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[Fwd: CFP: IWSAWC 2006 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: IWSAWC 2006 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:47:27 GMT From: Martin Strohbach <strohbach(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> To: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> ************************************************************************ Call for Papers IWSAWC 2006 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing In conjunction with ICDCS 2006 July 4, 2006, Lisboa, Portugal (Submission deadline January 15, 2006) http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/iwsawc2006 ************************************************************************ Through recent technological development researchers are now able to embed sensing, computation, communication and actuation in personal devices and everyday artefacts giving them the possibility to create large scale systems of interacting smart appliances, physical objects and wearable computers. This penetration of computation in all aspects of everyday life and work requires thorough exploration of new kinds of embedded and smart devices and software infrastructures and architectures that support such large-scale scenarios beyond the lab environment. The diversity of systems, devices, services and applications and their distributed nature raises important questions about collaboration between system components. Appropriate solutions often have to take potential resource limitations of connected devices and appliances into account. Contextual awareness, digital representations of physical system components as well as access methods and processing of distributed information are of specific importance - especially as smart devices and objects along with their services are seamlessly integrated in the real world to support users in their daily living activities. ## Scope: This workshop serves as a forum for the exchange of new findings in collaborative technologies and smart appliances deployed in real world environments. We intend to bring together practitioners from academia as well as industry to present their most recent research in these rapidly moving fields. Technical papers on smart appliances and collaborative technologies are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2006. Papers reporting new developments in computing with smart devices such as PDAs, wearable computers, and cellular phones as well as new insights in instrumentation of everyday artefacts and their infrastructures will be invited for presentation. Workshop topics include but are not limited to: - Enabling Technologies - Collaboration Concepts - Infrastructure Solutions - Home and Office Appliances - Novel Smart Objects - Portable Devices and Smart Sensors - Wireless-phone Computing - Home Networks and Wearable Networks - Networking Protocols - Security and Privacy Aspects - Wearable Computers and PDAs - Software and Service Architectures - Location and Context-Aware Computing ## Format: Authors of accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. There will also be a poster session provinding an opportunity for researchers to present their planned, on-going or recently-finished work and highlighting recent results in the field of Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. Presenters are encouraged to show additional demonstrations facilitating the poster. ## Important Dates *********************************************** Submission deadline: January 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2006 Camera ready papers: March 29, 2006 *********************************************** ## Paper Submission: Technical papers should be submitted via the workshop webpage, not exceed a maximum length of 6 two-column pages and include an abstract of 100-150 words. We explicitly welcome shorter papers reporting about current work in progress up to a maximum length of 3 two-column pages. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the workshop publications format, including all figures and references. Poster submissions may also include a further single page which describes the poster itself for review purposes, this may be a draft of the poster, or text describing the proposed layout. The use of this page is encouraged to convey to reviewers visual aspects of the envisioned poster which may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page will not be published. Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the organizing and program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers should follow the IEEE format. Extended poster abstracts will be published as adjunct proceedings and wil be circulated to workshop participants. They will also be available under the program section of this webpage. Please refer to our workshop homepage at http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/iwsawc2006 for further information. ## Program Co-Chairs Martin Strohbach (Lancaster University, UK) Masateru Minami(Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) ## Organizing Committee Yoshihiro Kawahara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Masayuki Iwai (KEIO University, Japan) Nicky Kern (Darmstadt University of Technology , Germany) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Stuttgart , Germany) ## Programme Committee Jalal Al-Muhtadi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe , Germany) Christian Decker (University of Karlsruhe , Germany) Yasuyuki Kono (NAIST, Japan) Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK) Goro Kunito (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) Kristof Van Laerhoven (Lancaster University, UK) Kent Lyons (Georgia Tech, USA) Bernt Schiele (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany) Albrecht Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita¨t Munich, Germany) Kazunori Takashio (Keio University, Japan) Yasuo Tan (JAIST, Japan) Tsutomu Terada (Osaka University, Japan) Simon Tsang (Telcordia Research, USA) Khai Truong (University of Toronto, Canada)

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: 20. DFN-AT über Kommunikatio nsnetze]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: 20. DFN-AT über Kommunikatio nsnetze Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:38:55 +0100 From: Paul Müller <pmueller(a)RHRK.UNI-KL.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, der Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V. (DFN-Verein) veranstaltet gemeinsam mit der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern und der Hochschule Heilbronn in der Woche nach Pfingsten 2006 (vom 7.-9. Juni 2006) die 20. Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze (http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de). Mitveranstalter sind die Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Forschung und Lehre e.V. (ZKI) und die Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Auch in diesem Jahr hat der Programmausschuss aktuelle und spannende Themen aus dem Bereich der Hochschul-IT für die Themenkreise der Arbeitstagung vorgeschlagen (http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de/cfp.shtml). Es wird um Vortragsanmeldungen zu den nachfolgend aufgeführten Themenkreisen (TK) gebeten: TK I: IT-Management in Hochschulen TK II: E-Science und Grid TK III: Neue Netztechnologien und deren Management TK VI: Anwendungen TK V: IT-Services / Provisioning Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Vortragsanmeldung zu den angegebenen Themenkreisen bis zum 15.1.2006 (im PDF Format) ein unter: http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de/einreichen.shtml. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Paul Mueller -- _____________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Paul Mueller email: pmueller(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern Phone: ++49-(0)631-205-2263 Dep. of Computer Science Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3056 Paul Ehrlich Strasse Geb. 34 http://icsy.informatik.uni-kl.de D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany ______________________________________________________________

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[Fwd: CfP - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:48:50 -0600 (CST) From: haohong(a)dimitra.ece.northwestern.edu (Haohong Wang) To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org MY SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES: ========================================================== Call for Papers: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/wcmc/index.html Deadline for Submission: January 1, 2006 Scope In recent years, there has been a rapidly increasing demand for the development of advanced interactive multimedia applications, such as video telephony, video games and TV broadcasting. However, these applications are always stringently constrained by current wireless system architectures because the request of high data rate for video transmission. To better serve this need, 4G broadband mobile systems are in planning and are expected to increase the mobile data transmission rates and bring higher spectral efficiency, lower cost per transmitted bit, and increased flexibility of mobile terminals and networks. The new technology strives to eliminate the distinction between video over wireless and video over wireline networks. In the meantime, great opportunities are provided for proposing novel wireless video protocols and applications, and developing advanced video coding and communications systems and algorithms for the next-generation video applications that can take maxim um advantage of the 4G wireless systems. The papers in this issue will focus on state-of-the-art research on all aspects of the video communications for 4G wireless systems, from video coding, resource allocation to transportation systems. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics including but not limited to the following topics: Advanced video coding algorithms Advanced video error resilient and concealment algorithms for wireless systems Video quality assessment for wireless communications Rate control for wireless video Scalable and multiple description video coding and video transmission Joint source-channel coding for wireless video Optimal resource allocation for energy-efficient wireless video Cross-layer wireless video communication system design and optimization Wireless video traffic modeling Wireless video streaming and synchronization Video processing for wireless sensor networks New multimedia wireless protocols and standards New video applications over 4G wireless systems Packetization schemes for wireless video transmission Efficient transport protocols for wireless networks QoS issues for video over wireless, especially for low-delay communication The merging of various wireless systems: cellular, metropolitan, and local area networks Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution Lightweight video encoding methods based on distributed and multi-user coding Schedule: Manuscript submission deadline: January 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2006 Camera-ready papers: August 31, 2006 Publication of special issue: Early 2007 Submission Procedure: Papers not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages may be submitted electronically (in PDF files) to Prof. Lisimachos P. Kondi (lkondi(a)eng.buffalo.edu) or Dr. Haohong Wang (haohongw(a)qualcomm.com). Authors are also requested to submit a separate cover letter via email, which contains the paper title, the authors’ names and affiliations, and a 200 word abstract. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html. Guest Editors Haohong Wang haohongw(a)qualcomm.com QUALCOMM Incorporated 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA Lisimachos P. Kondi lkondi(a)eng.buffalo.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA Ajay Luthra aluthra(a)motorola.com Motorola Corporation 6420 Sequence Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA

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[semanticweb] First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
by Martin Gutbrod 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

Call for Papers __________________________________________________ First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006 URL: http://www.ectel06.org Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/) __________________________________________________ With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing working conditions and the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call 'Web 2.0' becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread. The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology- enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology- Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage". We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches. EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories: - Papers and posters - Doctoral consortium papers - Industrial reports - Workshops Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: - Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments - Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning - Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content, Multimedia / Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures - Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval Workplace Learning: - Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing. - Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing - Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals. Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification to Authors: June 1, 2006 Camery-Ready Papers: June 30, 2006 Conference: October 3 - 5, 2006 Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 1, 2006 Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops: September 1, 2006 Workshops: October 1 - 2, 2006 Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings: September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006 Program Committee Chairs: Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany Klaus Tochtermann, Austria Publicity Chair: Erik Duval, Belgium Workshop Chair: Peter Scott, UK Industry Chair: Volker Zimmermann, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Katherine Maillet, France Ralf Klamma, Germany Program Committee Members: Heidrun Allert, Austria Kalina Bontcheva, UK Paul de Bra, The Netherlands Paul Brna, UK Peter Brusilovsky, USA Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy Stefano Ceri, Italy Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland Peter Dolog, Germany Erik Duval, Belgium Dieter Euler, Switzerland Monique Grandbastien, France Jˆrg M. Haake, Germany Kai Hakkarainen, Finland Friedrich Hesse, Germany Nicola Henze, Germany Wayne Hodgins, USA Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium Matthias Jarke, Germany Ralf Klamma, Germany Rob Koper, The Netherlands Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria Peter Loos, Germany Erica Melis, Germany Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Enrico Motta, UK Gustaf Neumann, Austria Roy Pea, USA Juan Quemada, Spain Jeremy Roschelle, USA Vittorio Scarano, Italy Peter Scott, UK Marcus Specht, The Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Germany Julita Vassileva, Canada Vincent Wade, Ireland Gerhard Weber, Germany Organizing Chair: Constantin Makropolous, Greece Organizing Committee: Peter Dolog, Germany Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece Vana Kamtsiou, Greece Martin Wolpers, Belgium Helen Zabaka, Greece Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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Last Reminder: ED-MEDIA 2006 Call (Orlando, FL) due Mon., Dec. 19
by Martin Gutbrod 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

AACE Announcements schrieb: > NEWLY ADDED: > Learning Management Systems Symposium (1-day) added to ED-MEDIA 2006: > Call for Symposium Papers: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/symposium2006.htm > > _______________________________________________________________ > > >> Call for ED-MEDIA 2006 Participation--Deadline: December 19th << > > * Please forward to a colleague * > > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > _______________________________________________________________ > > ED-MEDIA 2006 > > World Conference on Educational Multimedia, > Hypermedia & Telecommunications > > June 26-30, 2006 * Orlando, Florida > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > > ** Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2005 ** > > Organized by > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > http://www.aace.org > ______________________________________________________________ > > ** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? ** > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm > > COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ed06poster.pdf > > > >> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) << > > 1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Dec. 19th: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge > > 2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > 3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm > 4. NEW: Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentDissertationsHelp.htm > > 5. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm > > 6. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs > 7. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm > > 8. Orlando, Florida: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Orlando/defaultEDMED.htm > 9. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm > > > INVITATION: > ED-MEDIA 2006--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & > Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This > annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion > and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications > on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and > telecommunications/distance education. > > ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all > disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees > from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit > proposals for presentations. > > All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three > reviewers on the > respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the > conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings. > > For Call for Presentations, connect to: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > > All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm > > For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge > > > PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: > * Keynote Speakers > * Invited Panels/Speakers > * Papers > * Panels > * Demonstrations/Posters > * Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations > * Tutorials/Workshops > * Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions > * Roundtables > > > TOPICS: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following > major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of > multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications. For subtopics, please see: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > 1. Infrastructure: (in the large) > 2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications: > 3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner: > 4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI): > 5. Cases & Projects: > 6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility ** > > > PRESENTATION CATEGORIES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm > The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful > activities > designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. > > Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentDissertationsHelp.htm > Submissions are invited for the ED-MEDIA Student Panel Dissertation Help > Sessions (DHS). The DHS will provide an opportunity for students at any > stage in their graduate studies (ie. Masters, EdD, or PhD level) to present > their work to an audience of peers and faculty. This will be a friendly and > constructive event designed to provide participants with valuable feedback > on their dissertation effort from leading professors and a variety of peers. > > > CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm > > Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational > technology products and services in through Corporate Showcases and > Demonstrations/Literature. > > > PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS: > http://www.aace.org/pubs > Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on > CD-ROM. > Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/ > hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of > the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are > internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and > Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org > > Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for > publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the > - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), > - International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or > - Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR). > > All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within > several categories. > Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals. > > > FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm > > The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be > approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members). > Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions > except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee. > > All conference sessions will be held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at > SeaWorld (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/hotel.htm) located in the heart > of Orlando's amusement parks, shopping, restaurants, and > entertainment. Special discount hotel and airline rates have been obtained > for ED-MEDIA participants. > > > ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Sensational! > http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Orlando/defaultEDMED.htm > > World-renowned art galleries and museums. Distinctive dining. High-energy > nightlife. Hair-raising roller coasters. Sumptuous dining. Inspiring > scenery and nature. Major-league shopping. Tropical breezes. Invigorating > spas. Unrivaled theme parks and attractions. And of course, miles of > smiles. All the essential ingredients for an over-the-top vacation. And all > in one place - Orlando! > > For further Orlando information see: > http://www.orlandoinfo.com | http://www.flausa.com > > > DEADLINES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm > > Submissions Due: December 19, 2005 > Authors Notified: February 23, 2006 > Proceedings File Due: May 2, 2006 > Early Registration: May 2, 2006 > Hotel Reservations: May 25, 2006 > Conference: June 26-30, 2006 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link > to http://www.aace.org/info.htm > > If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to > AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org > > Contact: > AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education > P.O. 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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Participation: International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 5-7 April 2006 - Cambridge (UK)]
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Participation: International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 5-7 April 2006 - Cambridge (UK) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:37:21 -0000 From: Marco Combetto <Marco.Combetto(a)microsoft.com> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ******* ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** ** not this IFIP ICEC News Service ** **************************************************** CALL FOR PARTECIPATION International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 'Improving the quality of life in a changing world' The Intelligent Environments group at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pleased to announce our "International Symposium on Intelligent Environments", to be held at Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom on 5-7 April 2006. The symposium will bring together top researchers from a variety of disciplines, including artists, philosophers, computer scientists, designers and sociologists, to discuss and debate how intelligent environments can contribute to improving the quality of everyday life. Symposium Chairs * Tom Rodden - University of Nottingham * Richard Harper - Microsoft Research Program Committee: * Emile Aarts - Philips Research * Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge * Alex Brandle - Microsoft Research * Yang Cai - Carnegie Mellon University * Luca Chittaro - University of Udine * Gillian Crampton Smith - CONVIVIO * Bernard Burdek - HFG Offenback * Geraldine Fitzpatrick - University of Sussex * David Frohlich - University of Surrey * Matt Jones - Swansea University * Kristina Höök - SICS Sweden * Hani Hagras - University of Essex * Wendy MacKay - INRIA * Ryohei Nakatsu - Kwansei Gakuin University * Matthias Rauterberg - University of Eindhoven * Albrecht Schmidt - University of Munich * Naoko Tosa - Kyoto University * Ken Wood - Microsoft Research We define 'Intelligent Environments' as those that seamlessly incorporate the thoughtful and insightful use of computer technology to improve and enrich everyday life. We want to promote discussions that take a completely fresh view of the interaction between society and technology; rethinking how computer technology should be used in the future to maximise the benefits to individuals and society. We look forward to receiving insightful views on the significant research opportunities and challenges that we face, the effects on society and the way we live our lives, the possibilities, the limitations, what we have achieved so far and what challenges we have failed to address. The format of the event will include refereed papers, posters, demonstrations, workshops and panel discussions. Keynotes speaker include: Don Norman, François Pachet, Naoko Tosa Call for Papers We invite papers to examine and challenge the relationship between humans, society and technology in our changing world. We are especially interested in inspiring papers in the following areas: -Computer-augmented living -Designing intelligent devices for everyday life -Improving social intelligence and supporting human habits -Modeling and managing intelligent environments Papers must be written in English and consist of no more than 10 pages, including references, appendices, and figures. Papers must include title, author names, affiliations, contact details, abstract, a list of keywords, body, and references. Papers can be submitted online via https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ISIE/. If you have any questions relating to the submission of papers please mail msriepi(a)microsoft.com. For all accepted papers at least one author must attend the conference and present the ideas contained in the paper. The event will be held at Homerton College in Cambridge, UK. Papers, Posters, Demos submission deadline: 13th January 2006 Marco Combetto Research Program Manager External Research Office Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) E-mail: marcomb(a)microsoft.com Web: http://research.microsoft.com/users/marcomb Fax:+44 (0)1223 479 999 **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** and subscribe directly ** **************************************************** ** News archives: ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ ** **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ** **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP: MUCS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: CFP: MUCS 2006 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:56:15 -0000 From: David Lewis <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> Reply-To: <Dave.Lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> Organization: TCD To: <acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org> CC: <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> 3rd International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services ======================================================================== ==== www.mucs2006.org Autonomic Pervasive Computing & Communications In cooperation with Pervasive 2006 Venue: National Maritime College, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Date: May 4th and 5th 20 CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Communications, as evidenced in pervasive computing and smart space applications present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, middleware, applications and devices. Today’s management systems are unable to cope with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. New paradigms, models and technology need to be developed to allow computer systems manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans. This workshop seeks to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational challenges in managing ubiquitous communications and application services. The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a blend of keynote presentations from leaders in the research of communications and services management systems, peer-reviewed papers and a small selection of invited presentations. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing ubiquitous communications and services from a broad perspective. Submissions are invited for original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of management techniques in ubiquitous communications, including: • Context Aware Self Management and Self Configuration Management • Policy Based Management • Autonomic Communication Management • Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated Management • Management of Smart Spaces and Applications (Smart Home/Office) • Adaptive Service and Network Management • Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Ubiquitous Communications • Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks • Content Oriented Network & Service Management • Distributed Self Management & Collaborative Governance • Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management • Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation • Managing Collaborative Ubicomp Applications • Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in Ubicomp environments • Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Distributed Management Services • User Interaction with Self-Managing UbiComp Systems Workshop Chair: Dirk Pesch, CIT, IRL Scientific Programme Committee: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni d’Evry, FR Owen Conlan, TCD, IRL Kieran Delaney, CIT, IRL Simon Dobson, UCD-Dublin, IRL William Donnelly, WIT, IRL Brendan Jennings, WIT, IRL Martin Klepal, CIT, IRL David Lewis, TCD, IRL Ryusuke Masuoka Kevin Curran, UU, UK Mícheál Ó Foghlú, WIT, IRL Fergus O'Reilly, CIT, IRL Declan O'Sullivan, TCD, IRL Tom Pfeifer, WIT, IRL Roy Sterritt, UU, UK Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, GER Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK John Strassner, Motorola, USA Sven van der Meer, WIT, IRL Vincent Wade, TCD, IRL Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, IIE-CNAM, FR Hani Hagras Important dates: ================ Submission deadline: February 1st, 2006 (new date) Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2006 Final manuscript due: March 31st, 2006 Workshop: May 4th and 5th 2006 Papers should be emailed to: MUCS2006(a)cit.ie Papers should be in Springer Verlag LNCS format and be no longer that 10 pages in length -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Lewis Knowledge and Data Engineering Group Dave.Lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie Department of Computer Science +353 1 608 2158 Trinity College, Dublin http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dave.Lewis/ -------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++ posted to acf-members by "David Lewis" <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CfP - IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:26:10 -0800 From: Wang, Haohong <haohongw(a)qualcomm.com> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> MY SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES: ========================================================== Dear colleagues, Enclosed please the Call-for-Papers for the IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications. Please help to disseminate the CfP to your friends and colleagues who might have interest. For more information, please visit _http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/com_magz/index.html_. Thanks. Haohong <<cfp.pdf>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine* *Special Issue on “Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications”* *Background* Modern multimedia communication applications such as mobile television, video telephony, streaming and gaming over wired and wireless networks have had different economic success and societal impact to-date. Such successes depend, to a large extend, on their abilities to surpass technical challenges related to visual content adaptation and delivery, which rely on solutions provided by visual content analysis. On the other hand, current communications networks consist of channels with various throughputs, quality of services (QoS) and protocols, and heterogeneous terminals with wide range of capabilities, accessibilities and user preferences. The rapidly increasing gap between the richness of multimedia content and the variations of the channels and terminals urges the development of techniques for universal multimedia content access, which heavily relies on the visual analysis tools to understand the data from all perspectives including network conditions, terminal capabilities, coding and transmission efficiencies and user preferences. Therefore, to effectively improve the usability, efficiency and robustness of multimedia communications in general and visual content access, adaptation and delivery in particular, visual analysis and processing methods must be able to provide automatic or semi-automatic solutions for: * High accuracy content segmentation and representation * Adapting or transcoding data for various channels and terminals * Scalability across the visual content * Content-aware robust coding and transmissions *Scope of contributions* The goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate recent and relevant contributions in the area of visual content analysis including content representation, understanding, access, adaptation, protection and transmission, with focus on their impact on visual communication systems. Tutorial papers are solicited that cover the topics including but not limited to: * Channel-aware visual content adaptation - Visual content repurposing - Visual content transcoding - Visual content protection * Terminal-aware visual content adaptation - Object segmentation and tracking - Model-based and object-based representations - Layered and scalable representations * Visual content access and delivery - Resource-efficient content-aware adaptation and transmission policies - Robust content-based coding and transmissions - Content-adaptive cross-layer system design and optimization * Applications - Video game repurposing for wireless transmission - Video content indexing and retrieval for mobile appliances - Visual analysis for mobile broadcasting *Schedule:* Full article submission: April 1, 2006 Acceptance/rejection/revision: July 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: September 1, 2006 Publication date: January 1, 2007 *Submission of the papers:* For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at _http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html_ Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at _http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/_. Please select "January 2007/Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications" in the drop down menu. *Guest Editors:* Haohong Wang Qualcomm Inc. USA Email: haohongw(a)qualcomm.com King N. Ngan Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Email: knngan(a)ee.cuhk.edu.hk Joern Ostermann University of Hannover Germany Email: ostermann(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de

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[Fwd: IEEE INFOCOM 2006: Special Announcement!]
by Lars Wolf 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE INFOCOM 2006: Special Announcement! Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:47:09 -0500 From: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Reply-To: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> To: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org 3155af.jpg 23 – 29 April 2006 / Barcelona, Spain /* _www.ieee-infocom.org/2006_ <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006> **CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS: Submission deadline 10 January 2006 *IEEE INFOCOM 2006 will include poster/demonstration sessions designed to provide a forum for collaboration between industry and academia to present and discuss: · Works in progress · Industry demonstrations of new applications and techniques · Research test beds and demonstrations · Recent research and implementation results · Upcoming research challenges · Future directions, and novel approaches in the field of computer communications and networks *Joint work between industry and academia is especially encouraged! *For additional information and submittal instructions, visit: _www.ieee-infocom.org _ <http://www.ieee-infocom.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)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06]
by Lars Wolf 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:38:56 -0800 (PST) From: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> To: Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, ysu(a)masergy.com, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu ================CALL FOR PAPERS for SPECTS06================= (We apologize if you have received multiple copies) SPECTS 2006 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects July 30 – August 3, 2006 The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Calgary, Canada This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems • Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology • Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication • Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking ATM Optical Networks • Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks • Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems • Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks • Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes • Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages • Electronic Commerce • Hardware and Software Monitors • High-Performance Computing • Information Assurance • Reconfigurable Computing • Scientific Computing Algorithms • Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications • Parallel and Distributed Simulation • Verification and Validation • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications • Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models • Queuing Systems and Networks • Scalability Studies • Integrated Modeling and Measurement • On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning • Process Algebra-Based Models • Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance • Case Studies 2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems, WiNCS’2006 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS06.pdf http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Local Arrangement Chair Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada E-mail: Carey(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Tutorial Chair John Fox Foxband Consultancy, UK E-mail: fox.conf(a)btinternet.com Publicity Committee: Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com Vice Chair: Yi Su, Masergy Communications, Inc., USA, ysu(a)masergy.com Vice Chair: Weiguang Shi, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Vice Chair: Abdelmajid Khelil, University of Stuttgart - IPVS - VS, Germany, abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Web Master Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Sam Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the Web Master, Program Co-Chairs, or the Conference Coordinator, Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92 111, USA, Tel. (858) 277-3888, Fax (858) 277-3930, E-mail: sbranch(a)scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2006 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Co-Chairs. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2006 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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