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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IJAACS special issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in DTV and VANETs [Deadline extended to July 1]]
by Lars Wolf 28 May '08

28 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IJAACS special issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in DTV and VANETs [Deadline extended to July 1] Datum: Wed, 28 May 2008 12:54:34 +0900 Von: Zonghua Zhang <zonghua.zhang(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <abcc67750805272053g7ab36051jc377daeaebc22cf(a)mail.gmail.com> Apologies for possible cross-posting. Please feel free to distribute this CFP to your colleagues. Call for papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems ( IJAACS)* Special Issue on: "Security, Trust, and Privacy in DTN and Vehicular Communications" *http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=857 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recent years have witnessed the rapid development and wide-spread application of wireless communication technologies, which have significantly enhanced access to Internet services and provide various means for ubiquitous computing that enables high-speed and high-quality information exchange between mobile/portable devices located anywhere in the globe. Among the various application scenarios enabled by these technologies, DTN (Delay-Tolerant Networks) and VANETs (Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks) represent the most promising and popular ones, as they are characterized by autonomous and adaptive communications. DTN concerns partial sub-networks, aiming at providing network connections between devices and areas that are not well-served by current networking technology. The nodes in DTN carry the packets while they are moving, and then forward the packets once a wireless connection is available between them. Vehicular communications allow the real-time information exchange between vehicles and infrastructures, with the objective of enhancing road safety and optimizing road traffic. VANETs are primarily enabled by inter-vehicular (or Car-to-Car, C2C) communications and vehicle-roadside communications (or Car-to-Infrastructure, C2I). Despite their tremendous potential and far-reaching impacts on the revolution of human life, both DTNs and VANETs suffer from security and privacy issues which dramatically limit their applications. First of all, they have similar vulnerabilities to other wireless networks, which allow attackers to manipulate and inject messages, breaching system availability, confidentiality and integrity. Besides the traditional prevention techniques, trust management may serve as another security basis for nodes cooperation and information dissemination. Furthermore, the unique characteristics of DTNs and VANETs such as uncertain mobility and unpredictable latency, make security for those networks even more challenging. In particular, due to the frequent disconnections between nodes in DTNs, distributed certificate authorities rather than centralized ones are more desirable (while the frequent distribution of a large amount of certificates should be avoided due to high round-trip time), and the user credentials/keys should be updated periodically instead of relying on revocation messages. Moreover, due to the sporadic connectivity and long delay of message transmissions in DTNs, secure message management is needed to eliminate expired messages and avoid information leakage. In VANETs, the high-speed mobility and the large number of network entities call for time-efficient and cost-saving authorization and authentication models, as well as fast attacker detection, revocation and trace back schemes. In addition, both DTN and VANETs suffer from the privacy-invasive issue, which naturally arises in the environment where the mobile equipments are bounded to the moving users. A suite of privacy-preserving techniques are required to provide the fine level protection of the critical information and user profiles, e.g., a set of equipments related to a particular user in DTNs, personal information (and the liability in case of authority investigation) related to drivers and passengers in VANETs. This special issue is devoted to the most state-of-the-art proposals and cutting-edge research achievements on security and privacy issues in both DTN and VANETs. *Object Coverage* We solicit papers that report original and unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following: - Anonymity, authentication and key management - Attacker trace back - Denial of service and Sybil attacks - Identity theft and phishing in VANETs - Location privacy and user privacy - Intrusion detection, misbehaviour detection and response - Privacy preserving - Revocation of compromised nodes - Security models/architectures and threat models - Secure communications protocols - Secure positioning - Secure billing in VANETs - Surveillance and monitoring - Tamper proof device - Trust management - Vulnerability/attacker modeling and analysis *Notes for Prospective Authors* Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the *Author Guidelines <http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31>* page at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31 . Submission can be directed to GEs via emails. *Important Dates* Manuscripts due: *1 July, 2008* Notification to authors: *1 November, 2008* Revised papers due: *1 December, 2008* *Guest Editors* Zonghua Zhang National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795 Japan *Email*: zonghua.zhang(a)nict.go.jp Farid Naït-Abdesselam University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex France *Email*: naf(a)ieee.org Sherali Zeadally University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC 20008 USA *Email*: szeadally(a)udc.edu Antonio Casimiro University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences 1749-016 Lisboa Portugal *Email*: casim(a)di.fc.ul.pt _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 27 May '08

27 May '08

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[Tccc] CFP: 1st ACM Workshop on Network Data Anonymization - deadline extended to June 1st
by Elisa Boschi 27 May '08

27 May '08

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] -- Deadline extended to June 1st! -- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------- Network Data Anonymization (NDA) Workshop An ACM CCS workshop October 31, 2008 Alexandria, VA, USA http://www.ics.forth.gr/~antonat/nda08.html -------------------------------------------- Over the last decade, the network security community (and the Internet measurement community in general) has suffered from two fundamental and related problems: (1) a lack of "real" network data for research studies and prototype testing, and (2) a lack of network data sharing among organizations, which impedes cooperation in network defense; as attacks typically cross organizational boundaries, effective prevention requires defenders to look beyond their own perimeter in cooperation with other organizations. Anonymization techniques are crucial for the safe sharing of network data. They are necessary to obscure certain identifying information (e.g., IP addresses) in order to protect the privacy of end users and the security of internal networks. While current network data anonymization techniques are generally acknowledged to be useful, it is difficult to ensure they are free from information leakage. Also, anonymization involves fundamental tradeoffs between the protection of user privacy and the utility of the resulting data, and these tradeoffs need to be better understood. This workshop seeks to focus on new and innovative solutions for anonymizing network data that will ensure appropriate protection of host identities, network configurations, and network security practices within enterprise networks. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - data sharing via anonymization - privacy-preserving data mining - data anonymization tools - data anonymization policy creation/implementation - data anonymization case studies/best practices - streaming data anonymization - anonymization issues specific to network data - business services enabled by anonymization - data protection laws relevant to data anonymization Papers submitted documenting attacks on anonymized systems are strongly encouraged to propose a corresponding protection solution. While the focus of this workshop is on network data anonymization, applications of anonymization to other data domains ( e.g., medical data, homeland security, reputation systems, government records, transportation etc.) are welcome if the authors include a statement of relevance. ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submissions due: Sunday, May 25, 2008 --> extended to June 1st! Author notification: Monday, July 7, 2008 Camera ready papers due: Sunday, August 10, 2008 Workshop at CCS '08: Friday, October 31, 2008 --------------------- Organizing Committee: --------------------- Bill Yurcik, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) [Program Chair] Spiros Antonatos, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Michele Bezzi, SAP Research (France) Elisa Boschi, Hitachi Europe (Switzerland) Brian Trammell, CERT/NetSA (USA) ---------------------------- Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Matthias Bossardt, KPMG (Switzerland) Nevil Brownlee, CAIDA/University of Auckland (New Zealand) KC Claffy, CAIDA/University of California San Diego (USA) Michael Collins, CERT/NetSA (USA) Marco Cremonini, University of Milan (Italy) Michalis Foukarakis, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Carrie Gates, CA Labs (USA) David Maltz, Microsoft (USA) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (Canada) Ruoming Pang, Google (USA) Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo (Italy) Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Carsten Schmoll, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) Tim Shimeall, CERT/NetSA (USA) Panos Trimintzios, European Network and Information Security Agency (Greece) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '08

26 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications Datum: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:14:14 +0800 Von: Qian Zhang <qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: <sci(a)engr.unl.edu>, <haohong(a)ieee.org>, "'Aggelos K. Katsaggelos'" <aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu>, <anargyr(a)ieee.org> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies. *Call for Papers* *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia* *Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications* *Guest Editors: * *Aggelos Katsaggelos*, Northwestern University, aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu <mailto:aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu> *Song Ci*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu> *Haohong Wang*, Marvell Semiconductors, haohong(a)ieee.org <mailto:haohong@ieee.org> *Qian Zhang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk <mailto:qianzh@cse.ust.hk> *Antonios Argyriou*, Phillips Research Laboratories, anargyr(a)ieee.org <mailto:anargyr@ieee.org> *Timeline:* Manuscript Submission: October 1st, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: March 15th, 2009 Publication: August 2009 With the rapid growing of emerging multimedia communications applications, such as online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, and mobile TV, along with the prevalent HD contents and the ever-increasing hardware capability with lower cost, consumers nowadays are seeking for higher quality of multimedia services in terms of desirable audio and visual quality, friendly user interactivity, powerful system adaptability and capability, and other user-preferred performance metrics. However, various applications and media formats may have different quality evaluation criteria and control parameters. For example, scalability and interactivity are very crucial performance metrics for 3D graphics scene model representation and delivery, while they may not be that important for some other multimedia applications. Thus, there is a strong impetus to develop new quality evaluation methodologies for various media formats under different multimedia application scenarios. Recently, cross-layer design has become a popular design methodology for enhancing Quality-of-Service (QoS) over various multimedia communications systems. However, most existing cross-layer designs for QoS provisioning in multimedia communications are mainly focused on improving network-oriented QoS such as throughput, delay, and jitter, while the multimedia application-oriented QoS have not been fully considered in the existing cross-layer design optimization. Therefore, quality-driven multimedia communications need to be extensively investigated under various communications scenarios involving audio, video, VoIP, image, and/or graphics. Under such a background, it is very important to highlight the importance of quality-driven cross-layer design as one of the enabling technologies for the next-generation quality-aware service-oriented multimedia networks. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of quality-driven cross-layer designs for multimedia communications. Original completed and unpublished works not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: User perceptual quality enhancement methodology Media quality measurements for communications applications Optimized 3D graphics scene representation and transmissions Optimized image/video representation and transmissions Optimized audio/speech coding and transmissions Content-aware cross-layer design and optimization Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design Quality-driven cross-layer design architecture Quality-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control Quality-driven cross-layer MAC and routing protocols Cross-layer protocol stacks for quality support Performance evaluation of quality-driven cross-layer system design Standardization issues related to quality-driven cross-layer design Cross-layer design for P2P streaming Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks *Submission Procedure: * Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html <http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html>. Note that mandatory over-length page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. A completed copyright form is required to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page. More specifically, please note that the following five items must be ready before you submit your paper: • A single-column, double-spaced (1-column) version of 30 pages or less for regular papers, 12 pages or less for correspondence papers • A double-column, single-spaced (2-column) version of 8 pages or less for regular papers, 6 pages or less for correspondence papers • Complete contact information for ALL authors on the cover page (name, address, e-mail, phone, fax) • A fully executed and signed IEEE Copyright Form (kindly write the paper number on top of the form for identification) either by to fax: +1.732.235.1627, or you may e-mail a scanned version to d.tomaro(a)ieee.org <mailto:d.tomaro@ieee.org> • References (not yet published). You will need to e-mail (to sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu>) a .pdf file for each of the references listed in your paper that have NOT YET been published or are otherwise hard to access for reviewers. Updated information of this call can be found at: http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci <http://www.engr.unl.edu/%7Esci>.

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CfP Autonomics 2008
by Falko Dressler 26 May '08

26 May '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** AUTONOMICS 2008 ***** 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics.eu/ September 23-25, 2008, Turin, Italy In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The Autonomics conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics 2008 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: June 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2008 Final version due: August 15, 2008 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through Easychair <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=autonomics2008>. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed in the ACM digital library and indexed by EI. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: A. Manzalini, (Telecom Italia, Italy Vice Chair: F. Saffre, BT Group, UK Steering Committee: I. Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy D. Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy R. Baldoni, Univ. of Roma, Italy F. Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy TPC Co-Chairs: F. Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany L. Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Industry Chair: R. Ghizzioli, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Workshop Chair: C. Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy Publication Co-Chairs: A. Di Ferdinando. Imperial College, UK Publicity Co-Chairs: B. K. Benko, Budapest Univ., Hungary Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Local Chair: G. Alfano, Politech. Torino, Italy Web Chair: D. Schreckling, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab, ICST -- Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler Computer Networks and Communication Systems University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Phone: +49 9131 85-27914 / Fax: +49 9131 85-27409 EMail: dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de / fd(a)acm.org WWW: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/

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[Tccc] [ACM PE-WASUN 2008]: Call for Paper
by Isabelle Guerin-Lassous 26 May '08

26 May '08

[CFP] ACM PE-WASUN 2008: Deadline Extended! We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE! paper registration June 1st, 2008 (firm) paper upload deadline: June 4, 2008 (firm) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2008 5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 11th ACM MSWiM Symposium) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun08 Vancouver, CANADA 27-31 October, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Yasunori Owada Space-Time Engineering Inc., Japan Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Chiara Petrioli University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Samuel Pierre Ecole Polytechnique Montr??, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted via OpenConf on the following link: http://pe-wasun08.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/openconf/openconf.php. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: June 1st, 2008 - Extended! Full paper due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CHANTS 2008 Call for Demos Reminder
by Katia Obraczka 26 May '08

26 May '08

The demo submission deadline for CHANTS 08 is fast approaching. See the Call for Demos below. Katia Obraczka UC Santa Cruz CHANTS'08 Demo Chair ============== Call for Demos Third Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2008) Co-located with Mobicom 2008, 15 September 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop URI: http://wavedesk.usc.edu/chants/ Important Dates: Demo submission deadline: 5 June 2008 Demo acceptance notification: 16 June 2008 Camera-ready due: 29 June 2008 Workshop date: 15 September 2008 Challenged networks are characterized by a heterogeneous mix of nodes and widely varying network conditions. Nodes in today's challenged networks often include mobile nodes, space-based nodes, sensor/actuator nodes and other devices. Performance of the network paths interconnecting such nodes can be highly varying in terms of bandwidth, latency, disruption characteristics and security requirements. Conventional Internet access in performance-limited environments such as developing countries can also be regarded as challenged networks as can be ad-hoc communication between personal devices. The Internet protocol architecture suffers some problems when used in a challenged network setting. For example, when disconnection and reconnection is common or link performance is highly variable or extreme, one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop following CHANTS 2007, CHANTS 2006 and WDTN 2005, we wish to explore ongoing efforts in dealing with physical networks that operate significantly differently from wired, connected networks and the protocol architectures and algorithms used to deal with such situations. Techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are also in scope. CHANTS 2008 Demonstration Program offers an excellent way to showcase to attendees from academia and industry tangible results from research and development in the exciting area of challenged networks. Demos have the ability to communicate ideas and concepts in a very powerful way. We invite you to contribute your vision and experience with challenged networks to CHANTS 2008 Demonstration Program. Demo proposals shall present recent practical results from the area of challenged networks. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable, too. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be published in the Conference proceedings. Topics: Characterization of performance-challenged networks e.g. measurements, modelling. Networking systems operating over unusual/challenged networks. Protocol design and evaluation of operations over challenged networks. System architecture and design for challenged networks. Applications in challenged networks. Robust network application design and implementation techniques. Delay tolerant and disruption tolerant networks (DTN). Configuration and management of challenged networks. Format and submission instructions: Demo proposal abstracts (to be published as part of the proceedings) shall not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements. Submitted abstracts should be formatted in two columns, with characters no smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. Demo proposals should be sent as a pdf e-mail attachment to chants08-demo(a)inrg.soe.ucsc.edu. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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SIMUTools'09: Call for papers
by Claudio Cicconetti 25 May '08

25 May '08

++++ SIMUTools 2009 ++++ Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques March 2-6, 2009 - Rome (Italy) http://www.simutools.org ++ Sponsored by ICST ++ In technical cooperation with SIGSIM, SCS, INRIA (approval pending) ++ Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 ++ SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices. -- TOPICS -- The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are not limited to: ** Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event, Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation interoperability techniques, etc. ** Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc. The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks, computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.) * Mobility models * Overlay networks * Network traffic modeling and generation * Topology generation * Quality of service * Networked applications and new networking paradigms * Energy-efficient computing * Distributed systems * Operating systems * Interconnection networks * Fault tolerant systems * Embedded and real time systems * Logistics * Security and emergency response * Health care * Transportation * Manufacturing * Education and training * Environmental and biological systems * Social networks * Public systems -- SUBMISSION -- Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through easychair (http://www.easychair.org). Regular papers (7 to 10 pages) will be eligible for awards and journal extension. The conference will include a "work in progress" session, which will accommodate short papers (4 to 6 pages) presenting ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. -- SPONSORSHIP -- The event is organized in cooperation (approval pending) with the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, and they will be indexed by EI and ISI. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International. -- AWARDS -- Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be identified by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. -- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- We invite proposals for one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop proposals should be sent to workshop(a)simutools.org, by June 29th, 2008. Acceptance notifications will be emailed by July 15th, 2008. -- CALL FOR POSTER SESSION -- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster(a)simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 8, 2008. -- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -- ** David Nicol (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ** Francesco Quaglia (Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Workshop submission deadline: June 29th, 2008 Workshop acceptance notification: July 15th, 2008 Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 Poster submission deadline: December 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan 10, 2009 Camera ready: Jan 25, 2009 Conference: March 2-6, 2009 -- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -- Steering Chairs Imrich Chlamtach, Create-Net John Heath, University of Southern Maine General Chairs Olivier Dalle, INRIA/University of Nice Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University Local Chair Andrea D'Ambrogio, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Program Chairs Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University Conference Organization Chair Melissa Ezell, ICST Publication Chair Frederic Mallet , INRIA/University of Nice Publicity Chairs Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy (Europe) Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Asia/Pacific) Rodrigo Castro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (America) Financial Chair Karen Decker, ICST Webmaster Juan-Carlos Maureira, INRIA -- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- (to be completed) * Fernando Barros - University of Coimbra, Portugal * Luciano Bononi - University of Bologna, Italy * Jean-Pierre Briot - LIP6, Paris, France * Franck Cappello - INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France * Carlos Christoffersen - Lakehead University, Canada * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy * Bernard Espinasse - LSIS, Marseille, France * Javier Garcia Villalba - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Norbert Giambiasi - LSIS, Marseille, France * Tom Henderson - Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA * Dohy Hong - N2NSoft, France * Tania Jimenez - University of Avignon, France * Helen Karatza - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ernesto Kofman - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina * Pierre L'Ecuyer - University of Montreal, Canada * Zhen Liu - IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Chung-Horng Lung - Carleton University, Canada * Benjamin Melamed - Rutger Business School, USA * Sandor Molnar - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Pieter Mosterman - Mathworks, USA * Krzysztof Pawlikowski - University of Canterbury, New Zealand * Ramon Puigjaner - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain * Martin Quinson - University Henry Poincare' & Loria, Nancy, France * George Riley - Georgia Tech Institute, USA * Herb Schwetman - Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA * Robert Szabo - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Dietmar Tutsch - Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany * Jean-Marc Vincent - ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France * Bernard Zeigler - Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA http://www.simutools.org

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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: First Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 24 May '08

24 May '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/aasn/ To be held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’2008), Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE, October 26-30, 2008. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - New sensor network applications - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 Submission Guidelines: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08) This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ingo J. Timm , Institute of Computer Science Information Systems and Simulation, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: SOSOC 2008 - Security in Opportunistic and Social Networks
by Melek Onen 23 May '08

23 May '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************ * * * SOSOC 2008 * * * * International Workshop on * * Security in Opportunistic and SOCial Networks * * * * September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey * * (as part of SecureComm 2008) * * * * http://www.sosoc.org * * * ************************************************************ Call for papers ***************** Opportunistic Networks are considered as an evolution of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networking paradigm, in which the assumption of an existing end-to-end connectivity is relaxed. The evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. Online services that assist social networks (facebook, linkedin, xing, etc.) in consequence are able to provide additional information on contacts and their relations. The lack of end-to-end connectivity and the use of personal information for the networking operations raise entirely new privacy concerns and require new reflections on security problems. The aim of this workshop is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in Opportunistic and Social Networks. ============================= Topics of Interest ============================= - new aspects of trust - privacy concerns - availability and resilience - community based secure communication - data confidentiality, data integrity - anonymity, pseudonymity - key management - secure bootstrapping - security issues in forwarding, routing - security aspects regarding cooperation - reputation systems for opportunistic/social networks - new security issues, new attack paradigms - new requirements for software security - malware analysis in opportunistic/social networks ============================= Important Dates ============================= Submission deadline: July 7, 2008 Notification date: August 18, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 1, 2008 ============================= Submission instructions ============================= Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sosoc2008 Submissions must be made in PDF to the submission website. Paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages in ACM proceedings style. They should be thoroughly edited and read as though written by an English native speaker. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing. Authors' names must not appear in the paper. ============================= Technical Program Committee ============================= Önen, Melek EURECOM, France (co-chair) Strufe, Thorsten EURECOM, France (co-chair) Blass, Erik-Oliver EURECOM, France Cavallaro, Lorenzo UCSB, USA Conti, Mauro Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Crowcroft, Jon University of Cambridge, UK Dacier, Marc Symantec, France Di Pietro, Roberto Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Eichhorn, Alexander Simula, Norway Hecker, Artur TELECOM ParisTech, France Levi, Albert Sabanci University, Turkey Molva, Refik EURECOM, France Noubir, Guevara North Eastern University, USA Rohner, Christian Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Roudier, Yves EURECOM, France Schäfer, Günter TU Ilmenau, Germany Sotiris, Ioannidis Forth, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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