Dear colleagues,
meanwhile I found out a little more about the new Kouvatsos event.
There are two other IFIP delegates within the 151 committee members. - Villy Baek Iversen (who was not contacted by Kouvatsos and had never heard of the event before; probably he is in the list since they included a lot of people from the Euro3GI proposal which has just been submitted to the EU - and Villy Baek is like me a member of the enormous list of partners). - Ioannis Stavrakakis (the new 6.3 chairman) who is said to have accepted to act as a co-chair for one of the tracks - maybe without telling him anything about side effects which this might have for TC6.
Indeed, if you make a Google search for "Ilkley Kouvatsos" you will find interesting information such as the following (see below) which was sent to SIGMETRICS and which says that HET-NETs "follows the earlier series of IFIP events on the performance modelling and evaluation of ATM & IP networks". I'm quite suprised that apparently IFIP TC6 was not at all informed about this successorship. This is another example of "how to make (much!) money by using the name of IFIP TC6". As a certain consolation: It is good that it is still possible to make money out of our institution even if we by ourselves are not really the most clever people to make profit out of it.
Best regards Otto Spaniol
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Subject: HET-NETs '03 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:25:07 -0500 (EST) From: ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Bulletin Board sigmetrics@haven.csm.ornl.gov Reply-To: d.d.kouvatsos@scm.brad.ac.uk To: sigmetrics-bb@haven.csm.ornl.gov
Dear Colleagues,
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS (HET-NETs '03) ILKLEY, U.K., 21-23 JULY, 2003.
The HET-NETs '03 Working Conference follows the earlier series of IFIP events on the performance modelling and evaluation of ATM & IP networks. The event has useful links with the major EU funded project "IASON" dealing with the design and development of a generic performance evaluation platform for services interoperability and networks. "IASON" involves strong industrial participation and the co-ordinator of the project, Dr. Michael Dopfer, Head of Information and Communication Mobile Networks/Mobile Core, Munich (Siemens AG), Germany, has kindly accepted to act the Co-Chair on the special track on 'Performance Measurement Platforms'. Moreover, the conference is organised in collaboration with the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Consortium "Euro-3Gi" which involves over 50 of the very best EU research groups focusing on the design and dimensioning of the 3rd generation Internet. Professor Daniel Kofman, ENST-INFRES Institute, Paris, France, the co-ordinator of "Euro-3Gi", has kindly agreed to act as the Co-Chair for the special track on 'Performance Modelling Studies' concerning the convergence of multiservice heterogeneous networks. Finally, Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis, Head of Communication Networks Lab (CNL), Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, has kindly accepted to act as the Co-Chair for the special track on Methodologies and Analytic Tools. It is envisaged that the latter track may also attract a few contributions from other application areas of discrete flow systems, where new analytical advances might be of relevance to the performance modelling of telecommunication systems of diverse technologies.
There is already a lot of enthusiasm and support from colleagues for the staging of HET-NETs '03 at international level. Your research group is cordially invited to participate and make a technical input. It is envisaged that the event will make an effective contribution to both structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the excellence worldwide.
All the very best,
Demetres Kouvatsos