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CALL FOR PAPERS *************** The First International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware
January 8 - 12, 2006 New Delhi, India
http://www.comsware.org ----------------------- Sponsored by: CreateNet, ICST, IBM, Nokia Technical Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society (pending)
The convergence of the telecommunications, information technologies and the Internet has ushered in a revolution in the way people communicate with each other. The key enabler for this convergence has been the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, as evident by the high levels of activity in the industry, academia, and standards bodies, coupled with the increasing dependence of this convergence to sustain and improve growth rates in many countries around the world.
This new international conference will provide a forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices and challenging issues, raise awareness and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of software techniques in telecommunications. The conference will bring leading researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from communications software and software engineering aspects of communications software, to middleware and networking protocols. The conference will be organized to provide for a high degree of collaboration, participation and discussions of the various topics among multi-national participants from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors.
COMSWARE will include a regular paper track and an industry track. The paper track will include a highly selective technical program. The conference solicits original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, and practical experiences for the technical program. COMSWARE will also feature panel discussions from experts in academia and industry, workshops and tutorials featuring the state-of-the-art in various telecommunication software-related areas. There will be demos and exhibits that will expose the delegates to exciting products and software solutions from industry and academia. The top papers accepted to the conference will be published in a journal.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Communications Software · Reconfigurable Software Stacks · Software Engineering Aspects of Communications Software · Context-Based and Implicit Computing · Telecommunications Services and QoS · Software for Billing and Pricing · User Interfaces and Interaction Models · Multi-Agent Systems · Client-Server Applications · Mobile and Intermittently Connected Applications · Mobile Data Management · Middleware Services and Agent Technologies · Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks · Middleware for P2P Systems · Middleware for Future Communication Networks · Information Infrastructure and Security · Security and Privacy Issues of Pervasive Computing Systems · Network Processors · Network Operations and Management · Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations · Reliability Support Software · Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms · Management Software for Optical Networks · Network Monitoring Software · Internet and IP based Services · Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment · Service Discovery Mechanisms · Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery · Ad hoc Networking Protocols and Service Discovery · Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services · Performance Evaluation Techniques · Location Determination · Positioning and Tracking Technologies Intelligent Environments · Wearable Computers · Smart Devices and Smart Spaces · Enterprise Networking · Access and Home Networks · Personal Area Networks · Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks · Next Generation Networks and Services
Deadlines ********* Paper Submission: May 2, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: September 5, 2005 Camera-ready due: September 26, 2005
Conference Organizing Committee ******************************* General Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA
Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA
Program Chairs: Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Technologies, USA G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
Tutorial Chair: Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA
Workshop Chairs: Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Research, USA Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester, USA
Demos/Exhibit Chairs: Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India
Publicity Chairs: Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Marco Conti, IIT, Pisa, Italy Ben Lancini, LinLan, Brisbane, Australia Prashant Pradhan, IBM Research, USA Hemant Chaskar, Airtight Networks, India