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Fwd: [Tccc] DEADLINE EXTENSION: CFP: Int. Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN)
by Lars Wolf 29 May '12

29 May '12

"M. Can Vuran" <mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu> schrieb: *** Submission Deadline Extended to June 10th, 2012 *** [Apologies in advance, if you receive multiple copies] International Workshop on Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks (PINGEN) in conjunction with ACM MOBICOM 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2012 http://avealabs.com/pingen2012 Scope: In recent years, there is growing demand for data traffic on next generation wireless networks due to the proliferation of data hungry applications (e.g. streaming video, interactive traffic flows, etc) and emergence of smart terminal devices and their applications, such as smart grids, mobile cloud services, advanced healthcare systems, intelligent transportation systems. On the other hand, need for ubiquitous computing and high mobility support also become evident as users are more and more asking for “any-time any-where” connectivity. Hence, an important challenge for telecom vendors and operators is devising and deploying cost-effective yet high capacity infrastructures, which support also large coverage and high mobility. Such a challenge puts forward an ever enlarging set of problems, both on intra-technology as well as inter-technology domains, putting integration challenges also in the picture. This workshop focuses on design and deployment issues of next generation wireless infrastructures, potentially made up of heterogeneous access technologies, supporting a wide range of applications and user needs in a coherent and unified manner. This workshop will bring together people from different research areas, and provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia in all aspects of next generation wireless networks. Subjects of interests include, but are not limited to: - Heterogeneous network (HetNets) deployment strategies - Business models, network management and offloading strategies for user-deployed infrastructure - Distributed algorithms and protocols for policy control in heterogeneous communication technologies - Energy-efficient network architectures and protocols, resource management techniques - System Architectures and Applications for Smart Grid - Smart Grid Communication Networks and System Simulators - Experiences from real-world wireless network deployment, test-bed and field trials - Innovative mobile application frameworks for seamless integration - Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications and technologies in heterogeneous networks - Coverage and capacity issues in future wireless cellular networks - Mobile cloud service models for high mobility - Data mining and large-scale mobile data management techniques in facilitating heterogeneous access - QoS (Quality-of-Service), scalability and reliability issues in heterogeneous networks - Unified security, trust and privacy issues Submission: For submission instructions please visit workshop site at http://avealabs.com/pingen2012 Important dates: - Paper Submission Deadline: June 10th, 2012 - Notification of Acceptance: June 18th, 2012 - Camera Ready Paper and Registration Due: July 2nd, 2012 Workshop Chairs: Dr. Salih Ergüt (AveaLabs) (salih.ergut(a)avea.com.tr) Prof. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) (siva(a)ece.gatech.edu) Program Chairs: Dr. Çagri Güngör (Bahçesehir University) (cagri.gungor(a)bahcesehir.edu.tr) Dr. Zhu Han (University of Houston) (zhan2(a)mail.uh.edu) Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) (zafer(a)merl.com) Dr. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (Texas Tech University) (hamed.mohsenian-rad(a)ttu.edu) Publicity Chair: Dr. Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu) -- -- M. Can Vuran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Cyber-Physical Networking Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Office: 107 Schorr Center Phone: (402) 472-5019 Fax: (402) 472-7767 http://cpn.unl.edu _____________________________________________ 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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CFP (Deadline extended): Special Issue on Quality of Experience in Wireless Multimedia Systems (ETT)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 28 May '12

28 May '12

-------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS----------------- Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT) Special Issue on Quality of Experience in Wireless Multimedia Systems Aim and Scope: One important objective of new broadband wireless communication networks is to enable people to enjoy multimedia services anywhere at any time. During the recent decade, a variety of techniques have been developed that address Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia applications in wireless networks. Good QoS is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient for good user perception, enjoyment and acceptance of a service. Thus, Quality of Experience (QoE) / Quality of Perception (QoP) has emerged as an important concept, covering subjective and objective, qualitative and quantitative measures of ultimate importance for users and thus, for service providers and operators. QoE issues have been creating a new assessment and management paradigm in multimedia systems, and they are gaining special attention in wireless communication networks, as the latter have proven to be quite hostile environments for multimedia streaming due to volatile radio conditions and lacks of capacity. QoE metrics are considered as important metrics to measure the quality level of multimedia contents from the users' perspective. QoE-oriented approaches aim to overcome the limitations of current QoS-aware schemes, not only emerging as a new trend towards objective measures but also providing necessary links to human perception. The use of such metrics is expected to turn the optimization of wireless networks more efficient in terms of user satisfaction than traditional techniques that are focusing solely on objective QoS metrics such as throughput, delay, jitter, throughput-based fairness, etc.QoE models that include user perception and user behavior are of essential importance for QoE-aware optimization of any communication system. In particular, novel QoE-aware transmission approaches are encouraged to be proposed to improve the efficiency of wireless networks for multimedia services. The aim of this feature topic issue isto encourage researchers to submit their work related to QoE-aware wireless multimedia networks. Authors with recent unpublished work on QoE modeling,measurements, analysis, control and optimization are particularly encouraged to submit their original contribution to this special issue. This feature topic also aims at bringing together the state-of-the-art research results of QoE issues for wireless multimedia networks. Topics of Interest: The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to: -- Relationships between traffic patterns, QoS and QoE parameters -- QoE models, their applications and use cases -- QoE inference from user behavior -- QoE measurement methodologies and metrics (subjective, objective, pseudo-subjective testing, etc.) -- QoE for new wireless multimedia applications (e.g. 3D video) -- QoE-based routing and resource management -- QoE-aware transmission in wireless systems -- QoE-based network management -- QoE-aware cross-layer design -- QoE-driven adaptation and control mechanisms for wireless systems and devices -- QoE-based optimization in wireless environments -- Testbed for QoE performance evaluation -- Media synchronization,playback, and buffer management Papers must strictly focus on QoE issues and thus significantly go beyond current QoS approaches. The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915/homepage/For… <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%292161-3915/homepage…> ). Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett) according to the timetable below. Important Dates: --Submission deadline (extended) : 1. June 2012 --Author Notification: 1. October 2012 --Final Manuscript: 3. December 2012 --Publication: 2013 Guest Editors: Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden (markus.fiedler(a)bth.se) Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Kan Zheng, Beijing University of Posts& Telecommunications, China Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Wei Xiang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012
by Lars Wolf 28 May '12

28 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM MiSeNet 2012 - In Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Datum: Sun, 27 May 2012 11:08:55 -0400 (EDT) Von: Habib M. Ammari <hammari(a)umd.umich.edu> Antwort an: hammari(a)umd.umich.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu The First ACM Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (ACM MiSeNet 2012) In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2012 Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 2012 http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~hammari/MiSeNet_Workshop2012.html Call for Papers Scope and Aim of ACM MiSeNet 2012 Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted, human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation, scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime. Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and relative lack of predictability (compared to well-calibrated sensors). The design of mission-oriented sensor networks, where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between several attributes such energy consumption (due to mobility, sensing, and communication), reliability, fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise. ACM MiSeNet 2012 aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and practice. ACM MiSeNet 2012 serves as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in this area. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will provide them with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms, and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. ACM MiSeNet 2012 seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing applications. The topics of interest to ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Theoretical foundations of mission-oriented networked sensing - Modeling and analysis of mission-oriented sensor networks - System design, implementation, and evaluation - Medium access control and scheduling - Human factors, data cleaning, and noise - Human-centric sensing modalities and quality of information - Cross-layer design - Software architectures for mission-oriented sensing - Self-organization, self-configuration, and energy efficiency - Coverage and connectivity issues - Collaboration of humans and sensors - Deployment and localization - Uncertainty, opportunistic communication, and data fusion - Topology control and fault-tolerance - Routing and data dissemination - In-network data storage and processing - Sensor database management and spatio-temporal data - Target detection and tracking - Privacy and security - Testbed design and real-world applications General Chair - Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Program Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) Steering Committee - Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign , USA) - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) - Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) - Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA) - Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA) - David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA) - Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA) - Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA) - Jie Wu (Temple University, USA) - Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA) - Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) - Flávia Delicato (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - M. Elena Renda (IIT - CNR, Pisa, Italy) - Shengquan Wang (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) - Wendong Xiao (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China) Web Chair - Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan- Dearborn , USA) Submission Guidelines ACM MiSeNet 2012 Workshop will consider only original papers that are not currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and have not been published. All papers submitted to ACM MiSeNet 2012 will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability ( i.e. , within the workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will also consider technical demos and posters that present original and significant research within the workshop scope. Submitted demos/posters are limited to 2 pages. In the case of a demo, the authors should clearly specify, in an email to both of the General Chair and Program Chair, the additional resources that are needed. Power and wireless Internet connectivity will be available at the workshop. All submissions should be formatted in standard ACM conference style for publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced, double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one author of each accepted paper/demo/poster register and attend the ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop to present their work to ensure its publication in the ACM MobiCom 2012 conference Proceedings. We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to submit their fine work to ACM MiSeNet 2012. To submit your paper , demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012, please visit the following paper/demo/poster submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmmisenet2012 Thank you for submitting your paper, demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012 ! Important Dates - Paper Submission Deadline: June 4, 2012 - Demo/Poster Submission Deadline: June 18, 2012 - Notification Deadline: June 25, 2012 - Camera-ready: July 2, 2012 - Workshop Date: August 26, 2012 For More Information Please send email to mobicom_info(a)acm.org with any questions or comments about the ACM MobiCom'12 conference or for more information. For questions about the ACM MiSeNet'12 Workshop regarding the paper submission and review process, please contact the General Chair at zaher(a)cs.uiuc.edu and the Program Chair at hammari(a)umd.umich.edu. _______________________________________________ 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] [tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Recent Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)
by Lars Wolf 28 May '12

28 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Recent Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks", International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) Datum: Mon, 28 May 2012 03:55:50 +0800 Von: Chun-Cheng Lin (NCTU) <cclin321(a)nctu.edu.tw> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley InterScience Special Issue on Recent Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become a highly active research area because of their potential of providing diverse services to a broad range of applications. The explosive growth of applications for the current and emerging user services creates a number of issues in WSNs. Emerging technologies and application services have posed various challenges to both academic and industry people, especially for the development of efficiency, scalability and reliability in wireless sensor networks. These challenges motivate us to design and develop new protocols, architectures and services for future WSNs. The goal of this special issue is to publish both state-of-the-art and prospective papers that present advances towards the performance enhancement of wireless sensor networking. In this context, papers will discuss all aspects that have an impact on the performance as depicted in research activities from professionals, academics and researchers. This Special Issue will serve as a venue for both academia and industry individuals working in this fast-growing research area to share their experiences and state-of-the-art work with the readers. Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Applications of sensor networks - Self-organized Wireless Sensor Networks - Power consumption and optimization for WSN - New trends on data gathering, processing, and communication for WSN - New trends on malicious behavior detection and analysis for WSN - New WSN applications and sensor network services - Emerging technologies in WSNs - QoS and QoE issues in WSN-based integrated networks - Robustness and fault tolerance in WSNs - Algorithms and techniques for energy efficient communication in WSNs - Location discovery and location management for WSNs - Data fusion and dynamic inference of network information - Routing and data transport in wireless sensor networks - Medium access protocols for WSNs - Modeling and performance evaluation - Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds - Integration of wireless sensor networks and web-based services - Interconnecting WSN and mobile network Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that is not yet published or that is not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences. All submissions should be made on Wiley's manuscript central website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs. For more detailed information concerning the requirements for submission, please refer to the journal homepage at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1131. When submitting a paper, authors should make sure to choose "Recent Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks" as the manuscript type, entering "WSNs-SI" as well as the "Special Issue title" as "IJCS-SI-WSNs". Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline: June 30, 2012 Acceptance notification: October 31, 2012 Final manuscript due: December 15, 2012 Publication: 3rd Quarter, 2013 (Tentative) Guest Editors Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Email: hshwchen(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan Email: djdeng(a)cc.ncue.edu.tw Rung-Shiang Cheng, Kun Shan University, Taiwan Email: rscheng(a)mail.ksu.edu.tw Chilamkurti Naveen, La Trobe University, Australia Email: N.Chilamkurti(a)latrobe.edu.au Qiyue Yu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Email: yuqiyue(a)hit.edu.cn _______________________________________________ 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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CORRIGENDUM: ACM UBICOMP CASEMANS, deadline extended to JUNE 8 (Firm deadline)
by Vincenzo De Florio 27 May '12

27 May '12

Dear Colleagues, this is to inform you of an extension of the deadline for ACM UBICOMP 2012 Workshop CASEMANS 2012.A new (firm) deadline was set for JUNE 8 23:59 CEST 2012. For your information, please find againherein a copy of the call for papers. Please note how the workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexedaccordingly, and that the electronic version of the proceedings will be made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Kind regards,Waltenegus, Juha, and Vincenzo. ACM UBICOMP/CASEMANS 2012 - Call for papers Cloud computing, autonomic computing, pervasive computing, and mobile computing tend to be converging to maximize the combinedbenefits of these paradigms. A large number of applications can takeadvantage of this, including healthcare, traffic control, andsocial network applications. However, these applications are complexby nature and introduce several challenges of their own, for example,reliable sensing, accurate context recognition, scalability, security,dealing with previously unforeseen side-effects of adaptations, and so on. These challenges can be meaningfully addressed whenresearchers of diverse background come together to provide differentviews of the same problems and to help each other understandthe complex relationships between contending ideas. The Casemans 2012 workshop aims to open a platform for researchersof ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, and similar fieldsto address these issues. This year, we are building on the success of casemans 2011 by introducing full and short paper sessions. Full papers will demonstrate solid research results (4-6 ACM pages) while short papers (typically 2 ACM Pages) demonstrate visionary, critical and even controversial ideas and work-in-progressthat can encourage discussion and further research. Scope The scope of the workshop can be described by the following terms:- Context-awareness in cloud computing- Context-awareness in energy-efficient computing- Context-awareness in smart spaces- context-awareness in wireless sensor networks- Context-awareness in social networking- Context-awareness in robotics- Context-awareness in multimedia content distribution- Context-based multimodal interaction Information for Authors The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexed accordingly. The electronic version of the proceedingswill be made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Manuscriptsshould be prepared according to the ACM Proceedings format. Pleasevisit the ACM template website (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All paper submissions will be handled electronically by Easychair(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=casemans2012).N… that submission is a two-stage process --- authors need to registertheir paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissionsmust be in PDF format and conform to the ACM guidelines. Important Dates Paper submission -- JUNE 8 (FIRM DEADLINE).Notification -- June 30Camera ready -- July 6 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP: ACM UBICOMP / CASEMANS 2012 + Hindawi ASE Special Issue on Self-* Parallel and Distributed Systems
by Vincenzo De Florio 26 May '12

26 May '12

Dear Colleagues, please accept our apologies if you saw this announcement already. This is to kindlydraw your attention to the following two calls for papers: - ACM UBICOMP 2012 Workshop CASEMANS 2012 (DEADLINE JUNE 1!)- Hindawi Advances in Software Engineering - Special Issue on Self-* Parallel and Distributed Systems (DEADLINE JUNE 8!) Please note how the workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexed accordingly, and that the electronic version of the proceedings will be made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Kind regards,Waltenegus, Juha, and Vincenzo. ACM UBICOMP/CASEMANS 2012 - Call for papers Cloud computing, autonomic computing, pervasive computing, and mobile computing tend to be converging to maximize the combinedbenefits of these paradigms. A large number of applications can takeadvantage of this, including healthcare, traffic control, andsocial network applications. However, these applications are complexby nature and introduce several challenges of their own, for example,reliable sensing, accurate context recognition, scalability, security,dealing with previously unforeseen side-effects of adaptations, and so on. These challenges can be meaningfully addressed whenresearchers of diverse background come together to provide differentviews of the same problems and to help each other understandthe complex relationships between contending ideas. The Casemans 2012 workshop aims to open a platform for researchersof ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, and similar fieldsto address these issues. This year, we are building on the success of casemans 2011 by introducing full and short paper sessions. Full papers will demonstrate solid research results (4-6 ACM pages) while short papers (typically 2 ACM Pages) demonstrate visionary, critical and even controversial ideas and work-in-progressthat can encourage discussion and further research. Scope The scope of the workshop can be described by the following terms:- Context-awareness in cloud computing- Context-awareness in energy-efficient computing- Context-awareness in smart spaces- context-awareness in wireless sensor networks- Context-awareness in social networking- Context-awareness in robotics- Context-awareness in multimedia content distribution- Context-based multimodal interaction Information for Authors The workshop proceedings will be published by the ACM and will be indexed accordingly. The electronic version of the proceedingswill be made available online at the ACM Digital Library. Manuscriptsshould be prepared according to the ACM Proceedings format. Pleasevisit the ACM template website (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). All paper submissions will be handled electronically by Easychair(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=casemans2012).N… that submission is a two-stage process --- authors need to registertheir paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissionsmust be in PDF format and conform to the ACM guidelines. Important Dates Paper submission -- June 1Notification -- June 30Camera ready -- July 6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advances in Software Engineering - Special Issue onSelf-* Parallel and Distributed Systems Call for papers (PDF: http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307.pdf,HTML: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/si/479307/cfp/) Autonomic computing has been identified as a promising solution to cope with the overwhelming complexity in modern and next-generation computer systems. In particular, the self-* properties (self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and self-protection) outline the fundamental features of an autonomic computing system. Parallel and distributed systems, a computing domain with great applicability in a variety of industrial and domestic contexts, rely on self-* software to manage a large number of heterogeneous computation, communication, and storage resources. The challenges of energy efficiency, dependability and security are of particular interest. This special issue addresses the software aspects of the whole design and operational process and system architecture of self-* parallel and distributed systems. We welcome studies on all forms of software, including application software and system software. The relevant scope of parallel and distributed systems widely covers, but is not limited to, embedded systems, large-scale networks, cyber-physical systems (CPS), cloud-computing etc. The systems under focus should integrate software with clear and novel self-* features to be qualified for acceptance. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Model-driven engineering of self-* distributed systems- Robust design of self-* parallel and distributed systems- Software design and implementation for energy-awareness- Energy-awareness in self-organizing systems such as in cluster-based systems and cloud computing- Real-time aspects, especially in conjunction with other conflicting design goals- Evolvability aspects- Resilience of autonomic distributed and parallel systems- Self-healing and protection for dependable and secure systems- Software for interoperable heterogeneous networked systems - Specification and modeling languages for self-* properties- Formal validation and verification- Software testing- Parallel and distributed debugging- Application and industrial case studies- Retrospective, Review and Future Perspectives Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: June 8, 2012First round of reviews: August 31, 2012Publication date: October 26, 2012 Lead Guest Editor Juha Plosila, Department of Information Technology, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland; juha.plosila(a)utu.fi Guest Editors Waltenegus Dargie, Chair of Computer Networks, Institute for System Architecture, Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; waltenegus.dargie(a)tu-dresden.de Vincenzo De Florio, Performance Analysis of Telecommunication Systems group, University of Antwerp, Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium; vincenzo.deflorio(a)ua.ac.be

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Fwd: [Tccc] Final CFP IEEE TVT Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking
by Lars Wolf 25 May '12

25 May '12

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Guoqiang Mao <guoqiang.mao(a)gmail.com> > Datum: 25. Mai 2012 13:21:32 MESZ > An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> > Betreff: [Tccc] Final CFP IEEE TVT Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > Call for Papers > IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology > Special Section: Graph Theory and Its Application in Vehicular Networking > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > > The last two decades have witnessed unprecedented growth in > telecommunications, particularly in the area of wireless communications. > This development in telecommunications opens doors to many sophisticated > complex systems, e.g. social networks, smart grids, vehicular networks and > sensor networks, that previously were not feasible. Graph theory is among > the most widely used tools for modeling and analyzing the many types of > interactions, relations and dynamics in these systems. Many problems of > practical interest can be represented by graphs. > > The use of graph theory in vehicular networks, or more broadly highly > dynamic networks, is of particular interest. The complex interactions among > vehicles, between vehicles and road-side infrastructure, combined with the > high mobility of vehicles and fast changing topology, present some unique > challenges in network modeling and performance analysis, network design, > resource management and communication protocol design. > > This special section aims to provide recent advances in graph theory that > are applicable to highly dynamic networks, particularly vehicular networks, > identify challenges in the area and present possible solutions, and > furthermore to unveil the significant potential of graph theory in the > domain of vehicular networks. Topics of interest for this special section > include, but are not limited to: > * Vehicular network modeling and performance analysis; > * Network architecture design; > * Vehicular technologies for vehicle-to-vehicle and > vehicle-to-infrastructure networking & services; > * End-to-end service delivery architectures, algorithms, protocols and > scalability; > * Cooperative communications; > * Quality of service; > * Resource management; > * Robust network and communication protocol design; > * Interference characterization and management; > * Localization techniques; > * Road traffic management. > > Authors should follow the IEEE TVT manuscript format and submission > procedure which can be found at the IEEE TVT home page > http://transactions.vtsociety.org under Information for Authors. > > Timeline: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > * Manuscript submission deadline: June 1, 2012 > * Editorial decision notification: September 15, 2012 > * Revision deadline: October 15, 2012 > * Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012 > * Final manuscript due: January 15, 2013 > * Publication date: first quarter of 2013 > > Guest Editors: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------- > Dr Guoqiang Mao (Corresponding Guest Editor) > The University of Sydney > Darlington, NSW 2006, Australia > Email: guoqiang.mao(a)sydney.edu.au > > Prof. Martin Haenggi > University of Notre Dame > Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA > E-Mail: mhaenggi(a)nd.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 MobiArch 2012 - Extended submission deadline June 1, 2012
by Lars Wolf 25 May '12

25 May '12

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: "Fu, Xiaoming" <fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de> > Datum: 25. Mai 2012 16:43:44 MESZ > An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> > Betreff: [Tccc] CFP MobiArch 2012 - Extended submission deadline June 1, 2012 > > Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. > > Call For Papers - MobiArch, 2012 > In conjunction with MOBICOM 2012, August 22-26, Istanbul, > Turkey > http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2012/workshops.html > MobiArch 2012 - http://www.research.att.com/~rjana/mobiarch.html > > > Aim and Scope > ------------- > The objective of this workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers > and technologists to present the state-of-the-art contributions and discuss > future directions in hot topics such as "economics and sustainability" and > "mobile cloud computing" related to the architectures, services and > applications in a mobile Internet era. > > The workshop will be organized in a manner designed to foster interaction and > exchange of ideas among the participants. Besides paper presentations, time > will be allocated to open discussion forums, informal discussions and panels. > In addition to regular papers, vision or work-in-progress papers are also > invited to stimulate debates on open problems and challenges. Proposals for > panels are also solicited. Panel topics on emerging or even provocative > topics that will generate lively discussions are especially welcome. > > Topics of interest for technical papers covers various aspects related to > mobile Internet, including but not limited to the following: > > Mobile pricing, incentives, network economics > --------------------------------------------- > - Technological and socio-economic aspects of mobile architectures, protocol > design > - Network pricing and congestion control > - Wireless network neutrality > - Cooperative schemes leveraging incentives > - Economics of dynamic spectrum sharing > - Incentive-aware wireless resource scheduling > - Economics of deployment (infrastructure, devices and services) > - Challenges and innovative pricing opportunities of mobile applications, > social networking, advertisements > - Performance and Fairness issues for an incentivized mobile network > - Incentive mechanisms for mobile network security and privacy > - Economic considerations in offering mobile computing services > > Mobile cloud technology and services > ------------------------------------ > - Mobile platforms, systems, applications, and services integrating with the > clouds > - Performance evaluation, measurement, and modeling of cloud based mobile > services and applications > - Resource discovery, allocation, scheduling, and management for cloud based > mobile services > - Partitioning technologies distributing computing workloads between clouds > and mobile devices > - Mobile web services integrating cloud computing infrastructure > - Security and privacy issues for integrating clouds with mobile services > - Mobile virtualization techniques and platforms > - Economic analysis, revenue models, billing techniques for cloud based > mobile services > - Network and storage architectures for mobile clouds > - Processing, mining, and storage of mobile context data using clouds > > Submissions will be solicited and all papers are subject to peer review. Each > paper will be reviewed by at least two peers and their collective comments > will be taken into consideration to decide paper acceptance. Full technical > papers: up to 6 pages in ACM format. Short position or demo papers: up to 2 > pages in ACM format > > Workshop Deadlines > ------------------ > Submissions due: June 1, 2012 (Extended) > Notification to authors: June 25, 2012 > Camera-ready copy due: July 2, 2012 > > Paper Submission site: > http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiarch2012 > > > Workshop Chairs > --------------- > Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany > Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research, USA > K K Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA > > > Steering Committee > ------------------ > Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK > Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland > Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen, Germany > Marco Gruteser, Rutgers University, USA > Katherine Guo, Bell Laboratories, USA > Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland > Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA > > Program Committee > ----------------- > Jacky Shen > Xinbing Wang > Gregg Vesonder > Marco Gruteser > Joerg Ott > Katherine Guo > Robin Chen > Lingjie Duan > Erran Li > Wenguang Chen > Chuan Wu > Lukas Kencl > Teruo Higashino > Adam Wolisz > Anders Lindgren > Pan Hui > Karthik Kannan > Peter Steenkiste > Petri Mähönen > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 goSMART 2012 (Deadline in 2 days)
by Lars Wolf 25 May '12

25 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE goSMART 2012 (Deadline in 2 days) Datum: Fri, 25 May 2012 10:04:57 +1000 Von: Salil Kanhere <salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple postings ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CFP: FIRST IEEE International Workshop On GlObal Trends in SMART Cities (goSMART) (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2012) Clearwater, Florida, USA 22-25 October 2012 Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gosmart Submission Deadline Extended: 27 May 2012 More than half of the world's population lives in urban areas today. The current trend of unprecedented migration from rural areas to urban centers is expected to continue in the near future. This increasing urbanization has placed continuous and increasing pressure upon infrastructure, residential and commercial properties, and social communities. Cities of the future can be models of environmental efficiency, because increased density and better management reduce the cost of service delivery, promote innovation, and enable prosperity through economic development. The goSMART workshop will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners from around the world to discuss and exchange ideas on recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, IT systems, applications and service to realize smart communities of the future. Topics of interest include but are not limited to - sensor networks for large-scale urban sensing - smart grid and efficient energy management - deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas - traffic management and efficiency - mechanisms to measure quality of life of communities - participatory sensing for smart cities - security and privacy implications - methods to reduce carbon footprint of cities - mechanisms for motivating behavior change towards sustainability - experimental testbeds and simulation environments - smart clouds for management of large-scale data - service delivery and logistics planning Submitted papers will be reviewed by three independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE Explore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 8 camera-ready pages (in 10 pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e. Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica or equivalent. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. All papers must include title, complete contact information of all authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Important Dates: (Extended) Submission Deadline: 27 May 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 30 June 2012 Camera-Ready Deadline: 28 July 2012 Workshop Co-Chairs Satoko Itaya, NEC C&C Innovation Research Laboratories, Japan Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia Stefan Aust, NEC Communication Systems, Japan Standing Committee Shinichi Doi, NEC C&C Innovation Research Laboratories, Japan Chun-Tung Chou, The University of New South Wales, Australia Peter Davis, Telecognix Corporation, Japan ________________________________________ Salil Kanhere, PhD, SMIEEE, SMACM Senior Lecturer School of Computer Science and Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia E-mail: salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~salilk Tel: +61 2 9385 6927 Fax: +61 2 9385 5995 UNSW CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G Legal Disclaimer: http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/emailids.htm ______________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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] CFPs: 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices
by Lars Wolf 24 May '12

24 May '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFPs: 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices Datum: Thu, 24 May 2012 10:16:44 +0800 Von: Hongbo Jiang <hongbojiang2004(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFPs 1st IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Smart Devices (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2012), Anaheim, California, USA Paper Submission: June 1, 2012 Paper Acceptance: August 15, 2012 Camera-Ready: September 15, 2012 Please check http://etsd.it.ubi.pt/index.html for submission details. _______________________________________________ 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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