Subject: ICT2001 - Call for Papers

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:19:43 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

 ICT 2001, the 8th IEEE International Conference on
 Telecommunications will be held on 4-7 June 2001, in Bucharest,
 Romania.

 The submission procedures, information on place of the conference,
 technical program, registration and accommodation information can be
 timely found at http://ict2001.ici.ro, the official site of the
 conference.

 At ICT 2001 we expect to present the latest novelties in
 telecommunications, in general, and to offer the occasion for
 introducing the most remarkable achievements in narrowed areas
 concerning conference related topics. Please consider to contribute
 in the most convenient way for making value to your scientific and
 practical achievements, or to promote your software or hardware
 products.

 There will be tens of technical sessions over three days, including
 numerous tutorials in the fourth one. Many panel sessions and
 exhibition will be held each day. Additionally, papers-in-progress
 sessions and posters will flavor the next results and contribute to a
 fruitful debate.

 We will be glad to count you among our guests at the conference.

Please find here the first Call for Papers for ICT 2001.
This Call for Papers has been sent to several distribution lists.
Please accept our apologies if you receive duplicate messages.

Petre DINI, Prof. Dr. Eng.
AT&T Labs, ITD
2665 North First Street, #110
San Jose, CA 95134

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			 ICT 2001
IEEE  INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS
	       4 - 7 June 2001, Bucharest, ROMANIA
	    Parliament of Romania -  International Conference Centre
		        http://ict2001.ici.ro
        sponsored by: IEEE, ComSoc, RomTelecom and others
===================================================================

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
=====================

The International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) is a significant
scientific and technical conference having a balanced East-West character,
with topics broadly covering almost all telecommunications aspects, under
the theme of "Bridging East and West through Telecommunications". This
edition of ICT 2001 has a particular character, being the first ICT
conference in the Third Millennium, thus effectively making the bridge
between millennia. This conference is scientifically sponsored by
international organizations and technically endorsed by many industry
leaders.

A significant target of ICT events is to highlight the most relevant
communication technologies trends and related information technologies as
well. The conference tutorials are focused on key new topics in the field.
The session and poster presentations usually cover the most advanced topics
on telecommunications, with professionals coming from different places of
the world. ICT 2001 intends to have a large international participation and
is going to bring together scientists from all over the world as well as
companies, manufacturers, telecommunication operators, service developers,
and other organizations interested in telecommunications.

ICT HISTORY
===========
ICT was firstly initiated by King's College, London (UK) and is receiving
the support of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) and
Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE).
Based on the initial success of Dubai in 1994, ICT has been held yearly in
Bali (1995), Istanbul (1996), Melbourne (1997), Chalkidiki - Porto Carras
(1998), Taejon (1999, http://ict99.icu.ac.kr ) and  Acapulco (2000,
http://telecom.fi-b.unam.mx/ict/ ).
Many scientists, students, professionals, and technical staff, representing
a large variety of organisations such as universities, research institutes,
telecommunication operators and industry, have attained each previous ICT
events.

ICT 2001
=======
The 8th edition of ICT will be held on 4-7 June 2001 in Bucharest, Romania.
ICT 2001 will offer tutorials, plenary sessions, poster sessions, panels,
and exhibition opportunities.  ICT 2001 will cover a variety of challenging
telecommunication topics ranging from background fields like signals,
traffic, coding, communication basics up to large communication systems and
networks, fixed, mobile and integrated. Applications, services, system and
network management issues will also receive significant attention. ICT 2001
will have as an associate event a technical exhibition for equipments,
hardware and software technologies, as well as special courses on high-tech
products, providing an excellent opportunity of promoting new achievements
in the field.

PLACE OF THE CONFERENCE
========================
The place of the conference is Bucharest, the capital city of
Romania, the Parliament International Conference Centre. The
history of Romania is a major part of the history of central-eastern Europe.
Rooted in the Roman Empire of the first millennium AD, Romanians have
continuously inhabited the same geographical area. Romania is a Latin
language country.

Bucharest has been founded in 1459 on the banks of the Dambovita river in
the southeast part of the country by the ruler Vlad Tepes and became later
the capital city of the Princely Court. After the achievement of the
Romanian national unity (1859), Bucharest became and remained the capital of
the country. Bucharest has more than two million of inhabitants. Bucharest
hosts many industrial companies' headquarters, and stays as the main
cultural center of Romania, with many universities, theatres, opera, and
museums.

The city is situated close to the beautiful natural Herastrau Park. Not far
away from Bucharest are Prahova Valley and Carpathian Mountains (100
miles/160 km), where some on-demand trips could be organised for visiting
medieval castles and churches. ...and Dracula's Castle is just there.

ICT 2001 LOCAL ORGANISERS
========================
*	Romanian Academy
*	Technical Science Academy
*	National Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (NASTI)
*	National Agency for Communications and Informatics (NACI)
*	University "Politechnica" of Bucharest, Telecommunications Department
*	National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI)
*	University "Transilvania" of Brasov
*	IEEE Romanian Communication Chapter
*                 National Council for Academic Research
*    	Romanian National Education Ministry

SPONSORSHIP/SUPPORT
==================
Organisations are encouraged to offer support/sponsorship to ICT 2001.

The Romanian national telecommunication operator ROMTELECOM S.A is
already committed in supporting ICT 2001 as Main Platinum Sponsor.

AT&T Labs/San Jose/USA,  Concordia University/Montreal/Canada,
CANAD Systems/Romania and TOPEX/Romania are involved in organisation and
also committed for sponsorship.

CONFERENCE TOPICS
==================
The topics include, but are not limited to (see the detailed topic list on
ICT 2001 web site at http://ict2001.ici.ro )
1.  	Communication Theory
2.  	Signal Processing
3. 	Antennas and Propagation
4. 	Microwave Circuits and Systems
5. 	Optical Communication / Photonics Technologies
6. 	Satellite & Space Communications
7. 	Broadband 3G Wireless Communications
8. 	Communications Networks, Switching and Services
9.   	Network Operations & Management
10.             Mobile Computing & Networking
11.             Multimedia Communications
12.  	Internet
13.  	Programmable and Active Networks
14.             Software Technologies in Communication Systems and Networks

PAPER PROPOSALS
================
Participants are kindly invited to submit original papers addressing the
topics in the area of telecommunications for presentation and publication in
the conference proceedings.

While the submission version may vary in length, the final version must be
of maximum five (5) pages long, should be printed on ISO A4 white papers,
written in English in two-column format in times or a similar font, 10
points with 2.5 cm margins on all four sides. Subject of reasonable
additional printing fees per page, longer papers will be accepted for
publication. Accepted formats are .pdf, .ps, and .rtf. All presenting
authors must register for the conference. Reception of the papers will be
acknowledged by electronic or surface mail.

Our Technical Program Committee members and their teams will carefully
review each paper. Each submission must be accompanied by a letter that
includes the following information: full title of the paper, technical area,
author(s) details (name, postal and email addresses, telephone and fax
number), and contact author. Submissions could be electronically done or 4
hard copies must be sent to the appropriate contact address listed below.

A selection of outstanding papers is considered for a Special Issue
of an International Journal.

TUTORIAL & COURSE PROPOSALS
=============================
Tutorials are intended for those hot coming topics in the fields, whereas
courses may refer to fundamental concerns outlining the subject area or the
specific training on a particular hardware/software a company would like to
do. Proposals must be sent according to the template displayed at
http://ict2001.ici.ro. We will diligently work to invite and accept
outstanding proposals.

EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
=====================
Companies are invited to exhibit their software and hardware products. We
provide a large promotion opportunity and a variety of ways for achieving
it. Please contact ICT Exhibition Chairs and check on ICT 2001 web site.

POSTER AND IN-PROGRESS WORK
=============================
ICT 2001 will also promote ongoing works and facilitate short selected
presentations be displayed and defended during the conference. Presentations
via self-content slides are expected for this type of proposal. For each
paper, 6-8 carefully designed slides will be hosted on special designated
billboards and a special time slot will be daily allocated for
presentations.

PANELS PROPOSALS
==================
ICT 2001 organisers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize
dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and
paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage
that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators
must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background,
panellist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short
biographies.

SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
==========================
For particular topics of interest, we ask technology and scientific leaders
to propose to the organizers special sessions on their preferred topics.
They should scientifically manage the session content by selecting and
inviting appropriate authors and speakers. Our technical program committee
will assist them in evaluating the submissions and classify them. As chairs
of special sessions, they will have the opportunity to select those
proposals reaching their expectations.

Important deadlines:
================

December 15th, 2000       paper submission
January 30th, 2001	         notification of paper acceptance
February 28th, 2001	         camera-ready version and early registration

January 15th, 2001	         tutorial and short course proposals
February 1st, 2001	         notification for tutorials and course proposals

April 15th, 2001	         handovers for printing and binding for attendees

January 15th, 2001	         poster and in-progress proposals
January 30th, 2001	         notification for poster and in-progress proposals
February 28th, 2001	         camera-ready version of presentations  and early registration

November 15th, 2000       panel and special session proposals
December 15th, 2000       paper submission for special sessions
January 30th, 2001	         exhibition proposal/notification for  special  session papers
February 28th, 2001	         notification for exhibitions and panels
		         camera-ready version for special sessions and
                                                          panel handovers
		         early registration for all proposals

CONTACTS
==========

General information:
====================
1. Teodor Petrescu, mailto:[email-masked]
               Phone: (40 1) 400 33 04, Fax (40 1) 411 30 88
2. Dumitru Stanomir, mailto:[email-masked]
               Phone: (40 1) 400 33 04, Fax (40 1) 411 30 88
3. Grazziela Niculescu, mailto:[email-masked]
               Phone: (40 1) 400 33 04, Fax (40 1) 411 30 88
4. Sorin Zoican, mailto:[email-masked]
             Phone: (40 1) 400 33 04, Fax (40 1) 411 30 88

Full papers, posters, in-progress papers must be sent electronically to:
========================================================================
Cristian Negrescu,  mailto:[email-masked]
             Phone: (40 1) 410 54 00 int. 239,   Fax (40 1) 411 30 88

Hard copies must be send to the mail address:
=============================================
      University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
      ICT 2001
      P.O. Box 15-79
      Bucharest, 76250
      ROMANIA

Tutorials proposals must be sent electronically to:
===================================================
1. Alexandru Serbanescu, mailto:[email-masked]
		Phone: (40 1) 659 73 50
2. Andrei Negulescu, mailto:[email-masked]
                                       mailto:[email-masked]
		Phone: (408) 576-4026

Exhibition proposals and inquiries:
===================================
1. Gheorghe Minea (Canad), mailto:[email-masked]
            Phone: (40 1) 323 68 88, Fax: (40 1) 322 37 60
2. Calin Popescu (TOPEX), mailto:[email-masked]
            Phone: (40 1) 491 54 64, Fax: (40 1) 240 31 70

Special Sessions Proposals:
===========================
mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]

Panels Proposals
================
mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]
mailto:[email-masked]

Sponsorship Relationship:
========================
1. Petre Dini, mailto:[email-masked],  mailto:[email-masked]
            Phone: 1 (408)576-1417, Fax: 1 (408) 576-1461
2. Florin Gheorghe Filip, mailto:[email-masked],
            Phone: (40) 94777455, Fax (40 1) 224 05 39
3. Victor Croitoru, mailto:[email-masked]
            Phone: (40 1) 400 33 04, Fax: (40 1) 411 30 88
4. Eugen Borcoci, mailto:[email-masked]
           Phone: (40 1) 410 12 30, Fax:(40 1) 410 12 30

You can find details about the conference either visiting our conference
site at http://ict2001.ici.ro or sending e-mail
mailto:[email-masked]

CONFERENCE CHAIR
=================
Petre Dini, AT&T Labs, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE
===================
Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London, UK
Alessandro Barbagli, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Ioan Constantin, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Mihai Draganescu, Romanian Academy, Romania
Ion Dumitrache, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania
Sergiu Iliescu, National Agency for Communications and Informatics, Romania
Kenneth Laker, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Farokh Marvasti, King's College London, UK
Adelaida Mateescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Nelu Mihai, CPlane, USA
Radu Popescu-Zeletin, GMD-Fokus Berlin, Germany

CONFERENCE VICE-CHAIRS
=======================
Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Victor Croitoru, IEEE Romanian Communication Chapter, Romania
Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania
Dumitru Stanomir, Technical Science Academy, Romania

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR
=========================
Petre Dini, AT&T Labs, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
=============================
Ion Banica, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Eugen Borcoci, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Florin Gheorghe Filip, Romanian Academy, Romania
Stefan Iancu, Romanian Academy, Romania
Eugenie Staicut, ICI, Romania
Dumitru Stanomir, Technical Science Academy, Romania

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS
===================
Andrei Negulescu, AT&T Labs, San Jose, USA
Alexandru Serbanescu, Military Technical Academy Bucharest, Romania

INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION CHAIR
============================================
Anna Tu, Cisco Networks, USA,

SILICON VALLEY PROMOTION CHAIR
===============================
Bjorn Frogner, NetPredict, USA

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS
===============================================
Cosmin Dini, McGill University, Canada
Manuela Dini, McGill University, Canada

ROMANIAN INSTITUTION CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS
============================================
Ioan Constantin, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Ion Marghescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Wildebald Szabo, University "Transilvania" of Brasov, Romania

ROMANIAN INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION CO-CHAIRS
===========================================
Vasile Baltac, ATIC, Romania
Alexandru Borcea ARIES, Romania
Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems, Romania
Ion Stanciulescu, CNSCC, Romania
Vlad Tepelea, ANIS, Romania

ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR
============================
Teodor Petrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

GENERAL SECRETARY CO-CHAIRS
=============================
Stefan Iancu, Romanian Academy, Romania
Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

LOGISTIC SECRETARIAT CHAIR
==========================
 Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
======================
Cristian Negrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Sorin Zoican, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

FINANCIAL CO-CHAIRS
====================
Vica Dini, Kappa-Form, Inc., Montreal, Canada
Elsa Sztojanov, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

EXHIBITION CO-CHAIRS
====================
Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems, Romania
Calin Popescu, Topex, Romania

PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS
====================================
Octavian Fratu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Simona Halunga, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania

ORGANIZING COMMITEE
=====================
Romeo Ilie, ICI, Romania
Gheorghe Minea, Canad Systems, Romania
Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Florin Mitrea, Canad Systems, Romania
Adrian Paun, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Eugen Preotu, ATIC, Romania
Iuliu Szekely, University "Transilvania" of Brasov, Romania

WEBSITE SITE CO-CHAIRS
======================
Iulia Mirescu, ICI, Romania
Aurelian Nogai, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Cristian Toader, Canad Systems, Romania

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
===============================
Akbar Adibi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Nicolae Alexandru, Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi", Iasi, Romania
Tulin Atmaca, Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France
John William  Atwood, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Paul Walter Baier, Kaiserslautern University, Germany
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
Leo Van Biesen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Nils Bjorkman, Telia Research AB, Farsta, Sweden
Vasile Bota, Technical Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Stanislaw Budkowski, Institut National del Télécommunications, Evry, France
Vasile Buzuloiu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Iancu Ceapa, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Dalton Cheng, Alcatel, Richardson, USA
Jun Kyun Choi, ETRI, Korea
Silviu Ciochina, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Sorin Cismas, IC Designer, USA
Luis Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Stefan Covaci, GMD-Fokus, Germany
Vladimir Cretu, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
Valentin Cristea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Nicolae Cupcea, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, CA, USA
Rachida Dssouli, Université of Montréal, Canada
Neculai Dumitriu, University "Politehnica" Bucharest, Romania
Fareed Sepehry-Fard, Solectron Corporation, CA, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Roch Glitho, Ericsson Research Inc., Montreal, Canada
Claude Gimenes, Institut National des Télécomunications, Evry, France
Liviu Goras, Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi", Iasi, Romania
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Martin Haardt, Siemens, Munich, Germany
Kadri Hacioglu, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Abdel Hakim Hafid, Telcordia, USA
Mahbub Hassan, Monash University, Australia
Anders Hedin, Nutek, Stockolm, Sweden
Alexander Latour-Henner, MTI, Ireland
Eric Horlait, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Antonio Iera, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Sergiu Iliescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Dan Ionescu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Alexandru Isar, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
Wojciech Kabaciñski, University of Technology, Poland
Masanori Kataoka, Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Hyun-Kook Kahng, Korea University, Chungnam, Korea
Dae Young Kim, Chungnam University, Korea
Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA
Paul Labbe, Defence Research Establishment, Canada
Tal Lavian, Nortel Networks. Inc., CA, USA
Ileana Leuca, AT&T Wireless, Seattle, USA
Xavier Logean, Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Swiss
George Lojewski, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Kambiz Madani, Electronic Systems, University of Westminster, UK
Ion Marghescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Alan Marshal, Queen's University at Belfast, Ireland
Takis Mathiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Pericles Mitkas, Colorado State University/Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, USA/Greece
Antonella Molinaro, University of Messina, Italy
Eckhard Moeller, GMD-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Ioan Nafornita, Technical University of Timisoara, Romania
Keiichi Nakane, Hitachi Ltd., Santa Clara, USA
Victor Neagoe, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Nikolai Nefedov, Nokia, Finland
Cristian Negrescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Grazziela Niculescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Ser Wah Oh, ST Microelectronics Asia Pacific, Singapore
Lars Olsson, Lund University, Sweden
Guy Omidyar, Computer Sciences Corporation, USA
Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University, Menlo Park, USA
Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Reinhard Posch, IAIK TU-Graz, Austria
Didoe Prevedourou, Intracom S.A., Greece
Kimmo Raatikainen, Nokia Research Center & University of Helsinki, Finland
Pertti Raatikainen, VTT Information Technology, Finland
Tatiana Radulescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Omar Rafiq, Université de Pau, France
Mika Rinne, Nokia, Finland
Byeong-hee Roh, Ajou University, Seoul, Korea
Mihaela Sabin, University of New Hampshire, USA
Alexandru Serbanescu, Military Technical Academy Bucharest, Romania
Nirmala Shenoy, RMIT University, Australia
Zoran Skocir, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Said Soulhi, Ericsson Research, Montreal, Canada
Pradip Srimani, Colorado State University, USA
Eugenie Staicut, ICI, Romania
Maciej Stasiak University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
George Stamoulis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece
Ray Sundararaman, Lucent, USA
Ioan Tabus, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Nicolae Tapus, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Yoshitaka Takasaki, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan
Gheorge Toacse, Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania
Sebastiano Trigila, FUB, Rome, Italy
Fred Truchetet, IUT, Le Creusot, France
Hiroshi Yasuda, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bengt Zdebel, Telia Research AB, Farsta, Sweden
Sorin Zoican, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
Wilmut Zschunke, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
Hans-Juergen Zepernick, ATCRC, Australia

Note: Members of Steering Committee and Technical Program
Co-Chairs are implicitly considered