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Subject: IASTED CCN 2002 - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:43:25 -0600 From: "IASTED - Upcoming Conferences" Info@IASTED.com To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
CALL FOR PAPERS
IASTED International Conference on COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS (CCN 2002)
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cambridge/ccn.htm
IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submissions due---------------------------------------------August 15, 2002 Notification of acceptance----------------------------------September 10, 2002 Registration, full payment, and final papers due---------October 1, 2002
November 4-6, 2002 Cambridge, Mass., USA
SPONSORS The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) · Technical Committee on Computers · Technical Committee on Networks · Technical Committee on Telecommunications · Technical Committee on the Web, Internet and Multimedia
PURPOSE This conference is an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications of computers and communications networks including wireless and mobile communications. It is an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas. CCN 2002 will be held in conjunction with the IASTED International Conference on "Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2002)" and "Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2002)".
LOCATION CCN 2002 will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world's most prestigious universities.
SCOPE The relevant topics for this conference include, but are not limited to the following:
· Computer Networks · IP Networks · ATM Networks · Optical Transmission · WDM Systems · Data Networks · Local Area Networks · High speed Internet · Wireless Networks · Wireless LAN · Adhoc Networks · Broadband Networks · Access Networks · 3G and 4G Networks · Mobile Communications · Multimedia Communications · Communication Systems · CDMA Systems · OFDM Technology · Communication Protocols · Multicast Switching · Handoff and Routing · Resource Management · Mobility Management · Network Management · Network Interfaces · Network Performance · Network Security · Congestion Control · Quality of Service Issues · Applications
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A. Agarwal - Northwestern University, USA K.C. Almeroth - University of California, USA M.-S. Alouini - University of Minnesota, USA Z. Arnavut - State University of New York, USA A.H. Banihashemi - Carleton University, Canada I. Barbancho-Perez - University of Malaga, Spain J. A. Barria - Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, UK C.W. Baum - Clemson University, USA U.B. Ceipidor - La Sapienza University, Italy R. Boutaba - University of Waterloo, Canada D.S. Budimir - University of Westminster, UK J.B. Carruthers - Boston University, USA E. Casilari - University of Malaga, Spain S. Chalasani - University of Wisconsin, USA Y.-S. Chen - National Taipei University, ROC D. Cui - Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA K. David - University of Kassel, Germany L. Deneire - IMEC, Belgium R.N. Dobrescu - "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Romania A. Eskicioglu - Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA M.M. Freire - University of Beira Interior, Portugal A. Garcia-Armada - Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain R.H.M. Hafez - Carleton University, Canada H.J. Helgert - George Washington University, USA J. Jang - Dongeui University, South Korea J. Jordan - National Research Council, Canada A.K. Khandani - University of Waterloo, Canada D.M. Klymyshyn - University of Saskatchewan, Canada C.S. Lee - Southern Methodist University, USA T. Le-Ngoc - McGill University, Canada C. Lu - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore C.-S. Lu - Academia Sinica, Taiwan S.D. Morgera - Florida Atlantic University, USA S. Naik - University of Waterloo, Canada J.J. Neto - Polytechnic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil L. Nguyen - University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA M. Roccetti - University of Bologna, Italy S. Safavi-Naeini, University of Waterloo, Canada J. Sang - Cleveland State University, USA S. Shen - University of Waterloo, Canada H. Sotobayashi - Basic & Advanced Research Division, Japan E.K. Stefanakos - University of South Florida, USA J.C. Vardaxoglou - Loughborough University, United Kingdom J.-H. Wen - National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan M.E. Woodward - University of Bradford, United Kingdom D.F. Yuan - University of Michigan, USA Z.-L. Zhang - University of Minnesota, USA L.-J. Zhang - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA W. Zhuang - University of Waterloo, Canada
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submit your paper via our web site at: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cambridge/submit-381.htm . Files larger than 2MB must be submitted to our FTP site at www.actapress.com (user name: actaftp; password: journals). If you submit a paper to our FTP site, please send a notification e-mail with your complete contact information and file name to calgary@iasted.com. All submissions should be in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Postscript (.ps), or MS Word (.doc) format. The IASTED Secretariat must receive your paper by August 15, 2002. Do not send hard copies of your paper.
Please provide four key words to indicate the subject area of your paper. One of the key words must be taken from the list of topics provided under Scope. Include a statement in your cover letter confirming that, if the paper is accepted, one of the authors will attend the conference to present it. Please designate a principal author and provide the full names, affiliations, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses of all authors.
Notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail on September 10, 2002. Registration payments and final manuscripts are due no later than October 1, 2002. Please send final manuscripts via e-mail or FTP site using the same procedure as described above. The page limit for final papers is six pages.
TUTORIALS Proposals for half-day tutorials (three hours) should be submitted online by August 15, 2002. Tutorials are to be submitted online via our following web site address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cambridge/tutorialsubmit-381.htm A tutorial proposal should clearly indicate the topic, background knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, time allocations for the major course topics, and the qualifications of the instructor(s).
SPECIAL SESSIONS Persons wishing to organize a special session should submit a proposal to the IASTED Secretariat by August 15, 2002. Proposals should include a minimum of six papers, a session title, a list of the topics covered, and qualifications of the session organizer(s). The name of the session organizer will appear in the program and proceedings provided six papers are presented. Special sessions proposals should be submitted online at the following hyperlink address: http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2002/cambridge/sessionsubmit-381.htm.
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