CFP: Tridentcom 2005

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                             CALL FOR PAPERS

                          << Tridentcom 2005 >>
              Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the
                 DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities

                         February 21 - 25, 2005
                              Trento, Italy
                            www.tridentcom.org

                  Submission Deadline: September 5, 2004
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SCOPE
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Experimental network infrastructures are pivotal for academic researchers,
developers, service managers, providers, and ultimately end users to meet
the challenges of the emerging fast Internet convergence. Tridentcom 2005 
is the first event that brings together all aspects related to experimental
telecommunications infrastructures, creating a forum where telecommunication
network researchers, developers, vendors, providers, and users can exchange
ideas on past and current experiences, needs, and visions for the establishment
of such infrastructures.

The meeting will take place in Trento, capital of the Trentino province, in the
heart of recent and rapidly growing R&D initiatives in Computer Science and
Telecommunications, and surrounded by some of the most spectacular skiing
resorts in the Alps. Pauses in the conference program will allow social
activities and informal interaction among the participants.

We are soliciting full papers in all research, development, and deployment
areas on experimental telecommunication network infrastructures, from academia
as well as from industry. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, the following:

        - Next generation Internet testbeds
        - Next generation wireless network testbeds
        - Next generation optical network testbeds
        - Grid computing network testbeds
        - Ubiquitous network testbeds
        - Wireless sensor testbeds
        - Testbed operation and management for user communities
        - Testbed operation and management for research communities
        - Testbed cooperation and integration
        - Innovative measurement methodologies and tools
        - Traffic measurements testbeds
        - Software tools to support distributed testbeds / Virtual labs
        - Management of massive databases of experimental data
        - Knowledge and technology transfer procedures
        - Security (AAA) testing on open testbeds
        - Social impacts of infrastructures
        - Infrastructure real-life applications
        - Business models for infrastructure budgeting and planning
        - Infrastructure renting and pricing policies
        - Vendor and providers partnership

High quality papers will be selected for possible publication in a journal 
special issue and will be eligible for the Best Paper Award.


IMPORTANT DATES
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Full papers due:            September 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: October 20, 2004
Final manuscript due:       November 10, 2004
Conference Dates:           February 21 - 25, 2005


PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 10 pages including
references, figures, and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x
11" proceedings format. Papers should be submitted electronically in 
Postscript or Adobe PDF format through the EDAS system at 
http://edas.info/Conferences.cgi. 

Further information on paper format and submission procedures are 
available on the Tridentcom 2005 conference website.


PROPOSALS FOR DEMOS
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Proposals for demos are solicited. Demo proposals should consist
of: 1) title and description of the demo, 2) infrastructure 
requirements, 3) biographical sketch of the presenter(s). Further
information on proposal format and submission procedures are 
available on the Tridentcom 2005 conference website.

Full proposals due: September 5, 2004.


CONFERENCE INFORMATION
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For further information on the Tridentcom 2005 conference, please visit 
http://www.tridentcom.org or contact the organizing committee at 
address@hidden


CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs: 

 Mario Gerla, UCLA (USA)
 Roberto Battiti, University of Trento (Italy)

Vice-General Co-Chairs: 

 Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento (Italy)
 Marcos Rogerio Salvador, CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions (Brazil)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

 Javier Aracil, University of Navarra (Spain)
 Kenichi Mase, Niigata University (Japan)
 Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)

Demo Chair:

 David W. Walker, University of Cardiff (UK)

Publications and Web Chair:

 Piero Spinnato, Create-Net (Italy)

Local Arrangements Chair:

 Sandro Pera, Create-Net (Italy)

Publicity Co-Chairs: 

 Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel USA (USA)
 Shigeo Shioda, Chiba University (Japan)
 Sandro Marcelo Rossi, CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions (Brazil)

Steering Committee Chair:

 Imrich Chlamtac, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)

(Preliminary) Technical Program Committee members:

 Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy)
 Victor Castelo, CSIC-RedIRIS (Spain) 
 Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy) 
 Cem Ersoy, Bogazici University (Turkey) 
 Alex Galis, University College London (UK) 
 Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research Center (USA) 
 Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 
 Xing Li, Tsinghua University (China) 
 Olivier Martin, CERN (Switzerland) 
 Peter McBurney, University of Liverpool (UK) 
 Saverio Niccolini, Create-Net (Italy) 
 Yuji Oie, Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan) 
 Bjorn Pehrson, KTH (Sweden) 
 Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University (USA) 
 Shiro Sakata, Chiba University (Japan) 
 Rege Romeu Scarabucci, CPqD Telecom & IT Solutions (Brazil) 
 Michael Stanton, RNP (Brazil) 
 Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE (Canada) 
 Sven Ubik, CESNET (Czech Republic) 
 Hisao Uose, NTT (Japan) 
 Steven Willmott, UPC (Spain) 
 Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin (Germany) 
 Thomas Ziegler, FTW (Austria) 

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