Welcome to Tridentcom 2005

First International Conference on

Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities

Trento (Italy), February 23 - 25, 2005

The management of research infrastructures is increasingly dependent on a business model that optimizes their operational price/performance ratio. The synergies created by opening research infrastructures to real life users offer all parties involved a great development potential, which needs to be thoroughly investigated and discussed.

Tridentcom is the first meeting that brings together all aspects related to experimental telecommunication infrastructures, creating a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, visions for the establishment of such infrastructures.

A Best Testbed Award will be assigned to the research infrastructure that will best implement the open infrastructure model, so that to offer the greatest valuable service to the public, and the most sustainable business model to the infrastructure managers.

The meeting will take place at Trento, capital of the Trentino province, heart of recent and rapidly growing R&D initiatives in Computer Science and Telecommunications, and surrounded by some of the most spectacular skiing resorts in the Alps. Pauses in the conference program will allow social activities and informal interaction among the participants.

Conference proceedings will be published by Computer Society Press.