From: Jan-Peter Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:49:02 +0200 (MET DST)

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                     Preliminary Call for Papers 

                             Workshop on 

                    Modeling Multimedia Support in
            Next Generation High Speed Networks (NGHSN99)

                 Warsaw, Poland, June 1st to 2nd, 1999

                           co-located with
                                ESM'99 
                 European Simulation Multiconference

Highly demanding applications such as multimedia are becoming more and
more important in today's high speed networks. The design of future  
communication infrastructures will be strongly influenced by experiences
made today, and support for modern application will be available.
However,
making such applications feasible will not work when based on ad-hoc 
solutions due to the high complexity of the whole problem field. Rather, 
models, simulation and analysis should be employed to direct future 
developments. 

The goal of this workshop is to survey and advance the state of the art
in modeling and simulation support for future generation high-speed
networks and 
applications. Possible topics include, but are not limited to

- traffic models
- modeling techniques (automata-based techniques, Markov chains, Petri
                         Nets etc.)
- simulation (languages, tools)
- real-time issues
- Quality of Service (modeling, Internet support, pricing and charging
etc.)
- multimedia in the Internet and WWW
- multicast and Group Communication (modeling, simulation, QoS
                                     support)
- programmable networks: active networks and open signalling

Requested Contributions and Submission Procedure:
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Please submit your full-length paper (Postscript or PDF, 11pt font min,
8 pages max.)
electronically using our web site at
http://www.i-u.de/resources/events/NGHSN99/. You will find further
instructions about the submission process there.

If you cannot submit electronically, please send 5 hardcopies of your
paper to

Dr. Stefan Fischer
International University
School of Information Technology
International University Campus 1
D-76646 Bruchsal
Germany 

Accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings (by SCS).

Important Dates:
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November 1st, 1998: Submission of papers
January 15th, 1999: Notification of Acceptance
March 1st, 1999:    Camera-Ready Copy

General Chair:
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Hermann de Meer, Columbia University, New York, USA

Program Chair:
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Stefan Fischer, International University, Bruchsal, Germany

Program Committee:
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Gregor v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
Gunter Bolch, University of Erlangen, Germany
Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Sitzerland
Jan Bredereke, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Stanislaw Budkowski, INT Evry, France
Michel Diaz, LAAS, France
Reinhard Gotzhein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Stefan Leue, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jozef Lubacz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Jan de Meer, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Bruno Mueller-Clostermann, University of Essen, Germany
Andrzej Pach, Cracow University of Mining, Poland
Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Heinrich Stuettgen, NEC Europe, Germany
Janos Sztrik, University of Debrecin, Hungary
Miklos Telek, University of Budapest, Hungary
Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
Ralph Wittmann, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Lars Wolf, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Martina Zitterbart, TU Braunschweig, Germany

For further information, contact:

Hermann de Meer ([email-masked]) or
Stefan Fischer ([email-masked])