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Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] 1st Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communications (PCSC) at IEEE CCNC 2013
by Lars Wolf 15 May '12

15 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] 1st Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communications (PCSC) at IEEE CCNC 2013 Datum: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:01:35 +0900 Von: 이호섭 <horus.lee(a)samsung.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies for possible multiple copies] Call for Papers First Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communications (PCSC) at IEEE CCNC 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA - Jan 2013 Networked consumer devices are equipped for personal and environmental sensing, collection, and delivery of sensed information. The workshop addresses a range of research issues involving networking, sensing, data collection, aggregation and processing, knowledge discovery in sensing data, security/privacy, scalability, contextual/situational adaptation and dynamics. Papers are max 5 pages in length and conform to the IEEE conference format. Paper submissions are via EDAS (see the conference web site later). Papers receive at least 3 independent reviews from workshop TPC. Important Dates: - Submission deadline: Sept 1, 2012 - Acceptance notification: Sept 30, 2012 - Final version due: Oct 10, 2012 - Workshop presentation: either Jan 11, 2013 or Jan 14, 2013 Topics of interest include: - People-centric sensing techniques, technologies, and applications (hardware sensor design and development included) - Participatory sensing - Smart phone sensing - Urban sensing - Bio-medical sensing - Mixed sensor networks and people-centric sensing - SensorWeb - Sensor overlays - Mobility - Mobile social networks and sensing - Mobile healthcare and sensing - Platforms and architectures - Scalability - Context awareness - UI/UX - Privacy and security - Data storage and management - Situation awareness and management Journal Special Issue: Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for a journal special issue on People Centric Sensing that is being organized by the workshop chairs. Organizers: - John Buford (Avaya Labs Research, USA) - Raghu K. Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA) - Hosub Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) Hosub Lee, Research Staff Intelligence Group Intelligent Computing Lab, Future IT Research Center Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Tel: 82-31-280-9689 [office] | 82-10-3392-9817 [mobile] Homepage: <https://sites.google.com/site/lhs2008/> https://sites.google.com/site/lhs2008/ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: IEEE LCN 2012 Workshops - Deadlines Extended
by Lars Wolf 15 May '12

15 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: IEEE LCN 2012 Workshops - Deadlines Extended Datum: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:55:26 +0200 Von: Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)cs.uni-bonn.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= Call for Papers LCN 2012 Workshops The 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) *Extended* Workshop-Paper Submission Deadline: *May 27, 2012* http://www.ieeelcn.org Sheraton Sand Key Hotel, Clearwater, Florida, USA October 22 – 25, 2012 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1st IEEE International Workshop on GlObal Trends in SMART Cities (goSMART 2012) http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gosmart/ 6th IEEE LCN Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks (ON-MOVE 2012) http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/ 8th IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks (P2MNET 2012) http://web.it.usyd.edu.au/~p2mnet12/ 7th IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues In Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp 2012) http://www.senseapp.org/ 7th IEEE LCN Workshop on Security In Communication networKs (SICK 2012) http://www.sick-workshop.org/ 5th International Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications for the Next Generation Internet (WASA-NGI-V 2012) http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/vs/wasangi5/ 5th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Internet Services (WISe 2012) http://w3.mi.parisdescartes.fr/WISe/ 12th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN 2012) http://www.cs.queensu.ca/wln12 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] Optimized Resource management - special session at CAMAD 2012 - deadline extension
by Lars Wolf 15 May '12

15 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Optimized Resource management - special session at CAMAD 2012 - deadline extension Datum: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:59:14 +0300 Von: Elias Tragos <etragos(a)ics.forth.gr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Resource Management Optimization for Heterogeneous Next Generation Wireless Access Networks http://camad2012.av.it.pt/ss_RMOHNGWAN.html Next generation communications will be composed of flexible, multi-tier, and scalable architectures. High user mobility and dynamic management policies that ensure end-to-end reliable and secure support of new services are key towards the adoption of the enabling technologies. In wireless networks, the medium alone creates additional challenges for efficiently providing QoS, due to its broadcast nature and uncertainty. Meanwhile, the proliferation of new services in the mobile market is driving the QoS requirements higher (in terms of performance indicators such as throughput, delay, jitter, error rate, network coverage etc). Thus, an important challenge in future wireless communications is how to design and run a cost efficient network in order to optimize the key performance indicators that will support the user requirements. Resource management and planning are sets of key mechanisms that enable the efficient and effective operation of wireless networks, aiming to minimize the impact of interference and maximize the overall network performance. For next generation networks, where multiple heterogeneous networks (both in terms of network elements and in term of access technologies) will co-exist in the same geographical area, these mechanisms will be of key importance not only for a single network operation but for the smooth network cooperation, the optimal use of wireless spectrum and the provision of high quality services to the users. Taking into account the requirements, applications, and users, the developed mechanisms should be optimized in terms of performance, scalability, robustness, flexibility and energy efficiency. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers focusing on resource management and optimization within the context of heterogeneous wireless networking. Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished works on the following research topics, but not limited to: · Access network architectures and protocols optimization towards next generation wireless networks · Resource management mechanisms for future heterogeneous networks · Network planning · Context and location awareness · Future wireless services and applications · Quality of service in future heterogeneous networks · Optimized and robust dynamic spectrum access · Reliable and optimized spectrum sharing in next generation networks · Performance modeling of future networks · Scalability, robustness and resilience · Security, privacy and trust in next generation dynamic spectrum access networks · Cross-layer design and optimization · Co-existence issues of future heterogeneous networks · Heterogeneous network simulation models and techniques Organizing Committee Dr. Vangelis Angelakis Linkoping University, Sweden vangelis.angelakis(at)liu.se Dr. Ioannis Askoxylakis Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece asko(at)ics.forth.gr Dr. Elias Tragos Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece etragos(at)ics.forth.gr Dr. Di Yuan Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd, UK di.yuan(at)ranplan.co.uk Important dates Paper submission deadline: June 1st, 2012 Acceptance notification: July 10th, 2012 Camera-ready: August15th, 2012 Technical Program Committee members: Vangelis Angelakis, Linkoping University, Sweden – co-chair Ioannis Askoxylakis, ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece – co-chair Kaan Bür - Lund University, Sweden Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Alexandros Fragkiadakis, ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece George Karetsos, Technological research Center of Thessalia, Greece Albena Mihovska, Aalborg University, Denmark Stefanos Papadakis, ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece Nikolaos Petroulakis, ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece Michal Pioro, EIT, Lund University, Sweden Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Elias Tragos, ICS, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece – co-chair Panagiotis Vlacheas, University of Piraeus, Greece Di Yuan, Ranplan, UK – co-chair Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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Fwd: [Tccc] SustainIT 2012 - Call for short papers and demos
by Lars Wolf 15 May '12

15 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SustainIT 2012 - Call for short papers and demos Datum: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:07:01 +0200 Von: Valerio Arnaboldi<valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for WORK-IN-PROGRESS papers and DEMOS SustainIT 2012 Second IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/sustainit2012/ October 4-5, 2012 Pisa, Tuscany, Italy ******* WIP/DEMO PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 11, 2012 ******* Conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SustainIT 2012 invites Work in Progress (WIP) papers and technical demonstrations (DEMOs) showing innovative and original research in the areas of Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability. Submissions from both industry and academia are strongly encouraged. WIP papers are expected to report on early or ongoing research activities, while DEMO papers are expected to present innovative applications and tools. The WIP and DEMO sessions will provide a forum to discuss novel ideas and emerging results, presenting innovative applications and tools, and bring about novel research questions, approaches, and directions. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Green Internet - Power-aware Internet applications - Energy-efficient network architecture and protocols - Green wireless networking - Energy-efficient network technologies - Cross-layer optimization for green networking - Standards and metrics for green communications - Energy-efficient management of network resources - Energy efficiency in data centers - Energy efficiency, Quality of Service, and reliability - Algorithms for reduced power, energy and heat - ICT for energy efficiency in buildings - ICT for sustainable smart cities - ICT for sustainable transports and logistics - ICT for green mobility - ICT for energy efficiency in industrial environments - ICT for smart grids - Sustainability achievements due to ICT-based optimization - Energy consumption measurements, models, and monitoring tools - Measurement and evaluation of the Internet sustainability - Test-bed and prototype implementations SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are requested to submit original, unpublished manuscripts in standard IEEE proceedings format in PDF. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Submitted papers must include the contact information of all the authors. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through EDAS. When submitting, please select the appropriate Track for your paper (i.e., WIP or Demo). WIP papers must be, at most, 5 pages in size (including figures, tables, and references). They are expected to present early or ongoing research activities. Novel approaches and preliminary results are especially appreciated. Demo papers must be up to 4 pages in size (including figures, tables, and references). They should explicitly state what will be demonstrated to the audience, and how the attendees will be able to interact, enjoy, and experiment. The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by members of the SustainIT 2012 Technical Program Committee. All the accepted papers will be presented during the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the conference to present it. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE, and will be included in the Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submissions: June 11, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012 Camera-ready copy due: July 30, 2012 Conference date: October 4-5, 2012 ============================================== Valerio Arnaboldi - SUSTAINIT2012 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy phone: +39 050 315 2195 email: valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: WiNTECH'12 - Deadline approaching
by Lars Wolf 14 May '12

14 May '12

Vishnu Navda <navda(a)MICROSOFT.COM> schrieb: *** Important Dates **** Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 _____________________________________________ [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] CALL FOR PAPERS WiNTECH 2012 The Seventh ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and Characterization In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey August 22, 2012 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/wintech2012/ In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such a diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shaping future advances in wireless technology. The importance of testbed-based evaluation of wireless network protocols/applications as well as characterization of real-world aspects using traces from operational networks is gaining wider recognition in the mobile and wireless networking research community. This workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers addressing experimental wireless networking issues. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Apart from regular paper presentations, the workshop program will include an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols, including the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Measurement and evaluation on large-scale smartphone based deployments * Studies on real-world white-space networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between different evaluation methodologies * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of wireless * networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management Important Dates *Paper submission deadline: May 18, 2012 *Author notification: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo submission deadline: June 25, 2012 *Poster/demo notification: July 1, 2012 *Camera ready papers: July 1, 2012 *Workshop date: August 22, 2012 Paper submission instructions: All regular paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EasyChair system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wintech12) and should conform to the following requirements: *A maximum of 8 (eight) 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) *The paper must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must be submitted in PDF format Poster/Demo submission instructions: Poster/Demo submissions will be handled by emailing the writeup to wintech_posterdemo(a)live.in with the following requirements: *A maximum of TWO 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) *The write-up must be in two-column format, using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins and must use PDF format *For demos, a third page should be included that lists the requirements for the demo at the workshop venue if the demo is selected. Organizers: Program Co-chairs Vishnu Navda, MSR India Moustafa Youssef, E-JUST Egypt Program Committee Albert Banchs, UC3M, Spain Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, USA Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research, India Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, South Korea Samir Das, Stony Brook University, USA Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Tamer Elbatt, Nile University, Egypt Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India Thanasis Korakis, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, India Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Archan Misra, Singapore Management University, Singapore Iqbal Mohomed, IBM Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, National Science Foundation, USA Sampath Rangarajan, NEC Laboratories America, USA Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, USA Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent, India Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Demo/Poster Co-chairs Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, USA Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India Demo Committee Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington, USA Raghu Ganti, IBM Research, USA Suhas Mathur, AT&T Research Dragos Niculescu, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest Publicity/Web Chair Eric Rozner, AT&T Research Steering Committee Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA Joe Evans, University of Kansas Edward Knightly, Rice University Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University _____________________________________________ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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Fwd: ACM CHANTS 2012 CFP: Paper submission deadline on May 27 2012
by Lars Wolf 14 May '12

14 May '12

Karthik Nilakant <kn290(a)CAM.AC.UK> schrieb: =================================================================== Call For Papers - 7th ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2012) Co-located with ACM MobiCom August 22rd 2012, Istanbul, Turkey Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and Google http://www.cambridgeplus.net/CHANTS2012/ IMPORTANT DATES: - Full paper abstract registration deadline: May 20, 2012 - Full Paper Submission deadline: May 27, 2012 - Demo Submission deadline: July 1, 2012 - Authors notification: June 18, 2012 - Camera-ready: July 2, 2012 - Early conference registration deadline: July 2, 2012 - Workshop date: August 22, 2012 In the face of complex and dynamic networking capabilities, networked applications need to operate in very challenging environments. These challenges stem from high delay, such as inter-planetary networks, limited power, such as sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, new communication environments, such as underwater networks, communication in settings that lack infrastructure, such as rural and remote areas, and military battlefields, or simply environments where it is difficult or expensive to use the existing infrastructure, social and vehicular networks. Essentially, challenged networks are found in everyday settings, when access to traditional infrastructure is non-existent, restricted, expensive, overly complex, or rapidly changing. While users strive to communicate in these challenged environments, traditional internet protocol architectures fail to provide effective support. Given the expectation of intermittent connectivity, heterogeneous mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions, the goal of the challenged network engineer is to design and implement communication that expect and so operate effectively in this diverse range of conditions. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) * Architecture, design, implementation, and evaluation of communication systems for challenged networks * Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in various stages of development or use * Analysis and characterization of challenged networks and protocols * Applications in challenged networks (disaster relief and mobile social networking, vehicular networks) * Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks * Security/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks * Real-world mobility traces of challenged environments * Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems * Applications challenged networking techniques to communication in daily life Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to accept approximately 12 papers, and to have a highly interactive workshop. In addition, demos have been an integral part of CHANTS, and we aim to accept up to ten demos. BEST PAPERS: Google will sponsor up to two best-paper awards to honor the author(s) of papers of exceptional quality submitted to the CHANTS 2012 workshop. Full paper submission guidelines All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on their originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English, no longer than 6 pages with 10 point font and in PDF format, and use the ACM templates. All fonts must be embedded within the PDF and be Type 1 (scalable). Demo proposals submission guidelines Real-world data gathering and measurement are at the heart of large-scale human mobility data collection, processing, and modeling. Technical demonstrations showing innovative and original practical solutions in the above mentioned topics are solicited, showing working prototypes stimulating discussion among the attendees. Demo proposals should be submitted following the exact same guidelines of full papers, except for the page limit that is fixed to 2 (two) pages. Accepted proposals will be included in the proceedings. ORGANIZERS Program co-Chairs: Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA PCs: - Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida) - Anders Lindgren (SICS) - Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR) - Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington) - Brenton Walker (LTS University of Maryland) - Christian Rohrer (Uppsala University) - Earl Oliver (University of Waterloo) - Franck Legendre (ETH Zurich) - Joerg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology) - Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) - Kevin Almeroth (UCSB) - Kevin Fall (Intel) - Marco Conti (IIT-CNR) - Mooi-Choo Chuah (Lehigh University) - Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Pan Hui Deutsche (Telekom Laboratories) - Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL) - Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) - Stratis Ioannidis (Technicolor Palo Alto) - Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurecom) - Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews) - Vania Conan (Thales Architecture Framework Centre) - Vijay Erramilli (Telefonica) _____________________________________________ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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Fwd: [InternetTC] CFP - HotDep '12
by Lars Wolf 14 May '12

14 May '12

Abdelmajid Khelil <khelil(a)INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.DE> schrieb: =========================================================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers =========================================================================== HotDep '12 Call for Papers Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '12) October 7, 2012 Hollywood, CA Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association HotDep '12 will be co-located with the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12), which will take place October 8–10, 2012. Important Dates Paper submissions due: June 11, 2012, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: July 30, 2012 Final papers due: September 10, 2012 Workshop Organizers Program Co-Chairs Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Program Committee Marcos K. Aguilera, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Yair Amir, Johns Hopkins University Christian Cachin, IBM Research—Zurich Allen Clement, Max Planck Institute for Software System Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Pascal Felber, University of Neuchâtel Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University Phil Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University Dejan Kostić, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University Mike Reiter, University of North Carolina Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University Bernard Wong, University of Waterloo Overview Authors are invited to submit papers to the Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '12). The workshop will be co-located with the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '12), which will be held October 8–10, 2012, in Hollywood, CA. HotDep '12 will bring forth cutting-edge research ideas spanning the domains of systems and fault tolerance/reliability, drawing from the two associated research communities (i.e., researchers who attend traditional "dependability" conferences such as DSN and ISSRE, and those who attend "systems" conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, and EuroSys). The workshop will build links between the two communities and serve as a forum for sharing ideas and challenges. HotDep has been alternating between DSN and OSDI since 2005; for previous HotDep workshops, see http://www.hotdep.org/. Paper Scope and Topics Possible topics include but are not limited to: Dependability in large-scale systems, despite either crash or Byzantine failures Dependability in emerging platforms, such as handheld, datacenters, or cloud computing Dependability in the software stack, including operating systems, network protocols, runtime systems, etc. Fault and intrusion tolerance, self-healing systems, and continuous operation throughout recovery Techniques for better detection, diagnosis, or recovery from failures Forensic tools for use by administrators and programmers after failure or attack Tools/concepts/techniques/metrics for quantifying or optimizing trade-offs among dependability, availability, performance, correctness, resource utilization, and security Authors should consider that the workshop aims to improve interactions among researchers from the dependability and systems communities, and thus the review process favors papers that are likely to generate healthy debate. Example submissions include but are not limited to: Innovative techniques, algorithms, or protocols for building dependable/secure systems Reconsideration of existing problems using novel approaches with demonstrable benefits Description of an emerging problem and potential solutions Refuting old, entrenched perspectives on dependability Advocacy, critical or controversial papers if based on a technical foundation Deadline and Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit position papers by 11:59 p.m. PST on June 11, 2012. This is a firm deadline—no extensions will be given. Submitted position papers must be no longer than 5 pages (8.5" x 11") of text including figures and tables, and 1 additional page solely for references. Your paper should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. Papers must be in PDF and must be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 30, 2012. Authors of accepted papers will produce a final PDF by September 10, 2012. All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the workshop. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production(a)usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the day of the workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, hotdep12chairs(a)usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy(a)usenix.org. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX HotDep '12 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. Registration Materials Complete program and registration information will be available on the HotDep '12 Web site in August 2012. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Abdelmajid Khelil khelil(at)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de TU Darmstadt - CS Department DEEDS Group Hochschulstr. 10 S2:02 E219 D-64289 Darmstadt, GER Tel. +49-6151-16-3414 Fax. +49-6151-16-4310 http://www.deeds.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/khelil/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Int. Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN)
by Lars Wolf 14 May '12

14 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Int. Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN) Datum: Mon, 14 May 2012 03:54:09 -0500 Von: M. Can Vuran <mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies in advance, if you receive multiple copies] International Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN) in conjunction with ACM MOBICOM 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2012 http://avealabs.com/pingen2012 Scope: In recent years, there is growing demand for data traffic on next generation wireless networks due to the proliferation of data hungry applications (e.g. streaming video, interactive traffic flows, etc) and emergence of smart terminal devices and their applications, such as smart grids, mobile cloud services, advanced healthcare systems, intelligent transportation systems. On the other hand, need for ubiquitous computing and high mobility support also become evident as users are more and more asking for “any-time any-where” connectivity. Hence, an important challenge for telecom vendors and operators is devising and deploying cost-effective yet high capacity infrastructures, which support also large coverage and high mobility. Such a challenge puts forward an ever enlarging set of problems, both on intra-technology as well as inter-technology domains, putting integration challenges also in the picture. This workshop focuses on design and deployment issues of next generation wireless infrastructures, potentially made up of heterogeneous access technologies, supporting a wide range of applications and user needs in a coherent and unified manner. This workshop will bring together people from different research areas, and provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia in all aspects of next generation wireless networks. Subjects of interests include, but are not limited to: - Heterogeneous network (HetNets) deployment strategies - Business models, network management and offloading strategies for user-deployed infrastructure - Distributed algorithms and protocols for policy control in heterogeneous communication technologies - Energy-efficient network architectures and protocols, resource management techniques - System Architectures and Applications for Smart Grid - Smart Grid Communication Networks and System Simulators - Experiences from real-world wireless network deployment, test-bed and field trials - Innovative mobile application frameworks for seamless integration - Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications and technologies in heterogeneous networks - Coverage and capacity issues in future wireless cellular networks - Mobile cloud service models for high mobility - Data mining and large-scale mobile data management techniques in facilitating heterogeneous access - QoS (Quality-of-Service), scalability and reliability issues in heterogeneous networks - Unified security, trust and privacy issues Submission: For submission instructions please visit workshop site at http://avealabs.com/pingen2012 Important dates: - Paper Submission Deadline: May 27th, 2012 - Notification of Acceptance: June 18th, 2012 - Camera Ready Paper and Registration Due: July 2nd, 2012 Workshop Chairs: Dr. Salih Ergüt (AveaLabs) (salih.ergut(a)avea.com.tr) Prof. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) Program Chairs: Dr. Çagri Güngör (Bahçesehir University) (cagri.gungor(a)bahcesehir.edu.tr) Dr. Zhu Han (University of Houston) (zhan2(a)mail.uh.edu) Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) (zafer(a)merl.com) Dr. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (Texas Tech University) (hamed.mohsenian-rad(a)ttu.edu) Publicity Chair: Dr. Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu) -- -- M. Can Vuran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Cyber-Physical Networking Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Office: 107 Schorr Center Phone: (402) 472-5019 Fax: (402) 472-7767 http://cpn.unl.edu _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012
by Lars Wolf 14 May '12

14 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Datum: Sun, 13 May 2012 05:30:38 -0400 Von: Habib M. Ammari <hammari(a)UMD.UMICH.EDU> Antwort an: hammari(a)umd.umich.edu An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG * The First ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented* * Wireless Sensor Networking (ACM MiSeNet 2012)* * In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 2012* http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/MiSeNet_Workshop2012.html Call for Papers *Scope and Aim of ACM MiSeNet 2012* Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted, human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation, scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime. Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and relative lack of predictability (compared to well-calibrated sensors). The design of mission-oriented sensor networks, where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between several attributes such energy consumption (due to mobility, sensing, and communication), reliability, fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise. ACM MiSeNet 2012 aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and practice. ACM MiSeNet 2012 serves as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in this area. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will provide them with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms, and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. ACM MiSeNet 2012 seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing applications. The topics of interest to ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented networked sensing - Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented sensor networks - System design, implementation, and evaluation - Medium access control and scheduling - Human factors, data cleaning, and noise - Human-centric sensing modalities and quality of information - Cross-layer design - Software architectures for mission-oriented sensing - Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency - Coverage and connectivity issues - Collaboration of humans and sensors - Deployment and localization - Uncertainty, opportunistic communication, and data fusion - Topology control and fault-tolerance - Routing and data dissemination - In-network data storage and processing - Sensor database management and spatio-temporal data - Target detection and tracking - Privacy and security - Testbed design and real-world applications *General Chair* - Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) *Program Chair** * - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) *Steering Committee* - TarekF. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) - HabibM. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) - Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) -Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) - Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) - David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA) - Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA) - Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) - Jie Wu (Temple University, USA) - GuoliangXue (Arizona State University, USA) - Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) *Publicity Co-Chairs* - Flávia Delicato (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - M. Elena Renda (IIT - CNR, Pisa, Italy) - ShengquanWang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) - Wendong Xiao (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China) *Web Chair* - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA) *Submission Guidelines* ACM MiSeNet 2012 Workshop will consider only original *papers* that are not currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and have not been published. All papers submitted to ACM MiSeNet 2012 will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability (/i.e./, within the workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will also consider technical *demos and posters* that present original and significant research within the workshop scope. Submitted demos/posters are limited to 2 pages. In the case of a demo, the authors should clearly specify, in an email to both of the General Chair and Program Chair, the additional resources that are needed. Power and wireless Internet connectivity will be available at the workshop. All submissions should be formatted in standard ACM conference style for publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced, double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one author of each accepted paper/demo/poster register and attend the ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop to present their work to ensure its publication in the ACM MobiCom 2012 conference Proceedings. We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to submit their fine work to ACM MiSeNet 2012. To submit your paper, demo, and/or posterto ACM MiSeNet 2012, please visit the following paper/demo/poster submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmmisenet2012 Thank you for submitting your paper, demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012! *Important Dates* - Paper Submission Deadline: June 4, 2012 - Demo/Poster Submission Deadline: June 18, 2012 - Notification Deadline: June 25, 2012 - Camera-ready: July 2, 2012 - Workshop Date: August 26, 2012 *For More Information* Please send email to mobicom_info(a)acm.org with any questions or comments about the ACM MobiCom'12 conference or for more information. For questions about the ACM MiSeNet'12 Workshop regarding the paper submission and review process, please contact the General Chair at zaher(a)cs.uiuc.edu and the Program Chair at hammari(a)umd.umich.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2012 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ACM UBICOMP/CASEMANS 2012 + Hindawi Advances in Software Engineering special issue
by Vincenzo De Florio 13 May '12

13 May '12

Dear Colleagues, this is to warmly invite you to consider the following calls for papers: - ACM UBICOMP 2012 Workshop CASEMANS 2012.- Hindawi Advances in Software Engineering - Special Issue on Self-* Parallel and Distributed Systems We would like to highlight how the workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexed accordingly. The electronic version of the proceedings will be madeavailable online at the ACM Digital Library. Kind regards,Waltenegus, Juha, and Vincenzo. ACM UBICOMP/CASEMANS 2012 - Call for papers Cloud computing, autonomic computing, pervasive computing, and mobile computing tend to be converging to maximize the combinedbenefits of these paradigms. A large number of applications can takeadvantage of this, including healthcare, traffic control, andsocial network applications. However, these applications are complexby nature and introduce several challenges of their own, for example,reliable sensing, accurate context recognition, scalability, security,dealing with previously unforeseen side-effects of adaptations, and so on. These challenges can be meaningfully addressed whenresearchers of diverse background come together to provide differentviews of the same problems and to help each other understandthe complex relationships between contending ideas. The Casemans 2012 workshop aims to open a platform for researchersof ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, and similar fieldsto address these issues. This year, we are building on the success of casemans 2011 by introducing full and short paper sessions. Full papers will demonstrate solid research results (4-6 ACM pages) while short papers (typically 2 ACM Pages) demonstrate visionary, critical and even controversial ideas and work-in-progressthat can encourage discussion and further research. Scope The scope of the workshop can be described by the following terms:- Context-awareness in cloud computing- Context-awareness in energy-efficient computing- Context-awareness in smart spaces- context-awareness in wireless sensor networks- Context-awareness in social networking- Context-awareness in robotics- Context-awareness in multimedia content distribution- Context-based multimodal interaction Information for Authors The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexed accordingly. The electronic version of the proceedingswill be made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Manuscriptsshould be prepared according to the ACM Proceedings format. Pleasevisit the ACM template website (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All paper submissions will be handled electronically by Easychair(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=casemans2012).N… that submission is a two-stage process --- authors need to registertheir paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissionsmust be in PDF format and conform to the ACM guidelines. Important Dates Paper submission -- June 1Notification -- June 30Camera ready -- July 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advances in Software Engineering - Special Issue onSelf-* Parallel and Distributed Systems Call for papers (PDF: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307.pdf,HTML: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307/cfp/) Autonomic computing has been identified as a promising solution to cope with the overwhelming complexity in modern and next-generation computer systems. In particular, the self-* properties (self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and self-protection) outline the fundamental features of an autonomic computing system. Parallel and distributed systems, a computing domain with great applicability in a variety of industrial and domestic contexts, rely on self-* software to manage a large number of heterogeneous computation, communication, and storage resources. The challenges of energy efficiency, dependability and security are of particular interest. This special issue addresses the software aspects of the whole design and operational process and system architecture of self-* parallel and distributed systems. We welcome studies on all forms of software, including application software and system software. The relevant scope of parallel and distributed systems widely covers, but is not limited to, embedded systems, large-scale networks, cyber-physical systems (CPS), cloud-computing etc. The systems under focus should integrate software with clear and novel self-* features to be qualified for acceptance. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Model-driven engineering of self-* distributed systems- Robust design of self-* parallel and distributed systems- Software design and implementation for energy-awareness- Energy-awareness in self-organizing systems such as in cluster-based systems and cloud computing- Real-time aspects, especially in conjunction with other conflicting design goals- Evolvability aspects- Resilience of autonomic distributed and parallel systems- Self-healing and protection for dependable and secure systems- Software for interoperable heterogeneous networked systems - Specification and modeling languages for self-* properties- Formal validation and verification- Software testing- Parallel and distributed debugging- Application and industrial case studies- Retrospective, Review and Future Perspectives Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: June 8, 2012First round of reviews: August 31, 2012Publication date: October 26, 2012 Lead Guest Editor Juha Plosila, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland; juha.plosila(a)utu.fi Guest Editors Waltenegus Dargie, Chair of Computer Networks, Institute for System Architecture, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; waltenegus.dargie(a)tu-dresden.de Vincenzo De Florio, Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems group, University of Antwerp, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; vincenzo.deflorio(a)ua.ac.be

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