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International Symposium on Multidisciplinary

Autonomous Networks and Systems (MANS 2009)           

http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/

  to be held in conjunction with The Joint International Conference on ATC and UIC 2009 (http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~atc09/)

Brisbane, Australia, 7-10 July, 2009


Nowadays, computing and network systems, such as peer-to-peer, wireless ad hoc, sensor networks, and general overlay networks, are heterogeneous, dynamic and distributed environments managed by multiple administrative authorities, shared by users with different and competing interests, or even autonomously provided by independent and rational users. The distinguished feature in autonomous networks and systems is that each player determines its behaviors autonomously. "Design for choice" is the fundamental principle of autonomous networks and systems.

As computing and network systems gradually become the fundamental infrastructure of our information society, many multidisciplinary research topics emerge to reflect the features of our economics and society. As we know, in the research and application of autonomous networks and systems, only technical viewpoint is far away from sufficient, which has been proved by the dilemma of Internet QoS research and applications. More important, multidisciplinary perspectives and approaches will shed new light on various related issues in autonomous networks and systems, and foster new applications. For example, a social network over wireless ad hoc network can provide proximity based social computing, and may be one of killer applications in wireless ad hoc networks. In this direction, biology, psychology, economics (e.g., game theory), social network, and many other research fields can provide many helpful hints for autonomous networks and systems research.

Topics of Interest


Papers that illustrate new ideas, innovative research results, or survey works are solicited. Topics include but are not limited to the following:
  • Innovative models for autonomous networks and systems
  • Evolutionary principles of autonomous networks and systems
  • Bio-inspired information and communication systems
  • Economic concepts and mechanisms, and game theory
  • Emotional, and psychological computing
  • Complex adaptive systems, and self-organized systems
  • Web service, grid, cloud and transparent computing
  • Trust and reputation models and management
  • Privacy, security, ethics, culture, and anonymity issues
  • Mobile, Peer-to-Peer social networks and wireless ad hoc networks
  • Sensor networks and social sensing
  • Social search, and collaborative computing
  • Agents, and massive agents systems
  • Service science, management and engineering
  • u-Things, u-Science and u-Enginneering
  • Intelligent transportation systems, and safety-critical systems
  • Empirical studies of multidisciplinary approaches


    Symposium Organization


    General Chairs

    Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

    Hongbo Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Program Chairs

    Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan

    Steering Chair

    Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

    Publicity Chairs

    Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

    Xiaofei Liao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

    Roman Y. Shtykh, Waseda University, Japan

    Advisory Committee

    Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan

    Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

    Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, UK

    Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia

    Akira Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan

    Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

    PC Members (to be comfirmed)

    Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK

    Vipin Chaudhary, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

    Christophe Cerin, Universite Paris 13,France

    Tzung-Shi Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

    Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    Ping Du, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

    Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada

    Michael W. David, GISSET, Japan

    Thomas Grill, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

    Frank Golatowski, University of Rostock, Germany

    Daniela Godoy, UNICEN University, Argentina

    Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

    Runhe Huang, Hosei Unbiversity, Japan

    Hung-Chang Hsiao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

    Satoshi Ichimura, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

    Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA

    Liang-Teh Lee,Tatung University, Taiwan

    Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

    Zhengkun Mi, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Marcelo Keese Albertini, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Francisco Isidro Massetto, Polytechnic School - University of Sao Paulo

    Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy

    Victor Malyshkin, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences

    Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

    Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea

    Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

    Jung-Taek Seo, NSRI, The Attached Institute of ETRI, Korea

    Kenichi Takahashi, Institute of SITN, Japan

    Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada

    Alfredo Vaccaro, University of Sannio, Itali

    Wendong Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

    Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China

    Won Woo Ro, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

    Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

    Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

    Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

    Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, China


    IMPORTANT DATES


    Full paper submission: 15 February 2009 (Extended!)
    Acceptance notification: 25 March 2009 (Extended!)
    Camera-ready copy: 10 April 2009

    Website:


    http://jinlab.human.waseda.ac.jp/mans2009/


    Submission system:


    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mans2009


    Contact Info:


    Dr. Yufeng Wang

    mans09.org@gmail.com