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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE WCNC 2015 - CFP
by Lars Wolf 07 May '14

07 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE WCNC 2015 - CFP Datum: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:08:13 -0500 Von: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> Antwort an: Kemal Akkaya <kemal(a)CS.SIU.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WCNC 2015 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA 9-12 March, 2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE WCNC is the premier event for wireless communications researchers, industry professionals, and academics interested in the latest development and design of wireless systems and networks. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE WCNC has a long history of bringing together industry, academia, and regulatory bodies. In 2015, New Orleans will become the wireless capital by hosting IEEE WCNC 2015. The conference will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website www.ieee-wcnc.org/2015. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Track 1: PHY and Fundamentals Interference characterization Cognitive radio, ultra-wideband Multihop and cooperative communications Modulation, coding, diversity Equalization, synchronization, channel estimation Space-time coding, MIMO, adaptive antennas OFDM, CDMA, spread spectrum Channel modeling and characterization Interference cancellation and multiuser detection Iterative techniques Information-theoretic aspects of wireless communications Signal processing for wireless communications Propagation models for high frequency channels Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design Multiple access techniques Cognitive and cooperative MAC Collaborative algorithms MAC for mesh, ad hoc, relay, and sensor networks Network information theory Radio resource management and allocation, scheduling Cross-layer design, cross-layer security Software defined radio, RFID Adaptability and reconfigurability Wireless MAC protocols: design and analysis B3G/4G Systems, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN QoS provisioning in MAC Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks Localization for Wireless Networks Network Estimation and Processing Techniques Mesh, Relay, Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks Mobility, location, and handoff management Mobile and Wireless IP Wireless Multicasting, Routing Robust routing Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management Wireless Broadcast, Multicast and Streaming Congestion and Admission Control Proxies and Middleware for Wireless Networks Wireless Network Security and Privacy Performance of E2E Protocols over Wireless Networks Interworking Heterogeneous Wireless/Wireline Networks Capacity, Throughput, Outage, Coverage Track 4: Services, Applications, and Business Emerging wireless/mobile applications Context and location-aware wireless services & applications Wireless telemedicine and e-health services Intelligent transportation systems Cognitive radio and sensor-based applications Content distribution in wireless home environment Wireless emergency and security systems Service oriented architectures, service portability SIP based services, multimedia, QoS support, middleware Innovative user interfaces, P2P services for multimedia Dynamic services, autonomic services Regulations, standards, spectrum management Test-bed and prototype implementation of wireless services Personalization, service discovery, profiles and profiling CALL FOR TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Proposals for tutorials and workshops are solicited on hot topics for future wireless communications systems and applications. CALL FOR PANELS Panel proposals are also solicited on technical, business and policy- related issues and opportunities for the wireless communications industry. PLEASE NOTE: To be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full or limited (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full or limited registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE WCNC 2015 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore®. A portion of the accepted papers will be presented as posters. The IEEE WCNC 2015 Technical Program Committee will decide which papers will be presented in oral (lecture type) sessions and which papers as posters, and the decisions will be announced to the authors. Choice between oral and poster presentations will be totally independent of the review scores and of the paper quality. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 24 August 2014 Tutorial proposals: 24 August 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2014 Workshop proposals: 1 July 2014 Final Camera-ready papers due: 5 January 2015 Panel proposals: 24 August 2014 General Chair: José Roberto B. de Marca, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Executive Chair: Richard Miller, AT&T (retired), USA Technical Program Chair: Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Technical Program Vice-Chair: Edit Kaminsky Bourgeois, University of New Orleans, USA WCNC Steering Committee Chair: Khaled Letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong WCNC Advisor: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada -- Kemal Akkaya Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~kemal ADWISE Lab URL: http://www.cs.siu.edu/~adwise ______________________________________________________________ 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 Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software
by Lars Wolf 06 May '14

06 May '14

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Luca Mottola <luca.mottola(a)POLIMI.IT> Gesendet: 6. Mai 2014 20:46:20 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue: Internet of Things Software Call for Papers: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue - Building Internet of Things Software - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/iccfp2 ==================================================================== As we equip people, places, and commodities with Internet-connected embedded devices that can sense information about the environment and subsequently take action, we will create the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT will improve society and quality of life, but making this vision a reality requires interdisciplinary efforts in a range of scientific domains. Specifically, enabling the design, implementation, validation, and real-world use of IoT software requires that we embrace diverse contributions in coherent and practical development frameworks, possibly based on current and future standards. This special issue seeks contributions about recent or ongoing research efforts, experience reports, and success stories in enabling an effective development of IoT software out of the individual building blocks available in different communities. Topics of interest include: - design and modeling approaches and methodologies for IoT software; - programming abstractions and languages expressly conceived for the IoT; - development techniques for IoT software appropriate for different hardware; - platforms, from tiny sensors to the enterprise level; - approaches for composing and interoperating existing IoT functionality; - cross-layer IoT software architectures; - standards for developing IoT software; and - real-world deployments and experiences in building IoT systems. Submission Guidelines: All submissions must be original manuscripts of fewer than 5,000 words, focused on Internet technologies and implementations. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to IEEE Internet Computing international readership: primarily practicing engineers and academics who are looking for material that introduces new technology and broadens familiarity with current topics. We do not accept white papers, and we discourage strictly theoretical or mathematical papers. To submit a manuscript, please log on to ScholarOne (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:443/ic-cs) to create or access an account, which you can use to log on to the IEEE Internet Computing Author Center and upload your submission. Important Dates: Submissions due: 1 July 2014 Publication issue: March/April 2015 Please email the guest editors at ic2-2015(a)computer.org a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 15 June 2014 Guest Editors: Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and SICS Swedish ICT Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) For further information, please write to ic2-2015(a)computer.org. ______________________________________________________________ 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: IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on "Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT"
by Lars Wolf 06 May '14

06 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Internet of Things Journal SI on "Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT" Datum: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:19:47 -0400 Von: Shusen Yang <s.yang09(a)IMPERIAL.AC.UK> Antwort an: Shusen Yang <s.yang09(a)IMPERIAL.AC.UK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Call for Papers for IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on " Mobile Crowd Sensing for IoT". http://iot-journal.weebly.com/call-for-papers.html AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------------- The ubiquitous sensor-rich mobile devices (smartphones, wearable devices, smart vehicles) have been playing an increasing important role in the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoTs), which bridge the digital space and physical world at a societal scale. Their powerful computing/communication capacities, huge population, and inherent mobility makes mobile-device networks a much more flexible and cost-effective IoT solution than static sensor networks. This promotes the emergence of a fast-growing consumer-centric sensing paradigm, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS). As an evolution of participatory sensing, MCS has two unique features: (1) it involves both implicit and explicit participation; (2) MCS collects data from two user-participant data sources: mobile social networks and mobile sensing. Various categories of knowledge (e.g. location, personal and social context, user feelings/opinions, traffic conditions, and pollution) reported by smart device users, are shared w! ithin the social sphere, practitioners, health care providers, and utility providers, enabling a broad range of applications and services such as urban dynamic mining, public safety, and environment monitoring. Numerous research challenges arise from the MCS paradigm including participatory and opportunistic data collection, incentive mechanism design, transient networking, quality of user-contributed data, privacy concerns, and big data processing and analytics. This special issue provides the opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and application developers to review and discuss the state-of-the-art and trends of MCS techniques and applications or propose new solutions. In particular, we solicit high-quality original research papers on MCS, including but not limited to the following topics: - IoT Architecture/Framework for MCS - Optimized Data Collection Task Allocation - Communication in Transient Networking Environments - Crowdsourced Data Processing and Urban/Social Context Mining - Incentive Mechanisms for Participatory Sensing - Heterogeneous Crowdsourced Data Fusion - Dealing with Low Quality Data in MCS - Trust and Privacy Issues in MCS - MCS for Social Networking - Hybrid Human-Machine Intelligence in MCS - Emerging/Novel MCS Apps and Systems (environment monitoring, public safety, traffic planning, etc.) IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- - Submissions Deadline: October 1, 2014 - First Reviews Due: February 1, 2015 - Revision Due: March 1, 2015 - Second Reviews Due/Acceptance letters: April 15, 2015 - Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2015 - Publication Date: June, 2015 SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES ----------------------------------- The special issue seeks submission of papers that present novel original results and findings on MCS for IoT. Solicited original submission must not be currently under consideration for publication in other venues. Author guidelines and submission information can be found at http://iot.ieee.org/journal. All manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iot GUEST EDITORS ----------------------------------- Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ. email: guobin.keio(a)gmail.com Shusen Yang, Imperial College London email: s.yang09(a)imperial.ac.uk Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University email: janne(a)winlab.rutgers.edu Xing Xie, Microsoft Research email: xing.xie(a)microsoft.com Raghu K. Ganti, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center email: rganti(a)us.ibm.com SI Publicity Chair: Dr. Hong Lu, Intel Labs, USA, email: hong.lu.mail(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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] Visible Light Communication Systems: workshop CFP
by Lars Wolf 05 May '14

05 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Visible Light Communication Systems: workshop CFP Datum: Mon, 5 May 2014 08:50:17 -0500 Von: Edward Knightly <knightly(a)RICE.EDU> Antwort an: Edward Knightly <knightly(a)RICE.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The first VLCS workshop will be helped September 7 in Maui in cooperation with ACM MobiCom. The CFP is at the workshop web page http://www.networks.rice.edu/VLCS-2014/ and the text is below. We hope you can join us for this new event. Best regards, Edward Knightly Harald Haas Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai ACM VLCS 2014 Chairs Workshop Theme Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a revolutionary communication technology that makes use of visible light from LED lights or LCD display to carry digital information wirelessly between devices. One of its greatest advantages is that the available bandwidth of the visible light spectrum is much larger - more than 10,000 times larger - than that of the RF spectrum, potentially solving the problem of wireless bandwidth shortage in the near future. In addition, since the radiation pattern of a “visible light transmitter,” i.e., a light, can be easily regulated by its optical design, and visual obstacles such as walls can fully contain the radiation energy (i.e., interference) to a smaller space, the optical spectrum can be used in a very efficient and hence scalable manner. Finally, lights for illumination purposes already exist in every place in our daily life - there are already 12 billion electric light bulbs in the world, consuming about 1/8 of the total electricity use ! - and hence they, or at least a large portion of them, can easily serve as the new infrastructure to provide pervasive wireless communications with minimum additional energy consumption and deployment cost. For the past few years, visible light communications has been an active research topic, and research has already brought the technology closer to commercialization and standardization. The objective of this workshop is to move beyond VLC links and to explore VLC-enabled networks, systems, and applications. The workshop will bring together a diverse community to present and brainstorm on a broad set of VLC-centered topics including unique devices such as camera-based communication to new application scenarios such as vehicular safety networks. The workshop will bring to light new application domains that could take advantage of the unique properties of VLC and enable understanding of how these diverse application requirements would shape the design of next-generation VLC systems. Topics • VLC applications including WLAN, vehicular safety, medical services, industrial applications, and robotics • Novel designs for VLC systems exploiting advanced VLC paradigms such as use of cameras and VLC MIMO • VLC services such as positioning and security • System designs and architectures coupling VLC capabilities with RF • Novel VLC network designs including relay, backhaul, and access • Medium access issues including interference mitigation, multiuser access, and duplexing techniques • Mobility management Important Dates Paper Deadline: June 2nd, 2014 Authors Notification: July 7th, 2014 Camera Ready Paper: July 27th, 2014 Workshop: September 7th, 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] CFP MobiWac 2014
by Lars Wolf 05 May '14

05 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP MobiWac 2014 Datum: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:54:57 +0200 Von: Antonio M. Ortiz <antonio.ortiz_torres(a)IT-SUDPARIS.EU> Antwort an: Antonio M. Ortiz <antonio.ortiz_torres(a)IT-SUDPARIS.EU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================== The 12th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2014) (in conjunction with the 17th ACM MSWiM) September 21 - 26, 2014 Montreal, Canada http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac SPONSORED BY: DÉPARTEMENT D'INFORMATIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL - Paper registration due: May 15, 2014 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: May 20, 2014 (11:59PM EST) *ACM sponsorship pending upon approval ================================================================== The 12th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2014) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2014 (the 17th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from September 21 to 26, 2014 at Montreal, Canada. The MobiWac series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Mobile Cloud Computing - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resources allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - Social mobile networks - Social mobile applications - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Wessam Ajib, UQAM Montreal, Canada Program Chair Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Technical Program Committee Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium Andrés García Saavedra, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Chris G. Guy, University of Reading, UK Georg Hampel, Qualcomm, USA Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Long Le, INRS, University of Quebec, Canada Yannick LeLouedec, Orange Labs, France Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain Paulo Mendes, SITI, University Lusofona, Portugal Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece Paul Patras, University of Edinburgh, UK Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia Web Chair Gerson Rodríguez de los Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Publicity Chairs Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Télécom, Télécom SudParis ========================= Paper Submission, Publication and Important Dates: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will Have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. - Paper registration due: May 15, 2014 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: May 20, 20114 (11:59PM EST) FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website: http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac/ ______________________________________________________________ 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] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks"
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier PMC [IF=1.629] SI on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" Datum: Sun, 4 May 2014 13:13:17 +0500 Von: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Mubashir Rehmani <mshrehmani(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear colleagues, Please find below a call for papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks". Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ----------- Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on "Recent Developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/ AIMS AND SCOPE ---------------------------- Wireless sensor nodes in traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) use fixed spectrum assignment policy and their performance is limited due to limited processing and communication power. In addition, these wireless sensor nodes require high bandwidth and their QoS requirements are application specific. Wireless sensor nodes with cognitive radio capabilities (i.e., Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs)), can help to address these challenges. However, there are several challenges and research problems which are needed to be addressed in CRSNs. In fact, cognitive radio sensor network evolved from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in order to optimize the bandwidth and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements of wireless sensor nodes. Furthermore, CRSNs improve the spectrum utilization, and multiple overlaid sensor networks can be deployed in a specific region. But due to inherent hardware and energy limitation of sensor nodes, the realization of incorporating CR capability in sensor nodes imposes challenges. On top of that, CRSN nodes must handle additional challenges incurred by CR functionalities such as spectrum sensing, spectrum sharing, and spectrum management. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs). The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Spectrum sensing techniques for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks (CRSNs) - Spectrum management for CRSNs - MAC protocols for CRSNs - Innovative and cross-layer middleware solutions for CRSNs - Applications of CRSNs (smart grids, vehicular networks, etc) - Delay-sensitive and multimedia communication in CRSNs - Simulation models for CRSNs - Energy efficiency in CRSNs - CRSN architecture: peculiar features and evolution - Deployment strategies of CRSNs - Wireless Body Area Networks in the context of CRSNs - Layers in CRSNs (physical, datalink, network, transport, application) - Developments, issues, and open areas - Coverage and Connectivity of CRSNs - Resource Management in CRSNs - CRSN integration with traditional networking solutions and standards - Future perspective for CRSNs IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Manuscript due: July 2014 Acceptance notification: Oct 2014 Revised paper due: Dec 2014 Final manuscript due: Feb 2015 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 2015 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: CRSNs', 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. GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Lead Guest Editor, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan, Email: mshrehmani(a)gmail.com * Mehdi Shadaram, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA Email: mehdi.shadaram(a)utsa.edu * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, KY, USA Email: szeadally(a)uky.edu * Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it ______________________________________________________________ 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 MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission
by Lars Wolf 04 May '14

04 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IEEE MASS 2014] MASS 2014 - One week deadline extension on Final Manuscript Submission Datum: Sat, 03 May 2014 18:30:43 -0400 Von: IEEE MASS 2014 <ieeemass2014-chairs(a)edas.info> An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Dear Authors, Thank you for registering a paper for MASS 2014. The deadline for final manuscript submission is now extended on EDAS until May 9th, 2014 (11:59pm US Pacific Time). This extension is due to the many requests we received from authors who faced PDF compatibility problems that prevented a timely upload of their paper on EDAS. Please note that EDAS imposes several requirements on PDF format. Failure to meet those requirements will prevent upload of your paper. For fairness, the extension is given to all registered papers. Thank you very much and I hope you will find the extension useful. No further extensions will be given. Sincerely, Tarek Abdelzaher Program Chair

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Fwd: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables
by Lars Wolf 02 May '14

02 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables Datum: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:46:15 +0200 Von: Ubicomp Workshop <ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at> Antwort an: ubicomp14ml(a)pervasive.jku.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *CALL FOR PAPERS* *Ubicomp 2014 Workshop on The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* The 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2014) is a premier interdisciplinary venue in which leading international researchers, designers, developers, and practitioners in the field present and discuss novel results in all aspects of ubiquitous and pervasive computing. This includes the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technologies and the understanding of human experiences and social impacts that these technologies facilitate. UbiComp 2014 will be held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). ISWC is a conference dedicated to cutting-edge research in wearable technologies, and is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. Every year, ISWC brings together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. *The Superorganism of Massive Collective Wearables* This workshop asks questions on the potential and opportunities of turning massively deployed wearable systems to a globe-spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, it stands to reason that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. A common objective or central controller may thereby not be assumed, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure-prone operation. We refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a "superorganism", since they exhibit properties of a living organism (like e.g. 'collective intelligence') on their own. One essential aspect of such globe-spanning collective ensembles is that they often exhibit properties typical observed in complex systems, like (i) spontaneous, dynamic network configuration, with (ii) individual nodes acting in parallel, (iii) constantly acting and reacting to what the other agents are doing, and (iv) where the control tends to be highly dispersed and decentralized. If there is to be any coherent behavior in the system, it (v) has to arise from competition and cooperation among the individual nodes, so that the overall behavior of the system is the result of a huge number of decisions made every moment by many individual entities. In order to properly exploit such superorganisms, this workshop concerns itself with the development of a deeper scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate. To this end, the workshop attempts to address the following foundational research concerns: - Understanding the trade-offs between the power of top-down (by design) adaptation means and bottom-up (by emergence) ones, also by studying how the two approaches co-exists in modern wearable ICT systems, and possibly contributing to smoothing the tension between the two approaches. - Understanding the "power of the masses" principle as far as participatory wearable ICT processes are involved. In particular, this implies understanding how and to what extent even very simple collective phenomena and algorithms - when involving billions of wearables - can express forms of intelligence much superior than that of more traditional AI techniques. - Understanding the issue of diversity and of diversity increase in complex systems and in service/data systems and how diversity of structure and behavior is currently accommodated in wearable ICT systems. As of now, most studies focus on a limited number of different classes, which is far from approximating the diversity of existing systems. - Laying down new foundations for the modelling of large-scale Human-ICT organisms and their adaptive behaviors, also including lessons from applied psychology, sociology, and social anthropology, other than from systemic biology, ecology and complexity science. - Identifying models and tools by which individual organs of the systems can influence and direct "by design" the emergent adaptive behavior of the whole system, or at least of substantial parts of it. Further, the workshop attempts to address the following systems research concerns: - Opportunistic information collection. Systems need to be able to function in complex, dynamic environments where they have to deal with unpredictable changes in available infrastructures and learn to cooperate with other systems and human beings in complex self-organized ensembles. - Collaborative Reasoning and Emergent Effects. Reasoning methods and system models are needed that combine machine learning methods with complexity theory to account for global emergent effects resulting from feedback loops between collaborative, interconnected devices and their users. - Social Awareness. Whereas today's context-aware systems are able to make sense of the activity of single users and their immediate environment, future systems should be able to analyze, understand and predict complex social phenomena on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. Examples of the derived information could be: shifts in collective opinions and social attitudes, changes in consumer behavior, the emergence of tensions in communities, demographics, migration, mobility patterns, or health trends. The workshop will be held at the Red Lion Hotel in Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Washington, US) on Saturday September 13th. It will be co-located with UbiComp 2014 and ISWC 2014. *CALL FOR FULL PAPERS* Regular paper submissions must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Full papers must break new ground, present new insight, deliver a significant research contribution and provide validated support for its results and conclusions. The workshop solicits (i) conceptual papers describing proposals for novel methodologies, theories and principles that might be used in order to design, develop and build, analyse and operate massive collectives of wearables, (ii) observational, epistemological and user study papers to deliver evidence for possible future scenarios, and emerging platforms and technologies as well as (iii) system-development papers proposing ingenious, novel HW/SW platforms. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) - Novel complex adaptive system theories and operational principles. - Novel design principles for building complex adaptive systems. - Insights into evolutionary and emergent complex adaptive system properties - Methodologies, Models, Algorithms, Frameworks and Tools for studying, analyzing and building complex adaptive systems. - Case-studies / very large scale scenarios that can serve as reference case for future super-organisms of collective wearables. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than six pages in length). Accepted papers will be included in the printed UbiComp 2014 adjunct proceedings and included in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions to this workshop must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the workshop review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. *CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS* In addition to the submission of research papers, this workshop promotes the submission of position papers. Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in SIGCHI Extended Abstract format (not longer than two pages in length) containing a description of the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic, and the innovative character of the research. Position papers will be published as part of the FoCAS (Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems) white book. *ORGANIZERS* Alois Ferscha (University of Linz, Austria) Paul Lukowicz (DFKI, Germany) Franco Zambonelli (Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) *IMPORTANT DATES* Submission Deadline June 2nd, 2014 Not. of Acceptance June 22nd, 2014 Camera Ready Version July 6th, 2014 Workshop September 13th, 2014 *CONTACT* ubicomp14ws(a)pervasive.jku.at http://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp14/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014)
by Lars Wolf 01 May '14

01 May '14

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Datum: Thu, 1 May 2014 11:16:21 +0000 Von: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> Antwort an: Carlo Fischione <carlofi(a)KTH.SE> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2014) Hong Kong, China, August 25-27, 2014 http://www.cpsna.org/ TOPICS: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are next-generation embedded systems featuring a tight integration of computational and physical elements. Emerging applications of CPS include transportation, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, entertainment, consumer electronics, environmental monitoring, aerospace, etc., all of which will be essential pieces of our social infrastructure. The vision of CPS however faces some core challenges of multidisciplinary research, as their relevant technologies appear in diverse areas of science and engineering. The objective of CPSNA is to bring together researchers from different backgrounds, and explore innovative, exciting, and fresh ideas for the design and development of future CPS. The scope of CPSNA 2014 will give due consideration in all areas of research that facilitate collaborations in existing and new technologies related to CPS. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Real-time systems for time-critical functions in CPS Sensor networks for large-scale sensing and actuation Networked control systems for complexity management in CPS Dependable computing and verification methods to support safety-critical functions Ubiquitous and pervasive computing for enhanced user interactions with CPS Cloud and distributed computing to support scalability and manage complexity Data-intensive computing and data mining to support big data in CPS Multicore and GPU programming for high-performance CPS Architecture, compiler, OS, and middleware platforms for CPS Experimental prototypes of CPS Emerging applications in CPS IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Submission Deadline May 7, 2014 Acceptance Notification May 30, 2014 Camera-Ready Submission June 25, 2014 Conference August 25-27, 2014 SUBMISSION GUIDELINE: Submitted papers must adhere to a page limit of 6 pages. The format must be 8.5-inch by 11-inch with two columns using a 10pt font size. Authors are encouraged to use the IEEE proceedings template: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing. Please use the following link to submit your papers. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpsna2014 ORGANIZERS: Honorary General Chair: Sam Kwong, City University of Hong Kong General Chair: Joseph Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Chair: Shinpei Kato, Nagoya University Program Co-Chairs: Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Arvind Easwaran, Nanyang Technological University WiP Chair: Ling Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ______________________________________________________________ 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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