Subject: OPENARCH 2000 (Submissions due September 10th)

From: "Schneider, Marco" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:10:35 -0500

[Apologies for the multiple copies many of you will receive. -- Marco
Schneider]

This is a final call for papers. Please follow the enclosed URL for the most
up to date instructions on electronic submission. The deadline is September
10th.

The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming  
			  (OPENARCH 2000)
		FINAL CALL  FOR   PAPERS   &   DEMOS 
		   Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26-27, 2000 	
	    http://comet.columbia.edu/activities/openarch2000

The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming
invites participation in this international forum on open programmable
networks. Advances in open signaling and control, active networks, mobility
management, transportable software, Web-based services access, and
distributed systems technologies are driving a reexamination of existing
network software architectures and the evolution of control and management
systems away from traditional constrained solutions. OPENARCH 2000 will
foster a better understanding of network software architecture and the
techniques becoming available to make it simpler, more flexible, and more
robust. In the spirit of the first and second conferences, OPENARCH 2000
will provide researchers and developers with a focused opportunity to
present and discuss current work and future directions in the systems,
techniques, and performance of open architectures. There will be an official
Proceedings. To complement the papers track, OPENARCH 2000 offers a session
for the demonstration of experimental open programmable network prototypes.

Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers, outlines for
demonstration prototypes, and proposals for tutorials and panel discussions
addressing these and other questions. Suggested focus areas include:

- Scalable networking architectures 
- Open and innovative signaling systems 
- Network operating systems 
- Active networks 
- Programming interfaces for networks 
- Programming for mobility 
- Programming for Quality of Service 
- Intelligent agents and trading 
- Architectural paradigms (e.g. TINA) 
- Information representation, modeling and abstractions 
- Multiple viewpoint modeling 
- Distributed computing models and algorithms 
- QOS control frameworks 
- Resource allocation and networking games 
- Security in an open object world	
- Integrated control and management 
- Control and resource APIs and object representations 
- Performance of control architectures 
- Experimental architectures and implementation techniques 
- Enabling technologies, platforms and languages (CORBA, WWW, Java, ...) 
- Open architecture standards 
- Modeling of network services 
- Services creation platforms 
- Services management systems 
- QoS continuity across ATM, Internet, and mobile/PCS networks 
- Interactive multimedia, multi-party cooperation and groupware 
- Pricing and real-time billing 
- Secure electronic commerce 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS AND DEMONSTRATORS: 
Papers of no more than 10 finished (single-spaced) pages, excluding figures,
are solicited. The cover page of each submitted paper should include paper
title, brief abstract, list of keywords, author(s) full name(s),
affiliation(s) and complete address(es), telephone number(s), and email
address(es).

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION IS ADVISABLE. Authors are requested to submit papers
in PDF format. Instructions for electronic submissions are available at
http://comet.columbia.edu/activities/openarch2000/submission_guide2000.html.

If electronic submission is not possible, mail six (6) manuscript copies to:

David Hutchison 
Program Chair, OpenArch 2000
Computing Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YR
UK
email: [email-masked] 

All submissions will be carefully reviewed by international experts and
returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality. Accepted
paper(s) will be published in a bound Conference Proceedings. A CD-ROM
version is being considered as well. 

Deadline for receipt of papers:  		September 10, 1999 
Notification of acceptance mailed: 	November 26, 1999 
Final camera-ready papers due:  		January 10, 2000 

PRESENTATION OF DEMONSTRATIONS:
Proposals for demonstrations, in PDF, Postscript or Microsoft
Word/Powerpoint format, should be submitted to the Program Chair on the
above schedule. Demonstrators are encouraged to provide their own computing
and display equipment, but special requests will be considered. Dial-up
Internet access will be available.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
A limited number of travel stipends are available. Students whose papers are
accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply
if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to
the Program Chair or a Program Committee member in the requestor's region. A
limited number of IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grants may be
available for student authors from outside North America. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: 
General Chair: Dan Raz, Lucent Bell Labs 
Program Chair: David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK 
Program Co-Chair: Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research 
Program Co-Chair: Ian Marshall, BT Labs, UK 
Demo Chair: Weiguo Wang, Alcatel Singapore 
Publications Chair: Jens-Peter Redlich, NEC USA 
Publicity Chair: Marco Schneider, SBC 
Local Arrangements: David Brietgand, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
IEEE ComSoc Coordinator: Steve Weinstein, NEC USA 
Webmaster: Raymond Liao, Columbia University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (members of the OC are also members of the PC):
- Bob Braden, USC ISI
- Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky			
- Andrew Cambell, Columbia University	
- Fernando Cuervo, Nortel Networks
- Michael Fry, UTS Sydney, Australia
- Gilad Goren, Native Networks		
- Amit Gupta, Sun Microsystems	
- Ngoh Lek Heng, KRDL, Singapore
- Terry Hodgkinson, BT Labs, UK	     
- Alden Jackson, BBN Technologies, GTE
- Ravi Jain, Telcordia Technologies
- Irene Katzela, University of Toronto, Canada
- Srinivasan Keshav, Cornell University
- Tom LaPorta, Lucent Bell Labs
- Aurel Lazar, Columbia University
- Nick Maxemchuk, AT&T Research Labs
- Gary Minden, University of Kansas
- Luis de Moraes, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	
- Hilarie Orman, Novell Corporation
- Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
- Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD Fokus, Germany		
- Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
- Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK  
- Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania
- Rolf Stadler, Columbia University  
- James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, GTE
- Tatsuro Takahashi, NTT R&R Vision Group, Japan
- Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy
- Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK
- Steve Weinstein, NEC USA
- Christian Wipliez, France Telecom	     
- Raj Yavatkar, Intel	
- Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech.