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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE CCNC 2009 - CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE CCNC 2009 - CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14 Datum: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:18:18 -0400 Von: John Buford <buford(a)samrg.org> Antwort an: buford(a)samrg.org An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu IEEE CCNC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14 IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2009 10 - 13 January 2009, Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 6th annual international conference - brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC 2009, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE CCNC's Technical Program in the following areas of consumer communications and networking: + Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics + Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks + Entertainment & Multimedia Networking + Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery + Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technolgies + Security for CE Communications For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: 14 July 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 _____________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for the following Special Sessions: Service-Oriented Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Digital Entertainment, Networked Virtual Environment and Creative Technology IPTV - Toward Seamless Infotainment Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Beyond GPS - Where Navigation meets Consumer Communications Challenges in Future Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Scalable Adaptive Multicast in P2P Overlays Wireless Technologies for High-Speed Video/Audio/Gaming Entertainment Networks Virtual Worlds Collaboration and Communication Multimedia Information Processing on Wireless Sensor Networks Advanced Home Networks Over P2P Overlays Special Session Papers Due: 31 July 2008 Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 _____________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for Short Papers, Tutorials, Demonstrations, and Technical Panels. Short Papers Due: 19 Sept 2008 Tutorials Due: 15 August 2008 Demonstrations Due: 12 September 2008 Technical Panels Due: 17 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 __________________________________________________________ Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Showcase your brand to the most influential engineering audience in consumer electronics. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 _________________________________________________________ Honorary Chair K. T. Lee, CTO Samsung Group, Korea General Co-Chairs Simon Gibbs and Alan Messer Samsung, USA Technical Program Chair John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA TPC Vice-Chairs Track: Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Track: Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Track: Entertainment and Multimedia Networking Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA Track: Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany Track: Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Security for CE Communications Chi-Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China Workshop Chair Kurt Tutschku, NICT, Japan Special Sessions Chair Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK Short Papers Chair Florence Kolberg, University of Strathclyde, UK Tutorial Chairs Dr. Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands Dr. V. Prasad, Delft U. of Technology Technology Applications Panels Chair Shoshana Loeb, Telcordia, USA Demonstration Chairs Andreas Heiner, Nokia, Finland Subir Saha, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] submission deadline extended, CFP: 2008 Int. Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), Dec 13~15 2008, Hainan Island, China
by Ming-Tuo Zhou 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ***************************************************************** submission deadline extended to July 15 2008 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), December 13th ~ 15th, 2008, Hainan Island, China. http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/WITS/ In conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2008), http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/ SCOPE & Topics =============== A number of wireless communications technologies have been developed in recent years to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications. This workshop covers the area of wireless communications technologies for ITS applications. It will bring together researchers to present new results and describe work in progress to reflect the latest advances in the state of the art in design, modeling, simulation, and applications of this area. The topics of the workshop cover, but not limited to, the following: * Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies Submission: =========================== Authors are invited to submit original papers: They must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings. All accepted papers in WITS-08 will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society(IEEE CS), included in IEEEXplore database and indexed by EI. Papers must be prepared with only PDF. Please use IEEE CS paper format (See website to download the template in MSWORD or LaTeX). Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra chage). Submissions must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, references and figures, with only PDF. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop. The submission should be done according to the guidelines on http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/. The extended versions of the accepted and presented selected papers will be published in one of the special issues below * Springer Journal of Cluster Computing (SCIE), Special Issue on "Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks" * Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), Special Issue on “Cognitive Radio Systems” Important Dates: ================ Extended Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Due: September 1, 2008 Workshop Date: December 13-15, 2008 Workshop Committee: ================== General Chair Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway General Co-Chair Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece TPC Chair Ming-Tuo Zhou, NICT (Japan), Singapore TPC Co-Chair Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] Personalized Networks (PerNets) cfp, within IEEE CCNC
by Paolo Bellavista 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) - http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ January 13, 2008 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library ============================================================ 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. Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet together onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located - be they local or remote. It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet. It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner. It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation. Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today. There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication network community in realizing a Personalized Network. Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc. They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context aware services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case. These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust. Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified: * Architectures and systems * End-to-end networking * Security and privacy * Operations, administration, management, and provisioning Scope of the submission We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network. * The architectural framework of personalized networks * Context awareness and support * Resource, service and context discovery * Self-organization and adaptation * Addressing and routing * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Security, privacy and accounting * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person centric applications are equally valued Why should you participate in this workshop? Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications. It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl General chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] Keynote Announcement - CFP: IEEE DANMS 2008 (co-located with Globecom 2008)
by Yangcheng Huang 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.) Keynote Announcement: "In-network Management: a shift in the management paradigm?" Dr. Marcus Brunner, NEC Laboratories Europe "Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking" Prof. Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Submission Deadline: 15 July (Submission URL: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6653&track=4693&) ====================================================== Call for Papers DANMS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Co-located with Globecom 2008, New Orleans, USA 30 November, 2008 http://www.danms.org The DANMS workshop series focuses on distributed and autonomous principles for network management and applications of those principles in network design. This year's workshop emphasizes Service Centric Network Management considering the impact on the system, across the whole information flow from service creation to deployment in the network. This workshop is looking for full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences with existing systems and industrial developments in the field of autonomous network management. Papers with a deep focus on a specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines are encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: Architecture and Systems Topics relating to Autonomic Networks * Cross-layer system architecture design * Middleware and O&M techniques for network management * Resource modeling approaches for network management * Peer-to-peer techniques for autonomic network management * Scalability issues in network management * Security aspects in network management Autonomic Techniques * Adaptive & context-based self-management in networks * Policy (refinement techniques, policy models) * Knowledge based techniques to support autonomics * Data management for real-time dynamic service provisioning * Real-time MIB engineering to provide cross-layer provisioning Aspects of Service Management * Use of semantics to enable service deployment and composition * Automated service composition and orchestration * Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers Case Studies in Existing & Emerging Networks * Lessons, shortcomings and real world experiences with existing network management systems, protocols and architectures. * Experiences with service deployment in challenged networks (ad-hoc, pervasive, sensor etc.) and the implications on the network management plane Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2008 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 September, 2008 Workshop Date: 30 November, 2008 Workshop Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada Rolf Stadler, KTH Sweden TPC Chairs: Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Organizing Team: Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Technical Program Committee: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni. of Evry Val d'Essonne, France Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica I+D, Spain Javier Baliosian, Uni. of the Republic, Uruguay Arosha K Bandara, Open University, UK Saleem Bhatti, Uni. of St Andrews, UK Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ericsson Ireland Research Monica Brockmeyer, Wayne State University, USA Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zoran Despotovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Simon Dobson, UCD, Ireland Susanne Engberg, Ericsson Research, Sweden Patrick Eugster, Purdue Uni., USA Alex Galis, University College London, UK Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Labs, UK Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA James Hong, POSTECH Korea Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS Germany Richard Mortier, Vipadia, UK Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Francoise Sailhan, LIFC Uni. of Franche Comté, France Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA Maarten van Steen, Vrije Uni., Netherlands Filip de Turck, Ghent University, Belgium Carlos Westphall, Federal Uni. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria Xiaoyun Zhu, Hetlett Packard Labs, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/aasn/ To be held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’2008), Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE, October 26-30, 2008. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - New sensor network applications - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 Submission Guidelines: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08) This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ingo J. Timm , Institute of Computer Science Information Systems and Simulation, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France. Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE CCNC Special Session on Virtual Worlds
by Krishna Dhara (Kishore) 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds" Part of 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference CCNC 2009, 10 - 13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ The conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Paper Deadline: July 31, 2008. ************** Call for Papers ************** Special Session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds combine 3D web technologies with social networking techniques to offer new models of user interactions, collaborative learning, information sharing, and present new business opportunities. Collaboration and communication in virtual worlds are key to the success of these models. Using advances from various studies on virtual reality environments, existing virtual worlds provide a rich environment for users to provide new and innovative end user services. These end user services depend on multiple users collaborating in shared spaces, interaction with other users and with other worlds, real time nature of user interactions in virtual environments, collaboration and communication tools in virtual environments, scalability, and security. The goal of this special session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds is to provide a forum for researchers, architects, and practitioners for discussing these and other related issues to collaboration and communication in virtual worlds and virtual environments. We solicit papers covering various topics that include (but not limited to) the following: * Sharing Spaces in VR environments * User Interactions in VR * Real-time or immediacy of interactions * Chat, voice, or video communication in virtual worlds * Collaboration tools and techniques in VR applications * Social networking in VR environments * Collaborative learning in Virtual Worlds * Consumer-business interactions * Enterprise collaboration in VWs * Scalability, security, and persistence of VR Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author Information on the CCNC web site. Important Dates: Papers submission: July 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2008 Camera-ready versions: Oct 10, 2008 Session Organizer: Krishna Kishore Dhara Avaya Labs Research 1N275, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd Lincroft, NJ, USA. dhara(a)research.avayalabs.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Thanos Vasilakos 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

============== ICAS 2009 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICAS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain General page: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html Call for Papers: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html Submission deadline: November 1, 2008 Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: <http://www.iariajournals.org> http://www.iariajournals.org Extended versions of selected papers will also be published in the Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems: <https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf> https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas. ICAS 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site): SYSAT: Advances in system automation AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral networks and services MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SO SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems KUI: Knowledge-based user interface ================= ICAS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, UK Mauricio Marin, Yahoo!, Chile ICAS Advisory Chairs Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece ================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs
by Chih-Yung Chang 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** Call For Papers Journal of Information Science and Engineering (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems Aim and Scope: -------------- With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the Vehicular Wireless Networks (V-Winet) and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems (V-ITS) have recently received much attention. V-Winets and V-ITS aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption with many potential applications. For instance, vehicular safety applications include automatic collision notification, heavy fog detection and notification, remote diagnostics, emergency management, and other assistances for safe driving. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile high speed Internet access, in-place traffic view, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communications and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications for V-Winet and V-ITS to provide timely information or Internet access to vehicles, drivers, and passengers. Consequently, V-Winet and V-ITS need to integrate existing networking technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC, 3G, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, Sensor networks, and ZigBee for easy, accurate, effective and simple communications among vehicles, users, and infrastructure networks. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects of V-Winet and V-ITS communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings: - Network Architecture of V-Winet/V-ITS - V-Winet/V-ITS Services and Applications - Cooperative Aspects of V-Winet/V-ITS - Availability and Scalability Issues in V-Winet/V-ITS - Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for V-Winet/V-ITS - Cross-layer Optimization Techniques for V-Winet/V-ITS - Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for V-Winet/V-ITS - Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Protocols - Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for V-Winet/V-ITS - Driving Safety and Related Applications and Services - Green Technologies and V-Winet/V-ITS Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the Guest Editors, Prof. Chih-Yung Chang, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw , or Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw, with clear indication that submission is for the Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Important Dates: ------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 31, 2009 Publication Date: May, 2010 (Tentative) Guest Editors --------------- Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA, cshen(a)mail.eecis.udel.edu Xuemin(Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Papers Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play
by Rauterberg, G.W.M. 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play at International Conference on Fun and Games Wednesday October 22, 2008 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/m.m.bekker/WorkshopSPG.htm Organizers Emilia Barakova, e.i.barakova(a)tue.nl Tilde Bekker, m.m.bekker(a)tue.nl Janienke Sturm, j.sturm(a)tue.nl Advancements in technology determine several trends in today's society that pose serious threats to social interaction. At present, more people interact through media and less in a face-to-face manner. Another trend is that people lead less active lifestyles. At the same time, new technologies provide novel entertainment and interaction opportunities. We aim to combine these trends and explore the opportunities that technology-driven physical play offers for enhancing and stimulating real social interaction (as opposed to virtual interaction through a computer). This can be beneficial for diverse reasons: For children to counter the trend of playing computer games and watching television on their own, for elderly to socialize more when making new contacts becomes more difficult and for autistic children because they particularly like technological toys. The main goal of the workshop is to share information and experiences among researchers in the area of social interaction through physical play. We invite position papers addressing social and physical issues including (but not restricted to) the following fields: - Social robotics - Design for diverse user groups, such as children and elderly - Social games - Creative toolkits - Exertion interfaces - Pervasive and head-up games - Embodied facilitation - Spatial and tangible interaction Paper contributions should be submitted by email to one of the organizers. Papers should be 4-6 pages in PDF format LNCS style. Contributions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes (with ISBN number), distributed at the workshop, and published on the workshop's web site. The organizing committee intends to organize a special issue in an international journal. Workshop participants are required to also register for the main conference. Program Committee Nadia Berthouze, University College London, UK Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK Berry Eggen, TU/e, The Netherlands Loe Feijs, TU/e, The Netherlands Newton Fernando, National University of Singapore Ole Sejer Iversen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Narcis Peres, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Matthias Rauterberg, TU/e, The Netherlands Ben Robins, University of Hertfordshire, UK Important dates September 1, 2008: Deadline paper submission September 22, 2008: Notification of acceptance September 29, 2008: Deadline final version October 22, 2008: Workshop **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Tccc] Deadline extended: Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008
by T. S. Eugene Ng 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Co-located with ICNP 2008 Orlando, Florida October 19, 2008 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08 ======================================================================= New extended deadlines: Paper registration: 5:00pm EDT, July 7, 2008 Paper submission: 5:00pm EDT, July 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 5, 2008 In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state. The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought. The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management Program Chairs: Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) Steering Committee: Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Labs) David Maltz (Microsoft Research) Richard Mortier (Vipadia) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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