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[Fwd: [ewsn09] CFP: European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09)]
by Lars Wolf 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ewsn09] CFP: European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09) Datum: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:30:20 -0500 Von: Chenyang Lu <lu(a)cse.wustl.edu> An: <ewsn09(a)cse.wustl.edu> ============================================================================ EWSN 2009 Call for Papers The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks February 11th-13th, Cork, Ireland http://www.ewsn.org/ ============================================================================ EWSN is acknowledged as one of the most competitive and well-established international conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It attracts papers of the highest quality from researchers around the globe, emphasizing work that involves inter-disciplinary collaboration. EWSN is consistently well-attended, with delegates that reflect a healthy mix of university academics and industry representatives, that are drawn from all the major centers of WSN research activity and that span all the main continents. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experiences and backgrounds, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. Submissions describing original, previously unpublished research results, are sought. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN Hardware: transceiver concepts, antenna design, system integration and manufacturing, battery technology and energy harvesting; * Communication Protocols: MAC and link layer issues, radio resource assignment, routing and transport protocols, topology control protocols, gateways to Internet and other networks, 6LoWPAN; * Algorithms and Protocols: localization techniques and protocols, performance control, time synchronization and related protocols, object tracking; * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions: concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor networks, high-level programming abstractions; * Middleware and Service Infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, network management, group communication, QoS support, integrating WSNs in existing middleware architectures; * Information Processing: storage, querying, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection; * Practical Models and Algorithms: resource consumption, network performance, network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment, mobility models; * Security and Resilience: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering, failure resilience and fault isolation, robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware; * Novel Applications: application requirements, experiences with real-world applications, management of (large-scale) sensor networks; * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within testbeds, debugging and testing, experimental validation/refutation of simulation results. Chairs Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Important Dates, Full Papers Submission: Sept 17th 2008 Notification: Nov 10th 2008 Camera-ready: Nov 24th 2008 Important Dates, Posters and Demos Submission: Dec 1st 2008 Notification: Dec 15th 2008 Camera-ready: Jan 9th 2009 Full Papers (no more than 16 pages): This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. Posters and Demos (no more than 2 pages): The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. Submission guidelines and further information is available at http://www.ewsn.org. The organizers can be contacted at ewsn09-chairs(a)cs.ucc.ie. _______________________________________________ ewsn09 mailing list ewsn09(a)mail.cse.wustl.edu http://mail.cse.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/ewsn09

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Tridentcom 2009 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Tridentcom 2009 CFP Datum: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:28:00 +0800 Von: Brad <brad(a)wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ===================================================================== Call for Papers 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (Tridentcom) April 6-8, 2009, Washington D.C., USA www.tridentcom.org/cfp.htm TridentCom 2009 represents a landmark in the history of international testbed conferences. With the rapid convergence of networks and applications, changes in related industries, more complex value chains and increased competition, early prototyping and experimentation will become a key means for driving innovation and development of market oriented solutions. In this context, value generation has shifted from network technologies towards applications and content. Thus, the nature and scope of testbeds have changed substantially in recent years from solely network technologies towards complex service delivery infrastructures riding on various networks. In contrast to traditional vendor, operator and technology specific "closed" testbeds, the notion of "open" testbeds has emerged. "Open" in this context means both wide access as a shared resource and extensibility to include on-demand new end systems, network technologies, protocol stacks, and, most importantly, new middleware and service delivery platforms for specific test purposes. To meet this need, major research and development programs have started around the globe, including GENI in the U.S. and FIRE in Europe, to establish large scale experimental facilities. TridentCom 2009 will provide a forum to explore existing and planned testbed concepts, infrastructures, and tools to address the research and business challenges in a world of global convergence. Prospective authors from academia, industry and government are invited to submit high quality papers in two categories, Full Papers and Testbed Practices Papers, as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to: * Next Generation Internet and Clean Slate Protocol Stack Testbeds * GRID Testbeds and P2P Testbeds * Automonic Communications and Self-managing Network Testbeds * Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds * Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds * Ubiquitous Network and Seamless Services Testbeds * End System and Sensor Testbeds * Smart Home and Converged Communication and Media Services Testbeds * SOA/Web 2.0 Services Testbeds * Next Generation Services Testbeds * Service Creation and Provisioning Testbeds * Next Generation Networks, IMS, and Quad Play Testbeds * Configurable Hardware/Software Platforms for Testbeds * Testbed Tools for Interoperability, Benchmarking and Traffic Measurements * Innovative Measurements Methodologies and Tools for Networks and Services * Industrial informatics * Wireless industrial communications * Networked industrial automation Important dates: Papers due (to be received by): October 1, 2008 Demo proposals due: November 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers: January 15, 2009 The conference proceedings will be published as Springer LNICST electronically as well as in hard copy. The proceedings will be accessible via LNICST's dedicated website, which is coming soon. Authors are invited to submit Full Papers of up to 10 pages and Testbed Practices Papers of up to 6 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the LNICST format. Proposals for workshops, panels and tutorials are also welcome. Submission and format instructions are available on the website: http://www.tridentcom.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] HAVE 2008 CFP ==> Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games
by A. El Saddik 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

HAVE 2008 – 7^th IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/HAVE2008 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 18-19 October 2008 /Organized by the TC-15 Virtual Systems of the IEEE I&M Society, the TC-28 Instrumentation and Measurement for Robotics and Automation, and the TC-37 Measurements and Networking of the IEEE I&M Society with the technical cooperation of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, "IEEE/CIS Virtual Reality Task Force and the/ / Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE I&M Society/ CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are solicited on all aspects of the multimodal haptic and visual virtual environment technologies and related applications to tele-haptic robotics, design, tele-medicine, arts, education and training, Entertainment and Games. This includes but is not limited to: haptic & audio/visual sensors and displays, multimodal perception and psychophysics, object modeling, multi-sensor data fusion, soft computing techniques, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtualized reality, APIs, RTIs, collaborative distributed virtual environments, and applications. Deadline for extended abstract or draft paper submission: 1 August 2008 Submit your paper (4-6 pages) electronically using the web submission form available at: http://www.discover.uottawa.ca/HAVE2008. The acceptance/rejection decision will be emailed by September 1, 2008. The final manuscript is due by September 15, 2008. Submission implies willingness to register for the workshop, pay the registration fee and present the paper. Papers will be included in the proceedings only if at least one author has registered and *paid full registration fee by *September 15, 2007. If an author covers more than one paper with her/his registration, to guarantee inclusion in the proceedings, she/he must have paid *a US$50 surcharge for each paper in excess of one* (no exceptions). *Honorary Chair:* Mel Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University *General Chairs:* Peter Liu, University of Carleton Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa *Technical Program Co-Chairs:* Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa Alex Garcia-Alonso, Universidad del País Vasco *Demo Chair:* Jongeun Cha, University of Ottawa This year we are soliciting demos. 2-4 pages technical description of each demo will be published in the IEEE HAVE Proceedings and digital library. -- Best regards -- Abed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik SMIEEE, P.Eng. University Research Chair in Ambient Interactive Media & Communications Director: Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab) Director: Information Technology Cluster, Ontario Research Network on Electronic Commerce (ORNEC) School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) University of Ottawa 800 King Edward, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 Tel: (613) 562-5800 x 6277, Fax: (613) 562-5664 Email: abed(a)mcrlab.uottawa.ca Web: http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L’Université canadienne / Canada’s University

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[Tccc] CFP: BIONETICS 2008 (submission deadline extended)
by Naoki Wakamiya 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS BIONETICS 2008 3rd International Conference on Bio inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems http://www.bionetics.org/ Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan, Nov 25-28, 2008 *** Technically co-sponsored by IEEE COMSOC, IEEE CIS, and IEEE SMC (planned) *** In co-operation with ACM SIGSIM and SIGCAS Jointly sponsored by CREATE-NET, ICST *** Extended submission deadline: July 15, 2008 *** ***************************************************************** Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. The fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems, capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behavior and response time, under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities. Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. Based on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical solutions which have similar high stability and efficiency as biological entities often have. The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following areas including but not limited to the these topics: a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools: - Mathematical models of biological processes - Cellular signaling pathways - Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties - Nano-scale and molecular communication b) Bio-inspired algorithms and mechanisms - Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms - Artificial immune and self-healing systems - Self-organizing network paradigms - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms c) Bio-inspired technical systems: - Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems - Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization - Pandemic service deployment strategies - Self-learning defense strategies d) Bio-inspired information and communication systems (ICT): - Network algorithms and protocols - Autonomic communication systems - Evolution of network architectures and protocols - Adaptive and self-healing network architectures - In-network processing and autonomic networking - Adaptive sensor and actor networks - Topology control and network organization - Localization and synchronization - Mobility models - Multi-agent systems and robotics - Novel applications and services - Network and information security - Experimental studies Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages or short papers of up to 4 pages in ACM conference proceedings format. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM DL and indexed by EI. Please follow the instructions on the website (http://www.bionetics.org) for formatting and submitting your paper or visit the link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=bionetics2008. ---------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Submission deadline: July 15, 2008 (extended) Acceptance notification: August 20, 2008 Camera Ready Paper: September 1, 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- BIONETICS 2008 Committees General Co-Chairs: Masayuki Murata, Osaka University Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University TPC Co-Chairs: Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net Tatsuya Suda, University of Irvine, California Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen Panel Co-Chairs: Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR Publicity Co-Chairs: Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University Xiuzhen Cheng, Georgia Washington University Jian-Qin Liu, NICT Publication Co-Chairs: Suyong Eum, Osaka University Giusi Alfano, CREATE-NET Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Conference Coordination Chair: Dorothy Bany, ICST Local Arrangement & Web Chair: Shin'ichi Arakawa, Osaka University Bioinformatics Track Chair: Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge Industry Track Co-Chairs: Atsuhiro Tanaka, NEC Workshop Chair: Yuki Moritani, NTT Docomo _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE CCNC 2009 - CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE CCNC 2009 - CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14 Datum: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:18:18 -0400 Von: John Buford <buford(a)samrg.org> Antwort an: buford(a)samrg.org An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu IEEE CCNC 2009 - CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14 IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2009 10 - 13 January 2009, Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - the 6th annual international conference - brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC 2009, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE CCNC's Technical Program in the following areas of consumer communications and networking: + Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics + Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks + Entertainment & Multimedia Networking + Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery + Emerging Applications & Pervasive Technolgies + Security for CE Communications For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 Important Technical Program Deadlines: Technical Papers Due: 14 July 2008 (DEADLINE EXTENDED) Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 _____________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for the following Special Sessions: Service-Oriented Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Digital Entertainment, Networked Virtual Environment and Creative Technology IPTV - Toward Seamless Infotainment Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Beyond GPS - Where Navigation meets Consumer Communications Challenges in Future Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Scalable Adaptive Multicast in P2P Overlays Wireless Technologies for High-Speed Video/Audio/Gaming Entertainment Networks Virtual Worlds Collaboration and Communication Multimedia Information Processing on Wireless Sensor Networks Advanced Home Networks Over P2P Overlays Special Session Papers Due: 31 July 2008 Acceptance Notification: 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork: 10 October 2008 _____________________________________________________________ Submissions are also welcomed for Short Papers, Tutorials, Demonstrations, and Technical Panels. Short Papers Due: 19 Sept 2008 Tutorials Due: 15 August 2008 Demonstrations Due: 12 September 2008 Technical Panels Due: 17 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 __________________________________________________________ Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Showcase your brand to the most influential engineering audience in consumer electronics. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 _________________________________________________________ Honorary Chair K. T. Lee, CTO Samsung Group, Korea General Co-Chairs Simon Gibbs and Alan Messer Samsung, USA Technical Program Chair John Buford, Avaya Labs, USA TPC Vice-Chairs Track: Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics R. Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Track: Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Track: Entertainment and Multimedia Networking Zhu Li, Motorola Labs, USA Track: Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany Track: Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Security for CE Communications Chi-Sung Laih, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China Workshop Chair Kurt Tutschku, NICT, Japan Special Sessions Chair Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, UK Short Papers Chair Florence Kolberg, University of Strathclyde, UK Tutorial Chairs Dr. Frank den Hartog, TNO, The Netherlands Dr. V. Prasad, Delft U. of Technology Technology Applications Panels Chair Shoshana Loeb, Telcordia, USA Demonstration Chairs Andreas Heiner, Nokia, Finland Subir Saha, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] submission deadline extended, CFP: 2008 Int. Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), Dec 13~15 2008, Hainan Island, China
by Ming-Tuo Zhou 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ***************************************************************** submission deadline extended to July 15 2008 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), December 13th ~ 15th, 2008, Hainan Island, China. http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/WITS/ In conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2008), http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/ SCOPE & Topics =============== A number of wireless communications technologies have been developed in recent years to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications. This workshop covers the area of wireless communications technologies for ITS applications. It will bring together researchers to present new results and describe work in progress to reflect the latest advances in the state of the art in design, modeling, simulation, and applications of this area. The topics of the workshop cover, but not limited to, the following: * Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies Submission: =========================== Authors are invited to submit original papers: They must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings. All accepted papers in WITS-08 will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society(IEEE CS), included in IEEEXplore database and indexed by EI. Papers must be prepared with only PDF. Please use IEEE CS paper format (See website to download the template in MSWORD or LaTeX). Authors should submit paper with about 4 pages (short paper), 6 pages (regular paper) or 8 pages (full paper: 2 pages extra chage). Submissions must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, references and figures, with only PDF. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the workshop. The submission should be done according to the guidelines on http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/. The extended versions of the accepted and presented selected papers will be published in one of the special issues below * Springer Journal of Cluster Computing (SCIE), Special Issue on "Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks" * Inderscience International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), Special Issue on “Cognitive Radio Systems” Important Dates: ================ Extended Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Due: September 1, 2008 Workshop Date: December 13-15, 2008 Workshop Committee: ================== General Chair Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway General Co-Chair Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece TPC Chair Ming-Tuo Zhou, NICT (Japan), Singapore TPC Co-Chair Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] Personalized Networks (PerNets) cfp, within IEEE CCNC
by Paolo Bellavista 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) - http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ January 13, 2008 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library ============================================================ Purpose of this workshop The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address. On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before. For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user's desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet together onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located - be they local or remote. It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet. It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner. It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation. Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today. There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication network community in realizing a Personalized Network. Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc. They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context aware services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case. These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust. Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified: * Architectures and systems * End-to-end networking * Security and privacy * Operations, administration, management, and provisioning Scope of the submission We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network. * The architectural framework of personalized networks * Context awareness and support * Resource, service and context discovery * Self-organization and adaptation * Addressing and routing * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Security, privacy and accounting * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person centric applications are equally valued Why should you participate in this workshop? Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications. It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl General chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] Keynote Announcement - CFP: IEEE DANMS 2008 (co-located with Globecom 2008)
by Yangcheng Huang 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.) Keynote Announcement: "In-network Management: a shift in the management paradigm?" Dr. Marcus Brunner, NEC Laboratories Europe "Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking" Prof. Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Submission Deadline: 15 July (Submission URL: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6653&track=4693&) ====================================================== Call for Papers DANMS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Co-located with Globecom 2008, New Orleans, USA 30 November, 2008 http://www.danms.org The DANMS workshop series focuses on distributed and autonomous principles for network management and applications of those principles in network design. This year's workshop emphasizes Service Centric Network Management considering the impact on the system, across the whole information flow from service creation to deployment in the network. This workshop is looking for full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences with existing systems and industrial developments in the field of autonomous network management. Papers with a deep focus on a specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines are encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: Architecture and Systems Topics relating to Autonomic Networks * Cross-layer system architecture design * Middleware and O&M techniques for network management * Resource modeling approaches for network management * Peer-to-peer techniques for autonomic network management * Scalability issues in network management * Security aspects in network management Autonomic Techniques * Adaptive & context-based self-management in networks * Policy (refinement techniques, policy models) * Knowledge based techniques to support autonomics * Data management for real-time dynamic service provisioning * Real-time MIB engineering to provide cross-layer provisioning Aspects of Service Management * Use of semantics to enable service deployment and composition * Automated service composition and orchestration * Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers Case Studies in Existing & Emerging Networks * Lessons, shortcomings and real world experiences with existing network management systems, protocols and architectures. * Experiences with service deployment in challenged networks (ad-hoc, pervasive, sensor etc.) and the implications on the network management plane Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2008 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 September, 2008 Workshop Date: 30 November, 2008 Workshop Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada Rolf Stadler, KTH Sweden TPC Chairs: Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Organizing Team: Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Technical Program Committee: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni. of Evry Val d'Essonne, France Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica I+D, Spain Javier Baliosian, Uni. of the Republic, Uruguay Arosha K Bandara, Open University, UK Saleem Bhatti, Uni. of St Andrews, UK Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ericsson Ireland Research Monica Brockmeyer, Wayne State University, USA Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zoran Despotovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Simon Dobson, UCD, Ireland Susanne Engberg, Ericsson Research, Sweden Patrick Eugster, Purdue Uni., USA Alex Galis, University College London, UK Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Labs, UK Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA James Hong, POSTECH Korea Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS Germany Richard Mortier, Vipadia, UK Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Francoise Sailhan, LIFC Uni. of Franche Comté, France Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA Maarten van Steen, Vrije Uni., Netherlands Filip de Turck, Ghent University, Belgium Carlos Westphall, Federal Uni. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria Xiaoyun Zhu, Hetlett Packard Labs, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '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 Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France. 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: IEEE CCNC Special Session on Virtual Worlds
by Krishna Dhara (Kishore) 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds" Part of 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference CCNC 2009, 10 - 13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ The conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Paper Deadline: July 31, 2008. ************** Call for Papers ************** Special Session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds combine 3D web technologies with social networking techniques to offer new models of user interactions, collaborative learning, information sharing, and present new business opportunities. Collaboration and communication in virtual worlds are key to the success of these models. Using advances from various studies on virtual reality environments, existing virtual worlds provide a rich environment for users to provide new and innovative end user services. These end user services depend on multiple users collaborating in shared spaces, interaction with other users and with other worlds, real time nature of user interactions in virtual environments, collaboration and communication tools in virtual environments, scalability, and security. The goal of this special session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds is to provide a forum for researchers, architects, and practitioners for discussing these and other related issues to collaboration and communication in virtual worlds and virtual environments. We solicit papers covering various topics that include (but not limited to) the following: * Sharing Spaces in VR environments * User Interactions in VR * Real-time or immediacy of interactions * Chat, voice, or video communication in virtual worlds * Collaboration tools and techniques in VR applications * Social networking in VR environments * Collaborative learning in Virtual Worlds * Consumer-business interactions * Enterprise collaboration in VWs * Scalability, security, and persistence of VR Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author Information on the CCNC web site. Important Dates: Papers submission: July 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2008 Camera-ready versions: Oct 10, 2008 Session Organizer: Krishna Kishore Dhara Avaya Labs Research 1N275, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd Lincroft, NJ, USA. dhara(a)research.avayalabs.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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