Aim and Scope. With over a billion users today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Yet, Internet access moves increasingly from fixed to mobile, the trend towards mobile usage is undeniable and predictions are that by 2014 about 2 billion users will access the Internet via mobile broadband services. This adds a further layer of complexity to the already immense challenges.

Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Japan, USA and Europe are investing heavily in this area. The EU is shaping around the idea of the Future Internet its research programmes for the Seventh Framework. EU commissioners, national government ministers, industry leaders and researchers have progressed in developing a vision of a Future Internet that will meet Europe's needs a decade from now, and beyond. The initiative will guide research to help Europe to become the leading region in Future Internet technologies.
A broad programme of scientific research is essential to support the aims of the Future Internet initiative. To complement the agenda-setting activity at the Bled and Madrid conferences and the further steps in Prague, the Future Internet Symposium (FIS) was conceived as a complementary event designed to bring together leading researchers to collaborate and contribute to the science behind the vision. Following the highly successful first symposium in 2008, FIS 2009 will be multidisciplinary and seeks to integrate research and researchers from all facets of the Internet enterprise. FIS 2009 will deal with the main requirements our Future Internet must satisfy: an Internet of Things, where every mobile and stationary electronic device will be an active participant in the network; an Internet of Services, where applications live in the network, and data becomes an active entity; an Internet of Content & Media, where most of the contents are generated by end-users; an Internet of Publicity, Privacy and Anonymity, where people and software must understand how much trust to extend to others; an Internet of Mobility and Ubiquity, where connectivity everywhere is expected, and depended upon. All these nascent Internets, and the others that we have yet to imagine, require further research, especially at the interdisciplinary boundaries where opportunities as well as problems lie.

Topics. The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers in all the areas of research related to the emerging idea of the Future Internet. The symposium will pay special attention to works that cross the boundaries of the major topics related to the idea of the Internet of the Future, such as "Software and Services", "Networks and Mobility", and "Content & Media". FIS 2009 will also put the emphasis on work addressing issues that are "cross-cutting" such topics, such as mobility, security, trust, interoperability, reliability, infrastructures and architectures, service level agreements (SLAs), and semantics.
All submissions will be subject to peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results, and quality of presentation. For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the conference to present the paper.

Submission Details

Papers have to be submitted electronically, through the EasyChairsystem: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fis2009

Papers have to be submitted electronically, submission details will be provided at www.fis2009.org. Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10 pages, font Times 11pt. Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords.
Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FIS 2009 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

Proceedings

The plan is to publish the proceedings again by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes on Computer Science series (to be confirmed).

Language
The official language of the conference is English.
Location
FIS 2009 will be located in Berlin, Germany. More information is available in the brochure at the conference web site.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: July 12, 2009
Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2009
Camera Ready: August 26, 2009
Conference: September 1-3, 2009

Organising Committee (TBC):

Chair
Rahim Tafazolli | University of Surrey, UK

Local-Chair
Robert Tolksdorf | Freie Universität Berlin, DE

Program co-Chairs
Tanja Zseby | Fraunhofer-Fokus, DE
Reijo Savola | VTT, FI
Marco Pistore | FBK-IRST, IT

Tutorial Chair
Mehrdad Dianati | University of Surrey, UK

Workshop Chair
Ning Wang | University of Surrey, UK

Demo and Poster Chair
Vera Stavroulaki | University of Piraeus, GR

Sponsor Chair
Alexander Wahler | STI International, AT

Industrial Liaison
TBC

Registration

The registration information will soon be available on the conference web site.