Call For Papers 
                             IEEE Network Magazine

                       Applicability of Mobile Agents to
                              Telecommunications

Guest Editors:

Roch H. Glitho
Ericsson research Cananda
8400 Decarie blvd.
Town of Mount Royal
Quebec - Canada H4P 2N2
Phone: 514-345 7900 - Ext. 2266
Email:Roch.Glitho@lmc.ericsson.se 

Thomas Magedanz
GmbH, Bernburger Str. 24-25,
D-10963 Berlin, Germany
Mobile: +49 171 172 70 70
Fax: +49 30 34 80 780
Email: magedanz@ikv.de 


Scope:

A mobile agent is a program that can start execution in a node, stop execution,
then move to another node to resume execution. The technology is rooted in
process migration, and emerged in the mid-1990s with the advent of Telescript
and Java. A lot of research has been done on the topic in both academia and
industry since then.

Research in mobile agents has so far focused on the development of platforms
and on the application of the concept, in particular on its application to
various telecommunication areas, ranging from network management to information
retrieval, including software distribution. However, their applicability
remains open to debate.

Several papers have been published in the past on mobile agent technology and
the expected benefits. However, much less has been published to support the
many claims. The key goal of this special issue is to publish tutorial oriented
articles that discuss the applicability of mobile agents to telecommunications.
In this proposal, telecommunications is used in its broadest sense to include
the Internet.

Papers describing meaningful implementations, experiments, case studies and
field trials in areas including (but not limited) to the following will be
considered:

      Mobile Agent platforms for telecommunications applications.
      Mobile Agent-based telecommunication networks control and management
      Mobile Agent-based applications for 3G Mobile Systems (e.g. VHE, MEXE,
        location aware services)
      Mobile Agent-based applications for VoIP Networks
      Mobile Agent-based applications for the Internet (e.g. E/M-Commerce,
        information retrieval)
      Mobile agent for ad hoc networking

Manuscript Submission:

Manuscripts should be emailed to either of the guest editors
(Roch.Glitho@lmc.ericsson.se and magedanz@ikv.de). Manuscripts should be in
PDF, Postscript or MS Word format.

Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence contact.

Provide a contact list for all of the other authors. Please list affiliations,
mailing addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses.

Additional information including "Guidelines for authors" is available at the
IEEE Network website.

Paper submission deadline: October 1st, 2001
Acceptance notification: December 30, 2002
Final manuscripts to ComSoc publication department: February 15, 2002
Publication date: May-June 2002