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*** Announcing paper and workshop submission deadline extensions ***
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                             GIIS 2009
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         IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009)
                    June 23th ~ 25th, 2009,
                          Hammamet, Tunisia
                   http://www.ieee-giis.org/




Due to the many requests for extension, the GIIS 2009 organizing committee has agreed to extend
the paper submission due date to April 1st 2009. After this date no further extension will be granted.
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New Submission deadline:  April 1st, 2009
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Scope and Overview:

GIIS 2009 follows the success of GIIS 2007 ( www.ieee-giis.org/GIIS2007).
The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international (global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical for and international standards. GIIS 2009 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of national and international information infrastructures.
The conference also aims at providing a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions on specific information infrastructure topics. Information infrastructure brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems. The program of GIIS 2009 will include invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, panel and discussion sessions.
The technical issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The policy issues addressed by the conference are those with a large technical element, including protection of intellectual property, privacy and security, international use of encryption technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The conference is specifically interested in ubiquity, open source/equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural openness.


The program of GIIS 2009 will include a Technology Track and a Policy Track.
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects:

TECHNOLOGY TRACK
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COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES
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Communications & Information Security 
Middleware for networked applications
Communications Quality and Reliability
Network Operations and Management
Autonomic Communication Systems
VoIP, IPTV, MobileTV, TVOD, Gaming
e-Government, e-Health,
Networked Medical Applications

NETWORKING
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Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks
Communications Switching & Routing
Delay/Disruption tolerant wireless networks
High-Speed / Optical Networking
Next Generation Internet
Multimedia Communications
Optical Networking
Home and Enterprise Networking
Personal Communications
Peer-to-peer & overlay networks
Tactical Communications and operations

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
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Communication Theory
Power Line Communications
Wireless Communications
Satellite and Space Communications
Transmission, Access and Optical Systems

POLICY TRACK
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TELECOM FINANCE and ECONOMICS
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Telecom price regulation, pricing strategies
Cost accounting,  cost structures for telecom
Economic model of international interconnection
Economic & intellectual property issues
CONVERGENCE AND COMPETITION
Competition in International Service
Municipal broadband
Net neutrality issues
Global telecom business, country and region cases

TELECOM AND SOCIETY
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Communities in connectivity policy making
Training, support, relevant applications
Non-Governmental Organizations
Professional organizations and standards activities
Implications of new telecom technologies
Digital Opportunity Index

POLICY and RESTRUCTURING
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Region and country specific telecom policies
Services focused telecom policy
Strategies for growing rural connectivity
Spectrum management policies

DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL ACCESS
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Development plans and activities
Economics and financing of the global access
Prospects for stable development and growth
Organizational issues ­ deployment and operations
Oversight issues - transparency and accountability

Submission Process
Participants should submit a research paper or experience report, not exceeding 4000 words (8 pages using 10-point type), including figures and references. The cover page should indicate whether it is a research or an experience paper. Full paper submissions must be received by April 1st 2009, and may be in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Papers must be submitted online via the GIIS 2009 website. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore.


For further information visit: www.ieee-giis.org or send an email to: chairs2009@ieee-giis.org


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Important dates

NEW Paper Submissions: 1 April 2009
NEW Author Notification: 25 April 2009
NEW Camera-Ready Due: 10 May 2009
NEW Panels submission : 1 April 2009
NEW Tutorials Submission : 1 April 2009
NEW Workshops Submission : 1 April 2009

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General Chair
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Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Program Co-Chairs Technology Track
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Ahmed Mehaoua, University Paris Descartes, France
Sami Tabbane, SUPCOM, Tunisia

Program Co-Chairs Policy Track
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Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA
Robert Walp, GCI, Alaska, USA

Local Arrangements Co-chairs
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Mounir Frikha, Nabil Tabbane, SupCom, Tunisia
Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France

Publication Chair
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Yacine-Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France

Workshops Chair
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Georges Kormentzas, Aegean University, Greece

Tutorials Chair
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Rami Langar, University of Paris 6, France

Posters Chair
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Abdelfettah Belghith, ENSI, Tunisia

Publicity co-Chairs
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Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, italy
Carlos Becker Wesltphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Infrastructure chair
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Ibrahim Hajjeh, Ineovation, France


Technical Program Committee
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Nazim Agoulmine          Univ. of evry, France
Toufik Ahmed                      LABRI-ENSEIRB, France
Ali N. Akansu                     New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Cengiz Akgun                      SAIC, USA
Ian F. Akyildiz                   Georgia Tech, USA
Pascal Anelli                     Univ. de la Reunion, France
Claudio Bartolini                HP Laboratories, USA
Abdelfettah Belghith             ENSI, Tunisia
Paolo Bellavista                 Univ. di Bologna, Italy
Abderrahim Benslimane   Univ. de Avignon, France
Abdelmalek Benzekri              Univ. de Toulouse, France
Andre-luc Beylot                 IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France
Eugen Borcoci            Univ. Politehnica Bucharest, Romania
Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah         Univ. Technologique de Compiegne, France
Azzedine Boukerche               Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Raouf Boutaba            Waterloo Univ., Canada
Stefano Bregni           Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tijani Chahed                     ParisTech-sud, France
Ken Chen                          Univ. de Paris 13, France
Paulo Cunha                       Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil
Mahmoud Daneshmand      AT&T, USA
Moez Draief                       Imperial College, UK
Mohamed Erradi           ENSIAS, Marocco
Mounir Frikha                     SUPCOM, Tunisia
Alexander Gelman                 Netovation, USA
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane   ENSIIE, France
Jay Gillette                      Ball State Univ., USA
Shri Goyal                        St. Petersburg College, USA
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville Univ.Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Mourad Gueroui           Univ. of Versailles, France
Mounir Hamdi                      Hong kong univ., China
Vic Hayes                         Tech. Univ Delft, Netherlands
James Hong                        POSTECH, South Korea
Heather E. Hudson                Univ. of San Francisco, USA
Ahmed Karmouch           Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Farouk Kamoun            ENSI, Tunisia
Ferhat Khendek           Concordia Univ., Canada
Georges Kormentzas               Aegean Univ., Greece
Barcin Kozbe,                     Ericsson, USA
Francine Krief                    LaBRI-ENSEIRB, France
Francis La Chapelle              GCI, USA
Rami Langar                       Univ. de Paris 6, France
Manu Malek                        Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Zoubir Mammeri           Univ. de Toulouse, France
Ahmed Mehaoua            Univ. Paris Descartes, France
William Melody           Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Danemark
Madjid Merabti           Liverpool John Moored Univ., UK
Mary Michel                       Manhattan College, USA
Hussein Mouftah          Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Hassine Moungla          Univ. Paris Descartes, France
Josef Noll                        UNIK, Norway
Guy Omidyar                       Guy Inst., USA
Jong-Tae Park            Kyungpook National Univ., South Korea
George Pavlou                     Univ. College of London, UK
Guy Pujolle                       Univ. de Paris 6, France
Tarek Saadawi            City College of New York, USA
Veli Sahin                        ICENET, USA
Dominique Seret          Univ. Paris Descartes, France
Mostafa Hashem Sherif   AT&T, USA
Charalabos Skianis               Demokritos, Greece
Peter Spring                      AT&T, USA
John Strassner           MDAPCE.com, USA
Nabil Tabbane                     SUPCOM, Tunisia
Sami Tabbane             SUPCOM, Tunisa
Mehmet Ulema             Manhattan College, USA
Umit Uyar                         City College of New York, USA
Vincent Wade                      Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Marc Waldman             Manhattan College, USA
Robert Walp                       GCI, USA
Carlos Becker Wesltphall        Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Yong Xiang                        Tsinghua University, China
Yafei Yang                        QUALCOMM, USA
 

Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D.
Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering
EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing
DEIS - Universitą degli Studi di Bologna
Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY)
Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073
Email: paolo.bellavista@unibo.it
Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/