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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Colleagues and Students,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv1731769078ecxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We would like to invite you to contribute to the International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks held in Halifax, Canada in June 25-28, 2013 and would appreciate if you could give the largest diffusion to this invitation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv1731769078ecxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Please feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues and researchers in the Electrical and computer Engineering, Computer Science, and IT Departments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=yiv1731769078ecxmsonormal style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735'>International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735'>IWSRON 2013, June 25-28<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735'>Halifax, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks 2013 <b><span style='color:#953735'>(</span></b></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404/iwsron2013.html"><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>IWSRON 2013</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>) is intended to present recent research developments in optical network architectures and design. The workshop solicits papers on both completed work and work-in-progress. Papers that bring out new and interesting approaches at an early stage of their development are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>IWSRON 2013 will be held in <b><span style='color:#953735'>Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (25-28 June 2013)</span></b><span style='color:#953735'> </span>in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-13/#homePage"><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>ANT 2013</span></b></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>) which draws many leading researchers in the field of networking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if 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style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Optical network architectures to support SLA-based routing mechanisms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Priority-aware mechanisms for optical networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Dynamic and adaptive provisioning mechanisms over optical networks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New 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Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Optical network architectures to support traffic engineering strategies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span dir=LTR></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Optical network architectures for cloud computing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times 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style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>All IWSRON 2013 accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by <b>Elsevier Science </b>in the open-access <b>Procedia Computer Science</b> series on-line.</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Important Dates</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#953735;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Submission due: December 8, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Notification of acceptance: February 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'>Camera-ready due: March 15, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA'><o:p> 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