GIIS 2013 - The 4th Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium

The 2013 Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2013) follows the success of GIIS 2007, GIIS 2009, GIIS 2011 and GIIS 2012. 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 and networks.?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 2013 will stimulate interdisciplinary conference sessions to discuss, build and further the use of national and international information infrastructures and networks.?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 and networking topics. Information Infrastructure and Networking (IIN) brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks, and end systems.?The program of GIIS 2013 will include invited talks and keynotes, paper presentations, tutorials, panel, and discussion sessions.
To achieve this, GIIS 2013 program will be split into the following three conference regular tracks and two conference special tracks:
Regular Track 1: Communication Software, Services and Systems
Regular Track 2: Wired / Wireless Communication, Networks and Information Infrastructure
Regular Track 3: Telecom Policies and Development of Global Access
Special Track 1: IIN for Critical Infrastructures
Special Track 2: IIN for Rural and Developing Areas
Regular Track 1: Communication Software, Services and Systems ?
Chair: Adriano Galati, Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland
Content-Based Network Service and Network Applications
Communications & Information Security
Middleware for networked applications
Network Operations and Management
Autonomic Communication Systems
Tactical Communications and operations
VoIP, IPTV, MobileTV, TVOD, Gaming
Application and services (e-Accessibility, e-Health, e-Skills, e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Business, e-Government, e-Commerce)
Networked Medical Applications
Methods and tools for designing and evaluating software and middleware communication systems
Regular Track 2: Wired / Wireless Communication, Networks and Information Infrastructure ?
Chair: Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ad Hoc & Sensor Communications & Networks
Communications Switching & Routing
Cognitive radio networking
Delay/Disruption tolerant wireless networks
Next Generation Internet and Internet of Things (IoT)
Multimedia Communications
Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
Home and Enterprise Networking
Personal Communications
Peer-to-peer & overlay networks
Traffic measurement and analysis
Communication Theory
Vehicular networks
Power Line Communications
High-Speed / Optical Networking
Satellite and Space Communications
Transmission and Access Systems
Regular Track 3: Telecom Policies and Development of Global Access ?
Chair: Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Business models for global access
Telecom, Governance, Policy and Regulation
Strategies for growing rural connectivity
Economics, financing and pricing of the global access
Organizational issues, deployment and operations
Oversight issues - transparency and accountability
Economic vs. intellectual property issues
Competition in International Service
Net neutrality issues
Globaltelecom business: local, country, region and international cases
Emerging systemic risks: policy, standards and regulations
Institutional design and market structuring
Stakeholder interactions and trust building
GlobalCIs; geopolitical risk assessment
Communities in connectivity policy making
Professional organizations and standards activities
Digital Opportunity Index
Universal Service Obligation (USO) / Universal Service Provision (USP)
Social and Societal Roles of Information and communications Technologies
Economic transformation (sustainable development, e-Communities based eco-tourism, e-Business, …)
Special Track 1: IIN for Critical Infrastructures ?
Chair: Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Critical infrastructure (CI) design/protection/management
Risk/vulnerability/resilience based decision-making
Risk/vulnerability criteria development for assessing robustness
Systemdynamic behaviour
Vulnerability/resilience economics; behaviour of interdependent CIs
Cyber security and CI protection
Advanced control engineering concepts/ICTs in complex networks
Cross-border interconnections, international harmonisation
Threatidentification/assessment/monitoring models/techniques
Next generation intelligent infrastructures
Smart Grids
Smart Transportation
Special Track 2: IIN for Rural and Developing Areas ?
Chair: Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Communication Software, Services and applications for rural and developing areas
Networking technologies for rural and developing areas
Internet Access in rural and developing areas
Emergency and disaster relief
Cyber-physical systems for rural and developing areas
Smart agriculture for rural and developing areas
Mobilenetworks for rural and developing areas
Socialnetworks for rural and developing areas
Cloud computing for rural and developing areas
Telecommunication regulation and policies for rural and developing areas
Telecommunication and society in rural and developing areas
Telecommunication finance and economics for rural and developing areas
General Chair ?
Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
TPC Chair ?
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Burgundy, France
Program Co-Chairs ?
Adriano Galati, Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland
Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece
Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Lucia Lo Bello, University of Catania, Italy
Steering Committee ?
Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Paris-Est University & ENSIIE, France
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College Riverdale, New York, USA
Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Roberto Sarracco, EIT ICT Labs, Trento Node, Italy
Publicity Chair ?
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Publication Chair ?
Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13, France
Web Chair ?
Ismail Salhi, Paris-Est University, France
Local Arrangements ?
Laura Meijere, EIT ICT Labs, Trento CLC, Italy