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   CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS
   Net-Con'2002
   Network Control and Engineering
   for QoS, Security and Mobility
   with focus on Policy-based Networking
   IFIP and IEEE Conference 

   Conference:
   23-25 October 2002
   Tutorials:
   21-22 October 2002

   The intention of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange
   of ideas and findings
   in a wide range of areas related to network control and network
   engineering with a focus on
   QoS, security and mobility control. Suggested topics for papers
   include, but are not limited to, the following:

   QoS
          Policy-based management architecture
          Programmable network and Active networks
          Intelligent agent
          QoS Control and QoS Engineering
          Traffic measurements and monitoring, Traffic engineering in
          converging networks
          Traffic modeling and simulation
          Quality of Service provisioning, Network planning and
          optimization
          Process, methodologies, and tools for network control
          Policy models for system management, Provisioning of policies
          Policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems,
          e-commerce
          Integrating policies into existing systems and environments
          Business rules and organizational control
          Extensions and refinements to policy standards
          Distributed game control
          Case studies of applying policy-based technologies

   Security
          Security control and Security engineering
          AAA
          Configurable security policies
          Cryptography protocols
          Policy models for security
          Distributed trusted infrastructure
          Water marking for flow control

   Mobility
          Mobility control and mobility engineering
          Policy models for mobility
          Virtual Home Environment (VHE)
          Pervasive/ubiquitous/wearable mobile systems
          Security and privacy issues for mobile and wireless systems
          Mobility and QoS management
          Control schemes in ad-hoc networks
          Personal area networks QoS and security
          IEEE 802.11 engineering
          Smart devices
          Smart cards, security and mobility

   Important deadlines:
   April 26, 2002 Papers due
   May 10, 2002 Tutorials, panel proposals due
   June 15, 2002 Authors notified of acceptance
   July 15, 2002 Final papers due
   Submission:
   Submissions should be original and 10-15 pages in length.
   Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically as
   a Microsoft Word document,
   a PDF document,
   or in Postscript format.
   The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer.
   Information:
   If you have any comments or requests, please feel free to submit
   their.
   information@net-con.org


   GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
   G. Pujolle (LIP 6 - France)
   M. Riguidel (ENST Paris - France)
   INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS
   T. Magedanz (FOKUS - Germany)
   T. Saito (Toyota - Japon)
   F. Tobagi (Stanford - USA)
   PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
   N. Boukhatem (ENST Paris - France)
   D. Gaïti (University of Troyes - France)
   STEERING COMMITTEE
   A. Casaca (INESC - Portugal)
   A.A. Lazar (Columbia University - USA)
   Al-Naamany (Sultan Qaboos Univ. - Oman)
   O. Martikainen (Micsom - Finland)
   J. Slavik (Testcom - Czech Republic)
   O. Spaniol (Aachen University - Germany)
   TUTORIAL CHAIR
   N. Agoulmine (Evry University - France)
   OPERATION CHAIR
   A. Serhrouchni (ENST Paris - France)
   PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
   O. Cherkaoui (UQAM)
   A. Serhrouchni (ENST)
   SPONSORSHIP CHAIR
   P. Lorenz (Univ. of Haute Alsace - France)
   INFORMATION SYSTEM CHAIR
   M. Lemercier (University of Troyes - France)
   PROGRAM COMMITTEE
   F. Arve Aagesen (Norwegian Univ.- Norway)
   G. Bianchi (Polytectico Milano - Italy)
   C. Blondia (UIA - Belgium)
   R. Boutaba (Waterloo University - Canada)
   O. Casal (UPC - Spain)
   O. Cherkaoui (UQAM - Canada)
   A. Conchon (Alcatel - France)
   W. Dabbous (INRIA - France)
   D. Delisle (FTR&D - France)
   O. Duarte (UFRJ - Brazil)
   L. Fratta (Politechnico de Milano - Italy)
   M. Gerla (UCLA - USA)
   D-Y. Hu (Inst. of Network Technology - China)
   J.F. Huard (Invisible Hand - USA)
   V.B. Iversen (TUD - Denmark)
   K. Kamoun (Tunisia)
   A. Karmouch (Ottawa University - Canada)
   U. Korner (Lund University - Sweden)
   J. Kurose (UMASS, USA)
   A. Marshall (Queen's University - UK)
   L. Mason (NTU - Singapore)
   G. Pacifici (IBM - USA)
   J. Perreira (EC)
   H. Perros (NCSU - USA)
   C. Petrioli (Roma - Italy)
   R. Puigjaner (University of Baleares - Spain)
   Y. Stavrakakis (UOA, Greece)
   Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University)
   J. Walrand (Berkeley University - USA)