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[Tccc] PMC Special Issue on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management
by Jadwiga Indulska 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Context-awareness plays an important role in pervasive and mobile computing and therefore context information modelling, reasoning and management have been studied for a number of years. Pervasive computing conferences and in particular dedicated workshops (i.e., the CoMoRea?2003-2008 workshops at PerCom and the Ubicomp workshops) are attracting a large number of papers related to context modelling, reasoning and management and influence the direction of research in this area. There is already a consensus in the research community that formal modelling of context information and appropriate reasoning and management techniques are needed. However, many research issues in this field are still open, including heterogeneity of context information, imperfection of context information, complex mapping between raw context data (e.g., sensor readings) and abstract context information required by applications, privacy of context information, limitations and efficiency of reasoning techniques, and difficulties of managing and provisioning context information in systems where mobility and disconnections are common. The purpose of this special issue is to present the state-of-the-art in context information modelling, reasoning and management. The special issue will include a collection of papers that discuss concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modelling and reasoning, as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts containing original research. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Context information modelling techniques, * Domain-specific models of context information, * Hybrid models of context information (integration of various modelling techniques), * Context information reasoning algorithms, their complexity and accuracy, * Discovery and reuse of context information, * Privacy of context information, * Distributed and scalable context information management, * Context model driven application design. Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be at least 1.5 spaced and must not exceed 35 pages (all inclusive.) If the paper has been published in a conference, the submitted version should be a significantly enhanced version. Authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation guidelines can be obtained from the PMC Journal's web page (<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc>). The deadline for submitting manuscripts is February 1, 2008 and authors will be notified of the decision by June 15, 2008. The final manuscripts will be due Dec 1, 2008. Authors should submit their full manuscripts to the PMC Special Issues Editor-in-Chief, Behrooz Shirazi, using the Elsevier online Editorial System (EES) at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc. Guest editors Jadwiga Indulska, Daniela Nicklas _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP - SPECIAL ISSUE - International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
by Anagnostopoulos Ioannis 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT) Special Issue on Intelligent Internet-based Systems: Emerging Technologies and Programming Techniques We are currently witnessing the remarkable impact of Internet on our society. The Internet is revolutionizing the way we extract, process, use, and disseminate information. Internet also redefines many aspects of our life such as communication, commerce, education, and entertainment. Parallel to the growth of the Internet, sophisticated techniques are emerging to bring intelligence to the Internet and its protocols. Many technologies and techniques offer the use of intelligence in Internet-based recommendation systems, interactive IP-based multimedia systems, Internet/Web agents, softbots and other Internet-based systems. Although individual methods and programming techniques are constantly being deployed, advanced issues and concepts still need to be developed and studied in the context of applied Internet Intelligence. In this context, researchers need to explore and study the plethora of challenges that emergent intelligent technologies and programming techniques bring to the Internet. This special issue aims to increase the awareness of researchers in the area of Intelligent Internet-based systems, and will provide an in-depth investigation on various research and deployment issues, regarding the impact of intelligent methods and programming techniques on Internet-based Systems. In addition, this special issue will examine the performance characteristics of various approaches in Internet-based systems, and will also focus on the development of intelligent programming techniques among different IP-based domains. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to submit papers addressing the topics covered by this special issue including: * Intelligent Internet Systems: Internet-based Recommendation Systems, Internet Classification/Information Retrieval Systems * Intelligent Sensor-based Systems: Data Transmission and Monitoring over the Internet * Internet Technologies: Intelligence in Multicast/Anycast Protocols, Intelligence and IPv6 * Interactive Multimedia Systems over IP networks: Multimedia Content Distribution and Management, Content Personalization in Internet-based Applications, Internet Television(IPTV), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) * Internet Agents/Softbots: Distributed Computing and Resource Allocation, Adaptive Agent Systems, Agent Communication and Multi-Agent Systems. * Emerging Intelligent Internet applications in: Electronic Commerce, Conferencing, Healthcare, Education, Auction systems, E-government, Entertainment, Home Networking. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2008 Submission of revised paper: April 7, 2008 Expected publication date: Summer 2008 Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers for this special issue will be peer-reviewed. A guide for authors, sample copies, and other relevant information for submitting papers are available at the publishers web page (Author Guidelines) at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31#guidelines <http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31#guidelines> Manuscripts should be emailed as pdf, or word format to the corresponding editor. Guest Editors: Ioannis Anagnostopoulos (Corresponding Editor), Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, Karlovasi, Samos, Greece, e-mail: janag(a)aegean.gr <mailto:janag@aegean.gr> John W.T. Lee Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, e-mail: john.lee(a)polyu.edu.hk <mailto:john.lee@polyu.edu.hk> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP - Networks 2008]
by Lars Wolf 30 Dec '07

30 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - Networks 2008 Datum: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:53:07 +0100 Von: Rolland Vida <vida(a)tmit.bme.hu> Organisation: bme An: 'Rolland Vida' <vida(a)tmit.bme.hu> Dear colleagues, Please consider the below CFP and forward it to your PhD students, research colleagues or appropriate project mailing lists. Best regards, Rolland Vida, Networks 2008 Publicity Chair ********************************************************************** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call ********************************************************************** Call For Papers Conference Title: NETWORKS 2008 - 13th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium "Convergence in Progress" Location & Date: Budapest, Hungary, Sept 28 - Oct 2, 2008 VENUE: Danubius Health Spa Resort Margitsziget Budapest, Hungary Host: Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics Budapest University of Technology and Economics Technical co-sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Communication Society URL: http://www.networks2008.org/ Contact: info(a)hte.hu ********************************************************************** Networks 2008 will focus on the challenges of planning networks to deliver on the promise of Convergence and NGN. The challenges are many - how to build high performance networks for converged services where every step is cost justified and drives profitable growth, where difficult issues of scalability, end-to-end network performance, network management, network and service control, reliability, security and interoperability are planned and then realized, and where flexibility is maintained to allow experimentation with new applications that can foster new and compelling revenue streams for operators. Unleashing the core value of convergence and the reduction in the number of network platforms requires innovation in network planning methods, scalable architectures, new optimization algorithms, and understanding the tradeoffs between different technology choices and migration paths. We are living in very interesting times right now. The revolution we had been hoping for is finally taking place. Mobile and fixed operators are moving to next generation networks. Hundreds of trials are underway. Many operators have made recent commitments, very significant investments towards their future vision, often reducing spending drastically on extensions to current infrastructures to allow spending on new platforms. At such times, industry professionals are on a high learning growth curve and there is an urgent need for forums where true learning can occur thru the exploration of diverse perspectives and opposing viewpoints, the presentation of leading-edge results in planning specific networks, and state-of-the art methods and tools. Networks 2008 provides such an opportunity. It is the 13th of such symposia, held every two years, and attracting participants from all over the world - from network operators, to systems and software companies, to researchers from universities and industry, to systems integrators. At Networks 2008, we will continue the tradition of state-of-the art papers, invited presentations, and panel sessions, as international experts present their latest findings and share experiences in network strategy, planning, operations, management, control and design. NETWORKS 2008 KEY THEMES: 1. Convergence at Different Domains a) Business strategy for convergence in competition b) Economies of scale at network, services, access, terminals and operation domains c) Triple play and Multiple play. Architectures and solutions d) Fixed-Mobile-Nomadic convergence e) Broadband Mobile-Broadcast/Multicast convergence f) IMS architecture and applications solutions g) Addressing and numbering issues h) Example cases on convergence 2. Migration to NGN and Mobile Broadband a) NGN and IMS architectures and solutions b) Migration steps to NGN based on economical evaluation and security c) New services driving evolution to NGN d) Migrating to multimedia/multiservice environment e) VoIP solutions: service, performance, cost and revenues impactsf) IPTV demand and design g) Migration alternatives from 2G to 3G and economical evaluation, Services driving 3G business h) Interoperation across multiple domains i) Regulation and interconnection issues in NGN, Network certification process 3. Routing, Traffic Flows and Optimization a) Multiservice traffic measurement, analysis, characterization and simulation at network level b) Multiservice flow matrix and aggregation methods c) New signaling and control in multimedia/multisystems d) P2P (peer-to-peer) traffic flows and implications on network demand e) Impact of GRID services f) Intra-Domain and Inter-Domain routing, TE (Traffic Engineering) and resilience g) Optimization process with technical and economic criteria h) Using Game Theory, Meta-heuristics and LP/ILP 4. Network Design and Planning Methods a) Network design methods for multimedia services b) Network topology design and optimization at different layers: physical, optical, media and control c) Quality of Service, Quality of Resilience, performance and SLA d) VPN design e) Ad-hoc networking f) Sensor networks and autonomic networks g) End-to-End service performance evaluation h) Network security i) Network resilience: survivability, protection, restoration and availability j) Cost modelling and pricing 5. Role of New Technologies, Developments and Standards a) Optical switching b) New generation SDH, OTN c) New generation internet and IPv6 d) Carrier Grade/Class Ethernet: 100GEth, VPLS, PBB, e) GMPLS, PCE f) Mobile 3.5 and 4G, LTE (Long Term Evolution) g) WiMax h) xDSL and FTTx, Power Line Communication (PLC) i) Broadcast/multicast systems. DVB-T/H 6. Network Planning Support Processes and Tools a) Multilayer planning process b) Business planning methods and tools c) Optical network design tools d) Access planning methods and tools e) NGN planning methods and tools f) 3G planning methods and tools g) OSS and BSS processes and tools h) Network Management support tools Important Dates: Submission of full papers: February 29, 2008 Tutorial Submission: April 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2008 Final Version of Accepted Papers and Copyright: August 1, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines: Papers must be unpublished. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance. Authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present their contributions. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system (details will be available at the www.networks2008.org). Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract (up to 300 words), a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, postal and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers. The total length of papers should be between 6 and 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published by the HTE and the IEEE. HTE will own the copyright transferred to them by the authors. Papers will also be available electronically from IEEE Xplore (ieeexplore.ieee.org), the digital library of the IEEE. Guidelines for formatting the paper can be obtained from http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/ The top 10% papers receiving highest reviewer score will be invited to related journals. Based on scores and the oral presentation, up to 3 papers will be chosen for the best paper award.

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[Tccc] INGRID 2008 Call for Papers
by Franco Davoli 29 Dec '07

29 Dec '07

Call For Papers INGRID 2008 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories: Instrumenting the Grid April 9-11, 2008 Lacco Ameno, Island of Ischia, Italy http://www.ingrid.cnit.it The possibility to perform measurement tasks and experiments on complex tele-laboratory structures is gaining momentum as a relevant aspect in a number of areas, from scientific and technological research, to environmental monitoring, to distance learning and training. Grid architectures (or, more generally, Service Oriented Architectures - SOA), viewed as tools for the integration of distributed resources, play a significant role, not only as managers of computational resources, but increasingly as aggregators of measurement instrumentation and pervasive large-scale data acquisition platforms. In this context, the functionality of a grid architecture allows managing, maintaining and exploiting heterogeneous instrumentation and acquisition devices in a unified way, by providing standardized interfaces and common work environments to their users. This is achieved through the properties of isolation from the physical network and from the peculiarities of the instrumentation, granted by standard middleware, together with secure and flexible mechanisms to seek, access, and aggregate distributed resources. The 1st Workshop in this series was held in Sorrento, Italy, in July 2005, within the framework of the International Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. It was devoted to the investigation of the main issues related to the sustainable realization of tele-laboratories, where real and virtual instrumentation can be shared and used in a collaborative environment. The second workshop was held in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, in April 2006. The current edition of the Workshop focuses on all aspects related to the effective exploitation of remote instrumentation on the Grid. These include middleware architecture, high-speed networking in support of Grid applications, wireless Grid for acquisition devices and sensor networks, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology. The Workshop will be structured in technical sessions, some of which will be organized by leading researchers in the field, and will accommodate both invited and regular papers, selected on an open-call basis. The technical program will also include a poster session, where presentations will refer to short papers reporting prominent - but still in progress - research work. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. Contributions are solicited on all advanced research issues concerning the theme of the Workshop, and particularly in (but not limited to) the following topics: - Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Grid architectures with real-time control - Grid middleware extensions for remote control of instruments and devices - Resource Management - Tele-measurement techniques - Distributed synchronization and calibration - Workflow management for large-scale experiments - Virtualization technology - Visualization techniques - Distributed data acquisition and sensor networks - Management of large data sets - Mobile and wireless grids - Management of large-scale physics experiments - Networking solutions in support of Grid architectures - Reliability and fault tolerance - Supporting interactive applications in the grid environment - Collaborative environments for the Grid IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: January 15th, 2008 - Acceptance notification: February 28, 2008 - Camera ready copy due: March 14, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES - Manuscripts to be considered as regular papers should be original work limited to 20 double-spaced pages. - Work-in-progress papers to be considered for the poster session should be limited to 10 double-spaced pages. - Any paper submitted to the Workshop must not have been published in or submitted to other technical conferences/journals. - Only electronic submissions will be accepted. The preferred format for electronic submission is PDF suitable for Acrobat Reader, or Postscript. All submissions must be done through the Web site (http://www.ingrid.cnit.it) or sent by e-mail to the workshop Program Chairs. - Electronic versions of the papers will be available at the Workshop. - The proceedings will be published in book form after the Workshop (contacts with Springer, which published the previous Workshops' books, are currently undertaken). GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Franco Davoli, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy (e-mail: franco.davoli(a)cnit.it) Sandro Zappatore, DIST-University of Genoa and CNIT, Italy (e-mail: sandro.zappatore(a)cnit.it) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Norbert Meyer, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland (e-mail: meyer(a)man.poznan.pl) Roberto Pugliese, ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy (e-mail: pugliese(a)elettra.trieste.it) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Davide Adami, CNIT, Pisa, Italy Oreste Andrisano, University of Bologna, Italy Luigino Benetazzo, University of Padova, Italy Matteo Bertocco, University of Padova, Italy Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Raffaele Bolla, University of Genoa, Italy Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland Eusebi Calle, University of Girona, Spain Isabel Campos Plasencia, Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy Romeo C. Ciobanu, Technical University „Gh. Asachi" of Iasi, Romania David Colling, Imperial College, London, UK Luca Caviglione, ISSIA-CNR, Genoa, Italy Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italy Davide Dardari, University of Bologna, Italy Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marcio Faerman, Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP), Brazil Gianluigi Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy Erina Ferro, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Peter Hobson, Brunel University, London, UK Admela Jukan, University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada Peter Kacsuk, Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Tatiana Kalganova, Brunel University, London, UK Yuri Kalvachev, Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Fotis Karayannis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Rainer Keller, High Perf. Computing Centre Stuttgart, Germany Harald Kornmayer, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany Constantinos Kotsokalis, Greek Research & Technology Network-GRNET S.A., Greece Dieter Kranzlmueller, Joh. Kepler University, Linz, Austria Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Marcin Lawenda, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland Francesco Lelli, University of Lugano, Switzerland Vasilis Maglaris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Jesus Marco de Lucas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Gaetano Maron, INFN, Italy Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy Andrew Stephen McGough, Imperial College, London, UK Donald F. (Rick) McMullen, Indiana University, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Giancarlo Parodi, DIBE-University of Genoa, Italy Marco Parvis, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Laura Pearlman, ISI, USA Emil Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Thomas Prokosch, Joh. Kepler University, Linz, Austria Ramon Puigjaner, University of Balear Islands, Spain Riccardo Raheli, University of Parma, Italy Roberto Ranon, University of Udine, Italy Marina Scapolla, DIBE-University of Genoa, Italy Michael Stanton, Brazilian National Research and Education Network (RNP), Brazil Maciej Stroinski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), Poland Mathias Stumpert, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Tatsuya Suda, University of California at Irvine, USA Csaba Szabo, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Francesco Vatalaro, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Giorgio Ventre, University of Naples Federico II, Italy Stefano Vignola, CNIT, Genoa, Italy Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain William Yeager, Peerouette, Inc., USA T. Charles Yun, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), The Netherlands Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT Clotilde Canepa Fertini IIC - Istituto Internazionale delle Comunicazioni, Genoa, Italy e-mail: fertini(a)iicgenova.it http://www.ingrid.cnit.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: HotMobile 2008: Call for Posters and Demos]
by Lars Wolf 28 Dec '07

28 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: HotMobile 2008: Call for Posters and Demos Datum: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:05:36 -0500 Von: Varshavsky Alex <walex(a)CS.TORONTO.EDU> Antwort an: Varshavsky Alex <walex(a)CS.TORONTO.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Posters and Demos HotMobile 2008 The Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing, Systems and Applications Silverado Resort, Napa Valley, CA, USA February 25-26, 2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008 +-------------------------------------------------------------+ HotMobile 2008, the Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. The papers which will be presented at the workshop focus on applications and systems and that propose new directions of research, advocate non-traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. The preliminary program is available at: http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008/index.php?page=program-draft HotMobile seeks proposals for posters and live demonstrations describing novel work on mobile systems, applications and services. Posters and demonstrations will be presented during an evening reception at the workshop. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with workshop attendees. Posters are well suited to controversial work that can generate discussion or promising new ideas which have not been thoroughly evaluated. Live demos provide an opportunity to demonstrate the feasibility and usefulness of your research. Poster and Demo Submission Instructions Submissions must include an extended abstract no longer than one 8.5x11-inch page, including all figures and references. Submissions must be made electronically in an email message to the Poster Chair at <bentley [at] mit.edu> with a subject line of "HOTMOBILE POSTER/DEMO SUBMISSION". The body of the email should include the title of the poster and the author list, including affiliations. The abstract should be attached in PDF format. Demonstration submissions should include infrastructure needs, such as power, network, etc. Poster and demo submissions are due on January 14th, 2008 at 23:59:59 EST. The extended abstracts of accepted posters and demonstrations will be posted on the conference website. We look forward to seeing you at HotMobile 2008. Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky <walex(a)cs.toronto.edu> HotMobile 2008 Publicity Chair Important Dates --------------- Poster and demo submissions due: January 14, 2008. Doctoral Consortium submissions due: January 11, 2008. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair: Mirjana Spasojevic, Nokia Research Palo Alto, USA Program Chair: Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Posters Chair: Frank Bentley, Motorola Labs, USA Doctoral Consortium Chair: Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Finance Chair: April Slayden Mitchell, HP Laboratories, USA Publicity Chair: Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Program Committee ----------------- Victor Bahl, MSR Redmond, USA Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA Ramon Caceres, IBM Research, USA John Canny, Berkeley, USA Landon Cox, Duke University, USA Maria Ebling, IBM Research, USA Jason Flinn, University of Michigan, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK Jason Hong, CMU, USA Ravi Jain, Google, USA Scott Klemmer, Stanford University, USA Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington, USA Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, USA Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Kanpur, India Mahadev Satyanarayanan, CMU, USA Roy Want, Intel Research Santa Clara, USA Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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[Tccc] Call for Papers - SMTPS 2008 (Deadline extended to December 24, 2007). To be held in Conjunction with IPDPS'08
by Weikuan Yu 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. -------------------------------------------------------------------- (SMTPS) The Fourth International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services To be held in conjunction with IPDPS'08 April 14, 2008, Miami, FL In today's on-demand era the usage of computer systems are broadened the scope to cover from pervasive systems to high-end and high performance server systems depending on business or scientific computing needs. In our fourth year of SMTPS, we would like to expand our workshop topics to cover pervasive and multi-core system management issues, going beyond high-performance server systems. From a systems management point of view, there are many common issues, whether a system is a high-end server environment or a low-cost pervasive system. For instance, system administrators for servers, distributed systems or even supercomputers need to strive to provide satisfactory services to applications even in the presence of interruptions and exceptions. Moreover, while there is a need to provide runtime management techniques, which are self-adapting and light-weight on one hand, the demand for faster processing power, brings in multi-core process architectures for pervasive usage on the other hand. There is also a recent trend to run traditional applications designed for high-end systems on either resource- constrained pervasive systems or small-scale multi-core systems, due to the fast changing computational demands, while minimizing systems management, resources involved to cut down the costs. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners to identify the new challenges imposed by these new trends and investigating efficient software tools, techniques and service processes to improve the performance, reliability and operation of a spectrum of parallel and distributed systems ranging from pervasive systems to enterprise servers. Topics of interest include, and are not limited to: * Scalable operating system design * Resource management * Power management, energy conservation * Failure diagnosis, failure prediction and failure recovery * Failure-aware runtime management * System bring-up, maintenance and control tools * System virtualization * Storage management * Scalable I/O and file system management * System integration of emerging processor architecture (e.g. multi-core architecture) * Optimization techniques for services management * Services engineering and utility computing techniques Submission Guideline o Extended deadline: December 24, 2007 o Notification of acceptance: Jan 8, 2008 o Camera Ready Due: Jan 28, 2008 o Papers should be submitted electronically through EDAS http://www.edas.info/ o Further detail information available at this website: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~yyzhang/ipdps-ws/ General Chair: o Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers Univ - yyzhang(a)ece.rutgers.edu Technical Co-Chairs o Fabrizio Petrini - (fpetrin(a)us.ibm.com) IBM Research o Kyung Dong Ryu - (kryu(a)us.ibm.com) IBM Research o Ramendra K. Sahoo - (rsahoo(a)us.ibm.com) IBM Research Publicity Chair: o Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Technical Program Committee: * Ricardo Bianchini Rutgers University * Henri Casanova University of Hawaii * I-hsin Chung IBM Research * Dick Epema Delft University of Technology * Dror Feitelson Hebrew University * John Janakiraman HP * Joefon Jann IBM Research * Jose E. Moreira IBM Research * Manish Parashar Rutgers University * Rolf Riesen Sandia National Laboratories * Anand Sivasubramaniam Penn State University * Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory * Wenyuan Xu Univeristy of South Carolina * Andy Yoo LLNL * Weikuan Yu Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Weikuan Yu http://ft.ornl.gov/~wyu/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICME 2008 Paper Submission Deadline Postponed
by ICME2008 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Dear Colleagues: The deadline for submission of regular papers to the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2008) has been postponed to Jan 4, 2008. Further information about the conference can be found at the conference website http://www.icme2008.org We look forward to seeing you there! Best Regards, ICME 2008 Organizing Committee <This e-mail was automatically generated by a computer program> <Please do not reply to this e-mail> __________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT UPCOMING DEADLINES: Regular paper submission: Jan 4, 2008 (New deadline) Notification of acceptance: Feb 29, 2008 Camera-ready papers: Mar 24, 2008

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[EUROSIS] EUROMEDIA 2008, April 9-11, 2008, FEUP-University of Porto, Portugal, 2nd Call for Papers
by Eurosis 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

------------EUROMEDIA 2008, APRIL 9-11, 2008, FEUP-UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, PORTUGAL, 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS------------ 2ND Call for Papers EUROMEDIA 2008 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 UNIVERSITY OF PORTO PORTUGAL APRIL 9-11, 2008 Organized by ETI Sponsored by EUROSIS Delft University of Technology Belgacom TTVI Ghent University DG-INFSO Dear Colleague, this is a reminder that the abstract submission deadline for EUROMEDIA 2008 is next January 20. As a reminder also please find enclosed the list of the conference topics: [] WEBTEC * Internet Viewers and Programs * Visual Programming Languages * 3D Web Programs * Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * AI on the Web * Software for Web-based Business Applications [] MEDIATEC * Multimedia Techniques and Telecom * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Multimedia Building Blocks [] COMTEC * Telecommunications Technologies * Networks * Network Security * Mobile Communications * TV Technology * QoS [] APTEC * Telematics Consumer Applications * Cooperative Consumer Application * Tele-Education * Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Telemedicine * Ubiquitous Computing Applications * Embedded Systems and Future Product Market Combinations * Multimodal communication [] ETEC * Tele-X and E-Commerce * Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Special Tracks: [] Knowledge Management and e-Mobility [] In-Car Applications [] Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication [] Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: [] Medical Imaging Systems In recent years, extensive research has been performed to develop more and more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems. Such systems are crucial for medical specialists, allowing a deeper analysis and to understand what is going inside the human body, and therefore they play an essential role for adequate medical diagnosis and treatments. To accomplish efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, many research works have being done in many domains, like the ones related with medical image devices, signal processing, image processing and analysis, biomechanical simulation and data visualization. The main goal of the Workshop “Medical Imaging Systems” is to bring together researchers involved in the related domains, in order to set the major lines of development for the near future. Therefore, the proposed Workshop will consist of researchers representing various fields related to Medical Devices, Signal Processing, Computational Vision, Computer Graphics, Computational Mechanics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematics and Medical Imaging. The Workshop endeavors to contribute to obtain better solutions for more efficient and powerful medical imaging systems, and attempts to establish a bridge between clinicians and researchers from these diverse fields. The proposed Workshop will cover topics related with medical imaging systems, such as: • image acquisition • signal processing • image processing and analysis • modelling and simulation • computer aided diagnosis • surgery, therapy, and treatment • computational bioimaging and visualization • software development • virtual reality • telemedicine systems and their applications [] D-TV Scope: In contrast to traditional TV DTV is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals. It uses digitally compressed modulation data, which requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a standard receiver (set-top box) as well as via PC-TV based on ADLS (VDSL). Digital Television has several advantages regarding technically as well as content and programme related aspects. One of the most significant is the use of a smaller channel bandwidth. This frees up space for more digital channels, other non-television services such as pay-multimedia services and the generation of new revenue models based on interactive advertisement and marketing features. Furthermore there are special services such as multicasting (more than one programme on the same channel), electronic programme guides and interactivity providing a wider range of application. Accordingly within the last year a growing up of specialised digital TV channels (Special Interest Channels) has to be observed European wide. This new growing up stream is mainly characterised by the phenomena of merging television (TV) and information technology (IT) know how, methods and techniques. In this context the workshop targets to show up the development in both directions: the technically aspects as well as the content and programme issues. It provides a presentation and discussion platform for exchanging experiences made within the establishment as well as the maintenance of digital special interest channels. Main focus will be to point out the interdependencies and the mutual influences of technically streams and content respectively service related issues. Topics: * Broadband Television * Interactive Television * IPTV - Web-TV * DVB-H, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C * MHP & Interactive Television * Set-Top-Boxes * Full Digital Production Chain Management * Digital-Video-Journalism * DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) * FreeTV & PayTV * Interactive Video * Interactive Advertising Formats * Event Oriented Interview Formats * Event Driven Program Schemes & Formats * Mobile Content * Cross-Format Content & Knowledge Pooling * Cross-Media Content Production & Distribution * Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Content * Semantically Enrichment of Digital Content * Security & Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Watermarking & Copyrights & Protection * Cross-platform productions on TV Media-Convergence * Peer-to-peer Grid TV Applications For more information on the workshops see: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 Conference Committee General Conference Chair João Manuel R. S. Tavares, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Renato Natal Jorge, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal WEBTEC Programme Committee Sameh Abdel-Naby, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Dr. Paul Dowland, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dipl.-Inf. Steffen Harneit, CUTEC-Institute GmbH, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Ass. Prof. Qingping Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Prof. Dr. Jörn Loviscach, Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany Assoc. Prof. Wenji Mao, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China Lorenzo Motta, Ansaldo Segnalamento Ferroviaro s.p.a. Genova, Italy Dr. H. Joachim Nern, Aspasia Knowledge Systems, Dusseldorf, Germany Dr. Carlos E. Palau, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Prof. Paola Salomoni, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Elpida Tzafestas, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Dr. Matthew Warren, Deakin University Geelong, Victoria, Australia MEDIATEC Programme Committee Assoc. Prof. Vincent Charvillat, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse cedex, France Dr. Fernando Boronat Segui, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Gran de Gandia, Spain Ignazio Infantino, ICAR-CNR, Palermo (PA), Italy PhD. Jens Mueller-Iden, University of Münster, Münster, Germany Dr. Ana Pajares, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Jehan Francois Paris, University of Houston, Houston, USA Prof. Marco Roccetti, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Dr. Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Dr. Leonid Smalov, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom Prof. Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium COMTEC Programme Committee Prof. Dr. Marwan Al-Akaidi, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom Boguslaw Butrylo, Bialystok Technical University, Bialystok, Poland Dr. Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dr. Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Prof. Chris Guy, The University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom PhD Mohammad Riaz Moghal, Ali Ahmad Shah-University College of Engineering and Technology, Mirpur, Pakistan PhD Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland Maria Papadaki, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Ph. D. Oryal Tanir, Bell Canada, Montreal, Canada Ass. Prof. Vassilis Triantafillou, Τechnological Educational Institution of Messolonghi Applied, Greece APTEC Programme Committee Prof. Dr. J. Broeckhove, RUCA-UA, Antwerp, Belgium Dr. Juan Carlos Guerri Cebollada, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Hatice Gunes, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), NSW Australia Carsten Magerkurth, SAP RESEARCH, St. Gallen, Switzerland Dr.ir. Johan Opsommer, Belgacom - BUS, Brussels, Belgium Prof. Matthias Rauterberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Francisco Reinaldo, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Zasriati Azla Sabot, University College Jubail, Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia Prof. Jeanne Schreurs. Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium Ass. Prof. Ramiro Velázquez, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes, Mexico Dr. Charles van der Mast, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands E-TEC Programme Committee Dr.Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Dr. Paul Dowland, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Prof. Ricardo Chalmeta, Universidad Jaume I, Castellon, Spain Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kassel, University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany Workshops Medical Imaging Systems General Chair João Manuel R. S. Tavares, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal General Co-Chair Renato Natal Jorge, FEUP, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal International Programme Committee Alberto De Santis, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Arrate Muñoz Barrutia, University of Navarra, Spain Behnam Heidari, University College Dublin, Ireland Bernard Gosselin, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas, USA Christos E. Constantinou, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA Daniela Iacoviello, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Dinggang Shen, University of Pennsylvania, USA Djemel Ziou, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Gerald Schaefer Aston University, United Kingdom João Krug Noronha, Dr. Krug Noronha Clinic, Portugal João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal João Paulo Costeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Jorge M. G. Barbosa, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Lyuba Alboul, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom Manuel González Hidalgo, Balearic Islands University, Spain Maria Elizete Kunkel, Universität Ulm, Germany Mário Forjaz Secca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Angel López, Faculty University of Ciego de Avila, Cuba Miguel Velhote Correia, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Patrick Dubois, Institut de Technologie Médicale, France Reneta Barneva, State University of New York, USA Renato M. Natal Jorge, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal Sabina Tangaro, University of Bari, Italy Valentin Brimkov, State University of New York, USA Yongjie Zhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA D-TV Workshop Dr. Hans-Joachim Nern, TTVI, Germany CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Philippe Geril Ghent University Faculty of Engineering Dept. of Industrial Management Technologiepark 803 B-9062 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium Tel: +32 9 2645509 Fax: + 32 9 2645824 Email: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org -- Philippe Geril Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 EUROSIS -ETI Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Ghent University E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Dept.of Industrial Mgmt. 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[Fwd: ICST - CfP: International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems: 22-24 July 2008]
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - CfP: International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems: 22-24 July 2008 Datum: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:24:02 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icst.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ------------------------------------------------------------ -**********************************************************- -* *- -* International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems *- -* ISVCS 2008 *- -* *- -* July 22-24, 2008 *- -* Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *- -* *- -* http://www.isvcs.eu/ *- -* *- -* Call for Papers *- -* *- -* *- -* Co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 *- -* *- -* Sponsored by ICST *- -* Technically-sponsored by Create-Net, *- -* ACM-SIGMOBILE (pending) & *- -* IEEE Communication Society (pending) *- -* *- -**********************************************************- ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version due: May 18, 2008 THEME The ISVCS is an annual event that seeks to bring together people from academia, industry and government interested in building and using vehicular computing systems, middleware, protocols, services and applications. The symposium is primarily interested in papers reporting on innovative research resulting in real implementations and working prototypes. Work in progress and new ideas will also be accepted as well as presentations of new products. The program will consist of technical sessions, product/industrial presentations, a keynote, a demonstration session, a poster session and one panel, scheduled over 2.5 days. During the event, an industrial exhibition will be also organized. Short tutorials, especially in non-technical related areas, such as transportation policies and social aspects will also be organized, in order to offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on the field. The event is co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 (http://www.mobiquitous.org/), allowing researchers and practitioners from these related fields to meet and exchange their ideas and experiences. TOPICS OF INTEREST The symposium calls for three categories of contributions: research, position and product presentation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design and implementation of computer systems for network-connected vehicles - Middleware and service architectures for safety, road sensing, route planning, in-car networking and other vehicle-centric applications - Protocols for data collection and dissemination over network-connected cars - Security and privacy issues in vehicular networks, systems, services and applications - Location-aware computing models for vehicular systems - Driver-to-computer interfaces - Data management systems for road sensing and traffic monitoring - Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication protocols - Inter-vehicle distributed systems for entertainment and gaming - Pervasive computing applications using vehicular networks - Tools and methodologies for vehicular computing systems verification and evaluation - Fault-tolerance solutions for vehicular computing systems - Maintenance for vehicular computing software - Experience reports of testing vehicular computing systems on real-world conditions - Policies, laws and regulations for adopting vehicular computing technologies - Social and psychological implications of vehicular computing applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit the Publications page for more information. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers presented in ISVCS will be considered for publication in the Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, Special Issue on Advances and Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Industry Chair Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Raja Sengupta, UC Berkeley, USA Sam Reisenfeld, UTS, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST Conference Coordinator Dorothy Bany, ICST -------------------------------------------------- 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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[Tccc] CfP: Special Session on Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management - Deadline extended to Jan 6, 2008
by Nicolas C. Liebau 21 Dec '07

21 Dec '07

EXTENDED PAPER DEADLINE: January 6, 2008 Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message... +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers SPECIAL ACADEMIC SESSION ON * Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructure * * for Crisis Response and Management * http://www.quap2p.tu-darmstadt.de/de/events/iscram-2008/ Session ID: INT-03 at ISCRAM 2008 The 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Washington, DC, USA May 4-7, 2008 http://www.iscram.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Motivation Recent crisis like the recent Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and Hurricane Katrina demand quick first response organization as well as a high number of participating helpers and organizations. These two requirements are naturally supported by decentralized and self-organizing IT-infrastructures. While p2p systems like Groove achieve an easy way of enabling communication between heterogeneous first response teams. There are crucial inefficiencies in terms of network resource utilization, which is a vitally important requirement in crisis response situations. There are still numerous open topics necessary to put crisis response and management software on a solid technical base. Focus for this special session is the technical management of distributed crisis response systems. The areas covered by this session are listed below. Additional contributions concerning crisis response systems that are not explicitly mentioned but fit into the scope of this session are welcomed as well. Research Area The technical challenges for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System can be divided in three main areas. --------------------------------------------------------- Crisis Management Applications --------------------------------------------------------- Decentralized and Self-organizing IT Infrastructure --------------------------------------------------------- TCP/IP-based Communication Layer --------------------------------------------------------- While the base for communication, shown as TCP/IP based communication layer is crucial for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response System, the main focus of this special session is the second layer "Decentralized and Self Organizing IT infrastructure". The underlying TCP/IP based communication layer becomes increasingly more a commodity product while intelligent replica placement, distributed storage, service discovery, access control and context awareness need to be provided by the second layer. Based on the available services and infrastructure of the second layer the top layer provides various user interfaces to the deployed services. While all three layers are needed for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System, the main focus of this session is on the design of the second layer. Topics . Overlay networks specialized for Decentralized Crisis Response and Management . Decentralized service discovery . Distributed information storage and retrieval . Decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms for replica management . Decentralized location awareness . Group membership and access control . Simulation environments for "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management" . Decentralized Crisis Response and Management Systems . Systems Implications on Policy and Organizational Structures . Case Studies on "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures" *Important ISCRAM 2008 Dates:* January 6, 2007: Paper submission deadline February 10, 2008: Notification of (conditional) acceptance February 22, 2008: Early registration deadline March 1, 2008: Final camera-ready paper submission deadline May 4-7, 2008: ISCRAM 2008 Session Chairs: . Nicolas Liebau, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Nicolas.Liebau(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Ralf.Steinmetz(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Dirk Bradler, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (bradler(a)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) . Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland (Jussi.Kangasharju(a)cs.helsinki.fi) Type of contribution: . Academic Session: We invite researchers from academia or research labs to present their research or research-in-progress papers. Prospective presenters submit a regular research (or research-in-progress) paper. Important Notice: . All submissions must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2008 formatting guidelines. Templates and instructions are published on www.iscram.org. . All submissions must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2008 conference paper submission web page at www.conftool.com/iscram2008. Instructions for the ConfTool system can be found on www.iscram.org. . All papers and presentations will go through a double-blind review process, leading to a decision of (conditional) acceptance or rejection. . Accepted papers will be included in the ISCRAM 2008 program and published in the official proceedings if and only if (1) the paper is formatted according to the instructions, (2) the authors sign the copyright transfer form and (3) one of the authors registers for the conference and pays the registration fee before the cut-off date for early registration. . Authors who have multiple papers accepted can only register for and present one paper at the conference; co-authors need to register separately. About ISCRAM: The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. At its annual international conference alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All information on ISCRAM can be found at http://www.iscram.org ISCRAM 2008 will be held from 4-7 May at the George Washington University (GWU) located in Washington, DC, USA. The conference will be hosted by GWU's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM). All details on this conference will be made available via the ISCRAM website mentioned above. -- ______________________________________________________KOM P2P Networking Nicolas C. Liebau Nicolas.Liebau(a)kom.tu-darmstadt.de Head of Peer-to-Peer Networking http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/en/research/research-areas/peer-to-peer-netw… Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de Technische Universität Darmstadt Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Tel.: +49 6151 16-5240, FAX: +49 6151 16-6152 postal address: TU Darmstadt, FB 18, KOM, Merckstr. 25, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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