(My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP)
 
CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent
Resources (SAPIR 2005)

Lisbon, Portugal
July 21-23, 2005

URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SAPIR05.html
 
1. Topics for regular papers include, but are not limited to:
    Pi-resources(*) in ad-hoc, sensor, and overlay networks
    Service level agreement for pi-resource behaviors
    Discovery mechanisms for pi-resources
    Admission control to pi-resources
    Hybrid sequential and parallel processing in pi-resources-based systems
    Traffic analysis under sporadic data transfer within systems with
      pi-resources
    Semantic of high availability for pi-resources
    Co-operative and adaptive applications to pi-resources
    Context-aware pi-resources
    Security for pi-resources
    User behavioral models for pi-resources
    Implications on current communication protocols and middleware
    Design of network pi-devices and pi-networks
    Frameworks and architectures considering pi-resources
    Adaptive service assurance management
    Autonomic computing, on-demand networks, utility computing
    Wireless and mobile networks
    Management of intermittent resources, including accounting fault/alarm
      processing, performance evaluation, metering


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(*): PI-resources stands for Partial and Intermittent resources
 
 
2. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations:
The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and
positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12
slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in
the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the
conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers. Please send
your presentations to sapir05@iaria.org.

3. Tutorials:
Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can
be half or full day tutorials. Please send half or full day tutorial
proposals to sapir05@iaria.org.
 
4. Panels:
Proposals on controversial and challenging topics are expected. Send
proposals to sapir05@iaria.org.
 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received
papers will be acknowledged. The files should be sent via
http://193.136.94.101/sapir2005/submission.html. Please use the suggested
subtopics listed in the Call for Papers on the conference site as keywords
for your submission. Tutorial submission should provide overviews of current
industrial and research hot topics.
 
- The SAPIR 2005 Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer-Verlag.
- Best papers will be forwarded for consideration in a special issue of a journal.
- A best paper award will be granted by the IARIA award selection committee.
 
For more information please contact: sapir05@iaria.org
 
For updates check the Web page at
http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SAPIR05.html
 
SAPIR 2005 Chair
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada,
 
SAPIR Advisory Committee
Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Radu-Popescu Zeletin, GMD FOKUS, Germany
 
TPC Chairs
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, Colmar, France
Pierre Rolin, France Telecom, France
 
Deadlines
Deadline for paper submissions February 15, 2005
Deadline for tutorial/panel proposals February 28, 2005
Notification of acceptance March 15, 2005
Camera ready contributions April 10, 2005
Conference date July 21-23, 2005
 
Subtopics for SAPIR 2005:
 
1. Pi-resources in ad-hoc, sensor, and overlay networks Degradable-power in
sensor networks, Dynamic reconfiguration in ad-hoc networks, Dynamic mapping
with overlay networks
 
2. Service level agreement for pi-resource behaviors QoS violation for
pi-services, SLA models for pi-services, Service dependency in pi-resources
oriented networks
 
3. Discovery mechanisms for pi-resources Discovery models for pi-resources,
Physical discovery using smart pi-antenna models, Adaptive time-out discovery
protocols
 
4. Admission control to pi-resources Selection of admission control mechanisms,
Prioritization of network traffic, Bandwidth management
 
5. Hybrid sequential and parallel processing in pi-resources-based systems
Application scheduling, Optimal resource allocation
 
6. Traffic analysis under sporadic data transfer within systems with
pi-resources Traffic metrics in delay tolerant networks, P2P traffic analysis,
GRID traffic analysis, Traffic in weather forecast and medical applications,
Traffic management & shaping & engineering
 
7. Semantic of high availability for pi-resources Static versus dynamic
availability, Mechanisms to measure and rank availability
 
8. Co-operative and adaptive applications to pi-resources P2P applications,
Self-adaptable applications, Mobile applications, Dynamic peer-adaptability
among interacting pi-entities
 
9. Context-aware pi-resources Context self-adaptable pi-resources,
Location-aware applications, Pervasive context-aware systems, Context broker
architectures, Semantic Web ontology, Context-aware reuse of learning
pi-resources, Context-awareness in ad-hoc networks, Frameworks supporting
context-aware pi-applications
 
10. Security for pi-resources Authentication, Authorization, Security profiles,
Temporary trust
 
11. User behavioral models for pi-resources User adaptable behavior (user
irritation/satisfaction, credits/penalties), Network adaptable behavior to user
changes, Human in the management loop (user proactive/ reactive actions)
 
12. Implications on current communication protocols and middleware Routing in
pi-resource based networks, Bandwidth allocation and control
 
13. Design of network pi-devices and pi-networks Requirements of
pi-resource-based systems, Guidelines to design pi-resource-based systems,
Methodologies for piresource design, Methodologies for pi-resource-based
systems
 
14. Frameworks and architectures considering pi-resources Grid shared
resources, Enhanced stand-by mechanisms for pi-resources, Self-adaptation
middleware, Agent-based pi-systems, Cluster networks, Web-pi-services
 
15. Adaptive service assurance management Capacity planning under pi-resources,
Decision adoption on pi-resource-based systems, Self-stabilizing
pi-resourcebased systems
 
16. Autonomic computing, on-demand networks, utility computing Autonomic
computing with pi-resources, On-demand pi-resources, Utility computing
mechanisms
 
17. Wireless and mobile networks WiFi, WiMax, WideBand, UWB, ZigBee, MBWA,
PAN/LAN/MAN/WAN wireless, Mobility management / Mobile IP, Wireless Multimedia
Services
 
18. Management of intermittent resources, including accounting fault/alarm
processing, performance evaluation, metering Robust adaptive deployment of
pi-systems, Service rating and billing, Self-detection, self-isolation, and
self-healing with pi-resources, Metering and performance evaluation in
pi-resource-based systems, Fault identification in systems with pi-resources