The 8th International Conference on Intelligence
in next generation Networks.
ICIN 2003
Bordeaux, France
31 march - 3 april 2003
http://www.adera.fr/icin2003/
Network Intelligence creating revenues for communication companies
ICIN 2003 will address the major issue facing the communications
industry today and for the foreseeable future : enabling the
cost-effective delivery of revenue-generating services and
applications that brings value to consumers and enterprises. The scope
of the conference includes both technology and business aspects.
Experts from all sectors of the Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) industry such as network operators, service
providers, equipment vendors, applications developers and content
providers are invited to contribute and exchange ideas.
"When one door closes, another opens ;
but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
A number of forces have recently converged to bring about major
changes within the telecommunications industry. These forces include
world-wide economic pressures, security concerns, regulatory changes
leading to over capacity in certain countries, emergence of new
technology that can compete with established telecommunications
services, and a proliferation of new communications devices. While the
impact of these forces on the communications industry is undeniable,
change itself is a source of opportunity. The widespread deployment of
packet and broadband networks, the increasing use of enhanced user
devices, the convergence of information technology and communication
technology, and the emergence of new business models all demand
creative pragmatism in delivering new products and services that meet
the current needs of business customers and consumers. We have in our
collective hands many new tools for responding to calls for
personalisation, "any device/time/place/media", and intuitive
simplicity of communications products and services. One key objective
of ICIN 2003 is to share perspectives on practical responses to the
challenges and opportunities that have emerged as this new door opens
for our industry.
This is your opportunity to present your ideas on how the future
success of the
communications industry can be assured.
Previous ICIN conferences have attracted some 300-500 delegates from
every continent and over 30 countries. ICIN 2001 suffered only a
limited decline in attendance in spite of the fact that it followed
closely after the tragic events of 11^th September.
Note these dates : 31^st March - 3^rd April 2003, Bordeaux, France
The demanding challenge to be addressed by this conference is how best
to deploy the range of emerging technologies to deliver new services
that will be perceived to be of value by the end user. The nature of
the services and the potential value to the user may very widely in
different regions of the world. Equally technologies that dominate in
one region may play a much less significant role in others. This
conference brings together experts from throughout the world to share
experience in order to maximise the opportunities that are available
for all.
The scope of the conference includes both the deployment of
intelligence within a single network or service space and the use of
intelligence as the bridge to provide ubiquitous services across
multiple networks in support of the "Anything, Anytime, Anywhere"
concept that attracts the user community.
In addition to being used to increase revenues by delivering new
services, intelligence can also be used to minimise costs and to make
more effective use of existing infrastructure. In the current
financial environment this deployment of intelligence to reduce costs
is of equal importance to many operators as is increase of revenues.
Network Intelligence has reached a maturity to enable vertical
applications specific to a particular industry segment, particularly
exploiting the capabilities associated with mobility. ICIN 2003
introduces a new theme in that contributions associated with these
specific vertical industry segments are invited. Specifically, the
conference aims to explore the role that communications companies can
make to society via links with local government and public
authorities. Such contributions might explore, for example,
applications related to traffic or fleet management of the elderly and
infirm.
In the context of this conference "Intelligence" is defined as :
Software programs, processes, applications and databases that control
and enable the provision of advanced and sophisticated new services to
communications end users.
Network Intelligence creating revenues for communication companies
Formal papers and associated presentations are invited. Formal
proceedings will be available. Attendance to the conference will not
be limited. There will be an exhibition in association with the
conference and demonstrations for this exhibition are also invited.
Topics for ICIN 2003
ICIN 2003 covers a broad scope as it is related to Intelligence in
Next Generation Networks in the wider sense, including for example
terminals, servers and applications. Papers and associated
demonstrations are invited to illustrate innovative services and
applications, standards, current developments, trials, experiences and
future directions on topics including the list below. Papers providing
business cases and market drivers supporting the introduction of new
technologies, services and applications are welcomed. Of course
innovative papers pushing the boundaries of "Intelligence in Next
Generation Networks" on any subject are welcome - particularly if the
topic is one that will become more significant in the future.
1. Business models and market drivers
1.1 Enterprise requirements
1.2 Third party service provisioning
1.3 Regulatory constraints
1.4 Service revenue generation
1.5 Charging and revenue sharing models (correlation of transport and content)
1.6 Vendor independence
1.7 What do we really understand by "open" networks ?
1.8 How will business models be affected by the recent changes in the industry and the economic environment ?
2. Services and applications
2.1 Enhanced services and associated marketing
2.2 Innovative converged, value-added services, where the IP technology enables additional opportunities
2.3 E-Commerce, M-Commerce & E-Payment
2.4 Entertainment, Infotainment, Interactive games
2.5 Community support
2.6 Messaging (instant messaging, multimedia messaging, unified communications...)
2.7 Abstraction of access technology to support unified services.
3. Service Architecture (enabling capabilities to support services)
3.1 Open APIs and application protocols
3.2 Service creation, management and provisioning to enable a faster time to market for services.
3.3 Middleware solutions and service architecture
3.4 Location of intelligence (in CPE versus inside networks)
3.5 Context awareness (e.g. ; Presence, Privacy and Location)
3.6 Payment architectures, including charging, billing, rating and service brokering.
3.7 Mobility support
4. Network infrastructure (including protocols)
4.1 Location of intelligence (in CPE versus inside networks)
4.2 Distributed networks (Active networks, Peer to Peer)
4.3 Abstraction of heterogeneous underlying networks to support value added services.
4.4 Abstraction of access technology to support unified services.
4.5 Device management
The following non-exhaustive list of keywords may be used by potential
authors to check whether the topic they have in mind is relevant to
the conference :
3GPP, 3GPP2, APIs, Application Server, ASP, Call Centre, CAMEL, CGF,
CORBA, CTI, CTM, Diameter, DPE, DVB, E-Commerce, GPRS, GSM, GTP, IMS,
IMT-2000, IN, Internet, Intranet, IP, Ipv6, ISDN, ISP, JAVA, JINI,
M-Commerce, MGCP, MMS, Mobile IP, OCF, ODP, ONP, OSA, OSS, PAM,
Parlay, PCS, QoS, SCE, SCP, SIM Toolkit, SIP, Smart Cards, SMS, SN,
SOAP, Softswitch, SSP, STP (including router-based products), TMN,
UDDI, UMTS, VHE, VoD, VoIP, VPN, VxML, WAP, WDSL, WWW.
Demonstrations
Demonstrations, live or by video-projection, are encouraged. They
should be more of a technical than commercial aspect, on topics
relative to ICIN, preferably in relation with a paper presented in the
conference.
Tutorials
The conference may be preceded by a number of tutorials to help
introduce delegates to some of the key technical subjects.
Submission instructions
Submissions should clearly indicate which topic (1.x to 4.x above)
they are addressing in the conference.
For the ICIN 2003 conference, the submission must consist of an
abstract of a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 1500 words in
English, complete with relevant figures and tables describing results,
accompanied by a French summary if possible. It is important to the
technical assessors that abstracts are of the length requested.
If accepted all conference paper submissions should be made
electronically in MS-Word (6.0 or higher), PDF format or Postscript
files. MS-PowerPoint (4.0 or higher) should be used for the actual
presentations (which will be given electronically). The files should
be attached to e-mail and should be zipped if they are greater then 1
Mbyte.
The Technical Programme Committee will review these abstracts for
relevance, content and originality. The abstract must include the
author's name, affiliation, e-mail address and postal address,
telephone and fax numbers. Authors are requested to ensure that these
contact addresses are correct. If submission is co-authored, the
primary recipient of the correspondence should be clearly indicated.
Submissions should be e-mail to :
ICIN 2003
E-mail Address : sere@adera.fr
Schedule
Extended Abstract................................ 15^th September 2002
Notification of Acceptance....................... 30^th November 2002
Full Conference paper............................ 31^st January 2003
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