Dear Colleagues ---
I am delighted to invite you to the TC6 meeting in Zurich on
Saturday and Sunday, October 6 and 7, 2001. As you know, our TC6
committee meeting follows the I3e conference (the First IFIP
Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business & e-Government) with its
tutorials on 3 October and papers on 4 and 5 October. The
conference and our committee meeting will be held at the
University of Zurich at Irchel, between
Zurich's airport, Kloten, and downtown Zurich. The conference
URL is http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference/
If you want to attend the conference, you can also register via
the URL.
Program:
Augusto suggests that we start the meeting at 9:00 am on Saturday.
Late Saturday afternoon we are invited to a presentation at
the IBM Zurich Research Lab (just outside Zurich in
Rueschlikon) at which the Laboratory Director,
Matthias Kaiserswerth, will present IBM's General Technical
Outlook, IBM's view of future trends. Following this there will
be an opportunity to visit IBM's Industry Solutions Laboratory
which IBM uses to show executives some of the latest technology.
Past experience with similar --- if less distinguished! ;-) ---
audiences indicates you will enjoy this event. Matthias and
IBM also invite TC6 members to a dinner following the lab visit.
(Members will have to pick up the dinner tab for their spouse,
something in the order of Sfr. 80.) We will walk from the
laboratory down to the restaurant on the Lake of Zurich.
On Sunday we will resume our TC6 meeting at 9:00 am and continue
at least until noon. Augusto (currently traveling) will send
the agenda in mid September.
Hotels:
The I3e conference asks attendees to make their own reservations
which you can extend for our TC6 meeting. A pointer
to hotels is available on the Web site; again,
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/I3E-conference/
Secretaries at the IBM Research Lab recommend three hotels:
- the Seidenhof in downtown Zurich at about 160 Sfr. a night,
- the Engematt, also in downtown Zurich at about 165 Sfr. a night,
- and the IBIS hotel in Adliswil, just outside of Zurich
and for which there is no public transportation,
at about 95 Sfr. a night.
Your travel agent should ask for the IBM Research Lab rate at
all three of these hotels. I am sorry that I do not have someone
to help with reservations.
It would help us with the planning
if you would send me a note saying that you will be coming.
I do look forward to welcoming you to Zurich!
With best regards,
Harry
Please note that the Hotel registration deadline is approaching (July
23rd)!!!
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.
(We apologize for multiple copies.)
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DRCN 2001 Budapest
Third International Workshop on
DESIGN OF RELIABLE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
"Price and Value of Reliability"
7-10 October 2001, Budapest, Hungary
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Please find program more information on:
http://www.hit.bme.hu/drcn2001/
Note electronic registration closes August 17th (this Friday)!
After this date only on-site registration will be available.
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
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.
Registration details are available at the SIGCOMM website above.
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.
Space is still available. 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
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.
Support from Cisco, IBM, Deloitte and Touche, PMC-Sierra, Marconi,
Procket Networks, Agilent Technologies, Microsoft Research, and
USC/ISI is gratefully acknowledged.
Dear TC6 members,
I am attaching a table, which indicates all the registered TC6 events
since 1998. It would be useful to complete it as much as possible in the
blank fields that relate to the event statistics concerning the papers
and attendees. I am aware that most of this past information might be
difficult to get, but many WG chairmen probably have it available in
their archives. Therefore I would mainly request the WG chairmen to
provide the respective information.
It is my proposal that for future WG reports, this information is
provided for every event that is sponsored by the WG. This will help us
to have a more precise view of what is happening with our sponsored
events.
I would thank if the WG chairmen could send me the information until
September 10th.
Best regards
Augusto Casaca
Dear Herbert,
Following the discussion at the last TC6 meeting in Cape Town, it would be
nice to recommend a second software (besides the Confman freeware) to
handle paper reviewing, and add a link to it on the TC6 web page.
The system is Cyberchair and the URL is:
http://www.cyberchair.org/
CyberChair is used for the online submission and review process. CyberChair
is -more or less- based on a paper by Oscar Nierstrasz, called 'Identify
the Champion'. There is also support for the preparation of the proceedings
(using the format required for Springer Verlag). CyberChair is continuously
being updated to include new ideas, and suggestions by its users. The
version that is currently available for download was introduced for ECOOP
2000.
CyberChair is free software (GNU General Public License).
Best regards,
Guy
>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:53:40 +0200
>To:Herbert Leitold <herbert.leitold(a)iaik.at>
>From:leduc@montefiore.ulg.ac.be (Guy Leduc)
>Subject:Confman software for IFIP TC6 events
>Cc:Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>
>
>Dear Herbert,
>
>After a short debate in our WG6.1, we would recommend the use of the
>Confman software to handle paper reviewing and selection for all TC6
>conferences.
>[I mean recommend, not impose of course].
>
>It may be a good idea to add a reference to the Confman web page
>http://confman.unik.no/~confman/whats_new.html
>somewhere on the TC6 web page. For example with the organizers guidelines,
>or so.
>
>Best regards,
>Guy
>
>>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:37:23 +0100
>>From: Augusto Casaca <augusto.casaca(a)inesc.pt>
>>To: Guy Leduc <leduc(a)montefiore.ulg.ac.be>
>>Subject: Confman software
>>
>>Dear Guy,
>>
>>I noticed that AP55/38 indicated that you would send the Confman
>>software to H.Leitold so that it can be available to conference
>>organisers. Is it already done?
>>
>>Thank you and best regards
>>
>>Augusto
>
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