SOFTNET 2015 - Soft Computing Methods for the Design, Deployment, and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications (SOFTNET 2015)

Soft Computing Methods for the Design, Deployment,
and Reliability of Networks and Network Applications
(SOFTNET 2015)
in conjunction with IFIP NTMS 2015
27-29 July 2015, Paris, France
http://www.ntms-conf.org
Technically supported by IEEE, IEEE COMSOC & IFIP TPC6
All accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore
IMPORTANT DATES
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April 30: Paper Submission Due Date
May 30: Notification to Authors
June 15: Camera Ready Paper Due Date
The widespread of the internet has given further opportunities for
providing new services and web-based applications. However, such
applications are often accompanied by a high complexity, and the
number of standards, to which an application must follow, is rapidly
increasing. Representing related problems as optimization problems
will often not find an exact analytical solution anymore, and the
need for advanced heuristic techniques becomes prevalent. Heuristic
techniques provide a wealth of methods to handle tasks in complex
application domains. Among such techniques we can find evolutionary
computation, tabu search, simulated annealing, as well as many
probabilistic, hybrid and ensemble approaches.
This workshop will focus on soft computing methods to tangent the
needs of modern internet-based applications and their underlying
networking layer. It is supposed to bring together researchers from
different communities with the similar need, and to provide a base
for scientific exchange of research ideas.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Network design
- Handling networking problems by graph theory
- QoS/QoE solutions
- Modeling of network-based services
- Scaling of network
- Human-machine interface
- Digital convergence
- User modeling
- Network bottleneck identification
- Efficient content delivery schemes
- Service authentication and authorization schemes
- Service scheduling
- Network security
- Service and content retrieval and ranking
- Debugging of internet-based applications
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of
the conference in PDF format.
Submissions should be original and limited to 5 double-column pages,
and should follow IEEE paper templates. Paper with more pages can be
accepted however they need to be reduced to 5 pages for publication.
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
COMMITTEES
Workshop Co-chairs
Masato Tsuru, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Mario Koeppen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
TPC Members:
Stuart ALLEN, Cardiff University, UK
Sebastian BASTERRECH, VSB Ostrava, Czech Republic
Christian BLUM, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Ugo FIORE, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Akihiro FUJIHARA, Fukui University of Technology, Japan
Hiroyoshi MIWA, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan
Dritan NACE, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France
Kei OHNISHI, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Guenther RAIDL, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Layth SLIMAN, EFREI, Paris, France
Masato UCHIDA, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Fatos XHAFA, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Kaori YOSHIDA, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Neng-Fa ZHOU, Brooklyn College the City University of New York, USA.