Call for Papers
   The International Workshop on Next Generation Internet Technologies and
                                               Applications 2000
                                                    (NGITA00)

                         http://www.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/conf/icpads2000/workshop/ngita/

                                      Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate, Japan
                                                    July 4-7, 2000
                                                  in conjunction with
                     the 7th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
                                                (IEEE ICPADS'2000)
                               URL http://www.takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp/conf/icpads2000/

                     (Workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press)


   THEME 
    The Internet is a part of the infrastructure of daily life. Research and development in innovative networking
and application areas are related to the Internet thus have strong impact on society. The future scheme of the
Internet will consist of networking, applications, and new emerging technologies such as business models,
solutions, and services. Internet research studies must therefore be shifted to investigate these areas more
aggressively.

    The main objectives of this workshop are to present significant research results related to next-generation
Internet technologies and applications, and to exchange ideas on the future direction of Internet research. The
areas of interest in this workshop include both networking and application technologies, which complement each
other. Participants are also encouraged to submit papers on technical aspects of emerging areas such as business 
models, solutions and services.

   Research topics of the workshop
    Topics of interest at the workshop include but are not limited to the following:

      Internet Technologies

            Differentiated Services and QoS Technology 
            Packet Routing, Classification and Filtering 
            Network Performance Modeling and Evaluation 
            Traffic Measurement and Analysis 
            Protocol Modeling and Implementation 
            New IP architectures (IPv6, IPsec) 
            Multicast and Anycast 
            Caching and performance improvement 

      Internet Applications

            Middleware for the Internet 
            Security and directory services (PKI, X509, LDAP, X500) 
            Billing and accounting 
            E-Commerce and E-business 
            Distance Learning and Distance Education 
            Solution and Service Technologies 
            Business Model Applications 


   IMPORTANT DATES 

      Submission deadline: December 29, 1999 
      Notification of acceptance : February 22, 2000 
      Submission of camera-ready papers : March 31, 2000 

   SUBMISSION DETAILS
    Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work.
Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of their originality, significance, technical soundness,
and clarity of exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the program committee. Accepted
papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as proceedings of the ICPADS '2000 workshops. All
submitted papers MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE Computer Society
Press (two-column format) and MUST NOT be longer than SIX (6) pages.

   Electronic Submission (Primary Method)
    Please submit your paper electronically to our FTP site. Please prepare your paper as plain ASCII PostScript
only, with NO encoding, condensing, or encapsulation. Please use 
TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it.
Guidelines for generating and submitting PostScript files are available at http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.


      * File Names
      Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be smith.ps. If you are submitting two
      or more files, please number them: smith1.ps, smith2.ps and so on.

      * Instruction for transferring to FTP Site
      When transferring files to our FTP site, if you have a choice between ASCII and binary modes, use
      binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.


            FTP site: ftp.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp
            Logon as: anonymous
            Place files in subdirectory: incoming/ngita00


      * Submission Notification
      When you have put your file(s) in our FTP site, please send an e-mail to hashi@iwate-pu.ac.jp with
      the following information:

            author's name 
            postal address 
            phone number 
            fax number 
            e-mail address 
            title of your paper 
            keywords 
            abstract 
            the filename(s) you used. (Do NOT send a copy of your postscript file via email.) 


   Hardcopy Paper Submission (Alternative method)
    If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper on our FTP site, ONLY THEN you may
submit it as four hard copies to the following address:


      Koji Hashimoto
      Faculty of Software and Information Science,
      Iwate Prefectural University
      152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan


    Please send the abstract of your paper in ASCII format to hashi@iwate-pu.ac.jp, and the abstract should be
included: 

      author's name 
      postal address 
      phone number 
      fax number 
      e-mail address 
      title of your paper 
      keywords 
      abstract 
      the date when you posted the paper 


    WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS 

      Hiroshi Miyabe, NTT, Japan 
      Takayuki Kushida, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan 

    Program Committee 

      Carsten Griwodz, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany 
      Hiroaki Higaki, Tokyo Denki University, Japan 
      Haruhisa Ichikawa, NTT, Japan 



For any further questions or inquiries please contact:

      Takayuki Kushida
      IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory,
      LAB-S76, 1623-14 Shimotsuruma, Yamato,
      Kanagawa, 242-8502, JAPAN
      Tel. +81-46-273-4937 (UTC+9)
      e-mail: kushida@trl.ibm.co.jp