CFP : Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications NGC 03, co located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology ICQT 03

CFP : Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications NGC 03, co located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology ICQT 03
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Final Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03) Organized by UniBwM and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM co-located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03) Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models September 16-19, 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/ Scope ----- Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics: NGC'03 ------ - Multicast applications and services - Multi-player games - Novel group communication architectures - Group and session management techniques - QoS and traffic control for groups - Peer-to-peer systems and applications - Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms - Content distribution systems - Wireless group communications - Security for group communications - Heterogeneous group communications - Multicast deployment mechanisms ICQT'03 ------- - Economic models for the Internet - Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing - Internet charging technology - Monitoring, measurements, and accounting - ISP cost and business models - Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games - Charging and QoS for multicast - Charging for QoS services - Pricing mobile and wireless services - Application service provider models - Security mechanisms for charging - Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ---------------------- Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact ngc03@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 10, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003 Camera ready version: July 1, 2003 Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003 General Information ------------------- The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/ or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail ngc03@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03@ftw.at. Location and Date ----------------- The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus. Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train (S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside. Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich. Committees ---------- General Chair Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee NGC'03 Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K. Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A. NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany NGC'03 Program Committee Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Mostafa Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Bauer IBM Research Zurich Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee University of Maryland Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies John Byers Boston University Georg Carle University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Walid Dabbous INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Hiroshi Esaki University of Tokyo Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffmann Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Roger Kermode Motorola Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc Universite de Liege Brian Levine University of Massachusetts Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Oeznur Oezkasap Koc University Istanbul Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos University of Southern California Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Ralf Steinmetz University of Darmstadt Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II Lorenzo Vicisano Cisco Systems Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria ICQT'03 Program Committee Ragnar Andreassen Telenor Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna Torsten Braun University of Bern Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business Chris Edwards Lancaster University Richard Gibbens Cambridge University Martin Karsten University of Waterloo Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Muenchen Simon Leinen SWITCH Zurich Robin Mason University of Southampton Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Huw Oliver UK Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks Kihong Park Purdue University Guido Petit Alcatel Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University Peter Reichl FTW Vienna Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little Vasilios Siris ICS Forth David Songhurst BT exact Technologies Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen -------------------------------------------------------------------

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 Final Call for Papers

                 Fifth International Workshop on
             Networked Group Communications (NGC'03)

                 Organized by UniBwM and COST 264
                 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM

                        co-located with the

                  Third International Workshop on
           Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03)

 Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models

                       September 16-19, 2003
 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany
                    URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/

Scope
-----
Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for
distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes
to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular
raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet
services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic
models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions,
investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical
and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient
provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors
are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group
communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies
(ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics:

NGC'03
------
- Multicast applications and services
- Multi-player games
- Novel group communication architectures
- Group and session management techniques
- QoS and traffic control for groups
- Peer-to-peer systems and applications
- Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms
- Content distribution systems
- Wireless group communications
- Security for group communications
- Heterogeneous group communications
- Multicast deployment mechanisms

ICQT'03
-------
- Economic models for the Internet
- Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing
- Internet charging technology
- Monitoring, measurements, and accounting
- ISP cost and business models
- Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games
- Charging and QoS for multicast
- Charging for QoS services
- Pricing mobile and wireless services
- Application service provider models
- Security mechanisms for charging
- Management of Service Level Agreements

Papers and Submissions
----------------------
Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than
10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full
review process. Submissions should already follow the author
guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors,
affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five
keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be
identified clearly, including the author's name, position, mailing
address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic,
PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL
http://www.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact
ngc03@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de for additional information.
The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and
electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available
during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines
in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the
final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception,
including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Important Dates
---------------
      Deadline for submissions: April 10, 2003
    Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003
          Camera ready version: July 1, 2003
                Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003

General Information
-------------------
The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the
single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on
September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track
ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include
the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two
co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/
or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail
ngc03@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03@ftw.at.

Location and Date
-----------------
The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information
technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens
Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels
are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus.
Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train
(S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached
by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and
Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to
the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside.
Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before

Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich.

Committees
----------
General Chair
Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Steering Committee NGC'03
Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A.
Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France
Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K.
Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A.


NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs
Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

NGC'03 Program Committee
Kevin Almeroth           UC Santa Barbara
Mostafa Ammar            Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Bauer             IBM Research Zurich
Elizabeth Belding-Royer  University of California, Santa Barbara
Samrat Bhattacharjee     University of Maryland
Ernst Biersack           Institut Eurecom
Bob Briscoe              BT exact Technologies
John Byers               Boston University
Georg Carle              University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS
Jon Crowcroft            University of Cambridge
Walid Dabbous            INRIA
Jordi Domingo-Pascual    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Derek Eager              University of Saskatchewan
Wolfgang Effelsberg      University of Mannheim
Hiroshi Esaki            University of Tokyo
Serge Fdida              Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS
J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves  University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark Handley             ICSI Center for Internet Research
Markus Hoffmann          Lucent Technologies
David Hutchison          Lancaster University
Roger Kermode            Motorola
Jim Kurose               University of Massachusetts
Guy Leduc                Universite de Liege
Brian Levine             University of Massachusetts
Laurent Mathy            Lancaster University
Oeznur Oezkasap          Koc University Istanbul
Sanjoy Paul              Lucent Technologies
Christos Papadopoulos    University of Southern California
Peter Parnes             Lulea University of Technology
Colin Perkins            Information Sciences Institute
Luigi Rizzo              ICSI Center for Internet Research
Dan Rubenstein           Columbia University
Clay Shields             Georgetown University
Ralf Steinmetz           University of Darmstadt
Burkhard Stiller         UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich
Giorgio Ventre           Universita di Napoli Federico II
Lorenzo Vicisano         Cisco Systems
Martina Zitterbart       University of Karlsruhe

ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs
Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada
Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria

ICQT'03 Program Committee
Ragnar Andreassen        Telenor
Sandford Bessler         FTW Vienna
Torsten Braun            University of Bern
Costas Courcoubetis      Athens University of Economics and Business
Chris Edwards            Lancaster University
Richard Gibbens          Cambridge University
Martin Karsten           University of Waterloo
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien  LMU Muenchen
Simon Leinen             SWITCH Zurich
Robin Mason              University of Southampton
Andrew Odlyzko           University of Minnesota
Huw Oliver               UK
Maximilian Ott           Semandex Networks
Kihong Park              Purdue University
Guido Petit              Alcatel Belgium
Douglas Reeves           North Carolina State University
Peter Reichl             FTW Vienna
Bjoern Rupp              Arthur D. Little
Vasilios Siris           ICS Forth
David Songhurst          BT exact Technologies
Otto Spaniol             RWTH Aachen

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