-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Workshop on Nature Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications in PPSN04 Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:50:32 +0100 From: Yong XU y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Workshop on Nature Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications in PPSN04

Organizers: Dr. Yong Xu and Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom E-mails: y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk; sss@cs.bham.ac.uk Tel: +44 121 414 3734; Fax: +44 121 414 2799 Workshop website: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/ppsn04/ppsn04_ws.html

1. Workshop Overview

The great expansion of telecommunications networks, as well as networking applications, has produced the arising of a massive amount of associated problems, difficult to be solved by traditional methods. The newly emergent computational heuristics inspired from nature are an appealing option, as they have provided very good results for tackling these problems. This Workshop would focus on the application of nature-inspired approaches to Telecommunication/Networking problems, and would be a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss their latest research results on this topic.

Topics of interest would include, but would not be limited to:

- General Network Design Problems o Physical Topology Design Problems o Survivability and Reliability o Quality of Service o Protection and Restoration o Network Management o Congestion Control o Simulation and Queuing Models - Optical networks o Routing and wavelength assignment o Traffic grooming o Placement of wavelength converters o Placement of optical amplifiers o Protection and Restoration on Optical Layer - Fixed Networks Design Problems - Cellular and Wireless Networks - Satellite Communications Networks - Other Topics o Ad Hoc networks o Bluetooth/Personal Area Networks o IP/WDM o GMPLS and MPLS o Internet Applications

We plan to organise a journal special issue based on accepted papers at the workshop.

2 Workshop Format

The workshop format would be as follows:

The workshop is proposed to be for half a day consisting of individual presentations and an open group discussion.

Each individual presenter would be given 15 minutes to present his/her work and another 5 minutes for discussion.

The last hour of the workshop would be utilized for discussing the issues related to the topic.

3 Workshop Details

Important dates

Paper submission deadline:6 June 2004 Notification of Acceptance: 20 June 2004 Camera-ready papers: 11 July 2004 Conference: 18-22 September 2004

Submission of Papers

The authors are advised to follow the instructions of the main conference to prepare their papers. All the papers should be in PDF, PS or WORD format and be submitted to either Dr. Y. Xu or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz via email as an attachment.

Dr. Yong Xu and Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom E-mails: y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk; sss@cs.bham.ac.uk Tel: +44 121 414 3734; Fax: +44 121 414 2799

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