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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC SI on Virtual MIMO
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC SI on Virtual MIMO Datum: Tue, 08 May 2012 16:48:04 +0800 Von: Zhou Yi Qing <yqzhou(a)eee.hku.hk> Organisation: EEE, HKU, HK An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Virtual MIMO Multiple antenna (also known as MIMO: multiple input and multiple output) has been widely accepted as a promising scheme to improve the spectrum efficiency of mobile communication systems. MIMO is supported by various international standards such as long term evolution (LTE), WiMAX and International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced. Due to the limited size of hand-held mobile stations (MSs), however, no more than two antennas can usually be fit per MS. As a result, implementing conventional MIMO with MSs in practice becomes challenging. On the other hand, multiple single-antenna MSs can be grouped to create a virtual MIMO (VMIMO) system. The system performance can be greatly enhanced by VMIMO because the size of the MIMO channel increases significantly, resulting in more degrees of freedom and improved spatial diversity gain. Moreover, interesting research areas and various challenges arise in VMIMO systems to solve problems that do not appear in MIMO systems. For example, given a large number of MSs and limited processing capability of base stations, a proper subset of the MSs must be chosen to form the VMIMO system; this is also known as user grouping. One of the considerations when carrying out user grouping is fairness. Moreover, in existing cellular systems, information exchange between MSs is difficult. To manage spatial interference at each MS, powerful precoding techniques are needed at base stations, which are crucial to the performance of VMIMO. On the other hand, considering wireless ad-hoc networks and future cellular systems, collaboration among MSs could be possible. As such, it is also interesting to investigate VMIMO with cooperating terminals and security issues arising as a consequence of cooperation. Therefore, VMIMO is a pressing research topic that has a wide range of applications in wireless communication systems, including both cellular and wireless ad hoc networks. It is timely and important to develop enabling techniques for VMIMO. The goal of this issue is to bring together the most updated research contributions in this area and contribute in identifying issues that need to be addressed when analyzing and designing VMIMO systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Capacity analysis of VMIMO * User grouping in VMIMO * Precoding schemes for VMIMO * Pilot signal design for VMIMO * Distributed Coding and Modulation for VMIMO * Signal detection in VMIMO with and without user collaboration * Feedback scheme design in VMIMO * Impact of limited feedback in VMIMO * Impact of limited backhaul in VMIMO * Multiple-terminal synchronization in VMIMO * MAC protocol design for VMIMO * Fairness in VMIMO * Self-optimization and distributed implementation of VMIMO * Security issues of VMIMO Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts following the IEEE J-SAC format described at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows: Manuscript Submission Due: Oct. 1, 2012 First Reviews Due: Feb. 1, 2013 Second Reviews Due and Acceptance Notification: Apr. 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: Jun. 1, 2013 Publication: Fourth quarter 2013 Guest Editors: Prof. Yiqing Zhou, zhouyiqing(a)ict.ac.cn, China Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, adachi(a)ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, Japan Dr. Kai-Kit Wong, k.wong(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk, United Kingdom Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia, xxia(a)ee.udel.edu, USA Prof. Dimitris Toumpakaris, dtouba(a)upatras.gr, Greece Prof. Heidi Steendam, Heidi.Steendam(a)telin.ugent.be, Belgium Prof. Wei-Ping Zhu, weiping(a)ece.condordia.ca, Canada Prof. Lie-Liang Yang, lly(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ 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: Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe)
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe) Datum: Mon, 7 May 2012 17:25:03 +0200 Von: Sollacher, Rudolf <rudolf.sollacher(a)siemens.com> An: Sollacher, Rudolf <rudolf.sollacher(a)siemens.com> Kopie (CC): dilhac(a)laas.fr <dilhac(a)laas.fr> Dear colleagues, I would like to announce a "Workshop on energy and Wireless Sensors (e-WiSe)" to be held in conjunction with IEEE iThings, IEEE CPSCOM and ACM/IEEE GreenCOM conferences (_http://ithings.univ-fcomte.fr/_) in September 11-14, 2012 in Besançon, France. Novel papers are invited from both academic and industrial research institutions, describing original results, new technical implementations, or in-depth user studies, including but not limited to: - Environmental energy capture for battery life extension, - Environmental energy capture for battery-free sensors, - Energy storage, - Circuits, modelling and methods for energy management, - Energy aware sensing and signal processing, - Energy aware wireless modulations and communication protocols, - Case study of wireless sensor network deployment in aeronautics, space, medical, civil engineering, military applications Important dates Submission deadline: June 1, 2012 Status notification: Jun 30, 2012 Camera-ready due: July 15, 2012 Conference: September 11-14, 2012 More details can be found in the attached CFP. I apologize if you receive this announcement more than once. Please forward this email to possibly interested colleagues. Kind regards Dr. Rudolf Sollacher Siemens AG Corporate Technology Corporate Research and Technologies CT T DE TC3 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81739 München, Deutschland Tel.: +49 89 636-53158 Fax: +49 89 636-49767 Mobil: +49 152 22797987 _mailto:rudolf.sollacher@siemens.com_ Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Gerhard Cromme; Vorstand: Peter Löscher, Vorsitzender; Roland Busch, Brigitte Ederer, Klaus Helmrich, Joe Kaeser, Barbara Kux, Hermann Requardt, Siegfried Russwurm, Peter Y. Solmssen, Michael Süß; Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin und München, Deutschland; Registergericht: Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 12300, München, HRB 6684; WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 23691322

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Fwd: ICNC 2013 - San Diego (Paper deadline: July 5)
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICNC 2013 - San Diego (Paper deadline: July 5) Datum: Mon, 7 May 2012 19:24:54 -0700 Von: info(a)conf-icnc.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PAPERS ICNC 2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications San Diego, USA January 28-31, 2013 http://www.conf-icnc.org/2013/ International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a premier conference in the computer and communication fields. ICNC 2013 is to be held in San Diego during Jan. 28-31, 2013. We invite you to submit your technical papers to the following areas: Cloud Computing and Networking Cognitive Computing and Networking Multimedia Computing and Communications Green Computing, Communications and Networking Mobile Computing and Vehicle Communications Internet Services and Applications Optical and Grid Networking Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluations Wireless Communications Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Wireless Networks Signal Processing for Communications Communications QoS and System Modeling Communications and Information Security Data Storage Technologies and Applications Papers are required to be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/N12265). It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) as well as the requirement set by EDAS paper submission system. The maximum length of ICNC paper without over-length charge is FIVE (5) pages. The authors are allowed to pay for up to TWO (2) additional pages with over length charge. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under consideration for publication in another journal of conference. The organizing committee of ICNC reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include title, abstract, keywords, author and affiliation with email address.Â Â All submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC team and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. All accepted and presented papers in main program and workshops will be included in IEEE Xplore database, which is EI indexed. Selected high-quality papers will be invited to publish an extended version on a Special Issue at Journal of Communications. ICNC 2013 TPC Team http://www.conf-icnc.org/2013/

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IJDSN Special Issue on "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions"
by Lars Wolf 08 May '12

08 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IJDSN Special Issue on "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions" Datum: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:43:54 -0300 Von: regina(a)dc.ufscar.br An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> *** Call for Papers *** International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks - IJDSN Special Issue "Deploying Real-Life WSN Applications: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions" Website: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/791617/cfp/ Deadline: Friday, 25 May 2012 Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) area has been widely explored by researchers worldwide. With the continuous advances of technology, WSNs are increasingly being deployed in a myriad of real-life applications. Although many researchers consider WSNs mature enough for real-life applications, important but also conflicting challenges remain as open issues: from the need for accurate and stable sensor nodes (yet keeping size small and energy consumption low) to the demand for deploying reliable and robust applications (yet coping with WSN limited resources). This special issue focuses on deploying real-life WSN applications and corresponding complexity, robustness, and reliability conflicting issues, solutions, guidelines, and future directions. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Deploying real-life smart buildings, homes, offices, and classrooms; assistive medicine; structural monitoring; intelligent transportation systems; surveillance; industrial control; precision agriculture; intrusion detection; target tracking; environmental monitoring; emergency response management 2. The challenges of deploying real-life WSN applications 3. Localization/positioning in real-life WSN applications 4. Deploying reliable and robust WSN applications in harsh environments 5. Guidelines for deploying real-life WSN applications 6. Real-life WSN applications and integration to the Internet 7. Experimental evaluation of WSN applications performance 8. Experimental results for real-life WSN applications versus simulation results 9. Real-life WSN applications with actuators and mobile nodes and sinks 10. Future directions in deploying real-life WSN applications Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. 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: Friday, 25 May 2012 First Round of Reviews: Friday, 17 August 2012 Publication Date: Friday, 12 October 2012 Editors: Regina B. Araujo, Computer Science Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Carlos Henrique C. Ribeiro, Computer Science Division, Department of Computer Theory, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil Damla Turgut, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Jo Ueyama, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Torsten Braun, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland ============================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ 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: [Mitglieder-info] CFP: WASA-NGI-V co-located with IEEE LCN 2012
by Lars Wolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mitglieder-info] CFP: WASA-NGI-V co-located with IEEE LCN 2012 Datum: Mon, 07 May 2012 13:20:08 +0200 Von: Oliver Waldhorst <waldhorst(a)kit.edu> An: KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de, mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de (We apologize for duplicate copies) *** Submission deadline is 05/12/2012, five days to go! CALL FOR PAPERS: WASA-NGI-V - 5th Int. Workshop on Architectures, Services, and Applications for the Next Generation Internet Collocated with IEEE LCN 2012 in Clearwater, FL, USA October 22-25, 2012 http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/vs/wasangi5/ WORKSHOP SCOPE The 5th Workshop on Architectures, Services and Applications invites researchers and practitioners to share their ideas on novel network architectures and services to support emerging data-intensive Internet applications. The workshop focuses especially on architectures and services that expose high flexibility for scaling applications and also provide efficient processing of data streams. This includes all aspects related to QoS, mobility, heterogeneity, and interoperability while employing the possibilities of novel communication technologies. WORKSHOP TOPICS The workshop solicits contributions regarding novel and possibly preliminary research results related, but not limited to the following list of topics: * Novel data-intensive Internet applications and their requirements for Future Internet architectures and services * New Internet architectures and services enabling scalable and flexible deployment of data-intensive Internet applications * Elastic functions and supporting data distribution networks, e.g., using server and/or network virtualization * Peer-to-peer and service overlay networks for building communication services with support for QoS, mobility, heterogeneity, and interoperability * Communication paradigms and models for data intensive computing, e.g., event processing, publish/subscribe, map reduce, group communication * Solutions for data-gathering over heterogeneous network technologies, e.g., global sensor networks, delay-tolerant networks and so on SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted in PDF format via the workshop page. Contributions should present novel and possibly preliminary research results (up to 8 camera-ready pages in 10 pt IEEE format). Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the program committee. Papers are selected according to their originality, quality, and relevance to the workshop topics. Accepted papers will appear in the LCN Workshop proceedings and will be published within the IEEE digital library. For accepted papers, at least one author must register for the workshop and give a presentation at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 05/12/2012 Author notification: 06/30/2012 Camera-ready version: 07/28/2012 Registration deadline: TBA ORGANIZATION Co-Chairs Roland Bless (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Boris Koldehofe (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Oliver Waldhorst (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Program Committee Bengt Ahlgren (SICS, Sweden) Erik-Oliver Blass (Northeastern University, USA) Torsten Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland) Paolo Costa (Imperial College London, UK) Phuong H. Ha (University of Tromsø, Norway) David Hilley (Google, USA) Marco Hoffmann (Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany) Martin Karsten (University of Waterloo, Kanada) Dae Young Kim (Chungnam National University, South Korea) Sam Michiels (KU Leuven, Belgium) Hugo Miranda (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Jörg Ott (Aalto University, Finnland) Benno Overeinder (NLnet Labs, Netherlands) Marina Papatriantafilou (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Moritz Steiner (Bell Labs, USA) Kurt Tutschku (University of Vienna, Austria) Stefan Weber (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Jin Zhao (Fudan University, China) _______________________________________________ Mitglieder-info mailing list Mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mitglieder-info

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15th MSWiM 2012: 1st ACM HP-MOSYS Workshop CFP
by Tasos Dagiuklas 07 May '12

07 May '12

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================================== ========================================================================== CFP for the 1st ACM Workshop on ³High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems² HP-MOSys 2012 To be held in conjunction with The 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 21-25 2012 Paphos, Cyprus In cooperation with R8 IEEE COMSOC (pending) URL: http://www.cs.unic.ac.cy/cmavrom/MOSys.htm ========================================================================== Description of workshop Opportunistic networks are an emerging networking paradigm where communication between the source and destination occurs on-the-fly and depends on the availability of communication links. Opportunistic communication paradigm heavily benefits from the heterogeneous networking and communication infrastructure that currently exist, e.g., mobile networks, P2P networks, with the supporting technologies in data management and system interoperability. Motivated by further examining recent advances in this field and promoting the optimization of the existing methodologies and/or approaches, as well as presenting efficient high performance techniques for extending the survivability of such systems, both in terms of performance and reliability, we are interested in organizing this workshop with the following primary objectives: § Explore new and innovative ideas and improvements of opportunistic networks that can affect the overall performance of the system; § Explore the impact of wireless mobility and resource management in order to offer high performance and resource availability in today¹s computing systems. The workshop also aims at presenting state-of-the-art research and future trends in mobile and heterogeneous opportunistic networking and applications, combining the mobile communication, mobility and resource management field, and in a research pathway in order to present the various concepts that contribute to enable high performance computing. Workshop details Original research contributions in all areas of High performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems and/or applications are welcome. Particularly the papers aim to present work in the following topical areas: Failure-aware resource management for high-availability computing in opportunistic systems Agent-based approaches for high performance computing systems Coordinated control for Mobile high-availability computing Resource management and efficient resource manipulation Resource availability for high performance and reliability computing System resource reliability and dependable computing Self-Managing and Reconfigurable System Context-aware computing for high performance Distributed Mobile Opportunistic systems and Networking Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowdsensing Cloud Computing for high-availability computing Performance Evaluation of computing systems Resource management in Clusters and Grids Opportunistic, Delay-tolerant and Hybrid Networks Mobility models for opportunistic networks Novel Architectures, supporting Middleware, Prototypes and Testbeds Dissemination and Caching in Opportunistic Networks Social-aware Opportunistic Networking Security, Trust, Privacy and Cooperation in Opportunistic Networks Analysis of Opportunistic Protocols Any Mobile Opportunistic Networks technology for the provision of reliable applications/ services and high-performance computing Systems¹ Modeling and Simulation for measuring and enabling high-performance Mobile Opportunistic systems Large Scale Mobile Opportunistic Systems and schemes for high-performance computing Middleware(s) for high-performance computing in Mobile Opportunistic systems Opportunistic social networking for disaster and emergency situations, Mobile Opportunistic healthcare in remote regions Distributed architectures for system reliability and Self-configurable Computing Wireless systems¹ simulation based Performance Analysis Workshop Chairs ------------------ Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Tasos Dagiuklas, Department of Telecommunications and Network Systems, Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi-Greece TPC members ------------- Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, China Michele Albano, IT, Portugal Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Jianwei Niu, Beihang University, China Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Hsing-Lung Chen, NTUST, Taiwan Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, University of Science and Technology, Jordan Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain George Mastorakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Ioannis Krontiris, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Katerina Mitrokotsa, EPFL-I&C-ISC-LASEC, Lausanne, Switzerland Evangelos Pallis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Ricardo Lent, Imperial College London, London, UK Bechir Hamdaoui, Oregon State University, USA Kun Ming Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Yu (Jason) Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Chang Wu (James) Yu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSIONS: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. Paper length should be no more than 8 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present each paper. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - paper title - short abstract - complete list of authors and their affiliations - contact person for correspondence (please check that the correct e-mail is configured on the EDAS system) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system (http://edas.info/). IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Registration: 8th May, 2012 Author Submission: 13th May, 2012

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Fwd: [AutomotiveUI'12] 3rd call for submissions (October 17-19, 2012, Portsmouth, NH, USA)
by Lars Wolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

Andreas Riener <riener(a)pervasive.jku.at> schrieb: [our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] _____________________________________________ | 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces | | and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI'12) | | | | October 17-19, 2012, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA | | | | Conference website: http://www.auto-ui.org | | | | Submission deadline (Papers) rapidly approaching: June 1st, 2012! | _____________________________________________ AutomotiveUI, the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, is the premier forum for UI research in the automotive domain. AutomotiveUI brings together researchers and practitioners interested in both the technical and the human aspects of in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. AutomotiveUI'12 will investigate novel in-vehicle services, issues related to driver distraction, approaches to improving driver performance, and the varying needs of different user groups. In addition AutomotiveUI'12 will explore the relationship between these topics and automotive user interface standards. _____________________________________________ | TOPICS |---------------------------- AutomotiveUI'12 invites you to submit original work in one or more of the following formats: full and short papers, workshops, posters, interactive demonstrations, and industrial show-cases. Topics include, but are not limited to: * New concepts for in-car user interfaces (multi modal, speech, audio, gestural, natural I/O) * Text input and output while driving * Interfaces to control in-car entertainment * Evaluation and benchmarking of in-car user interfaces * Assistive technology in the vehicular context * Methods and tools for automotive user interface research * Automotive user interface frameworks and toolkits * Detecting and estimating user intentions * Emotional state recognition while driving * Techniques for cognitive workload and/or visual demand estimation * Biometrics and physiological sensors as a user interface component * Detecting/measuring driver distraction * Sensors and context for interactive experiences in the car * User interfaces for information access (search, browse) while driving * User interfaces for navigation or route guidance * Applications and user interfaces for inter-vehicle communication * In-car gaming and entertainment * Different user groups and user group characteristics * In-situ studies of automotive user interface approaches * General automotive user experience research * Topics associated with automotive user interface standards * Vehicle based apps, web/cloud enabled connectivity * The role of subliminal cues and feedback to augment driving behavior -------------------------| IMPORTANT DATES |------------------------ Please check the conference webpage at <www.auto-ui.org> for further information and/or any changes to submission deadlines. * Full and Short Papers: June 1st, 2012 * Workshop Proposals: July 6th, 2012 * Work-in-progress, Demos: September 7th, 2012 * Industrial Showcase: September 7th, 2012 -----------------------| ORGANIZING COMMITTEE |--------------------- * General Chair (chair(a)auto-ui.org) - Andrew L. Kun, University of New Hampshire, USA * Paper Co-Chairs (papers(a)auto-ui.org) - Linda Boyle, University of Washington, USA - Bryan Reimer, MIT AgeLab, USA - Andreas Riener, University of Linz, Austria * Program Committee - for an overview see <http://www.auto-ui.org/12/organizer.php>; ---------------------------| PUBLISHING |--------------------------- We plan to publish the AutomotiveUI'12 proceedings online via the ACM Digital Library. The adjunct proceedings of AutomotiveUI'12 will be published online at the conference website. Proceedings may be also considered for printing under a ISBN carrier. Join us this October for stimulating discussions and for beautiful views of the New England fall foliage.

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IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications
by Tasos Dagiuklas 04 May '12

04 May '12

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- IEEE Workshop on Quality of Experience for Multimedia Communications -QoEMC2012 (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2012) Anaheim, California, Friday December 7, 2012 Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications of the IEEE Communications Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- It is now widely acknowledged that the adoption of new multi-modal media necessitates mechanisms in order to assess and evaluate perceived multimedia quality. The problem of understanding and enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE) in complex, distributed and diverse environments has been and is continuing to be the subject of intense research investigation. Considerable efforts have been devoted to assessing QoE via objective or subjective means for new and emerging multimedia services over modern fixed/mobile devices (e.g. IPTV/HDTV/3DTV, Tablet video call, 3D smartphone). As of today though we do not know how to manage and control QoE in a diverse heterogeneous environment. The variables that affect QoE are just too many and span several disciplinary areas, including multiple technologies, but also psychology and sociology factors. Despite the efforts devoted to QoE studies, managing and controlling user QoE is still an open issue. Topics of interest The Second Annual Workshop of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) focusing onQuality of Experience for Multimedia Communications Workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry, to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * QoE relation and mapping to QoS * KPI and KQI for the QoE definition * QoE models, their applications and use cases * QoE inference from user behavior * QoE evaluation methodologies and metrics (subjective, objective, online versus offline) * QoE for new wireless multimedia applications * QoE-based routing and resource management * QoE-aware cross-layer design * QoE-based optimization in heterogeneous environments * QoE Metrics for various media applications * QoE Control, Monitoring and Management strategies * Standardization activities for QoE Submission Procedure Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-pages standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references). Please refer to the workshop web pages for submission instructions: http://qoe.diee.unica.it All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012 proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Extended versions ofselected best papers will be recommended for publication in Special Issues of prestigious International Journals. Workshop Co-Chairs: Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Tasos Dagiuklas, TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece Chang Wen Chen, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, Italy Important Dates Manuscript submission: June 1, 2012 Acceptance Notification: July 10, 2012 Camera-ready: August 1, 2012

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Fwd: [InternetTC] Call for Papers - MOBILWARE 2012 - 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications (fwd)
by Lars Wolf 04 May '12

04 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] Call for Papers - MOBILWARE 2012 - 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications (fwd) Datum: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:51:24 -0300 Von: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)INF.UFSC.BR> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG ============================================================================ 5th International ICST Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, OSs, and Applications - MOBILWARE 2012 Annual Theme: "Mobile Middleware for M2M Interaction and Smart City Applications" 13-14 November, 2012 Berlin, Germany http://mobilware.org/ ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS - The conference is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries - Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more - Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for journal submission (fast review track) to "ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications" and "ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments". - Mobilware 2012 will be held in conjunction with the 3rd FOKUS FUSECO Forum on Future Seamless Communication, Berlin, Germany, November 15 & 16, 2012, www.fuseco-forum.org/2012 CALL FOR PAPERS [Scope] The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people and machines to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of these pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. [Topics] The conference solicits original technical papers, not previously published and not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New middleware concepts for mobile devices - Mobile middleware enabling M2M communication - People-centric collaborative sensing - Scalable processing and data analytics over mobile sensors-generated datastreams - Smart space/city middleware and applications - Middleware for mobile cloud computing - Novel applications and communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, and home networks - End-to-end architectures for seamless ubiquitous service provisioning and deployment - Integration of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks - QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant mobile and wireless networking - Location-aware and context-aware networking and computing - Energy-efficient applications, services and middleware - Mobility and handoff management - Location and tracking support and services - Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices - Modeling, simulation, and performance evaluation of mobile wireless systems and services - Trustworthiness, security, and privacy of mobile and wireless systems - Thin client technologies, Mobile Web APIs, BONDI, WAC, Html5 - Impact of IMS, RCS, RCS-e, EPC and LTE on the evolution of mobile middleware [Publications] Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). LNICST volumes are submitted for inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus. [Best paper award] The program committee will designate one paper accepted to the conference as MOBILWARE 2012 Best Paper. The winner will be declared during the conference. [Journal Special Issues] Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for journal submission (fast review track) to "ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications" and "ICST Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments". [Tutorial proposals] Proposals for Tutorials are solicited. Potential Tutorial organizers are requested to submit a three-page proposal in PDF format, including a biographical sketch of each proponent and a short bibliographical reference list, to the Tutorial Chair by June 8, 2012. The tutorials can be full or half-day long. Proposal evaluation will be based on proponents' expertise and tutorial relevance to the conference. [Paper submission] All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at: http://mobilware.org/2012/show/initial-submission. [Important dates] Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: August 17, 2012 Camera Ready Deadline: September 14, 2012 Conference Date: 13-14 November, 2012 [Conference organising committees] General Chairs: Paolo Bellavista - University of Bologna (Italy) Thomas Magedanz - FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) TPC Co-Chairs: Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) Florian Schreiner, FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute (Germany) Tutorial Chair: Iulian Sandu Popa, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (France) Publicity Chair: Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) Publications and Web Chair: Carlo Giannelli, University of Bologna (Italy) ICST IS A MEMBER OF EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. 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Fwd: IEEE PQoSCOM 2012 co-located with IEEE Cluster2012, Beijing, China, Sep.24, 2012
by Lars Wolf 03 May '12

03 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [cfp]IEEE PQoSCOM 2012 co-located with IEEE Cluster2012,Beijing,China,Sep.24, 2012 Datum: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:43:43 +0800 Von: pqoscom12(a)gmail.com An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers of IEEE PQoSCOM2012 WORKSHOP. co-located with IEEE Cluster 2012 September 24, 2012, Beijing North Star Continental Grand Hotel,Beijing, China http://cloud.hdu.edu.cn/PQoSCom/ Important Dates: Workshop Paper Due: May 20th, 2012 Author Notification: June 15th, 2012 Camera-ready Paper Due: July 7th, 2012 Special Issues: All the accepted papers in this workshop will be published in the IEEE Cluster 2012 Proceedings and indexed by EI. Extensions of selected papers in this workshop will be published in the special issues of the following SCI journals: Elsevier Future Generation Computer System(SCI I.F./2.365) Information Systems Frontiers(Springer, SCI I.F./1.596) Description Power is becoming a critical resource to not only mobile, wireless, and battery-powered devices, but also large-scale server systems and data centers. Lower power consumption can significantly extend the usage time of battery-powered devices or reduce heat-related malfunctions and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise server systems and data centers. However, existing solutions for power aware computing mostly focus on the power reduction of the targeted computing systems at the sacrifice of QoS (Quality of Service) performance. Due to the high-density of service consolidation and development of new applications and the increasing number of users with heterogeneous requests, providing users with QoS guarantees while executing applications and saving power consumption has become a crucial problem that needs to be addressed for various computing systems. Moreover, with active deployment of multi-core and many-core architecture, virtualization and the emerging cloud comp! uting infrastructure, power and QoS constraints raise more challenges and have negative impacts on system performance. Hence, various aspects of power and QoS aware related solutions, such as algorithms design, performance evaluation and analysis, and prototypical implementation are required to make the computing system more power efficient with little loss of QoS performance. This workshop focuses on the challenges imposed by power and QoS constraints on computing systems, and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges. 2012 International Workshop on Power and QoS Aware Computing (PQoSCom2012) is a forum for professionals involved in energy efficiency and QoS constraints in parallel and distributed computing systems and data center operations and management. The goal of this workshop is to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of power aware and QoS constrained computing and bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. We believe that power and QoS aware computing will benefit from close interaction between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new research. In support of this, PQoSCom 2012 will provide a forum for both academics and industry practitioners to share their ideas and experiences, discuss challenges and recent advances, introduce developments and tools, identify open issues, present applications and enhancements for power and QoS aware computi! ng systems and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new/emerging trends in this important area. We therefore cordially invite contributions that investigate these issues, introduce new execution environments, apply performance evaluations and show the applicability to science and enterprise applications. We welcome various different kinds of papers that could formalize, simplify and optimize all the aspects of existing large scale computing systems and applications in science, engineering and business. We particularly encourage the submission of position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages, and papers about practical experiences and lessons learned from production systems. Papers of applied research, industrial experience reports, work-in-progress and vision papers with different criteria for each category that describe recent advances and efforts in the design and development of power and QoS aware computing, functionalities and capabilities that will benefit many applications are also solicited. List of topics Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Novel Power-aware Architectures for Various Kind of Computing Systems Power and QoS Optimization Power and QoS Tradeoff Modeling and Simulation Power and QoS Performance Evaluation Power and QoS Aware Scheduling Power and QoS Aware Load Balancing QoS Specification, Formulation, Quantification and Verification Instrumentation, Profiling, and Measuring of Power Consumption Power and QoS awareness and Management at All Levels Virtualization Multi/Many Core Grid/Cluster/Cloud/Mobile/ Embedded Computing Power-aware Real Time Systems Power Reduction Algorithms & Applications Survey/Reviews of Power and QoS Challenges of Modern Computing Systems Power Efficiency and Thermal Management in Data Centers Power and QoS Aware Storage and File Systems Fault Tolerance, Reliability, and Availability Green Data Intensive Computing Performance Engineering, Benchmark Design, and Run-time Power-QoS management Important dates Paper Submission: May/20/2012 Notification of Acceptance: Jun/15/2012 Final Version of the Paper: Jul/7/2012 Submission Instructions Please submit full papers in PDF or doc format via the submission system. Do not email submissions. Papers must be written in English. The complete submission must be no longer than ten (10) pages. It should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading. References should not be set in a smaller font. Submissions that violate any of these restrictions may not be reviewed. The limits will be interpreted fairly strictly, and no extensions will be given for reformatting. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 8 pages; max 2 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The names of authors and their affiliations should be included on the first page of the submission. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by outside referees. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present it. Otherwise, the paper will be excluded from the digital library of IEEE. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of their papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals. Elsevier Future Generation Computer System(SCI I.F./2.365) Information Systems Frontiers(Springer, SCI I.F./1.596) Please submit your full paper via the EasyChair System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pqoscom12 Workshop Co-Chairs Prof. R.K. Shyamasundar, IEEE FELLOW, ACM FELLOW, School of Technology & Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research,India Email: shyam(a)tcs.tifr.res.in Prof. Long Wang, Supercomputing Center, Computer Network Information Center,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China Email: wangl(a)sccas.cn Dr. Chunlei Liu, Valdosta State University,USA Email: chunlei(a)valdosta.edu Program Co-Chairs Prof. Cong-Feng Jiang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Email: cjiang(a)hdu.edu.cn Dr. Ji-Lin Zhang, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Email: jilin.zhang(a)hdu.edu.cn Program Committee Members Guoray Cai (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Hong-Linh Truong(Vienna University of Technology, Austria) R.K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) Walter Binder (University of Lugano, Switzerland) Weihui Dai(Fudan University, China) Mea Wang (University of Calgary, Canada) Kumiko Tadano (NEC, Japan) Jian Zhao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Dan Li (Tsinghua University, China) Amit Dvir (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Jie Wu (Yale/Fudan University, China) Woosung Jung, Chungbuk National University, Korea Jian Wan (Hangzhou Dianzi University, China) If you have any questions and problems, please send email to : pqoscom12(a)gmail.com.

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