- From: John Domingue <j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:55:57 +0100
- To: John Domingue <j.b.domingue@open.ac.uk>
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CALL FOR PAPERS Future Internet Symposium FIS 2008 28th-30th September | Vienna, Austria http://www.fis2008.org/ Important dates Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 13, 2008 Camera Ready: July 27, 2008 Conference: September 28-30, 2008 Aims and Scope With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Japan, USA and Europe are investing heavily in this area. EU is shaping around the idea of the Future Internet its research programmes for the Seventh Framework. EU commissioners, national government ministers, industry leaders and researchers did meet in Bled, Slovenia, this March to begin developing a vision of a future internet that will meet Europe's needs a decade from now, and beyond. A broad programme of scientific research is essential to supporting the aims of the Future Internet initiative. To complement the agenda- setting activity emerging from the Bled conference, the Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2008) is a new open international event designed to bring together leading researchers to collaborate and contribute to the science behind the vision. Like the EU's Future Internet initiative, it will be multidisciplinary and seek to integrate research and researchers from all facets of the internet enterprise. FIS 2008 will deal with the main requirements our Future Internet must satisfy: an Internet of Things, where every electronic device will be an active participant in the network; an Internet of Services, where applications live in the network, and data becomes an active entity; an Internet of Content & Media, where most of the contents are generated by end-users; an Internet of Publicity, Privacy and Anonymity, where people and software must understand how much trust to extend to others; an Internet of Mobility and Ubiquity, where connectivity everywhere is expected, and depended upon. All these nascent internets, and the others that we have yet to imagine, require further research activity, especially at the interdisciplinary boundaries where opportunities lie and problems lurk. Topics The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all the areas of research related to the emerging idea of the future internet. The symposium will pay special attention to works that cross the boundaries of the major topics related to the idea of the Internet of the Future, such as "Software and Services", "Networks and Mobility", and "Content & Media". FIS 2008 will also put the emphasis on works that address issues that are "cross-cutting" such topics, such as security, trust, interoperability, reliability, infrastructures and architectures, experimental facilities, networks, service level agreements (SLAs), and semantics. All submissions will be subject to peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include overall contribution to the future internet, accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper. Submission details: Details for Papers have to be submitted electronically at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fis08 . Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FIS 2008 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. Proceedings: The plan is to publish the proceedings by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes on Computer Science series. Language: The official language of the conference is English. Location: FIS 2008 will be held in Vienna, Austria. More information on the specific location will soon be available at the conference web site. Organizing Committee: Chair: John Domingue | The Open University Programme co-Chairs: Dieter Fensel | STI Innsbruck Paolo Traverso | FBK Center for Information Technology IRST Tutorial Chair: Claudia Guglielmina | TXT e-solutions Workshop Chair: Elena Simperl | STI Innsbruck Demo and Poster Chair: Anna V. Zhdanova | FTW Sponsor Chair: Alexander Wahler | STI International Industrial Liaison: John Davies | BT Publicity Chair: Lejla Halilovic | STI International Local Organisation: Eva Zelechowski | STI International Registration: The registration information will soon be available on the conference web site: http://www.fis2008.org/ __________________________ Prof. John Domingue, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK6 7AA http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
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