Events

Conferences

• CoNext'06 (web page)
  
  CoNext 2006 emphasized the emerging new paradigms for large-scale, ubiquitous networking.
  These generally aim to achieve new functionality to support advanced networked services and to
  provide seamless integration for embedded, wireless, and mobile devices into the network fabric.
  The 2nd CoNext conference followed the highly successful one held in Toulouse, France in 2005.
  CoNext emphasizes synergies between various international and technical communities.
  The conference featured a single-track, high quality technical program with significant opportunities
  for technical and social interaction among a close-knit community of participants.

Seminars and workshops

• New Generation Optical Networks - NGON'09 (web page)
  
  New generation optical networks are attracting more attention from different players: academia,
  manufacturers, operators and regulators. This seminar aimed at bringing together participants from
  these different realms and to present their perspective and achievements on this hot topic.
  This one day seminar was structured in two sets of communications by invited speakers describing
  not only recent technology and theoretical achievements but also current challenges and opportunities
  that emerge on the provision and deployment of these networks.
  In the seminar programme there was also room for discussion between a panel of invited speakers and the audience.
• Complexity Sciences Winter School 2009 - CSWS'09 (web page)
  Social structures in communication networks
  
  The Winter School proposed an interdisciplinary approach for the study of appearing new social
  structures supported by communication networks, such as Internet.
  Different points of view and scientific contexts were be applied to the study of social dynamic structures
  in communication networks. This approach associated the scientific domains of philosophy of science,
  computer networks, social networks, and social simulation.
  Specifically, the computer networks session concerned mainly the hardware and software design of networks,
  social network theory allowed network analysis from the social sciences point of view,
  and social simulation provided tools for models design, hypotheses test and validation.
  Philosophy of science discussed the validity of this interdisciplinary context and the relevance of focusing
  research on the new communication networks.