CFP : Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services QoFIS 2003

CFP : Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services QoFIS 2003
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Please note: The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 has been extended to Tuesday April 22! ---------------------- Call for Papers Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS 2003) October 1-3, 2003 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden URL: http://www.qofis.org Call for Papers The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss design and implementation techniques for providing quality of service in communication systems. This workshop is the fourth international event organized by COST263 Action "Quality of Future Internet Services" and it explicitly focuses on the provisioning of quality of service in the Internet, including wireless network access and host system support. The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and maturing approaches to QoS, and for bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from both industry and academia. Along with presentations of papers and keynote speeches, QoFIS 2003 will offer a seminar day on October 3 with invited speakers on the topic "Quality of Service in Wireless Networks." The seminar is organized in cooperation with the KTH Center for Wireless Systems. List of Topics We are inviting research contributions on topics strongly related to the offering of quality of service in the Internet. These include, but are not limited to: - Traffic modeling and classification - QoS requirements, mapping and negotiation - Denial and theft of QoS - Policing, scheduling and metering - QoS routing, inter and intra domain - Signaling, session management - Traffic engineering, service dimensioning - End-system QoS support - Policy-based QoS management - QoS in wireless networks - QoS in peer-to-peer networks - Active networking for QoS - Charging for quality Papers and Submissions Papers are solicited in full length of no more than 10 single-spaced pages (in English). All papers will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should follow the author guidelines specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of maximum five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified, including 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.qofis.org for further submission instructions or contact qofis2003@imit.kth.se for additional information. The conference proceedings are 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 manuscripts. 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 . Selected papers will be invited to be published in a special issue of an international journal following the workshop. Best Ph.D. student paper award Papers that are candidate for the best PhD student paper award should be clearly identified as such in a cover letter, which should be signed by the student's supervisor. To be eligible for the award, the PhD student should be the principal author and presenter of the submitted paper. The selection will be based on both the quality of the written paper and its presentation. The award will be presented at the workshop dinner. Important Dates Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2003; please register your submission (with name of authors, title, abstract) by April 7, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2003 Camera-ready version: July 17, 2003 Workshop dates: October 1-3, 2003 General Information The final program will be offered in a single-track over two days, Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2003. The workshop will be held in the Wallenberg hall of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (http://www.iva.se/eng/) in central Stockholm. An associated seminar on Quality of Service in Wireless Networks will be held on Friday October 3, 2003, at the KTH Center for Wireless Systems, http://wireless.kth.se/. The registration fee will include both the workshop and the seminar day. For more information on the co-located events please visit the URL http://www.qofis.org/.

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Please note: The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 has been extended to 
Tuesday April 22!

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Call for Papers
Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on
Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS 2003)
 
October 1-3, 2003
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
URL: http://www.qofis.org

Call for Papers

The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss design and 
implementation techniques for providing quality of service in communication 
systems. This workshop is the fourth international event organized by 
COST263 Action "Quality of Future Internet Services" and it explicitly 
focuses on the provisioning of quality of service in the Internet, 
including wireless network access and host system support. The workshop 
will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and 
maturing approaches to QoS, and for bringing together researchers, 
developers and practitioners from both industry and academia.

Along with presentations of papers and keynote speeches, QoFIS 2003 will 
offer a seminar day on October 3 with invited speakers on the topic 
"Quality of Service in Wireless Networks." The seminar is organized in 
cooperation with the KTH Center for Wireless Systems.

List of Topics

We are inviting research contributions on topics strongly related to the 
offering of quality of service in the Internet. These include, but are not 
limited to:
- Traffic modeling and classification
- QoS requirements, mapping and negotiation
- Denial and theft of QoS
- Policing, scheduling and metering
- QoS routing, inter and intra domain
- Signaling, session management
- Traffic engineering, service dimensioning
- End-system QoS support
- Policy-based QoS management
- QoS in wireless networks
- QoS in peer-to-peer networks
- Active networking for QoS
- Charging for quality


Papers and Submissions

Papers are solicited in full length of no more than 10 single-spaced pages 
(in English). All papers will be subject to a full review process. 
Submissions should follow the author guidelines specified below and must 
include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of 
maximum five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be 
identified, including 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.qofis.org for further submission 
instructions or contact qofis2003@imit.kth.se for additional information. 
The conference proceedings are 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 manuscripts. 
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 . Selected papers 
will be invited to be published in a special issue of an international 
journal following the workshop.

Best Ph.D. student paper award

Papers that are candidate for the best PhD student paper award should be 
clearly identified as such in a cover letter, which should be signed by the 
student's supervisor. To be eligible for the award, the PhD student should 
be the principal author and presenter of the submitted paper. The selection 
will be based on both the quality of the written paper and its 
presentation. The award will be presented at the workshop dinner.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2003; please register your submission 
(with name of authors, title, abstract) by April 7, 2003
Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2003
Camera-ready version: July 17, 2003
Workshop dates: October 1-3, 2003

General Information
The final program will be offered in a single-track over two days, 
Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2003. The workshop will be held in 
the Wallenberg hall of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences 
(http://www.iva.se/eng/) in central Stockholm. An associated seminar on 
Quality of Service in Wireless Networks will be held on Friday October 3, 
2003, at the KTH Center for Wireless Systems, http://wireless.kth.se/. The 
registration fee will include both the workshop and the seminar day. For 
more information on the co-located events please visit the URL 
http://www.qofis.org/.