CALL FOR PAPERS Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks Guest Editors: George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean) Iakovos Venieris (National Technical University of Athens ) Nikolaos Anerousis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ) Sokrates Katsikas (University of the Aegean ) PUBLICATION: FALL 2005 The identification of a flexible, efficient, dependable, and secure middleware will be one of the most important milestones for next generation networks. In this context, the research and industrial networking community have started to shape the form of the Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM). As it appears in the international literature, NGNM will be open and programmable, thus enabling various different network operators and service providers to incorporate in the middleware their own algorithms for security, billing, routing, etc. Furthermore, NGNM will be Grid-enabled, thus it will support advanced grid functions for resource discovery and brokering, security, load balancing, QoS provision in multiple layers, etc. Still, NGNM has to be developed, integrated, and used successfully over an all-IP networking environment with an increasing number of real-world networked application domains (including telecom/security systems, desktop/corporate applications, e-commerce services, etc) covering a plethora of different emerging networking technologies, protocols, algorithms, functions and mediums. Concerted R&D efforts will lead to the evolution of NGNM, which will yield to the provision of personalized next-generation multimedia services/applications, each one with different traffic characteristics and networking requirements for security, billing, QoS (Quality of Service), mobility, etc. in an efficient and economical usage of network resources. This special issue of Computer Communications is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identification of the networking middleware, which will govern the next generation networks. Both the NGNM requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e. networking, middleware and application level) will be presented and analyzed. Articles for this special issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. The special issue will also accommodate after an in-depth second review of some extended versions of papers presented at the 1st international workshop on “Next Generation Networking Middleware” (NGNM04). Topics of interest include but not limited to: • Standards and APIs • Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring) • "Plug-and-Play" Components-Based Management • Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks • Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents • Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e. MPEG-21) • Grid-enabled Networking Middleware • Open-Source Networking Software • Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies • Security and Performance Aspects of Middleware IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2005 Final papers due: June 1, 2005 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Guidelines on formatting the paper are given at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers to George Kormentzas. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files. Professor George Kormentzas Dept. of Information & Com. Systems Eng. University of the Aegean Greece Email: [email protected] Full details of submission or further information are available from the journal's web site (www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom), or from the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson ([email protected]). computer communications

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Emerging Middleware for Next Generation NetworksGuest Editors: George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean) Iakovos Venieris (National Technical University of Athens )Nikolaos Anerousis (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center ) Sokrates Katsikas (University of the Aegean )

PUBLICATION: FALL 2005

The identification of a flexible, efficient, dependable, and secure middleware will be one of the most important milestones for next generationnetworks. In this context, the research and industrial networking community have started to shape the form of the Next Generation NetworkingMiddleware (NGNM). As it appears in the international literature, NGNM will be open and programmable, thus enabling various different net-work operators and service providers to incorporate in the middleware their own algorithms for security, billing, routing, etc. Furthermore,NGNM will be Grid-enabled, thus it will support advanced grid functions for resource discovery and brokering, security, load balancing, QoSprovision in multiple layers, etc. Still, NGNM has to be developed, integrated, and used successfully over an all-IP networking environmentwith an increasing number of real-world networked application domains (including telecom/security systems, desktop/corporate applications,e-commerce services, etc) covering a plethora of different emerging networking technologies, protocols, algorithms, functions and mediums.Concerted R&D efforts will lead to the evolution of NGNM, which will yield to the provision of personalized next-generation multimedia ser-vices/applications, each one with different traffic characteristics and networking requirements for security, billing, QoS (Quality of Service),mobility, etc. in an efficient and economical usage of network resources.

This special issue of Computer Communications is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identificationof the networking middleware, which will govern the next generation networks. Both the NGNM requirements and expectations from variousperspectives (i.e. networking, middleware and application level) will be presented and analyzed. Articles for this special issue will be solicitedthrough an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. The special issue will also accommodate after an in-depth secondreview of some extended versions of papers presented at the 1st international workshop on “Next Generation Networking Middleware”(NGNM04). Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Standards and APIs • Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring) • "Plug-and-Play" Components-Based Management • Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks• Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents• Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e. MPEG-21)• Grid-enabled Networking Middleware• Open-Source Networking Software• Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies• Security and Performance Aspects of Middleware

IMPORTANT DATESDeadline for submissions: December 1, 2004Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2005Final papers due: June 1, 2005

SUBMISSION GUIDELINESGuidelines on formatting the paper are given at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers toGeorge Kormentzas. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files.

Professor George KormentzasDept. of Information & Com. Systems Eng.University of the AegeanGreeceEmail: [email protected]

Full details of submission or further information are available from the journal's web site (www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom), orfrom the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson ([email protected]).

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