Subject: [manet] CFP: VALUETOOLS 2006 (Pisa, Italy)

From: "Kejie Lu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:19:25 -0400

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                  ********   VALUETOOLS 2006   *********
                      ****   Call for Papers   ****

                    First International Conference on
             Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
                    Pisa, Italy / October 11-13, 2006
                       http://www.valuetools.org/

                      in technical cooperation with:
                             Create-Net/ICST
              IEEE Communications Society (approval pending)
                 IEEE Computer Society (approval pending)

            **** Submission Deadline  --  April 10, 2006 ****

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In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies
and tools has been developed within disparate research communities
for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The
aim of VALUETOOLS is to build bridges between these communities,
bringing theory and practice together in order to:

- compare and debate the complete range of performance evaluation
  methodologies and their implementation into tools;

- promote interdisciplinary flow of technical information among
  industry systems designers and researchers.

VALUETOOLS will be hosted by University of Pisa, Italy,
on October 11-13, 2006.

**  The proceedings will be published by IEEE and       **
**  accepted papers will be available online via the    **
**  IEEE website (approval pending).                    **
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**  Selected papers will be considered for publication  **
**  in special issues of Performance Evaluation and     **
**  Discrete Event Dynamic Systems.                     **

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CONFERENCE TOPICS AND APPLICATIONS AREAS
Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished
research results are solicited.

Performance evaluation techniques will draw from the following:
  - Advanced simulation tools
    * Simulation of rare events
    * Parallel/distributed simulations
    * Variance reduction techniques
    * Large deviations

  - Stochastic processes
    * Stochastic geometry
    * Long-range dependence
    * Self-similarity
    * Point processes
    * Traffic models and measurements

  - Discrete event systems
    * Petri nets
    * Max-plus algebra

  - Queueing theory
    * Network calculus
    * Analytical models
    * Approximation methods
    * (In)sensitivity
    * Dynamic fluid models
    * Diffusion models
    * Dam processes
    * Perturbation approaches
    * Control of queues

Envisaged applications are drawn from, but are not restricted to,
the following areas:

  - Networking
  - Computer Systems
  - Communication Systems
  - Distributed Systems
  - Road Traffic
  - Call Centers
  - Optimization (including game theory and convex optimization)
  - Graph Theory (including random graphs)
  - Interdisciplinary Methodologies (economic, biological and social 
models)

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KEYNOTE SPEECH
Peter Glynn, Stanford University, US
on "Traffic Modeling and Performance Engineering"

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline:          April 10, 2006
Notification of Acceptance:   June  10, 2006
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: July  10, 2006

PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 12 pages in IEEE
conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it).

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BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

There will be a best student paper award. A student must be the first
author to be eligible for the award (unless the order is alphabetical)
and must present the paper. The decision will be made by the program
committee based on the paper content as well as on the presentation.
In order to be a candidate for the award, please send an email to the
general chair and the program chairs along with an email from the
advisor certifying that the student has had a major contribution in the
paper.

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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy
Rene Cruz, UCSD, US

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Sean Meyn, University of Illinois, US

STEERING COMMITTE CHAIR
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

VICE CHAIR
Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy
Kejie Lu, University of Puerto Rico, US

PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Charalabos Skianis, Demokritos, Greece

FINANCE CHAIR
Karen Decker, ICST, US

SPONSORSHIP CHAIR
Antonio Prete, University of Pisa, Italy

PANEL CHAIR
O. Akan, METU, Turkey

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Ger Koole, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rudesindo Nunez Queija, CWI and Eindhoven U. Technology, The Netherlands

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Linda Martorini, University of Pisa, Italy

WEBMASTER
Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy

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TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
R. Agrawal (Motorola, US)
M. Akian (INRIA, France)
J. Artalejo (University of Madrid, Spain)
K. Avratchenkov (INRIA, France)
M. Baykal-Gursoy (Rutgers Univ., US)
M. Bramson (Univ. of Minnesota, US)
M. Calzarossa (Univ. of Pavia, Italy)
W. Ki Ching (U. of Hong Kong, China)
J. G. Dai (GeorgiaTech, US)
Y. Dallery (Ecole Centrale Paris, FR)
P. Dube (IBM, US)
R. El Azouzi (INRIA, France)
P. Ferrari (University of Pisa, Italy)
S. Foss (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
B. Gaujal (INRIA, France)
M. Haviv (Hebrew Univ., Israel)
H. Kameda (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
A. A. Kherani (IIT Delhi, India)
D. Kofman (ENST, France)
I. Kontoyiannis (Brown University, US)
G. Koole (Vrije Univ., The Netherlands)
A. Kumar (IISC Bangalore, India)
D. Lee (Wright State University, US)
H. Levy (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
D. Lucantoni (DLT Consulting, US)
J. Mairesse (CNRS, France)
M. Mandjes (Univ. of Amsterdam, NL)
J. L. Marzo (Univ. of Girona, Spain)
M. Medard (MIT, US)
E. Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy)
S. Molnar (BUTE, Hungary)
E. Morozov (Petrozavodsk U., Russia)
E. Moulines (ENST, France)
V. Ramaswami (AT&T, US)
R. Righter (UC Berkeley, US)
M. Sereno (University of Torino, Italy)
I. Stavrakakis (NKUA, Greece)
R. Szechtman (Naval P. Sch., US)
H. Takagi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
T. Takine (University of Osaka, Japan)
J. Tsitsiklis (MIT, US)
W. Wang (North Carol. St. Univ., US)
Y. Wardi (GeorgiaTech, US)
G. Weiss (University of Haifa, Israel)
R. Williams (UCSD, US)
L. Wynter (IBM, US)
B. Zwart (TUE, The Netherlands)

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WORKSHOPS

**  GameNets  **
Workshop on Game theory for communications and networks

Chairs:  Luiz A. DaSilva ([email-masked])
         Allen B. MacKenzie ([email-masked])
         Jacqueline Morgan ([email-masked])
Website: http://www.gamenets.org/

**  Inter-Perf  **
Workshop on Interdisciplinary systems approach in performance
evaluation and design of computer & communications systems

Chairs:  Milan Vojnovic ([email-masked])
         Sean Collins ([email-masked])
Website: http://www.inter-perf.org/

**  SMCtools  **
Workshop on Tools for solving structured markov chains

Chairs:  Beatrice Meini ([email-masked])
         Benny van Houdt ([email-masked])
Website: http://www.smctools.org/

**  WNS2  **
Workshop on ns-2: the IP network simulator>
Chairs:  Tania Jimenez ([email-masked])
         David Ros ([email-masked])
Website: http://www.wns2.org/

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