-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers for SPECTS 2004 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 02:26:16 +0000 From: zgp@comcast.net To: itc@comsoc.org CC: obaidat@monmouth.edu, imad@cse.fau.edu, shabib@eve.usc.edu

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SPECTS 2004

International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems

July 25-29, 2004 San Jose, California San Jose Hyatt

Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International

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SCOPE: ====== This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. The list of topics includes (but is not limited to):

Networking and Telecommunication Systems - Internet Technology - Quality of Service (QoS) - DiffServ/IntServ - MPLS - TCP - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology - Networking Techniques - Unicast and Multicast Routing - Congestion Control - Switching Techniques - Tele-traffic - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control

- Network Capacity Planning - Network Architecture Evaluation - Service and QoS Pricing - Security and Authentication - Broadband Networks - High-Speed Networking - ATM - Optical Networks - Wireless Systems and Networks - Satellite Systems - UMTS - Mobile Networks/Computing - Ad-hoc networks - Multimedia Communications and Applications

Computer Systems - Distributed Architectures - Client/Server - Distributed Systems and Agents - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Microprocessors/Microcomputers - Memory Systems - High Performance I/O - Real-time Systems - Scheduling Schemes - Software - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing - Parallel Algorithms and Languages - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce

Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications - Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models - Queuing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement

- On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning - Process Algebra-Based Models - Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance - Case Studies

General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA obaidat@monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa, Italy franco@dist.unige.it Program Chair Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia a.jamalipour@ieee.org Vice Program Chair and Special Sessions Chair: Jose L Marzo, University of Girona, Spain joseluis.marzo@udg.es Vice Program Chair and Tutorial Chair: Mario Marchese, CNIT, Italy mario.marchese@cnit.it Vice Program Chair and Publicity Chair: Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University imad@cse.fau.edu Industrial Track and Special Sessions Chair: J. Fox, Motorola Inc., UK fox.ijcs@btinternet.com

Publicity Committee: Chair, Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic University, USA. E-mail:imad@cse.fau.edu Vice Chair: Guoping Zeng, University of Texas at Dallas, E-mail: gzeng@utdallas.edu Sami Habib, Kuwait University, shabib@cairo.eng.kuniv.edu.kw Web Master: Michael J. Chinni, U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC, Email: mchinni@pica.army.mil

Technical Program Committee Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Krishan Aggrawal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Bruno Baynat, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France Louis G. Birta, University of Ottawa, Canada Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Carzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Hasan Cam, Arizona State University, USA Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Nedo Celandroni, ISTI-CNR, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Arek Dadej, University of South Australia, Australia Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Aura Ganz, University of Massachusetts, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA Nicolas Georganas, University of Ottawa, Canada Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGM University of Science and Technology, Poland Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Daniel C. Lee, USC, USA Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA

Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace, France Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Mark Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University, USA Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, Queen’s University, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Universit?di Milano, Italy Sergio Palazzo, Universit?di Catania, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Universit?di Milano, Italy Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA

Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Alexander Thomasian, NJIT, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Universit?di Ferrara, Italy

Paper Submission Submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures,tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chairs or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch@scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2004 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals.

Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Conference Vice Program Chair, Mario Marchese. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the special Sessions Chair.

For more information regarding presentations or exhibitions at SPECTS 2004 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. Workshop on Performance of High Performance Parallel and Distributed systems (part of SPECTS2004) To submit papers to the workshop and for more info, contact Geoffrey Fox at: gcf@grids.ucs.indiana.edu, Tel: 315-254-6387 or 812-856-7977, Fax: 812-856-7972

DEADLINES Submission of Papers .........................................January 31, 2004 Notification of Acceptance ...................................April 25, 2004 Final Camera-Ready Submission .............................. May 23, 2004