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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications]
by Lars Wolf 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications Datum: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:08:32 +0000 Von: Lingyang Song <lingyang.song(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <27879fdd0809251708x13424cddgf3bd952554af9b29(a)mail.gmail.com> <27879fdd0809260816q40895125la346108745d11a2c(a)mail.gmail.com> <8F9B308633F39143BFED17C4C569F7680EA628FA57(a)astana.unik.no> <27879fdd0812220205n54d41161p462ca70aa58bfc5d(a)mail.gmail.com> We apologize for multiple receipts of this CFP. ------------------ Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley Publication) Special Issue: Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications ------------------ Wireless vehicular communications have attached much attention for improving road safety, intelligent management and data exchange services, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity. Throughout the world, many national or international projects in government, industry, and academia have been devoted to the establishment of ambitious research programs, such as the European eSafety initiative, the German Ministry of Education and Research sponsored Wheels project, the US programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs. The field of wireless vehicular communications can be typically identified as vehicle-to-person communications, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and vehicular communication networks. The combination of unique features of wireless vehicular communications and networking issues opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas, for example, real time safety applications, and intelligent diver information services. In order for universal realization of wireless vehicular communications, many research challenges still need to be addressed to create good-performance, highly scalable, robust and secure vehicular technologies. ------------------ Topics ------------------ The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances and surrey the-state-of-the-art in this fast developing field. Original papers are solicited in all aspects of vehicular communications, including physical layer issues, architectures, protocol designs, enabling technologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Architectures for wireless vehicular communications *RF technologies and antenna design *Channel measurements and modeling *Signal processing techniques *Physical and MAC layer technologies *Radio resource management and QoS support *High-speed mobility management *Routing protocols and congestion control schemes *Cross-layer design and optimization *Ad-hoc networks and other novel network configurations *Security and authentication issues in vehicular communications *Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency synchronizations, and channel estimation *Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access technologies *Digital maps and location technologies *In-car electronics and embedded integration for wireless vehicular communications *Regulation and business models *Testbed, experiment, implementation standards, and practical applications ------------------ Schedule ------------------ Submission due date: 31 January 2009 Notification of first round review: 30 April 2009 Submission of revised paper: 31 May 2009 Notification of final acceptance: 31 July 2009 Final manuscript due date: 31 August 2009 Publication date: 4th quarter, 2009 ------------------ Submission & Review Instruction ------------------ Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing operates an online submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit articles online and track their progress via a web interface. Papers may be submitted electronically (Postscript or PDF files only) to the following addresses http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm and navigate to the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing online submission site. Authors must specify the special issue title they are submitting to, in the box designated for that. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html ------------------ Guest Editors ------------------ Lingyang Song Philips Research Cambridge UK, CB4 0FY Email: lingyang.song(a)philips.com Athanasios Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia GR 50100 Kozani, GREECE Email: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Bingli Jiao Department of Electronics Beijing University Beijing, 100871, P. R. China Email: jiaobl(a)pku.edu.cn Junyi Wang Ubiquitous Mobile Communication Group National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-4 Hikarino-oka Yokosuka, 239-0847, Japan Email: junyi.wang(a)nict.go.jp Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Applied Research One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209 Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Email: wchen(a)research.telcordia.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] INFOCOM Workshops - Deadline Jan. 31st 2009
by jussara＠dcc.ufmg.br 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Apologies for multiple copies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the lineup of workshops that will be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-24, 2009. * High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2009) * Global Internet Symposium * Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks * Mobile Video Delivery Workshop (MoVID 2009) Workshop Call-for-Papers and detailed information can be found at: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/workshops.htm All workshops will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009, all day, and will provide forums for discussion and technical presentations on the current researches and future research directions related to different communication aspects. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is January 31, 2009. Claudio Casetti, Antonio Loureiro IEEE INFOCOM Workshop Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:49:20 -0600 Von: ICME 2009 Publicity <icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ======================================================================= IEEE ICME 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS regular/plenary paper submission due: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time workshop submissions see details below 2009 The 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) June 28 - July 3, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org ======================================================================= Overview IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies, including the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. Paper submissions Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in IEEE double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the conference website, www.icme09.org for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to: * Audio, image, video processing * Signal processing for media integration * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging * Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia Communications and networking * Multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia databases * Multimedia computing systems and appliances * Multimedia analysis and social media on the Internet * Hardware and software for multimedia systems * Multimedia standards and related issues * Multimedia applications A number of awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers / Best Student Papers at the conference. In addition to the traditional regular 4-page papers, we are soliciting submissions of plenary (8 page) papers. Accepted (top) plenary papers will be given single-track 30 minutes time slots to present their work to the whole conference. If a paper of good quality cannot be placed in the mere few single track presentation slot, it may be accepted as a long paper and presented in a parallel session. Multimedia is known for its diversity and the broad spectrum it covers. To encourge cross-field collaborative researches, in ICME 2009, we invite our sponsoring technical committees to host workshops to introduce the emerging technology in their respective field. Thanks to the sponsoring technical committees, the following workshops have been confirmed: * Emerging Multimedia Signal Processing Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSP TC) * Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSA TC) * Emerging Multimedia Communications Workshop (by IEEE MM Communications TC) * Multimedia Technology Workshop (by ACM SIG Multimedia 2009 MM TPC) Tutorials and Demos Brief tutorial proposals should be submitted by January 31, 2009, to Dr. Deepa Kundur at deepa {at} ece.tamu.edu, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Proposals for Demonstrations should be submitted to Dr. Hari Sundaram at hari.sundaram {at} asu.edu by January 31, 2009. Important Dates: Regular Paper / Plenary Paper Submission: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Accepted Workshops include: Community driven Mobile Multimedia Workshop chairs Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Noel Crespi, Intitut TELECOM, France Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Internet Multimedia Search and Mining Workshop chairs Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research Asia, China Marcel Worring University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications Workshop chairs Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA Susanto Rahardja, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare Workshop chairs B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context Workshop chairs Iris Wegmann, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Arnd Steinmetz, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Stefan Göbel, ZGDV Darmstadt, Germany Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, CIT Cork, Ireland Multimedia Security and Content Protection Workshop chairs Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop on Emerging Applications and Many-Core Architecture Workshop chair Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee chair Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Labs, USA Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technologies Workshop chair Oscar Au, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Multimedia System and Applications Technical Committee chair Kevin Yang, Natl. Cheng-Kung U., Taiwan Emerging Technologies on Multimedia Communications and Networking Workshop chairs Zhu Li, HK Polytech U, Hong Kong, China Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA Multimedia Communications Technical Committee chair Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Advances in Multimedia Computing Technologies Workshop chair TBD ACM Multimedia 2009 General chairs Wen Gao, Peking U, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China Alan Hanjalic, Deft U. of Technology, Netherlands ACM Multimedia 2009 Program chairs Changsheng Xu, Academy of Sciences, China Eckehard Steinbach, Tech U. of Munich, Germany Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, U. of Ottawwa, Canada Michelle Zhou, IBM Research, China Organization General Chairs: Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research, USA Ingemar Cox, U. College London, UK Technical Program Chairs: Qibin Sun, Hewlett-Packard, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China --- WORKSHOP CFP 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 (Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted.) 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 --- http://www.icme09.org ---------------------------- (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. This email should be addressed to: icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com. You will be removed from this list when we receive your reply.

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[Tccc] CFP: Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009)
by Luca Foschini 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009) (http://mediaWiN.it.teithe.gr) July 5th, 2009 Sousse, Tunisia organized in association with the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009) (http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2009) Contributions to MediaWiN 2009 should address the technical challenges arising from novel networking scenarios. Visionary, early-stage works that are rigorously presented and can steer discussion to new topics are particularly welcome. We are actively encouraging researchers to share their views, research proposals and solutions for multimedia applications over wireless networks. Since the first workshop edition in 2006, the proliferation of wireless access technologies and multimedia applications over IP networks is leading to a growing interest in the convergence between wireless networks and multimedia applications. However, the strict requirements of multimedia applications, the unreliability of wireless media and the cost of wireless resources make this convergence very challenging. MediaWiN2009 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics around the world to meet, present their work, and discuss the latest advances about multimedia services over wireless technology. All accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2009 Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally indexed by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Multimedia Services over Wireless Networks * Multimedia Applications and Protocols over Wireless Networks * Experimentation: Testbeds, Field Trials and Empirical Evaluations, Measurement Studies * Emerging Standards, Technologies and Novel Paradigms for Wireless Multimedia Communications Important Dates Submission of research papers due: 31 January 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: 28 February 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: 13 April 2009 Workshop date: 5 July 2009 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references, and must be submitted by January 31 2009 using EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7092). Papers meeting these require- ments will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2009 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland (kostas.pentikousis(a)vtt.fi) Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy (ilenia.tinnirello(a)tti.unipa.it) Publicity Chair Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece (pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org) Technical Program Committee (not finalized): Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca, Italy) Hussein Badr (Stony Brook University, USA) Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Paolo Bellavista (University og Bologna, Italy) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Anthony Boucouvalas (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Christos Bouras (University of Patras and RACTI, Greece) Raffaele Bruno (Institute for Informatics & Telematics, Italy) Hind Castel (Inst. National des Tlcommunications, France) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) Chrysostomos Chrysostomou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada) Martin Fleury (University of Essex, UK) Luca Foschini (University og Bologna, Italy) Ladan Gharai (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Stein Gjessing (University of Oslo, Norway) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy) Ibrahim Habib (City University of New York, USA) Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (University of Athens, Greece) George Karetsos (CTR of Thessaly, Greece) Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada) Adlen Ksentini (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus Univ. of Technology, Cyprus) Michael Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ioannis Mavridis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece) Roberto Riggio (University of Trento, Italy) Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Susana Sargento (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Luca Scalia (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padova, Italy) Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA) -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: luca.foschini(a)unibo.it <mailto:luca.foschini@unibo.it> or lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it <mailto:lfoschini@deis.unibo.it> Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:12 +0100 Von: Gregor Schiele <gregor.schiele(a)UNI-MANNHEIM.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2009) at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality 2009 (VR09) March 15th, 2009 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ -------------------------------------------------------- With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent boom of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments becomes more and more important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community- spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking and distributed computing communities. The aim of this workshop is to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. Following up on last year's very successful workshop (MMVE'08) at IEEE VR, we aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaboration, and move the state of the art forward. Topics ------ The main topic of this workshop is to provide a critical analysis of existing distribution approaches for virtual environments and to identify key challenges and techniques that are required for bringing VR systems into the global Internet, interconnecting thousands of users in a single environment. More specifically, the workshop addresses the following issues: 1. Scalability, i.e. the ability to handle thousands of (possibly nearby) users at the same time, interacting via the global Internet. 2. Interoperability, i.e. the ability to integrate multiple virtual worlds and/or service providers, e.g. using common protocols or universal clients. 3. Interactivity, i.e. how to provide highly responsive environments with near real time interaction despite network delay and jitter. 4. Bandwidth restricted (mobile) end user devices, e.g. the integration of mobile devices for nomadic augmented reality applications. 5. Dynamic and flexible distribution architectures, e.g. self-adapting client/server, peer-to-peer and hybrid architectures. 6. Content streaming, e.g. sound and 3D streaming. 7. Consistency, i.e. providing consistency guarantees to users of the distributed environment, despite the high level of responsiveness necessary and the experienced network delay. 8. Persistency, i.e. the ability to save and access the state of the virtual environment despite disconnections and faulty components. 9. Security and privacy, e.g. distributed authentication algorithms that allow users to participate in the environment securely and without fear of being spied on. 10. Implementation issues, e.g. novel approaches to effectively manage the complexity of developing applications for such environments. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must cover one of the topics listed above, or a closely- related one. Submitted papers should be about 5-6 pages long, use the IEEE proceedings format and *must be blinded*. Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer- reviewed (double-blind) and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions in PDF format must be submitted online through the workshop page at http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ no later than January 30th, 2009. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), subject to addressing all reviewer comments from MMVE and reformatting according to IJAMC formatting guidelines. If you have any questions, please email us at mmve(a)peers-at-play.org. Workshop Format -------------------------------------------- The workshop will have three parts. The first part will be an invited keynote talk. In the second part, we will have multiple sessions, each consisting of about 3 talks. The last part of the workshop will consist of a common panel discussion including all participants. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2009 Acceptance Notification: February 5th, 2009 Camera Ready Version: February 15th, 2009 Workshop Date: March 15th, 2009 Organizers ---------- * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany * Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Program Committee (prelim.) ----------------- * Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France * Christian Bouville, IRISA, France * Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany * Romain Cavagna, University of Paris VI, France * Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * Chris GauthierDickey, University of Denver, USA * Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia * Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan * Stephan Krause, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil * Peter Quax, Hasselt University, Belgium * Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy * Ingo Scholtes, University of Trier, Germany * Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada * Gwendal Simon, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan * Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore -- Dr. Gregor Schiele Chair of Information Systems II University of Mannheim, Germany http://becker.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/9.html

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[Tccc] LoCA 2009: Submission Deadline Change (Abstracts are due January 9th, 2009. Papers are due January 16th, 2009)
by walex＠cs.toronto.edu 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

************************** 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE CHANGE LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Abstract submission deadline: January 9th, 2009 Paper submission deadline: January 16th, 2009 ********************************************************************* LoCA 2009 (May 7-8, Tokyo Japan) is the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, with proceedings published in the LNCS series by Springer-Verlag. LoCA 2009 is co-located with Pervasive 2009 the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: * New hardware platforms for sensing location and context * Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data * Location and context representation, management, and distribution * Privacy policies and communication protocols for location and context information * User studies of location- and context-aware systems * Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets. We solicit papers of up to 18 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards: One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website: http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs: Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee: Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, University of Washington, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair: Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair: Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs: Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates: 9 January 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline 16 January 2009 Paper Submission Deadline 27 February 2009 Author Notifications 6 March 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) Sincerely, Alexander Varshavsky <varshavsky(a)research.att.com> LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ...]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ... Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:45 +0100 Von: Bernardo Wagner <wagner(a)rts.uni-hannover.de> An: NTH-School für IT Ökosysteme <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, vielleicht sind Sie ja an beliegendem Call for Papers interessiert. Ansonsten wünsche ich Ihnen frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr. B. Wagner ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <it-oekosysteme-all-off(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-digest(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-index(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Send administrative queries to <it-oekosysteme-all-request(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:57:19 -0500 (EST) Von: Shamik Sengupta <Shamik.Sengupta(a)stevens.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) ************* CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** ---------- MoViD 2009 ---------- 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2009 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 24 April 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *********************************************** The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Communications Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Jan 30 Accept/reject notification: Feb 28 Camera ready paper due: Mar 15 Workshop date: Apr 24 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Corporation of America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm Research Center Athina Markopoulou, University of California, Irvine Sourav Pal, Microsoft Research Amy R Reibman, ATT Research Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, Watson Thierry Turletti, INRIA Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Infocom Student Workshop - Deadline Jan 9, 2009
by Renata.TEIXEIRA＠lip6.fr 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts IEEE INFOCOM Student Workshop Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 20, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Infocom 2009 Student Workshop organizing committee is encouraging the submission of abstracts describing on going thesis research in all areas of computer networking and data communications, (for a list of topics, please refer to the Infocom 2009 call for papers at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/call_for_papers.htm). Accepted abstracts will appear in the Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings and the student will present a poster during the workshop. The Infocom Student Workshop is a forum for graduate students all over the world to interact with their peers, publicize and get feedback on their work. It is an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences, make contacts, and learn how other students are furthering Networking research. Students will also be able to interact with well-established researchers in the field who will participate in the workshop as mentors and organizers. The workshop will be a day-long program consisting mainly of panel discussions and poster sessions. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Abstract Submission Deadline : January 9, 2009, 23:59 PST * Acceptance Notification : January 19, 2009 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- We are soliciting abstracts, submitted in the Infocom 2009 format (Please refer to http://www.ieee-infocom.org/paper-layout.htm), that do not exceed 2 pages. Accepted abstracts will be available via IEEE Xplore and will be published as part of Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings. Note that the submitted version of accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings. To submit an abstract go to: http://www-rp.lip6.fr/crp-sw-infocom09/ CO-CHAIRS --------- Renata Teixeira, CNRS and UPMC Paris Universitas (France) Ranjita Bhagwan, MSR (India) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech (USA) Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson (France) Carla Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Rene Cruz, UCSD (USA) Ramesh Govindan,USC (USA) Jim Kurose , UMass (USA) Vishnu Navda, MSR (India) Alex Snoeren, UCSD (USA) Rui Zhang, Princeton (USA) Ben Zhao, UCSB (USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) - Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:09 +0100 Von: Wegmann, Iris <iris.wegmann(a)H-DA.DE> Antwort an: Wegmann, Iris <iris.wegmann(a)H-DA.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG (apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP) ========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context (2009) in concjunction with IEEE ICME July 3, 2009 Cancun, Mexico *** Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------- Serious Games is an emerging topic. More and More fields in research and industry discover the great possibilities Serious Games provide for various subjects as employee training, education, sports, medical science, fire brigade, tourism, society, aviation, military training etc. Although Serious Games is circulating in broad and heterogeneous fields it has not reached the multimedia community yet. The aim of this workshop should be the initiation of a Serious Game forum within multimedia. The concept of Serious Games offer immense opportunity to change education and game area but there is still a lot of room for improvement in gameplay, user experience, communication of learning content. We will assemble all disciplines in Multimedia to discuss how multimedia can be enrichment for Serious Games – which prospects provide Multimedia in connection with Serious Games. We will converse questions such as how alternate input and out devices are able to improve the gameplay, how innovations in communications of Multiplayer games can increase learning success and user experience, do game engines have the power to ease the production of Serious Games, how can augmented and virtual reality effect gameplay and user experience,… TARGET AUDIENCE ------------------ The target audience is researchers and practitioners in the field of Computer/Serious Games and its related areas. These include Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Simulation, Speech Recognition, Mimic Recognition, Gesture Control, Alternate Input and Output Devices, Game Engines / Technology Platforms, Audio, Smart User Interfaces, Innovative User Interfaces, Multimodal Interaction, etc. We recommend having previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. Multidisciplinary contributions coming from artistic and human-machine-interface as well as case studies, artistic installations, user experience evaluations are highly welcome which are affecting the development of Serious Game as new form of Computer Game / Media. Authors should submit a four-page manuscript in double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the ICME 2009 website, www.icme09.org <http://www.icme09.org/paperkit.html#FileFormat> for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to: Multimedia systems and components for - dynamic generation of multimedial (AV) output - direct interaction on multimedial (AV) output - Interpretation and comparison/grading of medial input - Speech and mimic analysis for computer based Language Games - AV-Communication in (Serious) Multiplayer Games - Serious Games in Museum / Public Multimedia Installations - Game Engines for Educational Games IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- * February 1, 2009: Paper Submission Deadline * March 10, 2009: Notification of Acceptance * March 31, 2009: Camera Ready Submissions * July 3, 2009: Workshop COMMITTEE: ------------ Workshop Chairs: * Arnd Steinmetz, igdv – Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Iris Wegmann, igdv – Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Stefan Goebel, ZGDV - Center for Computer Graphics Research, Darmstadt, Germany * Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, CIT - Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Program Committee: * Oliver Schneider, igdv - Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Gunter Sterr, igdv - Center for Advanced Learning, Media and Simulation, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany * Torsten Racky, rocketscience games development GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany * Jens Keil, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Darmstadt, Germany FURTHER INFORMATION: -------------------- Please visit the workshop website: http://workshops.igdv.h-da.de/organization.html

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[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: WEEDEV 2009 (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED)
by Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================================= 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) April 6, 2009, Washington DC, USA (in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2009) The 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) http://www.weedev.org/ will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2009), on April 6th ~ 8th, 2009, in Washington DC, USA. http://www.tridentcom.org/. WEEDEV 2009 focuses on experimental and deployment experiences in vehicular networks. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks. This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances and experimental evaluation in the development of vehicular networks and ITS application, and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field. Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for ITS * Heterogeneous wireless technologies in vehicular networks * Mobility management in vehicular networks and NEMO * Ad hoc and mesh routing for vehicular networks * IPv6 Address configuration for vehicular networks * Security in vehicular communication (authentication, access control, confidentiality, services' authorization, ..) * QoS in vehicular networks * Geographic routing and addressing * Sensor networks and technologies for vehicular networks * Smart antenna in vehicular networks * Digital maps and location technologies * Data collection and cooperation between vehicles Accepted papers will be included in the TridentCom09 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI. Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=144 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 double-column pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: General Chair: Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) - France E-mail: hassnaa.moustafa(a)orange-ftgroup.com TPC Chair: Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) - Spain E-mail: cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Technical Program Committee: Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra - Portugal Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory - Norway Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Hassnaa Moustafa, Orange Labs - France Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia - USA Thierry Ernst, INRIA - France Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University - USA Roberto Baldessari, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Carolina Pinart, Telefónica I+D - Spain Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Massimiliano Lenardi, Hitachi Europe - France Manuel Fernandez Veiga, Universidad de Vigo - Spain Ignacio Soto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Sidi-Mohamed Senouci, Orange Labs - France Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan - USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research Corporate - USA Wassim Haddad, Qualcomm - USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Germany Yi Qian, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST)- USA Houda Labiod, Telecom ParisTech - France David Cottingham, University of Cambridge - UK Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2009. Papers Notification: February 5, 2009. Submission of Camera-ready papers: February 15, 2009. Workshop date: April 6, 2009. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Weedev 2009: Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Weedev 2009: Deadline Extended Datum: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:32:35 +0800 Von: Tuanche Chen <brad(a)wire.cs.nthu.edu.tw> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) April 6, 2009, Washington DC, USA (in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2009) The 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2009) http://www.weedev.org/ will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2009), on April 6th ~ 8th, 2009, in Washington DC, USA. http://www.tridentcom.org/. WEEDEV 2009 focuses on experimental and deployment experiences in vehicular networks. Nowadays, vehicular networks technology is entering a critical phase where academia, industry and governments worldwide are investing significant time and resources on the large-scale deployment of these networks so that their benefits in the road safety and improvement of traffic flow could be leveraged. Still, a number of technical challenges need to be resolved in order that these networks could be widely deployed and used in our daily life. This motivates the need for real tests, field trials, and experimental evaluations for the different technological solutions and aspects in such networks. This workshop aims to present and discuss the recent advances and experimental evaluation in the development of vehicular networks and ITS application, and to disseminate the most advanced ideas and solutions in the field. Submitted papers should have practical evaluation and/or deployment experiences as their main subject or they should use experiments to validate their modeling/analysis results. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) * Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for ITS * Heterogeneous wireless technologies in vehicular networks * Mobility management in vehicular networks and NEMO * Ad hoc and mesh routing for vehicular networks * IPv6 Address configuration for vehicular networks * Security in vehicular communication (authentication, access control, confidentiality, services' authorization, ..) * QoS in vehicular networks * Geographic routing and addressing * Sensor networks and technologies for vehicular networks * Smart antenna in vehicular networks * Digital maps and location technologies * Data collection and cooperation between vehicles Accepted papers will be included in the TridentCom09 conference proceedings and the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be indexed by EI. Best papers of the workshop will be considered for further publication in a forthcoming Special issue (4th quarter 2009) of the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. https://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=144 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 double-column pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: General Chair: Dr. Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs) - France E-mail: hassnaa.moustafa(a)orange-ftgroup.com TPC Chair: Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos, University of Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) - Spain E-mail: cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Technical Program Committee: Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra - Portugal Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory - Norway Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Carlos J. Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Hassnaa Moustafa, Orange Labs - France Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia - USA Thierry Ernst, INRIA - France Xiuzhen (Susan) Cheng, The George Washington University - USA Roberto Baldessari, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Carolina Pinart, Telef髇ica I+D - Spain Andreas Festag, NEC Laboratories Europe - Germany Massimiliano Lenardi, Hitachi Europe - France Manuel Fernandez Veiga, Universidad de Vigo - Spain Ignacio Soto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Spain Nader Moayeri, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Sidi-Mohamed Senouci, Orange Labs - France Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan - USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research Corporate - USA Wassim Haddad, Qualcomm - USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Germany Yi Qian, National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) - USA Houda Labiod, Telecom ParisTech - France David Cottingham, University of Cambridge - UK Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2009. Papers Notification: February 5, 2009. Submission of Camera-ready papers: February 15, 2009. Workshop date: April 6th 2009. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] Deadline Extension: ACM MONET SI on Wireless Heterogeneous Networks and Next Generation Internet]
by Lars Wolf 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] Deadline Extension: ACM MONET SI on Wireless Heterogeneous Networks and Next Generation Internet Datum: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:30:40 -0600 Von: M. Can Vuran <mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS AND NEXT GENERATION INTERNET Extended Deadline: December 31st, 2008. The recent advances in wireless access technologies as well as the increasing number of mobile applications have made Wireless Internet a reality. A wide variety of bandwidth demanding services including high speed data delivery and multimedia communication have been materialized through the convergence of the next generation Internet and heterogeneous wireless networks. However, providing even higher bandwidth and richer applications necessitates a fundamental understanding of wireless Internet architecture and the interactions between heterogeneous users. Consequently, fundamental advances in many concepts of the wireless Internet are required for the ultimate goal of communication anytime anywhere. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in the area of wireless Internet. Papers describing applications, protocols, models, evaluation methods, and experimental studies of Wireless Internet are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks - Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications - Next generation Internet services and applications - Cross-layer Design and Optimization - Wireless Access Technologies (WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond) - QoS management and traffic modeling - Multi-hop Wireless Networks (Wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless mesh networks) - Algorithm design and performance analysis - Emerging Technologies and Applications including: -- Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) -- Cognitive radio networks -- Bio-inspired networks -- Context-aware mobile networking -- Wireless body area networks (WBANs) - Network Security - Wireless Internet Platforms, Testbeds, and Software Submission Instructions: ----------------------------------- Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described below at the journal site: http://www.springerlink.com/content/101750/. Submissions should be limited to 25 double space pages including figures, graphs, illustrations, and references, and use at least 11pt fonts. Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the guest editors (ekici(a)ece.osu.edu or mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu) as pdf files. This special issue additionally collects best papers from the ICST Fourth International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), (http://www.wicon.org/), Maui, Hawaii, November 17-19 2008. Important Dates: ------------------------ Submission Deadline: December 31, 2008 (EXTENDED) Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2009 Final Versions Due: May 1, 2009 Journal Publication Date: 3rd or 4th Quarter 2009 (Tentative) Guest Editors: Eylem EKICI Ohio State University ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Mehmet Can VURAN University of Nebraska-Lincoln mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu -- -- M. Can Vuran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Office: 109 Schorr Center Phone: (402) 472-5019 Fax: (402) 472-7767 mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu http://www.cse.unl.edu/~mcvuran _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] Deadline Extended: The Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2009) - in conjunction with ICDCS'09 - January 10, 2009
by Ammari, Habib M 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS The Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks WWASN 2009 - in conjunction with The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), June 22-26, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada This workshop covers the area of ad hoc networking, from physical issues up to application aspects. In particular, it will cover physical, data link, network and transport layers, as well as applications, security, simulation and power management issues in sensor, local area, personal, and mobile ad hoc networks. It is the goal of this workshop to review ad hoc protocols and models and to reflect the latest in the state of the art in ad hoc networks. It seeks to provide up to date information on research and development activities in the rapidly growing area of ad hoc networks. The workshop will also address the rapidly growing field of sensor networks, including the issues related to their topology, routing, performance, data gathering and filtering, energy efficiency, and mobility. Topics of interest include (but no limited to): * Applications and history of ad hoc networks * Physical layer of ad hoc networks * Pervasive and wearable computing * Opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks * IEEE 801.11x, 802.15.x and other types of medium access control * Methods and tools for ad hoc networks simulation * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless internet * Security in ad hoc and sensor networks * Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery in sensor networks * Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance * Information processing in sensor networks and systems Selected best papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks journal. Submission details Papers should be submitted via email (glxing(a)cse.msu.edu and vmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca). Papers should be submitted as PDF files, using either the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, all margins no smaller than one inch). Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical area(s) most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail address. Number each page in the manuscript. While there are no page length restrictions on the length of submitted papers, please note that the paper length for accepted papers will be limited to six (6) pages with up to two (2) additional pages at $150 per page. IMPORTANT: For each accepted paper, authors are required to submit at least one full registration for the ICDCS2009 conference. Accepted papers supported by at least one full registration will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the proceedings of ICDCS'2009 workshops. Timetable Manuscript Submission: January 10, 2009 Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2009 Final Manuscript Due at IEEE: March 13, 2009 General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan/ David Simplot-Ryl IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1, France http://www.lifl.fr/~simplot/ Program Co-Chairs Vojislav B. Misic' University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/ Guoliang Xing Michigan State University, USA http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ Program committee See the full list at http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~softart/WWASN2009.html _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP - ICOST'09 (Paris, 1-3 July, 2009)
by Ismail Khalil 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics (ICOST2009) Theme: "Ambient assistive health and wellness management in the heart of the city". 1-3 July, 2009 - Paris, France www.icost-conference.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES - All submissions (papers/demos): 24 January, 2009 - Author notification : 2 March, 2009 - Camera-ready copy : 5 April, 2009 Organizer: Institut TELECOM / TELECOM SudParis Publication: Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in LNCS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Current advances in enabling technologies coupled with evolving care paradigms allow us to foresee novel applications and services for improving the quality of life for ageing and disabled people, both inside and outside of their homes. ICOST intends to present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of Smart Homes, Health Telematics, and emerging enabling technologies. Specifically we wish to provide the opportunity to present the latest results in the successes of real deployment of systems and services. This addresses technical and social solutions beyond the home environment and covers the use of assistive technologies in the heart of the community. Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Intelligent Environments with emphasis on Smart Homes - Personal Medical Data Collection and Processing (Health Vaults) - Devices, Systems and Algorithms for Vision/Hearing/Cognitive/ Communication Impairments - Home Networks and Residential Gateways - Human-Machine Interface and Ambient Intelligence - Home Health Monitoring and Intervention - Wearable Sensors / Integrated Micro/Nano Systems - Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation - Assistive and Rehabilative Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs - Social/Privacy/Security Issues - Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing - Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematic Services - Modelling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments - Real World Deployments and Experiences in Smart Homes, Hospitals, and Living Communities - Elder Perspectives on Smart Home Technologies - Assistive Technology to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults and their Caregivers - Gerontechnology, Social Science and Health Care Technology ICOST2009 will have the focus on the deployment of technology and usage with the involvement of both industrials and end users. Demonstration sessions and brainstorming sessions with users will be organised in addition to regular paper and poster presentation sessions. SUBMISSION There will be a combination of presentations including scientific papers, posters and technology demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited, in the first instance, to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas of interest for this conference. The initial submission for evaluation should be in the form of a 4-8 page paper outline. Authors are strongly recommended to submit the full 8-page English language version. Springer LNCS format should be used for submission. GENERAL CHAIRS - Mounir Mokhtari, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France - Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France - Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, United Kingdom SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - Z. Zenn Bien, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea - Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong - Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA - Sylvain Giroux, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada - Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA - Mounir Mokhtari, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France - Chris Nugent, University of Ulster, United Kingdom - Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan - Tatsuya Yamazaki, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan - Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China - Daqing Zhang, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France PROGRAM CHAIR - Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University, Austria PUBLICITY CHAIRS - Sergio Guillen, ITACA, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain - Shiuh-Jeng Wang, Central Police University, Taiwan - Bessam AbdulRazak, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada INDUSTRY LIAISON CHAIRS - Daby Sow, IBM Watson Lab, USA - Mahmoud Ghorbel, Alcatel-Lucent, France LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR - Jérémy Bauchet, Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, France =================================================================== Ismail Khalil Tel: +43 732 2468 9888 Institute of Telecooperation Mobile: +43 680 125 9331 Johannes Kepler University Linz Fax: +43 732 2468 9829 Altenberger Strasse 69 email: ismail(a)tk.uni-linz.ac.at A-4040 Linz, Austria http://www.iiwas.org/ismail/ ==================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Special issue Design for Social Interaction through Physical Play in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
by Rauterberg, G.W.M. 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

** 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 **************************************************** CFP: Special issue on Design for Social Interaction through Physical Play in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal Advancements in technology influence several trends in today's society that pose serious threats to social interaction. Increasing number of people interact through media and less in a face-to-face manner. Elderly tend to get lonely when socializing becomes more difficult because of their age. Children spend an increasing amount of time behind their computer playing games on their own and adults also tend to live a less active life. Due to various reasons the number of people with social impairments (autism spectrum disorders) has noticeably grown during the last decades. Another related trend is that people lead less active lifestyles. At the same time, new technologies provide novel entertainment and interaction opportunities. Paper should explore the opportunities that technology-driven physical play offers for enhancing and stimulating face-to-face social interaction (as opposed to virtual interaction through a computer). This can be beneficial for diverse reasons: For children to counter the trend of playing computer games and watching television on their own, for elderly to socialize more when making new contacts becomes more difficult and for autistic children because they particularly like technological toys. The main goal of the special issue is to share information and experiences among researchers in the area of social interaction through physical play. We invite papers addressing social and physical issues including (but not restricted to) the following fields: - Social robotics - Design for diverse user groups, such as children and elderly - Social games - Creative toolkits - Exertion interfaces - Pervasive and head-up games - Embodied facilitation - Spatial and tangible interaction It is expected that the special issue will include some articles extended from papers that were presented at the 2008 Fun and Games workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play (http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/m.m.bekker/WorkshopSPG.htm), but other original articles are also welcome. Complete articles should be submitted by the deadline of 15th February, 2009. Papers will be subject to a full review process with notification of acceptance by 30th March, 2009. Deadline for the submission of final papers is 30th April 2009. Please check the journal's website for information about the word template. http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779?detailsPage=de…. Paper length should be between 6000 and 8000 words. Editors: Tilde Bekker, Janienke Sturm and Emilia Barakova Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Industrial Design Email: m.m.bekker(a)tue.nl<mailto:m.m.bekker@tue.nl>, j.sturm(a)tue.nl<mailto:j.sturm@tue.nl>, e.i.barakova(a)tue.nl<mailto:e.i.barakova@tue.nl> Emilia I. Barakova, Ph.D. Book review editor, JIN, Faculty of ID, Eindhoven University of Technology P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands and Lab. for Dynamics of Emergent Intelligence RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan **************************************************** ** 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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CfP: Intl. Workshop on Smart Services for Smart Worlds (SS4SW)
by Erwin Aitenbichler 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S International Workshop on Smart Services for Smart Worlds (SS4SW) http://www.ss4sw.org/ "Explore new applications, business ideas and research challenges at the intersection of things and services." Held in conjunction with the IEEE 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-09) Brisbane, Australia, 7 - 10 July, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM & SCOPE Services are the dominant type of economic activity in industrialized economies. The term Internet of Services relates to the representation and (partial) execution of services - in the economic sense - in the Internet. Many issues around the mapping between economic services and services in the IT sense are still unresolved. Additionally, only a small fraction of services are entirely dematerialized; the vast majority of services ultimately relate to things in the real world: to the Internet of Things. The Ubiquitous Computing community has already made considerable advances in closing the information gap between services and things. One well-known example is the use of RFID tags in logistics. Yet this is only the beginning, there still exists a largely untapped source of innovation at the junction of services and things. This workshop is about bringing together industry and academia to explore how advances in ubiquitous computing techniques can help improve existing economic services and create opportunities for new services. We are also interested in how services can add value to smart things. This is a forum for industry to learn about recent advances in both services and Ubicomp and also for researchers to learn about the problems faced by industry that may spark new research questions and the next wave of Ubicomp applications. We solicit a) technical papers with a proven original scientific contribution and b) systematic, well-founded experience reports and requirements / demands analyses. Core IT papers and papers at the boundary of technology and business or humanities are also invited. We also welcome contributions that address solely the topic of services, independently of ubiquitous computing, since we believe this also contributes to cross-fertilization of ideas in the context of UIC-09. Technical, business and legal aspects of services all have their place here. Topics may include, but are not limited to: * Identification of services in existing systems and business processes * Approaches for fostering the creation, use and re-use of services * Aggregation, brokerage and re-purposing of services * Personalisation of services to classes of users and individual users * Channels and technologies for accessing services * Service lifecycle management * Legal aspects of service ecosystems * New business models enabled by smart things * Doing business better, cheaper, faster, greener with smart things * Economics and sustainability of using smart things * Applications of things and services in media and advertisement * Applications of things and services to delivering healthcare and services to citizens * Applications of things and services to manufacturing and supply chain management * Lifecycle management of smart things * Discovering services through smart things * Discovering smart things using services * Machine-processable representations of services stored in smart things * Linking smart things to their related services * Representation of real world things in virtual worlds * Running services inside smart things * Privacy and security issues with things and services SUBMISSION & DISSEMINATION We invite all researchers to participate by submitting an original paper of up to 6 pages in IEEE CS style. Please see the workshop website for document templates and for details on the submission procedure (http://www.ss4sw.org/). Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the PC. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in a single volume with proceedings from all UIC-09 workshops. Extended versions of the best papers may be invited for publication in a journal at a later stage. IMPORTANT DATES Feb. 15, 2009 Paper submission deadline Mar. 25, 2009 Authors notification Apr. 10, 2009 Camera-ready papers due WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Dr. Julien Vayssiere (Smart Services CRC, Australia) * Prof. Dr. Max Muhlhauser (TU Darmstadt, Germany) * Dr. Erwin Aitenbichler (TU Darmstadt, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative; in alphabetical order) * Dr. Erwin Aitenbichler (TU Darmstadt, Germany) * Dr. Alistair Barros (SAP Research Brisbane, Australia) * Dr. Ross Brown (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) * Prof. Michael Fry (University of Sydney, Australia) * Dr. Tim Mansfield (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) * Prof. Dr. Max Muhlhauser (TU Darmstadt, Germany) * Prof. S. Panchanathan (Arizona State University, USA) * Prof. Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) * Dr. Rainer Ruggaber (SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany) * Dr. Sharad Singhal (HP Labs Palo Alto, USA) * Dr. Julien Vayssiere (Smart Services CRC, Australia) * A/Prof. Wayne Wobcke (University of New South Wales, Australia) WORKSHOP WEBSITE http://www.ss4sw.org/

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[Tccc] [WiPH]CALL FOR PAPERS
by Lingyang Song 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

CALL FOR PAPERS (WiPH2009) ======================================================================= 2009 International Workshop on Wireless Pervasive Healthcare (WiPH 2009), March 31, 2009, London UK (http://www.wiph-workshop.org/) to be held in conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2009, April 1-3, London UK (http://www.pervasivehealth.org/cfp.shtml) ======================================================================= ----------------- Aim of the workshop ----------------- Wireless access for pervasive healthcare is an emerging cross-disciplinary subject, focusing on the research and developments of pervasive and ubiquitous wireless technologies in order to improve the quality of healthcare and wellness. With the recent advances in hardware design and wireless communications, the evolution of new generations of embedded wireless devices, which facilitates reliable, comprehensive, and high-standard healthcare, has attracted intensive attention from both industries and academic institutes. Particularly, developments in wireless infrastructure, such as body-area networks or pervasive health-monitoring system, have proved beneficial to deliver telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. However, there still exist many challenges to overcome before the real marketing stage due to requirements for reliable signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, robust data and image transmission, and the great need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. In addition, cost issue is another key concern for worldwide utilization of wireless devices for pervasive healthcare. The aim of the workshop is to bring together both the industry and academia to present and discuss the problems, challenges, directions, and state-of-art in the fields of wireless access for pervasive healthcare. The workshop will try to build a bridge between the industry and academic research so that future collaborations between two sectors can be identified. In addition, we welcome demos of state-of-the-art products. ----------------- Topics of interests (not limited to) ----------------- Topics of interest relating to wireless access techniques for healthcare are (but not limited to): · New network architectures · RF techniques · Propagation models, such as on-body/in-body propagation channel models · Transmission technologies and baseband signal processing · Health sensing techniques · Health imaging and localization by large bandwidth communications, for example UWB · Mobile, wearable and implantable sensor integration · Ambient and home based technologies · Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring · Wireless sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring, and other applications · Enabling technologies for future medical devices and systems · Embedded, real-time, networked system infrastructures · Robust, verifiable, fault-tolerant networking protocols · Real-time data acquisition, processing and analysis · QoS and resource management · Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum sharing techniques · Distributed control of wearable and implantable medical devices · Security and privacy issues · Testbeds, prototypes, and other novel applications · Electromagnetic interference by wireless devices on medical equipment · Interoperability and standardization ----------------- Submission Guidelines ----------------- WiPH2009 accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers in the area of wireless technologies for healthcare. Submissions can be a 2-page extended abstract including results. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. All accepted submissions will be published in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www.pervasivehealth.org/submission.shtml ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Paper submission: January 31, 2009 Notification to Authors: February 20, 2009 Camera Ready: February 27, 2009 Workshop dates: March 31, 2009 ----------------- Local organizing committee ----------------- Lingyang Song, Philips Research, UK Rob Davies, Philips Research, UK David Walker, Philips Research, UK ----------------- Program committee ----------------- Thomas Falck, Philips Research, Netherlands Bert Gyselinckx, IMEC Eindhoven, Netherlands Joseph Paradiso, The Media Laboratory, MIT, US Alister Burr, University of York, UK Bingli Jiao, Beijing University, China Pankaj Vadgama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Yuanting Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China Steffen Leonhardt, RWTH Aachen University, Germany William G. Scanlon, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, UK ----------------- Contact Information ----------------- Dr. Lingyang Song Philips Research, 101 Cambridge Science park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0FY, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1223 427523 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 427550 Email: lingyang.song(a)philips.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM MONET SI on Wireless Heterogeneous Networks and Next Generation Internet]
by Lars Wolf 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM MONET SI on Wireless Heterogeneous Networks and Next Generation Internet Datum: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:03:19 -0600 Von: M. Can Vuran <mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS AND NEXT GENERATION INTERNET Extended Deadline: December 31st, 2008. The recent advances in wireless access technologies as well as the increasing number of mobile applications have made Wireless Internet a reality. A wide variety of bandwidth demanding services including high speed data delivery and multimedia communication have been materialized through the convergence of the next generation Internet and heterogeneous wireless networks. However, providing even higher bandwidth and richer applications necessitates a fundamental understanding of wireless Internet architecture and the interactions between heterogeneous users. Consequently, fundamental advances in many concepts of the wireless Internet are required for the ultimate goal of communication anytime anywhere. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in the area of wireless Internet. Papers describing applications, protocols, models, evaluation methods, and experimental studies of Wireless Internet are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks - Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications - Next generation Internet services and applications - Cross-layer Design and Optimization - Wireless Access Technologies (WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond) - QoS management and traffic modeling - Multi-hop Wireless Networks (Wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless mesh networks) - Algorithm design and performance analysis - Emerging Technologies and Applications including: -- Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) -- Cognitive radio networks -- Bio-inspired networks -- Context-aware mobile networking -- Wireless body area networks (WBANs) - Network Security - Wireless Internet Platforms, Testbeds, and Software Submission Instructions: ----------------------------------- Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described below at the journal site: http://www.springerlink.com/content/101750/. Submissions should be limited to 25 double space pages including figures, graphs, illustrations, and references, and use at least 11pt fonts. Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the guest editors (ekici(a)ece.osu.edu or mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu) as pdf files. This special issue additionally collects best papers from the ICST Fourth International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON 2008), (http://www.wicon.org/), Maui, Hawaii, November 17-19 2008. Important Dates: ------------------------ Submission Deadline: December 31, 2008 (EXTENDED) Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 2009 Final Versions Due: May 1, 2009 Journal Publication Date: 3rd or 4th Quarter 2009 (Tentative) Guest Editors: Eylem EKICI Ohio State University ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Mehmet Can VURAN University of Nebraska-Lincoln mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu -- -- M. Can Vuran, Ph. D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Office: 109 Schorr Center Phone: (402) 472-5019 Fax: (402) 472-7767 mcvuran(a)cse.unl.edu http://www.cse.unl.edu/~mcvuran _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - SENSAPPEAL 2009 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call) ***************************************************************** SENSAPPEAL 2009 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics www.sensappeal.org September 24-25, 2009, Athens, Greece Sponsored by ICST ***************************************************************** Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are envisioned to enable a variety of applications including environmental monitoring, building and plant automation, homeland security and healthcare. It has been argued that one of the key characteristics of sensor networks is that they are so tightly coupled with the applications running on top of them. Although WSNs have been an active area of research for over a decade, real world sensor network deployments have not yet found their way to widespread adoption. The experience gained and lessons learned during the initial attempts to deploy WSNs and implement various sensor network applications are very valuable for the advancement of this technology. The 1st ICST International Conference on Sensor Networks Applications, Experimentation and Logistics (SENSAPPEAL 2009) aims at bringing together researchers and developers from academia and industry to present their work and share their experiences with developing, deploying and testing WSN applications. Moreover key enablers to WSN application development (such as OS, middleware, in-field reprogramming, testbeds and simulators, etc.) fall within the scope of the conference. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Full papers should be restricted to 20 camera-ready pages in the Springer “Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (LNICST)” format. We also welcome submissions for demonstrations of pilot, experimental or real-life deployments, testbeds, simulators and applications of wireless sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sensor network applications: * Environmental Monitoring o wildfire detection and tracking o landslide prediction o pollution monitoring o habitat monitoring o seismic monitoring * Physical security and surveillance * Health care and assisted living * Building and plant automation * Disaster area or area of operations information gathering * Other novel applications Application enablers: * API’s, programming paradigms and in-field reprogramming techniques (OS, middleware, mobile agents, sensor DBs, in network processing) * Testbeds and simulators * Cognitive and autonomous operation of sensor networks * Localization and tracking * Efficient networking protocols * Network and data security * Sensing devices Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: March 6th, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: May 31st, 2009 Author Registration Deadline: July 15th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 20th, 2009 For submission instructions please visit www.sensappeal.org. -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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ICST - CFP: COMSWARE 2009, Dublin, Ireland,15-19 June 2009
by info＠icstconferences.org 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Call for papers The Fourth International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE (COMSWARE 2009) Dublin, Ireland - 15th-19th June 2009 http://www.comsware.org/ The Fourth International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE) will be held from June 15th to June 19th, 2009 at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The conference will focus on the state of the art in the design, implementation and use of communication systems software and middleware systems, ranging from traditional telecommunication systems to mobile computing, multimedia systems, peer-to-peer networks and Internet services. The areas of interest will also include the interoperation, integration, connectivity and management of communication systems software and middleware systems. The COMSWARE conference is the premier international forum for researchers, business leaders, educators and practitioners to present and discuss the performance of current systems, in conjunction with the current trends and potential concerns in the field of communication systems software and middleware systems. The conference will feature a high quality technical program consisting of invited speakers, regular papers, short papers, industrial papers, posters and workshops. Topic areas The specific topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: • Innovative architectures for Internet services, Web services, service computing, and cloud computing • Security, reliability, and quality of service in communication networks, protocols, middleware, applications, and Internet services • Methods and tools for designing and evaluating software and middleware communication systems • Large-scale system integration, software evolution, software engineering methodologies, and requirements engineering for software and middleware communication systems, and Internet services • Wireless and mobile networking, wireless operating systems, mobile platforms and embedded systems • Communication systems architecture, design, development methodologies, and business models • Middleware for ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing, embedded systems, peer-to-peer systems and applications • Middleware for event processing, event-based systems, publish/subscribe and messaging middleware • Case studies of specification, design, and use of software and middleware communication systems • Innovations in operations and management of large networks and large-scale enterprise systems Submission guidelines All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Each paper will be reviewed by independent referees. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Two types of paper submissions will be accepted: Research papers - full research papers (max. 10 pages), which must describe new results that advance the state-of-the-art in basic and applied research or short papers (max. 6 pages) presenting work-in-progress. Industry papers (max. 10 pages) - describing the designing, production, deployment, evaluation, and practical experiences for a software or middleware system. The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). More detailed submission instructions are posted at the conference web site. Important Dates Paper submission - Thursday, February 12th 2009 Author notification - Thursday, April 9th 2009 Manuscripts due - Thursday, May 14th 2009 Conference committee: General Co-Chairs - Jan Bosch, Intuit Inc, California, USA; Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Technical Program Co-Chairs - Juha Savolainen, Nokia Ltd., Finland; Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada Steering Committee Chair - Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy Industry Track Chair - Sten Minor, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Sweden Workshop Chairs - Lidia Fuentes, Malaga University, Spain; Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France Panel Chairs - Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki, Finland -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] CFP: Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks (with IWCMC) 21-24 JUNE 2009 Leipzig, Germany
by Zhu Han 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

We apologize if you receive multiple copies. CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Cooperative and Cognitive Networks 21-24 JUNE 2009 Leipzig, Germany In conjunction with the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference Workshop scope The concept of cooperative communications for wireless networks, such as cellular networks, sensor networks, and wireless ad hoc networks, has recently attracted considerable attention. Different from conventional point-to-point communications, cooperative communications and networking allows different users or nodes in a wireless network to share resources to create collaboration through distributed transmission/processing, in which each user's information is sent out not only by the user, but also by collaborating users. Cooperative communications and networking is a new communication paradigm promising significant capacity and multiplexing gain increase in wireless networks. It realizes a new form of space diversity to combat the effects of severe fading that has been termed cooperative diversity, and it is also helpful in reducing complexity of routing problems and realizing seamless networking, Although some initial understanding of cooperative communication schemes has been demonstrated in recent years, many more problems related to developing practical and effective cooperative communication systems have emerged or remain open. Cognitive radio has emerged as a promising technology for optimizing utilization of radio bandwidth in the next generation wireless communications systems and networks. This will enable us to cope with the increasing spectrum demand for wireless services as well as create new wireless applications and services. Recently, we have witnessed a flurry of research in dynamic spectrum access and cognitive radio. Development of cognitive radio technology has to deal with technical and practical considerations as well as regulatory requirements, and therefore, there is an increasing interest in this technology among the researchers and the spectrum policy makers. The workshop will focus on the research challenges associated with the design, implementation, and application of cognitive and spectrum agile wireless networks. Call for papers Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 6 camera‐ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE transactions format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop (see below). Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the over page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Submissions are managed via EDAS: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6827. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IWCMC 2009, which will be included in the ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Topics of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to): Cooperative system architecture and protocol design System capacity, outage probability, performance analysis and optimization MIMO cooperative communications and distributed space-time coding Differential/non-coherent cooperation systems Cooperative multimedia communications and networking Resource allocation and management for cooperative communications Cooperative routing and scheduling for sensor networks and ad hoc networks Cross-layer design in cooperative communications and networking Impact of cooperation in cellular networks, WLAN, and existing standards. Fundamental performance limit of dynamic spectrum access for cognitive radios Challenges and issues in designing cognitive radio systems Architectures and building blocks of cognitive radio networks Spectrum sensing, measurements and statistical modModulation schemes for coexistence Spectrum awareness and dynamic channel selection Distributed cooperative spectrum sensing Distributed adaptation and optimization methods Cognitive machine learning techniques Interoperability and co-existence issues Cognitive MAC and routing protocols for dynamic spectrum access Security and robustness of cognitive spectrum-agile networks Cross-layer optimization of cognitive radio systems Applications of cognitive radio networks Pricing models for spectrum sharing in cognitive radio Regulatory policies Emerging standards Cognitive radio test-beds and hardware prototypes IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 20 Dec. 2008 (I would put 20 February) Acceptance: 25 Mar. 2009 Author registration: 15 Apr. 2009 Camera-ready paper: 15 Apr. 2009 Co‐chairs Merouane Debbah, SUPELEC, France, Merouane.Debbah(a)supelec.fr Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA, zhan2(a)mail.uh.edu Sau-Hsuan Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, sauhsuan(a)cm.nctu.edu.tw Technical Program Committee Giuseppe Abreu, University of Oulu Giuseppa Alfano, Politecnico di Torino Jean-Claude Belfiore, Telecom ParisTech Bernard Fleury, Aalborg University Maxime Guillaud, Aalborg University Yao-Win Peter Hong, National Tsinghua University Jacques Palicot, Supelec Luc Vandendorpe, Université catholique de Louvain _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS, SAHNS 2009
by Thanos Vasilakos 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

CALL FOR PAPERS SAHNS 2009 The Second International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems Montreal, Canada, June 26, 2009 <http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/> http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/ In conjunction with the IEEE 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. SCOPE The Workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad-hoc networks and systems. As an alternative to one-size-fits-all general solutions in the area of ad hoc networking and systems, we want to stimulate the application-oriented divide-and-conquer approach to ad hoc network and system research. The goal is to provide sound and efficient specialized ad hoc networks and systems (SAHNS), suitable for building solutions specific for well-defined classes of applications or even individual applications. We want to consider both specialized ad hoc networks and specialized ad hoc systems. The latter can be built on top of specialized ad hoc networks. Alternatively, they can be constructed independently of specialized ad hoc networks, e.g., on top of general-purpose ad hoc networks. It should be emphasized that SAHNS is interested only in solutions specific to specialized ad hoc networks and systems. The Workshop is not interested in broad general-purpose solutions for all ad hoc networks and systems, or in generic solutions for extremely broad subclasses of ad hoc networks and systems. For example, the Workshop is not interested in general-purpose solutions for all sensornets or all P2P systems but is instead interested in specialized solutions for their application-oriented subclasses. One example of SAHNS targeted by this workshop are Incident Area Networks (IANs), dedicated to single incidents or events. An IAN can be pre-deployed for a planned event, such as a sporting or "nationally significant" event, or can be dynamically deployed for an unplanned incident, such as a local law enforcement situation or a natural disaster. Another example are opportunistic resource utilization networks (e.g., oppnets), in which the network reacts to a lack of resources by finding and incorporating "helpers" that have needed resources or services. Areas and topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: a) Design issues for SAHNS: o Novel network and system architectures o Economically-based models and solutions o Operating systems and middleware o Customized network protocols (incl. cross-layer protocols) o Resource management solutions (incl. resource discovery) o Algorithms and models for localization and mobility management o Privacy, security, and trust o Reliability and dependability o Novel hardware platforms b) Development issues for SAHNS: o Development methodologies, models and tools o Analytical and validation models o Performance evaluation and modeling (incl. simulation tools) c) Operation and management issues for SAHNS: o Topology control and management o Energy control and management o Resource and service discovery and control o QoS provisioning and management o Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing o Assuring survivability and reliability o Controls for privacy, security, and trust management d) Application issues for SAHNS: o Best current and future applications for SAHNS o Experience with SAHNS deployments and products o Social and business impacts of SAHNS-based applications 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in the PDF format, with numbered pages. They should have no more than 6 pages following the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (8.5 by 11 inch sheets, double-column, 10 point or larger font, single-spaced). The following information must be provided on the first page: o Paper title o Full names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors o An abstract (up to 150 words) o Five to ten keywords/phrases o A footnote with the indication of the corresponding author, plus the complete address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author Papers should be submitted by emailing them to: <mailto:llilien@cs.wmich.edu> llilien(a)cs.wmich.edu Each received submission will be confirmed, usually within two workdays. 3. PAPER REVIEW AND PUBLISHING Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers and their comments will be provided to the authors. If accepted, the paper will be published in the workshop proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, provided that at least one of its authors registers for ICDCS (which includes SAHNS) by the early registration deadline. As all conferences published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS), ICDCS proceedings will be indexed through INSPEC, the leading English-language bibliographic information service for scientific and technical literature. ICDCS proceedings will also be submitted for indexing to EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex, ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette (ISI Thomson). We plan a special issue of an international journal with extended versions of the selected SAHNS papers. 4. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission - December 19, 2008 Author notification - January 30, 2009 Final manuscript due - February 27, 2009 5. COMMITTEES --------- Steering Committee --------- Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA Leszek Lilien (Workshop Chair), Western Michigan University, USA Mark Linderman, Air Force Research Lab, USA Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece --------- Organizing Committee --------- International Publicity Co-Chairs: - At-large: Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA - Africa, Europe and Middle East: Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece - Asia and Australia: Mamata Jenamani, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - Central and South America: Ruy de Oliveira, Centro Federal de Educaça~o Técnológica de Mato Grosso, Brazil - North America: Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA Publications Chair: James Yang, Western Michigan University, USA --------- Technical Program Committee --------- Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA Tom Altman, University of Colorado at Denver, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Roberto Baldoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy Michel Banâtre, IRISA-Rennes, France Vijay Bhuse, Parametric Technology, USA Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology of America, USA Huirong Fu, Oakland University, USA Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Jeong-Heon Hwang, University at Albany - State University of New York, USA Ireneusz Józwiak, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Dionysios Kountanis, Western Michigan University, USA Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Yao-Nan Lien, National Chengchi University, Republic of China Sanjay Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA John Matyjas, Air Force Research Lab, USA Patrick Mitran, University of Waterloo, Canada Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Ruy de Oliveira, Centro Federal de Educaça~o Técnológica de Mato Grosso, Brazil Leonardo Querzoni, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy S.S. Ravi, University at Albany - State University of New York, USA Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Vahid Tarokh, Harvard University, USA Dirk Timmermann, University of Rostock, Germany Shambhu Upadhyaya, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA Weichao Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Edward Wantuch, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA 6. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please visit the SAHNS 2009 web pages at: <http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/> http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/ or contact Leszek T. Lilien, Workshop Chair ( <mailto:llilien@cs.wmich.edu> llilien(a)cs.wmich.edu). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Cost290] WWIC 2009 Call for Papers
by Berg, J.L. (Hans) van den 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWIC 2009 7th International Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications May 27-29, 2009 University of Twente, The Netherlands http://wwic2009.utwente.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Submission deadline: December 29, 2008 *** CALL FOR PAPERS Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. WWIC is a single-track conference which has reached, within 6 years, the highest level of quality, which is reflected both in the level of participation as well as the acceptance ratio and the amount and quality of submitted papers. CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference objectives will be pursued through highly technical sessions organized thematically and keynote talks offered by recognized experts. Topics of interest to WWIC 2009 include (but are not limited to) the following: - Ambient networks - Ad-hoc mobile networks - Cross layer design and optimisation - Delay tolerant networks - Economical issues of wireless networks - End-to-end Quality of Service support - Handover techniques - Heterogeneous wireless access networks - Hybrid wired / wireless environments - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Mobile service level agreements / specification - Mobility management - Multi-, geo- and broadcasting in wireless networks - Network planning and operations - Network mobility - Network security in mobile environments - Next generation cellular networks - P2P overlays in wireless networks - Performance evaluation of wireless systems - Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks - QoS routing in mobile networks - QoS signalling in mobile environments - Resource management and admission control - Self-organisation and -optimisation of wireless networks - Simulation of mobile networks - Traffic characterisation and modelling - Traffic engineering - Transport protocols and congestion control - Vehicular networks - Wireless mesh networks - Wireless multi-hop networks - Wireless multimedia systems - Wireless network monitoring - Wireless sensor networks PROCEEDINGS The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award. GENERAL CHAIRS: Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Evgeny Osipov, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden TPC CHAIRS: Hans van den Berg, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Dirk Staehle, University of Wuerzburg, Germany LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Desi Dimitrova, University of Twente, The Netherlands Silvia Meijran, University of Twente, The Netherlands STEERING COMMITTEE Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tubingen, Germany Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere Univ. of Tech., Finland Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK Manuel Alvarez-Campana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy Mortaza Bargh, Telematics Institute, Netherlands Carlos Bernardos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP Research, Switzerland Sem Borst, Technische Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands Richard Boucherie, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Rafaelle Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Wojciech Burakowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Erik Fledderus, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Twente Inst. for Wireless and Mobile Comm. / TU Delft, Netherlands Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs / Alcatel-Lucent, USA Haruki Izumikawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan Yuming Jiang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Andreas Kassler, Karlstads University, Sweden Byung Kim, University of Mass. Lowell, USA Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rolf Kraemer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Peter Kropf, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Dirk Kutscher, University of Bremen, Germany Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Kenji Leibnitz, University of Osaka, Japan Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, USA Remco Litjens, TNO ICT, The Netherlands Hai Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Andreas Mäder, NEC Labs, Germany Christian Maihöfer, Daimler AG, Germany Lefteris Mamatas, Demokritos University, Greece Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Marc Necker, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Evgeny Osipov, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France George Pavlou, University College London, UK Aleksi Penttinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson - Paris Research Labs, France Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany Jochen Schiller, Free University Berlin, Germany Patrick Sénac, ISAE, France Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Vasilios Siris, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece Dirk Staehle, University of Würzburg, Germany Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Hans van den Berg, TNO ICT / University of Twente, The Netherlands Rob van der Mei, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, The Netherlands Piet Van Mieghem, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg State Univ. of Inf. Techn., Mech. and Optics, Russia Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Guoliang Xing, City University of Hong kong, Hong Kong Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan Evsen Yanmaz, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Chi Zhang, Juniper Networks, USA Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline:............December 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance:.........March 6, 2009 Camera ready papers:...............March 19, 2009 For more information please see the conference site: http://wwic2009.utwente.nl --------------------------------------------------- Organised by University of Twente, The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Tccc] IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Cloud Computing
by George Pallis 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING Special Issue on Cloud Computing (Sept/Oct 2009) Final submissions due 15 January 2009 Please e-mail the guest editors a brief description of the article you plan to submit by 1st January 2009 (subject line: Cloud Computing Special Issue). Guest editors: Marios D. Dikaiakos (mdd(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), Dimitrios Katsaros (dkatsar(a)inf.uth.gr), George Pallis (gpallis(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy), Athena Vakali (avakali(a)csd.auth.gr), Pankaj Mehra (pankaj.mehra(a)hp.com) Cloud Computing refers to a recent trend in Information Technology (IT) that moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large data centers. The key driving forces behind the emergence of Cloud Computing includes the overcapacity of today’s large corporate data centers, the ubiquity of broadband and wireless networking, the falling cost of storage, and progressive improvements in Internet computing software. Currently, the main technical underpinnings of Cloud Computing infrastructures and services include virtualization, service-oriented software, Grid computing technologies, management of large facilities, power efficiency etc. The emergence of Cloud Computing promises to streamline the on-demand provision of software, hardware, and data as a service, achieving economies of scale in the deployment and operation of IT solutions. It is believed that Cloud Computing will be a disruptive technology with profound implications not only for Internet services but also for the IT sector as a whole. This special issue of IC seeks original articles describing research efforts and experiences concerning the deployment, efficient operation, and use of Cloud Computing infrastructures. Appropriate topics include: - Architecture and management of Cloud Computing infrastructures; - Cloud Computing programming and application development; - Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications; - Discovery of services and data in Cloud Computing infrastructures; - Cross-platform interoperability; - Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), business models and pricing policies; - Content and service distribution in Cloud Computing infrastructures; - Power-efficiency and Cloud Computing; - Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues. Updated information of this call can be found at: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~gpallis/ic.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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