Partitioning and Synthesis.
Hardware compilation, hardware/software codesign, IP-based
specification and mapping methods for reconfigurable systems,
object oriented models and mapping methods, hardware
description languages, design environments and interfaces, ...
O Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures.
Dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures,
reconfigurable processor architectures, compiled accelerators,
performance evaluation of reconfigurable SoCs,
application-specific communication interfaces of reconfigurable
SoCs, low power evaluation and optimization of reconfigurable
systems, fault-tolerance using reconfigurable hardware,
trade-offs measurements, ...
O Algorithms and Optimization.
Newly developed algorithms for efficient implementation on
reconfigurable systems, in hardware, in space and time,
algorithms for design optimization, ...
O Applications.
Possible applications areas of interest include, but are
not limited to: Classical image and signal processing - digital
filters, edge and line detection, morphological operators,
motion and stereo estimation, discrete transformations,
linear algebra, radar systems, object recognition, ...
Multimedia and virtual reality - telecommunication, data
compression, video imaging, image databases, computational
geometry and computer graphics, software radio, digital
libraries, genetic databases, ...
Automotive industry - lane detection and obstacle detection,
vehicle guidance, traffic systems, object recognition,
navigation of robots, ...
Security systems - object recognition and tracking, cryptology,
Internet and security, ...
SCOPE OF VLSI'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on VLSI)
O Quantum Computing
O Nanoelectronics
O Molecular and Biological Computing
O MEMS
O Circuits and Systems
O Novel Design and Methodologies
O System-on-a-Chip: Design and Methodology
O Low Power VLSI System Design
O Complexity Issues
O Simulation Tools
O Algorithm Design Approaches (AI, Genetic, ...)
O High-Level Design Methodologies
O ASIC Architectures
O Reconfigurable Systems Design
O Novel Devices and Circuits
O Emerging Trends
O High-Performance Circuits
O Reusable Architectures
O Test and Verification
O Synthesis
O Mixed-Signal Design and Analysis
O Electrical/Packaging Designs and Co-Designs
O Applications (all applications will be considered)
SCOPE OF IKE'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Information and
Knowledge Engineering)
O Client-Server Architectures
O Information and Knowledge Engineering
O Mobile Agents
O Web-Based Design and Development
O Knowledge and Information Management Techniques
O Data Mining Techniques
O Database Engineering and Systems
O Knowledge Delivery Methods
O Document Processing
O Data Security
O Knowledge Life Cycle
O Business Architectures
O Formal and Visual Specification Languages
O Software Tools and Support
O QoS issues
O Performance Evaluation Techniques
O Knowledge-Based Systems
O Clustering Techniques
O Web Technology and Systems for Information and Knowledge
Based Applications
O Dataweb Models and Systems
O Data Warehouses
O Workflow Management
O Knowledge and Information Extraction and
Discovery Techniques
O Service Recovery / Fault-Tolerance
O Large-Scale Information Processing Methods
O Data and Knowledge Processing
O Data Structures
O Video Databases
O Distributed Databases
O Information and Knowledge Structures
O Databanks - issues, methods, and standards
O Information Quality (Quality Metrics)
O E-Libraries (Digital Libraries)
O Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems
O XMI
O Agent-Based Techniques and Systems
O Content Management
O Information Reliability and Security
O Hardware Architectures
O Modeling and Simulation
O Decision Support Systems
O Expert Systems
O Aspect-Oriented Programming
O Re-usability of Software/Knowledge/Information
O Privacy Issues
O Interoperability Issues
O Transaction Systems
O Object-Oriented Modeling and Systems
O RAID Architectures
O Knowledge Classification Tools
O Case-Based Reasoning
O Bayesian Techniques
O Ubiquitous Computing
O Managing Copyright Laws
O Digital Watermarking
O Data/Information/Knowledge Models
O Applications (e-Commerce, Multimedia, Business, Banking, ...)
SCOPE OF CMSRA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific
Reasoning and Applications)
O Inference Procedures:
Ampliative Inference
Argumentative and Defeasible Reasoning
Analogy, Induction and Abduction
Paraconsistent Logics
Plausible and Hypothetical Reasoning
Causal and Explanatory Reasoning
Hypothesis Formation, Learning and Discovery
Coherence, Explanation and Acceptance
Procedural Rationality
O Philosophical Aspects of the Computational
Models of Scientific Reasoning:
Computational Epistemology and Theory of Science
Cognitive Theory Formation
Acceptance and Decision Making
Reasoning as opposed to Logic
Concept Formation and Conceptual Change
Design in Scientific Method
The Growth of Knowledge
O Social Metaphors:
Science as Distributed Computing
Internet Epistemology
Self-Organizing Agents
Team Theory
Rules of Negotiation
Social Choice
Sociology of Knowledge
Evolutionary Epistemology
O Applications:
New Information Technologies
Computational Theories in the Sciences
Intelligent Data Mining
Agent-Based Scientific Discovery
Modelling Agreement
Intelligent Protocols for E-Commerce
SCOPE OF ICMLA'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications)
O multistrategy learning
O statistical learning
O neural network learning
O bayesian network
O case-based reasoning
O evolutionary computation
O reinforcement learning
O machine learning of natural language
O grammatical inference
O knowledge acquisition and learning
O knowledge discovery in databases
O knowledge intensive learning
O knowledge management and learning
O information retrieval and learning
O theories and models for plausible reasoning
O cooperative learning
O planning and learning
O multi-agent learning
O web navigation and mining
O inductive logic programming
O computational learning theory
O cognitive-modeling
O hybrid algorithms
SCOPE OF ICWN'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks)
O Wireless network architectures
O Wireless communications
O Multiple access
O Routing
O Signaling
O Mobile Internet
O Transport-layer issues
O Wireless security
O Wireless and mobile applications
O Mobile computing
O Modeling, simulation, and measurement of wireless
systems/networks
O Mobile ad-hoc networks
O 3G, 4G, and beyond
O Satellite-based systems
O Wireless LAN and home networks
O Wireless sensor networks
O Wireless mobile ATM (wmATM)
O MIMO
O Adaptive antennas
O Coding and modulation
O Synchronization
O Multi-user detection
O Power management and control, low-power protocols
O IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, Bluetooth
O OFDM
O CDMA, B-CDMA
O QoS routing, power-aware routing, location-aware routing
O Resource management, wireless QoS
O Wireless IP networks, interworking
O Wireless multimedia, QoS adaptation
O WAP, mobile e-commerce
O Location-based service, GPS
O Mobile agents
O Distributed algorithms for wireless networks
SCOPE OF SERP'02 (Topics of interest include, but are not limited to):
(The 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
and Practice)
O Software architectures
O Object-Oriented technology
O Measurement, metrics and analysis
O Survivable systems
O Requirements engineering
O Reverse engineering
O Software domain modeling
O Software process modeling
O Workflow - Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
O Project management issues
O Distributed and parallel systems
O Legal issues and standards
O Configuration management (issues and tools)
O Automated software specification
O Automated software design and synthesis
O Theoretic approaches (formal methods, graph, ...)
O Domain modeling and meta-modeling
O Evolution and maintenance
O Knowledge acquisition
O Reflection and metadata methodologies
O Artificial intelligence approaches to Software Engineering
O Automated software engineering
O Component-based engineering
O Data mining
O Interoperability
O Intelligent CASE tools
O Multimedia in software engineering
O Hypermedia
O Software reuse
O Verification, validation and quality assurance
O Performance critical systems
O Engineering practices
O Programming languages
O Program understanding issues
O Education (software engineering curriculum design)
O Software engineering versus Systems engineering
O Software documentation
O Technology adoption
O Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
O Architecture tradeoff analysis
O Novel software tools and environments
Dear Colleagues,
Merry Christmass and Happy New Year
Neki Frasheri
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# Prof.Dr. Neki Frasheri, Vice-Director #
# INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS #
# ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF ALBANIA #
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Dear IFIP TC6 & TC11 colleagues,
I'm forwarding the call for papers of the 2002 joint
TC6 and TC11 Communications and Multimedia Security
(CMS'2002)
Best regards,
Herbert
_________________________________________________________________________
CALL FOR PAPERS
The seventh IFIP
Communications and Multimedia Security Conference
(CMS 2002)
Joint working conference IFIP TC6 and TC11
September 26-27, 2002
Portoroz, Slovenia
http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/
_________________________________________________________________________
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Submission of full papers: March 08, 2002
Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2002
Camera-ready papers: May 24, 2002
CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
CMS 2002 is the seventh working conference on Communications and Multimedia
Security since 1995. State-of-the-art issues as well as practical
experiences
and new trends in the areas will be the topics of interest again, as proven
by preceding conferences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
* Applied cryptography
* Biometry
* Combined multimedia security
* Communications systems security
* Cryptography - steganography
* Digital signatures
* Digital watermarking
* Internet, intranet and extranet security
* Legal, social and ethical aspects of communication systems security
* Mobile communications security
* Multimedia systems security
* New generation networks (NGN) security
* Possible attacks on multimedia systems
* Secure electronic commerce
The conference is jointly organised by SETCCE, Institut "Jozef Stefan" and
ISOC-SI.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically.
Please email your submission in postcscript or PDF format to
cms02(a)setcce.org.
Authors unable to submit electronically are invited to send a cover letter
and
5 (five) copies of an anonymous paper to the General Chair at the postal
address below. Submissions must be received by the General Chair on or
before
March 8, 2002. The cover letter should contain the paper's title and the
names
and affiliations of the authors, and should identify the contact author
including e-mail and postal addresses.
Authors are asked to submit original papers only. Papers that have
previously
been published and papers that are currently being considered for
publication
by another journal or conference are not eligible. All submitted papers will
be refereed by members of the International Program Committee for
correctness,
originality, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation.
All submissions must be in English. The paper must be anonymous, with no
author
names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. It should
begin
with a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its
introduction
should summarise the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for
a non-specialist reader. The paper should be at most 5000 words long. A full
page figure is 500 words.
Conference proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Therefore authors are encouraged to use for their submissions the Kluwer
IFIP
templates for LaTeX or Word. Style templates are available at
http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ or http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/styles/
Copies of the proceedings will be available at the conference.
To submit a paper, or for further details, please contact:
Prof. Borka Jerman-Blazic
Institut Jozef Stefan
Jamova 39
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
e-mail: cms02(a)setcce.org
www: http://www.setcce.org/cms2002/
VENUE:
The conference will take place in Portoroz, the beautiful Mediterranean
seaside resort in Slovenia (http://www.portoroz2002.ki.si/portoroz.htm).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
* Organizing Chair: Alenka Pahor Zvanut, SETCCE
Address: Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: centre(a)setcce.org
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
* General Chair: Borka Jerman-Blazic, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
* Program Co-Chair: Tomaz Klobucar, Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
* Augusto Casaca, INESC, chairman IFIP TC6, Portugal
* David Chadwick, University of Salford, UK
* Bart de Decker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Yves Deswarte, LAAS CNRS, France
* Dieter Gollmann, Microsoft Research, UK
* Ruediger Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany
* Patrick Horster, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
* Steve Kent, BBN, USA
* Klaus Keus, BSI, Germany
* Herbert Leitold, IAIK, Austria
* Peter Lipp, IAIK, Austria
* Antonio Lioy, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
* Guenther Pernul, University of Essen, Germany
* Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Microsoft Research, UK
* Wolfgang Schneider, SIT Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany
* Leon Strous, De Nederlandsche Bank, chairman IFIP TC11, Netherlands