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[Fwd: [Tccc] FW: Call for Papers for EURASIP special issue on cross-layer design of wireless systems]
by Lars Wolf 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] FW: Call for Papers for EURASIP special issue on cross-layer design of wireless systems Datum: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:49:45 +0300 Von: Stavros Toumpis <toumpis(a)ucy.ac.cy> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear tccc subscribers, The following call for papers on the topic of "Cross-Layer Design for the Physical, MAC, and Link Layer in Wireless Systems", to appear in a special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, might be interesting for you <http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/si/phymac.html> http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/si/phymac.html Please distribute further, to other potentially interested authors. With Best Regards, Stavros Toumpis , University of Cyprus _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:31:47 -0400 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org An: Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org *Call for Papers *Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2008) Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) *16-20 June 2008, San Francisco, California, USA *[] *Important Dates*: Registration Deadline: December 4, 2007 Submission Deadline: December 11, 2007 Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2008 Camera Ready: April 4, 2008 (Midnight Eastern Standard Time) [] For details and to submit a paper, visit: *http://www.ieee-secon.org * <http://www.ieee-secon.org/> To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - International Workshop on Mobile Device and Urban Sensing]
by Lars Wolf 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - International Workshop on Mobile Device and Urban Sensing Datum: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:36:35 -0400 Von: Yu Yang-a65018 <Yang(a)motorola.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ======================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS MODUS 2008: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MOBILE DEVICE AND URBAN SENSING April 21, 2008 St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://www.motorola.com/content.jsp?globalObjectId=8623 ======================================================================================== Co-located with: ================ * IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '08) * IEEE Real Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS '08) * International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC '08) Scope: ====== This workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry working in sensor networking and mobile computing to foster a discussion on the key research challenges and exploration of new business models around mobile device centric sensing and urban sensing. The goal of the workshop is not only to promote the visibility of mobile device sensing and urban sensing research across the community, but also to provide insights into theoretical aspects as well as practical methods and tools, including key reusable technology components and platforms that can serve as a foundation for further research in this area. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ==================================================== * Application development * Opportunistic sensing and networking * User activity inference * Interactions with mobile device applications * Human-Machine Interface * Context-awareness * Mobility modeling and management * Platform and Operating System support * Software architecture and networking protocols * Middleware infrastructure * Quality-of-Service and cross-layer optimization * Scalability in metropolitan environments * Security, privacy, robustness, and fault tolerance * Simulation tools and testbeds * Standards development and business models * Resources management and energy efficient design Important Dates: ================ Workshop: April 21, 2008 Submission deadline: January 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 25, 2008 Camera-ready version: March 15, 2008 Papers and Submission: ====================== Submitted papers should be no longer than 7 (seven) pages in IEEE two-column format for conferences, including text, tables, figures, and references. Note that the font size for submission should be 10pt. All submissions are being handled through the EDAS system (https://edas.info). Manuscript submissions should be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) only. Please make sure that the paper prints without problems (take care to embed all required fonts, etc.). Organization Committee: ======================= Program Co-Chairs: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Yang Yu, Motorola Labs, USA Publication Chair: Krishnamachari Bhaskar , University of Southern California, USA Publicity Chair: Gavin Stephanie, Motorola, USA Technical Program Committee: ============================ Fan Bai GM Research, USA Andrew Campbell Dartmouth College, USA Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Bogdan Carbunar Motorola Labs, USA Rohit Chaudhri University of Washington, Motorola Labs, USA Tian He University of Minnesota, USA Jan Höller Ericsson Research, Sweden Bhaskar Krishnamachari University of Southern California, USA Koen Langendoen Delft University of Technology, Netherland Phil Levis Stanford University, USA Jie Liu Microsoft Research, USA Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis, USA Liqian Luo Microsoft Research, USA Nitya Narasimhan Motorola Labs, USA Trevor Pering Intel Research, USA Christian Poellabauer University of Notre Dame, USA Rajiv Ramnath Ohio State University, USA Kay Römer ETH, Switzerland Sol Shatz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Filippo Tempia Telecom Italia, Italy Adam Wolisz Technical University of Berlin, Germany Fan Ye IBM Research, USA Hongwei Zhang Wayne State University, USA Lin Zhong Rice University, USA ======================================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

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CFP: ComNet - Special Issue on Autonomic and Self-Organising Systems
by Patrick Wuechner 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Dear colleagues, Please consider submission to this call. Also feel free to redistribute the call and please apologize for multiple copies. Best regards, Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, DE John Strassner, Motorola, US Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE ========================================================================== CFP: COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL *Special Issue on Autonomic and Self-Organising Systems* ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet ) ========================================================================== _CONTEXT_ The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, and that unmanageable complexity can threaten life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level, - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation, - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems, - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms, - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems, - managing trade-offs between system aspects. Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. _IMPORTANT DATES_ - Deadline for Submission: 14 December 2007 - Notification of Acceptance: 04 February 2008 - Camera-Ready Copy Due: 24 March 2008 - Tentative Publication Date: August 2008 _SUBMISSION_ Prospective authors are to prepare their papers according to the instructions laid out in the Instructions to Authors at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet and submit to: http://www.editorialmanager.com/comnet choosing the Article Type: Autonomic and Self-Organising Systems. ========================================================================== Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: - john.strassner(a)motorola.com - demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and - simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie ========================================================================== This call as PDF: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/emailimages/cfp_autonomic_systems.pdf -- Patrick G. Wuechner, Research Fellow Computer Networks and Computer Communications, Prof. de Meer, http://www.net.fmi.uni-passau.de University of Passau, GERMANY

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc]
by Lars Wolf 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc Datum: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:02:56 -0400 (EDT) Von: My T. Thai <mythai(a)cise.ufl.edu> An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS - The 9th ACM MobiHoc Paper abstract registration: November 16, 2007 Paper submission deadline: November 22, 2007 5pm PT =================================================== The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE =================================================== ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from the design and applications of wireless communication networks. This symposium will be held in Hong Kong during the week of May 26, 2008. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. The symposium will include a highly selective technical program, hands-on research demonstrations, a distinguished keynote address, panels, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on a variety of wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks including unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater unmanned vehicles. The symposium solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad range of issues important to the design, performance control, and security of wireless ad hoc networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Transport, Network, and MAC protocol design - Cross-Layer Design and Control - Energy Efficiency - Modeling and Performance Analysis - Network control - Distributed algorithms - Computational Complexity and Approximability - Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limits - Network Coding - Optimization based techniques - Location Discovery - Functional Computation and Data Aggregation - Distributed Sensing, Coordination, and Control - Network Security, Privacy, and Trust - Resiliency, Fault tolerance, and Reliability - Quality of Service - System design and Testbeds - Measurements and Data Collection The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will introduce a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. =========================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Abstract Registration: November 16, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: November 22, 2007, 5pm PT Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 28, 2008 Camera-Ready Version Deadline: March 22, 2008 ============================================================ TPC CO-CHAIRS: Ness B. Shroff shroff(a)ecn.purdue.edu Peng-Jun Wan wan(a)cs.iit.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] MDM08: Call For Papers and Proposals (Conference Date Changed)
by ZHENG Baihua 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. ************************************************************************************************************** The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'08) April 27-30, 2008, Beijing, China http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/mdm2008/ *************************************************************************************************************** The significant advances in wireless communications, the ever increasing availability of mobile multi-purpose devices, and the fast growth in sensors and actuators have created a global computing infrastructure that is profoundly changing the way people live and work. People interact with themselves, the physical world, and information services using a wide range of devices connected together via a variety of networks, enabling computing and communication at an unprecedented scale and density. This new infrastructure presents a number of challenges especially when it comes to data-intensive applications: enormous scale, varying and intermittent connectivity, location dependence and context awareness, limited bandwidth and power capacity, small device size, and multimedia delivery across hybrid networks. Conventional issues in data management have to be considered and evaluated anew in this rapidly changing environment. Non-traditional issues including mobility, data semantics, context modeling, broadcast and multicast delivery, data availability, trust and privacy must also be addressed effectively. The latest of a successful series, MDM 2008 provides a high-quality forum for the presentation of research results on data management issues in the evolving world of mobile, wireless, and pervasive computing. Topics of Interests Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. - Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing - Moving objects management - Data placement, replication and relocation to support mobility - Data broadcasting/dissemination in mobile environments - Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages - Data management for pervasive computing - Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks - Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks - Resource advertising and discovery techniques - Metadata management and exchanges - Query processing and optimization for mobile users - Uncertainty data management - Transactions and workflows in mobile environments - Location privacy - Mobile access to the Web - Context-aware computing and location-based services - Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems - Location tracking of vehicles and moving objects - Quality of service issues for data-intensive services - Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems - Data mining for mobile applications - Publish-subscribe approach in mobile computing - Outsourcing databases Paper Submission The conference invites original, unpublished submissions not exceeding 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MDM2008/Default.aspx. Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, seminars, and workshops are also sought. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications or prototypes as well as experiences and standards. Important Dates Abstract submission: 11/9/2007 Paper submission: 11/16/2007 Notification: 1/25/2008 Camera ready: 2/15/2008 Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece PC Co-Chairs: Xiaofeng Meng, Renmin Univ. of China, China Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA Stephane Grumbach, INRIA, France Workshop Chair: Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Seminars Co-Chairs: Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Panel Chair: Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Demonstration Chair: Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia , China Publicity Co-Chair: Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Publication Chair: Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Financial/Registration Chair: Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Local Organizing Committee: Jidong Cheng, Renmin University of China, China Program Committee (More to be added): Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Ahmed Amer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Luc Bouganim, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France Guohong Cao, Penn State University, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Edward P.F. Chan, University of Waterloo, Canada Ming-Syan Chen, Taiwan University, Taiwan Panos Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Bin Cui, Peking University, China Zhiming Ding, Institute of Software, CAS, China Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA Ralf Hartmut Güting, Fernuniversit?t Hagen, Germany Rick Han, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Kien Hua, University of Central Florida, USA Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Ning Jing, National University of Defance Technology, China Anupam Joshi, UMBC, USA Yutaka Kidawara , NICT, Japan Hiroyuki Kitagawa,University of Tsukuba, Japan Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University, USA Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea Yushen Liu, Huazhong UST, China Qiong Luo, HKUST, China Sanjay Kumar Madria, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Mihhail Matskin, KTH, Stockholm, sweden Eduardo Mena, University of Zaragossa, Spain Gail Mitchell, BBN, USA Mohamed F. Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA Shojiro Nishio, Osaka University, Japan Boris Novikov, Saint Petersburg University, Russia Dimitris Papadias, HKUST, China Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Philippe Pucheral, INRIA Rocquencourt, France Anand Ranganathan, IBM Research, USA George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Timos Sellis, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Kare Synnes, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Fabrice Valois, INRIA ARES / CITI, INSA Lyon, France Agnès Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Ouri Wolfson , University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia, China Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Underwater Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols" Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
by Cheng Li 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * A Special Issue of Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing * * On * * Underwater Sensor Networks: Architectures and Protocols * * * ************************************************************************* OVERVIEW: The ocean, which covers about two third of the Earth surface, is a largely unexplored world that has fascinated humans since the beginning of history. Over a long period of time, there is a great interest in exploring the ocean and other underwater environments (e.g., rivers, lakes, and reservoirs) for scientific, environmental, commercial, and military purposes. With the increasing demand for acquiring localized precise and real-time knowledge of the harsh underwater environments, current underwater exploration technologies such as SONAR or other remote sensing technologies can no longer meet such needs. Underwater Sensor Network is an emerging network paradigm which provides a promising solution for efficiently exploring the ocean and underwater environments. An underwater sensor network consists of a number of underwater sensor nodes with sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities, which are deployed in a region of interest and collaborate to accomplish a common task, such as underwater environmental monitoring, mine reconnaissance, and military surveillance. Driven by a broad range of potential applications in both civilian and military areas as well as rapid technological advances in microelectronics, wireless communications, and embedded processing, underwater sensor networks have recently received a lot of attention from both academia and industry. Distinguished from terrestrial sensor networks, an underwater sensor network has some unique characteristics that need to be particularly addressed, such as low communication bandwidth, large propagation delay, harsh geographical environment, floating node mobility, and high error probability. These unique characteristics present many challenges for the design of underwater sensor networks, including the design of network architectures and protocols. This has recently motivated a growing interest and a considerable amount of research activities in studying various major issues in the context of network architectures and protocols, including medium access control, topology organization and control, routing and data dissemination, energy efficiency and power control, node localization and tracking, reliable transport and quality of service, and network security and attack defense. TOPICS: The objective of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances in the area of underwater sensor networks, focused on network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not currently under consideration by any other journals. Topics of interests include the following subject categories: * Network architecture design * Medium access control * Routing and data dissemination * Topology organization and control * Network coverage and node placement * Data aggregation * Node localization and tracking * Time synchronization * Energy efficiency and power control * Reliable transport and quality of service * Network security and attack defense * Network modeling and performance analysis Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the publication format described in the For Authors section http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html and follow instructions for submission of manuscripts electronically via the ManuscriptCentral http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: November 1, 2007 Acceptance notification: February 10, 2008 Final manuscript due: May 1, 2008 Publication date: August, 2008 NB, In Manuscript Central, please select Manuscript Type "Special issue paper", Special Issue "Yes" and Special Issue title "8:6 Underwater Sensor Networks". Guest Editors: Jun Zheng School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Street Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Email: junzheng(a)site.uottawa.ca Nirwan Ansari Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights Newark, New Jersey 07102-1982, USA Email: nirwan.ansari(a)njit.edu Cheng Li Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Memorial University of Newfoundland S.J. Carew Building St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X5, Canada Email: licheng(a)engr.mun.ca Baoxian Zhang College of Computing and Communication Engineering Graduate University Chinese Academy of Sciences 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China Email: bxzhang(a)gucas.ac.cn _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems]
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Datum: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:55:39 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist, a special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems of the journal "Computer Networks" published by Elsevier has been announced. You can find the call for papers below or in pdf-format at http://www.elsevierscitech.com/emailimages/cfp_autonomic_systems.pdf. Further information on the journal can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505606/descrip… Regards Fabian Rochner =================================================== Computer Networks Journal ========================= Special issue on autonomic and self-organising systems Guest editors: John Strassner, Motorola US Hermann de Meer, Universitat Passau DE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin IE Context ======= The complexities of modern computing and communications systems are well-known, as are the impact that these complexities have on their construction, composition, management, maintenance and evolution. It is now well-accepted that the total costs of ownership can have a significant effect on the economics of many service offerings, and that unmanageable complexity can threaten life and economic health in the event of failures. Autonomic computing and communications apply notions of feedback control, self-organisation, monitoring and reasoning to the construction and management of large systems. Originally suggested by IBM as a way to control total costs of ownership, the fields have expanded to address the design and implementation of stable, "self-*" algorithms as well as the overall design and analysis of adaptive properties and behaviour. Such self-* systems offer to improve the dynamic responses of systems to changing conditions, simplifying their construction, management and deployment. Although often considered separately, the interdependence of computing and communications in the modern world implies that we apply autonomic techniques on a whole-system basis that encompasses both aspects of systems design. In this special issue we have two aims: to provide a guide to a unified field of autonomic computing and communications through invited contributions addressing cross-system and whole-system techniques; and to present novel research contributions that advance the state of autonomic and self-organising systems design. With this in mind, we invite research contributions including (but most definitely not limited to) the following topics: - techniques for self-organisation at a system level - foundational science of autonomics and self-organisation - application of novel techniques to large-scale problems - self-stabilising and self-optimising algorithms - evaluations and evaluation methodologies for self-organising systems - managing trade-offs between system aspects Contributions addressing issues that cross between the autonomic computing and communication fields are particularly welcome. Important dates =============== Important Dates: Deadline for Submission: 14 December 2007 Notification of Acceptance: 4 February 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 24 March 2008 Tentative Publication Date: August 2008 Submission: Prospective authors are to prepare their papers according to the instructions laid out in the Instructions to Authors at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet, and submit to http://www.editorialmanager.com/comnet, choosing the Article Type: Autonomic and Self-organising Systems Requests for further information may be addressed to the guest editors: john.strassner(a)motorola.com, demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de and simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie

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[Tccc] WON-08: Submission Deadline Extended to Oct. 26
by Ling-Jyh Chen 19 Oct '07

19 Oct '07

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please note that the deadline has been extended to October 26, 2007. ================================================================== Call for Papers The First IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-08) to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 22th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-08), GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan, Mar 25-28, 2008 http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON08/ ================================================================== Aims and Scope --------------- With the explosive deployment of mobile wireless devices recently, Opportunistic Networking is becoming an increasingly popular area in networking research, in which the assumption of having end-to-end paths between the source and the destination is relaxed. Such networks fall into the fields of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and delay-tolerant networking (DTN).Opportunistic Networks enable user communication in an environment where disconnection and reconnection are common and link performance is extremely dynamic. They are very suitable to support the situation where network infrastructure has limited coverage and users have "islands of connectivity". By taking advantage of device mobility, information can be stored and forwarded over a wireless link when connection 'opportunities' arise (e.g. an appropriate network contact is met). In this view, traditional Internet connectivity can be considered as a special case of connection opportunity. With numerous emerging applications, Opportunistic Networks allow a huge number of devices to communicate end-to-end without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure and are very suitable to support pervasive networking scenarios. Topics of Interest ----------------- Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Opportunistic Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Advanced technologies for enabling opportunistic communication * Architectures for opportunistic networks * Applications for opportunistic networks * Biological and social models for opportunistic communication * Middleware services in opportunistic networks * Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks * Network and resource management techniques for opportunistic networks * Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks * Security issues in opportunistic networks * Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks * Routing issues in opportunistic networks * MAC layer issues and physical layer for opportunistic networks * Simulation and modeling of Opportunistic networks * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building opportunistic networks * Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website (http://conference.iis.sinica.edu.tw/Conference-Submission). The manuscript should be written in English and follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: Oct. 26, 2007 Authors Notification: Nov. 26, 2007 Authors Registration: Nov. 30, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 14, 2007 General Co-Chairs Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Program Chair Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Committee Members Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Athanassios Boulis, National ICT Australia, Australia Vladimir Bychkovsky, MIT, USA Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA Debojyoti Dutta, CISCO, USA Robert Hsieh, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Dirk Kutscher, Bremen University, Germany Lavy Libman, National ICT Australia, Australia Tim Moors, University of New South Wales, Australia Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Giovanni Pau, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy Chuan-Ching Sue, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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