CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

April 4 - 8, 2016, Pisa, Italy

 

TRACK ON NETWORKING (NET)

http://www.di.ubi.pt/sac2016/

 

 

SAC 2016

 

For the past thirty years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/

 

 

TRACK ON NETWORKING

A special track on Networking will be held at SAC 2016. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in any aspects of computer communications, networks and services. Original and unpublished papers and tutorials (half or full day) are invited in all areas of networking. The Track will emphasize the design, implementation, management and applications of computer communications, networks and services. Topics of mostly theoretical nature are also welcome, provided there is clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

 

·       Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

·       Addressing and Location Management

·       Congestion and Flow Control

·       Content and Information Centric Networks

·       Datacenters and Cloud Computing

·       Energy Efficient Network Infrastructure

·       Green Communications

·       Internet Services and Applications

·       Machine to Machine Communications

·       Middleware Support for Networking

·       Mobile and Wireless Networks

·       Mobile Clouds

·       Multimedia Communications

·       Network Architectures

·       Network Control and Management

·       Network Forensics

·       Network Performance

·       Network Protocols

·       Network Measurement

·       Network Security and Privacy

·       Optical Networks

·       Quality of Service and Quality of Experience

·       Resource Allocation and Management

·       Routing and Switching

·       Scheduling and Buffer Management

·       Self-organizing Networks

·       Social Computing and Networks

·       Software Defined Networks

·       Survivability, Network Management and Fault Tolerance

·       Traffic Classification

·       Ubiquitous Networks

·       Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

·       Virtual and Overlay Networks

 

 

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Original and unpublished papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. The file format should be PDF. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate double blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Papers must be formatted according to the template which is available at the SAC 2016 website. Paper size is limited to six pages (covered by registration fee) plus two additional pages (at extra charge), being the total of eight pages maximum according to the above mentioned template. For papers accepted as posters, the length is three pages covered by registration fee plus one additional page (at extra charge), being the total of four pages maximum. A few key words should be provided. A paper cannot be sent to more than one track. Original manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format through the conference web site:

Online Submission Procedure

 

Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library.

For any other question regarding this Track, please contact the Chairs at sac2016@di.ubi.pt

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

September 28, 2015: Paper Submission Deadline (extended)

November 13, 2015: Author Notification
December 11, 2015: Camera-Ready Paper Due

 

 

STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (SRC) PROGRAM

The SAC 2016 SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2016 Tracks. This program is open for graduate students currently enrolled in University or College and have active ACM and SIGAPP student membership. Abstracts must be authored by students only. Faculty advisor(s) cannot be listed as authors on the submission or on the final poster presentation. No group projects are allowed. The work must not be submitted to any another SRC program, journal or conference while it is under consideration for SAC 2016 SRC Program. Students are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format) of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in the above areas covered by the Track on Networking. Accepted abstracts are limited to 2 pages in ACM camera-ready format, no additional pages. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. The abstracts are reviewed by reviewers who review paper submissions to that track. The Track Chairs (TCs) manage the review process. Upon the review results, The SRC Chair and Program Committee select the best abstracts and invite their authors to participate in SAC 2016. For more details, please visit SAC 2016 website (Student Research Competition). Student research abstracts can be submitted through the SAC 2016 webpage:

Online Submission Procedure

 

Important Dates for SRC Program:
September 28, 2015: SRC Abstract Submission (extended)
November 13, 2015: SRC Author Notification
December 11, 2015: SRC Camera-Ready Paper Due

 

 

TRACK CHAIRS

 

Mário M. Freire

Instituto de Telecomunicações
Department of Computer Science,
University of Beira Interior

Covilhã, Portugal

mario@di.ubi.pt

http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario

 

Marília Curado

Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra

Coimbra, Portugal

marilia@dei.uc.pt

https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/people/show/2122

 

Manuela Pereira

Instituto de Telecomunicações
Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior

Covilhã, Portugal

mpereira@di.ubi.pt

http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mpereira

 

Teresa Vazão

Dept Electrical & Computer Engineering, INESC ID/IST, University of Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

teresa.vazao@ist.utl.pt

http://cnm.tagus.inesc-id.pt/people/teresa-vazao

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Alessandro Finamore, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
Alicia Triviño-Cabrera, University of Malaga, Spain
Andrea Araldo, Telecom ParisTech, France
Baobing Wang, Facebook HQ, USA
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Damien Magoni, University of Bordeaux, France
David Palma, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Fu Xiaoming, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
Fulvio Risso, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal
José Luís Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Leandro Vaguetti, Instituto Federal de  Brasília, Brazil
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Manuel Ricardo, University of Porto, Portugal
Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marco Roccetti, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marie-José Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
Nelson Fonseca, University of Campinas, Brazil
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Pedro Inácio, University of Beira Interior , Portugal
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
Ping Wang, Symantec Corporation, USA
Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
Qin Xin, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ricardo Lopes Pereira, INESC-ID/IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy
Rossitza Goleva, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland
Vinicius Borges, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil
Xavi Masip, Technical University of Cataluña, Spain
Yixi Gong, Telecom ParisTech, France
Zoubir Mammeri, Université Paul Sabatier, France