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                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                           ***************
                   The First International Conference on 
               Communication Systems Software and Middleware

                        http://www.comsware.org
                        -----------------------

                         January 8 - 12, 2006
                Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India

        Technical Co-Sponsor : IEEE Communications Society 
        In Co-operation with : ACM SIGMOBILE

        Sponsored by:          CreateNet (Italy), ICST (USA)

        Co-Sponsors:           IBM, Microsoft Research, NOKIA, 
                               Lucent Technologies, Sasken
        University Co-Sponsor: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

                      Paper Submission: June 4, 2005  
                 (Instructions at http://www.comsware.org)

         (Proceedings to be published by IEEE and to appear in IEEE 
Explore)

The convergence of the communications, information technologies and the 
Internet
has ushered in a revolution in the way people communicate with each other. 
The key
enabler for this convergence has been the advancement of software 
technology in
various communication sectors, as evident by the high levels of activity 
in the
industry, academia, and standards bodies, coupled with the increasing 
dependence of
this convergence to sustain and improve growth rates in many countries 
around the
world.

This new international conference will provide a forum to exchange ideas, 
techniques,
and applications, discuss best practices and challenging issues, raise 
awareness and
share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers 
and policy
makers in the field of software techniques in communications. The 
conference will
bring leading researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from 
communications
software and software engineering aspects of communications software, to 
middleware
and networking protocols. The objective of the conference is to provide a 
high
degree of collaboration, participation and discussions of the various 
topics among
multi-national participants from the industrial, governmental and academic 
sectors.

COMSWARE will include a regular paper track and an industry track. The 
paper track
will include a highly selective technical program. The conference solicits 
original,
previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, and practical 
experiences
for the technical program. COMSWARE will also feature panel discussions 
from experts
in academia and industry, workshops and tutorials featuring the 
state-of-the-art in
various communications software and related areas. There will be demos and 
exhibits
that will expose the delegates to exciting products and software solutions 
from
industry and academia. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer 
Society.
The top papers accepted to the conference will be published in a reputed 
journal.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Communications Software
· Reconfigurable Software Stacks
· Software Engineering Aspects of Communications Software
· Context-Based and Implicit Computing
· Telecommunications Services and QoS
· Software for Billing and Pricing
· User Interfaces and Interaction Models
· Multi-Agent Systems
· Client-Server Applications
· Mobile and Intermittently Connected Applications
· Mobile Data Management
· Middleware Services and Agent Technologies
· Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
· Middleware for P2P Systems
· Middleware for Future Communication Networks
· Information Infrastructure and Security
· Security and Privacy Issues of Pervasive Computing Systems 
· Network Operations and Management
· Policy and Workflow-based Network Operations
· Reliability Support Software
· Resource Management in Pervasive Computing Platforms
· Management Software for Optical Networks
· Network Monitoring Software
· Internet and IP based Services
· Dynamic Service Composition and Deployment
· Service Discovery Mechanisms
· Wireless/Mobile Service Management and Delivery
· Mobile / Wireless Computing Systems and Services
· Performance Evaluation Techniques
· Location Determination
· Positioning and Tracking Technologies
· Smart Devices and Smart Spaces
· Enterprise Networking
· Personal Area Networks
· Integration of Wired and Wireless Networks
· Next Generation Networks and Services


Deadlines
*********
Paper Submission: June 4, 2005  (Instructions at http://www.comsware.org)
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2005
Camera-ready due: September 26, 2005

Conference Organizing Committee
*******************************
General Chairs:         Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
                        Bijendra Nath Jain, IIT, Delhi, India
                        Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
                        Alfred Spector, IBM Research, USA

Steering Committee:     Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy  
(Chair)
                        Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India            
(Co-Chair)
                        Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, 
Davis, USA 
                                                                      
(Co-Chair)    

Program Chairs:         Sanjoy Paul, Whenu, USA
                        G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Technologies, India
                        Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK

Tutorial Chair:         Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA

Workshop Chairs:        Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Research, USA
                        Gaurav Sharma, University of Rochester, USA

Demos/Exhibit Chair:    Huzur Saran, IIT, Delhi, India
Demos/Exhibit Co-Chair: Jaijit Bhattacharya, Oracle, India

Publicity Chair:        Thyaga Nandagopal, Lucent Technologies, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs:    Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
                        Marco Conti, IIT, Pisa, Italy
                        Ben Lancini, LinLan, Brisbane, Australia
                        Prashant Pradhan, IBM Research, USA
                        Hemant Chaskar, Airtight Networks, India

Local Arrangement
Co-Chairs:              Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi
                        Laurent Mignet, IBM Research, Delhi






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