Our apologies if you receive this message more than once. Please distribute this call to any of your colleagues who might be interested. C A L L F O R P A P E R S Special Session: ABR to the Internet ==================================== THE 5TH WORLD MULTICONFERENCE ON SYSTEMICS, CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS SCI'2001 July, 22-25, 2001 Orlando, Florida(USA) Sheraton World http://www.iiis.org/sci/ THE "ABR TO THE INTERNET" SESSION: ATM's "Available Bit Rate" (ABR) service provides a dramatically reduced cell loss ratio by means of a signaling mechanism called "Explicit Rate Feedback"; information from the network is provided to end nodes in order to facilitate adaptation. On the contrary, adaptive Internet applications rely on mechanisms that probe the network in order to avoid congestions; packet loss must be experienced before it can be avoided on a long term basis. Developers of commercial applications seem to avoid adaptation because they don't see enough QoS benefit. SCOPE: As a first step, we have seen ECN enhance adaptation on the Internet. We are looking for papers that represent the next step. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following questions: * What data should be provided to end nodes? * Which QoS could be achieved? * Where should the signaling take place? (end2end, edge2edge, core, ...) * How do we deal with path changes? * Can the signaling be incorporated with DiffServ, MPLS, ...? * What about fairness issues and TCP-friendliness? SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (about 1.5 to 2 pages) to Michael Welzl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in postscript, PDF or Word 97 format. English is the official language of SCI 2001, thus all papers must be submitted and presented in English. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by several researchers in the topical area. THE CONFERENCE: SCI 2001 is an international forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and consultants, theoreticians and practitioners in the fields of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. It is a forum for focused disciplinary research, as well as for multi, inter and transdiciplinary studies and projects. One of its aims is to relate disciplines fostering analogical thinking and, hence, producing input to the logical thinking. Invited Sessions with high quality papers might be selected for multiple author book publications. Two books are being published now as result of good invited sessions. IMPORTANT DATES: 31. 12. Submission of extended abstracts (1.5 - 2 pages) 16. 02. Notification of acceptance 13. 04. full papers due All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference. OTHER INFORMATION: It is planned to hold a BOF session on "ABR to the Internet" at a future IETF meeting; authors are invited to join this collaborative effort which may eventually be a realization of this session's topic. Further information on the BOF can be found at http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/~michael/ptp SESSION CHAIR / CONTACT: Michael Welzl Telecooperation Group Dpt. of Computer Science Johannes Kepler University of Linz Altenberger Str. 69 A-4040 Linz, Austria Phone: +43 (732) 2468 - 9264 Fax: +43 (732) 2468 - 9829 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SESSION CO-CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Max M�hlh�user TU Darmstadt - FB 20 FG Telekooperation Alexanderstrasse 6, D-64283 Darmstadt / Germany Phone: +49 (6151) 16 - 3709 Fax: +49 (6151) 16 - 3052 Refer to http://www.tk.uni-linz.ac.at/~michael/abr2internet for up-to-date information.
