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Important Deadlines: Full Paper Submission: Jan. 25th, 2009 ******************************************************************************

CALL-FOR-PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------- 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09) July 5 - 8, 2009, Sousse, Tunisia http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2009/ --------------------------------------------------------------

Scope: Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2009 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Access Networks - Green Networking - Network Reliability and Quality of Service - Network Design, Optimization, and Management - Optical Networking - Distributed Systems Architecture and Management - Real Time Communication Services - Digital Media Technologies - Standards Evolution - Modeling and Simulation - Data Mining and Database Applications - Bioinformatics - Digital Satellite Communications Service - Overlay and Programmable Networks - Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery - Peer-to-Peer Computing - Grid and Cluster Computing - Routing and Multicast - Human Language Technologies - Image Processing and Visualization - Security and Cryptography - Internet Services and Applications - Internet Protocols - Management of telecommunications - Mobile Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks - Web Services and Service Oriented - Wireless and Mobile Communications - Communications Services - E-Commerce and E-Services - Software Engineering - Economic and Regulatory Issues

Submission Guidelines:

Papers should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Submissions exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee.

To submit a paper, please use the EDAS submission server. The direct link to submission is http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6692&

For additional information, please contact the Program Co-Chairs A. Boukerche and/or Michela Meo

------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates:

Full Paper submission: January 25th, 2009 (11:59pm) Notification of acceptance February 28, 2009 Tutorial submission deadline January 25, 2008 Workshop submission deadline December 20, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Sartaj Sahni University of Florida, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada, Email: boukerch@site.uottawa.ca

Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: michela.meo@polito.it

Local Organizing Committe Co-Chairs Jalel Ben-Othman Universite de Versailles, France

Tarek Bejaoui Ecole Supérieure des Communications de Tunis (SUPCOM) University of Carthage, Tunisia, Tunisia

Finance and Registration Chair Reda Ammar, University of Connecticut, USA

Plenary Chair Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T LabsResearch,USA

Publication Chair Adel Elmaghraby, Univ. of Louisville, USA

Keynote Chair Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA

Tutorial Chair Reza Peyrovian, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece Mario Dantas, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil