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[Fwd: [tcgn] Submission deadline soon: ACM SIGCOMM 2003 MoMeTools Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '03

01 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] Submission deadline soon: ACM SIGCOMM 2003 MoMeTools Workshop Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:38:49 +0200 From: Georg Carle <carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: MoMeTools(a)tm.uka.de Dear Colleagues, our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail! We would like to remind you of the upcoming deadline of May 4, 2003 for submitting papers for the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Models, Methods and Tools for Reproducible Network Research (MoMeTools'03) which takes place in Karlsruhe, Germany, on August 25, 2003 in conjunction with ACM SIGCOMM 2003. For complete information about the workshop, please visit: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/mometools/ URL for paper submission: http://www.pfhsn.org/mometools/ConfMan/REG-paper/ Kind regards, Georg Carle, Hartmut Ritter and Klaus Wehrle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers ACM SIGCOMM WORKSHOP ON MODELS, METHODS AND TOOLS FOR REPRODUCIBLE NETWORK RESEARCH (MoMeTools) http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/mometools/ in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany 25 August 2003 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Compared with other scientific areas such as experimental physics, network research appears significantly less mature concerning methodology. Internet research is affected by models that sometimes are poorly suited to the problem under investigation, by lack of understanding of properties and limitations of the models used, and by tools that have various limitations and that are poorly integrated. While each of the methods analysis, simulation, emula-tion, testbed experiments and Internet-wide experiments have their own particular strengths and shortcomings, typically only one of these methods is used to investigate a particular problem. Certain weaknesses of the chosen methods can have unwanted implications on the results and deductions made from them. There appears to be insufficient comparison or adjustment between results obtained by different methods. The goal of this workshop is to critically assess the current models, methods and tools for identifying shortcomings of the state-of-the-art, and to discuss approaches for improvements and innovation. The workshop aims for sharing knowledge about how to apply today's tools most successfully, and for generating a common understanding about what is needed for net-work research to progress more rapidly and to ensure widely reproducible results. The workshop solicits submissions that improve our understanding of the current state-of-the art, and that help to identify improved models, methods and tools. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest could include, but are not limited to: - Reproducibility of experimental network research - Investigation of scaling effects - Common code basis for simulation and implementation - Mathematical methods for error assessment - Examples and review of commonly observable mistakes - Simulation vs. emulation vs. testbed experiments - Comparison of practical, analytical and theoretical evaluations - Benchmarking and measurement techniques - Tools for visualization of network behaviour; usage and assessment of tools - Generation of realistic network topologies and traffic patterns Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings published by ACM SIGCOMM and will be placed in the ACM Digital Library. Following the workshop, a report on the discussions and conclusions of the workshop will be published. WHAT AND HOW TO SUBMIT The workshop solicits the following types of submissions: 1) Full papers, 2) Position papers on potentially controversial or provocative topics, and 3) Tool demonstration papers. These will be presented in a practical session consisting of short presentations combined with live demonstrations of tools. The corresponding papers undergo a review process. For illustration purposes of a tool, it is also possible to submit an online video clip in addition to a papers. Papers should be no longer than 14 pages; shorter and concise papers are also highly welcome. Papers should not be anonymized. See the submission webpage http://www.pfhsn.org/mometools/ for full submission requirements. For any questions please contact MoMeTools(a)tm.uka.de. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline May 4, 2003 Notification of acceptance May 26, 2003 Camera ready papers June 12, 2003 Workshop date August 25, 2003 ORGANIZERS, PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Hartmut Ritter, Freie Universität Berlin, hritter(a)inf.fu-berlin.de Klaus Wehrle, ICSI/University of Karlsruhe, wehrle(a)icsi.berkeley.edu PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joachim Charzinski, Siemens Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Christophe Diot, Sprint ATL Anja Feldmann, University of Munich Sally Floyd, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Eddie Kohler, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Jay Lepreau, University of Utah Kathleen Nichols Vern Paxson, ICSI/ICIR, Berkeley Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Research Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Jim Roberts, CNET, France Telecom Ralf Steinmetz, University of Darmstadt Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe FURTHER INFORMATION Please look at http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/mometools/ or contact MoMeTools(a)tm.uka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Prof. Dr. Georg Carle Chair for Computer Networks and Internet Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science University of Tuebingen Tel.:+49-7071-29-70505 Sand 1 Fax +49-7071-29-5091 D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany carle(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

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[Fwd: [tcgn] 2nd CFP for HETNETs'03]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '03

01 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] 2nd CFP for HETNETs'03 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:05:21 +0100 (BST) From: hetnets <hetnets(a)comp.brad.ac.uk> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: tcgn(a)ieee.org Second Announcement and call for papers FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKING CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND EVALUATION OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS (HET-NETs '03) Supported by . IFIP WG6.2 on Network and Inter-network Architectures; . British Computer Society (BCS) Performance Engineering Specialist Group; . Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEE, U.K.); . EUROPEAN COMMISSION - IST and NoE Programmes; . ACATS FORUM, ATS Network Consortium Proprietary, EU; . SIEMENS AG (Germany); . MOTOROLA (U.K.); . SOLINET GmbH (Germany); . ERICSSON (Hungary); . ALCATEL SEL AG (Germany); . VODAFONE (Germany); . 4PLUS Technologies SA (Greece); . TELETEL Telecoms & IT (Greece); . INFORMS Applied Probability Society (U.S.A); . Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, U.K.); . Telecoms Dept., National Technical University of Athens (Greece); . Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras (Greece); . Inst. Informatics & Telecoms, NCSR "Demokritos" (Greece); . School of Informatics, University of Bradford (U.K.); Monday 21st - Wednesday 23rd July, 2003 Craiglands Hotel*, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, U.K. (* The Craiglands is a delightful Victorian country hotel on the edge of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales and near the famed Ilkley Moor.) Over recent years a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the performance modelling, evaluation and convergence of multi-service networks of diverse technology, such as IP, ATM, MPLS, D-WDM, IPO, WLL, xDSL, Metro-WDM, Gigabit Ethernet, WLAN, Ad-hoc as well as GSM, GPRS, 3G UMTS mobile systems and all-optical networks. However, many interesting and important traffic engineering, technological and performance issues need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband network infrastructure can be established for the efficient support of multimedia applications. Of crucial importance is the design and dimensioning of the next generation Internet with quality of service (QoS) guarantees including the creation of generic evaluation platforms capable of measuring the performance of heterogeneous networks, services inter- operability and applications. Moreover, robust quantitative methodologies are needed, such as those based on novel queueing network models, neural networks and stochastic Petri nets, leading to both credible and cost-effective approximations and algorithms for the performance prediction of heterogeneous networks. These powerful and realistic tools applied to the analysis of other types of discrete flow systems, such as computer systems, transportation networks and flexible manufacturing systems, may also be, by analogy, of relevance. The aim of the First International Working Conference on Heterogeneous Networks (HET-NET '03) is to contribute to fundamental research in networks of diverse technology and internetworking issues and focus on their performance/reliability modelling and analysis. The event is staged under the auspices of the proposed EU Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-NGi for the design and dimensioning of the 3G Internet and beyond in collaboration with two major industrial on the main EU consortiums related to two current IST projects in the field, namely, IASON focusing on the design and development of performance measurement platforms for heterogeneous networks and EVOLUTE dealing with seamless multimedia services over all IP-based infrastructures. As in earlier performance modelling and evaluation ATM & IP events in Bradford and Ilkley, U.K., the Working Conference provides the friendly and informal atmosphere in which participants from all over the world introduce new concepts, exchange novel ideas and establish new operational solutions and research initiatives. In particular, delegates are encouraged to address . Traffic Engineering and performance modelling aspects of existing and emerging Internet technologies towards the convergence of telecommunications, multi-service networking and broadcasting; . Design and development of performance evaluation platforms for multi- services inter-operability and heterogeneous networks; . Methods and solutions for seamless mobility and heterogeneous mobile network optimization, capacity utilization and resource management, based on enhanced performance against traditional and current state of the art mechanisms; . Analytic and simulation methodologies for QNMs and SPNs with self- similar and multi-fractal traffic models of long-range (LRD) versus short-range (SRD) dependence and their approximation, with tolerable accuracy, by simpler traffic processes. It is envisaged that HET-NETs '03 will make an effective contribution to both structuring research in the performance modelling field and spreading the excellence worldwide. General Chair . Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, Bradford, U.K. Co-Chairs . Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies: Professor Daniel Kofman (Co-ordinator of NoE Euro-3Gi), Paris, France. . Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms: Dr. Michael Dopfer (Co-ordinator of EU IST Project IASON), Siemens AG, Germany. . Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks: Dr. Tim Charity (Co-ordinator of EVOLUTE), Motorola, Swindon, U.K. . Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools: Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis, Athens, Greece. Provisional Scientific Committees Special Track for Performance Modelling Studies Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden Tulin Atmaca, Paris, France Monique Becker, Evry, France Andre-Luc Beylot, Toulouse, France Mark Bromirski, Zegrze, Poland Herwig Bruneel, Ghent, Belgium Olga Casals, Catalunya, Spain Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Laurie Cuthbert, London, U.K. Error Gelenbe, central florida, U.S.A. Tamas Henk, Budapest, Hungary Helmut Hlavacs, Vienna, Austria Ilias Iliadis, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Villy Baek Iversen, Lyngby, Denmark Andrzej Jajszczyk, Cracow, Poland Laszlo Jereb, Budapest, Hungary Peter Key, Microsoft Research, U.K . Stefan Köhler, Wuerzburg, Germany Kimon Kontovassilis, Athens, Greece Ulf Korner, Lund, Sweden Paul Kuehn, Stuttgart, Germany Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs, U.S.A. Renato Lo Cigno, Trento, Italy Michael Logothetis, Patras, Greece Michela Meo, Torino, Italy Nicholas Mitrou, Athens, Greece Sándor Molnár, Budapest, Hungary Victor Netes, Komset, Moscow, Russia Michal Pioro, Warsaw, Poland Jonathan Pitts, London, U.K. Guy Pujolle, Paris, France Roberto Sabella, Ericson, Sweden Phuoc Tran-Gia, Wuerzburg, Germany Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg, Germany Michel Riguidel, Paris, France Maria Simon, Montevideo, Uruguay Geoff Smith, Strathclyde, U.K. Rob van der Mei, Telecom, Netherlands Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki, Finland Hideaki Yamashita, Tokyo, Japan Special Track for Performance Measurement Platforms Frank Ball, Oxford, UK Miklos Boda, Ericsson, Hungary Arnold Eppler, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Franz Erhart, Siemens AG, Germany Michael Esser, Vodafone, Germany Boris Grabner, Telekom Austria AG, Austria John Griffiths, London, U.K. Gerard Hebuterne, Evry, France David Hutchison, Lancaster, U.K Vangelis Kollias, Teletel SA, Greece Hanoch Levy, Tel-Avid, Israel Madjid Merabti, Liverpool, U.K. Lewis McKenzie, Glasgow, U.K. Raif Onvural, Allied Telelesyn Int., U.S.A. Roger Peplow, Natal, South Africa Guido Petit, Alcatel SEL AG, Belgium Andreas Pollok, Siemens AG, Germany Lisa Ritchie, Solinet GmbH, Germany Christian Schmitt, Solinet GmbH, Germany William Skelton, Solinet GmbH, Germany Patrick Thiran, Lausanne, Switzerland Spyros Tombros, 4Plus SA, Greece Speros Velentzas, Motorola, U.K. Norbert Vicari, Wuerzburg, Germany Helmut Weiser, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Gerrd-Jouchin Wintterle, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany Special Track for Applied Innovation in Mobile Networks Erik Aarnaes, Teleplan, Norway Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Laboratories, U.K. Ana Garcia Armada, Madrid, Spain Nigel Baker, West England, U.K. Alejandro Beccera, Telefonica, Spain Rolf Birkenstedt, Telia, Sweden Fernando Casadevall, Catalunya, Spain Luc Deneire, Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France Jason Devaney, Roke Manor, U.K. Manuel Dinis, Portugal Telecom, Portugal Willie Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Stanislav Dzuban, Siemens, Austria Jorge Gato, Vodafone, Spain Felicita Di Giandomenico, Pisa, Italy John Farserotu, Csem, Switzerland Flavio Giovanelli, Cefriel, Italy Louagie Filip, Imec, Belgium Ayadi Jaouhar, Csem, Switzerland Nigel Jefferies, Vodafone, U.K. Jaakko Lahteenmaki, Vtt, Finland Joao Macas, Siemens, Portugal Thomas Magedanz, Focus, Germany Marcelo Manta, Nortel, Spain Anthony Marinidis, Telia, Sweden John Mertzanis, Space Hellas, Greece Raffaele Menolascino, Motorola, Italy Scott Moseley, ETSI, France Seppo Parkkila, Elisa, Finland Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Viktor Owall, Lund, Sweden Nikos Pronios, Intracom, Greece Prasad Ramjee, Aalborg, Denmark Stephan Rupp, Alcatel, Germany Luis Munoz, Cantabria, Spain George Stassinopoulos, Ntua, Greece Dorgham Sisalem, Focus, Germany Zhili Sun, Surrey, U.K. Kostas, Vlahodimitropoulos, Cosmote, Greece Xie Yi, TMC of Ministry of Information Industry, China Special Track for Methodologies and Analytic Tools Eitan Altman, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France Vladimir Anisimov, Kiev, Ukraine & GlaxoSmithKline, U.K. Simonetta Balsamo, Venice, Italy Chris Blondia, Antwerp, Belgium Sem Borst, Amsterdam, Netherlands Pavel Bocharov, Moscow, Russia Richard Boucherie, Amsterdam, Netherlands Onno Boxma, Eindhoven, Netherlands Alexander Brandwajn, Santa Cruz, U.S.A. Vicente Casares-Giner, Valencia, Spain Ram Chakka, Norfolk, U.S.A. Tadeusz Czachorski, Gliwice, Poland Lorenzo Donatiello, Bologna, Italy Peder Emstad, Trondheim, Norway Error Gelenbe, Duke, U.S.A. Nicolas Georganas, Ottawa, Canada Klaus Hackbarth, Santander, Spain Guenter Haring, Vienna, Austria Peter Harrison, London, U.K. Boudewijn Haverkort, Twente, Netherlands Frank Kelly, Cambridge, U.K. Peter King, Edinburgh, U.K. Ernest Koenigsberg, Berkeley, U.S.A. Udo Krieger, T-Systems Nova GmbH Germany Isi Mitrani, Newcastle, U.K. Jogesh Muppala, Kowloon, Hong Kong Mohamed Oul-Khaoua, Glasgow, U.K. John Schormans, London, U.K. Karl Sigman, Columbia, U.S.A. Haris Skianis, Athens, Greece Maciej Stasiak, Poznan, Poland Janos Sztrik, Debrecen, Hungary Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto, Japan Nigel Thomas, Durham University, U.K. Tulio Tolio, Milano, Italy Manolo Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica I+D, Spain Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent, Belgium Michael Woodward, Bradford, U.K. David Yao, Columbia, U.S.A. Local Organising Committee Salam Assi, Bradford, U.K. Irfan Awan, Bradford, U.K Rod Fretwell, Bradford, U.K. Wie Li, Bradford, U.K. Geyong Min, Bradford, U.K. Is-Haka Mkwawa, Bradford, U.K. Kevin Smith, Bradford, U.K. Sotiris Tantos, Bradford, U.K. Athanasios Tsokanos, Bradford, U.K. Contributions are encouraged on, but are not limited to, the performance modelling and evaluation, including reliability and pricing, of . QoS Protocols and Provisioning for Heterogeneous Networks; . Modelling and Analysis of Heterogeneous Internet Access; . Next Generation Internet Protocols over Heterogeneous Networks; . Switch Architectures for Heterogeneous Networks; . Inter-operability of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks; . Multi-service Mobile and Optical Networks; . Multimedia Traffic Measurement, Management, Modelling and Characterisation; . Congestion, Flow and Call Admission Control Schemes; . Cell/Packet Level Scheduling and Resource Allocation Strategies; . Flow and Congestion Control Functions and Procedures; . QoS Routing, Load Balancing Techniques and Network Resilience; . Multimedia over Packet-based Networks; . Analysis of Queueing Network Models with Blocking, Neural Networks and Stochastic Petri Nets; . Parallel and Distributed Simulation; . Real-time Voice/Video Transport over Heterogeneous Networks; . Efficiency of Adaptation Layer and Transport Protocols; . QoS Performance Testing and Measurements; . Security Mechanisms effect on Heterogeneous Networks Performance; . Internetworking Issues and Experiments; . Other Performance Modelling Applications to Computer and Parallel Systems, Distributed Systems, Transportation Networks and Production Systems. Based on the pattern established at the IFIP ATM & IP Working Conferences in Bradford (1994), Ilkley (1995-1998, 2000), Antwerp (1999) and Budapest (2001), the Technical Programme of the International Working Conference HET-NETs '03 will combine research and tutorial papers from industry and academia on current developments in the theory and practice of performance modelling and evaluation issues of heterogeneous networks worldwide. In addition, poster research papers will be solicited, industrial demonstrations will be organised and special sessions of practical industrial papers and research works in progress will also be included, as appropriate. Prospective authors of HET-NETs '03 are invited to submit by Monday the 26th of May 2003 . Research papers (for peer review) up to a maximum of 10 A4 size page (single spaced text); . Technical abstracts of approximately 300 words for poster contributions, industrial papers of a practical nature or academic research works in progress; . Proposals for tutorial papers on 1-2 A4 size pages (single spaced text); for PC and peer selection review - to Mr Kevin Smith (Performance Modelling and Engineering Research Group, Tel: +44-1274-233919, Fax: +44-1274-233920) by using E-mail address of HET-NETs 03: <hetnets(a)scm.brad.ac.uk>. Please note all proposed submissions should be in English and be sent as E-mail attachments using postscript, msword or pdf file format and include, as key words, a list of topics under which the authors prefer their work to be classified and presented in a related session. Following acceptance, authors will be notified via E-mail to prepare in camera ready form (single spaced text) the final versions of their papers for the . HET-NETs '03 Technical Proceedings (ISBN to be announced) of full revised research papers up to a maximum of 10 A4 size pages which should be finalised according to the referees' remarks; . Participants Volume of industrial papers and research works in progress of not more than 6 A4 size pages or shorter poster papers of not more than 3 A4 size pages; . Participants Volume of tutorial papers of not more than 35 A4 size pages. After the event, authors of mature work will also be invited to submit extended versions of their papers up to a maximum of 25 A4 pages (single spaced text) by Friday the 1st September 2003, for consideration, subject to a subsequent peer review, for publication in special journal issues on the performance modelling and evaluation of heterogeneous networks. For further information prospective participants are welcome to contact Professor Demetres Kouvatsos, General Chair (e-mail: D.D.Kouvatsos(a)scm.brad.ac.uk, Tel.: +44-1274-233941) or, any of the co-chairs, namely Professor Daniel Kofman (e-mail: Daniel.Kofman(a)enst.fr), Dr. Michael Dopfer (Michael.Dopfer(a)siemens.com), Dr. Tim Charity (T.Charity(a)motorola.com) and Professor Ioannis Stavrakakis (istavrak(a)di.uoa.gr). ======================================================================= Note There are two new special editions of the Journal of Performance Evaluation related to the theme of the IFIP HET-NETs '03 Working Conference, namely . ATM & IP Networks: Performance Modelling and Analysis, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos (Guest Ed.), North- Holland, Elsevier, 2002. . Queueing Networks with Blocking, Special Issue of the Journal of Performance Evaluation, Demetres Kouvatsos and Simonetta Balsamo (Guest Eds.), North-Holland, Elsevier 2003. The table of contents, abstracts and full-text PDF files of these special issues are available from the Journal's listing on <ScienceDirect,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01665316>. ========================================================================

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[Fwd: Location Change: Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration]
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

und noch ein Ortswechsel ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Location Change: Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:02:58 +0200 From: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> Reply-To: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> To: SIGMM-MEMBERS(a)ACM.ORG From: Yong Rui <yongrui(a)microsoft.com> LOCATION CHANGE 2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (WOMTEC) October 19-20, 2003 Nice, France In association with ICCV 2003 http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/womtec/ As computing is becoming ubiquitous and network bandwidth grows, the way how people teach, learn, and collaborate is rapidly changing. People are increasingly using computer technologies to make learning and collaboration easier, more convenient, and more effective. There are still many open technical problems that need to be addressed to make e-learning and collaboration a better experience. We need to address the problem of how to better capture and present a lecture or a group meeting. We need to better understand the meeting context such as the gesture, facial expressions, who is speaking, who wants to speak so that we can generate good indexing schemes to allow for nonlinear browsing and provide a better summarization of the meeting. How to make note-taking easier is another interesting problem. For a group meeting or a class with remote participants, we need to address the problem of how to present the meeting room to the remote participants and vice versa so that the remote participants are not left out. One clear advantage of a face-to-face meeting vs. current video conferencing is that many visual cues, such as eye contacts and who is paying attention to what, are lost in video conferencing. Most of these problems involve techniques from computer vision, graphics, and multimedia. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the researchers who are interested in this area to exchange their work and ideas. The topics include but not limited to: * Camera and microphone arrays for AV capturing of lectures and group meetings. * Calibration of camera arrays for meeting/lecture capturing * Gesture recognition * Facial expression recognition * Eye gaze correction * Speaker detection and tracking from video and audio * Automated lecture capturing * Automated lecture analysis and indexing * Automatic assessment of student behavior * Lecture presentation and browsing * Whiteboard capturing and analysis * Classroom note taking * Novel use of TabletPC and other small devices for teaching and learning * E-learning systems * Digital ink compression, classification, and recognition * Video and document data compression * Distance learning standards such as SCORM The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society (pending approval). The best papers will be published in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies. Because the ICCV paper decisions are made later than the submission deadline, we accept dual submissions from ICCV. The papers which are accepted by ICCV will be withdrawn from the workshop. At least one author per paper must register at a "non-student" rate before July 20, 2003. Otherwise the paper will not be included in the program. If all the authors on a paper are certified as students, then a student rate registration will be accepted. Paper submission: To submit a paper, please go to our online submission system. Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf (preferred) or postscript with no more than 8 pages including all figures, references and appendices using the ICCV 2003 submission format. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: May 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2003 Camera-ready due: July 20, 2003 Conference: 10/19/2003 - 10/20/2003 Workshop Co-Chairs Zicheng Liu Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Zhengyou Zhang Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Yong Rui Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Local Arrangement Chair Yang-Fan Fang Yi-Chang High Tech District, China Program Committee Gregory Abowd George Tech, USA Richard Anderson University of Washington, USA Sumit Basu Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA Herng-Yow Chen National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan Xilin Chen CMU, USA Michael Cohen Microsoft Research, USA Ross Cutler Microsoft Research, USA Michael Gleicher University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Ken Goldberg UC Berkeley, USA Jianjun Hou Beijing University, China Thomas S. Huang UIUC, USA Ting Chuen Pong HKUST, Hong Kong Kinshuk Massey University, New Zealand Igor V. Kozintsev Intel Research, USA JungHwan Oh UT Arlington, USA Daniela Raicu DePaul University, USA Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan Jie Yang CMU, USA Qinghua Zheng Xi'an Jiao-Tong University, China Yueting Zhuang Zhejiang University, China Contact: zliu(a)microsoft.com

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[Fwd: [tcgn] REVISED CFP: 8th International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] REVISED CFP: 8th International Web Content Caching and Distribution Workshop Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:03:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian D. Davison <brian(a)cse.lehigh.edu> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: Undisclosed recipients: ; NOTICE ------ ** Due to the SARS epidemic, and restrictions on travel to China, WCW8 ** has been relocated to the USA. It will be held at IBM Research, ** outside New York City. The dates of the conference have shifted by ** one day from the original announcement. ** We anticipate holding WCW in Beijing in 2004, depending on the ** abatement of these restrictions. ---- Apologies for when you undoubtedly receive multiple copies of this announcement.... REVISED CALL FOR PAPERS Global Perspective: 8th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA 29 September - 1 October, 2003 http://2003.iwcw.org/ Submission deadline: May 22, 2003 Extended deadline: May 29, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview -------- Since 1996, this workshop has served as the premiere forum for researchers and industry technologists to exchange research results and perspectives on future directions in Internet content caching and content delivery. The first four Web Caching Workshops (WCW) focused on Web cache software and caching networks for static Web content. The scope broadened to encompass content distribution and eventually all areas relating to the intersection of storage and networking for Internet content services, including such areas as storage for grid computing and peer-to-peer storage services. In other words, the name of the workshop has stayed relatively constant, but the topics included in it will, as always, cover the newest and most interesting areas relating to data as it moves about the Internet. This year we are especially interested in issues of massive scale: the impact of geography on caching and replication; the role of caching and data transfer in Internet-wide grid computing; global peer-to-peer file transfer and storage; and other topics consistent with the history of the workshop and the evolution of web caching and content delivery. Call for Papers --------------- The workshop solicits technical papers related to Internet content caching and replication, content delivery, and content services networking. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: + Caching and edge services for the wireless Web + Caching and replication for grid computing + Consistency management + Content placement and request routing + Edge services and dynamic content caching + Empirical studies of deployed content delivery systems + Geographical influences on caching and replication + In-stream content modification (e.g., transcoding, pluggable services) + Internet caching architecture and protocols + Memory and storage management for content caches + Overlay networks for content delivery + Peer-to-peer caching and content delivery + Peering and content services internetworking + Security and availability of Web service architectures + Streaming media caching + Web workload analysis and characterization + Wide-area upload and "content gathering" General Chair ------------- Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University Program Chair ------------- Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Program Committee ----------------- Martin Arlitt, University of Calgary Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin Chi Hung Chi, National University of Singapore Mike Dahlin, University of Texas at Austin Fred Douglis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California Li Gong, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Jaeyeon Jung, MIT LCS Dan Li, Cisco Systems, Inc. Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Weisong Shi, Wayne State University Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Labs -- Research Renu Tewari, IBM Almaden Research Center Amin Vahdat, Duke University Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego Zhen Xiao, AT&T Labs -- Research Steering Committee ------------------ Azer Bestavros, Boston University Pei Cao, Cisco Jeff Chase, Duke University Valentino Cavalli, Terena Peter Danzig, University of Southern California John Martin, Network Appliance Michael Rabinovich, AT&T Labs -- Research Wojtek Sylwestrzak, Warsaw University Duane Wessels, The Measurement Factory Guidelines ---------- Technical Papers and Synopses Technical papers describe previously unpublished research results or empirical evaluations of current systems. Synopses are summaries of interesting new problems or approaches, or of standards or development efforts in progress. Technical papers are limited to 5000 words; synopses are limited to 3000 words. The Program Committee will judge submitted papers on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. We encourage authors to submit any technically sound contributions of interest. Please do not submit product marketing material or material that is previously published or under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings distributed to participants and made available on the Web. We anticipate recommending selected papers for journal publication. Authors of accepted papers will present their work in 15-minute or 25-minute talks at the workshop, for synopses and technical papers respectively. Please submit technical papers and synopses in PDF format through the submission form on the conference Website. Proposals for Panels WCW panels bring together researchers from industry and academia. These panels are an important element of WCW. Please send panel proposals in plain text by e-mail to the Program Chair (douglis(a)acm.org). Important Dates --------------- 2003/05/22: Nominal deadline for submissions 2003/05/29: Extended deadline: submissions due at 1700 PDT 2003/07/24: Acceptance notification 2003/08/28: Camera-ready papers due Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/ Assistant Professor davison(at)cse.lehigh.edu Department of Computer Science & Engineering Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA

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Call For Participation: NOSSDAV 2003
by Frank Strauss 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

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CfP: Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS2003)
by Frank Strauss 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

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[Fwd: [CfP] [DL 06.06.] Fwd: CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Distributed Systems]
by Lars Wolf 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CfP] [DL 06.06.] Fwd: CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Distributed Systems Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:42:59 +0200 From: Frank Pählke <paehlke(a)tm.uka.de> Organization: Institut für Telematik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) To: CfP-Verteiler <call-for-papers(a)tm.uka.de> ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: CFP: Workshop on Adaptive Distributed Systems Date: Montag, 28. April 2003 11:29 From: "Luis E. T. Rodrigues" <ler(a)di.fc.ul.pt> To: CABERNET-EVENTS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Call for Papers WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS September 30, 2003 Sorrento, Italy http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~ler/wads-03/ In conjunction with: The 17th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2003) (http://www.dia.unisa.it/DISC2003/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE Distributed applications must be designed to cope with an increasingly diverse set of operational conditions. The available network bandwidth and latency, the network connectivity, the number of user, the system load, are, among others, examples of parameters that may change at run-time. "Adaptive distributed systems" are systems that can evolve their behavior based on changes in the environment to offer the best performance to their users. Adaptation can be considered at different levels: from abstractions to algorithms, from design patterns to implementations. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss the latest practices in designing and building adaptive systems. Contributions of interest will address topics of adaptive distributed systems related, but not limited to: * Abstractions * Design patterns * Programming languages * Middleware * Algorithms * Implementations * Case-studies LOCATION Sorrento, Italy. The workshop is held in conjunction with the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2003, http://www.dia.unisa.it/DISC2003/). PAPER SUBMISSION DETAILS Authors are invited to submit position papers no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be produced in postscript or pdf format and should be submited by email to Pascal Felber (pascal.felber(a)eurecom.fr) IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: June 6, 2003 Notification of acceptance: July 14, 2003 Workshop date: September 30, 2002 PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Luis Rodrigues, U. Lisboa, Portugal, (Workshop co-organizer) * Maria Gradinariu , IRISA, France * Pascal Felber, EURECOM, France, (Workshop co-organizer) * Rick Schlichting, AT&T, Labs-Research, USA * Robbert van Renesse, Cornell U., USA * Sukumar Ghosh, U. of Iowa, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno (chair) WEBPAGE http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~ler/wads-03/ CONTACT For further details, please send e-mail to Luis Rodrigues (ler(a)di.fc.ul.pt). ------------------------------------------------------- -- Frank Paehlke Institut fuer Telematik Phone: +49 721 608-6398 Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) Fax: +49 721 388097 D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany EMail: paehlke(a)tm.uka.de _______________________________________________ call-for-papers mailing list call-for-papers(a)tm.uka.de http://lists.ira.uka.de/mailman/listinfo/call-for-papers

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[Fwd: 5th IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 5th IEEE MWCN'2003 - Call for Papers Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:49:46 -0300 From: Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare <mirela(a)newsite.com.br> To: <mirela(a)ieee.org> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ****************************************** ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ******* ****************************************** IEEE MWCN'2003 The Fifth IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks Singapore in 27 - 29 October, 2003 http://www.icr.a-star.edu.sg/mwcn2003/ You are invited to submit original papers addressing topics in all areas of wireless communication systems and networks. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the technical subject categories listed below: Management - Resource and Information Management - Pricing and Billing Issues Architecture - Convergence of Fixed and Mobile - Hybrid Communications System Devices - Low-Power End-Devices and Wireless Communications Security - Security in Mobile and Wireless Networks QoS - Adaptive Quality of Service Provisioning - End-to-end Quality of Service Mobility Support - Handoff Algorithms - IP and Mobility - Mobility and Connection Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - Policy-based Mobility Management Applications - Personal Communications - Location and Context Management - Smart Media - Mobile Code - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications Access - Wireless IP - Wireless Multimedia Services - Wireless Local Loop (WLL) - Multiple Access Technology - Broadband Wireless Access Networking - Wireless Personal Area Networks - Wireless Local Area Networks - Mobility and Nomadic Computing - Analysis and Simulation of Mobile Network Protocols - Home Networking - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and the Internet - Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Routing - Satellite Networks The official language of the conference for submission of a paper and or an extended abstract and view graphs is English. This conference will identify the theoretical and actual problems that face designers of today's complex problems associated with mobile and wireless communications networks. The participants will show test results of experiments from building prototype systems, explore modeling and simulation tools as well as analytical methodologies and techniques for dealing with wireless systems. The objective of this event is to foster the exchange of information among researchers in this fast-moving field. The program will include presentations by distinguished researchers, speaking on recent advances in theory and practice. This conference also intends to bring together various mobile and wireless network systems developers to discuss the current status, technical challenges, standards, fundamental issues, and future services and applications in the form of workshops, business applications sessions and tutorials. It is also intended to provide a timely forum for exploratory research and practical contributions from North America, Europe, The Middle East, and the Far East. Guidelines for Submission Papers are invited on the conference theme and related topics. The original submission containing affiliation and full contact information of the authors should be addressed to the TPC chairs by the date indicated above based on the following instructions: Extended abstract should be in English, with no more than 1500 words and submitted to http://mwcn2003.lri.fr/REG-paper/ The paper should include an abstract of about 150 words, and must not exceed Accepted formats include Microsoft Word, PostScript and PDF. Authors must state that their paper have neither been published before nor currently being submitted elsewhere. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the lead author's postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail. The language of the conference is English and papers must be in this language. Accepted papers will have to expanded into full paper to be distributed on the conference proceedings and or CD-ROMS, and will also be made available in the IEEExplore. Dates to Remember Deadline for submitting an extended abstract : May 5, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2003 Papers received in camera ready form to MWCN 2003: July 1, 2003 Conference Date and place: 27-29 October, Singapore Organizing Committee Conference General Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Technical Program Chair Khaldoun Al-Agha Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Email: alagha(a)lri.fr Conference Technical Program Co-chairs and area Coordinators Asia-Pacific: Boon Sain Yeo Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email: boonyeo(a)ieee.org North and South Americas: Azzedine Boukerche University of North Texas, USA Email: boukerche(a)cs.unt.edu Middle-East and Far East: Khaled Elsayed Cairo University, Egypt Email: khaled(a)ieee.org Tutorial, Workshop, Panel Chair Dr. Guy Omidyar Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:gomidyar@icr.a-star.edu.sg Organizing Chair Ms Patricia Loh Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Email:patricia@i2r.a-star.edu.sg Finance Chair S Kunaselvam Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:kuna@icr.a-star.edu.sg Conference Secretariat Please contact mwcn(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Web Chair Gek Hiong Tan Institute for Communications Research, National University of Singapore Email:tangh@icr.a-star.edu.sg Steering Committee Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Guy Omidyar, ICR-NUS, Singapore (Chair) Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Boon Sain Yeo, ICR-NUS, Singapore Technical Scientific Program Committee Hossam Afifi, INT, France Khaldoun Al Agha, LRI, University of Paris XI, France Hamid Aghvami, Kings College of London, UK André-Luc Beylot, IRIT, France Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, US Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Olga Casals, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Colin Chandler, Qualcomm Europe, France Francois Chin, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Sajal K. Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA Khaled Elsayed, Cairo University, Egypt Markus Endler, IME/USP, Brazil Serge Fdida, Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6, France Afonso Ferreira, CNRS INRIA, France Adolf Finger, Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Martin Haardt, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK Jamshid Khun Jush, Ericsson, Germany Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden Parviz Kermani, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Witold Krzymien, University of Alberta, Canada Xavier Lagrange, ENST Bretagne, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong University, HK Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gerald Q. Maguire, Jr., KTH, Wireless Center, Sweden Jon W. Mark, University of Waterloo, Canada Geraldo Robson Mateus, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia, USA Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ayman Naguib, Qualcomm, USA Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Guy Omidyar, Institute for Communications Research, NUS, Singapore Elena Pagani, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Gregory P. Pollini, Telecordia, USA Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6, France Christopher Rose, Associate Director, Rutgers WinLab, USA Elisabeth Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara Djamel Sadok, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, Belgium Jan Slavik, Testcom, Czech Republic Kelvino S. Sousa, University of Toronto, Canada Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Sumei Sun, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore T.T. Tjhung, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Guillaume Vivier, Motorola Labs, France Branimir Vojcic, George Washington University, USA Ivan Vukovic, Motorola, USA Adam Wolisz, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Boon Sain Yeo, Institute for Communication Research, NUS, Singapore Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

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[Fwd: 6th ACM MSWiM'2003 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 6th ACM MSWiM'2003 - Call for Papers Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:49:57 -0300 From: Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare <mirela(a)newsite.com.br> To: <mirela(a)ieee.org> ============ Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ============ CALL FOR PAPERS 6th ACM MSWiM 2003 The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (Jointly with ACM MobiCom 2003, September 14-19) September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * RF channel capacity modeling and analysis * Design methodologies for wireless systems * Network support for QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Modeling and analysis of wireless Internet access * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and mobile computing (location-based queries, wireless data caching, mobile transactions) * Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques) * Pervasive computing and ad hoc networking * Wireless PANs, LANs * Sensor networks * Mobile agents support for wireless networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. For paper submission, please follow the submission instructions at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by by ACM CS-press. A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 5, 2003 Notification: July 15, 2003 Camera Ready due: TBD Organizing Committee General Chair Rassul Ayani Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Email: rassul(a)it.kth.se Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it Hossam Hassanein Department of Computing and Information Science Queen's University Email: Hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, SC Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br Program Committee Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. Registration Chair Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA Webmaster and System Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Maurizio Munafo', Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: munafo(a)polito.it

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue IEEE TRANSACTION ON NEURAL NETWORKS]
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue IEEE TRANSACTION ON NEURAL NETWORKS Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:58:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuanyi Ji <jic(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: jic(a)ece.gatech.edu Call for Papers IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS Special Issue on Adaptive Learning Systems in Communication Networks The recent years have seen an explosive growth in the progress and adoption of communication networks for data and telecommunication applications. In particular, the emergence of the Internet as a new medium for business transactions, government services, information acquisition, computing and communication has created a vast array of problems unforeseen just a few years ago. As the capabilities of the available networking infrastructure improve many foresee convergence of data, voice and video transport over what is currently known as the Internet or its derivatives. Communication networks and internetworks, and in particular the Internet, have been characterized as the ultimate data-rich environments, dynamically evolving and expanding practically without any centralized control. Such data-rich, unstructured environments present a particular challenge for traditional methods of analysis and design. Adaptive learning methods, in general, including adaptive signal processing, neural networks, fuzzy logic and other data-driven methods and algorithms are in the unique position to offer credible alternatives. Such approaches have the potential for solving and improving the available solutions for some of the toughest problems faced in this newly emerging set of interrelated information technologies. The goal of the proposed special issue is two-fold: " to highlight the on-going research in the field of adaptive learning systems, and in particular adaptive signal processing and neural networks, as it is applicable to computer and communication networks, and, " to present to the neural networks community and to others interested in adaptive learning systems, in general, a variety of new and challenging problems and their proposed solutions, originating from the rapidly expanding universe of computer and communication networks. As the use of these technologies spreads, numerous modeling, estimation, control, classification, clustering and signal processing problems are emerging. Many of these problems currently have no satisfactory solutions and some have been addressed with ad-hoc solutions with much room remaining for improvements. A common underlying theme of these problems is that they are " very data-rich, " represent a dynamically changing environment where the lack of valid mathematical models is predominant, and, " representative of systems with minimal or no centralized control. These problems appear amenable to data-driven methods and algorithms, such as adaptive learning methods, including neural networks and other non-parametric or semi-parametric approaches. This special issue will welcome contributions with proposed approaches to existing problems, either with currently known or unknown solutions, and to new problems in the subject areas of computer and communication networks. The focus of the proposed solutions will be on data-driven or the so-called measurement-based methods and algorithms, rooted in the general areas of adaptive learning methods. The Special Issue papers will cover topics of interest that include a broad range of underlying communication network infrastructure technologies. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to, the following topics: Network Management Topics " Methods and algorithms for network traffic analysis, modeling and characterization " Network performance measurement and analysis techniques " Network fault monitoring and diagnosis methods " Network security and privacy, including intrusion detection methods " Approaches and methods for Quality of Service in IP networks " Scalable routing algorithms " Decentralized congestion control algorithms " Novel admission control algorithms " Control algorithms for high-speed network access technologies " Application of "new approaches" in adaptive learning systems to data-intensive tasks in complex networks Content Management Topics " Approaches for scalable Web caching and related optimization methods " Novel solutions to operational problems in content delivery and distribution networks " Web data mining and knowledge discovery - scalability and comparison of methods " Web personalization methods " Information hiding techniques and digital rights management " Novel solutions to information access and retrieval for dynamic Web content " Efficient compression algorithms and coding for continuous digital media - multimedia content " Architectures for Quality of Service guarantees in real-time distributed applications " Uncertainty management in real-time distributed applications " Concepts in real-time distributed applications enabled by new communication network technologies Guest Editors: Alexander G. Parlos, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA (Coordinator) Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA K. Claffy, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, California, USA Thomas Parisini, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy Marco Baglietto, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy Manuscripts will be screened for topical relevance, and those that pass the screening process will undergo the standard review process of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (see the instructions for authors in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks). Paper submission deadline is November 1, 2003. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit an abstract by September 1, 2003. This will help in the planning and review process. The final Special Issue will be published in the Fall of 2004. Electronic manuscript submission is mandatory and only papers in pdf format will be considered for review. All manuscripts should be sent to the Coordinator of the guest editorial team at a-parlos(a)tamu.edu. Researchers interested in reviewing manuscripts for the Special Issue should contact the Guest Editors via e-mail and provide a brief description of expertise. -- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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