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=====================================================================IEEE Globecom 2008: Communications Software and Services Symposium http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/symposium/comsoft.html

November 30th- December 4th, 2008 New Orleans, LA, USA

Deadline: March 15th, 2008 ============================================================================ =

TPC Co-chairs:

Abdelhamid Mellouk, CSR TC, mellouk@univ-paris12.fr Bruno Crispo, CC TC, bruno.crispo@unitn.it Pascal Lorenz, CS TC, lorenz@ieee.org Qian Zhang, MC TC, qianzh@cse.ust.hk Nicolas Rozic, CS TC, rozic@fesb.hr

SCOPE

This symposium will provide an international technical forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on any aspects for software, services, and multimedia communications. It aims at bringing together experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results on advancing the state-of-the-art and overcoming research on the challenging issues related to the software design and system deployment of services over heterogeneous networks. Papers may present theories, techniques, applications, or practical experiences related to that.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

- Web Services and distributed SW technology - Distributed systems and applications, including Grid Services - Home Network Service Platform - Quality of service in multimedia communication - Mobile Services and Service Platforms - Service Creation, Delivery, Management - Quality of Experience for End-to-End Communications. - Context Awareness and Personalization - Communications Software Engineering - Methods and Tools - End-to-end quality of service software Routing algorithms - Media streaming and Multimedia real-time delivery systems - Multimedia Applications and Services including VoIP, IPTV, Gaming - Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks - Network Management - Service Security and Privacy and Authentication - Charging, pricing and business models

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html .

Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at _http://edas.info/