CFP : International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2005

CFP : International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2005
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Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee of SPECTS2005 (http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects), has decided to extend the submission deadline to March 15, 2005. This will be a firm deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------------- **** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS * International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS) Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society July 2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects SCOPE This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems - Internet Technology - Quality of Service (QoS) - DiffServ/IntServ - MPLS - TCP - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology - Networking Techniques - Unicast and Multicast Routing - Congestion Control - Switching Techniques - Tele-traffic - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control - Network Capacity Planning - Network Architecture Evaluation - Service and QoS Pricing - Security and Authentication - Broadband Networks - High-Speed Networking - ATM - Optical Networks - Wireless Systems and Networks - Satellite Systems - UMTS - Mobile Networks/Computing - Ad-hoc networks - Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems - Distributed Architectures - Client/Server - Distributed Systems and Agents - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Microprocessors/Microcomputers - Memory Systems - High Performance I/O - Real-time Systems - Scheduling Schemes - Software - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing - Parallel Algorithms and Languages - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications - Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models - Queuing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement - On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning - Process Algebra-Based Models - Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance - Case Studies NEW! 2005 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems WiNCS’2005 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS05.pdf GENERAL CHAIR Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu VICE GENERAL CHAIR Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco@dist.unige.it PROGRAM CHAIRS Mario Marchese CNIT - Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications University of Genoa Research Unit, Italy E-mail: mario.marchese@cnit.it Jose L Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo@udg.es VICE PROGRAM CHAIR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR Imad Mahgoub Florida Atlantic University, USA E-mail: imad@cse.fau.edu Vice Program Chair and Local Arrangement Chair Constantine Katsinis Drexel University, USA E-mail: ckatsini@ece.drexel.edu Vice Program Chair Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace, France E-mail: lorenz@ieee.org Tutorial Chair Abbas Jamalipour School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. & Ohio Sate Univ., USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Idaho, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universitat der Bundeswehr München, Germany Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli, Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Università di Milano, Italy Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy WEB MASTER Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Email: mchinni@pica.army.mil PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu@nortelnetworks.com Vice Chairs: Martin Kappes, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, kappes@docomolab-euro.com Nouerddine Boudriga, SUPCOM, Carthage University, Tunisia, nab@supcom.rnu.tn Susan Yi Su, President, SEEZONE INC., USA, seezonetx@yahoo.com Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada, wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca Kejie Lu, Univeristy of Florida, USA, lukejie@ece.ufl.edu Antonio Pescapè, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, pescape@unina.it SUBMISSION Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chair or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org sbranch@scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2005 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Vice Program Chair and special Sessions Chair, Imad Mahgoub. For more information regarding exhibits at SPECTS 2005 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of Papers: March 15, 2005 (Extended Firm Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2005 Final Camera-Ready Submission: May 23, 2005 FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects ** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS *** Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International. Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.

Do not bookmark this page; the URL will change once in a while. Bookmark the list of CFPs instead.

Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee of SPECTS2005
(http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects), has decided to extend the
submission deadline to March 15, 2005. This will be a firm deadline.
 
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           ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS *****
 
                   International Symposium on
   Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
                           (SPECTS)
 
                 Sponsored by The Society for
             Modeling and Simulation International
 
              Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems,
                Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society
 
                          July 2005
                Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
              http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects
 
                         ** SCOPE **
 
This annual international conference is a forum for professionals
involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication
systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at
every stage in the life cycle of the product including design,
manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The
discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the
past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant
progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and
measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and
telecommunication systems.
 
                    ** TOPICS OF INTEREST **
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 
Networking and Telecommunication Systems
    - Internet Technology
        - Quality of Service (QoS)
        - DiffServ/IntServ
        - MPLS
        - TCP
        - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
    - Networking Techniques
        - Unicast and Multicast Routing
        - Congestion Control
        - Switching Techniques
        - Tele-traffic
        - Network Protocols
        - Network Management and Control
        - Network Capacity Planning
        - Network Architecture Evaluation
        - Service and QoS Pricing
        - Security and Authentication
    - Broadband Networks
        - High-Speed Networking
        - ATM
        - Optical Networks
    - Wireless Systems and Networks
        - Satellite Systems
        - UMTS
        - Mobile Networks/Computing
        - Ad-hoc networks
    - Multimedia Communications and Applications
 
Computer Systems
    - Distributed Architectures
        - Client/Server
        - Distributed Systems and Agents
        - Parallel and Distributed Computing
        - Massively Parallel Systems
        - Cluster Computing
        - Grid Computing
        - Interconnection Networks
    - Computer Architectures
        - Microprocessors/Microcomputers
        - Memory Systems
        - High Performance I/O
        - Real-time Systems
        - Scheduling Schemes
    - Software
        - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
        - Parallel Algorithms and Languages
    - Hardware and Software Monitors
    - High-Performance Computing
    - Workload and Traffic Characterization
    - Scientific Computing Algorithms
    - Reconfigurable Computing
    - Electronic Commerce
 
Tools, Methodologies and Applications
    - Parallel and Distributed Simulation
    - Verification and Validation
    - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
    - Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
    - Queuing Systems and Networks
    - Scalability Studies
    - Integrated Modeling and Measurement
    - On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
    - Process Algebra-Based Models
    - Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
    - Case Studies
 
NEW!
 
                2005 Workshop on Performance of
            Wireless Networks and Communication Systems
                           WiNCS’2005
        http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS05.pdf
 
                    ** GENERAL CHAIR **
 
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA
Tel +1-732-571-4482
Fax +1-732-263-5202
E-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu
 
                  ** VICE GENERAL CHAIR **
 
Franco Davoli
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy
Tel +39-010-353-2732
Fax +39-010-353-2154
E-Mail: franco@dist.unige.it
 
                    ** PROGRAM CHAIRS **
 
Mario Marchese
CNIT - Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications
University of Genoa Research Unit, Italy
E-mail: mario.marchese@cnit.it
 
Jose L Marzo
University of Girona, Spain
E-mail: joseluis.marzo@udg.es
 
          ** VICE PROGRAM CHAIR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR **
 
Imad Mahgoub
Florida Atlantic University, USA
E-mail: imad@cse.fau.edu
 
Vice Program Chair and Local Arrangement Chair
Constantine Katsinis
Drexel University, USA
E-mail: ckatsini@ece.drexel.edu
 
Vice Program Chair
Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute Alsace, France
E-mail: lorenz@ieee.org
 
Tutorial Chair
Abbas Jamalipour
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Sydney, Australia
Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org
 
             ** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **
 
Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia
Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK
Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK
Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France
Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA
Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. & Ohio Sate Univ., USA
Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden
Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece
Demetrios Kazakos, University of Idaho, USA
Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
Axel Lehmann, Universitat der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA
Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany
Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland
Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy
Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece
Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli, Italy
Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA
Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA
George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA
Gian Paolo Rossi, Università di Milano, Italy
Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA
Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway
Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA
Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia
Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany
Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy
 

                      ** WEB MASTER **
 
Michael J. Chinni
U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC
Email: mchinni@pica.army.mil
 
                   ** PUBLICITY COMMITTEE **
 
Chair:
Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu@nortelnetworks.com
 
Vice Chairs:
Martin Kappes, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, kappes@docomolab-euro.com
Nouerddine Boudriga, SUPCOM, Carthage University, Tunisia, nab@supcom.rnu.tn
Susan Yi Su, President, SEEZONE INC., USA, seezonetx@yahoo.com
Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada, wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca
Kejie Lu, Univeristy of Florida, USA, lukejie@ece.ufl.edu
Antonio Pescapè, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, pescape@unina.it
 
                       ** SUBMISSION **
 
Please submit your complete papers electronically to:
 
                http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/
 
All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions
should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including
figures, tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to
ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone
numbers of corresponding author.
 
If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web
Master, Program Chair or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch,
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson
Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA  92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax
858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org sbranch@scs.org.
 
Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2005 will be
considered for possible publication in scholarly journals.
 
Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair.
 
Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted
to the Vice Program Chair and special Sessions Chair, Imad Mahgoub.
For more information regarding exhibits at SPECTS 2005 contact: Mr.
Steve Branch at the address shown above.
 
                   ** IMPORTANT DATES **
 
Submission of Papers:           March 15, 2005 (Extended Firm Deadline)
Notification of Acceptance:     May 2, 2005
Final Camera-Ready Submission:  May 23, 2005
 
                 ** FURTHER INFORMATION **
 
             http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects
 
           ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS *****
 
Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International.
Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.