[Tccc] CfP - 7th ICQT'11 -Paper Registration deadline (May 6th) approaching fast!

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Call for Papers

7th International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technologies 
(ICQT'11)
Associated Workshop of IEEE CNSM 2011
October 24, 2011, Paris, France
http://userver.ftw.at/ICQT/ICQT11.htm


Scope
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With the appearance of new technologies and new services, the nature of 
the economic stakes in the ICT (Information and Communication 
Technologies) sector is continually evolving. An illustration is the 
soaring number of providers who base their business models on publicity 
instead of bandwidth selling. Following the same tendency, the power 
relationships have radically changed in the last decade, between the 
providers offering connectivity, and those managing services and user 
identities (content providers, cloud computing providers, social networks).

While future business models and regulatory frameworks are still under 
discussion, the provision of efficient charging support for the variety 
of upcoming network technologies, including fixed networks, wireless 
access networks, and mobile user support, has become of paramount 
importance for realizing the economic potential of future convergent 
architectures and services.

The resulting combination of technical and economic perspectives drives 
many relevant research topics for application developers, business 
architects, network and service providers, and customers. Especially the 
identification of novel service charging solutions, the investigation 
and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of 
technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and 
efficient charging of services is of fundamental importance for the 
future evolution of the Internet and the telecommunications business in 
general, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT 
workshop series.

ICQT'11 is the seventh event in this series, following the highly 
successful ICQT workshops in Vienna 2001, Zurich 2002, Munich 2003, 
Barcelona 2004, St. Malo 2006, and Aachen 2009.



Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited 
by, the following list of topics:

* Telecommunication Economics
* Monitoring, measuring, and accounting
* Internet pricing, tarriffing and billing
* Network economics and economic models for the Internet
* Cost, business and competition models for providers
* Service charging models, including grid and web services
* Pricing mobile and wireless services
* Charging for QoS, QoE, and security
* Monitoring, measuring, and accounting
* Charging technologies for NGN and IMS
* Management of Service Level Agreements
* Inter-domain pricing approaches
* Network neutrality and charging
* Security mechanisms for charging and  accounting
* Regulatory and legal aspects of SLAs and contracts

Papers and submissions
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Full papers are solicited in English and of no more than 12 
single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full peer review 
process. Submissions should already follow the author's guidelines as 
specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word 
abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author 
should be identified, including name, position, mailing address, 
telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based 
submission of papers is mandatory.
Submissions should be made through the EasyChair submission system: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icqt11.

The conference proceedings will be published as hard-copy and 
electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, and will be available during 
the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow 
the LNCS guidelines strictly and without exception, including the 12 
page limit (for more details see 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Post-conference journal 
publication of selected papers is under preparation.



Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: May 13, 2011.  All papers have to be registered by 
May 6, 2011.

Author notification: July 13, 2011.

Camera ready version: August 12, 2011.
Workshop: October 24, 2011


Program Co-Chairs
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Johanne Cohen, Univ. Versailles, France
Patrick Maill?, Institut Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, France


Steering Committee
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Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria
Burkhard Stiller, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland
Bruno Tuffin, INRIA, France




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