Regional seminars -Provide the possibility for traffic engineers, scientists, etc. from developing countries to meet at regional seminars to discuss teletraffic engineering problems and requirements particular to their countries and development situations. The seminars aim primarily at discussing practical teletraffic engineering problems. The seminars are preferably organized in regions with similar problems/situations.
Participants can present their contributions in their national languages. However, as interpretation services are normally not available, the seminars are preferably organized for "language homogene regions" (e.g. English-speaking or French-speaking countries in Africa, the Arab speaking countries, etc.)
ITC (Committee 3) supports the developing countries with the organization of regional seminars. Guidelines for the organization of regional seminars have been established by ITC and are available from the ITC Secretariat (in English and in French)
2-3 seminars are organized per year. ITU and Regional Telecom Organizations are invited to participate in the preparation of such seminars. A complete documentation of seminar papers is printed and provided to all the participants. ITC - Committee 3 plans to provide a home page on Internet with access to seminar documentation for future regional seminars.
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WORK SHOP
During the ITC15 Congress a Workshop for Developing Countries will be held on ................. Like the two previous workshops subjects of specific importance to developing countries will be presented and discussed. For this workshop thw following theme has been choosen:
Data acquisition, forecasting and network planning
Emphaisis will be on presenting practical tools for these and to present methods used in developing countries in the use of such tools. It is well known that developing countries often have scarce data on traffic statistics and records of any length in years, or reliability. The CCITT (now ITU-T) prepared a handbook, GAS 10, a few years ago, which treats these matters in great detail, and this Handbook will be "revived" at the forthcoming Workshop. Since then there has also been developed a large number of network optimization and planning tools, one of which is the ITU developed PLANITU, which will be presented by specialists in the field, and where possible examples from studies in developing countries have been implemented, we will request these countries to present their results to the participants of this workshop. Forecasting methods are also included in the important ITU handbook, GAS 10, but also available in several other ITU handbooks, such as GAS 7, GAS 11 and GAS 12. The recent studygroups set up by ITU-D (BDT) following the Buenos Aires Action Plan, BAAP, also treat the subjects included in the above theme and the participants to this workshop will be briefed about this work and available information.
REGISTRATION and COMMUNICATION of INTENT to PARTICIPATE
Persons interested in the workshop are requested to communicate this to the Chairman of Committee 3 (Developing Countries and ITU matters). If you also would like to present a paper, indicate this with a brief summary of its content. The Chairman of Com. 3 will then discuss (by E-mail, FAX or letter) this further with yourself. The number of paper to be presented to the workshop is limited due to available session hours ( 6 hours), and is estimated to be about 18. There will have to be a selection of papers to be presented based on subject, content interest, etc.. Paper not qualified for detailed presentation may be summarized by session chairpersons, and will also appear in the printed documentation of the Workshop,
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CONGRESS SCOPE OF ITC15:
The 15th ITC will meet at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC, USA on June 23-27, 1997. The Congress will comprise plenary sessions with invited speakers on topics of broad interest, parallel sessions on various specialized fields, workshops on subjects of active research, and tutorials on significant new developments.
The information age is upon us, marked by a convergence of computing, communications and information technologies, and spurred on by breakthroughs in high-speed networking, tetherless communications, and ubiquitous networked computing power. The ability to take full advantage of that convergence and to assure robust, dependable, cost-effective and competitive services depends heavily on concurrent progress in teletraffic analysis methods and tools. The goal of ITC 15 is to accelerate that progress through the sharing of the latest research results, field experiences, and best practices, and through the advocacy of future research directions in teletraffic models, theory and tools.
Submissions should have a focus on teletraffic models, measurements, and methods. Papers surveying an area and identifying underlying key teletraffic challenges are welcome, particularly in emerging technologies and applications. Case studies, field trials and experi-mental results are especially encouraged. Preference will be given to original contributions in areas of current interest to the industry.