The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming (OPENARCH 2000) CALL FOR PAPERS & DEMOS Tel Aviv, Israel, March 26-27, 2000 http://comet.columbia.edu/activities/openarch2000 The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming invites participation in this international forum on open programmable networks. Advances in open signaling and control, active networks, mobility management, transportable software, Web-based services access, and distributed systems technologies are driving a reexamination of existing network software architectures and the evolution of control and management systems away from traditional constrained solutions. OPENARCH 2000 will foster a better understanding of network software architecture and the techniques becoming available to make it simpler, more flexible, and more robust. In the spirit of the first and second conferences, OPENARCH 2000 will provide researchers and developers with a focused opportunity to present and discuss current work and future directions in the systems, techniques, and performance of open architectures. There will be an official Proceedings. To complement the papers track, OPENARCH 2000 offers a session for the demonstration of experimental open programmable network prototypes. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers, outlines for demonstration prototypes, and proposals for tutorials and panel discussions addressing these and other questions. Suggested focus areas include: - Scalable networking architectures - Open and innovative signaling systems - Network operating systems - Active networks - Programming interfaces for networks - Programming for mobility - Programming for Quality of Service - Intelligent agents and trading - Architectural paradigms (e.g. TINA) - Information representation, modeling and abstractions - Multiple viewpoint modeling - Distributed computing models and algorithms - QOS control frameworks - Resource allocation and networking games - Security in an open object world - Integrated control and management - Control and resource APIs and object representations - Performance of control architectures - Experimental architectures and implementation techniques - Enabling technologies, platforms and languages (CORBA, WWW, Java, ...) - Open architecture standards - Modeling of network services - Services creation platforms - Services management systems - QoS continuity across ATM, Internet, and mobile/PCS networks - Interactive multimedia, multi-party cooperation and groupware - Pricing and real-time billing - Secure electronic commerce INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS AND DEMONSTRATORS: Papers of no more than 10 finished (single-spaced) pages, excluding figures, are solicited. The cover page of each submitted paper should include paper title, brief abstract, list of keywords, author(s) full name(s), affiliation(s) and complete address(es), telephone number(s), and email address(es). ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION IS ADVISABLE. Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF format. Instructions for electronic submissions are available at http://comet.columbia.edu/activities/openarch2000/submission_guide2000.html. If electronic submission is not possible, mail six (6) manuscript copies to: David Hutchison Program Chair, OpenArch 2000 Computing Department Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YR UK email: dh@comp.lancs.ac.uk All submissions will be carefully reviewed by international experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality. Accepted paper(s) will be published in a bound Conference Proceedings. A CD-ROM version is being considered as well. Deadline for receipt of papers: September 10, 1999 Notification of acceptance mailed: November 26, 1999 Final camera-ready papers due: January 10, 2000 PRESENTATION OF DEMONSTRATIONS: Proposals for demonstrations, in PDF, Postscript or Microsoft Word/Powerpoint format, should be submitted to the Program Chair on the above schedule. Demonstrators are encouraged to provide their own computing and display equipment, but special requests will be considered. Dial-up Internet access will be available. FINANCIAL SUPPORT: A limited number of travel stipends are available. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the Program Chair or a Program Committee member in the requestor's region. A limited number of IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grants may be available for student authors from outside North America. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Dan Raz, Lucent Bell Labs Program Chair: David Hutchison, Lancaster University Program Co-Chair: Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research Program Co-Chair: Ian Marshall, BT Labs Demo Chair: Weiguo Wang, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Publications Chair: Jens-Peter Redlich, NEC USA Publicity Chair: Marco Schneider, SBC Local Arrangements: TBA IEEE ComSoc Coordinator: Steve Weinstein, NEC USA Webmaster: Raymond Liao, Columbia University PROGRAM COMMITTEE (members of the OC are also members of the PC): - Bob Braden, USC ISI - Andrew Cambell, Columbia University - Gilad Goren, Native Networks - Amit Gupta, Sun Microsystems - Terry Hodgkinson, BT Labs, UK - Srinivasan Keshav, Cornell Univ. - Aurel Lazar, Columbia University - Gary Minden, University of Kansas - Hilarie Orman, Novell Corp. - Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University - Jonathan Smith, University of Pennsylvania - James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, GTE - Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex, UK - Raj Yavatkar, Intel - Christian Wipliez, France Telecom - Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky - Michael Fry, UTS Sydney, Australia - Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University - Ngoh Lek Heng, KRDL, Singapore - Irene Katzela, University of Toronto - Tom LaPorta, Lucent Bell Labs - Nick Maxemchuk, AT&T Research Labs - Luis de Moraes, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center - Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD Fokus - Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK - Rolf Stadler, Columbia University - Tatsuro Takahashi, NTT R&R Vision Group, Japan - Steve Weinstein, NEC USA - Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech