July 31 - August 2, 2006

The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center
Calgary, Canada

General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University
W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 USA
Tel +1-732-571-4482
Fax +1-732-263-5202

Vice General Chair
Franco Davoli
DIST-University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy
Tel +39-010-353-2732
Fax +39-010-353-2154

Program Chairs
Jose L Marzo
University of Girona, Spain

Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Local Arrangements Chair
Carey Williamson
University of Calgary, Canada

Tutorials Chair
John Fox
Foxband Consultancy, UK

Publicity Chair
Guoping Zeng
Nortel Networks, USA

Conference Coordinator
Steve Branch
SCS

Sponsored by

The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, CA 92177-7900
Tel: 858-277-3888
Fax: 858-277-3930
http://www.scs.org

Technical Co-sponsor:

IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society

Call For Papers

2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'06)

Note: the Paper Submission deadline has been extended to March 31, 2006.

This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems.

Topics of topics include, but are not limited to:

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

Internet Technology

	Quality of Service (QoS)
	DiffServ/IntServ
	MPLS
	TCP
	World Wide Web (WWW) Technology

Networking Techniques

	Unicast and Multicast Routing
	Congestion Admission and Control
	Switching Techniques
	Tele-traffic
	Network Protocols
	Network Management and Control
	Network Capacity Planning
	Network Architecture Evaluation
	Service and QoS Pricing
	Security and Authentication

Broadband Networks

	High-Speed Networking
	ATM
	Optical Networks

Wireless Systems and Networks

	Satellite Systems
	UMTS
	Mobile Networks/Computing
	Ad-hoc Networks
	Sensor Networks

Multimedia Communications and Applications

Computer Systems

Distributed Architectures

	Client/Server
	Distributed Systems and Agents
	Parallel and Distributed Computing
	Massively Parallel Systems
	Cluster Computing
	Grid Computing
	Interconnection Networks

Computer Architectures

	Microprocessors/Microcomputers
	Memory Systems
	High Performance I/O
	Real-time Systems
	Scheduling Schemes

Software

	Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing
	Parallel Algorithms and Languages

Electronic Commerce

Hardware and Software Monitors

High-Performance Computing

Information Assurance

Reconfigurable Computing

Scientific Computing Algorithms

Workload and Traffic Characterization

Tools, Methodologies and Applications

	Parallel and Distributed Simulation
	Verification and Validation
	Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
	Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
	Queuing Systems and Networks
	Scalability Studies

	Integrated Modeling and Measurement
	On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
	Process Algebra-Based Models
	Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
	Case Studies

2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems (WiNCS'06)

Paper Submission

Please submit your complete papers electronically to the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System site.

Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author.

If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Program Chairs or the Conference Coordinator.

Extended versions of accepted papers in SPECTS'06 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals.

Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Tutorials Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Chairs.

For more information regarding presentations or exhibitions at SPECTS'06 contact the Conference Coordinator.

Key Dates

Submission of Papers		March 31, 2006
Notification of Acceptance		May 15, 2006
Final Camera-Ready Submission Due		May 31, 2006

Technical Program Committee

	Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
	Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE
	Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
	Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia
	Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy
	Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK
	Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy
	Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
	Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France
	Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
	Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
	Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait
	Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France
	Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
	Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
	Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
	Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
	Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden
	Krishna Kant, Intel, USA
	Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece
	Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
	Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA
	Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
	Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
	Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
	Sam Makki, University of Toledo, USA
	Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
	Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland
	Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy
	Pascale Minet, INRIA, France
	Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
	Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
	Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
	Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA
	Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
	Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy
	Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece
	Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
	Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy
	Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA
	Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK
	Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
	Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
	Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
	Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA
	Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
	Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA
	Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
	Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA
	Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia
	Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain
	Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain
	Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany
	Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy

A PDF version of this Call for Papers is available here.

Sponsored by
The Society for Modeling and Simulation International
P.O. Box 17900
San Diego, California 92177
Phone 858-277-3888
Fax 858-277-3930
E-mail scs@scs.org