September 2007 - telco-cg

Manweek 2007 - Call for Participation
by Sumit Naiksatam 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services *** M A N W E E K 2 0 0 7 *** (http://www.manweek.org/2007/) October 29 - November 2, 2007, San Jose/ Silicon Valley, California, USA NEWS: >>> Two complimentary tutorials! >>> Early Bird registration until Monday, September 24! (Regular rates apply afterwards) We cordially invite you to participate in Manweek 2007! Manweek 2007 will take place at the Marriott Hotel in downtown San José, California, right in middle of Silicon Valley, in walking distance to restaurants and downtown attractions. In its third incarnation, Manweek 2007 is host to five of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: * DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (Oct 29-31) * MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE Internatl. Workshop on IP Operations and Management (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (Oct 29-30) * EVGM 2007 - 3rd IEEE/IFIP Internatl. Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM) (Oct 29-30) This year's Manweek also features two tutorials, participation in which is free for registered Manweek attendees: * Device Instrumentation for Active and Passive Performance Monitoring (Ralf Wolter, Cisco Systems) * Basica and Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking (Mallik Tatipamula, Juniper Networks) Please visit the conference Website for details: http://www.manweek.org/2007/ Manweek also features a number of keynote speeches, a welcome reception, a social event at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, and a social event at nearby Santa Clara Mission Gardens. Contact: chairs(a)manweek.org Organizing Committee: * Steering Committee and Finance: Raouf Boutaba (U of Waterloo, Canada) * Chairs: Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara Univ., USA), Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA) * Treasurer: Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publications: Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publicity, Website, Registrations: Sven van der Meer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco, USA), Edgar Magana (UPC/Cisco, Spain/ USA) * Submissions: Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil) * Workshops: - DSOM Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil), Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden) - MACE Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Joan Serrat (UPC, Spain), John Strassner (Motorola, USA) - EVGM Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara U, USA) - IPOM Deep Medhi (U Missouri/Kansas City, USA), Jose Marcos Nogueira (Fed U of Minas Gerais, Brazil),S. Felix Wu (U of California/ Davis, USA) - MMNS Dilip Krishnaswamy (Qualcomm, USA), Danny Raz (Technion, Israel)

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Call for Participation GridNets'07: 1st Intl Conf on Networks for Grid Applications
by Sumit Naiksatam 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) ********************************************************************* * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * GridNets 2007 * * First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications * * Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and INRIA * * In-technical cooperation with ACM SIGARCH and EU-IST * * Lyon, France, October 17-19, 2007 * * http://www.gridnets.org/2007 * * * ********************************************************************* The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting which provides a focused and highly interactive forum where researchers and technologists have the opportunity to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in the Grid networking area. The objective of this event is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA), GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA). All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. From the first event through the fourth, we have been known as the GridNets Workshop affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our fifth event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and in Europe. The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library. Best papers will be considered for publication in a special section of Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Application. Grid developers and practicioners are increasingly realising the importance of an efficient network support. Entire classes of applications would greatly benefit by a network-aware Grid middleware, able to effectively manage the network resource in terms of scheduling, access and use. Conversely, the peculiar requirements of Grid applications provide stimulating drivers for new challenging research towards the development of Grid-aware networks. Cooperation between Grid middleware and network infrastructure driven by a common control plane is a key factor to effectively empower the global Grid platform for the execution of network-intensive applications, requiring massive data transfers, very fast and low-latency connections, and stable and guaranteed transmission rates. Big e-science projects, as well as industrial and engineering applications for data analysis, image processing, multimedia, or visualisation just to name a few are awaiting an efficient Grid network support. They would be boosted by a global Grid platform enabling end-to-end dynamic bandwidth allocation, broadband and low-latency access, interdomain access control, and other network performance monitoring capabilities. Scope ----- * Network architectures and technologies for grids * Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the grid environment. * End to end lightpath provisioning software systems and emergent standards * The network as a first class grid resource: network resource information publication, brokering and co-scheduling with other Grid resources. * Interaction of the network with distributed data management systems. * Network monitoring, traffic characterisation and performance analysis * Inter-layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols, integration among layers * Experience with pre-production optical network infrastructures and exchange points * Peer-to-peer network enhancements applied to the Grid * Network support for wireless and ad hoc Grids * Data replication and multicasting strategies and novel data transport protocols * Fault-tolerance, self healing networks * Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites within a virtual organization VPN. * Simulations * New concepts and requirements which may fundamentally reshape the evolution of Networks. Keynote Speakers ---------------- October 17 - Bill St Arnaud (Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.) October 18 - Mike Fisher (BT Group Chief Technology Office) Important Dates --------------- Authors' registration deadline: September 7, 2007 Early registration deadline: September 17, 2007 Conference in Lyon: October 17-19, 2007 (For submission instructions, refer to http://www.gridnets.org) Organizing Committee ==================== General co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Local co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Paulo Goncalves (INRIA,ENS-Lyon) Program Committee co-chairs: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster University), Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) Publicity chair: Serafim Kotrotsos (EXIS IT) for Europe, Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) for Asia, Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco Systems) for USA Publications chair: Piero Spinnato (LNGS - INFN) Workshop chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, (CREATE-NET), Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA,ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Industry track chair: Bela Berde (Alcatel) Panels chair: Volker Sander (University of Applied Sciences Aachen) Exhibits and sponsorship chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Conference coordination and registration: Zita Rozsa (ICST) Finance chair: Karen Decker (ICST) Webmaster: Jean-Christophe Mignot (CNRS, ENS-Lyon)

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CFP Manweek 2007 - 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services
by Sumit Naiksatam 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services *** M A N W E E K 2 0 0 7 *** (http://www.manweek.org/2007/) October 29 - November 2, 2007, San Jose/ Silicon Valley, California, USA We cordially invite you to participate in Manweek 2007! Manweek 2007 will take place at the Marriott Hotel in downtown San José, California, right in middle of Silicon Valley, in walking distance to restaurants and downtown attractions. In its third incarnation, Manweek 2007 is host to five of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: * DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (Oct 29-31) * MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE Internatl. Workshop on IP Operations and Management (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (Oct 29-30) * EVGM 2007 - 3rd IEEE/IFIP Internatl. Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM) (Oct 29-30) Manweek also features a number of keynote speeches, a welcome reception, a social event at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, and a social event at nearby Santa Clara Mission Gardens. Collocating those events allows for five days of intensive exchange of ideas between research communities and topics that are distinct but interrelated, allowing participants to forge links and exploit synergies with researchers of adjacent areas of interest. The general theme of Manweek 2007 is End-to-end Virtualization of Networks and Services, a topic that captures the imagination of industry and researchers alike. Each of the workshops, organized by their own technical program committees, supports this general theme. Please visit the conference Website, http://www.manweek.org/2007/, for details on the program. Contact: chairs(a)manweek.org Organizing Committee: * Steering Committee and Finance: Raouf Boutaba (U of Waterloo, Canada) * Chairs: Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara Univ., USA), Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA) * Treasurer: Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publications: Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publicity, Website, Registrations: Sven van der Meer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco, USA), Edgar Magana (UPC/Cisco, Spain/ USA) * Submissions: Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil) * Workshops: - DSOM Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil), Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden) - MACE Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Joan Serrat (UPC, Spain), John Strassner (Motorola, USA) - EVGM Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara U, USA) - IPOM Deep Medhi (U Missouri/Kansas City, USA), Jose Marcos Nogueira (Fed U of Minas Gerais, Brazil),S. Felix Wu (U of California/ Davis, USA) - MMNS Dilip Krishnaswamy (Qualcomm, USA), Danny Raz (Technion, Israel)

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CfPart: International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007)
by Adrian Paschke 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida *** NOTE: The early registration deadline is on 15 September 2007 *** http://2007.ruleml.org ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 10th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: ECCAI, AAAI, ACM, ACM SIGAPP, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE, IEEE Computer TCAAS, IEEE SMCS, BPM-Forum, W3C, OMG, and OASIS We invite you to attend the International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) to be held during October 25-26, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. As this is a 'first-of-its-kind' event, participants can make a difference about shaping the future direction and structure of the field, including about rule standards supporting their own approaches and about their own possible involvement in the organization of future events. Co-located with the 10th International Business Rules Forum, the International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) is the first event devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications. These need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. After a series of successful RuleML workshops and then conferences (e.g. http://2006.ruleml.org) this is a new kind of event where the Web Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross-fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2007 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL, SBVR) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, Jess, Prova, OO jDREW, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. It is an excellent opportunity, for experienced rule researchers/ practitioners as well as newcomers, to learn more about this innovation-driven technology market, characterized by strong growth and commercial opportunities. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The scope of RuleML-2007 covers all topics relevant to rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and rule-based applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. ======================= Technical Program ======================= The symposium will feature a strong, single-track technical program consisting of: * Keynote speakers: * Ron Ross, Business Rules Solution LLC, USA: "Business Requirements for Rule Modeling" * Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany: "How Ontologies and Rules Help to Advance Automobile Development" * Adrian Bowles, OMG, USA: "Sharing Policy Rules for IT Governance" * Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada: "Are Your Rules Online? Four Web Rule Essentials" * 2 Invited papers * 9 Long research papers * 9 Short research papers * Industry and demo presentations * Challenge with awards * Panel discussion on Web Business Rules The full symposium program is available at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page646.htm ========================== RuleML-2007 Registration ========================== Early Registration Deadline: September 15, 2007 Late Registration Deadline: after September 15, 2007 RuleML-2007 Symposium: October 25-26, 2007 The registration page is available at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page930.htm As shown there, special discounts are available for our collaboration partners and sponsors. The symposium will be held at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. Information about accommodation and the symposium venue is available here: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page716.htm (Venue) http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page861.htm (Accommodation) ======================= Program Committee ======================= - Asaf Adi, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece - Arun Ayachitula, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA - Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman - Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA - Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc., USA - Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany - Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada - Anthony Brown, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Loreto Bravo, University of Edinburgh, UK - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK - Keith Clark, Imperial College, UK - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany - Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA - Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Canada - Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland - Juergen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany - Scharam Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Andreas Eberhart, HP, Germany - Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada - Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Allen Ginsberg, MITRE, USA - Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA - Christine Golbreich, Univ. of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France - Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia - Sung Ho Ha, Kyungpook National University, South Korea - Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA - Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity, Netherlands - Jochen Hiller, Top Logic, Germany - David Hirtle, University of Waterloo, Canada - Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia - Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA - Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany - Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - John Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Christopher Matheus, Vistology, Inc., USA - Mala Mehrota, Pragati Research, USA - Jing Mei, IBM China Research Lab, China - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia - Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea - Leora Morgenstern, Stanford University, USA - Joerg Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany - Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan - Matthias Nickles, Technical University Munich, Germany - Ilkka Niemelae, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany - Cheyne Patterson, USAchurch, USA - Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Irland - Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA - Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK - Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs, UK - Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Dave Reynolds, HP, England - Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Marco Seirioe, RuleCore, Sweden - Kai Simon, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany - Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany - Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, Netherlands - Giorgos Stoilos, NTU Athens, Greece - Terrance Swift, XSB, Inc., USA - Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia - Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, Inc., USA - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia - Guizhen Yang, SRI, USA ======================= Organizing Committee ======================= General Chair Said Tabet, Inferware Corp. stabet AT ruleml.org Program Co-Chairs Adrian Paschke, Technical University Munich, Germany paschke AT in.tum.de Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada biletski AT unb.ca Challenge Co-Chairs Alexander Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., London, UK alex.kozlenkov AT betfair.com Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc., Mountain View, USA rhodgson AT topquadrant.com Panel Chair John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Publicity Chair Suzette Stoutenburg, MITRE Corporation, USA suzette AT mitre.org ======================================================================= Sponsorship from: ------------------- Top Logic <http://www.top-logic.com>, Vistology <http://vistology.com/>, Inferware <http://www.inferware.com/> =======================================================================

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