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Workshop Program   (Call for participation in [PDF] with all paper and panel titles)
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Day 1    Day 2
 
18. October 2004

08:30-09:00
Registration of participants, coffee (f.c.f.s.)


09:00-09:30 Opening Session chair: Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS


Welcome M. Smirnov (Fraunhofer FOKUS)
Autonomic Communication Roadmap
Fabrizio Sestini (European Commission)


09:30-10:00
Invited Talk: BIONETS. Application of genetic exchange rules to pervasive networks and parallels from system science by I. Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Association, (about invited speaker)


 Session 1A: Network Management chair: Ioannis Stavrakakis, NKUA


10:00-10:30
An Infrastructure-based Approach to Support Dynamic Networks with Mobile Agents
A. Dühler, C. Erfurth, W. Rossak (Friedrich-Schiller Uni Jena)


10:30-11:00
Some Requirements for Autonomic routing in self-organized networks
F. Legendre, M. Dias de Amorim, S. Fdida (LIP6/CNRS)


11:00-11:30
Policy Interoperability and Network Autonomics
S. Magrath, R. Braun, F. Cuervo (Uni of Technology, Sydney and Alcatel Canada)



11:30-12:00 Coffee Break


Session 1B: Models and Protocols chair: Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission


12:00-12:30
Spatial Computing: an Emerging Paradigm for Autonomic Computing and Communication
F. Zambonelli, M. Mamei (DISMI - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)



12:30-13:00
Self-Deployment, Self-Configuration: Critical Future Paradigms for Wireless Access Networks
F. J. Mullany, L. T. W. Ho, L. G. Samuel, H. Claussen (Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, UK)



13:00-13:30
Content Distribution through Autonomic Content and Storage Management
N. Laoutaris, A. Panagakis, I. Stavrakakis (University of Athens)



13:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30-15:30
Panel 1: Main principles to guide R&D in Algorithms, Protocols and Middleware
Chairs:
Ioannis Stavrakakis, NKUA and Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission
Panelists: I. Chlamtac, Session 1A, 1B authors
Poster presentations:
Towards Intelligent Behaviour in Autonomic Communications,
Sahin Albayrak, Plamen L. Simeonov, Hakan Coskun, Muslim Elkotob, DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin

Complex Dynamics of Autonomous Communication Networks and the Intelligent Communication Paradigm
Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Institute of Metal Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine


15:30-16:00 Coffee Break


Session 2A: Network Composition chair: Fabrice Saffre, Pervasive ICT Research Centre, British Telecom


16:00-16:30 A Unified Framework for the negotiation and Deployment of Network Services
S. Denazis, L. Yamamoto (Hitachi Europe)



16:30-17:00 TurfNet: An Architecture for Dynamically Composable Networks
S. Schmid, L. Eggert, M. Brunner, J. Quittek (NEC Europe)



17:00-17:30 A systems architecture for sensor networks based on hardware/software co-design
A. Nisbet, S. Dobson (Manchester Metropolitan Uni., Trinity College Dublin)



1st WAC 2004 Social Event (on-site Welcome Reception)


19. October 2004

08:30-09:00
Registration desk is open


09:00-09:35 Invited Talk session chair: Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS

Short update on FET Proactive Initiative in S&AC Fabrizio Sestini (European Commission)
Invited talk: Dynamics, information and control in physical systems
A. Fradkov, Russian Academy of Sciences (about invited speaker)


09:35-09:45 Handover Break

 Session 2B: Negotiation and Deployment chair: Giuseppe Valetto, Telecom Italia Labs


09:45-10:15
Challenges in communication research beyond the VICOM project
F. Vatalaro, G. Cortese, F. Davide, M. Leo, P. Loreti, G. Riva (Uni of Rome "Tor Vergata", CNIT, Telecom Italia, Istituto Auxologico Italiano)



10:15-10:45
A Framework for self-organizing network composition
C. Kappler, P. Mendes, C. Prehofer, P. Poyhonen, D. Zhou (Siemens AG, Deutschland and Austria, DoCoMo EuroLabs, Nokia Research)



10:45-11:15
Semantic-based Policy Engineering for Autonomic Systems
D. Lewis, K. Feeney, K. Carey, T. Tiropanis, S. Courtenage (Trinity College Dublin, Athens Uni. of Technology, Uni. of Westminster)



11:15-11:30 Coffee Break


11:30-12:30
Panel 2: Grand Challenges of Network and Service Composition
Chairs: Fabrice Saffre, British Telecom and Giuseppe Valetto, Telecom Italia
Panelists: A. Fradkov, Session 2A, 2B authors
Poster presentations:
Knowledge-Based Structure Based Structure of Intelligent Communication of Intelligent Communication Networks
Andrei P. Kirilyuk, Institute of Metal Physics, Kiev

CATS  Cooperating Autonomous Detection Systems
Falko Dressler, Gerhard Münz, Georg Carle, WSI - Computer Networks and Internet, University of Tübingen



12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 3: Immunity and Resilience chair: t.b.a.


13:30-14:00 Self-management of Autonomic Systems: The Reputation, Quality and Credibility (RQC)
A. Garg, R. Battiti, G. Costanzi (Uni. of Trento)



14:00-14:30 E Pluribus Unum: Deduction, Abduction and Induction, the Reasoning Services for Access Control in Autonomic Communication
H. Koshutanski, F. Massacci (Uni. of Trento)



14:30-15:00 A Metabolic Approach to Protocol Resilience
C. Tschudin, L. Yamamoto (Uni of Basel, Hitachi Europe)



15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

Session 4. Meaning, Context and Situated Behavior chair: David Lewis, Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College, Dublin

15:30-16:00 Putting meaning into the network: some semantic issues for the design of autonomic communication systems
Simon Dobson (Trinity College Dublin)



16:00-16:30 A Role for Contextualised Knowledge in Autonomic Communications
R. Sterritt, M. Mulvenna, Agnieszka Lawrynowicz (Uni. of Ulster, Poznan Uni.)



16:30-17:00 Towards Adaptable Ad Hoc Networks: The routing Experience
C. Santivanez, I. Stavrakakis (BBN Technologies, Uni. of Athens)



17:00-18:00
Panel 3: How Autonomic Network Interacts With Knowledge Plane?
Chairs: David Lewis, Trinity College, Dublin and t.b.a.
Panelists: Session 3, 4 authors
Poster presentations:
Self Management ContextWare Rules: A Position paper
Alex Galis, University College London




2nd WAC Social Event
WAC2004 Dinner at Diekmann. Restaurant & Kolonialwaren
Menekestrasse 7, D-10719 Berlin, Tel.: 8833321


Day 1    Day 2

Panel guidelines:

  • Panelists: all speakers of the previous two sessions and session chair
  • Goal: discussion and wrap-up, commonalities and inter-dependencies, highlights
  • Format: Q&A, opinions, positions
  • Relevant Posters: are assigned to each panel
  • Outcome: panel findings = short summary on consensus and open issues (session chair)
Invited speakers:
Dr., Prof. Imrich Chlamtac is the President of  CreateNet, holds the Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Professorship at the University of Texas at  Dallas, the Bruno Kessler Honorary Professorship from the University of  Trento, Italy and the incumbent Ohio Eminent Scholar at OSU. Dr. Chlamtac  holds the Sackler Professorship from Tel Aviv University, the University Professorship at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he has been a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Chlamtac is known as the inventor of the lighpath concept, key optical  technology for optical WDM networking and author of the fundamental  concepts of multihop ad-hoc networking.  Dr. Chlamtac is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, and winner of the 2001 ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the 2002 IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless Personal  Communications. Dr. Chlamtac published over three hundred and fifty refereed journal and conference articles and is  the co-author of four books including the first textbook on LAN-s entitled "Local Networks "(1980) and "Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures", John Wiley& Sons, (2000), an IEEE Network Editor's choice. Dr. Chlamtac is also the founder and past Chair of ACM Sigmobile, and of various leading conferences in networking including Mobicom, OptiComm, Mobiquitous, Broadnets, and Wiopt. Dr. Chlamtac  serves as the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/URSI/Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM/Kluwer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET).

Dr., Prof. Alexander Fradkov is IEEE Fellow, IFAC member, etc. he is the Head of the Laboratory of Complex Systems Control of the Institute for the Problems of Mechanical Engineering of Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He is also a part time professor with the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of St.Petersburg State University (Dept. of Theoretical Cybernetics). His research interests are in fields of nonlinear and adaptive control, control of oscillatory and chaotic systems and computer-aided control systems design with applications to mechanical systems. He is also working in the boundary field between Physics and Control (Cybernetical Physics).  He  co-authored more than 350 journal and conference papers, 10 patents, 15 books and textbooks (more).

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