November 2006 - Cfp - lists.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (HotOS XI Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:25:04 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Interactive TV: a Shared Experience http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 Sponsored by CWI In-Cooperation with ACM (SIGMM, SIGCHI, and SIGWEB) Co-organized by IFIP TC14 Paper submission will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/). Final Call for Papers Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Special Theme The special theme for the EuroITV 2007 conference is: "Interactive TV: a shared experience" We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues: - Shared TV: sociability, playability, emotional design - Shared Home: cross-media, home media station, smart home - Shared Distribution: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mobile TV - Shared Content: recommendations, end-user annotations - Shared Communications: instant messaging, video conferencing Important Dates Full and short papers Submissions December 15, 2006 Courses and workshops Proposals November 1, 2006 Doctoral consortium, Videos, demos, panels January 26, 2007 Research in progress February 17, 2007 Keynote speakers: "Interactive Media: Shared Experiences in the Extended Home Environment" Maddy Janse; Philips Research, The Netherlands "Interactive Television in Brazil: System Software and the Digital Divide" Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares; PUC-RIO, Brazil "The Future of Entertainment Computing" Matthias Rauterberg; Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands Workshops: "Social Interactive Television" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gunnar Harboe, Motorola Labs, US Noel Massey, Motorola Labs, US "Personalization in iTV" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pieter Bellekens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Zeljko Obrenovic, CWI, The Netherlands "The Future of Television: Ambient Entertainment and Interactive TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany "Interactive Applications for Mobile TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tutorials: "Shape shifted TV: Authoring and delivering new forms of interactive TV" Duration: Full day (6 hours) Organizers: Marian F. Ursu, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Ian Kegel, BT, UK Doug Williams, BT, UK "User-generated Content - a Mega-trend in the New Media Landscape" Duration: Half day (3 hours) Organizer: Jens F. Jensen, Aalborg Univesity, Denmark "Modern Techniques in Professional Film & TV Productions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizer: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland "Introduction to iTV: State of the Art and Future Directions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizers: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands Final Call for Papers, we invite - Full and short papers - Demos, videos - Proposals for doctoral consortium Submissions guidelines are available in the webpage of the conference (http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007). Topics Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - Authoring, production, content enrichment, and annotations - Business models, media management, media economics - Communication services, video conferencing, messaging - Content management, digital rights management - Interactive storytelling, Interactive advertising - Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation - Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) - Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) - Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology - Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces - Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction - Ethical, regulatory and policy issues - Ambient intelligence - Audience research - P2P broadcast - Mobile TV - VR systems, 3DTV - t-commerce, t-learning - Entertainment computing - Meta-data - Television content modelling - Games, betting, play-along game shows Organizing Committee General Chair: P. Cesar, CWI Conference co-chairs: K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar J. Jensen, Aalborg University Doctoral colloquium chair: J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen Work in progress chair: L. Pemberton, Brighton University Demonstration chairs: B. Gammon, BBC New Media M. Howell, BBC New Media Workshops chairs: L. Ardissono, University of Torino A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology Tutorials chairs: B. Bushoff, Sagasnet C. Peng, VTT Treasurer D.G.C. Broekhuis, CWI Program Committee S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands L. Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany P. Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland B. Gammon, BBC New Media, UK D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium D. Goren-Bar, Haifa University, Israel T. Hujanen, University of Tampere, Finland J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark J. Henriksson, Nokia, Finland C. Klimmt, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany H. Knoche, UCL, UK M. Howell, BBC New Media, BBC, UK N. Lee, ACM Computers in Entertainment, USA G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece J. Lilius, Abo Akademi University, Finland P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy J. Pazos, University of Vigo, Spain L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK C. Peng, VTT, Finland J.A. Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands R.P. Picard, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden R. Puijk, Lillehammer University College, Norway C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands B. Shen, HP Labs, USA L.F.G. Soares, PUC-RIO, Brazil J. Stewart, University of Edinburgh, UK G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK P. Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland J. Yagnik, Google Research, USA Z. Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Social Events and Excursions Social events will be arranged during the conference. Contact For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: euroitvinfo(at)cwi.nl Host CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (http://www.cwi.nl) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:58:17 +0100 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** AUTONOMICS ***** First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics-conference.eu/ 28-30 October 2007, Rome (Italy) In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The AUTONOMICS conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics07 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: April 18, 2007 Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2007 Final version due: September 5, 2007 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: F. Davide (Telecom Italia, Italy) Vice Chair: D. Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy) TechnicalProgram Co-Chairs: R. Baldoni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) V. R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, US) Steering Committee Chair: I. Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy) Workshop Chair: A. Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy.) Publicity Co-Chairs: J. Tang (Montana State Univ., US) P. Bellavista (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan) Industry Chair F. Morabito (Telecom Italia, IT) Finance Chair: K. Decker (ICST, US) Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab (ICST, US) Webmaster: S. Scipioni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline!]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline! Datum: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:29 -0500 (EST) Von: Vijay Raghunathan <vr(a)ecn.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu **************** 3 DAYS TO PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE!! *************** ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2007 The Fourth IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/ Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc & Sensor Networks (IWWAN) San Diego, California, USA June 18-21, 2007 ======================================================================== The fourth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of sensor, mesh and ad-hoc communications and networks. This year, SECON has been merged with the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN). Original technical papers that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited. PAPERS: Full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh communications and networks are solicited. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers that have a deep focus on a specific discipline, are stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines, or describe practical application of technology to real-world problems. Submitted papers should not be concurrently under review at any another workshop, symposium, conference, or journal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and protocols to support wireless communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale, distributed mesh and sensor networks. * Algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad-hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes. * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks. * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks. * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning. * Performance measurement and modeling techniques for large-scale distributed ad-hoc and sensor networks and their evaluation. * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including techniques for exploiting on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for online self-calibration and self-testing, and schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms. * Hardware platforms and testbeds incorporating multiple sensors, embedded processors, actuators, and wireless interfaces. * Software architectures, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management. * Practical implementations, case-studies, and real-world experiences in designing and deploying large scale ad-hoc, mesh, and sensor network applications. POSTERS, DEMOS, AND EXHIBITS: SECON will also include poster/demo sessions that provide an interactive forum to present work in progress, showcase real system implementations, highlight industrial/commercial developments, and discuss key research challenges in the fields of sensor, mesh, and ad-hoc networks. Details about the poster and demo submission procedure will soon be available on the conference web site. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS web based system. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions and templates are available at the conference website located at http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be archived on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy mandates that all accepted SECON 2007 papers must have at least one associated registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: November 30, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Full paper submission: December 7, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Decision notification: February 26, 2007 Camera ready paper due: March 22, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Rene Cruz, UC San Diego (cruz(a)ece.ucsd.edu) VICE-CHAIR: Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester (wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara (almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu) Robin Kravets, UIUC (rhk(a)cs.uiuc.edu) PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Wenye Wang, NC State University Al Harris, University of Padova POSTERS/DEMOs CO-CHAIRS: Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan Jie Liu, Microsoft Research WORKSHOP CHAIR: Rajeev Shorey, GM Research PUBLICITY CHAIR: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Curt Schurgers, UC San Diego EXHIBITS CHAIR: Cedric Westphal, Nokia TRAVEL AWARDS CHAIR: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona WEB CHAIR: Navid Ehsan, UC San Diego STANDING COMMITTEE: Fred Bauer, PacketHop (fred(a)fredbauer.com) - Chair Hamid Aghvami, King's College London Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Available on the conference webpage ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:47:01 +0100 Von: Jens Schroeder <jens.schroeder(a)ikt.uni-hannover.de> An: <germany-com(a)IEEE.ORG> ### SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO Dec. 10, 2006 ### ### 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ### 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC07) Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany March 22, 2007, right after CeBIT07 www.wpnc.net The Institute of Communications Engineering (IKT) of the University of Hannover, and its partners IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Communications Society Germany Chapter, VDE ITG, PULSERS and IHK Hannover are proud to announce the 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC'07), which will take place at the University of Hannover, Germany, 22 March 2007, right after CeBIT'07. ### Scope ### Mobile position-aware systems, combined with modern wireless technologies, are getting more and more important. When developing systems of this kind, problems in various fields of information and communication technology need to be solved. The workshop shall give an overview of state-of-the-art approaches and systems. As many technologies are available to deal with the variety of applications, we would like to continue to cover ultra-wideband technology as it is becoming of great importance in the area of positioning, navigation and communication. ### Topics ### You are invited to submit papers presenting scientific work or practical implementations addressing, but not limited to the following topics: * Positioning * Outdoor-Radio Systems (terrestrial & satellite-based) * Indoor-Positioning * Hybrid Approaches * Navigation * Pedestrian Navigation * Vehicle and Robot Navigation * Communication and Services * Integrated Positioning and Communication * Location Based Services * Application Scenarios * Ultra-Wideband * Positioning and Localization * Architectures, Systems, Protocols * Hybrid Positioning and Communication * Regulatory Issues, EMC/EMI ### Submission Guidelines ### Full-paper or poster submissions in the form of extended abstracts (max. 2 pages) or full papers (max. 10 pages) are requested electronically in PDF-format in English language until Dec. 10, 2006. Paper submission is handled only through the TrackChair paper review system at http://wpnc07.trackchair.com. With acceptance, complete contributions of up to 10 pages are expected until Feb. 16, 2007. ### Important Dates ### Submission of Extended Abstracts until: Dec. 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance or denial until: Jan. 08, 2007 Submission of Camera Ready Manu-scripts until: Feb. 16, 2007 ### Publishing ### The workshop proceedings in book-form will be published in the series Hannoversche Beiträge zur Nachrichtentechnik by SHAKER publishing. In addition, an application to publish in the IEEE Xplore database has been filed. ### Contact ### Prof. T. Kaiser Prof. K. Jobmann email: workshop2007(a)wpnc.net phone: +49 (0) 511 762 2814 web: www.wpnc.net ### Technical Program Committee ### Susanne Boll University of Oldenburg, Germany Dorota Brzenzinska Ohio State University, USA Vicente Casares-Giner Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Li-Der Chou National Central University, Taiwan Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Manuel Esteve Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Hermann Eul Infineon, Germany Adolf Finger TU Dresden, Germany Laurent Herault CEA-LETI, Centre de Grenoble, France Adam Hoeher University of Kiel, Germany James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Klaus Jobmann University of Hannover, Germany Thomas Kaiser University of Hannover, Germany Rolf Kraemer IHP Microelectronics, Germany Thomas Kürner TU Brunswick, Germany Kyandoghere Kyamakya University of Klagenfurt, Austria Heinz Lüdiger IMST, Germany Andreas F. Molisch Lund University, Sweden Kyle OKeefe University of Calgary, Canada Kaveh Pahlavan Worcester Polytechnique Institute, USA Robert Piché Tampere University, Finland Ulrich Reimers TU Brunswick, Germany Hermann Rohling TU Hamburg Harburg, Germany Robert Schober University of British Columbia, Canada Reiner Thomä TU Ilmenau, Germany Andy Ward Ubisense, UK

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[Fwd: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge Datum: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:39 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de UbiComp Challenge ----------------- UbiComp 2007 [1] will introduce a new instrument to promote and encourage high quality research in the area of UbiComp: The UbiComp Challenge. It is a field test intended to accelerate research, development and applicability of UbiComp technology. Using an "eating your own dog's food" approach, the UbiComp2007 Challenge is seeking for submissions of how to implement an audience voting system to finally determine the winner of the "Best Presentation Award" which will be given at UbiComp2007 for the first time. The central requirement is that the proposed solution makes clever and efficient use of UbiComp technology, and can actually be implemented by the proposers before and used at the conference in September 2007. The conference organizers reserve a grant of up to 2000 EUR to buy necessary equipment claimed and justified by the best proposal. The challenge call [2] is intentionally underspecified in terms of approaches and technologies to allow for a creative and innovative scientific solution employing all kinds of ubiquitous computing technologies and techniques that are appropriately addressing the problem space. The challenge offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to approx. 500 attendees from academia and industry, which is also the amount of people which are expected to use the winner's system at the same time, so it should scale adequately. We believe that the experiences and findings from developing and running a system of this scale provide valuable results to the UbiComp community. The UbiComp Challenge committee will carefully review all submissions to identify the most appealing approach, which is still realistic to be implemented in the given timeframe: Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2007 Notification: Mar 15, 2007 Conference: Sep 16-19, 2007 We expect submissions in form of an abstract that describes the ubicomp technology being adopted and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas, but also provide justification for the feasibility of the approach and cost estimates. The challenge abstract of the best five submissions will be published in the Conference Supplement and should therefore be self-contained. The best submissions are also given the opportunity to showcase their apporaches in the UbiComp demo program. The abstracts should be a maximum of 8 pages, in the LNCS conference publications format, including all figures and references and one additional page for the review process summarizing all pieces of equipment you expect to use and a complete cost estimation of your solution. Submit your proposals as PDF document to challenge(at)ubicomp2007.org We are looking forward to your submissions! UbiComp 2007 Challenge Chair Matthias Kranz, University of Munich [1] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/ [2] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/calls/#Chall

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[Fwd: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing Datum: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:11:08 +0100 Von: Hartmut Schmeck <schmeck(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: OC-Interessenten:; Dear colleague, I'd like to draw your attention to the CfP for a Special Issue of ACM TAAS on Organic Computing. Please, distribute this CfP to further colleagues who might be interested in submitting a paper. Kind regards Hartmut Schmeck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with apologies for multiple postings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call for Papers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Special Isssue of ACM TAAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Organic Computing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Organic Computing SCOPE Organic Computing (OC) has emerged recently as a challenging vision for future information processing systems, based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by systems with massive numbers of processing elements, sensors and actuators. Because of the size of these systems it is infeasible for us to monitor and control them entirely from external observations; instead they will need to help us monitor, control and adapt themselves. To do so, these components will need to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and services that are required. The presence of such networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens up fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems as robust, safe, and trustworthy as possible. In order to achieve all these goals, our computing systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously. Thus, we are interested in new analytic methods and architectures underlying complex systems. In OC, we put an emphasis on systems that exhibit life-like properties, such as being self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of OC and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Science & Engineering. In this special issue, we welcome contributions from all these areas to OC. We seek theoretical as well as carefully evaluated practical papers dealing with complex computing systems that adapt dynamically to the current conditions of their environments, exhibit self-x properties as described above, and are partly inspired by biological information processing principles. For more information on OC see: OC Page: http://www.organic-computing.org DFG research program OC: http://www.organic-computing.de/SPP IEEE OC Task Force: http://www.neuroinformatik.rub.de/thbio/project/oc ACM TAAS ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding, development, and control of such systems. For more information, please follow the link: http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas REVIEW & SUBMISSION PROCESS Manuscripts will first be screened for topical relevance, and those that pass the screening process will undergo a full review procedure according to the standards of TAAS. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a preliminary single page abstract by February 16, 2007. This will help in planning an efficient review process and providing initial feedback to the prospective authors. The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage and submitted to: octf(a)neuroinformatik.rub.de GUEST EDITORIAL TEAM Kirstie L. Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Christian Igel, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Hartmut Schmeck, Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Rolf P. Wuertz, Institut f¨ur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Single page abstract submission (not required) deadline is February 16, 2007. Paper submission deadline is May 1, 2007. Submission feedback to authors will be sent in July 2007. The tentative publication date is June 2008. supported by the IEEE Emergent Technologies Task Force Organic Computing

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[Fwd: Call for papers: NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:55:34 +0100 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)ifi.uio.no> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Colleague, please forward this call for papers for NOSSDAV 2007 to colleagues who may be interested, and excuse us if you receive multiple copies of this email. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPER The 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2007) Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA June 4-5, 2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGMM http://www.nossdav.org/2007 Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. NOSSDAV will give extra consideration to papers that aim to comprehensively validate previous work in some topic within multimedia, propose new directions for research or call into question existing conventional wisdom. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Peer-to-peer streaming - Networked games - Sensor networks and architectures - In-network stream processing - Wireless and mobile multimedia systems - 3D multimedia and tele-immersion - Streaming 3D graphics and virtual worlds - Application-level multicast - Multimedia security - Digital rights management - Real-time operating system support for multimedia - Multimedia middleware and frameworks - Multimedia grids - Programmable and GPU/SPU-enabled multimedia A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular paper or topic is within the workshop scope. As always, student participation is strongly encouraged. To encourage a good mix of seasoned researchers as well as students, we will be offering discounted registration for non-student co-authors of a paper or other non-student participants associated with the author of a paper (participants from the same institution). Submissions (as well as the camera ready final versions of accepted papers) should be no longer than 6 pages. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. This year, a few of accepted NOSSDAV papers with highest quality are selected and their authors are invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). MMSJ is a well-known International journal, published by the Springer Verlag, and sponsored by the ACM SIGMM organization. This journal publishes new research results in the areas of multimedia systems, multimedia networking, multimedia applications, multimedia security, multimedia education, multimedia coding, and multimedia retrieval systems. Program Co-chairs: Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon) Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC) Important Dates: Paper registration: February 5, 2007 Paper submission: February 12, 2007 Notification: March 31, 2007 Camera ready: April 19, 2007 Workshop: June 4-5, 2007 ========================================================================== If you don't want me to send CFPs to this address, please tell me. You find my official mail address on http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~griff/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks Datum: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:44:39 -0800 (PST) Von: Lin Cai <cai(a)ECE.UVic.CA> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [ Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks ****** Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 ****** Traffic congestion, delays, and accidents in the transportation systems have caused significant loss of lives, waste of energy, and loss in productivity. To improve the safety, security and efficiency of the transportation systems and enable new mobile services and applications for the traveling public, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been developed, which apply rapidly emerging information technologies in vehicles and transportation infrastructures. The development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks is one of the most challenging and critical issues for the ITS industry, which also sparks numerous interests in the communications and networking research community. The objective of this special section is to disseminate the state-of-the-art R&D results in this fast-moving research area, to facilitate the deployment of vehicular communications networks, and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of fostering interaction among them to promote further research interests and activities to enable new transportation products and services, e.g., advanced traffic management, vehicle control, safety control, and networking and information services for users on the road. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies - Vehicular network architecture and protocol - Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis - Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols - Vehicular network flow and congestion control - Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems - Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems - Networking and information services for users on the roads (by automobiles, trains, planes, or ships) - Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks - Mobility management and intersystem handovers - Simulations models and testbeds for ITS - Implementation and field tests of ITS systems - Network self-organization and self-configuration - Network security and trustworthy networks - Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Submission: We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All papers for this section must be submitted in PDF format through IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Manuscript Central (http://tvt-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). When submitting the paper, select the category "Special Issue Paper". Guest Editors: Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia University, USA nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Prof. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada cai(a)ece.uvic.ca Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 First Reviews: April 15, 2007 Revised Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007 Final Reviews: July 1, 2007 Final Manuscripts: August 1, 2007 Publication: November 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:08:04 -0500 (EST) Von: Dongyan Xu <dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <364166302.04202(a)eyou.net> My sincere apologies if you received multiple copies! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2007) Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA June 4-5, 2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGMM http://www.nossdav.org/2007 Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. NOSSDAV will give extra consideration to papers that aim to comprehensively validate previous work in some topic within multimedia, propose new directions for research or call into question existing conventional wisdom. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Peer-to-peer streaming - Networked games - Sensor networks and architectures - In-network stream processing - Wireless and mobile multimedia systems - 3D multimedia and tele-immersion - Streaming 3D graphics and virtual worlds - Application-level multicast - Multimedia security - Digital rights management - Real-time operating system support for multimedia - Multimedia middleware and frameworks - Multimedia grids - Programmable and GPU/SPU-enabled multimedia A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular paper or topic is within the workshop scope. As always, student participation is strongly encouraged. To encourage a good mix of seasoned researchers as well as students, we will be offering discounted registration for non-student co-authors of a paper or other non-student participants associated with the author of a paper (participants from the same institution). Submissions (as well as the camera ready final versions of accepted papers) should be no longer than 6 pages. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. This year, a few of accepted NOSSDAV papers with highest quality are selected and their authors are invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). MMSJ is a well-known International journal, published by the Springer Verlag, and sponsored by the ACM SIGMM organization. This journal publishes new research results in the areas of multimedia systems, multimedia networking, multimedia applications, multimedia security, multimedia education, multimedia coding, and multimedia retrieval systems. Program Co-chairs: Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon) Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC) Important Dates: Paper registration: February 5, 2007 Paper submission: February 12, 2007 Notification: March 31, 2007 Camera ready: April 19, 2007 Workshop: June 4-5, 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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