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[Tccc] Pervasive 2009: Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals
by walex＠cs.toronto.edu 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals Pervasive 2009 The Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing Nara, Japan May 11-14, 2009 http://www.pervasive2009.org/workshop.shtml +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Pervasive 2009, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. This annual conference provides a premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing as it becomes increasingly integrated into our lives. --------------------------------- Call for Pervasive 2009 Workshops --------------------------------- The Pervasive 2009 Workshop Co-Chairs and Organizing Committee invite proposals for the workshop program of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Workshops provide a forum for discussing areas of special interest within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops afford participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of perspectives. The day-long workshops will be held prior to the main conference on Monday, May 11, 2009. For details of the main conference see: http://www.pervasive2009.org/ . Important Workshop Dates: ------------------------- - October 24, 2008: Workshop proposals deadline (23:59 EST) - November 17, 2008: Notification of acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals - November 24, 2008: Workshop calls posted online by the Co-Chairs - February 10, 2009: Workshop position papers deadline - March 1, 2009: Notification of acceptance/rejection of position papers Workshop Organization: ---------------------- Pervasive workshops are dynamic and intimate forums in which to explore and discuss topics in depth. We therefore encourage having an international team of organizers for a workshop who are from different institutions and represent a variety of perspectives. We aim for a balanced workshop program offering a diverse set of themes. Because of the unique opportunity for discussion this forum offers, we encourage workshop plans that emphasize interactive components, group activities, and discussion over those that focus on individual talks. Organizers should be active themselves in the field in which they propose a workshop. All listed organizers are expected to attend those workshops they are organizing; i.e., do not include a potential organizer who may not be present at the workshop. Any change to the workshop organization team must be submitted in writing at least ten days prior to the position paper deadline for individual workshops (January 31, 2009). No changes to the workshop organization team can be made after this date to ensure that potential participants submitting position papers to workshops are aware of the final organization team. Please feel free to discuss ideas for a workshop proposal by email with the workshop chairs prior to submission. Proposal Submission Process: ---------------------------- Please email your proposal to the Workshop Co-Chairs, Yasuyuki Sumi and Elaine M. Huang (pervasive09_workshops(a)ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp). Pre-Proposal Submission Inquiries: Please feel free to contact the Workshop Co-Chairs, Yasuyuki Sumi and Elaine M. Huang, if you would like to discuss a workshop proposal (email: pervasive09_workshops(a)ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp). We solicit workshops in all areas related to Pervasive Computing. In particular we would like to encourage workshops focused on new and emerging research directions, novel and highly innovative themes, real-world topics including industrial and medical issues, system or interaction topics and interdisciplinary themes. Proposal Content: ----------------- 1. A cover page including: - Workshop title - Name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address for each organizer - Identification of the primary contact person(s) 2. Background and Motivation: What is the overall topic of the workshop? Why is this topic of particular interest at this time? If the workshop has been organized in the past at Pervasive or other conferences, please give details of previous instances (venue, URL) and describe why it should be held again and how it will extend and build upon previous ones. 3. Objectives: What are the objectives that the workshop aims to achieve? Objectives may include but are not limited to (a) targeting a predefined set of focus questions, (b) presenting alternate views on a particular issue that is of concern to the Pervasive Computing community and attempting to resolve the issue, (c) identifying priorities for new directions of research, and/or (d) initiating the appropriate collaborations and building community around a theme of interest. If you have a plan to produce a book or a journal special issue as a result of your workshop, please indicate these plans. 4. Format: Give a description of the proposed workshop format, including the target number of participants, planned activities (such as introductions, invited talks, breakout group activities, demos, general discussion), as well as how these activities address the workshop objectives. Preference will be given to proposals for activities designed to fuel discussion and interaction among participants; workshops consisting solely of paper presentations are discouraged. Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times. Design your schedule for a length of 6 hours (full-day workshop) with a lunch break and two coffee breaks. 5. Soliciting Submissions: Indicate how you plan to attract submissions and/or participants. Tactics may include creating a workshop web page, circulating a call to relevant mailing lists, and publicizing your workshop at other relevant venues. 6. Selecting Participants: Indicate how you plan to select participants and contributions to the workshop. Describe the relevant criteria and/or review process that will be used to select position papers. Indicate if you are planning to have a program committee to help with the organization/review process or whether reviewing and selection will be conducted solely by the organizers. 7. Organizers: Give short descriptions of each of the organizers' background and interests related to pervasive computing and the specific workshop topic. Workshop Selection: ------------------- Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed by the Co-Chairs and a committee of experts based on the criteria described above. We aim to select a diverse set of workshops and avoid having multiple workshops on overlapping themes. Organizers of selected workshops will be asked to produce a Call for Position Papers to describe the workshop to potential participants and solicit submissions. Workshop Support: ----------------- The Pervasive 2009 conference will support the workshops in the following ways: - Announce accepted workshops via the Pervasive 2009 email distribution list - Publicize abstracts of workshops on the Pervasive 2009 Web site and point to individual workshop URLs - Provide private rooms and A/V equipment for each workshop Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Yasuyuki Sumi (University of Kyoto, Japan) Elaine M. Huang (Motorola Labs, USA) Email: pervasive09_workshops(a)ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp ---------------- Call for Papers ---------------- Papers and notes due October 17, 2008, 5pm (PST) This annual conference provides a premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing as it integrates into our lives. Pervasive 2009 will include a highly selective single-track program for technical papers describing original and unpublished research advancing the state of the art in mobile and pervasive computing, including but not limited to the following topics: * Technologies and devices for pervasive computing * Software aspects including middleware and operating systems for pervasive computing * Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing systems * Applications of pervasive computing technologies * Interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing The conference will be accepting both full (18 page LNCS) and more succinct shorter 'Notes' (up to 8 LNCS page papers). All papers will be selected on their individual merit based on a peer review by the TPC and external expert reviewers. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. See author guidelines for more information: http://pervasive2009.org/submission.shtml Note that papers should not have been previously published or be concurrently under submission for publication for any other conference, journal,workshop or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI number. Critical Dates * October 17, 2008, 5pm (PST) Full Papers and Notes due * December 14, 2008 Notifications * February 14, 2009 Camera Ready due * May 11, 2009 Conference For more information, contact: Conference Co-Chairs * Hide Tokuda, Keio University and Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig Program Co-Chairs * A.J. Brush, Microsoft Research, Adrian Friday, Lancaster University and Yoshito Tobe, Tokio Denki University Organising committee * Jakob Bardram, IT University of Copenhagen * Louise Barkhuus, University of California, San Diego * Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge * Barry Brown, University of California, San Diego * Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College * Sunny Consolvo, Intel Research * Alois Ferscha, University of Linz * Patrik Floréen, University of Helsinki * Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University * Gillian Hayes, University of California, Irvine * Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research * Elaine Huang, Motorola Labs * Antonio Krüger, University of Münster * Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau * Masateru Minami, University of Tokyo * Jin Nakazawa, Keio University * Shwetak Patel, University of Washington * Matthai Philipose, Intel Research * Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin * Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt * Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen * James Scott, Microsoft Research * Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research * Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University * Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University * Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt * Woontack Woo, GIST _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CoNGN 2008 - In Conj. with CollaborateCom 2008, November 2008 - Orlando, Florida
by Abdelmounaam Rezgui 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Collaboration and Cognition in Next Generation Networks (CoNGN'2008) www.criticalnet.org/congn2008 In conjunction with CollaborateCom'2008 Orlando, Florida, November, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The rapid developments in the Internet and emerging alternative network protocol stacks promise unprecedented levels of sharing of information, computing and communication resources through distributed collaborations of diverse network elements. Collaborative networking comprises complex systems with many tunable interdependent components, parameters and network performance objectives. To realize their potential, collaborative networks need to provide effective and efficient support for ubiquitous integration of heterogeneous technologies such as mobile devices and infrastructures, web services, grid computing systems, various operating environments, and diverse COTS products. In addition, research is needed to provide network cognition, which entails learning and reasoning by the diverse network elements to dynamically select the ideal network operating state and adapt to varying network and group contexts in order to optimize end-to-end performance of the network as a whole. Moreover, networking aspects such as autonomicity, security, trust, management, quality-of-service support and localization need to be cognizant of group dynamics. Aparently, numerous challenges face the realization of collaborative networking. These challenges include balancing the competing goals of collaboration, autonomy and security; allowing mobile users and groups to seamlessly communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks and enjoy multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different administrative domains; developing new APIs to enable applications to detect available access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location, context, and quality-of-service; and carefully optimizing network parameters across the entire protocol stack. The key goal of this workshop is to foster active interactions among diverse researchers and practitioners, and generate added momentum towards research addressing collaborative and cognitive networking aspects. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: Architectural principles for decentralized information, computing and communication resource sharing Moving networks and dynamic coalition environments Collaboration-aware network management Peer-to-peer collaborative networking Bio-inspired collaborative networking Cognitive and autonomic network protocols and services Collaborative sensor-actuator networks Policy-based management of collaborative networks Coopererative, un-cooperative, and anti-cooperative behavior characterization, identification, modeling, and impact analysis Context modelling and management in collaborative networks Network monitors, API and network discovery services Security, trust, and privacy models, frameworks, architectures, and systems for collaborative networks Security, dependability, privacy, QoS, performance, and energy awareness and trade-offs Middleware for large-scale, distributed, multi-modal collaboration Admission, delegation, accountability, and information flow control in collaborative networks Ubiquitous communication support for social networking Web services and grid technologies for supporting multidomain collaborative applications Testbeds and experimental frameworks for collaboration and cognition in network prtocol stacks General Co-Chairs • Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA • Silvia Geordano, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Program Chairs • Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA • Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy • M. Tamer Refaei, NIST, USA • Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Publicity Chairs • James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA • Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech, USA Panel Chair • Wael AbdelMageed, University of Maryland, USA Technical Program Committee Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Farag Azzedine, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Luiz DaSilva, Virginia Tech, USA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland David Simplot-Ryle, University of Lille 1, France Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Robin Sommer, ICSI/LBNL, USA Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Mohamed Younis,University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via email to CoNGN-submission(a)criticalnet.org. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper.The workshop will adhere to the page limit, duplicate paper policy, and formatting guidelines of CollaborateCom'2008. These guidelines can be found at http://www.collaboratecom.org/information/sub_guidelines.php The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings, following the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) format. For more information visit the workshop website. Important Dates Paper Submission: September 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: October 13, 2008 Camera Ready Due: October 20, 2008 Workshop Date: November 13, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [acf-members] Call for papers ICAC 2009]
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] Call for papers ICAC 2009 Datum: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:13:51 +0100 Von: David Lewis <dave.e.lewis(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie Organisation: Trinity College Dublin An: <acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie> The 6th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Barcelona, Spain, June 15–19, 2009 http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers 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 scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. 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-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 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 properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also 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. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. 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 Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE José Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Kumar Goswami HP Labs, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, HP Labs, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, FL Intl. Univ., US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose Lazono, Telefonica, ES (Pending) HOT TOPICS CHAIR TBD DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org <http://www.autonomic-conference.org> E-mail: icac(a)autonomic-conference.org <mailto:icac@autonomic-conference.org> _______________________________________________ acf-members mailing list acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie https://lists.cs.tcd.ie/mailman/listinfo/acf-members

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP MTAP Special Issue on Massively Multiuser Online Gaming Systems and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CFP MTAP Special Issue on Massively Multiuser Online Gaming Systems and Applications Datum: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:33:38 -0400 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> Antwort an: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *Call for Papers* *Massively Multiuser Online Gaming Systems and Applications* *Special Issue of* *Springer�s Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)* *Guest Editors: *Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Massively Multiuser Online Games (MMOG) are now widely used not only for gaming, but also for socializing, business and commerce, experimentation, and many other practical purposes. One could argue that MMOGs are the �killer app� that can bring Virtual Reality into the realm of eSociety, creating an environment with millions of people taking part in various activities and daily life, but electronically. This is evident from the fact that real companies are opening �virtual branches� in these online gaming platforms, such as clothing manufacturers, IBM, and CNN, to name a few companies present in Second Life. Virtual currencies such as Second Life�s Linden (or L$) are already being exchanged for real-world money, as are virtual items and virtual properties that are sold for real money. Massive numbers of users spend their time with their fellow players at online games like EverQuest, World of Warcraft, and Second Life. World of Warcraft, for example, has over ten million (10,000,000) users with a peak of over 500,000 players interacting at a given time in the digital world. There is no doubt that MMOGs have a great potential to become the corner stone of an eSociety platform bringing the massiveness of the real society into the digital realm. This special issue will cover enabling technologies and systems for MMOGs, as well as applications of MMOGs outside of gaming. The focus will be mostly on the �massive� aspect of games, but high-quality papers in real-time interactive multiuser games (albeit not massive) will also be considered if they address issues that can benefit massive games too. Hence, topics include, but are not limited to: * Networking support for massive number of players * Networked games (non-massive) * P2P architectures for better scalability * Zoning techniques, Area of Interest Management, and seamless player movement * Application-Layer Multicasting for massive user support * Performance evaluation and traffic/player pattern measurements * Audio/video conferencing in games * Latency compensation techniques * Content adaptation for players on heterogeneous receivers * Cheating: detection, avoidance, and repair * Multiuser mobile games * Case studies about applications of gaming in other disciplines such as business, pedagogy, biology, psychology, etc. Only papers that have not been published and/or submitted elsewhere will be considered. Exception will be made for previously-published high-quality conference/workshop papers, as long as they have been substantially extended in terms of technical content and evaluation. Papers should be no more than 20 pages, including figures and tables, formatted according to MTAP guidelines, please see: http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40109-70-35538244- 0,00.html PDF submissions must be emailed directly to BOTH the guest editors at shervin(a)discover.uottawa.ca <mailto:shervin@discover.uottawa.ca> and claypool(a)cs.wpi.edu <mailto:claypool@cs.wpi.edu> before the submission deadline below. If the submission is an extended version of a previously-published conference paper, authors must also include explanation of what parts have been extended. Please check the CFP website for possible updates and/or changes http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~shervin/mmogsi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Important Dates* Manuscript Submission January 15^th 2009 Notification of Decision February 15^th 2009 Final Papers due March 15^th 2009 Tentative Publication date before end of 2009

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[Tccc] [COMPLEX'2009] CFP JOSED 2009 Shanghai in February
by Matthias R. Brust 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Call for Papers First International Workshop on Job and Service Delegation in Complex Networks (JOSED'2009) held in conjunction with The First International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (COMPLEX'2009) February 26, 2009 - Shanghai, China http://josed.org/ <http://josed.org/%C2%A0> Theme ---------- Job and service delegation are well-known areas of interest in organizational fields such as task scheduling and workflow management. However, delegation models in these areas suffer from incomplete understanding, because research in such fields has generally dealt with relatively simple network settings. As we revisit Conway's Law, we find evidence of important interplays between communication, organization and product design structures. The possible combination of several networks into a single complex network brings new cross-cutting concerns. Therefore, research issues and solutions may be gathered and tried from diverse fields such as ad hoc networks, workflow management, artificial intelligence, collaborative software development, CSCW, etc. This workshop provides a forum for exchanging problems, methods, models, and insights about delegation in complex networks. It aims at bringing together researchers in the areas of social networks, communication networks and product design in search for common understanding of the subject of delegation in complex networks. Original papers addressing applications, scenarios, models, methods, and architecture are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Scenarios and applications for labor markets, people migration, collaborative software development, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, grid computing (machine-performed), etc. -Management of delegation in complex network systems -Workflow management systems for complex networks -Dependency structure matrix (DSM) -Network organisations, organization of systems, Conway Law -Delegation models based on incentives/financing (pay-for-performance and cooperation) -Characteristics of complex networks that affect job and service delegation -Problems such as race-conditions, decision under uncertainty, resource allocation -Network clustering, peer-to-peer-approaches (p2p), self-organization -Network metrics for delegation -Delegation optimization -Graph construction models (geometric random graph, unit disk, continuum percolation, etc.) -Information exchange approaches -Computation for decision making (Peer-selection, Breakdown of Jobs and Services) -Decomposition and composition of services -Network state fusion, data-fusion and data-aggregation -Models and algorithms for fault-tolerant networks -Ubiquitous communication support for delegate networking -Services and algorithms that support delegating -Searching and navigating in complex delegation networks -Localized, distributed and centralized algorithm -Topology control -Distributed architectures for delegation (publish-subscribe, pipeline, blackboard, representational state transfer, etc) -Network clustering, peer-to-peer-approaches (p2p), self-organization -Patterns of delegation -Methods of artificial intelligent related to delegation networks -Overlay networks -Agent-based approaches for delegation We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit their original contributions to JOSED'09. Important Dates ----------------------- Submission deadline: 22.11.2008 Acceptance notification: 16.12.2008 Camera-ready paper: 30.12.2008 Workshop: 26.02.2009 Reviewing Process --------------------------- All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members referee the papers and hold a TPC meeting to determine the set of accepted papers. Indexing ------------ The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. The papers will be published as a part of the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) series of Springer and included into the main conference proceedings. Submission Guidelines --------------------------------- Authors are asked to submit PDF files of their full paper (all fonts should be embedded into the PDF file). Papers should not exceed 10 pages in LNICST format. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures (http://www.complex-sys.org/ ). Finally, in order to submit your paper use this link (Paper Submission for JOSED <http://www.icst.org:8080/cocus/login/loadConferenceDetails.do?id=335> ). Program Chairs ---------------------- Matthias R. Brust, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Christian M. Adriano, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Carlos H.C. Ribeiro, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Program Committee Members ------------------------------------------- Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn, Germany Steffen Rothkugel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Teresa L. Larkin, American University, USA Luc Hogie, Institut National de Recherches en Informatique et Automatique, France Carlos H.Q. Forster, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Brazil Daniel Görgen, Philips Research Eindhoven, Netherlands Kamalavasan Srinivasan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Regina B. Araujo, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil Jaruwan Mesit, University of Central Florida, USA Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Roberto Silveira Silva Filho, University of California at Irvine, USA Adrian Andronache, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Abeer Hamdy Bashta, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt -- Matthias R. Brust Computer Science Division Technological Institute of Aeronautics Brazil Mobile: (0055) 12 97398780 MSN: matthias.brust(a)gmail.com Skype: matthias.r.brust _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [ewsn09] EWSN'09 submission deadline extended to September 24th]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ewsn09] EWSN'09 submission deadline extended to September 24th Datum: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:14:19 -0500 Von: Chenyang Lu <lu(a)cse.wustl.edu> An: <ewsn09(a)cse.wustl.edu> Please note the submission deadline of EWSN'09 has been extended to ***September 24th***. --Chenyang Lu (EWSN'09 Publicity Co-Chair) ============================================================================ Call for Papers The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09) February 11th-13th, Cork, Ireland http://www.ewsn.org/ ============================================================================ EWSN is acknowledged as one of the most competitive and well-established international conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It attracts papers of the highest quality from researchers around the globe, emphasizing work that involves inter-disciplinary collaboration. EWSN is consistently well-attended, with delegates that reflect a healthy mix of university academics and industry representatives, that are drawn from all the major centers of WSN research activity and that span all the main continents. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experiences and backgrounds, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. Submissions describing original, previously unpublished research results, are sought. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN Hardware: transceiver concepts, antenna design, system integration and manufacturing, battery technology and energy harvesting; * Communication Protocols: MAC and link layer issues, radio resource assignment, routing and transport protocols, topology control protocols, gateways to Internet and other networks, 6LoWPAN; * Algorithms and Protocols: localization techniques and protocols, performance control, time synchronization and related protocols, object tracking; * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions: concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor networks, high-level programming abstractions; * Middleware and Service Infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, network management, group communication, QoS support, integrating WSNs in existing middleware architectures; * Information Processing: storage, querying, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection; * Practical Models and Algorithms: resource consumption, network performance, network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment, mobility models; * Security and Resilience: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering, failure resilience and fault isolation, robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware; * Novel Applications: application requirements, experiences with real-world applications, management of (large-scale) sensor networks; * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within testbeds, debugging and testing, experimental validation/refutation of simulation results. Chairs Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Important Dates, Full Papers Submission: Sept 24th 2008 Notification: Nov 10th 2008 Camera-ready: Nov 24th 2008 Full Papers (no more than 16 pages): This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. Posters and Demos (no more than 2 pages): The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. Submission guidelines and further information is available at http://www.ewsn.org. The organizers can be contacted at ewsn09-chairs(a)cs.ucc.ie. _______________________________________________ ewsn09 mailing list ewsn09(a)mail.cse.wustl.edu http://mail.cse.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/ewsn09

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SIMUTools'09: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SIMUTools'09: Call for papers Datum: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:01:45 +0200 Von: Claudio Cicconetti <c.cicconetti(a)iet.unipi.it> Organisation: University of Pisa An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ++++ SIMUTools 2009 ++++ Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques March 2-6, 2009 - Rome (Italy) http://www.simutools.org ++ Sponsored by ICST/CREATE-NET ++ In technical cooperation with ACM SIGSIM, SIGMETRICS, SCS, INRIA ++ Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 ++ SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices. -- TOPICS -- The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are not limited to: ** Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event, Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation interoperability techniques, etc. ** Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc. The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks, computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.) * Mobility models * Overlay networks * Network traffic modeling and generation * Topology generation * Quality of service * Networked applications and new networking paradigms * Energy-efficient computing * Distributed systems * Operating systems * Interconnection networks * Fault tolerant systems * Embedded and real time systems * Logistics * Security and emergency response * Health care * Transportation * Manufacturing * Education and training * Environmental and biological systems * Social networks * Public systems -- SUBMISSION -- Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through the Easychair conference management system, according to the indications given on this page: * http://www.simutools.org/2009/Publication/SubmissionGuideLines Regular papers should be 7 to 10 pages. Work-in-Progress papers, describing ongoing work, should be 4 to 6 pages. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be considered for publication, after a peer-review process. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. -- SPONSORSHIP -- The event is organized by ICST in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Groups on computer/communication system performance (SIGMETRICS) and Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, and they will be indexed by EI and ISI. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International. -- AWARDS -- A Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. -- CALL FOR POSTER SESSION -- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster(a)simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 8, 2008. -- DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER -- ** RICHARD STALLMAN launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. -- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -- ** DAVID NICOL University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliate Professor, Department of Computer Science Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory ** FRANCESCO QUAGLIA - Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza, Italy Associate Professor, School of Engineering -- WORKSHOPS -- * WNS3 - Mar 2, 2009 1st International Workshop on NS-3 Web site coming soon (check updates on www.simutools.org) * SCENES 2009 - Mar 2, 2009 1st International Workshop on SCEnarios for Network Evaluation Studies Web site coming soon (check updates on www.simutools.org) * TEMACS 2009 - Mar 2, 2009 1st International Workshop on Workshop on Traffic Engineering, Modelling, Analysis, Control and Simulation http://www.temacs.org/ * Omnet++ - Mar 6, 2009 2nd International Workshop on OMNeT++ http://www.omnet-workshop.org/ * QoSim - Mar 6, 2009 2nd International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet http://www.qosim.org/ -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Submission deadline: October 19, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan 2, 2009 Camera ready: Jan 11, 2009 Conference: March 3-5, 2009 -- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS -- * Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa * Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University -- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE -- * Andrea Bacioccola - Nokia, Helsinki, Finland * Valmir Carneiro Barbosa - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil * Fernando Barros - University of Coimbra, Portugal * Razvan Beuran - NICT/JAIST, Japan * Luciano Bononi - University of Bologna, Italy * Jean-Pierre Briot - LIP6, Paris, France * Tracy Camp - Colorado School of Mines, USA * Jiannong Cao - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong * Franck Cappello - INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France * Carlos Christoffersen - Lakehead University, Canada * Gianfranco Ciardo - University of California at Riverside, USA * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy * Lorenzo Donatiello - University of Bologna, Italy * Bernard Espinasse - LSIS, Marseille, France * Richard Fujimoto - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Jean-Marie Garcia - QoS Design, France * Javier Garcia Villalba - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Norbert Giambiasi - LSIS, Marseille, France * Tom Henderson - Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA * Dohy Hong - N2NSoft, France * Polly Huang - National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Tania Jimenez - University of Avignon, France * Helen Karatza - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ernesto Kofman - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina * Pierre L'Ecuyer - University of Montreal, Canada * Michael Liljenstam - Ericsson, Sweden * Zhen Liu - IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Chung-Horng Lung - Carleton University, Canada * Benjamin Melamed - Rutger Business School, USA * Enzo Mingozzi - University of Pisa, Italy * Sandor Molnar - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Pieter Mosterman - Mathworks, USA * Krzysztof Pawlikowski - University of Canterbury, New Zealand * Ramon Puigjaner - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain * Francesco Quaglia - Univesity of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy * Martin Quinson - University Henry Poincare' & Loria, Nancy, France * George Riley - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Herb Schwetman - Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA * Robert Szabo - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Georgios Theodoropoulos - University of Birmingham, UK * Dietmar Tutsch - Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany * Stefan Valentin - University of Paderborn, Germany * Jean-Marc Vincent - ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France * You-Chiun Wang - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan * Bernard Zeigler - Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA -- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -- Steering Chair * Imrich Chlamtach, Create-Net Steering Co-chair * John Heath, University of Southern Maine General Chairs * Olivier Dalle, INRIA/University of Nice * Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University Local Chair * Andrea D'Ambrogio, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Publicity Chairs * Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy (Europe) * Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Asia/Pacific) * Rodrigo Castro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (America) Publication Chair * Frederic Mallet , INRIA/University of Nice Organizing Chair * Melissa Ezell, ICST Financial Chair * Karen Decker, ICST Web Chair * Juan-Carlos Maureira, INRIA -- CONTACTS -- general_chairs(a)simutools.org Questions to General Chairs (organization issues) program_chairs(a)simutools.org Questions to Programme Chairs (submission, content, ...) proceedings(a)simutools.org Questions about publication and proceedings industry(a)simutools.org Questions about industry track posters(a)simutools.org Use this to submit posters workshop(a)simutools.org Use this to submit a new workshop proposal exhibits(a)simutools.org Use this to participate to the exhibition & demos sessions simutools(a)simutools.org Anything else about simutools http://www.simutools.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WCMC SI all for Papers: Wireless Monitoring and Control]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WCMC SI all for Papers: Wireless Monitoring and Control Datum: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:16:08 +0800 Von: Prof. Jiming Chen <jmchen(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <146563590807102359w57bf29ffgf3b6087eabece36e(a)mail.gmail.com> > http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119755384/HTMLSTART > > WCMC SI all for Papers > Call for Papers: Wireless Monitoring and Control > > 10.1002/wcm.641 About DOI<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/doiinfo.html> > > Article Text > > The rapid development of wireless technology plays extremely important > roles in monitoring and control related applications nowadays. This special > issue aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions of wireless > monitoring, control, actuator coordination as well as their co-designs. > > In recent years, the demand for wireless communications in many monitoring > and control applications has grown tremendously, such as military, > aerospace, industrial, commercial, environmental, and health monitoring, > etc. Some new technologies like Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Mobile Robots, and Bluetooth > have already made significant contribution to data acquisition. As the same > time, they arise some new challenges to guarantee a highly reliable, > accurate, and fault-tolerant process. It is a critical issue to develop > innovative approaches to deal with multi-variable, multi-space problem > domains (detection, identification, tracking, data fusion, > energy-efficiency, and fault-tolerant framework) as well as practical > implementation in wireless monitoring and control application. > > The purpose of the special issue is to focus on the novel ways by which > monitoring, detection, identification, coordination and control schemes are > applied in wireless monitoring and control applications. Specific areas of > interest include, but are not limited to: Emerging wireless technology > for monitoring and control; Data fusion in monitoring and control; Cooperative > signal and information processing in wireless monitoring and control; Fault > (Event)-detection, identification and tracking; Network coverage > algorithm for wireless monitoring; Power and topology control in > wireless networks; Closed-loop framework for wireless monitoring and > control; Protocols for wireless monitoring, coordination and control; Integration > of monitoring and control for wireless networks; Controller design for > wireless monitoring network based system. Developments and novel > applications for wireless monitoring and control; Mobile Robots for > monitoring and control etc. > > If the file is larger than 1MB, the authors are encouraged to use WINZIP. > Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: > http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html > . > > *Submission Details* > > Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered for this > Special Issue. If the paper has been published at a conference, the > submitted journal version should be significantly extended. In this case, > authors should submit a short summary document explaining the enhancements > made in the journal version. The manuscripts must be prepared in English. > See instructions on the preparation and submission of manuscripts at the > journal's website: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/wirelesscomms > > The journal version must be submitted via the online submission system: > http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm > > Please ensure you correctly select/enter the following details: > > Manuscript Type: *Special Issue Paper* > > Special Issue: *Yes* > > Special Issue Information: *Wireless Monitoring and Control* > > Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short > abstract; a complete list of authors and their affiliations; a contact > person for correspondence; postal and e-mail addresses of the Authors. > > *Important Dates* > > Submission deadline: 1st December 2008 Notification of acceptance: 1stMarch 2009 Submission > of final version: 15th April 2009 > > *Guest Editors* > > *Yang Xiao*, The University of Alabama, USA *Youxian Sun*, Zhejiang > University, China E-mail: yangxiao(a)ieee.org E-mail: yxsun(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn > *Julia Deng*, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA *Jiming Chen*, Zhejiang > University, China E-mail: hdeng(a)i-a-i.com E-mail: jmchen(a)ieee.org > > -- > =============== > Dr. Jiming Chen, Associate Professor > Dept. of Control, Zhejiang University > Zheda Road 38#, Hangzhou, P.R.China, 310027 > Phone: (86) 571-87953762 > Fax: (86) 571-87951879 > Email: jmchen(a)ieee.org > http://www.sensornet.cn/ > =============== > > _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: ITNG 2009: Special Track: Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly People
by Kurschl Werner 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

6th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations ITNG 2009 April 27-29, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.itng.info/ <http://www.itng.info/> Call for Papers Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly People Theme The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) for Elderly People track on ITNG 2009 is intended to provide a high-quality forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest theoretical and practical work in this rapidly-changing area.You are invited to submit a paper for the special session on Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), including, but not limited to the following topics: * Case studies / use cases / scenarios / application domainsos / application domains * Requirements of WSN for ambient assisted living for elderly people and/or health care * Business models for wireless sensor network applications * Sensor hardware * SupporSupporting technologies for elderly people * Middleware for wireless sensor network * Reference architectures * Standards (hardware/software/healthcare, etc.) * Concepts and tools for building wireless sensor network applications * Development models * Code generation for wireless sensor network platforms * Model-driven architectures and development * Data fusion and classification as well as context recognition * Tracking and localization of objects and individuals * Remote medical monitoring * Security and privacy issues * Performance and reliability issues * Deployment and maintenance * Energy and efficiency * Time and synchronization * Data acquisition models and routing Paper Submission Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Electronic submission in PDF or MS Word format are required. Papers must represent high quality and previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Interested authors should submit a 6-page summary of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format. Your submission should include the author names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the email addresses of the authors. For formatting and submission instructions, please refer tohttp://www.itng.info/Submission.htm <http://www.itng.info/Submission.htm> . Evaluation Process Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Per ITNG policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society and available on the IEEE digital library. Deadlines Submission Deadline: November 7, 2008 Author Notification: December 19, 2008 Camera Ready Paper Due (6 pages): January 11, 2009 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Cost290] CFP: WONS 2009 (submission deadline October 2nd, 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] CFP: WONS 2009 (submission deadline October 2nd, 2008) Datum: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:33:58 +0200 Von: Gaia Maselli <maselli(a)di.uniroma1.it> Antwort an: maselli(a)di.uniroma1.it An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP/IEEE WONS 2009 The Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (IEEE sponsorship pending) February 2-4, 2009. Snowbird, Utah, USA http://wons09.cs.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ Scope of the conference ----------------------- As more and more users become increasingly dependent on wireless and mobile communications, it is necessary to secure a reliable and dependable technology support for "on-demand" services through any of the wireless architectures that have been in development recently, such as mesh networks, WiMAX, WiFi, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, etc. However, there are serious challenges to overcome, such as the integration of infrastructure-based and ad hoc networks, robust algorithms for self-organizing, reconfigurable wireless networks, on-demand service models and their provision in a highly-volatile interconnection environment, and smooth interoperability of architectures. WONS, now in its sixth edition, has established itself as a high-quality forum to address these challenges in the context of a workshop that is rich in intense interactions and based on innovative contributions by experts in the field. This announcement solicits original submissions of high-quality research papers on "wireless on demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modeling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models, practical implementations, service level aspects and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to wireless ad hoc networks, mesh networks, vehicular networks and sensor networks comprise, but are not limited to: * Architecture and Design * Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation * Modeling * Internet integration * Social and economic aspects * Pervasive / ubiquitous computing * Localization and mobility management * Security * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Applications and Service Support * Data dissemination and Peer-to-Peer systems * Middleware aspects * Self-X and network management Manuscript submission --------------------- Submitted papers should not have been published before or they should not be currently under review at another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column full (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) in PDF format. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Short papers should present future research directions, ongoing work, visionary and innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper if accepted. Conference proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore library. Further submission instructions will be published on the conference web site. Important Dates --------------- Full Paper Submission: October 2nd, 2008 Acceptance notification: November 17th, 2008 Camera-ready due: December 7th, 2008 Organization - Executive Committee ---------------------------------- General Chair Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Technical Program Co-Chairs Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Publicity and Web-Chairs Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Dae-Ki Cho (UCLA Network Research Lab) Gaia Maselli (Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza") Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, Chair (University of Trento) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Technical Program Committee [to be completed] Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech) Eitan Altman (INRIA) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma, Tor Vergata) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG Laboratory) Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Azadeh Faridi (Pompeu-Farba University in Barcelona) Jorge Garcia (UPC, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Silvia Giordano (SUPSI of Lugano) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento) Martin Haenggi (Notre Dame) Hannes Hartenstein (University of Karlsruhe) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom) Pietro Michiardi (Institute Eurecom) Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe) _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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