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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'12)
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

DCOSS ORG <dcoss2012(a)gmail.com> schrieb: *CFP: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'12)* http://www.dcoss.org/ May 18 – 20, 2012, Hangzhou, China. IMPORTANT DATES: All Submissions: January 20, 2012 (11:59 PM EST) Notification: March 16, 2012 Camera Ready: April 2, 2012 (11:59 PM EST) Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments. The focus of this conference is on distributed computing issues in largescale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, systematic design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Machine-to-Machine • Sensors in Smart Grid Systems • Green Networks and Systems • Computation and programming models • Energy models, minimization, awareness • Distributed collaborative information processing • Detection and tracking • Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability • Abstractions for modular design • Fault tolerance and security • Languages, operating systems • Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration • Dynamic resource management • Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) • Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives • Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation • Design automation and application synthesis techniques • Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation • Case studies: lessons from real world deployments • Network coding and compression General Co-Chairs: Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA Zhi Wang, Zhejiang University, China Technical Program Chair: Michael Rabbat, McGill University, Canada Program Vice Chairs: Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Publicity Co-Chairs: Rob Miller, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA Yabo Dong, Zhejiang University, China _____________________________________________ *Special Notice Re IEEE-IPDPS 2012 Right after DCOSS 2012 in Hangzhou, the 26th IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012) will be held in Shanghai from May 21-25. IPDPS is also sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. For details, see http://www.ipdps.org/. _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN)
by Lars Wolf 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - IEEE ICC 2012 Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN) Datum: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:49:18 +0000 Von: nauman aslam <nauman.aslam(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org, irma-list(a)irma-international.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE ICC Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks (WiSAAN) June 10 -15, 2012, Ottawa, ON, Canada http://sites.google.com/site/wisaan12/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------- Call for Papers --------------- In recent years wireless sensor networks have witnessed a paradigm shift from traditional homogeneous to heterogeneous deployments containing a mix of resource constrained sensor nodes and powerful nodes known as actors. The capabilities of actor nodes include enhanced processing ability, powerful wireless transmission, large battery and mobility. Actor nodes can leverage their capabilities to facilitate better coverage, connectivity and energy efficient operation. Such capabilities offer unprecedented opportunities to serve a diverse range of applications. For instance, actors with mobility can be used to mend a partitioned network, set up new routes, facilitate energy efficient data collection and improve sensor coverage. Similarly, the some sensor nodes may also be equipped with actuation capability called actuators that perform actions to change the behaviour of environment or the physical system. Embedding actuation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) opens a realm of opportunities for Wireless Sensor Actuator Network (WSAN) industrial applications requiring monitoring and control. While significant research progress have been made in networking and communication aspects of WSNs, new design paradigms are required for wireless sensor actor and actuator networks (WiSAANs). In particular new ideas are required to address the challenges resulting from introducing actors and actuators in the network. This workshop aims to bring the state- of-art research contributions in theory, design and implementation of communication protocols for WiSAANs. Another key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to present their work and share their views. We expect the workshop to act as a leading forum for the WSN research community to discuss their ideas on addressing the most current challenges, potential solutions and future developments of WiSAANs. We encourage contributions describing original work in the realm of data collection, architecture, algorithms, communication protocols and implementations of WSANs. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Architectural models for WiSAANs - Algorithms and communication protocols for WiSAANs - Service model for WiSAANs - Sensor-actor and sensor-actuator co-ordination - QoS models for WiSAANs - Energy efficient protocols for WiSAANs - Integration of real-time protocols with WiSAAN - Time modeling and synchronization in WiSAANs - WiSAAN current and future applications and implementations - Data processing and management in WiSAANs - Medium access protocols for WiSAANs - Routing Protocols for WiSAANs - Data gathering and data fusion models for improving real-time performance in WiSAANs ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Submission deadline: 30 November, 2011 Authors Notification: 30 January 2011 Final Manuscript: 15 February 2012 Workshop Date: TBA later between June 10 - 15 2012 -------------- General Chairs -------------- Prof. Ivan Stojmenović, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada Prof. Zabih Ghassemlooy, CEIS, Northumbria University, UK ------------------- Workshop Organizers ------------------- Dr. Ramiro Liscano, UoIT, Canada, Dr. Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments
by Lars Wolf 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments Datum: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:56:45 -0400 Von: Marc St-Hilaire <marc.st-hilaire(a)polymtl.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd Workshop on Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments in conjunction with IWCMC 2012 August 27, 2012, Cyprus http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/iwcmc2012/TestbedWorkshop.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== This workshop, held in conjunction with the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (http://iwcmc.org/), August 27-31, 2012 in Cyprus intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental multihop wireless networking such as MANETs, WSN, VANETs, Wireless Mesh Networks, etc. While many conferences and workshops provide a venue to present and discuss protocols or system architectures in this space, most research work is typically done based on analytical models and/or extensive simulations. The focus of this workshop is to serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of multihop wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. The workshop values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations, but papers explicitly comparing tested results and simulation results are highly solicited. Submitted papers should be original and previously unpublished. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: • Design & evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms • Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies • Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments • Wireless testbed case studies • Industrial application and integrated innovation • The use of multihop wireless testbeds in teaching and research • Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures, testbed federations • Testbed management issues and monitoring support • Configurable hardware/software platforms for testbeds • Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols • Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing • Integrated tools/toolkits to ease transition between simulation and deployment • New measurement methodologies and infrastructures • Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of multihop wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics • Innovative measurements methodologies & tools • Testbed tools for interoperability, benchmarking and traffic measurements Workshop Co-Chairs: =================== Thomas Kunz, Carleton University Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University Submission Guidelines: ====================== Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 6 pages including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. Electronic submission is accepted through the EDAS. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers—up to 6 pages of length, using the EDAS link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11197 for possible publication in the IWCMC 2012 Conference Proceedings, which will be included in IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in special issues in the following Journals: 1. Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76507157/home 2. The International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet 3. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS) www.inderscience.com/ijaacs 4. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems www.itiis.org 5. Peer-to-Peer Networking & Applications http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/12083 There will also be best paper awards, one best symposium award, and one best Workshop award. Important Dates: ================ Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2011 Paper acceptance notification: March 25, 2012 Camera-ready paper submissions: April 30, 2012 Author registration deadline: April 30, 2012 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: MMSJ special issue on Network and Systems Support for Games
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)SIMULA.NO> schrieb: Call for Papers: Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ) Special Issue on Network and Systems Support for Games URL: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~shervin/netgamessi/ Computer games, now a very profitable economic sector and subject to both academic and industry research, continue to grow in popularity at a substantial rate. Multiplayer networked games, which enable hundreds of thousands of players to simultaneously interact with each other, are now widely used not just for entertainments, but also for socializing, business, commerce, scientific experimentation, and many other practical purposes. The NPD Group reports that 59% of total US population (ages 2 years old and higher) play games, with 56% of them doing so online, leading to almost one third of the population playing online games, while DFC Intelligence forecasts the total number of gamers in the twenty leading online game countries to increase 51% by 2011 compared to 2006. The statistics for mobile gaming are equally impressive: it is estimated that 78.6 million people in the U.S. alone played mobile games in 2009, and downloads of mobile games increased tenfold compared to 2003. Literally millions of people spend their time and money in game worlds such as World of Warcraft, which now hosts more than 12 million subscribers with a peak of 500,000 players online at a given time, or Entropia Universe, which holds the number 1 and number 2 record for the most expensive “virtual” real estate sold for real money, each over US$300,000 per virtual property. As these online games become more popular and significant contributors to Internet traffic, research needs to be devoted to manage and support the emerging massiveness, its traffic on the network, and the users’ quality of experience. In this special issue, we focus on multiplayer games and cover scientific, engineering, and research topics in systems and networking support to enable such games. Submissions are solicited on all aspects of networked games, including (but not limited to): - Scalability, cloud support, client-server, and P2P system architectures - Efficient message distribution and network protocol design - Latency issues and lag compensation techniques - Network traffic modeling, measurement, and impact on network infrastructure - System benchmarking, performance evaluation, and provisioning - Operating system enhancements, service platforms, and middleware - Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) - Multiplayer usability and user behavior studies - Personal communications and conferencing in games - Mobile games, resource-constrained systems, and context-based adaptation - Networks of sensors, actuators, and haptics for games - Quality of service, quality of experience, and content adaptation - Dynamic and user-generated content authoring and management - Content creation: non-linear storytelling, object capturing, algorithmic creation - Security, authentication, accounting, and digital rights management - Cheat detection and prevention - Social networking in multiplayer games ---- Submission Instructions ---- Authors must follow the formatting and submission instructions of MMSJ at http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journ… and follow the "Submit Online" link on that page. Please make sure you mention in your cover letter that you are submitting to this special issue. If the submission is an extended version of a previously published workshop or conference paper, this should also be explicitly mentioned in the cover letter, the published paper must be cited in the submitted journal paper, and the submitted journal paper must technically extend the conference version, by 30% according to MMSJ rules; i.e., the technical contribution in the journal version must be extended beyond what was presented in the conference version. ---- Important Dates ---- Submission deadline: November 15, 2011 First round notification: January 15, 2012 ---- Guest editors ---- Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Grenville Armitage, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ############################ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list: write to: mailto:MM-INTEREST-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: [Tccc] cfp: ReSyS 2012; Deadline: 01.12.2012
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] cfp: ReSyS 2012; Deadline: 01.12.2012 Datum: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:48:00 +0900 Von: Stephan Sigg <sigg(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Antwort an: sigg(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First Workshop on Resilient Cyber-physical SystemS (ReSyS) - Social Infrastructures, ICT and Mobility - (http://www.nii.ac.jp/jeisec/ReSyS/) in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) (http://www.arcs2012.tum.de/) in Munich, Germany, February 28th - March 2nd, 2012 ================================================================== Scope Cyber-physical systems support domains of social infrastructures in monitoring and controlling their physical environment. Context data of a physical environment is being collected by sensors, digitally processed as well as stored, and as a result processes and flows of this physical environment are controlled. However, social infrastructures are threatened by crime, terrorism, and natural disasters.A lesson learned from latest dramatically unwanted interference - Great East Japan Earthquake and its consequences - is that Cyber-physical systems cannot be protected against failures. There is always the possibility of an unexpected interference that breaks the assumptions of current risk management guidelines and standards. Resilience aims at an equilibrium of a system in case of interferences. It is not only understood in terms of resistance against threats and attacks (prevent and protect) but also in terms of the ability to mitigate them (respond). The affected system should still deliver trusted services in an hostile environment. A resilient Cyber-physical system consists of numerous components, such as sensors, working with each other in a decentralised way such that when some components fail, the system as a whole dynamically uses equivalent ones and runs the expected service continuously while at the same time fulfilling security requirements at an acceptable degree. Objective The workshop focuses on identifying open research questions and discussing mechanisms to establish this property. Additionally to accepted articles and their presentations, we plan to offer a combined demo, poster and video session to foster hands-on experience, discussion and collaboration among participants. Each full paper session focuses on papers with solid research results. Topics The topics of the workshop are but not limited to [Context-based Security Mechanisms] - Context-based mobile wireless authentication - Context-based device pairing - Securing context-aware applications - Sensor-, context-, and location-based authentication - Spontaneous secure context-based device interactions - Cyber-physical security [Autonomic and Dependable Computing] - Methods and Techniques for Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, Self-Protecting - Distributed Systems and Agents - Flexible and Secure Orchestration of ICT Services - Trustworthy Organic Computing [Privacy in Cyber-physical Systems] - Establishing and managing trust in cyber physical systems - Anonymous/pseudonymous context aware mobile computation - Legal and social issues of security and privacy for mobile devices - Perception of security and privacy in mobile computing [Resilient Cryptography] - Entropy of context based keys - Fuzzy cryptography - Security with noisy data We are seeking unpublished and original submissions in PDF format. Submission should follow the ARCS workshop template and not exceed 6 pages. The review process is double blind and authors are asked to remove any indication to their identity from their submission. Important dates Paper submission deadline: December 01, 2011 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2011 Final paper submission: January 03, 2012 Workshop: February 28, 2012 Workshop chairs Stephan Sigg, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Sven Wohlgemuth, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan Program Committee - Matthias Budde, KIT, Germany - Alexander de Luca, Universität München, Germany - Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Yusheng Ji, NII, Japan - Sjouke Mauw, Universite du Luxemburg, Luxembourg - Günter Müller, Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany - Kazuhiro Minami, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg, Germany - Stefan Sackmann, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany - Sebastian Schildt, TU Braunschweig, Germany - Noboru Sonehara, National Institute of Informatics, Japan - Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Jin Wook Byun, Pyecngtaek University, Korea - Mi Zhang, University of Southern California, US - Rui Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] Mobility Modeling and Performance Evaluation (MoMoPE) 2012, Palermo, Italy: "Distributed IP Mobility Management"
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Mobility Modeling and Performance Evaluation (MoMoPE) 2012, Palermo, Italy: "Distributed IP Mobility Management" Datum: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:32:03 +0100 Von: Jong-Hyouk Lee <jonghyouk(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu === Mobility Modeling and Performance Evaluation (MoMoPE) 2012, Palermo, Italy: "Distributed IP Mobility Management" === === Submission Deadline: 30 December 2011 === About MoMoPE: https://sites.google.com/site/momopeconf/home The Third International Workshop on Mobility Modeling and Performance Evaluation (MoMoPE) 2012 will be a one-day workshop held in International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS) 2012, July 4-6th, 2012, Sanpaolo Palace Hotel, Palermo, Italy. == Call For Papers == The demand for mobility modeling and performance evaluation has been dramatically increasing in the areas of vehicular, autonomous, and cognitive communications. Especially, mobile protocols and mobility service used in such areas have posed various challenges to the academic and industry. These challenges require effective mobility modeling methods to obtain precise performance evaluation results that allow to design new mobile protocols, mobility service, and robust solutions. Research results in mathematical, simulation, and experience on mobility modeling and performance evaluation studies are welcome. The purpose of MoMoPE is to bring together the academic and industry working on different aspects related to mobile computing in efforts to highlight the state-of-art research on mobility modeling and performance, exchange ideas, and explore new research directions. Mobility modeling and performance evaluation studies in the following topics are welcome: * Performance modeling of sensor mobility in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of human mobility in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of vehicular mobility in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of mobility protocols used in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of location management and handover used in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of bandwidth allocation and resource scheduler used in wireless/mobile networks * Performance modeling of security protocol and access control management used in wireless/mobile networks Especially, MoMoPE 2012 is seeking research papers related to "Distributed IP Mobility Management". The recent research direction for IP mobility, "Distributed IP Mobility Management", not only considers mobility support, but also considers scalability, resource distribution, traffic distribution, and dynamic mobility support. Early work is being studied at mobility related working groups at the IETF. Mobility modeling and performance evaluation studies for "Distributed IP Mobility Management" are welcome, but new protocol and architecture design for "Distributed IP Mobility Management" is highly welcome. == Important Dates == * Submission Deadline: December 30, 2011 * Author Notification: February 15, 2012 * Camera Ready Submission Due: March 25, 2012 * Author Registration Due: March 15, 2012 * Workshop Date: One day between July 4-6, 2012 == Submission Information == Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers electronically through http://edas.info/N11565. The maximum page length is not more than six (6) IEEE Computer Society style pages including results, figures and references (double-column). Details of paper templates and author guidelines can be located at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission or at the file section of the workshop website. In the submission procedure, authors should indicate the paper's topic: a) Bandwidth allocation and resource scheduler modeling and performance b) Distributed IP mobility management c) Location management and handover modeling and performance d) Security protocol and access control management modeling and performance e) Sensor, human, vehicular mobility modeling and performance Accepted and presented papers at the workshop will be included in IEEE Digital Library. Selected papers from MoMoPE 2012 are recommended to be publised in an international journal. == Workshop Steering Chairs == * Victor C.M. Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada) * Han-Chieh Chao (National Ilan University, Taiwan) * Yi-Bing Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) * Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Korea) == Workshop Chair == * Jong-Hyouk Lee (INRIA, France): jong-hyouk.lee (at) inria (dot) fr == Workshop Program Chair == * Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea): shpack (at) korea (dot) ac (dot) kr == Workshop Program Committee == * Alexandru Petrescu (CEA, France) * Alexey Vinel (Saint-Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation, RUSSIA) * Behcet Sarikaya (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, USA) * Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) * Der-Chen Huang (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan) * Der-Jiunn Deng (National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan) * Hae-Duck Joshua Jeong (Korean Bible University, Korea) * Hamid Menouar (QUWIC, Qatar) * Jose Santa Lozano (Universidad de Murcia, Spain) * Naveen Chilamkurti (La Trobe University, Australia) * Neeraj Kumar (SMVD University, India) * Rung-Shiang Cheng (Kun Shan University, Taiwan) * Sri Gundavelli (Cisco, USA) * Tin-Yu Wu (Tamkang University, Taiwan) * Ved P. Kafle (NICT, Japan) * Weicheng Lin (National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan) * Youn-Hee Han (Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea) More information can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/momopeconf/home -- IMARA Team, INRIA, France. Jong-Hyouk Lee. #email: jonghyouk (at) gmail (dot) com || jong-hyouk.lee (at) inria (dot) fr #webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/hurryon/ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" - Elsevier FGCS (Deadline Extended, November 13)
by Mario Fanelli 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality because of the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). At the current stage, after the initial hype of enthusiasm, several ongoing research efforts are deeply focusing on the open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditabi- lity, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to enable and boost a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite several recent provisioning of Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions can withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services de/activation and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources. The mission of this Special Issue is to put on the foreground all the above issues and to disseminate the latest research result in this emergent research area, by providing a fresh snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in management of Cloud systems. Along that direction, this special issue will collect a mix of extended and updated versions of papers recently presented at the international Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), and of other papers submitted from this open call. In particular, all the authors of papers accepted for inclusion in the MoCS11 proceedings are invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers; in addition, we are asking for high-quality papers (from open call) reporting original research results. Contributions should present practical experiences of system design/pro- totyping/deployment related to topics that include, but are not limited to: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centers (intra-/inter-domain); * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies; * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings. Submission process: Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal Web site at: http://www.elsevier.com/ wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a similar version of the paper has been published in a conference, including MoCS11, the submitted version should contain significant additions/enhancements; in that case, authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Potential authors are encouraged to submit original and unpublished work through the submission system at the journal website: http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. Please choose the Article Type SS: Cloud Systems Corradi/Rana. If you encounter any problems in the use of the online system, please do not hesitate to contact authorsupport(a)elsevier.com. Important Dates (to be confirmed): * Paper submission deadline: November 13, 2011 (extended, hard deadline) * First revision notification to authors: December 15, 2011 * Revision submission: January 15, 2012 * Second revision notification to authors: February 15, 2012 * Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted manuscripts: March 15, 2012 * Special issue publication schedule (tentative): 3rd Quarter 2012 Guest Editors of the Special Issue: * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy, antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it * Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue, please contact one of the Guest Editors. _________________________________________ Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073. E-mail: mario.fanelli(a)unibo.it or mario.fanelli(a)gmail.com Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/ _________________________________________

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Fwd: [Tccc] BSN 2012: First Call for Papers and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
by Lars Wolf 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

John Lach <jlach(a)virginia.edu> schrieb: ***BSN 2012*** First Call for Papers and Workshop/Tutorial Proposals May 10-12, 2012 London, UK http://www.bsn2012.org/ Body Sensor Network (BSN) technology has gained significant interest in recent years from researchers both in academia and industry. With the development of innovative wearable/wireless/implantable biosensors, the applications for BSNs extend from in-vivo monitoring and intervention for healthcare, to fitness, life-style monitoring, sport and security. The 9th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2012) will address the fast-growing BSN research and offer participants a unique forum to discuss the key issues and innovative solutions in current BSN research and its future applications. The conference features a number of invited lectures by leading academic researchers and industrial experts. It will also include showcases and demonstrations of the latest BSN developments. Topics to be addressed by BSN 2012 include, but are not limited to: -Novel bioelectrical, biochemical, biophysical, and mechanical sensors; -Hardware considerations for BSNs; -Biocompatibility and materials; -Context awareness and multi-sensor data fusion for BSNs; -Quality of service and security issues; -Links from the body to environment sensing, smart dwellings, and home monitoring; -Wearable and implantable (or swallowable, etc.) sensor integration and development platforms; -Wearable biomotion sensors to monitor human activity for diagnosis, therapy, training, sports, etc.; -Value of BSNs to healthcare – hospital and community contexts; -Applications of BSNs; -Machine learning and pattern recognition/mining of large continuous BSN data sets. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: Nov 30, 2011 Workshop/Tutorial Proposal Decision Notification: Dec 15, 2011 Paper Abstracts Due: Jan 6, 2012 Full Papers Due: Jan 13, 2012 Paper Decision Notification: March 15, 2012 Early Registration Deadline: April 1, 2012 Conference: May 10-12, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION Papers can be at most 6 pages in length and must follow the style guide of IEEE Computer Society Press. Paper templates and other author information can be found on the conference website. WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Proposals can be at most 2 pages in length and must be emailed as a PDF to the BSN 2012 Workshop/Tutorial Chairs: Dr. Benny Lo (benny.lo(a)imperial.ac.uk) and Dr. Carmen Poon (cpoon(a)ee.cuhk.edu.hk). Organisers are encouraged to ensure their proposal is as coherent and concise as possible. Additional details can be found on the conference website. Please include the following in your proposal: -It will be a workshop or a tutorial -Title of the workshop/tutorial -Organisers, presenters, and their affiliations (with emails and home pages) -Abstract of the workshop/tutorial -A list of topics to be covered -Proposed length (1/2 day, full day, etc.) -Tentative programme and format of the workshop/tutorial -If the workshop/tutorial was previously held, please indicate the previous venue, date, and the number of attendees at the last event -Expected number of participants -Budget of the workshop/tutorial (i.e., any additional cost, funding/sponsorship acquired, or proposed registration fee) _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Elsevier Computer Communications Journal - Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Elsevier Computer Communications Journal - Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks Datum: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:03:19 +0300 Von: Charalampos Konstantopoulos <konstant(a)unipi.gr> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks Scope A common assumption in Wireless Sensor Networks is that they comprise resource-constrained static nodes which sense their environment and then send their measurements to a central base station through mutihop routing. Soon, it was realized that this network organization leads to rapid energy exhaustion of sensors around the base station since these nodes should relay all the traffic destined for the base station. In addition, the passive nature of static sensors which can only sense and are unable to move is not always helpful in target-tracking scenarios or in cases where real-time action is necessary for handling emergency situations. Apparently, a reactive (dynamic) behavior from these networks would be effective for dealing with a number of changing operational conditions (e.g. node failures, energy exhaustion in some nodes) or with real-time events. This Special Issue will focus on all forms of reactive behavior that can be incorporated in the functionality of a Wireless Sensor Network and will also identify new possibilities, opportunities and challenges deriving from this new paradigm. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: -Sink mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks -Wireless Sensor Actuator Networks -Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile sensors -Re-tasking in Wireless Sensor Networks -Mobile agent based solutions in Wireless Sensor Networks -Node redeployment techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks for improved connectivity and/or coverage -Re-clustering techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks -Dynamic MAC and routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks for increased network lifetime -Reactive methods in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks -Reactive methods for target tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks -Dynamic techniques for data aggregation/fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks - Security, trust and privacy in Reactive Sensor Networks Tentative Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: November 30, 2011 First Notification: March 10, 2012 Submission of revised paper: April 20, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2012 Guest Editors Dr. Charalampos Konstantopoulos Department of Informatics University of Piraeus, Greece (konstant(a)unipi.gr) Prof. Paolo Bellavista Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica Universita di Bologna, Italy (paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it) Prof. Damla Turgut Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida, USA (turgut(a)cs.ucf.edu) Prof. Chi-Fu Huang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (cfhuang(a)cs.ccu.edu.tw) Instructions for submission: The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom.To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "Special Issue: Reactive WSN" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WPNC 2012 (Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication)
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WPNC 2012 (Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication) Datum: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:16:53 +0200 Von: Henk Wymeersch <henkw(a)chalmers.se> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers 9th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2012 (WPNC’12) http://www.wpnc.net/ March 15-16, 2012 Dresden, Germany Scope -------- Localization is touching every aspect of our everyday life. Advanced location aware services are enabled by ranging and positioning techniques attracting great attention from scientists and industry alike. Recent advances in heterogeneous sensor fusion, p2p-networks, context awareness, privacy and security are enabling new system solutions and bring in new challenges to be solved at the same time. WPNC, the premier event on Positioning and Navigation in Europe, continues to provide an international platform for exchanging latest research results and inputs from the industry. Be part of the positioning revolution and submit your original contribution to WPNC 2012. Awards ---------- Best WPNC2012 Paper - Best WPNC2012 Student Paper - Best WPNC2012 Demo Topics ---------- Authors are invited to submit papers presenting scientific work, practical implementations or application scenarios addressing, but not limited to the following topics: *Context awareness in localization *Semantic localization *Simultaneous localization and mapping *Location and behavior modeling *Localization in sensor networks *Cognitive position *Ranging/Positioning techniques *RFID based approaches *Inertial Data fusion techniques *Active & passive object tracking *Underwater localization *Ultra-sound ranging *Propagation issues & antennas *UWB ranging / UWB imaging *Cooperative localization *Navigation *Pedestrian/special forces navigation *Vehicle and robot navigation *Asset tracking *Industrial process automation *Localization related R&D projects *Localization for the Internet of Things *Positioning techniques *UWB ranging techniques *Location-aided communications *Location aided Communication and Applications *Localization in robotics and automotive *Local/Global application scenarios *Integrated positioning & communication *Health, public transport, M2M, Smart Grid *Robust and Secure Positioning *Privacy in localization *Location based security *Secure ranging and localization *Fundamental limits of secure positioning *Anti-jamming techniques *Outlier/NLOS robustness *Energy efficient localization *Complexity reduction *Energy-accuracy trade-off *Traffic reduction *Energy harvesting for localization Submission Guidelines -------------------------------- Full Papers (max. 6 pages) or Extended Abstracts (2-5 pages) may be submitted electronically in PDF-format in English language to http://wpnc12.trackchair.com until 16th of December 2011. The workshop proceedings will be published electronically on data storage device and online in the IEEE Xplore database. Technical Exhibitions and Demonstrations ---------------------------------------------------------- Technical exhibitions and demonstrations addressing the workshop’s scope are welcome. For further details, please contact info(a)wpnc.net or call/SMS directly +49 163 1493489. Important Dates ---------------------- Submission of Full Papers/Extended Abstracts: December 16th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2012 Submission of Camera Ready Manuscripts until: February 26th, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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