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[Thyaga Nandagopal <thyaga@lucent.com>]

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

                            COMSWARE 2006

                        http://www.comsware.org
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                         January 8 - 12, 2006
                Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, India

        Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society,
                              Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
        In Co-operation with: ACM SIGMOBILE
        Sponsored by:         CreateNet (Italy), ICST (USA),
                              IBM, Microsoft Research, NOKIA,
                              Lucent Technologies, Sasken

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previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, and practical experiences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
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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
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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
			Rajeev Shorey, IBM Research, India
			Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA

Program Chairs:		Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Technologies, 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

Finance Chair:          Karen Decker, USA


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