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                       The Fourth IEEE Conference on
                           Open Architectures and
                            Network Programming
   
                         Call for Papers and Demos
   
   The Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network
   Programming invites your participation in this lively international
   forum on open, programmable, and active networks.
   
   Advances in open signaling and control, programming network elements,
   active networks, mobility management, transportable software,
   Web-based services access, and distributed systems technologies are
   redefining network software architectures and evolving control and
   management systems away from traditional constrained solutions.
   OPENARCH 2001 will foster understanding of these new network software
   architectures and techniques, and progress toward more flexible and
   robust network interfaces.
   
   In the spirit of the previous meetings, OPENARCH 2001's single-track
   format will provide researchers and developers with a focused, highly
   interactive opportunity to present and discuss current work and future
   directions in active and programmable networks. Authors are invited to
   submit full and short papers for consideration. Suggested topics
   include:
   
     * Advances in active networks
     * Open and innovative signaling systems
     * Programming abstractions and interfaces for networks
     * Service creation platforms
     * Programming for mobility
     * Programming for Quality of Service
     * Intelligent agents and trading
     * Distributed computing models and algorithms
     * Security in an open object world
     * Support for multiple control planes
     * Control and resource APIs and object representations
       
     * Performance of control architectures
     * Experimental architectures and implementation techniques
     * Enabling technologies, platforms and languages (CORBA, WWW, Java,
       ...)
     * Reliability of programmable networking technologies
     * Modeling of network services
     * Programmability support for virtual networks
     * Interactive multimedia, multi-party cooperation and groupware
     * Pricing and real-time billing
     * Secure transactions processing and electronic commerce
     * Active networks in telephony
       
                 Instructions for authors and demonstrators
   
   Papers of no more than 10 finished (single-spaced) pages, excluding
   figures, are solicited. The cover page of each submitted paper should
   include paper title, brief abstract, list of keywords, author(s) full
   name(s), affiliation(s) and complete address(es), telephone number(s),
   and email address(es).
   
   ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION IS ADVISABLE. Authors are requested to submit
   papers in PDF format. Instructions for electronic submissions are
   available at:
   [1]http://www.openarch.org/2001_submit.html
   
   All submissions will be carefully reviewed by international experts
   and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality.
   Accepted paper(s) will be published in a bound Conference Proceedings.
   A CD-ROM version is being considered as well.


   Deadline for receipt of papers      October 1, 2000
   Notification of acceptance mailed   November 30, 2000 
   Final camera-ready papers due       December 31, 2000
   
                       Presentation of demonstrations
   
   Proposals for demonstrations, in PDF, Postscript or Microsoft
   Word/Powerpoint format, should be submitted to the Program Chair on
   the above schedule. Demonstrators are encouraged to provide their own
   computing and display equipment, but special requests will be
   considered. Dial-up Internet access will be available.
   
                             Financial Support
   
   A limited number of travel stipends are available. Students whose
   papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are
   encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for
   stipends should be addressed to the Program Chair or a Program
   Committee member in the requestor's region. A limited number of IEEE
   Communications Society Student Travel Grants may be available for
   student authors from outside North America.
   
                            Organizing Committee
   
     * General Chair: [2]Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corp.
     * Program Co-Chair: [3]Andrew Campbell, Columbia University
     * Program Co-Chair: [4]David Wetherall, University of Washington
     * Publications Chair: [5]John Vicente, Intel Corp.
     * Publicity Chair: [6]Samrat Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland
     * IEEE ComSoc Coordinator: [7]Steve Weinstein, NEC USA
     * Webmaster: [8]Michael Kounavis, Columbia University
       
     Program Committee (members of the OC are also members of the PC):
   
     * [9]Vaduvur Bharghavan, UIUC
     * [10]Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky
     * [11]Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK
     * [12]Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research
     * [13]Alden Jackson, BBN Technologies
     * [14]Aurel Lazar, Xbind Inc.
     * [15]Ian Marshall, BT Labs
     * [16]Gary Minden, University of Kansas
     * [17]Dan Raz, Lucent Bell Labs
     * [18]Rolf Stadler, Columbia University
     * [19]Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks
     * [20]Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University
     * [21]Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex
     * [22]Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University
       
     * [23]Bob Braden, USC ISI
     * [24]Roy Campbell, UIUC
     * [25]Bruce Davie, Cisco
     * [26]David Hutchison, Lancaster University
     * [27]Kalai Kalaichelvan, Nortel Networks
     * [28]Ian Leslie, Cambridge University
     * [29]Nick Maxemchuk, AT&T Research Labs
     * [30]Giovanni Pacifici, IBM
     * [31]Larry Peterson, Princeton University
     * [32]Jonathan Smith, University Penn.
     * [33]Peter Steenkiste, CMU
     * [34]James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies
     * [35]David Tennenhouse, Intel Corp.
     * [36]Harrick Vin, UT Austin
     * [37]Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech.