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Call For Papers: Workshop on emerging services delivery
platforms and software models for Next Generation Network Services
(http://www.softplatforms.org)
This workshop will be held in conjunction with the FIRST
International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and MiddlewaRE
(COMSWARE 2006) at
The exact date of the workshop will be made available on the
workshop's Web site http://www.softplatforms.org.
Workshop Objectives:
The next generation services networks deliver enhanced
business capabilities such as data, video, messaging and business functions for
wired and wireless consumers. These new sets of services enhance the business
opportunities by integrating with core business services, including: supply
chain management, customer management, and consumer applications. This workshop
aims to discuss topics related to emerging next generation services and service
delivery platforms to host/support such complex application environments.
The workshop focuses on:
* How next generation service delivery platforms deliver
enhanced QoS management, operational efficiencies, flexible services
composability, faster time-to-market, efficient trust models and flexible
pricing models.
* Technical and business factors influencing the services
composability and network services delivery environments. The associated
revenue and cost models for consumers, suppliers and application providers.
* The influences of emerging distributed computing
architecture styles (loosely-coupled, asynchronous, compos able, collaborative,
decentralized and parallel services) related to service delivery models.
* Emerging middleware platforms for network services,
service composability, distributed architecture models and programming models.
* New services models (communication services,
presence-enabled services, content/media services and enterprise/legacy
services) and value creation environments that represents new business
opportunities for operators and providers.
This workshop invites papers from research and business
communities on the different aspects of service delivery platforms and emerging
services models. The workshop will include papers that examine interesting
practical problems, case studies, best practices, middleware platforms and
innovative messaging architectures.
Submission Guidelines:
All papers are limited to 5 pages and must be in standard
IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the
workshops co-chairs with the e-mail addresses given above.
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: September 23, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: October 28, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: November 25, 2005
Contact and organization:
For any questions regarding the workshop feel free to
contact
1. Craig Fellenstein, IBM (cfellen@us.ibm.com)
2. Joshy Joseph, Microsoft (jojoseph@microsoft.com)
Submission requirements:
All papers are limited to 5 pages and must be in standard
IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the
workshops co-chairs.