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CALL FOR PAPERS The Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'13) July 7-10, 2013, Split, Croatia http://www.ieee-iscc.org

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Full Paper submission: January 12, 2013 Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Continuing its tradition, ISCC 2013 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in most state-of-the-art areas of computer and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues and opportunities related to the computing and communication in the era of Big Data. You are invited to submit a full paper or a proposal for a panel/invited session or a tutorial, related to the following topics of interest.

- Access Networks - Digital Media Technologies - Bioinformatics - Modeling and Simulation - Big Data, Data Mining and Database Applications - Digital Satellite Communications Service - Network Design, Optimization, and Management - Next Generation Networks Infrastructures and Management - Distributed Systems Architecture and Management - Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience - Economic and Regulatory Issues - Optical Networking - E-Commerce and E-Services - Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery - Peer-to-Peer Computing - Real Time Communication Services - Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing - Routing and Multicast - Human Language Technologies - Image Processing and Visualization - Security and Cryptography - Software Engineering - Internet Services and Applications - Standards Evolution - Advances in Internet Protocols - Management of Telecommunications - Cognitive Radio Networking - Sensor Networks and Mobile Sensing - Distributed and Mobile Middleware - Overlay and Programmable Networks - Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures - Wireless, Cellular and Mobile Communications - Green Networking and Smart Grid - Internet of the Future - Bio-inspired Computing in Communications - Communications Services and Management - Internet of Things - Artificial Intelligent Systems - Social Networks and Crowdsourcing - Services and Support for Smart Cities

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Papers should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding page will be charged an additional fee. Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in a Special Issue of a prestigious International Journal.

To submit a paper, please use the EDAS submission server. The direct link to submission is EDAS: http://edas.info/N11605

IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g. removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. For additional information, please contact the Technical Program Co-Chairs.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee

General Co-Chairs: Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) Sven Gotovac (University of Split, Croatia) Milan Vojnovic, (Microsoft Research, UK)

Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Stipe Celar (University of Split, Croatia) Hrvoje Dujmic (University of Split, Croatia) Tajana ŠSimunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Eugen Mudnic (University of Split, Croatia) Vladan Papic (University of Split, Croatia) Joško Radic (University of Split, Croatia)

Finance and Registration Co-Chairs: Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA) Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Publication Chair: Adel S. Elmaghraby(University of Louisville, USA)

Keynote Speakers Co-Chairs: Chi-Ming Chen (AT&T Labs, USA) Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil) Dimitrios Vergados (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Workshop Co-Chairs: Neven Bandalovic (Ericsson NT, Croatia) Mahmoud Daneshmand (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Ahmet Sekercioglu (Monash University, Australia)

Publicity Co-Chairs: Chatschik Bisdikian (IBM Research, USA) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Tamara Grujic (University of Split, Croatia) Hrvoje Turic (University of Split, Croatia) Linda Vickovic (University of Split, Croatia) Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China) Douglas N. Zuckerman (Applied Communication Sciences , USA)

Web Co-Chairs: ZŽeljko SŠeremet (University of Mostar, BiH) Mili Turiζ (University of Split, Croatia)

Steering Committee: Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA) Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy) Mahmoud Daneshmand (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) Adel S. Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA) Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada) Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) Ahmed Tantawy (IBM, USA)