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IFIP Publisher
by Augusto Casaca 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

Dear TC6 members, Please send me your views on the mail sent by Roger Johnson on the different possibilities for the choice of a new IFIP publisher. I sent you that mail last week and I need to know your opinion up to this coming Monday. Best regards Augusto

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CCNC'2004: Call for Papers
by Guenter Schaefer 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

please excuse if you receive multiple copies of this... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers 2004 IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE “Consumer Networking: Closing the Digital Divide” (Precedes the CES 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show: www.cesweb.org), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA / 5-8 January, 2004 http://www.ccnc2004.org/ Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society The first IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'2004) will be held on 5-8 January, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, just prior to the Consumer Electronics Show (www.cesweb.org). The demand for networked consumer systems and devices is large and growing rapidly. At home, in a car or truck, at work or at play, Internet citizens want transparent internetworking for the systems and devices that provide entertainment, information, and communications. This internetworking should be on-demand, with whomever or whatever they want, regardless of time or location. As a result, consumer networking is gaining increasing attention from industry, spawning a range of dramatically different solutions including wireless, wireline, and power line networked communications environments, each with their own strengths and special challenges to overcome. This in turn has defined the scope of consumer networking to range from body and personal area networking, to home networking and wide area networking. In the not too distant future, we will see ad hoc networking augmented with sensors sharing networked knowledge that enables devices and systems to seamlessly interact with the Internet and wide area wireless systems such as WiFi, 3G and future 4G networks. And this is just the beginning! This phenomenon, "Consumer Communications and Networking," has been attracting many researchers in diverse areas from networking to consumer electronics. This conference will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of consumer networking, enabling technologies such as middleware and multimedia, and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, technology application panels, tutorials, and poster sessions. CCNC 2004 provides a compelling forum for formal discussion and socialization of many of these research challenges with seasoned practitioners and colleagues from both industry and academia. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: Networking: - Home LANs (802.11,HiperLAN, Bluetooth, HomePlug) - Vehicle Networks - Body & Personal Area Networks - Ad-Hoc Networks - Sensor Networks - Entertainment Networks - Broadcast Networks - TV-Centric Home Networks - Home Information Infrastructure - Residential Gateways - Interworking (Internet, 3G/4G, etc.) - Network Management & Control - Network Security - Privacy Issues - Protocols - QoS support, Performance Enabling Technologies: - Middleware (Java, .Net, XML, OSGi, JTWI, MHP/OCAP, UPnP, etc.) - Multimedia Technologies - Image Retrieval - Look-up Technologies - Operating Systems - Database Management Systems - Networked Knowledge - Data and Program Migration - Consumer Middleware - Device Discovery - Biometrics for Security - Digital Rights Management - Wearable Computers - Pervasive Computing - Transmission technologies such Ultra Wideband - User Interface - Digital TV Novel Applications, Services: - Novel Applications for Networked Appliances - Entertainment - Games - Medical, Health Care - Surveillance, Home Monitoring - Appliances - Service Evaluation - Smart Services - Smart Spaces - Field Trials - Application for Special Needs - (Kitchen) Counter Intelligence - e-Commerce, m-Commerce - Location Based Services - Personalization - Virtual Home Environment There will be a Best Paper Award for the best-submitted paper. Also, a number of Student Travel Grants are available. Submission Deadlines and contact information (only electronic submissions please via the web-based submission form, see below): - Technical Papers: 15 July 2003 - Mehmet Ulema, m.ulema(a)ieee.org - Eric Addeo, eaddeo(a)nj.devry.edu - John Barr, John.Barr(a)motorola.com - Guenter Schaefer, schaefer(a)ee.tu-berlin.de - Technology Applications Panels: 15 September 2003 - Alex Gelman, adg(a)research.panasonic.com - Tutorials: 15 September 2003 - Alan Kaplan, kaplana(a)research.panasonic.com - Poster Papers: 15 July 2003 - Barcin Kozbe, barcin.kozbe(a)ericsson.com - Notification of Acceptance Mailed: 15 October 2003 - Final Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 November 2003 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS ONLY! For more information, please visit the conference www site: http://www.ccnc2004.org/ Organizing Committee: - General Chair: Robert Fish, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Technical Program Chair: Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA - Technical Program Vice Chairs: - Eric Addeo, Devry College, USA - John Barr, Motorola, USA - Guenter Schaefer, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany - Technology Applications Panels Chair: Alex Gelman, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Tutorial Chair: Alan Kaplan, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Poster Chair: Barcin Kozbe, Ericsson Inc, USA - Keynote and DEP Chair: Maurizio Beltrami, Philips, Netherlands - Publicity Chair, Michael Kincaid, MSK & Associates, USA - Finance Chair - Heather Yu, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Steering Committee: - Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA (Chair) - John Barr, Motorola, USA - Maurizio Beltrami, Philips, Netherlands - Howard Bussey, Kodak, USA - K.C. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Alex Gelman, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Howard Green, Marconi, USA - Alan Kaplan, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, USA - Naohisa Ohta, Sony, Japan - Curtis Siller, Cetacean Networks, USA - Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA - Heather Yu, Panasonic Technologies, USA - Doug Zuckerman, Doug Zuckerman Associates, USA

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RE: [ifip-tc6] IFIP Publisher
by Radford, Peter 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Augusto I too support Otto's view but Guy's comments and questions ought also to be relayed to Roger Johnson. I'm sure the publications committee are looking for alternative publishers but if anyone has any ideas, they ought to pass them on to Roger. Two questions: Has anyone had any experience with "print on demand" book publishers? Have our contacts with electronic publishing come up with anything useful? Regards Peter Peter Radford UK Representative to IFIP Technical Committee 6 T: +44(0)20 7446 1281 E: Peter.Radford(a)LogicaCMG.com -----Original Message----- From: Augusto Casaca [mailto:augusto.casaca@inesc.pt] Sent: 29 May 2003 19:21 To: TC6 Subject: [ifip-tc6] IFIP Publisher Dear TC6 members, Please send me your views on the mail sent by Roger Johnson on the different possibilities for the choice of a new IFIP publisher. I sent you that mail last week and I need to know your opinion up to this coming Monday. Best regards Augusto _______________________________________________ ifip-tc6 mailing list ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/ifip-tc6 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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FW: Plamen Nedkov
by Augusto Casaca 30 May '03

30 May '03

-----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Renaldas.Gudauskas(a)kf.vu.lt Sent: sexta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2003 10:05 To: ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at Cc: ifip(a)ifip.or.at Subject: Plamen Nedkov Dear Prof. Brunnstein and IFIP GA Members, Last week I was travelling and could not respond earlier to the message Prof. Brunnstein wrote to GA on 20.5., in particular: >Fourth: PN had NO duties regarding WITFOR. It was his task as UNESCO >relations officer to acquire related funds but there was NO >justification that he intervened (yes, he intervened!) into >operations which Peter Bollerslev and Dipak Khakhar were >responsible for. His role as co-chair also gave him no right >for intervening with duties of those responsible (Peter >Bollerslev, Renaldas Gudauskas, Dipak Khakhar, Dewald Roode, Leon Strous). As IFIP GA representative, Chairman of the WITFOR National Organizing Commitee and member of the Steering Committee I would like to assure you that Plamen Nedkov as IFIP Executive Director and WITFOR Commission Co-Chair has very successfully contributed to the WITFOR program and organization at all stages. He helped raise significant UNESCO funds for the conference and to create useful connections. We have all relied on his tactful advice and efficient contributions at all times. I am personally very grateful to Plamen for his contributions both on WITFOR matters and in my work as Lithuanian GA representative to IFIP. Sincerely yours, Prof. Renaldas Gudauskas …………………………………. Advisor to Prime Minister of Lithuania; Chairman of WITFOR National Organizing Committee Representative of Lithuanian Computer Society to IFIP Ph. +3705 2663828 Fax. +3705 2663847 Mob. +3706 9842304 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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FW: Message from R. Johnson re. Publications
by Augusto Casaca 30 May '03

30 May '03

Dear TC6 members, Please give your best attention to this message of Roger Johnson and send me your comments. It would be good that you send your comments with cc to TC6. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: Dorothy Hayden [mailto:dh@ifip.or.at] Sent: quarta-feira, 21 de Maio de 2003 15:59 To: TC 1 Chair; TC 2 Acting-Chair; TC 3 Chair; TC 5 Chair; TC 6 Chair; TC 7 Chair; TC 8 Chair; TC 9 Chair; TC10 Chair; TC11 Chair; TC12 Chair; TC13 Chair Cc: Basie von Solms (E-mail); Roger Johnson; dh(a)ifip.or.at Subject: Fwd: Message from R. Johnson re. Publications Dear All, Please find below a message from the Secretary. Kind regards, Dorothy ************** >Subject: Very Important - Publications >Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:47:42 +0100 >X-MS-Has-Attach: yes >Thread-Topic: Very Important - Publications >thread-index: AcMfeyIZLe44nvAYRmuRr3yOFVbh6g== >From: "Roger Johnson" <rgj(a)dcs.bbk.ac.uk> >To: <dh(a)ifip.or.at> >Cc: "Basie von Solms (E-mail)" <basie(a)rkw.rau.ac.za> > > >Dear Colleagues > >I have been asked to circulate this email quickly by the members of EB to >get you reactions to the position in which IFIP finds itself. Please could >you reply by the morning of Monday June 9th. > >As I suggested (previously to EB) Springer has been acquired by Candover & >Cinven and will be merged with KAP and will operate under the name of >Springer. I attach the press release from the new owners. > >It was widely rumoured that Springer was not making a profit and hence the >wish by Bertelsmann to sell it. C&C are buyout specialists.I understand a >number of KAP people are involved in the acquisition. My conclusion is >that "new" Springer is much more likely to have policies similar to KAP >and not the reverse since C&C have announced that their plan is to sell >the company in 5-6 years. > >The dilemma for IFIP is as follows: >1. At the last re-tendering the only credible alternative was Springer. >That option has disappeared. >2. Last time ACM were only interested in handling the printing and >distribution of books. No marketing with a consequent loss of IFIP >visibility. All advertising (in ACM jouranls etc) at IFIP's expense. >3. IEEE-CS have expressed interest this time (last time they did not). ACM >were certainly interested last year when Klaus and I visited in the >possibility of providing a similar service. However, the deal may well be >similar to (2) above. >4. Our analysis last time was that there would be very little income to >IFIP from a deal with ACM and I believe that it would probably be true of >IEEE-CS offering as well. >5. There is some reason to think that another automatic renewal of the KAP >contract could be agreed with existing royalties and a separate new >agreement on electronic distribution. Such a deal would preserve our >present royalty income of USD 87K. As an incentive to accept such a deal >(because it would save them time and money etc) KAP might be expected to >offer IFIP only around 10% royalty if we go to tender. > >I think there are three real options (and a fourth hope): >1. Go out to tender and sign with national society such as IEEE-CS or ACM. >We would have cheap books, a loss of nearly 87K USD in the IFIP income to >be recovered from elsewhere (I guess from conferences, is there anything >else??). We would have to do all our own marketing. >2. Go out to tender and sign with KAP/Springer on reduced royalty. We >would lose only 30-40K USD which would have to come be recovered as in >option 1. >3. Allow KAP contract to renew with high book prices etc. but with >continued income stream to IFIP. >4. Hope there is someone else out there when we go to tender. I regard >this as most unlikely and probably no better than option 2 with all the >hassle of changing publisher. > >What should we do? I believe that we should put the above to the TC chairs >and seek their input by the morning of Monday June 9th. Please send >responses to me and copy them to Basie as Chairman of TA. > >Good wishes > >Roger <<Springer acquisition-merger.doc>> >******************************************** >Dr Roger Johnson >Dean, Faculty of Social Science & >Honorary Secretary, International Federation for Information Processing >Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX UK. >Telephone: (+44) 20 7631 6709 >FAX: (+44) 20 7631 6727 >URL: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~rgj >College location: >http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=wc1e7hx&Z=1 >IFIP: http://www.ifip.or.at/ >******************************************** >

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7th IEEE DS-RT - Call for Papers
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 29 May '03

29 May '03

==================================================================== Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. Call for Papers DS-RT 2003 Seventh IEEE* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 23-25, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands. http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2003/ In conjunction with 15th European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003) October 26-29, 2003, Delft, The Netherlands Hosted by the Delft University of Technology *IEEE Approval Pending SCOPE In its seventh year, the 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2003) will take place at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, just before the European Simulation Symposium (ESS 2003). This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two conferences covering a wide range of simulation research. SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVES DS-RT 2003 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2003 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2003 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. CALL FOR PAPERS DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Interactive Virtual Reality, Multi-User Virtual Reality, Interactive Simulation in Entertainment; o- Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols (e.g., HLA, DIS); o- Implementation issues; (e.g., general purpose distributed simulation); o- Algorithms and Methods for Distributed Interactive Simulation (e.g.,event synchronization, network time protocols); o- Applications of Distributed Simulation (e.g., Real Time DS, large distributed simulation systems); o- Distributed Models and Simulation for Analysis; o- Data Distribution Management and Interest Management; o- Multi-resolution modeling; o- Current Critical Design Issues (e.g.: causality, simultaneous events, zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time); o- Methodology for Distributed/Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modelling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation; (e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies); o- Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Visual Interactive Simulation (e.g., generic animation, visual interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning); o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Process under Simulation; o- Language and Modeling Issues; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems (such as Java, and DCOM) on DIS; o- Interoperable Communication Networks; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems (QoS requirements and their realization, multicast for distributed/ real-time simulation systems); o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation (e.g. Modeling Global Internet); o- Integration of DIS and HLA with Web Technologies. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready version due: August 15, 2003 Symposium presentation: October 23-25, 2003 in Delft, The Netherlands IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://sentosa.sas.ntu.edu.sg:8000/~dsrt2003/ by June 1, 2003. Questions from authors may be directed to Simon Taylor (simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk), or Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. Please contact the above if you wish to do so. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Chair Simon J. E. Taylor Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University Uxbridge, Middx, UB8 3PH Email: simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk Phone: +44-1895-203389 Fax: +44-1895-251686 Publicity Co-Chairs Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Mirela M. S. A. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Program Committee Lee Belfore, Old Dominion University, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Alexander Verbraeck, TU Delft Don Brutzman, Naval Postgraduate School Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University Judith Dahmann, MITRE Corporation, USA Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University at Linz Robert Fransechini, SAIC, USA Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology Katherine Morse, SAIC, USA Anand Natrajan, University of Virginia Mikel Petty, Old Dominion University Mark Pullen, George Mason University Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Doug Schmidt, DARPA, and University of California at Irvine Roger Smith, Model Benders Corp., USA Gary Tan, National University of Singapore Simon Taylor, Brunel University, UK Stephen Turner, Nanyang Technological University Richard Weatherly, MITRE Corp., USA Philip Wilsey, University of Cincinnati Steering Committee Azzedine Boukerche (Chair), University of North Texas Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia Advisory Board Committee Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas K. M. Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Doug DeGroot, Texas Instruments, USA Tuncer Oren, University of Ottawa, Canada Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia Gabriel Silberman, IBM Research, USA Stephen J. Turner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore G. Zobrist, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Local Arrangement Chair: Alexander Verbraeck, Systems Engineering, TU Delft Delft, The Netherlands Registration Chair Susan Standing, Brunel University, UK Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Delft see www.delft.nl! ====================================================================

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6th ACM MSWiM - Call for Papers
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 29 May '03

29 May '03

============ Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul(a)it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo(a)polito.it

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DAIS 2003: Deadline extended to June 15th!
by dncr 28 May '03

28 May '03

Apologies if you receive this more than once. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for paper Fourth International IFIP Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2003 19-21 November 2003, Paris, France to be held in conjunction with FMOODS'03 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Applications Systems http://fedconf.enst.fr/ A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of distributed computing involving all kinds of computing devices create a unique challenge. Innovative solutions are required for the development, implementation and operation of distributed applications in complex IT environments full of diversity and heterogeneity. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS'03 will focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications. DAIS'03 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors and users, to review, discuss and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the fields of distributed computing. DAIS'03 will include talks by invited speakers, full technical paper sessions, and work-in-progress presentations. Tutorial proposals are also encouraged. Conference themes: In keeping with the focus on models, technologies and platforms for reconfigurable, scalable and adaptable distributed applications, and in addition to its traditional themes, DAIS especially encourages original unpublished papers addressing the following topics: - new/extended software architectures and frameworks for reconfiguration and adaptation including component-based approaches (e.g. CORBA Components, EJB, .NET), - modelling, specifying, monitoring and management of context-aware and adaptive applications, - support for reconfiguration, self-organisation and autonomic behaviour in new/existing distributed platforms (e.g. CORBA, J2EE, .NET, WebServices), - integration of multi-agent distributed decision-making, - application environments that exploit characteristics of specific technologies (e.g. grid computing, mobile and wireless), - issues in enterprise-wide and large-scale application reconfiguration, - semantic interoperability and semantic web services. Submissions: DAIS'2003 seeks submissions for: - Full technical papers in no more than 12 pages (approximately 6000 words); - Work-in-progress papers, describing on-going work and interim results, in no more than 5 pages. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. They will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted full papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. A call for tutorials common to FMOODS and DAIS and a call for workshops will be issued separately. Submission method: Electronic submission in PDF format using the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submission dates: - Deadline for full paper submissions: extended to June 15, 2003 - Deadline for work-in-progress papers: June 15, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2003 - Final versions: September 1st, 2003 - Conference dates : 17th to 21st November 2003 General chair: Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA) Publicity Chair: Kurt Geihs (TU Berlin) Tutorial chair: Sylvie Vignes (ENST) PC Chairs: Isabelle Demeure (ENST), Daniel Hagimont (INRIA) Program Committee: M.Ahamed, Georgia Tech, USA N.Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece S.Baker, IONA, Ireland Y.Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST Brittany, France V.Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland R.Campbell, UIUC, USA N. Davies Lancaster University UK and University of Arizona, USA F.Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway K.Geihs, TU Berlin, Germany P.Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA. J.Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E.Jul, DIKU, Denmark H.Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany F.Kordon, LIP6, France S.Krakowiak, University of Grenoble, France H.Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L.Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W.Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany D.Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA P.Linington, University of Kent, UK C.Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany P.Merle, INRIA, France G.Muller, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France E.Najm, ENST, France L.Pautet, ENST, France K.Raymond, DSTC, Australia A.Schill, TU Dresden, Germany D.Schmidt, University of California, Irvine, USA S.Shrivastava, University of Newcastle, UK J-J.Vandewalle, GemPlus, France

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LANOMS'03 - Nine days to the Deadline (JUNE 6TH) - No more extendable (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 27 May '03

27 May '03

LANOMS'03 - Nine days to the Deadline (JUNE 6TH) - No more extendable ### #### # ## # # #### # # #### # # # # # # ## # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # #### # # ### # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### # # #### ### #### LANOMS 2003 ----------- 3rd Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium Iguassu Falls, Brazil September 4-6, 2003 IEEE ComSoc CNOM Technically Co-sponsored http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms lanoms(a)inf.ufpr.br Call for Papers --------------- The Third Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium - LANOMS, to be held in Iguassu Falls (Foz do Iguaçu), Brazil, is the result of the great success of both LANOMS'1999 which was held in Rio de Janeiro and LANOMS'2001 which was held in Belo Horizonte, as well as the other events in the area of network management known as NOMS and APNOMS. NOMS (Network Operations and Management Symposium) was originally created 13 years ago, and nowadays constitutes a worldwide event for the researches in the area of network management. The Asia/Pacific community promoted the APNOMS (Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium), which is an event more oriented to the research and development community in that region. Continuing the success of the second LANOMS, we will promote the third edition of LANOMS (http://www.inf.ufpr.br/lanoms) on September 4-6 2003, in Iguassu Falls, Paraná, Brazil. The symposium is a promotion of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Brazil, technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, and supported by IEEE Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The main goal of the LANOMS is to create a forum more specific to the necessities of Latin America in the area of network management involving networking and telecommunication companies, academic institutions and equipment vendors. LANOMS is an event open to participants from all over the world who are interest in having, or already have, research or commercial liaisons in Latin America - one of the fastest growing regions in the world in networking. This year, we intend to increase the submissions from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Integrating Intrusion Detection and Network Management - Intrusion Policy Management - Web Services Security - Business and Service Management - Management Platforms, Interoperability, Standards and Protocols - Management of Networks and Services: VPNs, Optical Networks, CATV Networks, Mobile/Wireless and Ad-Hoc Networks, Voice over IP, Transaction-Oriented Services, Electronic Commerce, Active and Programmable Networks, Sensor Networks - Management Technologies and Frameworks (Web, XML, CORBA, DEN, etc) - Management Aspects of Service Pricing, Accounting and Billing - Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service - Bandwidth Brokerage - Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Management - Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Management - Network and Systems Monitoring - Fault and Performance Management - Security Management - Configuration Management and Policy-Driven Management - Information Modeling - Traffic and Performance Management - Open-Source Management Software - Management of Grid Computing, Clusters, Peer-to-Peer Applications, and Ubiquitous Computing Environments - Operations Support Systems - Business Processes for Network and Service Management - Peer-to-peer Network Technologies for Management - Management of Distributed Systems - Case Studies and Experiences in Management Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers, which are not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers are to be submitted in English. Submissions should be complete, full-length papers and should not exceed 12 pages. Electronic submission of papers is mandatory. Full instructions for the electronic submissions will be available soon on the LANOMS Web page. Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF (preferred) or PostScript format via web. The manuscript should include an abstract and three key-words. The format is size A4 (preferred) or Letter, single column, font size 12. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three international experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality. Important Dates: ---------------- Deadline for receipt of papers: June 06, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2003 Final camera ready paper due: July 15, 2003 LANOMS 2003 Committee --------------------- General Chair: Elias Procópio Duarte Jr., Brazil elias(a)inf.ufpr.br TPC Chair: Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, Brazil edmundo(a)ic.unicamp.br Tutorial Chair: José Marcos Silva Nogueira, Brazil jmarcos(a)dcc.ufmg.br Publicity Chair: Carlos Becker Westphall, Brazil westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br International Liaisons: Asia: Masayoshi Ejiri ejiri(a)jp.fujitsu.com Australia: Abbas Jamalipour abbas(a)ee.usyd.edu.au Europe: Rolf Stadler stadler(a)ctr.columbia.edu North America: Mehmet Ulema mehmet.ulema(a)manhattan.edu Africa: Abderrahim Sekkaki sekkaki(a)hotmail.com Peru: Carlos Silva csilva(a)pucp.edu.pe Colombia: Aldo Forero aforero(a)col1.telecom.com.co Colombia: Omar Rodriguez Ramirez omar-r(a)andinet.com Chile: Ivan Ramirez Ayala iraft(a)123mail.cl Costa Rica: Francisco Murrillo fmurillos(a)ice.go.cr Technical Program Committee: Abdelmalek Benzekri - Université Paul Sabatier, France Ahmed Karmouch - Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Antonio Alfredo F. Loureiro - Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil Bruno R. Schulze - LNCC, Brazil Carlos Becker Westphall - Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Carlos de Castro Goulart - Federal Univ. of Viçosa, Brazil Elias P. Duarte Jr. (General Chair) - Federal Univ. of Paraná, Brazil Edmundo Monteiro - Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Edmundo R. M. Madeira (TPC Chair) - State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Edward L. Pinnes - Telcordia, USA Elizabeth Specialski - Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Fernando Boavida - Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Germán Goldszmidt - IBM, USA Iara Machado - RNP, Brazil James Won-Ki Hong - Postech, Korea Javier Diaz - Univ. of La Plata, Argentina José Marcos Silva Nogueira - Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais, Brazil José Neuman de Souza - Federal Univ. of Ceará, Brazil Liane Tarouco - Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Lisandro Z. Granville - Federal Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Luciano P. Gaspary - Univ. of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil Lundy Lewis - Aprisma Management Technologies, USA Masayoshi Ejiri - Fujitsu, Japan Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Nazim Agoulmine - Univ. of Evry - France Nelson L.S. Fonseca - State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Otto C.M.B. Duarte - Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Raouf Boutaba - Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Thomas Magedanz - IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany

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IEEE Infocom 2004 - Message from Conference General Chair
by Thomas Hou 27 May '03

27 May '03

July 1, 2003, the deadline for paper submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2004, to be held in Hong Kong, March 7 - 11, 2004, is rapidly approaching. The Call For Papers can be found at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/. We are well aware that there is concern about SARS among some potential authors; however, all signs indicate that SARS is now under control. As you may already know, the World Health Organization lifted its travel advisory to Hong Kong and Guangdong, China last week. The number of new cases in the rest of China is also decreasing rapidly. While we continue to closely monitor the situation, be assured that we do have contingency plans. We will see what happens the rest of this year and will be prepared to reevaluate the situation in late November before the Advance Program is published. For now, we would like to reassure you all that IEEE INFOCOM 2004 will be held as planned. We encourage you to submit your work before July 1, 2003, and be considered to present your paper in a beautiful setting overlooking Hong Kong Harbor. Victor O.K. Li, General Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2004

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