Dear All,
We are organising a Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and
Applications. We wish to bring top researchers, industry executives and
decision makers working in Systems as well as Services together to discuss
directions of Communications research and development in Europe.
We know that development and deployment of future service in Transport,
Healthcare and many other sectors will require a common infrastructure.
Therefore, it is important that designers and stakeholders from all the
System stacks come together to discuss these developments. We have attracted
a number of key Transport figures in UK and European Commission to
contribute to this event and we hope that could join us too.
Please note that the Extended Deadline (Final) for papers submission is 10
April 2009.
Best Regards
Rashid
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Engineering/mehmoodr/<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/Engineering/mehmoodr/>
Mobile: 07960 385686
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EuropeComm 2009 -- The First International ICST Conference on Communications
Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe
11 - 13
August 2009, London, UK
http://europecomm.org/<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://europecomm.org/>
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Keynote: European Union and the Future Internet
by Paulo T. de Sousa
Head of Sector, Internet of the Future, Directorate-General Information
Society, European Commission
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Sponsored by ICST
Technically co-sponsored by CREATE-NET and Swansea University
Rapidly decreasing costs of computational power, storage capacity, and
communication bandwidth have led to the development of multitude of
applications carrying increasingly huge amount of traffic on the global
networking infrastructure. What we have seen is an evolution: an
infrastructure looking for networked applications has evolved into an
infrastructure struggling to meet the social, technological and business
challenges posed by multitude of bandwidth hungry emerging applications.
Developments in optical communication technologies have shown potential of
meeting technological challenges for bandwidth demands. Various solutions
have been proposed so far for the discrete parts of the optical network
infrastructure, however the most fundamental challenge at this point of
optical networking evolution, apart from enhancing these solutions and
inventing novel ones, is to combine these parts under a unified control and
management framework. Although wireless technologies have undergone massive
improvements, wireless is far from meeting mobility, bandwidth and other QoS
challenges posed by the current and future applications and services. With
an increasing number of collocated personal, local and cellular wireless
communication systems the questions of optimum coexistence and
inter-networking are raised.
While bandwidth, mobility and QoS requirements for many existing
applications are on the rise, new applications and services are emerging,
such as in healthcare and transportations sectors. These emerging services
are making the design space for infrastructure developers even more
challenging.
We organize a Symposium on Communications encompassing mobile, optical and
converged technologies as well as services and applications. We have
identified two key application themes of these technologies for the
discussions during the event. These are Intelligent Transportation Systems
and Healthcare services. We also foresee Future Internet Infrastructure and
Services, Open Architectures and Innovation Processes as the key
cross-cutting subjects for the symposium.
The event will bring together decision makers from the EU commission, top
researchers and industry executives to discuss directions of communications
research and development in Europe. Also, the symposium will attract
academia and industry representatives, as well as government officials to
discuss the current development and future trends in technology,
applications and services in the communications field.
You are invited to submit full papers using the Assyst submission system (
http://assyst-online.org:8080/submission/welcome.do<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://assyst-online.org:8080/submission/welcome.do>)
comprising original unpublished work relevant to the conference themes.
+ Communication Systems - Broadband Networks; Heterogeneous
Networks; Cognitive and Reconfigurable Networks; Converged Optical-Wireless
Networks; Ad hoc and hybrid Networks
+ Optical Communications and Networking - WDM Systems; Radio over
Fiber; Broadband access
+ Wireless Communications - WLAN; WiMAX, 3G and 4G systems; Radio
Resource Management; Cognitive radio; Self-X solutions; UWB
+ Intelligent Transportation System - Traveller Information Systems;
Telecommunications in Transportation; Vehicular Networks (VANETs); Transport
Data Modelling, Fusion and Analysis; Safety and multimedia applications over
VANETs; Middleware; Grid infrastructure and services for ITS
+ Healthcare - Telecommunications in Healthcare; Sensor Networks;
Healthcare Computing and Information Systems; Grid Architectures and
Services; Emerging applications and systems; Modelling tools and methods;
Middleware
+ Crosscutting Themes - Internet Technologies, Infrastructure,
Services and Applications; Open Source Tools, Open Models and Architectures;
Security, Privacy and Trust; Navigation Systems, Location Based Services;
Social Networks and Online Communities; ICT Convergence, Digital Economy and
Digital Divide
The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three technical program
committee members. The conference proceedings will be published by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.springer.com/>)
and ICST (http://www.icst.org/<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.icst.org/>)
as part of the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences,
Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) (
http://www.europecomm.org/authors.shtml<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.europecomm.org/authors.shtml>)
and will be available through Springer's digital library (
http://www.springerlink.com/<https://email.swan.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.springerlink.com/>)
for worldwide access. Extended versions of best papers of the conference
will be considered for publication in a Journal Special Issue.
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Important Dates
Extended Deadline (Final) : 10 April 2009
Paper submission due: 25 March 2009
Notification date: 1 May 2009
Camera-ready due: 20 May 2009
Conference Dates: 11-13 August 2009
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Steering Committee
Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET
Dr. Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK
Dr. Radoslaw Piesiewicz, CREATE-NET
Organizing Committee
Dr. Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK
Dr. Radoslaw Piesiewicz, CREATE-NET
Conference Co-Chair
Dr. Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK
TPC Members and Session Chairs
Prof Iain Buchan, University of Manchester, UK - Helathcare
Prof. Azeem Majeed, Imperial College London, UK - Healthcare
Prof. John Polak, Imperial College London, UK - ITS
Peter Stoker, General Motors Europe Engineering - Intelligent Transportation
Systems
Publication Chairs
Dr. Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr. Rashid Mehmood, Swansea University, UK
Industry Liaison:
Patrick Bond, ICST
Conference Coordinator
Beatrix Ransburg, ICST
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