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[Raouf Boutaba <rboutaba@crim.ca>]

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                       1st C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                IFIP/IEEE* International Conference on Management
                        of Multimedia Networks and Services

                  Computer Research Institute of Montreal
                         Montreal, July 08-10, 1997

                Sponsored by : IFIP Working Group 6.4 and 6.6
                               (*) IEEE pending


SCOPE:

Today, the trend is towards providing telecommunications services and in
particular multimedia services in the emerging
broadband, multimedia and "super-highway" era. To offer reliable
multimedia
services, the service architecture should integrate the service with its
management while the multimedia networks that are used to provide those
services need also a certain level of control and management. Therefore
management is requested at both the service and network levels.
Integration
is also of paramount importance to facilitate the overall management
process.

The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers
working
in all facets of network and service management applied to broadband
networks and multimedia services. The conference will serve as a forum
for
the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, design, development, and
implementation experiences.


TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Multimedia services specification, validation and management (e.g.,
Broadband VPN, Video on demand, tele-teaching, etc...)
- Distributed management of multimedia services
- Multimedia service and network management integration
- Multimedia network management models and architectures
- Resource management in broadband networks
- Performance and Fault Management for broadband networks
- Billing and Security for broadband networks
- Integration of broadband network control and management
- Quality of service management
- Policy-Driven Management
- Standards Frameworks and Issues for broadband networks management:
OSI,
IETF, ITU-T, TINA, EURESCOM, ETSI, ATM-Forum, etc...
- New software technologies for multimedia service and network
management
(Corba, JAVA, etc...)
- AI techniques for network and services management (Intelligent Agents,
Expert Systems, etc...)
- Trials, case studies and experiences


IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

LOCATION:

The conference will be held at the Computer Research Institute of
Montreal, 1801, McGill College street, in Montreal. A variety of
hotels options will be available to the participants at a special
rate for the workshop. Internet access will be provided.


SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be written in English, double-spaced and no longer
than
5,000 words. A separate cover sheet must be included which provides the
following information: title of paper, authors' names and affiliations,
contact author's name and address (both postal and electronic), a
ten-line
abstract, keywords, and submission area (from the list of relevant
topics
of interest).

Please submit the paper electronically through e-mail to "
mmns97@crim.ca
". Electronic submissions should be in postscript format which may be
compressed (using Unix compress) and uuencoded. In the case where
electronic submission is impossible please send 4 hard copies of your
paper
by postal mail to the following address :

Address:
Raouf Boutaba
Computer science Research Institute of Montreal
1801, McGill College Avenue, Suite 800
Montr=E9al (Qu=E9bec) Canada H3A 2N4
Phone :  + 1 (514) 840 1265
Fax :    + 1 (514) 840 1244
E-mail : rboutaba@crim.ca

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a camera-ready
manuscript that will appear in the Conference proceedings published by
Chapman & Hall.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Today : send a message stating your intention to submit a paper or
stating
your general interest in the conference to mmns97@crim.ca.
Electronic and hard copy paper submission deadline :    February 20,
1997
Notification of acceptance :                            April 10, 1997
Camera-ready manuscripts due :                          May 5, 1997


SOCIAL EVENTS:
The famous world wide known Jazz Festival of Montreal will take place
just
before the conference from June 27 to July 6, 1997.


PROGRAM COMMITTE CHAIR :
Raouf Boutaba, CRIM, Canada


PROGRAM COMMITTEE :

Salah Aidarous, NorTel, Canada
Mohamed Bettaz, University de Constantine, Algeria
Gregor. v. Bochmann, University of Montreal, Canada
Laura Cerchio, CSELT, Italy
Jean Pierre Claud=E9, University of Versailles, France
Celia L. Desmond, Stentor Canada
Rachida Dssouli, University of Montreal, Canada
Janusz Filipiak, University of Cracow, Poland
Dominique Gaiti, Universit=E9 de Troyes, France
Solange Ghernaouti, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL, Switzerland
Farouk Kamoun, Tunisia
Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa, Canada
Waythayakul Kamthon, TOT, Finland
Kenichi Kitami, NTT, Japan
Jacques Labetoulle, Eurecom, France
L Mason, INRS-Telecom, Canada
Subrata Mazumdar, Bell Laboratories, USA
Jose Neuman de Souza, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil
Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
Guy Pujolle University of Versailles, France
Yves Raynaud, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
Jan Roos, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Catherine Rozenberg, BT, UK
Izhak Rubin, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Roberto Saracco, CSELT, Italy
Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK
Rolf Stadler, Center of Telecommunication Research, USA
Ralph Steinmetz, IBM European Networking Center, Germany
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia University, USA
Wolfgang Zimmer, GMD FIRST, Germany
Martina Zitterbart, Uni Braunschweig, Germany
Simon Znaty, ENST-Bretagne, France
Douglas N. Zuckerman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE :

Petre Dini,
Ahmed Mehaoua
Mahamat Guiagoussou,
Andrei Negulescu
Julie Theroux
Micheline Perrault
Abdelhakim Hafid
Eric Leung-Tack


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