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Call for Papers
OPTICS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
Scope

The purpose of OPTICS 2012, the International Conference on Optical Communication Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on any of the optical communication components of an optical communication system, or the system itself. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.

Optical fiber is currently the main means for high-rate transmission in communication networks. In the last years, there is a great deal of ongoing research efforts that span the entire protocol stack of optical networks, with representative areas being architecture of optical components, optoelectronics, wavelength routing, energy efficiency, Quality of Service, hybrid optical-wireless networks etc.

Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining optical technologies, electronic interfaces, and communication technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or network management, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of OPTICS, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

Special sessions, case-studies and tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics related to the main conference are also envisaged: researchers interested in organizing a special session, or companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

Conference Topics

  • Design and Management of Optical Networks
  • Optical Networks Performance Modelling
  • Optical Networks Control and Management
  • Optical Modulation and Signal Processing
  • Reliable Optical Networks
  • Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
  • New Architectures for Optical Routers and Switches
  • New Optical Fiber Technologies
  • Lasers and Photonic Components
  • High Speed optical LANs and Gigabit Ethernet
  • QoS. Optical Networks for Future Networks
  • Energy Efficiency in Optical Networks
  • Convergence of Optical and other Network Technologies
  • Optical Networks to Support Cloud Computing
Keynote Speakers

OPTICS 2012 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

Paper Submission

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

Publications

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in the Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS).
A short list of papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication of extended and revised versions in the Journal of Networks (JNW).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).

Important Dates

Conference Date: 24 - 27 July, 2012

Regular Paper Submission: March 5, 2012
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 24, 2012
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 7, 2012
Secretariat

OPTICS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setubal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5432
e-mail: optics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.optics.icete.org/

Venue

The Meliá Roma Aurelia Antica is a magnificent modern building surrounded by 10 hectares of Mediterranean forest in a quiet area near the airport Fiumicino and just a few kilometers away from Vatican City.
Rome is one of Europe's leading business travel destinations and one of the most attractive destinations in the world for congresses, meetings and incentives.

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Jose L. Marzo, University of Girona, Spain
Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle University, Greece

Program Committee

Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia Technologies, United States
Víctor López Álvarez, University Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Davide Careglio, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Adolfo Cartaxo, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Walter Cerroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Genoves, INRIM, Italy
Masahiko Jinno, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan
Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland
Franko Küppers, University of Arizona, United States
David Q. Liu, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne, United States
Anna Manolova, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Amalia Miliou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios Papadimitriou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Jordi Perelló, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
Sophia Petridou , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
João Rebola, Instituto de Telecomunicações, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Enrique Rodriguez-Colina, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States
Surinder Singh, Sant Longowal Instituite of Engg. & Tech, Longowal, Sangrur, Punjab, India
Wolfgang Sohler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Fernando Solano, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Dimitri Staessens, University of Ghent, Belgium
Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Changyuan Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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