Dear Colleagues,
Apologize for any duplicates;
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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 .
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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)
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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
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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
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
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
-----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.
-----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
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)
-----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
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
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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
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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:
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******Submission Deadline for Papers and Posters is now closed*******
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
>
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> 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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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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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)
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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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