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<p class="MsoPlainText"> --------------------Call for Papers ----------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The 2nd International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks (IWSRON-2014)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Hasselt, Belgium
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> 2-5 June, 2014
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Workshop Website: <a href="http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404/iwsron2014.htm">
http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404/iwsron2014.htm</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> *****************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">===============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Paper Submission: February1, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">- Camera-Ready Submission: April 4, 2014<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">The 2<sup>nd</sup> International Workshop on Survivable and Robust Optical Networks 2014 offers an opportunity for researchers and industrials to present their novel and innovative work concerning survivability,
reliability, and robustness in optical networks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">IWSRON-2014 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></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">IWSRON-2014 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium (June 2-5 2014) in conjunction with the 5<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies (<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/#homePage">ANT-2014</a>)
which draws many leading researchers in the field of networking.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">PUBLICATION<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">===============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="text-align:justify">All IWSRON-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted
on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed
by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your
proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>).. Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Topics of interest
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">QoS and QoE provisioning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Architectures to support SLA-based routing mechanisms
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Priority-aware mechanisms
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Dynamic and adaptive provisioning
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Survivability and robustness
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Architectures to support GMPLS networks
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Optimization in resource allocation and wavelength assignment
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Dynamic SLA negotiation infrastructure
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Protection and restoration techniques
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Passive optical networks
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Green communications and networks
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Technical Program Committee
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<p class="MsoPlainText" style="line-height:105%">===============<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Ali Nafarieh, Dalhousie University, Canada (chair)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Muhammad Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada (co-chair)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Bill Robertson, Dalhousie University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Bill Phillips, Dalhousie University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Jacek Ilow, Dalhousie University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Nauman Aslam, Northumbira University, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Frank Comeau, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Vasilis Friderikos, Kings College London, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Dominic O'Brien, University of Oxford, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Salah Obayya, University of Glamorgan, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Asad Hussain, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Maen Artimy, Internetworking Atlantic Inc., Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Saqib Rasool, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Chair: Dr. Ali Nafarieh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Email:
<a href="mailto:ali.nafarieh@dal.ca">ali.nafarieh@dal.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Web:
<a href="http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404">http://myweb.dal.ca/al554404</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Tel: +1 902-494-2057
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