The Eleventh INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 15-17, 2012 at the Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL. In the tradition of the previous “Boca” conferences, the Eleventh Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies.
Topics for the Conference include, but are not limited to:
Telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network design, algorithms, optimization, network economics and techno-economics, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, pricing, quality of service, Internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks.
Guidelines for submission:
Three kinds of submissions are invited: proposals for (i) an organized session with multiple presentations, (ii) a single presentation, and (iii) a tutorial presentation. An extended abstract in PDF is required for each talk (whether it is a single presentation or part of an organized session).
Proposals for organized sessions and tutorials can be submitted by email directly to one of the program co-chairs (see below) for a quick decision. All single presentation abstracts must be submitted via the online submission system (available soon at http://www.informs.org/Community/Telecom).
Conference volume:
Conference participants will be eligible to submit papers based on their presentations for a special issue of Netnomics featuring select papers from the conference.
Important dates:
December 30, 2011: Doctoral dissertation award (see opposite page for details) January 9, 2012: Session, tutorial, and single abstract submission deadline January 16, 2012: Acceptance notification
Conference Committee:
Conference Chair:
Eli Olinick Southern Methodist University olinick@smu.edu
Program Co-Chairs: Luis Gouveia University of Lisboa legouveia@fc.ul.pt
Mauricio G. C. Resende AT&T Labs Research mgcr@research.att.com