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[Fwd: Hector Garcia-Molina: Fwd: Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Hector Garcia-Molina: Fwd: Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:26:40 +0100 From: Wolfgang Nejdl <nejdl(a)kbs.uni-hannover.de> Reply-To: nejdl(a)learninglab.de To: L3S <l3s(a)learninglab.de> Auch natürlich interessant für uns. :-) Wolfgang ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: hector(a)cs.stanford.edu Delivery-Date: Mon Jan 27 16:37:02 2003 Return-Path: <hector(a)cs.stanford.edu> Delivered-To: nejdl(a)localhost.kbs.uni-hannover.de Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by puccini.kbs.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857AB3747F for <nejdl@localhost>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:37:02 +0100 (CET) X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 Received: from server1.learninglab.uni-hannover.de [130.75.87.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.13) for nejdl@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:37:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from mgate.uni-hannover.de (mgate.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.3]) by server1.learninglab.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D3D4E4039 for <nejdl(a)learninglab.de>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:34:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from DB.Stanford.EDU by mgate.uni-hannover.de (PP) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:34:01 +0100 Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (smtp1.Stanford.EDU [171.64.14.23]) by DB.Stanford.EDU (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA28845 for <p2p(a)db.Stanford.EDU>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:33:27 -0800 Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU ([127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RFXVHL006145 for <p2p(a)db.Stanford.EDU>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pepsi (Garcia-molina-pbdsl-1.Stanford.EDU [171.66.179.226]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0RFXTpj006137 for <p2p@db>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:33:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20030127072929.01871af0(a)bavno.stanford.edu> X-Sender: hector(a)bavno.stanford.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:30:03 -0800 To: p2p(a)db.Stanford.EDU From: Hector Garcia-Molina <hector(a)cs.stanford.edu> Subject: Fwd: Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed This may be of interest to some of you... hector >Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:49:07 -0800 >To: Hector Garcia-Molina <hector(a)cs.stanford.edu> >From: Stefan Decker <stefan(a)isi.edu> >Subject: Workshop on Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing > > *******CALL FOR PAPERS******* > 1st Workshop on > Semantics in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing > at the > Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference > 20 May 2003, Budapest, Hungary > in cooperation with the > GGF Semantic Grid Research Group (SEM-GRD) > Workshop URL: http://www.isi.edu/~stefan/SemPGRID > >Topics and Content >----------------------------------- >The Semantic Web is widely accepted as a means to enhance the Web >with machine processable content. However, mostly the Semantic Web >is aiming at techniques and technologies for static information, >in contrast to dynamic services or distributed computing. Several >interest groups and efforts are working on infrastructure for >enabling distributed computing. The organization of these efforts >are in part top down organized efforts, involving multiple formal >organizations and dedicated projects, and bottom-up efforts, >sometimes started by single organizations or individuals in a >grassroots effort. > >The Grid is aiming at technologies which allow the flexible, >secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of >individuals, institutions, and resources, enabling virtual >organizations. Problems encountered include authentication, >authorization, resource access, resource discovery, and >interoperation of active services. The same problems are eminent >in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) area, where projects are typically >organized in a bottom-up fashion. Reusable infrastructures like >SUN's JXTA are emerging, attracting numerous application based on >of this infrastructures appear. However, each application uses >its own data format, and it is hard to see how applications >interoperate. > >A related area is Web Services: driven by industry efforts >numerous specifications are developed, which are of interest for >the Grid projects as well as for the for the Peer-to-Peer efforts. >Although there is an agreement that Web Services would benefit >from more semantics, little systematic research has been done on >the problem of how to combine the notions of Web Services with the >results of the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing. > >Topics of interest for technical papers include, but are not >limited to the following: > * Scalable infrastructures for service discovery in Grid > computing and P2P networks, e.g., based on reconfiguration > of the network with respect to shared interests or shared > ontologies > * Interoperation infrastructure for enabling heterogeneous > peers to exchange and translate information > * Emergent Semantics and incrementally learning and evolution > of ontologies in an P2P environment > * Metadata infrastructures for P2P and Grid computing > * Task ontologies and service composition languages > * Semantics-based routing > * Semantics-based topologies for P2P networks > * Agent-Architectures based on P2P and Grid Computing > technology > >The workshop will be organized in part around talks presenting >research results in the intersection of the Semantic Web, P2P and >Grid computing. Another important part of the workshop will be >break-out groups, focusing on the amalgamation of Semantic Web and >distributed computing. We hope the break-out groups will evolve >into independent working groups and generate follow-up activities, >which contribute to the technology areas. The proceedings will be >published on the Web and a workshop report will summarize the >outcome of the break out groups. > >Submission and Important Dates >----------------------------------- >We invite the submission of technical papers as well as position >statements. The submitted papers should be formatted as close as >possible to the rules of Springer LNCS (see >http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, section >"Proceedings and Other Multi-author Volumes" for formatting >instructions). Technical papers should have max. 20 pages >including references, Position papers should not exceed 2 pages. >Please submit documents as HTML, PDF, or Word to stefan(a)isi.edu. > > * Submissions due: *April 1st, 2003* > * Notification for acceptance: *April 15, 2003* > * Camera ready due: *May 1, 2003* > * Workshop date*:* *May 20, 2003* > >Workshop Chairs >----------------------------------- >Karl Aberer Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland >karl.aberer(a)epfl.ch http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/lsiraber.htm > >Stefan Decker Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA >stefan(a)isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~stefan > >David De Roure University of Southampton, UK dder(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk >http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dder/ > >Carole Goble The University of Manchester, UK carole(a)cs.man.ac.uk >http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~carole/ > >Program Committee (partially confirmed) >----------------------------------- > * Karl Aberer (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) > * Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne) > * Stefan Decker (ISI/USC) > * David de Roure (University of Southampton) > * Johannes Ernst (R-Objects) > * Dieter Fensel (University of Innsbruck) > * Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory) > * Yolanda Gil (ISI/USC) > * Carole Goble (University of Manchester) > * Frank van Harmelen (Free University of Amsterdam) > * Ian Horrocks (University of Manchester) > * David Karger (MIT) > * Carl Kesselman (ISI/USC) > * Chen Li (University of California at Irvine) > * Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover and Learninglab Lower Saxony) > * Sylvia Ratnasamy (U.C.Berkeley) > * Mario Schlosser (Stanford University) > * Amit Sheth (University of Georgia > * Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe) > * Bernard Traversat (SUN Microsystems) > > > >-- >http://www.isi.edu/~stefan ------- End of Forwarded Message

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [Fwd: please help me distribute]]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] [Fwd: please help me distribute] Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:55:11 -0500 From: Kin K. Leung <kin(a)bell-labs.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: haitao zheng <haitaoz(a)lucent.com> Dear TCCC Members: Attached is FYI. Please direct inquiries to Haitao Zheng at haitaoz(a)lucent.com Kin Leung -------- Original Message -------- Subject: please help me distribute Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:52:29 -0500 From: haitao zheng <haitaoz(a)lucent.com> Organization: Lucent Technologies To: Kin Leung <kin(a)science.lucent.com> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ADVANCED MOBILITY MANAGEMENT AND QoS PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS INTERNET The next generation of networking systems will be data-centric where mobility and QoS support are the two critical issues. The convergence of the telecom, datacom and mobile world has created a multi-service, multi-platform network of the new world: namely mobile wireless Internet. User mobility has created a new dimension in many research areas, including inter network and inter service roaming, mobility management, Quality of Service (QoS), resource management, network architecture and protocols, mobile multimedia applications and services, etc. New wireless network architectures are being proposed to cope with diverse applications, levels of mobility, and traffic types. Advanced mobility management techniques will support seamless IP connection across different networks, and provide end-to-end QoS support. A QoS-enabled multi-service-based high-speed backbone network is required to carry large amounts of packet-switched data for both wireline and wireless access. This issue of J-SAC will be devoted to the advanced architectures, protocols, and applications for wireless mobile Internet, in particular, mobility management, QoS provisioning and the interaction between the two. We seek original, previously unpublished, and completed contributions, not currently under review by another journal. Contributions emphasizing recent advances and new research directions are strongly encouraged. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Network architectures and protocols for wireless Internet * Integration and internetworking of wired and wireless networks * Inter network and inter service roaming solutions * Interoperability in multi-provider access networks * Inter/intra domain QoS protocols and mechanisms * Mobility management, in particular, QoS-aware mobility management * Related standards (3GPP, MWIF, 3G.IP, ETSI, IETF, ...) * Multimedia applications and services for different networks and user terminals * System architecture, protocol stack and reference model Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts in accordance to the IEEE J-SAC format described in the Information for Authors and submit four copies of their manuscript to one of the guest editors. Papers may also be submitted electronically as .pdf files via e-mail. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: June 1, 2003 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2003 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2003 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2004 Guest Editors (in alphabetical order) Prof. Hamid Aghvami King's College London University of London, Strand London WC2R 2LS, UK hamid.aghvami(a)kcl.ac.uk Prof. Aura Ganz ECE Department Univ of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 ganz(a)ecs.umass.edu Prof. Raghupathy Sivakumar ECE Department Georgia Inst of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 siva(a)ece.gatech.edu Dr. Haitao Zheng Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies 791 Holmdel-Keyport Rd, R145 Holmdel, NJ 07733 haitaoz(a)lucent.com Dr. Wenwu Zhu Microsoft Research Asia 5F, Sigma Center No. 49, Zhichun Rd Haidian District Beijing 100080, China wwzhu(a)microsoft.com http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/advanced_mobility.html

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Symposium on Wireless QoS (IEEE Vehicular Technoogy Conference - Fall 2003 - Orlando - FL)]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Symposium on Wireless QoS (IEEE Vehicular Technoogy Conference - Fall 2003 - Orlando - FL) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:52:29 -0600 From: Aftab Ahmad <aftab(a)ieee.org> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Dear Members: Please advertise this call for paper via your department/company bulletin boards. Also, forward it to any relevant email list that you may consider can benefit from it. It is also accessible at http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/aahmad/VTC_2003_WQoS.html Thank you very much and I apologize if it is not relevant to you or if you received multiple copies. -aftab -------------------- With the integration of IP technology with cellular networks, the issue of multiple QoS services over IP has encompassed wireless networks as well. Much of the research carried in multimedia IP networks has thus increased in usability. New topics specific to providing and maintaining QoS over wireless/cellular networks have emerged as well. This symposium aims to share research on topics relating to the provision of QoS over wireless networks for service differentiation and integration. Papers on all topics relevant to provisioning QoS over wireless networks LANs/Cellular (2.5G, 3G, 4G+) are solicited. These include, but not restricted to: - Scheduling and policing for mobile and wireless networks - Channel error compensation - Hand-off compensation - Differentiated Services for mobile and wireless networks - Integrated Services for mobile and wireless networks - MPLS for mobile and wireless networks - Traffic Engineering Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers: July 15, 2003 Authors are required to submit a short abstract (approximately 150 words) AND an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) as well. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS conference management system at http://edas.info <http://edas.info/>, and must be in MS-Word or PDF format. Your submission should include the names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the email addresses of the authors. *Symposium Chair: * Aftab Ahmad *DePaul University* aftab(a)ieee.org <mailto:safwat@cs.queensu.ca> http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/aahmad/VTC_2003_WQoS.html

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Symposium on Wireless, Vehicular and Mobile Commerce (IEEE VTC)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Symposium on Wireless, Vehicular and Mobile Commerce (IEEE VTC) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:21:03 -0500 (EST) From: Upkar Varshney <uvarshne(a)cis.gsu.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: uvarshney(a)gsu.edu Call for Papers: Deadline Feb. 15, 2003 Wireless, Vehicular and Mobile Commerce: A Symposium at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (www.vtc2003.org) October 4-9, 2003 Orlando, FL, USA Motivation and Scope With the emergence and wide spread adoption of wireless and mobile networks, devices, and middleware, mobile commerce applications are beginning to receive some interest in research and development community. According to estimates by Gartner Group, in 2004, at least 40% of consumer-to-business e-commerce will be initiated from smart phones. A study from the Wireless Data and Computing Service, a division of Strategy Analytics, reports that the worldwide mobile commerce market may rise to $200 Billion by 2004. The report predicts that transactions via wireless devices will generate about $14 Billion a year. In many European countries and Japan with significant wireless penetration, the mobile commerce market is already taking off and reaching billions of dollars a year. It is to be noted that mobile commerce may require significantly different approaches in design, development, and implementation of applications due to the inherent characteristics of wireless networks and mobile devices. Many interesting and important challenges include design and development of mobile commerce applications, networking requirements, transactions and security issues, business models and strategies. Mobile commerce will also significantly benefit from research in mobile devices, mobile middleware, and wireless network infrastructure. Vehicular technologies and intelligent transportation systems are likely to play a very important role in this emerging area of commerce. The symposium will bring together experts in this field and address significant challenges in mobile commerce from both technology and business application point of views. The symposium will cover several topics including * New m-commerce applications including mobile advertising, mobile financial applications, mobile inventory, proactive service management, wireless re-engineering among others * Requirements of m-commerce applications * Development of mobile commerce applications (new constraints, approaches, interoperability, processing and storage, desirable features) * Vehicular commerce * Use of vehicular technologies in m-commerce * Vehicle to vehicle commerce * Intelligent transportation systems and m-commerce * Emerging vehicular technologies for m-commerce * Infrastructure support from wireless networks (location management, wireless dependability, coverage, roaming, inter-working etc) * Location management support for mobile commerce (indoor vs outdoor, precision, performance and transaction requirements, multiple location technologies) * Location and context awareness * User and location specific service discovery * Devices, middleware, and operating systems support * Security and transactions in mobile commerce (mobile commerce transactions over wireless networks, new and current security paradigms for m-commerce) * Business issues and models for mobile commerce (pricing and new ways of charging, revenue generation and division among carriers and operators * Other emerging and related issues to m-commerce applications and technologies We are currently in the process of negotiating with a journal for a special issue on m-commerce. Some of the best papers from this symposium are likely to be included in the proposed issue. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors MUST submit a short abstract (approximately 150 words) AND an extended abstract (up to 2 pages). The submission must include the name, complete mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and the email address of the author(s). Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically (MS Word or PDF) by February 15, 2003. Submissions should be made on-line. From conference website (www.vtc2003.org), follow the link to EDAS Conference Management System (www.edas.info). After login, select VTC2003: Wireless, Vehicular, and Mobile Commerce and follow the instructions for submission. IMPORTANT DATES February 15: Submission of Abstracts April 15: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection July 15: Last date for submission of camera-ready papers Symposium Chair: Professor Upkar Varshney Department of CIS Georgia State University Uvarshney(a)gsu.edu http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~uvarshne _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [tccc] CFP IC3N 2003]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tccc] CFP IC3N 2003 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:47:14 -0500 From: Luiz A. DaSilva <ldasilva(a)vt.edu> Organization: Virginia Tech To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find below the call for papers for this year's IC3N. Submissions are due by April 18. For further information, please refer to the conference website (http://icccn.sice.umkc.edu). Also, feel free to contact the TPC co-chairs if you have any questions. Best regards, -- Luiz DaSilva Electrical and Computer Engineering - Virginia Tech IC3N 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (IC3N'03) October 20 - 22, 2003 DoubleTree Lincoln Centre 5410 LBJ Freeway Dallas, TX 75240,USA Website: http://icccn.sice.umkc.edu Sponsored* by IEEE Communications Society Army Research Lab., IBM, Avaya Labs, NOKIA, Nortel, Telcordia, Univ. of Texas-Dallas (*pending approval of sponsorships) ICCCN is a major international conference to present original and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that address novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics include, but are not limited to: Communication Software Software Architecture eCommerce Voice over LAN, IP, and/or ATM Internet Services/Applications Security/Reliability/Dependability Protocols Network Interoperability Network Control and Management Multicasting Intelligent Networks Streaming Networks Data Traffic Engineering Performance Network Pricing and Billing Video-on-Demand Networked Databases Network Architectures Optical Communication Networks Terabit Optical Technologies Wireless/Mobile/Satellite Networks Wireless Multimedia Applications Cable Broadband Technologies DSL Technologies Mobile and Pervasive Computing Network Processors Multimedia Communication over Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) Converged Networks SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers to be submitted should not have been previously published in another forum, and should not be currently under review by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. The program committee reserves the right to accept a paper as a long or short presentation. Of particular interest are papers that address experiences with concrete computer communications/networks and applications. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue. These accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Press. All manuscripts must include an abstract and be limited to about 5000 words total (which is about 6 pages with font size 10 in standard IEEE camera ready format). For the paper review process, a single space/single column format is encouraged. Submissions also must include the title, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address, fax/phone numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged (ps or pdf format is preferred). Manuscripts should be submitted by Friday, April 18, 2003 to ICCCN2003 website. Please contact program co-chairs with any questions: Ronald P. Luijten IBM Research Zurich Saumerstrasse 4 CH8803 Ruschlikon, Switzerland lui(a)zurich.ibm.com <mailto:lui@zurich.ibm.com> +41-1-724-8111 (voice) +41-1-724-8955 (fax) Prof. Luiz DaSilva Dept of Electrical & Computer Eng. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 206 N Washington St. Suite 400, Alexandria, VA, 22314 ldasilva(a)vt.edu <mailto:ldasilva@vt.edu> +1-703-535-3466 (voice) +1-703-518-8085 (fax) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline : April 18, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2003 Camera ready papers due: August 1, 2003 TUTORIALS: Proposals are solicited for tutorials. Please email your proposals in ASCII format by May 31, 2003 to one of the Program Chairs above. STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Some travel assistance will be available for students with top quality papers. WEBSITE: Please visit the ICCCN2003 web site http://icccn.sice.umkc.edu for more up-to-date information. General Chair: Dr. Eric Wong (ewong(a)utdallas.edu <mailto:ewong@utdallas.edu>) and Dr. Russell Hsing (trh(a)research.telcordia.com <mailto:trh@research.telcordia.com>)

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[Fwd: CfP: NGC'03 and ICQT'03 - September 2003 in Munich, Germany]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: NGC'03 and ICQT'03 - September 2003 in Munich, Germany Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:38:30 +0100 From: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch> Organization: ETH Zürich, TIK To: Georg Carle <carle(a)fokus.fhg.de> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Sorry for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC'03) Organized by UniBwM and COST 264 in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM (approval pending) co-located with the Third International Workshop on Internet Charging and QoS Technology (ICQT'03) Group Communications and Charges - Technology and Business Models September 16-19, 2003 University of Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBw Munich), Germany URL: http://www.ngc2003.org/ Scope ----- Communications by technical means forms the major interconnection for distributed electronic applications, ranging from business processes to entertainment. While networked group communications in particular raise technology and protocol challenges, charging for Internet services inter-relates and enriches those techniques with economic models. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of networked group communications in the Internet. Authors are invited to submit work on issues related to networked group communication (NGC'03) and Internet charging and QoS technologies (ICQT'03) according to the major list of topics: NGC'03 ------ - Multicast applications and services - Multi-player games - Novel group communication architectures - Group and session management techniques - QoS and traffic control for groups - Peer-to-peer systems and applications - Distributed multi-peer-to-peer algorithms - Content distribution systems - Wireless group communications - Security for group communications - Heterogeneous group communications - Multicast deployment mechanisms ICQT'03 ------- - Economic models for the Internet - Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing - Internet charging technology - Monitoring, measurements, and accounting - ISP cost and business models - Charging for peer-to-peer applications and games - Charging and QoS for multicast - Charging for QoS services - Pricing mobile and wireless services - Application service provider models - Security mechanisms for charging - 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 author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author's 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.ngc2003.org/ for further submission instructions or contact ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de 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. They will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS's guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2003 Camera ready version: July 1, 2003 Workshop dates: September 16-19, 2003 General Information ------------------- The final program will accommodate September 17 and 18, 2003 the single-track NGC'03 workshop preceded by half-day tutorials on September 16 (afternoon) and on September 19, 2003 the single-track ICQT'03 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both workshops. For more information on these two co-located events NGC'03/ICQT'03 please visit http://www.ngc2003.org/ or http://www.ftw.at/icqt/ or contact by e-mail ngc03(a)informatik.unibw-muenchen.de or icqt03(a)ftw.at. Location and Date ----------------- The location of the UniBw Munich is in the heart of the information technology area of Southern Munich, where, amongst others, Siemens Corporate Technology as well as EADS are located. A number of hotels are located in the neighborhood (2-3 km) to the university campus. Downtown Munich can be reached from there in 20 min by fast train (S-Bahn) or underground (U-Bahn). The Airport of Munich can be reached by S-Bahn in about one hour. Furthermore, by rental car the German and Bavarian Alps can be accessed in about 90 min drive, providing views to the most spectacular scenery of mountains and beautiful countryside. Finally, the two co-located workshops take place just in the week before Munich's world-known "Oktoberfest - Wies'n" in downtown Munich. Committees ---------- General Chair Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Steering Committee NGC'03 Christophe Diot, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Serge Fdida, Laboratoire LIP6, Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, Cambridge University, U.K. Luigi Rizzo, ICSI Center for Internet Research, Berkeley, U.S.A. NGC'03 Program Co-Chairs Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen and Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany NGC'03 Program Committee Kevin Almeroth UC Santa Barbara Mostafa Ammar Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Bauer IBM Research Zurich Elizabeth Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara Samrat Bhattacharjee University of Maryland Ernst Biersack Institut Eurecom Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies John Byers Boston University Georg Carle University of Tuebingen, Fraunhofer FOKUS Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Walid Dabbous INRIA Jordi Domingo-Pascual Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Derek Eager University of Saskatchewan Wolfgang Effelsberg University of Mannheim Hiroshi Esaki University of Tokyo Serge Fdida Laboratoire LIP6-CNRS J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz Mark Handley ICSI Center for Internet Research Markus Hoffmann Lucent Technologies David Hutchison Lancaster University Roger Kermode Motorola Jim Kurose University of Massachusetts Guy Leduc Universite de Liege Brian Levine University of Massachusetts Laurent Mathy Lancaster University Oeznur Oezkasap Koc University Istanbul Sanjoy Paul Lucent Technologies Christos Papadopoulos University of Southern California Peter Parnes Lulea University of Technology Colin Perkins Information Sciences Institute Luigi Rizzo ICSI Center for Internet Research Dan Rubenstein Columbia University Clay Shields Georgetown University Ralf Steinmetz University of Darmstadt Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich and ETH Zurich Giorgio Ventre Universita di Napoli Federico II Lorenzo Vicisano Cisco Systems Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe ICQT'03 Program Co-Chairs Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Reichl, FTW Vienna, Austria ICQT'03 Program Committee Ragnar Andreassen Telenor Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna Torsten Braun University of Bern Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business Chris Edwards Lancaster University Richard Gibbens Cambridge University Martin Karsten University of Waterloo Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Muenchen Simon Leinen SWITCH Zurich Robin Mason University of Southampton Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota Huw Oliver UK Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks Kihong Park Purdue University Guido Petit Alcatel Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University Peter Reichl FTW Vienna Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little Vasilios Siris ICS Forth David Songhurst BT exact Technologies Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen -------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Symposium on WLAN/Cellular Interworking (VTC2003)]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Symposium on WLAN/Cellular Interworking (VTC2003) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:18:28 +0200 From: Salkintzis Apostolis-Y1026C <salki(a)motorola.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, multicomm(a)comsoc.org ***My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call*** Call for Papers ------------------ VTC 2003 - Symposium on Wireless LAN / Cellular Internetworking Motivation and Scope --------------------- The recent evolution and successful deployment of WLAN systems worldwide has fuelled the need for interworking mechanisms between WLANs and cellular telecommunication networks, such as GSM/GPRS, UMTS, cdma2000, etc. Several forums and standardization bodies worldwide have already initiated activities for exploiting WLAN technology and integrating this technology into cellular telecommunication networks. In addition, several R&D projects are currently underway, which address vertical handovers between WLANs and UMTS, as well as common authentication, authorization and accounting procedures. It is evident that the integration of WLANs and cellular telecommunication networks is of paramount importance nowadays, from both business and technology points of view. However, this integration poses several challenges, such as vertical handovers, consistent QoS provision, common authentication and billing, etc, which call for extensive studies and efficient solutions. The VTC 2003 symposium on Wireless LAN / Cellular Interworking aims to address the aforementioned challenges and to propose and analyze efficient interworking solutions. It also aims at reporting the recent results of related R&D and standardization activities worldwide. In particular, the most significant areas that will be addressed are the following: ¨ Interworking requirements, issues and architectures ¨ Seamless roaming between WLAN and cellular networks ¨ Common authentication and security: issues and solutions ¨ Common billing: issues and solutions ¨ Voice over WLAN ¨ Interworking scenarios and case studies ¨ Inter-system handover ¨ QoS interworking ¨ Value added services with WLAN-Cellular network integration ¨ Performance evaluation studies ¨ Standardization activities ¨ Extension of location services to WLANs. Technical Paper Submission Guidelines -------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) and a short abstract (approx. 150 words) of their original papers for review. The submission must be made on line through the EDAS Conference Management System, http://edas.info. After login, select "VTC 2003 - Wireless LAN/cellular internetworking" and follow the instructions for submission. Soft copies in MS Word or PDF formats are accepted. For additional instructions please visit http://www.vtc2003.org. Important Dates ---------------- ¨ February 15, 2003 Last date for submission of abstracts ¨ April 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance ¨ July 15, 2003 Camera-ready version of accepted papers _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT - Special Issue on Distributed Management]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT - Special Issue on Distributed Management Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:02:14 +0100 From: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch> Organization: ETH Zürich, TIK To: ajita(a)avaya.com CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/ Special Issue on Distributed Management The recent rapid increase in the complexity of networks is mainly due to the expanded range of network devices and systems, multiple inter-connected networking technologies, and intricate services such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Voice over IP (VoIP). The intricacies in the services have been supported by increased capabilities in network elements and have compounded the difficulties in maintaining Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The increased complexity in networks poses tremendous challenges for management in terms of functionality, the amount of data to be processed, and the types of data. It is envisioned that distributed management will play a strong role in managing complex networks where the distribution of the various aspects of management such as monitoring, configuration, provisioning, accounting, billing, fault, and performance becomes imperative for greater reliability, scalability and efficiency. This special issue is intended to present the crucial issues and efficient solutions in the distributed management of current and future networks. The focus of this special issue will include the following topics: · Distributed Management Architectures · Distributed Management of Service Level Agreements and Quality of Service · Distributed IP Traffic Management · Distributed Management for Intra and Inter-domain Bandwidth Brokerage · Distributed Management of IP Services such as VPN and Voice Over IP · Distributed Management of Mobile Systems and Wireless Networks · Distributed Management of IP Over SONET/SDH, WDM, and CATV · Distributed Charging and Accounting for IP Services · Distributed Fault, Performance, and Security Management · Distributed Configuration and Policy-based Management · Directory, Web, and XML technologies in Distributed Management · Frameworks for developing Distributed Management Applications · Scalability, Reliability, and Performance Issues in Distributed Management · Case Studies of Distributed Management Systems · Experiences with Commercial Distributed Management Systems Instructions to Contributors: We invite prospective authors to submit high quality journal papers via e-mail to one of the guest editors, depending on their geographic zone. Only electronic submissions in PDF or PS are acceptable. Please prepare the manuscript according to the "Instructions to Contributors", which can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the JNSM Web site at http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/. Guest Editors: Dr. Ajita John Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller (Contact for US submissions) (Contact for non-US submissions) Avaya Labs Univ. of Federal Armed Forces Munich 307 Middletown Lincroft Rd Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 Room 1N 267 D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany Lincroft, NJ 07738 and ETH Zurich USA Gloriastrasse 35 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland E-mail: ajita(a)avaya.com E-mail: stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch Schedule: Manuscript due: September 30, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2004 Final manuscript due: March 31, 2004 Publication: 3rd Quarter ******************************************************************** Posted to cost263 by Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch>

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[Fwd: [tcgn] CFP: IJCAI-03 Workshop on Web Request Modeling and Prediction]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] CFP: IJCAI-03 Workshop on Web Request Modeling and Prediction Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:51:04 -0500 (EST) From: Brian D. Davison <brian(a)cse.lehigh.edu> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: Undisclosed recipients: ; ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** IJCAI-03 Workshop on Web Request Modeling and Prediction Sunday, August 10, 2003 http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/web-prediction/ ****************************************************************** Web request modeling and prediction has been proposed by many as a significant tool for personalization, for the optimization of caching systems, and in Web mining. An accurate prediction system, for example, can be used to pre-load content into a browser or proxy's cache, perform pre-calculation within a Web server, or search ahead for information of interest to an end user. Significant end-user benefits are often claimed from the reduction of client-perceived latencies that result from increased cache hit rates. This workshop will provide a focused venue for discussion of algorithms and implementations for predicting Web requests. Previous work on this topic has been scattered across many disciplines, making definitive progress on this task difficult. Moreover, researchers often end up re-discovering useful techniques. By bringing such people together in a single venue, we can recognize common ground, share our experiences, and evolve a common vocabulary. Likely participants are expected to include researchers in the AI, ML, KDD, UM and Web systems communities. We solicit contributions and participation to examine: * state-of-the-art techniques for request prediction * the trade-off of complexity and storage versus predictive performance * the role of client-side caching on model accuracy * the effect of using HTTP referrer tags * the role that request timestamps play in model generation and accuracy * comparative performance on standardized datasets and evaluation * appropriate evaluation methods (such as those that are tied to real-world utility) * the effect of classifying user browsing modes Submission Instructions Participants for this one-day workshop will be selected through three mechanisms. The first is the traditional high-quality original peer-reviewed research paper, which would be presented during the workshop. The second is a short position statement, indicating relevant experience, past publications, and interest. Finally, we will invite the authors of top-performing prediction software (as measured by pre-workshop performance on a standardized dataset) to the workshop, and ask the authors of the best systems to present their techniques in a paper and a talk at the workshop. Further details are available on the workshop web site. All submissions must be in English, formatted according to IJCAI standards, and sent to the workshop chair by email as a PDF (preferred) or Postscript attachment. Note: Participants are expected to register for the main IJCAI conference in addition to the workshop, and attendance will be limited to encourage interaction. Important Dates and Deadlines * Deadline for submitting prediction results of standardized datasets: February 14, 2003 * Deadline for the submission of full papers (6 to 8 pages) or position statements (1-2 pages): February 28, 2003. * Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 24, 2003. * Deadline for the receipt of camera-ready papers: May 9, 2003. Organizing Committee Prof. Brian D. Davison (Chair) Lehigh University (USA) http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/ davison(a)lehigh.edu Prof. Dan Duchamp Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) http://www.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~djd/ Dr. Mike Perkowitz University of Washington (USA) http://www.perkowitz.net/research/ Prof. Ingrid Zukerman Monash University (Australia) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ingrid/ Program Committee David W. Albrecht, Monash University (Australia) Corin Anderson, Google, Inc. (USA) Russ Greiner, University of Alberta (Canada) Nicholas Kushmerick, University College Dublin (Ireland) Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University (USA) Evangelos Markatos, ICS-FORTH and University of Crete (Greece) Geoff Voelker, University of California-San Diego (USA) Qiang Yang, Simon Fraser University (Canada) ****************************************************************** Brian D. Davison, Ph.D. davison(at)cse.lehigh.edu Computer Science & Engineering davison(at)acm.org Lehigh University http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/ 19 Memorial Dr. W., Bethlehem PA 18015 http://www.web-caching.com/

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[Fwd: IEEE VTC'03 Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE VTC'03 Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:06:44 -0500 From: Ahmed Safwat <safwat(a)cs.queensu.ca> To: itc(a)comsoc.org CALL FOR PAPERS *IEEE VTC 2003 http://www.vtc2003.org/* *Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks* *http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/safwat/VTC_2003_Symposium/* October 4-9, 2003 Hyatt Orlando Hotel Orlando, Florida, USA *Symposium Chair:* * * Ahmed Safwat Queen's University, Canada safwat(a)cs.queensu.ca <mailto:safwat@cs.queensu.ca> This is the first in a series of annual symposia dedicated to Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks. Each year there will be one or more themes invigorated by the state-of-the-art. This year's theme is "Energy-Efficient and Context-Aware Designs". However, we welcome all submissions of relevance to wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks. In multi-hop wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks wireless mobile stations and electronic devices form a network without the intervention of a dedicated infrastructure. Such networks eradicate infrastructure deployment, setup, and administration costs. Nevertheless, although energy efficiency and context awareness in wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks are of great significance, they both remain the main impediments towards their deployment. The outcomes of this year's Symposium will stimulate and exhilarate the deployment of sustainable and context-rich wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks. Original papers are solicited in the area of energy-efficiency and/or context-awareness for wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: -- Routing protocols -- Medium access control -- Modeling and simulation -- Security algorithms -- Energy-efficient physical designs -- Disruptive applications (telemedical, biological, etc) -- Multi-hop cellular architectures (multi-hop WLANs, 4G, 4G+) -- Body area networks -- M-commerce -- Multi-channel ad hoc/sensor networks: designs and algorithms -- Directive antennas -- Self-configurable wearable networks -- Personal area networks -- Cross-layer designs -- TCP-related issues -- Wireless multi-hop testbeds -- Location-inspired designs -- Incorporation of context into wearable networking -- Non-monolithic/shared conceptual models for context-awareness -- Algorithms for context discovery and delivery *Submission Guidelines: * Authors are required to submit a short abstract (approximately 150 words) AND an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) as well. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS conference management system at http://edas.info, and must be in MS-Word or PDF format. Your submission should include the names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and the email addresses of the authors. *Important Dates:* Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2003 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2003 Camera-Ready Papers: July 15, 2003 Best regards, Ahmed -------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed Safwat Queen's University, Canada Phone: 613.549.5667 URL: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/safwat/ --------------------------------------------------------------

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