July 9-12, 2018, Bordeaux, France

Program Committee

Honorary Chair

Mohammad S. Obaidat
KASIT, Univ. of Jordan, Jordan

General Chair

Helena Szczerbicka
Univ. of Hanover, Germany

Program Co-Chairs

Malamati Louta
Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece

Joaqu�n Entrialgo
Univ. of Oviedo, Spain

Vice Program Co-Chairs

Steven Latre
Univ. of Antwerpen, Belgium

George Karetsos
TEI of Thessaly, Greece

Invited Sessions Chair

Georgios Theodoropoulos
SUSTech, China

Tutorial Chair

Maria Calzarossa
Univ. of Pavia, Italy

Publication Chair

Sebastien Gougeau
Li-PaRAD, Univ. of Versailles, France

Publicity Chair

Christian Kater
Leibniz Univ. of Hannover, Germany

Webmaster

Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain

Sponsors

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

Technical Sponsor www.comsoc.org

Social Media

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: Extended to April 20, 2018
• Paper submission: Extended to April 20, 2018
• Author notification: May 16, 2018
• Camera-ready paper submission: May 25, 2018

Paper Submission

Authors of accepted papers

The templates supplied by SCS must be used, they can be find in the SCS author's kit webpage: http://scs.org/authorskit/. All the information about the format are contained in the author's kit guidelines. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. The camera-ready papers (i.e. the final versions of accepted papers) must also not include headers or footers, including any kind of pagination except for the copyright notice.

The Transfer of Copyright and Author Certification forms to be signed and uploaded are also available in the author's kit webpage (http://scs.org/authorskit/).

For uploading the camera-ready paper and the forms, please visit: https://www.softconf.com/sim/SPECTS18/. Remember that the submission deadline is May 25, 2018.

If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair.

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.

Call for Tutorial Proposals

SPECTS 2018 is soliciting proposals for 1.5 or 3 hours tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. Tutorials should address established as well as new emerging research topics and practical applications in the area of performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Tutorials should present a comprehensive overview of the state of the art and outline open research and technical challenges.

A tutorial proposal should contain the following information:

• Tutorial title
• Names, titles, affiliations and contact details of the presenters
• Preferred duration (1.5 or 3 hours)
• Extended abstract
• Short description of the intended audience and prerequisite knowledge of the attendees (if any)
• Short bio of the presenters

The extended abstracts of the tutorials will be included in the conference proceedings. Tutorial proposals should be submitted for review in a single PDF file (not exceeding five pages) mailed to an email address available here soon.

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

• Ala'a Al-Habashna, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Muhammad Usman Awais, National Univ. of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Pakistan
• Ozgur Baris Akan, Ko� �niv., Turkey
• Paolo Bellavista, Univ. di Bologna, Italy
• Igor Bisio, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Jalil Boukhobza, Univ. Occidental Britanny, France
• Christian Callegari, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• Vicente Casares-Giner, Univ. Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain
• Minas Dasygenis, Univ. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Franco Davoli, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Hermann De Meer, Univ. of Passau, Germany
• Mauro De Sanctis, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
• Selvamuthu Dhamaraja, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• Tadashi dohi, Hiroshima Univ., Japan
• Peppino Fazio, Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• Daniel Garcia, Univ. Of Oviedo, Spain
• Mary Grammatikou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
• Carlos Guerrero, Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain
• Mesut G�nes, Otto von Guericke Univ. Magdeburg, Germany
• Vincenzo Inzillo, Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• Burak Kantarci, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
• Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Baha Uddin Kazi, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Peter Kemper, College of William and Mary, USA
• Zbigniew Kotulski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland

• Udo Krieger, Univ. of Bamberg, Germany
• Steven Latre, Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium
• Sanja Lazarova-Molnar, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Jian Li, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Alejandro Linares-Barranco, Univ. of Seville, Spain
• Pascal Lorenz, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
• Imadeldin Mahgoub, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
• Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy
• Alvaro Marco, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
• Luisa Massari, Univ. of Pavia, Italy
• Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois Univ., USA
• Antonino Orsino, Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Elena Pagani, Univ. di Milano, Italy
• Nunzia Palmieri, Univ. of Calabria, Italy
• Prantosh Kumar Paul, Raiganj Univ, India
• Gianluca Reali, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
• Joel Rodrigues, Univ. of Beira, Portugal
• Georgios L. Stavrinides, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Daniele Tessera, Catholic Univ. of Sacred Heart, Italy
• Liljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
• Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio Univ. of Athens, Greece
• Christos Verikoukis, Centre Tecnol�gic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
• Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Univ. of Malaga, Spain
• Gabriel Wainer, Carleton Univ., Canada
• Bernd Wolfinger, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
• Adam Wolisz, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany

Last updated on April 3, 2018