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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier FGCS Journal [IF=2.786] -- SI on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges"
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Elsevier FGCS Journal [IF=2.786] -- SI on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges" Datum: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:59:11 -0400 Von: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed <imejaz(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear All, Please find below a call for papers for Special Issue in Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Journal. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ Special Issue in Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Journal Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges Submission Deadline: 30th December, 2015 Future Generation Computer Systems invites manuscript submissions in the area of "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges" http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-fo… AIM and SCOPE: ------------------------- The cloud computing facilitates users with several opportunities by providing wide range of services and virtually unlimited available resources. The large pool of resources and services has enabled the emergence of several new applications, such as virtual reality, smart grids, and smart building control. However, the euphoria transforms into a problem for delay-sensitive applications, which need to meet the delay requirements. The problem becomes clearer and more intense as several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life as in case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Current cloud computing paradigm is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To address the problem, researchers have coined a term of Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) that was introduced to bring the cloud services and resources closer to the user proximity by leveraging the available resources in the edge networks. MEC aims to enable the billions of connected mobile devices to execute the real-time compute-intensive applications directly at the network edge. The distinguishing features of MEC are its closeness to end-users, mobility support, and dense geographical deployment of the MEC servers. Despite the several advantages, realizing the vision of MEC is challenging task because of the administrative policies and security concerns. There is a need to investigate the key requirements and potential opportunities for enabling the vision of MEC. In this special issue, we are seeking new and unpublished work in the domain of MEC. More specifically, this special issue will focus on recent developments in MECs. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Identification of incentives for MEC service providers - MEC architecture: peculiar features and evolution - User transparent application execution frameworks for MEC - Real-time communication interfaces and protocols for enabling the communication between MEC client and MEC server, between MEC servers, between MEC server and the cloud server - Smart MEC scheduler to improve resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability - Resource monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism - MEC resources allocation and management - Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction - MEC functionalities virtualization - Data storage, processing, and management at MEC platform - Simulation models for MEC - Performance evaluation of MEC simulators and platforms - Deployment strategies of MEC Servers - Admission control for MEC - Pricing and billing models for MEC - Lightweight authentication mechanisms that are also feasible to run on the resource constrained devices such as smart sensors - Open issues, challenges and future perspective for MEC Important Dates: ----------------------- Manuscript Due: 30th December 2015 Acceptance notification: 30th April 2016 Revised paper due: 30th June 2016 Final manuscript due: 30 August 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 25 Dec 2016 Submission Guidelines: --------------------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. Authors should select “SI:MECS”, 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: ------------------------------------------------- Ejaz Ahmed, Lead Guest Editor University of Malaya, Malaysia imejaz(a)gmail.com Mubashir Husain Rehmani COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan mshrehmani(a)gmail.com Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed Senior Researcher, High Impact Research Project, Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Personal Website: www.ejazahmed.com Official Website: http://mobcc.fsktm.um.edu.my/index.php/Ejaz_Ahmed ______________________________________________________________ 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: MobiHoc 2016
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Hannes Frey <frey(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> Gesendet: 29. September 2015 18:25:26 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: MobiHoc 2016 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiHoc 2016 The Seventeenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2016 05-08, July,2016 Paderborn, Germany ACM MobiHoc is a premier conference with a highly selective single-track technical program dedicated to addressing the challenges emerging from dynamic networks and computing. Work that presents new performance evaluation methods and algorithms and obtains fundamental insights into computer and networked systems is encouraged. The specific areas of interest include methodologies, formalisms, algorithms and systems for: - Dynamic networks broadly defined, such as communication, wireless, social, energy and transportation networks - Analytical modeling techniques and model validation - Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis - Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling - Anomaly detection, system measurement, monitoring and forecasting - Routing, scheduling, resource allocation, and energy efficiency - Scaling laws and fundamental limits - Communication and networking aspects of cyber-physical systems - Trust, security, and privacy - Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing - Applications of game theory, economics and control theory to dynamic networks - Big data and machine learning in the context of dynamic networks - Applications, middleware, transport, network, and MAC protocols - Measurements from deployed and experimental systems All papers submitted to the conference will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Paper Submission Guidelines --------------------------- Papers should not exceed 10 pages (US letter size) double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at this link. Both strict and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned without review. All submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure a blind review, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper or the pdf file; bibliographic references should be made in a way that preserves author anonymity; acknowledgments and support information should not be included. In case there is a need to refer to a technical report that includes, for example, proofs, an anonymous link should be provided (for example, using Dropbox). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the ACM. Warning: It is ACM 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. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 8 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Paper Submission: 15 January 2016 (11:59pm EST) Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2016 Conference: 5-8 July 2016 Organizing committee -------------------- General Chair Falko Dressler (University of Paderborn) Vice General Chair Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) TPC Co-Chairs Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M University) Steering Committee PR Kumar (Texas A&M University) Workshop Co-Chairs Linda Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Emilio Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino) Panel Co-Chairs Yingying Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology) Carla Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs Ulf-Peter Schroeder (Heinz-Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn) Student Travel Grant Chair Kaushik Chowdhury (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs Bastian Bloessl (University of Paderborn) Poster Co-Chairs Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University) Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University) Demo Co-Chairs Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University) Paolo Santi (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR) Finance Chair Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn) Publicity Co-Chairs Hannes Frey (Universität Koblenz-Landau) Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University) Publication Co-Chairs Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) -- Prof. Dr. Hannes Frey AG Rechnernetze Universität Koblenz-Landau ______________________________________________________________ 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] PAM 2016 - Call for Papers: Deadline is approaching!
by Lars Wolf 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Antonis Papadogiannakis <papadog(a)ICS.FORTH.GR> Gesendet: 30. September 2015 14:16:06 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] PAM 2016 - Call for Papers: Deadline is approaching! Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please forward to anyone you believe may be interested. Thanks! Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2016 (PAM 2016) 31 March - 1 April 2016 Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> Call for Papers PAM seeks to bring together both the network research and operations communities to consider network measurement and analysis techniques, particularly those in the earlier stages of research. PAM has in the past focused on research and practical applications of network measurement at Layer-3. However, over the last years PAM broadened its scope to encompass measurements of networked applications, content distribution networks, online social networks, overlay networks, and more. Measurement technology is needed at all layers of the stack: for power profiling of hardware components; at the MAC/network/transport layers; as well as up the stack for application profiling and even to collect user feedback. Measurement technologies are being designed for the digital home, residential access networks, wireless and mobile access, enterprise, ISP and data center networks. Although PAM traditionally attracts work that is at an early stage, works that are a reappraisal or independent validation of previous results, or which enhance the reproducibility of network measurement research, for instance by publishing new datasets on an existing topic, are explicitly included in PAM's ambit. Original papers are invited, but not limited to, the following topics: Tools and infrastructure: Passive and active measurement tools: techniques, design and experience Management and operation of measurement infrastructures Management and visualization of measurement data Measurements across the stack: Application-layer, e.g., social networks, crowdsourcing or gaming End user performance and quality of experience Protocol behavior: e.g., DNS, DHCP, or routing protocols Wireless and mobility Correlation of measurements across multiple layers, protocols or networks Security and privacy Troubleshooting and anomaly detection Data centers, cloud services, SDNs and NFV Content distribution Characterization & modeling Studies of network usage, or end-host behavior Metrics and measurements of resilience and dependability Techniques for measurements and measurement-based inference of macroscopic Internet structure, dynamics, and evolution Important Dates Paper Registration: October 9, 2015, 20:00 BST Paper Submission: October 16, 2015, 20:00 BST Notification: December 18, 2015 Organizing Committee General Chair: Xenofontas Dimitropoulos (University of Crete, Greece) Program Chair: Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK) Publicity Chair: Antonis Papadogiannakis (FORTH-ICS, Greece) Submission Guidelines We are soliciting papers submitted in the Springer LNCS format that do not exceed 12 pages. Submission Website: http://wired.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://wired.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> Website: http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/ <http://www.ics.forth.gr/pam2016/> ______________________________________________________________ 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: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's
by Lars Wolf 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Christoph Sommer <sommer(a)CCS-LABS.ORG> Gesendet: 29. September 2015 14:51:09 MESZ An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CfP: Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's (English version below) Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Für eine Sonderausgabe von Elsevier Computer Communications suchen wir noch bis zum 15. November nach interessanten Beiträgen aus der Fahrzeugkommunikation. Ich würde mich sehr über zahlreiche Beteiligung freuen! Untenstehend habe ich unseren Call for Papers angefügt. Beste Grüße aus Paderborn, Christoph Sommer ** Manuscript submission deadline: 15 November 2015 ** Elsevier Computer Communications Special Issue Call for Papers Multi-radio, Multi-technology, Multi-system Vehicular Communications Scope ----- Vehicular networks have rapidly evolved from their roots as an application of mobile ad hoc networks to today's fusion of interdisciplinary research on computer communications. Inspired by governments' visions of vastly improved road traffic safety and transport efficiency and hailed as industry's enabler of a plethora of value-added services for passengers and drivers, stakeholders are pushing the rulemaking for an adoption of vehicular communication technologies in newly sold cars, in turn inspiring bold research ventures. Despite the plethora of efforts devoted to this research field, the peculiarities of vehicular environments call into question the capabilities of existing solutions and standard specifications to meet the increasingly strict scalability, reliability, and quality of experience demands of such visions. Indeed, the expected tsunami of data to be exchanged, both to support cooperative/autonomous driving applications and to satisfy the growing data appetite of users on wheels, will burden the network. In such a context, the widespread availability of multiple radio technologies and multiple radio channels per technology, along with complete communication systems is envisioned to merge with sophisticated physical layer and medium access control approaches, and emerging cognitive radio and software-defined radio techniques, thus opening the door to new exciting research opportunities in multi-radio, multi-technology, multi-system vehicular communications. The goal of this special issue is to gather high-quality and unpublished papers contributing to the evolution of vehicular networking and, in particular, focusing on the aforementioned developments. The contributions to this special issue may present novel ideas, methodologies, algorithms, architectures, models, experiments. High-quality review and survey papers are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multi-radio and multi-channel communications - Multi-technology (PAN, WLAN, long range) communications - Multi-system (short range radio, cellular, backbone) communications - Physical layer, medium access, and congestion control design from radio to visible light and beyond - Vehicle-to-X (roadside, pedestrian, grid, in-vehicle) data dissemination, system integration, services, and applications - IEEE 802.11p DSRC/WAVE, ETSI ITS-G5, ARIB standardization - Cellular technologies for vehicular communications and/or vehicle-to-X (LTE-Advanced, LTE-Direct) - New challenges in security & privacy - Simulation tools and methodologies, analytical models, experimental evaluation and field operational tests - Applications of multi-radio, multi-technology, or multi-system vehicular communications Paper Submission ---------------- Please see http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom for preparation guidelines and visit http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom to submit your manuscript. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, please select "SI: Multi-X Vehicular Comm's" when you reach the Article Type step in the submission process. For further information, please contact the guest editors. Guest Editors ------------- Claudia Campolo Univ. Reggio Calabria, Italy Lin Cheng Trinity College, USA Christoph Sommer Univ. Paderborn, Germany Hsin-Mu "Michael" Tsai National Taiwan University Journal Metrics --------------- SNIP Impact per Paper 2.409 SCImago Journal Rank 1.470 Impact Factor 1.695 5-Year Impact Factor 1.625 Important Dates --------------- Manuscript submission 15 November 2015 First notification 30 January 2016 Revised paper submission 15 March 2016 Notification of acceptance 30 April 2016 -- Dr. Christoph Sommer Distributed Embedded Systems Group University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.ccs-labs.org/~sommer/

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Fwd: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE IoT Design and Implementation: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:38:46 +0000 Von: Kun Bai <kunbai(a)us.ibm.com> An: tci-announce(a)COMPUTER.ORG ======================================================================== IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2016) April 4-8, Berlin, Germany http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016) Call for Papers [Important Dates] Paper Abstract Registration: October 19th, 2015 Paper Submission Deadline: October 23rd, 2015 Paper Notification: December 21st, 2015 Camera-Ready Deadline: January 22nd, 2016 (tentative) [Scope] A confluence of many technological advances marks the advent of a new networked systems era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it is from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems blurs. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference offers an interdisciplinary venue to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to the Internet of Things. Many sub-systems need to come together to address the needs of current and future applications. These subsystems extend from cloud back-ends to cyber-physical front ends. Reliability, security, robustness, correctness, and timeliness considerations in new medical, social, environmental, energy, and automation applications must be supported by advances in cloud resource management, network protocols, and smart embedded devices. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on Internet of Things topics that include, but are not restricted to the following: * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness considerations in IoT systems * IoT-motivated cyber-physical, Industrial Internet, and/or embedded system challenges * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Sensing, control, and actuation in IoT architectures * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Privacy challenges * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds [Submission Instructions] Original work must be submitted that is not published or under submission elsewhere. Manuscripts may not exceed twelve (12) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11” pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, references, and appendices. [Review Process] All original submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, presentation quality, interest and relevance to conference scope. We also welcome papers reporting on industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned.After review, some submissions may be offered to be published as short papers (six pages). Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. [Organizing Committee] General Co-chairs Hui Lei, IBM, USA Wei Zhao, Macau University, China Program Co-chairs Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Publicity Co-chairs Kun Bai, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Mohamed Sarwat, Arizona State University, USA Local Arrangement and Registration Chair David Bermbach, TU Berlin, Germany Publication Chair Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge, UK Webmaster Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA Finance Chair Dominik Ernst, TU Berlin, Germany [Programming Committee] Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund University, Sweden Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabria, Italy Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Jeff Kephart, IBM Research, USA Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA Huadong Ma, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommunations, China Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA George Pappas, University of Pennsylvania, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Rick Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lothar Thiele, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Eduardo Tovar, ISEP, Portugal Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany [Steering Committee] Tarek Abdelzaher (Co-chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Alejandro Buchmann, TU Darmsdat, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA Hui Lei (Co-chair), IBM, USA Pedro Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, China Wei Zhao, Macau University, China ======================================================================== Best, Kun ------- Kun Bai, PhD Research Staff Member, IBM Watson Health Cloud, Medical Research and Insight Platform Office: 914.945-4932 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)IIT.CNR.IT> Gesendet: 24. September 2015 11:02:53 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: SI of Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing on Pervasive Social Computing CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier - Pervasive and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Pervasive Social Computing http://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing/call-for-pa… Submission Deadline: 30 November 2015 Pervasive Social Computing represents a new paradigm resulting from the convergence of Pervasive Mobile Computing with Social Networking; it aims to take advantage of human social relationships to enable the attainment of users' tasks in different domains. On the one hand, the impressive diffusion of Online Social Networking platforms is making OSNs a pervasive tool for maintaining social relationships between people. On the other hand, the diffusion of mobile personal devices with rich networking and computing capabilities is fostering novel patterns of users interactions through social networks, also depending on the dynamic context and locations of the users. Last but not least, pervasive mobile technologies enable completely novel types of social networking applications and services, such as Mobile Social Networks. The enormous potential of Pervasive Social Computing is leading scientific communities in different disciplines, from computer science to social science, communication science and economy, to analyze, study and provide new theories, models, methods, technological solutions and case studies. Interestingly, more and more Pervasive Mobile Computing technologies are designed using inter-disciplinary approaches, that exploit models of the users personal and social behavior to design algorithms, protocols, services and applications. The special issue aims to encourage the multidisciplinary discussion involving academics, researchers and professionals on theories, approaches, analysis, design and evaluation of services and networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing. Researchers are increasingly interested in addressing a wide range of Pervasive Social Computing challenges residing in Social networks and Social Computing systems including: their architecture, algorithms and protocols for social networking services, the creation of new analysis models, the monitoring of emerging trends, studies on trust, privacy and security issues and their potential applications. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - Security, privacy and trust in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Innovative Pervasive Social Computing services and applications - Architectures, algorithms and protocols for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Mobile networking solutions for Pervasive Social Computing - Context modeling, reasoning and context awareness in Pervasive Social Computing - Pervasive sensing technologies applied to Pervasive Social Computing - Opportunistic networking for Pervasive Social Computing - Innovative Mobile Social Networking technologies and services - Inter-disciplinary approaches to the design of Pervasive Social Computing systems - Analysis of users social interactions in mobile and pervasive social networks - Novel Online Social Networking services and users' behaviors enabled by pervasive mobile networks - Real experiences and experiments with Pervasive Social Computing systems and applications - Opportunistic and transient social interactions in Pervasive Social Computing systems - Social and economic models for Pervasive Social Computing systems - Pervasive and social collaboration tools - Impacts of Pervasive Social Computing on users' behaviour in different domains (e.g. e-business, e-market, e-learning, e-health) Schedule Submission deadline: November 30th, 2015 Initial feedback to authors: March 31st, 2016 Revised papers due: May 15th, 2016 Final authors notification: June 30th, 2016 Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 4th Quarter 2016 Guest Editors Patrizia Grifoni, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Fernando Ferri, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Alessia D'Andrea, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Tiziana Guzzo, IRPPS-CNR, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Instructions for submission 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: PSC", 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 and significant 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. In addition, such papers must be referenced, and the difference clearly explained, in the submitted paper. For further information, please contact the guest editors at pmc-psc at iit.cnr.it -- Andrea Passarella -- Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy fax: +39 050 315 2593 @/sip: a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it mobile: +39 346 0082 540 http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/andrea ______________________________________________________________ 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 Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking
by Lars Wolf 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Cfp: IEEE Magazine Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Datum: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 16:27:33 -0400 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 IEEE Communication Magazine: Feature Topic on Bio-inspired Cyber Security for Communications and Networking Cfp: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/bio-inspired-cyber-security-communications… IMPORTANT DATES: - Manuscript submission date: November 1, 2015 - Decision notification date: February 1, 2016 - Final manuscript due date: April 1, 2016 - Publication date: June 2016 OVERVIEW Nature is Earth's most amazing invention machine for solving problems and adapting to significant environmental changes. Its ability to address complex, large-scale problems with robust, adaptable, and efficient solutions results from many years of selection, genetic drift and mutations. Thus, it is not surprising that inventors and researchers often look to natural systems for inspiration and methods for solving problems in human-created artificial environments. This has resulted in the development of evolutionary algorithms including genetic algorithms and swarm algorithms, and of classifier and pattern-detection algorithms, such as neural networks, for solving hard computational problems. A natural evolutionary driver is to survive long enough to create a next-generation of descendants and ensure their survival. One factor in survival is an organism's ability to defend against attackers, both predators and parasites, and against rapid changes in environmental conditions. Analogously, networks and communications systems use cyber security to defend their assets against cyber criminals, hostile organizations, hackers, activists, and sudden changes in the network environment (e.g., DDoS attacks). Many of the defense methods used by natural organisms may be mapped to cyber space to implement effective cyber security. Some examples include immune systems, invader detection, friend vs. foe, camouflage, mimicry, evasion, etc. Many cyber security technologies and systems in common use today have their roots in bio-inspired methods, including anti-virus, intrusion detection, threat behavior analysis, attribution, honeypots, counterattack, and the like. As the threats evolve to evade current cyber security technologies, similarly the bio-inspired security and defense technologies evolve to counter the threat. The goal of this feature topic is twofold: (1) to survey the current academic and industry research in bio-inspired cyber security for communications and networking, so that the ComSoc community can understand the current evolutionary state of cyber threats, defenses, and intelligence, and can plan for future transitions of the research into practical implementations; and (2) to survey current academic and industry system projects, prototypes, and deployed products and services (including threat intelligence services) that implement the next generation of bio-inspired methods. Please note that we recognize that in some cases, details may be limited or obscured for security reasons. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: • Bio-inspired anomaly & intrusion detection • Adaptation algorithms for cyber security & networking • Biometrics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired security and networking algorithms & technologies • Biomimetics related to cyber security & networking • Bio-inspired cyber threat intelligence methods and systems • Moving-target techniques • Network Artificial Immune Systems • Adaptive and Evolvable Systems • Neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and genetic algorithms for cyber security & networking • Prediction techniques for cyber security & networking • Information hiding solutions (steganography, watermarking) and detection for network traffic • Cooperative defense systems • Bio-inspired algorithms for dependable networks SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible and accessible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is important to note that the IEEE Communications Magazine strongly limits mathematical content, and the number of figures and tables. Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE Manuscript Central site (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by the deadline. Submit articles to the "June 2016 / Bio-inspired cyber security for communication and networking" category. GUEST EDITORS Wojciech Mazurczyk Warsaw University of Technology Poland wmazurczyk(a)tele.pw.edu.pl Sean Moore Centripetal Networks USA smoorephd(a)gmail.com Errin W. Fulp Wake Forest University USA fulp(a)wfu.edu Hiroshi Wada Unitrends Australia hiroshi.wada(a)nicta.com.au Kenji Leibnitz National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Japan leibnitz(a)nict.go.jp ______________________________________________________________ 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: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms
by Lars Wolf 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: "Römer Kay Uwe" <roemer(a)INF.ETHZ.CH> Gesendet: 23. September 2015 10:04:55 MESZ An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: EWSN 2016 Workshops on Next Generation Communication Paradigms and Computing Platforms Call for EWSN 2016 Workshop Contributions Intl. Workshop on New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things (MadCom) Intl. Workshop on Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet (NextMote) www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 ============================================================== MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things ============================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/MadCom2016 For the last two decades radio frequency (RF) has been at the core of the revolution enabling wireless communication for the Internet of Things (IoT). But RF communication has been a victim of its own success, the ever increasing number of devices joining the IoT are saturating the RF bandwidth. We need alternative ways to exploit RF technology and to use other means to transmit data wirelessly. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different communities to discuss and explore novel wireless communication technologies for the IoT. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + backscatter communication + visible light communication + magnetic induction communication + infrared communication + laser communication + camera-based communication + thermal-based communication + acoustic communication + applications for novel wireless communication methods + new platforms + theoretical models + new communication methods with RF signals + new network stacks (MAC, Routing) for novel communication technologies ============================================================== NextMote: Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet ============================================================== CFP link: http://bit.ly/NextMote2016 The hardware for networked embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly over the last decades. During this time two major classes of platforms have emerged for network gathering and processing of sensor data: firstly so called "motes" that are based on a micro controller and well suited for prototyping and testing hypotheses and solutions in the field, and secondly smartphones as ubiquitous and powerful yet mobile communications and computing platforms already adopted by wide population. However, as the number of devices and applications continue growing in numbers and reducing in size, novel, superior platforms should emerge. Let us call these new platforms "NextMote". What will they be, and how to design them? The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + Modular, multi-core, multi-radio, and reconfigurable architectures for NextMote + Devices for novel communication: dense, sparse, and directional coverage + Pushing NextMote towards battery-less operation: energy harvesting, storage, and transfer + Pushing the size of NextMote towards "smart dust", ultra-thin, and stretchable + Unconventional form factors and packaging: wearable, on-body, printable NextMotes + Surviving extreme environments and leaving no trace: bio-degradable, digestible, disposable NextMotes + Robust and redundant design for NextMote health, reliability and self healing + Design, evaluation and profiling tools, and next level testbeds for NextMote + Hardware assisted security and privacy in resource constrained devices + Low-level software, firmware, operating systems for NextMote + Ultra low-cost hardware and deployments at large + Nature inspired (passive) mobility, NextMotes as seeds or pollen Submission Instructions ============================================================== The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary technical results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding methods or applications. Formatting requirements. The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage submissions from academia and industry alike. The papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format). Pages must have 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an intercolumn spacing of .25". The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Authors may use the LaTeX templates provided here: http://bit.ly/ewsn-template2016 Key Dates ============================================================== Paper submission deadline: November 9, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC Paper notification: December 7, 2015 - 23:59.59 UTC

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Fwd: VTC Deadline Extended
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '15

22 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: VTC Deadline Extended Datum: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:05:02 -0400 Von: IEEE Vehicular Technology Society <rckeele(a)ieee.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Vehicular Technology Society header Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048829&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> Join Our LinkedIn Group <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048830&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2016-Spring)* *15-18 May 2016, Nanjing, China* www.vtc2016spring.org <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048831&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *!! DEADLINE EXTENDED (5 October) !!* *Call for Papers* The 2016 IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held in Nanjing, China, 15—18 May 2016. Over the past six decades, VTC has established itself as one of the premier conferences in the world on mobile communications and vehicular technology. As the first-ever VTC to be held in mainland China, VTC 2016-Spring will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials in, but not limited to, the following technical areas: *TECHNICAL TRACKS* 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design Matthias Patzold (Chair) - University of Agder, Norway Alenka Zajic - Georgia Tech, USA Jianhua Zhang - Beijing Univ of Posts and Telecom, China 2. Signal Transmission and Reception Xin Wang (Chair) - Fudan University, China Xiliang Luo - ShanghaiTech University, China Antonio G. Marques - Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain Wei Ni - CSIRO, Australia 3. Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management Hans-Jurgen Zepernick (Chair) - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Octavia Dobre - Memorial University, Canada Jun Fang - UESTC, China Michael Fitch - BT Technology, UK 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications Ling-Yang Song (Chair) - Peking University, China Tommy Svensson - Chalmers University, Sweden Xiangwei Zhou - Southern Illinois University, USA 5. LTE/LTE-A, 5G, and Wireless Heterogeneous Networks Frank Li (Chair) - University of Agder, Norway Vicente Casares Giner - Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain Daniel So - University of Manchester, UK 6. Green Communications and Networks Jaafar Elmirghani (Chair) - University of Leeds, UK Burak Kantarci - Clarkson University, USA Emad Alsusa - University of Manchester, UK 7. Ad-Hoc, M2M, and Sensor Networks Justin Coon (Chair) - University of Oxford, UK Marco Di Renzo - CNRS/Supelec, France Huiling Zhu - University of Kent, UK 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services Yi Qian (Chair) University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy Zhou Su Shanghai University, China 9. Satellite Communications Networks and Systems, Positioning and Navigation Zhili Sun (Chair) - University of Surrey, UK Qinyu Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology, China Xianqing Yi - National Univ of Defense Tech, China 10. Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Telematics Maziar Nekovee (Chair) - Samsung, UK Onur Altintas - Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Jun Zheng - Southeast Univeresity, China 11. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies in Wireless Communications and Networks Chengxiang Wang (Chair) - Heriot-Watt University, UK Eduard Jorswieck - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Christos Verikoukis - TTCC, Spain Periklis Chatzimisos Alexander - TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece 12. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation Weiwen Deng (Chair) - Jilin University, China Jingang Yi - Rutgers University, USA Xingping Chen - Ford Motor Company, USA Qi Li - Great Wall Motors, China *Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers through the TrackChair web site:* vtc2016spring.trackchair.com <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048832&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…> *Important dates for regular papers* * Submit papers for review by: *5 October 2015 ** (deadline extended)* * Acceptance notices sent: *20 December 2015* * Final papers due: *21 February 2016* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ footer Spacer Spacer Copyright © 2011 IEEE To ensure delivery, please add info(a)ieee.org <mailto:info@ieee.org> to your email address book or Safe Sender List. If you are still having problems receiving our communications, see our white-listing page for more details <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048833&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…>. If you no longer wish to receive this publication, please go here to unsubscribe <http://www.mmsend2.com/link.cfm?r=661445230&sid=82048834&m=11089101&u=IEEE_…>.

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Elsevier COMCOM Special Issue - Mobile Traffic Analytics Datum: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:21:07 +0200 Von: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> Antwort an: Marco Fiore <fiore(a)TLC.POLITO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG *** One month to the manuscript submission deadline *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Communications http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/ Special Issue on Mobile Traffic Analytics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Scope Mobile traffic analytics enable the study of the movement and service consumption of mobile subscribers at large scales. The rise of mobile traffic analytics is fostered by an unprecedented availability of data, collected by mobile operators through probes deployed at the access and core networks, or gathered by dedicated research initiatives via monitoring apps running on users’ smartphones. Both approaches can harvest information about large populations, from hundreds to millions individuals, over long time periods, from weeks to years. The richness of mobile traffic datasets is paramount to research in a wide range of disciplines, including, e.g., sociology, transportations, statistical physics, epidemiology, and – of course – networking. However, several technical challenges need to be tackled to release the full potential of such data sources, including the assessment of statistical robustness of inferred knowledge, the overcoming of scalability issues, and the consideration for data access limitations imposed by privacy regulations that tend to reduce data usability. The aim of this Special Issue is to gather contributions presenting state-of-the-art research dealing with all facets of mobile traffic analytics. We expect submissions to present quantitative evaluations carried out on substantial real-world datasets of mobile traffic. Here, we intend the term "traffic" in its wider acceptation. We thus invite works on data collected via, e.g., Call Detail Records (CDR), access (RNC) and core (MSC, GGSN/PGW) network probes, or smartphone monitoring apps; data can be limited to mobility patterns, it can concern traditional user-to-user mobile services (i.e., calling and texting), it can focus on the mobile data traffic demand (at any granularity, from throughput volumes to the precise services and protocols employed), or it can contain any combination of such information types. We especially encourage the submission of interdisciplinary research works at the interface between networking and disciplines such as those mentioned above. Special attention will be deserved to findings and results that have practical applications in terms of technological innovation, sustainable development, data and network management, and mobile services. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Original (open) mobile traffic datasets - Preparation and management of mobile traffic datasets - Generative models for synthetic mobile traffic datasets - Algorithms, structures, and (visual) tools for mobile traffic analysis - Privacy and security issues in mobile traffic analysis, and countermeasures - Inference of social features and mobility patterns from mobile traffic - Profiling of mobile device and mobile users from mobile traffic - Characterization of the mobile subscriber demand from mobile traffic - Comparison of mobile traffic features across cities, regions, and countries - Mobile traffic analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems - Mobile traffic analytics for cognitive and anticipatory networking - Mobile access and core network enhancements from mobile traffic analysis - Mobile traffic analytics for device-to-device and opportunistic communication - Mobile service marketing strategies from mobile traffic analysis + Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: October 16, 2015 First notification: January 22, 2016 Submission of revised paper: March 11, 2016 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2016 + Guest Editors Marco Fiore, CNR – IEIIT (marco.fiore(a)ieiit.cnr.it) M. Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa (zubair-shafiq(a)uiowa.edu) Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs – SENSe (zbigniew.smoreda(a)orange.com) Razvan Stanica, INSA Lyon / Inria (razvan.stanica(a)insa-lyon.fr) Roberto Trasarti, CNR – ISTI (roberto.trasarti(a)isti.cnr.it) + Instructions for submission The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "SI Mobile Traffic Analytics" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. -------------------------------------------- Marco Fiore CNR - IEIIT Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129 Torino, Italy phone: +39 011 090 5434 mail: marco.fiore(a)ieiit.cnr.it web: http://perso.citi.insa-lyon.fr/mfiore ______________________________________________________________ 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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