Call for Papers
1st International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks
Scope
The purpose of the 1st International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the understanding and applications of E-Business and Telecommunication Networks. Four simultaneous tracks will be held, covering Global Communication Services, Software and Systems, Security and Reliability, Wireless Communication, and Multimedia Signal Processing.Information systems and information technology are pervasive in the whole Communications field, which is quite vast, encompassing a large number of research topics and applications: from hardware and electronics to the more abstract theoretical aspects of communication; from low level protocols to high-level networking and applications; from security concerns to wireless information systems; many other topics could be listed. ICETE is mainly interested in contributions related to information and communication systems issues and applications involving high-level technologies and protocols; not the lower OSI levels.
Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining information systems and telecommunication technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or business applications, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below.
Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICETE, with an ISBN. Furthermore, a short list of about thirty papers will be selected to appear in a book that will be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics are also envisaged: companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat. We are also open to specialized workshop proposals. Additional information can be found at www.icete.org
Topic Areas / Conference Tracks
Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
Global Communication Information Systems and Services
Area 1: Global Communication Information Systems and Services
- e-Commerce and e-business: B2B and B2C
- Electronic payment systems and exchange protocols
- e-Marketing and Consumer Behavior
- CRM and Business Solutions
- Web Technologies and Web Services
- Agent-based Information Systems
- Virtual Enterprises
- VPN Technology and Services
- Unified Communications and Enhanced Services
- Telecommunication Software Systems, Tools and Languages
- Internet Services and Applications
- Web-based Enterprise Management, DEN, CIM, XML
- Hosting Strategies for Web-Enabling the Enterprise
Area 2: Security and Reliability in Informations Systems and Networks
- Biometric Security
- Network Security and Protocols (IPSec)
- Cryptographic Techniques and Key Management
- Intrusion Detection and Vulnerability Assessment
- Viruses and Worms
- Network Management
- Identification and Authentication
- Operating Systems Security
- Service and Systems Designs and QoS Network Security
- Fairness Scheduling and QoS Guarantee
- Identity Management
- e-Commerce Security and Reliability Issues
- Data and Systems Security and Privacy
Area 3: Wireless Communication Systems and Networks
- Mobile Services (WASP, ASP, MSP and more)
- Wireless Internet and Mobile System Security
- Wireless LAN and Home area networks
- Wireless and Mobile Computing
- 4G Systems
- GPRS and UMTS
- Broadband Wireless
- Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks
- Network Protocols and Packet Services
- Cellular and Wireless Networks Management
- Application Development Environment & Tools
- Mobile Multimedia Applications
- Wireless Local Loop: LMDS, MMDS
Area 4: Multimedia Signal Processing
- Image and Video Compression
- Digital Audio & Video Broadcasting
- Image and Video Databases
- Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
- Content Protection and Security
- Speech Coding and Recognition
- Signal Processing for Data Storage
- Universal Multimedia Adaptation
- Multimedia and VoIP - Services & Technologies
- Traffic Modelling for Multimedia
- Authentication and Watermarking
- Audio and Video Streaming (IPv4 / IPv6)
- Multimedia Applications
Workshops
ICETE will have several Workshops, you can look for more details here.
Keynote Speakers
ICETE 2004 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas.You can check them out here.
Tutorials
ICETE 2004 will include several tutorials, to be lectured the day before the conference opening. You can check them out here.
Submission of Papers
Authors should submit a complete paper in English of up to 8 A4 pages, using the submission procedure indicated below. The program committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will be notified of the result, by email. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. Authors must also indicate the conference track to which the paper is submitted. The paper must be carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling.Paper submission procedure
1. A "blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the full paper, WITHOUT any reference to the authors. The manuscript must contain, in its first page, the paper title, an abstract and a list of keywords but NO NAMES OR CONTACT DETAILS WHATSOEVER are to be included in any part of this file.
2. The contact author will then use the ICETE web-based submission facility available at the conference web site, http://www.icete.org/ to enter the contact information of all paper authors plus the file indicated in point 1, above. The facility will automatically send a submission acknowledgement, by email, to the author indicated as "contact author".
The camera-ready format will be enforced only for accepted papers, but authors are encouraged to use it also for paper submissions, in order to reduce extra work later. Two templates are provided at the conference web site: one for Latex and another for MS Word.
Due to space limitations in the Proceedings, the camera-ready version will be limited to 8 (eight) pages for full papers, 6 (six) for short papers (progress reports) and 4 (four) for poster presentations. If absolutely needed, it will be allowed to increase the total number of pages, by 4 extra pages. However, for each excess page the author will have to pay an additional fee.
Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by a world class publisher, not yet confirmed. The publication of extended versions of outstanding conference papers is also a possibility being discussed with several scientific journals.
Important Deadlines
Full Paper Submission: 29th February 2004
Workshops Submission: 30th April 2004
Author Notification: 24th May 2004
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 21th June 2004
Secretariat
ICETE Secretariat
INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Av. D.Manuel I, 27 r/c esq, 2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
E-mail: secretariat@icete.org
Web: http://www.icete.org
Venue
The conference will be held in Setubal, a town 40-km south of Lisboa, the Portuguese capital. Setubal and its surroundings are a major touristic place in Portugal, where the visitor can find anything from ancient historical areas, in Palmela, to pleasurable beaches and modern golf courses, in Troia. Another interesting place in Portugal – Algarve – is less than two hours away from the conference site.
Conference Chair
Joaquim Filipe (Escola Superior de Tecnologia - IPS, Setúbal, Portugal)
Program Co-Chairs
Carlos Belo (Institute of Telecommunications, Lisboa, Portugal)
Luminita Vasiu (Middlesex University, London, UK)
Arup Acharyar, Edge Networking / Networking Software and Services/ Distributed Computing, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Kazi M. Ahmed, Asian Institute of Tech (AIT), Thailand
Salah Al-Sharhan, Computer Science Department, Gulf University for Science and Technology, KUWAIT
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin University, Japan
Pedro Assunção, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Balbir Barn, Thames Valley University, UK
Anthony Bedford, RMIT University, Australia
Giampaolo Bella , Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica,Università di Catania, Italy
Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France
David Bonyuet, Delta Search Labs, USA
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Philippa Broadfoot, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, England
Vito Cappellini, Communication and Image Processing Laboratory, Italy
Tee-Hiang Cheng, Nanyang Technological Universitie, Singapore
Kwok-wai Cheung, Department of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ryszard S. Choras, Institute of Telecommunications, University of Technology & Agriculture, Poland
Rodney Clarke, University of Stafford, UK
Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel
Richard Comley, MDX, UK
Tony Constantinides, Communications & Signal Processing Lab, UK
Paulo Correia, Instituto Superior Técnico/IT Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Correia, LASIGE - University of Lisboa, Portugal
Mike Devetsikiotis, Center for Advanced Computing and Communication, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering North Carolina State University, USA
Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Yuguang Michael Fang, Wireless Networks Laboratory (WINET), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, USA
Sergio Faria, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria/IT Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Boavida Fernandes, Departamento de Engenharia Informatica, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico/IT Lisboa, Portugal
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), Brazil
Costas N. Georghiades, Wireless Comunications Laboratory, USA
Georgios B. Giannakis, SPINCOM, Greece
German Goldszmidt, Advanced Cluster Technologies, IBM Research, Hawthorne , USA
Carlos de Castro Goulart, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
Lorenzo Granai, Signal Processing Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Lisandro Z. Granville, Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil
D J Greaves, Home Area Networks, UK
Stefanos Gritzalis, Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece
Mounir Hamdi, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science And Technology, Hong Kong
Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK
Richard Harris, RMIT University, Australia
Sumi Helal, Computer and Information Science & Engineering Department (CISE) University of Florida, USA
Nguyen Minh Hoang, Institute for Infocomm Research/ National University of Singapore, Singapore
Daehyoung Hong, Department of Electronic Engineering, Sogang University, Korea
Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia
Geoff Huston, Telstra, Australia
Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Marko Jagodic, RASKOM, Slovenia
Hamid Jahankhani, East London Business School, Business Information Systems, UK
Ankur Jain, Hughes Software Systems, India
Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, UK
Elias P. Duarte Júnior, Federal University of Parana, Brasil
Chung Gu Kang, Korea University, Korea
Ahmed Karmouch, Multimedia and Mobile Agents Research Laboratory, Canada
Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden
Stefanos Kollias, Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab (IVML), National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Mladen Kos, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Murat Kunt, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
G.S. Kuo, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Bjorn Landfeldt,The University of Sydney, Australia
Mike Myung-Ok Lee, Dongshin University, Korea
Lundy Lewis, University of New Hampshire, UK
Kecheng Liu, University of Reading, UK
Uden Lorna, University of Stafford, UK
António F. Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Songwu Lu, UCLA WING, USA
Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Enrico Magli, Department of Electronics Politecnic di Torino, Italy
Qusay H. Mahmoud, University of Guelph, Canada
Sam Makki, Department of Software Engineering & Data Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Manu Malek, Department of Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Techonology, USA
Hong Man, Stevens Insitute of Technology, USA
Ian Marshall, BTexact, UK
Alan Marshall, Telecommunications Research Group, UK
Saverio Mascolo, Poliba, Italy
Kanta Matsuura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sean McGrath, Wireless Access Research, Ireland
Madjid Merabti, School of Computing & Maths, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Majid Mirmehdi, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
Hiroyuki Morikawa, Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Japan
António Navarro, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ulrich Ultes-Nitsche, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Sven Nordholm, Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (ATRI), Australia
Mohammad S. Obaidat, Department of Computer Science, Monmouth University, USA
Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Lisa Osadciw, Syracuse University, USA
Andrzej R. Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology , Poland
Manuel Perez , Departamento DISCA, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Andrew Perkis, Q2S - Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication System, National Center of Excellence, Norway
Mario Petrizzelli, Research & Development Head LEAGROUP, Italy
Yves Pigneur, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Edward L. Pinnes, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Andreas Pitsillides, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Thomas Plagemann, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Simon Podvalny, Voronetz University, Russia
David Seth Preston, University of East London, UK
Paula Queluz, Instituto Superior Técnico / IT, Portugal
Sureswaran Ramadass, School of computer science, Malaysia
Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Wireless Information Network Laboratory, USA
Carlo Regazzoni, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering University of Genoa, Italy
Peter Reichl, Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (Telecommunications Research Center Vienna), Austria
Leonilde Reis, Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal
António Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Técnico / IT, Portugal
César Vargas Rosales, ITESM-CET Campus Monterrey, Mexico
Joerg Roth, University of Hagen, Germany
Narcyz Roztocki, School of Business, State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz, USA
Medy Sanadidi, UCLA Computer Science Department, USA
Bruno R. Schulze, National Laboratory of Scientific Computing LNCC / MCT, Brazil
Bruno Sericola, IRISA/INRIA, France
Wladyslaw Skarbek , Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Bill Lloyd-Smith , Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications, RMIT University, Australia
Elizabeth Specialski, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Ralf Steinmetz, KOM Multimedia Communications, Germany
Tatsuya Suda, Dept. of Information and Computer Science, University of California, USA
Lily Sun, University of Reading, UK
York Sure, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Liane Tarouco, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
C.K Toh, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems Corporation, USA
Rui Valadas, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Aníbal R. Figueiras Vidal, Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática, Univ Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
John Waldron, Trinity College, Ireland
Hans Weghorn, University of Cooperative Education, Stuttgart, Germany
Robert Weigel, Friedrich-Alexander Univ. Erlangen, Germany
Erik Wilde, Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory (TIK), Switzerland
Stephen G. Wilson, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA
Wendy Xinju Wu, Middlesex University, UK
Gang Wu, DoCoMo Labs, USA
Alec Yasinsac, Computer Science Dept, FSU, USA
Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Infocomm Research / National University of Singapore, Singapore
Qinghe Yin,Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Hee Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Weider D. Yu, San Jose State University, USA
Soe-Tsyr Yuan, University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Junshan Zhang, Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, USA
