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5th International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies ICQT'06
in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006 http://icqt.irisa.fr/
June 27, 2006 St Malo, France
Scope
Internet communications and their commercial use has shown a large demand on charging support. While differentiated services, grid-based services, and QoS-guaranteed services enable a huge variety of prosperous business models, the need for viable models and pricing schemes is urgent. The esulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives many relevant research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series.
ICQT'06 is the fifth event in this series, following the highly successful workshops ICQT'01 in Vienna (Austria), ICQT'02 in Zurich (Switzerland), ICQT'03 in Munich (Germany), and ICQT'04 in Barcelona (Spain).
The focus of this year's workshop is on the close relation between economics and technologies in support of charging, pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and business modeling.
Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics:
* Network economics and economic models for the Internet * Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing * Application service provider models * Charging technologies for next generation networks * Monitoring, measuring, and accounting * ISP cost and business models * Service charging models, e.g., grids and web services * Charging for QoS, services, and content * Interdomain pricing approaches * Pricing mobile and wireless services * Management of Service Level Agreements * Security mechanisms for charging
Papers and Submissions
Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 12 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions or contact icqt06@ftw.at for additional information.
The conference proceedings are planned to be published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series and will be available during the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow the LNCS guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) strictly and without exception, including the 12 page limit.
Important Dates
* Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2006. * Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2006. * Camera ready version: April 25, 2006. * Workshop date: June 27, 2006.
General Information
The workshop will be organized on the second day of the two ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP Performance conferences, especially as a full day on June 27, 2006.
The registration for this event is handled within the framework of the ACM Sigmetrics/IFIP Performance 2006 conference, see http://www.cs.wm.edu/sigm06/ for further details. For more information please visit ICQT series' web page or contact icqt06@ftw.at.
Committees
General Chair * Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes, France
Program Co-Chairs * Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Program Committee * Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal * Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Joern Altmann, International University Bruchsal, Germany * Ragnar Andreassen, Telenor, Norway * Dominique Barth, University of Versailles, France * Nicola Blefari Melazzi, University of Rome, Italy * Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland * Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece * Chris Edwards, University of Lancaster, U.K. * Errin Fulp, Wake Forest University, U.S.A. * Richard Gibbens, University of Cambridge, U.K. * Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada * Peter Key, Microsoft, U.K. * Patrick Maille, ENST Bretagne, France * Robin Mason, University of Southampton, U.K. * Lee McKnight, Syracuse University, U.S.A. * Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, U.S.A. * Huw Oliver, Ericsson, Ireland * Kihong Park, Purdue University, U.S.A. * Guido Petit, Alcatel, Belgium * Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, U.S.A. * Guenther Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany * Vasilis Siris, ICS FORTH, Greece * George Stamoulis, AUEB Athens, Greece * Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan
Organization Committee * Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes * Elisabeth Lebret, INRIA Rennes