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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Elsevier Computer Communications Journal - Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Elsevier Computer Communications Journal - Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks Datum: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:29:47 +0300 Von: Charalampos Konstantopoulos <konstant(a)unipi.gr> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on Reactive Sensor Networks Scope A common assumption in Wireless Sensor Networks is that they comprise resource-constrained static nodes which sense their environment and then send their measurements to a central base station through mutihop routing. Soon, it was realized that this network organization leads to rapid energy exhaustion of sensors around the base station since these nodes should relay all the traffic destined for the base station. In addition, the passive nature of static sensors which can only sense and are unable to move is not always helpful in target-tracking scenarios or in cases where real-time action is necessary for handling emergency situations. Apparently, a reactive (dynamic) behavior from these networks would be effective for dealing with a number of changing operational conditions (e.g. node failures, energy exhaustion in some nodes) or with real-time events. This Special Issue will focus on all forms of reactive behavior that can be incorporated in the functionality of a Wireless Sensor Network and will also identify new possibilities, opportunities and challenges deriving from this new paradigm. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sink mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks - Wireless Sensor Actuator Networks - Wireless Sensor Networks with mobile sensors - Re-tasking in Wireless Sensor Networks - Mobile agent based solutions in Wireless Sensor Networks - Node redeployment techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks for improved connectivity and/or coverage - Re-clustering techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks - Dynamic MAC and routing protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks for increased network lifetime - Reactive methods in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks - Reactive methods for target tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks - Dynamic techniques for data aggregation/fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks - Security, trust and privacy in Reactive Sensor Networks Tentative Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: November 30, 2011 First Notification: March 10, 2012 Submission of revised paper: April 20, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2012 Guest Editors Dr. Charalampos Konstantopoulos Department of Informatics University of Piraeus, Greece (konstant(a)unipi.gr) Prof. Paolo Bellavista Dipartimento di Informatica, Elettronica e Sistemistica Universita di Bologna, Italy (paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it) Prof. Damla Turgut Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Central Florida, USA (turgut(a)cs.ucf.edu) Prof. Chi-Fu Huang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan (cfhuang(a)cs.ccu.edu.tw) Instructions for submission: The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom.To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "Special Issue: Reactive WSN" 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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Fwd: The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks Datum: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:28:54 +0800 Von: cfp(a)grid.chu.edu.tw An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de IPSN 2012 The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 2012, Beijing, China http://ipsn.acm.org/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES Abstract deadline: Friday, October 07, 2011 Full papers due: Friday, October 14, 2011 Author notification: Friday, January 20, 2012 Camera Ready due: March 1st, 2012 SCOPE 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, and embedded systems design. IPSN is part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Week (CPS Week), which will bring together other leading CPS conferences including International Conference on Hybrid Systems (HSCC'12), International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS'12), and IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'12). 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 program chairs with questions or clarifications. As an example of the different foci, results focused on the analysis and processing aspects of data collected from deployments should be submitted to the IP track, while details on the hardware and software platforms and tools used in the deployment should be submitted to SPOTS. The Information Processing (IP) track focuses on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded sensors. Topics covered in this track include, but are not limited to: - Applications and deployment experiences - 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 - Innovative mobile sensing applications - User interfaces for sensing applications and systems - Innovative sensing platforms including crowd sourcing 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 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Asia TPC Co-Chair (IP Track): Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University TPC Co-Chair (SPOTS Track): Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia Demo Chair: Fred Jiang, Microsoft Research Asia Poster Chair: Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Workshop/Tutorial Chair: Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Publications Chair: Jie Gao, SUNY Stony Brook Finance and Sponsorship Chair: Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University Web Chair: Nic Lane, Microsoft Research Asia Publicity Co-Chairs: Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Ying Zhang, Palo Alto Research Center STEERING COMMITTEE Feng Zhao, Chair, Microsoft Research Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Deborah Estrin, UCLA Leo Guibas, Stanford P.R. Kumar, UIUC Sri Kumar, SRI International José Moura, CMU John Stankovic, UVA Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt William Kaiser, UCLA IP TRACK TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andreas Krause, California Institute of Technology / ETH - Zurich Andreas Terzis, John Hopkins University Antonio Ruzzelli, University College Dublin Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology Jie Gao, Stony Brook University Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Kay Roemer, University of Luebeck Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Mike Liang, Microsoft Research Asia Omprakash Gnawali, Stanford University Subhash Suri, University of California - Santa Barbara Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia Tim Wark, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Utz Roedig, Lancaster University Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University Polly Huang, National Taiwan University Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign SPOTS TRACK TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Fred Jiang, Microsoft Research Asia Cui Li, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Microsoft Research Redmond Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania Miklos Maroti, University of Szeged Anthony Rowe, Carnegie Mellon University Andreas Savvides, Yale University Thomas Schmid, University of Utah Mani Srivastava, University of California - Los Angeles Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia To subscribe other emails or see information of this mailing list, please go to http://grid.chu.edu.tw/mailling_list/subscribe.php To unsubscribe, please click http://grid.chu.edu.tw/unsubscribe.php?mail=wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de For other questions, please send email to cfp-admin(a)grid.chu.edu.tw

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Fwd: [Tccc] [ACM MobiOpp'12] Call For Papers
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [ACM MobiOpp'12] Call For Papers Datum: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:57:01 +0200 Von: F L <legendre(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: Plattner Bernhard <plattner(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch>, Andreea Picu <picu(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch>, Aruna Balasubramanian <arunab(a)cs.washington.edu>, valerio arnaboldi <valerio.arnaboldi(a)iit.cnr.it>, Ilias Leontiadis <iliasl(a)gmail.com>, Cecilia Mascolo <Cecilia.Mascolo(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM MobiOpp 2012 Third International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/conference/mobiopp2012/ sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE March 15-16, 2012 ETH Zürich, Switzerland After the successful ACM MobiOpp 2007 and ACM MobiOpp 2010, the organizing committee is excited to invite you to take part in the Third International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks that will be held March 15-16th, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland at ETH. Opportunistic Networking is one of the emerging communication paradigms in wireless mobile communications. Opportunistic networks are commonly defined as a type of networks where communication is challenged by sporadic and intermittent contacts as well as frequent disconnections and reconnections, and where the assumption of the existence of an end-to-end path between the source and the destination is relinquished. The aim of MobiOpp 2012 is to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers to present their latest research in the field of mobile opportunistic networking. In particular, MobiOpp 2012 strongly encourages submissions of experimental work. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Opportunistic, Delay-tolerant and Hybrid Networks - Mobile Urban Sensing and Crowdsensing - Novel Architectures, Middleware, Prototypes and Testbeds - Routing, Dissemination and Caching in Opportunistic Networks - Analysis of Opportunistic Protocols - Security, Trust, Privacy and Cooperation in Opportunistic Networks - Social-aware Opportunistic Networking - Anti-censorship/surveillance opportunistic communications - Opportunistic Applications (e.g., opportunistic social networking, disaster and emergency situations, healthcare, communication in remote regions) - Mobility models for opportunistic networks Submitted papers should be novel and should not be currently under review, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form. We accept paper submissions of **8 pages** and demo and poster abstracts of 2 pages at http://edas.info/N11119 . Further formatting requirements are available on the website. The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. MobiOpp 2012 is also featured on social networks. Follow us and get updates at: http://twitter.com/MobiOpp2012 and http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_221604371193978&ap=1 (then click on "Ask to join group") Note that ACM MobiOpp’12 will be preceded by ExtremeCom’12 – The Alpine Expedition (http://extremecom.org/2012/) organized in the Swiss Alps, March 10-14, 2012. Important Dates: * Submission (Hard Deadline): November 18, 2011 * Notification: December 23, 2011 * Camera-ready: January 13, 2012 * Workshop: March 15-16, 2012 ACM MobiOpp 2012 TPC Organizers General Chair: Plattner Bernhard, ETH Zurich TPC Co-Chair: Franck Legendre, ETH Zurich TPC Co-Chair: Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge Local Organizer: Andreea Picu, ETH Zurich Web Chair: Ilias Leontiadis, University of Cambridge Publicity Chair: Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT-CNR Publicity Chair: Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington Program Committee, Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology Aruna Balasubramanian, University of Washington Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Timothy Brown, University of Colorado, Boulder Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University Vania Conan, Thales Communications Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge Jakob Eriksson, University of Illinois at Chicago Serge Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne Universit̩s Roy Friedman, Technion Laura Galluccio, University of Catania Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science - SUPSI Theus Hossmann, ETH Zurich Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor Palo Alto Merkourios Karaliopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Kyunghan Lee, North Carolina State University Anders Lindgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Martin May, Technicolor Paris Emiliano Miluzzo, AT&T Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom Mirco Musolesi, University of St. Andrews Giovanni Neglia, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Joerg Ott, Aalto University Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR Giovanni Pau, UCLA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Institut Eurecom Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Roger Whitaker University of Cardiff, Wales Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia _______________________________________________ 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 PAPERSIEEE ICDCS 2012
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERSIEEE ICDCS 2012 Datum: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:08 +0800 Von: Jiming Chen <jmchen.zju(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems June 18-21, 2012, Macau, China http://icdcs-2012.org/ *Notice:* The conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in any aspects of distributed and parallel computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:•Algorithms and Theory •Cloud Computing Systems •Data Management and Data Centers •Distributed OS and Middleware •Fault Tolerance and Dependeability •Network/Web/P2P Protocols and Applications •Security and Privacy •Wireless, Mobile, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Computing Important Deadlines Abstract Registration November 1, 2011 Paper Submission November 8, 2011 Author Notification February 7, 2012 Final Manuscript March 14, 2012 For further information, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs Prof. Xavier Defago defago(a)jaist.ac.jp Prof. Wang-Chien Lee wlee(a)cse.psu.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: [Tccc] CfP: WoWMoM 2012 -- Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: WoWMoM 2012 -- Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Datum: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:39:57 +0200 Von: Pål Halvorsen <paalh(a)ifi.uio.no> An: end2end-interest(a)postel.org, icec(a)listserver.tue.nl, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT WoWMoM 2012 Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, University of Texas at Arlington, IEEE CS TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) June 25-28, 2012 San Francisco, California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in Future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents between them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context- awareness and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless multimedia systems,services&applications - System prototypes, measurements, real deployment, and experiences - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Mobile Social Networking - Participatory and urban sensing - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Seamless inter-networking and self-organization - Networking services for pervasive systems - Content-centric architectures, multimedia content management and distribution for mobile networks - Ad-hoc, Sensor and wireless mesh networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Vehicular wireless networks - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Quality of Service and Quality of Experience - Location mechanism and services - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Network management and control - IP-based mobile networks and wireless multimedia services - Wireless security, dependability, reliability and survivability - Authentication, authorization, and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC). IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Manuscript submission deadline: December 2, 2011. - Manuscript acceptance notification: March 16, 2012. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website at http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/, or contact the PC-chairs at wowmom12-pcchairs(at)inv.it.uc3m.es WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. WoWMoM 2012 will also feature an Industry Track, PhD Forum and a Demonstrations Session. Please visit the conference website for details. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (TO BE COMPLETED) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA TPC CO-CHAIRS Albert Banchs, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jeongkeun "JK" Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Marco di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy INDUSTRY-TRACK CO-CHAIRS Dhruv Gupta, AT&T Labs, USA Katia Obraczka, University of California, San Francisco, USA PHD FORUM CO-CHAIRS Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA DEMO CO-CHAIRS Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA PANEL CHAIR Henning Schulzrine, Columbia University, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirmalya Roy, I2R, Singapore Xin Liu, University of California, Davis, USA Pal Halvorsen University of Oslo, Norway FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA _______________________________________________ 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] 2nd CFP: IWSOS'12 - 6th Int. Workshop on Self-organizing Systems
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 2nd CFP: IWSOS'12 - 6th Int. Workshop on Self-organizing Systems Datum: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:02:20 +0200 Von: karin anna hummel <karin.hummel(a)univie.ac.at> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ********************************************************************* * Second Call for Papers * * IWSOS 2012 * 6th International Workshop on Self-organizing Systems * * Technical co-sponsors: IFIP, Euro-NF * *http://iwsos2012.ewi.tudelft.nl/ * * Delft, The Netherlands * March 15-16, 2012 * * Paper Submission Deadline: October 26, 2011 * ******************************************************************** ** Scope The main theme of the workshop is to discover the network science behind self-organizing systems, to facilitate and advance the understanding, learning, modeling, and analysis of self-organizational processes in nature (e.g., metabolic, DNA, brain networks) and to apply the knowledge of self-organization to man-made networks and systems. The workshop scope includes, but is not limited to, the following topical areas in self-organizing systems: - Modeling& analysis - Applications& service providers& management - Risks and security Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the future of self-organization in networked systems. To make IWSOS 2012 a success, we invite the submission of full or short manuscripts that present original research results or research ideas on the theme of self-organizing systems. ** Key Topics - Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems - Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society - Structure, characteristics and dynamics of self-organizing networks - Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet - Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems - Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems - Self-organization in complex networks like peer-to-peer, sensor, ad-hoc, vehicular and social networks - User and operator-related aspects of man-made self-organizing systems - Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services - Control of self-organizing systems - Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks - Decentralized power management in the smart grid - Self-protection, self-configuration, diagnosis, and healing - Self-organizing group and pattern formation - Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation, coordination and resource allocation - Self-organizing information dissemination and content search - Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems - Risks and limits of self-organization - The human in the loop of self-organizing networks ** Important Dates Submission deadline: October 26, 2011 Notification: December 14, 2011 Camera-ready papers due: January 04, 2012 Conference: March 15-16 2012 ** Papers IWSOS 2012 invites submission of full or short manuscripts that present original research results or research ideas, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. The Springer “LNCS Proceedings” style should be used for submission. Templates for LaTeX and Word are available athttp://tiny.cc/qiohy. Full papers should describe original research results. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style (including figures, references, and a short abstract). Short Papers should be position papers, challenging papers, and papers presenting first results. The papers must be up to 6 pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and must include a short abstract. ** Proceedings The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2012 to present the paper. ** Committees * General Chairs Piet Van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands David Hutchison, Lancaster University, United Kingdom * Program Chairs Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Poul Heegaard, NTNU-Trondheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * Publicity Chairs Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria (on leave) and Marie Curie Fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Local Organization Christian Doerr, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Huijuan Wang, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Wendy Murtinu-van Schagen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands * Steering Committee Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (IFIP TC6 Representative) Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria (on leave) and Marie Curie Fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Technical Program Committee (more to be added) Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna Yuriy Brun, University of Washington Raissa D’Souza, University of California, Davis Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck Stefan Dulman, Delft University of Technology Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology Wilfried Elmenreich, University of Klagenfurt Alois Ferscha, University of Linz Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Salima Hassas, University of Lyon Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Guy Leduc, University of Liège Hein Meling, University of Stavanger Juval Portugali, Tel Aviv University Christian Prehofer, Fraunhofer ESK Hiroki Sayama, Binghamton University Marcus Schöller, NEC Europe Ltd. Paul Smith, Lancaster University Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Bosiljka Tadic, Jozef Stefan Institute Marc Timme, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization Vito Trianni, National Research Council – CNR Maarten van Steen, VU University Amsterdam Huijuan Wang, Delft University of Technology _______________________________________________ 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 Demos: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2011
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Demos: IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2011 Datum: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:34:04 +0200 Von: Stefan Dietzel <s.dietzel(a)utwente.nl> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ November 14-16, 2011 Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://www.ieee-vnc.org/2011 CALL FOR DEMOS Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: October 7, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 11, 2011 The IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2011 (IEEE VNC 2011) seeks to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in vehicular networking technologies, and their applications. As part of this mission, technical demonstrations showing innovative and original research related to vehicular networking are solicited. Specific interest of IEEE VNC 2011 is in demonstrations of technology that validate important research issues or showcase realistic applications related to vehicular communication. The full list of topics of interest can be found at: http://www.ieee-vnc.org/demos.html Demo Submission Instructions ---------------------------- Submissions should be sent to: vnc2011-demos(a)lists.utwente.nl with "IEEE VNC 2011: Demo Proposal" as subject. Submissions should be a two-page abstract/proposal that follows the IEEE formatting guidelines. The demo proposal should include a brief description of the demo and space/facility requirements beyond wireless Internet connectivity. _______________________________________________ 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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Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" - Elsevier FGCS
by Mario Fanelli 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) http://www.elsevier.com/locate/future Special Issue on "Management of Cloud Systems" The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality because of the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). At the current stage, after the initial hype of enthusiasm, several ongoing research efforts are deeply focusing on the open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditability, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to enable and boost a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite several recent provisioning of Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions can withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services de/activation and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources. The mission of this Special Issue is to put on the foreground all the above issues and to disseminate the latest research result in this emergent research area, by providing a fresh snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in management of Cloud systems. Along that direction, this special issue will collect a mix of extended and updated versions of papers recently presented at the international Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011), and of other papers submitted from this open call. In particular, all the authors of papers accepted for inclusion in the MoCS11 proceedings are invited to submit extended versions of their workshop papers; in addition, we are asking for high-quality papers (from open call) reporting original research results. Contributions should present practical experiences of system design/prototy- ping/deployment related to topics that include, but are not limited to: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost- effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centers (intra-/inter-domain); * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies; * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings. Submission process: Authors should prepare and submit manuscripts according to the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal Web site at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/ find/journaldescription.cws_home/505611/authorinstructions Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. If a similar version of the paper has been published in a conference, including MoCS11, the submitted version should contain significant additions/enhancements; in that case, authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Potential authors are encouraged to submit original and unpublished work through the submission system at the journal website: http://ees.elsevier.com /fgcs/. Please choose the Article Type SS: Cloud Systems Corradi/Rana. If you encounter any problems in the use of the online system, please do not hesitate to contact authorsupport(a)elsevier.com. Important Dates (to be confirmed): * Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2011 * First revision notification to authors: December 15, 2011 * Revision submission: January 15, 2012 * Second revision notification to authors: February 15, 2012 * Submission of camera-ready versions of accepted manuscripts: March 15, 2012 * Special issue publication schedule (tentative): 3rd Quarter 2012 Guest Editors of the Special Issue: * Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy, antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it * Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk If you have any questions about paper submission or the special issue, please contact one of the Guest Editors. _________________________________________ Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073. E-mail: mario.fanelli(a)unibo.it or mario.fanelli(a)gmail.com Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/ _________________________________________

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for ACM MobiHoc 2012, June 11 - 14, Hilton Head Island, SC
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP for ACM MobiHoc 2012, June 11 - 14, Hilton Head Island, SC Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:30:57 -0400 Von: Kaushik Chowdhury <krc(a)ece.neu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies in advance for multiple received copies of the CFP. ****************************** ACM MOBIHOC ****************************** The 13th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (June 11 - 14, 2012 Hilton Head Island, SC) ACM MobiHoc is a premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. With its highly selective technical program, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. We invite paper submissions on mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, vehicular networks and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Published papers will present original and novel research addressing theoretical challenges and/or practical issues in the wireless network design. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Applications and middleware support Transport, network, and MAC protocols Energy efficiency Location discovery Cross-layer design and control Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability Functional computation and data aggregation Modeling and performance analysis Scaling laws and fundamental limits Network coding Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks Vehicular networks Cognitive radio networks Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination Trust, security and privacy System design and testbeds Measurements from experimental systems The symposium specially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will assign a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. Original Paper Submission Guidelines: Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Margin must be 1 inch on all sides. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Therefore, authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Before submitting your paper, please check the description of the conference scope. Instructions on paper submission are available on the symposium webpage ( http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2012). Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. General Chair: Asis Nasipuri Program Co-Chairs: Yih-Chun Hu and Sanjay Shakkottai Important Dates: Abstract Submission: November 9, 2011 Paper Submission: November 16, 2011 Notification: March 5, 2012 Camera Ready: April 2, 2012 _______________________________________________ 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: WiSec 2012 (The Fifth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security)
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiSec 2012 (The Fifth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security) Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:30:23 -0700 Von: Patrick Tague <tague(a)cmu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please feel free to distribute to anyone who may be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Fifth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security ACM WiSec '12 April 16-18, 2012 Tucson, Arizona, USA http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** As wireless and mobile networking becomes ubiquitous, security and privacy become increasingly critical. The focus of the ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (ACM WiSec) is on exploring vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks in wireless communications and the techniques needed to address them. Settings of interest include cellular, metropolitan, mesh, local-area, personal-area, home, vehicular, sensor, ad hoc, satellite, cognitive radio, RFID, and underwater networks as well as systems using non-RF wireless communication. The conference is soliciting contributions to topics including but not limited to: * Key management in wireless/mobile environments * Secure services (neighbor discovery, localization, etc.) * Secure PHY and MAC protocols * Trust establishment * Intrusion, attack, and malicious behavior detection * Denial of service * User and location privacy * Anonymity, unobservability, prevention of traffic analysis * Identity theft and phishing in mobile networks * Charging & secure payment * Cooperation and mitigating non?cooperative behavior * Economics of wireless security * Vulnerability and attack modeling * Incentive-aware secure protocol design * Jamming/Anti-jamming communication * Cross-layer design for security * Monitoring and surveillance * Cryptographic primitives for wireless communication * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for wireless security and privacy * Security and privacy of mobile OS and mobile applications * Secure delay- and disruption-tolerant networking * Secure non-RF wireless communication (e.g., ultrasound, vision, laser) * Security/privacy in wireless smart grid and smart metering applications * Security/privacy in wireless network coding * Security/privacy in wireless/ephemeral social networking * Security/privacy in mobile/wireless cloud services The proceedings of ACM WiSec are published by the ACM. Submissions to WiSec 2012 can be up to 12 pages in the ACM conference style and must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blind reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website (http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2012/). IMPORTANT NOTE: It is a policy of the ACM (http://www.acm.org/pubs/rights.html) to disallow double submissions, where the same (or substantially similar) paper is concurrently submitted to multiple conferences/journals. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. Important Dates * Paper submission: November 22, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012 * Camera-ready version: February 22, 2012 * Conference: April 16-18, 2012 Organizers - General Chairs: Marwan Krunz (University of Arizona, USA) Loukas Lazos (University of Arizona, USA) - Program Co-chairs: Roberto Di Pietro (Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy) Wade Trappe (Rutgers University, USA) - Publicity Chair: Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Poster/Demo Chair: Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Purdue University, USA) - Steering Committee Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine, USA) (chair) Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland) Claude Castelluccia (INRIA, France) Douglas Maughan (DHS/HSARPA, USA) Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois, USA) Dirk Westhoff (NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany) Levente Buttyan (BME, Hungary) Virgil Gligor (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Peng Ning (North Carolina State University, USA) Radha Poovendran (University of Washington, USA) Cliff Wang (Army Research Office, USA) _______________________________________________ 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: MobiSys 2012 - Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2012 - Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:52:27 +0100 Von: Christos Efstratiou <Christos.Efstratiou(a)CL.CAM.AC.UK> Antwort an: Christos Efstratiou <Christos.Efstratiou(a)CL.CAM.AC.UK> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2012) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 26th - 29th, 2012 Low Wood Bay, The Lake District, UK http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2012/ MobiSys 2012 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys seeks original papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. The conference values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. If you have any questions regarding relevance or other submission-related issues, please contact the program chairs at mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org <mailto:mobisys_pcchairs@acm.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Experience with mobile applications, networks and systems • Innovative mobile and mobile sensing applications • Tools for building and measuring mobile systems • Software architectures for mobile devices • Infrastructure support for node mobility • System-level energy management for mobile devices • Data management for mobile applications • Operating systems for mobile devices • Support for mobile social networking and mobile Web • Security and privacy in mobile systems • Wearable computing and innovative mobile devices • Systems for location and context sensing and awareness • Mobile computing support for pervasive computing • Vehicular wireless systems • User interfaces and usability for mobile applications and systems • Personal-area networks and systems • Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile systems Papers on work that is currently under review, whether in shorter, longer, or the same form, must not be submitted to MobiSys. Submission of a longer version of a published, not just accepted, workshop paper is encouraged if it includes significant new contributions. However, the authors must cite their workshop paper. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As is customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review process. ***Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.*** Submissions should be full papers, up to 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point and single-spaced. Papers may use the standard ACM template, available at: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2009/sig-alternate-10pt.cls. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Papers may be conditionally accepted and shepherded by a member of the program committee, with final acceptance determined by consent of the shepherd. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------- - Abstract registration: Friday, December 9, 2011 (9:00 PM PST) - Submission deadline: Friday, December 16, 2011 (9:00 PM PST) - Notification of acceptance: March 5th, 2012 - Camera-ready version due:TBD --------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: These are hard deadlines. No extensions will be granted. General Chair Nigel Davies (Lancaster University, UK) Steering Committee Chair Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA) Technical Program Co-Chair Srinivasan Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Lin Zhong (Rice University, USA) Program Committee: -------------------------- Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research, USA Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, SG Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, USA Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT-Bombay, India Landon Cox, Duke University, USA David Culler, UC Berkeley, USA Prabal Dutta, University of Michigan, USA Maria Ebling, IBM Research, USA Marco Gruteser, WINLAB / Rutgers University, USA Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Yih-chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA Anthony LaMarca, Intel Labs, USA Yang Li, Google, USA Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Patrick McDaniel, Penn State University, USA Jeffrey Pang, AT&T Labs, USA Li-Shiuan Peh, MIT, USA Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica, Spain Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University, USA Mirjana Spasojevic, Nokia Research, USA Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, New York University, USA Doug Terry, Microsoft Research, USA Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Matt Welsh, Google, USA Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA Dr Christos Efstratiou Senior Research Associate Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 0FD +44 (0)1223 763694 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ce291/ christos.efstratiou(a)cl.cam.ac.uk <mailto:christos.efstratiou@cl.cam.ac.uk> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, 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. 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Fwd: HotMobile 2012 - Call for Papers - Submission Deadline
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: HotMobile 2012 - Call for Papers - Submission Deadline Datum: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:00:55 -0400 Von: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> Antwort an: Tamer Nadeem <nadeem(a)CS.ODU.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** *** Paper submission deadline is Oct 7^th , 2011 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 13th Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2012) Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ February, 2012 San Diego, CA, USA http://www.hotmobile.org/2012/ ACM HotMobile 2012, the Thirteenth 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. HotMobile 2012 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 7th, 2011 – 23:59pm PDT Acceptance Notification: December 7th, 2011 Camera Ready Deadline: TBD ----------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee: ----------------------------- General Chair Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US Program Chair Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, SG Posters & Demos Chair Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University, US Doctoral Consortium Chair TBA Publicity Chair Tamer Nadeem, Old Dominion University, US Web Chair Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Program Committee: -------------------------- Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research Redmond, US Rajesh Krishna Balan, Singapore Management University, SG Nina Bhatti, HP Labs Palo Alto, US Ramón Cáceres, AT&T Research, US Landon Cox, Duke University, US Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Richard Davis, Singapore Management University, SG Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto, Canada Christos Efstratiou, University of Cambridge, UK Jaeyeon Jung, Microsoft Research Redmond, US Robin Kravets, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, US Vishnu Navda, Microsoft Research India, India Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research, Spain Stefan Sariou, Microsoft Research Redmond, US Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, US James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Junehwa Song, KAIST, South Korea Roy Want, Google Mountain View, US Lin Zhong, Rice University, US *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, 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. 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Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] CFP: 20th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2012)
by Lars Wolf 17 Sep '11

17 Sep '11

Jorge Granjal <jgranjal(a)DEI.UC.PT> schrieb: [** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting **] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2012) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, June 4-5, 2012 http://www.ieee-iwqos.org/ Quality of Service (QoS) in communication systems has been a long lasting research focus worldwide. The twenty-year history of IWQoS has established it as a highly reputable forum to present novel ideas on all research subjects related to the topic. While QoS research for future generations of wired and wireless networks continues to attract much interest, recent exploration of data centers, virtualization, cloud computing, cloud services, industrial communication, and “green” computing has motivated a new wave of research interest in QoS and its related metrics such as Quality of Experience (QoE) and Quality of Protection (QoP). The scope of IWQoS 2010 covers both theoretical and experimental research on QoS, QoE, QoP and related issues such as survivability, availability, reliability, security, privacy, pricing, resource provisioning and management, user experience, and system performance guarantees. Topics of interest include QoS issues in (but not limited to) the following areas: * Quality of cloud services and cloud computing * Quality of protection, quality experience, security and privacy * System dependability, availability; resilience and robustness to faults and security attacks * Scheduling, resource management, queue management, admission control; * Traffic engineering approaches and tools for provisioning and evaluation * Quality evaluation metrics and methodologies; application-aware * QoS parsing, identification and control * Measurement, evaluation, adaptation and verification * Network operations, pricing and billing, network and service management * Architectures and protocols for IP, overlay and peer-to-peer networks; optical networks, wireless, ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks * Energy awareness in communication systems * Design for the Future Internet PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ------------------------------------------------ IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts with original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions will be judged based on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Paper submissions should be no longer than 9 single-spaced, double-column pages with font-size of 10. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files through the EDAS system. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. IWQoS aims at rapid dissemination of research results. For fast turnaround in the review process, a short review and publication cycle is designed, with the submission deadline as close to the workshop as the publisher allows. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and EI indexed. However, 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: Feb. 8, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2012 Camera-ready papers: April 23, 2012 Conference dates: June 4-5, 2012 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS -------------------------------- Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal TCP CO-CHAIRS ------------------------ Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal STEERING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente, Netherlands Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Shigang Chen, University of Florida-Gainesville, USA Srihari Nelakuditi, University of South Carolina-Columbia, USA Bin Liu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Chunming Qiao, University at Buffalo, NY USA _____________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the MM-INTEREST list, click the following link: http://listserv.acm.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.EXE?SUBED1=MM-INTEREST&A=1

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Fwd: IEEE 75th Vehicular Technology Conference -Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

conference-services(a)ieee.org schrieb: IEEE 75th Vehicular Technology Conference 6 – 9 May 2012 Yokohama, Japan Submissions by 30 September 2011 In May 2012, IEEE VTC Spring will be held in Yokohama, Japan. VTC is the premier semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) that gathers researchers, industry professionals and academics dedicated to innovation across the broad field of wireless technologies. You are invited to submit papers in any areas of wireless communications, networks and applications. Potential topics are solicited in, but not limited to the following categories: • Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks • Antenna and Propagation • Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sensing • Cooperative Communications, Distributed MIMOs and Relaying • Green Networks • Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time-Frequency Processing • Positioning, Mobile Applications and Services • Transmission Technologies • Transportation • Vehicular Electronics and Telematics • Wireless Access • Wireless Networks Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page full paper (or 2-page extended abstract including results) through the conference web site by 30 September 2011. For more information, visit www.vtc2012spring.org General Co-Chairs: Prof. Takeshi Hattori (Sophia University, Japan) Prof. Susumu Yoshida (Kyoto University, Japan) Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi (Tohoku University, Japan) Technical Program Chair: Prof. Seiichi Sampei (Osaka University, Japan) Technical Program Vice Chair: Prof. Mamoru Sawahashi (Tokyo City University, Japan) _____________________________________________ You have received this mailing because you are a member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) <http://www.vtsociety.org/>;. To unsubscribe, please go to http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?SN=Wolf&LN=CONF and be certain to include your IEEE member number. If you need assistance with your E-Notice subscription, please contact k.n.luu(a)ieee.org _____________________________________________ IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA <http://www.ieee.org/>;

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Fwd: IEEE ICIT 2012 New deadlines
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICIT 2012 New deadlines Datum: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:46:21 -0600 Von: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society <ieee-ies(a)auburn.edu> An: undisclosed-recipients: ; ------------------------------------------------------------------ Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - ICIT'2012 **New Deadlines** --------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology ICIT'2012 March 19-21, 2012, Kos Island, Greece -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference web site: http://icit2012.isi.gr/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR'S SCHEDULE: Deadline for submission of papers: October 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance of papers: November 22, 2011 Final manuscripts due: December 15, 2011 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of emerging industrial technology. The conference was created by the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society in 1994. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MAJOR TOPICS (TRACKS): - Control Systems and Computational Intelligence - Factory Automation & Industrial Informatics - Robotics and Mechatronics - Embedded and Cyberphysical Systems in industrial applications - ICT for Smart grids - Renewable Energy and Power Systems - Electrical Machines and Drives - Sensors, Instrumentation and Signal Processing --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers need to be submitted electronically. For details consult conference pages at http://icit2012.isi.gr/ The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- IEEE IES conferences. To unsubscribe: http://ieee-ies.org/submit-php/emailremove.php

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2012 Extended Deadline
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE/IFIP WONS 2012 Extended Deadline Datum: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:25:33 +0200 Von: REINERI MASSIMO <massimo.reineri(a)polito.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Due to several requests, DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 7th 2011. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ********* CALL FOR PAPERS - WONS 2012 ********* Extended Paper submission deadline: October 7th, 2011 (registration and paper submission) The Nineth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services Technical sponsorship: IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IFIP, EURO-NF, TREND January 9-11, 2012 Courmayeur, Italy http://wons2012.tlc.polito.it Important dates (*extended*) * Full Paper Submission (including registration): *October 7, 2011 (firm)* * Acceptance notification: November 15, 2011 * Camera-ready due: December 1, 2011 Scope of the conference WONS, now in its nineth edition, has established itself as a high-quality forum to address these challenges in the context of a workshop that is rich in intense interactions and based on innovative contributions by experts in the field. This announcement solicits original submissions of high-quality research papers on "wireless on-demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, profitability models, energy efficiency, QoS models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to all kinds of wireless on-demand networks comprise, but are not limited to: * Architecture and design * Evaluation through simulations and experiments * Modeling * Integration and co-existence * Social and economic aspects * Pervasive and ubiquitous computing * Localization and mobility management * Security, privacy, and trust * Novel applications and services * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Implementations and testbeds * Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols * Mobile peer-to-peer systems * Middleware aspects * Self-X and network management *** This year, WONS will include the following special sessions: - Cognitive Radio and White Space: design and implementation of cognitive networks, spectrum access, usage of white spaces, regulation issues and use cases, network identification, security - Machine-to-Machine Inter-networking: strategic and technical challenges (architecture design, access layer, mobility, networking, security, services), role/interest of the industry, integration in future networks (vehicular networks, Psycho-Physical Systems, LTE-A) *** Best Paper Award *** IEEE/IFIP WONS 2012 features Best Paper Award to award authors with superior quality paper submission to the conference. The award includes a framed certificate. The authors of Best Paper Award will be recognized in the conference. Manuscript submissions Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere and must not be currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column full (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) as a PDF file in IEEE format with a font size no smaller than 10pt. Short papers should present future research directions and ongoing work with visionary, innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Papers (including those destined to special sessions) must be submitted through the EDAS system. Conference proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore library. Further submission instructions will be published on the conference web site. Organization - Executive Committee General Chair - Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini (Politecnico di Torino) Technical Program Co-Chairs - Jerome Haerri (EURECOM) - Vikram Srinivasan (Bell Labs Research, India) Publicity and Web Chair - Massimo Reineri (Politecnico di Torino) Steering Committee - Renato Lo Cigno, Chair (University of Trento) - Ernst Biersack (EURECOM) - Falko Dressler (University of Innsbruck) - Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) - Mario Gerla (UCLA) - Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) _______________________________________________ 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] WoWMoM 2012 - Preliminary Announcement
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WoWMoM 2012 - Preliminary Announcement Datum: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:57:31 +0200 Von: Albert Banchs <banchs(a)it.uc3m.es> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT WoWMoM 2012 Thirteenth International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, University of Texas at Arlington June 25-28, 2012 San Francisco, California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in Future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents between them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context- awareness and so on. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless multimedia systems,services&applications - System prototypes, measurements, real deployment, and experiences - Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks - Mobile Social Networking - Participatory and urban sensing - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Seamless inter-networking and self-organization - Networking services for pervasive systems - Content-centric architectures, multimedia content management and distribution for mobile networks - Ad-hoc, Sensor and wireless mesh networks - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN - Vehicular wireless networks - Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Quality of Service and Quality of Experience - Location mechanism and services - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Network management and control - IP-based mobile networks and wireless multimedia services - Wireless security, dependability, reliability and survivability - Authentication, authorization, and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers presented at the Symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC). IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Manuscript submission deadline: December 2, 2011. - Manuscript acceptance notification: March 16, 2012. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit the conference website at http://wowmom2012.it.uc3m.es/, or contact the PC-chairs at wowmom12-pcchairs(at)inv.it.uc3m.es WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. WoWMoM 2012 will also feature an Industry Track, PhD Forum and a Demonstrations Session. Please visit the conference website for details. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (TO BE COMPLETED) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIR Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis, USA TPC CO-CHAIRS Albert Banchs, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jeongkeun "JK" Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Marco di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy INDUSTRY-TRACK CO-CHAIRS Dhruv Gupta, AT&T Labs, USA Katia Obraczka, University of California, San Francisco, USA PHD FORUM CO-CHAIRS Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA DEMO CO-CHAIRS Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA PANEL CHAIR Henning Schulzrine, Columbia University, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirmalya Roy, I2R, Singapore Xin Liu, University of California, Davis, USA FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP IEEE SECON 2012 (Deadline - December 8, 2011)
by Lars Wolf 16 Sep '11

16 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP IEEE SECON 2012 (Deadline - December 8, 2011) Datum: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:31:43 +0200 Von: Aline Carneiro Viana <aline.viana(a)inria.fr> An: tccc <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find below a Call for Papers for the 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2012), to be held in Seoul, Korea, on June 18-21, 2012. We apologize if you receive duplicate copies of this announcement. ---- [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Participation (CFP).] *********************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2012 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/ June 18-21, 2012 -- Seoul, Korea *********************************************************************************** The ninth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange innovative research ideas, recent results, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in the field of sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of the IEEE INFOCOM conference in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications Networks. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in all aspects of sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and networking are solicited. Within this domain, particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Vehicular Networks, Underwater Networks, Urban Sensing, and other Emerging Areas * Disruption Tolerant Networks * Measurements and Experimental Research * Security and Trustworthiness * Survivability, Network Management and Fault Tolerance * Modeling, Algorithms, and Performance Evaluation * Hardware and Software Platforms, Middleware * MAC, Network, Transport, Application Protocols and Cross-Layer Design * Network Coding, MIMO, White Space, Cooperative and Cognitive Communications * Applications of mesh, senor, and ad-hoc communications in diverse domains such as Smart Grids, Green Networking, Environment Monitoring, Context Sensing and Awareness, Social Networking, Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems, Contact Networking PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers for IEEE SECON 2012 must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11259. Papers must be no longer than 9 pages and in font size no smaller than 10 points. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding published by IEEE. Detailed paper submission guidelines will be posted in the SECON submission site. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Registration: 23:59 EST on December 1, 2011 Paper Submission Deadline: 23:59 EST on December 8, 2011 Acceptance Notification: March 19, 2012 Camera Ready: April 16, 2012 IEEE prohibits discrimination. For more information on their discrimination policy visit http://www.ieee.org/nondiscrimination. *********************************************************************************** EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE General Chairs Young-Bae Ko (Ajou University, Korea) Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs, USA) Technical Program Chairs Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, USA) Theodoros Salonidis (Technicolor, France) Web Chair Eric Rozner (AT&T Labs Research, USA) Publicity Chairs Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea) Ramya Raghavendra (IBM Watson Research, USA) Aline Viana (INRIA, France) Local Arrangements Chairs Sungrae Cho (Choonang University, Korea) Yun Won Chung (Soongsil University, Korea) Panels Chairs Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) Xin Liu (UC Davis, USA) Workshops Chairs Kangwon Lee (IBM Watson Research, USA) Kyung-Joon Park (DGIST, Korea) Demo Chairs Uichin Lee (KAIST, Korea) Konstantinos Pelechirinis (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Poster Chairs Young-June Choi (Ajou University, Korea) Ignacio Solis (PARC, USA) Publications Chair Yaling Yang (Virginia Tech, USA) Social Media Chair Changhee Joo (UNIST, Korea) Steering Committee Fred Bauer (Chair, Cisco, USA) Hamid Aghvami (King's College London, UK) Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Spain) Harvey Freeman (HAF Consulting, USA) Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs, USA) Prasant Mohapatra (UC Davis, USA) Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) ********************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ 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: [Mycolleagues] IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic on Information-Centric Networking
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] IEEE Communications Magazine feature topic on Information-Centric Networking Datum: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:36:58 +0100 Von: George Pavlou <g.pavlou(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk> Antwort an: admmyc(a)gmail.com An: mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on INFORMATION-CENTRIC NETWORKING Information-Centric Networking (ICN) marks a fundamental shift in communications and networking. ICN focuses on finding and transmitting information to end users instead of connecting end hosts that exchange information. The key concepts are expected to have a huge impact on the familiar textbook protocol stack, in network architecture in general, and will create new opportunities for all associated stakeholders including equipment vendors, network operators, service and content providers, and above all end-users. Scope and Objectives Information-centric networking is to succeed only if it can to provide clearly superior solutions to well-known problems in the current generation of all-IP networks and can be introduced to general usage incrementally. We invite authors to consider the following aspects with respect to information-centric networks: * Naming & addressing: What breakthroughs in naming and addressing will make ICN scalable when faced with a global network of billions of devices and zettabytes of available content? * Protocol stack: Can ICN deliver a neat and simple protocol stack? * Network architecture: What does a ICN network architecture look like? * Management: What are the essential characteristics of a complete management framework that is scalable, flexible, and suitable for ICN? * Caching: New issues to be addressed such as buffer management and caching policy. * Energy efficiency: Will ICN pave the way to a holistic energy efficient operation? * Internet of Things (IoT): How does ICN scale in the scenarios envisioned for the IoT and how does it compare with current IP-based IoT solutions? * Security: Can ICN foster the development of a more secure and trusted global communications infrastructure? * Which business models could foster a fair relationship between content producers, content providers and service/network providers? Submitted articles do not need to cover all these aspects but should strive to clearly contrast the ICN approach with the current TCP/IP-based state of affairs. Prospective authors should describe the key concepts, design, implementation, and evaluation of ICN proposals. Articles that demonstrate the feasibility of groundbreaking approaches through testbed/experimental results are particularly welcome. We invite authors to submit articles reporting original, previously unpublished research work on information-centric networking. Authors can find article guidelines at http://dl.comsoc.org/ci1/info/cfp/cfpcommag0712.htm. Submission Schedule * Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011 * Notification of Acceptance: February 29, 2012 * Final Manuscript Due: May 1, 2012 * Publication Date: July 2012 Feature Topic Editors Dr. Kostas Pentikousis Huawei Technologies European Research Centre Email: k.pentikousis(a)huawei.com Dr. Prosper Chemouil Orange Labs Email: prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com Dr. Kathleen Nichols Pollere Inc Email: nichols(a)pollere.net Prof. George Pavlou University College London, Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering Email: g.pavlou(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk Prof. Dan Massey Colorado State University Email: massey(a)cs.colostate.edu _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Network Magazine - Special Issue on Machine and Robotic Networking (May 2012)
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Network Magazine - Special Issue on Machine and Robotic Networking (May 2012) Datum: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:49:56 +0900 (KST) Von: Jung Min Park<millfron(a)yonsei.ac.kr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ======================================= Call for Papers Special Issue on "Machine and Robotic Networking" IEEE Network Magazine =================================================== The advances in communication networking technologies have been very successful in academia, industry and consumer markets. “Being connected” becomes an essential part of our daily life. Recently, we have been also observing that the communication distance between transmitters and receivers shrinks in many commercial applications. This includes sensor/RFID networks, WiFi and near field communication (NFC) devices. Such shortened distance is mostly caused by the high volume of data demand of users. One other reason is that the modern communications is not any more for human-to-human (H2H) information exchange only but also for machine-to-machine (M2M) or machine-to-human (M2H). The inter-machine distance will be gradually decreasing in many upcoming applications. This trend adds complexity to the communication protocols with very high node density and unpredictable interference in particular in wireless networks. The machine in M2M or M2H refers to various devices from remote metering modules to vehicles or small networked robots with communication functions embedded. M2M applications and use cases currently under consideration by ETSI, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and IEEE are mainly focused on stationary nodes (machines) or at least control of node mobility is out of scope of M2M applications. However, the controllable node mobility willconstitute a core part of M2M communications. Robotic networks will belong to this class of M2M, where the position of nodes can be changed to meet the needs of M2M applications. Independently, in the automatic control and robotics community, there has been special interest in connecting multiple robots for effectively achieving the common mission of a group of autonomous robots. This area is known as networked robotics. The main background of this approach is that connecting robots with less intelligence would be more beneficial than a single isolated robot with full intelligence. In particular, there have been a group of researchers focusing on the behaviours of small animals to mimic their grouping patterns such as group navigation and communications. This special issue is dedicated to fundamentals and applications in the machine and robotic networks. The main emphasis is to introduce and to open new research horizon to the networking researchers. Those who are currently investigating protocols for inter-machine data exchange or designing a group of networked machines (including robots) are potential authors for this special issue. The comprehensive survey and forecasting of this inter-disciplinary area with deep insight on research challenges and business opportunities are also seriously considered. The special issue encourages authors to submit their papers on the specific areas, which are not strictly limited to the followings, though: · Networking protocol design for machine and robotic networks · Distributed algorithm design for machine and robotic networks · Resource management for machine and robotic networks · Networked robots with special emphasis on networking and distributed computing · Capacity issues in machine and robotic networks · Mobility issues in machine and robotic networks · Cognitive machine and robotic networks · Bio-inspired networking in robotics · Design and application issues in M2M and networked robots · Business models and use cases for M2M and networked robots The interested authors are expected to submit their papers confirming to the guidelines ofIEEENetwork, http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html according to the following schedule: All paper processing will be through an online system, which will be announced later. In the mean time, you may contact the guest editors. · Paper submissions: October 15, 2011 · Notifications to authors: January 15, 2012 · Final manuscripts: March 1, 2012 · Publication of special issue: May 2012 Guest Editors Seong-Lyun Kim Yonsei University, Korea slkim(a)yonsei.ac.kr Dapeng Oliver Wu University of Florida, USA wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Klaus Schilling Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany schi(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de for(i=0;i<document.links.length;i++){try{if(document.links[i].toString().indexOf('javascript') < 0) document.links[i].target='_blank';}catch(e){}}try{setTimeout(function(){parent.view.resizeIframe(document.body.scrollWidth, document.body.scrollHeight);},200);}catch(e){} _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] COMCOM Special Issue on Reliable Network-based Services
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '11

14 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] COMCOM Special Issue on Reliable Network-based Services Datum: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:23:38 +0200 Von: Piotr Cholda <cholda(a)agh.edu.pl> Antwort an: piotr.cholda(a)agh.edu.pl Organisation: AGH University of Science and Technology An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* * * * Call for Papers * * * * COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS [Elsevier] * * * * Special Issue on Reliable Network-based Services * * * ************************************************************************* SCOPE In the today's provision of network services, a rapid development of many new technologies (like virtualization or cloud computing) and applications (e.g., social networking) can be seen. They have a considerable engineering, commercial and societal impact and pose numerous challenges to designers. One class of issues is the continuous offering of services in spite of various types of failures that are everyday events in networks. The increasing complexity, the participation of many different autonomous entities in the service provision, the lack of information, coordinated actions as well as governance makes this challenge increasingly difficult. In addition to a design of reliable network segments, server clusters etc., new technological issues like stability and failure management across heterogeneous autonomous systems arise. They also involve novel fields at the border of technology, business and society, like risk-awareness or influence of public policy. The goal of this issue is to present state of the art research contributions that focus on the reliable network-based services (RNS) provisioning. Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated special issue topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be of high quality, original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Network and service resilience: + reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, business, and the society + service differentiation based on recovery methods + dependability of networked applications and network-based services + application and service-specific survivability techniques - Commercial and societal context: + telecommunication networks as an element of critical national infrastructures + network resilience combined with economics and business issues + risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks - Operational aspects: + resilience of multi-domain connections in the Internet + reliability of emerging technologies (e.g., network virtualization, thin client architectures) + network dependability in cloud computing + interaction between fault management and traffic handling - Theory and modeling + reliability analysis + methods and theory for survivable networks and systems + simulation techniques for network and service resilience SCHEDULE Manuscript submission deadline: December 1, 2011 First notification: March 1, 2012 Submission of revised paper: May 1, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2012 GUEST EDITORS Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, piotr.cholda(a)agh.edu.pl Bjarne E. Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway, bjarne.e.helvik(a)item.ntnu.no INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the Special Issue, the authors have to select "Special Issue: RNS" 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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Fwd: [Tccc] DEADLINE APPROACHING FAST: EWSN 2012, February 15-17, 2012, in Trento, Italy
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] DEADLINE APPROACHING FAST: EWSN 2012, February 15-17, 2012, in Trento, Italy Datum: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:37:34 +0200 Von: Anna Förster <anna.foerster(a)supsi.ch> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ************************************************** **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** **** **** **** EWSN '12 **** **** The 9th European Conference on **** **** Wireless Sensor Networks **** **** **** **** February 15-17, 2012 **** **** University of Trento, Italy **** **** http://ewsn12.disi.unitn.it **** ************************************************** As the field of wireless sensor networks matures, new design con- cepts, experimental and theoretical findings, and applications have continued to emerge at a rapid pace. Being one of the lead- ing international conferences in this area, the European Confer- ence on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) has played a substantial role in the dissemination of innovative ideas from researchers all over the globe. For EWSN 2012, the ninth meeting in this se- ries, we invite papers describing original, previously unpub- lished research results pertaining to wireless sensor networks, broadly conceived. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware Design and Implementation * Operating Systems * Programming Abstractions and Tools * Communication and Network Protocols * Information and Signal Processing * Security and Fault-Tolerance * Prototypes, Field Experiments, Testbeds * Fundamental Theoretical Limits and Algorithms * Novel Applications * Cooperating Objects and their Applications 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. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS at http://edas.info. 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 Lec- ture Notes in Computer Science series. IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration and abstract submission: September 16, 2011 Full paper due: September 23, 2011 Author notification: November 21, 2011 All deadlines are hard -- no extensions will be granted. CONFERENCE CHAIRS Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy) Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA) POSTER AND DEMO CO-CHAIRS Amy L. Murphy (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy) Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) INDUSTRIAL LIAISONS Pedro Jose' Marron (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Rajeev Shorey (NIIT University, India) PUBLICITY CHAIR Anna Foerster (SUPSI, Switzerland) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Francesca Menna (University of Trento, Italy) WEBMASTER Matteo Chini (University of Trento, Italy) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Nael Abu-Ghazelah, Binghamton University, USA Mario Alves, ISEP, Portugal Habib Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Stefano Basagni, Northwestern University, USA Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Ilker Demirkol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Cem Ersoy, Bogazici University, Turkey Anna Foerster, SUPSI, Switzerland Katia Jaffres-Runser, INSA de Lyon, France Mikael Johansson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Salil Kanhere, University of New South Whales, UK Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of South California, USA Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm, USA Koen Langendoen, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University, USA Chengyang Lu, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Pedro Jose' Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, Cambridge University, UK Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Amy Murphy, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Kay Roemer, University of Lubeck, Germany Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Cormac Sreenan, University of Cork, Ireland Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Ossama Younis, Telcordia, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy -- Dr. Anna Förster PostDoctoral Researcher Networking Laboratory, SUPSI Via Cantonale, Galleria 2 Manno, Switzerland Tel. + 41 58 666 6597 http://www.dti.supsi.ch/~afoerste/ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) Datum: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 22:12:19 +0000 Von: Chipara, Octav <octav-chipara(a)uiowa.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) http://www.iccps.org/ April 17-19, 2011 Beijing, China Held in conjunction with CPS Week - http://triton.towson.edu/~cpsweek Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS) ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) Cyber-physical systems are systems with a tight coupling of the cyber aspects of computing and communications with the physical aspects of dynamics and engineering that must abide by the laws of physics. The objective of this conference is to be a primary forum for reporting state-of-the-art advances and innovations in theoretical principles, tools, applications, systems infrastructure, and testbeds for cyber-physical systems.Contributions should emphasize the cross-cutting, system-wide themes. Sectors of applicability include, but not be limited to, transportation (automotive, aerospace, marine, rail), SCADA systems (electricity generation including smart grids and the like, other utilities), smart physical infrastructure (smart bridges, buildings and highways), energy efficiency (energy-aware buildings), environmental monitoring, defense systems, intelligent medical devices, tele-operations and robotics. Submissions must report results from original research and not have been submitted to or published in other conferences or journals. Submissions must be a maximum of 10 pages, in 2–column format, and use font sizes of no smaller than 10 pt. Instructions for submissions: http://www.iccps.org. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: • Theoretical foundations of CPS • Modeling, Analysis and Synthesis Techniques • Architectures for Cyber-Physical Systems • Building blocks for Cyber-Physical Systems • Systems Abstractions, Services and OS Support • Evaluation approaches and metrics • Novel CPS applications • Detailed Case Studies Important Dates: Submission Deadline: October 14, 2011 Acceptance Decisions: December 10, 2011 General Chair: Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania Program Chairs: Chenyang Lu, Washington University Steering Committee: Karl-Erik Årzén, Lund U. Bruce Krogh, CMU Raj Rajkumar (Chair), CMU Jack Stankovic, UVA Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt U. Claire Tomlin, Stanford U. Marilyn Wolf, GeogiaTech _______________________________________________ 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: Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks on Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Wireless Networked Robotics
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

Enrico Natalizio <enatalizio(a)deis.unical.it> schrieb: Call for Papers: _____________________________________________ Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks (Impact Factor: 1.592) Call for Papers * Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks on Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Wireless Networked Robotics* _____________________________________________ -------------- *Overview:* -------------- Teams of heterogeneous devices pursuing a common objective are envisioned to be a viable and effective solution for many civil, societal and military applications. A large body of research, from various perspectives, have been produced by both the ad hoc networking and the robotics research communities to achieve self-organization and coordination of groups of sensors, actuators, robots or drones toward target-oriented missions. But, the convergence of objectives and methodologies of the two disciplines is still open for further significant research efforts and challenging problems remain. The research on ad hoc networks, autonomic networks, cyber physical systems, self-organizing networks and machine-to-machine communications has involved issues, concepts and challenges that are useful for characterizing the pathway toward the formalization of the theory and the definition of algorithms for Wireless Networked Robotics (WNR). WNR brings together the physical control of the devices along with their communication capabilities and it includes that so far have been either neglected or only partially explored by the ad hoc networking and the robotics research communities. In WNR some or all of the devices are expected to have memory and reasoning capabilities, which allow them to use the input coming from other devices, the environment and their history to select the best behaviour to assume according to mission objectives. Therefore, machine learning and cognitive networks concepts and algorithms would greatly contribute to WNR theory and algorithms. This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the theory, algorithms and applications of wireless networked robotics. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in all aspects of this discipline. In particular, the topic of interest includes but is not limited to - algorithm and theory of cooperation and coordination in WNR modelization, simulation and evaluation of coordination and cooperation schemes in WNR - communication and motion aware protocols for WNR - impact and optimization of network performance through physical and communication control of the devices - bio-inspired algorithms for cooperation and coordination in WNR self-organization in WNR - swarm intelligence and swarm robotics algorithms in WNR use cases and applications for WNR A full description can be found at the following address: http://www.elsevierscitech.com/cfp/call_for_papers_WNR.pdf _____________________________________________ *Submission Format and Guideline: * _____________________________________________ All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 11pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as "Guide to Authors" at www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as "SI - Wireless Networked Robotics" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/ All papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ------------------------- *Guest Editors: * ------------------------- Enrico Natalizio (Corresponding Editor), INRIA Lille - Nord Europe - France enrico.natalizio AT inria.fr Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA - Switzerland gianni AT idsia.ch Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University - Australia ahmet.sekercioglu AT monash.edu Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt - Austria evsen.yanmaz AT uni-klu.ac.at _____________________________________________ *Important Dates: * _____________________________________________ Paper submission deadline: *October 31st, 2011* First round of notification: *January 30th, 2012* Final Manuscript Due: *March 30th, 2012* _____________________________________________ Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE TPDS SI on Cyber-Physical Systems, submission due by Sep. 16, 2011
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '11

12 Sep '11

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE TPDS SI on Cyber-Physical Systems, submission due by Sep. 16, 2011 Datum: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> Antwort an: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org <discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org>, tccn(a)comsoc.org <tccn(a)comsoc.org>, 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> Call for Papers for a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) is seeking original manuscripts for special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), scheduled to be published in the September issue of 2012. Although significant advances have been achieved over the last decades in several fields of science and engineering, and especially in the areas of distributed computing, sensing, data collection and internet-connection of large scale object networks, it is mainly the coordination and tight link between computational, virtual and physical resources that will drive the potential of having a pervasive effect in the citizens everyday life, satisfying various needs and also creating new opportunities for the introduction of services that will enhance the Quality of Life of the society as a whole. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that will far exceed those of today in terms of: effectiveness, adaptability, autonomicity, energy efficiency, precision, reliability, safety, usability, scalability, stability and user-centric applicability. Moreover, recently the Sensor Web concept came into foreground, aiming at combining distributed sensing with the ubiquitous connectivity and accessibility of the web, therefore facilitating the close interaction of digital world with physical world. Cyber-physical systems find direct applicability in a wide range of areas and disciplines, including for instance (but not limited to): a) Smart Grid technologies: that aim at facilitating a reliable and efficient delivery of electricity to consumers using two-way digital communications and security technologies, which allows utility providers and consumers to constantly monitor and control the delivery network as well as electricity consumption for the purpose of energy saving, cost reduction, and reliability enhancement; b) Wireless sensing, monitoring and networking: to enable distributed monitoring systems of numerous smart sensors and actuators, mobile devices, RFIDs, robots etc., which revolutionize a variety of application areas with unprecedented density, fidelity, and scalability of environment instrumentation; c) Vehicular cyber-physical systems and intelligent transportation systems: that integrate computing, communication, and storage capabilities with monitoring and control of vehicles in the physical world to deal with the grand challenges of safe, green, and efficient transportation. The technical challenges are significant, and of high research and practical importance, mainly stemming from the fact that traditionally different groups of scientists deal with this setting without much interaction, using disjoint sets of techniques. Towards merging the two main and different features of those systems, that of information-centric character and node-centric physical world connectivity, well-defined analytical models, methodologies and experimental validations are required of how to build such systems capable of coping with the entire chain of operations and orchestrating the various parts together in a flexible, efficient and economic way. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Architectural framework for distributed CPS * Resource Management in large scale CPS * Smart Grid Technologies * Security, privacy, scalability, and reliability issues * Design and cross-layer optimizations * Vehicular CPS and intelligent transportation systems * Novel monitoring applications with sensors, actuators, smart phones, robots, and other wireless mobile devices * Distributed and scalable monitoring systems * Evaluations and filed trials of CPS and solutions Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on the following web link: http://www.computer.org/mc/tpds/author.htm. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tpds-cs. Please note the following important dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 16, 2011 Notification of Initial Decision: November 18, 2011 Minor Revisions due (if needed): December 15, 2011 Notification of Final Decision: January 26, 2012 Final Manuscripts Due: February 03, 2012 Publication Date: September 2012 Co-guest Editors: Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens Nei Kato, Tohoku University Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University Publicity Co-Chairs: Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University Xu Li, INRIA, France _______________________________________________ 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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