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Fwd: CFP: MobiHoc 2014 (New Deadlines)
by Lars Wolf 10 Jan '14

10 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MobiHoc 2014 (New Deadlines) Datum: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:49:06 +0100 Von: Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad <rvprasad(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad <rvprasad(a)GMAIL.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *CALL FOR PAPERS** **MobiHoc 2014** **The 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing** **August 11-14, 2014** **Philadelphia, USA ** **http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2014/ <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2014/>* * * Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract: January 17, 2014 Paper Submission: January 24, 2014 Notification: June 1, 2014 Camera Ready: June 18th, 2014 ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from wireless networking and computing. With its highly selective technical program, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up -to-date results and achievements in the field. We invite paper submissions on fundamental contributions to a broad variety of issues related to wireless networking and computing. Theoretical contributions which enhance design and analysis are welcome as well as development and application of state-of-the-art, broadly applicable analytic and measurement-based techniques. Topics addressed can include, but are not limited to, mobile networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, vehicular networks, ad hoc computing systems, social networks, cognitive radio, white-space networking, with the main focus on the issues at and above the MAC layer. Physical layer papers that address cross-layer networking issues are also welcome. * Applications and middleware support * Cognitive radio networks * Cross-layer design and control * Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination * Energy efficiency * Functional computation and data aggregation * Location discovery * Measurements from experimental systems * Mobile social networks and self-organization * Modeling and performance analysis * Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability * Network coding * Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks * Performance-oriented applications of game theory, economics, machine learning, control theory, and signal processing * Scaling laws and fundamental limits * Software-defined networks * System design and testbeds * Trust, security, and privacy * Transport, network, and MAC protocols * Vehicular networks * White-space networking The symposium encourages the submission of foundational studies, including theoretical explorations, as well as novel architectures and protocols that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services and applications that may stimulate further research in times to come. The symposium will feature a /Best Paper Award/. Paper Submission Guidelines All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures, and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality through double-blind reviewing where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must *not* appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Before submitting your paper, please check the description of the conference scope. Instructions on paper submission are available at the conference webpage. Note that the margin must be 1 inch on all sides. Submit your papers at http://edas.info/N15971. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. Committees: ------------------------------------------------------------- *General Chair* Jie Wu, Temple University *Vice General Chair* Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University *Program Co-Chairs* Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology Sasawti Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania *Workshop Co-Chairs* I-Hong Hou, Texas A&M University Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M University *Panel Chair* Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University *Poster Chair* Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University *Demo Chair* Mooi-Choo Chuah, Lehigh University *Local Arrangements and EDAS Co-Chairs* Shaojie Tang, Temple University Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte *Webmaster* Robert Kline, West Chester University *Publication Chair* Yingying Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology *Registration Chair and Treasurer* Zhen Jiang, West Chester University *Publicity Chairs* Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, P. R. 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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM SmartVehicles 2014 - NEW DEADLINES!!! (paper registration February 28, 2014)
by Lars Wolf 09 Jan '14

09 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM SmartVehicles 2014 - NEW DEADLINES!!! (paper registration February 28, 2014) Datum: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:46:01 +0100 Von: Valerio Arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Antwort an: Valerio Arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)IIT.CNR.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles 2014) June 16-19, 2014, Sydney, Australia http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014 **** Paper Registration Deadline --- February 28, 2014 **** **** Paper Submission Deadline --- March 7, 2014 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW -------------------------------- The development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication netw! orks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe. Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to: + Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network; + V2V, V2I and V2X communications + Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies + Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination) + Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks + Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet + Big data analytics for ITS applications + Security and privacy in ITS applications + Multimedia applications, infotainment + Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles + Traffic management and efficiency applications + Electrification of transportation systems + Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests + Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems + Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (http://edas.info/N16795). Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014 Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: February 28, 2014 (mandatory) Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014 Notification Deadline: April 15, 2014 Camera Ready Due: TBA Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE -------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Publicity Chair Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy Program Committee (to be completed) Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA Saeed Bastani, University of Sydney, Australia Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Yaser Fallah, West Virginia University, USA Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Emma Fitzgerald, Lund University, Sweden Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain, Jerome Harri, EURECOM, France Thorsten Hehn, Volkswagen, Germany Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, USA Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Lavy Libman, UNSW, Australia Robert Schmidt, Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH, Germany Katrin Sjoberg, Volvo, Sweden Erik Strom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden Alberto Zanella, IEIIT-CNR, Italy ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [New - extended submission deadline] - CFP: MDM 2014 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Andreas Constantinides <akonstan(a)CS.UCY.AC.CY> Gesendet: Wed Jan 08 11:36:01 MEZ 2014 An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [New - extended submission deadline] - CFP: MDM 2014 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management [New - extended submission deadline] ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MDM 2014 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management 14-18 July, 2014, Brisbane, Australia http://www.mdmconferences.org/mdm2014/ The general theme of MDM 2014 will be Mobile and Social Big Data ------------------------------------------------------------------- The MDM series of conferences, since its debut in December 1999, has established itself as a prestigious forum for the exchange of innovative and significant research results in mobile data management. The term mobile in MDM has been used from the very beginning in a broad sense to encompass all aspects of mobility - aspects related to wireless, portable and tiny devices. The conference provides unique opportunities for researchers, engineers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences. The general theme of MDM 2014 will be Mobile and Social Big Data. We invite submissions of original research contributions and industrial papers as well as proposals for demos, panels and workshops. A number of events (workshop, demos, panels, seminars, PhD forum, and special industrial forum) will be organized to cater for all academic activities, apart from research track activities. - Workshops are for fast track publications of papers - Demos will present state of the art prototypes - Panels will review current research activities and explore new frontiers - PhD forum to encourage student participation - Industrial forum for companies to present their research and development works IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstracts due: Jan 8, 2014 Jan 22, 2014 - Paper submission: Jan 15, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 - Acceptance notification: Mar 26, 2014 - Camera ready paper submission: Apr 23, 2014 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: General Chairs: Arkady Zaslavsky (CSIRO, Australia) Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Christian Becker (university of Mannheim, Germany) PC Co-Chairs: Jadwiga Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA) Daniela Nicklas (University of Oldenburg, Germany) Industrial Track Chairs: Ricky Robinson (NICTA, Australia) Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM Research Labs, India) Demonstrations Chairs: Seng Loke (LaTrobe University, Australia Vladimir Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Panel Chairs: Shonali Krishnaswamy (I2R, Singapore) Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus,Cyprus) Advanced Seminars Chairs: Mohamed Gaber (University of Portsmouth, UK) Rui Zhang (University of Melbourne, Australia) Doctoral Colloqium Chairs: Jari Veijalainen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Mohamed Sharaf (The University of Queensland, Australia) Workshop Chairs: Claudia Roncancio (University of Grenoble, France) Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University, USA) Publicity Chairs: Nilanjan Banerjee (IBM Research Labs, India) Andreas Konstantinidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Michael Sheng (University of Adelaide, Australia) Jingtao Wang (University of Pittsburgh, US) Proceedings Chair: Chi-Yin Chow (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Local Organising Chair: Prem Jayaraman (CSIRO, Australia) Webmasters: Karan Mitra (CSIRO, Australia) Andreas Konstantinidis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Jingtao Wang (University of Pittsburgh, US) TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland) Nitin Agrawal (NEC Labs, USA) Walid Aref (Purdue University, USA) Nikolaos Armenatzoglou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Anas Basalamah (Umm Al-Qura University Makkah, Saudi Arabia) Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy) Thomas Brinkhoff (Jade University Oldenburg, Germany) Andreas Brodt (IBM, Germany) Ying Cai (Iowa State University, USA) Dipanjan Chakraborty (IBM Research, India Research Lab, India) Sriram Chellappan (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA) Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Chi-Yin Chow (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy) Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy) Alex Delis (Univ. of Athens, Greece) Thierry Delot (INRIA Lille Nord Europe & Université de Valenciennes, LAMIH, France) Ugur Demiryurek (University of Southern California, USA) João Gama (University of Porto, Portugal) Yunjun Gao (College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China) Michael Gertz (Heidelberg University, Germany) Le Gruenwald (The University of Oklahoma, USA) Ralf Hartmut Güting (Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany) Takahiro Hara (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan) Khaled Harras (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Peizhao Hu (NICTA, Australia) Jadwiga Indulska (University of Queensland, Australia) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) Cheqing Jin (East China Normal University, USA) Guillaume Jourjon (NICTA, Australia) Vana Kalogeraki (AUEB, Greece) Yutaka Kidawara (National Institution of Communications and Technology, Japan) Kyoung-Sook Kim (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan) Hiroyuki Kitagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shonali Krishnaswamy (Monash University, Australia) Peer Kröger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) Lars Kulik (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Wang-Chien Lee (the Pennsylvania State University, USA) Wenjia Li (Georgia Southern University, USA) Seng Loke (La Trobe University, Australia) Hua Lu (Aalborg University, Denmark) Chang-Tien Lu (Virginia Tech, USA) Sanjay Madria (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA) Sergio Mascetti (DICo - University of Milan, Milan) Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Bernhard Mitschang (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Nathalie Mitton (INRIA, France) Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA) Daniela Nicklas (Universitaet Oldenburg, Germany) Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Wen-Chih Peng (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Evaggelia Pitoura (Univ. of Ioannina, Greece) Marius Portmann (University of Queensland, Australia) Matthias Renz (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany) Daniele Riboni (D.I., University of Milan, Italy) Jagan Sankaranarayanan (NEC, USA) Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau, Germany) Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA) Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) Timos Sellis (RMIT University, Australia) Junho Shim (Sookmyung Women's University, Korea) Weiwei Sun (Fudan University, China) Goce Trajcevski (Northwestern University, USA) Vincent S. Tseng (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Vassilis Tsotras (UC Riverside, USA) Peng Wen-Chih (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Ouri Wolfson (University of illinois, USA) Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Bo Xu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Moustafa Youssef (Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt) Vladimir Zadorozhny (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Daqing Zhang (Institut Mines-Telecom,/Telecom SudParis, France) Jianting Zhang (City College of the City University of New York, USA) Yu Zheng (Microsoft Research Aisa, China) Xiaofang Zhou (University of Queensland, Australia) Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Session on VANETs and ITS @ WONS 2014
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '14

08 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Session on VANETs and ITS @ WONS 2014 Datum: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:32:03 +0100 Von: Claudio Ettore Casetti <casetti(a)POLITO.IT> Antwort an: Claudio Ettore Casetti <casetti(a)POLITO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION ON VANETS AND ITS @ WONS 2014 11th IEEE/IFIP Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services WONS 2014 April 2-4, 2014, Obergurgl, Austria (http://2014.wons-conference.org) As vehicle on-board electronics become increasingly sophisticated and no longer restricted only to luxury cars, the stage is set for vehicular communication to enhance our driving experience. The primary goal is, of course, to increase the cooperation among vehicles, roadside systems and traffic control centers, for greater road safety. However, social and cloud applications for drivers and passengers alike are envisioned to be more and more tightly integrated with the vehicle on-board systems, as well as with the mobile devices carried by passengers. Following the spirit of the WONS conference, the Special Session on VANETs and ITS will cover all research topics related to vehicular networking technologies, applications, systems and services, and, in particular: Medium access control protocols Multi-channel organization and operation Communication protocol design and network management System architecture Safety and comfort applications Cooperative Awareness applications V2X communication Simulation frameworks and field operational testing Security and privacy Social and cloud applications for vehicles Wireless in-car networks DSRC systems for vulnerable road users (pedestrians, road workers, bicycles, etc.) Automated driving and communication SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under current review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column papers (up to 8 pages) with a font size no smaller than 10pt. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. Papers for the special session must be submitted through EDAS at the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16239&track=51671 IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------- * Paper Submission: January 31, 2014 * Notification: February 28, 2014 * Camera Ready Due: March 10, 2014 * Conference: April 2-4, 2014 ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Piotr Cholda <cholda(a)AGH.EDU.PL> Gesendet: Tue Jan 07 17:16:46 MEZ 2014 An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks *Aims and Scope* Society's increasing dependence on communication networks, the Internet and their services is evident from the wide range of activities that use electronic media, from entertainment to critical operations related to commerce, finance and life care. Humanity relies on the Internet to access information, obtain services, manage finances, and communicate with others. Businesses use the Internet to transact commerce with consumers and other businesses. Governments depend on communication networks for their daily operation and service delivery. The military depends on the Global Information Grid to execute network centric operations and warfare. Hence, in addition to transportation-infrastructure, power-generation, and distribution-grid public/private networks, the Internet and other publicly accessible communication networks are today critical infrastructures upon which our lives and prosperity depend. Given this dependence, vulnerabilities of communication networks and the Internet can significantly impact our lives. The dependence on communication networks and the Internet makes them an attractive target for attacks and intrusions attempting to either obtain information or disrupt service of individuals, businesses, government and military. These networks and services are also susceptible to accidents, faults or natural disasters that can disrupt service. Examples of natural disasters that compromised the network infrastructure are the hurricanes Sandy and Katrina. In the face of these difficulties, the need for greater resilience has been recognized for wireline and wireless networks and for the Internet. Resilience has classically been defined as the ability of the network to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults, accidents, attacks and natural disasters. This subject has attracted the attention of researchers, industry and governments around the world. Today, resilience can be considered an essential characteristic in the design and operation of networks to withstand the intrusions described above. Furthermore, we must now expand resilience to include new requirements, such as scalability, dynamic and opportunistic topologies, and global interoperation and interdependence among networks. This feature topic call-for-papers solicits recent, relevant works related to disaster resilience, especially in emerging networks. The main goal is to provide for the *IEEE Communications Magazine *an overview of the state-of-the-art of resilience, and to identify the new challenges from emerging network infrastructures in terms of scalability, heterogeneity, and dynamicity. Works addressing resilience issues in the context of new communication technologies, such as software-defined networks, cognitive radio and emerging optical technologies are of particular interest. *Topics* Articles describing original research and development as well as survey articles related to disaster resilience are solicited. The topics to be covered by this feature topic include, but are not limited to: * Disaster resilience for the following technologies: - LTE, LTE-A, 4G, Small Cells, femto-cells - Heterogeneous wireless networks - Access Networks - Flexible Optical Networks - Overlay and multi-layer networks - Virtualized Networks - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) - Datacenters, Cloud infrastructures, Networks for Big Data - Smart Grids, M2M - Green networks * Disaster resilience approaches coping with: - Mitigation and reconstruction of network infrastructure - Management for post disaster network infrastructure reconstruction - Network infrastructure adaptive capacity - Disaster risk reduction - Risk management and sustainability - Community and social engagement in providing communication infrastructure in disaster situation - Knowledge management and integration - Public policy and governance to build disaster resilient smart cities - Energy efficiency *Submission Guidelines* Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the *IEEE Communications Magazine*’s guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is very important to note that the *IEEE Communications Magazine* strongly limits mathematical content, the number of figures and tables, and the number of references. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Select “October 2014/Disaster Resilience” as the submission category. *Important Dates* Manuscript Submission Due: February 1, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2014 Publication: October 2014 *Guest Editors* Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Deep Medhi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research, USA *Further Information* http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag1014.html ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: WiNMee 2014---New deadline!
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Gesendet: Tue Jan 07 18:21:13 MEZ 2014 An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: WiNMee 2014---New deadline! (Sorry for multiple receptions of this e-mail.) *** NEW DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: JANUARY 30! *** ================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS WiNMee 2014 The 10th International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements and Experimentations (In conjunction with WiOpt 2014.) ================================================================================ http://www.hanalab.org/wiopt2014/w4-winmee.html SCOPE --------------------------- The explosion of both wireless technologies and applications as well as the increasing number of radios and frequency bands available demand an understanding of in-field performance to design the next generation of wireless systems. Complex channel properties such as multipath, delay spread, and Doppler effects prevent even the most complex channel models from exactly characterizing repeatable in-situ behavior. Abstract models of devices and energy storage, as well as emerging paradigms such as energy harvesting enabled systems, make estimation of system performance and lifetime quite challenging unless supported by field experiments. To better understand the potential of novel paradigms and ideas, it is therefore imperative to evaluate these ideas in the field via empirical measurement. While analytical and simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and devices, and by the varying and error-prone wireless channel. Even slight misunderstandings can cause drastic performance differences in various research avenues from cognitive spectral sensing to spatial reuse in large-scale network planning to lifetime and amount of tasks which can be performed by Internet-of-Things devices. As a response to these limitations, the need for experimental wireless network measurements has gained wide recognition in the networking research community. WiNMee 2014 is the tenth edition in the International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements series that began in 2005, and is intended to bring together researchers in the field of experimental wireless networking and serve as a forum for discussing advances and challenges in experimental wireless network measurements and experimentation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience and measurements from building, designing and/or operating production and research wireless networks * Measurement and characterization of wireless network traffic such as WLANs, cellular networks (including smartphone and mobile application traffic characteristics), wireless home networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, cyber physical and sensing systems * Experimental validation of network simulators * Experimental driven mobile social network and mobility models * Measurement-based network management and troubleshooting * Experiences and challenges with wireless measurements, including novel measurement techniques * Methodologies for validating wireless test-bed results and improving the repeatability of tests, simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Methodologies for measuring and characterizing heterogeneous wireless networks * Techniques and experiences with collecting, archiving, anonymizing, analyzing and sharing wireless measurement data * Techniques and experimental results on performance measurements of cognitive radio systems, cyber physical and sensing systems, WLAN and VANET, cellular systems * Prediction and inference of user access, demand and mobility; estimation and prediction of energy availability * Software tools for building and/or managing wireless test-beds * Spectrum utilization measurements techniques in spectrum sharing and cognitive radio networks SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --------------------------- The workshop seeks novel, previously unpublished papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. All submissions should be in PDF format, written in English with a maximum paper length of six printed pages (IEEE Transactions style double-column format, 10pt font size), including figures. The paper should include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. The submission will be handled via EDAS at http://edas.info/N16027. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be available via the IEEE Xplore website. Please refer to workshop website for details: http://www.hanalab.org/wiopt2014/w4-winmee.html. IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- Full paper due: January 30th, 2014 (firm deadline) Author notification: March 1st, 2014 Camera ready due: March 15th, 2014 Workshop: May 12th, 2014 COMMITTEE --------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: * Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA. * Chiara Petrioli, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy. Publicity Chair * Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA. Web Chair * Dora Spenza, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza," Italy. Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** Laetus deget cui licet in diem dixisse: Vixi. -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu *** http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/ *** ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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CfP: ICT4S 2014, ICT for Sustainability: 24-27 August 2014, Stockholm, Sweden
by Daniel Vare 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

[cid:image001.jpg@01CF0BB6.EAEC1E90] ICT for Sustainability The 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability will be held in Stockholm, Sweden 24-27 August 2014. The conference is organized by CESC, Centre for Sustainable Communications<http://cesc.kth.se/> in cooperation with VU University Amsterdam.<http://www.vu.nl/> ICT and transformational change ICT for sustainability is about utilizing the transformational power of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for making our world more sustainable - increasing quality of life for ever more people without compromising future generations' ability to meet their needs. This year's theme is therefore ICT and transformational change. Call for papers, posters, workshops The ICT4S Steering Committee invites researchers and practitioners to submit original papers and posters for review and presentation. To find out more about the conference theme and topics visit the website at 2014.ict4s.org<http://2014.ict4s.org/> Paper submission process Prior to submission, please read the 'Call for papers' section of the conference website<http://2014.ict4s.org/call-for-papers> All papers must conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Formatting Guidelines. Full papers are limited to max 6,500 words, and 10 pages including text, appendices, figures and references. Make sure that you use this MS Word template<http://www.conference-publishing.com/templates/MSW_USltr_format.doc> or the LaTeX class<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls> template. The deadline for submission of paper abstracts is 21 February 2014 and full papers must be submitted no later than 28 February 2014. The submitted abstracts will be used to distribute review assignments, and submitting an abstract is thus mandatory in order to submit a paper. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Posters We welcome posters corresponding to the conference theme & topics. More information and guidelines will be available later on at the conference website (http://2014.ict4s.org/call-for-posters/). Submit you Poster no later than 14 April 2014. Workshops A series of workshops will be held in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S) to facilitate the creation and exchange of ideas between academia, industry, and government participants. Workshops provide a setting for presenting challenges to researchers and practitioners as well as working together with experts in the field to overcome those challenges. Workshops will be held before and after the main conference. More information about the call for workshops is available at http://2014.ict4s.org/call-for-workshops/ Submit you workshop proposal no later than 15 January 2014. Topics Topics Include, but are not limited to, the following examples that all ought to discuss sustainability implications: - smart cities - ICT-induced societal change - e-waste and closed material cycles - ICT-practices and lifestyles - intelligent energy management in buildings - ICT and design - smart homes and offices - smart grids - education in ICT for sustainability - intelligent transportation and travel information - green monitoring and adaptation of software-intensive systems and services - energy efficient software - software for environmental sustainable ICT - software for sustainable business governance - improved service lives of hardware products - material resources used in production - reduced hardware obsolescence - incentives for more sustainable ICT - tools supporting green decision making and development - challenges for an environmentally sustainable ICT industry - systematic interdisciplinary efforts in ICT for Sustainability [cid:image002.png@01CF0BB6.EAEC1E90] The calls are also available for download here<http://2014.ict4s.org/participators/downloads/> Please spread the information Subscribe to the ICT4S mailing list: ICT4S Mailing List<https://lists.ifi.uzh.ch/listinfo/ict4s>

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE/IFIP Med-Hoc-Net 2014, Piran, Slovenia, 2-4 June
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE/IFIP Med-Hoc-Net 2014, Piran, Slovenia, 2-4 June Datum: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:05:13 -0800 Von: Mario Gerla <mgerla.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mario Gerla <mgerla.publicity(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS Med-Hoc-Net 2014 The 13th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/medhocnet2014 June 2-4, 2014 Piran, Slovenia OVERVIEW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted considerable attention from the research community in the last several years. Now that many of the fundamental topics and challenges have been deeply investigated, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include data-centric operations, autonomous organization, service creation/support, continued operation under intermittent connectivity, optimization, control, cross-layer design and application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, smart cities, energy efficient buildings, sensors, actuators, wearables, etc.). Moreover, novel and exciting challenges are introduced by commercial systems adopting the ad hoc paradigm, from mesh, sensor and vehicular networks, and by associated delay-tolerant and opportunistic scenarios. Furthermore, today's market explosion of smart phones is creating new opportunities for wireless ad hoc social networks, the study of which requires the combination of opportunistic ad hoc networking aspects with the understanding of social behavior and mobility patterns. MED-HOC-NET 2014 focuses on all the ramifications of ad hoc networking research, not only the classic topics of location management, security/privacy, topology optimization/control schemes and resource allocation, but also paying attention to novel emerging areas such as green networking, safety/surveillance, underwater communications, and coexistence among heterogeneous devices. The Workshop is endorsed by the IEEE Communication Society and its Technical Committees for Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, Information Infrastructure & Networking, and Radio Communication, and by IFIP. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE in IEEEXplore. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are solicited in a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, mesh, delay-tolerant, content-centric and opportunistic networks, including but not limited to: -Routing algorithms and protocols -MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation -Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks -Middleware for ad hoc networks -Application driven architectures and protocols -Sensor network applications and protocols -Vehicular networks -Cognitive radio networks -Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks -Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes -Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.) -Self organization and network reconfiguration -Optimization models and algorithms -Resource and service discovery -Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) -Security and privacy -Delay tolerant networks -Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking -Mobile social networks -Security and privacy -Participatory and urban sensing -Underwater wireless networks -Heterogeneous networks -Novel performance measures -Green networking -Cooperative schemes -Network localization -Network secrecy -Networking virtualization -Services based, and enabled by Ad Hoc networks IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers Due: March 3, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: April 7, 2014 Camera-Ready Version due: May 4, 2014 Conference Dates: June 2-4, 2014 PAPER SUBMISSION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication.Submissions are limited to 8 pages in length in Two-Column Format, including references, figures and tables. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site. CONFERENCE CHAIRS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy Eve Schooler, Intel Labs, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Kassler - Karlstads Universitet, Sweden Gustavo Marfia - University of Bologna, Italy STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia, Institute of Technology, USA Khaldoun Al Agha, Paris-Sud University, France Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Guy Pujolle, UPMC - Paris 6, France PUBLICATION CHAIR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Massimiliano Comisso - University of Trieste, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sungwon Yang - UCLA, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roman Trobec - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Özgür Baris Akan - Koc University, Turkey Onur Altintas - Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Stefano Avallone - Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy Amotz Bar-Noy - Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA Jalal Ben-Othman - University Paris 13, France Carlos Bernardos - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain André-Luc Beylot - IRIT Toulouse, France Giuseppe Bianchi - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy Chris Blondia - University of Antwerp, Belgium Steven Borbash - US Government, Department of Defense, Washington DC, USA Azzedine Boukerche - University of Ottawa, Canada Khaled Boussetta - University of Paris 13, France Raffaele Bruno - CNR, Italy Armir Bujari - University of Padua, Italy Berk Canberk - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Antonio Capone - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ling-Jyh Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan Luis Henrique M. K. Costa - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Francesca Cuomo - University of Rome Sapienza, Italy Lorenzo Donatiello - University of Bologna, Italy Christos Douligeris - University of Piraeus, Greece Falko Dressler - University of Innsbruck, Austria Andrzej Duda - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Ece Gelal - AirTies, Turkey Erol Gelenbe - Imperial College London, United Kingdom Andrea Giorgetti - Univ. Bologna, Italy Mesut Guenes - Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Isabelle Guérin Lassous - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – LIP, France Zhen Kong - Qualcomm, Hong Kong Houda Labiod - TELECOM ParisTech (ex: ENST), France Latif Ladid - Internet Society, USA Ilias Leontiadis - Telefonica Research, Spain Pascal Lorenz - University of Haute Alsace, France Maode Ma - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Abdelhamid Mammeri - University of Ottawa, Canada Pietro Manzoni - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Raphael Massin - Thales, France Tommaso Melodia - State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Pascale Minet - INRIA, France Ani Nahapetian - University of California, Los Angeles, USA Gabi Nakibly - National EW Research & Simulation Center, Israel Leandro Navarro - UPC, Spain Axel Neumann - Pangea, Germany Guevara Noubir - Northeastern University, USA Claudio Palazzi - University of Padua, Italy Andrea Passarella - CNR, Pisa, Italy Christian Quadri - University of Milano, Italy Marco Roccetti - University of Bologna, Italy Catherine Rosenberg - University of Waterloo, Canada Björn Scheuermann - Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Winston Seah - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Hwee Pink Tan - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Anil Kumar Vullikanti - Virginia Tech, USA Stefan Weber - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Adam Wolisz - Technical University of Berlin, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit conference website for more information.http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/medhocnet2014/ ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications SI on Security and Privacy of P2P Networks in Emerging Smart City
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: zhu haojin <zhuhaojin(a)GMAIL.COM> > Datum: 7. Januar 2014 07:03:43 MEZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications SI on Security and Privacy of P2P Networks in Emerging Smart City > Antwort an: zhu haojin <zhuhaojin(a)GMAIL.COM> > > Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications SI on Security and Privacy of P2P > Networks in Emerging Smart City > > Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. > > Call for Papers: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications seeks original > manuscripts for a Special Issue on Security and Privacy of P2P Networks in > Emerging Smart City. > > Recently, the smart city has been introduced as a promising concept due to > its potential benefits including low-carbon economy, intelligent traffic > management, ubiquitous information sharing, and etc. In the smart city, > there are many key components, such as smart grid, smart vehicle, smart > cloud, and mobile social network. Thanks to the good salability and low > processing cost on content delivery and distributed search engine in these > components, P2P technologies are expected to play an essential role in > accelerating the implementation of the smart city. > > Although we have witnessed the major and remarkable development in the > field of smart city in the recent years, the security and privacy issues of > the smart city have not been well studied. Thus, there is a crucial need > for security and privacy research to achieve secure and privacy-preserving > smart city. The purpose of this special issue is to report on the most > up-to-date contributions in smart city from P2P perspective. Researchers > and practitioners are invited to submit theoretical or applied papers > dealing with the following topics (but not limited to): > > - Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Grid > . Authentication, authorization, and access control for smart appliances > . Security and privacy in smart meters, energy auction markets, and > distributed power generations > . Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in the smart grid > > - Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Vehicle > . Security policies, standards, and regulations in vehicle ad-hoc > networks (VANETs) > . Authentication, authorization, accounting, secure routing, and privacy > protection in VANETs > . Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in VANETs > > - Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Smart Cloud > . Keyword searching and matching in cloud computing > . Authentication, authorization, accounting, access control and privacy > protection in cloud computing > . Attack modeling, prevention, mitigation, and defense in cloud computing > . Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in cloud computing > > - Security and Privacy Issues in P2P based Mobile Social Network > . Authentication, authorization, access control and privacy protection in > mobile social network > . Secure information sharing, searching and matching in mobile social > network > . Implementation and testbed for security evaluation in mobile social > network > > Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has > neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. > Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer Networking > and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review > system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review > process of their manuscript. This online system offers easy and > straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range > of submission file formats. Manuscripts should be submitted to: > http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose ?Security and Privacy in Smart City? as the > article type. > > Guest Editors: > > Hongwei Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China > (lead: Hongwei.uestc(a)gmail.com); > Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China > Bong Jun (David) Choi, The State University of New York Korea, Korea / > Stony Brook University, USA > > Important Dates: > > Paper submission deadline: 25 Jan. 2013 > First round notification: 15 Mar. 2014 > Revised papers due: 1 May 2014 > Final acceptance: 15 June 2014 > Estimated Publication: 4Q 2014 > > -- > Haojin Zhu > > Associate Professor, > Department of Computer Science & Engineering > Shanghai Jiao Tong University > http://tdt.sjtu.edu.cn/~hjzhu/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ > TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. > tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org > https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Mobile and Pervasive Applications in Tourism" - deadline Jan. 15, 2014
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)UNIBO.IT> > Datum: 7. Januar 2014 07:52:22 MEZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Mobile and Pervasive Applications in Tourism" - deadline Jan. 15, 2014 > Antwort an: Paolo Bellavista <paolo.bellavista(a)UNIBO.IT> > > Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this SI cfp. > ********************************************************************************************** > > Special Issue of the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal on > “Mobile and Pervasive Applications in Tourism” > > http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/ > > Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629]; paper submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2014 > > ********************************************************************************************** > > Scope: > > The convergence of information technology, the Internet and telecommunication industry generated massive changes in the tourist industry. ICTs has been rapidly adopted by tourist businesses and authorities in a bid to gaining advantage over competitors. e-Tourism emerged as a promising revision of the previous business models and initiatives related to tourism, with the advent of web technologies. ‘Mobile tourism’ extended the notion of e-Tourism to meet the vision of tourist services provision to nomadic users with no spatial–temporal restrictions. The recent developments in mobile hardware and software allowed for the provision of a new range of personalized, context-aware services that were not previously feasible. > > Further on, improvements in the area of mobile communications and networking have increased the availability of wireless bandwidth thereby providing new possibilities for exchanging and sharing data among tourists. Smartphones, mobile and wearable sensors, and other portable systems are commonly used to collect and exchange data as well as to infer personal, social and environmental context. Along this line, pervasive technologies open profound opportunities for the tourism industry and have the potential to revolutionize the tourist experience, delivering added-value services to tourists 'on the move'. However, before such applications can be widely deployed and used, several fundamental technical, social and business challenges need to be addressed. > > The proposed SI aims at publishing outstanding articles describing innovative applications and frameworks that enable the use of mobile and pervasive technologies in tourism and outline the state of the art in this particularly promising area of research. We invite research papers as well as papers which address challenges in developing industrial-strength mobile and pervasive applications. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: > • Novel context-aware applications in mobile/pervasive tourism > • Context reasoning and modeling in mobile/pervasive tourism > • Recommender systems in mobile/pervasive tourism > • Augmented and mixed reality applications in mobile tourism > • Pervasive games in tourism > • Novel edutainment applications in mobile/pervasive tourism > • Novel indoors mobile/pervasive tourist applications > • RFID/NFC-based mobile tourism applications > • Travel navigation and assistance applications > • Participatory sensing applications in tourism > • Crowd sourcing in mobile tourism > • Information sharing and social interaction in pervasive tourism > • User-generated content in mobile tourism > • Efficient algorithmic solutions in support of computationally-intensive mobile tourist applications > • Interactive surfaces and walls in support of tourist applications > • HCI issues and interaction models in mobile/pervasive tourist applications > • (Innovative) applications requirements, performance, and benchmarking > • Field trials, user acceptance and evaluation studies > • Security, privacy, fault-tolerance and resiliency in mobile and pervasive tourism > > Important Dates: > Paper submission: 15 Jan 2014 > 1st round notification: 15 April 2014 > Expected publication: Last Quarter 2014 > Guest Editors: > Damianos Gavalas > University of the Aegean, Greece > Email: dgavalas(a)aegean.gr<mailto:dgavalas@aegean.gr> > Maha El Choubassi > American University of Beirut, Lebanon > me87(a)aub.edu.lb<mailto:me87@aub.edu.lb> > Ángel García Crespo > Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain > acrespo(a)ia.uc3m.es<mailto:acrespo@ia.uc3m.es> > Paolo Bellavista > Università di Bologna, Italy > Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it<mailto:paolo.bellavista@unibo.it> > > Submission Guidelines: > All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. > Authors should select “SI: Tourism”, from the “Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. > > For additional info or clarifications, please feel free to contact the Guest Editors above. > > _________________________________________________________________________________________ > > Paolo Bellavista, Ph.D., Associate Professor > EB Member of IEEE TC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TSC, Elsevier PMC, Springer JNSM > DISI - University of Bologna > Viale del Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna - ITALY > Ph. +39-051-2093866; Fax +39-051-2093073 > Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it<mailto:paolo.bellavista@unibo.it> > Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ > TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. > tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org > https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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