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CFP: Special Issue on Research Advances and Standardization Activities in WLANs (Elsevier Com. Communications)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 22 Aug '12

22 Aug '12

Special Issue on Research Advances and Standardization Activities in WLANs Computer Communications http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/call-for-papers/re… Scope A new generation of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is going to make its appearance in the upcoming years, with the IEEE 802.11aa (Robust Audio Video Transport Streaming), IEEE 802.11ac (Very-high throughput < 6GHz), IEEE 802.11af (TV White Spaces) and IEEE 802.11ad (Very-high throughput ~60 GHz), as examples of the most expected ones. Nevertheless, all next-generation standards will consider some of the most significant advances on the wireless communication and networking area in the last decade, developed by a highly active community, in both academia and industry. This special issue requests papers that advance the state-of-the-art of the recent and on-going IEEE 802.11 standards (i.e., IEEE 802.11p, IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.11aa, IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11ad, IEEE 802.11ae, IEEE 802.11ah, IEEE 802.11af, IEEE 802.11ai, etc.), as well as present mechanisms and solutions, from MAC or above layers, that could be readily transferred to the not-yet finished standards or their future amendments. Please, note that pure PHY-layer papers are outside the scope of this Special Issue, although cross-layer approaches are welcome. In addition, there is special interest in those papers that provide new theoretical and/or experimental insights on the performance of the new and on-going IEEE 802.11 standards in real application scenarios, as well as propose optimal parameter configurations to make them work as much efficiently as possible. Papers proposing, evaluating and comparing disruptive approaches to the path followed by the IEEE 802.11 standards are also very much appreciated. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Coexistence mechanisms between IEEE 802.11 and other wireless networks in unlicensed bands. - Inter-Access point cooperative mechanisms. - Service discovery in WLANs. - Dynamic channel access mechanisms, including cognitive radio techniques and channel bonding strategies. - Link-layer mechanisms to efficiently operate in the new spectrum bands (below 1 GHz, TV White Spaces, 60 GHz band, etc.). - Multiple packet transmission and reception techniques. - Packet aggregation mechanisms. - Energy efficient link-layer protocols for multi-service WLANs with heterogeneous QoS requirements. - Cross-layer Network/MAC techniques for multi-hop networking and cooperative relays. - Advanced relaying strategies for MIMO multicell systems. - Mobility support, vehicular networks and networks of mobile objects. - Multimedia home networking, HDTV and video distribution. - Integration of home and city Smart Grids (M2M communications) in WLANs. Tentative Schedule Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 Revised paper due: January 31, 2013 Final author notification: March 15, 2013 Expected publication: 2nd quarter 2013 Guest-editors Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Alexey Vinel (Tampere University of Technology, Finland) Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Raffaele Bruno (IIT/CNR, Italy) Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA) 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. 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 the 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: WLANs" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process.

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Springer MONET Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare
by Lars Wolf 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Springer MONET Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare Datum: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> Antwort an: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca <ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca>, TCCN <tccn(a)comsoc.org> Call for Papers for Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Special Issue on “Wireless Technology for Pervasive Healthcare” Since the start of this new century, the proportion of seniors has been increasing more rapidly than other age groups while the newborn rate is steadily decreasing. This global aging problem demands an increased focus on preparing pervasive healthcare systems and applications deployed around users and capable of remotely caring for them and improving their health and well-being anywhere anytime. These systems and applications require a sophisticated integration of microcircuit, medical sensing, and wireless and mobile technologies. They largely benefit users by decreasing the dependability on special caregivers and eventually reducing healthcare expenses through a more efficient use of healthcare resources and an earlier detection of life-threatening emergency situations. However, the realization of pervasive healthcare sets some additional critical requirements, e.g. realtimeness and fault-tolerance, and reliability, security and efficiency challenges compared with traditional hospital-based systems. Exploitation of Information and Communications Technologies as well as Networking and Sensors Technologies will enable cost-effective and efficient healthcare delivery, capable to deal with physical and logical mobility of patients and devices. The focus of this call is on theory and applications of Wireless Technologies towards the definition of the Next Generation Pervasive Healthcare. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited. Possible topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to the following: * Wireless body area networks for remote healthcare monitoring * Energy efficient sensing and communication for pervasive healthcare * Reliable and fault-tolerant communications in pervasive healthcare * Network protocols design and analysis for pervasive healthcare * Data management and resource sharing for pervasive healthcare * Mobile, social, context-aware computing for pervasive healthcare * Integration of different wireless technologies for pervasive healthcare * Remote diagnosis and patient management for pervasive healthcare * Distributed multimedia services for pervasive healthcare * Emergency detection and response for pervasive healthcare * Trust, security, privacy, and QoS provisioning for pervasive healthcare * System architectures, applications & prototypes for pervasive healthcare DATES: Submission deadline: Sep. 15th, 2012 First round of review: Dec. 15th, 2012 Revision deadline: Feb. 15th , 2013 Author notification: Mar. 15th, 2013 Publication date: 2013 GUEST EDITORS: Giancarlo Fortino, Univ. Calabria, Italy (g.fortino(a)unical.it) Xu Li, Inria, France (xu.li(a)inria.fr) Xiaodong Lin, UOIT, Canada (xiaodong.lin(a)uoit.ca) Oscar Mayora, CREATE-NET, Italy (oscar.mayora(a)create-net.org) Enrico Natalizio, INRIA, France (enrico.natalizio(a)inria.fr) Mehmet Yuce, Monash Univ., Australia (mehmet.yuce(a)monash.edu)  _______________________________________________ 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] IPSN2013 - International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Authors] IPSN2013 - International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Datum: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:02:09 +0200 Von: Martina Maggio <maggio.martina(a)gmail.com> Antwort an: Authors of IM, NOMS, CNSM, APNOMS, and LANOMS <authors(a)inf.ufsc.br> An: Authors(a)inf.ufsc.br ------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------ Abstract deadline: October 8, 2012, 23:59 GMT -12 Full papers due: October 15, 2012, 23:59 GMT -12 Author notification: January 25, 2013 Camera-ready papers: February 22, 2013 URL: http://ipsn.acm.org/2013/ The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading, single-track, annual forum on research in wireless embedded sensing systems. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of a multiple of these areas. The conference features two interleaved tracks, the Information Processing (IP) track, and the Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods (SPOTS) track. Authors should carefully review the intended foci of these two tracks to decide which track is better suited for their work, and they are encouraged to contact the program chairs with questions or clarifications. As an example of these different emphases, results focused on the analysis and processing aspects of data collected from deployments should be submitted to the IP track, while studies on the hardware and software platforms and tools used for deployment should be submitted to the SPOTS track. The Information Processing (IP) track focuses on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-operated, or social sensors. Topics covered in the IP track include, but are not limited to: - Innovative applications and deployment experiences - Mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Coding, compression and information theory - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Distributed and collaborative signal processing - Fundamental bounds and formulations - Location, time, and other network services - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Network protocols - Programming models and languages The Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS) track focuses on new hardware and software architectures, modeling, evaluation, deployment experiences, design methods, implementations, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems. Submissions are expected to refer to specific hardware, software, and implementations. Topics covered in the SPOTS track include, but are not limited to: - Novel sensor network components, device platforms and architectures - Embedded software for sensor networks - Design tools and methodologies for sensor networks - System modeling, simulation, measurements, and analysis - Case studies that describe experiences, highlight challenges, and study/compare the performance of platforms and tools - Network health monitoring and management - Operating systems and runtime environments - Simulation - Innovative sensing platforms including crowd sourcing - User interfaces for sensing applications and systems ------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC TPC Co-Chair (IP Track): Kay Romer, University of Lubeck TPC Co-Chair (SPOTS Track): Raj Rajkumar, CMU Demo Chair: Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science Poster Chair: Tian He, University of Minnesota Workshop/Tutorial Chair: Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research Publications Chair: Raghu Ganti, IBM Research Finance/Sponsorship Chair: Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University Web Chair: Hengchang Liu, UIUC Publicity Co-Chairs: Ying Zhang, Palo Alto Research Center; Li Cui, ICT CAS; Martina Maggio, Lund University PhD Forum Co-Chairs: Polly Huang, NTU ------------------------------------------------------------ Steering Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia (Chair) Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Deborah Estrin, University of California - Los Angeles Leo Guibas, Stanford University William Kaiser, University of California - Los Angeles P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M University Jose Moura, Carnegie Mellon University Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University _______________________________________________ Authors mailing list Authors(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/authors

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Fwd: [2nd CfP] 14th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2013)
by Lars Wolf 21 Aug '12

21 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [2nd CfP] 14th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2013) Datum: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:32:28 +0100 Von: Andreas Bulling <andreas.bulling(a)ACM.ORG> Antwort an: Andreas Bulling <andreas.bulling(a)ACM.ORG> Organisation: University of Cambridge An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call, it has been posted to several relevant mailing lists. Please redistribute within your own group or among colleagues, thank you very much!] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 14th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2013) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26-27 February, 2013 Jekyll Island, GA, USA http://www.hotmobile.org/2013/ ACM HotMobile 2013, the 14th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. We solicit submissions of position papers that focus primarily on applications and systems and that propose new directions of research, advocate non- traditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate controversy and discussion. We particularly look for position papers containing highly original ideas in the following topic areas, although papers describing other challenges unique to or exacerbated by mobility are also welcome: * Operating system and distributed system support for mobile computing * Coordination, aggregation, and spontaneous interaction of mobile devices * Novel applications, environments, and devices supporting mobility * HCI issues related to mobile computing * Security and privacy of mobile computing * Management, configuration, and deployment of systems supporting mobility Submissions describing new lower-level technologies are welcome if they focus on how the technology is being used or integrated into a system or application. ACM HotMobile 2013 will be a highly interactive workshop. Submissions will be judged based upon originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood of leading to insightful discussion at the workshop. Presentation at HotMobile is a good way to get early feedback on research ideas that are a year or more from submission as a full conference paper to the ACM MobiSys conference or other high-quality conferences. Submitting a full-length paper on the same topic to MobiSys in less than a year is unlikely to involve a sufficient increment of work and maturity of ideas. As is customary, papers must not have been published elsewhere and may not be simultaneously under submission at another venue. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Submissions should contain 6 or fewer U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including all references, figures and tables. Papers should use the standard ACM template, available at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates For more submission guidelines, please visit the conference website. Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: October 5th, 2012 – 23:59pm EST Acceptance Notification: December 12th, 2012 Camera Ready Deadline: TBD ----------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: ----------------------------- General Chair Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research, US Program Chair Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, US Posters & Demos Chair Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, US Student Volunteer Chair Souvik Sen, HP Labs, US Publicity Chair Andreas Bulling, University of Cambridge/Lancaster University, UK Web Chair Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Program Committee: -------------------------- Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, SG Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US Nina Bhatti, HP Labs, US Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US Ramon Caceres, AT&T Labs, US David Chu, Microsoft Research, US Landon Cox, Duke University, US Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Maria Ebling, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US Roxana Geambasu, Columbia University, US Marco Gruteser, WINLAB, Rutgers University, US Jason Hong, Carnegie Mellon University, US Anthony LaMarca, Intel Labs, US Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft Research, US Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, US James Scott, Microsoft Research, UK Srinivasan Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University, US Roy Want, Google, US Matt Welsh, Google, US Lin Zhong, Rice University, US *************************************************************************** -- Andreas Bulling, Ph.D. Marie Curie Fellow University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge Postdoctoral Research Associate Lancaster University School of Computing and Communications andreas.bulling(a)acm.org www.andreas-bulling.eu ----------------------------------------------------- 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) 2012 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: CfP: European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013)
by Lars Wolf 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) Datum: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:38:28 +0200 Von: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> An: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) February 13-15, 2013, Ghent, Belgium http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ Second Call for Papers As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design concepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. Being one of the leading international conferences in this area, the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) has played a prominent role in the dissemination of innovative ideas from researchers all over the globe. For EWSN 2013, the tenth meeting in this series, we invite papers describing original, previously unpublished research results pertaining to wireless sensor networks, broadly conceived. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Communication and Network Protocols * Operating Systems * Sensor middleware * Security and Fault-Tolerance * Programming Abstractions and Tools * Information and Signal Processing * Sensor network applications and novel uses of sensor data * Internet of Things and Cooperating Objects * Cognitive sensor networks * Hardware Design and Implementation * Prototypes, Testbeds, Field Experiments IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 1, 2012 Author notification: November 15, 2012 Camera ready paper due: November 22, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where the names of authors and their affiliations are unknown to reviewers until the end of the review process and are not mentioned in the paper. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and are not to exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the LNCS style (www.springer.com/lncs), as the proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers will be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be for the latest info. CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS The poster and demonstration session at EWSN provides a forum for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from experts attending the conference. Posters and demos will be submitted as a single PDF file containing an abstract of no more than 2 pages. The areas of interest are the same as the main track (see above). Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit posters and demos. Poster and demo submission: December 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 CALL FOR TUTORIALS For EWSN 2013, there will be two tutorial sessions designed to attract researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss state-of-the-art research. We invite you to submit tutorial proposals that focus on recent, cutting-edge topics in wireless sensor networks. Both applied and theoretical topics are welcome, as are surveys, and the tutorial should be self-contained in nature. We encourage tutorials that provide clear utility to a broad fraction of conference participants. Tutorials will be held during the morning of February 13, and are therefore expected to last from 3 to 4 hours. Tutorial presenters are entitled one free registration per tutorial. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit tutorial suggestions. Tutorial submission: November 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 Presentations: February 13, 2013 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Piet Demeester (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Program Chairs: Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Local organization: Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Poster chair: Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston, USA) Demo chair: Chris Blondia (University of Antwerp - IBBT, Belgium) Publicity chairs: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Marcus Chang (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Peter Van Daele (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Webmaster: Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) TPC members: Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University) Amy L. Murphy (Bruno Kessler Foundation - CIT IRST) Anna Forster (SUPSI, Switzerland) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Brano Kusy (CSIRO, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University) Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome ""La Sapienza"") Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork) Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Emiliano Miluzzo (AT&T labs) Fred Jiang (Microsoft Research Asia) Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) Katia Jaffres-Runser (University of Toulouse / IRIT laboratory / INPT ENSEEIHT) Kay Roemer (University of LuÅbeck) Kirk Martinez (University of Southampton) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Koen Langendoen (TU Delft) Krishna Sivalingam (Institute of Technology Madras, India) Leo Selavo (University of Latvia) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Mario Alves (Politecnico do Porto (ISEP/IPP), CISTER Research Unit) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova) Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan) Nael Abu-Ghazelah (Binghamton University) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE) Philippe Bonnet (Copenhagen University) Rajeev Shorey (NIIT University) Salil Kanhere (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Sam Michiels (KULeuven) Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo) Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)

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Fwd: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Internet of Things & Sensor Networks , IEEE CCNC 2013, las Vegas. Deadline: Sept. 15
by Lars Wolf 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE Workshop on Internet of Things & Sensor Networks , IEEE CCNC 2013, las Vegas. Deadline: Sept. 15 Datum: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:11:57 +0400 Von: Mohamed Watfa <mohamed.watfa11(a)gmail.com> An: Mohamed Watfa <mohamed.watfa11(a)gmail.com> Hello there, Please share with colleagues the FIRST workshop on Internet of Things and Sensor Networks as part of IEEE CCNC 2013, Las Vegas, January 2013. (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/) to be pubished in the conference proceedings and indexed by the IEEE digital library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First International Workshop on Internet of Things: RFIDs, WSNs and beyond (IoTCoMM) 10th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference IEEE CCNC 2013, Las Vegas, USA , January 11-13 2013 Held in conjunction with the International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ sponsored by IEEE Communications Society DATES Paper Registration Not Required Paper submission Sept. 15, 2012, 11.59 PM EDT Notification Oct. 5, 2012 Camera ready version due Oct. 15, 2012 About IEEE CCNC '13 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. IEEE CCNC was organized specifically to help the consumer electronics industry drive the advance of the numerous wireless and wireline communications technologies that will one day provide on-demand access to both entertainment and information anytime, anywhere, regardless of time or location. This includes a detailed analysis of nearly every technological area ranging from cognitive and peer-to-peer networking to the designer services and tools used to ensure ease-of-use, security and stunning interactivity. Overview (IoTCoMM) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs) are considered to be the main elements of pervasive computing and have gathered the interest of the research community in the past few years. Such technologies empower computers to perceive the world for themselves leading the way to the new Internet of Things (IoT). This interlinking of physical world and cyberspace foreshadows an exciting endeavor that is highly attractive to researchers, corporations, and individuals. IoT promises to create a global network of physical objects every bit as pervasive and ubiquitous as the worldwide web itself. Some are already describing it as either the ultimate convenience or the ultimate disaster revolving around our daily privacy. What does this mean to those of us who will be encountering IoT? How would IoT transform our lives? And what are the design and deployment challenges associated with such a network? Topics The workshop solicits papers and demos relating to the following topics: IoT Hardware Design -- Hardware aspects of RFID, WSN & WMSN sensor design -- Sensor Actuation & Coordination -- CMOS Camera Design, Integration of Smart Cameras & Others IoT Protocol Design -- Energy-aware communication protocols / Cross-layer optimization / Congestion Control & Reliability -- Collaborative signal processing / Quality-of-Service -- MAC & Transport Protocols / Routing Protocols & Energy Efficiency / Simulation tools, OSs and middleware IoT Applications -- Smart Housing & Smart Retail -- Vehicular Traffic Congestion Management -- Healthcare /Petroleum / Supply Chain -- Other novel applications Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Workshop Chair Mohamed K. Watfa, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE Program Committee Berk Canberk, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ashit Talukder, University of Southern California, USA Mahdi Alavi, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Alessandro Casavola, University of Calabria, Italy Olivier Bilenne, Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin), Germany AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES Accepted workshop papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC proceedings. Manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column) and not exceed 5 pages in length. Submission of papers should be regarded as a commitment such that, if accepted, at least one author of the paper will register and attend the conference; otherwise it will be removed from the IEEE Digital Library after the conference. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf or .ps format via EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission link. A separate cover sheet should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax) to which the correspondence should be sent. For any inquiries, please contact the Workshop Chair Dr. Mohamed K. Watfa (Mohamed.Watfa11(a)gmail.com).

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Fwd: CfP doctoral colloquium at NetSys 2013
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP doctoral colloquium at NetSys 2013 Datum: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:49:47 +0200 Von: Kurt Rothermel <chair(a)NETSYS2013.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Call for Submissions - please apologize multiple copies *************************************** * Networked Systems 2013 * * PhD Forum * * NetSys 2013, Stuttgart, Germany * * March 11-15, 2013 * * * * http://www.netsys2013.de * *************************************** The doctoral colloquium at NetSys 2013 follows the format of similar events at international conferences such as PerCom, UbiComp, and Pervasive. The aim is twofold. First, it should provide PhD students in an early phase of their career with the opportunity to discuss these with experts and gain general feedback as well as specific comments on their proposal. Second, this is an excellent opportunity for a young researcher to start a personal network with other PhD students as well as with already established experts. Format ------ The aim of the doctoral colloquium is to discuss research ideas and PhD projects at different - typically - early stages. The colloquium aims at a friendly atmosphere which shall inspire the participants and put them - and their research - in the focus. A panel of experts will discuss the research based on a short presentation. Interactivity and discussion are the the goal. In addition to the colloquium a presentation of all participants at the main conference will take place as a poster session. A brief introduction of the topics (One-Minute-Madness) is used to attract conference participants. Submissions ----------- Prospective participants are required to submit three different documents: at the point of submission: 1. Research Statement: a two-page abstract that sketches the research proposal of the PhD student, the contribution to knowledge and how the research will advance the state of the art. 2. Curriculum Vitae: a one brief CV that lists the education, research interests and - if available - publications. at the point of acceptance: 3. a poster that will be presented at the conference Chairs ------ Christian Becker (University of Mannheim) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aaachen) Important Dates --------------- 31.Oct.2012 submission 14.Dec.2012 notification

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Fwd: IEEE CCNC'13 Technical & Industry Paper Deadlines Extended to August 31
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE CCNC'13 Technical & Industry Paper Deadlines Extended to August 31 Datum: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:32:48 -0400 Von: IEEE ComSoc Meetings <noreply(a)comsoc.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> * IEEE CCNC 2013 Call for Submissions <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=20016880&m=2190810&u=IEEEC…>** * *IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=20016881&m=2190810&u=IEEEC…>*is a major annual international conference. Held in conjunction with the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show, IEEE CCNC is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. To achieve the goal, IEEE CCNC 2013 will feature a number of new initiatives, such as: - Grand Challenge - Industry Session - Tutorials (free to all registered attendees) - Demos (with chance to show to the general CES 2013 audience) - Job/internship fair *Call for Technical Papers – Deadline extended to August 31, 2012* <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=20016882&m=2190810&u=IEEEC…> Submissions are welcomed in the following areas of consumer communications and networking. - Mobile Device, Platform and Applications - Social Networking & Social Media - Wireless Communications - Wireless Networking - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Cloud-based Content Distribution - Multimedia Networking, Services and Applications - Smart Spaces and Sensor Networks - Security, Content Protection and DRM - Vehicular Communications and Networking: V2V, V2I, V2R and V2U - Green Communications and Computations - eHealth, Ambient Assisted Living - Telepresence & Tele-robot - Intelligent and Emotion-oriented Computing - 3D Imaging, Processing, Communication and Display *Call for Industry Papers – Deadline extended to August 1, 2012* <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=20016883&m=2190810&u=IEEEC…> To encourage industry participation, the conference will feature separate industry sessions, different than the research sessions, which will allow presentation of the latest developments and technical solutions in the following areas of (but not limited to): - Mobile Devices, Platforms, and Communications - Social Networking, Social Media, and Crowd Sourcing - Wireless Networking - Peer-to-Peer Networking and Cloud-based Content Distribution - Multimedia Networking, Services, and Applications - Smart Spaces and Sensor Networks - Security, Content Protection and DRM - Next Generation Broadband – e.g., Super WiFi and Whitespaces - Vehicular Networks - Home Networking Technologies & Services - Green Communications and Computation - eHealth, Ambient Assisted Living - Telepresence & Tele-robotics - Intelligent and Emotion-oriented Computing - 3D Imaging, Processing, Communications and Display - Innovative Multimedia Systems and Consumer Electronics - Information Integration and Analytics - Experiences with innovative applications Submissions should describe technical and/or market challenges encountered and the innovation(s) used to overcome them. Lessons-learned from deployment and real-world use cases are also of interest. *Call for Demonstrations – Due September 30, 2012 <http://www.mmsend10.com/link.cfm?r=248908789&sid=20016884&m=2190810&u=IEEEC…>** *We invite researchers and developers from academic, industrial, and government laboratories to present their novel ideas, including works in progress and results that do not warrant a full technical paper. IEEE CCNC especially welcomes demonstrations of emerging and innovative technologies that have potential commercial application from nascent and incubating companies. There will be a unique opportunity for a small number of demonstrators to be shown at the IEEE ComSoc/CCNC booth at CES 2013. These demonstrators will be selected by the Demonstration Committee from the proposals submitted for the IEEE CCNC Demonstrations Session. Proposals must state if the proposer would like to present their prototype at CES 2013. 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Fwd: CFP NetSys2013
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP NetSys2013 Datum: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:54:31 +0200 Von: Kurt Rothermel <kurt.rothermel(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE CALL FOR PAPERS - Please apologize multiple copies International Conference on Networked Systems 2013 March 11-15, 2013, Stuttgart, Germany The Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys 2013) provides an international forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to discuss innovations in the realm of networked systems - including aspects of networking, distributed systems, com-munications, middleware, and applications. This biennial conference is the major scientific event on networked systems in German-speaking countries and belongs to a series of conferences (Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen, KiVS) that was founded more than 30 years ago. Presented papers will be archived in IEEE Xplore(R). We invite submissions on a wide range of networked systems, including but not limited to: * Network architectures and protocols * Transport- and application-layer protocols * Peer-to-peer and overlay networks * Mobile, ad-hoc, opportunistic, and sensor networks * Datacenter and storage area networks * Middleware architectures and platforms for networked systems * System issues for middleware * Middleware for mobile and ubiquitous computing, web services, and SOA * Middleware for embedded networked systems * Cloud computing * Emerging networked applications * Online social networks * Cyber-physical systems, smart grid * Virtualization in networked systems * Security and privacy in networked systems * Resource management and quality of service * Methods for design, implementation, and analysis of networked systems * Management of networked systems * Economic aspects of networked systems For NetSys 2013 we especially encourage the submission of papers focusing on the techniques and applications of virtualization in networked systems. Separate, workshops, tutorials, demonstrator presentations, an industrial track, and a doctoral forum will complement the technical sessions. See www.netsys2013.de for details. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: September 17, 2012 Author Notification: November 12, 2012 Final Manuscript: December 10, 2012 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: General Chair: K. Rothermel (Univ. of Stuttgart) Program Chair: A. Kirstädter (Univ. of Stuttgart) Workshop and Tutorial Chair: J. Charzinski (HdM Stuttgart) Doctoral Forum Chairs: C. Becker, K. Wehrle (Univ. of Mannheim, RWTH Aachen) Local Organization Chair: M. Matthiesen (Univ. of Stuttgart) Program Committee: see www.netsys2013.de Submission Guidelines: Papers (max. 8 pages, IEEE format) must be submitted via www.netsys2013.de/submission.html. Call for Papers - please apologize multiple copies ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Kurt Rothermel Professor of Computer Science Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS) Universitaet Stuttgart Universitaetsstr. 38 D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany Phone: +49 711 685 88434 Fax: +49 711 685 88424 mailto:kurt.rothermel@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de http://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/vs/abteilung/mitarbeiter/kurt.r othermel/en

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Fwd: IEEE ICIT 2013, Cape Town, Call for Papers & Special Sessions
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICIT 2013, Cape Town, Call for Papers & Special Sessions Datum: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 04:00:00 -0400 Von: conference-services(a)ieee.org Antwort an: do-not-reply(a)ieee.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Colleague, We hereby remind you of the International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2013), which will be hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, 25-27 February 2013. This is one of the major annual conferences of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. All relevant information can be found on the ICIT 2013 website at http://www.icit2013.org/. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: *Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics *Electrical Machines and Drives *Power Electronics and Energy Conversion *Renewable Energy Systems *Power Systems and the Smart Grid *Sensors, Actuators and Systems Integration *Electronic System on Chip and Real Time Embedded Control *Signal and Image Processing and Computational Intelligence *Industrial Automation, Communication and Informatics *Technology Management DEADLINE FOR PROPOSING SPECIAL SESSIONS: 20 AUGUST 2012 The conference will include special sessions on specialized topics within the scope of the conference, organized at the initiative of one or more individuals. Instructions for proposing Special Session can be found on the ICIT 2013 website. DUE DATE FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS: 1 SEPTEMBER 2012 Prospecting authors are invited to submit full papers according to the guidelines, using the online paper submission system located on the ICIT 2013 website. We are looking forward to meeting you at ICIT 2013, at the foot of the Table Mountain, an official New7Wonder of Nature <http://news.n7w.com/2012/05/03/table-mountain-confirmed-as-one-of-the-new7w…>! Sincerely, Gerhard Hancke, Nico Beute, Yousef Ibrahim General Co-Chairs: ICIT 2013 info(a)icit2013.org ================================================================================ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <http://ieee-ies.org/> and or IEEE Region 8 <http://www.ieee.org/r8/> 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 <http://www.ieee.org/>

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Fwd: Call for Papers IEEE WiVEC 2013 [Deadline: 01 November 2012]
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers IEEE WiVEC 2013 [Deadline: 01 November 2012] Datum: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:39:06 +0200 Von: "Schünemann, Björn" <bjoern.schuenemann(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: "Schünemann, Björn" <bjoern.schuenemann(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Dear colleagues, As the Publicity Chair of the IEEE WiVEC 2013, may I draw your attention please to this event in June 2013 in Dresden (Germany) addressing the topics vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-person (V2P) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) wireless communications. The deadline for paper submission is November 1, 2012. Further information is attached below. Best regards Björn Schünemann ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications IEEE WiVEC 2013 June 2-3 2013, Dresden, Germany http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2013/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide in Europe, US and Asia. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVEC) will cover all wireless vehicular communication aspects of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-person (V2P) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After the past successful WiVEC editions in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 the fifth IEEE WiVEC symposium will be co-located with the 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2013 Spring, and will take place in Dresden on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2013. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVEC and VTC events. All accepted papers (full length and demo papers) will be included in the VTC 2013-Spring conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. Note: VTC Fall editions are traditionally located in North America, while VTC Spring is located in other areas of the world. Since WiVEC was originally launched co-located with VTC Fall editions, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society decided that WiVEC would take place every year and a half in order to ensure that the conference is alternatively co-located with VTC Fall and Spring editions. This resulted in that there was no WiVEC edition in 2009 and 2012. Topics of Interest ------------------ The WiVEC Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-person (V2P) and vehicle-to-grid (V2V) wireless communications. Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models, spectrum assignment and EMC regulations * Radio resource management and interference management, MAC protocols * Vehicular networking (architectures, ad hoc, cellular and device-to-device, heterogeneous) * Dissemination strategies and data aggregation * Scalability, decentralized congestion control, QoS and cross-layer optimization * Security, liability and privacy * Integration and interworking (sensor network technologies, roadside infrastructure, in-car electronics and embedded systems) * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models * Digital maps and location technologies * Applications (eCall, eTolling, safety, traffic efficiency, traffic management, green telematics, wireless diagnosis, driver compliance, etc.) * Electric vehicle communication, incl vehicle-to-grid communication * Standards development, business models, policies * Simulation models and tools * Testbeds, testing support, conformance and plug-tests, field testing results * Impact assessment on transport efficiency and safety Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) or demo papers (maximum 2 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2013/ Submission website : http://wivec2013.trackchair.com Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline : 01 November 2012 Acceptance notification : 11 January 2013 Camera-ready papers due : 21 February 2013 Organizing Committee -------------------- General co-Chairs : Ilja Radusch (Fraunhofer FOKUS) Thomas Benz (PTV AG) Technical Program co-Chairs: Elisabeth Uhlemann (Halmstad University) Andreas Festag (NEC Laboratories Europe) Publicity Chair: Björn Schünemann (DCAITI, TU Berlin) --------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Björn Schünemann Senior Research Fellow Publicity Chair *** IEEE WiVEC 2013 *** 2-3 June 2013, ICCD, Dresden, Germany http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2013/ Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline extension August 20th, 2012: IROS'12 2nd Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue, INformation system (ROSIN'12),
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline extension August 20th, 2012: IROS'12 2nd Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue, INformation system (ROSIN'12), Datum: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:22:42 +0200 Von: Congduc Pham <congduc.pham(a)univ-pau.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear colleagues, The deadline for ROSIN has been extended until August 20th. Please could you help in advertising the CFP. Regards, ====================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IROS'12 2nd Workshop on Robots and Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN'12) October 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal) Web site:http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/out/public/ROSIN2012.html ====================================================================================== This workshop will take place in October 11th, 2012 in Vilamoura, Algarve (Portugal), during the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'12). This workshop is supported by the IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics. Motivation and objectives Intelligent rescue systems including ITC and robotics technology have been proposed to mitigate disasters, especially in Japan after the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. Reports on urban emergency relief point out that the most serious difficulty is the delay of communication of reliable information between the authorities in charge, especially district authorities, which are supposed to coordinate efforts in real-time and make requests for support at the city level. In order to do that, the infrastructure of information systems during disasters plays an important role. Future rescue information systems may involve a complex mixture of humans performing high level decision-making, intelligent agents coordinating the response, sensors networks providing real-time observations and robots undertaking physical tasks in large-scale environments with the possibility of taking part in the process of data collection. However, the considered environments are prone to uncertainty, ambiguity and incompleteness given their dynamic and evolving nature. The aims of the workshop are: - To present both state-of-the-art results and work in progress in the area of distributed sensing in the context of robotic and sensor networks integration, - To foster multi-disciplinary collaborations between researchers working on different topics: WSN (Wireless Sensors Network), robotic, disaster management, etc ... thus forming a base for future collaboration. This workshop will focus on the tight integration of sensors-robots and information systems during the rescue process. Topics that are of special interest include but are not limited to: - Distributed information gathering with sensors and robots, - Information systems for disaster management including Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDDS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and participatory GIS - GIS-based approaches for controlling robots, Advanced data management with mobile robots and sensors, GIS spatial representation for robotic systems, - Trust enhancement infrastructure for information gathering during a disaster, Co-design of communication and control protocols for robot-sensor interaction, - Role of robots and sensors in disaster and emergency management processes. The primary audience of the proposed workshop is intended to be researchers and practitioners both from academia and industry with an interest on integration robots, sensors and information systems in the context of disaster or emergency management. In addition, researchers and practitioners from related communities (disaster management, SDDS, GIS) will find this workshop quite useful. Journal Special Issue After the workshop, extended version of the papers could be submitted to the following journal special issues: Special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708) on Multimedia Sensor Networks for Mission-Critical Surveillance Applications. http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jsan/special_issues/surveillance_app/ Special issue of International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (ISSN 1550-1329) on Perception, Reaction, and Cognition in Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/349658/cfp/ Submissions guidelines All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least two reviews for each paper will be conducted. All workshop papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through the Easychair web site and should use the IEEE US letter format. We are looking for submission of full research papers and experiences reports (up to 6 pages) and work in progress submissions (up to 4 pages). Please create your account on Easychair website as soon as possible if you intend to submit a paper: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rosin12 Important dates Due date for full workshop papers submission: August 20th, 2012 Final acceptance: September 1st, 2012 Camera-ready paper due: September 11th, 2012 Workshop date: October 11th, 2012 Organization committee - Fumitoshi Matsuno, International Rescue System Institute, Japan - Congduc Pham, LIUPPA, Université de Pau - Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI), Vietnam Program committee (incomplete, under construction) - Geert De Cubber, Royal Military Academy, Belgium - Tetsushi Kamegawa, Okayama University, Japan - Simon Lacroix, LAAS/CNRS, France - Fumitoshi Matsuno, International Rescue System Institute, Japan - Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University, USA - Congduc Pham, LIUPPA, Université de Pau - Ye-Qiong Song, LORIA, France - Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC/MSI-IFI), Vietnam - Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Japan C. Pham. -- |------------ Congduc PHAM - Professor --------------------------| | LIUPPA - Equipe T2I | U.P.P.A. Pau | |http://liuppa.univ-pau.fr/ |http://www.univ-pau.fr | |----------------------------------------------------------------| |UPPA, LIUPPA laboratory, UFR Sciences et Techniques | |Avenue de l'Université - BP 1155 | |64013 PAU CEDEX, FRANCE | | | |phone: [33] (0) 5 59 40 75 94 | |fax: [33] (0) 5 59 40 76 54 | |Congduc.Pham(a)univ-pau.fr http://www.univ-pau.fr/~cpham | |----------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ 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: Springer TSJ Special issue on Critical App. in Vehicular Ad Hoc/Sensor Net.
by Lars Wolf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Springer TSJ Special issue on Critical App. in Vehicular Ad Hoc/Sensor Net. Datum: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:29:51 +0800 Von: Al-Sakib Khan Pathan <sakib.pathan(a)gmail.com> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> *Call for Papers Telecommunication Systems, Springer * *Special Issue on Critical Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc/Sensor Networks URL:* http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/CFP_VSN_TSJ2012.pdf *Theme and Scope * For the past few decades, Vehicular ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have emerged as a key technology serving community of peoples in various applications. During this era, there has been a tremendous growth in this field with many new techniques and standards have been developed for the ease and safety of the passengers. Now, the passengers during travelling can take smart decisions by knowing the outside environment variables such as traffic conditions, density of the vehicles in a particular region, duration of traffic lights in a particular areas, etc. Moreover, these passengers can download and upload the heavy contents while travelling with the aid of the already deployed Road Side Unit (RSUs) which are connected to Internet to provide various services to the end users. Modern Vehicles equipped with sensor nodes monitor and collect the data in sparse and dense regions which can be processed for the benefit of community of peoples, e.g., health monitoring and diagnostic systems, safety alarms, intelligent transport systems, and environment monitoring. The vehicles during movement, equipped with sensor nodes, can also collect the data from human body and that data can be processed in collaboration with the other vehicles for various medical purposes. In this case, VANETs can also be used in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs). However, as a new technology emerges, it throws new challenges to the research community. Although there exist many solutions of different kinds in the relevant areas, there is still a requirement of more efficient solutions which can be used in wide variety of applications. Many industrial and academic institutions have already geared up to provide solutions for the benefits of the community. Moreover, there are many constraints that have to be resolved before providing any standard solution. Some examples of the constraints are; mobility of the nodes, connectivity in sparse and dense regions, failure of nodes, network traffic congestion and interference, etc. Submission is solicited from researchers across the globe in the following issues (but not limited to these): - Efficient route selection in sparse and dense regions in presence of mobility of the nodes - Optimized cluster selection on the road - Optimized access point deployment for better coverage and uninterrupted services to all the vehicles on the road - Security during the data dissemination - Cache management for peer to peer (P2P) information sharing - Load balancing in VANET/Sensor networks - Optimized Service selection and resource discovery - Providing QoS to various services - Solutions to various critical applications such as health monitoring system, safety alarms etc. - Channel allocation and selection in VANETs *Submission Guidelines* Authors can see manuscript preparation guideline here: http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+information+system… Authors are required to submit papers as an all-in-one PDF file to any of the Guest Editors (CC to all is preferred). Please note in the subject line of the email, "SI_VSN_2012”. Papers would be judged by the expert reviewers based on the originality, methodology, novelty, and new innovations. Papers submitted for this special issue must not be submitted or are under consideration for publication anywhere. Papers presented in conferences should be substantially enhanced for consideration (more than 30% new contents) and should be declared at the time of submission. The conference version also must be attached along with the main manuscript. *Important Dates* Paper Submission Due: 20 December, 2012 Notification of Acceptance/Revision/Rejection: 20 April 2013 Revised paper Submission: 15 June 2013 Final Paper Submission: 15 August 2013 Publication Date: TBA *Guest Editors* *Dr. Neeraj Kumar * Department of Computer Science and Engineering Thapar University, Patiala (Punjab) INDIA Email: neeraj.kumar(a)thapar.edu , nehra04(a)yahoo.co.in * Dr. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan* Department of Computer Science International Islamic University Malaysia MALAYSIA Email: sakib(a)iium.edu.my , spathan(a)ieee.org *Dr. Elias P. Duarte Jr. * Department of Informatics Federal University of Paraná BRAZIL Email: elias(a)inf.ufpr.br *Dr. Riaz Ahmed Shaikh * Department of Computer Science & Engineering University of Quebec-Outaouais CANADA Email: riaz289(a)gmail.com Regards, Sakib -- Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Ph.D. Founding Head, NDC Laboratory<http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ndclab/index.html>, KICT, IIUM Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah (Faculty) of Information and Communication Technology International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Tel: +603-61964000 Ext. 5653, Cell: +60163910754 E-Mails: spathan(a)ieee.org, sakib(a)iium.edu.my Personal URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ NDC Lab URL: http://staff.iium.edu.my/sakib/ndclab/ WebRep Overall rating _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. 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Fwd: [Tccc] Extended Deadline: SeMaPS 2012@ICSoC 2012, with journal specialissue planned
by Lars Wolf 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended Deadline: SeMaPS 2012@ICSoC 2012, with journal specialissue planned Datum: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:11:28 +0800 Von: Weishan Zhang <drzhangws(a)gmail.com> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> The 1st International Workshop on Self-Managing Pervasive Service Systems, in conjunction with ICSOC 2012, November 12-16, Shanghai, China https://sites.google.com/site/semapsworkshop/ There is a growing trend for the convergence of different computing paradigms, such as cloud computing, pervasive and mobile computing, service oriented computing. The applications of large scale Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), Internet of People (IoP) are gaining increasing attention in the converged computing world with unprecedented complexities: the management of an application is much more difficult due to large number of involved devices, events and contexts, due to the heterogeneity of networking, hardware and software; the shifting of storage and processing to cloud systems, security and privacy concerns become more challenging. All in all, applications and systems tend to become more complex than before to manage and operate in the converged world. These challenges call for useful self-managing capabilities to alleviate existing problems. The realization of self-managing pervasive service systems needs cross-discipline research, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, pervasive and mobile computing, autonomic computing, software engineering, service oriented computing which are complementary with each other. Call for papers The workshop is soliciting papers on broad topics for self-managing pervasive service system. The topics of SeMaPS 2012 workshop include but not limited to: * Software engineering research on achieving self-management capabilities in the converged computing environments, for example autonomic components, architecture driven self-management in pervasive service systems, formal methods for regulating self-management activities; * Approaches and tools for building pervasive service systems which can span across small devices and powerful computing node including cloud nodes; * Ways of improving the intelligence of self-managing systems through different computing intelligence approaches, for example the use of different computing intelligence approaches for planning in self-management features; * Approaches to self-managing capabilities in pervasive service systems, to realizing self-protection, self-optimization, self-configuration/adaptation, self-diagnosis/healing; * Context-awareness for pervasive service systems include context modelling and reasoning for self-managing systems, for example the usage of efficient pattern recoginition algorithms to recognize the current contexts, new context modeling and reasoning approaches for achieving context-awareness; * New pervasive service systems including various applications for example smart transportation systems, smart logistic systems, smart manufacturing systems and robotic systems, etc.； * Environments and tools for the development of self-managing pervasive service systems We are accepting three kinds of papers, the first are original and unpublished research papers, the second are visionary papers accepted as “work in progress” papers, the thrid are demo papers and industrial papers that shows strong application of self-managing, pervasive service systems. Workshop Organisers Weishan Zhang, Department of Software Engineering, China University of Petroleum, China. Klaus Marius Hansen, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Paolo Bellavista, DISI, Università di Bologna, Italy. Important dates Aug. 15th 2012 Paper and demo submission deadline Sept. 15th 2012 Notification of acceptance Oct. 1st 2012 Camera ready submission Paper Submission Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references and appendices). Final, camera-ready, revised paper can be submitted either in LaTex or in MSWord format. Please submit your paper using the link Semaps 2012 Submission Web Site at EasyChair. In order to be able to upload your paper (in pdf format) you have to create an account at www.easychair.org. All accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS as post conference proceedings. Selected high quality papers will be recommended to a special issue of ELSEVIER Knowledge-Based Systems (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.574, 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.454). Support and Best paper selection Students traveling grants have been settled and are open to three students. Each student will be granted 600RMB (around 95$) for the support of their travel. One best paper will also be selected based on review results. The best paper will be granted 600RMB. We also welcome well-known researchers to give a keynote talk at the workshop and some support will be considered if necessary. _______________________________________________ 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] Call for Papers: The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012)
by Lars Wolf 29 Jul '12

29 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: The first international workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2012) Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:18:33 +0100 Von: Soufiene Djahel <sdjahel(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS VTM 2012 First International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities November 20, 2012, Dublin, Ireland http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html IEEE and IFIP Technical Co-sponsorship Workshop proceedings will be included in IEEE Xplore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline: August 25, 2012 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2012 Camera-ready version: October 20, 2012 VTM 2012 is part of Dublin Wireless Week (November 19-23) and is co-located with the 2012 Wireless Days conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: ====== The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a plethora of challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the last years, researchers from both industry and academia were focusing their efforts on exploiting the advances in sensing and communication technologies to make the existing road traffic management systems more efficient. Their main goal is to improve the traveler's safety, shorten the travel time and reduce the environmental impact. Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.) and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in order to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers and authorities. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners and administrators who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications at the 2012 VTM workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular traffic management - V2V and V2I protocols for smart cities - Data collection techniques in urban environment - Data acquisition for traffic management (techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.) - Data integration in traffic management systems (semantics, interoperability, linked data, etc.) - Traffic data maintenance (privacy, provenance, security, etc.) - Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments - Vehicular routing protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms - Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless mesh Networks and VANETs applications for traffic management in smart cities - Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation - Security and QoS issues for ITS applications - V2X feasibility over LTE Networks - M2M communication for data collection in road environment - Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management - Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management - Decision making tools for road traffic management Main Sponsor: Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Papers Submission: ================== Submissions should be original and limited to 6 double-column pages and should follow IEEE paper templates. Papers are to be submitted electronically on the EDAS web site of the workshop in PDF format. http://edas.info/N13137 General Chairs ========================================================= Georgios Theodoropoulos, IBM Research, Ireland Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland T. Russell Hsing, Peking University, China, and Jiao Tung University, Taiwan TPC Chairs: ============================ Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland Piotr Szczechowiak , Telcordia/Ericsson, Poland Anthony Ventresque, University College Dublin, Ireland Organizing Committee: ==================== John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and ENSIIE, France Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Tentative list of TPC members: ============= Zonghua Zhang, Institute Telecom Lille1, France Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France Mélanie Bouroche, TCD, Ireland Krzysztof Weso?owski, PUT, Poland Mourad Amad, University of Bejaia, Algeria Onur Altintas, Toyota ITC, Japan Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France Mohamed Hamdi, Sup'Com, Tunisia Ghalem Boudour, LIG-CNRS, France Yacine Ghamri Doudane, ENSIIE, France Raquel Morera, Verizon, USA Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France Oscar Lazaro, Innovalia, Spain Nabil Nouri Abdelkader, University of Djelfa, Algeria T. Russell Hsing, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Xiang Cheng, Peking University, China Toyotaro Suzumura, IBM Research - Tokyo/Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Elvis Sze-Yeung Liu, University of Birmingham, UK Intesab Hussain, LIPADE, France Mikael Asplund, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Francesco Calabrese, Smarter Urban Dynamics, IBM Research, Ireland See http://www.wireless-days.org/vtm.html -- Dr. Soufiene Djahel Research Fellow Performance Engineering Lab University College Dublin http://www.ensiie.fr/~soufiene.djahel/ _______________________________________________ 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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IJARAS Vol.3 No.3: Table of Contents and Abstracts + CfP
by Vincenzo De Florio 28 Jul '12

28 Jul '12

Dear Sirs, dear Madams, this is to announce issue 3 of the third volume of IJARAS, the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. Please find herein the table of contents and abstracts for IJARAS (3)3. You will also find at the bottom the call for papers for next issues of IJARAS. IJARAS is now in its third year of publication, during which it hosted many an important contribution from top-notch scholars from all over the world. A sample of this may be found in this very issue. Please consider that an Advances Book Series is now associated with IJARAS: Advances in Adaptive, Resilient and Autonomic Systems (AARAS). This means that all papers published in IJARAS will also appear (possibly extended) as chapters in the volumes in this series. The first volume of this new series is available from March 2012 as "Technological Innovations in Adaptive and Dependable Systems: Advancing Models and Concepts" and may be ordered here: http://www.igi-global.com/book/technological-innovations-adaptive-dependabl… A second volume, entitled "Innovations and Approaches for Resilient and Adaptive Systems," shall be available from September 2012. An announcement of this second volume is available here: http://www.igi-global.com/book/innovations-approaches-resilient-adaptive-sy… Kind regards, Vincenzo De Florio IJARAS, Volume 3, Issue No.3 Table of Contents “User Models for Adaptive Information Retrieval on the Web: Towards an Interoperable and Semantic Model,” by M. Chevalier, C. Julien (Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France), C. Soulé-Dupuy (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, France) Abstract: Searching information can be realized thanks to specific tools called Information Retrieval Systems IRS (also called “search engines”). To provide more accurate results to users, most of such systems offer personalization features. To do this, each system models a user in order to adapt search results that will be displayed. In a multi-application context (e.g. when using several search engines for a unique query), personalization techniques can be considered as limited because the user model (also called profile) is incomplete since it does not exploit actions/queries coming from other search engines. So, sharing user models between several search engines is a challenge in order to provide more efficient personalization techniques. A semantic architecture for user profile interoperability is proposed to reach this goal. This architecture is also important because it can be used in many other contexts to share various resources models, for instance a document model, between applications. It is also ensuring the possibility for every system to keep its own representation of each resource while providing a solution to easily share it. “How to Trust: A Model for Trust Decision Making,” by M. Felici (The University of Edinburgh, UK) Abstract: This paper concerns decision-making processes that rely on trust. In particular, it analyzes how different aspects of trust (e.g. trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy evidence) influence trust decisions, and acting on them eventually. It proposes a trust decision model that structures the analysis of contextualized trust problems. Rather than seeking a general definition of trust, this paper advocates the necessity to have a structured way to analyze and characterize situational trust problems systematically. “A Variable Context Model for Adaptable Service-Based Applications,” by A. Bucchiarone (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy), C. Cappiello, E. Di Nitto, B. Pernici, and A. Sondonini (Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy) Abstract: Service-based applications (SBAs) rely on the invocation of services. The use of the service paradigm usually guarantees a high level of flexibility. In fact, applications can be easily reconfigured in order to continuously offer functionalities also in dynamic execution environments. This happens by changing the service selection and their composition. This flexibility can be exploited to design adaptable SBAs able to react to events that could happen during the application lifecycle. The execution flow of adaptable SBAs automatically changes on the basis of the context in which they are executing. The context includes information ranging from the situation in which users access the service-based applications to the status of the components involved in the execution of such applications. In this paper we propose a way to use context information to adapt SBAs. In particular, our goal is to discuss the way in which the context should be defined and managed in order to be exploited in the various activities related to the adaptation of service-based applications. “RELADO: RELiable and ADaptive Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks,” R. Bruno, M. Conti (IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy), M. Nurchis (IMT Lucca, Lucca, Italy) Abstract: Opportunistic routing is considered as one of the most promising techniques to effectively limit performance degradation in wireless mesh networks caused by unpredictable channel variations and high loss rates. This paradigm defers the selection of the next hop after the packet reception to take advantage of any opportunity provided by broadcast transmissions. Most of the existing opportunistic approaches base the forwarder selection on end-to-end principles. However, in multi-hop wireless environments the cost of a path is not uniformly distributed over space, nor constant over time, hence even two equal-cost paths might present significantly different link quality distributions one from the other. This encourages the use of localized context to implement a more accurate selection of the possible forwarders after each packet transmission. Hence, in this paper we propose RELADO, an adaptive opportunistic routing protocol able to efficiently combine end-to-end with local information to ensure transmission resilience across the network. With this flexibility, RELADO is able to reduce packet loss by ensuring the best trade-off between throughput maximization and packet progress. An extensive set of ns2 simulations confirms the potentiality of RELADO to improve network performance when compared to both legacy unicast and opportunistic routing protocols. “Dual Monitoring Communication for Self-Aware Network-on-Chip: Architecture and Case Study,” L. Guang, E. Nigussie, J. Plosila (University of Turku, Finland), H. Tenhunen (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Abstract: Self-aware and adaptive Network-on-Chip (NoC) with dual monitoring networks is presented. Proper monitoring interface is an essential prerequisite to adaptive system reconfiguration in parallel on-chip computing. This work proposes a DMC (dual monitoring communication) architecture to support self-awareness on the NoC platform. One type of monitoring communication is integrated with data channel, in order to trace the run-time profile of data communication in high-speed on-chip networking. The other type is separate from the data communication, and is needed to report the run-time profile to the supervising monitor. Direct latency monitoring on mesochronous NoC is presented as a case study. Data message latency is directly traced in the integrated communication with a novel latency monitoring table in each router. The latency information is reported by the separate monitoring communication to the supervising monitor, which reconfigures the system to adjust the latency, for instance by dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. With quantitative evaluation using synthetic traces and real applications, the effectiveness and efficiency of direct latency monitoring with DMC architecture is demonstrated. The area overhead of DMC architecture is estimated to be small in 65nm CMOS technology. ********************** CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* NEXT ISSUES SUBMISSION DATES: September 11, 2012; November 16, 2012. International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems (IJARAS) – official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/IJARAS Editor-in-Chief: Vincenzo De Florio, Ph.D. - University of Antwerp and IBBT, Belgium vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) No publication costs are charged to authors, who receive two complimentary copies of the journal. International Editorial Review Board: - Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp / PATS & IBBT, Belgium - Gabriella Caporaletti, EICAS automazione, Italy - Llorenc Cerda-Alabern - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Spain - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, University of Naples - Domenico Cotroneo, University of Naples, Italy - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil - Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy - Eija Kaasinen, VTT, Finland - Konrad Klockner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Gianluca Mazzini, University of Ferrara, Italy - Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia - Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany - Luca Simoncini, University of Pisa, Italy - Andrew M Tyrrell, University of York, UK - Josef Van Vaerenbergh, Center for Multidisciplinary Approach and Technology, Belgium - Yan Zhang, Simula Research Lab, Norway MISSION OF IJARAS: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems. The primary objective of IJARAS is to provide worldwide readership to high quality, novel, effective approaches to design, develop, maintain, evaluate, and benchmark adaptive-and-dependable systems, i.e. devices and services that are built to sustain quality of service and quality of experience despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or failures in their infrastructure and surrounding environments. IJARAS has multiple focuses, ranging from conceptual models and paradigms to technological aspects. IJARAS builds upon a core mission statement and research direction: The awareness of today's urgent need to structure our computer systems as adaptive systems able to constantly re-optimize in the face of changes both exogenous (environmental) and endogenous (pertaining to internal assets). IJARAS introduces a problem, which implies a research direction – a thesis. The truth about this statement is drastically reverberating through several domains, and in so doing several seemingly unrelated research domains such as cross-layer adaptation for mobile devices and business process re-engineering can be regarded as special cases of a larger theory of systems. This vision paves the way to cross-fertilization; and through that, IJARAS aims at becoming a powerful tool to steer novel ideas and inject new research directions in this area. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: IJARAS topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: * Mechanisms, both general and special-purpose, to model, design, express, analyze, and develop adaptive, autonomic and resilient systems; * Analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments; * Robustness, or the emergence of desired properties throughout system evolution. In particular, emergence of safety; * Conceptual models and paradigms to express and assess evolvability; * Methods, models, and architectures to manage and express strategies and provisions for cross-layer adaptation; * Design-time / run-time methods and tools to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security; * Scalable, maintainable, cost-effective provisions, located at all system levels, to achieve adaptability and dependability; * Resilience engineering; * Autonomic business process execution; * Adaptive service-oriented computing; * Evolutionary and embryogenic approaches to autonomic computing, resilience, and adaptive systems; * Recovery-oriented computing; * Methods focusing on optimizing quality of experience e.g. adaptive user interfaces; * Adaptive fault-tolerance; * Adaptive fault-masking; * Adaptive data integrity; * Autonomous and adaptive systems in robotics; * Adaptive and context-aware multimedia; * Personalization; * Adaptive data mining; * Adaptive fault models; * Adaptive system models; * Adaptive routing; * Autonomic applications; * Architecture-based adaptation; * "Self-*" systems; * Autonomic, adaptive, and resilient behaviors in embedded systems; * Embedded design practice covering adaptivity, autonomicity, and resilience. SUBMITTING TO IJARAS: Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST CONSULT THE JOURNAL'S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines%20submission.p… PRIOR TO SUBMISSION. All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. All submissions must be forwarded electronically to vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be. PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the 'Information Science Reference' (formerly Idea Group Reference) and 'Medical Information Science Reference' imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. SUBMISSION: Authors may submit manuscripts at http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx Please do send also a copy to vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be All inquiries should be should be directed to the attention of: Vincenzo De Florio Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Adaptive, Resilient, and Autonomic Systems E-mail: vincenzo.deflorio at ua.ac.be www.igi-global.com/IJARAS ************************************************************ Kind regards, Vincenzo De Florio.

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Fwd: mHealthSys 2012 CFP (co-held at ACM SenSys)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: mHealthSys 2012 CFP (co-held at ACM SenSys) Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:36:29 -0400 Von: Raghu k Ganti <rganti(a)US.IBM.COM> Antwort an: Raghu k Ganti <rganti(a)US.IBM.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP] Second International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare at ACM SenSys 2012 November 6, 2012 Seattle, USA http://chad.illinois.edu/mHealthSys2012/index.html NEW: NSF travel grants will be available for students to travel and attend the workshop, details will be available on the website. Call for Papers (mHealthSys 2012) -------------------------------- The second International Workshop on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services for Healthcare solicits innovative and original research papers related to mobile systems as applied to healthcare and wellness. We explicitly encourage submissions related to real deployments and experiences with practical systems. We would also like to encourage paper submissions with accompanying demos (a short description in the paper will suffice). We are interested in, but not limited to, the following research topics on healthcare: * Wearable sensors * Mobile sensing devices * Mobile imaging and diagnostics tools * Limitations of sensing (e.g. sampling rate, types of sensing related to healthcare and wellness monitoring) * Energy issues * Security and privacy issues * Communication challenges (in healthcare based mobile systems) * Data quality monitoring and robustness (in the mobile environments) * Realtime sensor data processing on mobile devices * Sensor data analytics * Healthcare and wellness applications on mobile devices * User (patient/medical professional) needs and its impact on system design * Real-life deployments/practical experiences Call for Demos and Posters (mHealthSys 2012) ------------------------------------------- We are also soliciting posters and demos that showcase innovative and novel mobile sensor systems for healthcare. The scope of work is described above. Demo and poster submissions should be up to 2 pages (including Tables, Figures, and References). Submissions should describe innovative ideas and systems related to mobile systems, applications, and services for healthcare. Detailed description of the demo and poster is expected. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: August 08, 2012, 11:59 pm EST Notification of Paper Acceptance: September 09, 2012 Demo and Poster Submission Deadline: September 23, 2012, 11:59 pm EST Notification of Demo and Poster Acceptance: September 30, 2012 Accepted papers and demos/posters will be included in the ACM electronics proceedings. mHealthSys 2012 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------ General Chair: Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center) TPC co-Chairs: John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) and Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Steering Committee ------------------ John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Santosh Kumar (UMemphis) Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center) Technical Program Committee --------------------------- Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) John Burruss (Baylor College of Medicine) Octav Chipara (University of Iowa) Prabal Dutta (University of Michigan) James Eadie (Sante Ventures) Emre Ertin (OSU) Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Stephen Intille (Northeastern University) Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis) John Lach (University of Virginia) Karin Nielsen (UCLA) Wendy Nilsen (OBSSR NIH) Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA) Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University) Soundararajan Srinivasan (Robert Bosch Resarch) Hari Sundaram (ASU) Lakshman Tamil (UT Dallas) Ashok Veeraraghavan (Rice University) Kenneth Watkin (UIUC) Liangzhao Zeng (IBM T J Watson Research Center) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) 2012 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CfP: JSAC Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] CfP: JSAC Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming Datum: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:25:52 +0200 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> Antwort an: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on Adaptive Media Streaming http://multimediacommunication.blogspot.gr/2012/07/jsac-special-issue-adapt… Recently, traditional TV services, Internet TV and mobile streaming services have started converging, and it is expected that this convergence trend will continue with other services. Additionally, new emerging multimedia services are being introduced. These developments in the multimedia arena mean that various content and services will be delivered over different networks, and the users expect to consume these services using those networks, depending on the availability and reach of the network at the time of consumption. This massive heterogeneity in terms of terminal/network capabilities and user expectations requires efficient solutions for the transport of modern media in an interoperable and universal fashion. In particular, in recent years, the Internet has become an important channel for the delivery of multimedia. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is widely used on the Internet and it has also become a primary protocol for the delivery of multimedia content. Additionally, standards developing organizations (SDOs) such as MPEG have developed various technologies for multimedia transport and encapsulation, e.g., MPEG2-TS (Transport Stream) and MPEG4 file format. These technologies have been widely adopted and are heavily deployed by various providers and in different applications and services, such as digital broadcasting, audio and video transport over the Internet and streaming to mobile phones, etc. At the same time, many other SDOs such as the IETF, IEEE, and 3GPP have provided various protocols to deliver multimedia content packetized or packaged by such MPEG transport technologies. This special issue solicits novel contributions and breaking results on all aspects of Adaptive Streaming of Multimedia. The main objectives of this special issue are (but not limited to): - Efficient delivery of multimedia content in an adaptive, progressive download/streaming fashion (incl. over HTTP); - Support for streaming of live multimedia, to mobile users, low-capacity channels, bandwidth variations, as well as multipoint streaming over heterogeneous channels or paths; - Efficient and ease of use of existing content distribution infrastructure components such as CDNs, proxies, caches, NATs and firewalls; - Efficient content generation (encoding) techniques for content delivery (e.g., segmentation); - Detailed performance analyses of deployed standard technologies or that uncover and rectify major problems in the behavior of such technologies; - Measurement techniques for collecting consumption data (both application and transport-level performance metrics, viewer behavior, etc.) in content delivery; - The effects of adaptation techniques on the end-user quality of experience; - Viewer experiences from large-scale experiments and events (such as Olympics, World Cup, etc.). Submission Procedure ==================== Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance with the rules specified in the 'Information for Authors' section of the JSAC guidelines (http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html). Papers should be submitted through EDAS (http://www.edas.info). Prior to submitting their papers for review, authors should make sure that they understand and agree to adhere to the over-length page charge policy presented in the JSAC guidelines. Important Dates =============== 1st Submission: Apr 1, 2013 Reviews Available: Jul 1, 2013 2nd Submission: Aug 31, 2013 Final Acceptance Decision: Oct 31, 2013 Camera-ready: Dec 1, 2013 Publication: 2nd quarter 2014 Guest Editors ============= Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Ali C. Begen, CISCO, Canada Thomas Stockhammer, QUALCOMM, USA Carsten Griwodz, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA Contact: Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer(a)itec.aau.at, http://research.timmerer.com ############################ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list: write to: mailto:MM-INTEREST-SIGNOFF-REQUEST@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG or click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE ANTS 2012: Call for Papers CFP (Bengaluru, India - Dec 2012)
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE ANTS 2012: Call for Papers CFP (Bengaluru, India - Dec 2012) Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:34:53 -0700 Von: Ming Xia <xiaming.ucd(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ****************************************************************************** UPDATE: Select papers presented at the IEEE ANTS conference have been featured in special issues of the Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking (OSN) journal (SCI indexed). CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) IEEE ANTS 2012 Bengaluru (Bangalore), India December 16-19, 2012 http://www.ieee-comsoc-ants.org *Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc)* EDAS link for paper submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=12149 Scope: We are witnessing a paradigm shift in networking where the end user demands and cloud computing based service paradigms are influencing evolving network architectures, system designs and service delivery models. Over-the-Top (OTT) players, consumer electronic vendors, IT providers and 3rd party software developers have entered the service delivery value chain fostering an open environment challenging the hegemony of traditional network operators. IT & Telecom, hitherto distinct domains, are now spoken of as ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) symbolizing the close interworking of these disciplines in the emerging service delivery architectures. Different vertical industries such as energy utilities, healthcare, automotive, banking & finance, retail, media entertainment are leveraging network technologies in innovative ways to offer branded services directly or in partnership with network providers. Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) have opened new vistas for communications and networking technologies. ANTS is the premier IEEE forum on networking and telecommunications topics in India. The distinguishing characteristic of IEEE ANTS is the promotion of an intense dialogue between academia and industry to bridge the gap between academic research, industry initiatives and governmental policies. This is fostered through panel discussions, keynotes, and invited talks where academia is exposed to state-of-practice and results from industry trials, and interoperability experiments. The industry is benefited in turn by exposure to leading-edge research in networking as well the opportunity to communicate to academic researchers which practical problems require further research. Further, an opportunity is provided to discuss governmental policies and make recommendations as appropriate to promote an innovation economy in India. Motivated by the tremendous success of the first five IEEE ANTS events in Mumbai in 2007, 2008, 2010, in New Delhi in 2009, and in Bangalore in 2011, the theme of 2012 event is on enabling content enriched personalized communication over "green" networks while delivering exemplary user experience on any connected device. To address this theme, the conference will feature a rich industry program comprising of keynote talks, panel discussions as well as a high quality technical program of peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, and invited talks on relevant topics bringing together experts from industry, academia and government. IEEE ANTS 2012 will provide an exciting meeting ground for the confluence and exchange of ideas among participants from all over the world. The conference will be held again in Bangalore during December 16-19, 2012. IEEE ANTS 2012 will feature both long and short papers in three broad areas. These areas are: 1. Wireline Networks (including topics such as): - Cloud and data center networks - Core network architectures and protocols - Metro and access networks - Optical networks - Router and switch architectures - Storage networks 2. Wireless Networks (including topics such as): - Ad hoc mobile networks - Cellular and broadband wireless networks - Cognitive radio networking - Mobility models and mobile networks - Optical wireless (free space optics) - Sensor networks and embedded systems - Wireless access networks - Wireless mesh networks 3. Network Applications (including topics such as): - Cyber-physical systems and networks - M-Health, E-Health and Smart Healthcare - Energy-Efficient Green networking and Sustainability - IPTV, Video-on-Demand, Telepresence, Collaboration tools - Online social networking - Peer-to-peer networks - Smartphone networked apps - Security, trust and privacy - Embedded Analytics Of particular interest are papers which address challenges in the emerging economies in the networking and telecommunication sectors and which address the conference theme of enabling content enriched personalized communication over "green" networks while delivering exemplary user experience on any connected device. Authors are strongly encouraged to address topics of interest to both industry and academia. Submission Guidelines: Authors are encouraged to submit their papers using EDAS (http://edas.info). All papers will be reviewed for technical content and scope by a technical program committee. All accepted and presented papers would be digitally archived through IEEE Xplore. The page limits are SIX pages for the long paper track and THREE pages for the short paper track. Papers should be in PDF format, two columns, font size 10 or greater and compliant with other IEEE ANTS manuscript guidelines. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review for any other publication. Authors of accepted papers will need to sign an IEEE copyright release form and present their paper at the conference. IEEE and IEEE Communications Society Policies: All IEEE ANTS 2012 technical papers must be associated with an author registration at the FULL rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. 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. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline August 13th , 2012 Notification of acceptance October 8th, 2012 Registration deadline for authors October 30th, 2012 Deadline for Early/ Discounted Registration October 30th, 2012 Conference dates: December 16 - 19, 2012 Tutorials: December 16, 2012 Organizing Committee: General Chairs: Sanjay Nayak, Tejas Networks Deepak Kataria, IPJunction Inc Technical Program Chairs: Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine Debasish Datta, IIT Kharagpur Goutam Das, IIT Kharagpur Industry Chairs: Venkatesh Krishnaswamy, Avaya Srinidhi Saragur, SJB Research Foundation Panels Chairs: PVG Menon, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Mansoor Alicherry, Bell Labs India, Alcatel-Lucent Publications Chair: Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Tutorial Chair: Vijay Mann, IBM Research India Web Chair and Graphics Designer: Sachin B. Shetty (HP Labs, India) Local Outreach & Arrangements Chair: Neeraj Gupta, Formulate IP Steering Committee: Sudhir Dixit, HP Labs, India (Chair) Rudra Dutta, NCSU, USA Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Deepak Kataria, IPJunction Inc, USA International Advisory Committee: Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis, USA (Chair) I. Vijaya Kumar, Wipro, Bengaluru, India Viswanath (Vishy) Poosala, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India PVG Menon, India Semiconductor Association (ISA) Tulika Pandey, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India ****************************************************************************** Best regards, Ming Xia _______________________________________________ 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] Ad Hoc Networks: Special issue on Security, Privacy, and Trust Management ...
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Ad Hoc Networks: Special issue on Security, Privacy, and Trust Management ... Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:08:29 +0000 Von: Sanaa Sharafeddine <sanaa.sharafeddine(a)lau.edu.lb> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS – A Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks on “Security, Privacy and Trust Management in the Internet of Things era (SePriT)” http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Important dates Submission deadline: September 15<x-apple-data-detectors://2>th<x-apple-data-detectors://2>2012<x-apple-data-detectors://2> Notification of acceptance: January 15<x-apple-data-detectors://3>th<x-apple-data-detectors://3> 2013<x-apple-data-detectors://3> A primary aim of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to deliver personalised or even autonomic services to individuals, building on a pervasive digital ecosystem that collects information from and offers control over devices that are embedded in our everyday lives. The extraordinary power of this vision is expected to lead to fundamental social change: it will affect the way in which we interact with our environment and each other, and will result in the creation of new business opportunities and new business models. However, the embedded nature of the technology and a lack of awareness of its potential social and personal consequences, as balanced against the more clearly articulated benefits, makes a special issue dedicated to security, privacy and trust very timely. Amongst other things, the reliance of IoT on simple, cheap, (inter)networked processors has profound implications on security; the potentially invasive nature of the information gathered has implications on privacy; and the implicit reliance on technology to make decisions on one's behalf makes mechanisms for expressing and reasoning about trust essential. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Addressing novel security challenges for the IoT, including use cases, threat models, protocols, and underlying technologies * Privacy and (limited) anonymity in the IoT: threats, mechanisms, guarantees, and policing * Trust management in the IoT * Interaction design for the IoT, with particular emphasis on providing trustworthy information from and control over ‘things’ to end users. * Legal, social and ethical issues in the IoT – in both developed and developing countries. * Real case studies For more details, please visit http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/call-for-papers/special-is… Important dates Submission deadline: September 15th 2012 Notification: January 15th 2013 Editor in Chief Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Guest Editors Sabrina Sicari, Università degli studi dell’Insubria Stephen Hailes, Univerisity College of London Uday Desai, Indian Institute of technology Hyderabad Sanaa Sharafeddine, Lebanese American University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida _______________________________________________ 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: Elsevier ComCom - SI on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking
by Lars Wolf 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Elsevier ComCom - SI on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking Datum: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:00:04 -0300 Von: Eduardo Cerqueira <cerqueira.ufpa(a)gmail.com> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br, resd-l(a)sbc.org.br ============================= CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= Elsevier - Computer Communications Journal Special Issue on Human-Centric Multimedia Networking *** Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 *** =========================================================================== In recent years real-time multimedia services have been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in the Future Internet. User demands for multimedia access anywhere, anytime from any device are creating new challenges for research communities from both academia and industry. It is expected that multimedia services alone will account for 90 per-cent of all consumer network traffic in few years and we will continue to witness the explosive growth in users sharing multimedia content over future multimedia networks. In this context, novel network, application, green, monitoring, measurement, optimization, storage and user-based approaches must be created to deal with such complex multimedia systems. The emphasis of the SI will be put on discussion about state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to all aspects of human-centric multimedia networking. This Special Issue of Computer Communications seeks contributions addressing areas that include, but are not limited to the following: - Social multimedia networking - Future Internet architectures for human-centric multimedia networking - Emerging human-centric multimedia services and applications (gaming, 3D video, surveillance, sensing) - Context awareness and human-computer confluence - Novel human-centric network management and provisioning - Human-centric multimedia search and retrieval - Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics and optimization - Ethical issues in multimedia surveillance and Internet monitoring - systems and algorithms for safeguarding of information - Human-centric models and systems Tentative Schedule Submission deadline: September 15, 2012 Author notification: January 15, 2013 Revised paper due: March 1st 2013 Final author notification: April 15, 2013 Guest Editors Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para, Para, Brazil Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal Eng Keong Lua, Monash University, Sunway, Malaysia / Melbourne, Australia Mikołaj Leszczuk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Instructions for submission: The submission Web-site for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "SIHuman-Centric Multimedia" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. _______________________________________________ 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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[AutoUI 2012 CfP] - "The Social Car" (socially-inspired C2X interaction)
by Andreas Riener 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

[our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | WORKSHOP "The Social Car" (socially-inspired C2X interaction) | | | | Portsmouth, NH, USA; October 17th 2012 | | colocated with AutomotiveUI 2011 (http://www.auto-ui.org/12) | | | | Workshop website: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar/ | | Submission deadline (position papers): August 26th, 2012 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------| WORKSHOP SUMMARY |-------------------------- This workshop aims at discussing the potential of cars' socializing one with the other (similar to how humans are exchanging information), and not just translating the Internet of things (IoT) paradigm into the car domain. With the introduction of the concept of "social cars" we attempt to make a blueprint of next generation in-vehicle technologies. This is different from what the Internet of things (IoT) community is talking about in the sense that IoT is sufficient if it has its own ID that could be passively identifiable, whereas social cars have more autonomous capability, so they could serve as a more active and even interactive social being. The central objective is to provoke an active debate on the adequacy of the concept of socializing cars, addressing questions such as who can communicate what, when, how, and why? To tackle these questions we would like to invite researchers to take part in an in-depth discussion of this timely, relevant, and important field of investigation." ---------------------------| Workshop Themes |-------------------------- Potential topics to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Social norm in the automotive domain * Relevant parameters to identify/describe social status or behavior of a car (incorporate the driver?) * Modeling techniques for handling social interaction behavior, e.g., traffic superorganism, pheromones, stigmergic behavior [3] * Benefit assessment: why should cars (maybe drivers) disclose their 'social status', 'social relationships'? * Understanding the potentials of socially inspired C2C communication * Crowdsourcing * Driving as a "collaboration" with either passengers or an agent * Implementation of agents/robots for improving V2V communications * The subject of V2V communications (driver to driver, passenger to passenger, driver to passenger, driver to agent, or agent to agent?) * Authentication for in-vehicle social services * Privacy, safety, and/or security issues related to in-vehicle social services * Plausible types of information in in-vehicle social services * Cultural differences in in-vehicle social services * V2V communications as a personal broadcasting station (or system) * Other than V2V, including V2I (vehicle to infrastructure using road- side units) or V2B (vehicle to broadband cloud (network)) * Optimal protocols for social cars (802.11p, Wimax, NFC, Bluetooth,..) Please submit your position papers (2-6 pages in length, ACM SIG format template; <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>) using the workshop paper submission system available at <http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar> Workshop website: <http://www.pervasive.jku.at/AutoUI12_SocialCar> Contact: <mailto:riener@pervasive.jku.at> ------------------| Important Dates for the Workshop |------------------ * Submission deadline: August 26th, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: September 10th, 2012 * Camera ready version due: TBA * Registration deadline: TBA * Workshop date: October 17th, 2012 Please feel free to contact the organizers at any time. Andreas Riener, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Myounghoon Jeon, Michigan Technological University, USA Andrea Gaggioli, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA For more details see the workshop website!

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Fwd: CfP: 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013)
by Lars Wolf 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) Datum: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:10:57 +0200 Von: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> An: Luca Mottola <luca(a)sics.se> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2013) February 13-15, 2013, Ghent, Belgium http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ Call for Papers As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design concepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. Being one of the leading international conferences in this area, the European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) has played a prominent role in the dissemination of innovative ideas from researchers all over the globe. For EWSN 2013, the tenth meeting in this series, we invite papers describing original, previously unpublished research results pertaining to wireless sensor networks, broadly conceived. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Communication and Network Protocols * Operating Systems * Sensor middleware * Security and Fault-Tolerance * Programming Abstractions and Tools * Information and Signal Processing * Sensor network applications and novel uses of sensor data * Internet of Things and Cooperating Objects * Cognitive sensor networks * Hardware Design and Implementation * Prototypes, Testbeds, Field Experiments IMPORTANT DATES Full paper submission: September 1, 2012 Author notification: November 15, 2012 Camera ready paper due: November 22, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION This highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by any other conference or journal. We will adopt a double-blind review process, where the names of authors and their affiliations are unknown to reviewers until the end of the review process and are not mentioned in the paper. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and are not to exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the LNCS style (www.springer.com/lncs), as the proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers will be submitted electronically through EDAS. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be for the latest info. CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS The poster and demonstration session at EWSN provides a forum for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from experts attending the conference. Posters and demos will be submitted as a single PDF file containing an abstract of no more than 2 pages. The areas of interest are the same as the main track (see above). Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit posters and demos. Poster and demo submission: December 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 CALL FOR TUTORIALS For EWSN 2013, there will be two tutorial sessions designed to attract researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss state-of-the-art research. We invite you to submit tutorial proposals that focus on recent, cutting-edge topics in wireless sensor networks. Both applied and theoretical topics are welcome, as are surveys, and the tutorial should be self-contained in nature. We encourage tutorials that provide clear utility to a broad fraction of conference participants. Tutorials will be held during the morning of February 13, and are therefore expected to last from 3 to 4 hours. Tutorial presenters are entitled one free registration per tutorial. Please check http://ewsn13.intec.ugent.be/ for more information on how to submit tutorial suggestions. Tutorial submission: November 1, 2012 Author notification: December 15, 2012 Presentations: February 13, 2013 ORGANIZATION General Chair: Piet Demeester (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Program Chairs: Ingrid Moerman (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Andreas Terzis (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Local organization: Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Poster chair: Omprakash Gnawali (University of Houston, USA) Demo chair: Chris Blondia (University of Antwerp - IBBT, Belgium) Publicity chairs: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Marcus Chang (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Peter Van Daele (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Webmaster: Jeroen Hoebeke (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) TPC members: Akos Ledeczi (Vanderbilt University) Amy L. Murphy (Bruno Kessler Foundation - CIT IRST) Anna Forster (SUPSI, Switzerland) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Brano Kusy (CSIRO, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Cem Ersoy (Bogazici University) Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome ""La Sapienza"") Cormac J. Sreenan (University College Cork) Eli De Poorter (Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium) Emiliano Miluzzo (AT&T labs) Fred Jiang (Microsoft Research Asia) Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Ilker Demirkol (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) Katia Jaffres-Runser (University of Toulouse / IRIT laboratory / INPT ENSEEIHT) Kay Roemer (University of LuÅbeck) Kirk Martinez (University of Southampton) Klaus Wehrle (RWTH Aachen University) Koen Langendoen (TU Delft) Krishna Sivalingam (Institute of Technology Madras, India) Leo Selavo (University of Latvia) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Mario Alves (Politecnico do Porto (ISEP/IPP), CISTER Research Unit) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova) Mingyan Liu (University of Michigan) Nael Abu-Ghazelah (Binghamton University) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Duisburg-Essen and Fraunhofer FKIE) Philippe Bonnet (Copenhagen University) Rajeev Shorey (NIIT University) Salil Kanhere (The University of New South Wales, Australia) Sam Michiels (KULeuven) Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC) Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo) Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)

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Fwd: [Tccc] CfP - 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVEC 2013)
by Lars Wolf 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP - 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVEC 2013) Datum: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:19:12 +0200 Von: "Schünemann, Björn" <bjoern.schuenemann(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: <Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications IEEE WiVEC 2013 June 2-3 2013, Dresden, Germany http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2013/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide in Europe, US and Asia. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVEC) will cover all wireless vehicular communication aspects of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-person (V2P) and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After the past successful WiVEC editions in 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 the fifth IEEE WiVEC symposium will be co-located with the 77th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2013 Spring, and will take place in Dresden on the 2nd and 3rd of June 2013. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVEC and VTC events. All accepted papers (full length and demo papers) will be included in the VTC 2013-Spring conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. Note: VTC Fall editions are traditionally located in North America, while VTC Spring is located in other areas of the world. Since WiVEC was originally launched co-located with VTC Fall editions, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society decided that WiVEC would take place every year and a half in order to ensure that the conference is alternatively co-located with VTC Fall and Spring editions. This resulted in that there was no WiVEC edition in 2009 and 2012. Topics of Interest ------------------ The WiVEC Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-person (V2P) and vehicle-to-grid (V2V) wireless communications. Vehicular communication areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models, spectrum assignment and EMC regulations * Radio resource management and interference management, MAC protocols * Vehicular networking (architectures, ad hoc, cellular and device-to-device, heterogeneous) * Dissemination strategies and data aggregation * Scalability, decentralized congestion control, QoS and cross-layer optimization * Security, liability and privacy * Integration and interworking (sensor network technologies, roadside infrastructure, in-car electronics and embedded systems) * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models * Digital maps and location technologies * Applications (eCall, eTolling, safety, traffic efficiency, traffic management, green telematics, wireless diagnosis, driver compliance, etc.) * Electric vehicle communication, incl vehicle-to-grid communication * Standards development, business models, policies * Simulation models and tools * Testbeds, testing support, conformance and plug-tests, field testing results * Impact assessment on transport efficiency and safety Submissions ----------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) or demo papers (maximum 2 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2013/ Submission website : http://wivec2013.trackchair.com Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline : 01 November 2012 Acceptance notification : 11 January 2013 Camera-ready papers due : 21 February 2013 Organizing Committee -------------------- General co-Chairs : Ilja Radusch (Fraunhofer FOKUS) Thomas Benz (PTV AG) Technical Program co-Chairs: Elisabeth Uhlemann (Halmstad University) Andreas Festag (NEC Laboratories Europe) Publicity Chair: Björn Schünemann (DCAITI, TU Berlin) _______________________________________________ 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] PerSeNS 2013: Call for Paper
by Lars Wolf 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] PerSeNS 2013: Call for Paper Datum: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:41:47 +0200 Von: alessandra.depaola <alessandra.depaola(a)unipa.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement--------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ninth IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS 2013) http://www.dicgim.unipa.it/~networks/persens2013/ in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2013 (http://www.percom.org) March 18-22, 2013 San Diego, California ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor networks collect sensing measurements or detect special events, perform node-level processing, and export the combined data from their sensing nodes to the outside world. Sensing, processing and communication are three key elements whose combination in one small device is instrumental to pervasive computing and gives rise to countless applications. This workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers and professionals from industry and academia. Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of sensor networks for pervasive computing are solicited. We particularly welcome submissions that present implementation and deployment results. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor-based systems and applications - Operating systems for Sensor Networks - Middleware and software tools - Networking architectures and protocols - Data gathering, aggregation and dissemination - Topology control - Power Management and energy-efficient design - Time synchronization - Location management - Sensor networks with mobile elements - Cross-layer architectures - Intelligent sensor nodes - Security and dependability issues - Modeling and performance evaluation - Measurements EDITORIAL FOLLOW UP Papers of particular merit will be considered for a possible special issue in an international journal. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Maximum length: 6 pages. Papers must be prepared using the template available at the following page: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting/ All submissions will be handled via EDAS. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2013 workshops proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from IEEE Xplore. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2012 Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2012 Camera-ready papers due: January 25, 2013 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland PROGRAM CHAIR Giuseppe Lo Re, University of Palermo, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE TBA ------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandra De Paola - Ph.D. DICGIM - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, Gestionale, Informatica, Meccanica Università degli Studi di Palermo Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 6, 3° piano 90128 Palermo phone: +39 091 238 62604 e-mail: alessandra.depaola(a)unipa.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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