See: http://www.wtc2004.org/

World Telecommunications Congress 2004


WTC/ISS2004 will be held in Seoul, Korea, 12-15 September 2004 at the COEX
convention center. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers
to be presented at the technical sessions, which will cover a series of
current communication topics. Areas and topics that the paper submission is
solicited for are as follows:


    * Network and Service Management
          o Zero cost administration and operation
          o Performance measurement and traffic engineering
          o Automated service provisioning, service customization
          o Service billing
          o Service level agreements 

    * Applications
          o Entertainment and gaming
          o Collaborative environment
          o Peer to peer applications
          o Contents management and ownership 
    * Service portability and usability
          o Architecture for service portability
          o Service Discovery, dynamic PnP
          o Inter-network & service roaming
          o Location & context aware service, service addressing and naming
          o User profiling 
    * Service Enabling Platforms
          o Agents, middleware support
          o Service creation environment
          o Broadcast and multicast services
          o Converged wired and wireless services
          o Contents mediation 
    * Economics of new services
          o Value chain and its players
          o Business and pricing models
          o Micropayments and third-party billing
          o Service bundling
          o Service introduction and deployment scenarios
          o Boosting service acceptance avoiding customer churn 
    * Next generation business services
          o VPN in general
          o Managed home and enterprise services
          o E-commerce
          o Data warehousing
          o Virtual office 
    * Mobility in ubiquitous environment
          o Merging fixed and mobile networks
          o Scalable and seamless ubiquitous addressing and protocols
          o Mobility and broadband wireless technologies
          o Location and context aware functionalities 
    * NGN architectures
          o Transport, routing and control architecture
          o Metro networks
          o Triple play offerings
          o Network transition and convergence 
    * Security and privacy
          o Single sign-on in ubiquitous environment
          o Disaster response & survivability
          o Privacy of user profile in multi-operator context
          o User authentication and traceability 
    * Broadband access
          o Technology and architecture evolutions
          o One loop, many providers? One loop, many subscribers?
          o Home gateways 
    * Disruptive technologies
          o Non-conventional technologies for ubiquitous environment
          o Ten times cheaper and ten time better 
    * Home/Personal/Body Area networks
          o Smart homes, Internet appliances
          o Field trials and applications home/personal/body area networks
          o Zero-configurations, Plug-and-Play, etc. 


PAPER SUBMISSION

Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Detailed instructions for
paper submission will be posted on www.wtc2004.org.


SCHEDULE

    * Paper submission opens : September 2003
    * Paper submission due : 29 February 2004
    * Author notification : 31 May 2004
    * Final camera-ready paper submission due : 30 June 2004 


CONTACT

    * TPC Chair : Chu-Hwan Yim, TPC@wtc2004.org
    * TPC Secretary : Byung Jun Ahn, TPC@wtc2004.org