Fellow Researchers,

you are cordially invited to contribute to the following Workshop.
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Call for Papers
	
The Second Workshop on Heuristic Methods for the Design, Deployment, and
Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (HEUNET 2011)
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In conjunction with the
11th IEEE/IPSJ Symposium on Applications & the Internet (SAINT 2011)
Munich, Germany
July 18-22, 2011
http://snowman.nagaokaut.ac.jp/saint/workshop-CFPaper/ws-a.html
	
CALL FOR PAPERS

Following a successful HEUNET 2008 workshop (17 submissions, 11 accepted papers), we are happy to organize the successor in conjunction with the SAINT 2011 conference.
	
THEME OF THE WORKSHOP	
	
The widespread of the internet has given further opportunities for providing new services and web-based applications. However, such applications are often accompanied by a high complexity, and the number of standards, to which an application must follow, is rapidly increasing. Representing related problems as optimization problems will often not find an exact analytical solution anymore, and the need for advanced heuristic techniques becomes prevalent.  Heuristic techniques provide a wealth of methods to handle tasks in complex application domains. Among such techniques we can find evolutionary computation, tabu search, simulated annealing, as well as many hybrid and ensemble approaches and others.  This workshop will focus on heuristic methods to tangent the needs of modern internet-based applications and their underlying networking layer. It is supposed to bring together researchers from different communities with the similar need, and to provide a base for scientific exchange of research ideas.  

TOPICS OF INTEREST	
	
- Network Design
- Handling Networking Problems by Graph Theory
- QoS Solutions
- Modeling of Network-Based Services
- Scaling of Networks
- Human-Machine Interface
- Digital Convergence
- User Modeling
- Network Bottleneck Identification
- Efficient Content Delivery Schemes
- Service Authentication and Authorization Schemes
- Service Scheduling
- Network Security
- Service and Content Retrieval and Ranking
- Debugging of Internet-Based Applications
	
PAPERS AND AUTHOR'S KIT	
	
Workshop papers should be within 6 pages. The Proceedings of the Symposium and the Workshops will be published, in separated volumes, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please follow the instruction on http://snowman.nagaokaut.ac.jp/saint/authors where you can find the formating guidelines.
	
PAPER SUBMISSION	
	
Papers should be submitted through the on-line submission system available at the URL http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=saint2011 and no later than February 28, 2011.  After a review process by Organizers and Program Committee of the Workshop, authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the final manuscript to IEEE-CS press no later than May 2, 2011. So, authors are kindly requested to submit papers as early as possible to facilitate a review process.  

IMPORTANT DATES	
	
Workshop Paper Submission: Feburary 28, 2011
Workshop Paper Notification: March 28, 2011 
Workshop Final Manuscript: May 2, 2011
Workshop: July 18 - 22, 2011 (exact date is TBD)
	
REGISTRATION	
	
It is the IEEE policy that accepted papers can be published only when IEEE recognized that at least ONE author has completed FULL registration for SAINT Conference. So, authors will be requested to register along with the final manuscript.  SAINT Conference Registration fees include a copy of the Conference proceedings, a copy of the Workshop proceedings, and admission to the Conference and Workshop sessions.
	
ORGANIZERS	
	
- Mario KÖPPEN, 
  Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan <[log in to unmask]>
- Günther RAIDL, 
  Vienna University of Technology, Austria <[log in to unmask]>
- Masato TSURU, 
  Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan <[log in to unmask]>