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Fwd: [Tccc] Extended Deadline: SeMaPS 2012@ICSoC 2012, with journal specialissue planned
by Lars Wolf 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended Deadline: SeMaPS 2012@ICSoC 2012, with journal specialissue planned Datum: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:11:28 +0800 Von: Weishan Zhang <drzhangws(a)gmail.com> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> The 1st International Workshop on Self-Managing Pervasive Service Systems, in conjunction with ICSOC 2012, November 12-16, Shanghai, China https://sites.google.com/site/semapsworkshop/ There is a growing trend for the convergence of different computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, pervasive and mobile computing, service oriented computing. The applications of large scale Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of People (IoP) are gaining increasing attention in the converged computing world with unprecedented complexities: the management of an application is much more difficult due to large number of involved devices, events and contexts, due to the heterogeneity of networking, hardware and software; the shifting of storage and processing to cloud systems, security and privacy concerns become more challenging. All in all, applications and systems tend to become more complex than before to manage and operate in the converged world. These challenges call for useful self-managing capabilities to alleviate existing problems. The realization of self-managing pervasive service systems needs cross-discipline research, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, pervasive and mobile computing, autonomic computing, software engineering, service oriented computing which are complementary with each other. Call for papers The workshop is soliciting papers on broad topics for self-managing pervasive service system. The topics of SeMaPS 2012 workshop include but not limited to: * Software engineering research on achieving self-management capabilities in the converged computing environments, for example autonomic components, architecture driven self-management in pervasive service systems, formal methods for regulating self-management activities; * Approaches and tools for building pervasive service systems which can span across small devices and powerful computing node including cloud nodes; * Ways of improving the intelligence of self-managing systems through different computing intelligence approaches, for example the use of different computing intelligence approaches for planning in self-management features; * Approaches to self-managing capabilities in pervasive service systems, to realizing self-protection, self-optimization, self-configuration/adaptation, self-diagnosis/healing; * Context-awareness for pervasive service systems include context modelling and reasoning for self-managing systems, for example the usage of efficient pattern recoginition algorithms to recognize the current contexts, new context modeling and reasoning approaches for achieving context-awareness; * New pervasive service systems including various applications for example smart transportation systems, smart logistic systems, smart manufacturing systems and robotic systems, etc.； * Environments and tools for the development of self-managing pervasive service systems We are accepting three kinds of papers, the first are original and unpublished research papers, the second are visionary papers accepted as “work in progress” papers, the thrid are demo papers and industrial papers that shows strong application of self-managing, pervasive service systems. Workshop Organisers Weishan Zhang, Department of Software Engineering, China University of Petroleum, China. Klaus Marius Hansen, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Paolo Bellavista, DISI, Università di Bologna, Italy. Important dates Aug. 15th 2012 Paper and demo submission deadline Sept. 15th 2012 Notification of acceptance Oct. 1st 2012 Camera ready submission Paper Submission Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references and appendices). Final, camera-ready, revised paper can be submitted either in LaTex or in MSWord format. Please submit your paper using the link Semaps 2012 Submission Web Site at EasyChair. In order to be able to upload your paper (in pdf format) you have to create an account at www.easychair.org. All accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS as post conference proceedings. Selected high quality papers will be recommended to a special issue of ELSEVIER Knowledge-Based Systems (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.574, 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.454). Support and Best paper selection Students traveling grants have been settled and are open to three students. Each student will be granted 600RMB (around 95$) for the support of their travel. One best paper will also be selected based on review results. The best paper will be granted 600RMB. We also welcome well-known researchers to give a keynote talk at the workshop and some support will be considered if necessary. _______________________________________________ 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] Call for Papers: The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012)
by Lars Wolf 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012) Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:33 +0100 Von: Soufiene Djahel <sdjahel(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS VTM 2012 First International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities November 20, 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html IEEE and IFIP Technical Co-sponsorship Workshop proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline: August 25, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2012 Camera-ready version: October 20, 2012 VTM 2012 is part of Dublin Wireless Week (November 19-23) and is co-located with the 2012 Wireless Days conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the last years, researchers from both industry and academia were focusing their efforts on exploiting the advances in sensing and communication technologies to make the existing road traffic management systems more efficient. Their main goal is to improve the traveler's safety, shorten the travel time and reduce the environmental impact. Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.) and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in order to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers and authorities. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners and administrators who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications at the 2012 VTM workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular traffic management - V2V and V2I protocols for smart cities - Data collection techniques in urban environment - Data acquisition for traffic management (techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.) - Data integration in traffic management systems (semantics, interoperability, linked data, etc.) - Traffic data maintenance (privacy, provenance, security, etc.) - Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments - Vehicular routing protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms - Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless mesh Networks and VANETs applications for traffic management in smart cities - Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation - Security and QoS issues for ITS applications - V2X feasibility over LTE Networks - M2M communication for data collection in road environment - Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management - Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management - Decision making tools for road traffic management Main Sponsor: Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Papers Submission: ================== Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the workshop in PDF format. http://edas.info/N13137 General Chairs ========================================================= Georgios Theodoropoulos, IBM Research, Ireland Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland T. Russell Hsing, Peking University, China, and Jiao Tung University, Taiwan TPC Chairs: ============================ Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Piotr Szczechowiak , Telcordia/Ericsson, Poland Anthony Ventresque, University College Dublin, Ireland Organizing Committee: ==================== John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and ENSIIE, France Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Tentative list of TPC members: ============= Zonghua Zhang, Institute Telecom Lille1, France Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France Mélanie Bouroche, TCD, Ireland Krzysztof Weso?owski, PUT, Poland Mourad Amad, University of Bejaia, Algeria Onur Altintas, Toyota ITC, Japan Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France Mohamed Hamdi, Sup'Com, Tunisia Ghalem Boudour, LIG-CNRS, France Yacine Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France Raquel Morera, Verizon, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Oscar Lazaro, Innovalia, Spain Nabil Nouri Abdelkader, University of Djelfa, Algeria T. Russell Hsing, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research - Tokyo/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Elvis Sze-Yeung Liu, University of Birmingham, UK Intesab Hussain, LIPADE, France Mikael Asplund, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Francesco Calabrese, Smarter Urban Dynamics, IBM Research, Ireland See http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html -- Dr. Soufiene Djahel Research Fellow Performance Engineering Lab University College Dublin http://www.ensiie.fr/~soufiene.djahel/ _______________________________________________ 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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IJARAS Vol.3 No.3: Table of Contents and Abstracts + CfP
by Vincenzo De Florio 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

Dear Sirs, dear Madams, this is to announce issue 3 of the third volume of IJARAS, the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. Please find herein the table of contents and abstracts for IJARAS (3)3. You will also find at the bottom the call for papers for next issues of IJARAS. IJARAS is now in its third year of publication, during which it hosted many an important contribution from top-notch scholars from all over the world. A sample of this may be found in this very issue. Please consider that an Advances Book Series is now associated with IJARAS: Advances in Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (AARAS). This means that all papers published in IJARAS will also appear (possibly extended) as chapters in the volumes in this series. The first volume of this new series is available from March 2012 as "Technological Innovations in Adaptive and Dependable Systems: Advancing Models and Concepts" and may be ordered here: http://www.igi-global.com/book/technological-innovations-adaptive-dependabl… A second volume, entitled "Innovations and Approaches for Resilient and Adaptive Systems," shall be available from September 2012. An announcement of this second volume is available here: http://www.igi-global.com/book/innovations-approaches-resilient-adaptive-sy… Kind regards, Vincenzo De Florio IJARAS, Volume 3, Issue No.3 Table of Contents “User Models for Adaptive Information Retrieval on the Web: Towards an Interoperable and Semantic Model,” by M. Chevalier, C. Julien (Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France), C. Soulé-Dupuy (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, France) Abstract: Searching information can be realized thanks to specific tools called Information Retrieval Systems IRS (also called “search engines”). To provide more accurate results to users, most of such systems offer personalization features. To do this, each system models a user in order to adapt search results that will be displayed. In a multi-application context (e.g. when using several search engines for a unique query), personalization techniques can be considered as limited because the user model (also called profile) is incomplete since it does not exploit actions/queries coming from other search engines. So, sharing user models between several search engines is a challenge in order to provide more efficient personalization techniques. A semantic architecture for user profile interoperability is proposed to reach this goal. This architecture is also important because it can be used in many other contexts to share various resources models, for instance a document model, between applications. It is also ensuring the possibility for every system to keep its own representation of each resource while providing a solution to easily share it. “How to Trust: A Model for Trust Decision Making,” by M. Felici (The University of Edinburgh, UK) Abstract: This paper concerns decision-making processes that rely on trust. In particular, it analyzes how different aspects of trust (e.g. trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy evidence) influence trust decisions, and acting on them eventually. It proposes a trust decision model that structures the analysis of contextualized trust problems. Rather than seeking a general definition of trust, this paper advocates the necessity to have a structured way to analyze and characterize situational trust problems systematically. “A Variable Context Model for Adaptable Service-Based Applications,” by A. Bucchiarone (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy), C. Cappiello, E. Di Nitto, B. Pernici, and A. Sondonini (Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy) Abstract: Service-based applications (SBAs) rely on the invocation of services. The use of the service paradigm usually guarantees a high level of flexibility. In fact, applications can be easily reconfigured in order to continuously offer functionalities also in dynamic execution environments. This happens by changing the service selection and their composition. This flexibility can be exploited to design adaptable SBAs able to react to events that could happen during the application lifecycle. The execution flow of adaptable SBAs automatically changes on the basis of the context in which they are executing. The context includes information ranging from the situation in which users access the service-based applications to the status of the components involved in the execution of such applications. In this paper we propose a way to use context information to adapt SBAs. In particular, our goal is to discuss the way in which the context should be defined and managed in order to be exploited in the various activities related to the adaptation of service-based applications. “RELADO: RELiable and ADaptive Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks,” R. Bruno, M. Conti (IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy), M. Nurchis (IMT Lucca, Lucca, Italy) Abstract: Opportunistic routing is considered as one of the most promising techniques to effectively limit performance degradation in wireless mesh networks caused by unpredictable channel variations and high loss rates. This paradigm defers the selection of the next hop after the packet reception to take advantage of any opportunity provided by broadcast transmissions. Most of the existing opportunistic approaches base the forwarder selection on end-to-end principles. However, in multi-hop wireless environments the cost of a path is not uniformly distributed over space, nor constant over time, hence even two equal-cost paths might present significantly different link quality distributions one from the other. This encourages the use of localized context to implement a more accurate selection of the possible forwarders after each packet transmission. Hence, in this paper we propose RELADO, an adaptive opportunistic routing protocol able to efficiently combine end-to-end with local information to ensure transmission resilience across the network. With this flexibility, RELADO is able to reduce packet loss by ensuring the best trade-off between throughput maximization and packet progress. An extensive set of ns2 simulations confirms the potentiality of RELADO to improve network performance when compared to both legacy unicast and opportunistic routing protocols. “Dual Monitoring Communication for Self-Aware Network-on-Chip: Architecture and Case Study,” L. Guang, E. Nigussie, J. Plosila (University of Turku, Finland), H. Tenhunen (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Abstract: Self-aware and adaptive Network-on-Chip (NoC) with dual monitoring networks is presented. Proper monitoring interface is an essential prerequisite to adaptive system reconfiguration in parallel on-chip computing. This work proposes a DMC (dual monitoring communication) architecture to support self-awareness on the NoC platform. One type of monitoring communication is integrated with data channel, in order to trace the run-time profile of data communication in high-speed on-chip networking. The other type is separate from the data communication, and is needed to report the run-time profile to the supervising monitor. Direct latency monitoring on mesochronous NoC is presented as a case study. Data message latency is directly traced in the integrated communication with a novel latency monitoring table in each router. The latency information is reported by the separate monitoring communication to the supervising monitor, which reconfigures the system to adjust the latency, for instance by dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. With quantitative evaluation using synthetic traces and real applications, the effectiveness and efficiency of direct latency monitoring with DMC architecture is demonstrated. The area overhead of DMC architecture is estimated to be small in 65nm CMOS technology. ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* NEXT ISSUES SUBMISSION DATES: September 11, 2012; November 16, 2012. International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) – official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJARAS Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, Ph.D. - University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) No publication costs are charged to authors, who receive two complimentary copies of the journal. International Editorial Review Board: - Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium - Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy - Llorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples - Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil - Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy - Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland - Konrad Klockner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy - Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia - Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany - Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy - Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK - Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium - Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway MISSION OF IJARAS: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and surrounding environments. IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). IJARAS introduces a problem, which implies a research direction – a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering can be regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming a powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: IJARAS topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: * Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, analyze, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems; * Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments; * Robustness, or the emergence of desired properties throughout system evolution. In particular, emergence of safety; * Conceptual models and paradigms to express and assess evolvability; * Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation; * Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security; * Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability; * Resilience engineering; * Autonomic business process execution; * Adaptive service-oriented computing; * Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems; * Recovery-oriented computing; * Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces; * Adaptive fault-tolerance; * Adaptive fault-masking; * Adaptive data integrity; * Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics; * Adaptive and context-aware multimedia; * Personalization; * Adaptive data mining; * Adaptive fault models; * Adaptive system models; * Adaptive routing; * Autonomic applications; * Architecture-based adaptation; * "Self-*" systems; * Autonomic, adaptive, and resilient behaviors in embedded systems; * Embedded design practice covering adaptivity, autonomicity, and resilience. SUBMITTING TO IJARAS: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.p… PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be. PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. SUBMISSION: Authors may submit manuscripts at http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx Please do send also a copy to vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Vincenzo De Florio Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be www.igi-global.com/IJARAS ************************************************************ Kind regards, Vincenzo De Florio.

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Fwd: mHealthSys 2012 CFP (co-held at ACM SenSys)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: mHealthSys 2012 CFP (co-held at ACM SenSys) Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:36:29 -0400 Von: Raghu k Ganti <rganti(a)US.IBM.COM> Antwort an: Raghu k Ganti <rganti(a)US.IBM.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP] Second International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare at ACM SenSys 2012 November 6, 2012 Seattle, USA http://chad.illinois.edu/mHealthSys2012/index.html NEW: NSF travel grants will be available for students to travel and attend the workshop, details will be available on the website. Call for Papers (mHealthSys 2012) -------------------------------- The second International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare solicits innovative and original research papers related to mobile systems as applied to healthcare and wellness. We explicitly encourage submissions related to real deployments and experiences with practical systems. We would also like to encourage paper submissions with accompanying demos (a short description in the paper will suffice). We are interested in, but not limited to, the following research topics on healthcare: * Wearable sensors * Mobile sensing devices * Mobile imaging and diagnostics tools * Limitations of sensing (e.g. sampling rate, types of sensing related to healthcare and wellness monitoring) * Energy issues * Security and privacy issues * Communication challenges (in healthcare based mobile systems) * Data quality monitoring and robustness (in the mobile environments) * Realtime sensor data processing on mobile devices * Sensor data analytics * Healthcare and wellness applications on mobile devices * User (patient/medical professional) needs and its impact on system design * Real-life deployments/practical experiences Call for Demos and Posters (mHealthSys 2012) ------------------------------------------- We are also soliciting posters and demos that showcase innovative and novel mobile sensor systems for healthcare. The scope of work is described above. Demo and poster submissions should be up to 2 pages (including Tables, Figures, and References). Submissions should describe innovative ideas and systems related to mobile systems, applications, and services for healthcare. Detailed description of the demo and poster is expected. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: August 08, 2012, 11:59 pm EST Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 09, 2012 Demo and Poster Submission Deadline: September 23, 2012, 11:59 pm EST Notification of Demo and Poster Acceptance: September 30, 2012 Accepted papers and demos/posters will be included in the ACM electronics proceedings. mHealthSys 2012 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ General Chair: Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center) TPC co-Chairs: John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) and Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Steering Committee ------------------ John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) Octav Chipara (University of Iowa) Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan) James Eadie (Sante Ventures) Emre Ertin (OSU) Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Stephen Intille (Northeastern University) Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis) John Lach (University of Virginia) Karin Nielsen (UCLA) Wendy Nilsen (OBSSR NIH) Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA) Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Soundararajan Srinivasan (Robert Bosch Resarch) Hari Sundaram (ASU) Lakshman Tamil (UT Dallas) Ashok Veeraraghavan (Rice University) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T J Watson Research Center) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CfP: JSAC Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CfP: JSAC Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:25:52 +0200 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> Antwort an: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.gr/2012/07/jsac-special-issue-adapt… Recently, traditional TV services, Internet TV and mobile streaming services have started converging, and it is expected that this convergence trend will continue with other services. Additionally, new emerging multimedia services are being introduced. These developments in the multimedia arena mean that various content and services will be delivered over different networks, and the users expect to consume these services using those networks, depending on the availability and reach of the network at the time of consumption. This massive heterogeneity in terms of terminal/network capabilities and user expectations requires efficient solutions for the transport of modern media in an interoperable and universal fashion. In particular, in recent years, the Internet has become an important channel for the delivery of multimedia. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is widely used on the Internet and it has also become a primary protocol for the delivery of multimedia content. Additionally, standards developing organizations (SDOs) such as MPEG have developed various technologies for multimedia transport and encapsulation, e.g., MPEG2-TS (Transport Stream) and MPEG4 file format. These technologies have been widely adopted and are heavily deployed by various providers and in different applications and services, such as digital broadcasting, audio and video transport over the Internet and streaming to mobile phones, etc. At the same time, many other SDOs such as the IETF, IEEE, and 3GPP have provided various protocols to deliver multimedia content packetized or packaged by such MPEG transport technologies. This special issue solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of Adaptive Streaming of Multimedia. The main objectives of this special issue are (but not limited to): - Efficient delivery of multimedia content in an adaptive, progressive download/streaming fashion (incl. over HTTP); - Support for streaming of live multimedia, to mobile users, low-capacity channels, bandwidth variations, as well as multipoint streaming over heterogeneous channels or paths; - Efficient and ease of use of existing content distribution infrastructure components such as CDNs, proxies, caches, NATs and firewalls; - Efficient content generation (encoding) techniques for content delivery (e.g., segmentation); - Detailed performance analyses of deployed standard technologies or that uncover and rectify major problems in the behavior of such technologies; - Measurement techniques for collecting consumption data (both application and transport-level performance metrics, viewer behavior, etc.) in content delivery; - The effects of adaptation techniques on the end-user quality of experience; - Viewer experiences from large-scale experiments and events (such as Olympics, World Cup, etc.). Submission Procedure ==================== Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the 'Information for Authors' section of the JSAC guidelines (http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html). Papers should be submitted through EDAS (http://www.edas.info). Prior to submitting their papers for review, authors should make sure that they understand and agree to adhere to the over-length page charge policy presented in the JSAC guidelines. Important Dates =============== 1st Submission: Apr 1, 2013 Reviews Available: Jul 1, 2013 2nd Submission: Aug 31, 2013 Final Acceptance Decision: Oct 31, 2013 Camera-ready: Dec 1, 2013 Publication: 2nd quarter 2014 Guest Editors ============= Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Ali C. Begen, CISCO, Canada Thomas Stockhammer, QUALCOMM, USA Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA Contact: Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer(a)itec.aau.at, http://research.timmerer.com ############################ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list: write to: mailto:MM-INTEREST-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE ANTS 2012: Call for Papers CFP (Bengaluru, India - Dec 2012)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE ANTS 2012: Call for Papers CFP (Bengaluru, India - Dec 2012) Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:34:53 -0700 Von: Ming Xia <xiaming.ucd(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ****************************************************************************** UPDATE: Select papers presented at the IEEE ANTS conference have been featured in special issues of the Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking (OSN) journal (SCI indexed). CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) IEEE ANTS 2012 Bengaluru (Bangalore), India December 16-19, 2012 http://www.ieee-comsoc-ants.org *Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc)* EDAS link for paper submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=12149 Scope: We are witnessing a paradigm shift in networking where the end user demands and cloud computing based service paradigms are influencing evolving network architectures, system designs and service delivery models. Over-the-Top (OTT) players, consumer electronic vendors, IT providers and 3rd party software developers have entered the service delivery value chain fostering an open environment challenging the hegemony of traditional network operators. IT & Telecom, hitherto distinct domains, are now spoken of as ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) symbolizing the close interworking of these disciplines in the emerging service delivery architectures. Different vertical industries such as energy utilities, healthcare, automotive, banking & finance, retail, media entertainment are leveraging network technologies in innovative ways to offer branded services directly or in partnership with network providers. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) have opened new vistas for communications and networking technologies. ANTS is the premier IEEE forum on networking and telecommunications topics in India. The distinguishing characteristic of IEEE ANTS is the promotion of an intense dialogue between academia and industry to bridge the gap between academic research, industry initiatives and governmental policies. This is fostered through panel discussions, keynotes, and invited talks where academia is exposed to state-of-practice and results from industry trials, and interoperability experiments. The industry is benefited in turn by exposure to leading-edge research in networking as well the opportunity to communicate to academic researchers which practical problems require further research. Further, an opportunity is provided to discuss governmental policies and make recommendations as appropriate to promote an innovation economy in India. Motivated by the tremendous success of the first five IEEE ANTS events in Mumbai in 2007, 2008, 2010, in New Delhi in 2009, and in Bangalore in 2011, the theme of 2012 event is on enabling content enriched personalized communication over "green" networks while delivering exemplary user experience on any connected device. To address this theme, the conference will feature a rich industry program comprising of keynote talks, panel discussions as well as a high quality technical program of peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, and invited talks on relevant topics bringing together experts from industry, academia and government. IEEE ANTS 2012 will provide an exciting meeting ground for the confluence and exchange of ideas among participants from all over the world. The conference will be held again in Bangalore during December 16-19, 2012. IEEE ANTS 2012 will feature both long and short papers in three broad areas. These areas are: 1. Wireline Networks (including topics such as): - Cloud and data center networks - Core network architectures and protocols - Metro and access networks - Optical networks - Router and switch architectures - Storage networks 2. Wireless Networks (including topics such as): - Ad hoc mobile networks - Cellular and broadband wireless networks - Cognitive radio networking - Mobility models and mobile networks - Optical wireless (free space optics) - Sensor networks and embedded systems - Wireless access networks - Wireless mesh networks 3. Network Applications (including topics such as): - Cyber-physical systems and networks - M-Health, E-Health and Smart Healthcare - Energy-Efficient Green networking and Sustainability - IPTV, Video-on-Demand, Telepresence, Collaboration tools - Online social networking - Peer-to-peer networks - Smartphone networked apps - Security, trust and privacy - Embedded Analytics Of particular interest are papers which address challenges in the emerging economies in the networking and telecommunication sectors and which address the conference theme of enabling content enriched personalized communication over "green" networks while delivering exemplary user experience on any connected device. Authors are strongly encouraged to address topics of interest to both industry and academia. Submission Guidelines: Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using EDAS (http://edas.info). All papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by a technical program committee. All accepted and presented papers would be digitally archived through IEEE Xplore. The page limits are SIX pages for the long paper track and THREE pages for the short paper track. Papers should be in PDF format, two columns, font size 10 or greater and compliant with other IEEE ANTS manuscript guidelines. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an IEEE copyright release form and present their paper at the conference. IEEE and IEEE Communications Society Policies: All IEEE ANTS 2012 technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the FULL rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline August 13th , 2012 Notification of acceptance October 8th, 2012 Registration deadline for authors October 30th, 2012 Deadline for Early/ Discounted Registration October 30th, 2012 Conference dates: December 16 - 19, 2012 Tutorials: December 16, 2012 Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Sanjay Nayak, Tejas Networks Deepak Kataria, IPJunction Inc Technical Program Chairs: Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine Debasish Datta, IIT Kharagpur Goutam Das, IIT Kharagpur Industry Chairs: Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Avaya Srinidhi Saragur, SJB Research Foundation Panels Chairs: PVG Menon, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Mansoor Alicherry, Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent Publications Chair: Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Tutorial Chair: Vijay Mann, IBM Research India Web Chair and Graphics Designer: Sachin B. Shetty (HP Labs, India) Local Outreach & Arrangements Chair: Neeraj Gupta, Formulate IP Steering Committee: Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India (Chair) Rudra Dutta, NCSU, USA Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Deepak Kataria, IPJunction Inc, USA International Advisory Committee: Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis, USA (Chair) I. Vijaya Kumar, Wipro, Bengaluru, India Viswanath (Vishy) Poosala, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India PVG Menon, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Tulika Pandey, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India ****************************************************************************** Best regards, Ming Xia _______________________________________________ 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] Ad Hoc Networks: Special issue on Security, Privacy, and Trust Management ...
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Ad Hoc Networks: Special issue on Security, Privacy, and Trust Management ... Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:08:29 +0000 Von: Sanaa Sharafeddine <sanaa.sharafeddine(a)lau.edu.lb> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS – A Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks on “Security, Privacy and Trust Management in the Internet of Things era (SePriT)” http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Important dates Submission deadline: September 15<x-apple-data-detectors://2>th<x-apple-data-detectors://2>2012<x-apple-data-detectors://2> Notification of acceptance: January 15<x-apple-data-detectors://3>th<x-apple-data-detectors://3> 2013<x-apple-data-detectors://3> A primary aim of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to deliver personalised or even autonomic services to individuals, building on a pervasive digital ecosystem that collects information from and offers control over devices that are embedded in our everyday lives. The extraordinary power of this vision is expected to lead to fundamental social change: it will affect the way in which we interact with our environment and each other, and will result in the creation of new business opportunities and new business models. However, the embedded nature of the technology and a lack of awareness of its potential social and personal consequences, as balanced against the more clearly articulated benefits, makes a special issue dedicated to security, privacy and trust very timely. Amongst other things, the reliance of IoT on simple, cheap, (inter)networked processors has profound implications on security; the potentially invasive nature of the information gathered has implications on privacy; and the implicit reliance on technology to make decisions on one's behalf makes mechanisms for expressing and reasoning about trust essential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Addressing novel security challenges for the IoT, including use cases, threat models, protocols, and underlying technologies * Privacy and (limited) anonymity in the IoT: threats, mechanisms, guarantees, and policing * Trust management in the IoT * Interaction design for the IoT, with particular emphasis on providing trustworthy information from and control over ‘things’ to end users. * Legal, social and ethical issues in the IoT – in both developed and developing countries. * Real case studies For more details, please visit http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Important dates Submission deadline: September 15th 2012 Notification: January 15th 2013 Editor in Chief Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Guest Editors Sabrina Sicari, Università degli studi dell’Insubria Stephen Hailes, Univerisity College of London Uday Desai, Indian Institute of technology Hyderabad Sanaa Sharafeddine, Lebanese American University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida _______________________________________________ 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: Elsevier ComCom - SI on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Elsevier ComCom - SI on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:00:04 -0300 Von: Eduardo Cerqueira <cerqueira.ufpa(a)gmail.com> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, resd-l(a)sbc.org.br ============================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= Elsevier - Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking *** Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 *** =========================================================================== In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the Future Internet. User demands for multimedia access anywhere, anytime from any device are creating new challenges for research communities from both academia and industry. It is expected that multimedia services alone will account for 90 per-cent of all consumer network traffic in few years and we will continue to witness the explosive growth in users sharing multimedia content over future multimedia networks. In this context, novel network, application, green, monitoring, measurement, optimization, storage and user-based approaches must be created to deal with such complex multimedia systems. The emphasis of the SI will be put on discussion about state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to all aspects of human-centric multimedia networking. This Special Issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions addressing areas that include, but are not limited to the following: - Social multimedia networking - Future Internet architectures for human-centric multimedia networking - Emerging human-centric multimedia services and applications (gaming, 3D video, surveillance, sensing) - Context awareness and human-computer confluence - Novel human-centric network management and provisioning - Human-centric multimedia search and retrieval - Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics and optimization - Ethical issues in multimedia surveillance and Internet monitoring - systems and algorithms for safeguarding of information - Human-centric models and systems Tentative Schedule Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 Author notification: January 15, 2013 Revised paper due: March 1st 2013 Final author notification: April 15, 2013 Guest Editors Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para, Para, Brazil Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Eng Keong Lua, Monash University, Sunway, Malaysia / Melbourne, Australia Mikołaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Instructions for submission: The submission Web-site for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "SIHuman-Centric Multimedia" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. _______________________________________________ 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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[AutoUI 2012 CfP] - "The Social Car" (socially-inspired C2X interaction)
by Andreas Riener 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

[our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | WORKSHOP "The Social Car" (socially-inspired C2X interaction) | | | | Portsmouth, NH, USA; October 17th 2012 | | colocated with AutomotiveUI 2011 (http://www.auto-ui.org/12) | | | | Workshop website: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar/ | | Submission deadline (position papers): August 26th, 2012 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------| WORKSHOP SUMMARY |-------------------------- This workshop aims at discussing the potential of cars' socializing one with the other (similar to how humans are exchanging information), and not just translating the Internet of things (IoT) paradigm into the car domain. With the introduction of the concept of "social cars" we attempt to make a blueprint of next generation in-vehicle technologies. This is different from what the Internet of things (IoT) community is talking about in the sense that IoT is sufficient if it has its own ID that could be passively identifiable, whereas social cars have more autonomous capability, so they could serve as a more active and even interactive social being. The central objective is to provoke an active debate on the adequacy of the concept of socializing cars, addressing questions such as who can communicate what, when, how, and why? To tackle these questions we would like to invite researchers to take part in an in-depth discussion of this timely, relevant, and important field of investigation." ---------------------------| Workshop Themes |-------------------------- Potential topics to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Social norm in the automotive domain * Relevant parameters to identify/describe social status or behavior of a car (incorporate the driver?) * Modeling techniques for handling social interaction behavior, e.g., traffic superorganism, pheromones, stigmergic behavior [3] * Benefit assessment: why should cars (maybe drivers) disclose their 'social status', 'social relationships'? * Understanding the potentials of socially inspired C2C communication * Crowdsourcing * Driving as a "collaboration" with either passengers or an agent * Implementation of agents/robots for improving V2V communications * The subject of V2V communications (driver to driver, passenger to passenger, driver to passenger, driver to agent, or agent to agent?) * Authentication for in-vehicle social services * Privacy, safety, and/or security issues related to in-vehicle social services * Plausible types of information in in-vehicle social services * Cultural differences in in-vehicle social services * V2V communications as a personal broadcasting station (or system) * Other than V2V, including V2I (vehicle to infrastructure using road- side units) or V2B (vehicle to broadband cloud (network)) * Optimal protocols for social cars (802.11p, Wimax, NFC, Bluetooth,..) Please submit your position papers (2-6 pages in length, ACM SIG format template; <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>) using the workshop paper submission system available at <http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar> Workshop website: <http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar> Contact: <mailto:riener@pervasive.jku.at> ------------------| Important Dates for the Workshop |------------------ * Submission deadline: August 26th, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: September 10th, 2012 * Camera ready version due: TBA * Registration deadline: TBA * Workshop date: October 17th, 2012 Please feel free to contact the organizers at any time. Andreas Riener, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Myounghoon Jeon, Michigan Technological University, USA Andrea Gaggioli, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA For more details see the workshop website!

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Fwd: CfP: 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013)
by Lars Wolf 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:10:57 +0200 Von: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> An: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) February 13-15, 2013, Ghent, Belgium http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ Call for Papers As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design concepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. Being one of the leading international conferences in this area, the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) has played a prominent role in the dissemination of innovative ideas from researchers all over the globe. For EWSN 2013, the tenth meeting in this series, we invite papers describing original, previously unpublished research results pertaining to wireless sensor networks, broadly conceived. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Communication and Network Protocols * Operating Systems * Sensor middleware * Security and Fault-Tolerance * Programming Abstractions and Tools * Information and Signal Processing * Sensor network applications and novel uses of sensor data * Internet of Things and Cooperating Objects * Cognitive sensor networks * Hardware Design and Implementation * Prototypes, Testbeds, Field Experiments IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 1, 2012 Author notification: November 15, 2012 Camera ready paper due: November 22, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where the names of authors and their affiliations are unknown to reviewers until the end of the review process and are not mentioned in the paper. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and are not to exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the LNCS style (www.springer.com/lncs), as the proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers will be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be for the latest info. CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS The poster and demonstration session at EWSN provides a forum for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from experts attending the conference. Posters and demos will be submitted as a single PDF file containing an abstract of no more than 2 pages. The areas of interest are the same as the main track (see above). Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit posters and demos. Poster and demo submission: December 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 CALL FOR TUTORIALS For EWSN 2013, there will be two tutorial sessions designed to attract researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss state-of-the-art research. We invite you to submit tutorial proposals that focus on recent, cutting-edge topics in wireless sensor networks. Both applied and theoretical topics are welcome, as are surveys, and the tutorial should be self-contained in nature. We encourage tutorials that provide clear utility to a broad fraction of conference participants. Tutorials will be held during the morning of February 13, and are therefore expected to last from 3 to 4 hours. Tutorial presenters are entitled one free registration per tutorial. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit tutorial suggestions. Tutorial submission: November 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 Presentations: February 13, 2013 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Piet Demeester (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Program Chairs: Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Local organization: Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Poster chair: Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston, USA) Demo chair: Chris Blondia (University of Antwerp - IBBT, Belgium) Publicity chairs: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Marcus Chang (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Peter Van Daele (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Webmaster: Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) TPC members: Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University) Amy L. Murphy (Bruno Kessler Foundation - CIT IRST) Anna Forster (SUPSI, Switzerland) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Brano Kusy (CSIRO, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University) Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome ""La Sapienza"") Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork) Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Emiliano Miluzzo (AT&T labs) Fred Jiang (Microsoft Research Asia) Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) Katia Jaffres-Runser (University of Toulouse / IRIT laboratory / INPT ENSEEIHT) Kay Roemer (University of LuÅbeck) Kirk Martinez (University of Southampton) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Koen Langendoen (TU Delft) Krishna Sivalingam (Institute of Technology Madras, India) Leo Selavo (University of Latvia) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Mario Alves (Politecnico do Porto (ISEP/IPP), CISTER Research Unit) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova) Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan) Nael Abu-Ghazelah (Binghamton University) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE) Philippe Bonnet (Copenhagen University) Rajeev Shorey (NIIT University) Salil Kanhere (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Sam Michiels (KULeuven) Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo) Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)

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