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IEEE DCOSS Workshop: Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (submission deadline March 3rd)
by vloscri＠deis.unical.it 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. *************************************************************************** Call for papers IEEE DCOSS International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-13) May 20-23, 2013 Boston, USA http://www.hds.utc.fr/iotip13/ *************************************************************************** Important dates Submission Deadline: March 3, 2013 Acceptance Notification: March 31, 2013 CameraReadyDue: April 15, 2013 Workshop Date: May 23, 2013 Call for papers: Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate"Big brother scenario". Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0 IoTIP features two tracks: -Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies - IoT systems and components - IoT for semantic web and personalization - Tools for developing IoT applications - Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT - Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT - Security and privacy control mechanisms - Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) - PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications - MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT - Mobility management - Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability - Object, device and service management - RFID, sensors, actuator technologies - Middleware - Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) - Test-beds and field trials - Standardization and regulatory issues Submission guidelines : Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at the following address: http://edas.info/N14397. All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (6) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. _Program committee members_: Yacine Challal, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Flavio Esposito, Boston University - USA Essia Hamouda, University of Riverside, California, USA Antonio Iera, Università "Mediterranea" di reggio Calabria, Italy Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University - USA Valeria Loscri', Università della Calabria, Italy (_publicity chair_) Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille - nord Europe, France (_workshop chair_) Enrico Natalizio, Universitè de Technologie de Compiegne, France (_workshop chair_) David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France. Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands

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Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM MobiCom 2013, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '13

18 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CALL FOR PAPERS -- ACM MobiCom 2013, the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Datum: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:29:45 -0800 Von: Pei Zhang <peizhang(a)CMU.EDU> Antwort an: Pei Zhang <peizhang(a)CMU.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Apologies for multiple postings. Please note the abstracts submission deadline is:March 8, 2013 (11:59 PM EST) ************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Mobicom 2013 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/index.html ************************************** As the premier conference on mobile computing and wireless communication, MobiCom 2013 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. At its core, we expect papers to address issues related to mobile computing and communication challenges in the presence of various wireless and mobile networks, including but not limited to wireless LANs, cellular data networks, mobile social networks, delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, vehicular networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad hoc networks. Successful papers will address real research challenges through theoretical analysis, novel system design, as well as real-world measurement and deployment of mobile systems and applications. MobiCom 2013 will be a diverse conference, and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. * * *Paper Submission Instructions*** All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Any papers that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected: Maximum of 12 pages Font size no smaller than 10 points Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches ? 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches ? 11 inches) Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found here. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript will be posted here shortly. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairsacm.org. * * *Best Paper Award* All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. *Important Dates * Abstracts submission due:March 8, 2013 (11:59 PM EST) Paper submissions due:March 15, 2013 (11:59 PM EST) Notification of acceptance:June 9, 2013 Camera-ready version due:July 15, 2013 It is ACM policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy) not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. * * *For More Information*** Please feel free to contact the General Chair (mobicom_infoacm.org) or the Program Co-Chairs (mobicom_pcchairsacm.org) for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ <seehttp://www.sigmobile.org/> or contact the General Chair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from the SIGMOBILE-Members list, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2013 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)
by Cristina Alcaraz 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

** Apologies for multiple copies ** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013) Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 16-18, 2013 http://www.critis2013.nl The annually held CRITIS conference is devoted to Critical (Information) Infrastructure security, protection and resilience. The 8th edition will be held from 16-18 September 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The CRITIS 2013 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers and critical infrastructure stakeholders who wish to present their papers at the conference. More information can be found at: www.critis2013.nl. Modern societies increasingly depend on critical infrastructures. Those themselves increasingly depend on and are entangled with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Disruption or loss of (ICT-based) critical infrastructures may result in serious consequences for the functioning of the society, the economy, the functioning of governments, the ecology and social well-being of people, and in the most unfortunate cases loss of human lives, livestock and other animals. As a consequence, the security, reliability and resilience of these infrastructures are critical for the society. Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection (C(I)IP) is therefore a major objective for governments, companies, operators of these infrastructures and the worldwide research community. CRITIS 2013 is set to continue a well-established tradition of presenting innovative research and exploring new challenges for the protection of critical information-based infrastructures (CIP/CIIP). CRITIS brings together stakeholders from industry, operators and governments as well as researchers and professionals from academia, applied research organisations and industry interested in all different aspects of C(I)IP. One focus of CRITIS 2013 is on the new challenges of cyber resilience of smart cities and smart mobility, a topic that will be highlighted by thought provoking and visionary keynote speeches and by conference papers. The second day of CRITIS 2013 will be a meeting place between the diverse set of C(I)IP stakeholders with their short, medium and long term needs and the academic and applied research communities. CRITIS2013 intends to foster collaboration, to find common, collaborative approaches towards solutions and to boost R&D to address the identified needs. On the third day, the focus will be on the (academic) advances in C(I)IP R&D. A (virtual) multi-disciplinary community of new talented PhD students and junior researchers in the field of C(I)IP will be build: YOUNG CRITIS. Young CRITIS appeals to the scientific C(I)IP communities at national, European and global level. Given the focus areas above, the programme committee will select papers per topic category (or track) mentioned below. Therefore, authors need to state which topic category they address. Researchers are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting research papers, work-in-progress reports, R&D project results, surveying works and industrial experiences describing significant advances in C(I)IP. Stakeholders from governments, Critical Infrastructure operators, and industry are encouraged to submit papers which describe their current and future challenges to be engaged by researchers and multidisciplinary research teams. Important Dates Deadline for submission of papers: May 10, 2013 Notification to authors: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready papers: August 16, 2013 The CRITIS 2013 Scientific Committee invites papers for the following four topic categories: Topic category 1: Resilience of Smart Cities and Smart Mobility Topic category 2: Requirements for C(I)IP by C(I)I stakeholders (e.g., Industry, CI operators, government agencies, EU Directorates) and integrated solution directions by CIP/CIIP-related R&D communities and disciplines. Topics of interest for category 2 include: C(I)IP requirements for Resilient Smart Cities C(I)IP requirements for Resilient Smart Mobility C(I)IP requirements posed as future (near, mid and long term) challenges Requirements for Resilient (Information) Infrastructures C(I)I Survivability requirements The use of clouds for C(I)I operations Economics, Investments and Incentives of C(I)IP C(I)I Exercises & Contingency Plans Trust Models in Normal Situations and During Escalation C(I)IP Polices at National and Cross-border levels C(I)IP R&D Agenda at National and International levels Papers submitted for category 2 that do not fit the focus of the second conference day, may be reassigned by the conference organizers to the selection process of categories 3 and 4. Topic category 3: Advances in C(I)IP Topic category 4: YOUNG CRITIS Topics of interest for categories 3 and 4 include all topics mentioned under category 2 as well as topics like: Resilient C(I)I and C(I)I Survivability Resilience of interacting C(I)I Cyber Defense of C(I)I Self-healing, Self-protection, and Self-management Architectures C(I)I dependency Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Validation Protection of Complex Cyber - Physical Systems Cyber security related threats & vulnerabilities, modeling and analysis Cyber Security of Smart Grids, Process Control and SCADA Advanced Forensic Methodologies for C(I)I Public - Private Partnership for C(I)I Resilience Instructions for Paper Submission All submissions will be subjected to a thorough blind review by at least three reviewers. Papers should be in English and no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. As in previous years, it is planned that post-proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Workshop and present the paper. Paper submission will be done via EasyChair. The submitted paper (in PDF or PostScript format) should follow the respective template offered by Springer. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. However, the submission should be anonymised and all author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and obvious traceable references should be eliminated. Extended and fully revised versions of the best papers accepted for CRITIS 2013, after a further peer-reviewed process, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (Inderscience). Programme Committee Co-Chairs Pieter Hartel (TU Twente & TNO, Netherlands) Eric Luiijf (TNO, The Netherlands) Programme Committee (Invitations are sent out, confirmations partly pending) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Geert Deconinck (K. U. Leuven, Belgium) Paulo Maciel (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Andre Samberg (Sec-Control, Finland and IMG-S TA2, European Union) Arslan Brömme (Vattenfall, Germany) Jurge Cuellar (Siemens, Germany) Christoph Krauss (Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany) Stefan Pickl (Bunderswehruniversität München, Germany) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Neeraj Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Stelios Dritsas (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Panos Kotzanikolaou (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Evangelos Ouzounis (European Network and Information Security Agency, Greece) Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Marianthi Theoharidou (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Gregorio D'Agostino (ENEA, Italy) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Emiliano Casalicchio (Università di Tor Vergata, Italy) Giovanna Dondossola (RSE, Italy) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Stefano Panzieri (University Roma Tre, Italy) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Eiji Okamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Janne Hagen (Proactima, Norway) Katrin Franke (Gjøvik University Collage, Norway) Margrete Raaum (CERT University of Oslo, Norway) Ketil Stølen (SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) Janusz Gorski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Paolo Verissimo (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal) Christina Alcaraz (University Malaga, Spain) Jorge L. Hernandez-Ardieta (INDRA, Spain) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Barend Taute (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Stefan Brem (Federal Office for Civil Protection, Switzerland) Myriam Dunn (ETH Centre for Security Studies, Switzerland) Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Marcelo Masera (EU Joint Research Centre Petten, The Netherlands) Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Chris Johnson (Glasgow University, UK) Adrian Gheorghe (Old Dominion University, USA) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Steven M. Rinaldi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Angelos Stavrou (George Mason University, USA) Steering Committee Chairs Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Steering Committee Members Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK)

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Fwd: [Tccc] 2nd CFP WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13)
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: Liang He <heliang1983(a)gmail.com> Gesendet: Sun Feb 17 04:52:53 MEZ 2013 An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Betreff: [Tccc] 2nd CFP WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13) Call for Papers The 7th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2013-Spring) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~zhuan045/WiSARN/WiSARN2013.html To be held in conjunction with The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'13) May 20-23, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSANs, WSNs, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots) * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Actor (robot) task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages, and must be formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE author guidelines. Submissions are being considered with the understanding that they describe original research, neither published nor under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in DCOSS 2013 proceedings. Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an international journal (SCIE). Important dates Paper submission: March 1, 2013 Author notification: March 30, 2013 Camera ready: April 15, 2013 Workshop date: May 23, 2013 General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Calumet, USA. Hannes Frey, University of Paderbon, Germany. Publicity Co-Chairs: Liang He, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Sandra Sendra, universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. Submission Chair: Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada. For further information, please refer to the above WiSARN 2013 website, or contact the program co-chairs. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: IEEE PIMRC 2013 Sept 8-11 London: Submit by April 1st
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE PIMRC 2013 Sept 8-11 London: Submit by April 1st Datum: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:54:43 -0500 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *PIMRC 2013, 8-11 September, London, UK * *www.ieee-pimrc.org/ <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22806854&m=2500772&u=IEEEC…>* FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of the IEEE Communication Society’s flagship conferences in wireless networking. After a long absence from the UK, this important wireless event will be returning to London in 2013. PIMRC 2013 will include technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, and technology and business panels. You are invited to submit papers, and proposals for panels, tutorials, and workshops, in all areas of wireless communications, networks, services, and applications. The instructions for authors will be posted on the conference website. *IMPORTANT DATES:* *Paper submission deadline: **1 April 2013*** *Notification of acceptance: **10 June 2013*** *Final papers due: **8 July 2013*** *Tutorial proposals: **6 May 2013*** *Workshop proposals: **4 March 2013*** *Panel proposals: **6 May 2013*** *Executive Chair** **Hamid Aghvami *(King’s College London) *General Chairs*** *Siavash Alamouti *(Vodafone), *Mike Short *(Telefonica O2), *Michael Walker *(King’s College London) * * *Technical Programme Chairs** **Luis M. Correia* (IST – Tech. University of Lisbon / INOV), *Rahim Tafazolli* (University of Surrey) *Track 1: Fundamentals and PHY* •Advanced modulation schemes •Antennas •Beamforming •Channel capacity estimation •Channel equalisation •Channel modelling •Channel simulation •Cognitive and green radio •Cooperative communications •Interference mitigation •Multi-antenna signal processing •PHY aspects of WLAN, WPAN, and WBAN •PHY performance evaluation •Physical layer network coding •Physical layer security •Positioning, localisation, and tracking techniques •Power efficient communications •Propagation •Signal processing for wireless communications •Single and multi-user MIMO •Source and channel coding •Synchronisation techniques •Vehicular communications •Ultra-wideband communications *Track 2: MAC and Cross-Layer Design*** •Adaptive MACs •Cognitive MACs •Cross-layer designs involving MAC •Delay tolerant MAC designs •Docitive MACs •Implementation, testbeds and prototypes •Information-theoretical approaches to MAC designs •Joint access and backhaul scheduler designs •Joint MAC and networking layer designs •MAC for low power embedded networks •MAC for mobile and vehicular ad hoc networks •QoS/QoE-enabling MAC in 4G and future mobile networks •Radio resource management, allocation, and scheduling •Reconfigurable MACs •Scheduler for cellular macro-, pico- and femto systems •Scheduler for cooperative systems •Scheduler for relay systems •Security issues in MAC designs •Time-critical MAC designs *Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks*** •Ad hoc networks •Body area networks •Cognitive radio networks •Congestion, load and admission control •Cooperative communications •Delay tolerant networks •Dynamic spectrum management •Future wireless Internet •Green wireless networks •Local dependent networks •Location management •Mobile and wireless IP •Mobile computing •Multi-hop networks •Network architectures •Routing, QoS and scheduling •Satellite communications •Self-organising networks •Smart cities •Smart grids •Transport layer •Vehicular networks •Wireless multicasting, broadcasting, and geocasting •Wireless sensor networks *Track 4: Services, Applications and Business*** •Audio and video broadcast applications •Authentication, authorisation and accounting •Context and location-awareness in pervasive systems •Cyber-physical system / real-world Internet •Emerging wireless/mobile applications •In-/intra-car communications •Mobile multimedia services •Link data and networked knowledge •Next generation digital home networks •P2P services for multimedia •Personalisation, profiles and profiling •Secure network and service access •Self-adaptation on the service layer •Semantic technologies •Service discovery •Service oriented architectures and cloud computing •Service portability •User interfaces, user-machine interactions •Wireless emergency and security systems •Wireless robotics *EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE * *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * *IMPORTANT DATES* Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22806855&m=2500772&u=IEEEC…> to unsubscribe IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor , 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: IEEE SmartGridComm'13 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE SmartGridComm'13 Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:10:00 -0500 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22788695&m=2492091&u=IEEEC…> *Call for Papers <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22788696&m=2492091&u=IEEEC…> ** * The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2013) is to provide a forum to discuss all aspects that are relevant to the smart grid communication technologies and to bring together researchers from academia, industry, and government institutions to exchange ideas, explore enabling technologies, discuss innovative designs, and share field trial experiences and lessons learnt. Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions on all aspects of Smart Grid Communications, including but not limited to: • Architectures and Models for the Smart Grid • Cyber-Physical Wide-Area Monitoring, Control & Protection • The Whole Picture - Sense, Communicate, Compute, Control • Smart Grid Cyber Security and Privacy • Support for Storage, Renewable Sources and Micro-grids • Demand Side Management, Demand Response, Dynamic Pricing • Communications and Networks for Smart Grids and Smart Metering • Smart Grid Services and Management Models • Smart Grid Communication Networks • Smart Grid Standards, Co-simulation, Test-beds and Field Trials * *Paper submissions due 5 May 2013. For more information, visit www.ieee-smartgridcomm.org <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22788697&m=2492091&u=IEEEC…>. Click here <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=22788698&m=2492091&u=IEEEC…> to unsubscribe IEEE Communications Society - 17th floor , 3 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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Fwd: [ITC 2013] 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-25) [Last CFP]
by Lars Wolf 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Kurt Tutschku <kurt.tutschku(a)bth.se> > Datum: 14. Februar 2013 17:32:37 MEZ > An: Lars C Wolf <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> > Betreff: [ITC 2013] 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-25) [Last CFP] > > Apologies for cross posting... > =============================================================== > Last Call for Papers - Updated sections: awards, publication (incl. indexing) > =============================================================== > 25th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 25) > Shanghai, China > September 10-12, 2013 > www.itc25.org > =============================================================== > Theme: Teletraffic in the Cloud > =============================================================== > > Since 1955 the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) has provided a forum > for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss innovations in > telecommunications network design, performance evaluation, reliability, > quality and traffic management measurements, and forecasting. ITC 25 > continues this tradition, focusing on teletraffic contributions toward > understanding the benefits and costs of emerging architectural shifts in the > Internet. Specific traffic-related topics of interest include, but are not > limited to: > > A) Network technologies and applications > ======================================== > - Future networks design > - Network virtualization > - Software-defined networking > - Data center networks > - Carrier networks > - Optical networks > - Cellular networks > - Wireless ad-hoc and mesh networks > - Delay-tolerant networks > - Sensor networks > - Internet of Things > - Application layer networks and overlays > - P2P and distributed lookup > - Content delivery networks > - IPTV, WebTV, and HTTP-based streaming > - Distributed, grid, and cloud computing > - Web-services and SOA > - Social networks and crowd sourcing > - Tele-medicine, -education, -metry > > B) Network planning, QoS, performance, and approaches > ===================================================== > - Network design methods > - Capacity planning methods and tools > - Planning for multi-carrier networks > - Cross-layer design and optimization > - Performance of wireless/wired networks > - QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS > - Resource allocation and management > - Optimization techniques > - Game-theoretic models > - Random graph models > - Scheduling algorithms > - Queuing and traffic models > - Performance and reliability tradeoffs > - Robustness and reliability issues > - Simulation methods and tools > - Self-optimization > - Network coding > - Pricing and billing > - Business models for service deployment > > C) Traffic measurement, management, and security-related issues > =============================================================== > - Network tomography > - Big data traffic modeling and management > - Traffic engineering > - Dynamic bandwidth management > - Intelligent adaptive routing > - Location and mobility management > - Multi-domain issues > - Overload and congestion control > - Admission control > - Traffic and performance monitoring > - Protection, switching, and restoration > - Anomaly detection > - Detection of DoS attacks > - Attack mitigation methods > - Worm and virus propagation > - Epidemiological models > - Privacy and trust > - Energy efficiency > - Green ICT > > Important dates > =============== > Submission deadline: March 1st, 2013 > Acceptance notification: May 3rd, 2013 > Camera-Ready: June 10th, 2013 > > Sponsors > ======== > International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) > China Institute of Communication (CIC) > Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China) > > Organizers > ========== > Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT, China) > Tsinghua University, China > > Supporters > ========== > Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China > > Honorary General Co-Chairs > ========================== > Gaofeng Zhu (Chinese Academy of Engineering, China) > Xiongjian Liang (BUPT, China) > > General Co-Chairs > ================= > Tingjie Lu (BUPT, China) > Villy B. Iversen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) > > TPC Co-Chairs > ============= > Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University, China) > Kurt Tutschku (University Vienna, Austria) > Zhanhong Xin (BUPT, China) > Moshe Zukerman (City University of HK, Hong-Kong) > > National Organizing Committee Co-Chairs > ======================================= > Yu Pan (BUPT, China) > Weihua Zhang (Shanghai Telecom, China) > Deputy Co-Chairs: Yan Wan, Jing Zhang, Yumei Huo (BUPT, China) > > International Advisory Council > ============================== > Chair: Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France) > Vice-Chair: Phuoc Tran-Gia (University of Wuerzburg, Germany) > > Publicity Co-Chairs > =================== > Theophilus Benson (Princeton University, USA) > Florin Ciucu (T-Labs / TU Berlin, Germany) > Youngmi Jin (KAIST, Korea) > Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) > > Submission instructions > ======================= > Submissions are accepted only as PDF and must not exceed 9 double-column > pages in IEEE conference format (font size no smaller than 10points). > Further guidelines and templates are available at: > http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html > > All authors listed in the PDF must also be listed in EDAS at time of > submission. Submit papers in EDAS at: > https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=13275 > > Awards and Publication > ======================= > ITC offers two prestigious awards: a Best Paper Award and a Best Student > Paper Award. For a paper to be eligible in the latter category, the first > author must be a student and presenter of the work. > > The conference proceedings, consisting of both conference and workshop > papers, will be available through IEEE Xplore (including indexing).

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Fwd: [InternetTC] Fwd: Ad-Hoc Committee on Cloud Communications & Networking (CloudComm): Masum Hasan posted "Call for Papers - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)"
by Lars Wolf 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] Fwd: Ad-Hoc Committee on Cloud Communications & Networking (CloudComm): Masum Hasan posted "Call for Papers - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)" Datum: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:37:52 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear ITC members, Please find below a forwarded message concerning a new journal IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) and its CFP - any interested colleagues could consider contributing your good work there. Best regards, Xiaoming -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Ad-Hoc Committee on Cloud Communications & Networking (CloudComm): Masum Hasan posted "Call for Papers - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)" Masum Hasan posted "Call for Papers - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)" in the group Ad-Hoc Committee on Cloud Communications & Networking (CloudComm): Dear Colleagues: The newly established IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) is seeking original and innovative research papers in all areas related to Cloud computing. For details, please see the attached call for papers. Please share the call for papers with your colleagues, friends, and students working in the area of Cloud computing and encourage them to submit their (unpublished) high-quality papers for this new IEEE Transactions. Best regards Raj ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing will publish peer-reviewed articles that provide innovative research ideas and applications results in all areas relating to cloud computing. Topics relating to novel theory, algorithms, performance analyses and applications of techniques relating to all areas of cloud computing will be considered for the transactions. The transactions will consider submissions specifically in the areas of cloud security, tradeoffs between privacy and utility of cloud, cloud standards, the architecture of cloud computing, cloud development tools, cloud software, cloud backup and recovery, cloud interoperability, cloud applications management, cloud data analytics, cloud communications protocols, mobile cloud, liability issues for data loss on clouds, data integration on clouds, big data on clouds, cloud education, cloud skill sets, cloud energy consumption, cloud applications in commerce, education and industry. This title will also consider submissions on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Business Process as a Service (BPaaS). For details of the submission process, please consult the relevant Web pages at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tcc ================ Editorial Board: ================ Editor-in-Chief (EiC): ---------------------- Rajkumar Buyya Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Lab The University of Melbourne, Australia CEO, Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Web: http://www.cloudbus.org/~raj Associate Editors: ------------------ Adam Wierman, CalTech (California Institute of Technology), USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Andrew Martin, Oxford University, UK Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Bharadwaj Veeravalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Cesar A. De Rose, PUCRS, Brazil Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway David Bernstein, Cloud Strategy Partners LLC, USA David De Roure, Oxford University, UK David Lie, University of Toronto, Canada Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science ">--Masum Z. Hasan https://sites.google.com/site/masumzh/home [1] Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/site/masumzh/home You may view this content in full by visiting the link below: http://community.comsoc.org/node/5147 ---- You are subscribed to receive email notifications when new content or comments are posted to this group. If you do not wish to receive notifications for this group in the future, visit the group's homepage at http://community.comsoc.org/groups/ad-hoc-committee-cloud-communications-ne… and uncheck the Subscription checkbox. -- Prof. Dr. Xiaoming Fu http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~fu Computer Networks Group http://www.net.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/ Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Goettingen E-Mail: fu(a)cs.uni-goettingen.de Goldschmidtstr. 7 Tel/Secr: +49-(0)551-39-1720 23/20 37077 Goettingen, Germany Fax: +49-(0)551-39-14416

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Fwd: [InternetTC] CFP Workshop ICT4Mobility-ICT4Mobility 2013
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] CFP Workshop ICT4Mobility-ICT4Mobility 2013 Datum: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:31:53 -0000 Von: CalendarSites <calendarsites(a)INSTICC.ORG> An: itc(a)COMSOC.ORG *CALL FOR PAPERS* Workshop ICT4Mobility <http://www.smartgreens.org/workshops.aspx#ICT4Mobility>- ICT4Mobility 2013 In conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems- SMARTGREENS 2013 Website: http://www.smartgreens.org May 9 - 10, 2013 Aachen, Germany *Co-organized by: *RWTH** *Sponsored by: *INSTICC** *INSTICC is Member of:*WfMC and OMG *IMPORTANT DATES:* Paper Submission: *February 28, 2013* Authors Notification: *March 15, 2013* Camera Ready and Registration: *April 1, 2013* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We would like to draw your attention to the Workshop ICT4Mobility <http://www.smartgreens.org/workshops.aspx#ICT4Mobility>- ICT4Mobility 2013 (held in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems- SMARTGREENS 2013), whose submission deadline is scheduled for February 28, 2013. We hope you can participate in this session by submitting a paper reflecting your current research in any of the following areas: • Renewable Mobility Concepts • Travel Navigation, Assistance and Notification • Energy-optimized Routing • Intermodal Routing and Planning • Fleet Management and Operation Systems • Car and Bike Sharing Management Systems • Trip Planning, Operation, and Information • Reservation, Authorization, Billing, and Ticketing • Parking and Charging Infrastructure Management • Ridesharing Systems • Travel Information Systems The conference will be sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC), co-organized with the Aachen University (RWTH). INSTICC is Member of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and Object Management Group (OMG). The purpose of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published on the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference, and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). The proceedings are submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPECC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index). SMARTGREENS 2013 will be held in conjunction with CLOSER 2013 (International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - http://closer.scitevents.org/), CSEDU 2013 (International Conference on Computer Supported Education - http://www.csedu.org/) and WEBIST 2013 (International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - http://www.webist.org/) in Aachen, Germany. Registration to SMARTGREENS will enable free attendance to any sessions of CLOSER, CSEDU and WEBIST conferences as a non-speaker. Please check further details at the workshop website (http://www.smartgreens.org/ICT4Mobility.aspx) and the main conference website (http://www.smartgreens.org/). *WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS* *Christoph Terwelp* RWTH Aachen University Germany *Karl-Heinz Krempels* RWTH Aachen University Germany *Thomas Mager* Kölner Stadt- und Verkehrsverlag Germany *Michael Ditze* TWT GmbH Germany In case of questions, please feel free to contact us: smartgreens.secretariat(a)insticc.org <mailto:%20smartgreens.secretariat@insticc.org> *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Please check the workshop´s program committee members at http://www.smartgreens.org/ICT4Mobility.aspx

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM SenSys 2013 (Nov 11-15, 2013, Rome, Italy)
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM SenSys 2013 (Nov 11-15, 2013, Rome, Italy) Datum: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:15:44 +0100 Von: salil kanhere <salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ************************************************************************** Call For Papers SenSys 2013---The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 11-15, 2013 Rome, Italy ************************************************************************** Sensing systems are changing the way computers interact with the physical world -- and are driving a host of new issues in computer system design, implementation, and performance. SenSys 2013 is the premier venue to discuss system issues raised by emerging trends in sensing systems – broadly defined to include mobile sensing, body sensing, Kinect, camera networks, RFID, and many others. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, ground breaking results and/or quantified system experiences involving sensor systems. The conference values papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than a narrow focus on individual components. Of particular interest are technical contributions that enable new and compelling sensing applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Experience with real-world applications • Innovative sensing applications (e.g., mobile healthcare, transportation, buildings) • New models of sensor usage (e.g., mobile sensing, body sensing, RFIDs, robots) • Sensor data quality, integrity, and trustworthiness • Challenges for “Big Sensor Data” • Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing and management • Data reduction, inference, and signal processing • Fault-tolerance and reliability • Provable correctness and performance guarantees • Support for integrated sensing, actuation and control • Wireless communication systems and protocols • Energy management and energy harvesting • Resource management and OS support • Programming paradigms for sensing systems • Security and privacy in sensor networks • Time and location estimation and management Detailed submission instructions can be found at http://sensys.acm.org/2013/submissions/ Key Dates These are hard deadlines: No extensions will be granted. • Paper Registration: March 30, 2013, 11:59 pm EST. • Paper Submission Deadline: April 6, 2013, 11:59 pm EST. • Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 15, 2013. General Chair Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Program Chairs Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) Landon Cox (Duke University) Program Committee Yuvraj Agarwal (University of California, San Diego) Jan Beutel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo) Tanzeem Choudhary (Cornell University) David Chu (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech) Wen Hu (University of New South Wales) Fred Jiang (Intel Labs, China) Nic Lane (Microsoft Research, Asia) Jie Liu (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Duisburg Essen) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano) Lama Nachman (Intel Labs) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento) Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University) Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University) Silvia Santini (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University) Thomas Schmid (University of Utah) Junehwa Song (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford) Lin Zhong (Rice University) _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE ISCC'13, Croatia - Deadline extension (Feb. 18)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

CALL FOR PAPERS The Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'13) July 7-10, 2013, Split, Croatia http://www.ieee-iscc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Full Paper submission: February 18, 2013 (extended, firm deadline!) Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Continuing its tradition, ISCC 2013 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in most state-of-the-art areas of computer and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues and opportunities related to the computing and communication in the era of Big Data. You are invited to submit a full paper or a proposal for a panel/invited session or a tutorial, related to the following topics of interest. - Access Networks - Digital Media Technologies - Bioinformatics - Modeling and Simulation - Big Data, Data Mining and Database Applications - Digital Satellite Communications Service - Network Design, Optimization, and Management - Next Generation Networks Infrastructures and Management - Distributed Systems Architecture and Management - Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience - Economic and Regulatory Issues - Optical Networking - E-Commerce and E-Services - Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery - Peer-to-Peer Computing - Real Time Communication Services - Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing - Routing and Multicast - Human Language Technologies - Image Processing and Visualization - Security and Cryptography - Software Engineering - Internet Services and Applications - Standards Evolution - Advances in Internet Protocols - Management of Telecommunications - Cognitive Radio Networking - Sensor Networks and Mobile Sensing - Distributed and Mobile Middleware - Overlay and Programmable Networks - Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures - Wireless, Cellular and Mobile Communications - Green Networking and Smart Grid - Internet of the Future - Bio-inspired Computing in Communications - Communications Services and Management - Internet of Things - Artificial Intelligent Systems - Social Networks and Crowdsourcing - Services and Support for Smart Cities ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Papers should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding page will be charged an additional fee. Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for publication in a Special Issue of a prestigious International Journal. To submit a paper, please use the EDAS submission server. The direct link to submission is EDAS: http://edas.info/N11605 IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g. removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. For additional information, please contact the Technical Program Co-Chairs. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) Sven Gotovac (University of Split, Croatia) Milan Vojnovic, (Microsoft Research, UK) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Stipe Celar (University of Split, Croatia) Hrvoje Dujmic (University of Split, Croatia) Tajana Simunic Rosing (University of California, San Diego, USA) Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Eugen Mudnic (University of Split, Croatia) Vladan Papic (University of Split, Croatia) Joko Radic (University of Split, Croatia) Finance and Registration Co-Chairs: Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA) Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) Publication Chair: Adel S. Elmaghraby(University of Louisville, USA) Keynote Speakers Co-Chairs: Chi-Ming Chen (AT&T Labs, USA) Nelson L. S. da Fonseca (State University of Campinas, Brazil) Dimitrios Vergados (University of Piraeus, Greece) Workshop Co-Chairs: Neven Bandalovic (Ericsson NT, Croatia) Mahmoud Daneshmand (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Ahmet Sekercioglu (Monash University, Australia) Publicity Co-Chairs: Chatschik Bisdikian (IBM Research, USA) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Tamara Grujic (University of Split, Croatia) Hrvoje Turic (University of Split, Croatia) Linda Vickovic (University of Split, Croatia) Shaowei Wang (Nanjing University, P.R. China) Douglas N. Zuckerman (Applied Communication Sciences , USA) Web Co-Chairs: Zeljko Seremet (University of Mostar, BiH) Mili Turiζ (University of Split, Croatia) Steering Committee: Reda Ammar (University of Connecticut, USA) Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna, Italy) Mahmoud Daneshmand (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) Adel S. Elmaghraby (University of Louisville, USA) Hussein Mouftah (University of Ottawa, Canada) Sartaj Sahni (University of Florida, USA) Ahmed Tantawy (IBM, USA)

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2013 *** DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 20, 2013 ! ***
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Emir Halepovic <mail2emir(a)gmail.com> > Datum: 11. Februar 2013 15:57:42 MEZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2013 *** DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 20, 2013 ! *** > > *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 20, 2013 ! *** > > [ Appologies if you receive this message multiple times. ] > > [ Please forward this call for papers to colleagues who might be interested > in submitting a contribution. ] > > ============================================================= > > Call for Papers > > WiNMee 2013 ----- May 13-17, 2013 ----- Tsukuba Science City, Japan > > The 9th International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee) > In conjunction with WiOpt 2013 > > http://mobilelab.kut.ac.kr/winmee2013.html > > ============================================================= > > Welcome to WiNMee 2013 > > The rise in wireless technologies for both local and wide-area networking, > such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 3G and LTE, means that the > Internet is increasingly wireless. Moreover, theoretical advances on > wireless network communications, such as cooperative relay networks, > network coding, constructive use of interference, and interference > alignment, promise to have significant impact on practical wireless > networks in the following years. > To better understand the nature of these advances, it is important to > evaluate these ideas in real-world environments via empirical measurement. > While analytical and simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often > limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and the > varying and error-prone wireless channel. As a response to these > limitations, the need for experimental wireless network measurements has > gained wide recognition in the networking research community. > > WiNMee 2013 is the ninth edition in the International Workshop on Wireless > Network Measurements series that began in 2005, and is intended to bring > together researchers in the field of experimental wireless networking and > serve as a forum for discussing advances and challenges in experimental > wireless network measurements. > > Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > - Experience and measurements from building, designing and/or operating > production wireless networks > - Measurement and characterization of wireless networks traffic such as > WLANs, cellular networks (including smartphone and mobile application > traffic characteristics), wireless home networks, and sensor networks > - Experimental validation of network simulation and mobility models > - Measurement-based network management and troubleshooting > - Experiences and challenges with wireless measurements > - Methodologies for validating wireless test-bed results and improving the > repeatability of tests, simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration > - Methodologies for measuring heterogeneous wireless networks > - Techniques and experiences with collecting, archiving, anonymizing and > sharing wireless measurement data > - Techniques and experimental results on performance measurements of > cognitive radio systems > - Metrics for wireless network performance evaluation > - Prediction and inference of user access, demand and mobility > - Software tools for building and/or managing wireless test-beds > - Spectrum utilization measurements techniques in spectrum sharing and > cognitive radio networks > > Paper Submission > > The workshop seeks novel, previously unpublished papers, which are not > currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. All > submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six > printed pages (IEEE Transactions style double-column format, 10pt font > size) including figures. Only PDF files are acceptable. Papers can be > prepared using either LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Do not put page numbers on > your document. References should be numbered in alphabetical order by lead > author last name. Within the text, citations to references should appear as > the appropriate reference number in square brackets. The end of the > document must include the list of cited references; please avoid > unnecessary abbreviations in citations. Please make sure that all fonts and > subset fonts are embedded. To check font embedding use one of the following > approaches: > > If using Adobe Reader, from the menu select File/Properties... and then > select the Fonts tab. You should see "(Embedded Subset)" next to each font > and there should be no Type 3 fonts. > >> From a Linux/Unix terminal, execute the "pdffonts" command on your PDF > document. The listing should show no Type 3 fonts, and all fonts listed > should have "yes" under "emb" and "sub". > > The paper should include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. The > submission will be handled via EasyChair. If you don't have an EasyChair > account, please sign up for an EasyChair account here. The accepted papers > will be published in the conference proceedings and will be available via > the IEEE Xplore website. Please refer to workshop website for details: > http://mobilelab.kut.ac.kr/winmee2013.html > > > IMPORTANT DATES > > PAPERS DUE: (JANUARY 25, 2013) extended to FEBRUARY 12, 2013 > AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: MARCH 8, 2013 > CAMERA-READY: MARCH 15, 2013 > WORKSHOP DATE: MAY 13, 2013 > > Workshop Chairs > > Manar Mohaisen (Korea Tech, Korea) > Aniket Mahanti (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) > > Publicity Chair > > Emir Halepovic (AT&T Labs—Research, USA) > > Technical Program Committee > > Rocky K. C. Chang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) > Pablo Serrano Yáñez-Mingot (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) > Abedelaziz Mohaisen (Verisign Labs, USA) > Emir Halepovic (AT&T Labs—Research, USA) > Artem Lensky (Korea Tech, Korea) > Tamer AbuHmed (Inha University, Korea) > Qiang Fu (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) > Weisheng Si (University of Western Sydney, Australia) > Sanjay Madria (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA) > Hidekazu Murata (Kyoto University, Japan) > Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) > Pengbo Si (Beijing University of Technology, China) > Ali Abedi (The University of Maine, USA) > António Pinto (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal) > Pero Latkoski (Saint Cyril and Methodius University, Macedonia) > Yan Zhang (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) > Vasilios Siris (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) > Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary, Canada) > Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University, Canada) > Tarun Banka (Cisco Systems, USA) > Mahesh Marina (University of Edinburgh, UK) > Luca Foschini (Università di Bologna, Italy) > Ahmad Al Hanbali (University of Twente, The Netherlands) > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] ComCom SI on Opportunistic Networking: Deadline Extended to Feb 26, 2013
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Valerio Arnaboldi<valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it> > Datum: 8. Februar 2013 11:24:01 MEZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] ComCom SI on Opportunistic Networking: Deadline Extended to Feb 26, 2013 > > *** Our Sincere Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ========= PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO ========= > FEBRUARY 26, 2013 (11:59pm PST) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CALL FOR PAPERS > Elsevier - Computer Communications Journal > Special Issue on Opportunistic Networking > Submission Deadline (extended): February 26, 2013 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The widespread availability of mobile portable devices enriched with a variety of sensing capabilities, coupled with the impelling need of communication anytime and anywhere, has rapidly raised the interest towards new approaches to communications between users. Opportunistic networks are an instance of the delay tolerant paradigm applied to networks made up of users' portable devices (such as smartphones and tablets). As such, they are able to cope with challenged network conditions that are often present in real life, such as high node mobility, variable connectivity, and disconnections, which would impair communications in traditional Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In this scenario, user mobility becomes one of the main drivers to enable message delivery. In fact, according to the store-carry-and-forward paradigm, user devices store messages and carry them around while they move in the network, exchanging them upon encounter with other nodes, and eventually delivering them to the > ir destination or to interested users. This new communication paradigm enables legacy applications in challenged scenarios, as well as it paves the way to innovative solutions. While opportunistic networks initially received attention to support communication where an infrastructure is not available (for disaster recovery or in rural areas), nowadays a number of applications can be envisaged ranging from content sharing, through mobile social networking, to participatory and urban sensing. All these applications rely on data forwarding amongst devices. As a consequence, two aspects become relevant, that is, the need for mechanisms guaranteeing trusted and secure communications while preserving users' privacy (in the absence of infrastructure and sometimes even end-to-end connectivity), and incentive mechanisms able to boost the participation in the network. > > This Special Issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions pushing the state of the art in Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: > > - Mobility measurements and models, mobility trace analysis > - Measurements, models, and analysis for user behaviors on mobile devices > - Unicast and multicast routing > - Transport, congestion control, and reliability issues > - Content dissemination, content caching, service composition, opportunistic computing > - Trust, security & privacy in opportunistic forwarding, incentive mechanisms, reputation systems, and key management > - Application support and middleware for opportunistic networks > - New applications and services relying on opportunistic networking > - Systems and experience for real-world deployments > > Schedule > -------- > Submission deadline (extended): February 26, 2013 > Author notification: May 24, 2013 > Revised paper due: June 30, 2013 > Final author notification: September 16, 2013 > Publication: TBD > > Guest Editors > ------------- > Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy > Kyunghan Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea > Melek Onen, EURECOM, France > Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland > Elena Pagani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy > > Instructions for submission > --------------------------- > Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. > > Papers must be submitted through the Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where guidelines for manuscript preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "Special Issue: Opp-Net" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. > > For further information, please contact the guest editors at > comcomsi_oppnet(a)iit.cnr.it > > > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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FWD: [Authors] CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (SCUCA 2013)
by Lars Wolf 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (co-located with WoWMoM 2013, Madrid 4-7 June 2013) Call for Papers As the world experiences unprecedented urban growth, decision makers have become very alert calling for urgent solutions to the resulting issues and newly identified problems. Fortunately, the recent advances in information and communication technologies may stimulate new solutions towards the urbanization problems. As a result, research and industrial efforts are beginning to focus on work in that direction and towards Smart Sustainable Cities; the aim is to integrate and validate ICT technologies and services in neighborhoods to make progress towards intelligent cities by exploiting ubiquitous technologies. In addition to technical developments, attention is given to innovative service business models which include security, safety and privacy issues. The need to improve our understanding of cities, however, is pressed not only by the social relevance of urban environments, but also by the availability of new strategies for city-scale interventions that are enabled by emerging technologies. This workshop aims to showcase latest advances in Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing applications which are the result of research efforts that incorporate new technologies from the areas of mobile communications, multimedia services, data storage and handling and ubiquitous services. The workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following areas: Urban Analysis and Modeling: - data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior, mobility patterns, resource consumption - Designing new cities through evidence-based processes - Parametric urban design tools to schematically define mobility nodes, streets, buildings and location of resources - Development of nested compact urban cells (walkable neighborhoods) - Urban energy, mobility, water, food, and waste simulator for new, post-oil cities - Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and responsive technology for cities Mobility Networks: - Multi-modal mobility recommendation engines - New urban vehicles including electric scooters, automobiles, bike-lane vehicles, etc. - Autonomous vehicle technology and vehicle-pedestrian interfaces - Scheduling, charging and security technology for shared-use vehicle systems - Electronic parking systems - Multimedia pervasive computing for smart cities Electronic and Social Networks: - New network-centric methods for managing reactive, data-driven city systems - Social, multimedia and ubiquitous computing for smart cities - Urban-scale serious games to shape use of resources such as shared-used mobility - Systems tailored for more stable, fair, and socially efficient services Work and living places - Personalized, transformable urban housing - Variable-rate power, and flexible workspaces - Time-shifted, shared space-on-demand for collaborative work - Sensing and algorithms to understand fine-grained human activity - Responsive lighting, HVAC, health, energy conservation, and communication in the home and work Workshop Chairs Anastasios D. Doulamis - Technical University of Crete, Greece Lambros Lambrinos - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Important Dates - Submission deadline: February 28, 2013 - Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2013 - Camera-Ready Deadline: April 8, 2013 The workshop is supported by the following on-going projects: Experimedia, SoCIoS, e-Park, Poseidon and more information can be found at: http://www.scuca2013.tuc.gr <http://www.scuca2013.tuc.gr/>

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Special Issue in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal (ETT) on "High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems"Paper Submission: 15th March 2013
by Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================================== ========================================================================== CFP for the Special Issue in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal on "High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems" Scope ================================== Opportunistic networks are an emerging networking paradigm where communication between the source and destination occurs on-the-fly and depends on the availability of communication resources. Opportunistic communication paradigm heavily benefits from the heterogeneous networking and communication infrastructure that currently exist, e.g., mobile networks, P2P networks, with the supporting technologies in data management and system interoperability. The SI aims at presenting state-of-the-art research and future trends in mobile and heterogeneous opportunistic networking and application paradigms, combining the mobile communication, mobility and resource management field, and scientifically presents the various concepts that contribute to enable high performance computing in these environments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: •resource management (failure-aware, high-availability, efficiency, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.) •data management (data gathering and fusion, aggregation, dissemination, source coding, signal processing, etc.) •cooperative and opportunistic algorithms (cooperative PHY, relays, distributed signal processing, etc.) •key functionalities (security, localization, privacy and authentication, self-*, synchronization, etc.) •novel protocols (PHY level, MAC level, routing aspects, congestion and admission control, communication networking paradigms, etc.) •self-adaptiveness (self-organization, self-stabilization, autonomic computing approaches, etc.) •cross-layer and cross-functionality designs (channel coding, cross-layer interaction, protocols for cross-layering, etc.) •performance evaluation and limitation (network capacity, metrics and new schemes’ evaluation through real-time or simulation, etc.) •opportunistic storage (backup techniques, autonomic- management of storage, location-aware caching, etc.) •energy consideration (optimization of energy-efﬁcient protocols/algorithms, energy-efﬁcient MAC, routing and cross-layer protocols, adaptive protocols, innovative power control techniques, novel applications, scalability issues, etc.) •mobility models (mobility modeling, management and optimization, mobility effects, efficiency, conceptual models and applied certain patterns, human mobility, mobility aware protocols, service portability, etc.) •implementation case studies (i.e. WSN, Ad-hoc, HAPs, etc. ) •simulation frameworks (tools, designs, module support and integration, novel performance analysis etc.) Articles should be of novel research nature whereas only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines which can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1541-8251/homepage/For…. Instructions for submission: ================================== Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, complete contact information (indicating the primary contact author), a 250-word abstract, and 3-5 keywords, via the web site for the Journal’s submission system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett. The submission timetable is shown below. Submission page: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915 CFP URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915/asset/homepage…) ================================== Guest-editors ================================== Constandinos Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) Lei Shu (Osaka University, Japan) Tasos Dagiuklas (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi-Greece) Yang Xiao (The University of Alabama, USA) ================================== Important Dates/deadlines: ================================== -Paper Submission: 15 March 2013 -Author Notification: 30 May 2013 -Final Versions Due: July 2013 ==================================

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Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems (DC-MMDS) at IEEE SECON 2013
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems (DC-MMDS) at IEEE SECON 2013 Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:24:10 -0500 Von: Krishna Kumar Venkatasubramanian <kven(a)wpi.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [apologies if you received multiple copies of the CFP] *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Design Challenges in Mobile Medical Device Systems (DC-MMDS) In Conjunction with IEEE SECON 2013 New Orleans, LA, USA June 24-27, 2013 URL: http://dc-mmds.cs.wpi.edu/ *********************** SCOPE: A decade ago, medical devices were largely simple standalone entities. Today, wireless networking capabilities, sophisticated data processing, and new sensors and actuators are increasingly being incorporated into mobile medical devices that promise to improve a clinician’s ability to diagnose and treat a range of acute and chronic medical conditions. This new generation of mobile medical device systems (MDDS) faces a variety of challenges. Such devices are often implanted, ingested, or worn and deployed as a part of pervasive health monitoring system. Some interact directly with a patient’s biological systems in order to provide coordinated, closed-‐loop care. In order for these mobile medical cyber-‐physical systems to be successful, one needs to develop targeted platforms and technologies. This is particularly challenging because of the devices used in MMDS have to be small and unobtrusive. This makes them severely resource constrained in nature. Architectures developed for the desktop and hand-‐held computing world ill suited for such applications. Further, as people who have limited understanding of the underlying technologies will use such devices, the usability of such systems, from user-‐interface to sustainability to interoperability with other devices to configuration, is very important. These challenges have been recognized, in the abstract, in the community for some time. However, there has not been a dedicated forum for discussing ideas on building mobile medical devices. This proposed workshop will bring together researchers from academia and industry to address challenges facing the design and implementation of mobile medical device platforms. TOPICS: Relevant topics include but are not limited to: • Novel hardware platforms and architectures for MMDS • Novel sensing systems for MMDS • Actuation and drug delivery systems for MMDS • Efficient automatic control systems for MMDS • Novel data and signal processing for MMDS • Enabling device interoperability for MMDS • Energy harvesting and sustainability for MMDS • Trust, security and privacy technologies of MMDS • Human factors and usability for MMDS • Regulatory issues for MMDS SUBMISSIONS: Papers must be no longer than 5 pages and in font size no smaller than 10 points. Additional paper formatting instructions can be found on the conference web-‐site: http://www.ieee-secon.org. ORGANIZERS: Chairs Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Jacob Sorber, Clemson University TPC Members Ayan Banerjee, Arizona State University Denis Foo Kune, University of Michigan Matt Green, Johns Hopkins University Hassan Ghasemzadeh, UCLA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University Roozbeh Jafari, UT-Dallas Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Andres Molina-Markham, Dartmouth College Ben Ransford, University of Massachussets, Amherst Craig Shue, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2013 Notification Deadline: April 22, 2013 Camera-Ready Deadline: May 1, 2013 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13)
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13) Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:17:27 +0800 Von: LIANG HE <heliang1983(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers The 7th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2013-Spring) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~zhuan045/WiSARN/WiSARN2013.html To be held in conjunction with The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'13) May 20-23, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSANs, WSNs, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots) * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Actor (robot) task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages, and must be formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE author guidelines. Submissions are being considered with the understanding that they describe original research, neither published nor under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in DCOSS 2013 proceedings. Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an international journal (SCIE). Important dates Paper submission: March 1, 2013 Author notification: March 30, 2013 Camera ready: April 15, 2013 Workshop date: May 23, 2013 General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Calumet, USA. Hannes Frey, University of Paderbon, Germany. Publicity Co-Chairs: Liang He, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Sandra Sendra, universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. Submission Chair: Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada. For further information, please refer to the above WiSARN 2013 website, or contact the program co-chairs. _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Ginseng-list-all] CfP: 5th PWSN Workshop, May 23 2013, Cambridge Massachusetts - In conjunction with DCOSS 2013
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Ginseng-list-all] CfP: 5th PWSN Workshop, May 23 2013, Cambridge Massachusetts - In conjunction with DCOSS 2013 Datum: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:31:10 +0200 Von: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: ginseng-list-all(a)ict-ginseng.eu Dear GINSENG colleagues, this may be of interest: ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS PWSN 2013 5th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2013/ May 23 2012, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA In conjunction with the 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '13) ========================================================================= Most existing wireless sensor network (WSN) installations have in common that they are not considered time-critical. No immediate action has to beundertaken as a response to the received data. However, many emerging WSNapplications such as plant automation and control, smart cities or health care applications require immediate and guaranteed actions. In such environments, data has to be transported reliably and in time through the sensor network. In some scenarios, data even has to travel through the sensor network and the Internet to reach the destination. In this situation the overall system spanning the Internet and sensor networks must providetogether the required performance characteristics. Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols, it is currently very difficult to construct and operate a WSN with performance guarantees. Thus, the commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas is unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved. The PWSN workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitionersdesigning and deploying sensor networks that have to meet specific performance targets. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------- • Communication protocols with deterministic performance • Network resilience, fault tolerance, network survivability • Sensor data quality, integrity, and availability • Performance-aware middleware • Real-time operating systems for sensor networks • Actuation and control • Programming abstractions for deterministic sensor networks • Impact of security features on network performance • Experience with real-world deployments and applications • Performance management of deployed sensor networks • Timely data storage, retrieval, and processing • Performance modelling and performance evaluation • Configuration and installation support • Performance debugging and performance optimization Important dates: ---------------- Paper Submission deadline: March 25, 2012 Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2012 Camera Ready Paper: April 15, 2012 Workshop date: May 23, 2012 Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Utz Roedig - University of Lancaster Vasos Vassiliou - University of Cyprus Paper Submission ---------------- Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All submissions should be written in English with a maximumpaper length of six (6) printed pages (in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, and references. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at http://edas.info/N14363 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information or questions, please email the workshop chairs or visit the workshop website: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2013/ -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus -- Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~vasosv -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus -- Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~vasosv _______________________________________________ Ginseng-list-all mailing list Ginseng-list-all(a)ict-ginseng.eu https://lists.ict-ginseng.eu:448/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ginseng-list-all

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Fwd: [Authors] CFP: 10th IEEE MASS 2013, October 14-16, Hangzhou, China
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Authors] CFP: 10th IEEE MASS 2013, October 14-16, Hangzhou, China Datum: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:38:22 +0100 Von: Stefano Avallone <stavallo(a)unina.it> Antwort an: stefano.avallone(a)unina.it, Authors of some conferences <authors(a)inf.ufsc.br> Organisation: DIS UniNA An: authors(a)inf.ufsc.br [Sincere apologies for cross-posting] ========================================================= The 10th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2013) http://www.sensornet.cn/ieeemass2013/ October 14-16, Hangzhou, China SCOPE ----------- The 10th IEEE MASS will be held in HangZhou, Zhejiang Province, China, during October 14-16, 2013. Wireless ad hoc communication and mobile networking/computing have applications in a variety of environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields, and disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and are also being actively investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. IEEE MASS 2013, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed development. TOPICS OF INTEREST ---------------------------------- Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) (including cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things), and mobile networking/computing, including theory, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Algorithmic aspects of MANETs and WSNs - Application Layer Protocols - Architectures of wired/wireless networks - Capacity planning and admission control - Clustering, topology control, coverage, and connectivity - Cooperative and cognitive networking - Cooperative and compressive sensing in WSNs - Crowd-sourcing techniques - Cross layer design and optimization - Cyber-physical systems - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination - Data transport and management in WSNs - Delay tolerant networks - Experiences from real-world applications and long-term deployments - Handoff/mobility management and seamless internetworking - Internet/Cloud of Things - Key management and trust establishment - Localization and Location Based Services - MAC protocols, including 802.11, 802.15.4, UWB - MAC-layer design for ad hoc networks and WSNs - Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications - Measurements, experimental systems and test-beds - Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation - Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies - Network Layer protocols - Networked smartphone applications - Novel applications and architectures for WSNs - Operating systems and middleware support - Opportunistic networking - P2P, overlay, and content distribution - Power-aware architectures, algorithms, and protocols - QoS and Resource management - Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques - Resource management and QoS provisioning - Robotic networks - Routing protocols, including unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast, convergecast. - Security and privacy issues in ad hoc and sensor networks, and mobile networking - Smart grid, Smart healthcare, Smart transportation - Social networks using smartphones and sensors - Time synchronization - Vehicular networks and protocols - Wireless mesh networking PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW ------------------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit technical papers presenting original, unpublished research, not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt size fonts on 8.5 × 11 inch pages, with side-margin at least 1 inch, including all figures, tables, and references. All paper submission will be electronic, in PDF format, through EDAS. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on reviews and TPC discussions, the TPC may choose to accept some papers as short papers (5 pages). For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Paper registration deadline: *April 5, 2013* Full paper submission deadline, *April 15, 2013* Paper acceptance notification: *July 15, 2013* Paper camera-ready deadline: *August 5, 2013* POSTERS AND DEMOS ------------------------------------- The conference will also include a poster and demo session. Refer to the separate Call for Posters, and Call for Demos for details, including submission instructions. FOR MORE INFORMATION ----------------------------------------- For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact the MASS 2013 Program Co-Chairs: Matt Mutka (mutka(a)cse.msu.edu), Xiang-Yang Li (xli(a)cs.iit.edu), Zhaohui Wu (wzh(a)cs.zju.edu.cn)

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[CFP] Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013)
by Giuseppe Cardone 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Third Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013) (http://mocs.disi.unibo.it) July 7th, 2013 Split, Croatia organized in association with the Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013) (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/) Sponsored by (pending approval): IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Endorsed by: IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) In cooperation with: IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC) The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality thanks to the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). After the initial hype, at the current stage, several ongoing research efforts are focusing on the several open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditability, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to boost and to facilitate a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite the several recent efforts on Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions are able to withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources. The ambition and mission of MoCS 2013 is to put on the foreground all above issues, and to bring together different ongoing research efforts on the management of Cloud systems. This year, special focus will be on the challenging management issues related to the delivery of efficient Green solutions for the processing of real-world Big Data knowledge base and streams over the Cloud. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost-effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centres (intra-/inter-domain); * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies. Important Dates Submission of research papers due: February 18, 2013 Notification of paper acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013 Workshop date: July 7, 2013 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Please use either Word (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/CPS/ files/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip) or LaTeX (http://www.computer.org/cms/ Computer.org/CPS/files/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip ) templates and instructions provided by IEEE. Papers must be submitted by February 18, 2013 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N14211). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the workshop Web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2013 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada (kantarci(a)site.uottawa.ca) Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy (mvillari(a)unime.it) Publicity Chair Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy (giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy (antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it) -- Giuseppe Cardone, Ph.D. Student DISI-LIA - University of Bologna E-mail: giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it Web: http://middleware.unibo.it/people/gc

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IEEE DCOSS Workshop: Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (submission deadline March 3rd)
by vloscri＠deis.unical.it 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. *************************************************************************** Call for papers IEEE DCOSS International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-13) May 20-23, 2013 Boston, USA http://www.hds.utc.fr/iotip13/ *************************************************************************** Important dates Submission Deadline: March 3, 2013 Acceptance Notification: March 31, 2013 CameraReadyDue: April 15, 2013 Workshop Date: May 23, 2013 Call for papers: Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate"Big brother scenario". Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0 IoTIP features two tracks: -Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies - IoT systems and components - IoT for semantic web and personalization - Tools for developing IoT applications - Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT - Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT - Security and privacy control mechanisms - Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) - PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications - MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT - Mobility management - Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability - Object, device and service management - RFID, sensors, actuator technologies - Middleware - Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) - Test-beds and field trials - Standardization and regulatory issues Submission guidelines : Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at the following address: http://edas.info/N14397. All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (6) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. _Program committee members_: Flavio Esposito, Boston University - USA Essia Hamouda, University of Riverside, California, USA Antonio Iera, Università "Mediterranea" di reggio Calabria, Italy Srdjan Krco, Ericsson LTD, Ireland Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University - USA Valeria Loscri', Università della Calabria, Italy (_publicity chair_) Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille - nord Europe, France (_workshop chair_) Enrico Natalizio, Universitè de Technologie de Compiegne, France (_workshop chair_) David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France. Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy

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IEEE PERVASIVE Special Issue: Attention Management
by Andreas Riener 04 Feb '13

04 Feb '13

Attention Management in Pervasive Computing ------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 1 March 2013 Notification: 26 April 2013 Publication: Jan.–Mar. 2014 Finely-woven, globe-spanning digital networks, together with the radical miniaturization and embedding of information, communication, and sensor electronics into almost everything, have made human-to-computer bonds truely ubiquitous and pervasive. Accordingly, our approach to human-computer interaction is reversing: while HCI previously addressed issues related to how humans initiate interaction with ICT systems, we now increasingly observe ICT system designs that also approach humans. Within this "human computer confluence", human attention—more than processor speed, communication bandwidth, and storage resources—becomes the single most critical (yet least understood) resource in pervasive system design today. While previously considered a mental variable that could not be quantified and measured, attention now constitutes a fundamental element of psychological research. Today, everyone has an intuitive understanding of what attention is, how it can be assessed, and how it impacts perception, memory, expectation, awareness, relevance, decision-making, and other behaviours. This special issue focusses on novel approaches to attention modelling, attention representation, attention sensing, recognition or estimation, together with attention management as a theoretical and practical principle for designing Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing systems. We welcome multi-disciplinary articles not only from the core Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing community, but also from Behavioural Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Research linked to attention management system design principles. Potential topics include: ------------------------- - Theories and formal models of attention, theory driven modelling, evidencing theories Attention sensing and data-driven attention modelling (including recognition chains, mining Big Data) - Attention estimation from behaviour (gaze, speech, pose, effort, somatic indicators) and from mental effort (memorizing, response time) - Attention recognition (pattern recognition, machine learning) and management architectures (goals, plans, decision making) - Individual attention (perceptual load, cognitive load, recall performance, consciousness, overt vs. covert attention, focus and periphery of attention) and sensors (EEG, FOVA, SC, BVP, ...) - Collective attention (information diffusion, novelty propagation, sharing, consesus finding) and sensors (social networks, microblogs, tweets, web/phone, exploiting patterns ...) - ICT design based on the economics of attention: design principles, interaction principles, interface designs, attractors - Attention management system architectures, tools and development frameworks - Attention management showcases, success stories, and user studies in application domains of societal significance—for example, health care systems, intense care and control centers, electronic workplaces and electronic trading systems, mission-critical construction and engineering, avionic and automotive systems, energy and environmental protection systems, safety and security systems, monitoring and surveillance systems, crisis observatories, sales and digital signage systems, art installations, public advertising, public opinion building, etc. Questions? ---------- For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors Alois Ferscha <ferscha(a)pervasive.jku.at>, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Joe Paradiso <joep(a)media.mit.edu>, MIT Media Laboratory Roger Whitaker <r.m.whitaker(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk>, Cardiff University Submission Information ---------------------- Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific publications, and all accepted articles will be edited according to Computer Society guidelines. Submissions should be received by 1 March 2013 to receive full consideration. For general author guidelines or submission details: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm or pervasive(a)computer.org. To submit your article go directly to our online peer-review system, Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pc-cs).

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Datum: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:08:58 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> Antwort an: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: TCCC mailing list <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, TCCN <tccn(a)comsoc.org>, "ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca" <ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Symposium Co-Chairs Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA younis(a)cs.umbc.edu Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA cheng(a)iit.edu Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria falko.dressler(a)uibk.ac.at Xu Li, Huawei Technologies, Canada easylix(a)yahoo.ca Scope and Topics of Interest Recent advancements in wireless technologies have enabled networked solutions for many unconventional civil and military applications. In recent years, ad-hoc networks have been attracting increased attention from the research and engineering communities, motivated by applications like digital battlefield, asset tracking, air-borne safety, situational awareness, and border protection. Similarly, advances in micro-electro- mechanical devices and large-scale integration have enabled the realization of miniaturized sensor nodes that can probe their surroundings and transmit their measurements using on-board wireless transceivers. Large-scale networks of miniaturized sensor nodes may also enable new applications such as target tracking, security surveillance, elder care, and forest monitoring. Both ad hoc and sensor networks are characterized by their dynamic nature, which requires them to be adaptive to changes in the application environment, task objectives, and topological changes, among others. The last few years have witnessed the development of many innovative solutions for ad-hoc and sensor networks that are maturing to the level of commercialization and standardization. Yet, numerous challenges remain for the implementation of practical solutions that operate robustly, securely, and efficiently. The Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium of GLOBECOM'2013 opts to foster a forum for sharing ideas and recent results among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions related to ad-hoc and sensor networks. We are soliciting papers that describe original and unpublished contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New and unconventional applications of ad hoc and sensor networks * Novel architectures and operation models * Wireless sensor and actor networks * Wireless multimedia and 3-D sensor networks * Underwater and underground sensor networks * Body Area Sensor Networks * Cognitive radio networks in multi-hop environments * Wireless mesh and community networks * Wireless PANs and LANs * Pervasive and wearable computing * RFID systems * Delay-tolerant ad hoc networks * Self-organization and autonomic networking * Vehicular networks * Co-existence issues of hybrid networks * Wireless, ad hoc, and sensor devices * Ultra wide band technology for ad hoc and sensor networks * MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * Frequency and channel allocation algorithms * New standards for ad hoc and sensor networks * Energy saving and power control protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Energy scavenging technologies * Service discovery in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Location and context aware services * Scheduling and resource management algorithms * Deployment and coverage analysis of sensor networks * Localization algorithms and ranging technologies * Routing and multicasting protocols * Topology control and management * In-network processing and data storage * Fault-tolerance and traffic reliability issues * Cross-layer design and optimization * Mobility management and modeling * Synchronization and coordination techniques in ad hoc and sensor networks * Security for ad hoc and sensor networks * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation * Experimental prototypes and testbeds * New simulation languages, programming abstractions, and tools for ad hoc and sensor networks Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline of 15 March 2013 for publication in the IEEE Globecom 2013 Conference Proceedings and for presentation at the conference. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures. For full details, please visit the following website: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2013/submguide.html _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (co-located with WoWMoM 2013)
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (co-located with WoWMoM 2013) Datum: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 00:00:58 +0200 Von: Lambros Lambrinos <lambros.lambrinos(a)cut.ac.cy> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing Applications Workshop (SCUCA) (co-located with WoWMoM 2013 - Madrid, 4-7 June 2013) Call for Papers As the world experiences unprecedented urban growth, decision makers have become very alert calling for urgent solutions to the resulting issues and newly identified problems. Fortunately, the recent advances in information and communication technologies may stimulate new solutions towards the urbanization problems. As a result, research and industrial efforts are beginning to focus on work in that direction and towards Smart Sustainable Cities; the aim is to integrate and validate ICT technologies and services in neighborhoods to make progress towards intelligent cities by exploiting ubiquitous technologies. In addition to technical developments, attention is given to innovative service business models which include security, safety and privacy issues. The need to improve our understanding of cities, however, is pressed not only by the social relevance of urban environments, but also by the availability of new strategies for city-scale interventions that are enabled by emerging technologies. This workshop aims to showcase latest advances in Smart City and Ubiquitous Computing applications which are the result of research efforts that incorporate new technologies from the areas of mobile communications, multimedia services, data storage and handling and ubiquitous services. The workshop covers (but is not limited to) the following areas: Urban Analysis and Modeling: - data-driven analysis of economic activity, human behavior, mobility patterns, resource consumption - Designing new cities through evidence-based processes - Parametric urban design tools to schematically define mobility nodes, streets, buildings and location of resources - Development of nested compact urban cells (walkable neighborhoods) - Urban energy, mobility, water, food, and waste simulator for new, post-oil cities - Typology of streetscapes, pathways, mobility nodes, and responsive technology for cities Mobility Networks: · Multi-modal mobility recommendation engines · New urban vehicles including electric scooters, automobiles, bike-lane vehicles, etc. · Autonomous vehicle technology and vehicle-pedestrian interfaces · Scheduling, charging and security technology for shared-use vehicle systems · Electronic parking systems · Multimedia pervasive computing for smart cities Electronic and Social Networks: · New network-centric methods for managing reactive, data-driven city systems · Social, multimedia and ubiquitous computing for smart cities · Urban-scale serious games to shape use of resources such as shared-used mobility · Systems tailored for more stable, fair, and socially efficient services Work and living places: - Personalized, transformable urban housing - Variable-rate power, and flexible workspaces - Time-shifted, shared space-on-demand for collaborative work - Sensing and algorithms to understand fine-grained human activity - Responsive lighting, HVAC, health, energy conservation, and communication in the home and work Workshop Chairs Anastasios D. Doulamis - Technical University of Crete, Greece Lambros Lambrinos - Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Important Dates · Submission deadline: February 28, 2013 · Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2013 · Camera-Ready Deadline: April 8, 2013 The workshop is supported by the following on-going projects: Experimedia, SoCIoS, e-Park, Poseidon and more information can be found at: http://www.scuca2013.tuc.gr <html> <body> <img src="http://new.cut.ac.cy/images/environmentalSign.gif"/> </body> </html> _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network SI on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services [extended firm deadline: Feb 15]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network SI on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services [extended firm deadline: Feb 15] Datum: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 01:17:53 +0800 Von: minchen2012 <minchen2012(a)mail.hust.edu.cn> Antwort an: minchen2012 <minchen2012(a)hust.edu.cn> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Please circulate this CFP among your friends/colleagues and mailing lists you have access to, thanks a lot. ======================================================================== Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2013 (extended firm deadline) Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2013 Publication: September 2013 IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services ======================================================================== Advances in mobile communication networks and increasing deployments of mobile smart devices have brought rich mobile experiences to end users. However, further improvement of service quality and large deployment of mobile pervasive services are hampered by resource constraints of mobile devices and bandwidth limitations of wireless networks. Recently, mobile cloud computing is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to extend the capabilities of mobile devices and platforms, which, in turn, are changing the industrial production and people's daily life. Developments of innovative pervasive mobile s ervices, e.g., mobile video streaming, rich media dissemination, surveillance, e-gaming, e-health care, etc., can be greatly facilitated by mobile cloud computing platforms employing emerged and emerging technologies. For example, with the support of mobile cloud computing, Body Area Networks (BANs) can be greatly enhanced for the deployment of innovative healthcare monitoring applications with richer multimedia contents, more reliable service quality and more types of convergence services. Moreover, adopting the information-centric and content-centric networking concepts and techniques, BANs are evolving to enable a highly flexible and scalable infrastructure for mobile services assisted by cloud computing. Due to the intrinsically resource-constrained features of typical mobile devices as well as smart sensors, it is essential for the mobile cloud service provider to offer sufficient computational resources and storage capacity support for pervasive services, and also maintain a reliable and capable communication system among the devices. In addition, the dynamic mobile wireless channel environments with limited available bandwidth make it difficult for mobile users to provide consistent and ubiquitous services offered by cloud systems. Scope of Contributions This special issue is to focus on the issues related to cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services, but are not limited to: Pervasive e-health, home monitoring, assisted living services by mobile cloud computing Flexible BAN architecture for supporting distributed cloud computing Improvement on mobile content/information-centric networks (CCN and ICN) by clouds Content and information collection and aggregation in pervasive services by clouds Efficient information dissemination in mobile service with cloud computing Mobile content-centric services integrated with Named Data Networks (NDN) Cloud-based mobile audio/video streaming techniques for BANs Scalable live broadcasting for mobile users supported by cloud computing Real-time interactive multimedia service for mobile cloud users Quality of Experience (QoE) studies and improvements for mobile cloud computing Dynamic allocation algorithms for smart devices connected to mobile cloud services New applications for cloud-supported mobile online gaming and other entertainments New convergence services supported by mobile cloud computing techniques Social body area networks combined with mobile cloud computing Mobile cognitive radio networks combined with cloud computing Security in cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services Manuscript Submission With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose "Special Issue ― CLOUD-ASSISTED MOBILE COMPUTING AND PERVASIVE SERVICES" from the drop down menu on the submission page. Guest Editors Victor C.M. Leung (vleung(a)ece.ub.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada Min Chen (minchen(a)ieee.org), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mohsen Guizani (mguizani(a)ieee.org), Qatar University, Qatar Branka Vucetic (branka.vucetic(a)sydney.edu.au), University of Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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