Subject: [manet] Announcing COMSWARE 2006 in New Delhi: Jan 8 to Jan 12

From: Rajeev Shorey <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:13:58 +0530

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
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                             COMSWARE 2006
                The First International Conference on 
            Communication Systems Software and Middleware

                                     http://www.comsware.org/
 
                         January 8 - 12, 2006
                Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India

        Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society
        Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society (Pending)
        In Co-operation with:       ACM SIGMOBILE
        Sponsored by:                 CreateNet (Italy), ICST (USA), 
                                                               IBM, 
Microsoft, NOKIA

The convergence of the communications, 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 communications. 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 objective of the conference is to provide 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previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, and practical 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 communications software and related areas. There will be demos and 
exhibits 
that will expose the delegates to exciting products and software solutions 
from 
industry and academia. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer 
Society.
The top papers accepted to the conference will be published in a reputed 
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 Operations and Management
· Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations
· Reliability Support Software
· Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms
· Network Monitoring Software
· Internet and IP based Services
· Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment
· Service Discovery Mechanisms
· Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery
· Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services
· Performance Evaluation Techniques
· Location Determination
· Positioning and Tracking Technologies Intelligent Environments
· Smart Devices and Smart Spaces
· Enterprise Networking
· Personal Area Networks
· Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks
· Next Generation Networks and Services

Paper Submission Deadline
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Paper Submission:                May 2, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: September 5, 2005
Camera-ready due:               September 26, 2005

Conference Organizing Committee
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General  Chairs:                        Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA
                                                Victor Bahl, Microsoft 
Research, USA
                        Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India
                        Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA

Steering Committee
Chairs:                                 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 Chair:      Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India
Demos/Exhibit Co-Chair: Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India

Publicity Chair:                  Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, 
USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:          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

Local Arrangement 
Co-Chairs:                           Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi
                        Laurent Mignet, IBM Research, Delhi

Finance Chair:          Karen Decker, USA

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