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Dear Olli,

Please find enclosed the draft of the call for papers for the IN conference
in Paris (September 97). Your comments are welcomed. I would like to send
the call to the program comittee members on the beginning of September.

About November 96, I don't know yet if I could be there. I will let you know.

Best regards
Dominique


Draft

 CALL FOR PAPERS

1997 International Conference
Intelligent networks and intelligence in networks (2IN97)

Paris - France
September 2-5, 1997


Organizer : IFIP TC WG 6.7 - Intelligent Networks

Sponsorship requested : Alcatel, Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia, Nordic
teleoperators, Telecom Finland, Lab. PRiSM

Aim of the conference

To identify and study current issues related to the development of
intelligent capabilities in networks. These issues include the development
and distribution of services in broadband and mobile networks.

This conference belongs to a series of IFIP conference on Intelligent
Network. The first one took place in Lappeeranta August 94, the second one
in Copenhagen, August 95. The proceedings of both events have been
published by Chapman&Hall.
IFIP Working Group 6.7 on IN has concentrated with the research and
development of Intelligent Networks architectures. First the activities
have concentrated in service creation, service management, database issues,
feature interaction, IN performance and advanced signalling for broadband
services. Later on the research activities have turned towards the
distribution of intelligence in networks and IN applications to multimedia
and mobility. The market issues of new services have also been studied.
>From the system development point of view, topics from OMG and TINA-C have
been considered.

The following is a list of fields of interest to 2IN97:

Value added services market development in telecom area
Service creation, distribution and management
Real time data bases and caches for services
Performance issues
Standardization aspects
Service creation architecture applied in voice, data, mobile and multimedia
services
IN architecture
IN and B-ISDN
IN and mobile networks
TINA
Intelligent agents
Distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems for networks
Intelligent agents on the Internet
Intelligence in ATM networks
Intelligent control schemes
Intelligence and Network Management
Intelligent routing

Workshop organization

Conference chair:

Olli Martikainen FIN
Guy Pujolle F

Program committee chair :

Dominique Gaiti F

Program committee members

James Aitken UK
Almeida Maria J.B. BR
Andy Bihain USA
Gilles Bregant F
Carla Capellmann, GER
Christian Chabernaud F
Peter Delgado UK
Heinz Dibold D
Jacques Ferber F
Frank Gallivan USA
Philip Ginzboorg FIN
Shri Goyal USA
D.K. Guha USA
Serge Haddad F
Tang Haitao CN
Heikki Hammainen FIN
Villy Baek Iversen DK
Bijjan Jabbari USA
Jorma Jormakka FIN
Koos Koen RSA
Roberto Kung F
Jacques Labetoulle F
Xuejia Lai CH
Kari Lautanala FIN
Aurel A. Lazar USA
Olli Martikainen FIN
Valeri A. Naoumov RF
Karl W. Neunast GER
Jorgen Norgaard DK
Herve Precioso F
Guy Pujolle F
Kimmo Raatikainen FIN
Konstantin E. Samouylov RF
Manfred Schneps-Schneppe RUS
Lennart S|derberg S

Organization chair :

Nadia Boukhatem F
Thierry Hua F

Important dates:

 March 1, 1997: Deadline for Paper Submission
 May 15, 1997: Notification of Acceptance
 July 1, 1997: Final Version Due
 September 2, 1997: Tutorial
 September 3-5, 1997: Conference

Instructions:

Submit five copies of a full paper by March 1, 1997. Papers should be no
longer than 20 double spaced typewritten pages, including tables and
figures. The proceedings will be published by Chapman&Hall

All correspondence should be addressed:
        - by email (poscript version of the paper) - 2IN97@prism.uvsq.fr
        - or by mail to
2IN97 Conference
Lab PRiSM - University of Versailles
45 av. des Etats-Unis
78035 Versailles Cedex - France


----------------------------- Dominique Gaiti ----------------------------

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