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[Fwd: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Extended deadline (March 12) and EDAS submission]
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Extended deadline (March 12) and EDAS submission Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:09:02 -0500 (EST) From: Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira <jau(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: itc(a)comsoc.org We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANNOUNCEMENTS: - PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO MARCH 12, 2004. - PAPERS WILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH EDAS SYSTEM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Med-Hoc-Net 2004 The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey http://www.medhoc04/diit/unict.it Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Ad hoc network applications are emerging continuously imposing their own stringent constraints which cannot be fulfilled by generic approaches and thus spur new research efforts. Therefore, ad hoc networks attract growing attention from the research community. The aim of Med-Hoc-Net 2004 is to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the globe to share their ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad-hoc networking and communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2004 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel ad-hoc network architectures and applications, - Sensor network applications and protocols, - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Interfacing ad-hoc systems with different networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Power management and control, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Self organization and network reconfiguration, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - QoS support in Bluetooth, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11 etc., - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Congestion control, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Signal processing algorithms (coding, compression) for ad-hoc networks The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages. NEW: THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO MARCH 12, 2004 PAPERS WILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH EDAS SYSTEM Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through EDAS system (http://edas.info) according to the following timetable: Important Dates: Full Paper Electronic Submission: March 12, 2004 Tutorial proposal submission: April 15, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 3, 2004 Camera ready submission of full papers: May 17, 2004 Tutorial date: June 27, 2004 Conference dates: June 28-30, 2004 Organization Committee: General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA General Vice Chair: Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY Technical Program Chairs: Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Tutorial Chairs: Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome - La Sapienza, ITALY Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GREECE Publicity Chairs: Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA Registration Chair: Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Technical Program Committee: Khaldoun Al Agha, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, FRANCE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Eitan Altman, INRIA, FRANCE Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, ITALY Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA Walid Dabbous, INRIA, FRANCE Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, TUNISIA Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, TURKEY Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, GREECE Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, CANADA Ariel Orda, Technion, ISRAEL Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, ITALY Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRANCE Paolo Santi, CNR, ITALY Adrian Segall, Technion, ISRAEL Ness Shroff, Purdue University, USA Moshe Sidi, Technion, ISRAEL Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, GREECE Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, GREECE Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen University of Technology, GERMANY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY

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WG: CfP - Forwarding Bitte (fwd)
by Stefan Fischer 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Mailing List Manager Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2004 13:15 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CfP - Forwarding Bitte (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:25:50 +0100 From: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)TIK.EE.ETHZ.CH> To: KUVS-L-request(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: CfP - Forwarding Bitte Mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung auf der "KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de" Danke und Gruss, Burkhard Stiller Subject: CfP: ICQT'04 - October 1, 2004, Barcelona, Spain Body: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Apologies for multiple copies. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT04) "QoS has its Price" co-located with the Fifth International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS04) September 29 - October 1, 2004 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain ICQT04 URL: http://www.ftw.at/icqt Scope ^^^^^ The current shift of Internet communications towards differentiated services enables and supports a huge variety of prosperous business models. The resulting combination of support service issues with technological and economic perspectives drives many relevant and interesting research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel Internet charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of communications services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series. ICQT04 is the fourth event in this series, following the highly successful workshops ICQT01 in Vienna (Austria), ICQT02 in Zurich (Switzerland) and ICQT03 in Munich (Germany). The focus of this years workshop is on the economics of Internet services, pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and the required technology in support of charging. Besides charging technology in terms of monitoring, accounting, and security mechanisms, also pricing and charging models for peer-to-peer applications, multicast, wireless, and QoS services are of importance. Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics: o Network economics and economic models for the Internet o Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing o Internet charging technologies o Monitoring, measuring, and accounting o ISP cost and business models o Charging for QoS, services, and content o Pricing mobile and wireless services o Application service provider models o Security mechanisms for charging o Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions or contact icqt04(a)ftw.at for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series and will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCSs guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be strictly followed without exception, including the 10 page limit. Important Dates ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2004 Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2004 Camera ready version: July 25, 2004 Workshop date: October 1, 2004 General Information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The final program will be run as a full day on October 1, 2004, preceded by QofIS04 on September 29-30, 2004, http://www.qofis.org. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both ICQT04 and QoFIS04. For more information please visit http://www.ftw.at/icqt or contact icqt04(a)ftw.at. Program Co-Chairs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Reichl FTW Vienna, Austria Richard Gibbens Cambridge University, U.K. Program Committee ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Joern Altmann University of Berkeley, U.S.A. Ragnar Andreassen Telenor, Norway Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna, Austria Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies, U.K. Roland Bueschkes T-Mobile International, Germany Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Chris Edwards Lancaster University, U.K. Martin Karsten University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Key Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Munich, Germany Simon Leinen SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Peter Marbach University of Toronto, Canada Robin Mason University of Southampton, U.K. Lee McKnight Syracuse University, U.S.A. Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Huw Oliver Consultant, U.K. Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks, U.S.A. Kihong Park Purdue University, U.S.A. Guido Petit Alcatel, Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University, U.S.A. Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little, Germany Jens Schmitt Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Vasilios Siris ICS Forth, Greece Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen, Germany Bruno Tuffin INRIA Rennes, France +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

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[matta@cs.bu.edu: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1]
by Joerg Diederich 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

------- Start of forwarded message ------- Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:37:42 -0500 Thread-Topic: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1 Thread-Index: AcPrMlGscl58GFbhRdyYgcqskvb4MAPsOL/Q From: "Ibrahim Matta" <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: "Ibrahim Matta" <matta(a)bu.edu> Call For Papers http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 9-11, 2004 ASWN 2004 is the fourth workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. The previous events were held in France and Switzerland, and in 2004 the workshop will take place in the United States for the first time. ASWN 2004, to be held in Boston, aims at investigating new developments in wireless networks focusing on applications and services. The workshop will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of leveraging wireless and mobile environments. Tutorial proposals are also requested. All papers, including invited papers, will go through a thorough review process. TOPICS Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services on Wireless Networks include, but are not limited to: * Media Distribution over Wireless Networks * New Data Services for Wireless Networks * Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business * Mobile Multimedia * Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services * Service Execution Environments * Service Creation * Mobile Service Interworking * Service Discovery * Location-based Services * Context Awareness and Personalization * Service Development, Validation, Testing & Deployment * Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility * QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS * Security and AAA Aspects * Nomadic Services, Interface Management * Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Nets, Sensor Nets * Wireless Personal Area Networks * Reconfigurable Systems and Networks * Self Organizing Systems * Enabling 3G and Beyond Technologies and Architectures * Performance of Wireless Networks and Systems * Cooperative Networks PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, papers that neither have been previously published nor are under review by another conference or journal. Priority will be given to original contributions describing recent and innovative research results or developments in the scope of the workshop. Papers must be written in English, using font no smaller than 10 points and not exceed 10 pages. Only PDF and PostScript formats will be accepted. All submissions will be handled electronically. Further details on submission available on the Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Workshop main page: http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full paper submission: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004 Camera ready due: May 7, 2004 ORGANIZATION The workshop is sponsored by IEEE and its Communications Society (IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications), and WWRF-WG2 on Applications and Services. The workshop is organized by the Web and InterNetworking Group (WING) from the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The workshop will be held on the BU campus. GENERAL Co-CHAIRS Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburg, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS, Germany Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology Elizabeth Belding-Royer, UCSB, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA François Carrez, Alcatel, France Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA Sajal Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany Henk Eertink, Telematica Institut, Netherlands Jeremy Elson, UCLA, USA Anthony Ephremides, Univ. Maryland College Park, Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Ioannis Fikouras, University of Bremen, Germany Savo Glisic, University of Oulu, Finland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Whay Lee, Motorola Labs, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris VI, France Jochen H. Schiller, Freie University, Germany David Starobinski, Boston University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Hector Velayos, KTH, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Cedric Westphal, Nokia Research, USA Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, CA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA - -- Ibrahim Matta, Associate Professor Computer Science, Boston University 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/matta ------- End of forwarded message ------- Hallo, Grüße, /Jörg

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[Fwd: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS: February List Digest]
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS: February List Digest Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:34:01 -0500 From: Andreas Terzis <terzis(a)cs.jhu.edu> Reply-To: Andreas Terzis <terzis(a)cs.jhu.edu> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the February List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. -Andreas Terzis infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM conference news - February 2004 update. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for all of the following conference "member rates", even if it's an IEEE or SPIE conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers - Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 30, 2004 Call for Papers - Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives and Game Theory in Network Systems (PINS) in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 19, 2004 Call for Papers - Network Troubleshooting: Research, Theory and Operations Practice Meets Malfunctioning Reality in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Call for Papers - NetGames'04 in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 16, 2004 Call for Papers - The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004) Conference Dates: November 3-5, 2004,=20 Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA (tentative) URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/sensys04 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: Call for papers -- NOSSDAV 2004 Location: Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Workshop dates: June 16-18, 2004 Paper registration deadline: Feb 23, 2004 (*firm*) Paper submission deadline: Mar 1, 2004 (*firm*) URL: http://www.nossdav.org/2004/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals in the data communications area: Call for Papers - MobiCom 2004 Conference Dates: September 26 - October 1, 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA URL: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2004/ Call for Papers - Global Internet & Next Generation Networks Symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA Conference Dates: 29 Novemeber - 3 December, 2004 URL: http://www.globecom2004.org/ Call for Papers - Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Location: Bodrum, Turkey Conference Dates: June 27-30, 2004, URL: http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ Call for Papers - EUROSIM'04 Location: ESIEE, Cite Descartes, Marne la Vallee, France Conference Dates: 6-10 September 2004 URL: http://www.esiee.fr/~eurosim4/ Call for Papers - PWC 2004 The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Location: Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands Conference Dates: September 21-23, 2004 URL: http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ Call for Papers - The Tenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS'2004 Location: Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay Conference Dates: September 8 - 10, 2004 URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms04.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: GLOBECOM 2004 CFP Deadline Nears]
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GLOBECOM 2004 CFP Deadline Nears Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:29:10 -0500 From: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org Reply-To: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> To: conferencesx(a)comsoc.org GLOBECOM 2004 Emerging Technologies Applications and Services 29 November - 3 December Dallas, Texas USA www.globecom2004.org Call for Papers Deadline 1 March 2004 - Hard deadline no extensions You are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at GLOBECOM 2004 and publication in the Conference Record. The Technical Program will be presented in seven major symposia: Communication Theory General Symposium Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Optical Communications, Networks, and Systems Security and Network Management Signal Processing for Communications Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Proposals for tutorials and workshops in important or emerging communications topics are also invited. The complete call for papers, submittal instructions and additional information can be found at www.globecom2004.org To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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WG: Communication Abstractions in Distributed Computing (CADS 04)
by Stefan Fischer 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Ludger Fiege Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Februar 2004 13:45 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CFP: Communication Abstractions in Distributed Computing (CADS 04) CALL FOR PAPERS Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems ECOOP 2004 Workshop Oslo, Norway, June 14 or 15, 2004 http://perso-info.enst-bretagne.fr/~beugnard/ecoop/WS-CADS04-CFP.html Applications have become increasingly distributed. Distribution complicates systems building and exacerbates problems such as dealing with failure, and providing security, quality of service, reliability, and manageability. System development is eased by abstraction and modeling. How to model distributed systems? Distributed systems can be understood as communicating objects. To tackle the problems of building distributed systems, it is useful to focus on the abstract issues of inter-component communication. Examples of distributed communication mechanisms include messaging systems, remote procedure calls, distributed objects, peer-to-peer and publish-and-subscribe. Within any such paradigm, there are many opportunities for specialized and detailed engineering decisions. While mechanisms such as these are a good foundation for dealing with the problems of distribution, there remain many issues about how to mold these ideas to deal with the problems of real systems. At the previous ECOOP workshops, we identified some problems (security, privacy, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, meta-object protocols, and ordering of events) that are important concerns of any communication abstraction. The goal of this workshop is to contrast and compare communication abstractions for distributed systems. Participants will be asked to submit a position paper on some aspect of communication abstractions for distributed systems. To focus the groups discussion, this year we consider the distributed aerospace information problem, described in the call-for-papers. Prospective participants are requested to relate their contribution to some facet of that that problem. The workshop itself will consist of short presentations, discussion of those presentations, and division into smaller topic study groups. At the previous ECOOP workshops on Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (2003), The Next 701 Distributed Object Systems (2002), and The Next 700 Distributed Object Systems (2001), we identified some problems (security, privacy, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, meta-object protocols, and ordering of events) that are important concerns of any communication abstraction. The goal of this workshop is to contrast and compare communication abstractions for distributed systems. To focus the discussion, participants will be asked to present ideas about communication abstractions with respect to a candidate problem, the distributed aerospace information problem. Call for participation We are interested in papers reporting practical experiences relating both benefits and obstacles in using communication abstractions. The word /abstraction/ should be understood as higher level. (Communications should also be understood as communications among machines, not human-machine interface.) The main questions are what are the possible abstractions, what are their properties, how to implement them. At previous ECOOP workshops (Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (2003) and The Next 701 Distributed Object Systems (2002)) we studied some problems inherent to distribution, such as security, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, and considered what tools an object system might supply to help address them. Technologies included grouping objects into components, immutable objects, application-level protocols, reflection (both introspection and reification), and event-ordering. This year, to help increase the coherence of the discussion, we prefer position papers that speak to the distributed information issues of modernizing Airspace Systems (http://www.nas-architecture.faa.gov/Tutorials/NAS101.cfm). In 25 years, we'd like to have every aircraft, counter, terminal, baggage carousel, control tower and gate networked so that information generated by any of these is conveyed to other interested parties. That is, if a plane flies over the Alps and experiences turbulence, then that turbulence information should be communicated to other pilots on the same path. If the turbulence has slowed down the plane's arrival, then the gates and baggage carousels, connecting flights, automobile rentals of the passengers, etc. all bear notification and perhaps rescheduling. Someone studying patterns of Alpian turbulence should find the data in her database, though not with the same alacrity as a pilot flying from Paris to Milan. Important ilities that proposed organizations need to deal with are efficiency (you can't tell everyone everything), maintainability (you can't turn off the air system), evolvability (you don't know all the future applications of the data), scalability (this is a big system), reliability (for obvious reasons), quality of service (getting important information to its destinations quickly and deferring the unimportant) and security (all the issues of keeping fake messages out of the system, and also federated security: airlines may be willing to share some information with the governing authorities and the respective airplane manufacturers, but not with each other). Possible topics for communication abstractions include: * Communication abstractions themselves, such as synchronous and asynchronous messages, publish-and-subscribe, peer-to-peer, and group and broadcast communications, and parts of communication abstractions, such as coordination, mobility, migration, persistence, security, privacy and reliability techniques. * Embodiments of communication abstractions, such as middleware services, mediation, glueware, communications-centric programming languages, communication frameworks, and communication components, such as run-time system and protocol evolution. * Dealing with failure in communications and communicants, including transactions and recovery mechanisms. * Semantic issues of communications, such as ordering of events. * Conceptual organizations for communications, such as design patterns for communication and distribution, and composition mechanisms for protocols. Our long-term goal is to define and refine abstractions that address some of these problems and other like them. What are the right abstractions, APIs, development methods, reasoning systems, and tools for building the next generation of Distributed Object Systems? This workshop aims to foster discussion during the workshop. The workshop is not a mini-conference. Position papers, not to exceed 6 pages in length, are solicited by April 5, 2004. Papers based on experience with the above issues are particularly welcome. Submission Guidelines Please send positions papers electronically in PDF or Postscript format to Eric Jul at eric(a)diku.dk <mailto:eric@diku.dk> and Antoine.Beugnard(a)enst-bretagne.fr <mailto:Antoine.Beugnard@enst-bretagne.fr> by April 5, 2004. Notification of acceptance will be given by April 26. A maximum of 20 participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted material. Submitted position papers should include a 100 word abstract and a set of relevant keywords. The number of participants per position paper is limited to 2. Springer-Verlag will publish the ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader as an Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html> volume. This book will include a report for each workshop. The organizers will write the report, in collaboration with the participants of the workshop. The organizers will produce a report that provides a summary of the workshop with the major issues discussed and the conclusions of the working groups (if applicable). The report will also include the current research being carried out in the area and open research directions on the workshop themes. Important Dates Positions papers deadline: April 5, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2004 ECOOP 2004 early registration deadline: May 7, 2004 Workshop: June 14 or 15, 2004 Organizers * Antoine Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, Brest, France antoine.beugnard(a)enst-bretagne.fr * Eric Jul, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark eric(a)diku.dk * Laurence Duchien, Universit de Lille, France duchien(a)lifl.fr * Ludger Fiege, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany fiege(a)gkec.tu-darmstadt.de * Robert Filman, NASA Ames Research Center, USA rfilman(a)arc.nasa.gov * Salah Sadou, Valoria, Universit de Bretagne Sud, France salah.sadou(a)iu-vannes.fr

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FW: Last Call For Papers: 18 Joint Conferences in CS & CE - USA, June 21-24, 2004
by Muhammad Asadullah Khan 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

-----Original Message----- From: Hamid Arabnia [mailto:hra@cs.uga.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:04 PM To: khan(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: Last Call For Papers: 18 Joint Conferences in CS & CE - USA, June 21-24, 2004 Extended deadline: Feb. 29, 2004 Extended deadline: Feb. 29, 2004 Call For Papers The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (18 Joint Conferences) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. Any help in distributing this announcement would be most appreciated. The International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is a major annual research event. It assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science and computer engineering. We expect to have over 2,000 attendees. The 2004 event is composed of the following 18 conferences: 1. The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04) 2. The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04) 3. The 2004 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'04) 4. The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'04) 5. The 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'04) 6. The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04) 7. The 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'04) 8. The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04) 9. The 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04) 10. The 2004 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'04) 11. The 2004 International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04) 12. The 2004 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'04) 13. The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'04) 14. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'04) 15. The 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'04) 16. The 2004 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'04) 17. The 2004 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'04) 18. The 2004 International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS'04) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org ) You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconference chair whose address appears below (The chair may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). MultiConference Chair: H. R. Arabnia, PhD The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra(a)cs.uga.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 29, 2004. E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax submissions are also acceptable.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street shows, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 29, 2004: Extended Deadline; Draft papers (about 5 pages) March 22, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 21-24, 2004: 2004 Int'l Multiconference in CS & CE --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. 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[Fwd: FW: IMA 2004 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

hierzu sollten wir etwas einreichen! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: IMA 2004 - Call for Papers Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:32:33 +0100 From: Lemmer, Karsten <Karsten.Lemmer(a)dlr.de> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, anliegenden Call for Papers erhalten Sie zu Ihrer Kenntnis und zur eventuellen Weiterverteilung. Call for Papers IMA 2004 - Informationssysteme für mobile Anwendungen 20./21. Oktober 2004 IHK Braunschweig Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tamara Scharf *********************************************************** ___ __ /__ /__ /__ /__ /__ / /__ / DLR Tamara Scharf Sekretariat Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Institut für Verkehrsführung und Fahrzeugsteuerung Lilienthalplatz 7 38108 Braunschweig Tel.: +49 (0)531 295- 3401 Fax: +49 (0)531 295- 3402 e-mail: Tamara.Scharf(a)dlr.de info: www.dlr.de/fs

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DSOM 2004 Call for Papers
by Frank Strauß 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

15th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management November 15-17, 2004, Davis, California, USA http://www.dsom2004.org Recent efforts in the network and system computing community have been to create systems that are goal-driven, that use resources optimally and transparently to the clients, are uniformly manageable irrespective of the inherent heterogeneity and are autonomic. On the other hand, in the academic research community and grid computing community, many networked computing infrastructures, such as Emulab and Planetlab, have been built and shared among research scientists to run various types of research experiments. Utility Computing (UC) is a paradigm that enables distributed resources (network, systems, applications, services) being provided to users on-demand and in a uniform manner. A utility infrastructure thus has to be dynamic, virtualized, secure and automated, in nature and operate on a wide range of resources. While the UC paradigm itself will very likely enable many exciting distributed applications over the Internet in the near future, technologies related to the manage ment of networks, computing systems, and resources under utility computing systems must be carefully studied and examined. Therefore, this year's DSOM workshop will focus on infrastructure, techniques and methods that can be used to enable the paradigm of utility computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Management Architectures Automation for enabling self-management, self-configuration, and policy-based management Management Information Models Use of service-oriented architectures (web services, grid services) for management Provisioning/Maintaining the Performance and QoS Management Security, Privacy, and Isolation Fault Management and Fault Tolerance Monitoring, event and fault handling Closed-loop management Configuration, Accounting, Billing Experience with distributed Management of Systems, Applications, Networks Inter-domain management Adaptive Services and Applications Transaction Monitoring and Management Integration with Standardized frameworks, management APIs and models (CIM/WBEM, OSI/TMN, CORBA, SNMP, JMX etc) Implementation, Instrumentation, and Experience Important Dates: Submission: May 24, 2004 Notification: July 12, 2004 Camera ready version: Aug 5, 2004 Workshop date: November 15, 2004 Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2004. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2004 Authors are requested to submit: -Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or -Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or postscript format via the "Paper Submission" link (from March 1, 2004 on) of the web site. Program Committee Chairs: Akhil Sahai Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo-Alto, CA, USA S. Felix Wu University of California, Davis, USA Technical Program Committee: Nikos Anerousis IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Marcus Brunner NEC Europe, Germany Mark Burgess University College Oslo, Norway Omar Cherkaoui Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Metin Feridun IBM Research, Switzerland Olivier Festor LORIA-INRIA, France Kurt Geihs TU Berlin, Germany Wolfgang Gentzsch Sun Microsystems, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering Institut für Informatik der LMU, Germany Joseph L Hellerstein IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabe Jakobson Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gail E. Kaiser Columbia University, USA Gautam Kar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryutaro Kawamura NTT Cyber Solutions Labs, Japen Alexander Keller IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Yoshiaki Kirha NEC, Japen Jaynarayan H. Lala Raytheon, USA Lundy Lewis Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu Imperial College London, UK Hanan Lutfiyya University of Western Ontario, Canada J.P. Martin-Flatin CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA Jose M. Nogueira Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil George Pavlou University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras University of Twente, the Netherlands Juergen Quittek NEC Europe, Germany Danny Raz Technion, Israel Gabi Dreo Rodosek Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen, Germany Adarshpal Sethi University of Delaware, USA Sharad Singhal Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Morris Sloman Imperial College London, UK Rolf Stadler KTH, Sweden Radu State LORIA-INRIA, FRANCE Burkhard Stiller UniBW Munich, Germany & ETH Zurich, Switzerland Yi-Min Wang Microsoft Research, USA Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil _______________________________________________ Cnom mailing list Cnom(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom

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[Fwd: Updated CfP for UbiComp 2004]
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Updated CfP for UbiComp 2004 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:17:03 -0700 From: Fahd Al-Bin-Ali <albinali(a)cs.arizona.edu> To: <albinali(a)cs.arizona.edu> Dear colleague, This is an updated CfP for the 6^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004). As a reminder, the deadline for submitting papers is March 12^th 2004. Please circulate this announcement to encourage contributions. Thank you and I apologize if you received this message more than once. Sincerely, Fahd Al-Bin-Ali Publicity Chair UbiComp 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS UBICOMP 2004 The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 7-10 September, 2004 Nottingham, UK http://www.ubicomp.org <http://www.ubicomp.org/> You are invited to contribute original and exciting ideas to UbiComp 2004, the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond our desktops and becomes increasingly embedded in a wide variety of other objects. Submissions to UbiComp 2004 must be original, unpublished work and may not be simultaneously submitted to any other conference or journal. Papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Each conference attendee will receive a printed copy of the proceedings; additional copies can be purchased through Springer-Verlag. The proceedings will also be made available through digital libraries. Submissions must be in the LNCS format; full instructions and templates are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html For Ubicomp 2004 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that describe original, unpublished research on handheld, mobile or ubiquitous computing. Potential areas of interest include: technologies, methodologies and formalisms to support ubiquitous computing and the development of ubiquitous computing applications (e.g. novel devices, system software, software engineering techniques and interaction methods); reports on experiences of designing, developing, deploying and living with ubiquitous computing systems; and, studies of the wider implications of ubiquitous computing. We are particularly seeking papers appropriate to the interdisciplinary community represented at the UbiComp 2004 conference. Submissions should report concrete, transferable results that contribute to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state-of-the-art. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the UbiComp 2004 program committee and by additional members of the ubiquitous computing research community. Papers submitted to UbiComp 2004 must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. Technical papers should be no longer than 18 pages, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, all figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS format. In contrast to previous Ubicomp conferences there are no separate categories for long and short papers; all papers will be considered as full papers and should be an appropriate length for their content. Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2004 Proceedings and authors are, of course, required to attend the conference to present their work. UbiComp 2004 submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing: papers being submitted should not list the authors, affiliations or addresses on the first page -- to preserve formatting, it would be best to leave these sections blank. Author, affiliation and address information should still be filled out on the electronic form for submitting the paper, and final camera-ready copies should have this information included. Authors are also encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or institutions. UbiComp 2004 requires electronic submission. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Full submission details and information on other ways to participate in Ubicomp 2004 are available at http://www.ubicomp.org <http://www.ubicomp.org/>. Deadline for Submission: Papers due midnight GMT on March 12th 2004. Program Committee ----------------- Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK and University of Arizona, USA (program co-chair) Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (program co-chair) Itiro Siio, Tamagawa University, Japan (program co-chair) Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Intel Research Seattle, USA W. Keith Edwards, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Ken Fishkin, Intel Research Seattle, USA Armando Fox, Stanford University, USA Alois Ferscha, Universität Linz, Austria Rebecca E. Grinter, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Bill Gaver, Royal College of Art, UK Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK Beverly L. Harrison, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stephen Intille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Toshiyuki Masui, AIST, Japan Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan

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