IEEE - Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Call for Papers - Special Issue on
Technologies that promote computational intelligence, openness and
programmability in networks and Internet services
Guest Editors:
* W. Pedrycz (Univ. of Alberta, Canada),
* A. Vasilakos (Hellenic Aerospace Industry,S.A.),
* S. Karnouskos (Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Germany)
Publication: Winter 2002
The Internet has witnessed the last years a rapid increase in its
popularity, by offering new services to its users. However the increased
complexity of the systems, the growing needs for flexibility,
fault-tolerance, higher quality of service, interoperability, security,
reduced time-to-market service introduction and personalization, demand the
development of sophisticated technologies that are capable of dealing
effectively with these challenges.
Active and programmable networking aims at easing the introduction of new
network services by adding dynamic programmability to network devices and
making aspects of the programmability accessible to third-party vendors and
users via open interfaces. Open and programmable network elements are
redefining network software architectures and move control and management
systems away from traditional closed/rigid solutions.
Computational Intelligence (CI) is viewed as a synergy of technologies of
granular computing (especially fuzzy sets), neural networks and
evolutionary computing has become an ideal design vehicle supporting the
design of intelligent systems. In this capacity, the role of CI in the
development of the sophisticated network architectures is profound. The
main objective of this special issue of the IEEE T-SMC Journal is to act as
a channel that brings the ideas of CI to the network area in a systematic,
coherent and comprehensive fashion.
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality original papers dealing with
various theoretical and practical issues dealing with Computational
Intelligence, active networking, intelligent mobile agents,
openness/portability/interoperability of services, middleware for
intelligent service creation, deployment and management of new network
applications etc.
Within the context of this special issue, topics of particular interest
include but are not limited to:
* Active and Programmable Networks
* Service creation platforms and enabling technologies
* Telecommunication Network Architectures
* Communications Security, Privacy and Manageability
* Integrated Services
* Dynamic, data-driven application systems
* Service dissemination and discovery protocols
* Programming paradigms, applications, and requirements for
active grids
* Nomadic User Support and management
* Web based systems and services
* Global Service Portability
* Emerging Technologies and directions
* Internet & Telecom applications and services
* Neural Networks
* Fuzzy Logic
* Genetic Algorithms & Programming
* Data Mining Techniques
* Adaptive Computing Systems
* Knowledge Based Systems
* Hybrid Intelligent Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: 1st July 2002
Acceptance decision: 30th Oct 2002
Final paper due: 31st Dec 2002
Publication date: Winter 2002
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit full papers, following the templates
available from the publisher in electronic form (PDF preferred) to
the Guest Editor at the following address:
Prof. Witold Pedrycz
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Alberta
Edmonton T6R 2G7 Canada
Or to send an electronic copy via e-mail or the URL from where the file
can be downloaded, to any of the guest editors:
* W. Pedrycz pedrycz@ee.ualberta.ca,
* A. Vasilakos vasilako@ath.forthnet.gr,
* S. Karnouskos karnouskos@fokus.fhg.de.
Please include keywords identifying the main topic of your paper.
Full details of submission or further information are available from the
journal's web site http://www.isye.gatech.edu/ieee-smc.
This CFP is also available in HTML, PDF and plain
text format from http://www.fokus.fhg.de/usr/karnouskos/private/cfp/smc/
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