Subject: MMNS'2000 - Latest CFP

From: José Neuman de Souza <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 11:17:09 -0200

Third IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of
Multimedia Networks and Services'2000- MMNS’2000

                                                CALL FOR PAPERS (New
Deadline)

Fortaleza - Ceará, Brazil
July 26-28, 2000

Organized by:Computer Network Research Group, Federal University of
Ceará-UFC

Co-sponsored by: IFIP Working Group 6.4 and 6.6 and IEEE (*)
Communications Society

(*) Pending

web site : http://www.ufc.br/mmns2000

Scope :

Today, the trend is towards providing telecommunications services and in
particular multimedia services in the emerging
broadband, multimedia and "super-highway" era. To offer reliable
multimedia services, the service architecture should integrate
the service with its management while the multimedia networks that are
used to provide those services need also a certain level
of control and management. Therefore management is requested at both the
service and network levels. Integration is also of
paramount importance to facilitate the overall management process. The
third International Conference on Management of
Multimedia Networks and Services follows the successful MMNS conference
held in 1998 in Versaille (France). The
conference objective is to bring together researchers working in all
facets of network and service management applied to
broadband networks and multimedia services. The conference will serve as
a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art
research, design, development, and implementation experiences.

Topics of Special interest :

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Multimedia services specification, validation and management (e.g.
Broadband VPN, Video on demand, tele-teaching, etc...)
   * Distributed management of multimedia services
   * Multimedia service and network management integration
   * Multimedia network management models and architectures
   * Mobility management in multimedia networks and systems
   * Resource management in broadband networks
   * Performance and Fault Management for broadband networks
   * Billing and Security for broadband networks
   * Integration of broadband network control and management
   * Management of multimedia wireless networks and services
   * Quality of service management
   * Policy-Driven Management
   * Standards Frameworks and Issues for broadband networks management:
OSI, IETF, ITU-T, TINA,        EURESCOM,
ETSI, ATM-Forum, etc...
   * New software technologies for multimedia service and network
management (Corba, JAVA, Mobile Agents)
   * AI techniques for network and service management (Intelligent
Agents, Expert Systems, etc...)
   * Trials, case studies and experiences

Important Information for Authors :

Submissions should be written in English, double-spaced and no longer
than 5,000 words. A separate cover sheet must be
included which provides the following information: title of paper,
authors' names and affiliations, contact author's name and
address (both postal and electronic), a ten-line abstract, keywords, and
submission area (from the list of relevant topics of
interest).

Please submit the paper electronically

by ftp to ftp.pop-ce.rnp.br/pub/mmns2000
by mailto:[email-masked]
by mailto:[email-masked]

Electronic submissions should be in postscript format which may be
compressed (using Unix compress) and uuencoded. In the
case where electronic submission is impossible please send 4 hard copies
of your paper by Postal mail to the following address
:

Address:    Europe and Asia

José Neuman de Souza
Universidade Federal do Ceara
Computer Science Department
Campus do Pici, Bloco 910
60455-760 - Fortaleza-Ceara, Brazil
Tel./Fax : +55 85 2889847
mailto:[email-masked]

                America, Africa and Australia

Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo
Department of Computer Science
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Phone (519) 888-4567 Fax (519) 885-1208
mailto:[email-masked]

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready
manuscript that will appear in the Conference proceedings
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Also selected papers will be
considered for publication as a special issue of the
Journal of Network and System Management on Multimedia Networks  and
Services Management and in Interoperable
Communication Networks journal.

Important Dates :

Today : send a message stating your intention to submit a paper or
stating your general interest in the conference to
mailto:[email-masked]

Electronic and hard copy paper submission deadline :             January
30, 2000
Notification of acceptance
:                                                    February 28, 2000
Camera-ready manuscripts due
:                                            March 31, 2000

General co-chair :  José Neuman de Souza, Federal U. of Ceara, Brazil
                             Raouf Boutaba, U. of Waterloo, Canada

Program Committee :

Salah Aidarous, NEC America, USA
Mohamed Bettaz, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan
Jean Pierre Claudé, U. of Versailles, France
Dominique Gaiti, U. of Troyes, France
Leon A. Garcia, U. of Toronto, Canada
Abdelhakim Hafid, Bellcore, NJ, USA
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia
Ahmed Karmouch, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Kenichi Kitami, NTT, Japan
Jacques Labetoulle, Eurecom, France
Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA
Jose N. de Souza, U. Fed. do Ceara, Brazil
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
James W. Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Guy Pujolle U. of Versailles, France
Yves Raynaud, U. Paul Sabatier, France
Jan Roos, U. of Pretoria, South Africa
Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA
Roberto Saracco, CSELT, Italy
Rolf Stadler, CTR/Columbia U., USA
Ralph Steinmetz, GMD IPSI & Darmstadt U., Germany
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia U., USA
Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany
Simon Znaty, ENST-Bretagne, France
Joberto S. Martins, UNIFACS, Brazil
Nicolas Georganas, University of  Ottawa, Canada
Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK
 Douglas N. Zuckerman, BellCore, USA
Michael  A. Stanton, U. Fed. Fluminense, Brazil
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
James W. Hong, POSTECH, Korea
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Jose M. Nogueira, U. Fed. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Ceará, Brazil