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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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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE LCN 2013 (Sydney, Australia, 21-24 October 2013)
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE LCN 2013 (Sydney, Australia, 21-24 October 2013) Datum: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:55:22 +0000 Von: Reitsma Katrin-QWKN37 <katrin(a)motorolasolutions.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple postings - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preliminary Call for Papers: LCN 2013 - The 38th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Paper registration: April 5, 2013 http://www.ieeelcn.org Citigate Central, Sydney, Australia October 21-24, 2013 The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on the leading edge of theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is a highly interactive conference that enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. For the past 37 years, major developments from high-speed local networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at this conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Personal and wearable networks - Wireless ad hoc, sensor and RFID networks - Information-centric networking - Embedded networks - Opportunistic networking - Delay-tolerant networks - Cognitive radio networks - Vehicular and underwater networks - Social Networks - Mobile and ubiquitous networking - Green networking - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Local-area and metropolitan-area networks -Storage-area networks - Optical and high-speed access networks - Home and SOHO networks - Physical and link layer protocols - Link technologies - Adaptive networking applications - Authentication, authorization, accounting - Security and privacy - Cross-layer optimization - Mobility and Location-dependent services - Multimedia and real-time communication - Machine-to-Machine communications for smart environments - Network management, reliability, and QoS - Network traffic characterization and measurements - Performance evaluation/engineering - Testbeds for experiments and simulations - Network coding Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or a journal. Full papers (up to 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 4 camera-ready pages. Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Both full and short papers are published in the proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference. Paper submission: Papers must be registered on EDAS and submitted in PDF format. Detailed submission instructions are available at the conference website. Direct your questions to the Program Chairs, Damla Turgut <turgut(a)eecs.ucf.edu<mailto:turgut@eecs.ucf.edu>> and Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)uni-osnabrueck.de<mailto:aschenbruck@uni-osnabrueck.de>>. Workshops: A number of workshops will be co-located with the conference. Workshop papers will be published in the LCN proceedings and IEEE Xplore. Information on workshops, submission deadlines and all other details will be posted on the conference website. Demonstrations: Proposals are solicited for research demonstrations. A proposal (no more than 3 pages) should describe the scope, significance and required equipment. Proposals should be submitted via EDAS to the LCN Demo Track. Important dates (Tentative) Paper registration: April 5, 2013 Paper submission: April 12, 2013 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2013 Final paper: July 30, 2013 Demonstration proposal: July 11, 2013 Organizing Committee General Chair: Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University Program Chair: Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Co-Program Chair: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabrück Local Arrangements Chair: Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales Local Arrangements Co-Chair: Olivier Mehani, NICTA Finance Chair: Frank Huebner, AT&T Labs Corporate Relations Chair: Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales Publications Chair: Jens Tölle, Fraunhofer-FKIE Workshops Chair: Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université Sherbrooke Demonstrations Chair: Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University Publicity Chair: Katrin Reitsma, Motorola Solutions Publicity Co-Chair: Tim Wark, CSIRO Editorial Liaison: Matthias Wählisch, Freie Universität Berlin Student Grants Chair: Guillaume Jourjon, NICTA Webmaster: Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Steering Committee Joe Bumblis, University of Wisconsin-Stout Chun Tung Chou, The University of New South Wales Ken Christensen, University of South Florida Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Matthias Frank, University of Bonn Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University Gary Kessler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Burkhard Stiller, University of Zürich + ETH Tim Strayer, BBN Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katrin Reitsma Security Research Engineer Motorola Solutions, Inc. motorolasolutions.com<http://motorolasolutions.com/> O: +1.847.576.4714 M: +1.312.798.9528 E: katrin(a)motorolasolutions.com<mailto:khoeper@motorolasolutions.com> [cid:image003.png@01CD3776.3063FC20]

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Fwd: [Tccc] Fourth Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless - SNOW2013
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Fourth Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless - SNOW2013 Datum: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:53:03 +0200 Von: Marian Codreanu <codreanu(a)ee.oulu.fi> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ================================================================================== Fourth Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless - SNOW2013 2-5 April 2013 Ylläs of Finnish Lapland, Finland http://www.snow2013.net ================================================================================== Call for Papers We continue the tradition started 3 years ago with the 4th Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW). The technical program committee is soliciting contributions devoted to recent results. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. This year Nordic SNOW Workshop aims to have a special focus on new non-traditional directions. We further welcome contributions within a broad range of wireless networking cross-layer optimization, from fundamental information theoretic results to considerations for multimedia quality of service. Our goal is to have a single track meeting with lively scientific discussions and fruitful exchange of views, and to accommodate a wide variety of backgrounds and research attitudes. The program will be organized in such a way to promote networking activities between the participants including daily social outdoors activities such as skiing. We therefore invite submissions of extended abstracts (2 pages maximum, double column, IEEE style file) for poster/technical presentations targeting, but not limited to the following topics: Asymptotic system properties (capacity, connectivity, coverage, delay) Resource management, mobility management, and admission control Energy efficiency and green communications Cognitive radios and cooperative/opportunistic communications Self-organizing wireless networks Compressed sensing applications in wireless networks Network coding for wireless Wireless sensor networks Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and Internet of Things (IoT) Scalability and manageability of network architectures Game theoretic models, pricing and incentives Cellular systems, 3G/4G, LTE-advanced, WMAN, WRAN, and other emerging broadband wireless networks Massive MIMO (or large-scale antennas systems) *Organization* General Chair: Tony Ephremides, University of Maryland TPC Chairs: Marian Codreanu, Univerisity of Oulu, and Sennur Ulukus, University of Maryland Practical Arrangements: Eija Pajunen, University of Oulu Organizing Committee Behnaam Aazhang, Rice University / University of Oulu Markku Juntti, University of Oulu Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu *Steering Committee* Matti Latva-aho, University of Oulu Di Yuan, Linköping University, Sweden Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden Kimmo Kansanen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway Ralf Muller, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway * **Plenary Speakers* Gerhard Kramer, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany Mikael Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, Greece _______________________________________________ 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 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing (Co-located with IPSN)
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Authors] CFP 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing (Co-located with IPSN) Datum: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:08:42 +0100 Von: Martina Maggio <mmartimay(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Authors of IM, NOMS, CNSM, APNOMS, and LANOMS <authors(a)inf.ufsc.br> An: undisclosed-recipients:; 3rd International Workshop on Mobile Sensing: The future, brought to you by Big Sensor Data co-located with IPSN '13 and CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS WEEK (CPSWEEK) Philadelpha, PA, USA - APRIL 8-11 2013 website: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/beijing/events/ms_ipsn13/ Mobile Sensing is rapidly becoming a part of everyday life. Through the proliferation of sensor platforms (e.g., wearables, phones) the opportunity to collect and analyze rich large-scale mobile sensor data is steadily increasing. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a revolution in the general importance of data ? advances in the field of Big Data are highlighting the benefits of data-driven analytics in all facets of society. The objective of this workshop is to arrive at a deeper understanding of how these powerful trends intersect; we refer to the intersection of these two fields as Big Sensor Data. How should the techniques and analytical tools from years of Big Data research impact future directions in Mobile Sensing? Similarly, what role should programmable context-aware mobile sensing systems play within the study of Big Data? This workshop will provide an open forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss their perspectives on the topic of Big Sensor Data. Specifically, we anticipate lively discussions on: i) new application scenarios; ii) how data analytics and the operation of sensing systems can be more tightly coupled; iii) emerging new roles for people; iii) hybrid sensing and analytics systems that blend both large-scale mobile sensor data and social data (e.g., micro-blogs, social networks), along with a broader set of potential alternative data sources (transaction logs, search queries etc.) We invite the submission of position papers related to Big Sensor Data and its relationship to Mobile Sensing along with technical papers that represent the latest innovations in the field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Mobile crowd-sourcing and example uses of human-in-the-loop design * Machine learning applied to sensor data * Mobile sensor based personal informatics * Energy-efficiency and other resource trade-offs with sensing systems * Participatory and opportunistic sensing * Fusion of multiple sensing modalities * Systems architecture for mobile sensing * Leverage cloud computing for mobile sensing * Privacy and mobile sensing * Persuasive feedback * Applications * New mobile sensing hardware * Mobile sensing deployment experiences and users studies IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline : March 10th, 2013 - 11:59PM US PDT Author Notification : April 1st, 2013 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS TPC Chairs Nic Lane (Microsoft Research Asia) Hide Tokuda (Keio University) Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research Asia) TPC Members Ramon Caceres (AT&T Research) Hao Chu (National Taiwan University) Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP Research Institute) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Emiliano Miluzzo (AT&T Research) Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham) Jin Nakazawa (Keio University) Junehwa Song (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Ben Zhao (UC Santa Barbara) Web/Publicity Chair Yohan Chon (Yonsei University) _______________________________________________ Authors mailing list Authors(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/authors

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Fwd: [Authors] CFP: WWIC 2013 (5-7 June 2013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: Andreas Kassler <andreas.kassler(a)kau.se> Gesendet: Wed Jan 30 12:11:29 MEZ 2013 An: authors(a)inf.ufsc.br Betreff: [Authors] CFP: WWIC 2013 (5-7 June 2013, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) Apologies for multiple receptions of this Call for Papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications WWIC 2013 http://www.wwic2013.org/ June 5-7, 2013 Saint-Petersburg, Russia HIGHLIGHTS - WWIC 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) Series and indexed by relevant databases - Submission deadline February 4, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, within 10 years, the highest level of quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) Series. The WWIC 2013 will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia - one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Russian "Northern Capital" - famous "Venice of the North" - is filled with cultural, historical and architectural treasures: plenty of theaters, museums and art galleries, gorgeous palaces of Russian emperors, magnificent bridges opened across the Neva river and the beauty of famous White Nights. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Ad-hoc mobile networks o Blended network configurations o Cloud and data center computing o Content-centric networking o Cross layer design and optimization o Delay/disruptive tolerant and opportunistic networking o Economical issues of challenging networks o End-to-end Quality of Service support o Green networking o Handover techniques o Heterogeneous wireless access networks o Hybrid wired / wireless environments o Interactions between wireless and optical networks o Integration of wired and wireless networks o Modeling of heterogeneity aspects o Mobile service level agreements / specifications o Network design and network planning o Network mobility and mobility management o Network coding in mobile networks o Network security in mobile environments o Performance evaluation of challenging networks o Pricing, charging and accounting o QoS signaling in mobile environments o Resource management and admission control o Routing in mobile and opportunistic networks o Service creation and management o Simulation for next generation mobile networks o Software-Defined Networking o Space internetworking o Technologies beyond 3G networks o Traffic characterization and modeling o Traffic engineering o Transport protocols and congestion control o Unified management of integrated challenging networks o User-centric networking o Vehicular networks o Virtual and overlay networks o Wireless mesh networks o Wireless multimedia systems o Wireless network monitoring o Wireless sensor networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. WWIC 2013 features Best Paper Award to award authors with exquisite quality paper submission to the conference. The authors of Best Paper Award will be recognized in the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:..........................February 4, 2013 Notification of acceptance:...................March 11, 2013 Camera ready papers:.........................March 25, 2013 For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.cs.tut.fi/WWIC13/ http://www.wwic2013.org/ _______________________________________________ Authors mailing list Authors(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/authors

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IEEE ISCC'13, Croatia - Deadline extended (Feb. 3)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '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 3, 2013 (Deadline extended!) 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 *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2013 *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED *** Datum: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:33:25 -0500 Von: Emir Halepovic <mail2emir(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to FEBRUARY 5, 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 5, 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: ACM MobiCom 2013_ Call for Workshop Proposals, Papers, Demos, Posters, & Panels
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM MobiCom 2013_ Call for Workshop Proposals, Papers, Demos, Posters, & Panels Datum: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:03:34 -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 posting. ============================================================================= *MobiCom 2013 -- The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking * September 30-October 4, 2013 Hyatt Regency Miami Miami, Florida http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/ ============================================================================= *Earliest Deadline: March 1, 2013* || Call FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/workshops.html> || Call for Papers <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/cfp.html> || Call for Demos <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/demos.html> || Call for Posters & SRC <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/posters.html> || ============================================================================= MobiCom 2013, the premier International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the nineteenth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE <http://www.sigmobile.org/> dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. The MobiCom conference series serves as a highly selective, premier international forum addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support mobile computers and wireless networks. In addition to the regular conference program, MobiCom 2013 will include a set of pre- and post-conference workshops <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/workshops.html>, keynotes and panels. Also, two parallel programs will be included for research/technology demos and posters (including the ACM Student Research Competition). Students travel grants will be provided on competitive bases. New in MobiCom 2013 will be: - Mobile App Competition (details of the competition will be published shortly) - Invited industry presentations in the regular conference program - On site conference interaction smart space The venue for MobiCom 2013 will be the Hyatt Regency Miami <http://miamiregency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels-miamiregency/>. A special hotel rate of $129 plus taxes has been negotiated (single or double including in-room wireless internet). The hotel is centrally located which will allow for easy access to a multitude of upscale restaurants, stores, leisure activities, and Miami attractions. Additionally, the hotel overlooks Biscayne Bay providing effortless access to everything from Brickell and Coral Gables to Coconut Grove and world-famous white sand beaches. *Important Dates: * Workshop proposals due: March 1, 2013 Abstracts submission due: March 8, 2013 Paper submissions due: March 15, 2013 Poster/SRC submissions due: July 1, 2013 Demo/exhibit submissions due: July 3, 2013 *Organizing Committee <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/committees.html> * For sponsorship requests or other inquiries, contact the conference chair at mobicom_info(a)acm.org <mailto:mobicom_info@acm.org> ------------------------------ Pei Zhang Assistant Research Professor Cylab & ECE & INI & SV Carnegie Mellon University http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~peizhang/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Fwd: Upcoming paper submission deadline for VTC2013-Fall in Las Vegas
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Upcoming paper submission deadline for VTC2013-Fall in Las Vegas Datum: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:34:25 -0500 Von: conference-services(a)ieee.org Antwort an: rckeele(a)ieee.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de IEEE VTC2013 - Fall LAS VEGAS Connecting the Mobile World http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2013fall/ Call for Papers http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2013fall/cfp.pdf (414 Kb) The IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) is the semiannual flagship conference sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. IEEE VTC2013-Fall will be held at the Encore at Wynn in Las Vegas, NV, USA from September 2 to 5, 2013. The objectives of the conference are to bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology. It constitutes an established and dynamic forum for the exchange of information on the latest developments in the above-mentioned fields from both fundamental and practical standpoints. As such, the conference is characterized by healthy and global representations from both industry and academia. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers, tutorials and workshops in the areas of, but not limited to: 1. Ad-Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks 2. Antennas and Propagation and RF Design 3. Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sensing 4. Cooperative Communications, Distributed MIMO and Relaying 5. Mobile Networks, Applications and Services 6. Multiple Antenna Systems and Services 7. Satellite Networks, Positioning Technologies, Localization and Navigation 8. Transmission Technologies and Communication Theory 9. Transportation, Vehicular Networks, and Vehicular Electronics and Telematics 10. Wireless Access 11. Wireless Networks and Security 12. Health, Body-Area and Medical Device Networks Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 1 February 2013 Acceptance Notification: 6 May 2013 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 12 June 2013 Call for Papers Prospective authors are invited to submit a 5-page full paper through the conference website. ============================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) <http://www.vtsociety.org/>. To unsubscribe from conference eNotices, please log into <https://www.ieee.org/profile/commprefs/showcommPrefpage.html>. If you need assistance with your eNotice subscription, please visit <https://supportcenter.ieee.org/>. ============================================================ IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA <http://www.ieee.org/>

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Call for Papers: IFIP Performance 2013
by Ewald Hotop 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Apologies for crossposting! ------------------------------------------------------------------ IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2013 31st International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation http://performance.cs.univie.ac.at/ September 24-26, 2013 Vienna, Austria CALL FOR PAPERS The IFIP PERFORMANCE 2013 conference solicits research papers on the design of algorithms, mathematical modeling, simulation and measurement techniques for computer systems or communication networks. Topics of interest include the following. Methodologically-oriented design and evaluation studies of: * Network architectures, protocols and algorithms. * Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, sensor and cellular networks. * Data centers, cloud computing and virtualization. * Computer architectures, memory systems and storage systems. * Energy-efficient computing and networking. * Security systems, Internet servers, multimedia systems and web services. * Social networks, smart grid and sensing infrastructure. Methodologies, evaluation techniques, and algorithms for: * Capacity planning, resource allocation, routing, scheduling and Quality of Service. * System measurement and monitoring. * Stochastic analysis, statistical analysis and simulation. * Large scale data collection, management and processing. PAPER SUBMISSION There are TWO possible paper formats (detailed submission instructions will appear at the conference website): 1. REGULAR PAPERS: should not exceed 22 double-spaced pages including figures, tables and references. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix of up to 8 pages, which, however, will be read at the discretion of the TPC. 2. SHORT PAPERS: should not exceed 3 double-column pages including figures, tables and references. SHORT PAPERS can either summarize very recent research results (including work in progress) or discuss results that do not require a full paper submission. A paper submitted as a REGULAR paper which is then rejected will not be considered for acceptance as a SHORT paper. Both the REGULAR and SHORT papers, if accepted, will be presented in the conference and published in the proceedings of the conference: 1. The authors of a REGULAR paper will be given the choice to have their paper published either in a special issue of Performance Evaluation (PEVA) or in a special issue of the ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER). Please note that authors of REGULAR papers who choose to have their paper published in PEVA must submit their camera ready copy by the earlier deadline (see below). 2. SHORT papers will appear in the special issue of PER. These special issues of PEVA and PER will both appear in time for the conference. Authors of accepted papers that will be published in the ACM PER grant ACM permission to publish them in print and digital formats. Note that there are no copyright issues with PER, and thus authors retain the copyright of their work with complete freedom to submit their work elsewhere. REVIEW PROCESS All submissions will be reviewed using a DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEW process: the identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. Papers will be selected on the basis of their originality, technical standards, relevance and clarity. Submissions must be made electronically, details will be provided in the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 Paper submission: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Notification to Authors: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Camera Ready Due (REGULAR papers for PEVA): Wednesday, July 3, 2013 Camera Ready Due (REGULAR or SHORT papers for PER): Monday, August 12, 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Helmut Hlavacs (University of Vienna, Austria) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Nick Duffield (AT&T Labs-Research, USA) Richard Gibbens (University of Cambridge, UK) Publicity Chair: Yohann Pitrey (University of Vienna, Austria) Proceedings Chair: Luisa Massari (University of Pavia, Italy) Webmaster: Ewald Hotop (University of Vienna, Austria)

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International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems: CfP + Contents of Volume 3 Issue 4
by Vincenzo De Florio 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Dear Sirs, dear Madams, please find herein the contents of the latest issue of the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS), guest edited by Prof. Andrew M. Tyrrell and Prof. Tempesti, York University; IJARAS’ latest call for paper; Information on the yearly book series Advances in Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems, which is to reprint all papers published in IJARAS' volumes. For any questions regarding IJARAS and its Advanced Book Series please contact me through vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be. Thank you very much. Kind regards, Vincenzo De Florio The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 3, Issue 4, October - December 2012 Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1947-9220 EISSN: 1947-9239 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijaras Guest editors: Prof. Andrew M. Tyrrell and Prof. Tempesti, York University Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium PAPER ONE Investigating Power Reduction for NoC-Based Spiking Neural Network Platforms using Channel Encoding Neil McDonnell (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northern Ireland, UK), Snaider Carrillo (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northern Ireland, UK), Jim Harkin (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northern Ireland, UK) and Liam McDaid (School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Northern Ireland, UK) Recent focus has been placed on exploring the possibility to switch from parallel to serial data links between NoC routers in order to improve signal integrity in the communication channel. However, moving streams of data between the parallel path of the internal router and external serial-channel links between them consumes additional power. One challenge is encoding the data and minimise the switching activity of data in the serial links in order to reduce the additional power dissipation; while under real-time and minimal hardware constraints. Consequently, proposed is a novel low area/power decision circuit for NoC channel encoding which identifies in real-time packets for encoding and extends the existing SILENT encoders/decoders to further minimise power consumption and demonstrates the power performance savings of the decision circuit and modified (en)decoders using example test traffic with the EMBRACE NoC router, a mixed signal spiking neural network (SNNs) embedded platform. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/investigating-power-reduction-noc-based/7… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=74363&ptid=59552&… PAPER TWO Compensating Resource Fluctuations by Means of Evolvable Hardware: The Run-Time Reconfigurable Functional Unit Row Classifier Architecture Paul Kaufmann (Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany), Kyrre Glette (University of Oslo, Norway), Marco Platzner (University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany) and Jim Torresen (University of Oslo, Norway) The evolvable hardware (EHW) paradigm facilitates the construction of autonomous systems that can adapt to environmental changes and degradation of the computational resources. Extending the EHW principle to architectural adaptation, the authors study the capability of evolvable hardware classifiers to adapt to intentional run-time fluctuations in the available resources, i.e., chip area, in this work. To that end, the authors leverage the Functional Unit Row (FUR) architecture, a coarse-grained reconfigurable classifier, and apply it to two medical benchmarks, the Pima and Thyroid data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. While quick recovery from architectural changes was already demonstrated for the FUR architecture, the authors also introduce two reconfiguration schemes helping to reduce the magnitude of degradation after architectural reconfiguration. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/compensating-resource-fluctuations-means-… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=74364&ptid=59552&… PAPER THREE Automatic Machine Code Generation for a Transport Triggered Architecture using Cartesian Genetic Programming James Alfred Walker (Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK), Yang Liu (Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK), Gianluca Tempesti (Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK), Jon Timmis (Departments of Electronics and Computer Science, University of York, York, UK) and Andy M. Tyrrell (Department of Electronics, University of York, York, UK) Transport triggered architectures are used for implementing bio-inspired systems due to their simplicity, modularity and fault-tolerance. However, producing efficient, optimised machine code for such architectures is extremely difficult, since computational complexity has moved from the hardware-level to the software-level. Presented is the application of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) to the evolution of machine code for a simple implementation of transport triggered architecture. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated by evolving machine code for a 4-bit multiplier with three different levels of parallelism. The results show that 100% successful solutions were found by CGP and by further optimising the size of the solutions, it’s possible to find efficient implementations of the 4-bit multiplier. Further analysis of the solutions showed that use of loops within the CGP function set could be beneficial and was demonstrated by repeating the earlier 4-bit multiplier experiment with the addition of a loop function. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/automatic-machine-code-generation-transpo… To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=74365&ptid=59552&… PAPER FOUR Multi-View Human Body Pose Estimation with CUDA-PSO Luca Mussi (Henesis s.r.l., Parma, Italy), Spela Ivekovic (Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), Youssef S.G. Nashed (Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy) and Stefano Cagnoni (Department of Information Engineering, University of Parma, Parma, Italy) The authors formulate the body pose estimation as a multi-dimensional nonlinear optimization problem, suitable to be approximately solved by a meta-heuristic, specifically, the particle swarm optimization (PSO). Starting from multi-view video sequences acquired in a studio environment, a full skeletal configuration of the human body is retrieved. They use a generic subdivision-surface body model in 3-D to generate solutions for the optimization problem. PSO then looks for the best match between the silhouettes generated by the projection of the model in a candidate pose and the silhouettes extracted from the original video sequence. The optimization method, in this case PSO, is run in parallel on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and is implemented in Cuda-C™ on the nVidia CUDA™ architecture. The authors compare the results obtained by different configurations of the camera setup, fitness function, and PSO neighborhood topologies. To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/article/multi-view-human-body-pose/74366 To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below. http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=74366&ptid=59552&… ***************************************************** For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database: http://www.igi-global.com/eresources/infosci-journals.aspx. ***************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) examines systems and organizations characterized by the following two properties: the ability to self-adapt to the characteristics of rapidly changing and turbulent environments by adopting complex individual and social strategies and the ability to control their changes to prevent the invalidation of their original mission statements. The central focus of IJARAS is on modeling, simulating, designing, developing, maintaining, evaluating, and benchmarking such “entelechial systems”. Perception, awareness, and the planning and execution of resilient adaptation behaviors in systems and organizations are central topics of the journal. Such systems range from individual and simple embedded systems with limited perception and predefined specialized behaviors to complex hybrid social organizations like cyber-physical societies or service-oriented communities, whose emerging behaviors are many and, in some cases, difficult to predict. IJARAS focuses on the full spectrum of these problems providing academicians, practitioners, and researchers with awareness and insight on conceptual models, applied and theoretical approaches, paradigms, and other technological innovations on self-adaptive and/or self-resilient systems and organizations of any scale and nature. Mission Society is currently experiencing the increasing population of “things,” able to autonomously link with each other and enact complex strategies to achieve tasks. The emergence of the Semantic Web, the Internet-of-Things, Ambient Intelligence, and cyber-physical societies make it impossible to capture the intricacies of the future highly dynamic and turbulent networks of interrelated computer-based and hybrid components. As such, it is important that systems are designed to self-adapt to changes without diverging from their intended functions as prescribed in their specifications. The mission of the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) is to offer awareness and visibility to novel techniques and methods to achieve self-adaptability and self-resilience when systems and organizations are deployed in environments where change is the rule rather than the exception. IJARAS is also a tool to enhance the awareness of the key role played by said techniques and methods: engineering self-adaptive and self-resilient systems and organizations is an urgent necessity to keep society resilient in the face of the technology that sustains it. The journal pursues its mission by addressing researchers, practitioners, engineers, educators, and professionals and by publishing novel results on each of the diverse components of such a complex and multi-disciplinary research problem. Topics Covered Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: - Adaptive data integrity - Adaptive fault-tolerance - Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system’s ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments - Architecture-based adaptation - Autonomic applications - Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics - Biologically inspired mechanisms to enact complex adaptation strategies - Collective strategies for adaptation and resilience, including cooperation, competition, co-opetition, co-innovation, and co-evolution - Complex adaptive-and-resilient systems and organizations - Context- and situation-awareness - Design-time/run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security - Dynamics of complex adaptive and resilient systems and organizations - Human aspects - Evolutionary approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems - Mechanisms to model, design, express, and develop adaptive, autonomic, and resilient systems - Methods to express resilience (e.g., resilience policies and contracts) - Perception and introspection capabilities - Personalization - Quality of experience - Recovery-oriented computing - Resilient adaptation behavior composition - Resilient adaptation planning - Resilience and adaptation in management science - Resilience engineering - Role of diversity in the emergence of survivability, innovability, value capture, etc. - Role of organizations on the emergence of adaptation and resilience: heterarchies, holarchies, fractal social organizations, etc. - Scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective provisions located at all system levels to achieve adaptability and dependability - Self-adaptive and self-resilient systems: models, design, development, maintenance, evaluation, and benchmarking issues - Software elasticity: techniques, tools, and approaches to absorb and tolerate the consequences of failures, attacks, and changes within and without system boundaries Submissions and enquiries: All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio at vincenzo.deflorio(a)gmail.com; vincenzo.deflorio(a)ua.ac.be For enquiries please contact the editor in chief Advanced Book Series: - An Advances Book Series is now associated with IJARAS: Advances in Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (AARAS). All papers published in IJARAS will also appear (possibly extended) as chapters in the volumes in this series. The first volume of this series is available from March 2012 as "Technological Innovations in Adaptive and DependableSystems: Advancing Models and Concepts" and may be ordered fromhttp://www.igi-global.com/book/technological-innovations-adaptive-depen…. A second volume, entitled "Innovations and Approaches for Resilient and Adaptive Systems," is available from September 2012 and may be ordered from http://www.igi-global.com/book/innovations-approaches-resilient-adaptive-sy… For enquiries please contact the editor in chief through vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be.

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