-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MMNS2005: Call For Papers Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:57:43 +0900 From: Go-Hasegawa hasegawa@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp To: multicomm@comsoc.org CC: hasegawa@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp

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-------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers

8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services (MMNS2005)

Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain October 24-26, 2005

The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its eighth annual meeting on October 24 through October 26, 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for discussion and debate.

MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration.

The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia communications and mobile application services thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key.

MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2005 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit novel research in management of integrated multimedia services.

The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Multiservice over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management - Distributed multimedia service management - Mobile multimedia network management - DVB-H management - Advanced audiovisual services management (e.g. videostreaming) - Quality of service (QoS) management - Internet QoS assurance - Multi-point, multicast services management - Deployment of multimedia services - Network management models and architectures - Management of sensor and actuator networks - Billing and security for multimedia services - Content distribution networking - Grid networking for multimedia - Network measurement/Monitoring for multimedia services - Novel protocols for multimedia services

For further information, please contact the co-chairs: Jordi Dalmau (jordi.dalmau@retevision.es) or Go Hasegawa (hasegawa@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Paper Submission:

Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MMNS 2005. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2005. Authors are requested to identify submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports):

- Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages)

Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted online en PDF format via the EDAS web cite (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br).

Proceedings:

The MMNS 2005 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) series. For that reason we recommend that the PDF file of each paper be generated using LaTeX and the LCNS style available from Springer-Verlag. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LCNS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Important dates: Submission deadline: May 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2005 Camera-ready: August 8, 2005 MMNS2005 Conference: October 24-26, 2005

MMNS2005 Program Committee Co-chairs: Jordi Dalumau, Abertis Telecom, Spain Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan

Steering Committee: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Guy Pujolle, Paris 6 University, France

Advisory Committee Members: Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Masum Hasan Cisco Systems, Inc. Alan Marshall, Queen's University of Belfast John Vicente, Intel Corporation --------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Go Hasegawa hasegawa@cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp hasegawa@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp http://www.ane.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hasegawa/