GIIS 2012 - 4th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium

4th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium
GIIS 2012

December 17th - 19th, 2012
Choroni, Venezuela

Technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society
Conference proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore

http://giis2012.lip6.fr

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Submission deadline: 9 September 2012
Special Session Submission: 30 September 2012
Author Notification: 21 October 2012
Camera-Ready Due: 4 November 2012
Authors Registration Deadline: 4 November 2012
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Scope and Overview:

Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS 2012) follows the
success of GIIS 2007 (http://www.giis2011.org/GIIS2007), GIIS 2009
(http://www.giis2011.org/GIIS2009) and GIIS 2011 (http://www.giis2011.org).

The scope of GIIS consists of interrelated set of technical, policy, and
social issues implicit in the development of national and international
(global) information infrastructures. GIIS aims at identifying and
promoting the exchange of knowledge on these interrelated issues and
provides liaison to bodies in the global society, technical fora and
international standards.

GIIS 2012 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions to
discuss, built and further the use of national and international
information infrastructures. The conference also aims at providing a
forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for
technical discussions and interactions on specific information
infrastructure topics. Information infrastructure brings together
information processing applications, communications networks and
services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems.

The program of GIIS 2012 will include invited talks, paper
presentations, tutorials, panel, and discussion sessions. The technical
issues addressed by the conference include Interoperability at various
levels, standard services and user interfaces, world wide naming and
addressing, and the international mobility of persons and services. The
humaniarian and policy issues addressed by the conference are those with
a large technical element, including protection of intellectual
property, privacy and security, international use of encryption
technology, commercial protocols, and standards vs. proprietary
technologies. The conference is specifically interested in ubiquity,
open source/equal access, ease of use, cost effectiveness, standards,
and architectural openness.

The program of GIIS 2012 will include a Technology Track, and a
Humanitarian and Policy Track. Topics of interest include but are not
restricted to the following aspects:

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TECHNOLOGY TRACK
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COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE & SERVICES
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Communications & Information Security
Middleware for networked applications
Communications Quality and Reliability
Network Operations and Management
Autonomic Communication Systems
VoIP, IPTV, MobileTV, TVOD, Gaming
e-Government, e-Health,
Networked Medical Applications

NETWORKING
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Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks
Communications Switching & Routing
Delay/Disruption tolerant wireless networks
High-Speed / Optical Networking
Next Generation Internet
Multimedia Communications
Optical Networking
Home and Enterprise Networking
Personal Communications
Peer-to-peer & overlay networks
Tactical Communications and operations

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
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Communication Theory
Power Line Communications
Wireless Communications
Satellite and Space Communications
Transmission, Access and Optical Systems

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HUMANITARIAN AND POLICY TRACK
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TELECOM FINANCE and ECONOMICS
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Telecom price regulation, pricing strategies
Cost accounting, cost structures for telecom
Economic model of international interconnection
Economic & intellectual property issues

CONVERGENCE AND COMPETITION
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Competition in International Service
Municipal broadband
Net neutrality issues
Global telecom business, country and region cases

TELECOM AND SOCIETY
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Communities in connectivity policy making
Training, support, relevant applications
Non-Governmental Organizations
Professional organizations and standards activities
Implications of new telecom technologies
Digital Opportunity Index
Telelcom policies for rural and poor areas

POLICY AND RESTRUCTURING
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Region and country specific telecom policies
Services focused telecom policy
Strategies for growing rural connectivity
Spectrum management policies

DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL ACCESS
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Development plans and activities
Economics and financing of the global access
Prospects for stable development and growth
growth especially in developing countries
Organizational issues, deployment and operations
Oversight issues - transparency and accountability


Submission Process:
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Authors should submit a research paper or experience report. All
submissions should be written in English with a suggested paper length
of 3000 words (6 pages using 10-point type), including figures and
references. The cover page should indicate whether it is a research or
an experience paper. Note that submitted papers should not exceed 4000
words (8 pages using 10-point type). The maximum number of pages for a
paper is 8; 6 pages plus 2 additional pages allowed. Papers must be
submitted online through EDAS via the GIIS 2012 website:

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13039

GIIS 2012 is technically sponsored by IEEE and all accepted and
presented GIIS 2012 papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore.
Submission of a paper for review will be considered your agreement that
at least one author will register and attend the conference if your
paper is accepted.

For further information visit: http://giis2012.lip6.fr or send an email
to: khaled.boussetta-AT-univ-paris13.fr

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Important dates

Submission deadline: 9 September 2012
Special Session Submission: 30 September 2012
Author Notification: 21 October 2012
Camera-Ready Due: 4 November 2012
Authors Registration Deadline: 4 November 2012
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General co-Chairs:
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Guy Pujolle, University of Paris 6, France
Carlos Figueira, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
Gladys Diaz, Universite Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite, France

TPC co-Chairs - Technology Track:
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Khaled Boussetta, INSA Lyon, France
Louis Costa, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

TPC co-Chairs - Humanitarian and Policy Track:
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Latif Ladid, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Franco Silva Colombeia Consultores C.A. Venezuela

Special Sessions and Workshops co-Chairs:
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Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada

Tutorials co-Chairs:
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Sidi Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France

Publicity co-Chairs:
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Carlos Becker Wesltphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Publications co-Chairs:
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Nadjib Achir, INRIA, France

Local Arrangements co-Chairs:
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Armando Borrero, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Marwen Abdennebi, Universite Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite, France
Lounis Aziza, University of Paris 6, France

Information:
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For further information visit: http://giis2012.lip6.fr.