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Call for Papers
The Second International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks
and Systems (MENS 2010)
In conjunction with The Seventh International Conference on Autonomic and
Trusted Computing (ATC 2010)
Xi'an, China
October 26-29, 2010
http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/
Selected papers (after significant extension) will be published by the
following SCI-indexed Interantional Journals, as special issues:
Elsevier, Journal of Computer and System Science (JCSS) (approved)
Elsevier, Computer Communications (COMCOM) (pending)
Springer, Telecommunication Systems Journal (approved)
In recent years, novel computing paradigms are emerging. On conventional
computer networks, we are superimposing new networking systems, such as
peer-to-peer, wireless ad hoc, sensor networks, and general overlay
networks. These systems' environments are distributed, heterogeneous and
dynamic. They are managed by multiple administrative authorities and shared
by users with different and competing interests. More often than not, they
are autonomously provided by independent and rational individuals. The most
distinguishing feature of intelligent networks and systems is that, each
player determines its behaviors autonomously. "Design for choice" is the
fundamental principle of emerging autonomous networks and systems.
As computing and network systems gradually become the fundamental
infrastructure of the information society, many multidisciplinary research
topics emerge to support/reflect the features of our economics and society.
As we know, in the research and application of future networks and systems,
only a technical approach is far too weak to deliver a satisfactory
solution. It has already been proven by the dilemma of Internet QoS
researches and applications. Even more important is that, multidisciplinary
perspectives and approaches will shed new light on various related issues in
different networks and systems, and foster new applications. For example, a
social network over wireless ad hoc network can provide proximity based
social computing, and may be one of the killer applications in wireless ad
hoc networks. In this direction, knowledge from biology, psychology,
economics (e.g., game theory), social network, and many other research
fields can provide important and helpful hints for future networks and
systems research.
Following the success of the International Symposium on Multidisciplinary
Autonomous Networks and Systems (MANS2009,
http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/), the International Symposium on
Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems (MENS 2010) is organized in
series to continue providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to
exchange new ideas and information regarding advancements in the state of
the art of emerging networks and systems from multidisciplinary
perspectives. This symposium will as well facilitate to identify new
research topics and envision the future.
Furthermore, two Special Sessions on "Assurance Networks" and "Network
Survivability" (please refer to the web site for details) are organized.
Papers that illustrate innovative research works, works-in-progress, new
ideas, or survey works are solicited. Topics include but are not limited to
the following:
Topics
- Innovative models for intelligent networks and systems
- Evolutionary principles of intelligent networks and systems
- Bio-inspired information and communication systems
- Economic concepts and mechanisms, and game theory
- Emotional, and psychological computing
- Complex adaptive systems, and self-organized systems
- Web service, grid, cloud and transparent computing
- Trust and reputation models and management
- Privacy, security, ethics, culture, and anonymity issues
- Mobile, Peer-to-Peer social networks and wireless ad hoc networks
- Sensor networks and social sensing
- Socially-inspired and collaborative computing
- Agents, and massive agents systems
- Service science, management and engineering
- u-Things, u-Science and u-Engineering
- Intelligent transportation systems, and safety-critical systems
- Empirical studies of multidisciplinary approaches
- Trustable and assurance networks
- Network survivability, fault tolerance and dependability
Paper Submission and Publication
The information on how to submit papers is available on the symposium web
site:
http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mens2010/Submission/
All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three PC members or
external reviewers. At least one author of each accepted paper is required
to register and present their work at the symposium. Otherwise the paper
will not be included in the proceedings. The proceedings of the symposium
will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (Indexed by EI). And,
selected papers, after extension and further revisions, will be published in
special issues of prestigious SCI-indexed Journals:
Elsevier, Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS) (approved)
Elsevier, Computer Communications (COMCOM) (pending)
Springer, Telecommunication Systems Journal (approved)
Important Dates
Paper Submission Due: May 30, 2010
Paper Status Notification: June 30, 2010
Camera-ready Manuscript Due: July 30, 2010
Organizing Committees
General Chairs
Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Program Committee Chairs
Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Goutam Chakraborty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
PC Vice Chair for the Special Session on Assurance Networks
Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan
PC Vice Chair for the Special Session on Network Survivability
Poul E. Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Steering Committee Chairs
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
Publicity Chairs
Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Roman Y. Shtykh, Rakuten, Inc., Japan
Neil Y. Yen, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland
Advisory Committee
Hongbo Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
Timothy K. Shih, Asia University, Taiwan
Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Contact Information
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Special Session on Assurance Networks
(Organizer: Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan)
Along with rapid growth of the Internet cloud computing and ubiquitous
networks, autonomous decentralized systems are connected with each other.
Heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and the requirements
themselves are frequently changing. Assurance in these distributed systems
and networks is defined as capability of guaranteeing functional and
nonfunctional system properties such as dependability, security, timeliness
and adaptivity to heterogeneous and changing requirements. Technologies
supporting assurance including integration of various technologies such as
real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility and intelligence will have to
be incorporated in complex distributed systems and networks. NICT in Japan
has revealed its technological strategy for future networks beyond Internet.
The trustable networks are one of the target technologies. On the other
hand, we have discussed assurance technologies in the ADSN workshops (see
http://adsn.net.info.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp) held nine times in the past.
From the above both viewpoints, technical presentations and discussions will
be executed in the special session of MENS 2010 (The Second International
Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging Networks and Systems). The objective
of the special session is to make clear what assurance networks are and to
provide some technologies for assurance networks to realize trustable
networks in the future.
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Special Session on Network Survivability
(Organizer: Poul E. Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway)
Our society is critically dependent on access to stable, secure, and
trustworthy telecommunication services and network. A major global
challenge is to ensure that these networks and services supports other
critical infrastructure such as transport logistics, water,- gas-, and power
supply, and emergency and financial services. The same telecommunication
networks also support information and entertainment services such as phone,
email, newspapers, social networks, gaming. These global networks are a
prerequisite for the commercial and political cooperation and are under
threat as the object of sabotage ("Security cyberspace, a grand challenge
in engineering). Furthermore, they are prone to instability as a consequence
of their size, lack of stable protocol/management systems to keep up with
network growth. It does not help that the networks are heterogeneous with
ambiguous and complex vertical and horizontal operator and provider
agreements and competition, absence of political (Internet governance), and
technical management.
A variety of threats, like attacks, accidents, and failures, may cause minor
or major service degradations in the telecommunication services and network.
Survivable system and survivable network have been designed and evaluated in
the literature for many years as a result of severe incidents the recent
years that have increased the awareness of the society's dependence on
communication services. The many definitions of survivability can be
summarized as "the system's ability to continuously deliver services in
compliance with the given requirements in the presence of failures and other
undesired events". Various mathematical definitions of survivability have
been proposed and according to T1A1.2 (Network Survivability Performance)
working group's definition, survivability depicts the time-varying system
behavior after a failure, attack or accident occurs.
A special session on "Network Survivability" is invited at the upcoming
MENS 2010 (The Second International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Emerging
Networks and Systems). The objective of the special session is to present
state of art network survivability evaluation methods, design of survivable
networks, and case studies of network survivability evaluation.
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