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[Fwd: CFP: Journal of Computer Communications Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)"]
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Journal of Computer Communications Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:04:18 -0400 From: Moustafa Youssef <moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Journal of Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Sensor-Actuator NETworks (SANETs) are comprised of networked sensor and actuator nodes that communicate among each other using wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation tasks. The recent few years have witnessed an increasing interest in the potential use of SANETs in many applications ranging from healthcare to warfare. In these applications, sensors are engaged in gathering information about the physical environment, while actuators are involved in taking decisions and then performing appropriate actions in the area of interest. This enables SANETs to provide remote sensing and actuation services to their users. SANETs are heterogeneous networks having widely differing sensor and actuator node characteristics; while sensor nodes are small, inexpensive, usually static devices with limited computation, communication and energy resources, actuator nodes are resource-rich and usually mobile. Also, the number of sensor nodes deployed may be in the order of hundreds or thousands. In contrast, actuator nodes are smaller in number due to the different coverage requirements and physical interaction methods of actuation. Typically, a deployed SANET is expected to operate autonomously in unattended environments. Operational requirements of SANETs may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, intrusion detection and mitigation), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. In SANETs, depending on the application, there may be a need to rapidly respond to sensor input. Moreover, so as to provide right actions, sensor data must still be valid at the time of acting. Consequently, the issues of real-time communication and coordination are vital in SANETs. Finally, to realize their potential, dependable, secure, application-aware design and operation of SANETs have to be ensured. Apparently, research is needed to resolve the many complicating issues that may impede wide-scale SANET adoption. This special issue of the Journal of Computer Communications will be designated for reporting on recent research results on SANETs. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to the characteristics of SANETs need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary in order to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on aspects such as dependability, security, and QoS. Papers presenting original and unpublished work are being solicited. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Sensor-actuator coordination and communication - Architectural and operational models - Robust routing and MAC protocols - Fault and attack resilience middleware - Models, metrics and measurements - Self-aware and autonomous networks - Localization and mobility - Energy-efficient cross-layer protocols - Security, dependability, privacy and QoS issues - Network management - Formal representation and verification - Network inference (tomography, etc.) - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Novel applications of sensor and actuator networks ** Submission deadline: February 15 , 2006 ** Decision notification: May 15, 2006 ** Final manuscript due: July 31, 2006 ** Publication date: 1st Quarter 2007 ** Submission instructions: Prospective authors should submit their paper and inquiries electronically to toweissy(a)vt.edu. The manuscript should not exceed 30 double-space pages in PDF. The manuscript should be in a single column font size 11 or larger format. The first page should include title, authors’ contact information, an abstract and five keywords. Authors should include the paper abstract in their message. ** Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy: The Bradley Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Virginia Tech, USA, toweissy(a)vt.edu Silvia Giordano: Dept. of Informatics & Electronics, Univ. of Applied Sci., Switzerland, silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch Stephan Olariu: Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA, olariu(a)cs.odu.edu David Simplot-Ryl: IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France, David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE IPCCC 2006-- 25th Anniversary]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE IPCCC 2006-- 25th Anniversary Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:21:35 -0400 From: Nidal Nasser <nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP, but please forward to anyone you believe may be interested -- thanks] CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) April 10-12, 2006, Mesa Hilton Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona http://www.ipccc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the past 25 years the International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) is a premiere IEEE conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. Over the years, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. In 2006, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the IEEE IPCCC. We encourage you to submit high-quality papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Wireless Sensor Network Wireless Resource Allocation Performance Evaluation Network Management and Control Quality of Service Switch, Router and Network Architecture Routing and Multicast Protocols Network Security High-Performance Computing Performance of Web Servers Power-Aware Design Grid Computing Embedded Systems Storage Systems Traffic Measurement, Analysis and Engineering Information Assurance Network Computing Optical Networks Network Pricing and Charging Network Processors Submitted manuscripts must not exceed 20 pages with 11-point font size. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via EDAS (http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4597). In addition, proposals are solicited for the following: (Contact the program co-chairs listed at http://www.ipccc.org for details) Panel sessions on topics of timely importance. Student Poster sessions on current research. Important dates: Full papers are due Oct. 4, 2005. Panel proposals and Student Posters are due: Nov. 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance of conference papers: December 20, 2005 Camera-ready manuscripts and registrations due: Feb. 7, 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms - CFP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms - CFP Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:43:01 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org> CC: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Communications Magazine Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems Call for Papers http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag906.htm Background Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment. Scope of Contributions The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects: - Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) - Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) - Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) - Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) - Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) - Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu. Schedule of Submissions Manuscript submission: December 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 2006 Publication date: September 2006 Guest Editors Wolfgang Kellerer DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-56824-222 Email: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Stefan Arbanowski Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197 Email: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ IEEE Communications Magazine Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems Call for Papers Background Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment. Scope of Contributions The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects: - Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) - Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) - Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) - Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) - Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) - Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu. Schedule of Submissions Manuscript submission: December 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 2006 Publication date: September 2006 Guest Editors Wolfgang Kellerer DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-56824-222 Email: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Stefan Arbanowski Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197 Email: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (OS Review Changes, CFP for PlanetLab special topics issue)]
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (OS Review Changes, CFP for PlanetLab special topics issue) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:11:26 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Operating Systems Review Starting with the January 2006 issue, the publication policy of the Operating System Review is changing. In particular, each issue will be organized around a theme and submissions will be solicited for that theme. Guest editors will often be chosen to solicit and review submissions for a special topics issue. We are interested in having a broad range of special topics reflecting both academic and industrial interests. Please send suggestions for special topics issues to the OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm(a)clarkson.edu). The first special topics issue will be related to PlanetLab and Marc Fiuczynski (mef(a)cs.princeton.edu) will the guest editor. For this issue, we seek submissions on all aspects related to PlanetLab. Topics of interest, but not limited to, include: - Mature long-running services currently operating on PlanetLab - Management tools that ease the deployment of PlanetLab slices - Network measurement tools - Infrastructure services - Debugging and monitoring related to PlanetLab - Resource management, discovery, etc. Papers will be evaluated by a review committee. The primary criteria for acceptance will be clarity of explanation and relationship to PlanetLab. This special issue does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers, but there is a soft cap of roughly 84 pages of text devoted to papers. Papers should be double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format and submitted in printable postscript or pdf. If you are interested in submitting to this issue of OSR, please send email to mef(a)cs.princeton.edu with a brief description of your submission by November 1st 2005. The final submission will be due November 15 2005. Continuing the PlanetLab thread, the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting will be at EPFL in Lausanne, conveniently timed immediately after SOSP in Brighton: PlanetLab Everywhere - "PlanetLab - future directions" ====================================================== Call for participation in the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting hosted jointly by EPFL and the Evergrow EU project. Oct 27-28, 2005 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland Workshop website: http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere Workshop outline: This workshop will explore several new directions to expand PlanetLab's user base to literally every researcher or student who wants to conduct a wide-area experiment and expand its hardware base to every machine on the planet. Topics at this workshop include merging clusters with PlanetLab, developments of private PlanetLab configurations, operating PlanetLab @ HOME via Xen/VMware/Intel-VT, and issues related to federating PlanetLab. The goal of this meeting is to bring together users, developers, and researches interested in these topics and develop plans to independently or collaboratively move forward with projects to develop working prototypes in each area. Further it is intended to let participants discuss technical problems and exchange their experiences to improve the quality of cooperation in the PlanetLab community. Workshop structure: We suggest a mix of talks, panel discussions, case study presentations, experience reports, demonstrators, and "bird-of-a-feather" sessions. Participants are invited to submit proposals until Oct 13, 2005 Please visit the workshop website (lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere) for further information. ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://ramp.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)"]
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:29:06 -0400 From: <toweissy(a)vt.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, manet(a)ietf.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Journal of Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Sensor-Actuator NETworks (SANETs) are comprised of networked sensor and actuator nodes that communicate among each other using wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation tasks. The recent few years have witnessed an increasing interest in the potential use of SANETs in many applications ranging from healthcare to warfare. In these applications, sensors are engaged in gathering information about the physical environment, while actuators are involved in taking decisions and then performing appropriate actions in the area of interest. This enables SANETs to provide remote sensing and actuation services to their users. SANETs are heterogeneous networks having widely differing sensor and actuator node characteristics; while sensor nodes are small, inexpensive, usually static devices with limited computation, communication and energy resources, actuator nodes are resource-rich and usually mobile. Also, the number of sensor nodes deployed may be in the order of hundreds or thousands. In contrast, actuator nodes are smaller in number due to the different coverage requirements and physical interaction methods of actuation. Typically, a deployed SANET is expected to operate autonomously in unattended environments. Operational requirements of SANETs may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, intrusion detection and mitigation), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. In SANETs, depending on the application, there may be a need to rapidly respond to sensor input. Moreover, so as to provide right actions, sensor data must still be valid at the time of acting. Consequently, the issues of real-time communication and coordination are vital in SANETs. Finally, to realize their potential, dependable, secure, application-aware design and operation of SANETs have to be ensured. Apparently, research is needed to resolve the many complicating issues that may impede wide-scale SANET adoption. This special issue of the Journal of Computer Communications will be designated for reporting on recent research results on SANETs. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to the characteristics of SANETs need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary in order to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on aspects such as dependability, security, and QoS. Papers presenting original and unpublished work are being solicited. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Sensor-actuator coordination and communication - Architectural and operational models - Robust routing and MAC protocols - Fault and attack resilience middleware - Models, metrics and measurements - Self-aware and autonomous networks - Localization and mobility - Energy-efficient cross-layer protocols - Security, dependability, privacy and QoS issues - Network management - Formal representation and verification - Network inference (tomography, etc.) - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Novel applications of sensor and actuator networks ** Submission deadline: February 15 , 2006 ** Decision notification: May 15, 2006 ** Final manuscript due: July 31, 2006 ** Publication date: 1st Quarter 2007 ** Submission instructions: Prospective authors should submit their paper and inquiries electronically to toweissy(a)vt.edu. The manuscript should not exceed 30 double-space pages in PDF. The manuscript should be in a single column font size 11 or larger format. The first page should include title, authors’ contact information, an abstract and five keywords. Authors should include the paper abstract in their message. ** Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy: The Bradley Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Virginia Tech, USA, toweissy(a)vt.edu Silvia Giordano: Dept. of Informatics & Electronics, Univ. of Applied Sci., Switzerland, silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch Stephan Olariu: Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA, olariu(a)cs.odu.edu David Simplot-Ryl: IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France, David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ICC 2006 Paper submission deadline extension!]
by Xiaoyuan Gu 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

1b0797b7.gif 1b0797b7.jpg 1b0797d5.jpg Urgent Announcement: ICC 2006 Paper submission deadline extension. The paper submission deadline for ICC 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey) has been extended until 25 September 2006, 11:59 PM EST. The new deadline is firm and there will no more extension. You can find more information on submitting papers at www.icc2006.org <http://www.icc2006.org/>.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extended to Sep. 25: ICC 2006 Optical Systems and Networks Symposium]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline Extended to Sep. 25: ICC 2006 Optical Systems and Networks Symposium Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:28:44 -0500 From: Byrav Ramamurthy <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, ontc(a)comsoc.org Dear Colleagues, The deadline for the ICC 2006 paper submissions has been extended to 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST) Conference website: http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html Please also note the expanded scope of the OSN symposium and the possibility of POSTER presentations. Attached is the CFP with the latest changes. Thanks Byrav -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor Room 363, Avery Hall Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115 Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (part of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006) to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11-15 June 2006) SPONSORED BY : Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Technical Committee on Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing (TC CSR) SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Co-Chair Email: piet.demeester(a)intec.ugent.be Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Co-Chair Email: bregni(a)elet.polimi.it Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, Vice Chair Email: nghani(a)tntech.edu IMPORTANT DATES Complete Paper Manuscripts Due: 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST) Acceptance Notification: 31 December 2005 Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 15 February 2006 Conference Dates: 11 - 15 June 2006 SCOPE Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. Such systems and networks are expected to support the diverse requirements of a broad range of applications including services for residential users, business communications, grid computing, storage area networks (SANs), multimedia content distribution networks, etc. Optical networks are evolving dramatically in terms of technology and architecture towards a more flexible, intelligent and reliable optical network layer utilizing new optical switching architectures and technologies as well as advanced control and management protocols. Optical component technology is rapidly maturing offering cost-effective solutions to a point where optical networks are currently being deployed in core backbone networks, and are gaining increased interest for deployment in metro and access environments. The widespread deployment of optical communication networks provides many significant challenges. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers in academia and industry to present and discuss issues and possible solutions as well as emerging standards for the development, deployment, and application of optical networks. The symposium will focus on optical systems and networking for traditional telecommunications applications with emphasis on network and system design, traffic modeling and routing, network management, control and signaling etc. The symposium will also address topics related to optical network solutions suitable to support new applications and services such as storage networks, global grid computing, disaster recovery etc. The symposium will consist of peer-reviewed research papers covering a broad range of issues related to optical communication systems and networks. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE * Optical access, metro and core networks * Optical transmission and systems * Multilayer network architectures (IP/MPLS/GMPLS/optical) * IP-WDM integration * Optical circuit, burst and packet switching * Multigranular and waveband-switching optical networks * Broadcast, multicast and anycast * Multiple access * Hybrid wireless-optical networks * Wireless optical systems * Optical access (PON/EPON bandwidth allocation, scheduling) * Layer 1 virtual private networks (VPNs) * Network modeling and design (routing, wavelength assignment, grooming, ...) * Network performance evaluation * Network element architectures and their performance (OXC, OADM, packet switches, ...) * Recovery strategies : efficiency, cost, performance, single and multilayer * Network control and management * Next generation SONET/SDH * Data over SONET/SDH and OTN * Support of advanced applications: grid computing, content storage and distribution, multimedia streaming, etc. * Techno-economical comparison between different network architectures * Optical network experiments (interoperability demonstrations, test beds and field trials) * Standardization TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Andrea Bianco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Franco Callegati, Università di Bologna, Italy Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, USA Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Tibor Cinkler, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Tarek El-Bawab, Alcatel, USA George Ellinas, City University of New York, USA Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Wales Swansea, UK Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Christoph Gauger, University of Stuttgart, Germany Aysegul Gencata, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Labs, USA Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Young-chon Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea Youngseok Lee, Chungnam National University, Korea Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Guido Maier, Corecom, Italy Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA Michael O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK Tim Ozugur, Alcatel, USA Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium Chunming Qiao, State University of New York, USA Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy Chava Vijaya Saradhi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ken-Ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan Dominic A. Schupke, Siemens AG, Germany Abdullah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia, USA Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA Jing Wu, Communications Research Center, Canada Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Wende Zhong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore PAPER SUBMISSION Authors MUST submit their papers electronically using EDAS. A link is provided to the EDAS web site at the end of this page. The submission process involves the following three steps: 1. Creation of a personal account on EDAS (if the author does not already have one) 2. Registration of the paper (requiring a title and short abstract of up to 150 words) 3. Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format Papers must be written in English. Preferred maximum paper length is 6 printed pages including figures. Accepted papers that are longer than 6 pages will be charged with an over-length fee of $100 per page for the 7th and 8th pages. Under no circumstances may any submission exceed 8 pages. Papers in excess of 8 pages shall not be considered for review or publication. IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Authors will be notified of acceptance and given a chair's summary of reviewer comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Accepted manuscripts should be revised per the comments and final camera-ready papers be submitted by the deadline. The accepted papers, depending on their number versus conference rooms' availability, may be split among orally presented and poster presented papers without any relation to the paper evaluation process and without any distinction as far as printing in the proceedings is concerned. The authors must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and that one presenter must register at the FULL or LIMITED rate per IEEE ComSoc policy. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to three papers. Copyright forms will be required for accepted papers. The Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks website is http://www.icc2006.org/index/OpticalSystemsandNetworks.html The EDAS web site for the Symposium is http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4590 For additional paper submission details, please visit http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html Please contact us if you need additional information. Best regards, Piet Demeester Byrav Ramamurthy Stefano Bregni Nasir Ghani -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 1 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 1 Call for Papers) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:24:45 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for papers EUROSYS 1 Leuven April 18-21, 2006 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ Important dates: Registration of abstracts October 8, 2005 (mandatory) Paper submission October 15, 2005 (hard deadline) Acceptance notification January 15, 2006 Final papers due March 1, 2006 Conference April 18-21, 2006 EuroSys 1 is the first of a series of system conferences located in Europe. It welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, April 18-21, 2006. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences. As a result, we seek papers on all aspects of computer systems. We especially seek papers that cross the divide between areas and address: * All areas of operating systems and distributed systems * Systems aspects of: - Programming language support - Databases - Distributed algorithms - Middleware - Parallel and concurrent computing - Clusters and grids - Mobile and pervasive computing - Embedded computers and tiny devices - Novel user interfaces - Real-time computing - Security - Dependable computing - Novel uses of information technology - Management, measurement and monitoring * Experience with existing systems * Reproduction of previous results * Negative results * Early ideas Papers should report, where possible, on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of such systems. However, at least one session of the conference will be reserved for "idea" papers. These papers may not be held to the same standards in terms of evaluation as other submissions. Similarly, one session of the conference will be reserved for "experience papers", reflecting on the use or the lack of use of earlier concepts. For such papers, novelty of the concept is less of an issue, but depth of evaluation is of paramount importance. Authors may but need not designate their paper for one of these sessions. To encourage diversity, any single author will be limited to at most two submissions. To avoid conflict of interests, papers authored by program committee members will be held to a significantly higher standard, and their number in the final program will be severely restricted. Reviewing will not be blind. Authors should feel free to include their affiliation in the paper, and include all references in full. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee with the help of outside referees. The primary criterion for acceptance will be the impact of the work on the systems community and the extent to which the papers bridge gaps between different communities. Novelty, clarity of explanation and thorough evaluation will be additional criteria. Papers may be provisionally accepted, subject to further shepherding by a member of the program committee before final acceptance. The conference does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers. Papers will be accepted or rejected based on their merits, and the conference will be organized in a format that accommodates the number of papers that meet that criterion. Papers should not exceed 14 pages double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable postscript or pdf form. For detailed submission instructions, refer to the submission web site. Program committee Anastassia Ailamaki CMU Amnon Barak Hebrew University Brian Bershad University of Washington Alan Cox Rice University Thomas Gross ETHZ Steve Hand Cambridge University Maurice Herlihy Brown University Christof Fetzer Technical University of Dresden Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Gilles Muller Ecole des Mines, Nantes Krithi Ramaritham IIT Bombay Ant Rowstron Microsoft Research Cambridge Karsten Schwan Georgia Tech Leendert Van Doorn IBM Research Hawthorne Werner Vogels Amazon Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (chair) Organizing Committee Yolande Berbers KU, Leuven (general chair) Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (programm chair) Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA-Rennes(publicity chair ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://ramp.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] PerEL 2006: Deadline Extension]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] PerEL 2006: Deadline Extension Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:02:33 +0200 From: Ulrike Lucke <ul(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de> Reply-To: perel06(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. Please feel free to forward the message to interested colleagues. >> Please note: PerEL 2006 Deadline has been extended. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2nd IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2006) March 17, 2006 in Pisa, Italy http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with the 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2006) www.percom.org SCOPE ~~~~~ The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2006) aims to address the issues of pervasive computing in combination with new types and possibilities of learning, teaching and working. Pervasive learning is to be seen as a key technology for tomorrow's e-knowledge society. Here, content, context and community as well as a technical basement are equally important aspects for the realization of a global campus. High-producing discussions at PerEL 2005 showed out that technical pre-requisitions of pervasive learning as well as a research roadmap are given. First prototypical experiences are already available, but yet no full solution. PerEL 2006 covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of pervasive learning forcing innovative learning environments by utilization of wireless communication and wearable computing. In combination with session and service mobility as well as device independency, the arising learning environments should have the potential to be accessed by anyone at any place and any time. Learning wherever and whenever needed is to become possible. PerEL 2006 addresses technologies, algorithms, tools, architectures, organization policies, and applications as well as didactical and pedagogical aspects and trends of pervasive eLearning. After all, it aims at an examination of future visions in that area. It will present original papers that demonstrate new results of research and development in the field of pervasive learning. We are looking for results of theoretical, empirical, and practical studies. Topics of interest are all aspects of pervasive learning as mentioned above. This includes, but is not limited to: - mobile communication (asynchronous, synchronous) - service and session mobility - document, knowledge, and service management - tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous eLearning - smart devices and device-independent presentation - techniques for cooperative learning or working - pervasive gaming for learning, eLearning networks - realization of pervasive learning scenarios - best practice studies and experiences PerEL 2006 will discuss new techniques for the support of mobile teaching, learning and working from a pervasive point of view. As started by its predecessor in 2005, the workshop continues to bring together researchers and developers from different technical and educational disciplines. Its intension is to assemble outstanding work in order to enable the realization of improved pervasive learning arrangements. SUBMISSIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ We kindly invite authors to submit full papers on original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Papers may be submitted in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Postscript format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to fully register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Submission of Full Papers: September 30, 2005 *extended* Notification of Acceptance: November 22, 2005 Camera-ready Papers due: December 19, 2005 CONTACT ~~~~~~~ Program Chair: Djamshid Tavangarian Organization: Heiko Kopp, Ulrike Lucke For further information please contact the organizers at: University of Rostock Dpt. of Computer Science Albert-Einstein-Str. 21 18059 Rostock Germany Phone: (+49) 381 - 498 75 23 Fax: (+49) 381 - 498 75 22 perel06(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SAINT 2006 Workshop CFP: Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SAINT 2006 Workshop CFP: Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:09:59 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <sig3(a)wireless-world-research.org> CC: uesugi.mitsuru(a)jp.panasonic.com, arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de, ohashi(a)kddilabs.jp Second Call for SAINT 2006 workshop papers (please note the updated paper format) 2nd Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006) (see also: http://www.saintconference.org/, http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint06/, SAINT 2006: Phoenix, Arizona, USA, January 23-27, 2006) The enormous success of the Internet results to a large extent from the flexible and easy to use platform it provides to create innovative services and applications that quickly find acceptance and customers. In parallel to the Internet, mobile communications also has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous radio and network technologies. The success of the next generation mobile telecommunication systems will again depend on the services and applications that can be provided. These future systems are expected to integrate the paradigms of traditional mobile telecommunication systems with the Internet protocols and software engineering methods. New paradigms will emerge. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Ubiquitous services receive increased user acceptance (e.g., Peer-to-Peer). A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all capabilities to allow innovative services to be created and deployed in short time addressing user needs. Third party interfaces allow a chaining of expertise in service provisioning. Semantic technologies may help to structure knowledge about the user environment. Researchers, practitioners and developers are invited to submit original unpublished papers in the following areas: * Open Service Architectures (open interfaces, third party providers) * Mobile Service Platforms (incl. terminal aspects and mobile middleware) * Service Platforms for ubiquitous communication and P2P * Capabilities and features for next generation mobile services (context-awareness, personalization/personal agent, high quality multimedia, information distribution, adaptation) * Service Building Blocks (service modelling, semantic technologies, service creation, service discovery, service composition, service management) * Privacy and trust as enabling technologies for future service platforms * Mobile service platform prototypes and evaluation * Innovative applications and services This workshop is open to contributions from all experts in service technologies from industry and academia, including bodies such as mITF and WWRF, but not being limited to those. The Mobile IT Forum (mITF) and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) are both organizations working towards the next generation of mobile communication systems. The two bodies represent each more than 140 member organizations (including companies, universities, and research institutes). Both bodies have dedicated working groups to the architecture/platform challenge. This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss service architecture/platform issues on a highly international level with experts from both bodies. Submission Guidelines Page limit: 4 pages in IEEE Conference format. Description: The submitted paper should contain authors names and affiliation and postal address, and fax number Format: Paper should be submitted in .pdf or .ps or .doc. Papers should be submitted to the workshop organizers. All papers will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. Important dates Paper submission: Thursday, September 15, 2005. Camera ready due: Tuesday, November 1, 2005. Workshop organizers Stefan ARBANOWSKI, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, WWRF WG2 Service Architecture, Chair, arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de Wolfgang KELLERER, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, WWRF WG2, Vice Chair kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Masayoshi OHASHI, KDDI, Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Chair ohashi(a)kddilabs.jp Mitsuru UESUGI, Panasonic Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Vice Chair uesugi.mitsuru(a)jp.panasonic.com ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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