Call for Papers

34th EUROMICRO CONFERENCE

Track on "Multimedia & Telecommunications: Network of the Future and its Applications”

Parma , Italy - Sept. 1st – Sept. 5th, 2008

Program Chairs Paul Mueller University of Kaiserslautern pmueller@informatik.uni-kl.de phone +49 631 205 2263 Rainer Stotzka Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe stotzka@ipe.fzk.de phone +49 7247 82 4738 Program Committee Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Isabel Campos, Instituto de Fisica Cantabria, Santander, Spain Hermann deMeer, University of Passau, Germany Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany Thomas Friese, Siemens AG, Germany Gerhard Haßlinger, T-Systems, Germany Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany David Larrabeiti, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Daniel Kofman, ENST Paris, France Prabhat Kumar Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada Laurent Mathy, University of Lancaster, UK Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK Harald Müller, Siemens AG, Germany Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Erwin P. Rathgeb, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ivica Rimac, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Simon P. Romano, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Matti Mikael Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Phuoc Tran-Gia, University Wuerzburg, Germany Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany

Call for papers The current inter-networking paradigm, although highly successful as exemplified by the Internet, has become sub-optimal due to its sheer popularity. There has always been an answer to all requirements, no matter whether caused by new applications or technologies. So, over time the formerly simple and clear Internet architecture became a patchwork of new balconies, workarounds and bypasses. In this conference track we should discuss the two mainstreams in this area: the “Clean-Slate Approach” as well as the “Evolutionary Approach”. Beside future networks also new applications especially in the Grid using collaboratively distributed computer resources are emerging and becoming popular. One of the major goals in Grid computing is to hide its complexity from the software developers and end users resulting in new approaches for Grid architects, middleware and application developers. We invite you to contribute to this conference track by submitting papers in one or more of the categories outlined below. Multimedia - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) - (Multimedia) Information systems for emergency services - Integration of IP and broadcast services - Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia - Ambient multimedia services - Home entertainment - Gaming Telecommunications - Future Internet (Clean-Slate versus Evolution) - Embracing P2P communities as a new business approach for Telcos - Access networks - Layer-2 Technologies - Self-engineering communications - Performance evaluation of fixed and mobile networks - QoS control and scheduling - Security Grid Computing - Programming models, tools and environments - Software architectures and middleware - Virtualization - Robustness, fault-tolerance and self-healing - Scalability - Data distribution and data access - Ad-hoc computing grids - Integration of problem solving environments - Distributed applications

We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new applications by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. Submission of Papers Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their paper to http://www.icsy.de/EM08 Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE. Selected papers will be offered the opportunity to appear as extended versions in a special issue of a scholarly journal. The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Camera-ready forms by June 6th 2008, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2008 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2008 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." Important Dates Submission deadline: March 30, 2008 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: June 6, 2008 General Information This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO 2008 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. http://www.euromicro.org

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