ICIN 2012 – Call for Papers

• Important Dates
• Event Format
• Topics of Interest
• Conference Scope
• Submission Instructions

Important Dates

Event Format

ICIN 2012 will include keynote presentations from industry leaders, providing insights into strategic thinking within the communications industry, as well as panel sessions providing the opportunity for interactive debate with invited experts. The conference traditionally includes tutorials and workshops given by leading authorities to introduce delegates to key technical issues. Proposals for tutorials or workshops should be submitted to the chairman of the Technical Programme Committee by the Paper Submission deadline.

The regular technical paper programme will again be strengthened by a combined Poster and Demonstration session. This is a further opportunity for presenting late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. Posters and demos aim at providing authors and attendees with an even greater opportunity to gather and to discuss technical issues about their work.

Poster/Demonstration style and lecture style presentations are two equally important and valuable methods for presenting papers at ICIN 2012.

Topics of Interest

ICIN 2012 seeks original and unpublished contributions of either technical research reports, results of field trials, or in-depth analysis of business models in, but not limited to, the following areas:

Conference Scope

The mission of the ICIN series of conferences is to provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results on evolving information and communications services.

ICIN addresses the challenges of design, deployment, delivery, and management of services and multimedia applications over different platforms and diverse networks from both technical and business perspectives.

The primary focus of ICIN 2012 is voice, data or multimedia services for enterprises or consumers that make use of capabilities in the operator network. These are becoming increasingly important as the telecom industry transforms itself to meet the challenges and grasp the opportunities presented by OTT players and social networks.

Profound changes are occurring in the way users consume communication services. And the current explosion in data traffic is not only stressing networks to their limits but is also causing operators to lose control of their customers’ service experience.

But as networks migrate to an all-IP environment, operators are beginning to exploit their unique assets such as security, identity management, privacy and quality of service to provide high-value services, including cloud computing services, which create real differentiation building on users' trust. Guaranteed end-to-end quality of experience is the goal – spanning all aspects of the value chain and through collaboration with OTT players and device manufacturers.

Submission Instructions

Submissions should be original, previously unpublished work that is either technical or business oriented and not currently under review by other conferences or publications. Commercial presentations will be automatically rejected.

The Technical Papers track at ICIN 2012 requires the submission of full papers (rather than the extended abstracts that were required for previous events).

The Poster/Demonstration track at ICIN 2012 requires the submission of extended abstracts of between 1000 and 1500 words. Extended abstracts should include relevant figures and tables describing results and should indicate how the manuscript will evolve into a final paper.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through the EDAS system at http://edas.info/N11703. A short (50 word) abstract is requested on registration of the submission. A full paper should then be uploaded for review by the ICIN 2012 Technical Programme Committee.

All submissions must be written in English with a maximum paper length of eight (8) printed pages (10-point font) including tables, figures and references and must use standard IEEE two-column conference templates that can be downloaded from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTemplates.html. Final manuscripts should be prepared using the most current version of Microsoft Word to help reduce word-to-pdf conversion issues such as embedded fonts, bookmarks, etc. A PDF conversion facility will be provided. Submitted PDFs must not include page numbers or headers/footers and must have non-zero top and bottom margins (typically, at least 0.5 inches).

Papers submitted to ICIN are peer reviewed, on average, by more than 15 different reviewers and assessed on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of expression and interest to a wide audience. Submissions may be accepted for oral presentation, demo/poster or panel sessions. All presentation formats have equal status and all papers presented at the conference will appear in the conference proceedings.

Acceptance of papers can be conditional subject to revisions required as a result of reviewers' comments. Accepted authors will be invited to submit a final paper taking account of feedback provided for inclusion in the conference proceedings by 30 July. Session chairmen may recommend rejection of final papers that do not take account of reviewers' requirements and expectations in an acceptable manner. The TPC reserves the right to remove such papers from the programme.

Accepted papers should be presented at the conference by one of the authors. An author of an accepted paper is required to complete paid registration at full (member or non-member) rate for the conference prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. There is no refund for cancellation but substitutions may be made at any time prior to the event. Speakers must register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate even if they are a student. Each speaker can present one paper in the programme.

Failure to complete paid speaker registration before the deadline of 30 July 2012 will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the conference programme and the proceedings. ICIN Events also reserves the right to exclude a paper from the programme and from the conference proceedings and from distribution after the conference if the paper is not presented at the conference.

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