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[Fwd: [Tccc] INFOCOM 2010 Call for Papers-- 1 month to submission]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jun '09

26 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] INFOCOM 2010 Call for Papers-- 1 month to submission Datum: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:17:56 -0400 Von: Wendi Heinzelman <wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ***************************** **** IEEE INFOCOM 2010 **** **** **** **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** ***************************** The 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE Communications Society March 15 - 19, 2010 San Diego, California USA http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2010 The IEEE INFOCOM 2010 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, performance, and simulation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Ad hoc mobile networks * Addressing & location management * Broadband access technologies * Capacity planning * Cellular & broadband wireless nets * Cognitive radio networking * Congestion control * Content distribution * Cross layer design & optimization * Cyber-physical computing & networking * Denial of service * Delay/disruption tolerant networks * Future Internet design * Implementation & experimental testbeds * Middleware support for networking * Mobility models & systems * Multicast & anycast * Multimedia protocols * Network applications & services * Network architectures * Network control * Network management * Network simulation & emulation * Novel network architectures * Optical networks * Peer-to-peer networks * Performance evaluation * Power control & management * Pricing & billing * Quality of service * Resource allocation & management * Routing protocols * Scheduling & buffer management * Security, trust, & privacy * Self-organizing networks * Sensor nets & embedded systems * Service overlays * Social computing * Switches & switching * Topology characterization & inference * Traffic measurement and analysis * Traffic engineering & control * Virtual & overlay networks * Web services & performance * Wireless mesh networks & protocols Important Dates: * Abstract due: July 24, 2009 * Full paper due: July 31, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: November 21, 2009 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Giridhar Mandyam (Qualcomm, USA) Vice Chair: Cedric Westphal (Docomo Labs, USA) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Mooi Choo Chuah (Lehigh University, USA), Reuven Cohen (Technion, Israel) and Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) Standing Committee Chair: Harvey Freeman (HAF Consulting, Inc., USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE CCNC 2010 Call For Papers: July 7, 2009 Final Deadline
by ComSoc Conferences 25 Jun '09

25 Jun '09

IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers FINAL Deadline DATE Extended to July 7, 2009 January 9 â 12, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 7th annual international conference - will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. Technical Program features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including Wireless Home Communication and Networking - Wireless LANs, WiMax, Cellular Networks - UWB and OFDM - Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies - Physical and MAC Layer Design Issues Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks for CE - Body and Personal Area Networks - RFID for CE - Context- and Situation-awareness for Smart Spaces and PANs Multimedia Communication and Services - Multimedia Communication and Streaming - Distributed Coding and Network Coding for Multimedia - Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks - Field Trials and Measurements Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Networks - Overlay and Application-layer Multicast - SIP and P2P SIP - Incentive Mechanisms in P2P Networks - Novel CE Applications Enabled by P2P Computing Security and Content Protection for CE - Security for Home Networks, PANs and BANs - Reputation and Trust Mechanisms - Digital Content and Digital Rights Management - Copyright and Privacy Protection Pervasive and Ambient Applications - Positioning and Tracking Technologies - Smart Devices and Intelligent Environments - Middleware and Multi-Agents Platforms - Personalization For more topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: July 7, 2009 Acceptance Notification: August 26, 2009 Camera Ready Artwork: October 1, 2009 Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Short Papers, and Industry Technical Panels. Special Sessions Proposals Due: July 10, 2009; Submissions Due: August 15, 2009 Tutorials Due: September 1, 2009 Demonstrations Due: September 1, 2009 Short Papers Due: September 1, 2009 Industry Technical Panels Due: September 17, 2009 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. To unsubscribe from this list, please click this link http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%249%3BH%0A.

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[Tccc] CFPs: Special Issue of Telecommunication Systems on Wireless Multimedia Networks and Security Services
by Binod Vaidya 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

CALL FOR PAPERS Telecommunication Systems, Springer (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Wireless Multimedia Networks and Security Services Wireless multimedia networks (WMN) allow people to access rich multimedia content anytime, anywhere, using different access networks and different computing devices. It is anticipated that wireless multimedia services (WMS) will change the way we operate and interact with the world with the development of numerous interesting wireless multimedia applications. The new possibilities of wireless multimedia computing pose several research challenges. One of the challenges is security issue in WMN. Therefore, in WMNs, not only novel techniques, algorithms, architectures and experiences regarding multimedia applications but also security services should be considered. This special issue will focus on the challenges and issues related to wireless multimedia networks and the security services. Thus, it aims high-quality original unpublished research articles that describe state-of-the-art approaches and solutions for the wireless multimedia networks and their security. Topics of interest include but are not limited to, the following: - Multimedia indexing, processing and retrieval for WMN - Data mining applications in WMN - Content-aware multimedia distribution in WMN - Multimedia multicasting in WMN - QoS management in WMS - Multimedia and multimodal interaction models in WMN - Novel wireless and mobile multimedia applications and services - Emerging standards, protocols and technologies in WMN - Security, privacy, and cryptographic algorithms in WMN - Network security issues and protocols in WMN - Authentication, identity management in WMN - Intrusion detection and prevention in WMN - Content protection and digital rights management for WMS - Trusted computing in WMS - Information hiding and watermarking in WMS - Network forensics and fraud detection for WMS Extended versions of the selected best papers at the WIMUCS 2009 are invited to submit to this special issue. The extended version of paper must have at least 30% fresh matter than the previous paper. Besides, high-quality original unpublished research articles, not currently under review to another journal or conference are also invited for this special issue. Important Dates: Full manuscript due: February 15, 2010 Acceptance Notification: June 15, 2010 Final manuscript due: September 15, 2010 Publication date: 1Q or 2Q 2011 (Tentative) Submission Guidelines: Authors must follow guidelines provided in the Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer website: (http://www.springer.com/business/business+information+systems/journal/11235) while preparing a manuscript. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in PDF format to the following email address: tssiwimuns(a)gmail.com with “SI Submission – WIMUNS, JTS” at the subject. The submission must include a cover letter containing a title, abstract, authors and the corresponding author's name and affiliation along with the manuscript. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on originality, high scientific quality, organization & relevance to this special issue. For further questions or inquiries, please contact us at the following email address: tssiwimuns(a)gmail.com. Guest Editors: Dr. Binod Vaidya (Corresponding Editor) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal bnvaidya(a)gmail.com Prof. Shiuh-Jeng Wang Central Police University, Taiwan sjwang(a)mail.cpu.edu.tw Dr. Jongsung Kim CIST, Korea University,Korea jongsung.k(a)gmail.com Dr. Ivan Lee University of South Australia, Australia Ivan.Lee(a)unisa.edu.au _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Less than 1 week: CfP: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - CCNC 2010]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Less than 1 week: CfP: IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - CCNC 2010 Datum: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:36:37 +0100 Von: Dr Mario Kolberg <mko(a)cs.stir.ac.uk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers Deadline extended to 28 June 2009. Less than 1 week left! IEEE CCNC 2010 January 9 - 12, 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 7th annual international conference - will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. Technical Program features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including - Wireless Home Communication and Networking - Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks for CE - Multimedia Communication and Services - Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Networks - Security and Content Protection for CE - Pervasive and Ambient Applications For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: June 28, 2009 Acceptance Notification: August 17, 2009 Camera Ready Artwork: October 1, 2009 Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Short Papers, and Industry Technical Panels. Special Sessions Due: July 30, 2009 Tutorials Due: September 1, 2009 Demonstrations Due: September 1, 2009 Short Papers Due: September 1, 2009 Industry Technical Panels Due: September 17, 2009 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2010. -- Academic Excellence at the Heart of Scotland. The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] Paper submission due: July 1, 2009 - Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management
by Jun Wang 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

===== Call For Paper, CNIKM'09 ======== Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM'09) in CIKM2009 Paper submission due: July 1, 2009 *** Overview We are in a connected age: real-world entities often interconnect with each other through explicit or implicit relationships to form a complex network, such as information networks, social networks, economic networks, technological networks, and biological networks. They exhibit interesting statistical characteristics such as small-world and scale-free. The past decade has witnessed an explosive growth of research on various complex networks. How can we analyse, manage and mine information in large-scale complex networks effectively and efficiently? This gives researchers in database, information retrieval and knowledge management great challenges as well as opportunities. In line with CIKM's tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research, this workshop aims to have a major impact on future research by bringing together researchers across both computer science and the emerging scientific discipline of network science to foster discussion and exchange ideas. The research problems of interest include, but are not limited to: - Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks - Formation and Generation of Complex Networks - Community Detection in Complex Networks - Motif Discovery in Complex Networks - Link Prediction in Complex Networks - Communication and Contagion on Complex Networks - Indexing and Ranking in Complex Networks - Decentralised Search in Complex Networks - Clustering and Classification in Complex Networks - Semi-Supervised Learning and Active Learning on Complex Networks - Visualization and Summarization of Complex Networks Both theoretical and practical research papers are welcome, particularly those addressing computational or algorithmic ises. *** Important Dates - Paper submission due: July 1, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009 - Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2009 - Workshop date: November 6, 2009 *** Submission All submissions should be in ACM conference style and PDF format. http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Full papers may not exceed 8 pages; short papers may not exceed 4 pages. No extra pages can be purchased. All submissions must be original and unpublished before. The review process will be double-blind: authors should conceal their identity in their submissions. All submissions should be made through EasyChair. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cnikm09 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by PC members. The organisers will examine the reviews and make final paper selections for the workshop. *** Registration At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Registration must be done at the time when the author sends the camera-ready copy of the accepted paper to the workshop chair. Workshop registration fee is determined by CIKM. *** Publication The workshop proceedings will be printed on CD together with the main CIKM-2009 conference proceedings, by ACM. An edited book on this topic has been proposed by the organisers in Wiley's Web Data Mining Series. Extended versions of selected papers are expected to be published in that book. http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~mark/wiley_web_mining_leaflet.pdf A blog has been created to facilitate informal discussion online before and after the workshop. http://cnikm09.blogspot.com/ A short workshop report will be written by the organisers for a professional newsletter (e.g., SIGIR Forum and BCS-IRSG Informer). *** Workshop Programme It is anticipated to be a full-day workshop with two keynote addresses (TBA) and two refereed research paper sessions. The detailed programme will be released once it is finalised. *** (Tentative) Program Committee - Karsten Borgwardt, MPIs Tubingen, Germany - Guanrong Chen, City University of Hong Kong, China - Xueqi Cheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe Institute, USA - Vittoria Colizza, ISI Foundation, Italy - Nick Craswell, Microsoft Research, USA - Anirban Dasgupta, Yahoo! Research, USA - Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA - Arjen de Vries, CWI, Netherlands - Trevor Fenner, University of London, UK - Abraham Flaxman, UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, USA - Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, USA - Jake Hofman, Yahoo! Research, USA - Hawoong Jeong, KAIST, Korea - Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China - Kevin Lang, Yahoo! Research, USA - Jan Larsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark - Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA - Michael Mahoney, Stanford University, USA - Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Mark Levene, University of London, UK - Xiaoli Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore - Tsuyoshi Murata, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - See-Kiong Ng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore - Wilfred Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China - Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada - Marcel Reinders, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands - Dawei Song, The Robert Gordon University, UK - Bing-Hong Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China *** Organizers - Jun Wang, University College London, UK - Shi Zhou, University College London, UK - Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE and ICST Sponsored Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery - CAMCD09 - co-located with ICUMT 2009]
by Lars Wolf 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE and ICST Sponsored Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery - CAMCD09 - co-located with ICUMT 2009 Datum: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:39:29 +0300 Von: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies *** *** TWO weeks to submission deadline !!! *** CAMCD '09 - International Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery October 12 - 14, 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/camcd09 Technically Sponsored by ICST and IEEE Thematically supported by EU ICT FP7 project CCAST in connection with The International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications - ICUMT 2009 http://www.icumt.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS OVERVIEW: A major factor in the success of the convergence of future networks to 4G, All-IP technology is the efficient support of content-rich multimedia applications and services in mobile networks. There are many applications that will be enabled by new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television in a converged environment, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, emergency and healthcare applications, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the technologies needed for Context-aware Multimedia Content Delivery. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following research areas: * Development of new techniques for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; * Definition of methods to utilize the situation and environment of a user (context) to initiate multimedia-rich content delivery; * Deployment of broadcast/multicast adaptive content delivery technologies to mobile users with diverse QoS requirements. Within this scope, the CAMCD workshop aims to provide a unique international forum and foster interaction among researchers by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue for academic and industrial participants to discuss in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. TOPICS OF INTEREST • Multimedia Services Emerging and visionary multimedia applications for wireless mobile networks, Multimedia Services over Wireless LAN, WAN and Ad-hoc Networks, Context aware techniques for enhancing multimedia service support Multim• edia semantic characteristics • Context Context Representation Context Collection Context Reasoning • Wireless delivery models Broadcast/multicast/simulcast P2P mobile video Vehicular video delivery • Video Encoding and Processing Wireless video coding techniques Adaptive media coding Compression techniques, standards and evaluation Error resilience and concealment Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery • Wireless network architectures and technologies Architectures for Wireless Multimedia Communications New network architectures for wireless communications (IEEE 802.11v, 802.11k, CAPWAP) Use of existing technologies for multimedia services (802.11 WLAN/802.11n, 802.16 WiMAX, 3G cellular networks, MBMS,DVB- H) Wireless multimedia terminal and devices QoS support for wireless multimedia networks QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia Cross-layer interaction and optimization • Experimentation Design and implementation of testbeds for multimedia over wireless Field trials, experimental measurements and results Measurements-based models for multimedia over wireless Testing of protocols and standards for multimedia over wireless IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 30, 2009 Acceptance notification: July 30, 2009 Camera ready: August 15, 2009 SUBMISSIONS The papers should be submitted as a PDF file through EDAS system (http://edas.info/).The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. The total length of a paper should not exceed 6 pages/ IEEE proceedings style. See workshop website for more instructions. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Xplore. CHAIRS Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Massimo Valla, Telecom Italia Labs TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Josephine Antoniou, University of Cyprus Nigel Baker, University of the West of England Christos Bouras, University of Patras Andy Giefer, Deutche Welle Kaname Harumoto, Osaka University Christophe Janneteau, CEA Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Telecom Italia Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari Boris Moltchanov, Telecom Italia Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra Telma Mota, PT Inovacao Jordi Pallares, FhG Fokus Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus Nadav Ramati, BigBand Martin Reisslein, Arizona State university Susana Sargento, IT Aveiro Hans Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern Katarina Stanoevska, University of St. Gallen Ralf Toenjes, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology George Xylomenos, Athens University of Economics and Business -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Lecturer Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MUM09 CfP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MUM09 CfP Datum: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:33:46 +0100 Von: Cecilia Mascolo <cecilia.mascolo(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP -- MUM'09 The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia November 22-25, 2009, Cambridge, England Paper submissions deadline: August 3, 2009 http://www.mum2009.org/ We invite you to submit original and unpublished work to MUM 2009, the 8thInternational Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. This year the conference will take place at the historic city of Cambridge in England. It is co-organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge, which is known for its academic excellence and celebrates its 800thanniversary this year. We will be pleased to welcome you to the Conference. Kind regards from Jon Crowcroft, Jonna Häkkilä, Cecilia Mascolo, Natasa Milic-Frayling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUM (International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia) is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies that drive innovation in mobile and multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements from diverse perspectives, in a comfortable and effective single track conference format. MUM invites submissions on * User research and methods for user-centred design of new concepts, applications, and services in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, ethnographic research and case studies * Enabling technologies for novel mobile and ubiquitous multimedia applications, including protocols, algorithms, architectures, and middleware for mobile roaming, bandwidth and connectivity management, media streaming, storage, user authentication, identity and profile management * Innovative designs and implementations of user interfaces, applications, and systems that address challenging issues in mobile interaction and ubiquitous media access across devices with different form factors, seamless transition between computing platforms,context aware UI, content presentation, management of large user populations and complex service interactions for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * Applications of research methods and techniques from social network analysis, machine learning, information retrieval, computer graphics, computer vision, speech processing, user interfaces and interaction design to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Important Dates =============== August 3, 2009 Deadline for Long and Short Paper submission August 3, 2009 Proposals for Tutorials Sept 21, 2009 Poster and Demo submissions Sept 21, 2009 Applications for Doctoral Consortium due Oct 2, 2009 Deadline for camera-ready submissions Conference dates: Nov 22, 2009 Conference starts with Doctoral Consortium and Tutorials Nov 23-25, 2009 Main conference program ORGANIZERS: Conference Chairs: Natasa Milic-Frayling Microsoft Research Jonna Häkkilä Nokia Research Center Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Program Chair: Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge -- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cm542 "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" T. Edison _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[InternetTC] Call for Participation: SensorNets 2009
by Habib Ammari 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SensorNets 2009: The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009 http://www.sensornets-school.org/ EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2009 OVERVIEW It is a common belief that computing has been increasingly integrating our life. It results that the philosophy of networking is currently reaching a new frontier, where the physical processes directly impact the logical information for the sake of pervasive and ubiquitous control of the surrounding environment. This objective can be achieved by means of massively networked embedded systems, also known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). The Wireless Sensor Network paradigm is known as the most prominent enabling technology for CPS. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has also been a pioneer technology in defining the new concept of Internet-of-Things. There is, as consequence, a tendency to change the concept of the Internet from a network a data to a network of physical objects. The objective of the the SensorNets 2009 School is to present a comprehensive state-of-the-art of the enabling technologies for the concept of Cyber-Physical Systems, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), RFID, wireless standard protocols, etc. The lectures of this school span the basic concepts as well as the latest achievement and the future challenges in the related research areas. GOALS The goals of the SensorNets 2009 School are as follows: * Provide a basic survey of the current research works and challenges on cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Provide an overview of the current enabling technologies for cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Provide a good opportunity to meet people and distinguished scholars working on cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. AUDIENCE The expected audience are: * Post-graduate students, PhD students, and young researchers from universities: SensorNets 2009 will provide a very thorough and comprehensive background for young researchers starting their work in the areas of WSNs and CPS. * Researchers and engineers from academic and industrial laboratories around the world. We expect hosting 60 participants. SATELLITE EVENTS * Demos & Posters session: This session will be dedicated to the demonstrations and presentations of preliminary and ongoing works of PhD students dealing with WSNs and CPS. Demo and Poster papers must be submitted to the session chair and must not exceed two pages. * Awards: Best Master/Ph.D. Awards: Ph.D. dissertations and Master theses already defended can be submitted to participate to the awards competition. LECTURERS - Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, (USA) - Mario Alves , CISTER Research Unit, (Portugal) - Sajal K. Das , University of Texas at Arlington, (USA) - Gianluca Dini , University of Pisa, (Italy) - Vlado Handziski , Technical University of Berlin, (Germany) - Jan Hauer, Technical University of Berlin, (Germany) - Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University/CISTER Research Unit, (KSA/Portugal) - Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), (Sweden) - David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA/LIFL, (France) - Hichem Snoussi, University of Technology of Troyes, (France) LOCATION The city of Monastir is located in the central eastern part of Tunisia on the Mediterranean coast. Located at 160 km from the capital (Tunis). Monastir is a nice coastal resort, covering an area of 6,614 ha along a 6 km long shore. PARTICIPATION Text Box: Application deadline: 15 June 2009Participation is open to all interested applicants from academia and industry. Registration fees are:  EUR 350 for early registration before 15 July 2009 fo EUR 400 for normal registration after 15 July 2009 and before 15 August (+ total supplement Euro 70 for single room).  EUR 480 for registration for industry.  Group registration: 20% reduction for a group of 4 participants or more from the same institute. The fees cover registration, accommodation in the hotel hosting SensorNets 2009 (4 /5 star hotel), food, coffee breaks, and social event excursions. ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Mohamed Abid, David Simplot-Ryl Program Co-Chairs: Anis Koubâa, Habib M. Ammari

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[Fwd: [Cost290] CFP: U-NET'09 (User-provided networking) workshop, co-located with ACM CoNext]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] CFP: U-NET'09 (User-provided networking) workshop, co-located with ACM CoNext Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:28 +0100 Von: Paulo Mendes <pmendes(a)inescporto.pt> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi (Appologies if you get this twice) ACM U-NET'09 — User-provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009 Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/ Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009 Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753 *(Now with a Technical Panel)* *Motivation* This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services. To provide a specific example that relates to Internet access (connectivity), the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive in what concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between what is today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast, the Internet has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of network service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person communication, or information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also disruptive given that the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in order to accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth is the willingness to cooperate. Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the nature of the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators needs to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking spreads dynamically having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need to consider cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed based on topological information. Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem to have the potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models, given that such novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely autonomic way and also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services (e.g. connectivity) based upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based upon his/her own mobility and social patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily imply the use of multihop technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases, simply relayed. The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a discussion panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a forum aiming to ignite a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or positively) that user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models. *Topics* U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the context of user-provided networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Challenges and opportunities for access providers. * Impact on Internet architectures. * Internet connectivity. * Trust models, incentives to share broadband access. * Human behaviour and mobility patterns. * Self-organization. * Wireless cooperation. Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may incorporate early stage ideas; position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions and capable of generating discussion are also welcome. Submission must be original and not already published in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *Technical Panel Discussion* U-NET'09 aims to be a forum to debate the technical challenges and impact of deploying user-provided networking technology. For this propose, this first edition of U-NET will host a technical discussion panel constituted by: * Shivendra S. Panwar, Professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA * James Kempft, Senior Architect at Ericsson Research, USA * David Kennedy, Director at Eurescom GmbH, Germany * Jordi Vallejo, CTO at FON Wireless Ltd, Spain * David Trossen, Chief Researcher at British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom *Submissions* Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures, tables and references) in the standard ACM double column format. All text must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will be done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753. *Important Dates* Submissions due: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009 Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009 Workshop date: December 1, 2009 *Program Committee* PC Chairs Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France Karen Sollins, MIT, USA Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany -- ----------------------------------------------------- Paulo Mendes, Ph.D Area Leader, Internet Architectures and Networking Telecommunication and Multimedia Unit INESC Porto Tel. +351 22 209 4264 Fax. +351 22 209 4050 http://ian.inescporto.pt _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] Final CfP - 1st ACM Int. Workshop on Events in Multimedia *** one week left for submission ***]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Final CfP - 1st ACM Int. Workshop on Events in Multimedia *** one week left for submission *** Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:56 +0200 Von: Ansgar Scherp <scherp(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> Antwort an: Ansgar Scherp <scherp(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS *** one week left for submission *** 1st ACM International Workshop on Events in Multimedia (EiMM09) http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/eimm09/ held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= *** Apologies for any cross-postings *** *** Submission site open: *** http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7895&track=7575 Important Dates --------------- *** Submission of papers: June 24th, 2009 *** Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2009 Camera ready papers: July 24th, 2009 Workshop at ACM Multimedia : October 23rd, 2009 Workshop Description -------------------- Humans think in terms of events and entities. Events provide a natural abstraction of happenings in the real world. The concept of events has a long history in foundational sciences such as philosophy and linguistics. After first developing objects-based and entity-based approaches, computer science research is now addressing the concept of events and building many applications that consider events at least as important as objects. Consequently, we find many different solutions and approaches for modeling, detecting, and processing events. In addition, we find different applications that are based on events and make use of events. Conferences and workshops on events in computer science typically deal with the capturing, processing, and management of low-level events such as publish/ subscribe-approaches, middleware-based architectures, complex event processing, and event stream processing. Although this work is very essential for an efficient execution of the applications build on top of such approaches, the understanding of the concept of events is disconnected from the domain-level of events that the actual users of such applications have to deal with. However, considering multimedia data, its semantics is naturally closely tied to the event(s) it documents. The workshop focuses on how to detect, model, and process domain-level events and applications that make use of domain-level events in the context of multimedia data. We aim at bringing together researchers from the different fields that are interested in understanding the concept of events on domain-level. We invite original work in the areas of domain event modeling, detection of events from multimedia data, processing of events, organization of multimedia data using events as unifying mechanism, and applications of these techniques. The submissions should explicitly explain how they deal with the events of the considered domain and what kind of benefit is provided to the users by using events. Example application areas for events are multimedia-based experience sharing, lifelogs, emergency response, cultural heritage, news, surveillance, and others. The participants of the workshop will gain an insight into the current state-of-the-art of computer science research on domain-level events. They will get concrete examples of how events can be leveraged for human-centered research and how it can be detected, processed, modeled, and used for creating human- centered applications. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their approach with other researchers from the multimedia community in the hands-on part of the workshop. Topics ------ Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: O Event Detection and Processing in Multimedia Data o Recognition of events from large scale, unreliable and/or noisy media data and media streams o Event clustering towards domain level-events o Combining low-level events with domain-level events O Event Representation and Event Models o Modeling of events on domain-level o Ontology-based representation of events o Languages for events o Formal modeling of events, activities, accomplishments, achievements, context, and other related concepts o Reasoning with events under consideration of causality, uncertainty, similarity, and others o Semantic description and annotation for events and event sources O Events in the Context of Web 2.0 o Collaborative event creation and sharing o Events in social networks o Event syndication (e.g., RSS) and attention management O Architectures for Event Management o Middleware solutions for event management o Event-driven architectures o Experimental methodologies o Domain-specific solutions for event management such as for emergency response O Applications and Tools o Event-based applications and tools o Authoring of events o Events in mobile computing and ubiquituous computing o Applications that show benefits of using events in practical settings o User experience, requirements, use cases, and evaluations of event-based applications Paper Submission, Review, and Publication ----------------------------------------- Submissions for the workshop must follow the standard style guidelines of the ACM Multimedia conference. They shall be submitted in PDF format and not be longer than 8 pages. Papers will be submitted using the EDAS system of ACM Multimedia. In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another workshop, conference, or journal. All submitted papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process. At least three reviewers from the PC members and external reviewers will evaluate the originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical contents of the submitted manuscripts. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2009 conference. Based on the quality of the manuscripts, selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in the multimedia area (tbd). Program Committee ----------------- Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University, Athens, Greece Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Krishna Chandramouli, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ivan Damnjanovic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Thomas Franz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny Andreas Girgensohn, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, CA, USA Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Lynda Hardman, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Niels Henze, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany Aisling Kelliher, ASU - Tempe, USA Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK Artur Lugmayer, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University, Athens, Greece Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klara Nahrstedt, University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Carsten Saathoff, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Philipp Sandhaus, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany Svetha Venkatesh , Curtin Univ. of Tech., Perth, Australia Utz Westermann, mercatis, Ulm, Germany Weiqi Yan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Toni Zgaljic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Qianni Zhang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Organizers ---------- Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore For questions and inquiries please contact: scherp(a)uni-koblenz.de Sponsor ------- WeKnowIt - Emerging, Collective Intelligence for Personal, Organisational and Social Use, http://www.weknowit.eu/ -- Dr. Ansgar Scherp University of Koblenz-Landau Institute for Computer Science Phone: +49(0)261/287-2717 Universitätsstraße 1 Fax : +49(0)261/287-2721 D-56070 Koblenz-Metternich Mail : scherp(a)uni-koblenz.de

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