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CfP: Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'01), Vienna, Austria, September 26-28, 2001


                            Call for Papers

         Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'01)
                     Workshop of "Informatik 2001"
                    URL: http://www.ftw.at/~icqt01

              Part of the GI and OCG General Annual Meeting
                  Vienna, Austria, September 26-28, 2001
                    URL: http://www.informatik2001.at


Within the emerging area of Network Economy, an explicit view on the
integration of technological and economic aspects for Internet services
provisioning is essential for achieving a better understanding of
today's
dramatic changes and close-ups between Internet technology and economics
in the field of networking.

While the access to the Internet has become a commodity, Internet
Service
Providers (ISP) need to be able to differentiate their service offerings
for a competitive market situation, based on Internet Quality-of-Service
(QoS) technology as well as value-added Internet services. To enable
market
managed networking, appropriate technology must be in place, both on
end-user
and provider side, and suitable management mechanisms as well as
policies
must be available transparently. In addition, the integrated handling of
efficient security means for charging systems is able to promote user
acceptance for resulting technology solutions.

This workshop intends to provide a platform for the presentation and
discussion of highly significant approaches and ideas on charging
Internet
services and their economic effects on an open Internet services market.
Its main focus is directed towards modelling, implementation, and
experiences
of Internet charging technology. With this respect, it covers Internet
services and QoS suppport, application pricing and tariffing, 
accounting and billing tasks, Service Level Agreements (SLA) and 
their management, and
business models for ISPs and Application Service Providers (ASP) as well
as the future of bandwidth exchange schemes in the Internet backbone.

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to,
the following ones:

- Internet Charging Technology
- Internet Pricing and Tariffing
- Internet Accounting and Billing Tasks
- Internet Service Level Agreements and their Management
- Economy-based Policy Management Mechanisms
- Security Mechanisms for Charging Systems
- Internet Service Characterizations
- Light-weight Transaction Support
- QoS Support Mechanisms for the Internet
- QoS Models for Mobile IP
- ISP Business Models
- Internet Bandwidth Exchange Models
- Application Service Provider Models


Papers and Submissions

Papers are solicited as full papers (in German or English), ranging from
6 to 8 pages single-spaced, each of which will be subject to a full
review
process. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory,
please
check the URL http://www.ftw.at/~icqt01 for further submission
instructions
or contact mailto:icqt01@ftw.at for additional information.


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:   30.4.2001
Notification of acceptance:  20.6.2001
Camera-ready papers due:     20.7.2001


PC Co-chairs

Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zurich, TIK, Switzerland
Martin Karsten, TU Darmstadt, KOM, Germany
Peter Reichl, FTW, Vienna, Austria


Program Committee

Joern Altmann, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Kurt Bauknecht, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Winfried Lamersdorf, Universitaet Hamburg, Germany
Helmut Leopold, Telekom Austria, Austria
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, LMU München, Germany
Bjoern Rupp, Arthur D. Little, Berlin, Germany
Harald Orlamuender, Alcatel SEL, Stuttgart, Germany
Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Harmen R. van As, TU Wien, Austria
Thorsten Wichmann, Berlecon Research, Berlin, Germany
Lars Wolf, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Ziegler, FTW, Vienna, Austria
Urs Zurfluh, Advantis AG, Zuerich, Switzerland
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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