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Call for Submissions International Conference on Systems, ICONS'06 April 27-29, 2006 - Mauritius

(see http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICONS06.html)

Submission date: October 10, 2005 Notification date: November 10, 2005 Camera ready: December 10, 2005

The ICONS 2006 comprises the following tracks:

Track 1: Systems' theory and practice Track 2: System engineering Track 3: Systems' instrumentation Track 4: Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip Track 5: Target-oriented systems Track 6: Specialized systems Track 7: Validation systems Track 8: Security and protection systems Track 9: Application-oriented systems Track 10: Advanced systems

We are inviting your contributions to the conference with some of the following:

- Distribute the Call for Papers - Submit papers - Organize a special session - Propose a panel or tutorial

Submit: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICONS06.html

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and posted on IEEE Xplore portal. Industry is also welcome to participate with special contributions.

We look forward to collaborate with you on making "ICONS 2006" a successful and enjoyable conference.

ICONS 2006

Topics suggested (but not limited to):

Track 1: Systems Theory and Practice Systems design methodologies and techniques Formal methods to specify systems' behavior Online and offline systems Open and closed systems Centralized and distributed systems Proactive and reactive systems System robustness Systems scalability Fault-tolerant systems Feedback systems High-speed systems Delay tolerant systems

Track 2: Systems engineering Systems requirements Systems modeling Systems development lifecycle System-of-systems Systems ergonomics Subsystem interactions Systems decomposition Systems integration

Track 3: Systems' Instrumentation Metering embedded sensors Composing multi-scale measurements Monitoring instrumentation Smart sensor-based systems Calibration and self-calibration systems Instrumentation for prediction systems

Track 4: Embedded systems and systems-on-the-chip Real-time embedded systems Programming embedded systems Controlling embedded systems High speed embedded systems Designing methodologies for embedded systems Performance on embedded systems Updating embedded systems Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip Testing embedded systems Technologies for systems processors Migration to single-chip systems

Track 5: Target-oriented systems Information systems Real-time systems Software systems Hardware systems Emulation systems Simulation systems Prediction systems

Track 6: Specialized systems Sensor-based systems Biometrics systems Mobile and fixed systems Ubiquitous systems Nano-technology-based systems Multimedia systems

Track 7: Validation systems Test systems Validation systems Performance measurement systems Maintenance systems

Track 8: Security and protection systems Security systems Vulnerability detecting systems Intrusion detection systems Intrusion avoidance systems Presence detection systems Monitoring systems Management systems Alert systems Defense systems Emergency systems

Track 9: Application-oriented systems Web-cashing systems Content-distributed systems Accounting and billing systems E-Health systems E-Commerce systems Radar systems Navigation systems Systems for measuring physical quantities Earthquake detection and ranking systems Financial systems Robotics systems Vehicular systems Entertainment systems Gaming systems Speech recognition systems

Track 10: Advanced systems Interactive systems On-demand systems GRID systems Autonomic systems Autonomous systems Computing systems Mission critical systems Expert systems Tutoring systems

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

The ICONS 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society PRESS. Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system.

The files should be sent via http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitICONS06.html

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Formatting%20files/instruct.pdf

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send your presentations to petre@iaria.org.

Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to petre@iaria.org

Panel proposals: The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. For more information, petre@iaria.org.

ICONS Advisory Committee

José Neuman De Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA Do van Thanh, Telenor R&D, Norway Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada Kazuo Iwano, IBM, Japan Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK Alex Keller, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Manu Malek, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Andreas Hanemann, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Markus Kampmann, Ericsson GmBH, Germany Sakir Sezer, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland, UK

Yours sincerely,

ICONS 2006 Publicity Chair: - Damien Magoni, Louis Pasteur University, France, magoni@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr

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