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[Fwd: IEEE ICC 2010 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

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[Fwd: [ISCC] PerNets 2010 cfp (within IEEE CCNC): paper submission deadline is August 23, 2009]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] PerNets 2010 cfp (within IEEE CCNC): paper submission deadline is August 23, 2009 Datum: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:55:43 +0200 Von: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it> An: iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp ************************************************************************************* Fourth International Workshop on Personalized Networks *PerNets 2010 *to be held in conjunction with The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2010) January 9-12, 2010 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ ************************************************************************************* Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library Paper submission via EDAS (please read the submission instructions below first) CES http://www.cesweb.org/ will be held in Las Vegas during the same period. Free Registration is open till 1st October 2009. ************************************************************************************** _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. _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. * Architectural framework of personalized networks * Personalized Network Applications * Personal Communications in the next generation Internet * Personal Networks for rural areas * Context Awareness * 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 anonymity * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Application-driven communication substrates * Personalized networks for group oriented networking * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices * 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 would 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. _Submission Instructions _Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format to the EDAS paper submission website. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. _Important Dates _Paper Submission Deadline: *August 23, 2009 *Notification of Acceptance: *September 21, 2009 *Camera-Ready Submissions: *October 1, 2009 *_Conference Committees _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 Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Mainik Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland Sumanth Jagannathan, Broadcom Corporation, USA H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden Vinay Kolar, RWTH Aachen, Germany Ramakant Komali, RWTH Aachen, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh, UK Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 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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CfP: IWSOS 2009 -- 4th Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by karin anna hummel 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The submission deadline for IFIP IWSOS 2009 (4th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems), to be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 9-11, is quickly approaching: Regular Papers (12 pages): July 20, 2009 Short Papers (6 pages): August 14, 2009 The submission website is accepting submissions via: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/IWSOS2009/servlet/Conference (The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.) Please, find attached the CfP below. More information can be found at http://www.iwsos2009.ethz.ch/index.html Best Regards, Bernhard Plattner (General Chair) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Program Co-Chair) Karin Anna Hummel (Program Co-Chair) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: 4th IFIP International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2009) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, December 9-11 *Workshop Scope* IWSOS 2009 is the fourth workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. Future networks will form complex networks integrating wired and wireless infrastructures with mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as high availability and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems started a few years ago to systematically investigate self-organization and has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems is being investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like control theory and complex systems research, are being applied to networked systems to analyze their controllability and behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems are studied that draw on approaches like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. Topics include, but are not limited to the following. *Key Topics* - Self-organization and self-management - Self-configuration and self-optimization - Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing - Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network - Self-organization in peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc and vehicular networks - Control theory based models and approaches to self-organization - Applications of game theory for self-organization - Bio-inspired and socially inspired models of self-organization - Group-forming networks and techniques - Programmable and cognitive networks as a basis for self-organization - Visualization of network state - Self-organization for Quality of Service - Resilience, robustness and fault tolerance for networked systems - Security in self-organizing networked systems - Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Self-configuring place-and-play sensor/mobile networks - Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks - Risks of self-organization - The human in the loop of self-organizing networks *Paper Submission* IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts as full or short papers that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Click here (http://www.iwsos2009.ethz.ch/index.html) for detailed information for authors. *Full Papers* Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100-150 words. *Short Papers* Submissions should be position papers, challenging papers, and papers presenting first or late results up to 6 pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and must include an abstract of 100-150 words. *Proceedings* The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2009 to present the paper. *Posters and Demonstrations* To complement the main technical programme of IWSOS 2009, we are soliciting extended abstracts (up to two pages, LNCS style) that describe posters and demonstrations that will be presented at an informal session during the workshop. This session should provide a platform to present and discuss work-in-progress and demonstrations. The abstracts will be collected and made available at the event.

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International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices
by Jens Schmutzler 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on the Future Internet of Things and Services - Embedded Web Services for Pervasive Devices <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org/> > held in conjunction with FIS2009 <http://www.fis2009.org <http://www.fis2009.org/> > Berlin, Germany, September 1st-3rd, 2009 Paper submission deadline: August 3rd, 2009 Scope: The Future Internet of Things aims at providing pervasiveness of the Internet by integrating smart embedded devices into every days life processes. This leads to a highly distributed network of devices communicating with human beings as well as other devices. With the increase of heterogeneity, it becomes very difficult to insure interactions with devices in a unified manner. Enabling seamless convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous devices will be one of the key factors to the success of the Future Internet of Things. Moreover the Future Internet requires intelligent interaction with the environment leading to the emergence of wireless sensor networks connected to the Internet. There is a need for those networks to provide their information in an interpretable form and to reduce the complexity of accessing sensor services for applications or other systems. The challenge lies in developing and selecting the right software frameworks, architectures, and protocols to publish embedded services via the Internet. Web technologies have been used to provide an interface to distributed services. This approach and the need for adaptable interfaces asks for service oriented middleware approaches providing common base functionality for service interaction and communication such as interface description languages, and marshalling mechanisms. In addition, middleware solutions for embedded systems need to monitor, and manage quality of service aspects, such as response time, resource consumption, throughput, availability, reliability and security. While web services being a standard and widely adopted technology for the standard Internet, embedded systems as the worker nodes for the Internet of Things need to catch up in utilizing these technologies. Embedded distributed systems can implement service oriented architectures as a promising approach to solve the complexity of distributed embedded applications and propagate web services as a cross-domain technology. Wireless sensor/actor networks, where the sensors are connected to and controlled by embedded systems may benefit from this approach, where services encapsulate the functionality and provide unified access to the functionality of the system through a middleware layer. The goal of this workshop is to bring together industrial or academic researchers and developers interested in connecting limited embedded (web) services and/or sensor networks with the Internet in order to build the Internet of Things. Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of remaining open research issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectural Issues in Future Internet of Things * Real world applications and scenarios for embedded web services * Interoperability of heterogeneous systems * Event-driven SOAs & Device-centric SOA * Service creation, deployment, life cycle management * Tool support for service creation, validation and testing * Enterprise application integration * Protocols for efficient message transmission to embedded devices * Web services and Middleware for embedded environments * SOA-based integration of IT systems in the healthcare enterprise * Web services executing in mobile or pervasive environments * Distributed sensor networks for remote monitoring and surveillance * Web services for field bus systems Submission Instructions Papers have to be submitted electronically, through the EasyChairSystem: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fits2009 Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 6 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers (font Times 11pt). Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should contain the title of the paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an abstract (100-150 words) and a list of keywords. Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for presentation at FITS 2009 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant overlap with previously published work. Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review. Notification of receipt and acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author. Please also see the workshop website: http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org <http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org/> Important Dates: * Workshop paper submission deadline: August 1, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2009 * Camera ready proceedings: August 25, 2009 * Workshop day: September 1, 2009 Program Co-Chairs: * Vania CONAN Dr. Conan is head of Advanced Studies laboratory in Thales Communications, Colombes, France. He received his Engineering Degree and PhD in Computer Science from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Since then, he has been managing research projects at national and European levels (FP5, FP6 IST programmes, ITEA Eureka cluster and French ANR). His current research topics cover wireless and ad hoc networks, from a software and IP protocol perspective. * Christian Wietfeld Prof. Dr. Wietfeld is head of the Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund, University. He has a background in communications networks research and product development at RWTH Aachen and Siemens AG. He held the position of a Director Product Line Management at Siemens Communications and served two years in the Board of Directors of the international industry consortium WAP Forum resp. OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). His research work on the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication architectures, protocols and services is published in numerous conference papers, book chapters, contributions to standardisation (ITUT/3GPP/ETSI/OMA/CEN) and patents. He completed management programmes at U.S. business schools (Kellogg/ Chicago and Babson/Boston). * Peter Marwedel Prof. Dr Marwedel is the head of UniDo/ES. His experience covers a wide range of topics in embedded systems. In 2003, he published a very influential text book on embedded system design which is setting standards worldwide. In the same year, he received the teaching award of his University. He is also heading the local technology transfer centre ICD. ICD is in charge of transforming research results into industrial products. ICD has designed several simulators, compilers and debuggers for industrial customers. TPC Chair: * Stefan Michaelis, stefan.michaelis(a)prodv.de TPC Vice Chair: * Damien Lavaux, damien.lavaux(a)fr.thalesgroup.com Publicity Chair: * Jens Schmutzler, jens.schmutzler(a)tu-dortmund.de Workshop Program Committee (alphabetical order): * Alejandro Alonso (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Christopher Foley (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Damien Lavaux (Thales Communications) * Akos Levay (Applied Logic Laboratories) * Stefan Michaelis (PRO DV Software AG) * Gemma Power (Waterford Institute of Technology) * Emilio Salazar (Universidad Politecnic Madrid) * Jens Schmutzler (CNI, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) * Constantin Timm (ESG, Technische Universität Dortmund, University) Contact: Please send an e-mail to TPC vice-chair, the publicity chair or visit the workshop website at http://www.fits2009.ist-more.org for further information.

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[Tccc] PerNets 2010 cfp (within IEEE CCNC): paper submission deadline is August 23, 2009
by Paolo Bellavista 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp ************************************************************************************* Fourth International Workshop on Personalized Networks PerNets 2010 to be held in conjunction with The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2010) January 9-12, 2010 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ ************************************************************************************* Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library Paper submission via EDAS (please read the submission instructions below first) 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. 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. * Architectural framework of personalized networks * Personalized Network Applications * Personal Communications in the next generation Internet * Personal Networks for rural areas * Context Awareness * 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 anonymity * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Application-driven communication substrates * Personalized networks for group oriented networking * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * QoS across heterogeneous Networks and Devices * 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 would 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. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format to the EDAS paper submission website. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: August 23, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: September 21, 2009 Camera-Ready Submissions: October 1, 2009 Conference Committees 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 Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl Technical Program Committee Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Milind M Buddhikot, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA Mainik Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Intel, USA Frank den Hartog, TNO, Netherlands Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Belgium Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, Boston, USA Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Carmelita Görg, University of Bremen, Germany K. V. S. Hari, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands Ramin Hekmat, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands James Irvine, Strathclyde University, Scotland Sumanth Jagannathan, Broadcom Corporation, USA H. S. Jamadagni, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Theo G. Kanter, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden Vinay Kolar, RWTH Aachen, Germany Ramakant Komali, RWTH Aachen, Germany Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Petri Liuha, Nokia, Finland Anthony Lo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh, UK Ingrid Moerman, University of Ghent, Belgium Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK Luis Muñoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles, USA Jorge Pereira, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium T. V. Prabhakar, Indian Institute of Science, India Ramjee Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Neeli Prasad, University of Aalbarg, Denmark Heung-Gyoon Ryu, Chungbuk National University, Korea Amardeo Sarma, NEC Network Laboratories, Germany Koduvayur Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute, USA Sai Shankar, Broadcom, San Diego, USA Sirin Tekinay, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA John Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK Stephen B Weinstein, CTTC, New Jersey, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Djamal Zeghlache, INT, Paris, France Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 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/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Final Call for IEEE CCNC 2010 Technical Papers
by ComSoc Conferences 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers FINAL Deadline DATE Extended to July 7, 2009 January 9 â 12, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 7th annual international conference - will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. Technical Program features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including Wireless Home Communication and Networking - Wireless LANs, WiMax, Cellular Networks - UWB and OFDM - Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies - Physical and MAC Layer Design Issues Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks for CE - Body and Personal Area Networks - RFID for CE - Context- and Situation-awareness for Smart Spaces and PANs Multimedia Communication and Services - Multimedia Communication and Streaming - Distributed Coding and Network Coding for Multimedia - Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks - Field Trials and Measurements Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Networks - Overlay and Application-layer Multicast - SIP and P2P SIP - Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Networks - Novel CE Applications Enabled by P2P Computing Security and Content Protection for CE - Security for Home Networks, PANs and BANs - Reputation and Trust Mechanisms - Digital Content and Digital Rights Management - Copyright and Privacy Protection Pervasive and Ambient Applications - Positioning and Tracking Technologies - Smart Devices and Intelligent Environments - Middleware and Multi-Agents Platforms - Personalization For more topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: July 7, 2009 Acceptance Notification: August 26, 2009 Camera Ready Artwork: October 1, 2009 Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Short Papers, and Industry Technical Panels. Special Sessions Proposals Due: July 10, 2009; Submissions Due: August 15, 2009 Tutorials Due: September 1, 2009 Demonstrations Due: September 1, 2009 Short Papers Due: September 1, 2009 Industry Technical Panels Due: September 17, 2009 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. To unsubscribe from this list, please click this link http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%27I%5BO%0A.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks"]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks" Datum: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:50:05 +0200 Von: Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano <cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es> Antwort an: cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Organisation: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu =================================================================== Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail =================================================================== IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks" Background Vehicular communications are being applied to improve safety, decrease fuel consumption, and increase the capacity of existing roadways. Both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications are used to implement a number of promising applications such as local hazard warning, efficient route planning and coordination of traffic flows. Even truly cooperative and, therefore, extremely challenging applications like cross traffic collision avoidance are being considered. In the last years a number of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) related projects and initiatives have been carried out (or will be completed soon). In Europe, for example, the European Commission initiated the eSafety Program to reduce the road fatalities by 50% before 2010 and to improve traffic efficiency. These R&D projects have created a solid technical basis for vehicular communications, and some of them have also performed some preliminary experiences, from what some important results have been obtained ("lessons learned"), as for example the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) in the US as well as several projects in Europe. All the aforementioned research efforts and initiatives can be considered as the 'phase 1' in the development of vehicular communications networks. This phase represents an initial and very important step towards the goals of improving road safety and traffic efficiency, and providing Internet services to the vehicles. Important achievements, architectural decisions and conclusions have been the outcome of this 'phase 1', such as the development of wireless physical and MAC protocols suited for the vehicular environment (e.g. IEEE 802.11p), new network architectures (some of them not based on classical TCP/IP), etc. We are now witnessing the 'phase 2' of research and development in vehicular communications networks, a new phase in which standardization and field trials will play a key role, as well as the refinement and extension of the network architectures and protocols defined in the 'phase 1'. Scope and Contributions The goal of this special issue is to share the research developments and efforts of this new phase ('phase 2') in the vehicular communications area. Paper submissions are invited on the following topics: * Overview of state-of-the-art for vehicular communication technologies and open challenges. * Network protocols for cooperative vehicular communications, such as geonetworking (geographical routing and addressing). * Networking aspects for use of 2G/3G cellular systems for vehicular communications. * New system architectures enabling the provision of safety, traffic efficiency and infotainment services in vehicular scenarios. * Security, location privacy and reliability issues. * Integration of IP protocols into the vehicular scenario. * Standardization for vehicular communications worldwide, interoperability and harmonization issues. * Field operational tests (FOTs) for cooperative systems employing vehicular communications networks. * Regulatory aspects. Submission Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the speciality of the article. Prospective authors must prepare their article in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Authors should submit their manuscript to the guest editors according to the schedule below (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days before deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title, abstract, authors and keywords). All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Schedule for Submission Manuscript submission: July 15, 2009 Acceptance notification: September 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: November 1, 2009 Publication date: January 2010 Guest Editors Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos (corresponding editor) Associate Professor, Department of Telematics Engineering Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Leganes, Spain cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Dr. Andreas Festag NEC Europe Ltd. - NEC Laboratories Europe Network Research Division Heidelberg, Germany festag(a)nw.neclab.eu Dr. Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University New York, USA and Chief Researcher IMDEA Networks Madrid, Spain nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Dr. Carolina Pinart Gilberga Telefónica I+D Head of the Networked Vehicles Division Madrid, Spain cpg(a)tid.es Dr. Christian Weiß Daimler AG Group Research and Advanced Engineering Manager Vehicle-Centric Communication Sindelfingen, Germany Christian.A.Weiss(a)daimler.com -- Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano http://www.netcoms.net GPG FP: D29B 0A6A 639A A561 93CA 4D55 35DC BA4D D170 4F67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE Network Special Issue on Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/cfp/cfpnetwork0110.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Advanced Technologies for Care at Home: Special Session at IEEE CCNC 2010
by Dr Mario Kolberg 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Call for Papers Special Session: Advanced Technologies for Care at Home at IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference IEEE CCNC 2010 January 9 - 12, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010 Due to a rapidly increasing ageing population, current care provision will become strained. A less costly and more practical solution will be to enable those requiring care to stay at home for longer. Those with long-term illness, physical or mental impairments may also prefer to remain in the care of friends and family. Assistive technology helps older people or those with impairments cope with normal life. Specialised technology is also being used to monitor situations such as someone becoming immobile or incapable. The aim is that, through use of sophisticated networking and management software, abnormal situations can be detected, acted upon and/or reported to a carer or a responder. This special session tries to bring together academics and commercial technology providers to explore current research issues with technologies for care at home. Topics of particular interest (but not limited to) include: • Integrated Home Care systems • Network Technologies for assistive technologies • User interfaces for care systems • Context aware health applications • Novel sensors, actuators, and augmented appliances for use in assistive systems • Mobile health applications • Experimental results and case studies on the use of technology for care at home All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings of IEEE CCNC 2010. 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. The deadline for paper submissions in EDAS is August 15, 2009. For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. Session Organizer: Mario Kolberg, mko(a)cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~mko University of Stirling, UK -- Academic Excellence at the Heart of Scotland. The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence
by Boon-Chong Seet 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear all, The submission due date for this workshop has been extended to July 21, 2009. The updated CFP has been included below for your kind information. Thank you and best regards, Boon-Chong Seet (Dr) Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering Auckland University of Technology Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 5345 Fax: +64 9 921 9973 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence In conjunction with PDCAT'09 http://www.cs.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/pdcat09/ December 8-11, 2009, Hiroshima, Japan In cooperation with: IEEE ComSoc Japan Chapter Call for Papers Sensors are windows to the physical world for ambient intelligence (AmI) applications. The recent emergence of networked sensors as a result of rapid advances in sensor technologies and wireless networks, have set the stage for the realization of smart environments where unobtrusive sensors, either embedded or transportable by mobile carriers, enables fine-grain capture of environmental or ambient information that provides the basis of intelligence for higher-order cognitive systems, i.e. systems with capabilities to perceive, reason, learn, and react intelligently to their environment. Such systems in turn are envisioned to have wide ranging applications from intelligent wildlife and building structure monitoring to humanistic and social endevours such as health and elderly care service provisioning. Following the success of the first SeNAmI at PDCAT 2008 in Dunedin, New Zealand, this workshop once again aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present and discuss recent trends and advances in sensor networks and ambient intelligence, and from such engagement foster innovations towards technology maturity of sensor-based ambient intelligence systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Cognitive wireless sensor networks - Cooperative sensor localization and target tracking - Context-aware reasoning and inference for sensor/RFID-based systems - Cross-layer design and optimization of sensor-based AmI systems - Intelligent agents for autonomous sensor network management - Sensor networking in heterogeneous wireless environments - Sensor data fusion for ubiquitous embedded computing - Security, trust, and privacy for autonomous smart spaces - Nature or bio-inspired designs for ambient sensing and intelligence - AmI architectures, platforms, applications, and services - Prototype or testbed implementation and deployment trials Manuscript submission Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society proceedings guidelines to prepare your papers. Maximum page length will be limited to 6 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings of PDCAT'09, which will be published by IEEE Computer Society and automatically included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The proceedings will also be cited by IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), and Thomson ISI. Extended version of selected best papers will be considered for publication in a refereed international journal (TBA). Important dates Paper submission due : July 21, 2009 (extended) Acceptance notification : August 21, 2009 Camera-ready due : September 1, 2009 Workshop date : TBA For further details, please visit: http://senami.aut.ac.nz _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC special issue on Vehicular Communications and Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC special issue on Vehicular Communications and Networks Datum: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:01:40 +0300 Von: Thanos Vasilakos <vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Vehicular Communications and Networks Vehicular communications and intelligent transportation systems aim to improve traffic safety, protect environment by reducing traffic congestion and fuel consumption, and enable a plethora of new applications such as mobile infotainment. To address the special requirements of both safety and non-safety applications in the vehicle domain, there is a necessity to develop new communication technologies and find special integration solutions into vehicular and transportation systems. These result in various types of vehicular communications and networks: vehicle-toinfrastructure, vehicle-to-roadside, and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. In this growing interdisciplinary field, many research challenges need to be addressed, e.g., how to characterize communication channels due to greater dynamics and higher requirements due to e.g. latency and reliability compared to conventional wireless channels, how to appropriately design medium access control (MAC) and network protocols that should essentially be scalable in performance and adaptable to environment changes due to rapid network topology changes and node density fluctuations, and how to evaluate and validate vehicular networking protocols under realistic assumptions using simulation methodologies and real-world testing. The goal of this special issue is to report on cutting-edge research achievements covering those aspects of vehicular communications and networks that are distinctively different from communication networks in general. We are seeking papers that describe high-quality, original, and unpublished contributions. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: · Adoption and adaptation of web technologies · Application protocols and service architectures · Channel measurement, modeling, & simulation · Domain-specific security and privacy solutions · Inter-networking technologies and architectures · MAC technologies and channel management · Multiple radio integration and control · Physical layer and RF level technologies · Radio resource management, congestion control, traffic control, routing, and QoS support · Real-time experimental systems and testbeds · RF integration and SDR technologies · Safety and non-safety applications and services · Simulation methodology and performance evaluation techniques · Delay tolerant networks · Energy efficient communications · Traffic and mobility models Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website. Manuscript Submission Due: December 15, 2009 First Reviews Due: March 1, 2010 Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2010 Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2010 Publication: 4th quarter 2010 Guest Editors: Cheng-Xiang Wang JRI-SIP, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Email: cheng-xiang.wang(a)hw.ac.uk Xuemin (Sherman) Shen Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 Email: xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Athanasios V. Vasilakos Dept. of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia, 50100, Kozani, Greece Email: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Wai Chen Applied Research Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Piscataway, New Jersey, USA 07054 Email: waichen(a)ieee.org Ross D. Murch Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Email: eermurch(a)ust.hk Timo Kosch BMW Group Research and Technology, Hanauer Strasse 46, D-80992 Munich, Germany. Email: Timo.kosch(a)bmw.de Gordon Stüber School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30332-0250. Email: stuber(a)ece.gatech.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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