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CFP: IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on "Distributed Signal Processing for Secure Cyber Physical Systems"
by marash＠ece.utoronto.ca 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Dear All, We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Winter School on "Distributed Signal Processing for Secure Cyber Physical Systems" between Nov. 2-4 at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. This event consists of presentations given by internationally well-known Distinguished Speakers including members of IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors, 5 IEEE Fellows, and a Notable Industry-based Presentation form PwC's Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice in Canada as follows: Prof. Ali Sayed (UCLA, President-Elect of IEEE SPS); Prof. Georgios Giannakis (IEEE Fellow, University of Minnesota); Prof. Pramod Varshney (IEEE Fellow, Syracuse University); Prof. Deepa Kundur (IEEE Fellow, University of Toronto); Prof. Tongwen Chen (IEEE Fellow, University of Alberta); Prof. Mark Coates (McGill University), and; Mr. Sajith Nair, Partner in PwC's Cybersecurity & Privacy in Canada. This is a unique opportunity for students/researchers, working/interested in security and signal processing, to learn more about the state-of-the-art research, get the chance to talk in person with elite and internationally well-known researchers, and to start/build the bases for future research collaborations. Please check the School's Homepage (below) for the call for participation (CfP), Biography of the invited speakers, and Registration details: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~i-sip/s3pcps2016/ In advance thanks fro your considerations. Regards, Arash. -- Arash Mohammadi, Ph.D. Vice-Chair, Montreal Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Assistant Professor, Concordia Institute for Information System Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G-2W1, CANADA. T: (+1) 514-848-2424 ext. 2712 E: arashmoh(a)encs.concordia.ca W: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~arashmoh/ L: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~i-sip/

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Fwd: CFP - Deadline Oct 28, 2016 - MadCom and NextMote - Workshops on IoT communication paradigms and platforms in conjunction with EWSN 2017
by Lars Wolf 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Marco Cattani <m.cattani(a)tugraz.at> Gesendet: 18. Oktober 2016 11:43:08 MESZ An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Betreff: CFP - Deadline Oct 28, 2016 - MadCom and NextMote - Workshops on IoT communication paradigms and platforms in conjunction with EWSN 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------- MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things ------------------------------------------------------------------- In-conjunction with EWSN 2017 In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library February 20, 2017 in Uppsala, Sweden http://www.ewsn2017.org/madcom-workshop.html Call for Papers Aim -------------------- For the last 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, and 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 identify and explore novel wireless communication technologies, and debate on and discuss priorities and challenges in the research agenda. Scope -------------------- The workshop will consist of a keynote and presentations of research papers. The keynote will be given by Xia Zhou, Dartmouth College, USA. Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages. The workshop also accepts short papers of a maximum length of two pages, presenting preliminary technical results. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: + backscatter communication + visible light communication + mm-wave communication + magnetic induction communication + terahertz communication + camera-based communication + thermal-based communication + molecular communication + communication through physical vibration + acoustic communication + new platforms + new communication methods with RF signals + new network stacks for novel communication technologies + applications for novel wireless communication methods Please ask the workshop chair if you are uncertain if your topic fits, email: domenico.giustiniano (at) imdea.org Important Dates: -------------------- Paper Submission (final deadline): October 28, 2016 Paper Notification: December 1, 2016 Organization -------------------- Workshop Chair: Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain TPC: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria Paolo Casari, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain Giorgio Corbellini, Disney Research Zurich, Switzerland Omprakash Gnawali, University of Houston, US Yusung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA Zhenjiang Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Michael Brandon Rahaim, Boston University, USA Andrew Markham, The University of Oxford, UK Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Marco Zuniga, TU Delft, The Netherlands Ashwin Ashok, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- NextMote: Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet ------------------------------------------------------------------- a workshop hosted by International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks February 20. – 22. 2017, Uppsala, Sweden http://bit.ly/NextMote17 Call for Papers Aim -------------------- 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: so called "motes" that are based on a micro controller and well suited for prototyping and testing hypotheses and solutions in the field, and 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". This workshop would like to ask the question: what comes after motes and smartphones for the communication and computation needs in the world of IoT and remote distributed sensing. What will be the NextMote platform? Some challenges will remain: prolonging the lifetime of the network nodes, minimizing the power consumption, providing sufficient communications and processing power. What are the next challenges and how to meet them, for example, the challenges due to minimizing the size of the devices, increasing the number of nodes dramatically, and sensing large streams of data in resource constrained environment. How to survive extreme environments and applications while doing no harm, such as NextMotes on and in the human body, volcano, or space. The workshop raises these questions in the terms of novel hardware platform and associate firmware and software design and development, for prototyping and for end-user systems. Scope -------------------- The workshop will consist of a keynote, presentations of short papers and an open discussion session. The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding architectures, design methods or tools for the novel NextMote platforms. The workshop focuses on the aspects related to platform design in the context of NextMote. Topics covered by the workshop 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 + Active or opportunistic mobility for NextMotes: riding on humans, animals, drones, drifting + Nature inspired (passive) mobility, NextMotes as seeds or pollen Submission Instructions -------------------- Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nextmote2017 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 template ewsn-workshops.tex provided here: http://user.it.uu.se/~chrohner/ewsn-template.zip Importand Dates -------------------- Paper Submission: October 28, 2016 (extended). Paper Notification: December 1, 2016. Organization -------------------- Workshop chair: Leo Selavo, University of Latvia Program Committee: Marcel Baunach, TU Graz, Austria Octav Chipara, University of Iowa, USA Pai Chou, UC Irvine, USA Peter Langendörfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Massimo Poncino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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CFP: IEEE T-SIPN Special Issue on Distributed Signal Processing for Security and Privacy in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
by Arash Mohammadi 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Dear All, On behalf of the Guest Editors, I would like to invite you to consider contributing to the following Special Issue in IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (T-SIPN) entitled "Distributed Signal Processing for Security and Privacy in Networked Cyber-Physical Systems". Details are as follow: GUEST EDITORS: - Arash Mohammadi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, arash.mohammadi(a)concordia.ca - Peng Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, - Vincenzo Piuri, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, - Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, - Patrizio Campisi, Universita´ degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy, SCOPE: The focus of this special issue is on distributed information acquisition, estimation, and adaptive learning for security and privacy in the context of networked cyber-physical systems (CPSs) which are engineering systems with integrated computational and communication capabilities that interact with humans through cyber space. The CPSs have recently emerged in several practical applications of engineering importance including aerospace, industrial/manufacturing process control, multimedia networks, transportation systems, power grids, and medical systems. The CPSs typically consist of both wireless and wired sensor/agent networks with different capacity/reliability levels where the emphasis is on real-time operations, and performing distributed,secure, and optimal sensing/processing is the key concern. To satisfy these requirements of the CPSs, it is of paramount importance to design innovative “Signal Processing” tools to provide unprecedented performance and resource utilization efficiency. A significant challenge for implementation of signal processing solutions in CPSs is the difficulty of acquiring data from geo- graphically distributed observation nodes and storing/processing the aggregated data at the fusion center (FC). As such, there has been a recent surge of interest in development of distributed and collaborative signal processing technologies where adaptation, estimation, and/or control are performed locally and communication is limited to local neighborhoods. Distributed signal processing over networked CPSs, however, raise significant privacy and security concerns as local observations are being shared by neighboring nodes in a collaborative and iterative fashion. On one hand, applications of CPSs are severely safety critical where potential cyber and physical attacks by adversaries on signal processing modules could lead to a variety of severe consequences including customer information leakage, destruction of infrastructures, and endangering human lives. On the other hand, the need for cooperation be- tween neighboring nodes makes it imperative to prevent the disclosure of sensitive local information during distributed information fusion step. At the same time, efficient usage of available resources (communication, computation, bandwidth, and energy) is a prerequisite for productive operation of the CPSs. To accommodate these critical aspects of CPSs, it is of great practical importance and theoretical significance to develop advanced “Secure and Privacy Preserving Distributed Signal Processing” solutions. The spirit and wide scope of distributed signal processing in revolutionized CPSs calls for novel and innovative techniques beyond conventional approaches to provide precise guarantees on security and privacy of CPSs. The objective of this special issue is to further advance recent developments of distributed signal processing to practical aspects of CPSs for real-time processing and monitoring of the underlying system in a secure and privacy preserving manner while avoiding degradation of the processing performance and preserving the valuable resources. To provide a systematic base for future advancements of CPSs, this special issue aims to provide a research venue to investigate distributed signal processing techniques with adaptation, cooperation, and learning capabilities which are secure against cyber-attacks and protected against privacy leaks. The emphasis of this special issue is on distributed/network aspects of security and privacy in CPSs. Papers with primary emphasis on forensics and security will be redirected to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security and Privacy of distributed signal processing in networked CPSs. * Distributed and secure detection, estimation, and information fusion. * Security and privacy of consensus and diffusive strategies in networked systems. * Secure and privacy preserving distributed adaptation and learning. * Security and privacy of distributed sensor resource management in networked systems. * Distributed event-based estimation/control in networked CPSs. * Detection and identification of potential attacks on distributed signal processing mechanisms. * Application domains including but not limited to, smart grids, camera networks, multimedia network, and vehicular networks. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are invited to submit original research contributions by following the detailed instructions given in the “Information for Authors” at http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/tsipn<http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/publications/periodicals/tsipn/> Manuscripts should be submitted via ScholarOne (Manuscript Central) at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tsipn-ieee. Questions about the special issue should be directed to the Guest Editors. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2016 Notification of the first review: March 1, 2017 Revised paper submission: April 15, 2017 Notification of the re-review: June 15, 2017 Minor revision deadline: August 1, 2017 Final manuscript due: October 15, 2017 The CFP can also be reached at the following link: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/blog/ieee-tsipn-special-issue-distribut… Regards, Arash. -- Arash Mohammadi, Ph.D. Vice-Chair, Montreal Chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Assistant Professor, Concordia Institute for Information System Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, H3G-2W1, CANADA. T: (+1) 514-848-2424 ext. 2712 E: arashmoh(a)encs.concordia.ca W: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~arashmoh/ L: https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~i-sip/

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Fwd: IEEE ISIE 2017 Call for papers
by Lars Wolf 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ISIE 2017 Call for papers Datum: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 05:09:49 -0600 Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> IEEE 26th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2017. ISIE 2017 19-21 June 2017, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.isie2017.org Call for Papers ISIE 2017 is the annual International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, covering industrial electronics technologies. Industry experts, researchers and academics are cordially invited to join us in Edinburgh, the beautiful and historic capital of Scotland, to participate in a three day symposium. The event will consist of an array of presentations, tutorials, and social activities, enabling the sharing of ideas and experiences surrounding frontier technologies, breakthroughs, innovative solutions, research results, standards, innovation management practices, as well as other initiatives related to industrial electronics and their applications. Through its main tracks, the conference tackles specific topics such as: power electronics and drives, electrical machines, power systems and renewable energy, intelligent and computer control systems, robotics, factory automation, flexible manufacturing, sensing, data acquisition and signal processing, computing and networking, vision systems, engineering education, etc. The main 15 conference tracks can be found on the Call for Papers page on our website. A special track for younger members is also featured - the Student and Young Professionals Forum. Several special sessions on niche technical topics and a few relevant tutorials will also be offered. Prospective authors are invited to electronically submit regular papers in English describing their work. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings, and submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore on- line digital library. Important dates Submission deadline: December 15th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2017 Submission of final version: April 10th, 2017 For more information, visit the conference web page http://www.isie2017.org and keep up to date with us on twitter @isie2017 Sincerely, The ISIE 2017 Organising Committee -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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MMSys'17 CFP
by 孙立峰 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

(Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) ************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************** ---------- ACM MMSys 2017 ---------- The 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw June 20-23, 2017 Taipei, Taiwan ****************************************************************************** The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, realtime system, database, mobile computing, distributed systems, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to view the intersections and the inter-play of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types. MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore: - Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or systems whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in one of more components, or - Enhancements to one or more system components that provide a documented improvement over the state-of-the-art for handling continuous media or time-dependent services. Such individual system components include: - Operating systems - Distributed architectures and protocol enhancements - Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers - Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia - New or improved I/O architectures or I/O devices, innovative uses and algorithms for their operation - Representation of continuous or time-dependent media - Metrics, measures and measurement tools to assess performance This touches aspects of many hot topics including but not limited to: adaptive streaming, games, virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, 3D video, Ultra-HD, HDR, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360 video, multimedia IoT, multi- and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile multimedia and 5G, wearable multimedia, P2P, cloud-based multimedia, cyber-physical systems, and multi-sensory and multimedia experiences. Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should be between 6 and 12 pages long (in PDF format) prepared in the ACM style and written in English. The unusual length of MMSys papers is meant to enable authors to present entire multimedia systems or present research work that builds on considerable amounts of earlier work in a self-contained manner. Authors who submit very specific, detailed research work that does not require such brevity are encouraged to use less than 12 pages. The papers are double-blind reviewed. Submission Link: http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw/submission/mmsys Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: November 25, 2016 Reviews available to Authors: January 20, 2017 Rebuttal Deadline: January 27, 2017 Acceptance Notification: February 3, 2017 Camera-ready Deadline: April 28, 2017 Conference: June 20-23, 2017 Organizing Committees =================== General Chair: Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica TPC Chairs: Pablo Cesar, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Cheng-Hsin Hsu, National Tsing Hua University Dataset and Scientific Reproducibility Chair: Gwendal Simon, Telecom Bretagne Demo Chair: Vincent Charvillat, University de Toulouse Panel Chair: Shun-Yun Hu, Imonology Inc. Overview Talk Chairs: Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Dick Bulterman, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Proceedings Chair: Chun-Ying Huang, National Chiao Tung University Publicity Chairs: Asia: Lifeng Sun, Tsinghua University America: Shu Shi, AT&T Labs Research Europe: Maha Abdallah, Pierre and Marie Curie University Middle East: Mohamed Hefeeda, Simon Fraser University Local Chair: Hwai-Jung Hsu, Academia Sinica Treasurer: Chih-Fan Hsu, Academia Sinica Web Chair: Anthony Chen, Academia Sinica ============================================================================== More details can be found at http://mmsys17.iis.sinica.edu.tw

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CfP - Workshop on Communication Security - affiliated with EUROCRYPT 2017
by Marco Baldi 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) 2nd Workshop on Communication Security (WCS 2017) affiliated with EUROCRYPT 2017 Paris (France), April 30, 2017 https://wcs17.wordpress.com/ CALL FOR PAPERS =================================== In the last few years we have seen a rising interest and dialogue between two distinct approaches to security: the well-established field of cryptography and the recently explored field of physical-layer (or information-theoretic) security. The two approaches are based on different assumptions and have developed their own performance metrics and methodologies, as well as their own implemented solutions. A seminal work by Bellare, Tessaro and Vardy in 2012 plays the role of a Rosetta Stone by putting side by side metrics and languages of the two fields and establishing a bridge between them. Furthermore, engineers have been studying how to integrate solutions from both fields in their products rather than relying exclusively on one of the two, confirming the interest in bridging the two approaches. This workshop aims at getting together experts from both fields to continue this promising joint research path of physical-layer security and cryptography. The one-day event will include the presentation of peer-reviewed papers and two prominent keynote talks by Jean-Claude Belfiore (Telecom ParisTech), and by Stefano Tessaro (University of California, Santa Barbara). Contributions are solicited on topics including (but not limited to): - Semantic security for the wiretap channel - Coding strategies for semantic security - Adversarial wiretap channels - Joint physical layer-cryptography solutions for secure wireless communications - Cross-disciplinary solutions for authentication - Secure cross-layer design techniques - Physical-layer enhanced cryptography Prospective authors are invited to submit novel, previously unpublished scientific contributions for peer review at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcs2017 Contributions will be published as chapters of a Springer book in the LNEE series. More details can be found on the WCS2017 website: https://wcs17.wordpress.com/ Important dates: Submission deadline: 12 December 2016 Notification: 20 January 2017 Final papers: 17 February 2017 Workshop: 30 April 2017 Organizing Committee: Dr. Elizabeth A. Quaglia, Huawei Technologies, France (lizquaglia(a)gmail.com) Prof. Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova, Italy (tomasin(a)dei.unipd.it) Dr. Marco Baldi, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy (m.baldi(a)univpm.it)

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiSys'17 CFP
by Lars Wolf 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Xia Zhou <xia(a)CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU> Gesendet: 12. Oktober 2016 02:09:08 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM MobiSys'17 CFP ACM MobiSys'17 Call for Papers =============================== https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2017/ MobiSys 2017 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys seeks original papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. Of particular interest are technical contributions that enable new and compelling mobile scenarios and applications. The conference values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems * Innovative mobile, mobile sensing, and mobile crowdsourcing apps * Tools for building and measuring mobile systems * Innovative wearable or mobile devices * Novel software architectures for mobile devices * Data management for mobile applications * Infrastructure support for node mobility * System-level energy management for mobile devices * Operating systems for mobile devices * Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web * Security and privacy in mobile systems * Systems for location and context sensing and awareness * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * Vehicular and robotic wireless systems * User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and systems * Systems and networking support for Virtual and Augmented Reality * Applications of mobile systems in health, sustainability, and other domains * Non-traditional topics that bring new perspective to mobile computing Papers on work that is currently under review, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form, must not be submitted to MobiSys. Submission of a longer version of a published, not just accepted, workshop paper is encouraged if it includes significant new contributions. However, the authors must cite their workshop paper. Submissions will be single blind, i.e., reviewers will be anonymous and submissions should include authors' names and institutions. We strongly encourage prospective authors to use past MobiSys proceedings as a guideline to assess the readiness of their work for submission. Due to high review load on PC members, low quality or premature work submitted to the conference is likely to receive a smaller number of reviews and the reviews may be brief. ACM has been making an effort to support more open access to the proceedings of its sponsored conferences. As a result, the MobiSys 2017 proceedings may be publicly available through the conference website from two weeks before the conference to two weeks after it. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. Papers meeting any of these criteria will be rejected. Authors uncertain whether their submission meets these guidelines should contact the program chairs. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. As part of the submission process, authors of papers that describe experiments on human subjects, or that analyze nonpublic data derived from human subjects (even anonymized data), will be asked to certify that their work was vetted by an ethics review (e.g., IRB approval). We expect authors to follow the rules of their host institutions around data collection and experiments with human subjects. Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Best Paper Award ================== All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers, and select one or more award papers prior to the conference. Video Presentation =================== The authors of each accepted paper will submit a short 1-minute video to introduce the research presented in their paper to the general public. These videos will be placed on the conference website before the conference, and may be played during the conference. A selected set may be featured by the social media channels related to the conference. Important Dates ================= - Abstract registration deadline: December 1, 2016, 11:59PM EST (Dec 1, 2016, 04:59AM UTC) - Paper submission deadline: December 8, 2016, 11:59PM EST (Dec 8, 2016, 04:59AM UTC) - Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2017 - Camera-ready due: May 9, 2017 Contact ========= If you have any questions, please contact Andrew Campbell (campbell(a)cs.dartmouth.edu) and Deepak Ganesan (dganesan(a)cs.umass.edu). ______________________________________________________________ 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 [CASPer 2017 - Deadline approaching] The 4th IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications
by Lars Wolf 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: CASPer 2017 publicity <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> > Datum: 11. Oktober 2016 um 21:44:10 MESZ > An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG > Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP [CASPer 2017 - Deadline approaching] The 4th IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications > Antwort an: CASPer 2017 publicity <faqzao(a)HOTMAIL.COM> > > [Apologies for cross and multiple postings] > > ******************************************************************** > The 4th IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2017) > http://casper2017.uns.ac.rs > In conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2017) > Kona (Big Island), Hawaii, USA, March 13-17, 2017 > ******************************************************************** > > Dear Colleagues, > > We are one month away from the deadline for the 4th edition of the International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (CASPer 2017). The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2017). It would be highly appreciated if you could circulate this CfP among your colleagues and relevant mailing lists. > > Call for Papers > > With smartphones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have immediate access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, and this makes it possible to harness the power of the crowd to collect and share data about their surroundings and experiences on a massive scale. Crowdsensing/crowdsourcing is a novel data collection paradigm that leverages this vast mobile sensor network, expanding the scope of research endeavours and allowing civic issues to be addressed, without the need to purchase specialized sensors or install and maintain network infrastructure. Data collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting and valuable sources, and may allow the data to come from previously inaccessible locations and contexts. > > This new data collection paradigm introduces several research challenges. Privacy is a primary concern for users who contribute sensitive or personally identifiable information (PII). Incentive mechanisms for participation may be needed to encourage people to volunteer their resources to collect data. Methods are needed for processing large-scale, user-generated data sets into meaningful information, and for assessing and understanding the quality of information to help guide decision-making. Approaches which involve the crowd in such data analysis tasks, with humans serving as a source of semantic information, interpretation, and evaluation of crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data, can also help to build an understanding of the physical, computational, and socio-technical environment. > > CASPer 2017 provides a forum for discussion, debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent advances in crowdsensing and crowdsourcing. We invite original research contributions that advance the state of the art as well as position papers that pose a new direction or present a controversial point of view. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > • Algorithms to handle, process, and visualize large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data sets > • Data integrity, security, privacy, and provenance for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data > • Trust and reputation systems for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Determining and assessing Quality of Information for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data > • Crowd-assisted (human-in-the-loop) approaches to analyzing crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data > • Context modeling and reasoning in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Incentive mechanisms for participation in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Supporting crowdsensing/crowdsourcing in heterogeneous networks > • Crowd-assisted pervasive systems and communications > • Novel use of sensors for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Energy efficient mechanisms for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Programming abstractions and middleware for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > • Novel large-scale and enterprise crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications > > Paper Submission > > Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE PerCom Workshop Proceedings. Authors will submit through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22973). Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must be formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. Templates (IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word) can be found at http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/authors. > > Please note: as per IEEE PerCom policy, each accepted paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). It is mandatory that at least one author register and participate to present the paper during the technical sessions of workshops. > > Important Dates > > Submission deadline: November 11, 2016 > Author Notification: December 23, 2016 > Camera ready due: January 13, 2017 > Registration Deadline: January 13, 2017 > > General Chairs > Imre Lendak, University of Novi Sad, Serbia > Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA > > Programme Chairs > Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia > Raghu Ganti, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA > > Publicity Chair > Waldir Moreira, Fraunhofer-AICOS, Portugal > > Steering Committee > Károly Farkas (Chair), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary > Luke Dickens, University College London, UK > Miguel Labrador, University of South Florida, USA > Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK > Jamie Payton, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA > Thomas Silverston, The University of Tokyo, Japan / JFLI CNRS UMI 3527 > > > We hope to see you in Kona. > > Best regards, > > Waldir Moreira, > Publicity Chair > CASPer 2017 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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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CFP: 3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17)
by Cristina Alcaraz 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

3rd ACM Cyber‐Physical System Security Workshop (ACM CPSS’17) Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2, 2017 http://icsd.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/cpss17/ Conference Outline: Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPS) consist of large‐scale interconnected systems of heterogeneous components interacting with their physical environments. There are a multitude of CPS devices and applications being deployed to serve critical functions in our lives. The security of CPS becomes extremely important. This workshop will provide a platform for professionals from academia, government, and industry to discuss how to address the increasing security challenges facing CPS. Besides invited talks, we also seek novel submissions describing theoretical and practical security solutions to CPS. Papers that are pertinent to the security of embedded systems, SCADA, smart grid, and critical infrastructure networks are all welcome, especially in the domains of energy and transportation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Authentication and access control for CPS - Autonomous vehicle security - Availability, recovery and auditing for CPS - Data security and privacy for CPS - Embedded systems security - EV charging system security - Industrial control system security - Intrusion detection for CPS - IoT security - Key management in CPS - Legacy CPS system protection - Lightweight crypto and security - Risk assessment for CPS - SCADA security - Security architectures for CPS - Smart grid security - Threat modeling for CPS - Urban transportation system security - Vulnerability analysis for CPS - Wireless sensor network security Important Dates: Submission due: Dec 1, 2016 Notification: Jan 15, 2017 Camera‐ready due: Feb 1, 2017 Steering committee members • Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany) Ravishankar • Iyer (UIUC, USA) • Douglas Jones (ADSC, Singapore) • Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) • Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) – Chair Program Chairs • Jianying Zhou (I2R, Singapore) • Ernesto Damiani (KUSTAR, UAE) Publicity Chair • Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) Publication/Web Chair • Ying Qiu (I2R, Singapore) Program Committee • Cristina Alcaraz (University of Malaga, Spain) • Basel Alomair (KACST, Saudi Arabia) • Claudio Ardagna (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) • Ioannis Askoxylakis (FORTH, Greece) • Alvaro Cardenas (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) • Lorenzo Cavallaro (RHUL, UK) • Stephen Chai (Thales, Singapore) • Aldar Chan (University of Hong Kong, HK) • Binbin Chen (ADSC, Singapore) • Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) • Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) • Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) • Sebti Foufou (Qatar University, Qatar) • Aurelien Francillon (EURECOM, France) • Dieter Gollmann (Hamburg Uni of Tech, Germany) • Felix Gomez‐Marmol (NEC Labs, Germany) • Huaqun Guo (I2R, Singapore) • Jin Han (Twitter, USA) • Masaki Hashimoto (Institute of Info Security, Japan) • Matt Henricksen (I2R, Singapore) • Thomas Hildebrandt (IT Uni of Copenhagen, Denmark) • Xinyi Huang (FJNU, China) • Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (UIUC, USA) • Sokratis Katsikas (NTNU, Norway) • Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Labs, Japan) • Marina Krotofil (Honeywell, USA) • Hoon Wei Lim (I2R, Singapore) • Peter Loh (SIT, Singapore) • Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) • Xiapu Luo (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK) • Michail Maniatakos (NYU‐Abu Dhabi, UAE) • Konstantinos Markantonakis (RHUL, UK) • Weizhi Meng (DTU, Denmark) • Chris Mitchell (RHUL, UK) • Ganesh Narayanan (Ernst & Young, Singapore) • Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia) • Susan Pancho‐Festin (Uni of Philippines, Philippines) • Michael Papay (Northrop Grumman, USA) • Axel Poschmann (NXP, Germany) • Indrakshi Ray (Colorado State University, USA) • Gritzalis Stefanos (University of the Aegean, Greece) • Rui Tan (NTU, Singapore) • William Temple (ADSC, Singapore) • Nils Ole Tippenhauer (SUTD, Singapore) • Alberto Trombetta (Università dell'Insubria, Italy) • Luca Viganò (King’s College London, UK) • Claire Vishik (Intel, USA) • Long Wang (IBM Research, USA) • Yang Xiang (Deakin University, Australia) • Jia Xu (I2R, Singapore) • David Yau (SUTD, Singapore) • Chan Yeob Yeun (KUSTAR, UAE) • Ye Zhang (Google, USA) • Peng Zhou (Shanghai University, China) • Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) • Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University, USA) Submission Instructions: Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All submissions should be appropriately anonymized (i.e., papers should not contain author names or affiliations, or obvious citations). Submissions must be in double‐column ACM SIG Proceedings format, and should not exceed 12 pages. Position papers and short papers of 6 pages describing the work in progress are also welcome. Only pdf files will be accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of the paper must be registered at the appropriate conference rate. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. There will also be a best paper award. Paper submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2017 Contact: Email: cpss2017(a)easychair.org CPSS Home: http://icsd.i2r.a‐star.edu.sg/staff/jianying/cpss/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline Extension: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing"
by Lars Wolf 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] Deadline Extension: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing" Datum: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 18:35:11 -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 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement due to cross posting. CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ Special Issue in Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) SI on "Recent Advances in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing" Submission Deadline: 15/11/2016 Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) invites manuscript submissions in the area of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. Aim and Scope: ------------------- Cloud computing provides large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network clos! er to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, certain challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). This Special Issue aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance as well as to seek for novel contributions that help mitigating the corresponding research challenges. Topics of Interest: The topics relevant to this Special Issue include but are not limited to: • FMEC real-time communication interfaces and protocols. • FMEC efficient communication techniques. • FMEC and D2D communication • FMEC security and privacy issues. • FMEC pricing and billing models. • FMEC support for VANETs and MANETs • Cloudlet based computing • Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. • The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. • FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. • FMEC architecture features and evolution. • FMEC resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. • FMEC resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. • FMEC resources allocation and management. • Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. • FMEC virtualization. • Information Centric Networking (ICN) and FMEC • Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. • Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC. • Security protocols in FMEC. Coherent list of topics: -------------------------- Papers must be tailored to the emerging fields of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing and explicitly consider recent deployments models, challenges and novel solutions. The Guest Editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett) according to the timetable below. Important Dates: ---------------------------------- Extended Submission deadline: 15/11/2016 Author Notification: 15/12/2016 Final Manuscript: 1/3/2017 Publication: Q4-2017 Guest Editors: ---------------- Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, Yaser.amd(a)gmail.com Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Ejaz Ahmed, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD. 20899, USA , imejaz(a)gmail.com Brij B. Gupta, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India, gupta.brij(a)gmail.com Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA, h.song(a)ieee.org Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed, (Ph.D.) Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, IEEE Access, Springer MJCS, Email IDs: imejaz(a)gmail.com, ejazahmed(a)ieee.org Web: www.ejazahmed.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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