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CFP IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services 2003
by Ahmed Mehaoua 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Dear Colleagues, Apologize for any duplicates; ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people to encourage contributions ans submissions to the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services : 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003 . ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the extension to the deadline for submission of papers to MMNS2003 is 18th April 2003. Please circulate to your colleagues to ensure a good turnout. For further information about the conference please see the web site at http://ee-server.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/ Best Regards, Ahmed Mehaoua (Publicity chair) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MMNS 2003 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 7th - 10th September 2003, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003 Second Call For Papers Multimedia services over IP networks are proliferating at an enormous speed. There is also increasing demand for solutions which provide assured levels of service quality. All of these require novel paradigms, models and architectures for realising integrated end-to-end service management rather than managing network elements in isolation. Providing scalable Quality of Service (QoS) while maintaining fairness, along with secure and optimal network resource management are key challenges for the future Internet. These challenges apply to both fixed and wireless networks. The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services will hold its sixth annual meeting from September 7th to September 10th, 2003 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. MMNS provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate. In just 6 years, MMNS has established itself as one of the premier conferences with a focus on the management of multimedia networks and services. The conference objective is to bring together researchers working in all facets of network and service management as applied to broadband networks and multimedia services. MMNS deals with all aspects of designing, developing and deploying networked multimedia systems and it serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and development results. MMNS 2003 will also include panel sessions in which experts offer their observations and opinions about current hot topics. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology who will present a vision of future interplanetary network architectures. Professor Derek McAuley, head of Intel's recently formed laboratory at Cambridge, UK, will describe some of the new research being undertaken on global overlay networks and applications. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Active multimedia network management * Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Augmented and Virtual Reality Networks * Billing and Accounting * Cable multimedia network management * Content distribution internetworking * Deployment of multimedia services * Distributed multimedia service management * End-to-end IP multimedia network and service management * IP Video, streaming, interactive video service management * Middleware support for management * Multimedia network traffic engineering and optimization * Multimedia traffic management * Multimedia content protection * Multimedia session management * Multi-point, multicast services management * Network management models and architectures * Network programmability for multimedia services * Optical multimedia network management * Policy-based management for multi-media services * Provisioning of multimedia networks and services * QoS in WLANs * QoS management * Resource, performance and fault management * Security and Authentication * VoIP service management * Web Services * Wireless and mobile multimedia network management Papers must be submitted electronically in postscript or PDF format. Detailed instructions are provided on the conference web site, http://www.ee.qub.ac.uk/mmns2003. Submission date: 18th April 2003 Notification of acceptance: 6th June 2003 Final version: 4th July 2003 Conference Chairs: Professor Alan Marshall, a.marshall(a)ee.qub.ac.uk, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Professor Nazim Agoulmine, nazim(a)rp.lip6.fr, University of Evry, France Qiang Gu Advanced Telecommunication Systems Laboratory School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast Northern Ireland. BT9 5AH Email: qiang.gu(a)ee.qub.ac.uk Telephone: +44 -2890-274142 Fax: +44 -2890-274417 --------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Mehaoua University of Versailles - CNRS PRISM Lab. 45 av. des etats unis 78000 Versailles - France Email : mea(a)prism.uvsq.fr Tel : +33 1 39 25 40 45

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TC6 report
by Augusto Casaca 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Dear all, Please find in attach the TC6 report for the IFIP General Assembly. If you have any comments please let me know until tomorrow. Best regards Augusto

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Next TC6 meeting
by Augusto Casaca 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Dear TC6 members, Please notice that the next TC6 meeting is in Oman, on October 16th and 17th as indicated in the TC6 calendar. There is a mistake in the Budapest meeting minutes, which indicates the dates of October 18th and 19th for the meeting. Best regards Augusto Casaca

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FW: [Ifip_nm] NOMS 2004 Paper submission deadline extended to Friday 15th August 2003
by Augusto Casaca 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

-----Original Message----- From: ifip_nm-admin(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:ifip_nm-admin@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca]On Behalf Of Raouf Boutaba Sent: sexta-feira, 25 de Julho de 2003 17:09 To: IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Subject: [Ifip_nm] NOMS 2004 Paper submission deadline extended to Friday 15th August 2003 (Please accept our apologies if you receive duplicates of this message) Call for Paper ***** Paper submission deadline extended to Friday 15th August 2003 ***** Network Operation & Management Symposium 2004 "Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services" Seoul Korea, 19-23, April 2004 See < http://www.noms2004.org/> for latest information The 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2004) will be held 19-23 April, 2004 at Seoul, Korea. Held in the even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2004 will continue the established tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of research, standards, development, systems integrator, service providers, and user communities. NOMS 2004 will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of network operations and management. An exciting, peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, tutorials, posters, panels and vendor exhibits will address the ever-increasing interest in overall management solutions for all types of communications and computing networks, systems, services and enterprise applications. The concept of network convergence has recently emerged as a new attempt for the merging of telephony and data networks into a single, multi-service network exploiting the ubiquity of the Internet Protocol. For this increasingly attractive business model, in both wired and wireless domains, strategic research is required to devise the best integration architectures, operations and management solutions. This creates a unique opportunity for the network operation and management community to respond to the ever-increasing demand for network resilience, security, quality-of-service and mobility management at unprecedented scales. The NOMS 2004 provides the forum for discussing these research challenges and many others inherent to the integrated management of next generation converged networks and services. This year NOMS 2004 will broaden the scope of previous IM and NOMS by expanding its program to include a broader set of topics ranging from network operation and management to network planning, service engineering and business processes for network and service management. Special attention will be given to experiences that emphasize lessons learned and reports on practice from industry. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are also invited to submit proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Important Dates: Deadline for Submitting Papers: 15 August 2003 Deadline for Tutorials, Panels and Posters: 1 October 2003 Notification of Acceptance:15 November 2003 Deadline for Submitting Revised Papers:15 December 2003 Final Camera Ready Papers Due 15 January 2004 Please see attached PDF file for more detail.

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FW: [IFIP GA] Joint Statement on final agreement
by Augusto Casaca 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: sexta-feira, 25 de Julho de 2003 11:44 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] Joint Statement on final agreement Importance: High From: Klaus Brunnstein and Plamen Nedkov To: The IFIP General Assembly Subject: Joint Statement Date: July 25, 2003 Dear Members of the General Assembly, Earlier this year you were made aware of some unfortunate developments related to the status of the IFIP Executive Director. Since the communication exchange to GA members of 20 May both parties have refrained from public statements to GA in the hope of achieving a mutually acceptable settlement. With the help and mediation of the Austrian Academy of Sciences a mutually acceptable agreement has been negotiated which closes all the issues to the satisfaction of the parties involved. Mr. Nedkov's long and valuable contribution to the development of IFIP's work is gratefully acknowledged and IFIP will give him a letter of recommendation to this effect in support of his efforts to pursue a future career. Both parties agree that further discussion would not be helpful and have agreed to refrain from any unilateral public statements on the matter. Klaus Brunnstein Plamen Nedkov IFIP President

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FW: [IFIP GA] GA reports, secretariat, Publication issues
by Augusto Casaca 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

Dear TC6 members, For your information. Best regards Augusto Casaca -----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: sábado, 26 de Julho de 2003 16:36 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] GA reports, secretariat, Publication issues Dear members of IFIP GA, before leaving for my annual sailing trip into the Denish and Swedish Baltic sea, I wish to remind TC chairs and member society representatives to send their report for inclusion in GA binders to Dorothy, and for storage on IFIP website to Roger. Concerning our secretariat, you have received the message that a convivial solution has been found to end Plamen Nedkov´s work. EB is preparing the job description according to which we will look for a new head of the secretariat. Roger will welcome any suggestion and take them duly into account. At this time, I am very happy to inform you that Dorothy (as interim head of secretariat) and Brigitte (now on vacation for 2 weeks) manage the secretariat very well and prepare everything for GA@Vilnius which will be locally supported by our host and Lithuanian representative, Renaldas Gudauskas. May I also ask you to book your hotel soon and to send the related information to Roger? Thanx for your cooperation. Finally, the process for a new publication contract has been started. I have nominated a small Publication Contract Committee, including Basie van Solms (chair), Prins Ralston, Roger Johnson and a representative of TC chairs (to be named). The status will be reported in GA. I am now off for the Baltic, and I have no Internet connectivity. But secretariat and EB know how to reach me in urgent cases. Best wishes, and take care: Klaus (July 26, 2003)

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FW: Networking2004 - CALL FOR PAPERS: please disseminate
by Augusto Casaca 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

-----Original Message----- From: Nikolas Mitrou [mailto:mitrou@softlab.ntua.gr] Sent: terça-feira, 22 de Julho de 2003 12:37 To: Jerome Galtier; Anthony Ephremides; Azzedine Boukerche; Bartolome Arroyo; Bernhard Walke; Enrico Gregori; Gabor Fodor; George Polyzos; Gerald Maguire; Guy Pujolle; Ivan Stojmenovic; Jorge Pereira; Kimmo Raatikainen; Laura Feeney; Luciano Bononi; Luis Correia; Marco Conti; Michael Theologou; Nancy Alonistioti; Nikos Passas; Panagiotis Demestichas; Roberto Battiti; Sergio Palazzo; Silvia Giordano; Stephan Olariu; Violet Syrotic; Jorma Virtamo; Don Towsley; Yutaka Takahashi; George Stamoulis; Otto Spaniol; Ramon Puigjaner; Andreas Pitsillides; Ilkka Norros; Edmundo Monteiro; Demetres Kouvatsos; Peter Key; Ilias Iliadis; Peter Harisson; Guenter Haring; Khaled Elsayed; Constantinos Courcoubetis; Mariacarla Calzarossa; Werner Bux; Wojciech Burakowski; Herwig Bruneel; Tosten Braun; Pierre Boyer; Chris Blondia; Andrea Baiocchi; Eitan Altman; Ron Addie; Nelson Fonseca; Lazaros Merakos; Harry Rudin; Harry Perros; Haralampos Skianis; George Stassinopoulos; George Rouskas; George Kormentzas; Erol Gelenbe; Christos Douligeris; Augusto Casaca; Ian Akyildiz; Kevin Almeroth; Andrea Bianco; Ken Calvert; Laurie Cuthbert; Jordi Domingo-Pascual; Constantinos Dovrolis; Eylem Ekici; Mihalis Faloutsos; Serge Fdida; Luigi Fratta; Maurice Gagnaire; Leonidas Georgiadis; David Hutchison; Admela Jukan; Mohan Kumar; G. Manimaran; Ibrahim Matta; Prasant Mohapatra; Fabio Neri; Ioanis Nikolaidis; Symeon Papavasileiou; Michael Paterakis; Guido Petit; Chiara Petrioli; Martin Potts; Luigi Rizzo; Hussein Salama; Saswati Sarkar; Efstathios Sykas; Andras Valko; Iakovos Venieris; Lars Wolf; Zhi-Li Zhang Subject: Networking2004 - CALL FOR PAPERS: please disseminate Dear Networking2004 Executive Committee & TPC members, The CFP is being on the air at the specially developed Conference web site (http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004/), as most of you already know. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to ask you to disseminate it as widely as possible with the aim to attract high-quality contributions and to keep on improving the Conference standards. For your convenience, the CFP is appended to this e-mail in plain text format. Please further note that the Call for Tutorials has not been compiled yet; it is planned to come out early September. Counting on the support of you all, with our warm regards, Nikolas Mitrou, general chair, Kimon Kontovasilis, TPC chair

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IEEE CS Conference - Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB2003)boon.s.ang@stanfordalumni.org <boon.s.ang@stanfordalumni.org>
by Patricia Blauvelt 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. Please forward it to everyone who might be interested. Hope to see you at the conference. Vicky Markstein, IEEE CS Bioinformatics Technical Chair Bioinformatics(a)computer.org office: 650-851-4588 mobile: 650-269-1635 fax: 650-851-8643 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The 2nd International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB2003) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and in-cooperation with the ACM August 11 - August 14, 2003 Stanford University, CA >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Colleague: It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 2nd International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB2003, at Stanford University from August 11 - 14, 2003. CSB2003 features an exciting program of tutorials, keynotes, distinguished invited speakers, strongly refereed papers, posters, special interest meetings and workshops. Final program is now available on our website: http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics On Monday, August 11, we present 10 half-day tutorials taught by recognized leaders in diverse areas of computational biology and bioinformatics. Our three keynote speakers come from academic, industry and government to take us to the forefront of computational sciences and genomic biology. The abstracts for the 28 selected papers, posters, 9 invited speakers and 3 keynotes are now available at http://conferences.computer.org/bioinformatics/CSB2003/Program.html Evening Events Memorial Auditorium, Tuesday, August 12, 7:00 PM A Bioethics Panel -Dangerous Knowledge - New attention to the use of infectious disease for terrorism and for warfare has increased attention to both the newly salient costs as well as the benefits of new knowledge about infectious disease. Our panel discussion will address these issues of science, secrecy and security in a newly anxious age. Stanford Faculty Club, Wednesday, August 13, 6:00 PM DOE Genomes to Life Project dinner/workshop. Three Special Interest Groups (SIG) will meet at 7:00 PM just after the opening ceremony on August 11, 2003. More information will be posted on the website as soon as we receive it. The SIGs are: Computational Systems Bioinformatics and BioSciences (SIG CSBB) by Dr. Stephen Wong; organ ontologies related to the Digital Human project (SIG CSBOO); and High Performance Computing (SIG CSBHPC). Please let us know if you are interested in attending any of the SIGs and if you would like to propose a new SIG. INFORMATION UPDATE: =================== ******Submission Deadline for Papers and Posters is now closed*******

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[Fwd: Re: Tutorialist replacement]
by Ramon Puigjaner 24 Jul '03

24 Jul '03

Dear friends, As you can see by the attached messages, Raouf Boutaba is not able to attend the International Symposium on Telecommunications to be hels in Isfahan in August 16-18 this year and it would be conveneint to find somebody to replace him. Is anybody of you interested in doing a tutorial in this symposium? Do you have anybody in your environment interested in giving a tutorial in this symposium? Any idea or proposal will be welcome. Best regards Ramon -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Tutorialist replacement Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 02:13:22 -0700 From: Mohammad Hakkak <m.hakkak(a)itrc.ac.ir> To: Ramon Puigjaner <putxi(a)uib.es> References: <3F1F18B4.2050106(a)uib.es> Dear Prof. Puigjaenr, Good Day Thanks for your timely message. If you can find a tutorialist prepared to send us description of his tutorial and biography by July 29, we would be most happy to accomodate him in our circulars. Then, we expect to receive the slides for duplication by August 8. Anyway, thanks for kind efforts. Please not in the meantime that we have put on the ist2003 website the preliminary technical program and also the tutorial program. We will put the final programs by July 29. Best regards Mohammad Hakkak IST2003 Chairman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ramon Puigjaner" To: Cc: ; "Augusto Casaca" Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Tutorialist replacement > Dear Dr.Hakkak, > I should inform you that Prof. Raouf Boutaba, proposed by IFIP TC6 as > tutorialist to collaborate in your symposium, is become sick and he will > not be able to participate. > How can we arrange this unattended situation? What do you prefer? Can I > try to replace Prof. Boutaba by any other tutorialist of recognised > category? Do we cancel the particiaption of IFIP TC6 in this edition of > the symposium (but keeping in mind the participation in future events)? > Please, let me know at your earliest convenience your preference and > accept again my apologies for this regrettable and unattended situation. > Best regards > Ramon Puigjaenr > > ========================================================================= > Ramon Puigjaner > Universitat de les Illes Balears > Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica > 07122 PALMA (Spain) > Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 > e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es > ========================================================================= > > > -- ========================================================================= Ramon Puigjaner Universitat de les Illes Balears Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica 07122 PALMA (Spain) Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003 e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es =========================================================================

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COORDINATION 2004 - First Call for papers
by Emilio Tuosto 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Please apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. COORDINATION 2004 Preliminary Call for Papers Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages 24-27 February 2004 Pisa, Italy http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 (under construction) =============================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstract: September 22, 2003 Submission of Papers: September 29, 2003, Notification of Acceptance: November 14, 2003 Camera-Ready Copy: December 4, 2003 CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES The need for increasing programming productivity and rapid development of complex systems provide the pragmatic motivation for the development of coordination/orchestration languages and models. The intellectual excitement associated with such endeavors is rooted in the decades-old desire to leverage off increasingly higher levels of abstractions. Coordination-based methods provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interactions within their overall software organization. Coordination is relevant in design, development, debugging, maintenance, and reuse of all complex concurrent and distributed systems. Specifically, coordination becomes paramount in the context of open systems, systems with mobile entities, and dynamically re-configurable evolving systems. Moreover, coordination models and languages focus on such key issues in Component Based Software Engineering as specification, interaction, and dynamic compositions. More recently, market trends brought on by the commercialization of the World Wide Web, have fuelled a new level of interest in coordination-based approaches in industry. Applications like BizTalk, standards like the web services' WS-* family, and contending coordination standards like BEPL4WS and WSCI, are all examples of this phenomenon. This interest is opening up new opportunities both to apply coordination-based techniques to a broad class of applications as well as to grapple with potentially new kinds of requirements coming from internet-scale scenarios. PREVIOUS EDITIONS The previous conferences in this series took place in Cesena (Italy), Berlin (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Limasol (Cyprus), York (England). Building on the success of these events, this conference provides a forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, and implementation techniques for coordination and component-based software, as well as applications that utilize them. At http://music.dsi.unifi.it/coordination/ more details are available. TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to): * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination * Coordination middlewares * Specification, refinement, and analysis of software architectures * Architectural, and interface definition languages * Agent-oriented languages and models * Dynamic software architectures * Component Programming * Web Services * Coordination in Peer to Peer and Grid Computing * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures * Domain-specific software coordination models and case studies. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings of the previous editions are appeared in the LNCS series: volumes 1061, 1282 and 1594, 1906, 2315. SUBMISSIONS Electronic submission will be used using conference web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 (see also http://music.dsi.unifi.it/coordination). Authors are invited to submit electronically a plain ASCII cover page containing the paper title, authors' names, contact author and full address (including e-mail and fax) together with an abstract of up to 100 words (no later than 22 September 2003). Full papers (in English, up to 6000 words) should be submitted in PostScript or PDF no later than 29 September 2003. Authors are invited to use the llncs style. A link will be found the conference web page. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or journals is not allowed. LOCATION The conference will be held in Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via F.Buonarroti 2. Program co-chairs Rocco De Nicola (Univ. Firenze) Greg Meredith (Microsoft) Organizing Chair Gianluigi Ferrari (Univ. Pisa) Program Committee: Roberto Amadio, Univ. Marseilles - France Farhad Arbab, CWI - The Netherlands Marcelo Bonsangue, Leiden University - The Netherlands Paolo Ciancarini, Univ. Bologna Italy José Fiadeiro, Univ. Leicester - United Kingdom Chris Hankin, Imperial Colege - United Kingdom Jean-Marie Jacquet, Univ. Namur - Belgium Antonia Lopes, Univ. of Lisbon - Portugual Jeff Magee Imperial College - United Kingdom George Papadopoulos, Univ. Cyprus - Cyprus Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano -Italy Rosario Pugliese, Univ. Firenze - Italy Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis,USA Ant Rowstrom, Microsoft Cambridge - United Kingdom Vijay Saraswat, PennState Univ. - USA Carolin Talcott SRI - USA Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin Germany Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College - United Kingdom Alan Wood, Univ. York - United Kingdom Franco Zambonelli, Univ. Modena - Italy Organizing Committee Andrea Bracciali, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Robero Bruni, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Antonio Cisternino, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Dan Hirsch, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Laura Semini, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Emilio Tuosto, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Further Information - COORDINATION2004 Web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 - For questions: coordination2004(a)di.unipi.it --

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