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)
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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
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
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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
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Jointly organized by
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Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
&
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), India
Co-Sponsored by
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IEEE AES-COM-LEO SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA
in cooperation with
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IFIP TC6
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAPTER, INDIA
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Scope:
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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:
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* Manuscript Submission: June 15, 2003
* Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2003
* Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: September 15, 2003
Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
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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:
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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.
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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
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Contacts:
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General Chairs:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
Email: das(a)cse.uta.edu
Tutorial Chairs:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Avijit Kar, Jadavpur University, India
E-mail: avijit_kar(a)vsnl.com
Nabendu Chaki, Calcutta Univeraity, India
E-mail: nabendu(a)ieee.org
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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
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!
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
Apologies for multiple copies.
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N.B. The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 is Tuesday April 22.
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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/.
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I3E2003
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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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
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Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference
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+ Next important Dates!! +
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+ +
+ Papers Deadline (extended):April 21st2003 +
+ Tutorial proposals due: 30th April 2003 +
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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
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The conference will comprise several tracks with papers in the topics
above and several
workshops and tutorials dedicated to special topics.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
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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
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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.
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Papers
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Deadline: 21st April , 2003,
Notification of acceptance: May 30th , 2003,
Camera-ready papers:June 30th , 2003
Workshops
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Deadline: 28th February 2003 (closed)
Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003,
Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003
Tutorials
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Deadline: 30th April 2003,
Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003,
Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003
Posters
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Deadline: 30th May 2003,
Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003,
Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003
Research Colloquium
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Deadline: 30th May 2003,
Notification of acceptance: 27th Juni 2003,
Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Conference site for more information:
http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E-conference
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COMMITTEE
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Honorary Chairs
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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
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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
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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
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ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS
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Organizers
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* CenPRA, Centro de Pesquisas Renato Archer, Ministério de Ciência e
Tecnologia,
Campinas (main organizer)
* Unisantos, Universidade Católica de Santos, Santos
Supporters
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* 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
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I3E2003
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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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
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Homepage http://www.cenpra.gov.br/I3E_conference
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++
+ 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
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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.
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IMPORTANT DEADLINES
********************
Papers
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Deadline: March 28th , 2003,
Notification of acceptance: May 2nd , 2003,
Camera-ready papers:June 13th , 2003
Workshops
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Deadline: 28th February 2003
Notification of acceptance: 28th March 2003,
Camera-ready Material due: 31th July 2003
Tutorials
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Deadline: 30th April 2003,
Notification of acceptance:30th May 2003,
Camera-ready material due: 31th July 2003
Posters
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Deadline: 30th May 2003,
Notification of acceptance: 27th June 2003,
Camera-ready copy due: 31th July 2003
Research Colloquium
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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
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ORGANIZERS AND SUPPORTERS
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Organizers
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* 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
_______________________________________
Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies.
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14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003)
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*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1 MAY, 2003 ***
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
October 20-22, 2003
Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.dsom2003.org
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"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
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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
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
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
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