12th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Management
Call for Papers (Submission deadline of May 15, 2004)
July 22-25,2004
http://tecom.cox.smu.edu/icts/ictsm12/
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

Conference Scope
Following the successful 11th International Conference on Telecommunication
Systems which was held last year in Monterey, CA. The 12th International
Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis will be held
in Monterey, CA on July 22-25, 2004. The conference will build on the
tradition of the earlier conferences. The general idea is to encourage
informal inter! action and exchanges of ideas by limiting the number of
participants, concentrating on a few topics, and by presenting new problems
and problem areas. The objective is to advance the state of the modeling and
analysis in telecommunications by stimulating research activity on new and
important problems.

The conference will be divided into segments with each segment devoted to a
specific topic. This will allow for little conflict between segments. Papers
will be screened by the Program Committee to ensure the quality of
presentations. Abstracts and papers should be submitted directly to the
Conference Chairman (gavishb2000@yahoo.com) who will handle its review.
Social and cultural activities will be included in the 2004 agenda. Being
the eleven! th conference in the series, the organizing committee is
planning special events for this conference. The conference site is the
Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.

The intention is, to limit the number of parallel sessions to three. The
conference is scheduled over a weekend so as to reduce teaching conflicts
for academic participants, and to enable participants to take advantage of
weekend hotel and airfare rates and of events that take place in the
Monterey area.

Potential participants should send by May 15, 2004 a paper or an extended
abstract to the conference general chair of the Program Committee. The
technical program committee will evaluate the papers, and a decision will be
sent to the authors by May 20, 2004 with instructions for the final version
of the paper which is due by June 10, 2004. Full paper contributions will
be considered for publication in the Telecommunication Systems and
Electronic Commerce Research Journal. Conference participants will be
provided with the conference proceedings (a collection of papers presented
at the conference)

Conference General Chair: Bezalel Gavish, Cox school of business, SMU,
Dallas TX 75205, email gavishb2000@yahoo.com

List of Topics
Listed below is a non exhaustive list of topics for the conference:
- Broadband wireless
- onfiguration of ATM Networks
- The role of standards in telecommunications
- DSL and Cable Based Systems
- Mobiliity and Nomadicity
- Cellular Systems and PCS Modeling and Configuration
- Multimedia modeling and analysis
- Pricing and Economic Analysis ! of Internet and E-commerce
- Policies for Transition Between Telecommunication Technologies
- Topological Design and Network Configuration Problems
- Design and Analysis of Local Access Networks and Outside Plant Problems
- Low and Medium Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Systems
- Design and Management of Geostationary Satellite Telecommunication Systems
- Trust in Telecommunication Based Systems
- Time Dependent Expansion of Telecommunication Systems
- Telecommunication network Reliability, Availability and Survivability
- Network Design Problems in Gigabit and Terabit Networks
- LAN, WAN Global Network Interconnection
- Artificial Intelligence/Heuristics in Telecommunication Systems
- Quantitative Methods in Network Management
- Organizational Impact of Modern Telecommunication Systems
- Pricing and Economic Analysis of Telecommunications
- Impact of Telecommunications on Industrial Organization
- Performance Evaluation of Telecommunication Systems
- Distributed Computing and Distributed Data Bases
- International aspects of telecommunications
- Fiberoptics and photonics
- Security and Privacy Issues in Telecommunications
- Internet and its Impact on Commerce
- Internet and Intranet
- Virtual Reality, Multimedia and their Impact
- Telecommunication Standards
- Protocols for Telecommunication
- Telecommunication to Support Healthcare Systems
- Telecommunication in Transportation
- Decision Support Technologies in Telecommunications
- Global Internet Infrastructure issues with the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)
- Internet 2 and New Generation Internet Initiatives
- Designing and modeling high availability (Ao) networks