IEEE OPENARCH '01
The Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming 
			  April 22-23, 2001
	      Hilton Anchorage Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska

		       http://www.openarch.org

		      Call for Papers and Demos
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The Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network
Programming invites participation in this international forum on
active, and 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 2001 will foster a better understanding of these new network
software architectures and techniques that are making the network
interface more flexible and robust.

In the spirit of our last three meetings, OPENARCH 2001 will provide
researchers and developers with a focused opportunity to present and
discuss current work and future directions in the architectures,
performance, and interfaces for active and programmable networks.
Authors are invited to submit both full and short papers for
consideration.  Suggested topics include:

- Advances in active networks
- Open and innovative signaling systems 
- Programming abstractions and interfaces for networks
- Service creation platforms 
- Programming for mobility 
- Programming for Quality of Service 
- Intelligent agents and trading 
- Distributed computing models and algorithms 
- Security in an open object world 
- Support for multiple control planes 
- Control and resource APIs and object representations 
- Performance of control architectures 
- Experimental architectures and implementation techniques 
- Enabling technologies, platforms and languages (CORBA, WWW, Java, ...) 
- Reliability of programmable networking technologies 
- Modeling of network services 
- Programmability support for virtual networks 
- Interactive multimedia, multi-party cooperation and groupware 
- Pricing and real-time billing 
- Secure transactions processing and electronic commerce
- Active networks in telephony 


OPENARCH is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and will be
co-located and organized in conjunction with INFOCOM 2001.

Instructions for authors and demonstrators
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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).

Submissions
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Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF format. Instructions for
electronic submissions are available at:
http://www.openarch.org/2001_submit.html

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.

Deadlines
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Deadline for receipt of papers     October   1, 2000
Notification of acceptance mailed  November 30, 2000
Final camera-ready papers due      December 31, 2000  
 
Presentation of demonstrations 
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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 
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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 
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General Chair: Raj Yavatkar, Intel Corp. 
Program Co-Chair: Andrew Campbell, Columbia University 
Program Co-Chair: David Wetherall, University of Washington 
Publications Chair: John Vicente, Intel Corp. 
Publicity Chair: Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland 
IEEE ComSoc Coordinator: Steve Weinstein, NEC USA 
Webmaster: Michael Kounavis, Columbia University

Program Committee (members of the OC are also members of the PC) 
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Vaduvur Bharghavan, UIUC 
Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky 
Jon Crowcroft, UCL, UK 
Gisli Hjalmtysson, AT&T Research 
Alden Jackson, BBN Technologies 
Aurel Lazar, Xbind Inc. 
Ian Marshall, BT Labs 
Gary Minden, University of Kansas 
Dan Raz, Lucent Bell Labs 
Rolf Stadler, Columbia University 
Franco Tavastono, Nortel Networks 
Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University 
Ian Wakeman, University of Sussex 
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University 
Bob Braden, USC ISI 
Roy Campbell, UIUC 
Bruce Davie, Cisco 
David Hutchison, Lancaster University 
Kalai Kalaichelvan, Nortel Networks 
Ian Leslie, Cambridge University 
Nick Maxemchuk, AT&T Research Labs 
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM 
Larry Peterson, Princeton University 
Jonathan Smith, University Penn. 
Peter Steenkiste, CMU 
James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies 
David Tennenhouse, Intel Corp. 
Harrick Vin, UT Austin 
Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech.