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[Fwd: [Tccc] Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking - special issue on Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking - special issue on Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality Datum: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 20:01:48 +0200 Von: Marco Conti <Marco.Conti(a)iit.cnr.it> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking Special issue on MobileMAN (Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks): From Theory to Reality http://www.hindawi.com/journals/WCN/si/MobileMAN.html The aim of this special issue is to present, from an experimental perspective, architectures and protocols for implementing (mobile) ad hoc networks. This special issue constitutes a unique forum to present measurements/experiences/lessons obtained by implementing ad hoc networks testbeds and prototypes. The special issue will investigate the whole protocol stack from enabling technologies to middleware and applications. Original contributions are solicited, related to system and protocol development, measurement, and testing, in all areas related to ad hoc networking. Specifically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Ad hoc networks applications * System prototypes and experiences * Mobile ad hoc networks * Opportunistic and delay tolerant networks * Sensor networks * Mesh networks * Vehicular networks * Protocol implementation and testing * Middleware platforms for ad hoc networks * Ad hoc networking for pervasive environments * Situated and autonomic communications * Location services * Positioning and tracking technologies and services * Measurement studies * Mobility models based on real data * Enabling technologies measurements (802.11, 802.15, etc.) * Experiment-based socio-economic analysis of ad hoc networks Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JWCN's manuscript tracking system at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due July 1, 2006 Acceptance Notification November 1, 2006 Final Manuscript Due February 1, 2007 Publication Date 2nd Quarter, 2007 Guest Editor: Marco Conti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Instituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT-CNR), Via Giuseppe, Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, e-mail: Marco.Conti(a)iit.cnr.it -- ============================================== Marco Conti Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) http://www.perlab.it Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa,Italy tel.: + 39 050 315 3062 (direct) mobile: +39 348 3966807 fax.: +39 050 3152113 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: ISADS2007 CFP text]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: ISADS2007 CFP text Datum: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 18:18:19 +0200 (MEST) Von: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: members(a)ist-e-next.net Dear colleagues, please pay attention to the attached Call for papers: the IEEE ISADS is a well established forum for autonomous systems, the next year it is even more AC-friendly, kind regards Michael PS. sorry if replicated -- Apologies if receiving multiple copies of this announcement -- CALL FOR Papers ISADS 2007 - THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on AUTONOMOUS DECENTRALIZED SYSTEMS Sedona, Arizona, USA; Wednesday March 21 - Friday March 23, 2007 (http://asusrl.eas.asu.edu/srlab/activities/isads/) Scope and Topics Driven by the continuous growth in the power, sophistication, intelligence, adaptiveness, and openness of technologies applied in computing, communication, and control systems, opportunities and challenges for realizing highly complex, efficient, and dependable business and control systems have been steadily increasing. Dynamically changing social and economic situations demand the next-generation of systems to be based on adaptive and reusable technologies and applications. Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ADS) concepts and technologies are well researched in the past sixteen years to address these challenges. The past seven success symposia on ADS were held in 1993 (Japan), in 1995 ( USA), in 1997 ( Germany), in 1999 (Japan), in 2001 ( USA), in 2003 ( Italy), and in 2005 ( China). While ISADS 2007 will primarily focus on advancements and innovations in ADS concept, technologies, and applications related to software-intensive adaptive systems and their enginering, other themes listed below are also encouraged. The ISADS 2007 program committee invites papers, workshop proposals, and panel proposals on the topics of the Symposium that will foster interactions among researchers and practitioners in computer, communication, management, control as applied to complex software-intensive adaptive systems and other related fields from academia, industry, and government. The topics in ISADS 2007 shall include, but not be limited to: - Adhoc networks and sensor networks; - Advanced network infrastructures and internetworking ; - Assurance, fault tolerance and on-line expansion; - Autonomic computing systems; - Computer and communication architectures; - Autonomous and decentralized services, including service architecture, protocols, and collaboration; - Distributed and collaborative development, test, and maintenance, and development infrastructure of high-quality software systems; - Emergent control and robotic systems; - Heterogeneous distributed information / control systems; - Mobile agent /computer-supported cooperative works; - Model driven development; - Modeling and simulation of autonomous services and service-oriented application composition - Object management architecture, design patterns, application frameworks; - Service-oriented architecture, design patterns, and application frameworks; - Web services and Web-based application composition - Novel applications, including e-business, e-commerce and e-government; telecommunications; information service systems; manufacturing systems; real-time event management; office automation; traffic and transportation control; supply chains; environmental/emergency protection; networked health and medical systems; intelligent home control; wireless ad hoc systems; embedded systems for automotive and avionics applications IMPORTANT DATES June 30, 2006: Workshop proposal due July 15, 2006: Acceptance notification of workshop proposals Aug. 15, 2006: Symposium papers and panel proposals due (Workshop paper's due dates will be announced in the individual workshop's CFPs) Oct. 30, 2006: Authors and panel organizers notified of acceptance Dec. 15, 2006: Camera-ready copies of all accepted papers, including symposium papers, workshop papers, and panelists' position papers. General Chair Kane Kim, University of California at Irvine, USA Program Co-Chairs Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan Eckhard Moeller, FOKUS - Fraunhofer Institute, Germany W. T. Tsai, Arizona State University, USA Program Committee Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, National University of Sciences and Technology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Takeiki Aizono, Hitachi, Japan Stephane Amarger, Hitachi Europe SAS, France Xiaoying Bai, Tsinghua University, China Ramesh Bharadwaj, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Thomas Chehire, Thales ATM, France Valentin Cristea, Univ. Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Chun Fan, Microsoft Seattle, USA Xiaohong Guan, Tsinghua University, China Bernhard Hohlfeld DaimlerChrysler, Germany Hiroki Horiuchi, KDDI R&D Labs., Japan Hai Huang, Intel Corporation, USA Koji Ito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Isao Kaji, Miyagi University, Japan Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Roger Kilian-Kehr, SAP, Germany Jin-Hyung Kim, KAIST Moon H. Kim, KonKuk Univ. Sunggu Lee, Postech Carlos Perez Leguizamo, Mexico Bank Xiaodong Lu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Masayuki Matsumoto, JR East, Japan Takaaki Matsumoto, NTT Data, Japan Christoph Meinel, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany Yukikazu Nakamoto, University of Hyogo, Japan Depei Qian, Sino-German Joint Software Institute, P. R. China Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany Arnor Solberg, SINTEF ICT, Norway Yongdong Tan, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Tang Tao, Northern Jiaotong University, China Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan Akira Yamaguchi, ATR, Japan Franco Zambonelli, Univ. di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Steering Committee Chair: Kinji Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan Kane Kim, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA Hiroshi Kuwahara, Hitachi Mawell, Japan Radu Popescu-Zeletin, FOKUS - Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Operations Committee Yinong Chen , Arizona State University (Chair), isads07(a)asu.edu Xinyu Zhou , Arizona State University (Webmaster)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security Datum: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 11:38:16 +0200 Von: Frank Hartung (AC/EDD) <frank.hartung(a)ericsson.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <multicomm(a)comsoc.org>, <MOBICOM(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG> **** Apologies if you receive multiple copies **** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security October 28, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, USA http://stargate.ecn.purdue.edu/~ips/acm-sec/ Held in conjunction with the 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference We are 'Living la Vida Digital' -- in the shadow an ever-growing mountain of digital data, and advances in technology enable media delivery scenarios that were not feasible before; today's service providers and content providers must embrace new business models in order to attract and sustain consumers. But as the volumes of data grow, so does the importance of, and challenges associated with, multimedia content protection and security. To address these challenges, it is imperative to devise effective and flexible solutions. New technologies offer convenient ways to distribute and consume digital media; yet these new technologies also make it relatively easy to quickly and flawlessly copy digital data, posing tremendous challenges to protecting intellectual property rights. Multimedia security standards aim to define specifications that facilitate effective and flexible content protection schemes and promote interoperability among applications. While that is the Holy Grail, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. During this workshop, we will explore ways in which a combination of emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovative solutions and technologies that enable new markets might drive both new applications and entirely new ways of managing content. We will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from several perspectives: researchers, consumers and content/service providers. Call for Papers The intention of this workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from multimedia security communities (academia and industry) to share a vision of "Multimedia Security and Content Protection in this Rapidly Growing Digital World". That is, from identifying challenging problems that can shape the future of research, to practical applications and/or research that address issues posed by the convergence of television, computers and the Internet. We welcome papers on applications that combine emerging standards, emerging media formats, innovating solutions, and technologies that enable new markets. This workshop will provide an excellent overview of the relevant research, business, and consumer challenges, as well as the potential impact of emerging optical media formats. We expect to cover multimedia security from the several perspectives: researchers, consumers, and content/service providers. We encourage submissions on papers on all topics in the general areas of multimedia security, multimedia content protection, emerging standards, interoperability, and practical applications issues. Papers that bridge across these areas are of special interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Content Protection * Broadcast Encryption * Public-Key Encryption * Forensic Analysis * Tracing Traitors * Revocation Schemes * Digital Rights Management * Cryptographic Applications Digital Watermarking * Applications * Protocols * Attacks * Techniques Platform Integrity * Software Tamper Resistance * Code Obfuscation * Software Watermarking * Hardware Tamper Resistance * Trusted Computing Applications, Standards, and Formats * Consumer Applications * Solutions for the Home Network * New business models in multimedia security * Challenges of Emerging Media Formats * Enabling technologies * Legal aspects We also welcome authors from industry to submit papers that describe solutions in all the areas a bove. These papers should point out the technical aspects of the work, such as: * Relevant implementation issues * Lessons learned * Problems addressed by the solution * Supporting technologies * Interoperability issues Submission Details: Papers should be at most 10 pages long prepared in the ACM style and written in acceptable English. Short papers (5 pages) are acceptable. All submissions will be peer- reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Papers submitted must be original unpublished work and must not be simultaneously submitted or under review for any other workshop, conference or journal (including ACM Multimedia). Any paper found to be in violation of these rules will be rejected without review. (We may share information about submissions with the program chairs of other conferences considering papers during the review period.) Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions are treated as confidential, both as a matter of policy and in accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. Submission Instructions: Papers should be submitted as an email attachment (PDF files only) to acmsec(a)ecn.purdue.edu. For questions on submissions please contact dulce(a)almaden.ibm.com. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2006 Acceptance notification: August 2, 2006 Camera ready copy for accepted papers: August 15, 2006 ACM Multimedia Conference: October 22-28, 2006 Multimedia Content Protection and Security Workshop: October 28, 2006 Registration: more information coming soon. Please check our website for updates. For accepted papers, at least one of the authors must register for the workshop. Invited Speakers: Andy G. Setos, President of Engineering Fox Group, Fox Entertainment Group Frank Casanova, Director of QuickTime Marketing, Apple Computer, Inc. Workshop Chairs: * Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, Indiana, USA (ace(a)ecn.purdue.edu) * Dulce B. Ponceleón, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA (dulce(a)almaden.ibm.com ) * Ginger Myles, IBM Almaden Research Center, California, USA (gmyles(a)us.ibm.com ) Program Committee: * Mikhail Atallah (Purdue University) * Christian Collberg (University of Arizona) * Nelly Fazio (Courant Institute) * Matt Franklin (UC Davis) * Frank Hartung (Ericsson Research, Germany) * Paul Kocher (Cryptography Research, Inc.) * Jeff Lotspiech (IBM Almaden Research Center) * Dalit Naor (IBM Research Haifa) * Clark Thomborson (University of Auckland) --- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICC 2007
by Xiaoyuan Gu 04 Jun '06

04 Jun '06

Call For Papers: International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007) We would like to inform you that the EDAS database system has gone online for ICC 2007. This note is to invite you to write-up your latest research results and submit them for review at ICC 2007, the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society. The Conference will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, from Sunday June 24th to Thursday June 28th 2007. The Conference Programme will comprise ten technical symposia, plus a general conference for topics not covered by other symposia. The submission deadline for papers is: Friday September 15th 2006 Full details on the symposia and the paper submission procedure can be found on our website: www.ieee-icc007.org More information about the many attractions Glasgow has to offer can be found on this website: www.seeglasgow.com We look forward to welcoming you to Scotland in June 2007! Tariq Durrani Executive Chair ICC 2007 Ivan Andonovic and John Thompson Technical Programme Co-chairs ICC 2007

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines - IMS as Service Delivery Platform for Converged Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers and Submission Guidelines - IMS as Service Delivery Platform for Converged Networks Datum: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:25:13 -0400 Von: Varma, Vijay K <vvarma(a)telcordia.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ---------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP --------- ************************ Deadline Approaching *************************** Special Issue on IMS as Service Delivery Platform for Converged Networks: Architecture, Protocols, and Applications IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is globally considered as the common platform for providing a unified session control on top of various access network technologies for realizing flexible multimedia applications. IMS is also driving the notion of Next Generation Networks and Fixed Mobile Convergence by merging the fixed and mobile telecommunication networks with the Internet and the adoption of IP technologies within the telecom domain. >From a technology perspective the IMS represents conceptually a combination of fixed and mobile networks from the telecom domain with emerging VoIP and Internet applications in order to implement a seamless multimedia service environment. The international standardization of IMS was initiated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in 2000 and has resulted in first commercial implementations and first trial deployments around the world providing first experiences. The introduction of IMS is challenged today by the questions around business cases, IMS killer applications, migration strategies and interworking issues with existing and upcoming network and service platforms in converging networks. Topics In this special issue we would like to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in IMS platform and applications development and deployment around the world. In addition, we want to identify upcoming research areas around IMS and investigate potential solutions in these areas. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to: * IMS applications: IMS vs. Internet services, new IMS enabled multimedia applications, application servers, feature interactions, service orchestration, 3rd party interfaces, service creation toolkit, experiences with IMS combinational services * IMS and multimedia telephony, IMS and network convergence * IMS in mobile networks: PoC/PTT to IMS evolution, voice call continuity between IMS and legacy mobile networks * IMS and triple play, IMS/IPTV/iTV integration, IMS for broadcasting * IMS and access network integration and QoS issues for 3G, WLAN, WIMAX, WiBro, etc. * IMS core issues: security, performance/scalability, benchmarking, interoperability * Global IMS standards updates: IETF, 3GPP, ETSI TISPAN, OMA, etc. * IMS client standardization and implementation, IMS SIM card issues * Introduction strategies around the world for network operators Papers should be of tutorial nature and contain state-of-the-art research and development materials. Authors must follow the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript format. All papers should be submitted with email attachment (in PDF format) to one the editors listed below. Important Dates: Manuscript submission due: July 1, 2006 Acceptance notification; September 30, 2006 Final manuscript due: November 1, 2006 Publication: February, 2007 Guest Editors Vijay K. Varma Telcordia USA vvarma(a)telcordia.com Thomas Magedanz TU Berlin / FhG FOKUS Germany Magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de K.C. Chua ECE / National University of Singapore chuakc(a)nus.edu.sg *********************** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ********************** Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Papers presenting original contributions will also be considered, especially in special issues. However, their presentation should be accessible for all readers. Submissions of highly specialized and detailed technical papers should redirected to other journals, for example, the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Mathematical equations should only be used to help the reader in understanding better the contents of the paper. In any case, it is recommended to avoid their use if possible. References should be limited to a maximum of 15 and should only be included to guide readers interesting in further increasing their knowledge on the topic. All references should be easily accessible for authors, for example through IEEE XPLORE or other sources. However, PhD or diploma thesis should be avoided and a related publication should be used instead. References to Web pages should only be included if it corresponds to web sites with a proven stability. The IEEE VTM uses numbered references in square brackets ordered by the first use of the reference in the article. Articles should not exceed 5000 words. The combined number of figures and tables should not exceed 8. Exceptionally good articles could go beyond 5000 words (6000 is an absolute maximum) if the number of figures is reduced. Papers should be directly sent via email to one of the editors of the special issue. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue of JoATC (extended deadline)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue of JoATC (extended deadline) Datum: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:01:00 -0300 Von: Laurence T. Yang <lyang(a)stfx.ca> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, computational.science(a)lists.OptimaNumerics.com, isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org CC: Xiaolin (Andy) Li <xiaolin(a)a.cs.okstate.edu> Due to many requests for an extension, the deadline is now extended to June 15, 2006. Call for Papers Special Issue of Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing on Autonomic and Trusted Computing Systems and Applications (URL: http://cs.okstate.edu/~xiaolin/joatc/CFP06.htm) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Deadline: June 15, 2006 (extended) As computer systems become increasingly large, complex and pervasive, their self-manageability and trustworthiness play critical roles in supporting next-generation science, engineering, and business applications. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers, such as, accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters. Identifying and rectifying problems in such complex systems which consist of several heterogeneous software/hardware/network components is non-trivial. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly. Therefore, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the performance of trustworthy systems. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, and privacy protect-able. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement trusted and self-managing systems, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, the natural sciences, biological sciences, to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. This special issue seeks original contributions of theoretical or practical emphasis in the area of autonomic and trusted computing systems and applications, including but are not limited to: * Autonomic Computing Theory and Models * Autonomic Computing Systems and Applications * Autonomic System Tools and Interfaces * Autonomic Grid Systems, Middleware, and Services * Bio-Inspired System Design * Context-aware Access Control * Economic Models for Autonomic Trusted Computing Systems and Applications * Embedded Trusted and Autonomic Architectures * Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems * Reliability and Availability Issues in Embedded and Sensor Network Systems * Reliability Measurement, Modeling and Evaluation * Security Models and Quantification * Sensing, Monitoring and Measurements for Self-Managing Systems * Self-* Design for Ubiquitous Computing * Self-healing, Self-protecting and Fault-tolerant Systems * Software and Hardware Reliability, Verification and Testing * Trusted Autonomic Computing and Communications * Trust Models and Specifications * Trust-related Security and Privacy * Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems Important Dates: Expression of Interest: ASAP, 2006 Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006 Acceptance Notification: September 1st, 2006 Final Manuscript: October 1st, 2006 Publication Date: December, 2006 Submission Information: * Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Transaction manuscript format described in the Guide for Authors at http://www.joatc.org/ * Please limit your paper appropriately so that the final version is approximately 15 pages in length following IEEE Transaction paper styles (single-space double-column). * Your email of intent to submit a paper should include author(s) information, a title and an abstract. * Please email your submission in PDF or MS Word format to the guest editors. * If you are not sure about the suitability of a given topic or if you want to know more details about the special issue's intent, please do not hesitate to contact the guest editors. * All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed according to the rules of JoATC. Guest Editors: Xiaolin (Andy) Li Department of Computer Science Oklahoma State University 219 MSCS Stillwater, OK 74078 USA Email: xiaolin(a)cs.okstate.edu Indrakshi Ray Computer Science Department Colorado State University 601 S. Howes Street Fort Collins C0 80523-1873 USA Email: iray(a)cs.colostate.edu Roy Sterritt School of Computing and Mathematics Faculty of Engineering University of Ulster at Jordanstown Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim BT37 0QB, Northern Ireland Email: r.sterritt(a)ulster.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Special Issue of IJIVP on Wavelets in Source Coding, Communications, and Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Special Issue of IJIVP on Wavelets in Source Coding, Communications, and Networks Datum: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:12:37 -0500 Von: James E. Fowler <fowler(a)ece.msstate.edu> An: undisclosed-recipients:; Dear Colleague, The International Journal of Image and Video Processing will host a special issue on "Wavelets in Source Coding, Communications, and Networks". Details are provided in the call for papers which can be found at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/IJIVP/ and is also included below. Best Regards, James E. Fowler and Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Guest Editors ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wavelets in Source Coding, Communications, and Networks Call for Papers Wavelet transforms are arguably the most powerful, and most widely-used, tool to arise in the field of signal processing in the last several decades. Their inherent capacity for multiresolution representation akin to the operation of the human visual system motivated a quick adoption and widespread use of wavelets in image-processing applications. Indeed, wavelet-based algorithms have dominated image compression for over a decade, and wavelet-based source coding is now emerging in other domains. For example, recent wavelet-based video coders exploit techniques such as motion-compensated temporal filtering to yield effective video compression with full temporal, spatial, and fidelity scalability. Additionally, wavelets are increasingly used in the source coding of remote-sensing, satellite, and other geospatial imagery. Furthermore, wavelets are starting to be deployed beyond the source-coding realm with increased interest in robust communication of images and video over both wired and wireless networks. In particular, wavelets have been recently proposed for joint source-channel coding and multiple-description coding. This special issue will explore these and other latest advances in the theory and application of wavelets. Specifically, this special issue will gather high-quality, original contributions on all aspects of the application of wavelets and wavelet theory to the source coding, communication, and network transmission of images and video. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the theory and applications of wavelets in: * Scalable image and video coding * Motion-compensated temporal filtering * Source coding of images and video via frames and overcomplete representations * Geometric and adaptive multiresolution image and video representations * Multiple-description coding of images and video * Joint source-channel coding of images and video * Distributed source coding of images and video * Robust coding of images and video for wired and wireless packet networks * Network adaption and transcoding of images and video * Coding and communication of images and video in sensor networks Authors should follow the IJIVP manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijivp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the IJIVP manuscript tracking system at http://www.mstracking.com/ijivp/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due August 15, 2006 Acceptance Notification November 1, 2006 Final Manuscript Due December 15, 2006 Publication Date 1st Quarter, 2007 Guest Editors: James E. Fowler, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA; fowler(a)ece.msstate.edu Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu, Département Traitement du Signal et des Images, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, 75634 Paris, France; pesquet(a)tsi.enst.fr -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: CfP: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting"]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting" Datum: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:02:28 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> An: undisclosed-recipients <undisclosed-recipients:;@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> CC: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> ***** Apologies if you receive multiple copies ***** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting Special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting" SCOPE Broadcasting of multimedia content to mobile and portable devices such as cell phones or PDAs is a fast emerging area with huge economic impact. Broadcasting networks especially designed for mobile broadcasting like DVB-H, DMB and MediaFLO are currently under deployment. On the other side, 2.5G and 3G cellular networks are already offering multimedia services like Mobile TV to mobile devices. Whereas unicast multimedia streaming is used for Mobile TV today, multicast/broadcast extensions to mobile networks like 3GPP MBMS and 3GPP2 BCMCS are under standardization resulting in high capacity gains for mobile broadcasting via mobile networks. Combinations of cellular and non-cellular broadcasting networks are currently under investigation. New services for mobile multimedia broadcasting are on the way introducing new forms of interactivity, customization and personalization. The objective of this special issue is to present state-of-the-art research activities contributing to all aspects of mobile multimedia broadcasting. Original contributions previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal are solicited in relevant areas including (but are not limited to): * Broadcasting via cellular networks * Cellular Multicast/Broadcast services: 3GPP MBMS, 3GPP2 BCMCS * Mobile broadcasting via DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO and other systems * Mobile broadcasting via satellite * Standards for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Hybrid cellular/non-cellular broadcasting * Source coding for mobile multimedia broadcasting * Channel coding, modulation and signal processing techniques * Transceiver architecture and design * RF, antenna, receiver and hardware technologies * Mobile multimedia broadcasting applications * Mobile television * Interactive broadcasting services * Service layer for mobile broadcasting * Security and DRM * Field trials for mobile multimedia broadcasting IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2006 Notification of review outcome: 1 October 2006 Submission of final version: 15 November 2006 Publication date: Q1/2007 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors should follow the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting format described in the Information for Authors at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/authorinfo.htm. There will be only one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to Kathy Colabough at bt-pubs(a)ieee.org. Please indicate that the submission is for the special issue on "Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting". GUEST EDITORS Dr. Markus Kampmann Ericsson Research Ericsson Allee 1 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com Dr. Shuji Hirakawa. Technology Planning Division, Toshiba Corporation Toshiba Building, 36B Zone 1-1, Shibaura 1-Chome, Minato-Ku, TOKYO 105-8001 Japan. shuji.hirakawa(a)toshiba.co.jp Dr. Xianbin Wang Communications Research Centre Canada 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 xianbin.wang(a)crc.ca Dr. Yiyan Wu Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 3701 Caring Avenue Ottawa Ontario Canada K2H 8S2 yiyan.wu(a)crc.ca

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WMASH2006]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WMASH2006 Datum: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:02:12 +0200 Von: Danilo Severina <severina(a)dit.unitn.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================== Call for Papers WMASH 2006 The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots Los Angeles, California, USA September 29, 2006 http://wmash06.dit.unitn.it ============================================== ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments continue. The challenges are: 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? How to achieve seamless interoperation between WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks? The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move quickly towards finding standardized solutions. This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access. 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, experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not limited to: . Applications and services . New service and business models . Public WLAN and hotspot architectures . Community-owned WLAN infrastructures . WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management . Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh . Multi-radio mesh node designs . Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots . Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots . Application case studies of mobile routers . Interworking with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16 . Mobility, roaming, and handoff management . Context-aware services and technologies . Location-aware applications and services . Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) . Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues . Security and privacy in public WLANs . Middleware support . Service location and discovery . Traffic measurements and modeling . Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental testbeds Important dates: Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Notification: August 4, 2006 Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006 - Organizing Committees General Chair Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany Web Master and Publicity Chair Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy Publications Chair Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA - Steering Commettes Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das (das(a)cse.uta.edu) and Anand Prasad (prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of, Distributed Systems (SSS 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of, Distributed Systems (SSS 2006) Datum: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:24:38 +0200 Von: Maria Gradinariu <mgradina(a)irisa.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, Mohamed Gouda <gouda(a)cs.utewas.edu>, davis(a)iastate.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================== The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS). General Chair: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Program Co-chairs: Ajoy K Datta University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Maria Gradinariu, IRISA, France, mgradina(a)irisa.fr Local Arrangements Chair: Jorge Cobb, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, cobb(a)utdallas.edu Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, ravip(a)utdallas.edu Publicity and Web Chair: Florent Claerhout, IRISA, France, fclaerho(a)irisa.fr Steering Committee: Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA, anish(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA, datta(a)cs.unlv.edu Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, dolev(a)cs.bgu.ac.il Sukumar Ghosh, Chair, University of Iowa, USA, ghosh(a)cs.uiowa.edu Mohamed G. Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA, gouda(a)cs.utexas.edu Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA, ted-herman(a)uiowa.edu Shing-Tsaan Huang, National Central University, Taiwan, sthuang(a)csie.ncu.edu.tw Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan, masuzawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp Vincent Villain, Universie de Picardie, France, villain(a)laria.u-picardie.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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