Subject: MMNS 2001 Call For Papers

From: "Ehab Al-Shaer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 00:50:19 -0600

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on 
Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2001)

October 29- November 1, 2001
Chicago, Illinois, USA
(http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001)

The IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services 
will hold its fourth annual meeting Oct. 29 through Nov 1, 2001 in Chicago. The IFIP/IEEE 
MMNS is the premier IEEE/IFIP conferences focusing on management of multimedia networks 
and services. The conference will bring together researchers and practitioners working in 
the network and service management and present the latest development in the field. 
IFIP/IEEE MMNS uses single-track presentations, which provide an intimate setting for 
discussion and debate. The conference is known for its high-quality papers from various 
research communities. Selected papers will also be considered for publication as a special 
issue of the Journal of High Speed Networking and Journal of Networks and Information 
Systems. Of specific interest to MMNS2001 is the management of multimedia in the Internet. 
The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of 
management of multimedia networks and services. MMNS 2001 will provide Travel and 
Conference Scholarships for students. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, 
the following:

Distributed multimedia service management
Integration of network control and management
Network management models and architectures
Distributed event correlation
Monitoring
QoS management
Multimedia traffic management
Resource, performance and fault management for broadband networks
Configuration management of edge and core services for enabling
multimedia traffic management
Multi-point and multicast services management
Resource management in wireless multimedia
Wireless and mobile network management
Mobility management
Management of ad-hoc networks
Multimedia content protection
Deployment of multimedia services
Active network management
Network programmability for multimedia services
Middleware support for management 
Multimedia session management
Packet scheduling and dropping techniques
Multimedia service Engineering
Billing and security for broadband networks
Policy-based management for multimedia service

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers must be submitted electronically (postscript or PDF format only). 
Detailed instructions are provided at <http://www.mnlab.cs.depaul.edu/mmns2001>. 
Paper length is limited to 20 double-spaced pages. The paper cover page must included: 
title of paper, authors' names and affiliations, contact author's name and address (both 
postal and electronic), a short abstract, keywords, and submission area (from the list of 
relevant topics of interest). For any further information, you can direct your questions 
to [email-masked]

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:  April 20, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2001
Final version due:  July 21, 2001
Conference:   October 29 to Nov 1, 2001

Conference CO-CHAIRS 
Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, 
USA Giovanni Pacifici, IBM Research, USA 

TUTORIAL CHAIR 
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, U of Oklahoma, USA

LOCAL PUBLICITY CHAIR
Curt White, DePaul University 

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE CHAIR
Greg Brewster, DePaul University 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada 
Guy Pujolle, U. Pierre & Marie Curie, France 
Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
Ahmed Abutaleb, Lucent Technology, USA
Nazim Agoulmine, Univ of Evry, France
Salah Aidarous, NEC America, USA
Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA
Nikos Anerousis, VoiceMate.com, USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, U. of Oklahoma, USA
Michael Borella, 3Com, USA
Mohamed Bettaz, Philadelphia U., Jordan
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Jean Pierre Claudé, U. of Versailles, France
Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland
Dominique Gaiti, U. of Troyes, France
Leon A. Garcia, U. of Toronto, Canada
German Goldszmidt, IBM Research, USA
Mohsen Guizani, U. of West Florida, USA
Abdelhakim Hafid, Telcordia, NJ, USA
Masum Hasan, Cisco Systems,  USA
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland 
Joaquim Celestino Júnior, UECE, Brazil
Ahmed Karmouch, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Derong Liu, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Manu Malek, Lucent technology, USA
Allen Marshall, Queen's Univeersity, UK
Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA
Ahmed Mehaoua, U. of Versailles, France
Jose M. Nogueira, U. Minas Gerais, Brazil
Jan Roos, U. of Pretoria, South Africa
Jong-Tae Park, Kyungpook National U., Korea
Punnet Sharma, HP Labs, USA
Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv U. and Bell Labs, USA
Chien-Chung Shen, Univ of Delaware, USA 
Rolf Stadler, CTR/Columbia U., USA
Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ralf Steinmetz, GMD., Germany
Jose Neuman de Souza, U. Fed. do Ceara, Brazil
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia U., USA
Alaa Youssef, IBM Research, USA
Douglas N. Zuckerman, Telcordia, USA

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE 
Aftab Ahmad, DePaul University 
Mouayad Albaghdad, Motorola
Anthony Chung, DePaul University 
Ramy Khasawneh, DePaul University
Hazem Hamed, DePaul University
Ye Guanhua, DePaul University
Yonnning Tang, DePaul University
Bin Zhang, DePaul University
Qiao Zhang, DePaul University 

MBONE Broadcast Specialist
John Kristoff, DePaul University