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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:48:11 -0400 From: Raouf Boutaba <rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> Reply-To: rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> **CALL FOR PAPERS*** **IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications *** *AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS * The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of networked devices and applications such as sensor networks, mobile systems, Grids, and Peer-to-Peer communications create a unique challenge for network and system administrators. Future applications will involve mobile users, possibly with on-body sensors interacting with a pervasive computing environment that detects their activity, current context and adapts accordingly. Innovative solutions are required for managing the plethora of network devices and systems, multiple inter-connected networking technologies -- wired and wireless, and the complexity of distributed applications. The promise of pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these systems can effectively "disappear"; and for this they need to become autonomous by managing their own evolution and configuration changes without explicit user or administrator action. The term Autonomic communications and computing is used for this form of self-managing systems able to support self-configuration, self-healing and self-optimization. The importance of this research area has been recently stressed by the increasing demand for securely programmable and autonomous network elements. The ultimate aim is to assist in the design of next generation self-organizing, context-aware pervasive systems and service-oriented computing environments so as to better support highly dynamic and mobile users and vitual organizations. In this context, original contributions are solicited in all relevant areas, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations of autonomic communication systems * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks * Adaptive security for self protection of systems and networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic communications * Advanced information processing techniques for autonomic communications including policies, context-awareness, machine learning, statistical and optimization techniques, control theory, knowledge bases, planning, and goal driven role based management * Enabling technologies for self-managing systems and networks including Service-oriented Architectures, Web Services, XML, Peer-to-Peer and Open Grid Services * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and networks * Languages, development and securely programmable environments for autonomic communications systems * Human interaction with autonomic communication systems Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the IEEE J-SAC format described in the Information for Authors <http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html>. Authors should submit an electronic version (PDF format) to jsac-sp-issue(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:jsac-sp-issue@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> according to the following schedule: Manuscript submission: **OCTOBER 1, 2004** Acceptance notification: March 1, 2005 Final manuscript due: June 1, 2005 Publication: 4th Quarter 2005 Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo School of Computer Science rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Germán Goldszmidt IBM Research - Hawthorne tpccim2003(a)hotmail.com Heinz-Gerd Hegering Leibniz Supercomputing Center Munich University Heinz-Gerd.Hegering(a)lrz-muenchen.de Jürgen Schönwälder International University Bremen j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de Morris Sloman Imperial College London m.sloman(a)imperial.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:34:30 +0100 From: Yong XU <y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers Topic: Nature Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS (IJCIA) SPECIAL ISSUE ON NATURE-INSPIRED APPROACHES TO NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (http://www.cercia.ac.uk/news/events/IJCIA_Special_Issue.htm) ======================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2004 Guest Editors: Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, and Prof. Xin Yao *Aim* The rapid growth of telecommunication networks and technologies, as well as their applications, has led to a massive amount of design and other problems, difficult to be solved by traditional methods. The newly emergent computational heuristics inspired by nature are an appealing option, as they have provided very good results for tackling these problems. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA) will focus on the application of nature-inspired approaches to telecommunication/networking problems, and would be a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to present their state-of-the-art research results on this topic. High-quality contributions are solicited. Contributed papers must be the original work of the authors and should not have been published or under consideration by other journals. *Scopes* * * Contributed papers should be relevant to the applications of any kind of nature-inspired approaches, e.g., evolutionary algorithm, ant colony optimisation, particle swarms, tabu search, simulated annealing, etc., to problems in telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not be limited to: - *General Network Design Problems* o Physical Topology Design Problems o Survivability and Reliability o Quality of Service o Protection and Restoration o Network Management o Congestion Control o Simulation and Queuing Models - *Optical networks* o Routing and wavelength assignment o Traffic grooming o Placement of wavelength converters o Placement of optical amplifiers o Protection and Restoration on Optical Layer - *Fixed Networks Design Problems* - *Cellular and Wireless Networks* - *Satellite Communications Networks* - *Other Topics* o Ad Hoc networks o Bluetooth/Personal Area Networks o IP/WDM o GMPLS and MPLS o Internet Applications * * *Submission of Papers:* * * The authors are advised to follow the guidelines on IJCIA’s website http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/mkt/guidelines.shtml in preparing their papers. All the papers should be in PDF, PS or WORD format and be submitted to either Dr. Y. Xu at y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk> or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz at sss(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:sss@cs.bham.ac.uk> via email as an attachment. Any inquiries please send to Dr. Y. Xu or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz. *Important dates* Paper submission deadline: 15 November 2004 First notification to the authors: 14 February 2005 Submission of revised papers: 14 March 2005 Expected publication date: October 2005 * * *The IJCIA Journal* The International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, IJCIA, is a refereed journal dedicated to the theory and applications of computational intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems). The main goal of this journal is to provide the scientific community and industry with a vehicle whereby ideas using two or more conventional and computational intelligence based techniques could be discussed. For more information about the journal, please visit the journal’s website at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/ijcia.shtml. *Guest Editors’ Address:* * * Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Prof. Xin Yao The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA), School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom E-mails: y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk>; sss(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:sss@cs.bham.ac.uk>; x.yao(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk> Tel: +44 121 414 3734; Fax: +44 121 414 2799 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [CFP] GI/ITG-KuVS Fachgespraech "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing"]
by Lars Wolf 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CFP] GI/ITG-KuVS Fachgespraech "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing" Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:55:00 +0200 From: Christian Becker <christian.becker(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Bitte entschuldigen Sie, falls Sie diese Nachricht mehrfach erhalten. Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ---------------------------------------------------------- "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing" Fachgespräch der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme Universität Stuttgart, 14.-15. Oktober 2004 http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/syssoft04/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Computing ist durch die spontane Vernetzung von eingebetteten Systemen im Verbund mit existierenden Rechnerinfrastrukturen gekennzeichnet. Sensorplattformen erfassen den Zustand der realen Welt und bieten somit die Möglichkeit, Kontext in die Ausführung von Anwendungen einzubeziehen. Aktoren erlauben die Beeinflussung von physischen Vorgängen, etwa im Bereich der Gebäudesteuerung. Die Vielzahl von Plattformen - von eingebetteten Systemen über mobile Endgeräte bis hin zu klassischen Computern - in solchen Pervasive-Computing-Umgebungen stellt eine Herausforderung an geeignete Systemsoftware für die Unterstützung von Anwendungen dar. Die hohe Dynamik in solchen Umgebungen, beispielsweise durch Benutzermobilität, erfordert eine dauernde Anpassung von Anwendungen an ihre Ausführungsumgebung. Weitere Herausforderungen ergeben sich durch beschränkte Ressourcen, durch die Einbettung in die reale Welt, durch Echtzeit-Anforderungen, sowie durch die geforderte Zuverlässigkeit dieser Systeme. Ziel dieses Fachgesprächs ist eine Bestandsaufnahme von Forschungsaktivitäten, die im deutschsprachigen Raum bearbeitet werden. Mittelfristig sollen diese Treffen die Kooperation der beteiligten Gruppen stärken und damit die internationale Visibilität der deutschsprachigen Forschung auf diesem Gebiet im internationalen Umfeld erhöhen. Insbesondere der Einbezug von Forschern, die in angrenzenden Gebieten - wie beispielsweise Systemsoftware für eingebettete Systeme oder selbstkonfigurierende Systeme - arbeiten, ist zur Bereicherung der Diskussionen auf dem Treffen erwünscht. Mögliche Themen sind: - Betriebssysteme für eingebettete Systeme des Pervasive Computing - Programmierabstraktionen, sowie entsprechende Tools und Frameworks - Dienste und Dienstinfrastrukturen - Systemarchitekturen für das Pervasive Computing (Smart Environments, Peer-to-Peer Ansätze) - Anwendungen: Berichte über Prototypen und Anforderungsanalysen - Sicherheitskonzepte für das Pervasive Computing Beiträge sollen von ihrem Umfang zwischen 2 und 6 Seiten A4 mit 12pt Schrift liegen. Neben Berichten über bereits erzielte Ergebnisse sind aber auch Vorstellungen von neuen Projekten und laufenden Arbeiten erwünscht. Eingereichte Beiträge werden von den Organisatoren in Hinblick auf ihre Tauglichkeit zu Diskussionen und ihren Beitrag zu einem repräsentativen thematischen Querschnitt ausgewählt. Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache sind gleichermaßen erwünscht. Einreichungen als PDF bitte per email an becker(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Wichtige Daten: --------------- Frist für Einreichungen: 17.9.2004 Benachrichtigung: 1.10.2004 Tagung: 14.10.-15.10.2004 Organisatoren: -------------- Christian Becker, Universität Stuttgart Kay Römer, ETH Zürich Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Universität Erlangen -- Dr. Christian Becker - IPVS - Universitaet Stuttgart http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de/people/beckercn/

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[Fwd: CfP: ARCS - 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: ARCS - 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 10:40:05 +0200 From: announce(a)teco.edu To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Call For Papers 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) - System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing Innsbruck, Austria, March 14-17, 2005 http://www.teco.edu/arcs05 Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2003 ======================================================================= Future computer systems will be much more integrated into the fabric of everyday life than today's computers are. They will become smaller, more appropriate for their use, integrated into everyday objects and often virtually or physically invisible to the users. They will be also deployed in a much higher quantity and penetrate many application areas To provide such features and functionality, computer devices become tinier yet still increase in complexity; they must consume less power, while still supporting advanced computation and communications, such that they are highly connected yet still operate as autonomous units. This brings several research topics to the fore, including ultra-low power consumption, self-awareness, adaptive networking, smart behavior of systems, scalability and complexity of devices and systems. Pervasive and ubiquitous computing research addresses such issues by developing concepts and technology for interweaving computers into our everyday life. The principle approach is to enhance system functionality and adaptability by recognizing context and situations in the environment. Organic computing then addresses high system complexity by drawing analogies from complex biological systems, with the human-centered goal of self-organization. Organic computing investigates the design and implementation of self-managing systems that are selfconfiguring, self-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting, context aware, and anticipatory. ARCS 2004 will emphasize the design, realization and analysis of the emerging computing systems for organic and pervasive computing and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of organic and pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, system integration and self-management of hardware, software and networks are in the centre of interest. ARCS 2005 continues and replaces the biennial series of German Conferences on Architecture of Computing Systems. This 18th 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 aspects of computer and systems architecture, in particular in the field of organic and pervasive computing are sought, including: Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure - operating systems - middleware for organic, pervasive and peer-to-peer computing - 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 Architectures and Systems - computer and system architecture - modular distributed devices - self-managing, self-healing and fault-tolerant systems - real-time systems - mobile and wearable devices - embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive) Applications - scenarios for ubiquitous and pervasive computing - autonomic environments - network server architectures and network based applications - semantic networks - ubiquitous, home and wireless networking 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 OCG (Austrian Computer Society), OVE/GIT (Austrian Electrotechnical Associastion) and electrosuisse (ITG), and held in cooperation with IFIP, ACM and IEEE (approval requested). In addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer invited presentations, workshops, and tutorials. The conference proceedings will 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. We accept only electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format. The URL of the submission site is http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/ . Selected papers will be published in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. Workshops are intended to discuss themes related to the conference and should be open to all ARCS attendees. Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be submitted in GI Lecture notes style and should not exceed 2 pages. Important Dates =============== September 20, 2004 Conference paper submission due October 1, 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal due December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection January 10, 2005 Camera-ready paper due Official Address ================ Web http://www.teco.edu/arcs05 General inquiries arcs05(a)teco.edu General Chair Paul Lukowicz, University for Health Science, Medical Informatics and Technology, Innsbruck, Austria, paul.lukowicz(a)umit.at Program Chair Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, michael(a)teco.edu Workshop and Tutorial Chair Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, brinks(a)ira.uka.de

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[ieee-cnom] IM 2005: Call for Papers (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Call for Papers "Managing New Networked Worlds" Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal, as well as proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, application sessions or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Detailed submission instructions are available on the symposium Web site, http://www.ieee-im.org/. Topics of interest include the following with a more detailed list included on the WWW site. * Management paradigms, models, and algorithms *Management functions and operational challenges *Management standards, platforms and technologies *Management of new networked worlds Technical Paper and Application Session Deadline: 23 August, 2004 Poster, Tutorial and Panel Deadline: 30 September, 2004 This symposium will be co-located with Telemanagement World. _______________________________________________ Cnom mailing list Cnom(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom

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[Fwd: CFP: SPIE Multimedia on Mobile Devices, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: SPIE Multimedia on Mobile Devices, 2005 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:56:54 -0500 From: Surendar Chandra <surendar(a)CSE.ND.EDU> Reply-To: Surendar Chandra <surendar(a)CSE.ND.EDU> To: SPIE-MMCN-2005(a)LISTSERV.ND.EDU *************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Note the extended submission deadline for Abstracts (August 5, 2004 - Firm). Feel free to distribute this CFP to those who might be interested. ======================================================================== == CALL FOR PAPERS Multimedia on Mobile Devices, 2005 San Jose, California (part of SPIE Electronic Imaging Symposium) January 16-20, 2005 Abstract submissions due: August 5, 2004 Abstracts must be electronically submitted to the conference website at www.electronicimaging.org (Conference EI 124) ======================================================================== == Program Chairs: Reiner Creutzburg (FH Brandenburg, Germany) Jarmo Takala (Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland) Program Committee: Barry Brown (Glasgow University, UK) Alan Chalmers (Bristol University, UK) Surendar Chandra (University of Notre Dame, USA) Chang Wen Chen (Florida Institute of Technology, USA) Ken Crisler (Motorola, USA ) David Doermann (UMIACS, Maryland, USA ) Uwe Dummann (Siemens, Germany) Elizabeth Dykstra-Erickson (Kinoma Inc, USA) Lajos Hanzo (Univ. of Southampton, UK) Jamil Khan (Massey Univ. New Zealand) Hannu Nieminen (Nokia, Finland) Sethuraman Panchanathan (Arizona State Univ., USA) Matthias Rauterberg (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands) Phillip Regalia (Institut National des Télécommunications, France) Davis Squire (Monash University, Australia) The goal of this new conference is to provide an international forum for presenting recent research results on multimedia for mobile devices, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. Conference topics: Submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia: - multimedia signal processing and modern compression techniques for mobile devices, - streaming mobile multimedia, - architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, roaming, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity for mobile multimedia, - case studies, field trials and evaluations of new applications and services for mobile multimedia, - HCI, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies for mobile devices, - wearable computers, - new displays for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, - intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments, - sensing and modeling of the environment, - middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia - power issues when transmitting multimedia content - mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment, - novel adaptive/context-aware/mobile/ubiquitous/ambient/wireless multimedia applications and systems, - m-commerce and m-learning systems Paper Submission Please follow the submission instructions for Conference EI 124 Multimedia on Mobile Devices at www.electronicimaging.org Important Dates: Abstracts (200 words) Due: 5 August 2004 Final Summary (200 words): 17 November 2004 Full Manuscripts Due: 22 December 2004

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