TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA

• Communications Software and Services Symposium

Abdelhamid Mellouk, CSR TC, mellouk@univ-paris12.fr
Bruno Crispo, CC TC, crispo@dit.unitn.it
Pascal Lorenz, CS TC, lorenz@ieee.org
Qian Zhang, MC TC, qianzh@cse.ust.hk
Nikola Rozic, CS TC, rozic@fesb.hr

This symposium will provide an international technical forum for discussing and presenting recent research results on any aspects for software, services, and multimedia communications. It aims at bringing together experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results on advancing the state-of-the-art and overcoming research on the challenging issues related to the software design and system deployment of services over heterogeneous networks. Papers may present theories, techniques, applications, or practical experiences related to that. Authors should include one of the topics-of-interest below when submitting paper.
 
Topics of Interest
 
• Web Services and distributed SW technology
• Distributed systems and applications, including Grid Services
• Home Network Service Platform
• Quality of service in multimedia communication
• Mobile Services and Service Platforms
• Service Creation, Delivery, Management
• Quality of Experience for End-to-End Communications.
• Context Awareness and Personalization
• Communications Software Engineering ˆ Methods and Tools
• End-to-end quality of service software Routing algorithms
• Media streaming and Multimedia real-time delivery systems
• Multimedia Applications and Services including VoIP, IPTV, Gaming
• Multimedia delivery over wired and wireless networks
• Network Management
• Service Security and Privacy and Authentication
• Charging, pricing, business models