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Fw: CFP IEEE/IFIP Intern. Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services 2003
by Ahmed Mehaoua 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Dear Colleagues, /* PLEASE APOLOGIZE IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT * / /* LAST DAYS FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS TO IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2003 /* THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 18th APRIL 2003 */ Best Regards A. Mehaoua (Univ. of Versailles) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people to encourage contributions and submissions to 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

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Request for broadcast of CFP
by Debashis Saha 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Dear Jan: May I request you to kindly broadcast the attached CFP of IWDC 2003 in the IFIP mailing lists that you handle. With Regards, -Debashis ----------------------------------------------------------- *** please accept our apologies in case of multiple postings *** ----------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), 2003 Calcutta, India December 27-30,2003 http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jointly organized by ==================== Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India & Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India Co-Sponsored by =============== IEEE AES-COM-LEO SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA in cooperation with =================== IFIP TC6 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: ====== Organized since 1999, the International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC) is a forum for presenting the latest research on distributed/networked computing systems. IWDC 2003 is the fifth workshop in this series. This year it will be jointly organized by Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. The workshop will cover all the facets of distributed computing including theory, systems and applications. The topics of interest include, but are but not limited to: > Mobile and Pervasive Computing > System Management and Security > Fault Tolerance and Reliability > Distributed Objects, Data Management and Algorithms > Network Protocols and Internetworking > Real-Time and Embedded Systems > Web-based Systems and Distributed Multimedia > Middleware > Distributed Database > Distributed A.I. > Multi-agent Systems > Agent-based Systems Important Deadlines: ==================== * Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2003 * Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2003 * Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: September 15, 2003 Manuscript Submission Guidelines: ================================= Papers should be a maximum of 15 pages in length (in single or double column), formatted using at least a 10 point font and 1 inch margins. Please number the pages. (These are review copies. Instructions for final paper preparation will be available at the workshop website.) This length includes everything: figures, tables, references, appendices and so forth. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. Shorter papers are both reasonable and encouraged. Reviewers will favor clarity and crispness of presentation over length. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers in the students' track. Please submit papers in MS_Word, postscript or PDF format by email to either of the program chairs. Please make sure that your paper is readable and understandable in black-and-white. This is especially true for plots and graphs in the paper. Please avoid the use of color, particularly to convey important content or meaning. Questions about the workshop content, paper preparation, etc. may also be emailed to them. Please see the workshop website for further information. The detailed Call for Papers is available in http://www.iimcal.ac.in/iwdc2003/index.htm Tutorial Submission Guidelines: =============================== Proposals for half- or full-day tutorials are solicited related to the topics of interest. Proposals should include the abstract of the tutorial and brief biography of the speaker(s). Proposals should be emailed to the tutorial chairs by the paper submission deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------- The Proceedings of the IWDC 2002 was published by Springer Verlag as LNCS 2571, vide link http://link.springer.de/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm or http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/series/0558/tocs/t2571.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacts: ========= General Chairs: --------------- Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA Email: ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: pkdas(a)ieee.org Program Chairs: -------------- Samir R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Email: samir(a)cs.sunysb.edu Chandan Mazumdar, Jadavpur University ,India Email: chandanm(a)vsnl.com Organising Chairs: ----------------- Asim K Pal, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Email: asim(a)iimcal.ac.in Suranjan Ghose, Jadavpur University, India Email: suranjanghose(a)yahoo.co.uk Publication Chair: ------------------ Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA Email: das(a)cse.uta.edu Tutorial Chairs: -------------- Ambuj Mahanti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: am(a)iimcal.ac.in Swapan Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: bswapan(a)hotmail.com Student Activity Chairs: ------------------------ Ranjan Dasgupta, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India E-mail: ranjandasgupta(a)hotmail.com Sankhayan Choudhury, Calcutta University, India E-mail: csankhayan(a)hotmail.com Industry Chairs: ---------------- Rabindra N. Lahiri, TCS Calcutta, India E-mail: rnl(a)tcscal.co.in Rajeev Shorey, IBM Solutions Research Lab, New Delhi, India E-mail: srajeev(a)in.ibm.com Publicity Chairs: ----------------- Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India E-mail: ds(a)iimcal.ac.in Rajkumar Buiyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia E-mail: raj(a)cs.mu.oz.au Finance Chairs: --------------- Avijit Kar, Jadavpur University, India E-mail: avijit_kar(a)vsnl.com Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta Univeraity, India E-mail: nabendu(a)ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- International Steering Committee: Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA : Chair Bhabani P. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Prasanta K. Nandi, Bengal Engineering College (DU), India Sajal K. Das, University of Texas, Arlington, USA Sanjib C. De Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India Shyamal Majumdar, Technical Teachers' Training Institute, Eastern Region, India Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta,India Subhangsu Bandyopadhyay, Calcutta University, India T. Srikanthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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7th IEEE DS-RT'2003
by Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '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. Workshop 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 workshop 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., o-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 o- 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, Macedonia, Greece Mirela M. S. A. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Program Committee Lee Belfore, Old Dominion University, USA 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 MorseSAIC, 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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TC6 meeting dates and time
by Augusto Casaca 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, Another message from my side just to tell that the planned timing for the TC6 meeting is: Sunday (18/5): 9.00am - 6.00pm Sunday (18/5): TC6 dinner in the evening Monday (19/5): 9.00am - 4.00pm. The agenda will be sent later on. Best regards Augusto

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Final call for papers to QoFIS 2003
by Gunnar Karlsson 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Apologies for multiple copies. ---------------------- N.B. The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 is Tuesday April 22. ---------------------- Call for Papers Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS 2003) October 1-3, 2003 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden URL: http://www.qofis.org Call for Papers The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss design and implementation techniques for providing quality of service in communication systems. This workshop is the fourth international event organized by COST263 Action "Quality of Future Internet Services" and it explicitly focuses on the provisioning of quality of service in the Internet, including wireless network access and host system support. The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and maturing approaches to QoS, and for bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from both industry and academia. Along with presentations of papers and keynote speeches, QoFIS 2003 will offer a seminar day on October 3 with invited speakers on the topic "Quality of Service in Wireless Networks." The seminar is organized in cooperation with the KTH Center for Wireless Systems. List of Topics We are inviting research contributions on topics strongly related to the offering of quality of service in the Internet. These include, but are not limited to: - Traffic modeling and classification - QoS requirements, mapping and negotiation - Denial and theft of QoS - Policing, scheduling and metering - QoS routing, inter and intra domain - Signaling, session management - Traffic engineering, service dimensioning - End-system QoS support - Policy-based QoS management - QoS in wireless networks - QoS in peer-to-peer networks - Active networking for QoS - Charging for quality Papers and Submissions Papers are solicited in full length in English. All papers will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should follow the author guidelines specified at http://www.qofis.org. The conference proceedings are published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Best Ph.D. student paper award Papers that are candidate for the best PhD student paper award should be clearly identified as such in a cover letter, which should be signed by the student's supervisor. To be eligible for the award, the PhD student should be the principal author and presenter of the submitted paper. The selection will be based on both the quality of the written paper and its presentation. Important Dates Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2003 Camera-ready version: July 17, 2003 Workshop dates: October 1-3, 2003 General Information The final program will be offered in a single-track over two days, Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2003. An associated seminar on Quality of Service in Wireless Networks will be held on Friday October 3, 2003, at the KTH Center for Wireless Systems, http://wireless.kth.se/. The registration fee will include both the workshop and the seminar day. For more information on the co-located events please visit the URL http://www.qofis.org/. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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IFIP I3E2003- Deadline Extended 21st April
by manuel mendes 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. ##################################### I3E2003 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government(I3E 2003) Sponsored by IFIP, international Federation for Information Processing September 21-24, 2003 Casa Grande Hotel, São Paulo, Guarujá, BRAZIL ************************************************* Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference ************************************************* + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + Next important Dates!! + + ---------------------- + + + + Papers Deadline (extended):April 21st2003 + + Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This conference is the third IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: eCommerce * Marketplaces, Portals, eHubs * B2B and B2C models * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Content management, ePayment systems * Agent-mediated electronic commerce * Case studies in electronic commerce * Consumer protection in electronic commerce * Costs and benefit aspects * Digital goods and products * Electronic commerce application fields eBusiness * Enterprise Portals * Innovative business models * Supply, Demand and Value chains * Business Process Re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * eCommunities * Workflow management and Collaboration * Management of dynamic collaborative networks * Complex adaptive and selforganising systems * Distributed work and knowledge flows in business networks * Business data exchange format and standards eGovernment * Digital cities, Digital regions, Rural networking * eGovernance and eInclusion, * Electronic Public Services for Citizens and enterprises:One-stop Government, Single-Window-Service, Seamless Government * E-Local administration * G2G, G2B, G2C and G2E models * Government Process Reengineering and redesigning cooperation within and between agencies * Frameworks and guidelines for e-Government * Transnational e-Government projects and standards * International and regional projects, case studies and international comparisons * Strategies, implementation policies and best practices Related Technical aspects * Technologies for interoperability and aplication integration * Information & communication OPEN platforms * User Mobility * Unified messaging * Agent and Grid technologies * Information retrieval and extraction and data mining * Knowledge Management * Security, privacy, Trustability * Smart Cards and biometrics * Digital signatures and Certificates * Standards for information interchange and processes, interoperability and semantic standardisation * Web Technologies: - Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Web data models and metadata - Knowledge discovery of Web data - Web data mining and analysis * E-(WEB) services - E-service location, selection, brokering - E-service composition, invocation and delivery - E-service monitoring, personalization, management and life cycle - XML-based protocols and description language - Service-based architectures and their underlying technology - Service-oriented application development - Standards for e-services Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * socio-economic research in the governance of networked organisations * e-government models and legal issues. * e-Inclusion * e-Democracy strategies, citizen participation in local public affairs * e-Governance tools for policymaking in governments and in policy networks * New organisational arrangements: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships * Institutional change and IT-driven modernisation of public governance structures * Intellectual property licensing * Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues MAIN TRACK, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************** The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics above and several workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS *********************** Paper submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page, identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format. INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *************************************** Proposals for workshops should describe the title, scope and organizational structure. Workshop chairs are responsible for both organizing the review process and promotion of their workshop. Tutorial proposals should include the tutorial title, the names and a brief biography for each presenter (approximately half page) and a summary of the tutorial contents (approximately 1-2 pages . Proposals should be send electronically as Word or PDF files following the link at the conference homepage. INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM AND POSTERS *************************************************** Research Colloquium offers PhD and Master students in themes related to I3E the opportunity to present and discuss their work with each other as well as a number of experienced international researchers. Students from all the I3E related disciplines are encouraged to apply, although numbers will be limited. Submissions should outline current research in progress and be no longer than 3 pages in length. An abstract and biographical note should be included. Poster submissions graphically illustrating original contributions on eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment are invited. Successful posters will be on show for the duration of the conference. Submissions should be comprised of a 2 page description of the theory, method, or technology the poster will illustrate. Final descriptions of posters will be included in the Conference Supplement. ******************** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** Papers ------ Deadline: 21st April , 2003, Notification of acceptance: May 30th , 2003, Camera-ready papers:June 30th , 2003 Workshops --------- Deadline: 28th February 2003 (closed) Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003, Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003 Tutorials --------- Deadline: 30th April 2003, Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003, Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003 Posters ------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 Research Colloquium ------------------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th Juni 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION ******************* Conference site for more information: http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference ********* COMMITTEE ********* Honorary Chairs --------------- Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu Zeletin, FOKUS, De Dr. Arnaldo Madeira, State Government of São Paulo General Chair M. Mendes, mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br Programm Co-Chairs Reima Suomi, Reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi Carlos Passos, carlos.passos(a)cenpra.gov.br Organizing Committee ******************** Organizing Co-Chairs Romildo Monte, romildo.monte(a)cenpra.gov.br Roberto Agune, ragune(a)sp.gov.br Workshops Chair, Clenio Figueiredo, clenio.salviano(a)cenpra.gov.br , Government Liaison Chairs, Agnaldo Lopes, alopes(a)sp.gov.br , Maurício Moraes, mauriciomoraes(a)sp.gov.br Treasurer Chair Jarbas Cardoso, jarbas.cardoso(a)cenpra.gov.br, Tutorials Chair Clever Farias, cleverfarias(a)unisantos.edu.br , Industry Liaison Chair, Jorge Silva, jorge.silva(a)cenpra.gov.br , Publication Chair, Marcos Rodrigues, marcos.rodrigues(a)cenpra.gov.br , Posters Chair Luiz Camolesi, lcamole(a)unimep.br Publicity Chair Ronaldo Lemos, ronaldo.lemos(a)cenpra.gov.br Local Arrangements Chair Marta Rosatelli, rosatelli(a)unisantos.edu.br Hermes Senger, senger(a)unisantos.edu.br Research Colloqium Co-Chairs, Fabrício Silva, fabricio(a)unisantos.edu.br, Frederico de Freitas fred(a)unisantos.br Conference Secretary, Monica Berton, monica.berton(a)cenpra.gov.br International Program Committee ******************************* J. M. Adán Coello, Unisantos, Brazil C. Ary Mendez, Univ. Punta Arenas, Chile D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, France M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, Austria L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Portugal W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, Polland N. Cerpa, Univ. of Talca, Chile Y. F. Chen, ATT, USA J. Cooper, UTP, Australia R. Debreceny, Nanyang Bus.School, Singapore A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece M. Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan B. C.Glasson, Univ.of Notre Dame, Australia W. Golden, National Univ. Of Irland, Irland R. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia D. Khakhar, Lund University, Sweden C. Kirner, UNIMEP, Brazil A. Iyengar, Watson-IBM, USA W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, Netherlands C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, Germany T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, Germany W. Meira, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil J. Miettinen, Finland A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK J. Monteiro, Univ. Minho, Portugal V. Ouzounis, CEC-EU C. Passos, Cenpra, Brazil (Programm Co-Chair) H. Pohl, Univ. Appl. Sciences, Bonn, Germany R. Rabelo, UFSc, Florianopolis, Brazil K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ, Germany B. Roberts, Kingston University, UK H. Rudin, Switzerland B. Schmidt, UNISG, Switzerland D. Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil M. Singh, RMIT University, Australia J. Soto Mejia, Univ. Pereira, Colombia K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland C. Steinfield, Michigan State Univ., USA L. A.M. Strous, IFIP, Netherlands R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., Finland P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz, Germany S. Teufel, Freifourg University, Switzerland R. Traunmueller, UNI Linz, Austria A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, Greece V. Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany V. K. Tuunainen, Helsinki Sch. Econ., Finland M. Waidner, IBM, Zürich, Switerland H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, Netherlands H. Werthner, University of Trento, Italy J. Wielki, Poland H. D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, Switzerland Y. Zhang, Univ. of South. Queensland, Australia IFIP STEERING COMMITTEE *********************** K. Bauknecht, CH B.C. Glasson, AUS D. Khakhar, S J. Miettinen, FIN J. Monteiro, PT H. Rudin, CH S. Teufel, CH V. Tschammer, D ************************** ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS ************************** Organizers ---------- * CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, Campinas (main organizer) * Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos Supporters ---------- * IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11 (main supporter) * State Government of S.Paulo * SBC, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação * SBA, Sociedade Brasileira de Automática ##################################### I3E2003 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3rd IFIP International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government(I3E 2003) Sponsored by IFIP, international Federation for Information Processing September 21-24, 2003 Casa Grande Hotel, São Paulo, Guarujá, BRAZIL ************************************************* Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference ************************************************* + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++ + Next important Dates!! + + ---------------------- + + Workshop Proposals due: 28th February 2003 + + Papers Deadline (extended):April 21st2003 + + Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This conference is the third IFIP conference on e-commerce, e-business, and e-government sponsored by the three committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. It provides a forum for users, engineers, and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in e-commerce, e-business, or e-government applications and the underlying technology to support those applications. Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: eCommerce * Marketplaces, Portals, eHubs * B2B and B2C models * Procurement, negotiations and dynamic pricing models (bidding, auctions) * Content management, ePayment systems * Agent-mediated electronic commerce * Case studies in electronic commerce * Consumer protection in electronic commerce * Costs and benefit aspects * Digital goods and products * Electronic commerce application fields eBusiness * Enterprise Portals * Innovative business models * Supply, Demand and Value chains * Business Process Re-engineering * Interorganizational systems, virtual organizations, and virtual markets * eCommunities * Workflow management and Collaboration * Management of dynamic collaborative networks * Complex adaptive and selforganising systems * Distributed work and knowledge flows in business networks * Business data exchange format and standards eGovernment * Digital cities, Digital regions, Rural networking * eGovernance and eInclusion, * Electronic Public Services for Citizens and enterprises:One-stop Government, Single-Window-Service, Seamless Government * E-Local administration * G2G, G2B, G2C and G2E models * Government Process Reengineering and redesigning cooperation within and between agencies * Frameworks and guidelines for e-Government * Transnational e-Government projects and standards * International and regional projects, case studies and international comparisons * Strategies, implementation policies and best practices Related Technical aspects * Technologies for interoperability and aplication integration * Information & communication OPEN platforms * User Mobility * Unified messaging * Agent and Grid technologies * Information retrieval and extraction and data mining * Knowledge Management * Security, privacy, Trustability * Smart Cards and biometrics * Digital signatures and Certificates * Standards for information interchange and processes, interoperability and semantic standardisation * Web Technologies: - Emerging Standards for Web Data (XML, XSL, RDF etc) - Semantic Web, Ontologies - Web data models and metadata - Knowledge discovery of Web data - Web data mining and analysis * E-(WEB) services - E-service location, selection, brokering - E-service composition, invocation and delivery - E-service monitoring, personalization, management and life cycle - XML-based protocols and description language - Service-based architectures and their underlying technology - Service-oriented application development - Standards for e-services Legal, social, cross-cultural issues * socio-economic research in the governance of networked organisations * e-government models and legal issues. * e-Inclusion * e-Democracy strategies, citizen participation in local public affairs * e-Governance tools for policymaking in governments and in policy networks * New organisational arrangements: ad-hoc co-operation and coalition between public agencies and public-private-partnerships * Institutional change and IT-driven modernisation of public governance structures * Intellectual property licensing * Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues MAIN TRACK, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *********************************** The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics above and several workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS *********************** Paper submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages in length. Submissions should include title, authors and a 150-word abstract as a front page, identify the author responsible for correspondence, incl. the authors name, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The core paper should include the title only and no info about the authors. One of the authors of each paper must register and present the paper at the conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Best papers are selected by the best paper award committee. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as a Microsoft Word document, PDF, or in Postscript format. INFORMATION FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS *************************************** Proposals for workshops should describe the title, scope and organizational structure. Workshop chairs are responsible for both organizing the review process and promotion of their workshop. Tutorial proposals should include the tutorial title, the names and a brief biography for each presenter (approximately half page) and a summary of the tutorial contents (approximately 1-2 pages . Proposals should be send electronically as Word or PDF files following the link at the conference homepage. INFORMATION FOR THE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM AND POSTERS *************************************************** Research Colloquium offers PhD and Master students in themes related to I3E the opportunity to present and discuss their work with each other as well as a number of experienced international researchers. Students from all the I3E related disciplines are encouraged to apply, although numbers will be limited. Submissions should outline current research in progress and be no longer than 3 pages in length. An abstract and biographical note should be included. Poster submissions graphically illustrating original contributions on eCommerce, eBusiness and eGovernment are invited. Successful posters will be on show for the duration of the conference. Submissions should be comprised of a 2 page description of the theory, method, or technology the poster will illustrate. Final descriptions of posters will be included in the Conference Supplement. ******************** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** Papers ------ Deadline: March 28th , 2003, Notification of acceptance: May 2nd , 2003, Camera-ready papers:June 13th , 2003 Workshops --------- Deadline: 28th February 2003 Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003, Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003 Tutorials --------- Deadline: 30th April 2003, Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003, Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003 Posters ------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 Research Colloquium ------------------- Deadline: 30th May 2003, Notification of acceptance: 27th Juni 2003, Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003 GENERAL INFORMATION ******************* Conference site for more information: http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference ********* COMMITTEE ********* Honorary Chairs --------------- Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu Zeletin, FOKUS, De Dr. Arnaldo Madeira, State Government of São Paulo General Chair M. Mendes, mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br Programm Co-Chairs Reima Suomi, Reima.suomi(a)tukkk.fi Carlos Passos, carlos.passos(a)cenpra.gov.br Organizing Committee ******************** Organizing Co-Chairs Romildo Monte, romildo.monte(a)cenpra.gov.br Roberto Agune, ragune(a)sp.gov.br Workshops Chair, Clenio Figueiredo, clenio.salviano(a)cenpra.gov.br , Government Liaison Chairs, Agnaldo Lopes, alopes(a)sp.gov.br , Maurício Moraes, mauriciomoraes(a)sp.gov.br Treasurer Chair Jarbas Cardoso, jarbas.cardoso(a)cenpra.gov.br, Tutorials Chair Clever Farias, cleverfarias(a)unisantos.edu.br , Industry Liaison Chair, Jorge Silva, jorge.silva(a)cenpra.gov.br , Publication Chair, Marcos Rodrigues, marcos.rodrigues(a)cenpra.gov.br , Posters Chair Luiz Camolesi, lcamole(a)unimep.br Publicity Chair Ronaldo Lemos, ronaldo.lemos(a)cenpra.gov.br Local Arrangements Chair Marta Rosatelli, rosatelli(a)unisantos.edu.br Hermes Senger, senger(a)unisantos.edu.br Research Colloqium Co-Chairs, Fabrício Silva, fabricio(a)unisantos.edu.br, Frederico de Freitas fred(a)unisantos.br Conference Secretary, Monica Berton, monica.berton(a)cenpra.gov.br International Program Committee ******************************* J. M. Adán Coello, Unisantos, Brazil C. Ary Mendez, Univ. Punta Arenas, Chile D. Avison, Essec Bus. School, France M. Bichler, Univ. of Econ., Vienna, Austria L. M. Camarinha-Matos, Univ. Nova, Portugal W. Cellary, Univ. of Econ., Poznan, Polland N. Cerpa, Univ. of Talca, Chile Y. F. Chen, ATT, USA J. Cooper, UTP, Australia R. Debreceny, Nanyang Bus.School, Singapore A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece M. Funabashi, Hitachi, Japan B. C.Glasson, Univ.of Notre Dame, Australia W. Golden, National Univ. Of Irland, Irland R. Grimm, TU Ilmenau, Germany F. Kamoun, ENSI, Tunis, Tunisia C. Kirner, UNIMEP, Brazil A. Iyengar, Watson-IBM, USA W. Lamersdorf, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany R. Lee, Erasmus Uni., Rotterdam, Netherlands C. Linnhoff-Popien, Univ. of Munich, Germany T. Magedanz, IKV++, Berlin, Germany W. Meira, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil J. Miettinen, Finland A. Molina, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK J. Monteiro, Univ. Minho, Portugal V. Ouzounis, CEC-EU C. Passos, Cenpra, Brazil (Programm Co-Chair) H. Pohl, Univ. Appl. Sciences, Bonn, Germany R. Rabelo, UFSc, Florianopolis, Brazil K. Rannenberg, Goethe Univ, Germany B. Roberts, Kingston University, UK H. Rudin, Switzerland B. Schmidt, UNISG, Switzerland D. Schwabe, PUC-Rio, Brazil M. Singh, RMIT University, Australia J. Soto Mejia, Univ. Pereira, Colombia K. Stanoevska, Univ. St. Gallen, Switzerland C. Steinfield, Michigan State Univ., USA L. A.M. Strous, IFIP, Netherlands R. Suomi, Turku School of Econ., Finland P. Swatman, Univ. Koblenz, Germany S. Teufel, Freifourg University, Switzerland R. Traunmueller, UNI Linz, Austria A. Tsalgatidou, Univ. of Athens, Greece V. Tschammer, FhG FOKUS, Germany V. K. Tuunainen, Helsinki Sch. Econ., Finland M. Waidner, IBM, Zürich, Switerland H. Weigand, Univ. Tilburg, Netherlands H. Werthner, University of Trento, Italy J. Wielki, Poland H. D. Zimmermann, U. St. Gallen, Switzerland Y. Zhang, Univ. of South. Queensland, Australia IFIP STEERING COMMITTEE *********************** K. Bauknecht, CH B.C. Glasson, AUS D. Khakhar, S J. Miettinen, FIN J. Monteiro, PT H. Rudin, CH S. Teufel, CH V. Tschammer, D ************************** ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS ************************** Organizers ---------- * CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e Tecnologia, Campinas (main organizer) * Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos Supporters ---------- * IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing hosted by the three technical committees TC6, TC8, and TC11 (main supporter) * State Government of S.Paulo * SBC, Sociedade Brasileira de Computação * SBA, Sociedade Brasileira de Automática ______________________________________ Prof. Dr. Manuel de Jesus Mendes Home Phone: +55-19-32874003 Mobile Phone: +55-19-9604 5003 Mail Address: mjmendes(a)unimep.br mjmendes(a)bestway.com.br _______________________________________

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IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003: Deadline extended: May 1;
by Marcus Brunner 15 Apr '03

15 Apr '03

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1 MAY, 2003 *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS October 20-22, 2003 Heidelberg, Germany http://www.dsom2003.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" The fourteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management will be held October 20-22, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks with co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop location is the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EURESCOM), beautifully situated above the romantic city of Heidelberg with its unique blend of river landscape, historic town, and hillside castle. WORKSHOP SCOPE The scope of this workshop will be on the operations and management of distributed systems, networks, application software, and services and the impact of advanced computing and network technologies on management. The theme of this workshop will be "Self-Managing Systems". Recent activities in distributed processing and network management aim at building self-managing and self-organizing computing systems and networks whose purpose is to automate some or all of the tasks typically carried out by an administrator or management system. This concept takes the distributed management paradigm one step further by providing managed resources with a very high degree of autonomy. Self-managing systems will be able to detect failures or performance degradations, initiate diagnostic procedures and carry out corrective actions on their own. Their ability to discover changes in the environment will enable Self-managing Systems to adapt and optimize their behavior. Self-management is particularly important for mobile systems, since mobile environments are highly dynamic and consist of a very large number of managed systems. The workshop will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems, as well as research results on other topics related to distributed management. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks and Platforms for Self-managing Systems * Case Studies and Experiences with Self-managing Systems * Self-healing Systems and Networks * Using Peer-to-peer Technologies for Management * Management Issues in Grid Computing and Grid-based Management Systems * Application of Service oriented Architectures (Web Services, Open Grid Services Architecture) to Self-managing Systems * Implementation and Integration of Self-managing Systems with standardized frameworks, management architectures and APIs (OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, WBEM/CIM, JMX) * Experiences with Distributed Management of Systems, Applications and Services * End-to-end Service Provisioning * Monitoring, Event and Fault Handling * QoS Management in Distributed Systems and Networks * Transaction Monitoring and Management * Automated Instrumentation of Distributed Applications * Management Information Models * Inter-Domain Management * Adaptive Services and Applications * Active Technologies for Management * Policy-based Management * Configuration Management and Self-Configuration * Security and Trust Issues in Distributed Management * Mobility Management WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The workshop is an effort to bring together people actively working in the management area. This international workshop is the 14th in a series of highly successful annual workshops on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM)". Recent DSOM workshops were held in Zurich (1999), Austin (2000), Nancy (2001), and Montreal (2002). Selection of contributions will be based on reviews of the papers submitted. We also plan to hold a work-in-progress session where early work will be presented. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2003. *** Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2003 *** Authors are requested to submit: - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Workshop web site http://www.dsom2003.org/. The Proceedings of the Workshop, comprising both the accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. If accepted, the camera-ready copy of each paper will have to comply with the instructions available from the Springer web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Note that a paper does not have to follow this style for submission; however, being aware of the LNCS requirements may help save extra work later. A Best Paper Award will be presented. Candidates for the award will be identified during the regular review process; an independent awards committee will evaluate the candidate papers together with their presentations and select the best paper. IMPORTANT DATES EXTENDED(!) Deadline for Receipt of Full Papers: May 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance mailed: June 30, 2003 Author Registration and Final Camera Ready Papers Due: July 31, 2003 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marcus Brunner Alexander Keller NEC Europe Ltd. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kurfuersten-Anlage 34 P.O. Box 704 D-69115 Heidelberg Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Germany USA Email: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Email: alexk(a)us.ibm.com TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Metin Feridun, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Olivier Festor, LORIA/INRIA, France Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany German Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gautam Kar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryotaro Kawamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan SeongBeom Kim, R&D Group Korea Telecom, Korea Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya, USA Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA Juergen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Radu State, LORIA/INRIA, France Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil CORPORATE PATRON: IBM Corporation GENERAL INFORMATION For tourist information on Heidelberg and directions to the workshop location, please visit the following web sites: Heidelberg Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de EURESCOM (workshop location): http://www.eurescom.de Heidelberg City Information: http://www.heidelberg.de _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ -------------------------------------- Dr. Marcus Brunner Network Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd. E-Mail: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de WWW: http://www.ccrle.nec.de/ Phone: +49 (0) 6221 905 11 29 personal home page: http://www.brubers.org/marcus

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WG Reports
by Augusto Casaca 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Dear colleagues, Please send your WG reports for the TC6 meeting in Budapest until 7th of May. I need some time to extract the data included there to update the TC6 statistics. Please use the submission via the TC6 web site. You have already received an invitation for the Budapest meeting and hotel information from Sarolta. Please indicate your presence in the meeting by sending a mail to Sarolta and myself. I will be absent on holiday next week. I wish a happy Easter to all of you and your families Best regards Augusto

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FW: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat
by Augusto Casaca 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, I am sending this message again as I am afraid there has been problems with the TC6 server yesterday. Best regards Augusto -----Original Message----- From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein Sent: quinta-feira, 10 de Abril de 2003 12:54 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat Importance: High Dear represenrtatives of IFIP member societies, Dear TC chairs, it is with personal regret that I have to inform you that on Friday April 4th 2003 I was obliged, with the agreement of the members of the Executive Board (EB), to terminate Plamen Nedkovs role as IFIP Executive Director. During meetings of EB in Bilbao various issues were raised concerning the work of the EB and the Executive Director which EB agreed should be investigated by the IFIP Secretary. This esp. included cases of decisions on personell where ED informed EB only about arguments supporting his suggestions but leaving out essential decisions of previous presidents which explicitly contradicted those suggestions. I expressly instructed EB and the Executive Director that the issues were not to be discussed publicly until that report was received. Following the EB meeting, and in direct contravention of my instruction, the Executive Director sent an email to a large number of those who had attended the Bilbao Council meeting discussing some of the issues. I sent him an email reminding him of my instruction. Plamen Nedkovs response was to send a further email to the Council members, which included an admission that he had breached the Presidents earlier instruction against discussing the issues publicly. As a result of this deliberate breach of my instruction I had no alternative but to ask Plamen Nedkov to sign a short statement apologising to EB and agreeing to respect the confidentiality of EB discussions in future. He declined to sign the letter. Consequently on Thursday March 27th 2003 the IFIP Secretary and I met with Plamen Nedkov to discuss the matter with him. Plamen Nedkov was again invited to sign the statement but declined. Consequently we discussed, at his suggestion, possible terms for a mutually agreeable termination of his employment. On behalf of EB I made an initial offer which was significantly more than the terms specified in his contract concerning termination of the contract and invited him to respond. He asked for a weeks delay to consider his position, to which we agreed. Because of the seriousness of this matter, in addition to EB, I consulted a number of recent IFIP Presidents who all expressed their support for the way the matter was to be handled. Our discussion resumed on Friday, April 4th 2003. I again invited him to sign the statement but he declined. I restated EBs previous offer and invited his response. Plamen Nedkov requested a financial package far in excess of the terms that EB considered appropriate. Despite our requests, Plamen Nedkov declined to negotiate further. Consequently I had no alternative but to terminate his role within IFIP with immediate effect and in accordance with the terms in his contract. IFIP staff are employed on our behalf by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Before taking these final steps, I had consulted their Director of Human Resources and acted in accordance with her guidance. The final contractual matters will now be formally concluded by the Academy in accordance with Austrian labour practice and law. Until these formal steps have been concluded I do not feel it appropriate to give more details of the offers made on either side. I very much regret that I have had to take these steps. EB is convinced that Plamen Nedkovs behaviour constituted a fundamental and repeated breach of the trust that is essential to the success of IFIPs work. For the moment, Dorothy Hayden will take over the running of the office in Laxenburg. EB is taking immediate steps to ensure that the essential work of IFIP is maintained. EB is actively examining a number of options for the future and I will be in touch with you again as soon as there is more news to give you. Finally, I wish to add a word of appreciation of the work which Plamen did esp. for Technical Committees and Working Groups. As I experienced myself during my time as TC-9 chair and TA chair, Plamen indeed supported TC and WG work in a friendly and efficient way. I had sincerely hoped and repeatedly tried my best to reconstruct the atmosphere of trust and cooperation which was the basis of my previous work with Plamen, but he refused my suggestions which would have been a fair basis of continued cooperation. Yours sincerely Klaus Brunnstein

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FW: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat
by Augusto Casaca 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

Dear TC6 members, For your information I forward the message that I received from the IFIP President. 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: quinta-feira, 10 de Abril de 2003 12:54 To: IFIP GA Cc: Klaus Brunnstein Subject: [IFIP GA] information about IFIP secretariat Importance: High Dear represenrtatives of IFIP member societies, Dear TC chairs, it is with personal regret that I have to inform you that on Friday April 4th 2003 I was obliged, with the agreement of the members of the Executive Board (EB), to terminate Plamen Nedkovs role as IFIP Executive Director. During meetings of EB in Bilbao various issues were raised concerning the work of the EB and the Executive Director which EB agreed should be investigated by the IFIP Secretary. This esp. included cases of decisions on personell where ED informed EB only about arguments supporting his suggestions but leaving out essential decisions of previous presidents which explicitly contradicted those suggestions. I expressly instructed EB and the Executive Director that the issues were not to be discussed publicly until that report was received. Following the EB meeting, and in direct contravention of my instruction, the Executive Director sent an email to a large number of those who had attended the Bilbao Council meeting discussing some of the issues. I sent him an email reminding him of my instruction. Plamen Nedkovs response was to send a further email to the Council members, which included an admission that he had breached the Presidents earlier instruction against discussing the issues publicly. As a result of this deliberate breach of my instruction I had no alternative but to ask Plamen Nedkov to sign a short statement apologising to EB and agreeing to respect the confidentiality of EB discussions in future. He declined to sign the letter. Consequently on Thursday March 27th 2003 the IFIP Secretary and I met with Plamen Nedkov to discuss the matter with him. Plamen Nedkov was again invited to sign the statement but declined. Consequently we discussed, at his suggestion, possible terms for a mutually agreeable termination of his employment. On behalf of EB I made an initial offer which was significantly more than the terms specified in his contract concerning termination of the contract and invited him to respond. He asked for a weeks delay to consider his position, to which we agreed. Because of the seriousness of this matter, in addition to EB, I consulted a number of recent IFIP Presidents who all expressed their support for the way the matter was to be handled. Our discussion resumed on Friday, April 4th 2003. I again invited him to sign the statement but he declined. I restated EBs previous offer and invited his response. Plamen Nedkov requested a financial package far in excess of the terms that EB considered appropriate. Despite our requests, Plamen Nedkov declined to negotiate further. Consequently I had no alternative but to terminate his role within IFIP with immediate effect and in accordance with the terms in his contract. IFIP staff are employed on our behalf by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Before taking these final steps, I had consulted their Director of Human Resources and acted in accordance with her guidance. The final contractual matters will now be formally concluded by the Academy in accordance with Austrian labour practice and law. Until these formal steps have been concluded I do not feel it appropriate to give more details of the offers made on either side. I very much regret that I have had to take these steps. EB is convinced that Plamen Nedkovs behaviour constituted a fundamental and repeated breach of the trust that is essential to the success of IFIPs work. For the moment, Dorothy Hayden will take over the running of the office in Laxenburg. EB is taking immediate steps to ensure that the essential work of IFIP is maintained. EB is actively examining a number of options for the future and I will be in touch with you again as soon as there is more news to give you. Finally, I wish to add a word of appreciation of the work which Plamen did esp. for Technical Committees and Working Groups. As I experienced myself during my time as TC-9 chair and TA chair, Plamen indeed supported TC and WG work in a friendly and efficient way. I had sincerely hoped and repeatedly tried my best to reconstruct the atmosphere of trust and cooperation which was the basis of my previous work with Plamen, but he refused my suggestions which would have been a fair basis of continued cooperation. Yours sincerely Klaus Brunnstein

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