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IEEE PERVASIVE Special Issue: Attention Management
by Andreas Riener 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Attention Management in Pervasive Computing ------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 1 March 2013 Notification: 26 April 2013 Publication: Jan.–Mar. 2014 Finely-woven, globe-spanning digital networks, together with the radical miniaturization and embedding of information, communication, and sensor electronics into almost everything, have made human-to-computer bonds truely ubiquitous and pervasive. Accordingly, our approach to human-computer interaction is reversing: while HCI previously addressed issues related to how humans initiate interaction with ICT systems, we now increasingly observe ICT system designs that also approach humans. Within this "human computer confluence", human attention—more than processor speed, communication bandwidth, and storage resources—becomes the single most critical (yet least understood) resource in pervasive system design today. While previously considered a mental variable that could not be quantified and measured, attention now constitutes a fundamental element of psychological research. Today, everyone has an intuitive understanding of what attention is, how it can be assessed, and how it impacts perception, memory, expectation, awareness, relevance, decision-making, and other behaviours. This special issue focusses on novel approaches to attention modelling, attention representation, attention sensing, recognition or estimation, together with attention management as a theoretical and practical principle for designing Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing systems. We welcome multi-disciplinary articles not only from the core Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing community, but also from Behavioural Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Research linked to attention management system design principles. Potential topics include: ------------------------- - Theories and formal models of attention, theory driven modelling, evidencing theories Attention sensing and data-driven attention modelling (including recognition chains, mining Big Data) - Attention estimation from behaviour (gaze, speech, pose, effort, somatic indicators) and from mental effort (memorizing, response time) - Attention recognition (pattern recognition, machine learning) and management architectures (goals, plans, decision making) - Individual attention (perceptual load, cognitive load, recall performance, consciousness, overt vs. covert attention, focus and periphery of attention) and sensors (EEG, FOVA, SC, BVP, ...) - Collective attention (information diffusion, novelty propagation, sharing, consesus finding) and sensors (social networks, microblogs, tweets, web/phone, exploiting patterns ...) - ICT design based on the economics of attention: design principles, interaction principles, interface designs, attractors - Attention management system architectures, tools and development frameworks - Attention management showcases, success stories, and user studies in application domains of societal significance—for example, health care systems, intense care and control centers, electronic workplaces and electronic trading systems, mission-critical construction and engineering, avionic and automotive systems, energy and environmental protection systems, safety and security systems, monitoring and surveillance systems, crisis observatories, sales and digital signage systems, art installations, public advertising, public opinion building, etc. Questions? ---------- For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors Alois Ferscha <ferscha(a)pervasive.jku.at>, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Joe Paradiso <joep(a)media.mit.edu>, MIT Media Laboratory Roger Whitaker <r.m.whitaker(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk>, Cardiff University Submission Information ---------------------- Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific publications, and all accepted articles will be edited according to Computer Society guidelines. Submissions should be received by 1 March 2013 to receive full consideration. For general author guidelines or submission details: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm or pervasive(a)computer.org. To submit your article go directly to our online peer-review system, Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs).

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Datum: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:08:58 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> Antwort an: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: TCCC mailing list <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, TCCN <tccn(a)comsoc.org>, "ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca" <ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Symposium Co-Chairs Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA younis(a)cs.umbc.edu Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA cheng(a)iit.edu Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria falko.dressler(a)uibk.ac.at Xu Li, Huawei Technologies, Canada easylix(a)yahoo.ca Scope and Topics of Interest Recent advancements in wireless technologies have enabled networked solutions for many unconventional civil and military applications. In recent years, ad-hoc networks have been attracting increased attention from the research and engineering communities, motivated by applications like digital battlefield, asset tracking, air-borne safety, situational awareness, and border protection. Similarly, advances in micro-electro- mechanical devices and large-scale integration have enabled the realization of miniaturized sensor nodes that can probe their surroundings and transmit their measurements using on-board wireless transceivers. Large-scale networks of miniaturized sensor nodes may also enable new applications such as target tracking, security surveillance, elder care, and forest monitoring. Both ad hoc and sensor networks are characterized by their dynamic nature, which requires them to be adaptive to changes in the application environment, task objectives, and topological changes, among others. The last few years have witnessed the development of many innovative solutions for ad-hoc and sensor networks that are maturing to the level of commercialization and standardization. Yet, numerous challenges remain for the implementation of practical solutions that operate robustly, securely, and efficiently. The Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium of GLOBECOM'2013 opts to foster a forum for sharing ideas and recent results among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions related to ad-hoc and sensor networks. We are soliciting papers that describe original and unpublished contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New and unconventional applications of ad hoc and sensor networks * Novel architectures and operation models * Wireless sensor and actor networks * Wireless multimedia and 3-D sensor networks * Underwater and underground sensor networks * Body Area Sensor Networks * Cognitive radio networks in multi-hop environments * Wireless mesh and community networks * Wireless PANs and LANs * Pervasive and wearable computing * RFID systems * Delay-tolerant ad hoc networks * Self-organization and autonomic networking * Vehicular networks * Co-existence issues of hybrid networks * Wireless, ad hoc, and sensor devices * Ultra wide band technology for ad hoc and sensor networks * MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * Frequency and channel allocation algorithms * New standards for ad hoc and sensor networks * Energy saving and power control protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Energy scavenging technologies * Service discovery in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Location and context aware services * Scheduling and resource management algorithms * Deployment and coverage analysis of sensor networks * Localization algorithms and ranging technologies * Routing and multicasting protocols * Topology control and management * In-network processing and data storage * Fault-tolerance and traffic reliability issues * Cross-layer design and optimization * Mobility management and modeling * Synchronization and coordination techniques in ad hoc and sensor networks * Security for ad hoc and sensor networks * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation * Experimental prototypes and testbeds * New simulation languages, programming abstractions, and tools for ad hoc and sensor networks Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline of 15 March 2013 for publication in the IEEE Globecom 2013 Conference Proceedings and for presentation at the conference. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures. For full details, please visit the following website: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2013/submguide.html _______________________________________________ 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: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (co-located with WoWMoM 2013)
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (co-located with WoWMoM 2013) Datum: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 00:00:58 +0200 Von: Lambros Lambrinos <lambros.lambrinos(a)cut.ac.cy> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (SCUCA) (co-located with WoWMoM 2013 - Madrid, 4-7 June 2013) Call for Papers As the world experiences unprecedented urban growth, decision makers have become very alert calling for urgent solutions to the resulting issues and newly identified problems. Fortunately, the recent advances in information and communication technologies may stimulate new solutions towards the urbanization problems. As a result, research and industrial efforts are beginning to focus on work in that direction and towards Smart Sustainable Cities; the aim is to integrate and validate ICT technologies and services in neighborhoods to make progress towards intelligent cities by exploiting ubiquitous technologies. In addition to technical developments, attention is given to innovative service business models which include security, safety and privacy issues. The need to improve our understanding of cities, however, is pressed not only by the social relevance of urban environments, but also by the availability of new strategies for city-scale interventions that are enabled by emerging technologies. This workshop aims to showcase latest advances in Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing applications which are the result of research efforts that incorporate new technologies from the areas of mobile communications, multimedia services, data storage and handling and ubiquitous services. The workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following areas: Urban Analysis and Modeling: - data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior, mobility patterns, resource consumption - Designing new cities through evidence-based processes - Parametric urban design tools to schematically define mobility nodes, streets, buildings and location of resources - Development of nested compact urban cells (walkable neighborhoods) - Urban energy, mobility, water, food, and waste simulator for new, post-oil cities - Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and responsive technology for cities Mobility Networks: · Multi-modal mobility recommendation engines · New urban vehicles including electric scooters, automobiles, bike-lane vehicles, etc. · Autonomous vehicle technology and vehicle-pedestrian interfaces · Scheduling, charging and security technology for shared-use vehicle systems · Electronic parking systems · Multimedia pervasive computing for smart cities Electronic and Social Networks: · New network-centric methods for managing reactive, data-driven city systems · Social, multimedia and ubiquitous computing for smart cities · Urban-scale serious games to shape use of resources such as shared-used mobility · Systems tailored for more stable, fair, and socially efficient services Work and living places: - Personalized, transformable urban housing - Variable-rate power, and flexible workspaces - Time-shifted, shared space-on-demand for collaborative work - Sensing and algorithms to understand fine-grained human activity - Responsive lighting, HVAC, health, energy conservation, and communication in the home and work Workshop Chairs Anastasios D. Doulamis - Technical University of Crete, Greece Lambros Lambrinos - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Important Dates · Submission deadline: February 28, 2013 · Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2013 · Camera-Ready Deadline: April 8, 2013 The workshop is supported by the following on-going projects: Experimedia, SoCIoS, e-Park, Poseidon and more information can be found at: http://www.scuca2013.tuc.gr <html> <body> <img src="http://new.cut.ac.cy/images/environmentalSign.gif"/> </body> </html> _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network SI on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services [extended firm deadline: Feb 15]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network SI on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services [extended firm deadline: Feb 15] Datum: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 01:17:53 +0800 Von: minchen2012 <minchen2012(a)mail.hust.edu.cn> Antwort an: minchen2012 <minchen2012(a)hust.edu.cn> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Please circulate this CFP among your friends/colleagues and mailing lists you have access to, thanks a lot. ======================================================================== Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2013 (extended firm deadline) Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2013 Publication: September 2013 IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services ======================================================================== Advances in mobile communication networks and increasing deployments of mobile smart devices have brought rich mobile experiences to end users. However, further improvement of service quality and large deployment of mobile pervasive services are hampered by resource constraints of mobile devices and bandwidth limitations of wireless networks. Recently, mobile cloud computing is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to extend the capabilities of mobile devices and platforms, which, in turn, are changing the industrial production and people's daily life. Developments of innovative pervasive mobile s ervices, e.g., mobile video streaming, rich media dissemination, surveillance, e-gaming, e-health care, etc., can be greatly facilitated by mobile cloud computing platforms employing emerged and emerging technologies. For example, with the support of mobile cloud computing, Body Area Networks (BANs) can be greatly enhanced for the deployment of innovative healthcare monitoring applications with richer multimedia contents, more reliable service quality and more types of convergence services. Moreover, adopting the information-centric and content-centric networking concepts and techniques, BANs are evolving to enable a highly flexible and scalable infrastructure for mobile services assisted by cloud computing. Due to the intrinsically resource-constrained features of typical mobile devices as well as smart sensors, it is essential for the mobile cloud service provider to offer sufficient computational resources and storage capacity support for pervasive services, and also maintain a reliable and capable communication system among the devices. In addition, the dynamic mobile wireless channel environments with limited available bandwidth make it difficult for mobile users to provide consistent and ubiquitous services offered by cloud systems. Scope of Contributions This special issue is to focus on the issues related to cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services, but are not limited to: Pervasive e-health, home monitoring, assisted living services by mobile cloud computing Flexible BAN architecture for supporting distributed cloud computing Improvement on mobile content/information-centric networks (CCN and ICN) by clouds Content and information collection and aggregation in pervasive services by clouds Efficient information dissemination in mobile service with cloud computing Mobile content-centric services integrated with Named Data Networks (NDN) Cloud-based mobile audio/video streaming techniques for BANs Scalable live broadcasting for mobile users supported by cloud computing Real-time interactive multimedia service for mobile cloud users Quality of Experience (QoE) studies and improvements for mobile cloud computing Dynamic allocation algorithms for smart devices connected to mobile cloud services New applications for cloud-supported mobile online gaming and other entertainments New convergence services supported by mobile cloud computing techniques Social body area networks combined with mobile cloud computing Mobile cognitive radio networks combined with cloud computing Security in cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services Manuscript Submission With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose "Special Issue ― CLOUD-ASSISTED MOBILE COMPUTING AND PERVASIVE SERVICES" from the drop down menu on the submission page. Guest Editors Victor C.M. Leung (vleung(a)ece.ub.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada Min Chen (minchen(a)ieee.org), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mohsen Guizani (mguizani(a)ieee.org), Qatar University, Qatar Branka Vucetic (branka.vucetic(a)sydney.edu.au), University of Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE LCN 2013 (Sydney, Australia, 21-24 October 2013)
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE LCN 2013 (Sydney, Australia, 21-24 October 2013) Datum: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:55:22 +0000 Von: Reitsma Katrin-QWKN37 <katrin(a)motorolasolutions.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple postings - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Call for Papers: LCN 2013 - The 38th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Paper registration: April 5, 2013 http://www.ieeelcn.org Citigate Central, Sydney, Australia October 21-24, 2013 The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 37 years, major developments from high-speed local networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Personal and wearable networks - Wireless ad hoc, sensor and RFID networks - Information-centric networking - Embedded networks - Opportunistic networking - Delay-tolerant networks - Cognitive radio networks - Vehicular and underwater networks - Social Networks - Mobile and ubiquitous networking - Green networking - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Local-area and metropolitan-area networks -Storage-area networks - Optical and high-speed access networks - Home and SOHO networks - Physical and link layer protocols - Link technologies - Adaptive networking applications - Authentication, authorization, accounting - Security and privacy - Cross-layer optimization - Mobility and Location-dependent services - Multimedia and real-time communication - Machine-to-Machine communications for smart environments - Network management, reliability, and QoS - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Performance evaluation/engineering - Testbeds for experiments and simulations - Network coding Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. Paper submission: Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to the Program Chairs, Damla Turgut <turgut(a)eecs.ucf.edu<mailto:turgut@eecs.ucf.edu>> and Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)uni-osnabrueck.de<mailto:aschenbruck@uni-osnabrueck.de>>. Workshops: A number of workshops will be co-located with the conference. Workshop papers will be published in the LCN proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Information on workshops, submission deadlines and all other details will be posted on the conference website. Demonstrations: Proposals are solicited for research demonstrations. A proposal (no more than 3 pages) should describe the scope, significance and required equipment. Proposals should be submitted via EDAS to the LCN Demo Track. Important dates (Tentative) Paper registration: April 5, 2013 Paper submission: April 12, 2013 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 Final paper: July 30, 2013 Demonstration proposal: July 11, 2013 Organizing Committee General Chair: Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University Program Chair: Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Co-Program Chair: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabrück Local Arrangements Chair: Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales Local Arrangements Co-Chair: Olivier Mehani, NICTA Finance Chair: Frank Huebner, AT&T Labs Corporate Relations Chair: Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales Publications Chair: Jens Tölle, Fraunhofer-FKIE Workshops Chair: Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université Sherbrooke Demonstrations Chair: Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Publicity Chair: Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions Publicity Co-Chair: Tim Wark, CSIRO Editorial Liaison: Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universität Berlin Student Grants Chair: Guillaume Jourjon, NICTA Webmaster: Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Steering Committee Joe Bumblis, University of Wisconsin-Stout Chun Tung Chou, The University of New South Wales Ken Christensen, University of South Florida Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Matthias Frank, University of Bonn Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich + ETH Tim Strayer, BBN Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katrin Reitsma Security Research Engineer Motorola Solutions, Inc. motorolasolutions.com<http://motorolasolutions.com/> O: +1.847.576.4714 M: +1.312.798.9528 E: katrin(a)motorolasolutions.com<mailto:khoeper@motorolasolutions.com> [cid:image003.png@01CD3776.3063FC20]

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