See: http://netcon04.uib.es/

Deadline extended to May 15th.
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS

Net-Con 2004
Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility
IFIP TC6 Conference, sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork
Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems),
WG6.7 (Smart Networks) and WG6.8 (Mobile and Wireless Communications)
Palma de Mallorca, Spain - November 3 - 5, 2004
Tutorials: November 1 - 2, 2004 

   SPONSORED AND ORGANIZED BY

   Sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6
   (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks)
   and WG6.8 (Wireless Communications)

   GENERAL CHAIR
   R. Puigjaner (Universitat Illes Balears, Spain)

   PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
   D. Gaiti (University of Troyes, FR)

   S. Galmes (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   STEERING COMMITTEE

   A. Casaca (INESC, PT)

   A.A. Lazar (Columbia University, US)

   Al-Naamany (Sultan Qaboos University, OM)

   O. Martikainen (Micsom, SF)

   G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR)

   J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ)

   O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE)

   TUTORIAL CHAIR
   J.-L- Ferrer (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   FINANCIAL CHAIR
   B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   A. Al-Naamany (Sultan Qabous University, OM)

   F. Arve Aagesen (Norwegian University, NO)

   G. Bianchi (Universita di Palermo, IT)

   A. Benzekri (Universite Paul Sabatier, FR)

   C. Blondia (Univestiy of Antwerpen, BE)

   R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA)

   A. Casaca (INESC, PT)O. Cherkaoui (UQAM, CA)

   W. Dabbous (INRIA, FR)

   F. Davoli (Univesita di Genova, IT)

   J. Domingo (Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, ES)

   O. Duarte (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, BR)

   A. El Sherbini (National Telecommunication Inst. EG)

   J. Escobar (Centauritech, PA)

   L. Fratta (Politecnico de Milano, IT)

   G. Haring (Wien Univeristaet, AT)

   D-Y. Hu (Inst. of Network Technology, CN)

   L. Huguet (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   V. B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, DK)

   F. Kamoun (Universite La Manouba, TU)

   U. Korner (Lund University, SE)

   G. Leduc (Universite de Liege, BE)

   G. Omidyar (Institute for Communications Research, SG)

   G. Pacifici (IBM - US)

   H. Perros (North Carolina State University, US)

   G. Pujolle (LIP6, FR)

   F.J. Quiles (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES)

   T. Saito (Toyota, JP)

   B. Serra (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   J. Slavik (Testcom, CZ)

   O. Spaniol (RWT Aachen, DE)

   Y. Stavrakakis (Universtiy of Athens, GR)

   Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University, JP)

   F. Tobagi (Stanford University, US)

   ORGANISING COMMITTEE

   L. Carrasco (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   I. Furio (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   M. Payeras (Universitat Illes Balears, ES)

   CONFERENCE GOALS

   The intention of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange of
   ideas and findings in a wide range of areas related to network control and
   network engineering with a focus on QoS, security and mobility control.
   Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the
   following:

   QoS

   Policy-based management architecture

   Programmable network and Active networks

   Intelligent agent

   QoS Control and QoS Engineering

   Traffic measurements and monitoring,Traffic engineering in converging
   networks

   Traffic modeling and simulation

   Quality of Service provisioning, Network planning and optimization

   Process, methodologies, and tools for network control

   Policy models for system management, Provisioning of policies

   Policy frameworks for active networks, mobile systems, e-commerce

   Integrating policies into existing systems and environments

   Business rules and organizational control

   Extensions and refinements to policy standards

   Distributed game control

   Case studies of applying policy-based technologies

   Security

   Security control and Security engineering

   AAA

   Configurable security policies

   Cryptography protocols

   Policy models for security

   Distributed trusted infrastructure

   Water marking for flow control

   Mobility

   Mobility control and mobility engineering

   Policy models for mobility

   Pervasive/ubiquitous/wearable mobile systems

   Security and privacy issues for mobile and wireless systems

   Mobility and QoS management

   Control schemes in ad-hoc networks

   Personal area networks QoS and security

   IEEE 802.11 engineering

   Smart devices

   Smart cards, security and mobility

   SUBMISSION

   Submissions should be original and limited to 20 double spaced 12 point
   pages in length. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts
   electronically in PDF to the following address:

   URL: http://netcon04.uib.es

   The proceedings of the conference will be published by Kluwer.

   KEY DATES

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   |      April 30, 2004 Papers due       |
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   | May 15, 2004 Tutorials proposals due |
   |                                      |
   |  June 15, 2002 Authors notified of   |
   |              acceptance              |
   |                                      |
   |    July 15, 2002 Final papers due    |
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   Further information

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