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[Fwd: CfP - Symposium on Cooperative Networks in WirelessCom 2005]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - Symposium on Cooperative Networks in WirelessCom 2005 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:13:52 +0100 From: Antonella Molinaro <molinaro(a)deis.unical.it> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: Mischa Dohler <michael.dohler(a)kcl.ac.uk>, Andrej Stefanov <stefanov(a)duke.poly.edu> [Apologies for multiple copies] Dear Colleagues, Antonella Molinaro, Mischa Dohler and Andrej Stefanov wish to invite you to submit high-quality papers to the Symposium on Cooperative Networks, part of WirlessCom 2005, to be hold in Hawaii from June 13-16 2005. For more details, please, consult the call-for-papers below or the website <http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet>http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet. Kind regards, Antonella, Mischa, Andrej. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium on Cooperative Networks <http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet>www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet WirelessCom 2005 Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui Hawaii, USA, June 13-16 2005 Technical Sponsorship IEEE TCCC, TCPC, and SSCTC Scope Cooperative Networks are gaining increasing interest from the wireless community as a means to allow mobile devices to communicate in networks composed of heterogeneous technologies. A special Working Group on Cooperative Networks (CoNets) has been established within the WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) to undertake these issues. Seamless Communication: Heterogeneity in CoNets refers to service support, user devices, network access, resource and mobility management, medium access control, baseband algorithms, radio technology, and so on. In this scenario, the main challenging goal is to allow a mobile user to seamlessly communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks (cellular, wireless and wired networks, including "moving" and "ad-hoc" networks), and to enjoy multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different administrative domains. Self-Organization & Cross-Layer Design: Certainly there are particular cooperation and coordination problems found in CoNets that significantly differ from those in more traditional domains. The future cooperative network is, in fact, expected to self-organize dynamically in an optimum manner in order to offer seamless services with agreed quality to users and devices irrespective of location and network connection. This implies careful optimization across the entire protocol stack. Ideally, cooperative connectivity shall be transparent to the various transport technologies used among nodes in the network. New APIs: Relations between cooperative networks are expected to be established dynamically, always providing a securely protected environment to users. Mobile terminals should be able to discover candidates available networks, therefore new APIs should enable applications to detect available access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location, context, and QoS. Cooperative Networking: Special kinds of wireless networks included in CoNets are the so-called "moving networks" (NEMO), consisting of one or more mobile routers with connected devices changing their point of attachment to other networks while physically moving or changing topology. New resource management schemes for cooperative heterogeneous wireless access networks are required. Cooperative Access Control & PHY Technologies: Furthermore, recently, the idea of using a mobile station as a relay between a source and a destination node is making CoNets a new diversity enabler. Cooperating users transmit their own information towards the destination node as well as optimally processed relaying information from other users. In this way, CoNets also offer a viable fading countermeasure and a shadowing alleviation means. The increased traffic requires entirely novel mechanisms at the MAC, as well as new approaches to distributed coding and transceiver design. Topics of Interest Original papers are invited in the area of interoperability between different wireless networks and fixed-wireless co-operation. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of Cooperative Networks: Architectural Principles Multiple Service Support Network Control and Maintenance Mobility Management QoS Provisioning Security Naming & Addressing Moving Networks Ad-hoc Networking and Internetworking Technology Multihop Routing Multi-Access Capability Radio Access Technologies Resource Management Cooperative & Distributed Relaying Ambient Network Technologies Cognitive Networks User devices Cooperative Processing Cooperative Sensor Environments Self-Organizing Networks Submission Guidelines All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the symposium co-chairs. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005 Co-Chairs Antonella Molinaro University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria - Italy <mailto:antonella.molinaro@ing.unirc.it>antonella.molinaro(a)ing.unirc.it Mischa Dohler CTR, King's College London - UK <mailto:michael.dohler@kcl.ac.uk>michael.dohler(a)kcl.ac.uk Andrej Stefanov Polytechnic University, New York - USA <mailto:stefanov@duke.poly.edu>stefanov(a)duke.poly.edu Technical Program Committee Hamid Aghvami, UK Sergio Barbarossa, Italy Daniel Beimborn, Germany Aggelos Bletsas, USA Helmut Bolcskei, Switzerland Antonio Capone, Italy Carla Chiasserini, Italy Javier R. Fonollosa, Spain Vasilis Friderikos, UK Hesham El Gamal, USA Michael Gastpar, USA Monisha Ghosh, USA Georgios B. Giannakis, USA A. Roger Hammons Jr, USA Jadwiga Indulska, Australia Antonis Kalis, Greece Mos Kaveh, USA Hong-Yon Lach, France Geert Leus, Netherlands Yonghui Li, Australia Youjian Liu, USA Fabio Massacci, Italy Gianluca Mazzini, Italy Rohit Nabar, USA Ian Oppermann, Finland Ashutosh Sabharwal, USA Cem Saraydar, USA Ali H. Sayed, USA Anna Scaglione, USA Andreas Schieder, Germany Hans-Peter Schwefel, Denmark Sergio Servetto, USA Yantai Shu, China Rahim Tafazoli, UK Vahid Tarokh, USA Sirin Tekinay, USA Ozan Tonguz, USA Matthew Valenti, USA Mahesh Varanasi, USA Josep Vidal, Spain Branimir Vojcic, USA Tim Weitzel, Germany Hyunsoo Yoon, Korea

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[Fwd: Call For Papers: Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks (IEEE WirelessCom 2005)]
by Buschmann, Carsten 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks (IEEE WirelessCom 2005) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:22:30 -0800 From: Marco Zuniga <marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Marco Zuniga <marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com> To: marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com Dear Colleagues, This is the Call For Papers for the Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks to be held at Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii, USA in conjunction with IEEE WirelessCom 2005, June 13-16, 2005. http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/WirelessComm05/WSNsymposium/ We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. Scope Wireless Sensor Networks have received tremendous attention over the past few years. These systems can potentially benefit a variety of scientific, military and commercial applications. Recent years have seen tremendous advancement to this vision and have offered the ability to deploy networks of densely deployed, inexpensive sensor nodes. The vast potential for this research area has been demonstrated by numerous scientific and commercial applications that have emerged in recent years, as well as by the number of industrial and research institutions working in this area. Sensor networks combine distributed sensing, computation, storage, and wireless multi hop communication. Many challenges need to be overcome in this research area to realize its potential. Original papers are invited on a broad range of research topics relating to wireless sensor networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Communication techniques and protocols * Scalable architectures and programming models * Energy and resource management * In-network processing and data aggregation * Distributed query processing and data storage * Applications of wireless sensor networks * Localization, time-synchronization and calibration * Simulation tools, operating systems and middleware * Collaborative signal processing * Distributed control and actuation * Security * Cross-layer design and optimization Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005 Committee: * Co-Chairs Rajgopal Kannan, LSU, rkannan(a)bit.csc.lsu.edu Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, bkrishna(a)usc.edu Yi Pan, Georgia State University, cscyip(a)techie.cs.gsu.edu Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong University, p.fan(a)ieee.org * Vice Chairs Deepak Ganesan, U Mass Amherst, dganesan(a)cs.umass.edu Chiti Francesco, Universit di Firenze, chiti(a)lenst.det.unifi.it Narayanan Sadagopan, USC, narayans(a)usc.edu * Publicity Chairs Shuangqing Wei, LSU, swei(a)ece.lsu.edu Marco Zuniga, USC, marcozun(a)usc.edu More details can be found at: http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/WirelessComm05/WSNsymposium/ Regards, Organizing Committee (Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks)

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[Fwd: VTC2005 Fall Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: VTC2005 Fall Deadline Extended Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:15:52 EST From: ieee-enotice(a)ieee.org Reply-To: j.m.irvine(a)ieee.org To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de References: <A11056365526615506799.wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> 62nd IEEE VTC - VTC2005-Fall 2005 Joint Rail Conference Dear Collegue, Happy New Year! Due to numerous requests to move the submission deadline for 62nd IEEE VTC - VTC2005-Fall September 25-28, 2005 in Dallas, TX to allow a little more time after the new year festivities, the deadline has been moved back to Monday 31 January 2005. However, further extensions cannot be accommodated. Submissions, in form of 1500 word extended abstact should be received by the EDAS system by 5pm CT 31 January 2005. All information regarding the conference and paper submissions can be found at <http://www.vtc2005fall.org>. Alternatively, send a blank email to vtcinfo(a)ieeevtc.org <mailto:vtcinfo@ieeevtc.org> to receive a copy of the call for papers by email. We look forward to receiving your submission and to see you in Dallas in September. With best regards, Bob Shapiro, General Chair _____________________________________________________ You may unsubscribe to this mailing list at http://www.ieee.org/ra/e-notice/vts.html Be sure to include your IEEE member number of 41604359

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP ICNP 2005]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP ICNP 2005 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:00:45 -0500 From: Ibrahim Matta <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Boston, Massachusetts November 6-9, 2005 http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005 E-mail: icnp2005-org(a)cs.bu.edu ICNP is a highly selective single-track conference covering all aspects of network protocols including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. On its thirteenth anniversary, ICNP 2005 will return to Boston, the Intellectual Hub of The Universe, where it will be held in the historic Backbay area. Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Selected top papers from ICNP 2005 will be forwarded to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible publication. In addition, a "Best Paper Award" will be given to the outstanding paper presented at the conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Protocol testing and analysis Protocol design and implementation Network measurement and monitoring Security and resiliency Peer-to-peer/Overlay protocols Routing protocols Wireless and mobile networks Ad hoc and sensor networks QoS and signaling Flow and congestion control Multimedia Distributed gaming ICNP 2005 will feature tutorials and workshops for which it is soliciting proposals. Also, plans are underway for a student poster session and a student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission: May 6, 2005 Workshop/Tutorial proposals: July 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005 Camera ready version: August 5, 2005 STEERING COMMITTEE: =================== Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA * Ken Calvert, U. of Kentucky, USA * Mohamed Gouda, U. of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka U., Japan * Simon Lam, U. of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State U., USA * Mike T. Liu, Ohio State U., USA Raymond Miller, U. of Maryland, USA * Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA * Executive Committee Member ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ===================== GENERAL CHAIRS: Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA PANEL & TUTORIAL CHAIRS: Debanjan Saha, IBM research, USA Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, USA STUDENT POSTER CHAIR: Michalis Faloutsos, U. of California at Riverside, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State U. Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara Paul Amer, U. of Delaware Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech Anish Arora, Ohio State U. Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U. Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Bobby Bhattacharjee, U. Maryland Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint Labs Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs John Byers, Boston U. Andrew Campbell, Columbia U. Ana Cavalli, INT, France Jorge Cobb, U. Texas at Dallas Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine Sonia Fahmy, Purdue university Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Tim Griffin, Intel Research Cambridge Liang Guo, Motorola Labs Khaled Harfoush, NCSU Teruo Higashino, Osaka University Jennifer Hou, UIUC Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve U. Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State U. Ahmed Helmy, USC/ISI Chin-Tser Huang, U. South Carolina Kevin Jeffay, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill TV Lakshman, Lucent, Bell Labs Simon Lam, U. Texas at Austin David Lee, Ohio State U. Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia U. Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC Prashant Pradhan, IBM Kihong Park, Purdue U. Sambit Sahu, IBM Medy Yahya Sanadidi, UCLA Udaya Shankar, U. Maryland Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, U. Athens, Greece Peter Steenkiste, CMU Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Don Towsley, Umass Amherst Joe Touch, USC/ISI Hasan Ural, U. of Ottawa, CA Geoffrey Xie, Naval Post Graduate School Richard Yang, Yale U. David Yau, Purdue U. Zhi-Li Zhang, U. Minnesota Lixia Zhang, UCLA Ty Znati, NSF and U. Pittsburg _______________________________________________________________ === Ibrahim Matta, Associate Professor Computer Science Department Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Tel: (617) 358-1062, Fax: (617) 353-6457 matta(a)cs.bu.edu http://www.cs.bu.edu/~matta _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-Special Section of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP-Special Section of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:48:36 +0200 From: Polychronis Koutsakis <polk(a)telecom.tuc.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear all, We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************* Call for Papers Special Section on "Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks" ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Theme With the pervasive presence of mobile personal wireless computing devices, wireless communication technologies are rapidly evolving and influencing our daily way of life. The new wireless data and multimedia services that are added and supported on wireless networks alongside the traditional voice services pose formidable challenges to these networks in their effort to satisfy strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. These challenges are further exasperated by the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links (fading, noise) and user mobility. To cope with the challenges related to supporting both the existing and the ever increasing new services, next generation wireless technologies will need to fine tune and/or incorporate new sets of traffic control procedures. This special section will be focusing on two such control procedures related to wireless medium sharing and network overload. A well designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol reduces system costs by maximizing system capacity while successfully integrating different classes of traffic (e.g., voice, data, multimedia) and optimally allocating the limited radio channel bandwidth among them. Congestion control poses yet additional set of challenges to wireless network providers. Network congestion is difficult to resolve when real-time traffic, sensitive to both latency and packet loss, is present, without jeopardizing the QoS expected by the users of that traffic. Call Admission Control (CAC) is a strategy used to limit the number of call connections into the network in order to reduce network congestion, therefore enabling the system to provide the desired QoS to newly incoming as well as existing calls. The mobility of users adds challenging requirements to the Call Admission Control Mechanism. When mobile users change their point of attachment, the end-to-end path may be changed while they still expect to receive the same QoS. This implies that the new end-to-end path should also support the existing QoS (i.e., a reservation on the new path may be required). Topics of interest This highly selective special section of the ACM MC2R aims at providing a state-of-the-art reference of the current research in the fields of Medium Access Control Protocols and Call Admission Control Algorithms for next generation wireless networks. Previously unpublished, original papers of very high quality that are not currently under review by another conference or journal are solicited focusing on representative topics related to this special section, such as: > Medium Access Control Protocols and Transmission Scheduling Mechanisms. > Call Admission Control and Traffic Policing Mechanisms for wireless networks. > Channel Allocation. > CDMA/TDMA wireless systems. > QoS issues for multimedia traffic over wireless networks. > Performance evaluation of wireless networks. > Mobile service and QoS management. > Wireless multimedia services. > Handoff algorithms for mobility support. > Protocols and algorithms coping with limited bandwidth and intermittent connectivity of wireless networks. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2005. Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2005. Submission of final version: July 15, 2005. Submission Instructions Prospective authors should submit their paper electronically to the email address of one of the three guest editors. All material submitted must be in PostScript or PDF format. If using PostScript, only version 2 or later should be used, and reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe fonts (Courier, Times Roman, or Helvetica); other PostScript type 1 and type 2 fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file. Type 3 fonts should not be used as they reproduce poorly in the digital library and on many printers. Paper length should be the equivalent of no longer than 12 pages in MC2R format (two columns, 11pt font). Guest Editors Prof. Michael Paterakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: pateraki(a)telecom.tuc.gr Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA. Email: bisdik(a)us.ibm.com Dr. Polychronis Koutsakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: polk(a)telecom.tuc.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICOST 2005 Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

zur Information -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICOST 2005 Call For Papers Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:37:07 +0100 From: Mounir Mokhtari <Mounir.Mokhtari(a)int-evry.fr> To: <mounir.mokthari(a)int-evry.fr> CC: Daqing <daqing(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg>, Sylvain Giroux <Sylvain.Giroux(a)USherbrooke.ca> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20041111203511.026ca958(a)merle.it.northwestern.edu> Dear Colleagues, Sorry if you receive this message more than once. This is an invitation to submit a paper to the 3rd International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics: ICOST'2005. After ICOST'2003 held in Europe, and ICOST'2004 in Asia, next ICOST'2005 is moving to North America and will be hosted by Sherbrooke University in Canada (http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/). Please note that deadline for abstract submission is fixed to 7th February, 2005, and that all selected paper will be published in IOS Press "Assistive Technology Reserach Series". For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 (9th International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics) will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005). Please find attached ICOST'2005 call for paper. Looking forward to welcome your contributions, Sylvain Giroux, Daqing Zhang and Mounir Mokhtari ICOST'2005 Chairs *************************** Call for Papers Third International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics ICOST'2005 http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/ July 4-6, 2005 Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Organizer DOMUS Laboratory, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Co-organizers Institut National des Télécommunications, Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications, Paris. France Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore The first edition of ICOST in 2003 took place in Europe. The second edition was hosted in Asia. With a third edition in North America, ICOST reaches the status of a de facto world wide conference. ICOST aims at creating an active research community dedicated to explore how smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. On the one hand, smart homes are augmented environment with embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from computer. We believe in a near future elderly and disabled people will resort to smart assistive technology to carry out daily living activities, socialize, and enjoy entertainment and leisure activities. On the other hand, health telematics makes the most of networks and telecommunications to propose health services, expertise and information at distance. It changes at root the way health related services (diagnosis, therapy, and assistance) can be conceived and used. For instance, telemonitoring can secure relatives and help medical staff to provide for better care. Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. They are becoming available anywhere, anytime. Current advances in such enabling technologies let foresee novel applications and services for improving the life of elderly and disabled people in their home and outside. The conference will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and enabling technologies. Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: § Intelligent Environments / Smart Homes § Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence § Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematics Services § Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation § Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing § Wearable Sensors / Home Health Monitoring § Medical Data Collection and Processing § Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments § Vision / Hearing / Cognitive Devices § Personal Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs § Home Networks / Residential Gateways § Social / Privacy / Security Issues Each year, ICOST has a specific flavor. ICOST2003 focused on usability. The theme was «Independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly people». ICOST 2004 theme was «Toward a Human-Friendly Assistive Environment». ICOST 2005 aims to address the link between objects, assistance, and cognition. How smart objects may be designed, improved and used to provide personalized assistance? Thus papers or special sessions addressing the following topics are most welcomed: · Cognitive Orthotics /Assisted cognition a.. Location-based services / Personalization b.. Pervasive computing c.. Smart objects / Tangible interfaces d.. RFID / smart tags In combination with presentations, posters, exhibits and technology demonstrations, you are invited to organize special sessions in any related fields to tackle the new technical challenges. Full details on the conference are available at: http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca or by e-mail icost2005(a)usherbrooke.ca. IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract (2-4 pages) Notification of acceptance Final Version / Camera ready Paper February 7th, 2005 February 28th, 2005 March 28th, 2005 For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005). Conference Chair Sylvain Giroux Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 2027 Sylvain.Giroux(a)USherbrooke.ca Co-Chairs Mounir Mokhtari GET/INT Institut National des Télécommunications Telecommunication Network and Services Department 9, rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex, France Tel: +33-1-60-76-47-55 Fax: +33-1-60-76-42-91 Mounir.Mokhtari(a)int-evry.fr Daqing Zhang Acting Manager Context Aware Systems Department Institute for Infocomm Research 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Tel: +65 6874 7860 Fax: +65 6775 5014 daqing(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Program Chair Hélène Pigot Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 3078 Helene.Pigot(a)USherbrooke.ca International Scientific Committee a.. Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology , USA b.. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, University of Putra Malaysia c.. Chris Nugent, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK d.. Zeugnam Bien, Korea advanced institute of science and technology, Korea e.. Jit Biswas, Infocom Institute, Singapore f.. Diane Cook, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA g.. Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA h.. Bart Driessen, TNO-TPD Delft, The Netherlands i.. Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA j.. Nick Hine, University of Dundee, UK k.. Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, University of Linz, Austria l.. Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia m.. Robert S. H. Istapanian, Kingston University, UK n.. Jaime Lopez Krahe, University Paris VIII, France o.. Abdallah M'hamed, Institut National des Telecommunications INT/GET, France p.. Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada q.. Gilles Privat, France Telecom, France r.. Tharek ABD Rahman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia s.. Olivier Remy-Neris, CHU of Brest-INSERM, France t.. Dimitar Stefanov, University of Wales Cardiff, UK u.. Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan v.. Machiel Van Der Loos, VA Palo Alto, USA w.. Zhou Xingshe, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., P.R. China _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Network: CFP Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Network: CFP Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100 From: Marco Conti <marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, CaberNet Events <CABERNET-EVENTS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on: Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/cfpnetwork2006.htm **** Submission Deadline --- June 10, 2005 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, the wireless Internet provides access primarily to Web-based content and services. However, the emergence and adoption of broadband wireless access standards, such as IEEE 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a/g, offers new possibilities for wireless delivery of rich multimedia content and services, like video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive games, conversational navigation services, and future immersive communications in virtual environments. Advances in technology are enabling a world of converged wireless and mobile communications, where users access a variety of media formats using a single device. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, UWB, Mobile IP and its variants, IP paging, wireless IP QoS and SIP. Similarly, newer multimedia standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC provide significant improvements in compression, and specifications such as 3GPP Version 6 provide the ability to adapt the multimedia delivery for wireless networks with varying transmission characteristics and mobile devices with different capabilities. The goal of this special issue is to present a concise reference of state-of-the-art efforts in delivering multimedia over emerging packet-based broadband wireless networks. Specifically, the special issue is intended to present tutorials, survey and original research articles (in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) on emerging architectures, protocols and services for delivering multimedia over single-hop or mesh broadband wireless networks. It also focuses on the protocols needed to integrate the application layer requirements, such as QoS, security, etc., with the base functionality offered by the standardized 802.16/11 and other WLAN and WMAN interfaces. Of particular interest is the inter-play between newer techniques of multimedia encoding and streaming and the network-layer features to exploit these techniques. Following are the topics of interest for which we solicit contributions for this special issue: * IP-based multimedia delivery and services over WLANs and WMANs * QoS for real-time voice and video in broadband wireless networks * Media multicasting and broadcasting problems and solutions for wireless links * Caching and content management in WLANs, WMANs and 3G Networks * VoIP over wireless networks * Multimedia over single-hop and mesh-based wireless networks * Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks * Multimedia services for ambient intelligent and pervasive environments * Broadband multimedia prototypes and system experiences * Broadcast and point-to-point multimedia in indoor & outdoor environments, e.g. homes, convention centers, sports arenas Manuscript Submission ===================== Papers should be submitted in PDF format at http://colibri.iit.cnr.it. For any questions or clarification, please contact any of the guest editors. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 10, 2005 * Reviews Completed: September 30, 2005 * Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2005 * Publication of Special Issue: 1st Quarter, 2006 Guest Editors ============= John Apostolopoulos HP Labs 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1181 Palo Alto, CA, 94306, USA japos(a)hpl.hp.com Marco Conti IIT-CNR Via G. Moruzzi,1 56124 Pisa Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Archan Misra IBM Research 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10533, USA. archan(a)us.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence 2005: CFP
by Martin Gutbrod 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ##################################################################### IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS ##################################################################### 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05) September 19-22, 2005 Compiegne University of Technology, France http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/ Sponsored By IEEE Computer Society Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ********************************************************************* * - Paper submission due: April 3, 2005 - Submission websites: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05/ - Electronic submissions are required in the form of PDF or PS files ********************************************************************* * Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (e.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) (e.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence. The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'05) will be jointly held with the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'05 http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/IAT05/, http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2005 joint conferences are sponsored and organized by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence (TCCI) (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~xwu/tcci/index.shtml), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) (http://wi-consortium.org), and ACM-SIGART (http://www.acm.org/sigart/). ++++++++ Topics ++++++++ The topics and areas include, but not limited to: WI Topics * World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) Distributed Resources Optimization Goal-Directed Services Support Information and Knowledge Markets Knowledge Community Formation and Support Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation New Social Interaction Paradigms Problem Solver Markup Language (PSML) Regularities and Laws of W4 Search of Best Means and Ends Service Self-Aggregation Social and Psychological Contexts Web Inference Engine * Social Networks and Social Intelligence Entertainment Knowledge Community Formation and Support Link Topology and Site Hierarchy Intelligent Wireless Web Social Networks Mining Theories of Small-World Web Ubiquitous Computing Ubiquitous Learning Systems Virtual and Web Communities Web-Based Cooperative Work Web Site Clustering * Knowledge Grids and Grid Intelligence Brokering and Scheduling Knowledge Resources and Services Discovery Middleware Architectures and Tools On-Demand Planning and Routing Semantic Grids * Web Mining and Farming Context Sensitive Web Mining E-Mail Classification Data Warehousing Learning User Profiles Multimedia Data Mining Mining Data Streams Text Mining Web Farming and Warehousing Web Content Mining Web Information Clustering Web Information Indexing Web Log and Usage Mining Web Page Clustering and Mining Web Site Classification * Semantics and Ontology Engineering Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval Ontology-Based Web Mining Web-Based Ontology Learning Semantic Web * Web Agents Agent Networks and Topologies Coordination Distributed Problem Solving Global Information Foraging Macroscopic Behavior Modeling Mobile Agents Remembrance Agents Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms Self-Organization and Reproduction Trust Models for Web Agents * Web Services Matchmaking Middleware-Based Ubiquitous Services Service-Oriented Computing Web Service Reconfiguration Web Service Workflow Composition Grid Services * Web Information Filtering and Retrieval Automatic Cataloging and Indexing Clustering-Based Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering Digital Library Distributed Web Search Hybrid Recommendation Information Retrieval Criteria and Evaluations Proxy and Cache Techniques Search Engines and Meta-search Engines Specifications for Web Information Extraction Process Web Crawling Systems Web Information Categorization and Ranking Web Prediction and Prefetching * Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Adaptive Web Interfaces Context-Aware Computing Learning User Profiles Multimedia Representation Personalized Interfaces Personalized Web Sites Social and Psychological Issues Visualization of Information and Knowledge * Web Support Systems Information Retrieval Support Systems Web Site Navigation Support Systems Recommender Support Systems Soft Computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, rough sets, and granular computing) and Uncertainty Management for WI Web-Based Decision Support Systems * Intelligent e-Technology Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation Business Intelligence Decentralized Community Communication Techniques E-Business and E-Commerce E-Community E-Finance E-Government E-Learning E-Publishing E-Science E-Service Intelligent Enterprise Portals Web-Based Direct Marketing and CRM Web-Based EDI Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust +++++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++++ Electronic submission of full papers: ** April 3, 2005 ** Notification of paper acceptance: June 9, 2005 Workshop and tutorial proposals: June 9, 2005 Camera-ready of accepted papers: July 4, 2005 Workshops/Tutorials: September 19, 2005 Conference: September 20-22, 2005 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ High-quality papers in all WI related areas are solicited. Papers exploring new directions or areas will receive a careful and supportive review. All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Note that WI'05 will accept ONLY on-line submissions, containing PDF (PostScript or MS-Word) versions. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. WI'05 also welcomes Industry Track and Demo submissions, Workshop and Tutorial proposals. More detailed instructions and the On-Line Submission Form can be found from the WI'05 homepages: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/WI05/ or http://www.hds.utc.fr/WI05. A selected number of WI'05 accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (http://wi-consortium.org/journal.html) and in Annual Review of Intelligent Informatics (http://www.wi-consortium.org/annual.html) The best paper awards will be conferred on the authors of the best papers at the conference. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Organization +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Conference Chairs: Pierre Morizet, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Program Chair: Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland Steering Committee Chair: Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan WI-Track Program Co-chairs: Rakesh Agrawal, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Mike Luck, University of Southampton, UK Takahira Yamaguchi, Shizuoka University, Japan IAT-Track Program Co-chairs: Jean-Paul Barthes, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia Ron Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA WI-Track Program Vice Chairs: Matthias Klusch, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Joost Kok, Leiden University, The Netherlands Steve Willmott, Universitat Politccnica de Catalunya, Spain Ubbo Visser, Universitat Bremen, Germany Mario Cannataro, University "Magna Grecia" of Catanzaro, Italy Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University, Canada W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA Lina Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Massimo Marchiori, MIT Lab for Computer Science, USA Sankar K. Pal, Indian Statistical Institute, India Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Einoshin Suzuki, Yokohama National University, Japan Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia IAT-Track Program Vice Chairs: Barbara Dunin-Keplicz, Warsaw University, Poland Amal El Fallah-Segrougchni, University of Paris 6, France Eugenio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugl Marek Sergot, Imperial College, UK Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, UWF/Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Liz Sonenberg, The University of Melbourne, Australia Industry/Demo-Track Chair: Toshiharu Sugawara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Workshop Chair: Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada Tutorial Chair: Rineke Verbrugge, University of Groningen, NL Publicity Chair: Jim Peters, University of Manitoba, Canada Organizing Chair: Francois Peccoud, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Local Arrangement Chairs: Marie-Helene Abel, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Claude Moulin, University of Technology of Compiegne, France *** Contact Information *** wi-iat05(a)maebashi-it.org

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[Fwd: [ICEC] ICEC-05 CfP]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ICEC] ICEC-05 CfP Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:07:20 +0100 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IFIP 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing ICEC'05 September 19 - 21, 2005 Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe Sanda Campus, Sanda, Japan Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing http://ist.ksc.kwansei.ac.jp/ICEC2005 Call for Papers We invite you to participate in the prestigious 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2005). Entertainment is taking a very important role in our life by refreshing our mind and activating our creativity. By the recent advancement of computers and networks new types of entertainment have emerged, such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games. Based on the very successful preceding workshop and conferences, the next ICEC 2005 has been set up to offer an occasion to exchange new experiences and knowledge among researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. ***Conference Topics*** Suggested research topics include, but are not limited to: *Advanced Interaction Design, e.g. Haptic Interfaces *Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection *Ambient Intelligence for Entertainment *Art, Design and Media *Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality *Avatars and Virtual Action *Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces *Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies *Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware *Graphics Techniques *Human Factors of Games *Human Sciences, Violence and Entertainment *In-Car/Flight/Train Entertainment Systems *Intelligent Board Games *Interactive Digital Storytelling, and Interactive Tele-Vision *Mobile Entertainment via e.g. Mobile Phones, PDAs etc *Modeling *Narrative Environments and Virtual Characters *Networking (technical and social) *New Genres, New Standards *Novel Hardware Devices *Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing *Robots and Cyber Pets *Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training *Social Computing and Presence *Sound and Music for Entertainment *Sport and Entertainment *Video Games and Online Games *Visual Media Engineering *Wearable Computers and Sensors for Entertainment ***Technical Papers*** The proceedings of ICEC 2005 are planned to be published by Springer within their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Authors will find instructions to prepare their papers at Springer's Authors' instructions page. Papers should be written in English and must be no longer than 12 pages, including references, appendices, and figures. They must include title, author names, contacts and affiliations, abstract, keywords, body, and references. The abstract must be within 150 words and included in the paper. All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be divided into two categories, long presentations and short presentations. Papers should be submitted through the submission web site (which is under construction) in PDF format by March 25, 2005. All papers are processed electronically. Information regarding the paper and a contact author's email address, postal mailing address, and phone number also must be submitted through the submission web site. Movies or other materials to support papers can also be submitted through the submission web site. The format of movies must be AVI/QuickTime/MPEG-1 and less than 3 minutes long. The size of any material must not exceed 100 mega bytes in total. These submissions must also be received by March 25, 2005. Important Dates for Technical Papers: Full paper submission due: Friday, March 25, 2005 Notification of acceptance: Monday, May 16, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: Friday, June 19, 2005 Conference: September 19-21, 2005 ***Demonstrations and Posters*** Posters and/or demos present preliminary results of research or design work within the scope of entertainment computing and with more emphasis on the interdisciplinary evaluation of these ideas. An extended abstract should be written in English and must be no longer than 4 pages in Springer LNCS style. All submissions will be reviewed by the ICEC 2005 program committee. Two different deadlines for posters and demos are set to provide multiple chances to participate in the conference. Extended abstracts accepted from submissions by the early deadline are planned to be included in the proceedings of ICEC 2005 as the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Those accepted from submissions by the late deadline will be published as a separate volume of proceedings. The late deadline offers authors an opportunity to present late breaking results. If possible, please include pictures and/or a video with your submission. Live demos are also encouraged. To be considered for demonstration during the conference, a 1-page description of the demo should be prepared, which specifies the requirements for space, equipments, and power supply for the demo. Extended abstracts should be submitted through the submission web site in PDF format. All materials will be reviewed and processed electronically. The information about the work and a contact author's email address, mailing address, and phone number must be submitted through the submission web site by the deadline. Movies or other materials can also be submitted through the submission web site. The format of movies must be AVI/QuickTime/MPEG-1 within 3 minutes, and the size of all materials must not exceed 100 mega bytes. Additional material must also be received by the deadline. Important Dates for Demonstrations and Posters: [Early submission deadline] Extended abstract submission due: Friday, March 25, 2005 Notification of acceptance: Monday, May 16, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: Sunday, June 19, 2005 Conference: September 19-21, 2005 [Late submission deadline] Extended abstract submission due: Friday, July 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 22, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: Sunday, August 14, 2005 Conference: September 19-21, 2005 ***Exhibitions*** Exhibits are invited from interested commercial organizations. Exhibits of computer games, arcade games, interactive systems, robots and toys are welcome. Details regarding exhibitions will be announced later. ***ICEC 2005 Committee (tentative)*** General Conference Chair: Ryohei Nakatsu (Japan) General Conference Co-chairs: Michihiko Minoh (Japan) ,Akihiro Yagi (Japan) International Organizing Committee: Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, United Kingdom), Adrian David Cheok (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Takehiko Kamae (NICT, Japan) , Donald Marinelli (CMU, USA), Matthias Rauterberg (TU/e, Netherlands) Program Committee Chair: Fumio Kishino (Japan) Technical Paper Chair: Yoshifumi Kitamura (Japan) Poster and Demo Chair: Hirokazu Kato (Japan) Senior Program Committee Members: Galia Angelova (Bulgaria), Bruno Arnaldi (France), Brad J. Bushman (USA), Natanicha Chorpothong (Thailand), Paolo Ciancarini (Italy), Sidney Fels (Canada), Jaap van den Herik (Netherlands), Jussi Holopainen (Finland), Junichi Hoshino (Japan), Haruhiro Katayose (Japan), Yoshifumi Kitamura (Japan), Hitoshi Matsubara (Japan), Geir Egil Myhre (Norway), Zhigeng Pan (China), Helmut Prendinger (Japan), Matthias Rauterberg (Netherlands), Richard Reilly (Ireland), Andy Sloane (England), Ruck Thawonmas (Japan), Akihiro Yagi (Japan), Hyun S. Yang (Korea) Local Organizing Committee Chair: Haruhiro Katayose (Japan) Secretary (Student Volunteers Director): Tatsushi Yamasaki (Japan) Treasurer: Takeshi Kawabata (Japan) Publication: Noriko Nagata (Japan) Web Design & Publicity: Yasuhiko Kitamura (Japan), Helmut Prendinger (Japan) Liaison: Michio Chujo (Japan), Masataka Hashimoto (Japan) Special Advisors: Kozaburo Hachimura (Japan), Tadahiro Kitahashi (Japan), Katsuhide Tsushima (Japan) ***Contact Person*** Ryohei Nakatsu (nakatsu(a)ksc.kwansei.ac.jp) Haruhiro Katayose (katayose(a)ksc.kwanse.ac.jp) _______________________________________________ icec mailing list icec(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Performance Modeling and Evaluation of IP-based Networks
by Martin Gutbrod 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session Performance Modeling and Evaluation of IP-based Networks within the 5th International Network Conference (INC 2005) Doryssa Bay Resort, Island of Samos, Greece 5th 7th July 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------ We live in an era where wireless/mobile communications exhibit a very high and steadily growing importance and penetration worldwide alongside the established fixed networks. Various technologies have contributed to this success, including: mobile communication networks, such as GPRS and UMTS, the family of Broadband Radio Access Networks, like IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN, and wireless broadcasting technologies, like Digital Video Broadcasting (DVBsatellite and terrestrial). Apart from the evolutionary paths of individual technologies, considerable interest has been expressed recently on the additional benefits that may arise from their joint exploitation, through an integrated networking infrastructure that comprises multiple wireless networks (of which some, maybe all, differ in technology), overlapping in common coverage area(s) and interconnected by an IP backbone which acts as the unifying glue that binds the heterogeneous environment together. However, many interesting and important traffic engineering, technological and performance issues need to be addressed and resolved before a global and wide-scale integrated broadband network infrastructure can be established for the efficient support and provisioning of demanding and diverge services. This Special Session of INC 2005 is aiming to promote new concepts and ideas as well as research work in progress that address issues relating to the performance evaluation of IP-based Networks Topics of the session include, but are not limited to: Analytic modeling and simulation tools and techniques Broadband Wireless Access Cellular Networks Interworking of Wireless, Terrestrial and Satellite Networks Measurement methods and tools Network measurements & testbeds QoS Provisioning in Heterogeneous Systems Quantitative methods & tools Queueing Theory Traffic Measurement, Management, Modeling and Characterization ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission: February 1, 2005 Notification of review results: March 4, 2005 Camera ready paper: March 20, 2005 Authors registration: March 25, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION INFORMATION Authors are invited to submit their full papers by email directly to the session organizer, by February the 1th, 2005. The total length of the paper should not exceed eight pages, including all figures, tables and references. A comprehensive set of instructions for preparing camera ready papers as well as relevant information on the venue can be found at the conference site http://www.inc2005.org . Session organizer Dr. Charalabos Skianis, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos

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