Dear IFIP TC 6:
Please distribute the following Call for Papers announcement for WITASI 2002. This workshop is being sponsored by IFIP WG 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering.
Best Regards, Arun Iyengar
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2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact WITASI'02 Wroclaw, Poland October 10 - 11, 2002 Submission Deadline: April 7, 2002 http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/
Announcement and Call for Papers
The 2002 IFIP Workshop on Internet Technologies, Applications, and Societal Impact (WITASI'02) will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, on October 10 - 11, 2002. WITASI'02 will provide a forum for researchers, application and platform service vendors, and users to review, discuss and learn about new concepts, approaches, technologies and experiences related to the Internet. Attendees will participate in a high quality scientific and technical workshop with specialists in Internet technology from all over the world.
The scope of WITASI'02 includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
Internet technologies: coding multimedia data, security, multicast techniques, virtual private networks, agent technologies.
Internet performance: caching, quality of service, scalability aspects, traffic characterization.
Web technologies: searching and querying, navigation strategies, multilingual services, markup languages, virtual reality.
Applications: communications, collaboration, commerce, virtual enterprises, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc.
Impact on: society, economy, education, culture, etc.
The WITASI'02 program will contain invited and regular papers. The event is organised by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology and sponsored by IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering.
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit papers relevant to the scope of the workshop. The submitted papers must be original, unpublished and must not be considered for publication elsewhere.
Submissions of papers according to Kluwer style guidelines available at http://www.wkap.com/ifip/styles/ is strongly encouraged but not required.
All submitted papers should be in pdf format, not exceeding 4500 words (comparable to 10 pages prepared according to Kluwer style).
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
Schedule
Deadline for full paper submissions: April 7, 2002 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2002 Final versions and Authors registration July 1, 2002
Submission method
Papers should be submitted electronically via the URL: URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/submission
E-mail submission is also possible at: witasi-papers@ists.pwr.wroc.pl
Proceedings
All papers accepted for publication and presentation at the workshop will appear in the conference proceedings published by Kluwer. Final versions of accepted papers have to be formatted according to guidelines specified by Kluwer. Instructions for authors of accepted papers will be on the WITASI'02 web site.
General Chair Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Program Co-Chairs Wojciech Cellary Poznan University of Economics, Poland Arun Iyengar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Program Committee Leszek Borzemski Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Soumen Chakrabarti Indian Institute of Technology, India Yi-Farn Robin Chen AT&T Labs, USA Tadeusz Czachorski Silesian University of Technology, Poland Dave De Roure University of Southampton, UK Nicolas D. Georganas University of Ottawa, Canada Claude Godart LORIA, France Adam Grzech Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Sumi Helal University of Florida, USA Katsuo Ikeda Kyoto University, Japan Henryk Krawczyk Technical University of Gdansk, Poland Kazimierz Krzysztofek Research Institute for Culture, Warsaw, Poland Winfried Lamersdorf University of Hamburg, Germany Steve Lawrence NEC Research Institute, USA Jozef Lubacz Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Michael Lyu Chinese University of Hong Kong Tadeusz Morzy Poznan University of Technology, Poland San Murugesan University of Western Sydney Macarthur, Australia Wee Keong Ng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Marian Niedzwiedzinski Technical University of Lodz, Poland Guenther Pernul University of Essen, Germany Franz-Josef Radermacher FAW Ulm, Germany Cormac Sreenan University College Cork, Ireland Zdzislaw Szyjewski Technical University of Szczecin, Poland Volker Tschammer GMD Fokus, Germany Joseph Urban Arizona State U., USA Krzysztof Zielinski University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland Jaroslaw Zendulka Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic Mary Ellen Zurko IBM Software Group, USA
Further information
Information and new developments are described at the WITASI'02 web site. Questions may be directed to the Organizing Committee using the addresses below.
Address for correspondence
Postal address: WITASI 2002 Institute of Control and Systems Engineering Wroclaw University of Technology Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27 50-370 Wroclaw Poland
E-mail: witasi2002@ists.pwr.wroc.pl Phone: +48 71 320 33 28, +48 71 3212 62 26 Fax: +48 71 320 38 84 URL: http://www.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/witasi/