NetSys 2013 Conference history

Summary form only given, as follows. The Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys) provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to discuss innovations in the realm of networked systems, including aspects of networking, distributed systems, communications, middleware and applications. This biennial conference is the successor of the conference series Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS), which was started more than 30 years ago and developed to the major scientific event in German-speaking countries in the field of communications and distributed systems. Like its predecessor NetSys was initiated by members of the KuVS special interest group (Fachausschuss/Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS)), which is a common platform for researchers, developers and users of science and technologies related to communication and distributed systems in modern infrastructures. The interest group is anchored both in the German Computer Science society (Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)) and in the Information Technology society (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG)). Currently, it has more than 1000 members from both academia and industry. Besides technical sessions with original research contributions NetSys 2013 gives room for demonstrations of communication software, tutorials as well as workshops. In addition, NetSys 2013 offers an industry track with invited talks from expelled experts in the field of virtualization. The presentations cover aspects of cloud computing, network virtualization, and virtualization in embedded systems. NetSys 2013 is organized by University of Stuttgart, Informatik Forum Stuttgart (Infos) and Stuttgart Media University and takes place at the Vaihingen Campus of University of Stuttgart from March 11 to 15, 2013.