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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Sven Lahde 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] =============== Call for Papers =============== IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols ===================================================== Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods, hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems, emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet access and so on. This wide range of applications have different technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications. ====================== Scope of Contributions ====================== This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call- for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of interest include: * Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services * Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure network reliability, scalability and interoperability * Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self- management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery, establishment and maintenance of mesh networks * Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide admission control algorithms * Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity, coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference management * Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based wireless mesh networks * Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas ===================== Manuscript Submission ===================== The special issue will consider original research and survey articles prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang(a)ieee.org) before the deadline. Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format with the font size larger than 10 points. =============== Important Dates =============== * Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007 * Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007 * Final version ready: October 1, 2007. * Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008 ============= Guest Editors ============= * Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email: y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk * Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh CM2, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. Email: sci(a)engr.unl.edu * Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo Ontario

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SASO 2007 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SASO 2007 Call for Papers) Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:33:59 -0800 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG (This CfP is sent by Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany. Apologies for multiple copies.) ***************************************************************** Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS (approval pending) and ISCE Research The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. Topics o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems Systems & Technologies o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems Research Communities o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization Organization General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Industry Chair: Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA Submission Instructions See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide. Important Dates Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007 ***************************************************************** Best regards, Hermann de Meer ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP 1st International Workshop on Policy-based Computing (PBAC 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP 1st International Workshop on Policy-based Computing (PBAC 2007) Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:53:11 -0000 Von: Duncan Johnston Watt <Duncan(a)enigmatec.net> An: <acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org> Call for papers 1st International Workshop on Policy-Based Autonomic Computing- PBAC 2007 http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/pbac2007 Sponsors: IEEE and ACM A one-day workshop to be held at: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007 - http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2007/index.shtm) June 11-15, 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, USA The theme and scope of the workshop Policy-based computing is one of many techniques used to implement autonomic computer systems. The business function is expressed in terms of workflow (logic + actions) or behavioural rules to be performed in response to certain situations, which is decoupled from the implementation mechanism. The mechanisms are fixed at design time, but the actual run-time behaviour is decided by the policy. This facilitates contextual awareness as the policy may take account of various environmental inputs from sensors and external software systems. Policy-based mechanisms are also very useful in specifying system behaviour – such as when specifying Service Level Agreements, and subsequently monitoring whether these agreements have been adhered to. Policy-based configuration is highly versatile and generally applicable across a very wide application space. When compared with other autonomics techniques, policies represent one of the lowest risk and lowest cost solutions; because there is relatively low complexity. The workshop intends to discuss all aspects of using policies in the context of autonomic computing. We invite papers reporting novel contributions to policy-based computing within an autonomics context. Submissions must describe original work that has not been published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Indicative keywords and themes Policy languages and tools Policy languages and semantics. Policy frameworks for autonomic computing. Platforms and tools to aid the development of policies and policy-based systems. Visualisation tools - for policy configuration and also for policy execution traces. Policy-autonomics concepts Multiple-policy systems. Combining policy-based computing with other autonomics techniques. Dynamic adaptation / evolution of policy configuration. Automated evaluation of policies. Models of policy negotiation and collaboration. Policy-based applications Development and verification of policy-based applications. Autonomic applications of policy-based computing. Feasibility and requirements for the deployment of policy-based solutions. Policy-based virtualisation tools. Context and environmental awareness in policy systems Context-aware privacy policies. Policies for dealing with trust and risk in autonomic systems. Policy conflict management. Please note that the keywords and themes are indicative and we welcome submissions in other relevant areas. However, it is intended that the workshop will have an empirical / experiential emphasis, and thus preference will be given to papers that are supported by an implementation, prototypes and/or simulations. Also of interest are theoretical approaches to the study of policy languages and semantics with a view towards exploitation in an autonomics context. Target audience Policy-based computing in autonomics is equally relevant and important to industry, research and academia. The workshop will be of great interest to a practitioner audience although no particular level of expertise is expected and we welcome multi-disciplinary contributions. We intend that the workshop will provide a forum for focussed discussion of policy-based computing as a technique for implementing autonomic systems, and hope that delegates will be able to exchange ideas concerning ways in which policies can be developed and deployed. The workshop is expected to have the effect of promoting the use of policies and encouraging further research in this area. Submissions Full papers of up to 10 pages should be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column conference proceedings format. Shorter work-in-progress papers (up to 4 pages) will also be considered based on individual merit. Actual submission will be via on-line upload to the website. Publication The workshop proceedings will be published in the Whitestein Series on Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. In addition, authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for inclusion in a forthcoming ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) special issue on Policy-based Autonomic Computing. Programme committee Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK. Toshi Nakata, NEC Research, Japan. Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec Corporation, UK. Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK. Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, UK. Alex Heneveld, Enigmatec Corporation, UK. Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA. Richard Connor, Strathclyde University, UK. Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Alan Dearle, University of St Andrews, UK. Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK. John Strassner, Motorola, USA. Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK. Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Noria Foukia, University of Otago, New Zealand. Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK. John Wilkes, HP, USA. Alun Butler, Morgan Stanley, UK. Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland. Key dates The following timetable shall apply to the workshop submissions: Full paper submissions: March 31st, 2007 Author notification: April 15th, 2007 Final manuscripts due: April 31st, 2007 Review process Submitted papers will each be reviewed by three members of the program committee, and will be evaluated for originality, significance and technical merit. We shall ensure that the reviewing process is prompt and that detailed feedback is provided to all submissions whether accepted or not. Contact us We welcome any enquiries or comments, please address these to: Richard Anthony, R.J.Anthony(a)gre.ac.uk Duncan Johnston-Watt, duncan(a)enigmatec.net Omer Rana, o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: ICST - ROBOCOMM 2007 - First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - ROBOCOMM 2007 - First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination Datum: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:05 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icstconferences.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de **************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S ROBOCOMM 2007 First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination Athens, Greece http://www.robocomm.org *************************************************************** In-Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE Paper submission: April 13, 2007 Notification: June 22, 2007 Camera-ready copy: July 20, 2007 Conference: September 10-12, 2007 Description --- ROBOCOMM is the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination. As the name suggests, it aims at the convergence of two fields, acting as a common forum for the Robotics and Communications research communities. The expected outcome of the event is to promote cross-pollination of these two areas leading to growth in the capabilities of both. Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that includes the following key competencies: mechanics, control theory, electronics and communications. Initially the first three areas dominated in their roles. However, in the last two decades we have witnessed the unprecedented growth of wireless communication technologies, with increasing attention given to sensor networks and ad-hoc networks, enlarging the possible configurations of a network. Meanwhile, building more than just one or two robots at a time has become cheaper and more common, thus opening a whole new range of applications for multi-robot systems with networking capabilities. Network robotics offers a framework to study coordination mechanisms for complex systems through communication channels, thus providing the natural common ground for convergence of information processing, communication theory and control theory. Networked robotics poses significant challenges, requiring the integration of communication theory, software engineering, distributed sensing and control into a common framework. Furthermore, robots are unique in that their motion and tasking control systems are co-located with the communications mechanisms. This allows the co-exploitation of individual subsystems to provide completely new kinds of networked or distributed autonomy. Hence, ROBOCOMM will be a leading-edge conference where prominent researchers with different backgrounds will gather and merge different ideas into a common framework that will enable new applications based on large scale networks of mobile robots. A partial list of conference themes that will be part of the ROBOCOMM technical program is listed below. We encourage discussion of both wired and wireless networking aspects for robots. Although the intended focus is on networked robotics, papers on advanced communications for single robot systems (for tele-operation for instance) will also be welcome. - Robotic interactions with sensors - Communication protocols for tele-operated and tele-reflexive robots - Intra-sensor communications within individual robots - Communication protocols for flocks and swarms of networked robots - Biologically inspired or biomimetic robot communication - Exploiting the interactions between communications and autonomy - Localization and tracking using robotic communications - Distributed coordination of mobile robot teams - Industrial applications of networked robotics - Real-time software for mobile robots Submissions --- Authors are invited to submit their paper electronically in PDF format by April 13, 2007. The maximum number of pages is limited to 8 pages (10pt, double column, IEEE format). The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library. Organizing Committee --- General Co-Chairs: Alan Winfield (UWE, England) Jason Redi (BBN, USA) Vice Chairs: Luca Schenato (University of Padova, Italy) Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois,USA) Magnus Egerstedt (GATECH, USA) Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Technical Program Committee: Calin Belta (Boston University, USA) Jorge Cortes (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) Emilio Frazzoli (MIT, USA) Vijay Gupta (Caltech, USA) Saikat Ray (Bridgeport University, USA) Christoforos Hadjicostis (UIUC, USA) Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech, USA) Chris Kitts (Santa Clara University, USA) Eric Klavins (University of Washington, USA) Naomi Leonard (Princeton, USA) Zhi-Hong Mao (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Sonia Martinez (University of California at San Diego, USA) Mehran Mesbahi (University of Washington, USA) Kristi Morgansen (University of Washington, USA) Abubakr Muhammad (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Todd Murphey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Natasha Neogi (UIUC, USA) Reza Olfati-Saber (Dartmouth, USA) Bruno Sinopoli (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Panagiotis Tsiotras (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming Li (California State University, USA) Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH. Sweden) John Lygeros (ETH, Switzerland) Enrico Pagello (University of Padua, Italy) Dimitris Hristu-Varsakelis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Joao Tasso (Porto University, Portugal) Cyrill Stachniss (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany) Francesco Vasca (University of Sannio, Italy) Rolf Johansson (Lund University, Sweden) Benedetto Piccoli (Istituto "Mauro Picone", Italy) Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Greece) Anders Robertsson (Lund University, Sweden) Mounir Mokhtari (INT/GET, France) Nikos Vlassis (TUC, Greece) Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal) Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan) Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Nobuto Matsuhira (Coucils for Science and Technology Policy, Japan) Seiji Yamada (NII, Japan) Kohtaro Ohba (AIST, Japan) Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku University, Japan) Hiroshi G Okuno (Kyoyo University, Japan) Tomomasa Sato (University of Tokyo, Japan) Kazuhiro Nakadai (Honda RI, Japan) Takayuki Kanda (ATR, Japan) Kazuya Yoshida (Tohoku University, Japan) Hideki Hashimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan) Hide Tokuda (Keio University, Japan) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Yuichiro Yoshikawa (JST ERATO Asada Project, Japan) Masahiro Fujita (Sony, Japan) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Makoto Kaneko (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Hiroshi Takemura (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Yunhui Liu (Chinese University of HongKong, China) Zhou Changjiu (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy), Alcherio Martinoli (EPFL, Switzerland) Colette Maloney (European Commission: Cognitive Systems and Robotics) Local Arrangements Chair: Evangelos Papadopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece) Publicity Co-Chairs: Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA) H. Jin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland) Publication Chair: Klaus Schilling (University of Wurzburg, Germany) Industrial Sponsorship Chair: Roberto Sannino (ST Microelectronics) Panels Chair: Vijay Kumar (UPenn, USA) Financial Chair: Karen Decker (ICST, USA) Conference Coordinator: Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab (ICST, Europe) -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Cost290] [IEEE AOC 2007] - Extended deadline (11 February)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] [IEEE AOC 2007] - Extended deadline (11 February) Datum: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:33:19 +0100 Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> An: cost 290 <Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> fyi We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ******************************************************************** *CALL FOR PAPERS* First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on *** AUTONOMIC and OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS - AOC 2007 *** June 18, 2007 - Helsinki, Finland http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/ organized by *ANA and HAGGLE projects* funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) **** *EXTENDED Deadline --- February 11, 2007* **** Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc ******************************************************************** We are faced with an era where the widespread use of small portable wireless devices and wireless technologies are building the pervasive vision. This pervaded world has generated new communication paradigms: autonomic and opportunistic communications. Communication among devices in a pervasive environment can happen if the devices can communicate autonomously, and manage their own evolution and configuration changes in the network, without explicit user or administrator action. In a pervasive world, even in the absence of any connectivity infrastructure mobile devices can communicate using the connection "opportunities" that arise due to mobility. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic communications and computing are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/ aoc2007/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due: *February 11, 2007 (Extended)* Notification: March 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== WORKSHOP Chairs: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair: Luciana Pelusi, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France & University of Patras, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech., USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Vincent Lenders, ETH, Switzerland Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA Kave Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA John Vicente, Intel, USA Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA -- Andrea Passarella ========================================================= Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 || voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy || fax: +39 050 315 2113 a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it || mobile: +39 346 0082 540 web: bruno1.iit.cnr.it/~andrea ========================================================= _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007) Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:13:00 -0800 (PST) Von: Jun Li <lijun(a)cs.uoregon.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2007 <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2007>) Anchorage, AK, May 11-12, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 *** with a new open review process *** Call for Papers The 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium will be held simultaneously and co-located with IEEE Infocom 2007. All relevant dates, location, and travel information are available from the IEEE Infocom 2007 conference site: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2007. Paper submission guidelines can be found at http://netsec.cs.uoregon.edu/gi2007. Symposium Topics IEEE Global Internet 2007 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in Internet-related technologies. The focus of the symposium is on experimental systems and on emerging Internet technologies. The Program Committee encourages original submissions describing promising work in progress, speculations about the future of the Internet, and progressive position papers. Authors are invited to submit papers on any issue related to Internet technology, including but not limited to the following topics: * P2P networking and overlay networks * Privacy and/or security issues in the Internet * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services (VPNs, traffic engineering, mobility support, etc.) * Content networking (caching, content distribution, content routing, content services, load balancing, etc.) * Distributed Internet applications including games, VoIP, and video conferencing * Novel applications and new paradigms (telephony, streaming media, etc.) * Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity (by applications and/or the network) * Routing (unicast, multicast, anycast, etc.) * Flow management (fairness/sharing, congestion control, differentiated services, etc.) * The Internet and mobility/mobile devices * Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling, and visualization * Anomaly, intrusion and attack detection Important Dates Paper Registration Due: January 29, 2007 Paper Submissions Due: February 5, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: April 9, 2007 Symposium: May 11-12, 2007 Open Review Process The review process will follow a radically different format: the reviewers' names will be made known to the authors. In addition, if the authors of the paper consent, the reviews and the names of the reviewers will be posted on our website. The goal is to put more stress on the reviewers to be gentle and thorough in their reviews. Note that GI 2007 is arguably the first forum to implement this approach in the recent past. Executive Committee - TPC Co-Chairs: Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon - Web Chair: Jun Li, University of Oregon - Publication Chair: Jakob Eriksson, MIT - Local Arrangement: Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, Storrs Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs Anup Basu, University of Alberta Azer Bestavros, Boston University Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University Paul Francis, Cornell University Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Tim Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Anestis Karasaridis, AT&T Labs Jorg Liebeherr, University of Toronto Bin Liu, Tsinghua University John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University Samar Singh, La Trobe University, Australia George Stamoulis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece James Sterbenz, The University of Kansas Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: MobiEval -- System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms -- Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MobiEval -- System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms -- Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:07 -0800 Von: Pering, Trevor <trevor.pering(a)INTEL.COM> Antwort an: Pering, Trevor <trevor.pering(a)INTEL.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Please forward as appropriate; our apologies if you receive multiple copies. ************************************************************************ *** CALL-FOR-PAPERS MobiEval: System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms Workshop associated with Mobisys 2007 June 11th, 2007, Puerto Rico, USA Website: http://mesl.ucsd.edu/MobiEval e-mail : mobieval(a)cs.ucsd.edu Paper submission deadline : March 15, 2007 (23:59 EST) Paper acceptance notification : April 20, 2007 Final camera ready version due: May 15, 2007 Organizers: Trevor Pering, Intel Research, USA Yuvraj Agarwal, University of California, San Diego, USA Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Program committee TBA ************************************************************************ *** Workshop Overview: A core aspect of any engineering systems research is evaluation: What are the metrics and methods to determine if the system is behaving as expected. In mobile systems, this task becomes more challenging due to considerations imposed by the mobile aspect of the system. This workshop aims to bring together systems researchers to explore the basic question of evaluating mobile systems. Specifically we will examine challenges and advances made in the metrics, tools, methods, and the platforms used to evaluate mobile systems effectively. Submissions are encouraged to highlight the specific areas relating to mobile systems that make proper evaluation difficult - and include discussions how novel techniques can be used to address the various issues that arise. The focus of the workshop is not necessarily the underlying research for mobile systems, but rather the techniques and considerations necessary for evaluating and quantifying the gains of the basic research itself. Some example areas where mobile platforms and systems evaluation issues intersect include: * Reproducibility and Consistency * Experimental Design * Power Considerations * Metrics * Applications * Dynamic environments * Form factor * Platforms/Test-beds * Simulation Paper Submission: Submissions should be full papers, up to 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading with reasonable margins. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous and reviewing is single-blind. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Full Papers are due Thursday, March 15th, 2007, 23:59 EST. Manuscripts must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified above. It will be possible to send a revised version of the manuscript until the deadline (Thursday, March 15th,2007, 23:59 EST). Please email a PDF copy of your manuscript to mobieval(a)cs.ucsd.edu.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:11:54 -0500 (EST) Von: Dongyan Xu <dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <034101c565ab$c8c6ec60$710ba8c0@VAIOPC> 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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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:49:16 +0100 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2007 The Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 9-14, 2007 Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. New this year, Mobicom will be jointly held with ACM Mobihoc. The two conferences will run in parallel, and will have many joint plenary sessions (such as the keynote, panels, and welcoming reception). Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Applications and services for mobile users * Cyber-physical computing and networking * Delay/disruption tolerant networks * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Implementations and experimental testbeds for mobile/wireless networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Protocols exploiting dynamic spectrum, UWB, MIMO, directional antennas * Resource management and quality-of-service for real-time traffic support * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g., mesh networks, personal area networks) Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/cfp.html Panel proposals must be submitted by February 23 to either of the panel co-chairs: Martha Steenstrup (steenie(a)rcn.com) Ioanis Nikolaidis (yannis(a)cs.ualberta.ca) Important Dates Abstracts submission due: February 23, 2007 Panel proposals submission due: February 23, 2007 Paper submissions due: March 2, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 29, 2007 General Chair: Evangelos Kranakis, kranakis(a)scs.carleton.ca Technical Co-Chairs: Jennifer C. Hou, jhou(a)cs.uiuc.edu Ram Ramanathan, ramanath(a)bbn.com FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, Ph.D. E-mail: pedrom(a)dif.um.es Fac. Informatica, Univ. of Murcia Phone: +34968364335 Campus de Espinardo s/n Fax: +34968364151 E-30100, Espinardo, Murcia www: ants.dif.um.es/~pedrom/ SPAIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks]
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks Datum: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:13:56 -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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