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CfP: Transport Protocols for the New Generation Networks
by Guy Leduc 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ANNALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ---------------------------- Special issue on Transport Protocols for the New Generation Networks See www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~cpham/ADT-TCP New networking technologies with optical-based transmission as a foundation for achieving tremendous throughput in the order of tens of Gbit/s are changing the face of the wired Internet with new large scale high-performance infrastructures such as computational grids. In the wireless domain, mobility and ubiquitous access to the Internet is driving the emergence of new value-added applications and exhibiting new user needs. Self-organizing wireless networks such as ad-hoc networks may eventually become the natural way of connecting end-users to the network. In this all-digital, all-connected world, transport protocols have the very difficult task of providing reliable, fair and efficient communications to millions of (groups of) users with very different needs and profiles, across different underlying technologies. High-speed networks, often referred to as long fat networks, raise the problem of fair and efficient congestion control mechanisms. Wireless environments with mobility and ad-hoc features bring new concerns. Fast heterogeneous networks face all these difficulties. This special issue is devoted to these problems. We solicit two categories of contributions: (1) survey papers presenting state-of-the-art studies, and (2) papers presenting an original and unpublished work or experiment on, but not limited to, the following topics: * TCP variants or new transport protocols for high-speed networks * TCP optimisations and tuning methodologies, results from real experiments * New congestion control mechanisms for high-speed networks * Transport protocols for heterogeneous networks * Experiments and prototype implementations and lessons learnt * Multipeer and multicast transport protocols * Transport protocols in wireless/mobile/ad-hoc environments * Transport protocols for (near) real-time traffic * Performance modelling of TCP on high-speed or wireless networks * Fairness issues in new transport protocols * Transport protocols in all-optical networking * Very high-speed transport protocols for computational grids Paper Submission We invite you to submit a paper that should have a length of 25000-35000 characters. The preferred language for the contribution is english. Instructions for formatting your paper according to the journal's rule can be found here in english or in french. A PDF version of your paper should be submitted electronically to one of the guest editors (see below). Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is absolutely not possible. All submitted papers must not have been previously published and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under consideration. Please include a cover page which lists the following: * name, * affiliation, * address and e-mail address of each author * name of the contact author * a maximum of 5 keywords Important Dates May 1st, 2005: Full paper due July 15th, 2005: Notification of acceptance September 15th, 2005: Final version due Expected date of publication: spring 2006. Guest Editors ------------- Associate Prof. Congduc PHAM University Lyon 1, LIP/INRIA RESO 46 allée d'Italie 69364 Lyon Cedex 7 FRANCE Congduc.Pham(a)ens-lyon.fr and Prof. Guy LEDUC University of Liège Research Unit in Networking (RUN) EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/

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IEEE WMAN 2005: Submission deadline extended to Nov 24
by Ioannis Chatzigiannakis 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

[Apologies for multiple postings] Last Call for Papers 5th IEEE International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE WMAN 05) April 4-8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA (Omni Interlocken Resort) To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005 Supported by the IEEE Computer Society http://ru1.cti.gr/wman05/ SCOPE: The field of wireless and mobile computing is an important research challenging area, that emerges from the integration among personal computing distributed computing, cellular technology and the Web. This is possible due to the continuously increasing interaction between communication and computing, which is changing the information access from the current reactive ``anytime anywhere'' into the incoming proactive ``all the time everywhere'' approach. Nowadays, there is a large variety of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to non-infrastructured wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks. This scenario raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic issues in diverse areas such as location management, resource allocation, ubiquitous information, network connectivity, reliability and security, and energy consumption. This workshop is intended to cover contributions in both the design and analysis of discrete algorithms and the system modelling in the context of mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks. In particular, it aims at bringing together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field. We are seeking for papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review. The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading technologists and researchers in these ``critical areas'' of research in order to have a forum for discussing fundamental challenges, identifying future perspectives, and exchanging ideas about ongoing research. Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for this workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (by IEEE CS Press) of the IPDPS workshops. TOPICS: The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to: * frequency and channel assignment algorithms * cryptography and security * distributed algorithms * pricing modeling and solutions * algorithms for satellite communications * mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement * algorithms and modeling on satellite and radio networks * algorithms for resource management in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks * data management on mobile and wireless computing * algorithms for single-hop and multiple-hop packet radio networks * routing, and communication primitives in ad hoc and sensor networks * synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile and ad hoc networks * energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments * caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks * algorithms and modeling for tracking and locating mobile users IMPORTANT DATES: Extended submission deadline: ** November 24, 2004, 5pm EST ** Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 6th, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 25, 2005 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the WMAN workshop. The length of the papers should be a maximum of 10 double-column single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 10 point font (based upon IEEE Proceedings Style). Please remember that the final versions will be restricted to 8 pages. Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/) Note that once the paper gets accepted, it is MANDATORY that at least one author should attend the workshop and present the paper. The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops of the IPDPS 2005 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library. General Chair: Cristina M. Pinotti Dept. of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications University of Trento ITALY E-mail: pinotti(a)science.unitn.it Program Committee Co-Chairs: Azzedine Boukerche SITE University of Ottawa Canada E-mail: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Sotiris Nikoletseas Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: nikole(a)cti.gr Publicity Chair: Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: ichatz(a)cti.gr Steering Committee Sajal K. Das, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohan Kumar, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee: Azzedine Boukerche (Co-Chair), University of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Andrea Clementi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Khalil EL-Khatib, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Magnus Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Robert Leese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Alessandro Mei, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), University of Patras and CTI, Greece Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter Sanders, Max Planck Institute for CS, Germany Mirela Sechi Moretti A.N., Barddal University, Brazil Alex Shvartsman, MIT, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Peter Triantafilloy, University of Patras, Greece Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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RE: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information
by Radford, Peter 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Otto Looks good! May I make a few minor comments (which you are free to reject if they are not to your liking)? - Make "Surplus (or deficit)" "Estimated Surplus (or deficit)" [see note 1 below]. - Use the Roundup function on the break even number calculation. - Put the contingency on all of the expenses not just the variable income [see note 1 below]. - It might be worthwhile having two participant numbers: one for the full fee paying participants (or equivalent) and one for all participants - use the first in the income and the second in the costs. This may be complicating things too much and I'd be interested in feedback as to whether those numbers differ significantly. Regards Peter Note 1 "Prediction is always hard, especially when it concerns the future" - Niels Bohr -----Original Message----- From: Otto Spaniol [mailto:spaniol@informatik.rwth-aachen.de] Sent: 29 September 2004 08:05 To: ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: [ifip-tc6] (New) Accounting Information Dear all, the event request forms provided by IFIP are awful. This feeling is shared by everyone. Nobody is able to give half way correct information about the conference budget. This is a lot of unneccessary burden for TC and WG chairs. I promised to simplify that scheme and the first result is found in the attachments. There is: - an empty sheet (don't care about the #DIV!0 in the before last line; it will disappear when you fill the form) - and a virtual example. You may and should play around with the forms and tell me whether you find them easy enough to use. WG chairpersons should give it to prospective conference organisors. Some comments are in order: 1. The document has been kept as simple as possible (fool-proof, hopefully). You have to fill in only the figures in frames (light blue colours). The other figures (in light yellow) will then automatically be calculated. 2. A very crude approximation of registration fee is used: Only for full paying participants, no early bird registration, no special rate for members of diverse societies, no student fee etc. It would be impossible to have those concrete figures well before the event. Thus if you estimate for example that the total registration fee by students might be identical to, say, 10 full paying participants then you should increase the number of expected full paying participants accordingly. Similar for the variable expenses per participant. 3. "Contingencies" are meant to be a reserve just to be on the safe side. They are - according to IFIP - 10 percent of the variable cost per participant and could, of course, be already taken into account there. Nevertheless, since these costs are automatically calculated we can leave it in the document. 4. "Break even number of participants" should be clear but since I have been asked several times about this: This is the minimum number of full paying participants which will be needed if the conference should not make a deficit (and if all other parameters are valid). You will see that it is wonderfully easy to play around and to determine registration fees, fixed expenses,.. which are meaningful and which may end up with a reasonable surplus. It might be that the break even number will turn out to be negative! In that case you will have a serious problem with your budget: either the registration fee is too low or .... 5. I didn't nclude information about loan and grants (since IFIP says that in such a case "a more detailed budget information is needed). If you want I can add a few lines for that purpose (and also for different categories of registration but my first purpose was to keep the document as simple as possible). 6. Conferences (and the sponsorship fee to IFIP) are calculated in full days; thus if the conference lasts 2,5 days then the fee to IFIP will be calculated on a 3-day basis. Now: Please check the new forms and give me your comments within the next two weeks (improvements, modifications, what is missing, what should be deleted,...). I would then formally approve the new sheets in Bangkok and tell IFIP secretariat that we will not any more use the old bullshit versions. Best regards (and have fun with the new sheet) Otto This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Great news: IEEE has all but lifted its embargo
by Guy Leduc 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

>Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:54:54 +0100 >From: gevers(a)csam.ucl.ac.be >Subject: Great news: IEEE has all but lifted its embargo > >Dear colleague, > >In these times of rather depressing news, I am >pleased to announce some great news indeed. > >Faced with the prospect of losing thousands of >members because of the continued embargo it was >applying against some of its members, the IEEE >President has announced that it was lifting just >about all sanctions it had applied on its own >initiative, such as access to Senior Member and >Fellow grade, access to IEEE webpages, etc. The >only remaining sanctions are those that are >almost certainly within the confines of the US >trade embargo laws. > >You will find details about the decision and >some comments on the Petition News webpage >(http://www.csam.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/Petition_News.html) > >or on the IEEE webpage >(http://www.ieee.org/portal/site/mainsite/menuitem.818c0c39e85ef176fb2275875…) > >This decision, announced by IEEE on October 11, >was taken to coincide with the start of the >campaign for renewal of IEEE membership. (Note: >I have been too busy in the last few weeks to >organize this announcement earlier). > >It is great to see that our campaign has reached >its goal, and that our fellow members (if there >are still any) in Cuba, Iran and Sudan, are no >longer discriminated against. It is of course >sad to see that the IEEE leadership has lifted >these sanctions only because thousands of >members had expressed their outrage, with many >of them threatening not to renew their >membership. > >Thank you for the great response to our petition initiative. > >Yours sincerely, > >Michel Gevers >Coordinator of the petition. > > >-- >***************************************************************** >* Michel GEVERS * >* Center for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME) * >* Batiment Euler, Avenue G. Lemaitre, 4, * >* 1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium. * >* Tel (direct): +32 10 47 25 90 * >* Tel (sec): +32 10 47 20 55 * >* Mobile : +32 476 289540 * >* Fax: +32 10 47 21 80 * >* Email: gevers(a)csam.ucl.ac.be * >* URL: http://www.auto.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/ * >***************************************************************** -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/

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Re: [ifip-tc6] Shrinking attendance
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Peter Radford wrote: > >I have a suspicion that you've mis-typed something on the IFIP/IEEE case > >'Answers received thus far may be classified in two parts: >- The Americans are in favour of IEEE > (the copyright issue seems to be of no impoortance for them, > at least nbody has said a single word about that aspect) >- The Americans are more on the IFIP side. ^^^^^^^^^^ Non-Americans > They say e.g. "Do you think that there should be only > one organisation world-wide? There is need for more". Of course this was a "Freudian" mis-type'. Thanks for detecting it. Thanks to those of you who contributed to the discussion already. If others want (and agree) that their arguments will be included in the meeting documents then please send them to me today! Next week there is limited chance since our copy machine risks to explode. Best regards Otto

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Open email by Klaus Brunnstein to TC6
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, Klaus Brunnstein has sent an open email to TC6 (see annex) with the following issues: a. Publications b. IFIP World Computer Congress. Please read the document carefully. Best regards Otto

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Message from IFIP president
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, here comes a very helpful message from our president (Klaus Brunnstein); see below. In principle we could say now: "Roma locuta, causa finita". Nevertheless, we will discuss about that in Bangkok. By the way: Klaus told me that the official IFIP publisher (new Springer) allows the authors to use their material for other purposes. It is possible for example to put the paper on the own homepage; such activities are of course needed for the authors in order to promote their career plans. Best regards Otto cc.: Klaus Brunnstein -------------------- Dear Prof. Spaniol, thank you very much for sending the draft agreement of WG 6.6 and WG 6.10 concerning planned events. In both cases, I refer to the publication contract according to which IFIP publications for events after January 1, 2005 must be published with Springer Science and Business Media (SSBM). Even in exceptional cases where such a publication is not possible, the copyright cannot be outsourced to another sponsor, but the copyright MUST remain with IFIP. Concerning WG 6.6 event on "Integrated Management", this belongs to a series which TC-6 established several years ago. Both brand name and copyright belong to TC-6. While some parts of the very detailed draft contract may be acceptable, the exclusion of IFIPs copyright is NOT. Concerning WG 6.10 event on "Optical Networks", this belongs to a series which TC-6 established 10 years ago. Both brand name and copyright belong to TC-6. Outsourcing of this event under the conditions as described by WG 6.10 chair is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Final remark: while IEEE CS is a member of IFIP, it behaves in these 2 cases as IFIP competitor. Interestingly, IEEE CS was - despite Proper information - not interested to submit a bid for IFIP publications. Any attempt from IEEE CS to outsource sucessful TC events and publications is NOT ACCEPTABLE, even at the price that some members of a Working Group may leave (or threaten to do so) - although we would really regret such steps. Best wishes: Klaus Brunnstein (November 12, 2004)

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FYI: Open Access to publications
by Guy Leduc 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, As these publication/copyright issues are central to our discussion, let me just draw your attention to the "Open access initiative" against the lobbys of publishers. For those who don't know, this initiative is based on the observation that scientists do everything for free (paper writing, formatting, reviewing) while the publishers do very little for a lot of money. Then scientists have to pay huge amounts of money to get access to public scientific knowledge of theirs. This publication business model is more and more questioned by the scientists. See http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html Many big institutions (e.g. Cornell university and many others) have not renewed their membership to big digital libraries like Elsevier, or have reduced them drastically. This may be a concern for Springer too, or even IEEE and ACM at some point (though these are much cheaper, especially ACM). The document below shows that in other fields (natural science, medicine), this philosophy is gaining strength, as some government-funded research now start to require that papers be available for free to the scientific community. In our field, how would this impact the transfer of copyrights to IFIP (which actually means being bound to New Springer)? Many authors have already complained about this copyrights transfer, as they want to put a copy of their papers on their personal web page (and consequently on citeseer too...). Best regards, Guy >------------- >Dear Open Access Supporter, > >On September 3, 2004 the NIH posted for comment an "Enhanced Public >Access Policy." This policy would require the >recipients of NIH research grants to provide to >the National Library of Medicine a digital copy >of the final accepted manuscript (or the >published version itself) of every published >report resulting from NIH-funded research, so >that the research results can be made freely >available to scientists and the public through >PubMed Central within six months of publication. > >We are writing now to urge you to submit a >comment in support of this proposal right away. >The deadline for comments is just a few days >away - November 16th. > >The text of the proposal is available at: >http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html > >You can post comments here: >http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/public_access/add.htm > >A powerful lobby of publishers and scientific societies is trying to >block this plan. They claim that this is an unwarranted government >intrusion on their business practices. In fact, >the NIH policy has no authority over publishers >- its rules apply only to the scientists who >voluntarily accept grants from the NIH. The >publishers remain free to operate their >businesses as they always have and to compete in >the free market to provide the best service and >value to their authors and readers. But the >publishers are wrong in arguing that they are >entitled to monopoly control over access to the >results of research that American taxpayers have >paid for. On the contrary, the taxpayers who >fund the research, and the scientists who carry >it out, have every right to ask the grant >recipients to provide open access to the >published results. >And they have every right to expect that the >benefits of the research will be amplified by >making it freely and widely available for others >to use and to build on. > >Let the NIH know that you support this policy proposal. Even better >would be to tell the NIH that you would prefer >an even stronger policy that requires full and >immediate open access to all papers resulting >from NIH-funded research. It is important that >the NIH and other policymakers understand that >this is not (as some publishers would have them >believe) a radical proposal destined to destroy >scientific publishing, but a thoughtful >compromise that balances the desire for better >access with the commercial interests of >scientific publishers. > >More information about the policy is available at >http://www.nih.gov/about/publicaccess/index.htm >http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/ > > >Notable statements of support for the plan include: > >An open letter to the US Congress signed by 25 Nobel Laureates: >http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bof.html > >The Council of the National Academy of Sciences: >http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/isbn/s09162004?OpenDocument > >Please let us know if you have any questions. > >Harold Varmus >Patrick Brown >Michael Eisen -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/

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Re: [ifip-tc6] Meeting 2004/2 agenda
by Sarolta Dibuz (AS/EAB) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, I share the view of Arun that WG chairs should have enough weight in decisions concerning the conferences of their WG. Otherwise they cannot take real responsibility for the WG's success and activities. Especially when the WG chair has a long experience as a chair in IFIP. On the other hand the concerns Otto has regarding IFIP and IEEE are certainly relevant and it must be problem in other TCs. IFIP should address it when working on the directions and policies for the future. TC6 can bring very valuable views and experiences to IFIP in this issue. I hope the discussion on the next TC6 meeting can support our TC6 chairman in delivering TC6's input to higher levels of IFIP. Have a successful meeting in Bangkok! Sarolta

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TC6 meeting location
by Otto Spaniol 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all, some of you asked about possible hotels and meeting location. A map of the area is enclosed. From downtown area (Silom Road) where my hotel is situated you can reach the place as follows (information by Chutiporn Anutariya <chutiporn(a)shinawatra.ac.th> who can be contacted for further details): --- From Silom, you can either take a SkyTrain or a subway to a station close to the conference venue: SkyTrain: - Take a skytrain from Sala Daeng Station to Mo Chit Station. Then, take a taxi. Subway: - Take a subway from Silom Station to Phahon Yothin Station and exit at gate 1. From there, it is possible to walk but I'd suggest you to take a taxi (at least on the first day). I think in total, it could take around 40 minutes for either way. Taking a taxi directly from Silom may take longer time (up to an hour or more) as the traffic in Bangkok is always bad especially on week days. ---- Hotels: Please check the INTELLCOMM pages <http://intellcomm2004.ait.ac.th/>. Three hotels are recommended: - Sogitel Central Plaza - Rama Gardens Hotel - Chaophya Park Hotel (they are relatively near to the meeting and to the conference location but rather far from the real city centre where I prefer to stay). Best regards Otto

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