[Mycolleagues] CFP - IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009)

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                             GIIS 2009
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         IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2009)
           June 23th ~ 25th, 2009,
            Hammamet, Tunisia
                   http://www.ieee-giis.org/

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Submission deadline: 1 March 2009
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Scope and Overview:

GIIS 2009 follows the success of GIIS 2007 (www.ieee-giis.org/GIIS2007).
The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and social issues implicit in the development of national and international (global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical for and international standards. GIIS 2009 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions and workshops to discuss, built and further the use of national and international information infrastructures.

The conference also aims at providing a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions on specific information infrastructure topics. Information infrastructure brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems. The program of GIIS 2009 will include invited talks, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, panel and discussion sessions.
The technical issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability at various levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The policy issues addressed by the conference are those with a large technical element, including protection of intellectual property, privacy and security, international use of encryption technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary technologies. The conference is specifically interested in ubiquity, open source/equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards, and architectural openness.


The program of GIIS 2009 will include a Technology Track and a Policy Track.
Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following aspects:

TECHNOLOGY TRACK
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COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES
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Communications & Information Security  
Middleware for networked applications
Communications Quality and Reliability
Network Operations and Management
Autonomic Communication Systems
VoIP, IPTV, MobileTV, TVOD, Gaming
e-Government, e-Health,
Networked Medical Applications

NETWORKING
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Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks
Communications Switching & Routing
Delay/Disruption tolerant wireless networks
High-Speed / Optical Networking
Next Generation Internet
Multimedia Communications
Optical Networking
Home and Enterprise Networking
Personal Communications
Peer-to-peer & overlay networks
Tactical Communications and operations

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
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Communication Theory
Power Line Communications
Wireless Communications
Satellite and Space Communications
Transmission, Access and Optical Systems

POLICY TRACK
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TELECOM FINANCE and ECONOMICS
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Telecom price regulation, pricing strategies
Cost accounting,  cost structures for telecom
Economic model of international interconnection
Economic & intellectual property issues
CONVERGENCE AND COMPETITION
Competition in International Service
Municipal broadband
Net neutrality issues
Global telecom business, country and region cases

TELECOM AND SOCIETY
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Communities in connectivity policy making
Training, support, relevant applications
Non-Governmental Organizations
Professional organizations and standards activities
Implications of new telecom technologies
Digital Opportunity Index

POLICY AND RESTRUCTURING
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Region and country specific telecom policies
Services focused telecom policy
Strategies for growing rural connectivity
Spectrum management policies

DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL ACCESS
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Development plans and activities
Economics and financing of the global access
Prospects for stable development and growth
Organizational issues – deployment and operations
Oversight issues - transparency and accountability

Submission Process
Participants should submit a research paper or experience report, not exceeding 4000 words (8 pages using 10-point type), including figures and references. The cover page should indicate whether it is a research or an experience paper. Full paper submissions must be received by March 1st 2009, and may be in Adobe Acrobat PDF. Papers must be submitted online via the GIIS 2009 website. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore.


For further information visit: www.ieee-giis.org or send an email to: chairs2009@ieee-giis.org


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Important dates

Paper Submissions: 1 March 2009
Author Notification: 1 April 2009
Camera-Ready Due: 1 May 2009
Panels submission : 1 March 2009
Tutorials Submission : 1 March 2009
Workshops Submission : 1 March 2009

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General Chair
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Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

Program Co-Chairs Technology Track
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Ahmed Mehaoua, University Paris Descartes, France
Sami Tabbane, SUPCOM, Tunisia

Program Co-Chairs Policy Track
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Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA
Robert Walp, GCI, Alaska, USA

Local Arrangements Co-chairs
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Mounir Frikha, Nabil Tabbane, SupCom, Tunisia
Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France

Publication Chair
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Yacine-Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France

Workshops Chair
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Georges Kormentzas, Aegean University, Greece

Tutorials Chair
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Rami Langar, University of Paris 6, France

Posters Chair
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Abdelfettah Belghith, ENSI, Tunisia

Publicity co-Chairs
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Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, italy
Carlos Becker Wesltphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Infrastructure chair
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Ibrahim Hajjeh, Ineovation, France


Technical Program Committee (TBC)

 
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