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*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***
and
*** Call for Demonstrations and Poster session ***
IDMS 2001
8th International Workshop on
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems
September 4-7, 2001, Lancaster, UK
http://www.idms2001.org
in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMM
Sponsors:
Agilent Laboratories
BTexact Technologies
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
Microsoft Research
Orange
Sony Electronics
The aim of the IDMS series of workshops is to bring together
researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and
industry to provide a forum for discussion, presentation and
exploration of technologies and advances in the broad field
of interactive distributed multimedia systems.
IDMS 2001 has a balanced programme with
- one day of tutorials on
* IP telephony
by Ralf Steinmetz and Ralf Ackermann,
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
* IPv6 trials (deployment and transitioning)
by, among others, speakers from the IPv6 Forum, BT, Cisco and
academia
* Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) for Consumer
Electronics
by Andras Montvay, Peter van der Stock and Rob Udink
Philips Research Laboratories (Germany and The Netherlands)
* Mobile IPv6
by Joe Finney, Lancaster University, UK
and Greg O'Shea, Microsoft Research, UK
followed by two and a half days of technical sessions, comprising
- 3 invited talks:
* QoS for Multimedia -- What is going to make it pay?
by Dr. Derek McAuley, Marconi Labs, UK
* Enabling the Internet to provide Multimedia Services
by Dr. Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
* MPEG-21 Standard: Why an Open Multimedia Framework?
by Prof. Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
and sessions on
* Media Distribution
* QoS Issues in Multimedia
* Multimedia Middleware
* Congestion Control and Adaptation
* Control of Multimedia Networks
* 2 short/position paper sessions
without forgetting a complete social programme designed for maximum
interaction amongst participants, including
* the workshop Banquet in Leighton Hall, a somptuous historic stately
house and gardens, set in the majestic Northwestern English hills
* organised lunches and evening meals
* organised accomodation
We are also interested in receiving information about proto-
type multimedia systems relevant to IDMS which could be
demonstrated at the workshop. Furthermore, poster sessions
will also be organised to allow delegates to disseminate
their research ideas and results in a more interactive way.
For more information or to submit a demonstration or poster proposal,
please contact, as soon as possible, the local organising committee
at local(a)idms2001.org.
Detailed information of the workshop, including programme, registration
and accommodation, is available at:
http://www.idms2001.org
The workshop is being organised by the
Distributed Multimedia Research Group,
Computing Department,
Lancaster University, UK.
Prof. Doug Shepherd, Programme Chair
FINAL CALL FOR PAPER
CIC 2001
The 6th CDMA International Conference
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Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2001, Sheraton Walker Hill Hotel & Towers, Seoul, Korea http://www.cic2001.com
In the spirit of the commemoration of the successful CDMA cellular and PCS system deployment in 1996, CIC (CDMA International Conference) has been organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of mobile communications. CIC serves as a forum for the dissemination of the state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of broadband multimedia mobile communication systems, technologies, and applications. This conference will also present the latest development in the 4th generation broadband communication systems. Seamless services and applications via different access systems will be the driving forces for the future development. The 6th CIC will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular papers from manufacturers, academia, and service providers, and one-day tutorials by distinguished lecturers. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of CDMA systems and technologies.
AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
· Cellular Mobile Communications · Personal Communications · Smart Antenna
· CDMA Technology · Resource Management · Antenna and Propagation
· CDMA Mobile Phone Technology · Call Admission Control · Ad Hoc Networks
· Spread Spectrum Technology · Mobility Management · Modulation & Coding
· Acquisition & Tracking · Handoff Algorithms · Satellite Communications
· Wireless Multimedia Services · Wireless Local Loop (WLL) · MMIC Implementation
· Multiple Access Technology · Diversity Technique · RF Technology
· Interference Rejection Technology · Teletraffic Modeling · Software Defined Radio (SDR)
· Power Control · Security in Mobile Network · Wireless IP (All IP)
· 4G Mobile System and Technology · VLSI Implementation · IMT-2000 System
INSTRUCTION FOR SUBMISSION: Prospective authors are invited to submit electronic mail describing original works in English, no more than 3000 words, with a cover page to the e-mail address shown below. The cover page must include: title of paper, authors’ names and affiliations, contact author’s name and address (both postal and electronic), and submission area (from the list of relevant areas of interest). Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript, and PDF.
CIC 2001 Secretariat
The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS)
Hyundai Kirim Officetel #1504, 1330-18 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-858, Korea
E-mail : jcpark(a)kics.or.kr
Tel : + 82 2 3453 5555 Fax : + 82 2 539 5588
IMPORTANT DATES: Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2001
Camera Ready Paper: September 15, 2001
ACCOMMODATING SELECTED PAPERS OF CIC TO JCN:
Authors of best-quality papers will be invited to submit full-length papers for possible publication in a special section of the Journal of Communication and Networks (JCN) in 2002.
COMMITTEES: General Chair: International Advisory Committee Chair:
Ui-Seok Hong Gil Rok Oh
President, KICS / Professor, Kwangwoon University President, ETRI
ushong(a)daisy.kwangwoon.ac.kr groh(a)etri.re.kr
Organizing Committee Chair: Technical Program Committee Chair:
Chu-Hwan Yim Daehyoung Hong
Vice President, KICS / Secretary General, TTA Professor, Sogang University
chyim(a)tta.or.kr dhong(a)sogang.ac.kr
Hosted by MIC (Ministry of Information & Communication)
Organized by KICS (The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences)
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CIC 2001 Secretariat
The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences(KICS)
Hyndai Kirim Officetel #1054, 1330-18 Seochodong, Seochogu
Seoul 137-070, Korea
(Tel) +82-2-3453-5555 (Fax) +82-2-539-5588
(E-mail) jcpark(a)kics.or.kr
(Homepage) www.cic2001.com
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Note that the deadline for advance registration is August 3rd.
Call for Participation
ACM SIGCOMM 2001 Conference
August 27 - August 31, 2001
University of California, San Diego, CA USA
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2001
Deadlines:
Proposals for student travel grant: June 15, 2001
Proposals for student poster session: June 17, 2001
Advance registration ends: August 3, 2001
Hotel registration deadline: July 23, 2001
ACM SIGCOMM 2001 is the annual conference of the Special Interest
Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), a single-track, highly
selective conference with a technical program of 23 papers, tutorials
by noted instructors on the two days prior, and a panel discussion.
Early registration for SIGCOMM 2001 will soon be available.
Registration details, as well as information on student travel grants
and requests for proposals for the work-in-progress poster session are
available at the SIGCOMM website above.
Social Events
The reception will be at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The Aquarium
is situated on a hilltop site that provides a spectacular view on the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus, northern La Jolla, and the
Pacific Ocean. Conference attendees will have full access to the
aquarium exhibits during the reception. The reception is included in
registration fee for attendees and their guests. No reservations
necessary.
The SIGCOMM 2001 Banquet will be held in the Main Ballroom of the
Hotel Del Coronado, situated on picturesque Coronado Island. Over 112
years old, it is a National Historic Landmark renowned for its
magnificent architecture and legendary guests. The banquet is included
in the registration fee for attendees. There will be a $75 charge for
each guest.
SIGCOMM Award
The SIGCOMM Award is given annually to a person whose career and
technical achievements demonstrate a long-term commitment to the field
of data communications. ACM SIGCOMM is pleased to announce that the 2001
SIGCOMM Award is being given to Van Jacobson of Packet Design, Inc.
Van Jacobson will receive the award and give the conference keynote
address in the opening session on Wednesday.
Tutorials
SIGCOMM 2001 begins with two days of full- and half-day tutorials
covering single topics in detail at both the introductory and advanced
level. Tutorials offered this year are:
- Wireless Data
Phil Karn, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Traffic Measurement for IP Operations
Matt Grossglauser and Jennifer Rexford, AT&T
- Interdomain Routing and BGP
Timothy G. Griffin, AT&T
- Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP
Prof. Steven H. Low, California Inst. of Technology
- Algorithms for Networks: Some Techniques for Design and Analysis
Ashish Goel, University of Southern California
Nick McKeown and Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
Outrageous Opinions Session
The Outrageous Opinions Session provides an opportunity for sharing
entertaining, provocative, and otherwise enriching ideas and suggestions
in their early stages. The session will be held Thursday evening.
Poster Session - Work in Progress
The Poster Session is aimed at showcasing the "work-in-progress" of
students attending the conference. Poster proposals should be sent by
email to Hari Balakrishnan (hari(a)lcs.mit.edu) by June 17 (no
extensions). Please see the conference website for details regarding
the submission format.
Student Travel Awards
The purpose of the student travel program is to encourage graduate
student participation at the conference by partially or fully funding
the travel costs of students who would otherwise be unable to
attend. SIGCOMM 2001 thanks Cisco and SIGCOMM for funding the program
this year. See the website for eligibility criteria and application
procedures.
General Co-Chairs
Rene Cruz, UC San Diego, USA (cruz(a)ece.ucsd.edu)
George Varghese, UC San Diego, USA (varghese(a)ece.ucsd.edu)
Program Co-Chairs
Roch Guerin, U. Pennsylvania, USA (guerin(a)ee.upenn.edu)
Derek McAuley, Marconi Research Center, UK
(derek.mcauley(a)marconi.com)
Publicity Chair
Dilip Kandlur, IBM TJ Watson Research Ctr, USA (kandlur(a)us.ibm.com)
Tutorials Chair
Chuck Kalmanek, AT&T Research, USA (crk(a)research.att.com)
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Geoff Voelker, UC San Diego, USA (voelker(a)cs.ucsd.edu)
Finance Chair
Joe Touch, UCS/ISI, USA (touch(a)isi.edu)
Publication Chair
Ramesh Govindan, USC/ISI, USA (govindan(a)isi.edu)
Student Travel Award Chair
Christos Papadopoulos, U. Southern California (christos(a)usc.edu)
Student Poster Chair
Hari Balakrishnan, MIT, USA (hari(a)lcs.mit.edu)
Support from Cisco, IBM, Deloitte and Touche, PMC-Sierra, Marconi,
Procket Networks, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft Research, and
USC/ISI is gratefully acknowledged.
(apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement)
Dear colleagues from the TCs engaged in this conference - please help us
in increasing the publicity of our conference by distributing the call
and inlcuding it in the websites of your TC, WGs etc.
Best regards, Volker Tschammer
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The First IFIP Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business e-Government
3-5 October 2001 in Zurich , Switzerland
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION and PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Scope
This is the first IFIP (International Federation for Information
Processing) conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government. It
is being hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11
with the intention of providing a forum for users, engineers, and
scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest
findings in applications and underlying technologies supporting the
applications.
Committees
General Chair
K. Bauknecht, Univ. Zürich, CH
Program Chairs
B. Schmid, Univ. St. Gallen, CH
V. Tschammer, GMD FOKUS, D
Sponsors
Credit Suisse
SolCon GmbH
The Zurich Network
TKS-Teknosoft SA
Winterthur Versicherungen
Program Overview
_____ Wednesday 3 October _____
Tutorial 1
Y. Pigneur -- E-Business Models
Tutorial 2
A. Göldi -- Peer-to-Peer
Tutorial 3
H. Ludwig -- E-Contracting
_____ Thursday 4 October _____
Opening
Invited Talk: Peter C. Rudin Business Models for the E-Society
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Session: Security and Trust I
Session: Interorganisational Transactions
Minitrack: E-Models I
Minitrack: E-Government I
----- lunch -----
Session: Security and Trust II
Session: Virtual Enterprises
Minitrack: E-Models II
Minitrack: E-Government II
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Session: Security and Trust III
Session: Online Communities
Minitrack: E-Commerce-Induced Reengineering
Minitrack: E-Government III
----- ***Social Event*** -----
_____ Friday 5 October _____
Invited Talk: TBA
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Session: Strategies/ Business Models I
Session: Customer Relationships
Minitrack: M-Commerce I
Minitrack: E-Democracy I
----- lunch -----
Session: Strategies/ Business Models II
Session: Negotiations
Minitrack: M-Commerce II
Minitrack: E-Democracy II
----- break -----
Session: Strategies/ Business Models III
IndustryTrack: TBA
Panel: M-Commerce
IndustryTrack: TBA
Closing and Farewell
For more Information and Registration please visit the Web site at
www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference.
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Dear all,
A web page with a list of networking conferences, and statistics thereof,
is being established and maintained by Kevin Almeroth. See email below.
May I advise every TC6/WG chairman to collect statistics about his WG
conferences and send the information to Kevin.
IFIP conferences should appear in this list too ...
All the best,
Guy
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:13:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu (Kevin C. Almeroth)
To: itc(a)ieee.org
Subject: [itc] Preliminary List of Conferences
Just wanted to point everyone to:
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/conf/stats/
I wanted to start keeping track of submission rates, accept rates,
percentages, and other misc information.
If you have information to fill in the gaps, I would appreciate it.
Also, if you have other conferences you'd like tracked, let me know,
and I'll add them... of course, they only get added if I have data
to fill in.
-Kevin
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Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Universite de Liege Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Reseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be
Institut d'Electricite Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www-run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/users/leduc.html
This is to inform you that the grants for reimbursement of DAIS'2001
conference participation costs are still available for participants
up to the age of 35. Please check http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/dais/grant.html
for details. The deadline for grant applications is 19th July 2001.
Call for Participation
DAIS'2001
The Third IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on
Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Krakow, Poland, 17 - 19 September 2001
http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/dais/
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
DAIS'2001 will provide a broad forum for researchers and developers
from industry and academia, in particular for application and platform
service vendors and users to review, discuss and learn about new
approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed
computing. DAIS'2001 will focus on integration and interoperability
of different platforms, services and applications, infrastructure for
e-business, internet charging, coordination, mobile agents,
context-aware applications, as well as on scalability and management
issues, and the growing importance of mobile and wireless protocols
and applications.
DAIS'2001 consists of one state-of-the-art tutorials day and two
conference session days including two invited speeches and 26
technical papers.
TUTORIALS (17 September)
Morning Session
Tutorial TA1: Steve Vinoski, IONA Technologies
Web Services: Protocols and Applications
Tutorial TB1: Frank Eliassen, Thomas Plagemann, University in Oslo
Multimedia middleware
Tutorial TC1: Ina Schieferdecker, GMD FOKUS, Jens Grabowski, Medical University of Luebeck
Testing of Distributed Systems: TTCN-3 and its GraphicalFormat
Afternoon Session
Tutorial TA2: Sean Baker, IONA Technologies
Diverse Middleware is the order of the day
Tutorial TB2: Qusay H.Mahmoud, JavaCourses.com & Carleton University in Ottawa
Wireless Software Design for Handheld Devices
Tutorial TC2: Marek Gmyrek, ConSol GmbH
J2EE for Enterprise-Wide Business Applications - A Case Study
INVITED LECTURES
I1: Liba Svobodova, IBM Zurich Research Lab (18 September)
Intelligent Infrastructure for e-Business
I2: Adam Wolisz, Technical University Berlin (19 September)
Information access is fine but who is going to pay?
Dual Approach to Internet Charging.
TECHNICAL PAPERS SESSIONS 18-19 September
selected session names:
S1: Context-Aware Applications
S2: Integration & Interoperability
S4: Architectures, Services & Applications
S5: Mobile Agents
S6: Management & Monitoring
Full Technical Program with abstracts is available at:
http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/dais/technical_program.html
SOCIAL PROGRAM
- Welcome Reception in the Krakow City Hall
- Excursion to the famous Salt Mine in Wieliczka and Conference Dinner
EUROPEAN COMMISSION GRANT
DAIS'2001 is supported by the European Commission - DG Human Potential
Programme - High-Level Scientific Conferences. Participants may apply
for grants to cover up to 100% expenses - see details on
http://www.ics.agh.edu.pl/dais/grant.html
DEADLINES
17 July - registration with reduced fee
17 July - European Commission grant requests
3 August - notification of grant acceptance
FEES
early - 300 EUR (1100 PLN) if received before July 17, 2001
late - 380 EUR (1350 PLN)
single tutorial - 150 EUR (500 PLN)
two tutorials - 250 EUR (850 PLN)
LOCATION
DAIS'2001 will be held in Krakow, a beautiful, old city, the Poland's
prime cultural and tourist attraction with hardly any equals in the
entire Central Europe, nominated the Capital of the European Culture
for the year 2000. The Old Town district is actually a medieval city
with a well preserved original grid of streets. The huge central
square, Europe's largest, seems the last stage in the perfection of
the art of city planning in the Middle Ages.
MORE INFO
All information you need to learn and register for DAIS'2001:
http://www.cs.agh.edu.pl/dais2001/
FURTHER INFORMATION
DAIS'2001 Organizing Committee
Academic Computer Center CYFRONET
University of Mining and Metallurgy
ul. Nawojki 11, P.O.Box 386
30-950 Krakow 61
Poland
e-mail: dais2001-info(a)ics.agh.edu.pl
fax: +48 12 6341084
phone: +48 12 6173982, ext. 22
+48 12 6341766
Conference Chairmen
Krzysztof Zielinski (chair), UMM Krakow, Poland
Kurt Geihs (co-chair), University of Frankfurt, Germany
Organizing Committee
Aleksander Laurentowski (chair), Elzbieta Alda,
Zofia Mosurska, Radoslaw Ruchala, UMM Krakow, Poland
We are looking forward to meeting you in Krakow, in September 2001!
