July 26-29, 2015, Chicago, IL, USA

Program Committee

Honorary Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
Fordham Univ., USA

General Chairs

Franco Davoli
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Jose Marzo
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Program Chairs

Joel Rodrigues
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal

Malamati Louta
Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece

Imadeldin Mahgoub
Florida Atlantic Univ., USA

Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair

Sanjay K. Dhurandher
Univ. of Delhi, India

Publication Chair

Jose Saldana
Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain

Publicity Chairs

Essia Hamouda
Univ. of California, Riverside, USA

Lei Shu
Guangdong Univ. of Petrochemical Technology, China

Webmaster

Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Sponsors

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

Technical Sponsor www.comsoc.org

Networking and Telecommunication Systems

• Internet, Next Generation Networking Technologies and Services
  • Next Generation Networking (Architectures, Technologies, Services, Protocols)
  • Future Internet
  • Internet of Things and enabling technologies
  • Network virtualization and services
  • Switching and routing
  • Network security, survivability and resilience
  • Traffic engineering, network reliability, Quality of Service (QoS), Quality of Experience (QoE)
  • Optical networks and systems
  • Optical ? wireless networks
  • Green communications and networking
  • Service-centric, content-centric, peer-to-peer and overlay networks and applications
  • Service convergence and multimedia networks
  • Internet applications and services
  • Service Oriented Architectures and Web Services
  • E-commerce, M-commerce
  • Smart Grid
  • Smart Cities
  • eHealth
  • eHealth Applications
  • Mobile and eHealth applications
  • e-Infrastructure for health
  • Telemedicine
  • Net-centric healthcare management
  • Location / Context-aware services
  • Pervasive/wearable computing
  • Pricing & Billing

• Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Modulation and coding
  • MIMO
  • Smart antennas
  • Multiple access techniques
  • Cognitive radio and networking
  • Cooperative communications and networking
  • Cellular systems and wireless networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, 4G and beyond)
  • Wireless LAN, Wireless PAN, Body Area Networks
  • Wireless ad hoc and mesh networks
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking /Opportunistic Networking
  • Satellite and Space Communications and Networking
  • Heterogeneous Networks / Hybrid communication systems
  • Network design, optimization and management
  • Cross layer design and optimization
  • Energy Efficient Protocols

Computer Systems

• Distributed Architecture & Middleware
  • Client/Server
  • Distributed Systems and Multi Agent Systems
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Massively Parallel Systems
  • Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Green Computing
  • Distributed and Mobile Middleware
• Computer Architectures
  • Microprocessors/Microcomputers
  • Memory Systems
  • High Performance I/O
  • Real-time Systems/Scheduling Schemes
• Software
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing
  • Formal Methods
  • Verification and Validation
  • Parallel Algorithms and Languages

• Security and Information Assurance
  • Security protocols and techniques
  • Anonymity and Privacy
  • Access Control
  • Identity Management
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Intrusion Detection and Honeypot solutions
  • Trust Management
  • Formal Methods for Security
  • Cryptography
• Data Storage
  • Technologies for hard disk drives and optical drives
  • Data storage systems
  • Data compression for digital storage, including audio and video
  • Fault tolerance and coding techniques for disk arrays and data centers
  • Signal processing and coding methods for object based storage systems
  • Measurement, testing, performance optimization, and cost-performance trade-off
  • Emerging recording technologies
  • NAND, PRAM
  • MRAM, STT-MRAM, RRAM and memristor based memories

Tools & Methodologies

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

• 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, Testbed deployments, field trials and experiences

Deadlines

Important Dates for Papers

• Invited session, workshop, tutorial proposals: February 20th, 2015 Extended to April 15th, 2015
• Paper submission: February 20th, 2015 Extended to April 15th, 2015
• Author notification: March 31st, 2015 Extended to May 15th, 2015
• Camera-ready paper submission: April 12th, 2015 Extended to May 30th, 2015

Paper Submission

Please submit your complete papers electronically to http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS15/.

Instructions for authors

Current templates supplied by IEEE must be used. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5×11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair.

Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to the Tutorials Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches' abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference.

Authors of accepted papers

To upload your final manuscript and the copyright form, please visit the following site: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS15/ and, on the left-hand side of the page, enter the passcode associated with your submission (it was in the acceptance e-mail).

The final manuscript should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5×11" (US Letter) 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 and signed via PDF eXpress before being uploaded (https://www.pdf-express.org/, use the Conference ID 35857x)

The Copyright form to be signed and uploaded is here: http://www.scs.org/upload/documents/Copyright_Form.pdf

For uploading both the camera-ready paper and the Copyright form, please visit: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS15/. Remember that the submission deadline is May 31, 2015.

For registering at the conference visit http://www.scs.org/summersim.

Best Paper Awards

These awards, one for each track, is open to all accepted papers. Papers will be evaluated based on originality, technical contribution, and presentation quality during the workshop.

SPECTS Steering Committee

• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Mohammad S Obaidat, Fordham Univ., 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

• Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Giuseppe Araniti, Univ. "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Julio Barbancho Concejero, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Ozgur Baris Akan, Koc Univ., Turkey
• Paolo Bellavista, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
• Matina Bibi, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. of Western Brittany, France
• Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Giovanni E. Corazza, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
• Jose Daniel Garcia, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Minas Dasygenis, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Tomaso De Cola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
• Mauro De Sanctis, Univ. of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
• Stefano Delucchi, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Alban Duverdier, Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France
• Anastasios A. Economides, Univ. of Macedonia, Greece
• Sebastia Galmes, Univ. de les Illes Balears, 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
• Gurkan Gur, Provus, Turkey
• Jarmo Harju, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
• Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain

• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Zbigniew Kotulski, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Poland
• Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece
• Thomas Lagkas, City College, The Univ. of Sheffield, Greece
• An Li, Virginia Tech, USA
• Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Univ. de Sevilla, Spain
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Malamati Louta, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Imadeldin Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
• Alvaro Marco, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
• Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Antonino Orsino, Univ. "Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Gianluca Reali, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
• Joel Rodrigues, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Enrique Rodriguez-Colina, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
• Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Gonzalo Seco Granados, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
• Dimitrios Stratogiannis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
• Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio Univ., Greece
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Bernd E. Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

Last updated on July 6th, 2015