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[Tccc] CFP RWI2009 at IEEE DCOSS'09
by Srdjan Krco 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.] CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future Internet (RWI 2009) Marina del Rey, California, June 10, 2009, co-located with DCOSS'09 http://www.deri.ie/research/events/rwi2009 *********************************************************************** Recently, Future Internet research has attracted a lot of attention across the globe with a number of initiatives such as the Future Internet Assembly in Europe, GENI in the US and AKARI in Japan. A common theme is the requirement to adopt an all encompassing approach taking into account requirements and views from a number of angles: networking protocols, socio-economics, services, security, etc. The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of wireless networks will allow everyone permanent access to the Internet at all times and all places. Trillions of heterogeneous network enabled devices such as sensors and actuators located in open space or attached to existing objects, RFID enabled items, robots and generally many heterogeneous devices with communication and computational capabilities are integrated into the fabric of the Internet, providing an accurate reflection of the real world, delivering fine-grained information and enabling almost real time interaction between the virtual world and real world. The increased computational power of these devices has the potential to empower people to generate their own applications for innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and anywhere. This wireless connection is not limited to user devices, almost any artefact from clothing to buildings can be connected and collaborate as a network enabled device. Furthermore new sensor technologies and wireless sensor networks provide environmental intelligence and the capability to sense, reason and actuate. This leads to the exciting vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of "intelligent things" and "smart spaces" and thus making the real world "clickable". The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing the Future Internet and in particular the real world aspect of it. The workshop should serve as a place to exchange ideas between different national and regional initiatives as well as research projects and researchers. The main topics of interest include the following: * Management, scalability and heterogeneity of devices and users: how can a vast number of devices be managed and networked efficiently? Will current naming and addressing be efficient and sufficient? How does IP scale to low complexity (e.g. with the use of 6LoWPAN)? How can we integrate more data centric services on the Internet (in contrast to address centric mechanism)? In particular wireless sensor and actuator networks will be unreliable, dropping off and connecting fluently to the Internet - can we design efficient Plug and Play (PnP) mechanisms to manage these edge networks? * Networked knowledge and context - What are the means to describe this information? What are the mechanisms that we need to manage search, and interpret this knowledge (semantics). How can we integrate it with other information sources? What will be the traffic patterns that we have to deal with in addition to the commonly seen data traffic (email, web-browsing, IPTV) on the Internet and will the collective use of the Real World Internet impact these services? How can this data be modelled and represented? How can we compose new context information on the fly? * Privacy, security and trust - How to implement fast and secure cryptographic algorithms and protocols in devices highly limited in resources? How can we design usable and privacy friendly identity management tools that enable users to stay in control of their data? How can we provide anonymity, unobservability, unlinkability and pseudonymity properties? How can we anonymise data generated by individuals? How can we design transparency and feedback mechanisms that educate users and raise security and privacy awareness? How can we protect the infrastructure from adversaries carrying traffic analysis attacks on the communication system? * Impact of RWI traffic - What is the RWI traffic model(s)? What quality of service requirements the RWI applications' have for the underlying transport networks? How to serve large number of RWI traffic sources? How to reduce the network resource utilization while preserving the quality of service? The following topics in the context of the Real World Internet are also of interest: * Standardisation * Social and legal implications. * Service understanding / automatic composition and modeling e.g. ontologies Cross-layer collaboration (business systems / network services / devices) Self-sustainability (self-* features e.g. self-management, self-healing etc.) Business models - context based solutions (no one size fits all approach) Ease of use / application modeling / toolkits Infrastructure management (HW & SW set-up/maintenance etc) Devices Identification Interoperability among systems and objects Important Dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2009 Acceptance notification: April 25, 2009 Workshop: June 10 ******************************** Submission Details Papers should be submitted in PDF format via email to srdjan.krco(a)ericsson.com. Page limit is 12 and the paper should follow the IEEE Transactions Journal and conferences style (http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). All accepted papers will be published in a separate DCOSS 09 Workshops Volume, with ISBN. ******************************** Organization Committee Program Co-Chairs: Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland) Mirko Presser (University of Surrey, UK) Srdjan Krco (Ericsson Ireland) Technical Program Committee (TBC) Ivan Stojmenovic (Univ. of Ottawa) David Simplot-Ryl (INRIA Lille) Sotiris Nikoletseas (CTI Patras) Nigel Baker (UWE Bristol) Takahiro Hara, (Osaka University) Curt Schurgers (UCSD) Marimuthu Palaniswami (Univ. of Melbourne) Inoue Masugi (NICT Japan) Antonio Ruzelli (UCD Dublin) Eduardo Tovar (ISEP-IPP) Karl Aberer (EPFL) Manolis Koubarakis (Univ. of Athens) Oscar Corcho (UPM) Amit Sheth (Wright) Andreas Wombacher (Univ. of Twente) Konrad Wrona (NATO C3 Agency) Theodore Zahariadis (Synelixis) Telma Mota (PT inovacao) Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) Stefan Fischer (Univ. of Luebeck) Alex Gluhak (Ericsson Ireland) Asunción Gómez Pérez (UPM) Costas Constantinou (University of Birmingham) Richard Brooks (Clemson University) Dimitrios Serpanos (Univ. of Patras) Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich) Koen Langendoen (TU Delft) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Unical) Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) Andreas Terzis (JHU) Veljko Milutinovic (ETF Belgrade) Slawomir Kuklinski (WUT Warsaw) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] : CFP: Journal of Communications (JCM) Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications
by Guan-Ming Su 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Call for Papers Journal of Communications (JCM) Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/si/jcmsi_mcna.html With the advancement of multimedia signal processing/compression technology and the wide deployment of wired/wireless networks, there is an increasing demand for multimedia communication services. However, advanced multimedia processing often attempts to optimize the coding efficiency and introduces higher dependency between the processed data, resulting in a fundamental challenge to robust data communication. On the other hand, modern communication networks often exploit multi-dimensional diversity, such as user, frequency, and location, and finer granularity of resources, such as power and spectrum, for multimedia communications that have seldom been explored in multimedia signal processing. Therefore, we are facing unprecedented challenges in multimedia communications, networking, and applications. Many critical issues need to be addressed to improve the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia networks, for example, how to deploy the cross-layer design methodology that leverages the characteristics of multimedia signal processing and communication networks, how to optimize the QoS subject to available resources, and, in particular, how to allocate resources to individual nodes and sources when a network involves multiple nodes and sources of multimedia. Topics: The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of multimedia communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cross-layer architecture design for multimedia transmission * Content/Network-aware cross-layer design and optimization * QoS-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control * Performance evaluation of cross-layer multimedia transmission design * Joint source and network coding and decoding * Cross-layer design for P2P streaming * Ad hoc and infrastructure-based overlay network communication * Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks * Distributed wireless video communications * Multimedia delivery over wireless mesh network * Noncollaborative/collaborative resource management for multi-stream transmission * Cooperative multimedia communications in multihop wireless networks * Error resilience and error concealment techniques for multimedia communications Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009 Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009 Publication Date: September 2009 Submission: Submissions should follow the guidelines of Journal of Communications. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Further information on Journal of Communications can be found at: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/. For further questions or inquiries, please contact corresponding editor Dr. Guan-Ming Su Guest Editors: Dr. Guan-Ming Su Marvell Semiconductor, USA Prof. Ivan V. Bajić School of Engineering Science Simon Fraser University, Canada Prof. Homer H. Chen Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan Dr. Huifang Sun Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: GeoSensor Networks 2009, Oxford, UK]
by Lars Wolf 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: GeoSensor Networks 2009, Oxford, UK Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:38:58 +0000 Von: Andrew Markham <acmarkham(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <1c1bc1f60812080316n70689053o6b4c169c525d1641(a)mail.gmail.com> *** Apologies for multiple and cross posting *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS GEOSENSOR NETWORKS 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13-14 July 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom Website: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geosensornetworks/ Sponsored by: University of Oxford Papers to be published by Springer in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series. They will also be indexed electronically on SpringerLink. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geosensor networks shift the traditional centralized paradigm of monitoring a geographical area from the macroscale to the microscale, by using distributed sensors to measure variables of interest (such as environmental, biological and chemical variables, seismic activity and geolocated videofeeds). Whilst having the ability to provide data with unparalleled temporal and spatial resolution, geosensor networks have pushed the frontiers of traditional GIS research into the realms of computer science, introducing issues such as data fusion, geolocated queries, energy efficient data collection and data mining and interpretation. The incorporation of mobile devices into these networks allows data acquisition to be undertaken on a spatially varying sampling resolution, introducing new research avenues such as co-operative sensing and dynamic coverage. Furthermore, geosensor networks are not only constrained to passively monitor a region, through actuators, they also have the ability to influence or modify their environment. Research in geosensor networks spans multiple fields, ranging from strategies for intelligent data acquisition to virtual reality interactions with environmental dynamics. Of particular interest are applications of geosensor networks, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, early warning systems and wildlife tracking. This workshop seeks to address these issues, by bringing together leading experts in a two day forum to present novel research and exchange ideas relating to the state of the art and its future directions. Real world results are particularly welcomed, as are reports of interesting or challenging deployments. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Andreas Savvides (Yale) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 3 April 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 27 April 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 5 May 2009 Conference: 13-14 July 2009 TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following as they relate to spatio-temporal applications and geosensor networks: * Data mining across sensor themes * Modeling spatio-temporal data streams * Data stream processing * Handling uncertainty and imprecision in geospatial data * Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion * Location-based queries * Middleware for pervasive computing * Mobile computing * Co-operative sensing and organization * Peer-to-peer collaboration strategies using geospatial information * Queries (aggregate and statistical) and reasoning over data streams * Query optimization over sensor networks * Real-time updating of geospatial databases * Sensor information management systems * Spatiotemporal sensor data mining * Video and motion imagery analysis for real-time scene and event modeling and monitoring * Virtual modeling of large geographic areas * Time geography * Privacy, geo-privacy * Sensor networks and interaction with actuators * Applications of geosensor networks (e.g. disaster management, early warning systems, environmental monitoring) * Real world deployments, issues, challenges and results ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General chair: - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Steering committee: - Silvia Nittel, University of Maine - Alex Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Publicity chair: - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras, Greece - Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece - Dinos Ferentinos, University of Athens, Greece - Alvaro Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA - Yannis Kotidis ,Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Antonio Kruger, University of Muenster, Germany - Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne, Australia - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford, UK - Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK - Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK - Monika Sester, LUH, Germany - Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia - Theodore Tsiligiridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford, UK (Chair) - Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland - Mike Worboys, University of Maine, USA - Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK -- Dr Andrew Markham Postdoctoral Research Assistant Room 502 Oxford Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road OX1 3QD +44 1865 273 869 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Andrew.Markham/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

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IEEE CommMag CFP: Consumer Communications & Networking
by Bin Wei 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Folks, > > Here (and attached) is the Call-for-Papers for the next issue in the > /IEEE Communications Magazine/ Consumer Communications and Networking > Series (to be published in December 2009). > > Please feel free to share this CFP with others and encourage people to > submit. > > Thanks, > Stan Moyer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Call for Papers > > > /IEEE Communications Magazine/ > > > Consumer Communications and Networking Series > > Recent trends in consumer networking are that consumers are both > creators and producers of content (albeit of varying quality!) and > peer distribution is the natural model. This is one of the emerging > trends that impact how consumers can use devices to create, > manipulate, store, and access content --- and is surely a much > different view compared to only five years ago where most experts > still viewed the world in terms of servers and clients, producers and > consumers as distinct and separate entities....indeed, there are still > dinosaur organizations out there today who are fighting a rearguard > action to protect their dwindling revenue streams because they haven't > been brave enough to embrace this new model. Trends like this are > ones that papers for the consumer communications and networking series > should address. > > We have also seen the technological reach of existing solutions being > applied in unconventional ways where all aspects of our digital lives > are being consumed to provide novel platforms where interoperation > between disparate technologies is now possible. For example, the > automotive industry is now producing cars that include ad hoc networks > designed to provide multimedia solutions as well as links to wide area > communications via satellite networks. Using these networking > capabilities and interfaces such as USB we see automobile > functionality being extended. In this sense the boundaries between the > car and conventional consumer devices are beginning to blur. > > Perhaps the sole technology responsible for the many technological > advances we see today is communications. Example communications > technologies include the emergence of 3G and 4G, LTE and WiMax, > Bluetooth, Zigbee, Ultrawideband, TV-band, and Powerline and Free > space optical. Applications of these technologies include personal > and body area networking, home networking, game networking, ad-hoc > networking, and sensor networking. These networks may be connected > through networking layers that are cognitive, peer-to-peer enabled, > and have the properties of self organisation and management. These > networks will become key enablers where we are already seeing > ubiquitous content distribution models, for example, television can > now be viewed wherever we are and on any devices capable of connecting > to one of the many networking paradigms defined above. With these > networks we can expect a platform for true innovation where content > distribution will overlay these networks using compression, rights > management, delivery, and appropriate quality of service mechanisms > that can be seamlessly moved over these next generation networks. All > of this is made possible by networking, software and middleware that > present to the service designer the tools to provide ease of use, > security, and stunning interactivity to the end consumer. > > With this in mind the /IEEE Communications Magazine /is seeking papers > that emphasize consumer networking in whatever physical environment it > finds itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the > following: > > *Scope of Contributions * > > * Wireless Multimedia Networks > * Body and Personal Area Networks > * Mobile Networks and Multimedia > * Emerging Wireless Technologies (Ultra Wideband, OFDM, RFID, > Zigbee, etc.) > * Distributed Network Protocols for Multimedia High Definition > Audio/Video Networking > * Networked Appliances > * Entertainment Networks > * P2P Algorithms and Architectures for Consumer Electronics Peer > Streaming, Networking and Applications > * Home Networking and Automation > * Next Generation Networks > * Pervasive Computing and Contextual Systems > * Middleware for Networked Consumer Devices > * Media and Device Adaptation > * Architecture, Platforms and Protocols for Networked Games and > Virtual Worlds. > * Social Networking and Home Entertainment > * Music and Movie Distribution Models > * Augmented Reality > * Task Computing and the Home > * Home Sensor Networks > * Autonomic Home Networking > * Zero Configuration Networking > * Digital Rights Management > * Trust in Social Networks > * Voice/Video of IP > > **** > > *Submission* > > Articles should be /tutorial/ in nature, with the intended audience > being all members of the communications technology communities. They > should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the > specialty of the article. Articles should not exceed 4500 words. > Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. > Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at: > http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html and a brief > summary is available at > http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/edbd-web/reviewformintro.html. Please > submit a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper by May 1, 2009 via > Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). > Register or log in, and go to the Author Center. Follow the > instructions there. Select the topic "December 2009/Consumer > Communications and Networking Series." > > *Schedule for Submissions:* > > Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009 > Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2009 > Final Manuscript Due: September 15, 2009 > Publication Date: December 1, 2009 > > *Series Editors:* > > Professor Madjid Merabti > > Liverpool John Moores University > > Liverpool, England > > L3 3AF > > M.Merabti(a)ljmu.ac.uk > > > > Stanley Moyer > > Telcordia Technologies > > One Telcordia Dr. > > Piscataway, NJ 08854 > > USA > > stanm(a)research.telcordia.com > > > > Dr. Mario Kolberg > > Stirling University > > Stirling, Scotland > > mko(a)cs.stir.ac.uk > > > > >

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[Tccc] Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (held at IPSN 2009)
by Panangadan, Anand V 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA 2009) Held in conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) San Francisco, CA, USA April 16, 2009 Wireless sensor networks and their applications have grown steadily during the past decade as a result of the convergence of various technologies spanning wireless, data processing algorithms, computing hardware, storage, and sensor capabilities. The pervasive nature of static and mobile sensors scattered throughout the environment enables multi-resolution capture of environmental or ambient information that serve as the basis of intelligence for knowledge inference and decision-making. Information processing for sensor networks enables new capabilities to operate autonomously and learn, perceive, reason, and react intelligently to their environments. Large scale sensor networks are now being used in a number of Earth and Space Science applications, including large-area terrestrial systems for geologic monitoring, volcano/plume monitoring, seismic (earthquake) monitoring, large-scale ocean monitoring for tsunamis, storm surges, plumes, algae blooms, and weather forecasting systems comprised of aerial and ground/coastal nodes. Such Earth and Space sensor networks are now evolving from "passive observation and reporting systems" to "active and reactive systems" that dynamically evolve in response to complex and rapid spatio-temporal events. This workshop is a forum for scientists and researchers to present new ideas and papers on sensor networks applications in the areas of Earth and Space Science. Papers on all aspects of Earth and Space Applications can be submitted to this workshop. We expect this workshop to have invited papers as well as contributed papers. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, are: - Monitoring of long range and large-scale phenomena - Geologic and Seismic monitoring - Chemical plumes and other atmospheric events - Oceanic events prediction and monitoring - Sensor networks applications in near space and deep space - Data fusion, compression, and processing for sensorwebs - Simulation, emulation, and experiments on sensor networks for Earth and Space Science - Databases, data search/mining technologies and knowledge extraction mechanisms from sensor networks in Earth and Space Science - Information management, and data visualization and display techniques for sensor networks - Signal processing, control, and resource management solutions for sensor networks - AI and machine learning for sensor networks - Intelligent networking and routing protocols for optimal operation of large-scale sensor networks Dates: Submission: February 28, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2009 Final Version Due: April 2, 2009 Webpage: http://viterbi.usc.edu/ESSA2009 General Chair: Srikanta Kumar, BAE Systems Program Co-Chairs: Ashit Talukder, JPL (Ashit.Talukder(a)jpl.nasa.gov) and Cauligi Raghavendra, USC (raghu(a)usc.edu) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Sensor Network for Building Monitoring: From Theory to Real Application
by Malka Nishanthi Halgamuge 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS EJSE Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering Special Issue on Sensor Network for Building Monitoring: From Theory to Real Application http://www.ejse.org EJSE invites contributions on the above subject to the first issue of an ongoing series of special ssues in building monitoring using sensor networks. Monitoring and automatic control of building environment is a crucial application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The investigation of efficient sensor network design that minimizes energy dissipation in a battery of the sensor node with limited battery power is a vital consideration for sensor network lifetime. Therefore careful scheduling of battery power in sensor networks has become a critical issue in network design. Recent technological developments have permitted miniaturization and power efficiency of sensors, and integration of data into applications for building monitoring and computer interaction. Sensor networks illustrate an exceptional improvement over traditional sensors. However, there are still many challenges to be met before we see more widespread use of WSN in building monitoring applications. The principal objective of this special issue is to assemble papers on recent advances made in the area of sensor networks for monitoring buildings. Authors are specially invited to submit contributions in, (but not restricted to), the following topics: - Practical experience and knowledge gained with real life deployment of sensor networks for building monitoring for examples temperature, light intensity, CO and CO2 level - Novel techniques for actual sensor deployment, data gathering in building monitoring - Effects on activity monitoring, reliable communication, quality of service and security - Power efficient communication: miniaturization, system integration and energy scavenging Submission Details: Papers Deadline: 30th June 2009 Acceptance Notification: 31st July 2009 Final Manuscript Due: 31st August 2009 Publication Date: October 2009 Guest Editors: Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia malka.nisha at unimelb.edu.au A/Prof Nick Haritos Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia nharitos at unimelb.edu.au Series Editor: Editor-in-Chief, EJSE Prof Priyan Mendis Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia pamendis at unimelb.edu.au Submitted papers should be of high quality and not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts should be submitted online at: http://www.ejse.org. Please read the author guidelines, which are located at http://www.ejse.org. For further questions or inquiries, please contact Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge (malka.nisha at unimelb.edu.au) Best Regards Malka ====================================== Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge Melbourne School of Engineering The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia. Phone: +61 3 8344 6769 Email: malka.nisha(a)unimelb.edu.au Home Page: http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/~malkah/ ====================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] Call for Submissions - ACM Multimedia 2009]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Call for Submissions - ACM Multimedia 2009 Datum: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:07:10 +0100 Von: Susanne Boll <susanne.boll(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE> Antwort an: Susanne Boll <susanne.boll(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Referenzen: <D7F4D37F-5E3C-42FB-8614-6520EB02FF3A(a)informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China October 19-24, 2009 www.acmmm09.org <https://webmail.ewi.tudelft.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.acmmm09…> ______________________________________________________ General Chairs Wen Gao, Peking University, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands cordially invite you to participate in this premier annual event on multimedia research, technology and art. The conference will have an excellent technical program, and will be surrounded by a multimedia art exhibition and a number of outstanding state-of-the-art tutorials and workshops. Special highlights will include an extended and carefully designed program of panel discussions, and the new concept of Multimedia Grand Challenge that we introduce in 2009 as a part of the conference program. The technical program will consist of the oral/poster sessions and invited talks with topics of interest in: (a) Multimedia content analysis, processing, and retrieval (b) Multimedia networking, sensor networks, and systems support (c) Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications (d) Human-Centered Multimedia ** *Full papers* are solicited to be presented in oral sessions, while *short papers* will be presented as posters in an interactive setting. ** *Important Dates for Full and Short Papers:* ** *April 10, 2009* Full Paper Registration (Abstract Submission) Deadline *April 17, 2009* Full Paper Submission Deadline *May 8, 2009* Short Paper Submission Deadline *July 3, 2009* Notification of Acceptance *July 24, 2009* Camera-ready Submission Deadline ** In addition to full and short papers, submissions are also solicited for the conference events listed below. The submission guidelines for each of the conference events can be found on *http://www.acmmm09.org <http://www.acmmm09.org/>*** ** *Panels *will consist of discussions on timely and controversial topics. ** *Tutorials *will address the state-of-the-art developments regarding all aspects of multimedia, and will be of interest to the entire multimedia community, from novices in the world of multimedia to the most seasoned researchers, from people working in academia to industry professionals. ** *Workshops *will address focused topics pertinent to the main conference that demand dedicated coverage due to their relevance to the current multimedia research and development. ** *Open Source Competition* *2009* will be the sixth edition of this successful competition emphasizing the impact the ACM Multimedia conference aims to achieve on multimedia practice. ** *Brave New Topics* track is a special sessions track containing papers extending the boundaries of multimedia research. ** *Technical Demos* will show what is currently possible regarding all aspects of multimedia technology and its applications. ** *Video Program* allows researchers and artists to demonstrate their tools, systems or applications without having to bring the equipment for a "live" demo. *Interactive Art Program* will include long and short papers describing interactive multimedia art works, tools, applications, and technical approaches for creative uses of multimedia content and technology. It will also include an art exhibition. ** *NEW in 2009:** Multimedia Grand Challenge* is a set of challenges from various industry leaders, geared to engage the multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry's 2-5 year horizon. ** *Doctoral Symposium* is an opportunity for students involved in the preparation of a PhD to interactively discuss their research issues and ideas with senior researchers, and receive constructive feedback from members of the research community.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: AD HOC NOW 2009]
by Lars Wolf 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: AD HOC NOW 2009 Datum: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:16:13 +1100 Von: Chun Tung Chou <ctchou(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ADHOCNOW 2009 The Eigth International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless September 16-19, 2009 Murcia, Spain http://libra.inf.um.es/~pedrom/adhocnow/ Since its creation in 2002, AD HOC NOW has become a well-established and well-known international conference dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Submission: March 22, 2008 Paper Submission : March 27, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2008 Camera-ready versions due: June 7, 2008 Demo proposals due: May 3, 2009 SCOPE ----- We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures * Delay-Tolerant Networking * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Vehicular Networks * Wireless Internet * Wireless Mesh Networks PROCEEDINGS ----------- As in the past years, we plan to have the proceedings of Adhoc Now 2009 published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. High-quality articles will be invited for an special issue of the Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks Journal (AHSWN). PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------- Authors are strongly encouraged to (but not required to) submit a 150 word abstract of their paper along with three keywords by the abstract submission deadline (March 22, 2008). Acceptable formats for the abstracts are plain text, postscript (PS) and portable document format (PDF). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages (including a 150 word abstract, all figures, tables and references) in Springer Verlag LNCS format. Acceptable formats for papers are PS and PDF. Submissions which are not in the appropriate format will be rejected without review. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. All abstract and paper submissions will be handled electronically at http://s01.inf.um.es/openconf/openconf.php WORKSHOPS --------- Several workshops are expected to be co-located with the main conference. The themes of the workshops are expected to be related to the technical areas of mobile and wireless computing. They will provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals to ADHOCNOW Workshop Co-chairs, Miguel Labrador (labrador@cse .usf.edu) and Ivan Stojmenovic (stojmenovic(a)storm.ca), no later than March 1, 2009. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to both co-chairs including the following information: 1. Name of the workshop 2. Description of goals, scope, previous history (if any), and why it is important in mobile and wireless networking. 3. Name and complete contact address of the organizers, including key workshop volunteers such as workshop chair, program chair, and tentative program committee members. 4. Description of the workshop requirements (projector, poster facilities,...). Preference will be given to those requiring a single meeting room (for simplified logistics). For additional information, please contact the Workshop Co-chairs: Miguel Labrador (labrador(a)cse.usf.edu) and Ivan Stojmenovic (stojmenovic(a)storm.ca ). SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS --------------------- Proposals for Panels and System demonstrations are also solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages in LNCS format and should include a description of theme and panelists in the case of panels and a description of the demo and the equipment to be used in the case of demos. Potential demonstrators and panel organizers are requested to submit a proposal in PS or PDF format both Panel and Demo Co-Chairs (Carolina Pinart, cpg(a)tid.es and Juan A. Sanchez, jlaguna(a)um.es) by May 3, 2009. Please include contact information (postal address, email address, phone and fax numbers) in the submission. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations and panels will be allotted three pages in the proceedings, provided at least one author registers to present the demo/panel at the conference. TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs: Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California at Santa Cruz, USA Workshop Co-chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Miguel Labrador, Univ. of South Florida, USA Submission Co-Chairs Juan A. Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn, Germany Panel and Demosntration Co-Chairs Carolina Pinart, Telefonica I+D, Spain Steering Committee: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Publicity Co-Chairs: Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Jaime Lloret, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Technical Program Committee: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA. Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA. Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy. Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. Juan Carlos Cano, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. Jean Carle, University of Lille, France. Arnaud Casteigts, SITE University of Ottawa, Canada. Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico. Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia. Costas Constantinou, University of Birmingham, UK. Sajal Das, University Texas at Arlington, USA. Mischa Dohler, Centre Tecnologic de Telecom. de Catalunya, Spain. Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany. Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK. Jie Gao, Stony Brook University, USA. Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science - SUPSI, Switzerland. Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Ralf Klasing, CNRS, France. Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada. Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada. Ivan Lequerica, Telefonica I+D, Spain. Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. Xu Li, University of Ottawa, Canada. Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia. Hai Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR. Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK. Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada. Nathalie Mitton, University of Lille, France. Mark Mosko, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA. Lata Narayanan, Concordia University, Canada Amiya Nayak, SITE University of Ottawa, Canada. Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada. Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University - Norfolk, USA. Jaroslav Opatrny, Concordia University, Canada. Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers University, Sweden Hamid Sadjadpour, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA. Juan A. Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain. Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Italy Ignacio Solis, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA. Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA. Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA. Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -------------------------- For additional information please contact Pedro M. Ruiz (mailto:pedrom AT um.es) -- Chun Tung Chou Associate Professor School of Computer Science and Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia Phone: +61-2-9385 7203 Fax:+61-2-9385 5995 Email: ctchou(a)cse.unsw.edu.au WWW: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ctchou/ Legal disclaimer: http://www.eng.unsw.edu.au/emaildis.htm The CRICOS Provider Code for UNSW is 00098G. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: PFLDnet 2009
by Michael Welzl 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS PFLDNet 2009 The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale and Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT) The University of Tokyo, Japan May 21-22, 2009 Web page: http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009 Scope The Internet continues to evolve along several dimensions, allowing more and more end systems to communicate in increasingly diverse ways. At one end of the performance spectrum, the Internet protocols provide communication facilities for extremely-high-speed special-use networks. At the other end of the performance spectrum, the Internet contains very low-power and low-bandwidth networks that cater to infrequent, bursty communication. Enabling efficient and high- performance end-to-end communication across such a diverse internetwork is a difficult problem, which is not solved by current transport layer protocols. The need to support an application base that grows more and more dissimilar adds additional challenges. The 7th International Workshop on Protocols for Future, Large-Scale & Diverse Network Transports (PFLDNeT)brings together researchers and practitioners from all continents to exchange their ideas and experiences in the area of transport layer issues for modern communication networks. The workshop provides theorists, experimentalists and technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research, development and future directions in transport and application protocols for networks that are increasingly growing in size, heterogeneity and dynamicity of interaction. PFLDNeT 2009 solicits papers that further the research on end-to-end communication protocols for todays and tomorrows Internet in all its diversity along the continuum from specialized grid networks, optical transports, wireless connections, to lossy and low-power networks. A specific focus of the workshop lies on transport protocols for the efficient end-to-end transfer of data for a diverse set of applications and application-layer protocols. Now approaching its seventh instantiation, the PFLDneT workshop has broadened its focus over the years from protocols targeted at specific fast, long-distance networks (the original expansion of the PFLDneT acronym) into a venue where all kinds of new ideas relating to end-to-end transport protocols for diverse network scenarios are being discussed first. The previous International Workshops on Protocols for Fast, Long- Distance Networks held at CERN (2003), Argonne (2004), Lyon (2005), Nara (2006), Marina del Rey (2007) and Manchester (2008) were very successful in bringing together many researchers from all over the world including North America, Europe and Asia who are working on these problems. PFLDNeT 2009 will continue this tradition, and provide a perfect forum for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experience. Important Dates and Relevant Event Information Position Paper submission: February 27th Notification of Acceptance: March 30th Final camera ready submission: May 1st Conference: May 21st and 22nd IRTF ICCRG meeting: May 20th Workshop web site The latest information of the workshop is updated in http://www.hpcc.jp/pfldnet2009 Topics PFLDNeT 2009 covers all aspects related to transport protocols for the current and future Internet, including, but not limited to: - Protocol development - Enhancements of TCP - Innovative congestion control mechanisms - Novel data transport protocols designed for new networks and - applications - Explicit signaling protocols: optimization criteria and deployment - strategies - Pacing and shaping of traffic - Parallel transfers and multi-streaming - Performance evaluation - Modeling and simulation-based results - Interaction of transport protocols and network equipment - Experiments on real networks and live measurements - Protocol benchmarking - Transport over optical networks - Protocol implementation and hardware issues - End system performance - Data replication and striping - Applications with demanding or unusual network performance - requirements - Bulk-data transfer applications - Transport service for Grids - Quality-of-service and scalability issues - Multicast Workshop Organizers Program Committee Chairs: Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, FI Kei Hiraki, The University of Tokyo, JP Steering Committee: Lachlan Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology, AU Richard Hughes-Jones, Univ. of Manchester, UK Katsushi Kobayashi, AIST, JP Doug Leith, Hamilton Institute, IE Injong Rhee, North Carolina State University, US Pascale Vicat-Blanc, INRIA, FR Michael Welzl, Univ. of Innsbruck, AT Program Committee: Dirceu Cavendish ,KIT, JP Larry Dunn, Univ. of Minnesota, US Tomohiro Kudoh , AIST, JP Venkatram Vishwanath, EVL, USA Steven Low, Caltech, US Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, IT Hideyuki Shimonishi, NEC, JP David X. Wei, Facebook, US Yoshifumi Nishida, Sony CSL, JP Joerg Ott, TKK, FI Joe Touch, USC/ISI, US Mark Handley, UCL, UK Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, US _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers
by ICME 2009 Publicity 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshops at-a-glance (Name: paper submission deadline) Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing: March 1, 2009 ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W'MAPS 2009) <http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection July 3, 2009 Scope and Topics Today we live in a digital world. The advent of digital technologies has made the creation and manipulation of multimedia content simpler. It offers higher quality and a lot more convenience to consumers. For example, it allows one to make perfect copies. Together with the growing volumes of digital data, increasingly the Internet is used for the distribution of the digital data. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process. Multimedia security and content protection technologies and systems are intended to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. However, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. This workshop intends to provide a forum that researchers, developers and practitioners from multimedia security communities come together to share the vision of multimedia security and content protection in this rapidly growing digital world. That is from reporting latest technology advances, identifying new high impact problems that can shape the future of research, finding applications for the identified technologies, as well as legal and business issues related to multimedia security. The workshop seeks submissions in the general areas of multimedia security in its processing, transmission and consumption. We welcome submissions on emerging standards, interoperability and practical application issues. Topics include, but are not limited to: Content Protection: * Architectures for content protection systems * Broadcast encryption and revocation schemes * Traitor tracing and forensics * Digital Rights Management * Network protection and security * Attacks and protocol security * Security evaluation and benchmarks * Software/hardware tamper resistance (including software watermarking and code obfuscation) * Trusted computing Multimedia Security * Authentication and encryption * Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification * Multimedia forensics * Privacy and anonymity * Steganography and steganalysis Applications, Standard, and Formats: * Emerging applications including secure home network * New business models in multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia security related standards * Legal and policy issues and their interactions with technological development * Implementations, demonstrations and prototypes of secure multimedia application systems This workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations accepted by open submission to report latest academic research and recent industrial progress on digital rights management (DRM), multimedia security and content protection technologies and standards. The format will be a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage interaction and discussion of topics and issues. Guidelines for Submission Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. Manuscripts should not exceed four (4) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org, for the submission instructions. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research or engineering work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Workshop Chairs Dr. Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA xin.wang(a)contentguard.com Dr. Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China zhaoli(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Dr.. HongXia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA jin(a)us.ibm.com Workshop Technical Program Committee William Knox Carey (InterTrust, USA) Kai Chen (Intel, China) Diehl Eric (Thomson, France) Changlong He, (Jilin University Information Technologies Co., Ltd., China) Zhongyang Huang (Panasonic, Singapore) Eunjin Jung (University of Iowa, USA) Antonius Kalker (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Xu Li, Tsinghua (University, China) Earnest Ma (Philips, China) Ginger Myles (Apple Computer, USA) Yongdong Wu (I2R, Singapore) Heather Yu (Huawei Technologies, USA) Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research, China) Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA) ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html ----------------- Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable. The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba(a)utdallas.edu 2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara(a)cs.uiuc.edu 3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh(a)utdallas.edu ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining (IMSM'09) July 3, 2009 Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia search becomes more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search, and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, Internet also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are valuable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties. Recently, more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on Internet Multimedia, or more specifically, Internet-based multimedia search as well as Internet-based multimedia mining. Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. Internet video/image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content. 2. General video/image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. 3. Internet video/image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred. 4. General video/image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet data and/or users. 5. Internet video/image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing. 6. Video/image processing using Internet data as a knowledge base. 7. Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image/video social tagging. 8. CBIR for large-scale datasets (i.e., high-dimensional feature indexing). 9. Query suggestion for video/image search based on both text and image/video data. 10. Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially). Submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICME papers. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in multimedia area (pending). Workshop Chair Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Program Committee Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University, USA) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bo Tao (Google China, China) Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrian Ulges (DFKI, Germany) Rong Yan (IBM TJ WatsonResearch Center, USA) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) More information please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/imsm ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Call for Poster Papers Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo July 1, 2009 (second day of the ICME conference), Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html The goal of this workshop is to give the attendees (1) an overview and trend of the emerging MMSP applications and (2) a deep-dive into the interaction between multimedia application and novel parallel architecture. In particular, the increasing architectural complexity and application sophistication make it essential to have an inter-disciplinary research between algorithms and hardware designs. The workshop is to bridge the gap between algorithms and architecture designs for the development of future computer and multimedia systems. In particular, multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future systems. It is clear that multimedia systems of tomorrow will be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the best parallel algorithm. Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently. We are organizing a poster session in the workshop. We would like to attract both tutorial-like and non-tutorial, research-oriented poster papers on (1) novel multimedia applications that can be enabled by platform with multiple cores, and (2) design examples of multimedia signal processing on platforms with multiple cores that demonstrate the techniques or algorithm changes for efficient implementations. *****Submission Procedure***** Prospective authors should submit 2-page white papers to the workshop chairs according to the following timetable. The white paper should summarize the key takeaway messages ("What can the attendee learn from the poster?"), the motivation ("Why should a attendee care the poster?"), the significance of the topic ("Why is this topic important?"), a brief history ("What are the related work and authors' prior publications in this topic?"), and the outline of the content ("What do you plan to explain the poster?"). The authors should properly answer all the questions above so that the white paper can be reviewed efficiently. After answering the above questions, the authors can selectively describe some details within the rest of page limit. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the IEEE single-space double-column format. Please note that a special issue on "Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores" that focuses on design and applications is planned for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar10). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit the tutorial-like whitepapers to both the workshop and the Magazine. *****Schedule***** 2-page summary due: Mach 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: March 31, 2009 *****Workshop Chairs***** Li Deng, Microsoft, USA (deng(a)microsoft.com) Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA (zhang(a)microsoft.com) Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corporation, USA (yen-kuang.chen(a)intel.com) *****ICME and Workshop Keynote Speaker (Invitation Pending)***** Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: Parallelization of Video Processing *****Confirmed Workshop Speakers***** * Li Deng, Microsoft, USA: Speech Signal Processing * Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada: Multimodal Media Fusion and 3D Data Analysis and Visualization * Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal: Distributed Video Coding * Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Image and Video Analysis for the Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of 3D Scenes * Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA: Multimodal Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction ---------------------------- (3394 wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated previous ICME events. If you would like to be removed from this email contact list, please reply to this message, including the text of the entire message above in the body of your email message, and the words 'REMOVE ME' in the subject line. 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ICST - S-CUBE 2009: Call for Papers
by info＠icst.org 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS S-CUBE 2009 The first international conference on Sensor Systems and Software September 7-9, 2009 - Pisa, Italy http:// www.s-cubeconference.org S-CUBE - the First Conference on wireless Sensor network (WSN) Systems and Software - provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing system development and software support for wireless sensor networks based systems that have the potential to impact society in many ways. Currently, wireless sensor networks introduce innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire detection, agriculture, healthcare, and traffic monitoring. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by the definition of frameworks and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware. As a consequence, WSNs require novel programming paradigms and technologies. Moreover the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, will allow the development of innovative applications that meet high performance goals. Hence, WSNs require contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, data management, system security and applications. The conference places emphasis on layers well above the traditional MAC and routing, and transport layer protocols. The aim of the conference is to create a forum in which researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts and venture capitalists may work together in order to compare and debate different innovative solutions. The conference will feature a highly selective technical program consisting of regular papers, short papers, and posters as well as specialized tracks at the intersection of business and technology. Topics Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The specific topics of the conference, related to wireless sensor networks and wireless multimedia sensor networks, include but are not limited to: * Sensor Application Programming Paradigms * Sensor Application Development Support Systems * Sensor Network Middleware * Novel Sensor Applications * Sensor Prototypes & Testbeds * Underwater and underground wireless sensor networking * Cooperative sensing * Capacity planning and admission control, especially for multimedia sensor networks * Resource management and QoS Provisioning * Resource and service discovery * Self organization and network management * Security, Privacy & Trust * P2P, overlay, and content distribution architectures for sensor networks * Mobile sensor networking, Vehicular sensor networks and protocols * Pervasive/embedded solutions * Data models oriented to wireless distributed applications * Distributed coordination algorithms including clustering and topology control * Localization, time synchronization, coverage, connectivity and deployment issues * Network Management and monitoring * Modelling, analysis and performance evaluation * Mesh networking connectivity to sensor networks Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: February 28th, 2009 * Notification of Acceptance: May 30th, 2009 * Camera Ready Deadline: July 1st, 2009 Publication The proceedings of S-Cube 2009 will be published by Springer as part of the new series Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST) and will be available through Springer's digital library. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of ACM Monet. Submissions For submission instructions please visit the event website at http:// www.s-cubeconference.org. Organizing Committee -Conference General CoChairs: *Stephen Hailes University College of London, United Kingdom *Sabrina Sicari Università dell'Insubria, Italy -Technical Program Chair *George Roussos University College of London, United Kingdom -Local Chair *Gianluca Dini Università di Pisa, Italy -Publications Chair *Luca Mottola Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy -Publicity Co-Chairs *Matteo Cesana Politecnico di Milano, Italy *Houda Labiod Telecom Paris, France -Web Chair *Pietro Colombo Università dell'Insubria, Italy -Steering Committee Chair *Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy -Conference Coordinator *Robert Varga ICST Sponsored by: ICST-http:// www.icst.org Technically co-sponsored by: CREATE-NET - http://www.create-net.org in cooperation with ACM SIGBED - http://www.sigbed.org IEEE UKRI - http://www.ieee.org.uk Università di Pisa - http://www.unipi.it -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Cost290] [CFP] IEEE VTC2009-Fall - Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to 01 March 2009
by Ivan.Ganchev 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

IEEE VTC2009-Fall ANCHORAGE Connecting the Mobile World IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference 20-23 September 2009 Anchorage, Alaska The 2009 70th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference will be held 20-23 September 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The conference will bring together individuals from academia, industry and government to discuss and exchange ideas in the fields of mobile, wireless and vehicular technology. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, panel sessions, tutorials, and technical and application sessions. and Propagation The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in one of the following areas: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Antennas and Propagation Cognitive Radio Green Radio Mobile Satellite and Positioning Systems Multiple Antenna Systems and Space-Time Processing Transmission Technologies Transportation Vehicular Communications Wireless Access Wireless Networks Wireless Services and Applications Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a 5-page full paper (or a 2-page extended abstract including results) through the conference web site http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2009fall/ Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Two special paper prizes will be awarded for the best paper and best student paper. Student papers must have a student as the first author and major contributor. Key dates: Paper submission deadline: EXTENDED to 1 March 2009 Tutorial proposals due: EXTENDED to 1 March 2009 Acceptance notification: 15 May 2009 Final paper submission deadline: 12 June 2009 Kind regards, Dr. Ivan Ganchev, TPC member, IEEE VTC2009-Fall ********************************************** Dr. Ivan Ganchev, Dip.Eng., PhD, SMIEEE. Deputy Director, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. ********************************************** _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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(no subject)
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

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[Tccc] CFP: Wireless Local Networks 2009
by Abd-Elhamid M. Taha 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

9th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks 2009 http://www.wln09.prism.uvsq.fr/ held in conjunction with The 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 20-23 October, 2009, Zurich, Switzerland "Global Sustainability through Local Functionalities" || Scope || Wireless Local Networks (WLNs) play a major role in today’s world. From providing rich connectivity to realizing sensory and actuary applications, WLNs serve a wide range of applications. In its 9th year, the WLN workshop would like to focus on how such networks can be made to be energy efficient and cost effective, while maintaining high levels of service delivery quality. It is hence our aim to focus on both design and implementation aspects in networks that are sustainable, or that can be utilized to in making sustainable system. At the same time, we will maintain our open call in topics relevant to WLNs. With this spirit, we are soliciting works describing both theoretical and practical research endeavors. We also encourage visionary and experimental descriptions. Short reports on work- in-progress and demos will also be accommodated. || Topics || The following is a non-exclusive list of topics of interest: * Design and deployment guidelines. * Implementation and testbed issues. * Network management architectures. * Protocol design, including cross-layer and opportunistic approaches. * Wireless multihop networks, including mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks. * Wireless relay, including fixed and mobile elements. * Integration and coexistence issues. * Mobility management in both homogeneous and heterogeneous settings. * Resource management functionalities (CAC, reservation, scheduling, etc.) * Cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum networks. * Performance evaluation, including analytical, simulation and testbed approaches. || Important Dates || Submission registration May 12th, 2009 Submission deadline May 19th, 2009 Notification of acceptance July 7th, 2009 Camera-ready copy due July 28th, 2009 Registration Deadline July 28th, 2009 || Submission Guideliness || We seek original contributions that are have neither been previously published or currently under review. Authors can submit in either of the following categories: * Paper submissions. (up to 8 pages) Should describe complete works in a self-contained manner with the intent to give an oral presentation. * Poster submissions. (up to 2 pages) Reports on high-value recent results or work-in-progress with the intent to provide a poster presentation. * Proposal for demonstration. (up to 2 pages) Showcases practical and experimental implementations intended for industrial or commercial development in workshop’s general. Both posters and demonstrations will be presented in a joint session. All accepted submissions will be published in the LCN’09 proceedings and the ieeeXplore portal. || Workshop Cochairs || Jalel Ben-Othman PRiSM Laboratory,University of Versailles, France Abd-Elhamid M. Taha School of Computing, Queen’s University || Technical Program Committee || Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida Tarek Bejaoui, Mediatron Lab, Carthage University Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California Riverside Ashraf Hamad, Microsoft Corporation Mounir Hamdi, HKUST Jianku Hu, RMIT University Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago Justin Lipman, Intel Corporation Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University Lynda Mokdad, Université de Paris Dauphine Jogesh K. Muppala, HKUST Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Uni. of Sciences and Technologies of Lille Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Octavio Ramirez, Univ of versailles Samer Samarah, University of Ottawa Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida Véronique Vèque, University of Paris-Sud 11 Kui Wu, University of Victoria Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia Zonghua Zhang, National Inst. of Info. and Comm. Technology _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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FWD: CfP "9. Innovative Internet Community Services"
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

[apologies for cross-posting, please forward to interested colleagues ] ************************* 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* 9th International Workshop on Innovative Internet Community Systems I2CS 2009 http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ Jena, Germany, June 15-17, 2009 *********************************************************************** !!!!!!!! Paper submission is open - Deadline: Februar 15, 2009 !!!!!!!! Scope ----- "Tradition meets Innovation" is the promising motto of the 9th I2CS, dedicated to a bundle of interesting aspects around modern community systems. Discuss state of the art in an atmosphere of grand tradition: In Jena, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Fichte left their mark on intel- lectual life, Abbe, Zeiss and Schott laid the foundations for economic prosperity. Germany's "Science City 2008" will provide an excellent venue for I2CS's conference and workshop topics. Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and rich mobile devices ICT support for communities is possible on next quality level. Trying to achieve this, we challenge new research questions in a wide range of connected fields. In search of innovative solutions multi-discipli- nary collaboration among researchers and industry partners is essential. Hence, the goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from various areas related to novel Internet Community Systems. Topics ------ The selection of I2CS topics encompasses aspects of Internet Community Systems: foundations, technology, applications and socializations. The topics include, but are not limited to original work in the following areas: A) Foundations - Theories, models, algorithms for communities ---------------------------------------------------------- - Distributed algorithms and simulation models - Game theory, graph theory and cost models - Innovative communication protocols - Self organization and self stabilization - Security and privacy protection - Interoperability and IT-governance B) Technology - Distributed architectures and frameworks ----------------------------------------------------- - Service-oriented architectures for communities - Peer-to-peer and grid architectures - Distributed community middleware for Web x.0 - Software agents for community support - Adaptive cooperative information systems - Community management in ad-hoc environments - Information retrieval and distributed ontologies C) Applications and socialization - Communities on the move -------------------------------------------------------- - Mobile Internet applications' experiences - Context and location awareness - Personalization of components and tools - Personal social networks and user behavior - Social and business aspects of user generated content - Expert profiles, collaborative filtering and matching - Domain specific languages for semantic design Submissions ----------- We solicit submissions of unpublished papers presenting research results, industrial experiences and applications, as well as de- tailed specifications of open problems. Electronic submission is required. Full papers of no more than 10 pages written in English should be submitted as PDF files using the EasyChair conference system accessible via http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ (submission section) All submitted papers will be subject to a double reviewing process by the program committee. All accepted contributions will be included in the pre-proceedings of the I2CS 2009 in the series Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI) by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline : February 15, 2009 * Notification of acceptance : March 23, 2009 * Camera-ready copies : April 7, 2009 * Author/early registration : April 15, 2009 * Conference date : June 15 - 17, 2009 Organizing Committee -------------------- * Christian Erfurth, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany * Gerald Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany * Volkmar Schau, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Program Committee ----------------- S. Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany H. Arnold, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany G. Babin, HEC Montreal, Canada A. Böhm, T-Systems, Germany T. Böhme, TU Ilmenau, Germany D. Chase, T-Mobile International, United Kingdom G. Eichler, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany C. Erfurth, FSU Jena / GI, Germany H. Fouchal, U Antilles-Guyane, France W. Halang, FU Hagen / GI, Germany G. Heyer, U Leipzig, Germany H. Höpfner, International U Bruchsal / GI, Germany P. Hunel, U Antilles-Guyane, France J. Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Science, Poland V. Kirova, Alcatel-Lucent, U.S.A. P. Kropf, U Neuchatel, Switzerland K. Kyandoghere, U Klagenfurt, Austria U. Lechner, UBW Munich, Germany F. Lehner, U Passau / GI, Germany P. Meesad, King Mongkut's UoT North Bangkok, Thailand A. Mikler, U Northern Texas, U.S.A. C. Prehofer, Nokia Research Center, Finland L. Rokach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel W. Rossak, FSU Jena, Germany H. Sack, HPI, U Potsdam, Germany V. Schau, FSU Jena, Germany H. Schilder, nexum AG / GI, Germany H. Unger, FU Hagen, Germany K.S. Tang, CityU Hong Kong, Hong Kong M. Welsch, IBM, Germany L. Wienhofen, SINTEF, Norway I2CS is organized by FSU and T-Labs and supported by Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Regionalgruppe Ostthüringen/Jena and Fachgruppe Mobilität und Mobile Informationssysteme (GI-MMS). For further details please check http://www.i2cs-conference.org/ regularly. Have a look at the preliminary program, now available. Kind regards Christian Erfurth, Volkmar Schau and Gerald Eichler

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[Fwd: CfP IWSNE'09]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP IWSNE'09 Datum: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:48:19 +0100 Von: Stefan Fischer <fischer(a)ITM.UNI-LUEBECK.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE ============================================================================ IWSNE 2009 Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Network Engineering (IWSNE'09) co-located with the 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing In Sensor Systems (DCOSS'09), June 8th-10th (workshop day: June 10th), Marina Del Rey, CA, USA http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/events/iwsne09/ ============================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are heterogeneous networks that comprise tiny, resource-constraint sensor nodes, gateways and backend systems. Embedded into the environment, sensor nodes measure ambient parameters such as temperature, motion, etc. and gateways provide the integration with traditional networks while backend systems process and visualize received data. Application development for WSNs is complex as it unites the challenges of distributed applications and embedded programming. In addition, heterogeneity, unpredictable environmental influences and the size of the networks further complicate this situation. To master these issues, an engineering approach to all phases of a sensor network's life cycle is necessary. Developers and application providers require powerful development support including IDEs as well as debugging, simulation and visualization tools to develop, test, optimize, and deploy their algorithms, applications and protocols. Today, many of these issues are still unsolved; at least an integrated approach is missing. Particular topics of interest for papers to be submitted include, but are not limited to: * Hardware and software platforms * Analysis and design support * Middleware approaches * Simulation and testing environments * Deployment support * Integrated approaches * User-oriented approaches * Integration of multiple and hybrid sensor networks * New architectures ----------------------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------------------- * Submission: March 15th 2009 * Notification: April 15th, 2009 * Camera-ready: April 25th, 2009 ----------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs ----------------------------------------- Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Dennis Pfisterer, University of Luebeck, Germany ----------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------------- Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, Zürich, Switzerland Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, RACTI, Patras, Greece Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK Mesut Günes, FU Berlin, Germany Manfred Hauswirth, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland Alexander Kröller, Braunschweig Institute of Technology, Germany Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, Netherlands Norbert Luttenberger, University of Kiel, Germany Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Dirk Timmermann, University of Rostock, Germany Volker Turau, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ----------------------------------------- Submission Instructions ----------------------------------------- Full Papers (no more than 12 pages): This workshop 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. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and not exceed 12 pages, including text, figures and references. We require that submissions conform to the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style (cf. http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). All submissions will be handled electronically by sending an e-mail to iwsne09-submission(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. The organizers can be contacted at iwsne09-chairs(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de. -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Fischer Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Telematik Ratzeburger Allee 160 D-23538 Lübeck, Germany Phone: +49 451 500 5380 Email: fischer(a)itm.uni-luebeck.de Fax: +49 451 500 5382 WWW: http://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2009 --- Deadline extension: Feb 16, 2009 Datum: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:22:03 +0800 Von: Kuan-Ta (Sheng-Wei) Chen <swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: swc(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** [Apologies if you receive this more than once] === [ ACM NOSSDAV 2009 ] === The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Williamsburg, Virginia June 3-5, 2009 http://www.nossdav.org/2009/ SPONSORED BY: ACM SIGMM in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGOPS * Important Dates Paper Deadline: Extended to 16 February, 2009 Notification: 20 March, 2009 Camera Ready: 6 April, 2009 * About NOSSDAV NOSSDAV 2009 will continue the workshop's long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research, held in a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. It is also an established practice for NOSSDAV to encourage experimental research based on real systems and data sets. Public availability of source code and data sets is highly encouraged. The scope of NOSSDAV has evolved over the years. For NOSSDAV 2009, we would like especially highlight two new topics of interest: unconventional use of GPU for multimedia and multi-core processors support for multimedia. NOSSDAV 2009 continues to welcome submissions in the traditional topics of networked multimedia systems, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia security and rights management. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * OS, middleware and network support for multimedia * Overlay networks for multimedia * Media streaming, distribution and storage * Web 2.0 systems and social networks for multimedia * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems * Media sensor and ad hoc networks * Grid/cloud computing support for multimedia * Embedded systems for multimedia * Multicore architecture support for multimedia * GPU for multimedia * Network processor support for multimedia * Tele-immersion and mixed-reality systems * Networked graphics and virtual environments * Networked games * Multimedia communications and system security * Digital rights management A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Submissions should be at most SIX pages in length using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Authors of selected, high quality papers from NOSSDAV 2009 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Workshop Co-Chairs Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Local Arrangement Chair Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Grenville Armitage, Swinburne U. of Tech, Australia Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Mark Claypool, WPI, USA Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA Romulus Grigoras, IRIT-Toulouse, France Carsten Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Yong Liu, Polytechnic University, USA Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass, Amherst Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Zhenyu Yang, Florida International University, USA Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP ADHOCNETS 2009 Datum: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 19:38:24 +0100 Von: Abdelmajid Khelil <khelil(a)INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ADHOCNETS 2009 * * First International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks * * Sept.23-25, 2009, Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada * * http://www.adhocnets.org * * * ************************************************************** Sponsored by ICST OVERVIEW: Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, underground networks, local area networks, personal area networks, home networks, etc., promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. AdHocNets¡¯09 is the first edition of this event, which will be held in Niagara Falls, Canada, in September 2009. The conference will consist of technical sessions, panels, and workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the panels and workshops focus on development and application issues in this hot field. HIGHTLIGHTS: * Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver a keynote address. * The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Mobile Ad Hoc networks * Sensor networks * Vehicular networks * Underwater networks * Underground networks * Local area networks * Personal area networks * Body area networks * Home networks * Network architectural design * Network protocol design * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * OFDM techniques * MIMO techniques * Service discovery techniques * Node localization techniques * Data aggregation techniques * Time synchronization techniques * Network scalability issues * Reliability and fault tolerance issues * Security and privacy issues * Applications for ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Experimental prototypes and testbeds PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in ad hoc networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.adhocnets.org) for detailed instructions. Paper Publication: All submitted papers will go through a peer-review process. All accepted papers will be included in the Proceedings of AdHocNets 2009. The best papers will be considered for publication in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration due March 25, 2009 Paper submission due April 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2009 Final manuscripts due July 15, 2009 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Jun Zheng University of Ottawa, Canada TPC CO-CHAIRS Scott F. Midkiff NSF and Virginia Tech, USA Shiwen Mao Auburn University, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Louise Lamont Communications Research Centre, Canada Tommaso Melodia SUNY at Buffalo, USA WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Charles E. Perkins WiChorus Corporation, USA Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Tutorial Chair Xavier Fernando Ryerson University, Canada PUBLICATION CHAIR Hua Zhu ArgonST, Network Systems, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Dario Pompili Rutgers University, USA Fikret Sivrikaya Technical University of Berlin, Germany Xinbing Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Robert Varga ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Mieso Denko University of Guelph, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair) Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng (Co-Chair) University of Ottawa, Canada

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[MM-INTEREST] IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers
by Lexing Xie 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

IEEE ICME 2009 Call for Workshop Papers http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshops at-a-glance (Name: paper submission deadline) Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection: Feb 14, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining: Feb 15, 2009 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing: March 1, 2009 ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W’MAPS 2009) < http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Security and Content Protection July 3, 2009 Scope and Topics Today we live in a digital world. The advent of digital technologies has made the creation and manipulation of multimedia content simpler. It offers higher quality and a lot more convenience to consumers. For example, it allows one to make perfect copies. Together with the growing volumes of digital data, increasingly the Internet is used for the distribution of the digital data. The ease with which digital goods can be copied and redistributed makes the Internet well suited for unauthorized copying, modification and redistribution. The rapid adoption of new technologies such as high-bandwidth connections, wireless networks, and peer-to-peer networks is accelerating this process. Multimedia security and content protection technologies and systems are intended to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners in scenarios in which the participants have conflicting goals and are not fully trusted. However, developing secure multimedia applications and solutions in a distributed environment with competing technologies and emerging standards is an enormous challenge. This workshop intends to provide a forum that researchers, developers and practitioners from multimedia security communities come together to share the vision of “multimedia security and content protection in this rapidly growing digital world”. That is from reporting latest technology advances, identifying new high impact problems that can shape the future of research, finding applications for the identified technologies, as well as legal and business issues related to multimedia security. The workshop seeks submissions in the general areas of multimedia security in its processing, transmission and consumption. We welcome submissions on emerging standards, interoperability and practical application issues. Topics include, but are not limited to: Content Protection: ? Architectures for content protection systems ? Broadcast encryption and revocation schemes ? Traitor tracing and forensics ? Digital Rights Management ? Network protection and security ? Attacks and protocol security ? Security evaluation and benchmarks ? Software/hardware tamper resistance (including software watermarking and code obfuscation) ? Trusted computing Multimedia Security ? Authentication and encryption ? Multimedia watermarking, fingerprinting and identification ? Multimedia forensics ? Privacy and anonymity ? Steganography and steganalysis Applications, Standard, and Formats: ? Emerging applications including secure home network ? New business models in multimedia security and content protection ? Multimedia security related standards ? Legal and policy issues and their interactions with technological development ? Implementations, demonstrations and prototypes of secure multimedia application systems This workshop will contain some invited presentations and presentations accepted by open submission to report latest academic research and recent industrial progress on digital rights management (DRM), multimedia security and content protection technologies and standards. The format will be a series of presentations held in a panel/forum type of environment to encourage interaction and discussion of topics and issues. Guidelines for Submission Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. Manuscripts should not exceed four (4) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org, for the submission instructions. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research or engineering work, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Workshop Chairs Dr. Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA xin.wang(a)contentguard.com Dr. Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China zhaoli(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Dr.. HongXia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA jin(a)us.ibm.com Workshop Technical Program Committee William Knox Carey (InterTrust, USA) Kai Chen (Intel, China) Diehl Eric (Thomson, France) Changlong He, (Jilin University Information Technologies Co., Ltd., China) Zhongyang Huang (Panasonic, Singapore) Eunjin Jung (University of Iowa, USA) Antonius Kalker (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Xu Li, Tsinghua (University, China) Earnest Ma (Philips, China) Ginger Myles (Apple Computer, USA) Yongdong Wu (I2R, Singapore) Heather Yu (Huawei Technologies, USA) Wenjun Zeng (University of Missouri, Columbia, USA) Bin Zhu (Microsoft Research, China) Sencun Zhu (Penn State University, USA) ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare July 3, 2009 Workshop webpage: http://multimedia.utdallas.edu/mmph09/index.html) ----------------- Workshop Scope: --------------- Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person. Recent advances in various technologies for medical sensors, computing, and wireless communication have resulted in monitoring, tracking, and quantifying the physical health. Providing ubiquitous health care and performance monitoring have thus become feasible, affordable, and in many cases indispensable. The proposed workshop will be multi-disciplinary, focusing on innovations in information processing and system aspects of health care and performance. The topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to: * Information processing aspects of human health and performance - Data processing, storage and management - Detection, classification, and tracking - Distributed algorithms and reasoning - Programming models and languages * Body sensor networks: Systems and Technology - Novel communication techniques and protocols - In-vivo, on-body, near-body networks - Location, time, and other network services - Network health monitoring and management - Performance modeling * System design issues of Medical Digital Devices - Operating systems and runtime environments - Power - Reliability and fault-tolerance * Assistive Technologies for aged and disabled - Longitudinal studies showing impact on health care and performance * Security and privacy, including HIPAA for medical applications * HCI/Wearable Computing for Medical Applications - Social impacts - Usability - Brain Computer Interactions - Wearable system design issues - Entertainment * Medical Applications - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring within hospitals and other healthcare delivery settings in residential and other non healthcare delivery settings - Prosthetics and other novel medical applications We will have a special issue based on this workshop in a leading journal. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Workshop Chairs: ---------------- 1. Dr B. Prabhakaran Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: praba(a)utdallas.edu 2. Prof Klara Nahrstedt Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 3104 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Email: klara(a)cs.uiuc.edu 3. Dr Roozbeh Jafari Department of Electrical Engineering University of Texas at Dallas MS EC 31, PO Box 830688 Richardson, TX 75083 Email: roozbeh(a)utdallas.edu ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Workshop on Internet Multimedia Search and Mining (IMSM'09) July 3, 2009 Paper Submission Due: Feb 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia search becomes more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search, and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. On the one hand, the rapid increase of online multimedia data brings us new challenges to multimedia content analysis and multimedia retrieval especially in terms of scalability. Both computational costs and accuracy are still far from satisfactory. While on the other hand, Internet also provides us new opportunities to attack these challenges as well as conventional problems in media analysis and computer vision. That is, the massive associated metadata available on the Internet, as well as the massive grassroots Internet users, are valuable resources that can be leveraged to solve the aforementioned difficulties. Recently, more and more researchers are realizing both the challenges and the opportunities for multimedia research brought by the Internet. This workshop aims at bringing together high-quality and novel research works on “Internet Multimedia”, or more specifically, Internet-based multimedia search as well as Internet-based multimedia mining. Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: 1. Internet video/image search ranking and reranking by combining textual description and video/image content. 2. General video/image search ranking and reranking by exploiting Internet data and/or users. 3. Internet video/image classification, annotation, and tagging. Approaches which can handle large-scale data are more preferred. 4. General video/image classification, annotation, and tagging by leveraging Internet data and/or users. 5. Internet video/image search result presentation and management, such as clustering, summarization, and browsing. 6. Video/image processing using Internet data as a knowledge base. 7. Tag recommendation, filtering, and ranking based on image/video social tagging. 8. CBIR for large-scale datasets (i.e., high-dimensional feature indexing). 9. Query suggestion for video/image search based on both text and image/video data. 10. Knowledge mining from Internet multimedia data, such as mining semantic distance of keywords or images, and mining video/image copy relationships (e.g., given a video/image, to find all videos/images on the Internet that have the same content with the video/image, either entirely or partially). Submissions for this workshop are required to use the same format as regular ICME papers. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. Extended version of selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in multimedia area (pending). Workshop Chair Xian-Sheng Hua (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Program Committee Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Winston Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Lyndon Kennedy (Columbia University, USA) Zhu Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Tao Mei (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research, Spain) Chong-Wah Ngo (City University of Hong Kong, China) Cees Snoek (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Bo Tao (Google China, China) Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrian Ulges (DFKI, Germany) Rong Yan (IBM TJ WatsonResearch Center, USA) Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) More information please visit: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/imsm ===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===---===--- Call for Poster Papers Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing and Novel Parallel Computing at 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo July 1, 2009 (second day of the ICME conference), Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org/workshops.html The goal of this workshop is to give the attendees (1) an overview and trend of the emerging MMSP applications and (2) a deep-dive into the interaction between multimedia application and novel parallel architecture. In particular, the increasing architectural complexity and application sophistication make it essential to have an inter-disciplinary research between algorithms and hardware designs. The workshop is to bridge the gap between algorithms and architecture designs for the development of future computer and multimedia systems. In particular, multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Technology predictions indicate that this trend will continue and that there will be increasing numbers of cores (homogenous or heterogeneous) in future systems. It is clear that multimedia systems of tomorrow will be (and must be) implemented on platforms with multiple cores. While the challenges of designing multi-core systems in hardware are many, writing efficient parallel applications that utilize the computing capability of many processing cores may reveal to be even more challenging. Existing serial algorithms will need to be redesigned -- the best sequential algorithm is not necessarily the best parallel algorithm. Signal processing algorithm designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine. Only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently. We are organizing a poster session in the workshop. We would like to attract both tutorial-like and non-tutorial, research-oriented poster papers on (1) novel multimedia applications that can be enabled by platform with multiple cores, and (2) design examples of multimedia signal processing on platforms with multiple cores that demonstrate the techniques or algorithm changes for efficient implementations. *****Submission Procedure***** Prospective authors should submit 2-page white papers to the workshop chairs according to the following timetable. The white paper should summarize the key takeaway messages (“What can the attendee learn from the poster?”), the motivation (“Why should a attendee care the poster?”), the significance of the topic (“Why is this topic important?”), a brief history (“What are the related work and authors’ prior publications in this topic?”), and the outline of the content (“What do you plan to explain the poster?”). The authors should properly answer all the questions above so that the white paper can be reviewed efficiently. After answering the above questions, the authors can selectively describe some details within the rest of page limit. The white paper should be no more than 2 pages in the IEEE single-space double-column format. Please note that a special issue on “Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores” that focuses on design and applications is planned for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (http://apollo.ee.columbia.edu/spm/?i=cfp/Mar10). Prospective authors are encouraged to submit the tutorial-like whitepapers to both the workshop and the Magazine. *****Schedule***** 2-page summary due: Mach 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: March 31, 2009 *****Workshop Chairs***** Li Deng, Microsoft, USA (deng(a)microsoft.com) Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA (zhang(a)microsoft.com) Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel Corporation, USA (yen-kuang.chen(a)intel.com) *****ICME and Workshop Keynote Speaker (Invitation Pending)***** Wen-mei W. Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA: Parallelization of Video Processing *****Confirmed Workshop Speakers***** * Li Deng, Microsoft, USA: Speech Signal Processing * Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada: Multimodal Media Fusion and 3D Data Analysis and Visualization * Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal: Distributed Video Coding * Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Image and Video Analysis for the Geometric and Radiometric Modeling of 3D Scenes * Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft, USA: Multimodal Collaboration and Human-Computer Interaction

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[Tccc] CFP: WiNMee 2009 Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements
by Anmol Sheth 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Apologies if you receive multiples copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS ============================= The 5th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements http://cmclab.rice.edu/~winmee/ June 26th 2009, Seoul, Korea Important Dates: ================ Papers Due: March 1st, 2009 Notification: April 1st, 2009 Camera Ready: May 1st, 2009 Workshop: June 26th, 2009 Overview: ========= In recent years we have witnessed a rapid adoption of local and wide area wireless technologies like ZigBee, 802.11n, WiMAX and 3G which is making the edge of the Internet increasingly wireless. To better understand the nature of the edge, it is important to evaluate these technologies in an operational environment via empirical measurements. While analytic simulation-based approaches are useful, they are often limited by the simplistic modeling of the wireless protocols and the error-prone wireless channel. In this workshop we would like to solicit short 6-page papers that advance the understanding of operational wireless networks through measurements in testbeds or the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: =================================================== * operational experience of the performance of wireless networks * challenges with wireless measurements * experimental (in) validation of assumptions in a wireless environment * metrics required in a wireless network for performance evaluation or wireless network troubleshooting * experience from building/designing wireless networks * descriptions of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * techniques for scaling testbed * techniques for improving the repeatability of tests * techniques for validating the results obtained in the wireless testbed * methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * methods to study mobility patterns Paper submission guidelines: ============================ Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, using the standard IEEE format. Link to EasyChair: ================== https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?ccc=sAUQbm20MmGQ932mgxRb;iid=11541 Organization Committee: ======================= Workshop Chairs: Ashu Sabharwal (Rice University) Anmol Sheth (Intel Research) Technical Program Committee: =========================== Kevin Almeroth (UCSB, USA) Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research, USA) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University, USA) Sayantan Choudhury (Sharp Labs of America) Marco Gruteser (Rutgers University, USA) Ramakrishna Gummadi (MIT, USA) Martin Haenggi (University of Notre Dame, USA) Sassan Iraji (Nokia) Kyle Jamieson (University College London, UK) Ahmad Khoshnevis(IRCOMM, USA) Ravi Kokku (NEC Labs Princeton, USA) Thanasis Korakis (Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA) Ratul Mahajan(Microsoft Research, USA) Amin Mobasher (Research in Motion) Vishnu Navda (Microsoft Research, India) Kave Salamatian (LIP6, France) Karim Seada (Nokia Research Center, USA) Aruna Seneviratne (National ICT, Australia) Salonidis Theodoros (Thomson, France) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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IEEE GLOBECOM 09: Call for Papers
by Meetings＠comsocconferences.org 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

.279.0.11250"> .279.0.11251">IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM -- the premier telecommunications events -- covers the entire range of communications technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments in voice, data, image and multimedia. IEEE GLOBECOM will feature 11 Technical Symposia, Tutorials, Workshops, a Design & Developers Forum and the Communications EXPO, including various Business, Technology and Industry fora, and vendor exhibits. We invite you to submit papers for IEEE GLOBECOM's acclaimed .279.0.11252">Technical Program in the following areas of communications: .279.0.11253">- Ad Hoc, Sensor & Mesh Networking  .279.0.11254">- Next Generation Networking & Internet .279.0.11255">- Information System Security .279.0.11256"> - Optical Networks & Systems .279.0.11257">- Communication Theory .279.0.11258"> - Signal Processing .279.0.11259">- QoS, Reliability & Performance Modeling .279.0.11260"> - Wireless Communications .279.0.11261">- Communications Software & Services .279.0.11262"> - Wireless Networking - Selected Areas: .279.0.11263">Cognitive Radio Networks, .279.0.11264">Access Systems & Networks, .279.0.11265">  Consumer Networks, .279.0.11266">Data Storage and .279.0.11267">Satellite & Space Communications .279.0.11268">Submissions are also welcomed for Tutorials and Workshops. .279.0.11269">Tutorials: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day tutorials on conference topics. .279.0.11270">Workshops: Proposals are invited for half- or full-day workshops on conference topics. For a list of topics, proposal guidelines and submission instructions, .279.0.11271">click here Call for Papers and Proposals.279.0.11272">SUBMIT NOW >> PAPER SUBMISSIONMarch 15, 2009TUTORIAL PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009WORKSHOP PROPOSALMarch 15, 2009ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONJuly 1, 2009CAMERA-READY PAPERSAugust 14, 2009 IEEE GLOBECOM Â© 2009&email_id=%23%25%29GF%0A width=1 height=1>

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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CFP: Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" in MOBILIGHT 2009
by Periklis Chatzimisios 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "Advances and Future Directions in WiMAX Networks" organized in conjunction with The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) 18-20 May 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org/ Important Dates: ================ Full Paper submission due: February 25, 2009 Notification of acceptance by: March 9, 2009 Camera ready paper due: March 16, 2009 Scope: ====== In the fast-changing and promising field of wireless communications, researchers and industry try to come up with new technologies that satisfy the ongoing demand for faster data rates with longer transmission ranges. WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is an emerging wireless communication system that can provide broadband access with large-scale coverage. This technology can be used as "last mile" or "first mile" broadband access to deliver various services to clients. Concurrently, WiMAX¢s attributes and properties open the technology to a wide variety of multimedia and high bandwidth-demanded applications. Thus, Quality of Service (QoS) is a crucial issue for multi-hop WiMAX networks. The Special Session will try to connect the broadband access communications industry, operators, producers, researches and academia to present novel ideas, protocols, algorithms, frameworks, advances and schemes in order to cover the uprising fields of future wireless communication. Topics: =================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - WiMAX Communication Standards, Services and Applications - Multimedia QoS and Traffic Management in WiMAX - Voice and Voice over IP in WiMAX Networks - Performance Analysis of WiMAX - Simulation Software, Models and Testbeds for WiMAX - Routing in WiMAX - MAC/PHY layer techniques - Radio Resource Management, Admission Control and Scheduling - Wireless Optical Broadband Access Networks based on WiMAX - User and Network Security in WiMAX - Interoperability aspects (fixed/mobile LANs/MANs, 3G/4G, WANs) - Mobile WiMAX and applications Paper submission: ================= All submitted papers should describe original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Please visit http://www.mobilight.org/ for submission guidelines. The Best Paper of this Special Session will be invited to a Special Issue about WiMAX in prestigious International Journal. Special Session organizers: =========================== Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '09

02 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MobiArch 2009 (co-located with ACM MobiSys) Datum: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:05:55 +0200 Von: Joerg Ott <jo(a)netlab.tkk.fi> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers The 4th ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2009) ----------------------------------------------------- Co-located with MobiSys, 22 June 2009, Krakow, Poland http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2009/ With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, user, terminal, and network mobility has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision, and it is likely to continue in the near future, while affecting the whole architectural design of the future Internet. Yet, issues like efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multi-homing, security, wireless access and related operational/deployment concerns are still in their early stages of development. Moreover, the Internet architecture, its end-to-end principles, and business models will require rethinking due to the massive penetration of mobility into the Internet. For instance, an appropriate system that allows communicating with a mobile host requires addressing several fundamental issues with the Internet architecture, such as ability to locate the mobile host/service, preserving ongoing communications upon changes of locations, as well as efficient and secure handover management. As another example, the emerging wireless technologies may pose additional challenges to the Internet architecture since they introduce design principles different from the original Internet. MobiArch 2009 welcomes submissions, from both researchers and practitioners, in exploration of recent advances in architectures, protocols, and experiences with emerging technologies on various mobility issues over the Internet, with an emphasis on wireless infrastructures and mobility patterns for mobility support, new mobility protocols, service discovery, routing and location management, mobile network performance evaluation and modelling, multi-homing, security, architectural impacts and deployment considerations. Furthermore, the potential of usability of mobility services for connecting people and devices in developing regions of the world into the Internet infrastructure will be also explored. Topics of MobiArch 2009 cover all aspects of architectural issues and system support for mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: * Impacts of new wireless technologies/services, networking technologies, and mobility patterns on the Internet architecture * Architectures and protocols for mobility support in the Internet, ranging from approaches in link, network, transport to session/application layers and cross-layer design * Location management, routing, locator/identifier split, multi-homing and load sharing issues * Security and privacy issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Architectures and mechanisms for wireless/mobile connectivity in extreme environments (e.g., remote areas, developing countries) * Performance issues with mobility in the Internet * QoS and middlebox issues in mobility networks and impacts to Internet architecture * Economic and deployment issues of mobility solutions (infrastructure and devices) * Impact of social aspects on mobility architectures, mobile application and protocol design * Technologies for mobile wireless access and interactions Submissions must present original results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, describe their relationship to existing work, and have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, two columns, with no characters in smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. All paper submission will be handled via EDAS (http://edas.info/7188). Papers will be reviewed single blind. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 22 February 2009 Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2009 Camera Ready Due: 15 April 2009 Workshop Date: 22 June 2009 TPC Chairs: Joerg Ott Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) Kun Tan Microsoft Research Asia For more information, contact workshop co-chairs at mobiarch-chairs(a)informatik.uni-goettingen.de. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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