See http://www.ikn.tuwien.ac.at/smartnet/


Call For Papers

Aim

SmartNet 2000, the 6th IFIP Conference on intelligence in networks, aims at providing an international forum for academics, researchers,
practitioners, and service providers. The discussion areas will include telecommunication service architectures, service creation, service distribution
and management, intelligence in networks, application of agent technology in access and network control, performance monitoring, network
management, routing, QoS management, mobility management, multimedia as well as trends in networking and innovative services.


Scope

The scope includes, but is not restricted to the following topics: 

      Service platforms and architectures 
      Service creation, deployment, management 
      Value added services 
      Intelligence-supported call centers 
      Networking and operational support 
      Application of mobile software agents 
      Active networks 
      Routing, flow and congestion control 
      Performance monitoring 
      Access control and QoS management 
      Network availability and reconfiguration 
      Advanced intelligent networks 
      IP-based network intelligence 
      Security in intelligent networking 
      Multimedia communications and multicasting 
      Intelligent mobility 
      Fixed and mobile network convergence 
      Trends in intelligent networking 
      Distributed network management 
      Evolution of intelligence in network nodes 
      Trends, field trials, and standardization 


Papers

High quality original papers are solicited. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee Members and other experts active in the field to
ensure quality and relevance. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to attend the conference and present their work. The conference
proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. For help about paper layout please refer to the Kluwer guidelines.


Tutorials

In order to provide a complete and useful event, the conference will be preceded by a limited number of tutorials on emerging technologies,
standards, and concepts. Tutorial proposals are solicited.


Important Deadlines

  March 15th, 2000 Deadline for Paper Submission
  March 31st, 2000 Extended Deadline for Paper Submission
  April 15th, 2000 Notification of Acceptance
  May 15th, 2000 Final Papers Due for Proceedings 
  September 18th - 22nd, 2000 Conference