July 7-10th, 2013, Toronto, Canada

Program Committee

Honorary Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA

General Chair

Pere Vilà
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Program Chairs

Isaac Woungang
Ryerson Univ., Canada

Mario Marchese
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Floriano De Rango
Univ. of Calabria, Italy

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

Abdolreza (Abdy) Abhari
Ryerson Univ., Canada

Publication Chair

Jose Saldana
Univ. of Zaragoza, 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: Extended until April 7th, 2013
• Submission of full papers and tutorials proposals: Extended until April 7th, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: April 29th, 2013May 6th, 2013
• Submission of camera-ready papers: May 8h, 2013May 24h, 2013

Camera-Ready Submission

The SPECTS 2013 papers will be electronically published by IEEE Xplore. This means that accepted papers must exactly fulfil the IEEE requirements regarding the final submitted version (Current templates supplied by IEEE must be used). Please remember that submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5×11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. They must also not include headers or footers, including any kind of pagination. Papers must be validated via PDF eXpress before submitting them to http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS13/. Remember the submission deadline is May 24th! (ignore any other date indicated in PDF eXpress).

NOTE that an additional condition for the inclusion of a paper in the conference is the registration of at least one of the authors and the submission of the copyright form.

SPECTS Steering Committee

• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Mohammad S Obaidat, Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA (Chair)
• James J. Park, Seoul National Univ. of Science and Technology, Korea
• Jose L. Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Technical Program Committee

• Ozgur Baris Akan, Koc Univ., Turkey
• Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson Univ., Canada
• Rafael Asorey-Cacheda, Univ. de Vigo, Spain
• Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. of Western Brittany, France
• Roberto Bruschi, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical Univ., Turkey
• Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Julio Barbancho Concejero, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
• Sanjay K. Dhurandher, Univ. of Delhi, India
• Alban Duverdier, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
• Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, Univ. of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany
• Sebastia Galmes, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Jose Daniel Garcia, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Daniel F. Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
• Thierry Gayraud, LAAS-CNRS, France
• Giovanni Giambene, Univ. of Siena, Italy
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
• Carlos Guerrero, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Sami Habib, Kuwait Univ., Kuwait
• Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland

• Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Randi Karlsen, Univ. of Tromsoe, Norway
• Zbigniew Kotulski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
• Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA
• 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
• Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Krys Pawlikowski, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zeland
• Francesco Potortì, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Gianluca Reali, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
• Matteo Repetto, CNIT – Research Unit of Genoa, Italy
• Enrique Rodriguez-Colina, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
• Jose Luis Sevillano Ramos, Univ. of Sevilla, Spain
• Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer-Fokus, Germany
• Maria Angeles Vazquez-Castro, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Bernd E. Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

Last updated on June 11th, 2013