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[Fwd: CfP: PIK Journal - Special Issue on the Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: PIK Journal - Special Issue on the Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems Datum: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:32:28 +0200 Von: Patrick Wuechner <patrick.wuechner(a)UNI-PASSAU.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 Dear colleagues, Please consider to contribute to the upcoming PIK journal special issue on the "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems". The deadline is August 19th. Thus, there is one month to go. Submissions are welcome in English and German. Details can be found in the CfP attached below and on http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/pik With best regards from Passau, Germany, Patrick Wuechner Hermann de Meer P.S. Please apologize multiple copies. ----------------------------- Call for Papers ---------------------------- PIK Special Issue: "Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" ("Selbst-Organisierende Systeme und deren Modellierung") http://www.net.fim.uni-passau.de/pik 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 -- Patrick G. Wuechner, Research Fellow Computer Networks and Computer Communications, Prof. de Meer, http://www.net.fmi.uni-passau.de University of Passau, GERMANY

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call For Participations - Personalized Networks 2007 (PerNets 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call For Participations - Personalized Networks 2007 (PerNets 2007) Datum: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:00:56 +0200 Von: Venkatesha Prasad, R. <Vprasad(a)ewi.tudelft.nl> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call For Participations ============================================================ Second International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.org/ To be held in conjunction with: The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007, http://www.mobiquitous.org) August 10, 2007 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA ============================================================ Purpose of this workshop =================== The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address. On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before. For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user's desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. Keynote Speaker ============= Future Networking Technologies: A Funding Agency Perspective Sirin Tekinay, Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) This talk not only introduces and discusses National Science Foundation initiatives and programs relevant to the workshop, but also seeks audience input for exemplary applications of their subtopics. These activities range from individual program elements to foundation-wide initiatives. The directorate of Computer Information Systems and Engineering (CISE) of the National Science Foundation announced its "Clean Slate Internet" vision and initiative two years ago. The project, Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI), has been underway since then. Research programs around GENI have been formulated (Future Internet Design- FIND, Cyber Trust, and Science for Internet's Next Generation- SING) by different CISE organizations. However, a comprehensive research portfolio that will bring together wireless communications and sensor networking, social computing, network architecture, and mobility is on the drawing board of a CISE-wide team. Another CISE-led NSF-wide initiative is the Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) which has the following five components: Knowledge Extraction, Complex Interactions, Computational Experimentation, Virtual Environments, and Educating Researchers and Students. These themes call for projects at the interface of natural sciences, social sciences, computing, and engineering. Advanced networking research, including network science (as opposed to the art of networking) will be covered in "Complex Interactions." Technical Program ============= The Tentative Technical Program of PerNets Workshop can be found at: http://www.pernets.org/program.html Registration ========= You can complete your registration at the following website: https://icst.org/registration/reg_mobiquitous_2007.php _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ICST WiOpt'08 - 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ICST WiOpt'08 - 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks Datum: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:17:29 +0200 Von: James Gross <gross(a)tkn.tu-berlin.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** ##### ANNOUNCEMENT / CALL FOR PAPER ###### WiOpt'08 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks March 31 - April 4, Berlin, Germany http://www.wiopt.org Scope of the Symposium This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization of wireless network design and operations. It welcomes works on different perspectives, including performance analysis and simulation, protocol design, numerical communication and optimization theory, for all forms of wireless networks: cellular, wide, metropolitan, local and personal-area networks, dense and sparse ad-hoc networks, domain specific vehicular, public-transport, application-specific sensor networks, as well as any combination of these. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, simulations and measurements * Protocol design * Spectrum allocation * Security and intrusion detection * Pricing and incentives * Scalability, manageability and optimization * System capacity and performance * Mobility and multihoming * Opportunistic and cooperative scheduling * Cognitive radio * Interference control * Energy efficiency Submissions The submission format for the papers is an extended abstract, up to eight pages long. Please use the IEEE Transactions format, 11 pt character size, one column text, one-and-a-half line spacing, letter paper. This page budget should contain all figures, tables, references, etc. The extended abstract should also include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. The submission will be handled via EDAS ( http://edas.info ). Only PDF files are acceptable; please make sure that the paper prints without problems (take care to embed all required fonts, etc.). Adjunct Workshops Several one-day workshops are planned to accompany the main WiOpt Symposium: WiNMee/WiTMeMo 2008 : International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement RAWNET 2008 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks SPASWIN 2008: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks WNC3 2008 : Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition Important Dates Conference: April 1-3, 2008 Workshops: March 31-April 4, 2008 Submission deadline: October 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2007 Camera-ready copy: January 15, 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] cfp: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] cfp: New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Datum: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:44:41 +0100 Von: Tudhope D S (AT) <dstudhope(a)GLAM.AC.UK> Antwort an: Tudhope D S (AT) <dstudhope(a)GLAM.AC.UK> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Referenzen: <0BA7EE4D4646E0409D458D347C508B7802236241(a)MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> <0BA7EE4D4646E0409D458D347C508B7802236242(a)MAILSERV1.uni.glam.ac.uk> Call for Papers *New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia* ** Editor: Doug Tudhope (dstudhope(a)glam.ac.uk) Associate Editor: Daniel Cunliffe (djcunlif(a)glam.ac.uk) Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK *Submission deadline: January 16, 2008* *Acceptance notification: February 27, 2008* *Final manuscripts due: April 9, 2008* ** *NRHM* covers hypermedia, hypertext, interactive multimedia and related technologies. We invite papers on the following topics and related issues: - Conceptual basis of hypertext systems cognitive aspects design strategies - Intelligent and adaptive hypermedia knowledge representation knowledge organisation systems and services the semantic web - Multimedia issues time and synchronisation; link dynamics audio/image/video processing and compression content-based retrieval - Interaction navigation and browsing; search systems; studies of information seeking and navigation behaviour; testing and evaluation user interfaces; multi-modal interaction - Tools for hypermedia (automatic) authoring systems - Applications in business, commerce, digital libraries, e-learning, information management, the professions, publishing, and public administration, etc. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM) is published by Taylor & Francis and appears in both print and digital formats. For more details and indicative topics, see the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp Submissions may take the form of research papers or shorter technical notes and should be sent by email to the editors, preferably in pdf format. Questions and enquiries are welcome. **

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] CfP - ITU-T ' Innovations in NGN']
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] CfP - ITU-T ' Innovations in NGN' Datum: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:37:55 +0200 Von: Kai Jakobs <kai.jakobs(a)i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Organisation: Aachen University An: <elg(a)kuvs.de> **Bitte entschuldigen Sie, wenn Sie diese Nachricht mehrfach bekommen*** Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, dieser CfP koennte fuer Sie von Interesse sein. Die Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung ist - in alter ITU-Tradition - kostenlos. Der Tagungsband wird - aller Voraussicht nach - bei IEEE erscheinen. Fuer weitere Informationen stehe ich gerne zur Verfuegung. Viele Gruesse aus AC Kai Jakobs. INNOVATIONS IN NGN - FUTURE NETWORK AND SERVICES AN ITU-T KALEIDOSCOPE EVENT First Call for Papers <http://itu.int/ITU-T/uni/kaleidoscope> Innovations in Next Generation Networks is the first in a series of peer-reviewed academic conferences that aims at increasing the dialogue between academia and experts working on the standardization of information and communications technologies (ICT). By viewing technologies through a Kaleidoscope, these forward looking conferences will also seek to identify new topics for standardization. Arguably no industry undergoes faster changes than the ICT industry. So looking five, ten or more years into the future - What will the network look like? Which services will be offered? How will it affect people's lives? NGN represents one of the most complex transitions ever to have occurred in telecoms. Taking into account new realities in the ICT industry such as the need to converge and optimise operating networks and the extraordinary expansion of digital traffic, NGN will enable a richer set of applications to the end user, as well as allowing operators to benefit from a far simpler architecture and the economies of scale associated with standards. In addition, in NGN, new services can be added far more quickly and easily, without the need to add any new network infrastructure. Objectives Innovations in NGN will bring together new and visionary ideas on the future of NGN. It will highlight technologies, services and applications five years and beyond that will capitalize on the NGN infrastructure and will lead us to the so-called ubiquitous network society in which information can be accessed anywhere, at anytime, by anyone and anything. The event will also cover multidisciplinary aspects related to the deployment of NGN, including analysis of the regulatory and societal challenges that such deployment will bring. Innovations in NGN is to inspire contributions towards a kaleidoscopic view of communication habits for the future. We know what NGN is in terms of the underlying technology, but we don't know what services will emerge, how NGN will affect the marketplace for ICT, and how society will be affected. To this end ITU is issuing this call for papers, a number of topics of interest are suggested below. Audience Innovations in NGN is targeted at all researchers, academics, students, engineers, regulators and thinkers who go "beyond the next quarter". No participation fee will be charged. Date and venue 12-13 May 2008, Geneva, Switzerland. Submission of papers Prospective authors are invited to submit complete, original papers with up to 6000 words including summary and references using the template at the conference website. (The camera-ready version will be limited to a maximum of eight pages). Main themes are suggested below. All papers will be handled electronically and reviewed through a double-blind, peer-review process. Please note that the submission dates for papers are strict deadlines. Full details of the submission procedure will be available from the conference website. Deadlines Submission of complete papers: 15 October 2007 Notification of paper acceptance: 15 January 2008 Submission of camera-ready paper: 29 February 2008 Registration for the event: 18 April 2008 Awards Awards will be granted to selected best papers, as judged by the organizing and programme committee. Details will be announced later. Publication Accepted papers will be presented during the conference and will be published in the proceedings. General Chair: Yoichi Maeda (ITU-T; NTT, JP) Organizing Committee (as of 31 May 2007) Tohru Asami (The University of Tokyo, JP) Yoshikazu Ikeda (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Aarhus University, DK) Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, JP) David Mellor (UK Telecommunication Academy, UK) Brian Moore (ITU-T; Alcatel-Lucent, UK) Pierre-André Probst (ITU-T; OFCOM, CH) Charles Sandbank (Bradford University, UK) John Visser (ITU-T; Nortel, CA) Mallik Tatipamula (Juniper Networks, US) Programme Committee (as of 31 May 2007) Chairman: Pierre-André Probst (ITU-T; OFCOM, CH) Arve Aagesen (Norwegian Univ. Science and Tech., NO) Tohru Asami (The University of Tokyo, JP) Koichi Asatani (Kogakuin University, JP) Nelson Baloian (University of Chile, CL) Benjamin Baran (University Nacional de Asuncion, PY) Michael Bove Jr. (MIT, US) Kiril Boyanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG) Knut Blind (Fraunhofer ISI; TU Berlin, DE) Jim Carlo (J.Carlo Consulting LLC, US) Lyman Chapin (Interisle Consulting Group, US) Peter J. Chitamu (University of the Witwatersrand, ZA) Jun-kyun Choi (Info. and Comms. University, KR) Seong-gon Choi (Chungbuk National University, KR) Yang-hee Choi (Seoul National University, KR) Young-bae Choi (James Madison University, US) Il-young Chong (Hankuk University KR) Javier Diaz (Univ. Nacional de La Plata, AR) Vladimir Efimushkin (ZNIIS, RU) Tineke M. Egyedi (TU Delft, NL) Qi Feng (BUPT, CN) Vladislav V. Fomin (Montpellier Business School, FR) Wen Gao (Peking University, CN) Stephan Gauch (Fraunhofer ISI, DE) Adam Grzech (Politechnika Wroc_awska, PL) Chris Guy (The University of Reading, UK) Guenter Haring (University of Vienna, AT) Yukio Hiramatsu (Osaka Institute of Technology, JP) Wu Hequan (Chinese Academy of Engineering, CN) Doan Hoang (University of Technology, Sydney,AU) Qiheng Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Yoshikazu Ikeda (National Institute of Informatics, JP) Villy Bæk Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, DK) Bijan Jabbari (George Mason University, US) Kai Jakobs (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Lintao Jiang (China Acad. of Telecom Research, CN) Farouk Kamoun (University of Manouba, TN) Hyun-gook Kang (Korea Universitdy, KR) Wolfgang Kleinwaechter (Aarhus University, DK) Masafumi Koga (Oita-University, JP) Andrej Kos (University of Ljubljana, SI) Noboru Koshizuka (The University of Tokyo, JP) Ken Krechmer (University of Colorado, Boulder, US) Pieter Kritzinger (University of Cape Town, ZA) Hsiang-Tsung Kung (Harvard University, US) Chuang Lin (Tsinghua University, CN) Duo Liu (China Academy of Telecom Research, CN) Luigi Logrippo (Université du Québec - Outaouais, CA) Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University, US) Giovani Mancilla (Universidad Distrital, CO) Olli Martikainen (University of Oulu, FI) Lorne Mason (McGill University, CA) Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University, JP) Reuven Meidan (Tel-Aviv University, IL) David Mellor (UK Telecommunications Academy, UK) Antonella Molinaro (U. Mediterranea of R.Calabria, IT) Jean-Yves Monfort (ITU-T; France Telecom, FR) Miquel Nicolau (Universitat d'Andorra, AD) Yong-jin Park (Hanyang University, KR) José Miguel Piquer Gardner (Universidad de Chile, CL) Iskra Popova (MidSweden University, SE) Louis Pouzin (Eurolinc, FR) Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University, DK) Ramon Puigjaner (Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES) Don Purcell (Catholic University, US) S V Raghavan (Indian Institute of Technology, IN) Sriram Raghavan (Intel Research, IN) Peter Radford (LogicaCMG, UK) Jungwoo Ryoo (Pennsylvania State University, US) Imad Al-Sabouni (Ministry of Communications, SY) Mary Saunders (NIST, US) Mostafa Hashem Sherif (AT&T, US) Neuman Souza (Federal University of Ceará, BR) Otto Spaniol (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Michael B. Spring (University of Pittsburgh, US) Kenzo Takahashi (Fukui University, JP) Klaus Turowski (University Augsburg, DE) Hiromi Ueda (Tokyo University of Technology, JP) Yoshiyori Urano (Waseda University, JP) Laurent Vreck (ETSI, FR) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University, DE) Vilas Wuwongse (Asian Institute of Technology, TH) Ahmad Zaki (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, MY) Huiling Zhao (CN Telecom Beijing Res. Institute, CN) Keywords Accessibility, NGN, object to object communication, applications, services, innovation, ICT, convergence, telecommunications, Internet Protocol, IPTV, USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Networks), security, standardization research, economics of standardization, ubiquitous societies, multimedia, interoperability, QoS, mobility, virtual communities, network operation. For additional information Additional info can be found at the event website: http://itu.int/ITU-T/uni/kaleidoscope. Inquiries should be addressed to kaleidoscope(a)itu.int. Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics Track 1: NGN architecture evolution * Evolution of the NGN architecture * Open service interfaces, service interaction and interoperability in future scenarios * Interworking of advanced services between legacy networks and NGN * Seamless handover, multihoming and mobility * Converged multimedia emergency communications * Future packet-based, ultra-high speed transport networks * Advanced network security, network identification, biometrics, localization techniques and USN * Digital rights management * NGN and the next generation internet Track 2: Application and services over the NGN * Enhancing telecoms accessibility for all * Broadcasting, multicasting, unicasting and peer-to-peer in NGN: IPTV, Interactive TV, Mobile TV, and others * Guaranteed QoS in end-to-end, inter-provider real time multimedia services * Innovative multimedia applications and content delivery using all-IP converged fixed/mobile * Future virtual communities & social networking services * New programming models and service creation * Creative combinations of web and network services * Services and experiences using location, presence, context awareness and personalization * Advanced smart terminals * NGN-enabled public services e.g. telemedicine and distance learning Track 3: Social, economic and policy issues in the ubiquitous societies * Innovations in NGN to overcome the digital divide * Evolution of legislative and regulatory frameworks towards converged networks * Security and ubiquity: what's the right balance? * NGN standardization: stifle or encourage innovation? * Business models for the information society (including accounting, billing and charging) * Societal impact of NGN and of virtual, collaborative environments * Analysis of NGN standardization processes * Economics of NGN standardization ________________________________________________________________ Kai Jakobs RWTH Aachen University Computer Science Department Informatik 4 (Communication and Distributed Systems) Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany Tel.: +49-241-80-21405 Fax: +49-241-80-22220 Kai.Jakobs(a)cs.rwth-aachen.de <http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~jakobs/kai/kai_home.html> EURAS - The European Academy for Standardization. <http://www.euras.org> The International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research. <http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=497> 'Advances in Information Technology Standards and Standardization Research' book series <http://www.idea-group.com/bookseries/details.asp?id=7> _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)kuvs.de https://kuvsmail.ds-group.info/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: CHANTS 2007: Call for Posters]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CHANTS 2007: Call for Posters Datum: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:51:12 +0300 Von: Jörg Ott <jo(a)NETLAB.TKK.FI> Antwort an: Jörg Ott <jo(a)NETLAB.TKK.FI> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR POSTERS Second Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS) 2007 ==================================================== Co-located with Mobicom 2007, 14 September 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada http://chants-2007.netlab.tkk.fi/ Challenged networks are characterized by a heterogeneous mix of nodes and widely varying network conditions. Nodes in today's challenged networks often include mobile nodes, space-based nodes, sensor/actuator nodes and other devices. Performance of the network paths interconnecting such nodes can be highly varying in terms of bandwidth, latency, disruption characteristics and security requirements. Conventional Internet access in performance-limited environments such as developing countries can also be regarded as challenged networks as can be ad-hoc communication between personal devices. The Internet protocol architecture suffers some problems when used in a challenged network setting. For example, when disconnection and reconnection is common or link performance is highly variable or extreme, one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop following CHANTS 2006 and WDTN 2005, we wish to explore ongoing efforts in dealing with physical networks that operate significantly differently from wired, connected networks and the protocol architectures and algorithms used to deal with such situations. Techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are also in scope. In addition to the workshop program consisting presentations and demonstrations, we seek poster presentations discussing recent (possibly early) research results. Poster presentations with accompanying demonstrations are encouraged. Such demo proposals shall present recent practical results from the area of challenged networks. Demo proposals should include one additional page describing the precise setup and requirements. Poster and poster abstracts will be published on the CHANTS 2007 web page. Submission Format ----------------- Poster abstracts must be at most 2 pages in size with a font size not smaller than 10pt. Please email the PDF version of your abstract to both co-chairs using the subject "CHANTS poster submission": jo(a)netlab.tkk.fi krash(a)bbn.com Important Dates --------------- Poster abstract submission: 2 August 2007 (23:59 GMT) Notification of acceptance: 12 August 2007 Final abstract due: 1 September 2007 ----------------------------- 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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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking 2008 (Deadline Extended)]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and Networking 2008 (Deadline Extended) Datum: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:20:30 +0800 Von: Wei Tsang Ooi <ooiwt(a)COMP.NUS.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Wei Tsang Ooi <ooiwt(a)COMP.NUS.EDU.SG> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ===================================================================== Call for Papers and Announcement SPIE/ACM MMCN 2008 Multimedia Computing and Networking 2008 http://mirage.cs.uoregon.edu/mmcn2008 In cooperation with: ACM SIG Multimedia Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 30 and 31 January 2008 San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA, USA ===================================================================== For 15 years, the multimedia computing and networking conference has brought together researchers, practitioners and developers to contribute new ideas in all facets of multimedia systems, networking, applications, and other related areas of computing. Traditionally the conference features presentations of full and short papers, a keynote talk, and a panel of experts. Presenters are encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their proposed solutions. Authors of a few accepted papers with the highest quality are invited to submit the extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal. Original papers on all emerging technologies and traditional areas of multimedia, including but not limited to: Multimedia Computing . multimedia OS services . power-aware systems . video-on-demand services . mixed and augmented reality systems Measurement and Modeling . performance measurement of multimedia systems . statistical modeling of server traffic and server software . multimedia system simulations and benchmark comparisons Multimedia Networking . home, mobile and broadband networks . QoS control and scheduling . push technologies and content distribution . peer-to-peer media systems . Internet data streaming, delivery and wide-area caching . multimedia security and rights management Case Studies and Applications . multimedia search engines . entertainment and networked games . distributed augmented and virtual reality . multimedia authoring Authors are invited to submit both research and industrial papers on original, unpublished work that is not currently under submission at any other conference. Papers whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. Both full and short papers are considered. Full paper submissions should not exceed 12 single-spaced, single column pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 points. Short paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages. All papers must be electronically submitted to the conference website at http://www.electronicimaging.org. Please also submit a 500-word text abstract with your paper submission that includes your topic area. Further information about MMCN'08 can be found at http://mirage.cs.uoregon.edu/mmcn2008. | Full Paper for Review Due: 20 July 2007 (extended and final)| | Short Paper for Review Due: 20 July 2007 (extended and final)| | Final Manuscript Due: 12 November 2007 | | 200-word Final Summary Due: 19 November 2007 | | Proceedings of this conference will be published and | | available at the meeting. | Conference Chairs: Reza Rejaje, Univ. of Oregon (USA) Roger Zimmermann, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Publicity Co-Chairs: Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA) Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Kevin Almeroth, Univ. of California/Santa Barbara (USA) Scott A. Brandt, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz (USA) Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA) Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) David Hung-Chang Du, Univ. of Minnesota (USA) Wu-chi Feng, Portland State Univ. (USA) Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Lausanne (Switzerland) Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research (UK) Carsten Griwodz, Univ. of Oslo (Norway) Yang Guo, Thomson Lab (USA) Ahsan Habib, Siemens TTB Center/Berkeley (USA) Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University (Canada) Pal Halvorsen, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) Seon Ho Kim, Univ. of Denver (USA) Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Kang Li, Univ. of Georgia (USA) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (USA) Klara Nahrstedt, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs-Research (USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ. of California/Irvine (USA) Dongyan Xu, Purdue Univ. (USA) Zhi-Li Zhang, Univ. of Minnessotta (USA) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA)

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[Fwd: CCNC 2008 - deadline extension]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jul '07

13 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CCNC 2008 - deadline extension Datum: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:54:36 -0300 (BRT) Von: nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Dear colleagues, the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) is a flagship international conference of the IEEE Communications Society, for individuals who are interested in the advances of communications technologies and applications with consumer electronics. CCNC 2008, which is in its 5th year and will be held in Las Vegas, USA, on 10-12 January 2008, will emphasize new themes to reflect the enthusiasm and fast-growing demands of consumer communications and networking. The themes of CCNC 2008 are: Theme 1: Intelligent Networking Theme 2: Convenient Access Theme 3: Seamless Digital Entertaining Theme 4: Effective Protection Theme 5: P2P Networking Theme 6. More to Dream Authors are encouraged to submit papers which address these themes. The deadline for submissions is July 27, 2007 and will be not extended further. For the list of paper requirements and additional details, including special sessions and workshops at the conference, please visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org.

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[Fwd: CfP NOMS 2008]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP NOMS 2008 Datum: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:17:10 +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 Papers IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium - NOMS 2008 (20th Year Anniversary!) Pervasive Management for Ubiquitous Networks and Services 7-11 April 2008 Salvador - Bahia - Brazil http://www.ieee-noms.org/2008 Important Dates August 24, 2007 Abstract Registration September 1, 2007 Deadline for Technical Session Papers September 1, 2007 Deadline for Workshop Proposals The 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008) will be held on 7-11 April 2008 in the exiting and lively city of Salvador - Bahia - Brazil. Held in even-numbered years, NOMS 2008 will follow the 20 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary forum for technical exchange of the research, standards, development, systems integration, service provider, and user communities. NOMS 2008 will present innovative approaches and technical solutions for integrated systems and services including communication networks, host systems, enterprise applications, service oriented architectures, and delivery of management services. The conference provides a highly selective peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, application sessions, and software tools sessions. In addition, the conference offers tutorials, posters, and panels as well as vendor exhibits covering many aspects of management. Management gets pervasive and needs to vanish since the networks and systems are vanishing from the users' perception. Users should stay users, not managers of their information and communication platforms and services. Pervasive systems and services require considerations for multi-service and multi-domain environments of heterogeneous technologies, wide range of service offerings, new management strategies, and business models. Pervasive management encompasses provisioning, operation, and maintenance for up-scaled systems and still not bother users and administrator enabling automated management. This broad scope and the distributed nature also call for new approaches to dependability, resilience, quality-of-service, mobility management, and services billing. In particular, these considerations include the combination of wireless and wired (FMC), high and low throughput systems, and small as well as large scale deployments. NOMS 2008 will offer five types of sessions: technical, application, poster, panel, and software tools. Technical sessions will present very high-quality papers on the latest research results in the network operations and management area. Application sessions will present papers focusing on the experience of IT and telecommunications industries, such as service providers, OSS vendors, and equipment manufacturers. The scope here includes customer requirements, management system implementations, and business practices. Poster sessions will provide an insight into work-in-progress. Panel sessions will focus on business implications, market trends, and emerging applications with panelists that are technology and business leaders. The software tools sessions are targeted for the presentation of software tools including open source management software and demonstrations of research prototypes. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library and the conference proceedings. Authors are invited to submit complete, unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas: Management Paradigms and Architectures * Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing,self-protecting and self-configuring) * Self-adaptive applications * Autonomic management of networks, systems, and services * Self-repairing distributed systems * Integrated control and management * Distributed, decentralized, and scalable management * P2P approaches for scalable network management * Policy and role based management * Programmable, active, and adaptive management * Resilience, dependability, and survivability * "Plug-n-Play" component-based management * Customer controlled and managed networks * Proactive and reactive management * Biologically inspired management systems and techniques Theories and Models * AI techniques for management: knowledge-based, intelligent agents, machine learning, neural networks * Theory (control, optimization, economic) for management * Evaluation and benchmarking of management systems and technologies * Information models and Internet technologies (Web, XML, DEN, CIM,SID) Management Standards and Enabling Technologies * Integration and middleware technologies for management * Service-oriented architectures and management * Data warehousing, ontology, mining and statistical methods in management * Next generation operation support systems * User interfaces and virtual reality in management * Inter-domain Management Management and Virtual Environments * Managing virtual resources and services (VPNs, VLANs) * Virtualization of operations centers, help desks * Information modeling in virtual environments Service Engineering and Operational Challenges * Service design and quality assurance * Resource inventory, planning, and allocation * Service discovery and service negotiation * SLA and business process management * Quality-of-Service (QoS) management * Service portability/mobility (VHE) * Transaction-oriented services and supply chain management * "Soft" networks (Soft-switch, Parlay, 3GPP OSA, JAIN) and service switching * Dynamic service requirements analysis * Charging and accounting of integrated systems and services * Self-adaptive e-business services * Self-organized service deployment Operation and Management Functions * Security management, federated identity management * Mobility management * End-to-end measurements * Network, service, and systems monitoring * Alarm and event correlation and filtering * Customer care and workforce management * Process engineering for operators' service and network management * Performance and fault management * Configuration and accounting management * Integration and testing of commercial off-the-shelf products * Management of content hosting and delivery * Path Protection and restoration * Internet service pricing, bandwidth trading * Decision making in self-* systems Management of Emerging Networks and Services * Converged networks and services * Peer-to-peer and community networks * Grids, grid services, and grid applications * Ad hoc and self-configurable networks * Multi-sensor and self-organizing networks * Overlay networks, virtual topologies and VPN services * Wireless broadband networks (2G, 2.5G, 3G, and beyond) * High speed access, Wireless Local (WLANs) and Personal Area Networks (PANs) * Optical networks (metropolitan, all optical, WDM, DWDM, optical IP) * Video and broadband cable networks * VoIP/NGN infrastructures and services * IP TV, Video on Demand * FTTX networks, services, and protocols * Storage Area Networks (SAN) and ASPs server farms * Web services and content delivery networks * Smart homes and networked haptics * Satellite and interplanetary networks * e-World (e-health, e-commerce, e-business, and e-government) Organizational Aspects of IT Service Management * Process engineering and process frameworks (ITIL, eTOM) * Quality management for IT service provisioning * Workflow management for IT service provisioning * Risk management and IT governance issues * Business alignment of IT service management Submission Instructions Please use the appropriate link to submit your technical or application session papers, because submissions will be handled differently. Misdirected papers stand at risk of not being considered. Click here ( https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=526 <https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=526> ) to go direct to the submission system (JEMS). Technical Sessions Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format through the JEMS web site . Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Each submission will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE 2-column style (see below for Templates). Papers exceeding 8 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Application Sessions Papers Submission Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The paper format will be one of annotated slides - papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions should consist of no more than 15 annotated visuals in PDF only. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area , author's full names, affiliations and complete addresses, and electronic mail addresses. Important Dates August 24, 2007 Abstract Registration September 1, 2007 Deadline for Technical Session Papers September 1, 2007 Deadline for Workshop Proposals October 1, 2007 Deadline for Application Papers October 1, 2007 Deadline for Posters October 1, 2007 Deadline for Software Tools October 1, 2007 Deadline for Panel Proposals October 1, 2007 Deadline for Tutorial Proposals November 15, 2007 Notification of Acceptance January 15, 2008 Final Camera Ready Papers Due

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[Fwd: [Iscc] EWSN'08 cfp]
by Lars Wolf 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Iscc] EWSN'08 cfp Datum: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:26:37 +0200 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp *************************************************************************************** European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks EWSN 2008 Bologna, Italy, Jan 30/31 and Feb 1, 2008 http://www.ewsn.org <http://www.ewsn.org/> *************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS / DEMOS / POSTERS Submission deadlines: Full Papers - Sep 1, 2007 Submission deadlines: Demos/Posters - Dec 1, 2007 *************************************************************************************** Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a topic of active research in different areas, ranging from electronics, to communications and computer science. WSNs are characterized by the need to carefully integrate functions traditionally considered to be separate, in order to achieve maximum efficiency, especially with respect to energy consumption and management. Hence, interaction of research from different backgrounds is required: expertise on hardware, middleware, communication protocols and application design, is needed. WSNs are evolving from simple data transportation networks to functionally rich distributed systems, also because actuators in the network have to be supported. Moreover, WSNs, traditionally designed as stand-alone networks, are now considered as part of larger heterogeneous systems having Wireless Wide or Local Area Networks as means to link the environment to applications and data repositories hosted by computers connected to the Internet. This conference intends to create a forum where researchers with different experience and background can discuss cross-layer approaches, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionality. Works describing original, previously unpublished research results, are sought. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware for WSNs * Physical Layer Techniques for WSNs * Communication Protocols * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions * Middleware and Service Infrastructures * Information Processing * Security * Vertical Functionality * Novel Applications * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds Either proposals of full papers, posters or demos can be submitted. Detailed instructions for paper formatting and paper submission are available on the conference Website. ************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission deadline: Sep 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Nov 1, 2007 Camera-ready version: Nov 15, 2007 Posters / Demonstrations: Submission deadline: Dec 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: Dec 15, 2007 Camera-ready version: Jan 8, 2008 ************************************************************ GENERAL CHAIRS Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy; Fabio Luigi Bellifemine,Telecom Italia, Italy TPC CHAIRS Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy; Zach Shelby, Sensinode, Finland STEERING COMMITTEE Holger Karl Koen Langendoen Roemer Kay Uwe Thiemo Voigt Andreas Willig Adam Wolisz Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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