July 8-11, 2012, Genoa, Italy

Program Committee

Honorary Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA

General Chair

Jose Sevillano
Univ. of Seville, Spain

Program Chairs

Raffaele Bolla
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Pere Vilà
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Isaac Woungang
Ryerson Univ., Canada

Tutorials and Special Session Chair

Sanjay K. Dhurandher
Univ. of Delhi, India

Publicity Chairs

Essia Hamouda
Univ. of California, Riverside, USA

Lei Shu
Osaka Univ., Japan

Local Arrangement Chair

Olga Jaramillo
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Publication Chair

Daniel Cascado
Univ. of Seville, Spain

Webmaster

Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Sponsors

Sponsor The Society for Modeling and Simulation International www.scs.org

Technical Sponsor IEEE Communications Society www.comsoc.org

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

• Internet Technology
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • DiffServ/IntServ
  • MPLS/GMPLS
  • TCP
  • World Wide Web (WWW) Technology
• Networking Techniques
  • Unicast and Multicast Routing
  • Congestion and Admission Control
  • Switching Techniques
  • Tele-traffic
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Management and Control
  • Network Capacity Planning
  • Network Architecture Evaluation
  • Service and QoS Pricing
  • Security and Authentication
• Broadband Networks
  • High-Speed Networking
  • Optical Networks

• Wireless Systems and Networks
  • Satellite Systems
  • UMTS
  • Mobile Networks/Computing
  • Ad-hoc Networks
  • Sensor and Actuator Networks
  • 3G/4G Networks
  • Delay Tolerant/Opportunistic Networks
  • P2P for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Service Overlay Networks
  • Agile-All Photonic Networks
• Multimedia Systems, Communications and Applications
• Green Networking and Communication Systems
  • Security and privacy on green information & communication systems
  • Innovative applications of green communications, networking, and computing

Computer Systems

• Distributed Architecture
  • Client/Server
  • Distributed Systems and Agents
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Massively Parallel Systems
  • Cluster Computing
  • Grid Computing
  • Interconnection Networks
  • Resource Management & Allocations
  • Power Saving Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Hotspots
• Computer Architectures
  • Microprocessors/Microcomputers
  • Memory Systems
  • High Performance I/O
  • Real-time Systems/Scheduling Schemes
• Software
  Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing; Software Reliability Engineering; Formal Methods; Verification and Validation; Parallel Algorithms and Languages.

• Electronic Commerce
• Hardware and Software Monitors
• High-Performance Computing
• Security and Information Assurance
  Security protocols; Anonymity and Privacy; Electronic Voting; Access Control; Digital Rights Management; Intrusion Detection; Trust Management; Security for Mobile Computing; Database Security; Executable Contents; Formal Methods for Security; Cryptography.
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Soft Computing
• Scientific Computing Algorithms
• Workload and Traffic Characterization
• Green Computing and Computers

Tools, Methodologies and Applications

• Content Delivery
• Modeling
• Parallel and Distributed Simulation
• Verification and Validation
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications
• Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models
• Queuing Systems and Networks

• Scalability Studies
• Integrated Modeling and Measurement
• On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning
• Process Algebra Based Models
• Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance
• Case Studies

Deadlines

• Special sessions proposals: March 15th, 2012
• Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): March 15th, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: April 28th, 2012
• Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 30th, 2012

Camera-Ready Submission

The SPECTS 2012 papers will be electronically published by IEEE Xplore. This means that accepted papers must exactly fulfil the IEEE requirements regarding the final submitted version. Detailed instructions for the camera-ready submission are available.

NOTE that an additional condition for the inclusion of a paper in the conference is the registration of at least one of the authors (detailed instructions for online registration are available) and the submission of the copyright form.

Location

SPECTS 2012 and SummerSim 2012 will be held on the Architecture Faculty of the Genoa University. You can find information about the university, transportation and accomodations in the following link: http://scs.org/conference/summersim/2012/

SPECTS Steering Committee

• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Abbas Jamalipour, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
• Helen Karatza, Univ. of Aristotle, Greece
• Imad Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
• Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy

• Jose L. Marzo, Univ. of Girona, Spain
• Mohammad S. Obaidat (Chair), Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA
• Jose Luis "Sevi" Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• Helena Szczerbicka, Hannover Univ., Germany

Technical Program Committee

• Sos Agaian, Univ. of Texas-San Antonio, USA
• Ozgur B. Akan, Koc Univ., Turkey
• Julio Barbancho, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Noureddine Boudriga, Sup'Com, Tunisia
• Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, France
• Roberto Bruschi, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Maria Carla Calzarossa, Università di Pavia
• Alessandro Carrega, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Daniel Cascado, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain
• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
• Floriano De Rango, Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Univ. of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
• Juan Luis Font, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Scott Fowler, Linköping Univ., Sweden
• Sebastia Galmes, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Jose Daniel Garcia, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Daniel F. Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
• Carlos Guerrero, Universitat de les Illes Balears
• Sami Habib, Kuwait Univ., Kuwait
• Abdelhakim Hafid, Univ. of Montreal, Canada
• Aun Haider, NICT, Japan
• Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
• R. Jayaparvathy, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India
• Gabriel Jiménez, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Angel Fco. Jimenez Fernandez, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain

• Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Randi Karlsen, Norut (Northern Research Institute), Norway
• Zbigniew Kotulski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
• Michael E. Kounavis, Intel Labs, USA
• Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
• Axel Lehmann, Univ. der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany
• Carlos León de Mora, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Kami Makki, Lamar Univ., USA
• Alvaro Marco, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
• Peter Muller, IBM, Switzerland
• Monia Najjar, ISI-El Manar-Tunis, Tunisia
• Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle Univ., Greece
• Krys Pawlikowski, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zeland
• Jernej Polajnar, Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Canada
• Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State Univ., USA
• Riccardo Rapuzzi, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Matteo Repetto, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Vicente Santonja, Technical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
• Mamadou Seck, TU Delft, Netherlands
• Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Bernd E. Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg
• Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Last updated on June 20th, 2012