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Last Call for Submissions ICNS 2006 Silicon Valley, July 16-18, 2006 http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html

For submissions, go on the ICNS 2006 page at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html and click "Submit a paper".

Important dates: Submission deadline: March 5, 2006 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006 Camera-ready: April 15, 2006

The ICNS 2006 is targeting general networking and services aspects in multi-technologies environments. The conference covers fundamentals on networking and services, and highlights new challenging industrial and research topics. Ubiquitous services, next generation networks, inter-provider quality of service, GRID networks and services, and emergency services and disaster recovery are considered.

The conference has the following independents tracks:

ENCOT 2006: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies COMAN 2006: Network Control and Management SERVI 2006: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance NGNUS 2006: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services MPQSI 2006: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking GRIDNS 2006: Grid Networks and Services EDNA 2006: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications

We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, workshops, and panel proposals.

ICNS Committees

ICNS Advisory Committee Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale Alessandra, Italy Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France Fabio Chiussi, Invento Networks, Inc., USA Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Luyuan Fang, AT&T, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC - North Carolina, USA Stein Gjessing, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Takumi Kimura, NTT Corporation, Japan Paul Labbé, First Secretary, TTCP, Defence R&D, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University Haute Alsace, France Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris XII - Val de Marne, France Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finlad Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Bruno Schulze, LNCC/MCT, Brazil Mazin S Yousif, Intel, USA

ICNS 2006 Chairs Alan Marshall, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland [ENCOT 2006 Chair] Adolf Finger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany [COMAN Co-Chair] Stefano Giordano, Università di Pisa, Italy [COMAN Co-Chair] Bernhard Neumair, University of Gottingen, Germany [SERVI 2006 Co-Chair] Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK [SERVI 2006 Co-Chair] Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA [NGNUS 2006 Co-Chair] Emmanuel Bertin, France Telecom, France [NGNUS 2006 Co-Chair] Sakae Okubo, Waseda University, Japan [MPQSI 2006 Chair] Bruno Schulze, LNCC / MCT, Brazil [GRIDNS 2006 Co-Chair] Damien Magoni, University of Strasbourg, France [EDNA 2006 Chair]

ICNS 2006 Technical Program Committee Nazim Agoulmine, Université d'Évry, France Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale Alessandra, Italy Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, France Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Jim Basney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Sujoy Basu, HP Palo-Alto, USA Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Emmanuel Bertin, France Telecom, France Benny Bing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal José Marcos C. Brito, INATEL, Brazil Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Scott Burleigh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Marco Carli, University of Roma TRE, Italy Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Bruno Chatras, France Telecom, France Claude Chaudet, INRIA, France Serge Chaumette, University of Bordeaux, France Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China Jeremy de Clercq, Alcatel Research Center, Belgium Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom R&D, France Fabio Chiussi, Invento Networks, Inc., USA Paolo Conforto, Alenia Spazio, Italy Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University, USA Paul Cotae, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Hervé Debar, France Telecom R&D, France Jeremy de Clercq, Alcatel Research Center, Belgium José Neuman de Souza, UFC, Brazil Piet Demeester, Universiteit Gent, Belgium Qian Depei, Beihang University, China Dave de Roure, Southampton University, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, USA Marios Dikaiakos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Theo Dimitrakos, BT, UK Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA Cosmin Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Bart Dhoedt, Ghent University Belgium Mari Carmen Domingo, University of Technology (UPC), Spain Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA Yezid Donoso University del Norte, Colombia Olivier Dugeon, France Telecom, France Sevki Erdogan, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA Ramon Fabregat, Girona University, Spain Luyuan Fang, AT&T Labs, USA Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France Adolf Finger, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Matthias Matthew Frank, University of Bonn, Germany Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany Alex Galis, University College London, UK Eric Garcia, University of Franche-Comte, France Emilio Garcia-Palacios, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Rosario Garroppo, Università di Pisa, Italy Markus Garschhammer, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Munich, Germany Stefano Giordano, Università di Pisa, Italy Bezalel Gavish, Southern Methodist University, USA Marc Gilg, University of Haute-Alsace, France Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-GRID, Germany Manfred Georg, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Laurent George, Ecole Centrale d'Electronique, France Sorin Georgescu, Ericsson Research, Canada Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Karl-Johan Grinnemo, Karlstad University, Sweden Hervé Guyennet, University of Franche-Comte, France Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Hermann Hellwagner, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Neil Hurley, University College Dublin, Ireland Juneseok Hwang, Syracuse University, USA Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Matthias Kabatnik, University of Stuttgart, Germany Markus Kampmann, Ericsson GmBH, Germany Nirav Kapadia, Capital One, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan Xu Ke, Tsinghua University, China Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia Takumi Kimura, NTT Corporation, Japan Hartmut König, University of Cottbus, Germany Christopher Kruegel, Technical University Vienna Paul Labbé, Attaché Defence R&D Canada, USA Jean-Louis Le Roux, France Telecom, France Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Leo Lehmann, Federal Office of Communications, Switzerland Frank Leymann, IBM, Germany Fidel Liberal, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Ignac Lovrek, University of Zagreb, Croatia José Soler-Lucas, Research Center COM, Denmark Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil Damien Magoni, University of Strasbourg, France Zoubir Mammeri, University of Toulouse, France Gabriel Mateescu, National Research Council, Canada Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Ina Minei, Juniper Networks, USA Sudip Misra, Carleton University, Canada Melody Moh, San Jose State University, USA Antonella Molinaro, University "Mediterranea" or Reggio Calabria , Italy Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal João César Moura Mota, UFC, Brazil Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Pramila Mullan, France Telecom, France Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia Research Center, Finland Bernhard Neumair, University of Göttingen, Germany Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Satoru Okamoto, NTT, Japan Sakae Okubo, Waseda University, Japan Jalel Ben Othman, University of Versailles, France Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Manuela Pereira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Christian Perez, INRIA, France Harry Perros, NC State University, USA Antonio Pescapé, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Christian Prehofer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Andreas Polze, University of Potsdam, Germany Ognjen Prnjat, University College London, UK Francesco Quaglia, University "La Sapienza", Italy Juan J. Ramos Munoz, Universidad de Granada, Spain Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Helmut Reiser, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Mauricio G. C. Resende, AT&T Labs Research, USA Pierluigi Ritrovato, CRMPA, Italy Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Marcos Rojerio Salvador, CPQD, Brazil Pierre Rolin, France Telecom R&D, France Dumitru Roman, DERI, Austria Paolo Romano, Rome University "La Sapienza", Italy Nikola Rozic, University of Split, Croatia Behcet Sarikaya, UNBC, Canada Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, USA Bruno Schulze, LNCC / MCT, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Karolj Skala, Ruder Boskovic Institute Zagreb, Croatia Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Essex, UK Henk Sips, Technical University, Delft, Netherlands Kurt Stockinger, Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, USA Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK Tor Skeie, Simula Labs, Norway Zoran Skocir, University of Zagreb, Croatia Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Canada Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Radu State, LORIA-INRIA Lorraine, France Giovanni Stea, Università di Pisa, Italy Valerie Elaine Taylor, Texam A&M University, USA António Luís Jesus Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Do van Thanh, Telenor, Norway Ingebjørg Theiss, Simula Labs, Norway Braun Torsten, UNIUBE, Switzerland Elisa Turrini, University of Bologna, Italy Rui Valadas, University of Aveiro, Portugal Teresa Vazao Vasques, INSEC/IST, Portugal Enrique Vazquez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Armando Ferro Vazquez, University of the Basque Country, Spain Dimitrios Vergados, University of the Aegean, Greece Victor A. Villagra, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Steven A. Wright, Bellsouth, USA Ramin Yahyapour, Univ. Dortmund, Germany Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh, University of California, Irvine, USA Mazin S. Yousif, Intel, USA Waider D. Yu, San Jose State University, USA Vlad Zaborovski, Saint-Petersburg Politechnical University, Russia Roland Zalite, Alcatel, France Pavel Zahradnik, Czech Technical University Prague, Czech Republic Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Hans-Jürgen Zepernik, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada

Looking forward for your submissions,

On behalf of the organizing committees Dumitru Roman, Damien Magoni Details: petre@iaria.org, lorenz@ieee.org ====================================================