-----Original Message----- From: SIGCOMM 2003 [mailto:jpgs@acm.org] Sent: quarta-feira, 15 de Janeiro de 2003 00:02 To: Augusto.Casaca@inesc.pt Cc: James P.G. Sterbenz Subject: CFP *FINAL*: SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe Germany, 25--29 August

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (New this Year: a Broader Vision)

ACM SIGCOMM 2003 -- A Data Communication Festival 25 - 29 August 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003

DEADLINES Registration of paper: 31 January 2003 (firm) Submission of full paper: 5 February 2003 (firm) Submission of posters: tentatively June 2003

We invite papers that are about communications systems, whether imagined, architected, built, measured, analyzed, or simulated and comprehended.

We have no preferred topics within the broad range of potential topics from policy and operations through information coding and transmission. Papers might be a detailed exploration of a well travelled path, or shed light on the boundary between two or more areas. Papers might present cross-cutting design principles, report on practice, or prove new properties for networked systems. Papers on infrastructures or methods that enable new research are also welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Operations Resource Management Distributed Applications Security Protocols Systems Transmission Network Architecture

We invite full papers that present original, reproducible results (14 pages) and position papers that present preliminary work rich in implications for future research (8 pages). Both types of papers will be presented and appear in the conference proceedings. Detailed paper submission guidelines is now available at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/submission.html. Guidance on position paper content is now available at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/position-papers.html.

In addition, SIGCOMM 2003 is open to proposals for panel discussions on timely and controversial topics. Panel proposals should include the topic and motivation for the panel, the names of the panel chair and panelists, and an outline of the format of the panel discussion.

NEW THIS YEAR: SIGCOMM 2003 will dramatically broaden the vision of the annual SIGCOMM conference. We seek to expand the intellectual diversity of the papers, modify the program to be more receptive to new ideas and community-driven initiatives, and expand the intellectual agenda to include papers from a broader set of topics and recognize the wider range of methodologies that constitute data communications research. More details are available at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/SIGCOMM-FUTURE.pdf.

We are also inviting new communities to hold workshops in conjunction with the SIGCOMM conference and will provide them with the necessary support to make those workshops a success. Three of these will be Future Directions in Network Architecture Network--I/O Convergence: Experience, Lessons, Implications Education Workshop following on the heels of the successful 2002 event More details will be available on the Web page soon.

TUTORIALS SIGCOMM 2003 will feature tutorials to be announced at a later date.

STUDENT PAPER AWARD Papers submitted by students may be considered for a student paper award. To be eligible, a student or group of students must be primary contributors to the paper. Such papers should be indicated as such on the paper submission web page.

SIGCOMM AWARD SIGCOMM 2003 will begin with a keynote by the 2003 winner of the ACM SIGCOMM Award for lifetime contributions to the field of computer communication. Procedures for nominating candidates for the SIGCOMM Award can be obtained from Karen Sollins sollins@lcs.mit.edu.

As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2003 will have a poster session and student travel grant program. Visit the conference web site for details as they become available.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

General Conference Chairs: Anja Feldmann anja@in.tum.de (TU Munich) Martina Zitterbart zit@tm.uka.de (University of Karlsruhe)

Program Chairs: Jon Crowcroft jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk (University of Cambridge) David Wetherall djw@cs.washington.edu (University of Washington)

Publicity Chair: James P.G. Sterbenz jpgs@acm.org (BBN Technologies)

Tutorial Chair: Burkhard Stiller stiller@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (UniBw, Munich)

Workshop Chair: Craig Partridge craig@bbn.com (BBN Technologies)

Poster Chair: Karen Sollins: sollins@lcs.mit.edu (MIT)

Treasurer: Thomas Fuhrmann fuhrmann@tm.uka.de (University of Karlsruhe)

Local Organization: Steffen Blödt bloedt@tm.uka.de (University of Karlsruhe) Marcus Schöller marcus.schoeller@tm.uka.de (University of Karlsruhe)