Call for Papers
The Second International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging
Networks and Systems (MENS 2010)
In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Autonomic
and Trusted Computing (ATC 2010)

Xi'an, China

October 26-29, 2010

http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/


In recent years, novel computing paradigms are emerging. On conventional
computer networks, we are superimposing new networking systems,
such as peer-to-peer, wireless ad hoc, sensor networks, and general overlay
networks. These systems’ environments are distributed, heterogeneous and
dynamic. They are managed by multiple administrative authorities and shared
by users with different and competing interests. More often than not,
they are autonomously provided by independent and rational individuals.
The most distinguishing feature of intelligent networks and systems is that,
each player determines its behaviors autonomously. "Design for choice"
is the fundamental principle of emerging autonomous networks and systems.

As computing and network systems gradually become the fundamental
infrastructure
of the information society, many multidisciplinary research topics emerge
to support/reflect the features of our economics and society. As we know,
in the research and application of future networks and systems,
only a technical approach is far too weak to deliver a satisfactory solution.
It has already been proven by the dilemma of Internet QoS researches and
applications. Even more important is that, multidisciplinary perspectives
and approaches will shed new light on various related issues in
different networks
and systems, and foster new applications. For example, a social network
over wireless ad hoc network can provide proximity based social computing, and
may be one of the killer applications in wireless ad hoc networks.
In this direction, knowledge from biology, psychology, economics
(e.g., game theory),
social network, and many other research fields can provide important
and helpful hints for future networks and systems research.

Following the success of the International Symposium on Multidisciplinary
 Autonomous Networks and Systems (MANS2009,
http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/), the International Symposium
on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems (MENS 2010) is organized
in series to continue providing a forum for researchers and
practitioners to exchange
new ideas and information regarding advancements in the state of the art
of emerging networks and systems from multidisciplinary perspectives.
This symposium will as well facilitate to identify new research topics
and envision
the future.

Furthermore, two Special Sessions on “Assurance Networks” and
“Network Survivability” (please refer to the web site for details) are
organized.

Papers that illustrate innovative research works, works-in-progress, new ideas,
or survey works are solicited. Topics include but are not limited to
the following:

Topics

- Innovative models for intelligent networks and systems
- Evolutionary principles of intelligent networks and systems
- Bio-inspired information and communication systems
- Economic concepts and mechanisms, and game theory
- Emotional, and psychological computing
- Complex adaptive systems, and self-organized systems
- Web service, grid, cloud and transparent computing
- Trust and reputation models and management
- Privacy, security, ethics, culture, and anonymity issues
- Mobile, Peer-to-Peer social networks and wireless ad hoc networks
- Sensor networks and social sensing
- Socially-inspired and collaborative computing
- Agents, and massive agents systems
- Service science, management and engineering
- u-Things, u-Science and u-Engineering
- Intelligent transportation systems, and safety-critical systems
- Empirical studies of multidisciplinary approaches
- Trustable and assurance networks
- Network survivability, fault tolerance and dependability


Paper Submission and Publication

The information on how to submit papers is available on the symposium web site:
http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/Submission/

All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members
or external reviewers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required
to register and present their work at the symposium. Otherwise the
paper will not
be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of the symposium will
be published
by IEEE Computer Society Press (Indexed by EI). And, selected papers,
after extension and further revisions, will be published in special issues
of prestigious SCI-indexed Journals:

Elsevier, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) (approved)
Elsevier, Computer Communications (COMCOM) (pending)


Important Dates

 Paper Submission Due:   May 30, 2010

 Paper Status Notification:   June 30, 2010

 Camera-ready Manuscript Due:  July 30, 2010


Organizing Committees

General Chairs

 Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan

 Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada


Program Committee Chairs

 Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

 Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

 Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan


PC Vice Chair for the Special Session on Assurance Networks

 Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan


PC Vice Chair for the Special Session on Network Survivability

 Poul E. Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway


Steering Committee Chairs

 Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

 Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan


Publicity Chairs

 Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

 Roman Y. Shtykh, Rakuten, Inc., Japan

 Neil Y. Yen, Tamkang University, Taiwan

 Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland


Advisory Committee

 Hongbo Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

 Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

 Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan

 Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan

 Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan


Program Committee

 (see http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/committee.html)


Contact Information

mens.org at gmail.com

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Special Session on Assurance Networks

(Organizer: Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan)


Along with rapid growth of the Internet cloud computing and ubiquitous networks,
autonomous decentralized systems are connected with each other.
Heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and
the requirements themselves are frequently changing.
Assurance in these distributed systems and networks is defined
as capability of guaranteeing functional and nonfunctional system properties
such as dependability, security, timeliness and adaptivity to heterogeneous
and changing requirements. Technologies supporting assurance including
integration
of various technologies such as real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility
and intelligence will have to be incorporated in complex distributed systems
and networks. NICT in Japan has revealed its technological strategy
for future networks beyond Internet. The trustable networks are one of
the target technologies. On the other hand, we have discussed
assurance technologies
in the ADSN workshops (see http://adsn.net.info.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp)
held nine times
in the past.

>From the above both viewpoints, technical presentations and discussions
will be executed in the special session of MENS 2010 (The Second
International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems).
The objective of the special session is to make clear what assurance
networks are
and to provide some technologies for assurance networks to realize trustable
networks in the future.


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Special Session on Network Survivability

(Organizer: Poul E. Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, Norway)


Our society is critically dependent on access to stable, secure,
and trustworthy telecommunication services and network.  A major global
challenge is to ensure that these networks and services supports
other critical infrastructure such as transport logistics, water,- gas-,
and power supply, and emergency and financial services.
The same telecommunication networks also support information
and entertainment services such as phone, email, newspapers, social networks,
gaming.  These global networks are a prerequisite for the commercial
and political cooperation and are under threat as the object of sabotage
(“Security cyberspace, a grand challenge in engineering). Furthermore,
they are prone to instability as a consequence of their size, lack
of stable protocol/management systems to keep up with network growth.
It does not help that the networks are heterogeneous with ambiguous
and complex vertical and horizontal operator and provider agreements and
competition, absence of political (Internet governance), and technical
management.


A variety of threats, like attacks, accidents, and failures, may cause minor
or major service degradations in the telecommunication services
and network. Survivable system and survivable network have been designed
and evaluated in the literature for many years as a result of severe incidents
the recent years that have increased the awareness of the society’s dependence
on communication services. The many definitions of survivability can
be summarized
as “the system’s ability to continuously deliver services in compliance
with the given requirements in the presence of failures
and other undesired events”.  Various mathematical definitions of survivability
have been proposed and according to T1A1.2 (Network Survivability
Performance) working group's definition, survivability depicts the time-varying
system behavior after a failure, attack or accident occurs.


A special session on “Network Survivability” is invited at the upcoming
MENS 2010 (The Second International Symposium on Multidisciplinary
Emerging Networks and Systems). The objective of the special session is
to present state of art network survivability evaluation methods, design
of survivable networks, and case studies of network survivability evaluation.

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