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Call for Papers
   6th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies
                                 (ICQT'09)
                Associated Workshop of IFIP NETWORKING 2009
                      May 15th, 2009, Aachen, Germany
Scope
IP-based   Next  Generation  Networks  have  gradually  become  reality,
creating  numerous challenges for all stakeholders in  the  ICT  sector.
While  future business models and regulatory frameworks are still  under
discussion, the provision of efficient charging support for the  variety
of  upcoming  network technologies, including fixed  networks,  wireless
access  networks,  and  mobile user support,  has  become  of  paramount
importance  for  realizing the economic potential of  future  convergent
architectures and services.
The  resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives
many  relevant  research  topics  for application  developers,  business
architects, network and service providers, and customers. Especially the
identification  of  novel service charging solutions, the  investigation
and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation  of
technical  and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed,  and
efficient  charging  of services is of fundamental  importance  for  the
future evolution of the Internet and the telecommunications business  in
general,  and  as  such  the  central focus of  the  international  ICQT
workshop series.
ICQT'09  is  the  sixth  event  in this  series,  following  the  highly
successful  ICQT  workshops in Vienna 2001, Zurich  2002,  Munich  2003,
Barcelona  2004,  and  St.  Malo  2006.  The  focus  of  ICQT'09  is  on
Telecommunication Economics from a broad interdisciplinary  perspective,
concentrating  on the economics of future information and  communication
infrastructures  as  well as the close relation  between  economics  and
technologies in support of charging, quality-based pricing and  business
modeling.
Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to,  but
not limited by, the following list of topics:
·   Telecommunication Economics       ·   Monitoring, measuring, and
                                       accounting
·   Internet pricing, tariffing, and  ·   Charging technologies for NGN
billing                               and IMS
·   Network economics and economic    ·   Management of Service Level
models for the Internet               Agreements
·   Cost, business and competition    ·   Interdomain pricing
models for providers                  approaches
·   Service charging models,          ·   Network neutrality and
including grid and web services       charging
·   Pricing mobile and wireless       ·   Security mechanisms for
services                              charging and accounting
·   Charging for QoS, QoE and         ·   Regulatory and legal aspects
security                              of SLAs and contracts
Papers and Submissions
Full  papers  are solicited in English, of no more than 12 single-spaced
pages,  each  of  which will be subject to a full peer  review  process.
Submissions  should already follow the author's guidelines as  specified
below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract,
and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should  be
identified, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax
numbers,  and  e-mail  address. An electronic, PDF-based  submission  of
papers is mandatory.
The   conference  proceedings  will  be  published  as   hard-copy   and
electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in  the  Lecture
Notes  in  Computer Science (LNCS) Series, and will be available  during
the  event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow
the  LNCS  guidelines strictly and without exception, including  the  12
page         limit         (for         more         details         see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Post-conference  journal
publication of selected papers is under preparation.
To  register  and submit your paper, please go to the ICQT  homepage  at
http://www.ftw.at/icqt or to the EADS paper management system  available
http://edas.info/ directly.
Important Dates
- Deadline for submissions: December 8, 2008. All papers have to be
   registered by Dec 1, 2008.
- Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2009.
- Camera ready version: February 23, 2009.
General Information
The  workshop will be organized on May 15, 2009, as a full-day event  on
the  last day of the IFIP conference NETWORKING 2009 which will be  held
May 11-15, 2009, in Aachen, Germany. The registration for this event  is
handled    within    the    framework   of    NETWORKING    2009,    see
http://www.networking-2009.org for further details.
For  further  information on ICQT'09 please visit http://www.networking-
2009.org/calls/ICQT.html or contact icqt09@ftw.at.
TPC Co-Chairs
Peter Reichl, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW), Austria
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Bruno Tuffin, INRIA Rennes, France
TPC Members:
Eitan Altman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Jörn Altmann, International University Bruchsal, Germany
Ragnar Andreassen, Telenor, Norway
Dominique Barth, University of Versailles, France
Nalan Gulpinar, Warwick Business School, U.K.
Heikki Hammainen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Peter Key, Microsoft Cambridge, U.K.
Patrick Maillé, Telecom Bretagne, France
Olivier Marce, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Robin Mason, University of Southampton, U.K.
Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo, Canada
Maurizio Naldi, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, U.S.A.
Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, U.S.A.
Günther Schäfer, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Vasilis Siris, ICS FORTH, Greece
George Stamoulis, AUEB Athens, Greece
Nicolas Stier, Columbia University, USA
Yoshiaki Tanaka, Waseda University, Japan
Tuan Trinh Anh, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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