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CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware
COMSWARE 2006
http://www.comsware.org -----------------------
January 8 - 12, 2006 Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India
Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi In Co-operation with: ACM SIGMOBILE Sponsored by: CreateNet (Italy), ICST (USA), IBM, Microsoft Research, NOKIA, Lucent Technologies, Sasken
The convergence of the communications, information technologies and the Internet has ushered in a revolution in the way people communicate with each other. The key enabler for this convergence has been the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, as evident by the high levels of activity in the industry, academia, and standards bodies, coupled with the increasing dependence of this convergence to sustain and improve growth rates in many countries around the world.
This new international conference will provide a forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices and challenging issues, raise awareness and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of software techniques in communications. The conference will bring leading researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from communications software and software engineering aspects of communications software, to middleware and networking protocols. The objective of the conference is to provide a high degree of collaboration, participation and discussions of the various topics among multi-national participants from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors.
COMSWARE will include a regular paper track and an industry track. The paper track will include a highly selective technical program. The conference solicits original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, and practical experiences for the technical program. COMSWARE will also feature panel discussions from experts in academia and industry, workshops and tutorials featuring the state-of-the-art in various communications software and related areas. There will be demos and exhibits that will expose the delegates to exciting products and software solutions from industry and academia. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society. The top papers accepted to the conference will be published in a reputed journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
� Communications Software � Reconfigurable Software Stacks � Software Engineering Aspects of Communications Software � Context-Based and Implicit Computing � Telecommunications Services and QoS � Software for Billing and Pricing � User Interfaces and Interaction Models � Multi-Agent Systems � Client-Server Applications � Mobile and Intermittently Connected Applications � Mobile Data Management � Middleware Services and Agent Technologies � Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks � Middleware for P2P Systems � Middleware for Future Communication Networks � Information Infrastructure and Security � Security and Privacy Issues of Pervasive Computing Systems � Network Operations and Management � Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations � Reliability Support Software � Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms � Management Software for Optical Networks � Network Monitoring Software � Internet and IP based Services � Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment � Service Discovery Mechanisms � Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery � Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services � Performance Evaluation Techniques � Location Determination � Positioning and Tracking Technologies � Smart Devices and Smart Spaces � Enterprise Networking � Personal Area Networks � Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks � Next Generation Networks and Services
Deadlines ********* Paper Submission: June 4, 2005 (Instructions at http://www.comsware.org) Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2005 Camera-ready due: September 26, 2005
Conference Organizing Committee ******************************* General Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA
Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA
Program Chairs: Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Technologies, USA G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
Tutorial Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
Workshop Chairs: Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Research, USA Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester, USA
Demos/Exhibit Chair: Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India Demos/Exhibit Co-Chair: Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India
Publicity Chair: Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Marco Conti, IIT, Pisa, Italy Ben Lancini, LinLan, Brisbane, Australia Prashant Pradhan, IBM Research, USA Hemant Chaskar, Airtight Networks, India
Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi Laurent Mignet, IBM Research, Delhi
Finance Chair: Karen Decker, USA