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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IWAN 2003 Active Networks, Kyoto Japan 10 - 12 Dec. 2003]
by Lars Wolf 30 May '03

30 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IWAN 2003 Active Networks, Kyoto Japan 10 - 12 Dec. 2003 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 00:38:10 -0400 From: IWAN 2003 <jpgs(a)ieee.org> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS - IFIP IWAN 2003 Fifth International Working Conference on Active Networks 10 - 12 December 2003 Kyoto, Japan www.iwan2003.org (available soon) www.activenets.org/iwan2003 IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submissions 27 August 2003 Tutorial proposals 12 October 2003 Poster and demonstration submissions 12 October 2003 Acceptance notification 20 October 2003 Revised papers, posters, tutorials 23 November 2003 Camera-ready papers for proceedings 18 December 2003 Active networks aim at providing easy introduction of new network services by adding dynamic programmability to network devices such as routers and switches. While in the early days of research in this area the focus was on the basic mechanisms needed for moving and installing code in the network, research now has shifted towards the real benefits active network technology may provide: Network programmability and service deployment architectures bringing just the right services to the customer at just the right time and location. It is obvious that with the accelerating trend towards mobility, ad-hoc networks, and content-aware distribution, active and programmable networks will play an important role in future network architectures. At IWAN 2003 we aim at bringing together members of the various communities using active and related techniques, and provide a forum for discussion and collaboration, involving researchers, developers, service providers and potential users. We encourage the submission of papers that cover the application of active techniques to all aspects of network based communication, including active transport, active services and service deployment, active terminals and active management. In addition, the meeting will have a focus on relating customer needs and customer oriented services to active techniques. It is expected that most submissions will include proofs of concept and/or quantitative results, however, we will welcome high quality descriptive contributions, where the ideas are particularly novel, or where the concepts introduced are likely to influence the work of other groups. Authors are invited to submit papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - Architectures & new concepts for active networks, systems, environments - Applications for active networks, systems and environments - Peer-to-peer communication using active network technology - Hardware & software platforms for implementation of active services - Network processor platforms for active networks - Programmable network elements and devices (including PDAs, soft radio) - Security in active networks and systems - Active networks for mobile and ad-hoc networking - Content- and context-aware distribution using active networks - Cognitive networks using active network technology - Service creation, deployment, and management - Design and development methodologies and tools for active services - Implementation of active network infrastructures - Experiences and evaluation results - Standardization of active network frameworks INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be 20 double-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in length. Submissions should include: title, authors, affiliations, 150 word abstract, and list of keywords. Identify the author responsible for correspondence, including the author's name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag Heidelberg in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. The best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a journal. PROPOSALS FOR TUTORIALS: IWAN 2003 will organize full-day or half-day tutorials covering any aspect of active and programmable networks. Proposals should be sent to the submission addresses and must include an extended abstract (2-4 pages) containing a description of the topic and intended audience, a biography of the speaker(s), and an indication of length (half or full day). POSTER SESSION: Authors may choose to present their on-going work in a poster session. Please look up instructions for submission on the IWAN 2003 website. DEMONSTRATIONS: Facilities will be provided for demonstrating results of work in the topical areas of the conference. Demonstration proposals may be submitted in conjunction with papers, posters, or independently. ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION: Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF or Postscript format. For more information, contact addresses, and submission procedure visit http://www.iwan2003.org. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Hiroshi Yasuda, University of Tokyo General Co-chairs: Tadanobu Okada, NTT, Japan Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Program Co-chairs: Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan Marcin Solarski, Frauenhofer FOKUS, Germany James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, USA Publication Chair: Akira Kurokawa, NTT, Japan Tutorial Chair: James Sterbenz, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Takashi Egawa, NEC, Japan Local Arrangements Chair: Osamu Takada Hitachi, Japan Treasurer: Junji Fukuzawa, Hitachi, Japan Sponsors: IFIP TC6 IEEE Communications Society Japan Chapter Hitachi Japan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on End-to-End QoS Differentiation -- 2nd call]
by Lars Wolf 30 May '03

30 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Special Issue on End-to-End QoS Differentiation -- 2nd call Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:57:12 -0400 From: Hossam Hassanein <hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca> Organization: Queen's To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net> References: <007801c30ef9$3fa88480$3b2d10ac@CAIRO> Please note the deadline has been extended until June 10, 2003. This is a final deadline. ============================================== End-to-End Quality of Service Differentiation *Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Communications* http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/ Guest Editors *Hossam Hassanein* (Queen's University, Canada); *Hanan Lutfiyya* (University of Western Ontario, Canada) *Publication*: WINTER 2003 Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a proposed architecture from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in which various applications are supported using a simple classification scheme. Packets entering the DiffServ domain are marked depending on the Packets' class. However, for many QoS-sensitive applications such as e-commerce and steaming media, QoS differentiation at the network-level only may not be sufficient to guarantee QoS requirements. Such applications require end-to-end QoS differentiation. End-to-end QoS guarantees require service differentiation at the network, middleware, operating system and application levels. This issue of /Computer Communications/ is interested in visionary, experimental, systems- and performance-related papers in the area of QoS differentiation at the network, middleware, operating system and application levels. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Differentiated Services Architectures · QoS-aware operating systems · Next Generation Internet · Policy-based QoS differentiation · Packet classification and marking · Application-level service differentiation · Packet Scheduling · Middleware for QoS server design · Differentiated buffer management · Multimedia distributed databases · Content-aware switches · QoS portability · Active network support for QoS differentiation · QoS aware Web architectures · Multi-level admission control · Differentiated Web caching · QoS differentiation for e-commerce and m-commerce · Internet Privacy and Security *IMPORTANT DATES* Deadline for submissions: June 1 2003 Notification of acceptance: September 1 2003 Publication: Winter 2003 *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/. Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to: *Hossam Hassanein* Queen's University Canada Email: hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca <mailto:hossam@cs.queensu.ca> *Hanan Lutfiyya* University of Western Ontario Canada Email: hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca <mailto:hanan@csd.uwo.ca> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ARCS 2004 Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 30 May '03

30 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ARCS 2004 Call for papers Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:02:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: arcs(a)sra.uni-hannover.de To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear colleague, attached please find the call for papers for the 17th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems ARCS 2004 in Augsburg, Germany. I'd appreciate your participation and help in distributing the call to your colleagues. Please excuse multiple mails. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Christian Müller-Schloer Universitaet Hannover Germany ************************************************************************ First Announcement and Call for Papers: ARCS 2004 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS - ORGANIC AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING - Augsburg, Germany March 23 - 26, 2004 http://www.uni-augsburg.de/arcs04 Submission Deadline: September 15, 2003 Future processors become smaller, provide higher performance and consume less power than today's devices. Such processors will spark off new applications in particular in the area of everyday consumer devices. Mobile telecommunication systems increase bandwidth and will yield highly connected, ubiquitous computing systems. System design and management complexity increase to a level where a new paradigm may provide help: Organic computing (also known as autonomic computing) borrows from analogies between complex technical and biological systems. It follows a human-centered approach by leveraging self-organization capabilities. Organic computing investigates the design and implementation of self-managing systems that are self-configuring, self-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting, context aware, and anticipatory. ARCS 2004 will emphasize the design, realization and analysis of the emerging organic and pervasive systems and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of organic and pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, the system integration and self-management of hardware, software and networking aspects of up-to-now unconnected devices is a challenging research topic. ARCS 2004 continues and replaces the biennial series of German Conferences on Architecture of Computing Systems. This 17th conference in the series serves as a forum to present current work on all aspects of computer and systems architecture. Besides its main focus, the conference is open for more general and interdisciplinary themes in operating systems, networking, and computer architecture. Papers pertaining to all aspects of computer and systems architecture, in particular in the field of organic and pervasive computing are sought, including but not limited to the following: Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure ·middleware for organic, pervasive and peer-to-peer computing ·operating systems ·multi-agent and mobile agent systems ·bio-analogue and artificial-life systems ·context and locality ·low power systems design ·machine-learning, prediction, pro-activity ·system design and simulation ·reconfigurable hardware and software systems ·safety, security, reliability ·self-managing service configuration ·user interfaces and human-machine interaction Architectures and Systems ·computer and system architecture ·modular distributed devices ·self-managing systems ·self-healing and fault-tolerant systems ·real-time systems ·mobile and wearable devices ·intelligently connected devices ·embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive) Applications ·scenarios for ubiquitous and pervasive computing ·autonomic environments ·network server architectures ·network based applications ·mobile computing ·network computing (clusters and grids) ·semantic networks ·home and wireless networking ·e-learning The conference is organized by the special interest group on Computer and Systems Architecture of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik - German Informatics Society) and ITG (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft- Information Technology Society), supported by CEPIS and EUREL, and held in cooperation with IFIP, ACM and IEEE (approvals requested). In addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer invited presentations, workshops, and tutorials. The conference proceedings are planned to be published in the 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' series by Springer-Verlag. Papers should not exceed 15 pages (approximately 5000 words) in Springer LNCS style (see: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). We accept only electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format. The URL of the submission site is http://www.sra.uni-hannover.de/arcs_04/ . Selected papers will be published in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. IMPORTANT DATES September 15, 2003 Conference paper submission due October 1, 2003 Workshop and tutorial proposal due December 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance/rejection January 4, 2004 Camera-ready paper due Official Address For any questions related to ARCS 2004 please refer to our web site: http://www.uni-augsburg.de/arcs04 or e-mail to: arcs04(a)informatik.uni-augsburg.de General Chair: Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, ungerer(a)informatik.uni-augsburg.de Co-Chair: Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, bauer(a)informatik.uni-augsburg.de Program Chair: Christian Müller-Schloer, Univ. of Hannover, cms(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, brinks(a)ira.uka.de Program Committee Dimiter Avresky, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California Irvine, USA Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany Jürgen Becker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Michael Beigl, Telecooperation Office TecO, Karlsruhe, Germany Frank Bellosa, University of Erlangen Arndt Bode, Technical University of München, Germany Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Francois Dolivo, IBM, Switzerland Kemal Ebcioglu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA Reinhold Eberhart, Daimler Chrysler Research, Ulm, Germany Werner Erhard, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany Hans Eveking, TU Darmstadt, Germany Hans-W. Gellersen, University of Lancaster, UK Werner Grass, University of Passau, Germany Wolfgang Karl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Rudolf Kober, Siemens AG, München, Germany Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Jörg Nolte, TU Cottbus, Germany Wolfgang Rosenstiel, University of Tübingen, Germany Burghardt Schallenberger, Siemens AG, München Bernt Schiele, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Alexander Schill, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Albrecht Schmidt, LMU, Munich, Germany Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Rainer G. Spallek, TU Dresden, Germany Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Djamshid Tavangarian, University of Rostock, Germany Rich Uhlig, Intel Microprocessor Research Lab, USA Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt, Germany Lars Wolf, University of Braunschweig, Germany Hans Christoph Zeidler, University of the Federal Armed Forces at Hamburg, Germany Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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[Fwd: [tcgn] IEEE Infocom 2004 - Message from Conference General Chair]
by Lars Wolf 29 May '03

29 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] IEEE Infocom 2004 - Message from Conference General Chair Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:25:38 -0400 From: Thomas Hou <thou(a)VT.EDU> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: INFOCOM2004(a)LISTSERV.VT.EDU July 1, 2003, the deadline for paper submission to IEEE INFOCOM 2004, to be held in Hong Kong, March 7 - 11, 2004, is rapidly approaching. The Call For Papers can be found at _http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004/_. We are well aware that there is concern about SARS among some potential authors; however, all signs indicate that SARS is now under control. As you may already know, the World Health Organization lifted its travel advisory to Hong Kong and Guangdong, China last week. The number of new cases in the rest of China is also decreasing rapidly. While we continue to closely monitor the situation, be assured that we do have contingency plans. We will see what happens the rest of this year and will be prepared to reevaluate the situation in late November before the Advance Program is published. For now, we would like to reassure you all that IEEE INFOCOM 2004 will be held as planned. We encourage you to submit your work before July 1, 2003, and be considered to present your paper in a beautiful setting overlooking Hong Kong Harbor. Victor O.K. Li, General Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2004

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - WMASH 2003]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '03

27 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP - WMASH 2003 Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:25:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Seongwook Lee <sslee(a)cs.ucla.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ============ Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS ACM WMASH 2003 The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots ========================================================== Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval) (In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2003) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://wmash2003.cs.ucla.edu The goal of the workshop is to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing a public wireless Internet services and applications for nomadic users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). There are several research issues still to be explored in the public WLAN arena. What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers? This workshop is aimed at discussing these and several other technical and business challenges behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access mean. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work focusing on Transport layer and above (layers 4-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but not limited to - applications and services - public WLAN architectures - community-owned WLAN infrastructures - WLAN-based ad hoc network service creation and management - new service and business models - interworking and cooperation with public cellular systems - mobility, roaming, and handoff management - context-aware services and technologies - location-aware applications and services - multimedia wireless applications - authentication, accounting, billing and payment - security and privacy - middleware support - service location and discovery - traffic measurements and modeling - case studies on deployed platforms and experimental testbeds Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Giuseppe Bianchi (bianchi(a)elet.polimi.it) and Sung-Ju Lee (sjlee(a)hpl.hp.com) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. Paper Submission Guidelines: Papers that are unpublished and are not currently under review by other journals, conferences, or workshops are solicited. We are interested in: - technical papers that describe original research results - position papers that propose new technologies or share future vision (similar to challenges papers in MobiCom) All submissions will be handled electronically. The paper must be in either PDF or PostScript format. The page limit of the regular technical papers is 15 pages and the position papers is 10 pages in US Letter sized paper in single column with reasonable margins. Please use font sizes of at least 10 points. All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members. Papers will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Selected papers will also be included in a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. We expect at least one author of the accepted papers will attend the workshop and present their work. Organizing Committee General Chair: Parviz Kermani IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY, USA parviz(a)us.ibm.com Technical Program Co-Chairs: Giuseppe Bianchi Department of Electronic and Information University of Palermo Palermo, Italy bianchi(a)elet.polimi.it Sung-Ju Lee Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA, USA sjlee(a)hpl.hp.com Publicity Chair: Scott Seongwook Lee Samsung Electronics Digital Media Lab Suwon, Korea sslee(a)ieee.org Publications Chair: Janise McNair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA mcnair(a)ece.ufl.edu Technical Program Committee: Anand Balachandran, University of California, San Diego, USA Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA Paul Castro, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Marco Conti, CNR - Istituto CNUCE, Italy Yuguang Fang, University of Florida, USA Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research, Sweden Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Javier Gomez, National University of Mexico, Mexico Per Johansson, Ericsson Research, USA Young-bae Ko, Ajou University, Korea David Kotz, Dartmouth College, USA Kin Leung, Bell Labs, USA Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Ramachandran Ramjee, Bell Labs, USA Puneet Sharma, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Prasun Sinha, University of California, Riverside, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Olivier Verscheure, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Helen Wang, Microsoft Research, USA Cedric Westphal, Nokia Research Center, USA Michele Zorzi, Universitdegli Studi di Ferrara, Italy Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 Notification: July 18, 2003 Camera Ready due: August 1, 2003 For more information, please visit the WMASH 2003 homepage or send emails to the General Chair, Parviz Kermani (parviz(a)us.ibm.com) for any questions or for more information about the workshop. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine: Open Call for Papers for the Wireless Communications Series]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '03

27 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine: Open Call for Papers for the Wireless Communications Series Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 16:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Moshe Zukerman <moshezu(a)yahoo.com> To: TCCC CONSOC <tccc(a)comsoc.org> All, This message is to encourage you to submit papers to the Wireless Communications Series in the IEEE Communications Magazine. This is an open call on all areas related to future wireless communications and networking. The Wireless Communications Series appears twice per year. Papers should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines. To submit to the Series, please go to: http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ then click on: Submit First Draft of a New Manuscript. Then in "select topic or series", choose: Wireless Communications Series. Regards, Moshe ===== Professor Moshe Zukerman Currently Visiting EE Department, City University of Hong Kong Telephone: +852 2784 4238 Fax: +852 2788 7791 http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/mzu/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM/MC2R "Wireless PAN & Sensor Networks" CFP]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '03

27 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ACM/MC2R "Wireless PAN & Sensor Networks" CFP Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:22:54 +0300 From: Theodore Zahariadis <zahariad(a)ellemedia.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM/SIGMOBILE MC2R MOBILE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS REVIEW A PUBLICATION OF ACM SIGMOBILE Call For Papers Special Issue on: "Wireless PAN & Sensor Networks" Objectives Despite of the worldwide recession, especially in the telecommunications market, and the delays in the 3G mobile networks' deployment, the vision of a new forth generation (4G) all-IP mobile/wireless network is emerging rapidly. In the forthcoming 4G era, apart from the installed infrastructure based networks, Wireless Personal Area Networks (PANs) and sensor networks are expected to fulfil the "anywhere and anytime" ubiquitous services' requirement. Users will require forming "ad-hoc" networks to communicate with colleagues at work, at conferences, at "hot-spots", at home, or on the move. Moreover Personal Area Networks (PAN) centred on the individual himself will evolve. PAN networks will include any collection of devices that belong to or are carried by a networked user (e.g. cell phone, laptop, earphones, GPS navigator, palm pilot, beeper, portable scanner, etc.) and form his/her personal "PAN-bubble". The bubble may expand or shrink dynamically depending on user's environment and needs. For example it may connect to routers, sensors or actuators. Such access is critical when the mobile user enters into a new location and aims to quickly sense and control the environment (e.g. gain access/ connectivity, control the temperature, adjust the lighting) or get recognized by the environment sensors (e.g. welcome message, uninterrupted communication, automatic selection of a background music, etc.) Wireless PAN and sensor networks will require sophisticated algorithmic solutions to realize and maintain high-speed, cost-effective, energy-efficient and reliable wireless networks. This special issue aims to bringing together state-of-the-art contributions and provide a comprehensive and updated reference in this field. In this context, the challenges, the protocols, the applications and the technologies that enable the wireless PANs and sensor networks will be addressed. This special issue of the MC2R is devoted to the future ad-hoc networks i.e. Wireless Personal Area Networks & Sensor Networks. The purpose is to disseminate the recent advances and research activities in these fields and provide a comprehensive and updated reference. In this context, the challenges, the protocols, the applications and the technologies that enable the wireless PANs and sensor networks will be addressed. More specifically, the special issue will cover topics that include the architecture, routing and QoS protocols, modelling, performance evaluation, and experimentation of ad-hoc PANs and sensor networks. Particularly encouraged are articles from industry that discuss the latest industrial advances. Topics Original research and review papers are solicited that cover (but are not limited to) any of the following areas: - Self-organized, auto-configured ad-hoc networks - Intelligent multi-hop routing in ad-hoc PAN/sensor networks - QoS in ad-hoc PAN networks - Multimedia ad-hoc communications - Resource discovery and self-configuration of - Applications in Wireless PANs/sensor networks - Radio resource management - WPANs in 4G networks - Intelligent mobile agents - Implementation and performance evaluation MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should format their manuscripts according to the guidelines in http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmobile/MC2R/submission_guidelines.html and should e-mail a PDF, PostScript or MS Word version to Dr. Theodore B. Zahariadis at the address below. Note that all sources of accepted papers should be available in order to rebuild the papers for final typesetting (LaTeX is strongly encouraged). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: August 1, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: October 1, 2003 Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2003 Publication Date: January 2004 GUEST EDITORS Dr. Theodore B. Zahariadis Technical Director Ellemedia Technologies 223 Syggrou Av., N. Smirni, GR-171 21 Greece Tel: +30-210-93 73 097 Fax: +30-210-93 70 386 E-mail: zahariad(a)ellemedia.com <mailto:zahariad@ellemedia.com> Dr. Bharat Doshi Lucent Technologies Bell Labs 101 Crawfords Corner Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA Tel: +1 732 949 0823 Email: bdoshi(a)lucent.com <mailto:bdoshi@lucent.com> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: MIPS 2003: deadline extended to June 9]
by Lars Wolf 27 May '03

27 May '03

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ================================================================ *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to JUNE 9, 2003 *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS MIPS 2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems Formerly IDMS/PROMS November 18-21, 2003 University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy In cooperation with ACM SIGMM and SIGCOMM http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/ ================================================================ Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for Multimedia Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. After a first common event in Coimbra last year, in 2003 these two workshops have definitively merged in what is expected to become more and more a new series of challenging and topical international workshops. MIPS 2003 is intended to contribute to scientific, strategic and practical advances in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their provision over novel network architectures. MIPS 2003 will be held November 18-21, 2003, in Napoli (Italy). The workshop will consist of a two and a half day technical program, plus a full day of tutorials. Contributions in the form of full papers are encouraged. Papers should describe innovative and significant work. All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee and included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. TOPICS OF INTEREST Mobile & wireless multimedia systems - Multimedia middleware - Multimedia communication protocols - Quality of Service issues - Resource management for multimedia services - Active and programmable networking for multimedia applications - Multimedia-specific mobile agents - Multimedia distribution and transport - Multimedia traffic engineering - Multimedia service engineering - Ubiquitous computing - Networked audio-video devices - Development tools for distributed multimedia applications - Multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries, video games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching, e-commerce, virtual reality simulations - Performance of protocols and applications: modeling, simulation and optimisation in different networks - Multimedia content management - Service access - Security, authentication, privacy, watermarking - Accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices - Multimedia encoding and compression - Standards (e.g. MPEG) and related issues PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit full papers after March 1st, 2003 in PDF or Postscript formats through the workshop website http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/. Submitted papers must describe original work not submitted elsewhere. Papers must not be longer than 12 single-spaced pages. Papers should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words, and include title, authors and affiliations. Final versions of accepted papers must be structured according to Springer's instructions (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). BEST PAPER AWARD A jury will select the best paper, on the basis of both the quality of the written paper and of the presentation at the workshop. The winner will be awarded a prize donated by one of the workshop sponsors. TUTORIALS MIPS 2003 will feature one day of half-day tutorials covering single topics in detail. Proposals should be sent to the Tutorial Chair (tc03(a)idms-proms.org) and must include an extended abstract containing a description of the topic, the intended audience, and a short bio of the speaker. SPONSORS MIPS 2003 is in cooperation with ACM SIGMM and ACM SIGCOMM. MIPS 2003 is supported by the E-NET Thematic Network of the IST European Research Programme. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 9th, 2003 *NOTE: Deadline extended !* Notification of acceptance: July 20th, 2003 Camera ready version: September 5th, 2003 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Program Chair: Giorgio Ventre, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy (giorgio.ventre(a)unina.it) Program Co-Chair: Roberto Canonico, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy (roberto.canonico(a)unina.it) CONTACTS Web site: http://mips2003.idms-proms.org/ E-mail: mips2003(a)idms-proms.org

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[Fwd: [CfP] WG: ARCS 2004 Program Committee]
by Marc Bechler 27 May '03

27 May '03

TO ARCS 2004 Program Committee Dear colleagues, first of all I would like to thank you for your willingness to serve in the PC of ARCS 2004. Please find enclosed the Call for papers for ARCS 2004. Please forward it to interested colleagues. There is no restriction for the PC members to submit papers (although we will make sure that there will be no conflict of interest). So please feel free to submit papers yourselves! Also I would be grateful if you could feed the CfP into relevant mailing lists. Maybe you could also distribute it at conferences you will be visiting. Please let me know if you need additional information or support. Best regards Christian Müller-Schloer Prof. Dr.-Ing. C. Müller-Schloer Institut für Systems Engineering - System- und RechnerArchitektur (SRA) (former IRB) Universität Hannover Appelstr. 4 D-30167 Hannover www.sra.uni-hannover.de cms(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Tel. +49 (0)511 762 19730/31 Mobile: +49 (0)170 248 5577

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Policy 2003: Call for Participation
by Frank Strauß 25 May '03

25 May '03

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