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Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
by Frank Strauss 02 May '03

02 May '03

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[Fwd: [tcgn] INFOCOM 2004 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '03

01 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] INFOCOM 2004 Call for Papers Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:00:16 -0400 From: Thomas Hou <thou(a)vt.edu> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: INFOCOM2004(a)LISTSERV.VT.EDU Call For Papers - Infocom 2004 -------------------------------------------- IEEE INFOCOM 2004 The Conference on Computer Communications March 7 - 11, 2004, Hong Kong The Twenty-third Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004 Topics of Interest: -------------------------- Original papers are invited on recent advances in computer communications and networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ad hoc & sensor networks - Performance evaluation - Addressing & location management - Power control - Capacity planning - Pricing & billing - Cellular networks - Quality of service - Congestion control - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Routing - Multicast - Scheduling & buffer management - Multimedia protocols - Security & privacy - Network applications & services - Service overlay networks - Network architectures - Switches and switching - Network control by pricing - Topology inference - Network design & planning - Traffic analysis & control - Network management - Traffic engineering - Optical networks - Web performance - Peer-to-peer communications - Wireless LANs Executive Committee ------------------------------- General Chair: Victor O.K. Li, The University of Hong Kong Technical Program Co-Chairs: Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology International Vice Chairs: Jin-Fu Chang, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst Lemin Li , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Hiromi Okada , Kansai University, Japan Harry Rudin , IBM Research, Switzerland Izhak Rubin, UCLA Tutorial Co-Chairs: Wanjiun Liao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Panel Co-Chairs: Kin Leung, Lucent Bell Labs Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Columbia University. Keynote Speaker Chair: David Lee, Lucent Bell Labs, USA. Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Paul Kwok, Open University of Hong Kong Jian-Liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University Finance Co-Chairs: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Comm Society Lawrence Yeung, The University of Hong Kong Publicity Co-Chairs: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University Y. Thomas Hou , Virginia Tech Publication Co-Chairs: Steven Low, Caltech, USA. Zhengzhen Zhang, Waterridge Networks Internet Chair: Hui Zhang, Turin Networks Information Systems Co-Chairs: Jack Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jiangchuan Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Corporate Patrons Chair: Hailson Yu, Versitech Ltd., Hong Kong Standing Committee Officers: Harvey A. Freeman, HeatSeekers Technology Partners Mark Karol, Avaya, Inc. Kazem Sohraby, Lucent Technolgies Important Dates: ------------------------ Full paper due: July 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2003 Final version due: December 19, 2003 For information on paper submission instructions, please check http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2004

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[Fwd: [netgame-l] NetGames 2003: CFParticipation]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '03

01 May '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [netgame-l] NetGames 2003: CFParticipation Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 06:09:16 -0400 From: Sugih Jamin <jamin(a)eecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: jamin(a)eecs.umich.edu To: netgame-l(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de, game-culture(a)yahoogroups.com, digiplay(a)topica.com, mud-dev(a)kanga.nu Call For Participation NetGames 2003 http://confman.eecs.umich.edu/netgames2003/ May 22-23, 2003 at Electronic Arts Headquarters, Redwood City, California Advance Program: Thursday, May 22nd ================== Breakfast 8:30-9:00 Session 1: 9:00-10:00 ===================== Welcoming Remarks The Effect of Latency on User Performance in Warcraft III Nathan Sheldon, Eric Girard, Seth Borg, Mark Claypool, Emmanuel Agu Worcester Polytechnic Institute *Counter-Strike Traffic Analysis in WAN Networks Arthur de Castro Callado, Suzana de F. Dantas, Veronica Teichrieb, Rodrigo S.B.G. Barbosa, Paulo G. Barros, Judith Kelner, Djamel F. Sadok Universidade Federal de Pernambuco *Modeling Player Session Times of On-line Games Francis Chang, Wu-chang Feng OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU Coffee break 10:00-10:30 Session 2: 10:30-12:00 ====================== A Fair Message Exchange Framework for Distributed Multi-Player Games Katherine Guo, Sarit Mukherjee, Sampath Rangarajan, Sanjoy Paul Lucent Bell Laboratories Causality and Media Synchronization Control for Networked Multimedia Games: Centralized versus Distributed Yutaka Ishibashi, Shuji Tasaka Nagoya Institute of Technology Bandwidth Requirement and Consistency Resolution Latency in Multiplayer Games Joseph D. Pellegrino, Constantinos Dovrolis University of Delaware, Georgia Institute of Technology Lunch 12:00-1:30 Session 6: 1:30-2:30 ==================== *Access Network Delay in Networked Games T.Coppens, E. Deckers, D. De Vleeschauwer, W. Naudts, R. Smets, K. Spruyt, B. Van Doorselaer Alcatel Bell *A Zone-based Gaming Architecture for Ad-Hoc Networks Sebastian Matas Riera, Oliver Wellnitz, Lars Wolf Technical University of Braunschweig Mobility and Stability Evaluation in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks Using Multiplayer Games Frank F. H. Fitzek, L. Badia, P. Seeling, J. G. Schulte, T.Henderson Universita di Ferrara, acticom GmbH, University College London Coffee Break 2:30-3:00 Discussion Panel: 3:00-4:00 =========================== Multiplayer Games: What is the Research Agenda? Sugih Jamin, Wu-chang Feng, Troels Degn Johansson, Tristan Henderson Session 3: 4:00 - 5:00 ====================== *Six in the City: Introducing Real Tournament: A Mobile IPv6 Based Context-Aware Multiplayer Game Keith Mitchell, Duncan McCaffery, George Metaxas, Joe Finney Univesity of Lancaster *Experiences Using a Dual Wireless Technology Infrastructure to Support Ad-hoc Multiplayer Games Hartmut Ritter, Thiemo Voigt, Min Tian, Jochen Schiller Freie Universitaet Berlin Human Pacman: A Sensing-based Mobile Entertainment System with Ubiquitous Computing and Tangible interaction Adrian David Cheok, Siew Wan Fong, Kok Hwee Goh, Xubo Yang, Wei Liu, Farzam Farzbiz National University of Singapore Demos: 5:00-6:30 ================ Social Event: 6:30-done ======================= Friday, May 23rd ================ Breakfast 8:30 - 9:00 Keynote: 9:00 - 9:30 ==================== On Virtual Economies California State University - Fullerton Session 4: 9:30-10:30 ===================== *A Multi-User Framework Supporting Video-Based Avatars Peter Quax, Tom Jehaes, Pieter Jorissen, Wim Lamotte Expertise Centre for Digital Media / Limburgs Universitair Centrum Priority-Based Distribution Trees for Application-Level Multicast Juergen Vogel, Joerg Widmer, Dirk Farin, Martin Mauve, Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Spatial Principles of Level-Design in Multi-Player First-Person Shooters Christian Guettler, Troels Degn Johansson IT University of Copenhagen Coffee break 10:30-11:00 Session 5: 11:00am-12:00 ======================== *On the Geographic Distribution of On-line Game Servers and Players Wu-chang Feng, Wu-chi Feng OGI School of Science and Engineering at OHSU *A Service Platform for On-Line Games Debanjan Saha, Sambit Sahu, Anees Shaikh IBM TJ Watson Research Center What Do Online Gamers Really Think of the Internet? Manuel Oliveira, Tristan Henderson University College London Closing Remarks (* - Denotes Paper is Work-in-Progress Report) --------------------------------------------------------------- This list is maintained automatically by the majordomo mailing list tool. If you wish to be dropped from the list send mail to netgame-l-request(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. ----------------------------------------------------------------

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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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