CALL FOR PAPERS
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Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services (SoFAST-WS'15)

Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/sofast-ws
E-mail: sofast-ws2015@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SoFAST-WS 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly).

The topics discussed during the SoFAST-WS symposium include different aspects of network systems, applications and service computing. The primary objective of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners analyzing, developing and administering network systems, with particular emphasis on Internet systems. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications in the field.

TOPICS
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Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Architecture, scalability and security of Open API solutions,
- Technical and social aspects of Open API and open data,
- Service delivery platforms - architecture and applications,
- Telecommunication operators API exposition in Telco 2.0 model,
- The applications of intelligent techniques in network systems,
- Mobile applications,
- Network-based computing systems,
- Network and mobile GIS platforms and applications,
- Computer forensic,
- Network security,
- Anomaly and intrusion detection,
- Traffic classification algorithms and techniques,
- Network traffic engineering,
- High-speed network traffic processing,
- Heterogeneous cellular networks,
- Wireless communications,
- Security issues in Cloud Computing,
- Network aspects of Cloud Computing,
- Control of networks,
- Standards for Web services,
- Semantic Web services,
- Context-aware Web services,
- Composition approaches for Web services,
- Security of Web services,
- Software agents for Web services composition,
- Supporting SWS Deployment,
- Architectures for SWS Deployment,
- Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government,
- Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS,
- SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography,
- Ontologies and Languages for Service Description,
- Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling,
- Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes,
- Composition of Semantic Web Services,
- Innovative network applications, systems and services.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s). The publication in the following journals is already arranged:
- Informatica
- Teleinformatics Review
The best papers may be published in the special issues arranged by other conferences of iNetSApp group (subject to topic compliance and the approval of the chairs of the remaining conferences). Possible journals already arranged in cooperation with other conferences are:
- Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (ISI indexed)
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
- Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology
- Studia Informatica Universalis

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 24, 2015
- Position paper submission: June 1, 2015
- Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015
- Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015
- Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Furtak, Janusz, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Grzenda, Maciej, Orange Labs Poland and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Legierski, Jarosław, Orange Labs Poland, Poland
- Luckner, Marcin, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Szmit, Maciej, Orange Labs Poland, Poland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Benslimane, Sidi Mohammed, University of Sidi Bel-Abb?s, Algeria
- Chojnacki, Andrzej, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Cocucci, Osvaldo, Orange Labs Products & Services, France
- Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- García-Domínguez, Antonio, University of Cádiz, Spain
- Gibert, Philippe, Orange Labs Products and Services, France
- Kaczmarski, Krzysztof, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Katakis, Ioannis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Kiedrowicz, Maciej, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Korbel, Piotr, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
- Kowalczyk, Emil, Orange Labs, Poland
- Kowalski, Andrzej, Orange Labs, Poland
- López Nores, Martín, University of Vigo, Spain
- Maamar, Zakaria, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
- Macukow, Bohdan, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
- Misztal, Michal, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Nowicki, Tadeusz, Military University of Technology, Poland
- Richomme, Morgan, Orange Labs, France
- Wrona, Konrad, NATO Consultation, Netherlands
- Zieliński, Zbigniew, Military University of Technology
- Żorski, Witold, Military University of Technology, Poland

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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