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[CFP] Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013)
by Giuseppe Cardone 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Third Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013) (http://mocs.disi.unibo.it) July 7th, 2013 Split, Croatia organized in association with the Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013) (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/) Sponsored by (pending approval): IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Endorsed by: IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) In cooperation with: IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC) The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality thanks to the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). After the initial hype, at the current stage, several ongoing research efforts are focusing on the several open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditability, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to boost and to facilitate a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite the several recent efforts on Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions are able to withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources. The ambition and mission of MoCS 2013 is to put on the foreground all above issues, and to bring together different ongoing research efforts on the management of Cloud systems. This year, special focus will be on the challenging management issues related to the delivery of efficient Green solutions for the processing of real-world Big Data knowledge base and streams over the Cloud. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost-effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centres (intra-/inter-domain); * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies. Important Dates Submission of research papers due: February 18, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013 Workshop date: July 7, 2013 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Please use either Word (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/CPS/ files/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip) or LaTeX (http://www.computer.org/cms/ Computer.org/CPS/files/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip ) templates and instructions provided by IEEE. Papers must be submitted by February 18, 2013 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N14211). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the workshop Web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2013 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada (kantarci(a)site.uottawa.ca) Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy (mvillari(a)unime.it) Publicity Chair Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy (giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy (antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it) -- Giuseppe Cardone, Ph.D. Student DISI-LIA - University of Bologna E-mail: giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it Web: http://middleware.unibo.it/people/gc

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Fwd: [ITC 2013] Second Call for Paper for ITC2013
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

=============================================================== Call for Papers =============================================================== 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 25) Shanghai, China September 10-12, 2013 www.itc25.org =============================================================== Theme: Teletraffic in the Cloud =============================================================== Since 1955 the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) has provided a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss innovations in telecommunications network design, performance evaluation, reliability, quality and traffic management measurements, and forecasting. ITC 25 continues this tradition, focusing on teletraffic contributions toward understanding the benefits and costs of emerging architectural shifts in the Internet. Specific traffic-related topics of interest include, but are not limited to: A) Network technologies and applications ======================================== - Future networks design - Network virtualization - Software-defined networking - Data center networks - Carrier networks - Optical networks - Cellular networks - Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks - Delay-tolerant networks - Sensor networks - Internet of Things - Application layer networks and overlays - P2P and distributed lookup - Content delivery networks - IPTV, WebTV, and HTTP-based streaming - Distributed, grid, and cloud computing - Web-services and SOA - Social networks and crowd sourcing - Tele-medicine, -education, -metry B) Network planning, QoS, performance, and approaches ===================================================== - Network design methods - Capacity planning methods and tools - Planning for multi-carrier networks - Cross-layer design and optimization - Performance of wireless/wired networks - QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS - Resource allocation and management - Optimization techniques - Game-theoretic models - Random graph models - Scheduling algorithms - Queuing and traffic models - Performance and reliability tradeoffs - Robustness and reliability issues - Simulation methods and tools - Self-optimization - Network coding - Pricing and billing - Business models for service deployment C) Traffic measurement, management, and security-related issues =============================================================== - Network tomography - Big data traffic modeling and management - Traffic engineering - Dynamic bandwidth management - Intelligent adaptive routing - Location and mobility management - Multi-domain issues - Overload and congestion control - Admission control - Traffic and performance monitoring - Protection, switching, and restoration - Anomaly detection - Detection of DoS attacks - Attack mitigation methods - Worm and virus propagation - Epidemiological models - Privacy and trust - Energy efficiency - Green ICT Important dates =============== Submission deadline: March 1st, 2013 Acceptance notification: May 3rd, 2013 Camera-Ready: June 10th, 2013 Sponsors ======== International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) China Institute of Communication (CIC) Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China) Organizers ========== Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China) Tsinghua University, China Supporters ========== Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China Honorary General Co-Chairs ========================== Gaofeng Zhu (Chinese Academy of Engineering, China) Xiongjian Liang (BUPT, China) General Co-Chairs ================= Tingjie Lu (BUPT, China) Villy B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) TPC Co-Chairs ============= Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China) Kurt Tutschku (University Vienna, Austria) Zhanhong Xin (BUPT, China) Moshe Zukerman (City University of HK, Hong-Kong) National Organizing Committee Co-Chairs ======================================= Yu Pan (BUPT, China) Weihua Zhang (Shanghai Telecom, China) Deputy Co-Chairs: Yan Wan, Jing Zhang, Yumei Huo (BUPT, China) International Advisory Council ============================== Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France) Vice-Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Wuerzburg, Germany) Publicity Co-Chairs =================== Theophilus Benson (Princeton University, USA) Florin Ciucu (T-Labs / TU Berlin, Germany) Youngmi Jin (KAIST, Korea) Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Submission instructions ======================= Submissions are accepted only as PDF and must not exceed 9 double-column pages in IEEE conference format (font size no smaller than 10points). Further guidelines and templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All authors listed in the PDF must also be listed in EDAS at time of submission. Submit papers in EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13275 Awards and Publication ======================= ITC offers two prestigious awards: a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. For a paper to be eligible in the latter category, the first author must be a student and presenter of the work. The conference proceedings, consisting of both conference and workshop papers, will be available through IEEE Xplore.

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Fwd: IEEE INDIN 2013 Call for papers
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE INDIN 2013 Call for papers Datum: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:00:50 -0600 Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> An: undisclosed-recipients: ; Please excuse if you receive multiple copies of this email. IEEE 11th International Conference on Industrial Informatics - INDIN'2013 - Background: IEEE INDIN is the premier conference series presenting the state of the art and future perspectives of industrial information technologies, where industry experts, researchers, and academics share ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthrough and innovative solutions and applications. Previous conferences in the series were held in Banff Canada (2003), Berlin Germany (2004), Perth Australia (2005), Singapore (2006), Vienna Austria (2007), Daejeon Korea (2008), Cardiff UK (2009), Osaka Japan (2010), Lisbon Portugal (2011), and Beijing China (2012). Aim: The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent developments, deployments, technology trends and research results, as well as initiatives related to industrial informatics and their application. Topics within the scope of the conference will include, but are not limited to: Technologies and Infrastructures Cognitive and Computational Intelligence Distributed, Embedded and Networked Control Systems Factory Automation Human-Machine Interfaces Mechatronics and Robotics Tools New Paradigms Applications Special Sessions To enhance the technical program and focus on specific topics and areas, INDIN?2013 will include special sessions, in addition to regular ones. Special sessions can cover subjects or cross-subjects belonging to the topics of interest, or novel topics related with the ones identified within the topics of interest. Special sessions can also have the drive from specific R&D projects or clusters of projects, namely EU-sponsored R&D projects. If you are interested in organizing a special session, please contact Special Sessions Co-Chairs Tool Demonstration Session A demonstration session about tools is planned on the latest trends in Industrial Informatics. If you are interested in organizing a demonstration, please contact the local organizing committee. Tutorials Tutorials are planned on the latest trends in Industrial Informatics. If you are interested in organizing a tutorial, please contact Tutorials Co-Chairs. Submission of Papers The working language of the conference is English. Prospective participants are requested to electronically submit full papers of their work (6 pages max.) following the instructions available on the website. Accepted papers will be included in conference proceedings volume, which will be submitted to be published in IEEE Xplore. Please use the templates provided with this link for your paper preparation. <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html> http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Paper Acceptance Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. Papers not presented will not be included in IEEE Xplore. The final manuscript must be accompanied by a registration form and a registration fee payment proof. All conference attendees, including authors and session chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee, and their travel expenses. Important Dates: Deadline for submission of special sessions proposals........................... January 31, 2013 Deadline for submission of tutorials proposals............................................. March 15, 2013 Deadline for submission of papers (regular, special sessions):.............. February 28, 2013 Notification of acceptance: ............................................................................. April 19, 2013 Deadline for submission of final manuscripts: ................................................. May 24, 2013 More information at http://www.indin2013.org Please use the link on the webpage for the paper submission -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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IEEE ICC'13 (Workshop Telecom R2S) Best papers to be recommended for publication in IEEE Magazines, Deadline Extended to 25 Jan. 2013 (FIRM)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Dear all, I wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2013. After the long Christmas and New Year break and upon requests from many potential authors, the submission deadline of the "IEEE Workshop on Telecom Standards: From Research to Standards" has been extended to 25 January 2013 (FIRM). It has been also decided that extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in Special Issues of IEEE Magazines. The organization of the second edition of the workshop is decided based on the great success of the first edition (which won the Best IEEE ComSoc Workshop Award at IEEE ICC 2012). The workshop will be collocated with IEEE ICC 2013 (June 9 - 13, 2013) in Budapest, Hungary. The goal of this Workshop is to bridge the gap between researchers, scientists, and standards experts in both academia and industry and to promote standardization as an important vehicle for information sharing and cooperation between academia and industry. An additional goal is to bring together experts from different standardization bodies, providing opportunities for closer understanding and collaboration; catalyzing development of more interoperable standards and more efficient and effective communication systems. The Workshop technical program will deliver high quality technical as well as visionary papers that will be reviewed and selected by an international program committee representing both academia and industry with a strong standardization background. All submissions are required to comply with ICC's guidelines. Accepted papers will appear in IEEE Xplore. Looking forward your submissions to the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Telecommunications Standards: "From Research to Standards". For further details, please visit the workshop's official site: http://www.research2standards.net/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: Jan. 25, 2013 Acceptance notification: Feb. 22, 2013 Final manuscript: Mar. 08, 2013 Steering Committee Dr. Heinrich J Stuettgen, Vice President, NEC Europe Ltd (Chair) Dr. Alexander D. Gelman, CIO, IEEE ComSoc, Member of IEEE-SA Standards Board Dr. Asok Chatterjee, Vice President of Industry Relations, Ericsson, USA Mr.Brian Kiernan, VP and Chief Scientist, InterDigital, USA Prof. Sherman Shen, Waterloo University, Canada Dr. Marcus Brunner, Head of Standards Department, Swiss Com, Switzerland Workshop General Chair Dr. Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe, Germany TPC Co-Chairs Dr. Tuncer Baykas, Tohoku University, Japan Dr. Alex Reznik, InterDigital, USA Dr. Konstantinos Samdanis, NEC Europe, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs Prof. Joe Touch, Univ. of Southern California, USA Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Dr. Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes, France.

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Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Paper (CMSSN 2013) - Submission Deadline Extended
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: Syed Misbahuddin <doctorsyedmisbah(a)yahoo.com> Gesendet: Fri Jan 18 20:32:01 MEZ 2013 An: "pakgrid(a)yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid(a)yahoogroups.com> CC: "pak-francescholars(a)yahoogroups.com" <pak-francescholars(a)yahoogroups.com>, "tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu" <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, Rabia <afaq_rabia(a)yahoo.com>, Dr Abid Minhas <abid.research(a)gmail.com> Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Paper (CMSSN 2013) - Submission Deadline Extended 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Mobile Systems and Sensors Networks (CMSSN 2013) Call for Papers and Participation As part of The 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems(CTS 2013) http://cts2013.cisedu.info May 20-24, 2013 The Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina San Diego, California, USA In Cooperation with ACM, IEEE, and IFIP Submission Deadline: Feb 04, 2013 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) have spurred a considerable amount of research interest from various disciplines and application domains. They have been employed in emerging areas with high potential for societal impact, and are being used in plethora of biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. The processes of data gathering, analysis and information fusion need to employ efficient cooperation and coordination among tasks at different layers and abstractions – while having the constraint of energy-consumption on mind and, consequently, prolonging the effective network lifetime and its topology control. A specific aspect of collaboration in WSN is the one with mobile systems. In many environmental application scenarios, typically there are much fewer mobile than static nodes, but the mobile nodes have much higher energy reserves, as well as communication range. Consequently, they can improve the sensing coverage and reliability of transmission – but they do introduce an extra burden: the management of the mobile units. In other application scenarios – e.g., structural health-monitoring and traffic management – the ratio of mobile units to static (e.g., on bridges or along road-side) in a certain area is much higher. However, in such settings, the mobile entities that have a collaborative role change much more frequently with time. Mobile and wireless systems offer a wide range of applications and services that are conducive to collaboration, and vice versa. The International Workshop on Collaborative Mobile Systems and Sensors Networks (CMSSN 2013) aims at providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions addressing various challenges in efficient management of the collaborative aspects in wireless and mobile sensors networks and systems. CMSSN will be held in conjunction with the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2013), providing a focused forum for presenting current results and visions in this emerging area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobile and Sensor Networks Architectures * Data and Resource Sharing in Mobile Systems and Sensors Networks * Protocols for Efficient Coupling of Mobile Systems and Sensor Networks * Interfacing between WSN and Mobile Systems * Routing and Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks * Clustering in CMMSN * Visualization Techniques for CMSSN * Methods for Ad Hoc Deployment of Static Nodes and Collaborative Guidance of Mobile Nodes * Performance Metrics and Evaluation in CMSSN * Trust, Security and Privacy Issues in Distributed CMSSN * Wearable/Body Sensor Networks and Mobility * CMSSN for Groups and Organizations Work * Intelligent Sensor Technologies and Applications * Experiences with Mobile Applications, Networks and Systems * Innovative Mobile and Mobile Sensing Applications * Mobile Devices for Collaborative Activities * Support for Mobile Social Networking and Mobile Web * Systems for Location, Context Sensing and Awareness * Usability for Mobile and Sensing Applications and Systems PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research work on above and other topics related to sensor networks and systems and collaboration. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation, addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 350 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://cts2013.cisedu.info/home/postersfor the posters submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via the Workshop EasyChair link at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmssn2013. Only PDF files will be accepted, submitted via the web link above. Consistent with the practice of CTS, each paper will receive three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical depth and clarity of presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the CTS 2013 Conference website. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services accordingly. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ---------------------------------------------- February 4, 2013 (Hard Date) Acceptance Notification: ---------------------------------------- February 18, 2013 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ----------- February 25, 2013 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------------------ May 20 - 24, 2013 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS 111111111111 Muhammad Anan Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN, USA Phone: +1 219-989-2483 Email: Muhammad.Anan(a)purduecal.edu Musa Ayyash Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, USA Phone: +1 773-821-2441 Email: msma(a)ieee.org Syed Misbahuddin Ummul-Qura University, Makkah Tul Mukkarama, Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 54 389 0106 Email: doctorsyedmisbah(a)yahoo.com, ssuddin(a)uqu.edu.sa Goce Trajcevski Northwestern University, IL, USA Phone: +1 (847) 467-3268 Email:goce@eecs.northwestern.edu _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: CFP: ACM VANET 2013
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: ACM VANET 2013 Datum: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:51:34 +0100 Von: Sepulcre Ribes, Miguel <msepulcre(a)UMH.ES> Antwort an: Sepulcre Ribes, Miguel <msepulcre(a)UMH.ES> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers] =========================================================================== The Tenth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications ACM VANET 2013, in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2013 June 25, 2013, Taipei, Taiwan http://www.uwicore.umh.es/vanet2013/ =========================================================================== Submission deadline: March 11, 2013 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013 =========================================================================== Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. Based on short- and medium-range communication like DSRC or Wi-Fi as well as on long-range cellular systems, vehicular networking will enable a wide range of applications, including safety applications (e.g., collision avoidance and safety warnings), traffic applications (e.g. real-time traffic congestion and routing information), information sharing applications (e.g. media and content sharing), and other applications and systems involving communication to and between vehicles. The ACM VANET 2013 workshop intends to cover a widening range of research topics which are related to vehicular networking technologies, applications, services and systems. The great potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs on vehicular communication systems worldwide, such the current InteractIVe and eCoMOVE projects within the European eSafety framework, various US programs derived from the Connected Vehicle projects and the Japanese Smartway and Advanced Safety Vehicle programs. Vehicular communication and networking also present a very active field of standardization activities worldwide, like IEEE (802.11p and 1609.x) and SAE DSRC in the US, ISO TC204, ETSI TC ITS and CEN WG278 in Europe and ARIB T-75 in Japan, as well as field trials like the Safety Pilot Model Deployment in the US, simTD in Germany and SCORE@F in France. The Tenth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking, Systems, and Applications (ACM VANET 2013) will cover all vehicular wireless networking aspects using a variety of wireless communication techniques (from short-range DSRC/WiFi to long-range cellular communication). The topics not only cover the design and implementation of vehicular communication systems and applications, but also include the potential implications on transport efficiency and safety, systems issues, services, applications, liability issues, standardization efforts and spectrum assignment. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Channel modeling, modulation and coding - Congestion control and scalability issues - Medium access control protocols - Multi-channel organization and operation - Communication protocol design and network management - System architecture and design - Safety and non-safety applications - Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication - Simulation frameworks - Field operational testing - Security and privacy issues and protection mechanisms - Telematics applications - Communication related to electrical vehicle charging - Networking to reduce energy consumption - Wireless in-car networks - Systems that reduce driver distraction - DSRC systems for vulnerable road users (pedestrians, road workers, bicyclists, etc.) - Automated driving and communication Submission Instructions: All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (double-column), use the ACM SIG Proceedings Templates (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors should omit self-identifying language, e.g. concerning prior work. We also strongly encourage the submission of position papers (with a maximum length of 6 pages) and practice papers (with a maximum length of 10 pages) (following the ACM Proceedings Templates above). Position papers will generally include preliminary results and are expected to describe highly original ideas, discuss new directions, or generate insightful discussion at the workshop. Position papers can be a good way to obtain early feedback before submitting complete work to highly selective venues such as ACM MobiSys and ACM MobiCom. On the other hand, practice papers will report innovative system design, make significant observations or provide relevant conclusions derived from real-world empirical experiences or finalized/ing industrial research/proof-of-concept projects. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernández of Elche, Spain Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany Technical Program Co-Chairs: Jens Mittag, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Robin Kravets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Industry Liaison and Speakers Chair: Fan Bai, General Motors Research, USA Publicity/Website Co-Chair: Miguel Sepulcre, University Miguel Hernández of Elche, Spain ----------------------------------------------------- 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) 2013 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: SPECTS 2013 -- Call for Papers; Submission Deadline: 15. Febr. 2013
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: "Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfinger" <wolfinger(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE> Gesendet: Thu Jan 17 18:44:55 MEZ 2013 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: SPECTS 2013 -- Call for Papers; Submission Deadline: 15. Febr. 2013 [ Please, accept our apologies for multiple copies of this message ] =================================================================== SPECTS 2013 - International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/ =================================================================== in conjunction with Summer Simulation Multiconference http://www.scs.org/summersim July 7-10th, 2013 Toronto, CANADA ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS This annual International conference is a forum for professionals involved in the performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest are organized by three categories: * Networking and Telecommunication Systems * Computer Systems * Tools, Methodologies, and Applications For a complete list, please visit http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/ ## Extended Versions of Selected Accepted Papers in SPECTS 2013 will be considered for Possible Publication in Scholarly Journals. ## Accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library PDF version of the CFP at: http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/spects2013_cfp_20130117.pdf IMPORTANT DATES Special sessions proposals........................February 15th, 2013 Submission of papers and tutorials proposals......February 15th, 2013 Notification of acceptance........................March 29th, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers.................May 3rd, 2013 PAPER SUBMISSION Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.softconf.com/scs/SPECTS13/ Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission website. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair. Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials and special sessions should be sent to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches' abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference. HONORARY CHAIR - Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA obaidat(a)monmouth.edu GENERAL CHAIR - Pere Vila, Univ. of Girona, Spain pere.vila(a)udg.edu TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS - Isaac Woungang, Ryerson Univ., Canada Iwoungan(a)scs.ryerson.ca - Mario Marchese, Univ. of Genoa, Italy mario.marchese(a)unige.it - Floriano De Rango, Univ. of Calabria, Italy derango(a)deis.unical.it TUTORIALS AND SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR - Sanjay K. Dhurandher, Univ. of Delhi, India dhurandher(a)rediffmail.com PUBLICITY CHAIRS - Essia Hamouda, Univ. of California-Riverside, USA essia(a)cs.ucr.edu - Lei Shu, Osaka Univ., Japan lei.shu(a)live.ie LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR - Abdolreza(Abdy) Abhari, Ryerson Univ., Canada aabhari(a)scs.ryerson.ca PUBLICATION CHAIR - Jose M. Saldana, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain jsaldana(a)unizar.es PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Please visit http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2013/ SPONSORED BY - The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, SCS TECHNICAL SPONSORED BY - IEEE Communications Society ============================================== ******************************************************** Prof. Dr. Bernd E. Wolfinger -- Telecommunications and Computer Networks Division -- Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 D-22527 Hamburg (Stellingen) Tel.: +49-40-42883-2424 (direct) +49-40-42883-2422 (Mrs. Koester, secretary) Fax: +49-40-42883-2345 E-mail: wolfinger(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TKRN ***************************************************** * In theory, theory and practice are the same. * In practice, they're different. *****************************************************

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Fwd: [Authors] CFP - SI on Network Protocols and Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in MONET (Springer)
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Authors] CFP - SI on Network Protocols and Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in MONET (Springer) Datum: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 03:10:45 +0100 Von: Jaime Lloret Mauri<jlloret(a)dcom.upv.es> Antwort an: Authors of IM, NOMS, CNSM, APNOMS, and LANOMS <authors(a)inf.ufsc.br> An: authors(a)inf.ufsc.br Apologies for crossposting ==================================================================== *Call for Papers* International Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications *Special issue on* Network Protocols and Algorithms for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ISI Thomson Impact Factor (2011): 0.838 Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging area of wireless ad hoc networks that facilitates ubiquitous connectivity between smart vehicles through Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) or Vehicle-to-Roadside (V2R) and Roadside-to-Vehicle (R2V) communications. This emerging field of technology aims to improve safety of passengers and traffic flow, reduces pollution to the environment and enables in-vehicle entertainment applications. The safety-related applications could reduce accidents by providing drivers with traffic information such as collision avoidance, traffic flow alarms and road surface conditions. Moreover, the passengers could exploit an available infrastructure in order to connect to the internet for infomobility and entertainment applications. The increasing necessity of this network is an impetus for leading car manufacturers, research communities and governments to increase their efforts toward creating a standardized platform for vehicular communications. However, VANET?s unique characteristics and special requirements excite new challenges to the research community. To address these challenges in both safety- and comfort-oriented applications, there is a pressing need to develop new protocols and algorithms for channel characterization and modeling, Medium Access Control (MAC), obstacle modeling, adaptive geographical routing to sparse and dense traffic conditions. This special issue aims to theme innovative research achievements in the field of vehicular networks and communications. We are seeking original and unpublished papers. Specific topics include, but are not limited to: - Channel characterization, modeling and simulation - Radio obstacle modeling in urban vehicular environments - Efficient packet forwarding optimization - Congestion control and resource management - Medium access protocols and channel assignments - Adaptive beaconing protocols - Mobility management - Mobility models - Efficient geographical routing adapted to bipolar traffic conditions - Delay tolerant routing protocols - Message dissemination for safety-related applications - Cooperative vehicular communications - Test-beds, case studies, experimental systems and evaluations - Security and privacy issues *Submission* Prospective authors should follow guidelines of the International Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications and the instruction for authors can be found at http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036 *Important Dates* Paper Submission Due: January 30, 2013 Notification Deadline: April 30, 2013 Revised paper Submission: June 30, 2013 Final Paper Submission: August 30, 2013 Publication Date: End of 2013 *Guest Editors* *Dr. Jaime Lloret* Department of Communications Polytechnic University of Valencia Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain Email: jlloret(a)dcom.upv.es *Dr. Danda B. Rawat* Department of Applied Engineering and Technology Eastern Kentucky University Richmond, KY, USA Email: db.rawat(a)ieee.org *Dr. Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor* Faculty of Engineering, University of Koya, Daniel Miterrand Boulevard, Koya, KOY45, Kurdistan Region-IRAQ Email: kayhan(a)ieee.org *Dr. Feng XIA* School of Software, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China Email: f.xia(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Authors mailing list Authors(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/authors

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Fwd: [ISCC] CFP: ComCom Special Issue on Opportunistic Networking
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] CFP: ComCom Special Issue on Opportunistic Networking Datum: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:24:03 +0100 Von: Valerio Arnaboldi<valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it> An: iscc(a)mama.ing.unibo.it *** Our Sincere Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Opportunistic Networking Submission Deadline: February 10, 2013 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The widespread availability of mobile portable devices enriched with a variety of sensing capabilities, coupled with the impelling need of communication anytime and anywhere, has rapidly raised the interest towards new approaches to communications between users. Opportunistic networks are an instance of the delay tolerant paradigm applied to networks made up of users' portable devices (such as smartphones and tablets). As such, they are able to cope with challenged network conditions that are often present in real life, such as high node mobility, variable connectivity, and disconnections, which would impair communications in traditional Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In this scenario, user mobility becomes one of the main drivers to enable message delivery. In fact, according to the store-carry-and-forward paradigm, user devices store messages and carry them around while they move in the network, exchanging them upon encounter with other nodes, and eventually delivering them to the ir destination or to interested users. This new communication paradigm enables legacy applications in challenged scenarios, as well as it paves the way to innovative solutions. While opportunistic networks initially received attention to support communication where an infrastructure is not available (for disaster recovery or in rural areas), nowadays a number of applications can be envisaged ranging from content sharing, through mobile social networking, to participatory and urban sensing. All these applications rely on data forwarding amongst devices. As a consequence, two aspects become relevant, that is, the need for mechanisms guaranteeing trusted and secure communications while preserving users' privacy (in the absence of infrastructure and sometimes even end-to-end connectivity), and incentive mechanisms able to boost the participation in the network. This Special Issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions pushing the state of the art in Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Mobility measurements and models, mobility trace analysis - Measurements, models, and analysis for user behaviors on mobile devices - Unicast and multicast routing - Transport, congestion control, and reliability issues - Content dissemination, content caching, service composition, opportunistic computing - Trust, security & privacy in opportunistic forwarding, incentive mechanisms, reputation systems, and key management - Application support and middleware for opportunistic networks - New applications and services relying on opportunistic networking - Systems and experience for real-world deployments Schedule -------- Submission deadline: February 10, 2013 Author notification: May 24, 2013 Revised paper due: June 30, 2013 Final author notification: September 16, 2013 Publication: TBD Guest Editors ------------- Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy Kyunghan Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea Melek Onen, EURECOM, France Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland Elena Pagani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Instructions for submission --------------------------- Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "Special Issue: Opp-Net" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors at comcomsi_oppnet(a)iit.cnr.it _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mama.ing.unibo.it https://mama.ing.unibo.it/listinfo/iscc

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Fwd: [EASED] CFP: Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [EASED] CFP: Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development Datum: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:33:45 +0100 Von: Winter Andreas <winter(a)se.uni-oldenburg.de> An: eased(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ******************************************************************************************* Call For Papers 2nd Workshop Energy Aware Software-Engineering and Development (EASED@BUIS) (http://se.uni-oldenburg.de/eased2013) collocated with BUIS-Days: IT-based resource and energy management (http://enviroinfo.eu/de/5-buis-tage) April 25, 2013 Oldenburg (Oldb.), Kulturzentrum PFL, Peterstraße 3, Germany ******************************************************************************************* Utilization of mobile and embedded devices, and thus their induced energy consumption, is constantly increasing. Reducing the energy consumption of such devices will not only improve the carbon footprint of contemporary mobile IT usage, but will also extend the device lifetime, improve user acceptance and reduce operational costs. Next to to serious and ongoing efforts in hardware design and on operating system level, software engineering techniques will also contribute to optimize energy consumption by improving software design and software quality. The EASED@BIUS workshop, which follows up the Workshop on Developing Energy Aware Software Systems (EEbS 2012) (http://www.uni-weimar.de/cms/medien/mobile-media/eebs-2012.html), held at the annual GI Conference in September 2012, provides a broad forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss ongoing work, latest results and common topics of interest regarding the improvement of software induced energy consumption. Intensive discussions at the first workshop identified a major challenge in optimizing energy efficiency, which is to precisely measure energy consumption of software, regarding user behavior. Thus, the follow workshop EASED@BUIS will focus on the following topics: - approaches and techniques to estimate or measure the energy consumption of software components, - approaches to define standardized application scenarios on mobile devices to provide repeatable measurement of energy consumption in concrete application settings, - approaches to model the energy consumption of software components, and - experiences on measuring and improving the energy consumption of software components. Well elaborated and standardized measurement means will provide an important foundation to detecting sources of wasting energy caused by software systems and will enable validation means to verify energy savings by software improvements. EASED@BUIS will be organized as a one day discussion-intensive workshop to provoke intensive collaborations among the participants. It is intended to initiate collaborative works on standardizing (static and dynamic) measuring techniques for energy consumption. To further stimulate these discussions, authors are invited to submit position papers on the workshop´s topics. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published in Softwaretechnik-Trends (http://pi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/stt/). EASED@BUIS is supported by the GI special interest groups - Software Technology (http://fb-swt.gi.de) - Environmental Informatics (http://enviroinfo.eu) Submissions and important Dates ---------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit their position papers (2 pages in two column form (http://pi.informatik.uni-siegen.de/stt/diverses/trendsstyle_v2.tex) not later than March 15, 2013 through easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eased2013). paper submission deadline: March 15, 2013 author notification: March 25, 2013 camera-ready deadline: April 1, 2013 Organizing Committee ------------------- Christian Bunse (University of the Applied Sciences Stralsund) Stefan Naumann (University of the Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld) Andreas Winter (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) Program Committee (to be completed) -------------------------------- Holger Eichelberger (University Hildesheim) Sebastian Götz (TU Dresden) Theo Härder (TU Kaiserslautern) Mirco Josefiok (OFFIS, Oldenburg) Sonja Klingert (University Mannheim) Birgit Penzenstadler (TU München) Giuseppe Scanniello (University of Basilicata) Joost Visser (Software Improvement Group, Amsterdam) Claas Wilke (TU Dresden) Local Organization ---------------- Marion Gottschalk (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) Andreas Winter (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg) -- _______________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Andreas Winter Carl von Ossietzky University Department for Computer Science voice: +49 441 798-2992 Software Engineering winter(a)se.uni-oldenburg.de 26111 Oldenburg, Germany http://se.uni-oldenburg.de/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Eased mailing list Eased(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de https://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/mailman/listinfo/eased

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