March 2007 - Cfp - lists.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

[Fwd: [acf-members] BIONETWORKS 2007-A Workshop on Socially and Biologically Inspired Wired and Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] BIONETWORKS 2007-A Workshop on Socially and Biologically Inspired Wired and Wireless Networks Datum: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:19:42 +0100 Von: Gulay Oke <g.oke(a)imperial.ac.uk> An: <acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org> CC: <g.oke(a)imperial.ac.uk> CALL FOR PAPERS BIONETWORKS 2007 Workshop on Socially and Biologically Inspired Wired and Wireless Networks Pisa, Italy, October 8, 2007 _http://san.ee.ic.ac.uk/bionets07_ Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2007 Papers should be submitted by email to e.gelenbe(a)imperial.ac.uk Organised in the context of the MASS 2007 Conference (_http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007/_), the BIONETWORKS 2007 Workshop will bring together contributions to Internet Technology employing ideas inspired by the natural and social sciences and by how nature and societies have evolved successful forms of networked organisations. _Workshop Co-Chairs:_ Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College) and Vassileios Pappas (IBM) _Technical Programme Committee:_ Moez Draief (Imperial College, UK), Robert Ghanea-Hercock (British Telecom, UK) Ricardo Lent (Imperial College), Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia, IT), Fabrice Saffre (British Telecom, UK), Bolek Szymanski (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] CFP: JNSM Special Issue on IMS Management]
by Lars Wolf 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] CFP: JNSM Special Issue on IMS Management Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:00:48 -0300 Von: Edmundo Madeira <edmundo(a)ic.unicamp.br> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br ----------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers - Journal of Network and Systems Management Special Issue on Management of the IP Multimedia Subsystem Today, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is globally considered as the common service platform for providing a unified session control on top of various access network technologies for realizing new IP-based multimedia communication and information services. IMS is also driving the notion of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) by merging the fixed and mobile telecommunication networks with the Internet and the adoption of IP technologies within the telecom domain. Although we can witness the availability of international standards for NGN/IMS signaling, management solutions of this converging technology domain are not yet standardized Thus the global introduction of IMS platforms in fixed and mobile networks and provision of related IMS applications is challenged today by the questions around management issues. In this special issue we would like to identify the challenges in IMS system and service management and to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in IMS management standards and related solutions development and deployment around the world. We are soliciting papers covering a variety of topics that include: * State of the art in NGN / IMS management standardisation * Experiences / Best practices in IMS management from IMS trials and early deployments * Fault and Performance Management of IMS Core Systems / IMS Network Element Management * IMS services management * Management of IMS service enablers / service orchestration management * Managing 3rd party applications and application servers in IMS * Dynamic service provisioning in IMS * IMS End System Software Management / Device Management * Multidomain management aspects for interconnected IMS Systems * End-to End Policy-based QoS Management in NGNs * Security management issues in IMS * Charging and accounting management issues in IMS * Push 2 Talk management issues * FMC - Management in converging networks and of seamless services * Management of IMS Subscriber Data / User Profiles * Customer self management in IMS * ID Management in IMS / Single sign on Papers should be of tutorial nature and contain state-of-the-art research and development materials. Authors must follow the JNSM´s guidelines regarding the manuscript format. For further information, please refer to JNSM website at www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm. All papers should be submitted in PDF format to the JEMS system at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/jnsm_ims_management Editors: Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / FOKUS, Germany, magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de Edmundo Madeira, Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil, edmundo(a)ic.unicamp.br Paolo Belavista, University of Bologna, Italy, pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Important Dates: Manuscript submission due: March 31, 2007 Acceptance notification; May 30, 2007 Final manuscript due: August 30, 2007 Publication: March, 2008 _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Special issue on OC, ACM TAAS]
by Lars Wolf 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Special issue on OC, ACM TAAS Datum: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:56:20 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist, below you can find the call for papers for the special issue on Organic Computing in the ACM transactions on autonomous and adaptive systems (TAAS). The submission deadline is approximately a month away. Please feel free to forward this cfp to any other colleagues, mailing lists, or intelligent agents you think might be interested. For more details, you may also visit the website: http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas/ Regards Fabian Rochner P.S.: Deadline for submissions to the special session on OC at CEC 2007, Singapore, is tomorrow, Saturday, March 31. Details: www.organic-computing.de/cec07 =================================================== ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Organic Computing =================================================== SCOPE ----- Organic Computing (OC) has emerged recently as a challenging vision for future information processing systems, based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by systems with massive numbers of processing elements, sensors and actuators. Because of the size of these systems it is infeasible for us to monitor and control them entirely from external observations; instead they will need to help us monitor, control and adapt themselves. To do so, these components will need to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and services that are required. The presence of such networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens up fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems as robust, safe, and trustworthy as possible. In order to achieve all these goals, our computing systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously. Thus, we are interested in new analytic methods and architectures underlying complex systems. In OC, we put an emphasis on systems that exhibit "life-like" properties, such as being self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of OC and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Science & Engineering. In this special issue, we welcome contributions from all these areas to OC. We seek theoretical as well as carefully evaluated practical papers dealing with complex computing systems that * adapt dynamically to the current conditions of their environments, * exhibit "self-x" properties as described above, and * are partly inspired by biological information processing principles. For more information on OC see: * OC Page: http://www.organic-computing.org * DFG research program OC: http://www.organic-computing.de/SPP * IEEE OC Task Force: http://www.neuroinformatik.rub.de/thbio/project/oc ACM TAAS -------- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding, development, and control of such systems. For more information, please follow the link: http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas REVIEW & SUBMISSION PROCESS --------------------------- Manuscripts will first be screened for topical relevance, and those that pass the screening process will undergo a full review procedure according to the standards of TAAS. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a preliminary single page abstract by February 16, 2007. This will help in planning an efficient review process and providing initial feedback to the prospective authors. The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage and submitted to: mailto:octf@neuroinformatik.rub.de GUEST EDITORIAL TEAM -------------------- * Kirstie L. Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA * Christian Igel, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany * Hartmut Schmeck, Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany * Rolf P. Wuertz, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Single page abstract submission (not required) deadline is February 16, 2007. * Paper submission deadline is May 1, 2007. * Submission feedback to authors will be sent in July 2007. * The tentative publication date is June 2008. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society supported by the IEEE Emergent Technologies Task Force Organic Computing.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ICNP 2007]
by Lars Wolf 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ICNP 2007 Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:50:28 -0400 Von: Kang-won Lee <kangwon(a)us.ibm.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: Sambit Sahu <sambits(a)us.ibm.com> As per request from Sambit Sahu... ============================================================== Dear colleague: Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -- ICNP 2007 organizers ICNP 2007 CALL FOR PAPER 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Beijing, CHINA, October 16-19, 2007 ICNP 2007, the fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a conference covering all aspects of network protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2007 will be held in Beijing, CHINA, October 16-19, 2007. Papers with significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation 2. Measurement and monitoring of protocols 3. Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, network management, or resiliency 4. Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, ad hoc and sensor networks, virtual networks, and ubiquitous networks Quality papers dealing specifically with protocols will be preferred over quality papers of a more general networking nature. ICNP will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration: April 8, 2007 Paper submission: April 15, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2007 Camera ready version: July 20, 2007 For paper submission, please visit http://icnp2007.edu.cn/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA GENERAL CHAIR: Jianping Wu, Tsinghua University, CHINA John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, CHINA VICE GENERAL CHAIR: Xia Yin,Tsinghua University, CHINA PROGRAM CHAIR: Kenneth L. Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA David Yau, Purdue University, USA WORKSHOP CHAIR: Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Prof. Xing Li, Tsinghua University, China LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Youjian Zhao,Tsinghua University, CHINA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Ke Xu,Tsinghua University, CHINA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Mingwei Xu,Tsinghua University, CHINA Sambit Sahu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA (co-chair) David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (co-chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See http://icnp2007.edu.cn/ FURTHER INFORMATION: Web site: http://icnp2007.edu.cn/ http://www.ieee-icnp.org/ E-mail: icnp2007(a)tsinghua.edu.cn TEL: +86 10 62788109 FAX: +86 10 62771527 Kang-Won Lee, Ph.D. Research Staff Member IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 Tel: 914-784-7228, Fax: 914-784-6205 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kangwon/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue on "Management of IP Networks and Services" -- IJIPT Journal (Reminder)]
by Lars Wolf 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on "Management of IP Networks and Services" -- IJIPT Journal (Reminder) Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:32:08 +0200 Von: Gregorio Martinez <gregorio(a)dif.um.es> Organisation: University of Murcia (UMU) An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERNET PROTOCOL TECHNOLOGY (IJIPT) Special Issue on "Management of IP Networks and Services" 1. Objectives Network and service management today faces numerous challenges, ones that older ways of doing things cannot solve. Several proposals and paradigms have been proposed in the last few years to offer possible solutions to these issues. In most cases they are providing a system-wide view of the network and its services, thus trying to shift the emphasis of management and monitoring away from specific devices and interfaces towards users and applications. This Special Issue will provide the reader with the last relevant results in this field, thus providing a common base for researchers and practitioners that need to understand the current status and trends of management of IP networks and services. 2. Subject coverage In this special issue original research articles providing results of practical use for IP network and service managers will be published. Contributions are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories: • New Abstractions for Management and Monitoring. • Self-Management and Self-Configuration of Networks and Services. • Techniques for Evaluating Network Management Architectures and Frameworks. • Information Models Applied to Management and Monitoring. • Management Platforms, Interoperability, Standards and Protocols. • Management of Networks and Services: VPNs, Optical Networks, CATV Networks, Mobile and Ad-Hoc Networks, Voice over IP, Transaction Oriented Services, Electronic Commerce, Active and Programmable Networks, Sensor Networks. • Management of Grid Computing, Clusters, Peer-to-Peer Applications, and Ubiquitous Computing Environments. • Intrusion Detection and Network Management. • Management Aspects of Service Pricing, Accounting and Billing. • Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service. • Business and Service Management. • Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Management. • Data Management in Grid Scenarios. • Programmable, Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Management. • Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies for Management. • Management Technologies and Frameworks (Web, XML, CORBA, DEN, etc). • Network and Systems Monitoring. • Fault and Performance Management. • Traffic and Performance Management. • Security Management. • Open-Source Management Software. • Case Studies and Experiences in Management. 3. Important dates Manuscript Submission: April 16, 2007 (Extended) Author Notification: May 31, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: June 30, 2007 Publication: Spring 2008 4. Instructions for submission Papers should be in English and contain original contributions on the topics of this special issue. Only original papers that have not been published or that are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers should be sent by email to both guest editors by April 16, 2007 (extended). Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability of the manuscript. Papers that either lack clarity in presentation, or are not according to the IJIPT author guidelines (available on-line at: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31) or are outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review. 5. Guest editors Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, gregorio(a)dif.um.es Antonio F. Gomez Skarmeta, University of Murcia (UMU), Spain, skarmeta(a)dif.um.es -- _______________________________________________________________ Gregorio Martinez, PhD University of Murcia (UMU), Spain _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks (EuroView2007)"]
by Lars Wolf 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks (EuroView2007)" Datum: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:19:07 +0200 Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 7th Wuerzburg Workshop on IP: Joint EuroFGI and ITG Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks" (EuroView2007) http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2007/ on July 23rd and 24th 2007 in Wuerzburg/Germany OVERVIEW The workshop's tradition and intention is to foster the communication among researchers from industry, universities, and other research institutes. To that end, invited speeches by outstanding personalities and technical talks about current research will be presented. Following the success EuroView2006, we intensify the discussion on "Visions of Future Generation Networks". http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2007/schwerpunkt.shtml We would like to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications as well as on future wireline and wireless Internet architectures to accelerate their development. So far, the following outstanding speakers have acknowledged to give a talk on North-American, Asian, and European concepts for future networks: Prof. Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) Dr. Sun-Moo Kang (National Information Society, Korea) Prof. Peter Freeman (Georgia Tech, USA) Prof. Aki Nakao (Tokyo University, Japan) Prof. Wojciech Burakowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Dr. Peter Stuckmann (European Commission, Belgium) Prof. Paul Müller (Uni Kaiserslautern, Germany) Dr. Joachim Charzinski (Nokia-Siemens Networks, Germany) Dr. Stephan Baucke (Ericsson, Germany) We seek for further technical presentations addressing the focus of this workshop and which are suitable to promote discussions in the context of Future Internet among participants. ORGANIZERS Prof. Dr.-Ing. Phuoc Tran-Gia (general chair) Prof. Dr. Daniel Kofman (chair of EuroFGI) Dr. Kurt Tutschku (chair of EuroFGI integration) Dr. Michael Menth (chair of local organization) VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS The workshop takes place in the computer science building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Wuerzburg/Germany. Wuerzburg is well accessible via airport Frankfurt/Main and another 90 minutes by railway. We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for workshop participants. http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2007/unterkunft.shtml SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION June 13th 2007: submission of an abstract by email: title of the talk and abstract, max. 1 page June 29th 2007: notification of acceptance July 8th 2007: registration by email registration fee: 100 Euro; the participation is free of charge for members of EuroFGI institutions Contacts: Michael Menth, menth(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tobias Hossfeld, hossfeld(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de -- Dr. Michael Menth, Assistant Professor University of Wuerzburg, Institute of Computer Science Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany, room B206 phone: (+49)-931/888-6644, fax: (+49)-931/888-6632 mailto:menth@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/research/ngn

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers - LOCAN 2007]
by Lars Wolf 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers - LOCAN 2007 Datum: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:46:49 +0200 Von: Hannes Frey <frey(a)imada.sdu.dk> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * LOCAN 2007 * * * * The 3rd International Workshop on Localized Communication * * and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks * * http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2007 * * * * In conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on * * Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2007 * * http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mass2007 * * Pisa, Italy, October 8 - 12, 2006 * *********************************************************************** SUBJECT AND SCOPE ----------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. In particular, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas (for example, a multi-disciplinary program on sensors and sensor networks was launched in 2003 at the US National Science Foundation) and research activities are booming recently. This workshop concentrates on network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behavior achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Medium access control * Analytical, mobility and validation models * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Security in ad hoc networks * Data management, query processing, and data delivery in sensor networks * Unicast routing, multicasting, and broadcasting * Geocasting and anycasting * Energy-efficient and bandwidth-efficient protocols * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Localized protocols for duty-cycled sensor networks * Sensor area coverage problems * Auto-configuration and network formation protocols and algorithms * Relative positioning algorithms * Lower bounds on information exchange required for localized solutions * Network graph properties supporting localized protocols * Worst and average case analysis on the deviation from optimal solutions IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Manuscript Submission: April 30, 2007 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2007 Workshop Date: October 12, 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be included in the MASS main proceedings and will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Please submit papers via the EDAS system using the following link: http://edas.info/5496. In case of trouble please contact locan-submission(a)site.uottawa.ca. GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ----------------- David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Hannes Frey, University of Southern Denmark Program Committee ----------------- Will be announced on the workshop web site. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Additional information about the workshop will be continuously updated at the LOCAN 2007 website: http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2007 In urgent cases you might also contact the workshop organizers directly by using the following mail address: locan(a)site.uottawa.ca. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: (Performance) Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: (Performance) Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems Datum: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:32:04 +0200 Von: Matthias Hollick <Matthias.Hollick(a)KOM.TU-DARMSTADT.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Referenzen: <43411D29-F0AE-444B-A4A9-61BA38BFB427(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir moechten Sie auf die folgenden Call for Papers/Contributions auf dem Gebiet "Selbst-Organisierende Systeme und deren Modellierung" aufmerksam machen. Ueber eine rege Beteiligung wuerden wir uns freuen. Fuer einen eventuell mehrfachen Empfang dieser Nachricht entschuldigen wir uns. Mit freundlichen Grueßen, Matthias Hollick ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- -- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP -- -- Note that (1) the workshop submission deadline is 21st of May -- -- Note that (2) the journal submission deadline is 19th of August -- -(1)-------------------- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ------------------------ GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion (Fachgespraech) on "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" July 13, 2007, University of Passau, Germany http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/pmsos07.html OVERVIEW Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable. Following PMSOS 2006, we again aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting once more brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange. IMPORTANT DATES * Ext. abstracts / paper submission deadline: May 21st 2007 * Notification of acceptance: June 11th 2007 * Camera ready papers due: June 25th 2007 * Registration due: June 29th 2007 * Meeting date: July 13th 2007 PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION The submitted extended abstracts, short papers, and full papers will be reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report. Selected contributions to the Technical Discussion can be included in a special issue on "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" in the "Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation" (PIK) journal on applications of communication systems (Volume 31, Number 1, March 2008). TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Hermann de Meer, Universitaet Passau, Germany Patrick Wuechner, Universitaet Passau, Germany Jens B. Schmitt, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Matthias Hollick, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany SUBMISSIONS & CONTACT patrick.wuechner(a)uni-passau.de -(2)------------------------- Call for Papers ---------------------------- PIK Special Issue: "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" ("Selbst-Organisierende Systeme und deren Modellierung") Scheduled date of publication: March 2008 (PIK Vol.31 No.1) OVERVIEW Self-organization is foreseen to play a major role in future communication systems. Obviously, this shift in paradigm leads to a variety of open research challenges. Solutions to these challenges are pivotal in either leveraging the possible advantages of self-organizing systems, but could also turn out to be a heavy burden for both operators and users. The goal is clear: after purposefully introducing (artificial) means of self- organization, the beneficial features - often identified as the so- called self-* properties - should clearly outnumber the critical ones, like un-controllability, undesired instability and criticality, or unpredictability. Thus, it is essential for the community to learn how to design, engineer, optimize, and control complex, almost chaotic systems in a structured, purposeful way. One tool that provides means for this demand is the concept of mathematical modeling. This PIK special issue aims at giving a survey on the topic of self-organization and mathematical modeling techniques that are capable of modeling self-organizing behavior. PROPOSED TOPICS * Essential properties of self-organizing systems * Modeling of self-* properties, such as self-organization, self-management, self-adaptation/-configuration, self-monitoring/-diagnosis, self-tuning/-optimization, self- protection, and self-repair/-healing * Metrics for evaluating self-* properties * Formal and mathematical models of self-organizing and complex systems * Observing self-organized criticality with the help of formal/mathematical models * Tools, test beds, and simulations capable of evaluating self- organizing systems * Performance, QoS, dependability, reliability, and availability modeling of self-organizing systems * Mathematical optimization of self-organizing systems * Security and fault-tolerance models for self-organizing systems * Modeling of emergent behavior * Design and construction of self-organizing systems * Control theory for self-organizing systems Modeling the (un-)controllability of self-organizing or emergent systems * Abstracting from self-organization and complexity * Scalability of complex model evaluation IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: August 19th, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: October 21st, 2007 * Camera ready papers due: November 11th, 2007 AUTHOR INFORMATION Submissions of both technical papers and project reports in English or German are welcome. The contributions should not exceed 6 pages (A4, single column, approx. 6000 characters per page including spaces). We solicit submissions by e-mail in PDF format to Patrick Wuechner (patrick.wuechner(a)uni-passau.de). The camera ready version has to be submitted in Microsoft Word format. GUEST EDITORS Hermann de Meer, Universitaet Passau, Germany Patrick Wuechner, Universitaet Passau, Germany Jens B. Schmitt, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Matthias Hollick, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany More details can be found on: http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/pik -- Dr.-Ing. Matthias Hollick Head of Mobile Networking & Head of Ubiquitous Communications . KOM | Multimedia Communications Lab Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Technische Universität Darmstadt http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de | Web +49.6151.16.6158 | Phone +49.6151.16.6152 | Fax matthias.hollick(a)kom.tu-darmstadt.de | Email TU Darmstadt | FB18 | KOM | Postal address Merckstr. 25 | D-64283 Darmstadt | Germany | Postal address . GPG/PGP-Key: 0x725C8BEC 3289 9D1A 3B37 40B4 EFB7 75BC 05B6 4138 725C 8BEC .

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) Datum: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:47:40 +0100 Von: Brendan Jennings <bjennings(a)tssg.org> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies for cross postings. ______________________________________________________________________ 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) San José, California, USA October 29-30th 2007 Held as part of Manweek 2007 - http://www.manweek.org ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2007) will be held from October 29-30th 2007 in San José, California, USA. The workshop will be technically sponsored (confirmation pending) by the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). As part of Manweek 2007 MACE will be co-located with four other events: the 10th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2007); the 7th IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2007); the 18th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007); and the 1st IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Virtualization Grid Networking and Management (EVGM 2007). The MACE workshop aims to promote the realisation of Autonomic Communications Environments (ACEs) - service-centric environments exhibiting self-governing behaviour. Within an ACE, services will be created that are self-aware and self-healing. In their deployment, they will be self-adapting, self-optimising and self-configuring; and in operation they will be self-protecting, self-managing and self-composing. These features will enable ACE services to adapt to changing business needs and environmental conditions without manual intervention. Realisation of this vision represents a significant challenge for the networking and computer science research communities, requiring advances in disparate areas ranging, for example, from software modeling to network security, and from machine learning to performance optimisation. MACE 2007 will bring together researchers from academia and industry in a workshop setting in which research challenges can be identified, ideas for potential solutions exchanged, and research results discussed. Topics of interest for paper submission include, but are not limited to: - Advances in Modelling and Meta-Modelling; - Governance Models (incl. Policy-based Management); - Methodologies (incl. Lifecycle, Behaviour, Design by Contract); - Mathematical Models of Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Biology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Sociology-inspired Techniques and Algorithms; - Model and Language Driven Development (incl. UML and code generation techniques); - Intelligent Service Negotiation, Composition, and Security; - Tool, Simulation and Testbed support for Autonomic Systems and ACEs; - Testing and Validation Processes; - Managing and Handling Context: Sensing, Inferring, and Application; - Autonomic Wireless Access and Seamless Mobility; - Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Inference Techniques; - Algorithms and Processes for Network Robustness and Performance; - Evolving industry standards to facilitate ACEs. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Submission of late-breaking results and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research is encouraged. Papers that are published, or concurrently submitted to another journal, conference, or book should not be submitted. The Proceedings will be published in the Multicon Lecture Notes series. Papers should be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs, and should not exceed 15 pages in length. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via http://jems.sbc.org.br/mace2007. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: May 13th 2007 Notification: July 6th 2007 Camera ready: August 2nd 2007 Workshop: October 29-30th 2007 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nazim Agoulmine, Université d'Evry, France Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, Norway Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Greg Cox, Motorola Labs, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France Joel Fleck, Hewlett Packard, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Salim Harari, University of Arizona, USA Conor McArdle, Dublin City University, Ireland Tadashi Nakano, University of California, Irvine, USA José Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Caera, Brazil Giorgio Nunzi, NEC Europe, Germany Declan O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Radu State, INRIA-LORIA, France Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, United Kingdom Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA P. N. Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Lars Wolf 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2007 Datum: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:10:13 -0400 Von: Constantine Dovrolis <dovrolis(a)cc.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM and in cooperation with USENIX October 24-26, 2007 San Diego, California. http://www.imconf.net/imc-2007/ The Seventh Internet Measurement Conference is a two and a half day event focusing on Internet measurement and analysis, building on the success of past IMCs. We invite submissions of papers that contribute to our understanding of how to collect or analyze Internet measurements, or give insight into Internet structure and behavior. Examples of relevant topics are: * Internet traffic analysis * Internet structure and topology characteristics * Internet performance measurements * Measurement-based network management such as traffic engineering * Inter-domain and intra-domain routing * Network applications such as WWW, multimedia streaming, and gaming * Measurements of content distribution, peer-to-peer, and overlay networks * Data-centric issues, including anonymization, querying, and storage * Measurement-based inference of network properties * Design of monitoring systems, sampling methods, signal processing methods * Network anomaly detection * Network security threats and countermeasures * Software tools and environments in support of measurement * Measurement-based assessment of simulation/testbeds * Measurement-based workload generation * Measurement-based modeling * Reappraisal of previous measurement findings * Internet-oriented wireless, and mobility measurement Papers that do not in some fashion relate to measuring Internet properties are out of scope. For the first time this year IMC will be associated with the International Workshop on Internet Measurement for Wireless Networks (IM4WiN) on October 23rd. The focus of IM4WiN is on measurement and analysis of wireless networks that are or will be part of the Internet. Given some overlap in the scope of the workshop with IMC, short papers that are more appropriate for the workshop will be forwarded (with the authors permission) to the workshop for review. Full papers will be reviewed as before. Authors can contact the Program Chairs at imc07chair(a)cc.gatech.edu for clarification if they are unsure whether their paper is in scope. Submission Guidelines There are two forms of submissions: 1. Full papers (up to 14 two-column pages) describing original research, with succinctness appropriate to the topics and themes they discuss. 2. Short papers (up to 6 two-column pages), conveying, for example, work that is less mature but shows promise, or that articulate a high-level vision, describe challenging future directions, or critiquing current measurement wisdom. Short papers will be subject to a 6-page limit in the Proceedings. Submissions must be in electronic form, as PDF documents. The submission must conform to the page limits stated above, and with text written in at least a 10-point font (including fonts used in Figures). All manuscripts must be in English. Submissions that do not comply with these requirements will not be read. Please refer to the detailed submission instructions for more information. All full papers and short papers accepted for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings produced by ACM. A few accepted papers may be forwarded for fast-track submission to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Important dates * May 2, 2007 10PM EDT: Registration of title and 250-word abstract * May 9, 2007 10PM EDT: HARD submission deadline * July 18, 2007: Notification * August 20, 2007: Camera Ready Copy due * October 24-26, 2007: Conference held in San Diego, CA To encourage broader data sharing in the community, the conference will present a best paper award for the top paper that makes it's data sets publically available by the time of camera ready submission. For example, wireless-network data sets may be published through CRAWDAD. Authors that would like their paper to be considered for this award should add a footnote on the first page of their submission. A limited number of travel grants may be available to students who are unable to secure funding from their advisors. Program Chairs: Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide Program Committee: David Alderson, Naval Postgraduate School Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology Francois Baccelli, INRIA-ENS Arthur Berger, Akamai Benoit Claise, Cisco Systems Rocky Chang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Mark Crovella, Boston University Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research Gianluca Iannaccone, Intel Research Dina Katabi, MIT Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks Simon Leinen, Switch Sridhar Machiraju, Sprintlabs Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan Vangelis Markatos, University of Crete and FORTH Sue Moon, KAIST David Moore, CAIDA and UCSD Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Niels Provos, Google Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Renata Teixeira, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Patrick Thiran, EPFL Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Eurecom Darryl Veitch, University of Melbourne Jia Wang, AT&T Research Yin Zhang, University of Texas at Austin IMC Steering Committee: Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University/Akamai Technologies Nina Taft, Intel Research Local Arrangements Chair: Colleen Shannon, CAIDA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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