-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFP: The Second International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems (MENS 2010) Datum: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:10:36 +0900 Von: Roman Y. Shtykh roman@akane.waseda.jp Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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

--------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

--------------------------------------------------------------- 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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