CFP: IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1 The IFIP 14th International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems Berlin, Germany, March 19 - 22, 2002

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

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 |  |   |    |  |   |  ||\  /|  IFIP TC 6 / WG 6.1
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on
 |  |__  __| |  |__ |__||    |  Testing of Communicating Systems
                                Berlin, Germany, March, 19th - 22nd,
2002

               - Testing Internet Technologies and Services -

              http://www.fokus.gmd.de/events/testcom2002

                    Proceedings to be published by Kluwer



SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
TestCom denotes a series of international working conferences on testing
communicating systems in the datacom and telecom domain. The conference
will provide a forum for researchers, vendors and users to review,
discuss
and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the field of
testing of communicating systems. The conference will consist of
tutorial
sessions on the first day, followed by presentations of reviewed and
invited papers, demonstrations of tools, and panel and discussion
sessions.

This conference will, in particular, encourage exchange and discussion
of
concepts and practices in testing Internet related systems, services and
protocols.

The conference will be held in Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
and
Humanities at the beautiful historic place in Berlin - the
Gendarmenmarkt.

The IFIP 14th International Conference on Testing of Communicating
Systems
(TestCom?2002) is organized by GMD FOKUS, the German Research Institute
for
Open Communication Systems, and by BTU Cottbus, the Brandenburg
University
of Technology at Cottbus.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
include, but are not restricted to
- Types of testing: Conformance testing, Interoperability testing,
  Performance testing, Scalability testing, Robustness testing,
  Regression testing
- Phases of testing: Test case generation, Test selection and
  management, Test setup and execution, Test coverage and results
  analysis
- Classes of systems to be tested: Internet protocols and services,
  Internet and IN, Internet and UMTS, Active networks, Ad-hoc networks,
  Middleware platforms, Multimedia systems, E-commerce systems
- Theory and Practise of testing: Theoretical frameworks, Test
  specification, Test derivation, validation and analysis, Applications
  of testing theory, Industrial testing experience, Test standards,
  Test tools

SEVERAL TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS are solicited
- Full papers - research or practice results
  (no more than 16 pages)
- Position statements - work in progress/experience reports
  (no more than 5 pages)
- Tool demonstration proposals
- Tutorial proposals

Only original papers, i.e. not submitted nor published elsewhere, shall
be submitted. We strongly encourage submission papers in Postscript/
PDF format according to Kluwer style instructions available at
http://www.wkap.com/itip/styles

Please make use of e-mail submission: testcom2002-papers@fokus.gmd.de

All accepted full papers will be published by Kluwer.


IMPORTANT DATES
September 8th, 2001    Submission deadline for regular papers
                       and tutorials
October 26th, 2001     Notification of acceptance
November 23rd, 2001    Camera-ready copies
January 15th, 2002     Submission deadline for position statements
                       and tools demonstrations

FURTHER INFORMATION
GMD FOKUS Web site   http://www.fokus.gmd.de/events/testcom2002
IFIP Web site        http://www.ifip.or.at/
For questions        testcom2002-org@fokus.gmd.de
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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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