10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Management
Call for Papers (Submission deadline of June 1, 2002)
October 3-6, 2002
http://tecom.cox.smu.edu/icts10/
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Conference Scope
The 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling
and Analysis will be held in Monterey, CA on October 3-6, 2002. The
conference will build on the tradition of the earlier conferences. The
general idea is to encourage informal interaction and exchanges of ideas by
limiting the number of participants, concentrating on a few topics, and by
presenting new problems and problem areas. The objective is to advance the
state of the modeling and analysis in telecommunications by stimulating
research activity on new and important problems.

The conference will be divided into segments with each segment devoted to a
specific topic. This will allow for little conflict between segments.
Papers will be screened by the Program Committee to ensure the quality of
presentations. Abstracts and papers should be submitted directly to the
Conference Chairman who will handle its review. Social and cultural
activities will be included in the 2002 agenda. Being the tenth conference
in the series, the organizing committee is planning special events for this
conference. The conference site is the Naval Postgraduate School at
Monterey, CA.

The intention is, to limit the number of parallel sessions to three. The
conference is scheduled over a weekend so as to reduce teaching conflicts
for academic participants, and to enable participants to take advantage of
weekend hotel and airfare rates and of events that take place in the
Monterey area.
Potential participants should send by June 1, 2002 a paper or an extended
abstract to the conference general chair of the Program Committee. The
technical program committee will evaluate the papers, and a decision will
be sent to the authors by July 15, 2002 with instructions for the final
version of the paper which is due by September 1, 2002. Full paper
contributions will be considered for publication in the Telecommunication
Systems Journal. Conference participants will be provided with the
conference proceedings (a collection of papers presented at the conference)

Conference General Chair: Bezalel Gavish, Cox school of business, SMU,
Dallas TX 75205, email Conference Chairman

List of Topics
Listed below are potential topics of interest. Please contact the program
chair if your topic is not listed:

* Configuration of ATM Networks
* DSL and Cable Based Systems
* Mobility and Nomadicity
* Cellular Systems and PCS Modeling and Configuration
* Multimedia modeling and analysis
* Pricing and Economic Analysis of Internet and E-commerce
* Topological Design and Network Configuration Problems
* Design and Analysis of Local Access Networks and Outside Plant Problems
* Low and Medium Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems
* Time Dependent Expansion of Telecommunication Systems
* Network Reliability, Availability and Survivability
* Network Design Problems in Gigabit and Terabit Networks
* LAN, WAN Global Network Interconnection
* Artificial Intelligence/Heuristics in Telecommunication Systems
* Quantitative Methods in Network Management
* Pricing and Economic Analysis of Telecommunications
* Impact of Telecommunications on Industrial Organization
* Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems
* Distributed Computing and Distributed Data Bases
* International aspects of telecommunications
* Fiberoptics and photonics
* Security and Privacy Issues in Telecommunications
* Internet and its Impact on Commerce
* Internet and Intranet
* Virtual Reality, Multimedia and their Impact
* Telecommunication Standards
* Decision Support Technologies in Telecommunications
* Global Internet Infrastructure issues with the Global War on Terrorism=
 (GWOT)
* Internet 2 and New Generation Internet Initiatives
* Designing and modeling high availability (Ao) networks

I look forward to see you at the conference.

Sincerely yours,
Bezalel Gavish