Subject: USM 2000 - Second Call for Papers

From: USM 2000 Organisation Committee <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:35:51 +0200 (METDST)

USM 2000: SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

                 3rd IFIP/GI International Conference on
                Trends towards a Universal Service Market

                            Munich, Germany
                         September 12-14, 2000 

General Information

USM 2000 is the third event in a series of international IFIP conferences
on Trends in Distributed Systems. It continues TreDS'96, held in Aachen,
Germany and TrEC'98 with special focus on Electronic Commerce in Hamburg,
Germany.

The technological progress in internet and telecommunication domains as
well as deregulation efforts of the telecommunication markets currently
under way in many countries enable an integration of data and
telecommunication. Distributed platforms get adapted to the needs of
telecommunication networks. This leads to a global distributed system with
millions of objects, running on top of a middleware kernel and interacting
with each other to provide services. USM 2000 brings together researchers,
service vendors and users in the field of universal service markets. USM
2000 takes place in Munich, Germany, the city of the famous Oktoberfest
which will start two days after the conference on September 16, 2000.

Topics

The USM 2000 considers services of a universal market in relation to
middleware, distributed applications and management. Areas of special
interest include:

* Component Based Systems, Service Creation
* Service Market Models, Accounting and Customer Care
* Quality of Service for Distributed Applications
* Trading, Brokering and Information Management
* Management of Virtual Networks
* Service and Application Management
* Ubiquitous Services and Nomadic Computing
* Distributed and Mobile Objects
* Agent Technology for Integrated Management 
* Advances in Middleware, e.g. CORBA, DCOM, Jini
* Telecommunication Architectures related to Distributed Systems

Submissions

You are encouraged to submit full technical papers describing original,
unpublished research or experience of about 12 pages. Extended abstracts
of 3-5 pages will be accepted for poster session papers. For submission 
guidelines please visit our web server. The proceedings will be published
in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", Springer-Verlag.

Submissions due:         January 30th, 2000
Notice of Acceptance:    April 15th, 2000
Camera-ready Paper due:  June 1st, 2000

Further Information

Contact Person: Helmut Reiser - Phone (Fax): +49 89 2178 2163 (~2147)

e-mail: [email-masked],
WWW:    http://usm2000.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/

Address: Ludwig Maximilians University
	 Institute for Computer Science
	 Oettingenstr. 67
	 D-80538 Munich
	 GERMANY

Conference Chairs

Claudia Linnhoff-Popien and Heinz-Gerd Hegering, LMU Munich

Program Committee

Sebastian Abeck, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany
Andrew T. Campbell, Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia Uni New York, USA
John Dilley, Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, USA
Kurt Geihs, Uni Frankfurt, Germany
Bernd Heinrichs, Cisco Systems Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany
Yigal Hoffner, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Axel Küpper, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Lea Kutvonen, Uni Helsinki, Finland
Winfried Lamersdorf, Uni Hamburg, Germany
Luigi Logrippo, Uni Ottawa, Canada
Michael Merz, Ponton, Hamburg, Germany
Zoran Milosevic, DSTC Brisbane, Australia
Elie Najm, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
Bernhard Neumair, DeTeSystem, Germany
Jerome Rolia, Uni Ottawa, Canada
Alexander Schill, TU Dresden, Germany
Doug Schmidt, ARL St. Louis, USA
Gerd Schürmann, GMD FOKUS, Germany
Morris Sloman, Imperial College, London, UK
Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Michael Stal, Siemens ZT, München, Germany
Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Volker Tschammer, GMD FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

Conference Organisation

Helmut Reiser (Chair), Christian Ensel, Markus Garschhammer, Rainer Hauck,
Bernhard Kempter, Annette Kostelezky, Igor Radisic, Holger Schmidt, Gerald
Vogt, LMU Munich

Sponsors

Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU)
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
German National Foundation for Computer Science (GI)
Computing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (LRZ)
BMW AG
DG Bank
Munich Network Management Team (MNM)
and others