July 24-27, 2016, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Program Committee

Honorary Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
Fordham Univ., USA

General Chairs

Franco Davoli
Univ. of Genoa, Italy

Stefano Giordano
Univ. of Pisa, Italy

Program Chairs

Helena Szczerbicka
Univ. of Hanover, Germany

Malamati Louta
Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece

Vice Program Chair

Joaquín Entrialgo
Univ. of Oviedo, Spain

Tutorials Chair

Sanjay K. Dhurandher
Univ. of Delhi, India

Publication Chair

Jose Saldana
Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain

Publicity Chairs

Essia Hamouda
California State Univ. Chico, 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

• Invited sessions Proposals: February 8, 2016
• Invited sessions Acceptance: February 15, 2016
• Tutorial Proposals: February 8, 2016
• Tutorial Acceptance: March 7 Extended to March 14, 2016
• Submission of Full Papers: March 7 Extended to April 15, 2016
• Paper Acceptance: April 20 Extended to May 11, 2016
• Submission of Work in Progress Papers: March 21, 2016
• Work in Progress Acceptance: April 10, 2016
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: May 22, 2016

Paper Submission

Please submit your complete papers electronically to http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS16/.

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.

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 38594x).

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/SPECTS16/.

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. Proposals for invited sessions should be sent to the Program Chairs. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches' abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference.

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

Best Paper Awards

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

SPECTS Steering Committee

• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Mohammad S Obaidat, Fordham Univ., USA (Chair)
• Jose L. Sevillano, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada

Technical Program Committee

• Fatih Alagöz, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Giuseppe Araniti, Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Muhammad Awais, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
• Özgür Baris Akan, Koç Univ., Turkey
• Paolo Bellavista, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
• Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. de Bretagne Occidentale, France
• Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Minas Dasygenis, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Tomaso De Cola, DLR, Germany
• Floriano De Rango, Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• Mauro De Sanctis, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima Univ., Japan
• Alban Duverdier, CNES, France
• Daniel F. Garcia, Univ. of Oviedo, Spain
• Jose Daniel Garcia, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
• Thierry Gayraud, LAAS-CNRS, France
• Giovanni Giambene, Univ. of siena, Italy
• Vicente Casares Giner, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Mary Grammatikou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
• Carlos Guerrero, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Gürkan Gür, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
• Carlos Juiz, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Burak Kantarci, Clarkson Univ., USA
• Melike Erol Kantarci, Clarkson Univ., USA
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

• Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
• Polychronis Koutsakis, Technical Univ. of Crete, Greece
• Thomas Lagkas, Univ. of Sheffield International Faculty Thessaloniki, Greece
• An Li, Virginia Tech, USA
• Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Malamati Louta, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Michael Lütjen, Univ. of Bremen, Germany
• Álvaro Marco, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
• Hussein Mouftah, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
• Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Ibrahim Önyüksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Antonino Orsino, Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Gianluca Reali, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
• Joel Rodrigues, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Enrique Rodriguez-Colina, Metropolitan Autonomous Univ. Mexico City, Mexico
• Dimitrios Stratogiannis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Helena Szczerbicka, Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Germany
• Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
• Kishor Trivedi, Duke Univ., USA
• Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
• Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Bernd Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
• Wuyi Yue, Konan Univ., Japan
• Krys Pawlikowski, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Univ. of Malaga, Spain

Last updated on March 29th, 2016