IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1
                     The IFIP International Conference 
                    on Testing of Communicating Systems
                        http://www.testcom2003.org/


                             May 26 - 29, 2003
                         Sophia Antipolis, France

                        Testcom is organized by the 
       European Telecommunications Standards Institute, ETSI, Sophia
                             Antipolis, France
           and the Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany.


Important Dates

October 25, 2002 - Submission deadline
December 6, 2002 - Notification of acceptance
January 20, 2003 - Camera-ready copy
February 14, 2003 - Proposals for tool demonstrations 


Scope and Objectives

The aim of the conference is to provide opportunities to bring together
practitioners and researchers in the field of testing of communicating
systems. The conference will consist of presentations of reviewed and
invited papers, demonstrations of tools, and panel and discussion
sessions. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Types of testing:
Interoperability testing, Network Integration Testing, Conformance
testing, Performance testing, Robustness testing, Regression testing.

Phases of testing:
Test case development, Test selection and management, Test
configuration and execution, Test coverage and results analysis.

Classes of systems:
Internet protocols and services, Intelligent Networks, to be tested:
Next Generation Networks (NGN), UMTS, Active networks, Ad-hoc networks,
Middleware platforms, Multimedia systems, E-commerce systems.

Theory and Practise of testing:
Theoretical frameworks, Test specification, Test derivation, Validation
and Analysis, Applications of testing theory, Industrial testing
experience, Test standards, Test tools. 



Paper Submissions must be received by October 25, 2002. 

For further questions please write to: testcom@etsi.fr 



Program Co-Chairs

D. Hogrefe, University of
Göttingen,Germany
A. Wiles, ETSI, France


Steering Committee

Sam Chanson, Hong Kong Univ. of
S. & T., Hong Kong
Roland Groz, France Telecom,
France
Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM,
Canada
Guy Leduc, University of Liege,
Belgium


Technical Program Committee

B. Baumgarten, SIT, Germany
G. v. Bochmann, University
of Ottawa, Canada
A. R. Cavalli , INT, France
G. Csopaki, Budapest
University, Hungary
S. Dibuz, Ericsson, Hungary
J. Grabowski, University of
Lübeck, Germany
T. Higashino, Osaka
University, Japan
M. Kim, ICU, University,
Korea
H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus,
Germany
D. Lee, Bell Labs Research,
U.S.A.
G. Maggiore (TIM, Italy)
O. Monkewich, Nortel
Networks, Canada
R. L. Probert, University of
Ottawa, Canada
O. Rafiq, University of Pau, France
S. Randall, PQM, UK
I. Schieferdecker, GMD FOKUS,
Germany
K. Stöttinger, Deutsche Telekom,
Germany
K. Suzuki, Advanced Communication,
Japan
J. Tretmans, University of Twente,
The Netherlands
A. Ulrich, Siemens, Germany
H. Ural, University of Ottawa,
Canada
M. U. Uyar, City University of New
York, U.S.A.
C. Viho, IRISA / University of
Rennes, France
C. Willcock, Nokia, Germany
J. Wu , Tsinghua University, China
N. Yevtushenko, Tomsk State
University, Russia



Area Coordinators 

Asia and Australia
K. Suzuki, Advanced Communication,
Japan
North and South America
O. Monkewich, Nortel Networks,
Canada
Eastern Europe
G. Csopaki, Budapest University,
Hungary


Organisation Committee

Emmanuelle Jouan, ETSI, France
Marie-Noelle Girard, ETSI,
France
Tabea Georgi, University of
Luebeck, Germany