): First Conference Announcement
The day before the Conference (26th April 1999)
an Industrial Agent Workshop, organised by ACTS
CLIMATE (Cluster for Intelligent Mobile Agents for
Telecommunication Environments), will be held at the North
Campus of the UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), in
Barcelona. The Workshop will be dealing with experiences in the
usage of agent platforms and design of agent-based applications,
and trying to solve the question: Is agent technology ready to
use in business?
More information see ACTS
CLIMATE
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Conference registration fees (prices in
EUROs ):
Advance Until 15th April, 1999 |
Late After 15th April, 1999 |
|
Regular |
450 |
540 |
University member |
350 |
420 |
First day entrance |
150 |
180 |
Extra banquet ticket |
60 |
60 |
The full conference fee includes admission to
the technical sessions and showcase, proceedings, reception,
refreshment breaks, lunches and gala dinner.
The full conference registration fee for speakers will have a
discount of 10%.
The first day entrance does not include the gala dinner.
Registration form in RTF (MS-WORD) or text format.
Return only by fax the registration form to:
Mrs. Mercè Calvet
Dept. Arquitectura de Computadors
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Jordi Girona, 1-3. Mòdul D6
E-08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Fax: (+34) 93 401 70 55
If you have any problem please send an e-mail to ISN99 address: isn99@ac.upc.es
Payment
Two options are available:
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or 
In order to facilite your arrangements for accommodation please find enclosed a list of suggested hotels and prices (in ESP).
HOTEL LIST: (The prices do not include 7% VAT)
Name & Category |
Address |
Price (ESP) |
Breakfast |
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| Single room | Double room | |||
| Ritz * * * * * | Gran Vía, 668 08010 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 318 52 00 Fax: (+34) 93 318 01 48 |
25.500 | 30.400 | 2.450 |
| Hilton BCN * * * * * | Avda.
Diagonal, 589-591 08014 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 495 77 88 Fax: (+34) 93 495 77 89 |
24.500 | 28.000 | 2.400 |
| Avenida Palace * * * * | Gran Vía, 605-607 08007 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 301 96 00 Fax: (+34) 93 318 12 34 |
17.500 | 21.750 | 1.700 |
| Barcelona * * * * | Caspe, 1-13 08010 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 302 58 58 Fax: (+34) 93 301 86 74 |
18.000 | 18.000 | 1.600 |
| L Illa * * * * | Avda. Diagonal, 555 08029 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 410 33 00 Fax: (+34) 93 410 88 92 |
18.500 | 21.500 | 1.500 |
| Barceló Hotel Sants * * * * | Pl.
Països Catalans, s/n Estació de Sants 08014 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 490 95 95 Fax: (+34) 93 490 60 45 |
17.000 | 19.000 | Included |
| Covadonga * * * | Avda. Diagonal, 596 08021 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 209 55 11 Fax: (+34) 93 209 58 33 |
9.500 | 11.000 | Included |
| Wilson * * * | Avda. Diagonal, 568 08021 Barcelona Tel.: (+34) 93 209 25 11 Fax: (+34) 93 200 83 70 |
13.000 | 13.000 | 950 |
The applications for accommodations should be
sent directly to the hotels by fax and please indicate the
reference: "ISN99".
Please add your credit card number to guarantee your
booking and please ask for a confirmation from the hotel.
We strongly recommend making the hotel reservations as soon as possible since Barcelona is expected to be very busy during the conference days.
For more information about Barcelona check its Web.
The conference will be held in:.
Telefónica Auditorium Avda. Roma, 73 Conference Venue 08029 Barcelona Underground Station (Metro) Sants Train Station
The conference site can be easily reached by public transportation. From the airport, train and bus are available to Sants Train Station (10 minutes walk to the Auditorium).
All Sessions will be held in the room "Auditorium", except those parallel sessions named B, that will be held in room "Barcelona 92".
Keynote Speakers and topics list:
| Ahmed Karmouch, University of Ottawa (Canada) | -"Multimedia Mobile Software Agents on Internet" |
| Bernd Kowalski, Deutsche Telekom AG (Germany) | -"The Key Role of Certificates & Smartcards for Electronic Commerce" |
| Masayoshi Ejiri, Fujitsu Ltd. (Japan) | -"Competitive Telecommunications Management in 2.000" |
| F. Javier Carrasco, Telefónica I+D (Spain) | -"Trends in the Evolution of Intelligent Networks" |
| Paul Van Binst, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) | -"New Methods of Work: Reshaping our Society" |
The Showcase takes place on the first day of the conference, Tuesday 27th April 1999.
Industrial exhibitors will show products and services in network management systems, intelligent networks, distributed object technologies, agent technologies, on-demand services, and security.
On the Showcase day there will be two half hour conference coffee breaks, and drinks will be served in the exhibition area following the afternoon conference session. A flyer will be distributed to all conference delegates, and a poster put on display, giving information about the exhibiting companies and products or projects. The exhibition area is adjacent to the conference room.
The following companies already confirmed their participation Cinderella (Denmark), IKV++ (Germany), Media Technology Group (Spain), Telelogic (Sweden), TeleManagement Forum (TMF) (USA), Telscom-Wipro Infotech (Switzerland), UH Communications (Denmark) and Deutsche Telekom Berkom (Germany).
Furthermore, several ACTS and ESPRIT projects, such as AgentLink, CAMELEON, CLIMATE, InfoBridge, MISA and TOSCA will also participate.
Space in the Showcase is free provided that your company or project registers at least two delegates in the Conference.
The paper receiving the best rating in the review will receive a symbolic gift during the cocktail on 28th (19:00) at Telefónica.
Steering Committee
| Chairman | Alvin Mullery,
(ICEurope, France) |
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| Mario Campolargo,
(European Commission, Belgium) |
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| Jaime Delgado,
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
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| Han Zuidweg,
(Alcatel Research, Belgium) |
Technical programme committee (TPC)
| Chairman | Han Zuidweg,
(Alcatel Research, Belgium) |
Organising Committee
| Chairman | Jaime Delgado,
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
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| Local Organisation | Germán Santos,
(Telefónica, Spain) |
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| Isabel Gallego,
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
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| José Polo,
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
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| Conference Manager | Jaime Delgado,
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) |
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| Industrial Showcase Manager | Michael Griffith,
(TeleCommunities Ltd, UK) |
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| Sathya Rao,
(Telscom AG, Switzerland) |
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| Publicity Manager |
TPC Odinary Members
| Stefano Antoniazzi
(Italtel, I) E. Athanassiou (DeTeBerkom, D) Rob Brennan (Teltec, IRL) Stefan Covaci (GMD Fokus, D) Jaime Delgado (UPC, E) Sofoklis Efremidis (Intracom, GR) Nigel Jefferies (Vodafone, UK) Jens Kristensen (EC, B) Thomas Magedanz (IKV++, D) Ahmed Patel (U. College Dublin, IRL) |
Reinhard
Posch (Graz U. of Techn., A) Martin Potts (ASPA, CH) Rick Reed (TSE, UK) Pierre Rodier (ICEurope, F) Simone Sedillot (INRIA, F) Keith Start (Orca Research, UK) Alan Steventon (BT, UK) Sebastiano Trigilia (FUB, I) Fabrizio Zizza (Italtel, I) |
TPC Correspondong Members
| Alessandro Barbagli
(EC, B) Kyriakos Baxevanidis (EC, B) Stephane Beauvais (Softwire, F) Hendrik Berndt (TINA-C, US) Vincent Bic (SUN, F) Wiet Bouma (KPN Research, NL) Brian Byrnes (Object Design, UK) Mikael Ek (Telelogic, S) Takeyuki Endo (Hitachi, JP) Dieter Gantenbein (IBM, CH) Alex Galis (UCL, UK) Takeo Hamada (Fujitsu, JP) Per Fly Hansen (TeleDanmark, DK) Kristofer Kimbler (Lund University, S) Patricia Lago (Politecnico Torino, I) |
Dirk Lecluse
(WTCM/CRIF Belgium, B) Juha Lipiainen (Nokia, SF) Julio López (Ericsson, E) Claudio Maristany (Telecom Arg., ARG) Sean Martin (Cambridge Consult., UK) Kathleen Milsted (France Telecom, F) David Muldowney (Broadcom, IRL) Declan O'Sullivan (Iona Techno., IRL) George Pavlou (Univ. Surrey, UK) Kimmo Raatikainen (U. Helsinki, SF) Sathya Rao (Telscom AG, CH) Munir Tag (Sema Group, F) Anh Hoang Van (CNET, F) Hans Vanderstraeten (Alcatel,B) Dong Sik Yun (Korea Telecom, KOR) |
