Call for Papers [DE]

The bi-annual symposium "Communication in Distributed Systems" (KiVS) will be held from February 26th to March 2nd at the University of Bern, Switzerland. This will be the first time in 29 years that the KiVS is held outside of Germany.

The symposium starts with visits at well-known research institutes (CERN Geneva, IBM Zurich and Swisscom Innovations Bern). The focus of the KiVS event is the main conference, for which original scientific contributions in the below mentioned research areas are solicited.
Full papers can have a length of up to 12 pages (short papers can have up to 6 pages) and need to follow the Springer "Informatik Aktuell" template. Furthermore, papers from industry and practice describing current projects, technologies, and trends are highly appreciated. These contributions should be extended abstracts of 1-2 pages. All contributions of these three categories must comply with the format specification on the KiVS web site http://kivs07.unibe.ch. They will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee, which will decide about acceptance for publication.

In addition to the special focus topic of "Peer-to-Peer Systems", five collocated workshops on special topics in the area of communication and distributed systems will be organized:

Submitted papers must be written in English or in German and must not have been submitted or published elsewhere. The selected conference and workshop papers will be published in one of several proceedings at Springer-Verlag and VDE-Verlag.

Topics of KiVS 2007

Wireless Networks

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Mesh Networks
Sensor Networks
Integration of RF-IDs
Next Generation Cellular Networks
Mobility Models
Energy-efficient Protocols and Systems

Peer-to-Peer (P2P)

Overlay Networks
Self-organization
P2P Systems
P2P applications

Internet

Congestion control
Quality-of-Service
Mobility
Network Management

Methods and Tools

Modeling und Simulation
Analytical Methods for Performance Evaluation
Description Languages
Protocol and System Verification
Model-driven Development
Testing
Traffic Measurement

Middleware

Middleware for Web and Grid Services
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Middleware (Continuation)

Deployment
Enterprise Application Integration
Reflexive Systems
Service Discovery and Composition
Agent Technologies
Context-sensitive and Adaptive Systems

Security and Trustworthiness

Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting (AAA)
Identity- and Access-Management
Intrusion Detection
Trust-Management

Distributed Applications

Grid Applications
Automotive Systems
Content Delivery Networks
Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
Intelligent Transportation System
Multimedia Systems
Embedded Systems
Autonomous Components
Collaborative Applications
Web Applications
Workflow Management
E-Learning
E-Commerce
E-Finance
E-Health
Banking Processes
Quality-of-Service in Applications

Important Dates

Registration deadline for full conference papers	September 15, 2006
Submission deadline for full conference papers	(New!) September 22, 2006
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals	October 15, 2006
Submission deadline for workshop, short and industry papers	October 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance for full conference papers	November 6, 2006
Notification of acceptance for workshop, short and industry papers	November 30, 2006
Camera ready version for full conference papers	December 4, 2006
Camera ready version for workshop, short and industry papers	December 29, 2006
Symposium	February 26 - March 2, 2007

Additional information and current news for the KiVS symposium and its program are available on the web site http://kivs07.unibe.ch. Format templates for the "Informatik Aktuell" style are available in german only (Guidelines, general directions, and a LaTeX template). If you prefer english guidelines please refer to the equivalent Springer LNCS style.
Please use use the corresponding EDAS page for paper submissions. In special cases, the symposium chairs (Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Georg Carle, University of Tübingen, Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich) may be contacted under at the e-mail address kivs07-chairs@iam.unibe.ch.

04.09.06