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[MM-INTEREST] CfP Workshop in Conjunction with ACM Multimedia: SAME 2008
by Artur R. Lugmayr 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Call for Papers Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2008) NAMU Series Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada; October 27th - November 1st, 2008 http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html *) several papers will be published in the ACM Multimedia 2008 proceedings; *) workshop results will be published in special issues our journals; *) deadline for papers: 30th June 2008 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP The … [View More]medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web, the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of distributed interlinked media - what is the message ambient media will tell us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer - in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information - a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the challenges: - how to select, compose, and generate ambient content? - how to present ambient content? - how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences? - what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology? - how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better supported and extended? - and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and art? The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the 'ambient media form' for entertainment services, such as: . case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) . oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas . artistic installations and running system prototypes . user-experience studies and evaluations . technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: . Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects . Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques . Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content . Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management . Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products . Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms . Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media . Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation . Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts . Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising . Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access . Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design . Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and 'x'-commerce The workshop aims at answering the following questions: . What is 'content' and how can it be presented when it becomes 'ubiquitous' and 'pervasive'? . How to select, compose and generate ambient content? . How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)? . What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? . How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? . Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? . How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? . How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema be extended by ambient media? IMPORTANT DATES . paper submission: June 30th , 2008 . notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2008 . final papers due: August 01st, 2008 please submit at: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html TARGET AUDIENCE The target audiences are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall 'participate' rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. WORKSHOP CHAIRS . Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND . Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY . Bjorn Stockleben, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), GERMANY . Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND . Kari Laurila, NOKIA, FINLAND PROGRAM COMMITTEE Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel, SWITZERLAND Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, AUSTRIA Mark Billinghurst, Canterbury University, NEW ZEALAND Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic of Porto, PORTUGAL Carsten Magerkurth, SAP Research, GERMANY Ismo Rakolainen, FogScreen, FINLAND Jan Nesvadba, Philips, THE NETHERLANDS Gabriele Kotsis, University Linz, AUSTRIA Jussi Kangasharju, Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Pablo Caesar, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, THE NETHERLANDS Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, JAPAN Tuula Leinonen, Fakegraphics, FINLAND Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, GREECE Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, FRANCE Bjorn Landfeldt, NICTA, AUSTRALIA Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ionian University, GREECE Carmen Mac Williams, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, GERMANY [View Less]

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IWSOS 2008 - Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Harald Meyer 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline for IWSOS 2008 has been ** EXTENDED ** to July 10, 2008. (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the announcement.) *************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- DEADLINE EXTENDED *************** IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 … [View More] Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): ** EXTENDED ** July 10, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): ext. to July 10, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, Scientific Systems Company, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria [View Less]

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[Tccc] AdHoc-NOW Demo session
by Srdjan Krco 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Call for Demos 7th International Conference on AD HOC Networks & Wireless, AdHoc-NOW 2008 (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/index.html) September 10-12, Sophia Antipolis, France Overview Ad HOC-NOW 2008 solicits demonstrations showing innovative research and applications. We are interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, algorithms and applications of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Demonstrations from both academia and industry related to the topics included … [View More]in the AD HOC - NOW conference CFP are encouraged. Demos will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as their potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas. Demo proposals must be limited to 3 pages (conference template <http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/cfp.html> ) and should include the following: * Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports. * Any related publications or technical reports. * Equipment to be used for the demo. * Space needed. * Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. Important dates: Demo Proposals Due: July 10, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2008 Topics of Interest: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet * Wireless Mesh Networks Submission Instructions: Proposals should be sent via email as PDF file to the Demo/poster session Co-chairs. Please indicate "AD HOC-NOW 2008 Demo Proposal Submission" as the subject of the email. All demo proposals will be reviewed by the AD HOC - NOW 2008 Poster and Demo committee. __________________________________________________ Dr Srdjan Krco Ericsson Ireland Research Centre (EIRC) E-mail: srdjan.krco(a)ericsson.com Phone:+353 1 2072238 LM Ericsson Limited Registered Office: Beech Hill, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4 Registered Number in Ireland : 21679 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you. LM Ericsson Limited does not enter into contracts or contractual obligations via electronic mail, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the parties concerned. E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interruption, unauthorised amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive e-mails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc [View Less]

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ICST - CollaborateCom2008- Deadlin: 10 July, 2008
by info＠icstconferences.org 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

COLLABORATECOM 2008 The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing Sponsored by, Create-Net and the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST)) http://www.collaboratecom.org/ The Regal Sun Resort, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10, 2008. ===========================… [View More]================================================Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools. The Fourth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, Technology and systems, and applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: * Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems * Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Collaboration in pervasive computing applications * Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries * Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures * Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services * Collaborative, location aware mobile systems/applications * Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications * Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure * Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration * Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems * Distributed collaborative workflows * Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems * Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness * Energy management for collaborative networks * Group-driven composition of systems from components * Human/robot collaboration * Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration * Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications * Modelling for collaboration * Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration * Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications * Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, & applications * P2P platforms for supporting collaboration * Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications * Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications * Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration * Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing * Tools for collaborative decision making processes * Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations * Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications * Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications * Workflow management for collaborative network/system --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPERS: We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently underreview for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. Submitted papers should be a maximum of ten pages in IEEE double column format. Best Papers will be invited for a special issue in ACM/Springer?MONET. POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have not been published elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and one page summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom08 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for workshop proposals for details. PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists, to the Panel Chairs. INDUSTRY SESSION: We are soliciting industry papers describing innovative applications, case studies and best practices with a goal of fostering collaboration between the research community and the private sector. Industrial submissions may be either full-length papers or extended abstracts up to 4 pages, and should be submitted to the Industrial Program Chairs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website www.CollaborateCom.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Accepted papers and posters will be published by the IEEE in the conference proceedings and placed on IEEE Xplore. They will also be indexed by DBLP and the Engineering Information (EI). A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE July 10, 2008 : Paper submission deadline July 11th, 2008 : Posters and panel proposals deadline March 15, 2008 : Workshop proposal deadline September 26, 2008 : Notification of acceptance October 14, 2008 : Camera ready versions Due --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * General Chairs - Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway * Technical Program Chairs - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Panel Chairs - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA * Workshop Chairs - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charollette, USA - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA * Industrial Program Chairs - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA - Claudio Bartoni, HP, USA * Tutorial chair - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA * Publication Chair - Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Local Arrangement Chair - Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA * Publicity Chair - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Conference Organization - Zsuzsi Kazsab, ICST Europe * Finance Chair - Karen Decker, ICST USA * STEERING COMMITTEE - Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy - Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA - Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA - Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA - Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Isidro Laso, D.G. Information Society and Media, EU * TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA - Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia - Cui Bin, Peking University, China - Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA - Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA - Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan - Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA - Bruno Crispo, Vrije University, Netherlands - Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK - Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, USA - Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Mohammed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA - Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy - Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Claude Godart, Nancy University, France - Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA - Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada - Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA - Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA - Minkoo Kim, Ajou University, South Korea - Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany - Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey - Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA - Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Maheswaran Muthucumaru, McGill University, Canada - Surya Nepal, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA - Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Federica Paci, Purdue University, USA - Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA - Indraskhi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA - Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France - Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA - Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA - Amy Soller, USA - Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA - Qihua Wang, Purdue University, USA - Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Xiaoxin Wu, Intel, China - Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA - Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Fwd: FW: IEEE CCNC 09: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: FW: IEEE CCNC 09: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:25:41 -0500 Von: Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng <zengw(a)missouri.edu> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> FYI. *Submissions due **29 June 2008* Regards! -Wenjun -----Original Message----- *From:* Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org [mailto:Meetings@comsocconferences.org] *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:24 AM *To:* CCNC09_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org *Subject:* IEEE CCNC 09: Call … [View More]for Papers *Empowering the Connected Consumer* *IEEE CCNC 2009 Call for Papers* *www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009>* IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – the 6th annual international conference – will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. *Technical Program *features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics, Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Entertainment and Multimedia Networking, Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery, Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies, and Security for CE Communications. *Submissions due **29 June 2008* *Tutorials *complement research reports of the technical sessions by providing participants with broad and comprehensive overviews of emerging fields. *Submissions due **15 August 2008* *Demonstrations* provide an exciting forum for researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss new applications and techniques, research demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming research challenges, practical implementations, commercial developments, and future directions. *Submissions due **12 September 2008* *Technical Panels* include, but are not limited to Home Networking; WLANs; Power Line Communications; Coax networks; UWB, Bluetooth; Home control, AMI; IPTV and Networking; Residential Gateways; Data Broadcasting; DRM; Device Control; UPnP, Bonjour; DLNA, IGRS; Multiplayer Networked Games; Regulatory Issues; Investments; and Other Consumer Applications. *Submissions due 17 September 2008* *Short Papers *are* *related to any of the conference technical topics that summarize speculative breakthroughs, work-in-progress, industry featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. *Submissions due 19 September 2008* For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ *_ _* *Important Technical Program Deadlines:* Technical Papers 29 June 2008 Acceptance Notification 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork 10 October 2008 *_ _*_ _ *Tutorials, Demonstrations, Technical Panels, Short Papers Deadlines:* Tutorials 15 August 2008 Demonstrations 12 September 2008 Technical Panels 17 September 2008 Short Papers 19 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ *_ _* <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/>*Patronage* *IEEE CCNC Patrons include Panasonic, Samsung, and Nokia.* Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! *http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/* *_ _* <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/>*Organizing Committee* */Honorary Chair/** Ki Tae Lee* Vice Chairman Corporate Technology Operations Samsung Electronics, Korea */General Co-Chairs/** Simon Gibbs* Samsung, USA *Alan Messer* Samsung, USA */Technical Program Chair/** John Buford* Avaya Labs, USA */Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics Chair/* *R. Chandramouli* Stevens Institute of Technology, USA */Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Chair/* *Behrooz Shirazi* Washington State University, USA */Entertainment and Multimedia Networking, Chair/* *Zhu Li* Motorola Labs, USA */Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Chair/** Wolfgang Kellerer* DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany */Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Chair/** Christian Becker * University of Mannheim, Germany */Security for CE Communications Chair/* *Chi-Sung Laih * National Cheng Kung University, 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 Co-Chairs/* *Dr. Frank den Hartog* TNO, The Netherlands *Dr. V. Prasad* Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands */Technology Applications Panels Chair/** Shoshana Loeb,* Telcordia, USA */Demos Co-Chairs/* *Andreas Heiner* Nokia, Finland *Subir Saha* Motorola, India To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to CCNC09_CFP-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by email or regular mail. Please email a message with your email address and the list name (CCNC09_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org) to optout(a)comsoc.org or mail a note with the same information to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA [View Less]

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[Fwd: [All at car-2-car.org] Call for Papers: Workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing"]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [All at car-2-car.org] Call for Papers: Workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing" Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:08:04 +0200 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de> Antwort an: matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de An: all(a)car-2-car.org, demo(a)car-2-car.org, app(a)car-2-car.org Dear all, please allow me to draw your attention to the car-to-car related workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing". The workshop is … [View More]jointly organized by Christian Wewetzer, Susumu Matsui, Paul Holleis, and Matthias Kranz, If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Matthias Kranz DLR Call for Papers Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing Workshop at 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing COEX, Seoul, South Korea September 21 - 24, 2008 http://www.hcilab.org/events/uiivc Workshop Overview: ------------------ Vehicles are an interesting space for ubiquitous computing! - They can be host to mobile devices (e.g. PDAs, PNAs, mobile phones). Interaction with these devices in vehicular environments includes computer-computer interaction (e.g. exchanging data between vehicle and mobile device) and human-computer interaction involving voice, gesture and text input and output with their respective technologies. - Vehicles themselves are mobile networked sensing systems. They have a significant number of intra-vehicle communication systems such as busses connecting hundreds of sensors and delivering information at high data rates, both to other digital systems and to the driver. - The sensor density in modern cars is comparable to ubiquitous computing environments. Interconnecting sensor-equipped vehicles enables novel types of applications. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication provide vehicles with information about their vicinity, allowing vehicle systems to augment the driver's perception of the environment, thereby increasing road safety, traffic efficiency and comfort. Workshop Topics: ---------------- - networked sensing systems integrated in vehicles, infra-structure or used by other traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, ...) - multi-modal human-machine interaction in vehicular environments; combinations of vehicle-integrated and mobile user interfaces - machine-machine interaction and information fusion for (seamless) integration of mobile devices into vehicular environments - mobile vehicular services and service management - new concepts for driving interfaces, driver assistance systems and driving assistance systems - methods and tools for automotive user interfaces and application research and their evaluation - novel multimedia interfaces and in-car entertainment - input and output technologies and systems while driving (text, speech, touch, ...) - user interfaces for on-the-road information exchange, navigation and inter-vehicle communication - detection, estimation and modeling of user intentions, vehicle context and traffic situation - application frameworks, toolkits or models for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication - applications, services, user interfaces and toolkits for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication Important Dates: ---------------- Fri, 27 Jun - Submission deadline Fri, 25 Jul - Acceptance notification Sun, 21 Sep - Day of workshop Submission and Submission Format: --------------------------------- We solicit submission of original work of 4-6 pages length. Please submit your papers in PDF format by email to uiivc08(a)googlemail.com Please use the following templates for preparing your submission: http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/chi2008pubsformat.doc http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/chi2008pubsformat.cls Workshop Website: ----------------- http://www.hcilab.org/events/uiivc Workshop Organizers: -------------------- Matthias Kranz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Paul Holleis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Susumu Matsui, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Christian Wewetzer, Driver Information Systems Research, Volkswagen Group, Germany Please contact Matthias Kranz (matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de) if you have any inquiries. -- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Institut für Kommunikation und Navigation Matthias Kranz P.O. Box 1116 D-82230 Wessling, Germany Telefon: +49 (0)8153 28-1205 Telefax: +49 (0)8153 28-1871 E-Mail: mailto:matthias.kranz@dlr.de Internet: http://www.dlr.de/kn/ _______________________________________________ All mailing list All(a)car-2-car.org http://lists.car-2-car.org/mailman/listinfo/all [View Less]

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs Datum: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:48:41 +0800 Von: Chih-Yung Chang <cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw> An: <Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** … [View More] Call For Papers Journal of Information Science and Engineering (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems Aim and Scope: ----------------------- With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the Vehicular Wireless Networks (V-Winet) and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems (V-ITS) have recently received much attention. V-Winets and V-ITS aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption with many potential applications. For instance, vehicular safety applications include automatic collision notification, heavy fog detection and notification, remote diagnostics, emergency management, and other assistances for safe driving. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile high speed Internet access, in-place traffic view, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communications and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications for V-Winet and V-ITS to provide timely information or Internet access to vehicles, drivers, and passengers. Consequently, V-Winet and V-ITS need to integrate existing networking technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC, 3G, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, Sensor networks, and ZigBee for easy, accurate, effective and simple communications among vehicles, users, and infrastructure networks. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects of V-Winet and V-ITS communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings: - Network Architecture of V-Winet/V-ITS - V-Winet/V-ITS Services and Applications - Cooperative Aspects of V-Winet/V-ITS - Availability and Scalability Issues in V-Winet/V-ITS - Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for V-Winet/V-ITS - Cross-layer Optimization Techniques for V-Winet/V-ITS - Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for V-Winet/V-ITS - Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Protocols - Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for V-Winet/V-ITS - Driving Safety and Related Applications and Services - Green Technologies and V-Winet/V-ITS Submission Guidelines --------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the Guest Editor, Chih-Yung Chang, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw , with clear indication that submission is for the Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Important Dates: ------------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 31, 2009 Publication Date: May, 2010 (Tentative) Guest Editors --------------- Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA, cshen(a)mail.eecis.udel.edu Xuemin(Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc [View Less]

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[Tccc] LoCA 2009: First Call for Papers
by Varshavsky Alex 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

************************ 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Submission deadline: December 18, 2008 ********************************************************************* The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks … [View More]new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: - New hardware platforms for sensing location and context - Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data - Location and context representation, management, and distribution - Privacy policies & communication protocols for location & context information - User studies of location- and context-aware systems - Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce radically new concepts, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited to 18 pages. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee Hamid Aghajan, University of Stanford, USA Christian Becker, UniversitatMannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, Georgia Tech, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates 18 December 2008 Submission Deadline 13 February 2009 Author Notifications 27 February 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) http://loca2009.context-aware.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc [View Less]

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP for ACE 2008
by Dairoku Sekiguchi 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** === ACE 2008 === http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ - Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - Invites you to submit Full Papers, Short Papers, … [View More]Posters and Creative Showcases. * Deadline for Full and Short Papers: July 15th, 2008 * Deadline for Posters and Creative Showcases: July 15th, 2008 Submissions of papers will be online on our conference website (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/), and should follow the ACM Submission Format. The conference will take place: December 3rd - 5th, 2008 in Yokohama, Japan. Entertainment is one of the important magical ingredients in the 21st Century society. ACE 2008 is an annual international conference devoted to computer entertainment to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, artists and designers to present and discuss new problems, solutions, content design and technologies in entertainment areas. We warmly invite original papers, demos, art and design works in all areas of entertainment computing and design including (but not limited to): Affective Computing Internet Networking Media Ambient Intelligence Learning and Children Animation Techniques Location-Based Entertainment Augmented / Mixed Reality Metaverse Avatars and Virtual Community Mobile Entertainment Cultural Computing Multimodal Interaction Digital Entertainment and Sports Narratives / Digital Storytelling Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting Pervasive and Online Games Digital Cinema Physical Computing Elderly Entertainment Smart Gadgets and Toys Entertainment Design Theory Social Networking Human-Robots Interaction Sound and Music Experience Design Synesthetic Entertainment Funology Tangible Interfaces Graphics Techniques Visual Effects Interaction Design For further information please visit: http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ Masa Inakage and Adrian David Cheok (General Chairs ACE 2008) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** [View Less]

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:42:31 +0200 (CEST) Von: Sven Tomforde <tomforde(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: tomforde(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing mailinglist, below you can find a Call for papers for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). Best regards, Sven Tomforde ===================== … [View More] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) BIO-INSPIRED NETWORKING Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of massively networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet 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 distributed and unsupervised way. Recently, a number of approaches inspired by biological mechanisms and phenomena have been proposed as a strategy to handle the complexity of massively distributed systems such as the Internet, or wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. The goal of bio-inspired approaches is to discover and to adapt biological methods to technical solutions that are showing similarly high stability, adaptability, and scalability as biological entities often have. This special issue intends to highlight the latest achievements in the new research domain of bio-inspired networking. In particular, the issue focuses on methodologies for identifying relevant biological mechanisms, the modeling of these mechanisms, and their application to technical solutions. Prospective articles are expected to outline either proof of concept studies with direct comparison to classical technical solutions, or theoretical mathematical models of biological principles associated with fundamental challenges in communication systems. For this special issue, we consider all techniques with direct biological background including animal learning strategies, self-organizing methods as observed from swarms down to nano-structures that are observed and analyzed in molecular biology. Classical complex systems research is explicitly excluded from the scope whereas a comparison to well-known techniques in this domain is appreciated. This special issue is dedicated to bio-inspired approaches addressing various aspects of networking and communication systems. The topics of interest include the following domains: Self-organizing communication systems Evolutionary and adaptive systems and protocols Scalable systems and protocols Self-learning algorithms Self-healing systems and protocols Security mechanisms Network algorithms and protocols Scalable and adaptive network architectures Congestion control mechanisms Performance evaluation of bio-inspired networks Original unpublished contributions, and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to IEEE-JSAC guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via email to dressler(a)ieee.org according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: March 1, 2009 Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2009 Final Manuscript due to Pub: December 1, 2009 Publication: 2nd quarter 2010 Guest Editors Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany (dressler(a)ieee.org) Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA (suda(a)ics.uci.edu) Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy (iacopo.carreras(a)create-net.org) Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan (murata(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK (Jon.Crowcroft(a)cl.cam.ac.uk) [View Less]

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