See: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/AdvancedICT/AdvancedICT2005/GeneralInformation/GeneralInformation.html


   AICT 2005
   Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications
   Lisbon, Portugal
   Week of July 17, 2005

   Manifesto

   Advanced  Industrial  Conference on Telecommunications (A-ICT 2005) is
   intended to inaugurate a series of annual successes in improving on quality
   and industrial relevance of scientific publications. Our cooperation with
   prestigious  associations  and international scientific organisms will
   contribute to its continuous success. In 2005, the conference is held in
   Lisbon, Portugal, under the scientific support of several organizations
   (IEEE, IEE, IARIA), several well-known institutes (INT - France), and with
   industrial support from Cisco Systems and Siemens, as well as from the
   incumbent operator R&D Company Portugal Telecom Inovação.

   With having it technically co-sponsored by IEEE and with a higher quality
   acceptance rate endorsed by LNCS – Springer publishing house, the A-ICT
   brand will offer an appropriate stage for scientific credits. Aside being
   under IEEE and Springer banner, the Advisory Committee will promote the top
   papers in the scientific journals and offer substantial support for selected
   young researches through the IARIA non-profit organization. Many scientists,
   students, professionals and technical staffs, representing a large variety
   of   organizations   such   as   universities,   research  institutes,
   telecommunication operators and industry have attained each previous event,
   forming a well defined scientists’ family. Advanced ICT will continue to
   cover  a  variety of challenging telecommunication topics ranging from
   background fields like signals, traffic, coding, communication basics up to
   large communication systems and networks, fixed, mobile and integrated, etc.
   Applications, services, system and network management issues will also
   receive significant attention.

    We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. A-ICT
   2005 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels, and
   exhibition  opportunities.  The  Advanced ICT 2005 Proceedings will be
   published  by  LNCS Springer-Verlag. Best papers will be forwarded for
   consideration in special issues of various journals. A best paper award will
   be granted by the IARIA’s award selection committee. The Advisory Committee
   will periodically report special events relating to our community.

   Important dates:
   Submission due             February 15, 2005
   Notification of acceptance March 15, 2005
   Camera-ready manuscript    April 10, 2005
   Conference                 Week of July 17, 2005


   1. Papers:

     Topics:
    1. Information Theory and Coding Theory
    2. Optical Communications
    3. Networking Theory and Technologies
    4. Telecommunication/Network Management and Services
    5. Web Services Communications
    6. Wireless Communications
    7. Metro/Access Networks
    8. Communications Software
    9. Special Topics

     Conference flyer (printer friendly for posting; includes subtopics):

     For posting in your departments, please use this conference flyer.

   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 aict05@iaria.org.


   3. Tutorials:

   Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can
   be half or full day tutorials.

   4. Panels:

   Proposals on controversial and challenging topics are expected. For details,
   please see Instructions for Authors section.