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[Fwd: DAIS 2008: 1st call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: DAIS 2008: 1st call for papers Datum: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:53:28 +0200 Von: Hartmut König <koenig(a)INFORMATIK.TU-COTTBUS.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 Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS DAIS 2008 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems Oslo, Norway 4 - 6 June 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: 8 January 2008 Paper submission: 15 January 2008 Author notification: 7 March 2008 Camera-ready version: 26 March 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://discotec08.ifi.uio.no/DAIS08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) is part of the federated conferences DisCoTec (Distributed Computing Techniques), together with the 10th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION) and the 10th IFIP International Conference Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS). It will be organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oslo, Norway. OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE: Established in 1997, the DAIS series of conferences aims to provide an integrated forum for research on all aspects of distributed applications and interoperable systems. DAIS 2008 conference themes include, but are not limited, to: innovative distributed applications in the areas of - enterprise computing - mobile, grid and peer-to-peer computing - context-aware, ubiquitous and pervasive computing - distributed applications cutting across the above areas models and concepts supporting dist. applications in the areas of - sustainability - adaptability - evolution - ecosystems combining sustainability, adaptability, and evolution middleware supporting distributed applications in the areas of - pervasive and location-based services - autonomic applications and systems - context-aware, adaptive applications - reconfigurable and self-managing applications - quality of service-aware applications - intelligent mobile systems evolution of service-oriented applications - enterprise-wide integration - global integration - semantic interoperability and semantic web services - application management software engineering of distributed applications - domain-specific modelling languages - model evolution - model-driven software adaptation, testing and validation INVITED SPEAKER: Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College London, UK ORGANISERS: General chairs: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway PC chairs: René Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Publicity Chair: Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus, Germany Steering Committee: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Hartmut König, BTU Cottbus, Germany Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Elie Najm, ENST, France Kerry Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia Program Committee: N. Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece D. Bakken, Washington State University, USA Y. Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK A. Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, France G. Blair, Lancaster University, UK A. Casimiro Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal I. Demeure, ENST, France S. Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland D. Donsez, Universite Joseph Fourier, France N. Dulay, Imperial College London, UK F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway P. Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland K. Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany N. Georgantas, INRIA, France R. Grønmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway D. Hagimont, INP Toulouse, France S. Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway P. Herrmann, NTNU Trondheim, Norway J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia R. Kapitza, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany R. Kroeger, University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany M. Lawley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia P. Linington, University of Kent, UK C. Linnhof-Popien, University of Munich, Germany K. Lund, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway R. Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy E. Najm, ENST, France N. Narasimhan, Motorola Labs, USA R. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal P. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK A. Puder, State University San Francisco, USA K. Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia D. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA T. Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand K. Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland E. Tanter, University of Chile, Chile S. Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK IMPORTANT DATES: 8 January 2008: Abstract submission 15 January 2008: Paper submission 7 March 2008: Author notification 26 March 2008: Camera-ready verion 4-6 June 2008: DAIS 2008 conference SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The DAIS 2008 conference solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the themes above. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically as postscript or PDF, using the Springer LNCS style. Full technical papers should not exceed 14 pages in length while work-in-progress papers should not exceed 6 pages in length. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will attend the conference if the paper is accepted. Each paper will undergo a thorough process of review and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference. More specific guidelines on the preparation of papers can be found on the conference website. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Hartmut König koenig(a)informatik.tu-cottbus.de Tel: +49 355 69 22 36 BRAVIS: hartmut.koenig(a)bravis.de Fax: +49 355 69 21 27 BTU Cottbus LS Rechnernetze und Kommunikationssysteme PF 10 13 44, D-03013 Cottbus, Germany http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de ________________________________________________________________________

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[Fwd: [laas-dependability-announce] EDCC 2008 Deadline Extension]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [laas-dependability-announce] EDCC 2008 Deadline Extension Datum: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:29:16 +0200 Von: Karama Kanoun <karama.kanoun(a)laas.fr> An: laas-dependability-announce(a)laas.fr *****the submission deadline has been extended to September 30******* Seventh European Dependable Computing Conference EDCC-7 Kaunas, Lithuania May 7-9, 2008 http://edcc.dependability.org CALL FOR PAPERS There is an increasing dependency of the society on computing services and their underlying computing systems. This dependency creates strict requirements for the delivered services. These requirements affect to he quality of service, continuous availability, survivability in the advent of catastrophic failures, confidentiality, intrusion tolerance, etc. Dependability is a concept that considers all these cross-cutting concerns and required attributes, such as reliability, availability, safety, and security, as well as human factors. The seventh European Dependable Computing Conference aims at providing a European-hosted venue for researchers and practioners from all over the world to present and discuss their latest research achievements. Original papers are solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable computing systems. All kinds of faults are of interest, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. Major topics include, but are not limited to: - Architectures for dependable systems. - Architecture and protocols for security. - Critical infrastructure protection. - Dependability for mobile systems. - Dependability in high-bandwidth and system area networks. - Dependability measurement, modeling, and evaluation. - Dependability in SOA and middleware. - Dependability in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. - Dependability in high performance and grid systems. - Dependability in business and e-commerce applications. - Dependability in data streaming. - Security. - Fault tolerant distributed systems. - Fault tolerance in databases and transactional systems. - Fault tolerance in real-time systems. - Fault tolerance in multimedia systems. - Hardware and software testing, verification, and validation. - Human factors. - Formal methods for dependability. - Information assurance, survivability, and intrusion tolerance. - Internet dependability and quality of service. - Safety-critical systems. - Software reliability engineering. - Dependability benchmarking. - Software engineering for dependability. EDCC is the successor of two European conference series on fault-tolerance, dependability, and testing dating back to the 70s and 80s. EDCC is now an established conference on dependability organized every 2 years by a European country and attracting papers from all over the world. INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers, Practical Experience Reports, Prototype-Tool descriptions and Panels. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables using 11-point type. Practical Experience Reports (5-12 pages) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. Prototype-Tool description papers (5-12 pages) should outline the design or implementation of a software tool, a prototype or an operational system, etc. Panels (2-4 pages) should describe the panel objectives, and include the bios of the Panel proposers and the probable panelists. The title page of each submission should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and address and include a line specifying the submission category. The full mailing address, phone, fax and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically through the web at http://edcc.dependability.org The proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Submission: September 30, 2007 (extended) Notification: January 15, 2008 Final version: February 28, 2008 General Chair Algirdas Avizienis (aviz(a)adm.vdu.lt) Vytautas Magnus U. in Kaunas, Lithuania Program Chair Ricardo Jiménez-Peris (rjimenez(a)fi.upm.es) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Student Forum Chair Leonardo Querzoni (querzoni(a)dis.uniroma1.it) Univ. La Sapienza di Roma, Italy Fast Abstracts Chair José Orlando Pereira (jop(a)di.uminho.pt) Univ. do Minho, Portugal Local Arrangements Chair Juozas Augutis (j.augutis(a)adm.vdu.lt) Vytautas Magnus U. in Kaunas, Lithuania Publications Chair Ernesto Jiménez-Merino (ernes(a)eui.upm.es) Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Finance Chair TBD Publicity Chair Sasha Romanovsky (Alexander.Romanovsky(a)newcastle.ac.uk) Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK International Liason Chairs North America: Lorenzo Alvisi (lorenzo(a)cs.utexas.edu) Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA Latin America: Francisco Brasileiro (fubica(a)dsc.ufcg.edu.br) Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Asia: Xavier Defago (defago(a)jaist.ac.jp) JAIST, Japan EDCC Program Committee Roberto Baldoni, Univ. La Sapienza di Roma, Italy Angelos Bilas, FORTH/Univ. Crete, Greece Andrea Bondavalli, Florence Univ., Italy Cristian Cachin, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Domenico Cotroneo. Naples Federico II Univ., Italy Jean-Charles Fabre, LAAS-CNRS, France Antonio Fernandez, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany Roy Friedman, Technion, Israel Felicita di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy Pedro Gil, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Janusz Gorski, Gdansk Univ. of Techn., Poland Elena Gramatova, Slovak Acad. Sciences, Slovakia Flavio Junqueira, Yahoo! Research, Spain Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France Johan Karlsson, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Rogerio de Lemos, Kent Univ., UK Henrique Madeira, Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal Erik Mahle, Univ. Lübeck, Germany István Majzik, Budapest Univ., Hungary Miroslaw Malek, Humbold Univ., Germany Gilles Muller, Nantes Univ., France Edgar Nett, Magdeburg Univ., Germany Rui Oliveira, Univ. Minho, Portugal Esther Pacitti, INRIA-LINA, France Marta Patiño, Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Fernando Pedone, Univ. Lugano, Italy Peter Popov, City Univ., UK Jaan Raik, Tallinn Univ. of Technology, Estonia Michel Raynal, IRISA, France Luis Rodrigues, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Luigi Romano, Naples Univ. Parthenope, Italy Juan Carlos Ruiz, Univ. Politecn. Valencia, Spain Andre Schiper, EPFL, Switzerland Santosh Shrivastava, Newcastle Univ., UK Matteo Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany François Taiani, Lancaster Univ., UK Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi Univ., Finland Paulo Veríssimo, Univ. Lisboa, Portugal Roman Vitenberg, Oslo Univ., Norway EDCC Steering Committee Luca Simoncini, Italy (chair) Algirdas Avizienis, Lithuania Mario Dal Cin, Germany Karl Grosspietsch, Germany Karama Kanoun, France Johan Karlsson, Sweden Jean-Claude Laprie, France András Pataricza, Hungary Brian Randell, UK João Gabriel Silva, Portugal Janusz Sosnowski, Poland Raimund Ubar, Estonia EDCC Student Forum Program Committee Sergio Mena, York Univ., UK (smenadel(a)cs.york.ac.uk) Corentin Travers, INRIA, France (Corentin.Travers(a)irisa.fr) Paulo Sousa, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal (pjsousa(a)di.fc.ul.pt) ************************************************************************ To remove your name from laas-dependability-announce email list, simply send a message to sympa(a)laas.fr with the words "UNSubscribe laas-dependability-announce" in the subject line. If you encounter a problem, please contact sysadmin(a)laas.fr ************************************************************************

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[Fwd: CFP: MUM 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MUM 2007 Datum: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:08:32 +1000 Von: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> Antwort an: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG --- A SIGMOBILE In-Cooperation event [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] MUM 2007 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA 12-14 DECEMBER 2007 OULU, FINLAND HTTP://WWW.MUM2007.OULU.FI IN CO-OPERATION WITH ACM SIGMOBILE INTRODUCTION MUM 2007 is a leading annual international conference, which provides a fast track for presenting latest research results on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award will be presented for outstanding contributions. Conference proceedings will be archived in ACM Digital Library. CONFERENCE TOPICS Original submissions are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, roaming, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity * Case studies, field trials and evaluations of new applications and services * Mobile user interfaces, interaction design and techniques, user-centered studies * Intelligent, aware, proactive, and attentive environments, perception and modeling of the environment * Middleware and distributed computing support for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * Mobile computer graphics, games and entertainment * Novel adaptive/context-aware/mobile/ubiquitous/wireless multimedia applications and systems * Mobile media management * Rich media applications on mobile devices * Streaming mobile multimedia IMPORTANT DATES 8 Oct 2007: Submission deadline 9 Nov 2007: Notification of acceptance 23 Nov 2007: Camera-ready version due 12-14 Dec 2007: Conference dates PAPER SUBMISSION * Original submissions are requested in form of a full paper totaling at most 5000 words. * Authors are encouraged to use the ACM paper format, as the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. * All papers will be subject to blind review by at least three independent reviewers. Therefore authors should not include their personal information in the cover page nor obvious references to own previous publications. * Papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files via the conference web site. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pekka Abrahamsson, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Sam Bucolo, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Noel Crespi, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA David Ebert, Purdue University, USA Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark Cristiano di Flora, Nokia, Finland Tom Gross, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany Jonathan Hull, Ricoh, USA Pertti Huuskonen, Nokia, Finland Heikki Hämmäinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland Oskar Juhlin, Interactive Institute, Sweden Raimo Kantola, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Thomas Kirste, Rostock University, Germany Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Eila Niemelä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Mark Ollila, Nokia, Finland Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Kari Pulli, Nokia, USA Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands Marco Di Renzo, University of L'Aquila, Italy Jukka Riekki, University of Oulu, Finland Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Olli Silven, University of Oulu, Finland Kåre Synnes, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Mikael Wiberg, Umeå University, Sweden CHAIRS General Chair: Timo Ojala, University of Oulu, Finland Program Chair: Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland ----------------------------- 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: [Tccc] CFP - QoSim 2008]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - QoSim 2008 Datum: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:40:27 +0200 (CEST) Von: Giovanni Stea <g.stea(a)iet.unipi.it> Antwort an: g.stea(a)iet.unipi.it An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - QOSIM - First International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet Marseille, France, March 3, 2008 http://www.qosim.org - info(a)qosim.org Held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008, http://www.simutools.org Sponsored by ICST, Create-Net, IEEE France Section. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from both the networking and the simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices for the Future Internet and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. We solicit submission of manuscripts presenting original research results, not previously published nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it), following the instructions available on the workshop website. All submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer review process. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions, which will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be available online through the ACM digital library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Emerging access technologies (WiMax, 3.5G and beyond, Wireless Mesh Networks, 802.11x, etc.). - Disruptive network paradigms (bio-inspired, autonomic, opportunistic networking, etc.). - Multi-layer network architectures. - Cross-layer simulation. - End-to-end simulation of heterogeneous, mobile and multi-domain networks. - Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large scale networks. - New and emerging services and applications. - QoS negotiation, service chain negotiation and Service Level Agreements. - QoS components (scheduling algorithms, admission control schemes, QoS routing and traffic engineering schemes, etc.). - Scalability analysis. - Traffic modeling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscript Submission Due: Nov 18, 2007. Acceptance Notification: Jan 7, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: Jan 20, 2008. Conference Date: March 3, 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy. Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eitan Altman (INRIA, France). - Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain). - Christof Brandauer (Salzburg Research, Austria). - Wojciech Burakowski (Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland). - Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira (Drexel University, USA). - Armando Caro Jr (BBN Technologies, USA). - Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, Japan). - Claudio Cicconetti (University of Pisa, Italy). - Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden). - Chuanxiong Guo (Nanjing University, China). - Qi He (Yahoo! Inc., USA). - Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). - Gianluca Iannaccone (INTEL, UK). - Robert Janowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland). - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK). - Benjamin Melamed (Rutgers Business School, USA). - Telemaco Melia (NEC Network Labs, Germany). - Michela Meo (Politecnico Torino, Italy). - Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy). - Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). - Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks, Italy). - Fabio Ricciato (Forschunszentrum Telekommunikation, Austria). - Werner Sandmann (University of Bamberg, Germany). - Susana Sargento (Technical University of Aveiro, Portugal). - Kurt Tutschku (Wuerzburg University of Technology, Germany). - Manuel Villen Altamirano (Telefonica I+D, Spain). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Deadline extension: ARCS 2008]
by Lars Wolf 18 Sep '07

18 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Deadline extension: ARCS 2008 Datum: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:14 +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, the deadline for submissions to ARCS 2008 has been extended to October 1. You can find the call for papers below, further details on the conference can be found at http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/. Regards Fabian Rochner *********************************************************************** Call for Papers ARCS 2008 21st International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems - System Architecture and Adaptivity February 25-28, 2008, Dresden, Germany http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/ *Submission Deadline Extension: October 1, 2007* *********************************************************************** The ARCS series of conferences has over 30 years of tradition reporting top notch results in computer architecture and operating systems research. This year's special focus is set on adaptivity and adaptive system architectures. We intend to cover a wide spectrum reaching from pre-fabrication adaptation of architectural templates to dynamic run-time adaptation of deployed systems. Like the previous conferences in this series, it continues to be an important forum for computer architecture research. In 2008 ARCS will be hosted by University of Dresden, which has one of the leading information technology schools in Europe. The proceedings of ARCS 2008 is planned to be published by Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS). *Paper submission* Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers on one of the following topics: - Computer architecture topics such as CPU architectures, multi-cores, memory systems, and parallel computing. - Adaptivity and adaptive system architectures such as reconfigurable systems in hardware and software. - Operating Systems including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power management, and RTOS. - System aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing such as sensor nodes, novel input/output devices, novel computing platforms, special purpose devices, architecture modelling, middleware, and localization technology. - Organic and Autonomic Computing including both theoretical and practical results on self-organization, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection techniques. - Embedded systems including but not limited to architecture, communication, design methodologies, and applications. - Network Centric and Grid Computing issues with a focus on middleware. Submissions should be done through the link provided at the conference website http://arcs08.inf.tu-dresden.de/. Papers should be submitted in pdf or postscript format. They should be formatted according to Springer LNCS style and not exceed 12 pages. *Workshop and Tutorial Proposals* Proposals for workshops and tutorials within the technical scope of the conference are solicited. Submissions should be done through email directly to the workshops and tutorials chair (Andreas Koch, koch(a)esa.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de). *Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: October 1, 2007 Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2007 Camera ready papers: December 3, 2007 *Organizing Committee* General Chairs: Christian Hochberger, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Rainer G. Spallek, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany PC Chairs: Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Andreas Koch, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany *Program Committee* Nader Bagherzadeh, University of California Irvine, USA Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany Mladen Berekovic, IMAP, Belgium and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Guillem Bernat, Rapita Systems and University of York, UK Arndt Bode, Technical University of Munich, Germany Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University, Belgium Jiannong Cao, The Hongkong Polytechnic University, China Francisco J Cazorla, UPC, Barcelona Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Werner Grass, University of Passau, Germany Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Wolfgang Karl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Spyros Lalis, University of Thessaly, Greece Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany Christian Müller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Burghardt Schallenberger, Siemens AG, München Pascal Sainrat, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France Hartmut Schmeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gerhard Tröster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mateo Valero, UPC, Barcelona Lucian Vintan, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Klaus Waldschmidt, University of Frankfurt, Germany Stephan Wong, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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[Fwd: [acf-members] CFP: 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] CFP: 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, 2008 Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:50:48 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> Antwort an: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acf-bod(a)cs.tcd.ie, David Hutchison <dh(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, "James P.G. Sterbenz" <jpgs(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, randy(a)cs.Berkeley.edu, Ken Calvert <calvert(a)netlab.uky.edu> CC: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> [Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would distribute the attached widely -- Simon] The 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Chicago, IL, USA June, 2008 http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2008/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing business, system, and technical complexity of computing systems, devices, networks and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans -- a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires significant scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the integration of these new technologies. The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-08) is to bring together researchers and practitioners to address all aspects of self-management in computing systems. In doing so, we will continue to develop and nurture a growing community that can work together to realize the vision of scalable self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin and Jacksonville. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing. In particular, this conference will focus on three areas: networking applications of autonomic technologies, semantic reasoning as used in autonomic devices, systems and applications, and research and/or reports on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Autonomic computing systems that exhibit autonomic characteristics, such as self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection, and self-governance. * Fundamental scientific aspects of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, and/or exploiting emergent behavior; methods to automate manual operations; implementation of new device, network and system functionality; behavior orchestration. * Software architectures for self-managing systems, based on appropriate supporting technologies such as Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social computing. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more elements of self-managing components, devices and systems. * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems and applications. * Self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, mobile device, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalized to other components. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, mechanisms for controlling behavior, and techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Applications of autonomic systems with respect to future Internet and other next generation architectures. * Experiences with autonomic systems or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, or experiences with large-scale deployments of self- managing systems or applications. * General management topics, such as minimization of power/energy consumption, modeling of communications entities (e.g., SLAs), negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, tie in with IT governance, and legacy system support. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-08 review process. Posters are not subject to any of these restrictions. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-08 conference web site, and should follow IEEE CS format - style files can be found at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/ proceedings/. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press, which will be distributed at the conference. Submissions will be accepted in electronic form through the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info, conference identifier 'ICAC-08') only. Questions may be addressed to the program chairs. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-08 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be addressed in sufficient detail in the main scientific program. ICAC-08 will feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/ exhibit chair. Please see the conference web site for more information. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper: 08:00 GMT, Dec 7, 2007 Workshop proposals: Mar 3, 2008 Demo/Exhibit proposals: Mar 3, 2008 Author notification: Feb 25, 2008 Final manuscripts: April 7, 2008 ORGANISATION General Chairs: Jose Fortes Univ. of Florida, USA Kumar Goswami HP Labs, USA Programme Chairs: John Strassner Motorola Labs, USA (john.strassner(a)motorola.com) Simon Dobson UCD Dublin, IE (simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie)

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[Fwd: [acf-members] CFP: Special issue of Computer Networks on Autonomic and self-organising systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] CFP: Special issue of Computer Networks on Autonomic and self-organising systems Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:50:46 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> Antwort an: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acf-bod(a)cs.tcd.ie, David Hutchison <dh(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk>, randy(a)cs.Berkeley.edu, Ken Calvert <calvert(a)netlab.uky.edu> CC: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> [Colleagues: We would be grateful if you would distribute the attached widely -- Simon] Computer Networks Journal ========================= Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Guest editors: John Strassner, Motorola US Hermann de Meer, Universitat Passau DE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin IE Context ======= The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of system ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, as well as threatening life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems - managing trade-offs between system aspects Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. Important dates =============== - Submissions: 14 December 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 4 February 2008 - Camera-ready copy due: 24 March 2008 - Tentative issue date: August 2008 Submission ========== Research contributions may be made through the Elsevier editorial manager, formatted according to the journal style. Details are available from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ journaldescription.cws_home/505606/description Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: john.strassner(a)motorola.com, demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] CFP: special issue on autonomic and self-organizing systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] CFP: special issue on autonomic and self-organizing systems Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:10:38 +0200 Von: Hermann de Meer <demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de> An: undisclosed-recipients: ; Dear colleague, please take this oportunity to publish into account! Please feel free to distribute this CFP further. Best Regards, Hermann de Meer --cut here---- Computer Networks Journal ========================= Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Guest editors: John Strassner, Motorola US Hermann de Meer, Universitat Passau DE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin IE Context ======= The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of system ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, as well as threatening life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems - managing trade-offs between system aspects Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. Important dates =============== - Submissions: 14 December 2007 - Notification of acceptance: 4 February 2008 - Camera-ready copy due: 24 March 2008 - Tentative issue date: August 2008 Submission ========== Research contributions may be made through the Elsevier editorial manager, formatted according to the journal style. Details are available from http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/ journaldescription.cws_home/505606/description Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: john.strassner(a)motorola.com, demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: IAMCOM 2008 - Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IAMCOM 2008 - Call For Papers Datum: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:17:47 +0200 Von: Kurt Geihs <geihs(a)UNI-KASSEL.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 ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS =============== IAMCOM 2008 Workshop on Intelligent Networking: Adaptation, Communication, and Reconfiguration January 10, 2008. Bangalore, India http://www.iamcom.org <http://www.iamcom.org/> Paper submission deadline: 10 October, 2007, Friday Midnight, CET Workshop co-Sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org <http://www.comsoc.org/>) CreateNet (www.create-net.it <http://www.create-net.it/>) [held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM conference COMSWARE 2008, with a large participation from industries and government labs] ******************************************************************* SCOPE ====== The topic of assured communications between the application end-points in a distributed embedded system is quite important for the military, automotive, aerospace, and E-Commerce domains. It synergizes three sub-areas of research: adaptation of system operations to the network resources & environment conditions, reliable communications between end-points in the presence of failures, and self-reconfigurations at various system levels for increased resilience. The topic has spurred the need for Intelligent Networking at various layers of the system architecture to support these critical functionalities. IAMCOM 2008 will thus offer a unique and focused forum for researchers from academia, government and industry to share ideas and disseminate new results in this important area.. ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Intelligent Networking has become popular in the context of distributed embedded systems for aerospace, automotive, military, E-commerce, and eco-surveillance applications. Unlike the telecom-centric networks of the 90's that had an inward focus on network signaling & control today's intelligent networks are designed from an application perspective. Here, networks could mean a set of collaborative data processing nodes that serve as application proxies ( e.g., airborne nodes in a police surveillance network). The goal of contemporary Intelligent Networking is to improve application-level reliability & performance, security, QoS assurance, and the like. The need for intelligent networking arises because the target application systems are too complex to be studied in isolation. A holistic approach to design that addresses both application and network, can result in performance gains. Often, mathematical models and/or closed-form representations of target application systems do not exist or are too unwieldy to allow offline analysis. For instance, network outages can have a profound impact on the application reliability in many military applications, but can be tolerated in certain commercial application domains. The mapping relationship between the network events and the application activities are deeply buried in the system operations, with no apparent mechanism for the system designers to track these cross-layer relationships. The complex nature of modern day embedded systems applications provides a new dimension to the concept of intelligent networking --- and hence opens a set of new research directions. This new dimension covers three aspects: adaptation to resources & environment, reliable communications between nodes, and reconfigurations at various system levels. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for the presentation of ongoing work in embedded systems control & management pertaining to the three pillars of adaptation, communication, and reconfiguration. Papers are solicited on the following topics: 1. QoS assurance architectures 2. Network state fusion, monitoring 3. Utility-based QoS adaptation 4. Vehicular network security 5. Capacity provisioning 6. Survivable links: restoration & routing 7. Dynamic resource allocations 8. Distributed management & control 9. Self-healing networks 10. Cross-layer approaches in system design 11. 'Control-Theoretic' approaches to performance management 12. Embedded systems applications --- aerospace, automotive, military & sensor networks 13. Latency-sensitive data streaming & fusion 14. Service-level specification & verification 15. Energy-aware wireless operations 16. QoS stability in wireless networks 17. MAC-layer optimizations in wireless networks 18. Incentive based QoS models for wireless networks 19. Reliable communications in vehicular networks: Emergency Response 20. GPS based location & tracking 21. Location-sensitive data fusion Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and through the IEEE Digital Library Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Full Papers due: October 5, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: November 5, 2007 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: November 30, 2007 Workshop Date: January 10, 2008 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS ==================== Kaliappa Ravindran, City University of New York, ravi(a)cs.ccny.cuny.edu <mailto:ravi@cs.ccny.cuny.edu> Andrew Macdonald, General Motors Research, andrew.macdonald(a)gm.com <mailto:andrew.macdonald@gm.com> HONORARY CHAIR ==================== L. M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, India, lalit(a)micro.iisc.ernet.in <mailto:lalit@micro.iisc.ernet.in> PROGRAM CHAIRS: ================ R.Chandramouli, Steven's Institute of Technology, USA Thomas Furhman, GM Research, USA S. Murugesan, Southern Cross University, Australia G. Manimaran, Iowa State University, USA Di Yeng, Florida International University, USA Walter Colitti, Vrijie Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Rainer Berbner, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Vijay Mann, IBM India Research Lab, India Sibabrata Ray, Google Inc., USA Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, USA Son T. Vuong, University of British Columbia, Canada Xiaoyun Zhu, Hewlett Packard, USA Olivier Festor, INRIA, France William Nace, AFOSR-AOARD, Japan M. Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University S. Srikanth, AU-KBC Research Center, India Pradip K. Das, Jadavpur University, India Detailed submission instructions are available at: http://www.iamcom.org/submission_instructions.htm ******************************************************************* -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs T. +49 561 804-6275 F. +49 561 804-6277 -- Univ. Kassel, FB 16, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, D-34121 Kassel -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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[Fwd: newsletter WWW2008 CALL FOR PAPERS - and upcoming deadlines]
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: newsletter WWW2008 CALL FOR PAPERS - and upcoming deadlines Datum: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:01:48 +0800 (HKT) Von: newsletter(a)www2008.org Antwort an: info(a)www2008.org An: newsletter(a)www2008.org ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Seventeenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) April 21 - 25, 2008, Beijing, China http://www2008.org ******************************************************************** WWW2008 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers may be submitted to the following tracks: * Browsers and User Interfaces * Data Mining * Internet Monetization * Mobility * Performance and Scalability * Rich Media * Search * Security and Privacy * Semantic / Data Web * Social Networks and Web 2.0 * Web Engineering * XML and Web Data In addition, the conference solicits original research papers to the following alternate tracks: * Industrial Practice and Experience * Technology for Developing Regions * WWW in China IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Refereed papers due: November 1, 2007 (11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time; no extensions will be granted) Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2008 (tentative) Conference dates: April 21 - 25, 2008 OTHER SUBMISSION DEADLINES -------------------------- **Workshops Proposals: October 1, 2007 ***** Tutorial Proposals: November 1, 2007 Developers Track: January 18, 2008 Panel Proposals: January 25, 2008 Posters: January 25, 2008 (estimated) Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in online proceedings published by the ACM Digital Library and the conference's web site. The Program Committee will select a small number of excellent papers for fast-track journal publication in the ACM Transactions on the Web. Authors of accepted papers will retain copyright to their work, but will be required to sign a copyright release form to IW3C2. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2008.org/. <http://www2008.org/> General queries regarding WWW2008 submissions can be sent to: submissions(a)www2008.org. The WWW2008 program will also include Tutorials and Workshops, Panels, a W3C track, a Developers track, Posters, and Exhibitions. See http://www2008.org for details. General Chairs: * Jinpeng Huai, Beihang University (China) * Robin Chen, AT&T Labs (USA) General Vice Chairs: * Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Microsoft Research Asia (China) * Yunhao Liu, HK University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) PROGRAM CHAIRS * Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia (China) * Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research (USA) * Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University (USA) ************************************************************ You may subscribe or unsubscribe (http://lists.www2008.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter) the WWW2008 Newsletter directly or send an email to info(a)www2008.org ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ newsletter mailing list Visit WWW2008 http://www2008.org

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