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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20)]
by Lars Wolf 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20) Datum: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:09:33 -0500 Von: Medhi, Deep <DMedhi(a)umkc.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br> 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC20) http://www.itc20.ca 17-21 June 2007 For 50 years, the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) has been the internationally prominent conference for experts involved with the application of teletraffic theory and engineering to state-of-the-art networks. We are pleased to announce the continuation of this tradition in the 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on 17-21 June 2007. Attached is the call for papers. If your work is within the scope of the conference theme, we would like to encourage you to submit a paper to share your results in an international forum. We hope that you will include ITC-20 in your 2007 conference plan. Thank you and best regards, Prof. Lorne Mason McGill University, Montreal, Canada Co-Chair, ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Dr. Tadeusz Drwiega Nortel, Ottawa, Canada Co-Chair, ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Dr. James (Jim) Yan IAC Member for Canada Chair, ITC-20 Organizing Committee =========================================================== Call For Papers: ITC20 Important Dates: Paper submission: October 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2007 Conference registration begins: February 21, 2007 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2007 Network convergence is happening. Globally, major network operators have incorporated network convergence into their strategy to grow service revenues and reduce operating costs. Network convergence is multi-faceted. Convergence occurs in applications (integrated messaging, Voice over IP), in network control (portable numbers, SIP, Mobile IP), in the transport layer, as well as in the access network. In the transport layer, the operators' networks are evolving from multiple networks, each specialized for particular services and applications (Wireline, Wireless, Voice, Data, Signaling), towards single IP-based networks that can support existing and future services and applications. This convergence of networks means that various types of traffic flows, which have been carried by separate specialized networks, must now share the resources of a single network. In the access, for example, a broadband carrier may seek to add mobility to its service offerings by untethering the broadband access with WiFi and, later, WiMax technologies. On the other hand, a mobile carrier is more likely to add broadband to its existing mobility services through evolution to 3G architectures. Network convergence will be successful only if the quality of the individual services is maintained in the new network environment without undue increased costs. The quality of service delivery is critically dependent on how network performance and availability, as experienced by the traffic flows, are managed. Managing traffic performance is a critical enabler for success. Reaching the desired performance levels requires processes such as network planning, resource engineering, and network monitoring. Such processes have been successfully used in various types of service-specific networks. Converged networks, however, bring new challenges - novel architectures and technologies, new modes of sharing network resources, new quality targets for services and applications, new signaling and control protocols. The impact of multi-operator competition, on traffic demand forecasting, end-to-end QoS provisioning and pricing policies needs to be accounted for in a converged network architecture. To enable the success of convergence in the face of these centrifugal forces, networks need to be designed to be robust to uncertainty in the traffic demand patterns and to be resilient to failures. Such design objectives motivate interest in robust, resilient network architectures, adaptive resource management and control methods, traffic models of new services and applications, novel traffic engineering methods, revised forecasting techniques, and compatible network planning and design tools. For more that 50 years, the International Teletraffic Congress has brought together network operators, equipment vendors and academic researchers to share their knowledge on the use of quantitative modeling and analysis to plan, design and operate state-of-the-art network solutions. Network convergence is now the state-of-the art solution. In ITC-20, there will be stimulating discussions on traffic performance in converged networks. ITC20 seeks original paper contributions on recent research results, operational experiences and identification of key future issues in managing the traffic performance of converged networks. The papers should focus on the use of quantitative models, analysis and optimization methods to plan, design and manage converged networks. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: Planning converged networks: § Case studies § Capacity planning methods and tools § Planning multi-carrier networks § Planning for robustness and reliability § Performance/reliability trade-offs § Network design for real-time applications § Planning efficient content delivery Quality of service in converged networks: § Performance and reliability targets of new web-based applications § Performance over wireless and wireline transport technologies § VoIP QoS in WiFi and WiMax environments § Pricing and quality of service provisioning Traffic management in converged networks: § Intelligent, adaptive routing § Probabilistic, opportunistic routing § Overload and congestion control § Dynamic/adaptive bandwidth management § Mobility management § Application and content traffic management § Traffic management through MPLS § Traffic management in ad-hoc networks § Detection of DoS attacks § Autonomic traffic management Traffic and performance monitoring, measurements and forecasting: § Traffic measurement and forecasting methods § Performance monitoring and measurement methods § Data analysis methods § Measurement-based characterization of new application traffic § Reports of measurement results of operational converged networks § Monitoring for self-control and self-management Analytical models and methods: § Source models of new web-based applications (e.g. multimedia, peer-to-peer) § Traffic models of voice, video and data applications § Queuing models for multi-media traffic § Resource allocation methods § Protocol performance models § Algorithms for self-optimization of resource allocation and traffic management Performance and planning of specialized networking: § Multicast networks § Networks for telemedicine and tele-education § Sensor networks § Network computing § Storage area networks Organizing Committee: David Hudson, Nortel, Executive Chair James Yan, IAC Member for Canada, Chair François Blouin, Nortel Tadeusz Drwiega, Nortel Lorne Mason, McGill University Jim O'Shaughnessy, Honorary IAC Member David Plant, McGill University Philip Richards, NewStep Networks and Honorary IAC Member Sergio Tilli, Bell Canada ITC-20 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs Lorne Mason, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Tadeusz Drwiega, Nortel, Ottawa, Canada International TPC Members Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ake Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden Gerald Ash, AT&T Labs Research, USA Kalyan Basu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Matthew Bocci, Alcatel, UK Otto Carlos Duarte, State University of Campinas, Brazil Augusto Casaca, University of Lisbon, Portugal Joachim Charzinski, Siemens, Germany Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France Thomas Chen, Southern Methodist University, USA Costas Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary University of London, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State Univ., USA Bharat Doshi, Johns Hopkins University, USA Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research, USA David Everitt, University of Sydney, Australia Andras Farago, University of Texas @ Dallas, USA Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil Luigi Fratta, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Feng Gang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Oscar Gonzalez-Soto, ITU Expert Consultant, Spain Annie Gravey, ENST-Bretagne, France Fabrice Guilleman, France Telecom, , France Richard Harris, Massey University, New Zealand Meir Hertzberg, ECI Telecom Ltd, Israel Rose Hu, Nortel, USA Mintae Hwang, Changwon National University, Korea Milosh Ivanovich, Telstra, Australia Villy Iversen, Research Center COM, Denmark Konosuke Kawashima, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan George Kesidis, Penn State University, USA Paul Kuehn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Peter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Ulrich Killat, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany King Tim Ko, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Wai Sum Lai, AT&T Labs Research, USA Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium Ralf Lehnert, Telecommunications Technology University Dresden, Germany Will Leland, Telcordia, USA Yonatan Levy, AT&T Labs Research, USA David Lucantoni, DLT Consulting, USA Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Debasis Mitra, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Sandor Molnar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Ilkka Norros, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Harry Perros, North Carolina State University, USA Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Guy Pujolle, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France James Roberts, France Telecom, France Matthew Roughan, University of Adelaide, Australia Hiroshi Saito, NTT, Japan Tadao Saito, Toyota Info Technology Center, Japan Iraj Saniee, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA Khoshrow Sohraby, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Maciej Stasiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Australia Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Danny Tsang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Ivan Tsitovich, Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russia Kurt Tutschku, University of Wurzburg, Germany Hans van den Berg, Telecom/University of Twente, Netherlands J.P. Vasseur, Cisco Systems, USA Jorma Virtamo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley, USA Qin Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York @ Stony Brook, USA Moshe Zukerman, University of Melbourne, Australia National TPC Members Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel, Ottawa Attahiru Alfa, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Ron Armolavicius, Nortel, Ottawa Maged Beshai, Nortel (Retired), Ottawa Gregor Bochmann, University of Ottawa Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Mark Coates, McGill University. Montreal Zbigniew Dziong, Ecole de Technologie Superieur, Montreal Abraham Fapojuwo, University of Calgary Andre Girard, INRS-EMT, Montreal Wayne Grover, TRLabs, Edmonton Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Kingston Changcheng Huang, Carleton University, Ottawa Rainer Iraschko, Telus, Calgary Alberto Leon-Garcia, University of Toronto Cyril Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Eric Manning, University of Victoria Peter Marbach, University of Toronto Mike McGreggor, TRLabs, Edmonton Mustafa Mehmet Ali, Concordia University, Montreal Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa Biswajit Nandy, Solana Networks, Ottawa Jean Regnier, OZ Communications, Montreal Brunhilde Sanso, École Polytechnique de Montréal Anand Srinivasan, EION, Ottawa Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Tom Vilmansen, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, Ottawa Carey Williamson, University of Calgary Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Vancouver James Yan, Carleton University, Ottawa Oliver Yang, University of Ottawa _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP P2P 2006]
by Lars Wolf 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP P2P 2006 Datum: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:05:11 +0200 Von: Alberto Montresor <alberto.montresor(a)dit.unitn.it> Organisation: University of Trento An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org ** our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail ** ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS P2P 2006 6th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing "Distributed computing at the edge of the Internet" Cambridge, UK September 6-8, 2006 http://p2p2006.csc.ncsu.edu/ ================================================================== The Scope --------- P2P2006 is the sixth in a series of annual conferences concerned with overlay network technologies. Overlay networks combine and share the resources owned by "client" devices that are distributed around the Internet. Examples of such overlay environments include Peer-to-Peer Systems and Grids, but in general, any large-scale distributed system characterized by decentralization and sharing of resources can benefit from an overlay-based approach. The focus of this year's conference is on applications and the scalability, robustness, and security factors that enable mainstream deployment of peer-to-peer and grid services. We invite papers that reflect experience with practical applications of the current state of the art or that explore new application areas. We are particularly interested in large-scale, widely-deployed applications. Consistent with the previous occurrences of this conference, we promote a collaboration in research between academic institutions, government organizations, and business enterprises that are concerned with the research and implementation of peer-to-peer networks, grids, and large scale distributed systems. Topics ------ Any topic that relates to peer-to-peer systems, grids, and large-scale distributed systems or overlay networks is open for consideration. We would like to give special encouragement to reports of experience with applications, with particular emphasis on addressing deployment issues including scalability, robustness and security. Some of the suggested topics are: - P2P Applications and Services * P2P Storage and Content Distribution * P2P Databases and Warehouses - Security in P2P Systems * Authentication * Authorization * Key Management - Performance and robustness of P2P Systems * Replication * Result certification - Object Discovery and Information Retrieval in P2P Systems * Range queries and approximate queries * Hybrid P2P Systems - Self-organization and Stability of P2P Systems * Overlay performance in unstable states * Generalized types of churn - Trust Management in P2P Systems * Incentives * Reputation * Control - Overlay architectures and topologies * Random graphs and gossiping protocols * Hierarchic overlays * Interconnections and Federation of overlays * Topology-aware overlays * P2P over MANETS - P2P Economics * Business models * Incentive models and game theory - P2P Workload Characterization and Simulation Papers will undergo a thorough peer review process before acceptance for presentation. We include all presented papers in the proceedings. The IEEE Proceedings hardcopy will be available at the Conference. Links to the previous editions of this conference can be found at this web site: http://www.ida.liu.se/conferences/p2p/portal/ Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: 24 April 2006 Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2006 Camera ready papers due: 23 June 2006 Conference: 6-8 September 2006 Submission Details ------------------ Send anonymized paper submissions (pdf only) using our on-line service. Regular papers 8 pages; short papers 2 pages. Paper formatting should follow IEEE guidelines (double column, 10 point font size). Organization ------------ Conference Chair: - Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Program Committee co-Chairs: - Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy - Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland Local Chair: - Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge - Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft, USA Steering Committee: - Nahid Shahmehri, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden (Chair) - Germano Caronni, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA - Nathalie Weiler, Credit Suisse, Switzerland Program Committee: - Karl Aberer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Fabián Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA - Seif Haridi, SICS, Sweden - Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Yiming Hu, University of Cincinnati, USA - Gianluca Iannacone, Intel Labs, Cambridge, UK - Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK - Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Italy - Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA, France - Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK - Martin May, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland - Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy (Co-Chair) - Satoshi Nishiyama, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan - Paolo Penna, University of Salerno, Italy - Christoph Schuba, Linköpings University, Sweden - Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France - Nahid Shahmehri, Linköpings University, Sweden - Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft, USA - Hiroshi Sunaga, NTT, Japan - Orazio Tomarchio, University of Catania, Italy - Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece - Kurt Tutschku, University of Würzburg, Germany - Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany - Klaus Wehrle, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nathalie Weiler, Credit Suisse, Switzerland - Adam Wierzbicki, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland (Co-Chair) ================================================================== +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Alberto Montresor <alberto.montresor(a)dit.unitn.it> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: HotWeb -- IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies]
by Lars Wolf 05 Apr '06

05 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: HotWeb -- IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies Datum: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:22:16 -0400 Von: Azer Bestavros <best(a)cs.bu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> HotWeb'06: First Workshop on Hot Topics in Web Systems and Technologies (IEEE Sponsorship Pending) http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/hotweb06 Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 13-15, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ Preliminary Call for Papers HotWeb is a forum that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Internet systems and applications. The workshop seeks to act as a conduit for presentation of novel approaches used in support of performance, scalability, and security of Internet applications, including Web searching and indexing, content distribution and delivery networks, Web services, and edge and grid computing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: + Content delivery architectures + Peer-to-Peer systems + Support for mobile and wireless systems + Web caching and replication + Edge services and dynamic content delivery + Multimedia content distribution + Overlay networks + Content placement and request routing + Measurement studies of deployed systems + Security and privacy + Wide-area upload and content gathering + Novel web-based applications + Web/database integration + Information retrieval and searching + Electronic commerce + Internet telephony The HotWeb workshop is the successor of the WCW (Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution), and the WIAPP (Workshop on Internet Applications) workshops, both of which are merging to form HotWeb. HotWeb 2006 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (support pending) and will be held in Boston during the week of November 12, 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee: General Chair: Azer Bestavros, Boston University Program Chair: Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies Program Committee: Pei Cao, Stanford Armando Fox, Stanford Arun Iyengar, IBM Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon and Akamai Technologies Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Vivek Pai, Princeton Pablo Rodriquez Rodriquez, Microsoft Ramesh Sitaraman, U. Massachusetts and Akamai Technologies Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Leonidas Kontothanassis, Intel Tina Wong, Carnegie Mellon ------------------------------------------------------------ Steering Committee: Azer Bestavros, Boston University Fred Douglis, IBM Jeff Dean, Google Arun Iyengar, IBM Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez, Microsoft Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! ------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Submission deadline: June 15, 2006 Notification: July 31, 2006 Workshop: November 13-15, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------ For more information check http://www.cs.bu.edu/pub/hotweb06 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare]
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare Datum: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:13:55 +0100 Von: Veselin Rakocevic <V.Rakocevic(a)city.ac.uk> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Mobile HealthCare Innsbruck, Austria, 29th November 2006 Call for Papers Paper Submission Deadline: 15th June 2006 Web Site: http://pmhcs.org Theme: Security and Privacy in Pervasive Healthcare Security and Privacy issues in mobile healthcare are emerging as two important areas within the pervasive healthcare area. With the fast changing mobile network and handset technologies it has become vital to define security policies and standards for mobile heathcare. We seek novel and scientifically exciting work in areas including but not limited to: a. Design of secure mobile web services for healthcare b. Management of secure mobile health c. QoS in healthcare mobile networks d. Privacy and identity in mobile healthcare systems e. New architectures for secure mobile healthcare systems f. Policies for mobile security g. Long term data preservation and intelligibility This workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Pervasive Health Conference, in Innsbruck, Austria, November 29th December 1st, 2006. The objective of the workshop is to discuss security and privacy issues and challenges that are facing the healthcare professionals in the implementation of mobile technologies within the healthcare industry. There will be three categories of speakers: - Keynote speakers - Invited papers - Submitted papers All students will have to provide proof of their status by showing their registration in a University. A letter of recommendation from their mentor/supervisor would be useful. Submission of papers: Papers that describe original, research work that are not published elsewhere can be submitted for this workshop. Submissions must follow IEEEs conference style two-column format including figures and references. The papers will be archived in the IEEEXplore. Proceedings will be published in CD by ICST. Papers submitted to the workshop will consist of 10 pages maximum. For more details on submission type and format please refer to the workshop web site. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically using the Create-nets COCUS system only http://www.cocus.info by following the link and instructions at the workshop home page: http://pmhcs.org Dr Veselin Rakocevic School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences City University London EC1V 0HB phone: 020 7040 8136 fax: 020 7040 8568 _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP - Computer Networks Journal: Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services]
by Lars Wolf 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP - Computer Networks Journal: Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Datum: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:25:05 +0200 (MEST) Von: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org FYI: ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS - Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Content This special issue of Computer Networks is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identification of an efficient middleware for next generation networks and seamless services. Articles for this special issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility * Mobile Systems middleware * Middleware for fixed mobile convergence * Publish / subscribe middleware technologies * Mobile and intelligent agent middleware technologies * Peer 2 peer middleware concepts * Comparison and Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies * Middleware for Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks / Self-managing networks * Wireless Grids Middleware and Grid-enabled Networking Middleware * Performance evaluation and modeling in Mobile Middleware * Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization * Middleware security, including authentication and authorization * Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) Submissions Articles discussing in-depth research on architecture design, techniques, performance and security analysis, simulation results, and measurements for the above topics are solicited. Each submission should include a cover page with the title of paper, name and affiliation of all authors, name and contact address, fax, and email address of the corresponding author, a list of five key words, and a short abstract of maximum 200 words. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers to George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr) or Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de) according to the following timetable. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files. Further guidance is given in the Notes for Authors at www.authors.elsevier.com. All papers will be reviewed by experts for technical merit, correctness, and relevance. Full Manuscript Due 1 October 2006 Acceptance Notification 1 December 2006 Final Revised Manuscript 1 February 2007 Guest Editors: Professor George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Professor Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Best Regards / Viele Gruesse Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks, Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and,Seamless Services
by Xiaoyuan Gu 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

FYI: ======================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS - Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks Special Issue on Middleware Challenges for Next Generation Networks and Seamless Services Content This special issue of Computer Networks is devoted to the research activities within industry and academia toward the identification of an efficient middleware for next generation networks and seamless services. Articles for this special issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers in the field from industry and academia. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility * Mobile Systems middleware * Middleware for fixed mobile convergence * Publish / subscribe middleware technologies * Mobile and intelligent agent middleware technologies * Peer 2 peer middleware concepts * Comparison and Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies * Middleware for Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks / Self-managing networks * Wireless Grids Middleware and Grid-enabled Networking Middleware * Performance evaluation and modeling in Mobile Middleware * Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization * Middleware security, including authentication and authorization * Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) Submissions Articles discussing in-depth research on architecture design, techniques, performance and security analysis, simulation results, and measurements for the above topics are solicited. Each submission should include a cover page with the title of paper, name and affiliation of all authors, name and contact address, fax, and email address of the corresponding author, a list of five key words, and a short abstract of maximum 200 words. Please send PDF (preferred) or Microsoft Word formatted papers to George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr) or Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de) according to the following timetable. The cover page and the manuscript must be sent in separate files. Further guidance is given in the Notes for Authors at www.authors.elsevier.com. All papers will be reviewed by experts for technical merit, correctness, and relevance. Full Manuscript Due 1 October 2006 Acceptance Notification 1 December 2006 Final Revised Manuscript 1 February 2007 Guest Editors: Professor George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Professor Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Best Regards / Viele Gruesse Thomas Magedanz (magedanz(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CfP: UbiComp 2006 Call for Videos, Demos and Posters]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: UbiComp 2006 Call for Videos, Demos and Posters Datum: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 08:41:01 +0200 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ====================== UbiComp 2006 - The Eigth International Conference on Ubiquituous Computing http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/ Conference Date: 17. - 21.09.2006 Conference Venue: Marriott Newport Beach, Orange County, California Hosted by: Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Overview: ========= This mail contains the calls for Videos, Demos and Posters. You can review all calls at: http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/calls/ Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 4, 2006 CALL FOR VIDEOS =============== Videos are increasingly becoming an integral part of the UbiComp conference series: they offer the chance to showcase emerging technologies, prototype systems, and new approaches to using ubiquitous computing. Videos are especially useful for illustrating complex systems and new interactions with systems in special environments that would not easily be presented as demonstrations at the conference. We encourage submission of videos both as new material and as supplementals to paper submissions (e.g., in order to illustrate particular aspects of a system). As with other submission categories, video submissions should not have been previously presented in any other formal video program. The video program will be shown at a special session at the conference, and will be published on a DVD and distributed to conference attendees (although copyright will be retained by the authors). A panel of international reviewers will review videos for their technical content, interest, and relevance to the ubiquitous computing community. Other important review aspects will be the video's communication effectiveness and production quality. Accepted electronic submission formats are: MPEG1 and MPEG2, AVI file with MPEG4 (DivX codecs) and Apple QuickTime with high resolution. MPEG2 format is strongly encouraged. For other electronic formats and for tape formats please contact the video chairs in advance. Video submissions should be 4 to 8 minutes long. Longer videos will be subject to stricter review criteria. Rough videos in progress will be considered, but will (if tentatively accepted) be subject to a second review process after final production. If the video is accepted, a high quality format, suitable for DVD production, will be required for the final version. In addition to submitting a video file, authors must also submit a short paper with a maximum of 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications formathttp://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), including all figures and references, for each video submission (though you don't need to leave space for the copyright notice). This should include the title, authors, affiliations and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Papers of accepted videos will be published in the Adjunct Proceedings that will be circulated to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main UbiComp 2006 Conference Proceedings. Video submissions and corresponding papers should be uploaded to an FTP server; contact the Video Chairs via email for more detailed instructions on how to access the server. Please do NOT send video files as an email attachment under any circumstances! Contacts: ========= UbiComp2006 Video Co-chairs Louise Barkhuus Marc Langheinrich Formats accepted: ================ MPEG (MPEG1 and MPEG2), AVI with MPEG4, QuickTime files Submission Templates: ===================== Abstract Page limit: 2 pages (ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, no need for the copyright notice though): http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: July 21, 2006 CALL FOR DEMOS ============== The Ubicomp conference’s Demonstrations Program offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to over 500 attendees from academia and industry. A successful demo communicates ideas and concepts in a powerful way that a regular presentation cannot. We invite you to contribute your vision of the ubicomp experience to the Demonstrations Program at the UbiComp 2006 conference. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees and provoke discussion about issues within the field of ubiquitous computing. We seek proposals for demonstrations of ubiquitous computing technologies across the full milieu of everyday life: office, home, street, park, train, automobile, bedroom, bathroom, work, play, desktop, handheld, worn, public, private, community, individual, shared, and personal. We welcome a wide range of submission from scenarios involving innovative solutions of focused tasks as well as playful pursuits. Reviewing: ========== All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure a high quality demonstrations program. Each demonstration will be reviewed by at least two members of the demonstration review committee. In an electronic discussion, the committee will make final decisions on which submissions to accept. Proposals will be judged on their relevance for the ubicomp community, level of innovation, technical merit, conceptual contribution and the potential to include participation by conference attendees. Furthermore, to make a successful demo submission, you need to have a strategy to present visitors the main points in a short time. You must also convince the committee that you are capable of installing and running the demo at the conference. Demonstrations do not have the same requirements on originality as papers and posters. It is acceptable to submit a demonstration even if the main points have been published at the UbiComp conference (including this year) or elsewhere. However, the demonstration format should still add significantly to any previous presentations. To make it easier to judge this, you must provide a complete history of previous presentations of the submitted work and work directly related to it. A demonstration is not the right forum to promote commercial products. In this case, please instead consider becoming a sponsor or exhibitor. Submission Requirements: ======================== A demonstration submission requires two parts: A demonstration abstract that describes the technology being exhibited and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas or approaches it brings to the ubiquitous computing community. The demonstration abstract will be published in the Conference Supplement and should therefore be self-contained. It should be a maximum of 2 pages, in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references. Please make sure that your submitted abstract complies to all the formatting guidelines and is ready for publication, since there will be no time to make major revisions. A demonstration supplement that details how the demo will be executed in practice, and how visitors will interact with it during the conference. The interaction can be described in the form of a short usage scenario, storyboard sketch, screenshots, illustrations, photos, and/or video documentation. The demonstration supplement should also include the various technical requirements such as preferred setting, space, power, networking, lighting, acoustical, and other special equipment. A demonstration supplement submission template is available at the bottom of this webpage. Demonstration supplement materials are for the purposes of review only and will not be published. A template for demonstration supplements is provided below. Your submission should be sent as a single PDF file to the following address: demos-2006(a)ubicomp.org. The subject line should read: UbiComp Demo Submission - NAME OF MAIN CONTACT. The name of the attached file should similarly be: NAME OF MAIN CONTACT.pdf. Links to additional material (videos, etc.) should be included both in the mail and in the supplement. Upon Acceptance: ================ You will be required to install your demonstration in the conference venue on September 17, and have it packed away by the end of the conference, on September 21. You are required to have your demonstration up and running throughout the Demonstrations and Poster Reception. In addition, we strongly encourage you to have your demo staffed and available throughout the conference, especially during breaks. The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a table and chairs, and a power connection. If you need any special equipment you should provide that yourself, including projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN, etc. Please specify all needs in your demonstration supplement so that we can plan the demo area accordingly. Contacts: ========= Demo Co-Chairs: Julian Bleecker University of Southern California,USA Khai N. Truong University of Toronto,Canada Formats accepted: Please use the SIGCHI conference publications format (see http://sigchi.org/chipubform/). The Demonstrations Supplement template can be downloaded from here. Abstract Page limit: 2 pages (ACM SIGCHI conference publications format) Submission Templates: ===================== The SIGCHI conference publications format can be found at: http://sigchi.org/chipubform/. The Demonstrations Supplement template can be downloaded by clicking here. Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 4, 2006 CALL FOR POSTERS ================ The Posters category provides researchers with an opportunity to present work in a forum that facilitates open discussion, and enables authors to interact directly with conference attendees. In the Posters category, we encourage the submission of late-breaking, preliminary, or exploratory work, smaller projects or results not suitable for a full paper, and any other research that authors wish to present in an interactive, open forum. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and references. Submissions may also include an optional single page describing or illustrating the proposed poster. This page is should convey to reviewers visual aspects of the poster that may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page is for review purposes only and will not be published. Accepted 2-page Poster abstracts will be published in a Conference Supplement that will be distributed to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main UbiComp 2006 Conference Proceedings. Contacts: ========= Posters Chairs: Itiro Siio (Ochanomizu University, Japan) Beverly Harrison (Intel Research, USA) Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== Deadline for submission: June 16, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 14, 2006 Final Version Due: August 1, 2006

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IPOM2006]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - SecQoS Workshop 2006]
by Lars Wolf 03 Apr '06

03 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - SecQoS Workshop 2006 Datum: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 20:42:01 +0200 Von: Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.it> Organisation: Create-Net An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS--SecQoS Workshop 2006 http://www.secqos.org The Second IEEE/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks Baltimore, MD, USA, Sep. 1, 2006 In conjunction with IEEE/CREATE-NET Securecomm 2006 http://www.securecomm.org Co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Co-sponsored by CREATE-NET Submission Deadline: May 10, 2006 Security protocols and mechanism for communication networks have provided many features such as user access control, data confidentiality, user privacy, and system integrity. At the mean time, QoS is one of the most important issues for services and applications, especially for performance evaluation in the presence of security concerns and attacks for different network architectures and applications. This workshop is dedicated to original efforts in the area that brings security solutions and their impact on system performance together. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -- Trade-off of QoS and security in real-time transmission over wireless networks -- Authentication and user access control for handover in heterogeneous wireless networks, such as wireless LANs, 3G systems, and wireless mesh networks. -- Impact of security management on QoS in high speed networks, such as grid networks -- Design and analysis of security protocols and mechanism for highly dynamic networks. -- Preventing QoS theft, selfish behaviors, and policing. -- Threat modeling and attach measures -- Evaluating the impact of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks -- Trust management for distributed grid and wireless network -- Protocols for authentication and authorization for QoS-sensitive applications -- Cross-layer security protocols -- Robust, fault-tolerant network architecture -- Testbed, application practice, and standard activities -- Joint approaches to QoS and security metrics Technical papers describing original unpublished research are solicited. The workshop papers will be published in CD-ROM proceedings. Securecomm offers a limited Student Travel Grant for selected qualified students. Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to IEEE conference style 2-column, 10 pages limit. Submissions must be uploaded electronically as PDF documents through the conference Web site (http://www.secqos.org) For further information, please send an email to secqos(a)create-net.it. The review process will be based on a single round of technical reviews. Acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only minor revisions. The key dates are listed as follows: Manuscript Submission Due Date: May 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: June 25, 2006 Workshop Date: September 1, 2006 Contacts: Workshop Co-Chairs: Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu Cristina Costa, CREATE-NET, cristina.costa(a)create-net.it **************************************************************************** Cristina Costa CREATE-NET Via Solteri, 38 38100 Trento - Italy www.create-net.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [AAS] News 1 Apr. 2006]
by Lars Wolf 02 Apr '06

02 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AAS] News 1 Apr. 2006 Datum: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:50:02 +0100 Von: Roy Sterritt <r.sterritt(a)ulster.ac.uk> An: undisclosed-recipients:; ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Autonomous & Autonomic Systems ----------- -------------------------- News -------------------------- ---------------------- 1 Apr. 2006 ----------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: --------- 1. CFP AN (Deadline early reg.3 Apr 2006) 2. CFPn ACC-06 (Deadline 15 Apr 2006) 3. CF Comments EU FET FP7 (Deadline 15 Apr 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Autonomic Networking 2006 SMARTNET - INTELLCOMM - IWAN -WAC IFIP TC6 Conference, sponsored by WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems), WG6.7 (Smart Networks) France Télécom - Paris - France - Sept. 25-29, 2006 "Autonomic Networking" will be the first international conference on all the aspects of autonomic networking (architecture, services, tools, security, communications, ...). This conference groups four past events: SMARTNET focused on tools for the autonomy; INTELLCOMM on autonomic management and services, IWAN on active networks and WAC on autonomic communications. Suggested topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following: Tools for the autonomic networking Intelligent agent and multi agent system , Rule-based systems Distributed game control Genetic algorithms, machine learning tools for autonomic systems Policy-based management Computer-supported cooperative works Distributed software development and maintenance Emergent control and robotic systems Real-time event control and management Software defined/configured radio Process and resource allocation and modeling Tools for modeling, analysis, testing and validation Open network interfaces Autonomic Network stability Context-aware Networks & Services Quality of Autonomic Networks & Services Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Autonomic management and services Intelligent control, routing and management Automated configuration management Self healing networks ; proactive security and resilience Bio inspired security and networking systems Management of nomadicity QoS, traffic engineering Sensor networks and ad hoc networks Traffic and transportation control: logistics systems Value added services and multimedia services Autonomic Management and/or Services Architectures and Life-cycle Self- management and context-aware Management Overlay Network Management Service-aware Overlays Quality of Context Management Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Active Networks Mobile code and network programmability Service programmability Self-organisation of services Experiences from Testbeds and Trials Autonomic communications Theoretical foundations of autonomic network control Designing evolvable next generation networks Self-organisation for NGN Autonomic Communications testbeds Modelling and analysis of Autonomic Communication systems Generic network-level service composition Context handling within Autonomic Communications Applied Autonomic Communication systems Self-organised communications Context and/or Autonomic Ontologies Quality of Context Management GENERAL CHAIRS R. Kung (France Télécom, FR) H. Zimmermann (Ginkgo-Networks, FR) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS D. Gaïti (University of Troyes, FR) G. Pujolle (UPMC, FR) STEERING COMMITTEE R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) P. Chemouil (FT, FR) I. Chlamtac (University of Trento, IT) R. Popescu Zeletin (Fokus, DE) F. Sestini (European Commission, EC) J. Strassner (Motorola Research Labs, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE -tools for autonomic networking (SMARTNET) O. Martikainen (University of OULU and ETLA, FI) - chairman PROGRAM COMMITTEE -autonomic management and services (INTELLCOMM) E. Al Shaer (DePaul University, USA) - chairman PROGRAM COMMITTEE -active networks (IWAN) K. Calvert (University of Kentucky, USA) - co-chairs G. Leduc (University of Liege, BE) - co-chairs PROGRAM COMMITTEE - autonomic communications (WAC) S. Dobson (UCD, IR) - chairman ORGANISING COMMITTEE M. Salaun (FT, FR) - chairman SUBMISSION Submissions should be original and limited to 20 double spaced 12 point pages in length. Authors are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Digital Library of IFIP TC6 (free access) and the best papers will be published in the IFIP TC6 Journal also available free of charge in the Digital Library of IFIP TC6. A best paper award will be distributed. Important deadlines April 7, 2006 Papers due May 26, 2006 Authors notified of acceptance June 30, 2006 Final papers due Further information For more information please visit the web site at www.autonomic-net.org ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACC 2006, 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing, Niagara-Falls, Buffalo-NY. 26 June 2006 http://www.autonomic-communication.org/acc/index.html Ubiquitous and self-organized Internet, ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks are expected to be some of the basic building blocks of pervasive computing environments. However, the promise of pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these systems can effectively "disappear". In order to do that they need to become autonomous by managing their own evolution and configuration changes without explicit user or administrator action. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic computing and autonommic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. * Architecture and models for autonomic communication and computing systems * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks * Adaptive security for self protection of systems and networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic communications * Novel management techniques for autonomic communication and computing systems * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and networks * Languages, development and securely programmable environments for autonomic communications systems * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic communication and computing systems * Autonomic communication and computing testbeds and measurements Workshop Co-Organizers ----------------------------- Raouf Boutaba School of Computer Science University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Email: rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca Silvia Giordano Dept. of Technologies and Innovations University of Applied Science – SUPSI Galleria 2 - Via Cantonale 6928 Manno - Switzerland Email: silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch and silvia.giordano(a)iit.cnr.it Michael Smirnov Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31_ _10589 Berlin, Germany Email: smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de ------------------------------------------------------------ As FET (Future and Emerging Technologies, the long-term research part of the EU IST programme) is defining the detailed content of the next calls in the forthcoming 7th Framework Programme of Research (FP7), your input is sought and will be crucial for us in order to identify priority research challenges. These are the last days (until 15/4/2006) to submit your comments to the consultation forum at www.beyond-the-horizon.net, on topics including Pervasive Computing and Communications and Security. All these themes, and other ideas for new research directions openly submitted, are also accessible through the FET consultation forum at http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/id.htm . To actively stimulate reflections on long-term research in security for FET in FP7, I also wish to invite you to the open workshop DISTTRUST http://www.disttrust.org/ which will take place soon after INFOCOM, on 28 April 2006 in Barcelona, Spain. This workshop will discuss the following long-term emerging research directions: * Evolutionary and Adaptive Security * Privacy and Trust for Dynamic Coalitions * Distributed Security Please do not hesitate to forward this message to anybody else who might be interested. Kind regards, Fabrizio Sestini FET Future and Emerging Technologies DG Information Society & Media European Commission Office J-54 01/131, B-1049 Brussels tel. +32-2-2995260 fax +32-2-2968390 fabrizio.sestini(a)cec.eu.int ------------------------------------------------------------ -- *************************************************** This is the News Email of the IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems http://tab.computer.org/AAS It covers AAS community related activities by the members, which are not necessaray sponsored by the TF nor endorsed by IEEE CS. The Latest TF Newsletter is at: http://www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~autonomic/IEEE_TF-AAS/newsletter/ Manage your membership (including unsubscribe) at: http://www.computer.org/services/teca ***************************************************

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