TINA '99 Call for Participation
Joe Sventek
Attached below is the call for participation for TINA '99. I apologize
in advance if you see this CFP in more than one news group.
Joe Sventek <sve...@hpl.hp.com>
CALL FOR PAPERS
TINA'99
Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Conference 1999
Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu, Hawaii, USA - 12-15 April 1999
The Application of Distributed Computing Technologies to
Telecommunications Solutions
The Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture (TINA)
Consortium announces the TINA'99 Conference on applications of
state-of-the-art distributed computing technologies to problems of the
globally converging telecommunications and computing domains.
TINA'99 is an open international conference, soliciting participation
from researchers and developers in open networking technologies
related to telecommunication and information systems.
HOSTED BY: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
IN COOPERATION WITH:
IEEE Communications Society
Object Management Group
SUPPORTED BY:
Hewlett-Packard Company
TINA Consortium
CONFERENCE STRUCTURE AND PARTICIPATION
TINA'99 consists of advanced tutorials, keynote addresses, technical
sessions, and panel sessions. The advanced tutorials are on 12 April,
with the keynote addresses, technical sessions, and panel sessions
occupying a single track on 13-14 April and until noon on 15 April.
GUIDELINES FOR TECHNICAL SESSION PAPERS
TINA'99 encourages discussion on the application of distributed
computing technologies to telecommunications solutions. Extended
abstracts should be submitted to the correspondence address below.
We solicit papers in the following four areas:
1. Original work in the extension/refinement of the TINA architecture
and technologies.
2. Experience papers in the application of the TINA architecture and
technologies to telecommunications solutions.
3. Original work in the extension/refinement of other distributed
computing technologies with application to telecommunications
solutions.
4. Experience papers in the application of other distributed computing
technologies to telecommunications solutions.
All papers must be validated by implementation experience; papers that
do not describe experience with an application to telecommunications
problems will NOT be accepted.
A paper in categories 1 or 3 above must describe validating experience
with a prototype based upon the proposed extension/refinement.
A paper in categories 2 or 4 above should focus on the salient aspects
of an application of these technologies with the goal of guiding/helping
other practitioners in their attempts to apply these technologies in
similar ways.
Architectural/technological extensions/refinements are solicited in
(but are not limited to) the following areas:
* Languages (definition languages, implementation languages)
* Agent technologies
* Novel communication mechanisms (e.g. publish/subscribe)
* Application protocols
* Scalability issues
* Federation issues
* Security issues
* Performance issues
* Quality of service provisioning and monitoring
* Service creation environments
* Impacts of mobility
* Configuration, monitoring, and management of large scale,
distributed systems
* Connection management
* Availability/fault-tolerance
Application experiences are solicited in (but are not limited to)
the following areas:
* internet-based services
* intranet/VPN
* web-based services
* retailer services
* mobile services
* integration with IN
* service, network, or subscription management
* multimedia services
TUTORIALS
Proposals for half-day and full-day tutorials are solicited. The
tutorials will be focussed on two particular themes: enabling
distributed computing technologies for telecommunications solutions,
and telecommunication-specific technologies or experiences.
Proposals should be submitted to the correspondence address below.
INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Due Dates
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* Tutorial proposals: 1 December 1998
* Intention to submit a technical paper: 1 January 1999
* Technical paper submissions: 1 February 1999
* Notification of acceptance: 15 March 1999
* Camera-ready papers: 1 April 1999
Intention to submit a technical paper
=====================================
* sent via email
* title of the paper
* contact author's name, postal address, email address, phone number,
fax number
* abstract for the paper - the assignment of papers to reviewers will
be made based on the content of the abstract
Technical paper submissions
===========================
* sent via email
* 10-15 pages (5000-7500 words), including figures and tables, in A4
format
* papers must be submitted electronically in one of the following
formats: Microsoft Word, Framemaker, postscript, or PDF.
ENQUIRIES
All correspondence should be directed to the following email address:
Other information about the conference may be obtained from the
following web site:
http://www.tinac.com/tina99.html
TINA'99 Program Committee
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Joseph Sventek (co-chair) Hewlett-Packard USA
Emmanuel Darmois (co-chair) Alcatel France
Ricardo Baeza-Yates Univ. of Chile Chile
Hendrik Berndt TINA Consortium USA
Ken Birman Cornell Univ. USA
Pier Giorgio Bosco CSELT Italy
Martin Chapman Iona Technologies Ireland
Fabrice Dupuy CNET France
Kazumi Endo Fujitsu Japan
Rachid Guerraoui EPFL Switzerland
Choong Seon Hong Korea Telecom Korea
Hiroshi Ishii NTT Japan
Kenichi Kitami NTT Japan
Hiroaki Nishikawa Univ. of Tsukuba Japan
Jose Miguel Piquer Univ. of Chile Chile
Kerry Raymond DSTC Australia
Peter Richardson Object Oriented Pty Ltd Australia
Gerd Schuermann GMD Germany
Richard Mark Soley OMG USA
Eduardo Vera Univ. of Chile Chile
Paul Vickers Hewlett-Packard UK
Dongsik Yun Korea Telecom Korea