IS&N'99 in Barcelona - Second Call for Contributions

[IS&N'99 Conference]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find enclosed the IS&N'99 Second Call for Contributions.

Please apologize any possible duplication!

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	<<<<< Paving the Way for an Open Service Market >>>>>

			IS&N'99

Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks

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		27th - 29th April 1999

		  Barcelona, Spain
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		Second call for contributions

		http://www.ac.upc.es/isn99/

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	The Conference is jointly sponsored by

	the European Commission,
	the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
	and Telefónica.

	The Conference is currently supported by

	the ACTS projects in the IS&N Domain,
	EURESCOM,
	NMF,
	OMG, and
	TINA-C.

<<< IEEE Communications Society is technical co-sponsor of the Conference >>>


We live in an age when powerful communications technology is becoming
universally available.  Each home has the power to send and receive not
just analogue voice, but also growing volumes of digital information and
even intelligence in the form of agents.  Users are becoming increasingly
mobile and are expecting the same level of connectivity in the home, in the
office and on the road.

The progress in computing and communications technologies has created a
need for advanced software and services, to control the complexity of the
technology and place it at the service of the end-user.  The challenge for
service engineers is to develop the tools and techniques that will
ultimately bring the full power of communications and information to
everyone, in a way that everyone can easily use.

At the same time, the regulatory and commercial context in which these
technologies are used is changing.  The telecommunications market is more
and more open to full competition.  The Internet is erasing the borders
between information technology and telecommunications.  And the way we do
business is ever more dominated by electronic exchanges of information.  Is
our technology ready for the open market of services and networks?

The Sixth International Conference on Intelligence in Services and Networks
(ISN'99) addresses the question of paving the way to the open services
market.  The main theme of the conference is the advance in technologies
that will contribute to managing the complexity of an open service market
and delivering services to the people.

Contributions are also invited on market and regulatory issues and
standards.  Reports on industrial experience and trials from across the
world are especially welcomed.


<<<<**** Topics ****>>>>

Contributions are invited on (but not limited to) topics such as:
Agent Technology 
· use of intelligent and mobile agents 
Applications & Security 
· electronic commerce 
· safety, security and integrity of services and systems 
· human machine interfaces 
Service engineering & Communications management 
· open architectures and interfaces 
· interoperability 
· communications management 
· managing quality of service 
· middleware for communications services 
· software engineering techniques for the creation of new services 
· deployment, provisioning and brokerage of services 
· managing wanted and unwanted interactions between services and networks 
· evolution of existing technologies such as IN, TMN, Internet 
· new trends in multi-media services 
· mobile services 
· performance issues 


<<<<**** Technical papers ****>>>>

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 10 pages including
figures, tables, references and annexes.  Papers will be selected for
publication and presentation by the Technical Programme Committee.  The
conference proceedings will be published in book form.

All correspondence will take place electronically.  Further details on
submission can be found on the IS&N'99 web page:
	http://www.ac.upc.es/isn99/

E-mail address for submission:
	isn99@ac.upc.es


<<<<**** Project and Industrial showcase ****>>>>

Projects from around the world working on one of the topics above are
invited to demonstrate their results at the conference. Industrial and
product exhibitions are also expected. 

If you are interested in a demonstration, please send an e-mail to:
isn99@ac.upc.es


<<<<*******  IMPORTANT DATES  *******>>>>

Full paper submissions due:	30 November 1998

Notification of acceptance:	15 January 1999
Final papers due:		27 February 1999


<<<<**** IS&N Organisation ****>>>>

Steering committee

Alvin Mullery, ICEurope, France 
Chairman
Mario Campolargo, European Commission, Belgium
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Han Zuidweg, Alcatel, Belgium

Technical programme committee

Han Zuidweg, Alcatel, Belgium 
Chairman

Ordinary members

Stefano Antoniazzi, Italtel
E. Athanassiou, DeTeBerkom
Rob Brennan, Teltec
Stefan Covaci, GMD Fokus
Jaime Delgado, UPC
Sofoklis Efremidis, Intracom
Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone
Jens Kristensen, EC
Thomas Magedanz, GMD Fokus
Ahmed Patel, University College Dublin
Raymond Posch, University Graz
Martin Potts, ASPA
Rick Reed, TSE
Pierre Rodier, ICEurope
Simone Sedillot, INRIA
Keith Start, Orca Research
Alan Steventon, BT
Fabrizio Zizza, Italtel

Corresponding members

Alessandro Barbagli, EC
Stephane Beauvais, Softwire
Hendrik Berndt, TINA-C
Vincent Bic, SUN
Wiet Bouma, KPN Research
Brian Byrnes, Object Design
Mikael Ek, Telelogic
Takeyuki Endo, Hitachi
Dieter Gantenbein, IBM
Alex Galis, UCL
Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu
Per Fly Hansen, TeleDanmark
Duncan James-Bell, Lucent
Kristofer Kimbler, Lund University
Patricia Lago, Politecnico Torino
Dirk Lecluse, WTCM/CRIF Belgium
Juha Lipiainen, Nokia
Julio López, Ericsson
Claudio Maristany, Telecom Argentina
Sean Martin, Cambridge Consultants
Kathleen Milsted, France Telecom
David Muldowney, Broadcom
Declan O'Sullivan, Iona Technologies
George Pavlou, Univ. Surrey
Kimmo Raatikainen, Univ. Helsinki
Munir Tag, Sema Group
Sebastiano Trigila, FUB
Anh Hoang Van, CNET
Hans Vanderstraeten, Alcatel
Dong Sik Yun, Korea Telecom

Organising committee

Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain 
Chairman
Germán Santos, Telefónica, Spain
Isabel Gallego, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

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