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Dear colleague,
this is to notify you that the submission process for the 4th International Workshop on Advanced Charging and QoS Technology has now started. ICQT'04 will be held on Oct 1st, 2004, in Barcelona, Spain, in colocation with QoFIS'04 and WQoSR'04.
Paper submission is managed through the EDAS system at www.edas.info. Note that the submission deadline of May 2nd, 2004, is approaching rapidly.
For your convencience, please find attached the Final Call for Papers. For further information we refer to the ICQT homepage at http://www.ftw.at/icqt, or feel free to contact one of the TPC co-chairs at icqt04@ftw.at.
Best wishes, B. Stiller P. Reichl R. Gibbens ICQT'04 TPC Co-chairs
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Final Call for Papers Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT'04) "QoS has its Price"
co-located with the Fifth International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS'04)
September 29 - October 1, 2004 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain ICQT'04 URL: http://www.ftw.at/icqt
Scope ^^^^^ The current shift of Internet communications towards differentiated services enables and supports a huge variety of prosperous business models. The resulting combination of support service issues with technological and economic perspectives drives many relevant and interesting research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel Internet charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of communications services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series.
ICQT'04 is the fourth event in this series, following the highly successful workshops ICQT'01 in Vienna (Austria), ICQT'02 in Zurich (Switzerland) and ICQT'03 in Munich (Germany). The focus of this year's workshop is on the economics of Internet services, pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and the required technology in support of charging. Besides charging technology in terms of monitoring, accounting, and security mechanisms, also pricing and charging models for peer-to-peer applications, multicast, wireless, and QoS services are of importance. Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:
o Network economics and economic models for the Internet o Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing o Internet charging technologies o Monitoring, measuring, and accounting o ISP cost and business models o Charging for QoS, services, and content o Pricing mobile and wireless services o Application service provider models o Security mechanisms for charging o Management of Service Level Agreements
Papers and Submissions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory.
Papers submission is being handled through the EDAS system running at http://www.edas.info. The submission procedure is a three-step process: (1) First, you have to register the author(s) within the EDAS system. To do this, go to the EDAS system and follow the instructions. (2) Next, you have to register the paper within the EDAS system. To do this, login into the EDAS system, find "ICQT'04" in the list of conferences and click on the link to submit a paper for ICQT'04. You have to fill out a form which describes your paper. (3) Finally, you can (from within EDAS) upload your PDF file. Once the upload has completed successfully, the submission procedure ends. If you experience problems with the system, please feel free to send an email to icqt04@ftw.at.
Please check the URL http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions or contact icqt04@ftw.at for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series and will be available during the event.
Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines (see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0, 00.html for detailed information) in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be strictly followed without exception, including the 10 page limit.
Important Dates ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2004 Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2004 Camera ready version: July 25, 2004 Workshop date: October 1, 2004
General Information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The final program will be run as a full day on October 1, 2004, preceded by QofIS'04 on September 29-30, 2004, http://www.qofis.org. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both ICQT'04 and QoFIS'04. For more information please visit http://www.ftw.at/icqt or contact icqt04@ftw.at.
Program Co-Chairs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Reichl FTW Vienna, Austria Richard Gibbens Cambridge University, U.K.
Program Committee ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Joern Altmann University of Berkeley, U.S.A. Ragnar Andreassen Telenor, Norway Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna, Austria Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies, U.K. Roland Bueschkes T-Mobile International, Germany Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Chris Edwards Lancaster University, U.K. Martin Karsten University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Key Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Munich, Germany Simon Leinen SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Peter Marbach University of Toronto, Canada Robin Mason University of Southampton, U.K. Lee McKnight Syracuse University, U.S.A. Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Huw Oliver Lancaster University, U.K. Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks, U.S.A. Kihong Park Purdue University, U.S.A. Guido Petit Alcatel, Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University, U.S.A. Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little, Germany Jens Schmitt Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Vasilios Siris ICS Forth, Greece Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen, Germany Bruno Tuffin INRIA Rennes, France