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Fwd: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (CFP)
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Fernando Ramos <fvramos(a)FC.UL.PT> Gesendet: 14. Februar 2014 11:16:08 MEZ An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [InternetTC] ExtremeCom 2014 - The Galápagos Expedition (CFP) We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing - The Galápagos Expedition ExtremeCom 2014 11-16 August, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador http://www.extremecom.org/ ****************************************************************** Important dates --------------- ---- Submission deadline: May 4, 2014 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2014 Early registration deadline: June 7, 2014 Registration deadline: June 15, 2014 Conference dates: August 11-16, 2014 (tentative dates) ****************************************** Scope ------- The Extreme Conference on Communication and Computing (ExtremeCom) brings together researchers and practitioners in areas related to communications in rural, remote or other extreme environments, and computing in extreme operating conditions such as extreme temperatures and energy constraints, extreme quantities ("big data"), extremely large-scale systems, and extreme levels of threat and uncertainty, in order to gain experience and insight into the challenges that such environments pose for the network and the users. We welcome a broad range of topics concerning both technical and economical aspects, for example wireless communication, mobile computing, low power devices and protocols, delay tolerant networks and other networking paradigms, distributed computing paradigms, big data, distributed systems, cloud computing, business and services models, user experiences and web applications. Researches addressing computing challenges in general mobile environments (even not completely extreme) are also welcomed by the conference. Following on from the success of ExtremeCom 2009 - The Midnight Sun Expedition in Laponia, Sweden, ExtremeCom 2010 - The Himalayan Expedition in Dharamsala, India, ExtremeCom 2011 - The Amazon Expedition in Manaus, Brazil, ExtremeCom 2012 - The Swiss Alps Winter Expedition in Zurich, Switzerland, and ExtremeCom 2013 - The Volcanic Expedition in the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano region in Iceland, we present the ExtremeCom 2014 edition: The Galápagos Expedition. The conference will start with 3 days of excursions in the amazing nature of the Galápagos Islands. Along the way, participants will get to see and experience the islands and their plant and animal life, both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. The immersion will not only give a better idea of both the technical and user requirements of such a harsh environment, but it will also give many opportunities for informal research discussions between the participants. Participants that have their own software for scenarios like this will also, to as great an extent as possible, be encouraged to test and demonstrate it within this environment. After the excursions, there will be two days of paper presentations and demos. Focus will still be on informal research discussions, with the hope that the field experience will give participants the ability to discuss the topics in a new light. ***************** Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Participants should submit 6 page papers about ideas and visions about the topics of the conference or demo proposals to be shown during the conference. Visionary and thought-provoking papers that are likely to generate much discussion during the conference are especially solicited. The aim of the conference is to maintain an informal environment, where new research ideas can be discussed and developed. We also hope to have a demo session where participants can show their implementations and systems. If you want to show a demo, please submit a 2 page demo proposal using the same submission system as for conference papers. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A selected set of top submissions will be fast-tracked to a special issue in a reputed SCI/E journal. We only accept PDF files, no greater than 6 pages in length (2 pages for the demos), including text, figures and references. Manuscripts should use the ACM templates (for LaTeX, please use Option 2 files), with 9pt fonts. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Testbeds for large-scale sustainable testing of moobile communication systems Real deployments of networks in extreme environments Business and service models for networks in rural, remote, and other challenging environments Delay tolerant networking User experience research Big data research such as mining and modeling of mobility and social network Cloud computing for extreme scalability Mesh networks and sensor networks Low-power and intermittent-power protocols Mechanisms for emergency and urgent communications Distributed computing for mobile environments Networked applications and services Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking Security, privacy, and trustworthiness of extreme communications Underwater networking Robotic communications and mobile augmented reality Due to logistics, the number of participants will be limited. Priority will be given to authors of papers and those who register first. **************************************************************************** * Organizers --------------- General co-chairs: Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Local conference operations chair: Carlos Herrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador TPC vice-chairs: Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Sponsorship co-chairs: Filipe Mota Pinto, Instituto Politécnica Leiria, Portugal Carlos Egas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ecuador Publicity chair: Fernando Ramos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Web chair: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden Technical Program Committee: TBC Steering Committee: Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Avri Doria, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Pan Hui, HKUST, Hong Kong / T-Labs, Germany Anders Lindgren, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden **************************************************************************** * Fernando ======== <http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/> http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~fvramos/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '14

15 Feb '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Luca Mottola <luca.mottola(a)POLIMI.IT> Gesendet: 14. Februar 2014 19:42:06 MEZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - ==================================================================== Please note: Due to a technical glitch in the submission system and several requests from prospective authors, we are extending the deadline to Feb 21st 2014 11:59:59 EST. 14 April 2014 Berlin (Germany) http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/ -* Keynote information announced! *- Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas. This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate understanding of the environment. Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real time systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross fertilization, to ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems. To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works across two or more of the following topic areas: * Low-power communication in robot networks * Programming of robot swarms * Sensing coverage using robotic swarms * Task allocation * Distributed sensing * Coordination in robot swarms * Verification and validation * Distributed planning and navigation * Novel applications * Experience reports Important dates: Submission deadline: Feb 21, 2014. Notifications : March 7, 2014. Camera ready : March 15, 2014. Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm. Workshop keynote: Prof. Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group, will give the opening keynote about “Vision- Controlled Micro Aerial Vehicles: From Calm Navigation to Aggressive Maneuvers” Submission Guidelines: We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Suitable templates are available at the workshop website. Workshop Organizers: Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Committee: Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy) Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium) Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy) Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain) Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michael Rubenstein (Harvard, USA) Brian Sadler (ARL, USA) ______________________________________________________________ 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: CFP: MobiCom 2014
by Lars Wolf 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MobiCom 2014 Datum: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:37:48 +0000 Von: Eugene Chai <eugene(a)NEC-LABS.COM> Antwort an: Eugene Chai <eugene(a)NEC-LABS.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** We apologize if you have received multiple copies of the CFP *** CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2014 will mark the 20th edition of the premier conference on mobile computing and wireless networking. To mark the special event, the conference will add new features which will be announced in coming days and months. However, it all starts by you submitting your best paper! MobiCom 2014 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. At its core, we expect papers to address issues related to mobile computing, security and communication challenges in the presence of various wireless and mobile networks, including but not limited to wireless LANs, cellular data networks, mobile social networks, delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, vehicular networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad hoc networks. Successful papers will address real research challenges through theoretical analysis, novel system design, as well as real-world measurement and deployment of mobile systems and applications. MobiCom 2014 will be a diverse conference, and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The authors should note there is an intent to provide open-access to all accepted conference articles. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically at the submission site http://mars.cse.ohio-state.edu/mobicom2014/. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Any papers that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected: 1. Maximum of 12 pages 2. Font size no smaller than 10 points 3. Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches × 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column 4. Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches × 11 inches) Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014 All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript will be posted here shortly. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org. BEST PAPER AWARD (AND MORE!) All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. In addition, this year, we plan to add new award categories. The details of the new award categories will be announced in the near future. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts submission due 5:00 PM EST, March 5, 2014 (hard deadline) Paper submissions due 5:00 PM EST, March 10, 2014 (hard deadline) Notification of acceptance June 2, 2014 Camera-ready version due July 27, 2014 IMPORTANT NOTE It is ACM policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy) not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. FOR MORE INFORMATION Please feel free to contact the General Chair (mobicom_info(a)acm.org) or the Program Co-Chairs (mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org) for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact the General Chair. —————————————————— Eugene Chai Research Staff Member Mobile Communications and Networking Research NEC Laboratories America eugene(a)nec-labs.com ----------------------------------------------------- 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: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] CFP ACM MobiCom 2014 (Submission Deadline - March 10, 2014)
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Comsoc-ETC-sub-IOT] CFP ACM MobiCom 2014 (Submission Deadline - March 10, 2014) Datum: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:15:59 +0100 Von: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)inria.fr> Organisation: INRIA An: IoT list <comsoc-etc-sub-iot(a)ipv6forum.com> Dear colleagues, Please find below a Call for Papers for the 20th Annual Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2014), to be held in Maui, Hawaii, on September 7-11, 2014. We apologize if you receive duplicate copies of this announcement. ---- [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP).] *********************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACM MobiCom 2014 The 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014/ Sept 7-11, 2014 - Maui, Hawaii *********************************************************************************** MobiCom 2014 will mark the 20th edition of the premier conference on mobile computing and wireless networking. To mark the special event, the conference will add new features that will be announced in coming days and months. However, it all starts by you submitting your best paper! MobiCom 2014 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. At its core, we expect papers to address issues related to mobile computing, security and communication challenges in the presence of various wireless and mobile networks, including but not limited to wireless LANs, cellular data networks, mobile social networks, delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, vehicular networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad hoc networks. Successful papers will address real research challenges through theoretical analysis, novel system design, as well as real-world measurement and deployment of mobile systems and applications. MobiCom 2014 will be a diverse conference, and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. The authors should note there is an intent to provide open-access to all accepted conference articles. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically at the submission site http://mars.cse.ohio-state.edu/mobicom2014/. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Any papers that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected: 1. Maximum of 12 pages 2. Font size no smaller than 10 points 3. Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches × 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column 4. Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches × 11 inches) Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2014/submit.html. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript will be posted here shortly. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org. BEST PAPER AWARD (AND MORE!) All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. In addition, this year, we plan to add new award categories. The details of the new award categories will be announced in the near future. IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts submission due 5:00 PM EST, March 5, 2014 (hard deadline) Paper submissions due 5:00 PM EST, March 10, 2014 (hard deadline) Notification of acceptance June 2, 2014 Camera-ready version due July 27, 2014 IMPORTANT NOTE It is ACM policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy) not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. FOR MORE INFORMATION Please feel free to contact the General Chair (mobicom_info(a)acm.org) or the Program Co-Chairs (mobicom_pcchairs(a)acm.org) for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact the General Chair.

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Fwd: CfP: Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - DEADLINE TOMORROW!
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - DEADLINE TOMORROW! Datum: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:19:16 +0100 Von: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> Antwort an: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> An: lmottola(a)gmail.com <lmottola(a)gmail.com> Call for Papers: The 1st Int. Workshop on Robotic Sensor Networks - part of CPSWEEK - ==================================================================== 14 April 2014 Berlin (Germany) http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/kdantu/rsn14/ -* Keynote information announced! *- Recent developments in sensing and actuation technology, along with the miniaturization of computing and communication, have led to the development of commodity robot technology such as hobby drones and robot toolkits. These platforms are bringing sensing and actuation at places where traditional technology does not reach; for example, for aerial pollution monitoring or for disaster management in remote areas. This novel class of cyber-physical systems (CPS) take many of the design, implementation, and validation issues of traditional CPSs to an extreme. Control, sensing, estimation, and algorithms for localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration of individual robots are needed to govern their movements. The timing aspects of vehicle operation are key to provide run-time guarantees about performance. The software design and implementation must lead to provably correct execution. Noisy or inaccurate information sensed by the robots must be properly handled to ensure an accurate understanding of the environment. Research efforts to address the issues above, while related, have previously progressed independently with little cross-fertilization across diverse disciplines such as robotics, real time systems, signal processing, and software development. The goal of this workshop is to create a platform where researchers from different communities can get together to better understand the latest developments in these related fields as well as to establish connections for future interdisciplinary work. The workshop intends to provide a platform to enable such cross fertilization, to ultimately speed up the development of the field and to foster rich interdisciplinary work in the future. Particularly, co-location with the Cyber-Physical Systems week will be an asset in this regard. CPSWEEK is the premiere CPS event that brings together five top conferences from complementary areas such as Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Sensor Networks, Hybrid Systems, and Networked Systems. To build the needed interdisciplinary work ultimately necessary to the development of the field, the workshop seeks technical contributions describing original, previously unpublished results in all topics related to the design of robotic sensor networks, including works across two or more of the following topic areas: * Low-power communication in robot networks * Programming of robot swarms * Sensing coverage using robotic swarms * Task allocation * Distributed sensing * Coordination in robot swarms * Verification and validation * Distributed planning and navigation * Novel applications * Experience reports Important dates: Submission deadline: Feb 14, 2014. Notifications : March 7, 2014. Camera ready : March 15, 2014. Workshop : Apr 14, 2014, at 2pm. Workshop keynote: Prof. Davide Scaramuzza from the University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group, will give the opening keynote about “Vision- Controlled Micro Aerial Vehicles: From Calm Navigation to Aggressive Maneuvers” Submission Guidelines: We invite to submit short papers in PDF format, of at most 4 pages in length including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, and using a minimum of 10-pt font. Suitable templates are available at the workshop website. Workshop Organizers: Karthik Dantu, University at Buffalo, USA Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano and SICS Swedish ICT Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Committee: Filippo Arrichiello (UNICAS, Italy) Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre Bruxelles, Belgium) Andrea Gasparri (Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy) Ramiro Martinez (University of Seville, Spain) Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michael Rubenstein (Harvard, USA) Brian Sadler (ARL, USA)

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Workshop Papers: 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS)
by Lars Wolf 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Workshop Papers: 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) Datum: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 17:40:07 +0100 Von: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> Antwort an: Animesh Pathak <animesh.pathak(a)INRIA.FR> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Workshop Papers The 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (IEEE DCOSS) http://www.dcoss.org/ Marina Del Rey, California May 25 - 27, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The annual IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014) will take place in Marina Del Rey, California, USA, from Monday, May 26 to Wednesday, May 28 2014. As with previous editions of the DCOSS conferences, this conference will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. Workshop articles will be added to IEEE Xplore and workshop proceedings are foreseen. WORKSHOPS The following Workshops have been confirmed for IEEE DCOSS '14. Note that the submission deadlines are different for each of them. Paper submission for all workshops will be through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17145 International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) Co-Chairs: Selcuk Uluagac and Raheem Beyah website: http://www.cps-security.org/ Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 International Workshop on Energy Awareness for Heterogeneous Networks: Recent Hardware and SoftwareDefined Solutions (EAHN 2014) Co-Chairs: Berk Canberk and Gunes Karabulut Kurt website: http://www.thal.itu.edu.tr/eahn2014/ Submission Deadline: March 05, 2014 International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-14) Co-Chairs: Enrico Natalizio and Nathalie Mitton Submission Deadline: March 09, 2014 website: https://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr/ International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks (PWSN 2014) Co-Chairs: Kostas Psounis and Vasos Vassiliou Submission Deadline: March 21, 2014 website: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2014/ ========================================================================= CFPs for Individual DCOSS WORKSHOPS ========================================================================= International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) - http://www.cps-security.org 28 May 2014, Marina Del Rey, California, USA In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2014) - http://www.dcoss.org ** Scope ** Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large-scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. In the CPS realm, humans and/or smart networked devices interact with and control the physical world around them through actuators, sensors, etc. “CPS is envisioned to transform the way people interact with engineered systems, just as the Internet transformed the way people interact with information." (US National Science Foundation). Today, the boundary between cyber and physical systems is blurring. Indeed, cyber devices that can interact with the physical world are on the rise. For instance, smart phones and tablets are all equipped with various sensors (e.g., accelerometers, GPS), which enable the vision of CPS by allowing human beings to interact with the physical world. Similarly, a multitude of CPS devices and applications exist in industrial, transportation, medical, home-security, building automation, emergency management, and many other systems, which serve critical functions in our lives. Given the popularity of the CPS applications, securing them against malicious activities is of utmost importance. Otherwise, malfunctioning and insecure CPS devices and applications can cause enormous damage to individuals, businesses, and nations. Therefore, the International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec) seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions to the cybersecurity challenges facing CPS. Submissions may represent any application area for CPS. Hence, papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, Internet of Things, SCADA Systems, Smart-Grid Systems, Critical Infrastructure Networks, Transportation Systems, Medical Devices are all welcome. Example topics of interest are given below, but are not limited to: - Secure CPS architectures - Authentication mechanisms for CPS - Access control for CPS - Key management in CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Forensics for CPS - Intrusion detection for CPS - Trusted-computing in CPS - Energy-efficient and secure CPS - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Distributed secure solutions for CPS - Threat models for CPS - Physical layer security for CPS - Security on heterogeneous CPS - Secure protocol design in CPS - Vulnerability analysis of CPS - Anonymization in CPS - Security of CPS in automotive systems - Security of CPS in aerospace systems - Security of embedded systems - Security of CPS in medical devices/systems - Security of CPS in civil engineering systems/devices - Security of industrial control systems - Security of Internet-of-Things For more information, visit the workshop’s website at: http://www.cps-security.org ** Important Dates ** Submission Deadline: March 14, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 5, 2014 Camera Ready: April 14, 2014 Workshop Date: May 28, 2014 ** Submission Instructions ** Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All submissions must be written in English with a maximum paper length of 6 (six) pages (including text, figures, and references) and formatted according to the two-column IEEE conference format. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in DCOSS 2014 proceedings. Papers should be submitted using http://edas.info/N17151. ** Workshop Chairs ** - A. Selcuk Uluagac, Georgia Institute of Technology - Raheem Beyah, Georgia Institute of Technology ========================================================================= International Workshop on Energy Awareness for Heterogeneous Networks: Recent Hardware and Software-Defined Solutions (EAHN 2014) In conjuction with IEEE DCOSS 2014 Today’s advanced cellular networks struggle to cope with the ever-increasing real-time and non-real time service demands of highly mobile users. The plethora of these services requests leads the provision of novel next generation communications modes. As one of these convenient solutions to foster new demands and services, the implementation of the Heterogeneous Networks, HetNets, has emerged as a promising approach among academic and industrial researchers. However, the implementation of HetNets has also brought huge energy consumption and energy efficiency challenges. The execution of energy aware and green communication paradigms in HetNets still remains to be addressed. This workshop is expected to merge researchers with academic and industrial visions in order to discuss the major aforementioned challenges and to stimulate novel contributions in energy aware HetNets implementations with powerful physical and software-defined networking points of view. The workshop will provide an avenue for active collaboration and networking between researchers and industry representatives. Topics of interest cover most of the recent hardware and software defined communication aspects for energy awareness in HetNets including (but not limited to): - Energy efficient MIMO techniques for HetNets - Green interference management - Energy harvesting in HetNet deployments - Energy aware testbed implementations in HetNets - SDN based management for green HetNets - Self-optimization and self-healing aspects - Green traffic engineering in Hetnets - Energy efficient HetNets virtualization - Energy efficient programmability in SDN controllers for HetNets - Green routing and forwarding schemes in SDN based HetNets Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed 5 pages, but one additional page will be allowed with additional publication fee. An accepted paper must be registered before the registration deadline. An accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of the paper from the workshop proceedings and the program. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and IEEE digital library. IEEE has the right to remove an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library. Papers should be submitted in a PDF format through EDAS at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17145&track=55603 ** Important Dates ** Workshop Paper submission deadline March 5, 2014 Notification of paper acceptance April 5, 2014 Submission of camera-ready papers due April 15, 2014 Workshop date May 28, 2014 Organizing Committee: Berk CANBERK, Istanbul Technical University, canberk(a)itu.edu.tr Güneş KARABULUT KURT, Istanbul Technical University, gkurt(a)itu.edu.tr ========================================================================= International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-14) In conjuction with IEEE DCOSS 2014 (Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal) Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate “Big brother scenario”. Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0. ** Tracks and Topics ** IoTIP features two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies - IoT systems and components - IoT for semantic web and personalization - Tools for developing IoT applications - Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT - Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT - Security and privacy control mechanisms - Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) - PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications - MAC protocols for IoT - Mobility management - Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability - Object, device and service management - RFID, sensors, actuator technologies - Middleware - Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) - Test-beds and field trials - Standardization and regulatory issues ** Submission&Dates ** Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on scientific issues related to IoTIP topics of interest. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX formats are found at here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html You can also use the sample template for Microsoft Word: A4, US letter. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of six (6) printed pages including figures. Authors may add at most one (1) page at $100. Please submit your abstract and paper through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17145 Note that IoTIP 2014 has two tracks and authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The conference chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal. ** Important dates ** Paper submission: March 9th, 2014 Author notification: April 1st, 2014 Camera ready: April 13th, 2014 Workshop date: May 28th, 2014 ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS PWSN 2014 6th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2014/ May 28 2014, Marina Del Ray, California, USA In conjunction with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '14) ========================================================================= Most existing wireless sensor network (WSN) installations have in common that they are not considered time-critical. No immediate action has to be undertaken as a response to the received data. However, many emerging WSN applications such as plant automation and control, smart cities or health care applications require immediate and guaranteed actions. In such environments, data has to be transported reliably and in time through the sensor network. In some scenarios, data even has to travel through the sensor network and the Internet to reach the destination. In this situation the overall system spanning the Internet and sensor networks must provide together the required performance characteristics. Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols, it is currently very difficult to construct and operate a WSN with performance guarantees. Thus, the commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas is unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved. The PWSN workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners designing and deploying sensor networks that have to meet specific performance targets. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------- • Communication protocols with deterministic performance • Network resilience, fault tolerance, network survivability • Sensor data quality, integrity, and availability • Performance-aware middleware • Real-time operating systems for sensor networks • Actuation and control • Programming abstractions for deterministic sensor networks • Impact of security features on network performance • Experience with real-world deployments and applications • Performance management of deployed sensor networks • Timely data storage, retrieval, and processing • Performance modelling and performance evaluation • Configuration and installation support • Performance debugging and performance optimization Important dates: ---------------- Paper Submission deadline: March 21, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 7, 2014 Camera Ready Paper: April 14, 2014 Workshop date: May 28, 2014 Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Konstantinos Psounis, - University of Southern California Vasos Vassiliou - University of Cyprus Paper Submission ---------------- Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, and references. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at http://edas.info/N17153 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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] Deadline Extension: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks SI on "New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks"
by Lars Wolf 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Deadline Extension: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks SI on "New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks" Datum: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 09:49:17 +0000 Von: Mamatas, Lefteris <l.mamatas(a)UCL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Mamatas, Lefteris <l.mamatas(a)UCL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** *** New Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2014 *** Call for Papers Special Issue on New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Internet is extending beyond its fixed network infrastructure boundaries by gradually incorporating a wide range of challenging networks and autonomous devices, serving non-traditional user communities, such as space missions, disaster areas, and economically challenged populations. These hybrid network environments require supportive strategies to exploit even the slightest communication opportunity. Furthermore, the complexity of this task increases if we also consider device constraints, energy aspects and application diversity. In this context, what appears theoretically possible becomes conditionally feasible only when all available network resources are being efficiently exploited, including those hosted in nearby fixed deployments. New research paradigms can give a unification perspective to the various pieces of the global network jigsaw puzzle. Software-Defined Networks (SDNs), Mobile Cloud Computing and Information-Centric Networks (ICNs) are among the recent innovations that can enable flexible solutions for integrating infrastructure with mobile and opportunistic networks, addressing challenging network conditions, and supporting promising new applications. This Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Special Issue aims at soliciting original manuscripts on experimental & theoretical work revisiting the research areas of mobile and opportunistic networks in the context of recent developments in networking research, including new fixed network technologies and concrete use-cases (e.g., disaster situations, space environments and free Internet deployments). On the one hand, infrastructure networks are becoming more flexible and can provide a supportive environment in which mobile-to-mobile communication can flourish, e.g., improving the Quality of Experience (QoE) and energy efficiency for users and devices, respectively. On the other hand, the deployed opportunistic networks can extend the pool of available resources and increase network coverage worldwide. Topics for the special issue include, but are not limited to: - Opportunistic Networks / Delay- and Disruption-Tolerant Networks - Software-Defined Networks & OpenFlow deployments supporting mobile communication - Mobile Cloud Computing - Information-Centric Networks for hybrid network deployments - Space Communications extending the Internet - Free Internet / Lowest-Cost Denominator Networking - Extreme conditions / Disaster area communications - Social networking based communications - Test-beds / real deployments of infrastructure-supported mobile communications - Security, privacy and trust in challenging network environments - Resource pooling between fixed infrastructures and mobile environments. - New applications / services in integrated network environments - Network management issues / solutions over hybrid network deployments. * Submission Instructions * Prospective Authors should follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc Please select "SI: NRC-MON" when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Papers must be in single-column format, double-spaced, use at least 11pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages including figures, tables and references. * Important Dates * Manuscript Submission: March 4, 2014 Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 22, 2014 * Editor in Chief * Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Guest Editors * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Scott Burleigh, NASA JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, UK ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2014 CFP
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2014 CFP Datum: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:39:42 -0600 Von: Eric Rozner2 <erozner1(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) http://www.ieee-lanman.org/#papers IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Continuing that tradition, IEEE LANMAN 2014 invites cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation. Papers are solicited in all areas of networking, but in keeping with the current research trend, this workshop’s central theme is data center networking. The intimate single-track session format of the workshop encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The workshop is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on architectures, service models, pricing, and performance. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following: Novel data center network architectures Data center network virtualization Energy-efficiency in data centers Routing and transport protocols in data center networks Software defined data center networks Data center network pricingResource allocation in data center networks Performance measurement and modeling of data centersInter-data center network issues Reliable data center networks Broadband wireless access, including WiMAX, LTE WiFi: roaming services, architectures, and performance Metropolitan and residential networks and architectures including Ethernet in the first mile, EPONs, FTTx, etc. Network management related to edge networks Heterogeneous wireless and ad-hoc networks Local-area and metropolitan-area network security LAN-based and MAN-based applications (gaming, distributed computing, media distribution to and in the home, enterprise applications, ambient technology, wearable-computing) Impact of sensors everywhere including homes IEEE LANMAN 2014 solicits paper submissions of Regular Papers (up to 6 pages) and Short Papers (up to 2 pages). The short papers will be presented in a poster session. Also, some of regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the workshop website http://www.ieee-lanman.org <http://www.ieee-lanman.org/>. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the workshop. Best Paper Award will be given to the paper(s) with the highest technical merit. Selected papers will be invited for submission and fast track review by IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and Elsevier Computer Communications Journal. The paper submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lanman2014 All IEEE LANMAN 2014 technical papers and posters must be associated with an author registration at the full rate. For authors presenting multiple papers/posters, one full registration is valid for up to three papers/posters. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper/poster from distribution after the workshop (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper/poster is not presented at the workshop. Important dates: Abstract Registration: Feb 14, 2014, Friday Paper Submission: Feb 21, 2014, Friday Acceptance Notification: Mar 28, 2014, Friday Camera-ready Submission:Apr 18, 2014, Friday

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 13th IEEE/IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet 2014), Piran, Slovenia, June 2-4
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: 13th IEEE/IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MedHocNet 2014), Piran, Slovenia, June 2-4 Datum: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:31:11 -0800 Von: Sungwon Yang <swyang(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> Antwort an: Sungwon Yang <swyang(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 13th IEEE/IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Location: Piran, Slovenia, the pearl of the Slovenian Mediterranean, one of the most beautiful and of the oldest towns of Slovenia. 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 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. 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, https://edas.info/16435?c=16435. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE in IEEEXplore. 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. 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: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection Datum: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:55:11 -0500 Von: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> Antwort an: Wojciech Mazurczyk <wmazurczyk(a)CYGNUS.TELE.PW.EDU.PL> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Security and Communication Networks (Wiley, JCR journal) SI on Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection. IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript submission: 1 March 2014 - Acceptance/rejection notification: before 1 July 2014 - Expected publication: 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS As the production, storage and exchange of information becomes more extensive and important in the functioning of societies, the problem of protecting the information from unintended and undesired usage becomes more complex. In modern societies, protection of information involves many interdependent technological and policy issues related to information confidentiality, integrity, anonymity, authenticity, utility, etc. Information Hiding techniques are receiving much attention today. Digital audio, video, and images are increasingly furnished with distinguishing but imperceptible marks, which may contain a hidden copyright notice or serial number, or even help to prevent unauthorised copying directly. Digital watermarking and steganography may protect information, conceal secrets, or are used as core primitives in digital rights’ management schemes. Alongside the abovementioned types of digital media steganography, currently the target of increased interest is Network Steganography – a part of Information Hiding focused on modern networks. It is a method of hiding secret data in users' normal data transmissions. Steganographic techniques arise and evolve with the development of network protocols and mechanisms, and are expected to be used in secret communication or information sharing. Presently, it becomes a hot topic due to the proliferation of information networks and multimedia services in networks and social networks. The purpose of establishing applications of Information Hiding may be varied – possible uses can fall into the category of legal actions or illicit activity. Frequently the illegal aspect is accentuated – starting from the criminal communication, through information leakage from protected systems, cyber weapon exchange, up to industrial espionage. Recently discovered malware like Duqu and Alureon point to the alleged utilization of Information Hiding techniques in botnets for covert communication in the C&C channels, which proves that Information Hiding poses important challenges to investigators. On the other side of the spectrum lie legitimate uses, which include circumvention of web censorship and surveillance, computer forensics (tracing and identification) and copyright protection (e.g. watermarking images). This special issue intends to present some of the most relevant ongoing research in the Information Hiding field. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: • Steganography and steganalysis (steganology) • Covert/subliminal channels • Traffic morphing • Watermarking (algorithms, security, and attacks) • Novel applications of Information Hiding • Information Hiding for digital forensics & counter forensics • Digital rights management • Emerging trends in Information Hiding • Fingerprinting and embedding codes • Lossless/reversible data hiding • Security metrics for Information Hiding • Side-information transmission through data hiding • Signal restoration/enhancement by data hiding • Theoretical aspects of information hiding Guest Editors - Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Hui Tian, National Huaqiao University, China - Yali Liu, AT&T Labs, USA Papers must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals or conferences. All relevant papers submitted will go through an external review process. Concerning the preparation of the manuscript, please refer to the “Instructions for Authors” page at the journal website, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291939-0122/homepage… Further, the manuscript must be submitted through the online submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn by selecting the corresponding track. When submitting papers, the authors should identify “Manuscript Type” as “Special Issue”, enter “Running Head” as “SCN-SI-066” and “Special Issue Title” as “Trends in modern Information Hiding: techniques, applications and detection”, respectively. Contributing authors might also be asked to review some of the papers submitted to this special issue. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: original, high scientific quality, well organized and clearly written, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion, appropriate title, abstract includes important points of the paper, satisfactory English, pertinent references, clear tables and figures. ______________________________________________________________ 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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