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[Mycolleagues] CFP--WiMAN 2009 (International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks)
by liqiang zhang 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

*** We apologize if you receive multiple copies.*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'09) June 26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in conjunction with ICDCS 2009 http://www.cse.nd.edu/~darts/wiman09.html Submission Deadline: December 7, 2008 *************************************************************************************************** Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: - Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking - Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking - MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) - Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols - Quality of Services provisioning - Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks - Network deployment, localization, and synchronization - Topology construction and maintenance - Modeling and performance evaluations - Cross layer optimizations - Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms - Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks - Testbed, prototype, and practical systems - Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks - Vehicular mesh and ad hoc networks - Wireless sensor networks - Self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems Important Dates ----------------------- - Paper submission due: December 7, 2008 - Acceptance notification: February 7, 2009 - Camera-ready due: March 7, 2009 - Workshop: June 26, 2009 Submissions and Publications -------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Authors must submit their papers through the CMT conference management site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WIMAN2009). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. All papers will be peer reviewed and the reviewers' comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library. Organizing Committees ---------------------------------- Workshop Program Co-Chairs Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA Publicity Chair Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Technical Program Committee Wessam Ajib, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology, USA Junzhao Du, Xidian University, China Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ricky Kwok, Colorado State University, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Frank Reichenbach, ABB AS, Norway Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Haiying Shen, University of Arkansas, USA Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA Jianbin Wei, Yahoo!, USA *************************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2009, Imperial College London
by karatza＠eng.auth.gr 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MASCOTS 2009 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 21-23, 2009 South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK http://www.mascots-conference.org/ The MASCOTS conference is a well-established international forum for state-of-the-art research on measurement, modelling and performance analysis of computer systems and communication networks. The 17th annual meeting of MASCOTS will be held at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London, UK. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical programme for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The fourth International workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling (PASM) will be held jointly with MASCOTS, on September 24: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nigel.thomas/PASM09.html We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2009 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. PAPERS MASCOTS 2009 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer systems and network performance evaluation. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: Computer Architecture Distributed/Parallel Systems Computer Networks Heterogeneous Systems Industrial Practice and Experience Internetworking Protocols Multi-core Systems Multimedia Systems Performance Evaluation Methodologies Pervasive Web and Mobility Sensor Networks Software and Operating Systems Storage Systems Web-based Systems Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2009 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent work, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full papers is accepted the poster will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to two pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described in the submission page. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to three pages in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 27, 2009 – Abstract submission April 3, 2009 – Paper submission April 30, 2009 – Poster Submission May 20, 2009 – Acceptance Notification June 10, 2009 – Camera Ready Submission SUBMISSION Authors should submit manuscripts by the above deadlines by following the instructions on the conference web site. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS . Don Towsley University of Massachusetts . To be announced ORGANISERS Conference General Chairs Tony Field Imperial College London, UK George Riley Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Chairs James M. Conrad University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA William Knottenbelt Imperial College London, UK Proceedings Chair Jeremy Bradley Imperial College London, UK Publicity Chair Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Arrangements Chairs Nicholas Dingle Uli Harder Imperial College London, UK Programme Committee Ismail Ari (HP Labs) Marta Beltran (Rey Juan Carlos University) Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Lucia Cloth (University of Twente) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Stephen Gilmore (University of Edinburgh) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Marco Gribaudo (University of Turin) Peter Harrison (Imperial College London) Felix Hernandez-Campos (Google) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Andras Horvath (University of Turin) Stephen Jarvis (University of Warwick) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Bharat Joshi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Peter King (Heriot-Watt University) Pieter Kritzinger (University of Cape Town) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Catalina Llado (University of the Balearic Islands) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Ethan Miller (University of California at Santa Cruz) David Nicol (UIUC) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) Dave Parker (University of Oxford) Naresh Patel (Network Appliance) Alma Riska (Seagate) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Mark Squillante (IBM) Nigel Thomas (University of Newcastle) Kishor Trivedi (Duke University) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) John Wilkes (Google) Carey Williamson (University of Calgary) Andrew Willis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Soraya Zertal (University of Versailles) Xiaoyun Zhu (HP Labs) Steering Committee Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas Braunl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) LOCATION Imperial College’s South Kensington campus is located in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a quiet and green part of the capital, yet close to several of London's major cultural landmarks. Imperial is next door to the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Albert Memorial, the Science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum. Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Harrods are a short walk away. London's other major attractions, including Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Westminster, the West End and Covent Garden can be reached in a few minutes by bus, tube (metro) or taxi. ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Swarm Intelligence Journal - Special Issue on SI for Telecommunications Networks
by Gianni Di Caro 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

(APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CALL) ***************************************************************** Call For Papers SWARM INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721 ***************************************************************** Special Issue: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 31, 2008 ***************************************************************** Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational and behavioral metaphor for distributed problem solving originally inspired by the collective behavior of social insects and other animal societies, such as ant colonies and flocking birds. More generally, SI refers to the bottom-up design of distributed systems that display forms of useful and/or interesting behaviors at the global level as a result of the relatively simple actions of a number of composing units interacting with one another and with their environment at the local level. When properly engineered, an SI system can conjugate easiness of design with high performance in terms of robustness, scalability, and adaptivity. All these characteristics have made SI an attractive framework to tackle the challenges of modern networked systems, which are made of a large number of components, are highly heterogeneous in terms of communication technologies, protocols, and services, and are dynamic, due to continuous changes in topology, traffic patterns, and number of active users and services. These challenges ask for the development of novel control and management algorithms and protocols that are adaptive, robust, scalable, and can let the network behave as an autonomous and self-organizing system. Since these are the properties that can almost naturally result when adopting a properly engineered SI design approach, a considerable amount of work in the domain of SI has successfully addressed a variety of problems in the area of communication networks. This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art results in the application and evaluation of the SI paradigm to problems arising in the context of analysis, design, control, management, and protection of networked systems. The Swarm Intelligence Journal is the principal peer-reviewed publication dedicated to reporting on research and developments in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence. The journal is published quarterly by Springer US. **************************** SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST: **************************** Particularly welcome are contributions focusing on SI solutions for: + Mobile Ad Hoc Networks + Mesh Networks + Sensor Networks + Robotic Networks + Internet + Delay Tolerant Networks + QoS Networks + Satellite Networks + Secure Networks Topics of interest in relationship to the above networks include but are not limited to: - Network analysis and design - Distributed medium access control - Routing protocols - Transport layer protocols - QoS provisioning - Load balancing - Protection and security systems - Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation - Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems - Online monitoring and performance evaluation - Formal modeling of SI systems - Comparisons between SI and other design frameworks - Implementation of SI approaches in testbeds - Evaluation of SI approaches in real-world settings ************** GUEST EDITORS: ************** Gianni A. Di Caro - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland gianni AT idsia DOT ch Frederick Ducatelle - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland frederick AT idsia DOT ch Muddassar Farooq - NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu *********** SUBMISSION: *********** All manuscripts must be prepared according to the publication guidelines of the Swarm Intelligence Journal that can be found at the journal website: http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721 Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers using the online submission system of the journal at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm, selecting "Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence for Telecommunications Network" (Special Issue on Swarm Int. for Networks) as the article type. When submitting a paper, please send at the same time also an e-mail to Gianni Di Caro (gianni AT idsia DOT ch) with paper title and author list to inform about the submission. **************** IMPORTANT DATES: **************** Manuscript due: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: April 30, 2009 Submission: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final version: April 30, 2009 ***************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/) Datum: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:55 -0500 Von: Aaron Striegel <striegel(a)nd.edu> An: Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Preliminary Call for Papers August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA http://icccn.org/icccn09/ ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. Scope: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research to one of the following tracks: * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) * Track on Optical Networking (ON) * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) Instructions for Authors: Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6903&) as PDF files (formatted for letter (8.5x11-inch) paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). Please indicate the corresponding author. Note: A new requirement for this year’s conference is that a paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed the respective track TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore (pending IEEE approval). **************************************************************** Important Dates: * February 20, 2009: Abstract registration deadline * February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline * May 1, 2009: Author Notification * May 15, 2009: Camera-ready papers due **************************************************************** Workshops: ICCCN 2009 will feature satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the TPC Vice Chair for Workshops, Xiaobo Zhou (zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu). The details on the call for workshop proposals can be found on the conference web site. For additional information on track TPCs, student travel grants, best paper award, and other information see the conference web page or contact the general or TPC co-chairs. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA TPC Co-Chairs * Song Ci, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA TPC Vice Chairs * Lavy Libman, NICTA Sydney, Australia * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tutorial Chair * Chia-Chin Chong, Docomo USA Labs, USA Local Arrangements Chair * Ismail Guvenc, Docomo USA Labs, USA Publicity Chair * Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA * Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research, Netherlands * Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan * Zhao-yang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Registration Chair * Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton, USA Student Travel Grant Chair * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Industry Liaison Chair * Mei Wang, Cisco, USA Steering Committee Liaison * Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductor, USA Web Chair * Danai Chasaki, University of Massachusetts, USA Track Chairs * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) o Fei Tong, Motorola UK o Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) o Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA o George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) o Fernando Kuipers, TU Delft, Netherlands o Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) o Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia o Joe Touch, University of Southern California, USA * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) o Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA o Adam Wierman, Cal Tech, USA o Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) o Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA o Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA * Track on Optical Networking (ON) o Xavier Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain o Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) o Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University, USA o Arnaud Legout, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) o Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA o Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) o Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA o Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) o Bala Natarajan, Kansas State, USA o Fu-Chun Zheng, University of Reading, UK _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP-Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
by Naveen Chilamkurti 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Call for Papers SI on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its tremendous potential impact on the quality of life and the environment. To enable green pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies, many of which are highly heterogeneous, from various fields including distributed computing, networking, communications, and signal processing. Pervasive technologies can be used in various ways to develop and enhance design models for environment sustainability. Pervasive computing is a power tool used in businesses and social contexts to develop computing devices and solutions which are more environment friendly. This Special Issue focuses on enabling wireless technologies that have the potential to make green pervasive computing truly ubiquitous. Many enabling wireless technologies continue to be deployed in various pervasive computing environments. There is an increasing interest in the computing community on how these technologies can be responsibly used environmentally to provide ubiquitous information access. The main aim of this special issue is to present the latest research achievements and results in the area of green pervasive computing and, in particular, how next generation wireless systems can help support and promote a sustainable environment. Topics include (but are not limited to): o Cross-layer design issues o Green pervasive computing o Wearable devices and technologies o Sensor devices, designs, protocols, and applications for green pervasive computing o RFID applications, designs, standards, and data management o Wireless technologies and architectures in pervasive computing o Wireless smart vehicle systems and networking o Pervasive e-services o QoS support in wireless systems for green pervasive computing o Smart vehicular networks and systems for green pervasive computing o Cellular technologies (UMTS, GSM, GPRS, etc.) for green pervasive computing o Fault-tolerant and resilient networks o Performance evaluation of wireless systems, and technologies Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located athttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal's website http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due March 1, 2009 First Round of Reviews June 1, 2009 Publication Date September 1, 2009 Lead Guest Editor o Naveen Chilamkurti, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia; n.chilamkurti(a)latrobe.edu.au Guest Editors o Sherali Zeadally, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008, USA; szeadally(a)udc.edu o Abbas Jamalipour, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; a.jamalipour(a)ieee.org o Sajal k. Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; das(a)uta.edu Naveen Chilamkurti PhD, SMIEEE Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne Australia-3086 Ph: 61-3-94791269 Fax: 61-3-94793060 http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/naveen/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009), Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
by Toufik Ahmed 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

CALL FOR PAPERS Int’l Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009) in conjunction with The 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) 21-24 JUNE 2009, LEIPZIG, GERMANY http://www.iwcmc.com/ One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques, and scalability support, among others. The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over wireless. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless, and hybrid networks) - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - QoS support for wireless multimedia networks - Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices - Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless - Multimodal multimedia services - Error resilience and concealment - Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery - Cross-layer optimizations and interactions - Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers - Wireless multimedia terminal and devices - Wireless multimedia traffic modeling - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo - QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia - Applications, best practices, and standard's support Paper Submission - Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008 - Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009 - Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009 - Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009 Contact - Toufik Ahmed, tad(a)labri.fr - Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer(a)itec.uni-klu.ac.at All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double -column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS system at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6843& and must be in PDF format. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer -reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and best symposium awards. Chair - Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France Co-Chair - Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria Technical Program Committee - Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France - Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania - Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech, France - Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France - Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA - Zhihai He, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA - Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria - ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany - Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany - Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France - Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France - Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France - Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK - Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland - Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland - Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy - George Pavlou, University College London, UK - Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland - Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria -- Toufik AHMED Associate Professor / Maître de Conférences http://www.labri.fr/~tad +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | LABRI- COMET Team | E.N.S.E.I.R.B. | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ |351 Cours de la Libération, |1 Av. du Dr Schweitzer, BP 99, | |33405 Talence Cedex, FRANCE. |33402 Talence Cedex, FRANCE. | | | | |portable : +33 6 61 11 30 71 | | |phone : +33 5 40 00 35 01 |phone : +33 5 56 84 21 83 | |fax : +33 5 40 00 66 69 |fax : +33 5 56 84 21 80 | |email : tad(a)labri.fr |email : tad(a)enseirb.fr | +------------Like a comet Blazing cross the evening sky----------+ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] EvoCOMNET'09 & EvoStar: Extended deadline
by Gianni Di Caro 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

(APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CALL) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers *** EvoCOMNET 2009 *** 6th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunications Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems * Tubingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 * ------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline (Extended): 30 November 2008 Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009 Camera ready papers: 28 January 2009 ------------------------------------------------- http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoCOMNET/EvoCOMNET.html -- Part of the EVOSTAR 2009 events: http://www.evostar.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate global-level behaviors through local interactions, communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually show a number of properties essential for success in natural environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations, robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness and scalability of performance. Because of all these architectural and performance properties, the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes in organic, inorganic, and animal systems in nature, has drawn in recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers working in the fields of parallel and distributed systems, and, more in particular, in telecommunications networks. In these domains, nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked systems, which show a growing structural and computational complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous components. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present cutting edge research on nature-inspired approaches to problems arising in the design, control, protection, and management of network systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired computation for the solution of complex problems. EvoCOMNET is part of EVOSTAR (EVO*), Europe's premier co-located events in the field of evolutionary and nature-inspired computing. EVO* includes the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences and a number of workshops collectively entitled EvoWorkshops. EVO* 2009 is the 11th edition of the event, details and cfps can be found at: http://www.evostar.org --------------------------- SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------- EvoCOMNET 2009 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the definition, analysis, and development of novel parallel and distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to network systems. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the contribution of nature-inspired approaches to the following domains: + Network analysis and design + Routing protocols + Transport protocols + Network protection systems + Load balancing + Quality-of-service provisioning + Mobile ad hoc networks + Sensor networks + Network robotics and sensor-actor networks + Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems + Distributed search and computation in P2P networks + Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms + Grid computing + Distributed data mining + Tuning and application of hybrid approaches Particularly welcome are papers reporting: * Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and parallel and distributed systems * Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques * Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational frameworks based on biological systems or processes that have not been considered so far in the literature of nature-inspired systems * Analytical studies of the behavior of the proposed systems * Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and distributed systems inspired by nature * Real-world implementations * Studies based on real-world data sets * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior ------------------------------ PUBLICATION DETAILS AND AWARDS ------------------------------ + Conference Proceedings: ---------------------- Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with papers from other workshops of the EVO* conference. + Journal Special Issue: --------------------- The authors of the best selected papers from the EvoCOMNET workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS). + Best Paper Award: ---------------- A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper presented at the workshop that will receive the best evaluation marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs. -------------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Please refer to the http://www.evostar.org website for the submission procedure. The maximum length for a paper is 10 PAGES in LNCS format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers according to a double blind peer process. --------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS --------------- + Gianni A. Di Caro IDSIA Lugano, Switzerland gianni AT idsia DOT ch + Muddassar Farooq NUCES Islamabad, Pakistan muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu + Ernesto Tarantino ICAR-CNR Naples, Italy ernesto DOT tarantino AT na DOT icar DOT cnr DOT it --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission deadline (Extended): 30 November 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009 * Camera ready papers: 28 January 2009 * Events: 15-17 April 2009 -------------------------- WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------- Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham, UK Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Jarmo Alander, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Payman Arabshahi, Washington University, USA Mehmet E. Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK Peter J. Bentley, University College London, UK Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Malcolm I. Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan Manuel Lozano Marquez, University of Granada, Spain Domenico Maisto, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Switzerland Umberto Scafuri, ICAR-CNR, Italy Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA Kwang M. Sim, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Luigi Troiano, University of Sannio, Italy Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] JSAC CFP: Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] JSAC CFP: Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking Datum: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:06 +0200 Von: Moustafa Youssef <moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <mailman.30608.1227101994.28270.tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Our apology if you receive multiple posts of this announcement. ============================================== JSAC CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection and operation, emergency and crisis intervention, healthcare services, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity, emergent behaviors, and the need for reliable and timely response. MCN should comprise networking technology, infrastructures and services that may alleviate the risk and directly enable and enhance connectivity for mission-critical information exchange among diverse, widely-dispersed, mobile users. A primary challenge to MCN is to deploy and dynamically configure and evolve communication networks that are dependable, autonomic, secure, adaptive, and rapidly deployable to support critical missions and their priorities. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of both authorized and unauthorized entities, quality-of-service aware audio and video communication, emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, on-demand federation, and service-oriented architecture. Also important is the integration of MCN with the Internet to reduce cost of deployment and maintenance and to enhance reachability and ubiquity. This special issue of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications solicits high quality technical contributions in mission-critical networking including, but not limited to: - Architecture and design of MCN and next-generation emergency calling and alerting - Rapidly and dynamically deployable services and networks - Evolving "elastic" networking with decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation - Federation and policy management for heterogeneous networks and protocols - Trust, security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and management for MCN - Sensor and actuator networks for critical information gathering, tracking and real-time control - MCN traffic and mobility analysis - Formal methodology for cognitive, autonomic, and context-aware protocols and network management - Spectrum management and access - Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies ** Paper Submission Manuscripts should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review. Argument justifying contribution specific to the unique features of MCN must be provided. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors at: http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to mcn-jsac(a)criticalnet.org according to the following timetable: - Manuscript submission: April 1, 2009 - First review notification: August 1, 2009 - Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2009 - Acceptance notification: November 1, 2009 - Final manuscript due: January 2, 2010 - Publication: June, 2010 ** Guest Editors - Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA - Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland - Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA - Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt - Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA - Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA - David Du, National Science Foundation and University of Minnesota, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS2009)
by Jin Nakazawa 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple postings of this CFP] Paper Submissions Due: January 9th, 2009 ********************************************************************** Call For Papers Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009) http://www.inss-conf.org/2009/ June 17 - 19, 2009 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Sponsor: Transducer Research Foundation Technical Sponsor: IEEE ********************************************************************** During the past years, the International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS) has established itself as THE scientific event where academic and industrial experts from the areas of sensor systems, wireless networks, and sensor network applications come together. The INSS provides a forum to hear about the latest developments in these areas, to exchange ideas, and to start up collaborations within these fields and between industry and academia. Call for Scientific Contributions --------------------------------- INSS 2009 is the sixth annual conference in the series, and features a highly selective technical program. We invite outstanding research papers from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking, or application of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that investigate research issues shared between all three areas. INSS 2009 invites the submission of regular, short, and industry papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, technical correctness, and presentation. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop, or other publication. All accepted papers will be published from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and also from IEEE Explore. Regular/Short Paper Track --------------------------------- Regular papers must be 4-8 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. Short papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. Short papers are suitable for interactive discussions; the presenters of accepted short papers are given short oral presentation times. Topics of regular paper track include but are not limited to: * Applications of Networked Sensing Systems * Prototypes, Field Studies & Testbeds for Networked Sensing Systems * Safety and Security of Networked Sensing Systems * Data Management for Networked Sensing Systems * Middleware for Networked Sensing Systems * Communication Protocols * Sensor Phenomena and Modeling * Sensors and Sensing Systems * Materials, Fabrication, and Packaging of Sensors Industry Paper Track --------------------------------- INSS 2009 continues the industry track. Experts from industry are encouraged to publish their work at INSS 2009 and to have a lively exchange of their experiences with conference attendees. Industry papers are suitable for industry researchers to present not only technical, but also practical issues surrounding production, deployment, and commercialization of networked sensing technology. Industry papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. The submitted industry papers will be reviewed by industry track TPC members. Accepted industry papers will be presented in the main conference's industry track session given full oral presentation times. The industry track aims at providing a forum among practitioners, developers, and researchers to discuss practical issues including but not limited to: * Designing networked sensing systems for commercial applications * Service models and architectures for successful deployments * Production engineering for networked sensing systems Evaluation of * Networked sensing systems in practical applications Important Dates --------------- Paper Registrations Due: January 9th, 2009 (IMPORTANT!) Paper Upload Due: January 9th, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 1st, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: April 17th, 2009 Conference Dates: June 17 - 19, 2009 Important Dates for Industry Track ------------------------------------ Paper Submissions Due: January 17, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 1st, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: April 17th, 2009 Organization ------------ General Co-chairs: Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Program Co-Chairs: Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Tamal Mukherjee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Vice-chairs: Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Publicity Chairs: Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Hartmut Hillmer, Universitat Kassel, Germany Industry Track Program Chairs: Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Narito Kurata, Kajima, Japan Peter Boda, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, USA Publication Chair Razvan Beuran, NICT, Japan Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Lin Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hartmut Hillmer, University of Kassel, Germany Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Yoshihiro Kawahara, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Yonghe Liu, UT Arlington, USA Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Masateru Minami, University of Tokyo, Japan Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcelo Pias, Cambridge University, UK Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shivakumar Sastry, The University of Akron, USA Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Sang Son, University of Virginia, USA Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Lan Wang, University of Memphis, USA Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Hongyi Wu University of Louisiana at Lafayette,USA Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Andrew Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary,USA _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: 12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,Deadline!]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The event: NETWORKING 2009; 8th international conference in this series. The ?flagship event" of IFIP TC6. The venue: Aachen (Germany); situated at the borders of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. TPC chairs: Luigi Fratta, Henning Schulzrinne, Yutaka Takahashi. General chair: Otto Spaniol. Topic areas: Applications and Services. Wireless networks. Next Generation Internet. ...... The date: May 11-15, 2009 Main conference: May 11-14; Workshops: May 15. Publication: Springer LNCS + IFIP Digital Library. Submission via: EDAS (www.edas.info) Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2008. Acceptance notification: January 31, 2009. Camera ready due: February 28, 2009. More detailed information: www.networking-2009.org

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) Datum: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:08:20 +0800 (HKT) Von: GU Zonghua <zgu(a)cse.ust.hk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) --- in conjunction with ICDCS 2009, June 22, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Workshop site: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ Conference site: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs2009/ICDCS_2009.html Important Dates: Paper submission: December 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 11, 2009 Camera ready papers: March 13, 2009 We are currently witnessing the emergence an infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution that is enabled by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Cyber-physical systems are physical and engineered systems whose operations are integrated, monitored, and controlled by a computational core. The integration of computational and physical processes exhibit complicated behavior that can not be analyzed by the computational or physical sciences alone. These systems also transcend traditional computer-controlled systems because of their scale, dependence on man-machine interaction and their rich communication infrastructure that is enabled by the Internet. Some of the most challenging R&D software problems for cyber-physical systems are those associated with producing distributed, real-time, and embedded platforms and applications, and where computers control physical, chemical, or biological processes or devices. Examples of such systems include airplanes and air traffic control systems, automobiles, power grids, oil refineries, and patient monitoring systems. Despite advances in standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, key challenges must be addressed before COTS software can be used to build mission-critical distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems effectively and productively. Furthermore, there are existing critical infrastructures that oversee the operations of everything from nuclear power plants to traffic lights and yet they may not even be able to accept static upgrades, or patches, or any dynamic change of behavior, but they will remain with us for quite some time. Dynamically retrofitting these systems while maintaining their stability within a cyber environment is a significant challenge yet to be overcome. The International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of CPS, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of CPS. The technical program of WCPS2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Topics of Interest In summary, the main topics of interest are on grand challenges, requirements, architectures, innovations and abstractions for Cyber-Physical Systems as well as technical challenges to interface and manipulate the Physical World. In particular, we are seeking papers in, but not limited to, the following main areas: [Architecture and infrastructure] Current architectures for cyber physical systems tend to be based on layers of network, OS, and middleware that have evolved over decades in the context of general-purpose computing systems. One goal of this topic area is to seek architectural abstractions, mechanisms, and formalisms that are better suited to the needs of cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include: approaches for refactoring the technology base to collapse/remove layers; techniques for managing QoS properties top-to-bottom; and end-to-end in ultra-large-scale cyber-physical systems. [Fundamental system services] Decades of experience with enterprise systems have yielded reasonably good abstractions and technologies for developing reusable services, such as transactions, discovery, naming, and event notification. There is much less consensus and experience, however, on the appropriate abstractions and technologies for fundamental system services in cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include 'multi-ility' services, such as security, reliable, and predictable replica-based fault detection and isolation frameworks that can operate in resource-constrained safety- and mission-critical CPS environments. [Service composition/synthesis] This area involves rigorous, evidence-producing composition (and composites) of system services, often using novel languages and models of computation. Some example topics include "type systems for QoS contracts" or "checkable properties of dynamic event structures" or "synthesis of mixed-criticality RTOS tailored for domain X". The time and scheduling, behavioral interaction, and partitioning/isolation will be central cross-cutting issues. [Interaction and coordination] A single critical infrastructure facility can have thousands of devices, such as in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, that spread over hundreds of miles. The devices themselves are typically in a physically protected environment; yet the interactions among them, on the other hand, go through the cyber space which poses a challenge to us and calls for a paradigm that is interaction and coordination centric. [Integration] CPS research is fundamentally different from prior computer controlled research. One aspect of the difference lies in the tighter integration and co-design of the cyber and the physi-cal subsystems. In the past the stability theory in engineering concerns about the suppression of various kind of errors -- uncertainties in the model, disturbance from environment, noise in sensing and errors in actuators -- except that bugs in at the heart of the control process: the complex software that controls the plant. On the other hand, main stream software fault tolerance techniques such as primary-and-standby do not take advantage of the fact that the physical plants must obey laws of nature; This opens new insights for the integration of cyberand physical systems. [Proactive monitoring] There are numerous existing systems, such as chemical plants, oil refiners, power grids, that have been in existence and correctly functioning for many years, and until now were not considered vulnerable because these systems were not envisioned to run in the cyber environment which has become today's reality. Theses systems face the high risk of being a terrorist target though cyber invasions. On the other side, it is out of the question that we re-build or prescribe a complete upgrade of all these systems. Worse yet, it may even be too expensive to take the mentality of ``dispatch-and- then-patch''. Therefore, external, lightweight and proactive monitoring of the systems is essential in building or retrofitting CPS. [Applications and experiences] New CPS applications and experiences, such as Tele-Physical Services, Smart Transportation, etc. We learn from our past experiences: through our encounters with real-life applications and experiences with new technologies, we develop the skill set and tools to perform better in the future. Paper Submission The workshop solicits original and previously unpublished papers reporting results from research and/or industrial experience as well as discussion of grand challenges and requirements. Submit a full paper of 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Contact author must input the following information at the WCPS2009 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 150-250 word abstract, and keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and send it through the following web site. The submission web site is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcps09 Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the workshop. Each accepted paper must have a full registration in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Furong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee: Helen Gill, National Science Foundation, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Aloysius K. Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA Program Committee Please see the complete PC list at the workshop website: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] DEADLINE Extension - International Workshop on Mobile Urban Sensing (MobiUS09)
by Ling-Jyh Chen 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Mobile Urban Sensing (MobiUS09) May 18-21, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/MobiUS09/ To be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009) ================================================================== With wireless networking technologies permeating nearly every aspect of our working and living environments, WSN applications are going mobile, people-centric, pervasive, and ubiquitous. Aggregating mobile and wireless sensors into sophisticated sensing, computational, and communication infrastructures will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, industrial, health-care and domestic, establishing ubiquitous computing that will pervade society redefining the way in which we live and work. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of mobile urban sensing technologies. This is a very challenging task, as it involves several technical issues (e.g., data mining, machine learning, software design, mobility management, performance modeling, resource control, and security), as well as the socio-economic issues (e.g., business model, cyber-physical interaction, human-machine interaction and social networking). The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from the industry and academia. Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, and development and analysis, in all areas related to Mobile Urban Sensing are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via the website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobius09 The manuscript should be written in English and follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The proceedings will be a single CD-ROM combining the proceedings of the main conference and the workshops, and will be archieved in IEEE Xplore and IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: Dec. 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 01, 2009 Camera-ready version: Mar. 15, 2009 General Co-Chairs Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension Datum: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:01:45 +0100 Von: Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)cs.uni-bonn.de> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br ***************** *Extended Deadline - Nov. 28* ****************** ================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= The First Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009) http://www.scenes-workshop.org Rome, Italy March 6th, 2009 to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS For the reliable performance evaluation of wireless networks, realistic models and credible simulation scenarios are crucial. Recently, in the area of wireless networks, it has been shown that simplistic models for mobility, traffic, and signal propagation yield results that are too optimistic. In order to provide more credible models, traces from specific scenarios need to be acquired and then realistic scenario models need to be developed and validated. We solicit papers on mobility, traffic, propagation, and scenario modelling for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on trace measurement architectures and trace characterizations of wireless networks are also welcome. The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research interests and activities on scenario modelling of wireless networks. It is also aimed at increasing the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, theoretical, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of wireless network scenarios. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Classification of scenarios * Challenges in trace acquisition * Tools for mobility, traffic and propagation modelling * Methods in localization and tracking to acquire accurate movement traces * Movement trace measurement architectures * Characterization of movement traces * Mobility modelling * Validation of mobility models * Traffic measurement, traffic characterization, traffic modelling * Combined mobility and traffic modelling * Characterization of signal propagation * Propagation modelling * Impact of mobility on radio characterization * Impact of scenario modelling on performance Authors are invited to submit full papers and work-in-progress papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages in ACM conference proceedings format) should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. For detailed submission instructions, together with format files, see the SCENES website. All submissions will be handled via EDAS: http://edas.info/7006 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: Nov. 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 6, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: Jan. 25, 2009 COMMITTEE: Program Chairs: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK Matthias Paetzold, University in Agder, Norway Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/)]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/) Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:25:46 -0500 Von: striegel(a)nd.edu An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Preliminary Call for Papers August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA http://icccn.org/icccn09/ ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. Scope: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research to one of the following tracks: * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) * Track on Optical Networking (ON) * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) Instructions for Authors: Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6903&) as PDF files (formatted for letter (8.5x11-inch) paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). Please indicate the corresponding author. Note: A new requirement for this years conference is that a paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed the respective track TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore (pending IEEE approval). **************************************************************** Important Dates: * February 20, 2009: Abstract registration deadline * February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline * May 1, 2009: Author Notification * May 15, 2009: Camera-ready papers due **************************************************************** Workshops: ICCCN 2009 will feature satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the TPC Vice Chair for Workshops, Xiaobo Zhou (zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu). The details on the call for workshop proposals can be found on the conference web site. For additional information on track TPCs, student travel grants, best paper award, and other information see the conference web page or contact the general or TPC co-chairs. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA TPC Co-Chairs * Song Ci, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA TPC Vice Chairs * Lavy Libman, NICTA Sydney, Australia * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tutorial Chair * Chia-Chin Chong, Docomo USA Labs, USA Local Arrangements Chair * Ismail Guvenc, Docomo USA Labs, USA Publicity Chair * Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA * Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research, Netherlands * Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan * Zhao-yang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Registration Chair * Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton, USA Student Travel Grant Chair * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Industry Liaison Chair * Mei Wang, Cisco, USA Steering Committee Liaison * Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductor, USA Web Chair * Danai Chasaki, University of Massachusetts, USA Track Chairs * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) o Fei Tong, Motorola UK o Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) o Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA o George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) o Fernando Kuipers, TU Delft, Netherlands o Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) o Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia o Joe Touch, University of Southern California, USA * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) o Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA o Adam Wierman, Cal Tech, USA o Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) o Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA o Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA * Track on Optical Networking (ON) o Xavier Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain o Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) o Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University, USA o Arnaud Legout, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) o Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA o Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) o Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA o Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) o Bala Natarajan, Kansas State, USA o Fu-Chun Zheng, University of Reading, UK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WoWMoM 2009 - new deadline]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WoWMoM 2009 - new deadline Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:52 +0100 Von: Alessio Vecchio <a.vecchio(a)iet.unipi.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 New Deadline!!! Papers Due: December 8, 2008 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 15-19 June 2009, Kos, Greece http://www.ieee-wowmom.org ***************************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE WoWMoM 2009 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The evolution of wireless networking technologies offers an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context-awareness and so on. Papers that present work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trial, or real deployments, are also welcome. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Differentiated services for wireless multimedia - IP-based wireless multimedia services - Networking services for pervasive systems - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Network management and troubleshooting - IP-based mobile networks - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, and MAN - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Vehicular wireless networks - Third and fourth generation systems - Wireless security and dependability - Content Management and Distribution - Modeling and Performance evaluation The WoWMoM 2009 technical program will also include two-days workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. General Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Vasilios Siris, FORTH-ICS, Greece TPC Chairs: Prasant Mohapatra, Univ. California, Davis USA Jörg Ott, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Workshops Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Industrial Chair: Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson, USA Sponsorship Chair: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA Finance & Registration Chair: Yonghe Liu, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Local Organizing Committee Chair: Ioannis Askoxylakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece Publicity Chairs: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Alessio Vecchio, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece Steering Committee: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers Univ., USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA -- ====================================================== Alessio Vecchio Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Univ. of Pisa Via Diotisalvi, 2 - 56122 Pisa - Italy Voice: +39 050 2217463 Fax: +39 050 2217600 http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/~vecchio/ ====================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: NOSSDAV 2009]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: NOSSDAV 2009 Datum: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:29:56 -0800 Von: Kuan-Ta Chen <cychen(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: cychen(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive this more than once] === [ ACM NOSSDAV 2009 ] === The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Williamsburg, Virginia June 3-5, 2009 http://www.nossdav.org/2009/ * Important Dates Paper Deadline: 9 February, 2009 Notification: 23 March, 2009 Camera Ready: 13 April, 2009 * About NOSSDAV NOSSDAV 2009 will continue the workshop's long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research, held in a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. It is also an established practice for NOSSDAV to encourage experimental research based on real systems and data sets. Public availability of source code and data sets is highly encouraged. The scope of NOSSDAV has evolved over the years. For NOSSDAV 2009, we would like especially highlight two new topics of interest: unconventional use of GPU for multimedia and multi-core processors support for multimedia. NOSSDAV 2009 continues to welcome submissions in the traditional topics of networked multimedia systems, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia security and rights management. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * OS, middleware and network support for multimedia * Overlay networks for multimedia * Media streaming, distribution and storage * Web 2.0 systems and social networks for multimedia * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems * Media sensor and ad hoc networks * Grid/cloud computing support for multimedia * Embedded systems for multimedia * Multicore architecture support for multimedia * GPU for multimedia * Network processor support for multimedia * Tele-immersion and mixed-reality systems * Networked graphics and virtual environments * Networked games * Multimedia communications and system security * Digital rights management A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Submissions should be at most SIX pages in length using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Authors of selected, high quality papers from NOSSDAV 2009 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). ----------------------------- Co-Chairs: Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Local Arrangement: Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Publicity: Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Grenville Armitage , Swinburne U. of Tech, Australia Ernst Biersack , Institute Eurecom, France Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Mark Claypool, WPI, USA Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA Romulus Grigoras, IRIT-Toulouse, France Carsten Griwodz , University of Oslo, Norway Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Yong Liu, Polytechnic University, USA Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass, Amherst, USA Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP--SPECTS 2009
by Essia Hamouda 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2009 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems July 13-16, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2009/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. =========================================================================== Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 31, 2009 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 23, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 24, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 22, 2009 http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension
by Nils Aschenbruck 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

***************** *Extended Deadline - Nov. 28* ****************** ================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= The First Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009) http://www.scenes-workshop.org Rome, Italy March 6th, 2009 to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS For the reliable performance evaluation of wireless networks, realistic models and credible simulation scenarios are crucial. Recently, in the area of wireless networks, it has been shown that simplistic models for mobility, traffic, and signal propagation yield results that are too optimistic. In order to provide more credible models, traces from specific scenarios need to be acquired and then realistic scenario models need to be developed and validated. We solicit papers on mobility, traffic, propagation, and scenario modelling for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on trace measurement architectures and trace characterizations of wireless networks are also welcome. The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research interests and activities on scenario modelling of wireless networks. It is also aimed at increasing the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, theoretical, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of wireless network scenarios. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Classification of scenarios * Challenges in trace acquisition * Tools for mobility, traffic and propagation modelling * Methods in localization and tracking to acquire accurate movement traces * Movement trace measurement architectures * Characterization of movement traces * Mobility modelling * Validation of mobility models * Traffic measurement, traffic characterization, traffic modelling * Combined mobility and traffic modelling * Characterization of signal propagation * Propagation modelling * Impact of mobility on radio characterization * Impact of scenario modelling on performance Authors are invited to submit full papers and work-in-progress papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages in ACM conference proceedings format) should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. For detailed submission instructions, together with format files, see the SCENES website. All submissions will be handled via EDAS: http://edas.info/7006 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: Nov. 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 6, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: Jan. 25, 2009 COMMITTEE: Program Chairs: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK Matthias Paetzold, University in Agder, Norway Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Deadline Extension - IEEE Network- SI on Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks
by Matteo Cesana 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Due to numerous requests the deadline of the following IEEE Network special issue has been extended to December, 2 Our apologies in case of multiple receptions IEEE Network Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks Schedule for Submission New Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 December 2, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Background In recent years, the exponential growth of unlicensed band usage has prompted possible wireless spectrum shortage. Moreover, today's wireless networks are characterized by fixed spectrum assignment policies, which often lead to wasting large spectrum portions due to sporadic utilization of the licensed users (according to FCC, only 15% to 85% of the licensed spectrum is utilized on the average). This situation has motivated and pushed forward the development of novel low-power wireless Cognitive Radio transceivers with the capability of changing their transmitter parameters (operating spectrum, modulation, transmission power and communication technology) based on interaction with the surrounding environment. Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on nodes equipped with cognitive transceivers have consequently emerged as viable architectural solutions to solve current wireless network problems resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. Scope and Contributions This special issue aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging area of Multi-hop CRNs, which is defined as a collection of cognitive transceiver-equipped nodes forming a multi-hop communication network. The main focus of this special issue is on networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs where the information needs to be relayed over multiple wireless links. Multi-hop CRNs responsibility is not only limited to the discovery and allocation of wireless resources while avoiding service disruption for primary users. Additional tasks must be accomplished to sustain end-to-end communication, including identification of sets of relay nodes, ensuring that required bandwidth is available over all necessary links, and regulating resource sharing among all flows in the network. Most importantly, these goals must be achieved while coping with negative effects of frequent link outages due to primary user access. Preferably, the multi-hop CRN must also ensure that flow requirements, such as bandwidth, delay, and jitter bounds, are met. This special issue provides opportunities for the research community, the standardization bodies, and the industry to showcase the-state-of-the-art of the research on networking aspects of Multi-hop CRNs, implementation studies, and feasibility analyses. Moreover, since the success of CRN also depends on spectrum regulatory aspect, we also solicit critical contributions addressing the problem of managing the competition in spectrum access under regulated, partially regulated or unregulated Multi-hop CRN architectures. While the nature of the multi-hop CRNs necessitates high levels of interaction and dependency between the physical layer and protocols and solutions at MAC layer and above, the main focus of this special issue is the networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. Therefore, the design of cognitive transceivers and hardware, signal processing techniques, modulation and coding methods, physical layer channel models, as well as networking issues primarily concerning single-hop CRNs fall outside the scope of the special issue. In addition to original research articles, we also solicit survey and position articles in the area of networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. These topics include, but are not limited to: o Medium access control for multi-hop CRNs o Routing solutions for multi-hop CRNs o Real-time communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Cross-layer design of communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Centralized and distributed dynamic spectrum management and spectrum leasing o Performance evaluation and modeling of multi-hop CRNs o Regulatory Aspects and CRN Architectures Schedule for Submission Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 December 2, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Network Magazine Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to ieee-network-si(a)ece.osu.edu before the deadline (November 15th 2008). Accepted papers will also be included in Network Interactive (NI) the online version of Network Magazine. Guest Editors Prof. Matteo Cesana Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy cesana(a)elet.polimi.it Prof. Eylem Ekici Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Ohio State University , US ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Prof. Yeheskel Bar-Ness Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research New Jersey Institute of Technology, US barness(a)yegal.njit.edu <mailto:barness%20(at)%20yegal%20(dot)%20njit%20(dot)%20edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS , Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS , Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications Datum: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:46:22 +0200 Von: Thanos Vasilakos <vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr> An: <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com>, <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, <tccn(a)comsoc.org> Call for Book Chapter Title: Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications (to be published by <http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/> Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group) Introduction Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) arises primarily as a result of various forms of host and router mobility, but may also come into being as a result of disconnection due to power management or interference. Examples of such networks include: * Terrestrial Mobile Networks: In many cases, these networks may become un-expectedly partitioned due to node mobility or RF interference. In other cases, the network may never have an end to end path and may be expected to be partitioned in a periodic and predictable manner. * Exotic Media Networks: Exotic communication media includes near-Earth satel-lite communications, very long-distance radio links (e.g. deep space RF communications with light propagation delays in the seconds or minutes), communication using acoustic modulation in air or water, and some free-space optical communications. These systems may be subject to high latencies with predictable interruption (e.g. due to planetary dy-namics or the passing of a scheduled ship), may suffer outage due to environmental conditions (e.g. weather), or may provide a predictably available store-and-forward network service that is only occasionally available (e.g. low-earth orbiting satellites that "pass" by one or more times each day). * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks: These networks are frequently characterized by extremely limited end-node power, memory, and CPU capability. Recommended Topics (not limited to) * Routing, broadcast, multicast * Medium Access Control * Self-x properties, i.e. self-organization, self-management, self-healing and self-protection * Economic approaches and social model * Learning techniques * Design, analysis and simulation * Network coding * P2p * Mobility * Robustness and stability * Security, immunity and resilience * Auto-configuration, authentication and trust management * Bio-computing inspired approaches * Generic network-level service composition at run-time * Context Transparency and Awareness * Sensor networks-based DTN * Ambient, invisible, implicit, and adaptive computing * Context-aware computing and location-based services and applications * Testbed, prototype and experiment * Challenges, visions and roadmap Important Dates You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal discribing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter summary, table of content, and contact authors. Estimatedly, each chapter should has about 35 pages with 12 font size, double-space format. Proposal Deadline: 31 December 2008 Notification of proposal acceptance: 31 Jan. 2009 Full chapter submission: 30 April 2009 Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book. Contact Please make correspondence and chapter submissions to: Dr. Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Email: vasilako[AT]ath.forthnet.gr Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org Dr. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos ETH Zurich, Switzerland Email: spyropoulos[AT]tik.ee.ethz.ch _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] ICMCS'09 -Ouarzazate-Morocco April2-4, 2009 (IEEE-Conference)-Deadline Extension to November 30, 2008
by Youssef Zaz 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Dear Colleague, As requested by many potential authors, the paper submission deadline of ICMCS'09 is extended to November 30, 2008. Therefore, please spread the word and inform your colleagues, students and research fellows about the approaching deadline, to assure a high number of paper submissions and a high quality and successful conference. ********************************************************************** Deadline Extension / November 30, 2008 ********************************************************************** Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for papers to those potentially interested to submit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICMCS'09 - IEEE Conference International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems April 2-4, 2009. Ouarzazate, Morocco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference website: http://www.icmcs09.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICMCS'09 is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all facets of multimedia, content authoring, processor technology, and systems design. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. A key objective of ICMCS'2009 is to create a program that achieves a balance between theory and practice, academia and industry, systems/tools-oriented research and content creation. ICMCS'09 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. We are planning to have the papers published in this conference's proceedings to be published in the IEEE Digital Library and to publish two special issues of international journals (*) out of selected papers from those presented in it. (*) - International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies - International Journal on Computer Science and Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Network and operating system support for multimedia - Quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms - Multimedia file systems and databases - Audio and video compression - Sound and MIDI music, surround and around video - Set-top technologies and operating systems - Multimedia processor architecture - Computer-aided training and education, tele-medicine - Animation and morphing, fractals and rendering - Virtual reality - Mobile network architecture - Intelligent network applications - Internet and intranet applications - Web servers and services - Multimedia conferencing, internet phones, and mail - Electronic commerce - User interfaces - Authoring systems - Entertainment and games - Medical applications - Pattern recognition - Systems and Networks security - Electronics, modeling and control systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-CHAIRMEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamed Essaaidi, Prof. Dr .(*) Youssef Zaz, Dr. (**) ICMCS'2009 Co-chairs (*) IEEE Morocco Section Chair Abdelmalek Essaadi University Tetuan, Morocco (**) Assistant Professor Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate Ibn Zohr University, Morocco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Multimedia in the Mobile Age. (Ismail Khalil - Johannes Kepler University of Linz - Austria) - Large-scale Photo Annotation Using Collective Wisdom of Data and Users. (Edward Chang - University of California - USA) - Interactive search in large video collections. (Marcel Worring - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands) - Human-centered multimedia computing inspired by focus on disabilities and impairments. (Sethuraman Panchanathan - University of Arizona - USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission (Full paper): November 30, 2008 Acceptance notification to authors: January 11, 2009 Final version and registration: January 31, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE Standard template available at ICMCS'09 website should be used to prepare the extended paper (up to 6 A4 pages). WEBSITE http://www.icmcs09.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youssef ZAZ E-mail: icmcs09(a)gmail.com Phone: (+212)-62-10-21-67 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [CFP] Elsevier Performance Evaluation: SI on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] Elsevier Performance Evaluation: SI on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:29:57 +0100 (CET) Von: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it (Luciano Bononi) An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Apologies if you received multiple copies Elsevier's Performance Evaluation: an International Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/peva/ Call for Papers for a Special issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. Performance Evaluation solicits papers from researchers and practitioners that address the issues of performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks for inclusion in a special issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks". Scope of contributions Authors are encouraged to submit original contributions, with both theoretical and practical results of significance on all timely aspects of wireless and mobile technologies with an emphasis on performance evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: . Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks . Analytical modeling . Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks . Queuing and network information theoretic analysis . Tracing and trace analysis . Software tools for network performance and evaluation . Simulation methods and tools . Automatic performance analysis . Performance comparison . Performance of wireless and sensor devices . RF channel capacity modeling and analysis . Mobility modeling and management . Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks . Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular and hybrid networks . Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks . Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning . Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks . Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks Submission details Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered for this special issue. If the paper has been published at a conference, the submitted journal version should be significantly extended. In this case, authors should submit a short summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscripts must be prepared in English. See instructions on the preparation and submission of manuscripts at the journal's website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/peva/ The journal version must be submitted via the online submission system: http://ees.elsevier.com/peva/ Please ensure you correctly select/enter the following details: Manuscript Type: 'Special Issue Paper' Special Issue: 'Yes' Special Issue Information: 'Ubiquitous Networks' Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - a short abstract; - a COMPLETE list of authors and their affiliations; - a contact person for correspondence; - postal and e-mail addresses of the authors. Important dates Submission deadline: December 1st, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: June 15, 2009 Publication: End 2009 - beginning 2010 Guest editors Luciano Bononi Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy www: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~bononi/ e-mail: bononi (at) cs.unibo.it Isabelle Guerin-Lassous UFR d'Informatique, Batiment Nautibus Universite Lyon I/LIP, Lyon, France e-mail: Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous (at) ens-lyon.fr For more information, please contact the Guest co-Editor Dr. Luciano Bononi (e-mail: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it). University of Bologna, Italy .

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[Fwd: CFP: First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:09:49 +0100 (CET) Von: Enzo Mingozzi <mingozzi(a)cng1.iet.unipi.it> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking (AWN 2009) http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/awn09/ Co-located with 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany IWCMC requested IEEE/ACM technical co-sponsorship (pending) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Aims and Scope The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the domain of wireless networking employed to support the needs of future wireless communication systems. To deal with the increasing complexity of large- scale wireless networking systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Quality, reliability, security and robustness are specific demands to be provided by future autonomic wireless networks. Cognitive radio has emerged as a promising technology for maximizing the utilization of the limited radio bandwidth while accommodating the increasing amount of services and applications in the wireless networks. Similarly, cross- layer techniques exploit locally available information for providing more robust and scalable wireless communication systems. The purpose of the First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-organization, adaptive management of available resources, cooperation and detection of selfishness in wireless networks. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale autonomic wireless networks. Papers are solicited in the broad range of wireless networking with focus on autonomic communication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Smart antenna technologies - Cognitive and software defined radio - Cooperative communications - Incentive compatible and cooperative behavior - Self-organization - Cross-layer design and optimization - Medium access control - Quality of service - Radio resource management - Selfishness detection - Jamming - Security and privacy - Modeling and simulation - Testbeds and experimental platforms Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding six pages (hard limit), including text, figures, tables, and references. Papers must be written in English and must be in standard IEEE conference format. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS system http://edas.info, and must be in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be included in IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008. Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009. Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 15, 2009. Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009. Workshop Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: - Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany, dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de - Tommaso Melodia, SUNY Buffalo, NY, tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu - Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy, e.mingozzi(a)iet.unipi.it Technical Program Committee: - Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy - Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany - Lars Berlemann, Deutsche Telekom, Germany - Luciano Bononi, Univ. of Bologna, Italy - Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy - Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy - Kaushik Chowdhury, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA - Eylem Ekici, Ohio State Univ., OH - Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark - Reinhard German, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany - Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany - Mirco Musolesi, Univ. of Cambridge, UK - Edith Ngai, Uppsala Univ., Sweden - Melek Onen, Eurecom, France - Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy - Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, NJ - Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ., Sweden - Antonio Ruzzelli, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland - Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany - Mehmet Vuran, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, NE - Andreas Willig, TU Berlin, Germany

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal - Special Issue Announcement]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal - Special Issue Announcement Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:27:56 +0100 Von: Matteo Cesana <cesana(a)elet.polimi.it> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies in case of multiple receptions. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal Special Issue on: Security for QoS Assured Wireless and Mobile Networks ********************************************************************* ********************************************************************* *********************************** BACKGROUND AND SCOPE *********************************** With the recent development and popularity of wireless communication and mobile networking, security and quality of service (QoS) represent two critical requirements for network services in today's inter-networked world. While good quality of service assurance requires efficient security mechanisms to ensure the satisfaction of mobile users, poor quality of service can have a devastating effect on the performance of the networks as well as the selection of better security mechanisms to be used by the wireless telecom providers. For these reasons, security and QoS management of wireless and mobile communication systems are becoming very crucial components for future generation of wireless and mobile networks. This special issue focuses on the study of all aspects of security and quality of service assurance for wireless and mobile networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): + Security and quality of service interactions. + Security in wireless MANETs, VANETs, sensor, mesh and PCS networks. + Secure wireless access and secure routing. + Secure cooperation-based systems and services. + Secure wireless communication in multi-mode, multi-type systems. + Location-based key distribution techniques for wireless heterogeneous networks. + Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. + Peer-to-peer security issues. + Privacy, anonymity and authentication. + Trust management for cooperation-based systems and services. + Quality of security for wireless multimedia networks and systems. + QoS and security in wireless VoIP systems and services. + QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia systems. + Security and quality of service assurance in the wireless internet. + QoS assurance and routing. + Real-time and quality of service protocols for wireless networks. + Handoff schemes in differentiated QoS wireless networks. + QoS in multi-hop wireless networks. + Secure differentiated QoS services for mobile networks. + Security for 802.11, etc. + Secure real-time based architecture for mobile networks. ********************************* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ******************************** High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be peer reviewed according to the guidelines of Wiley's Security and Communication Networks Journal to ensure high quality and relevance to the Special Issue. All submissions should be prepared by following the guidelines given in Section 'For Authors' at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/security. Prospective authors should submit their paper online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the manuscript type as 'Special Issue', enter the 'Running Head' and the 'Special Issue title' as 'SCN-SI-010' and 'QoS security', respectively. ************************* IMPORTANT DATES ************************* Paper Submission Deadline: 15 February 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2009 ********************* GUEST EDITORS ********************* Azzedine Boukerche SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada E-mail: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Albert Zomaya University of Sydney, Australia E-mail: a.zomaya(a)usyd.edu.au Matteo Cesana Politecnico di Milano, Italy E-mail: cesana(a)elet.polimi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: Special Issue on Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions - Wiley SCN]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: Special Issue on Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions - Wiley SCN Datum: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:41 +0100 Von: Fabio Martinelli <Fabio.Martinelli(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS Security and Communication Networks Journal (Wiley) Special Issue on Security and Trust Management for Dynamic Coalitions --------------------------- Deadline: November 30, 2008 --------------------------- Scope There is an increasing interest and deployment of technologies that allow cooperation among entities that may act collectively. These entities may form dynamic coalitions where entities may leave and join, may show mobility aspects (either logical or physical), and may act in a collective manner. Examples of these coalitions can be found in the digital world, including: a) Crowds of users walking on the streets with advanced context aware converged telecommunication devices; b) A group of robots, manned and unmanned vehicles equipped with processors, sensors, smart-phones, etc. interacting with each other, with their environment, and with a command or a control node, such as the command and control site of a defence coalition or a civil traffic control; c) A set of organizations (possibly virtual) sharing some resource for service provisions, or so called Virtual Organisations; d) Collaborative processes that use resources and services offered by partners in a Virtual Organisation; and e) Web 2.0 mash-ups and composite Web Services that are composed of services and applications offered by different service providers over a public network. These dynamic coalitions involve several technologies as peer to peer systems (P2P), mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), and service oriented architectures such as those realised in GRID computing and Web Services Frameworks. There are several research areas identified as follows: a) Security in dynamic coalitions; b) trust in dynamic coalitions; c) security and trust interplay; and 4) secure processes and service composition. Topics of interest This special issue is proposed to cover research results and innovation case studies on security and trust management on dynamic coalitions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Semantics and computational models for security and trust in dynamic coalitions * Context-based security and trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies * Privacy and anonymity issues in trust negotiation * Enforcing cooperation in dynamic coalitions * Reputation and recommendation models and architectures for dynamic coalitions * Usage control models, languages and architectures in dynamic coalitions * Cryptographic models and mechanisms for dynamic coalitions * Security protocols for group management * Security for Service Oriented Architectures and Infrastructures * Collaboration and Virtual Organization life-cycle management in dynamic coalitions * Federated Identity Management in dynamic coalitions * Distributed Access Control and administrative delegation in dynamic coalitions * Policy verification and validation in order to predict the impact of changes to an infrastructure in order to support the life-cycle of a dynamic coalition * QoS monitoring, evaluation and reporting in dynamic coalitions * Auditing in dynamic coalitions * Trust and security in ICT Governance and service management for dynamic coalitions * Security frameworks for dynamic service composition * Security frameworks for Web 2.0 service and application mash-ups * Security and trust adaptation in dynamic coalitions * Information management in dynamic coalitions including research in techniques for self-protecting information sets * Trust and security aspects of Operational Support Systems (OSS) for the converged telecommunications infrastructure that underpins dynamic coalitions Submission Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Original research papers are solicited in all areas on security and trust management on dynamic coalitions. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three experts working in the areas. The guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security). Prospective authors should submit their papers online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the Manuscript type as "Special Issue", and enter "Running Head" and "Special Issue title" as "SCN-SI-008" and "Dynamic Coalitions", respectively. Important Dates Manuscript due November 30, 2008 First Review Phase Results March 1, 2009 Final Acceptance Notification July 1, 2009 Camera Ready Manuscript due July 31, 2009 Publication TBD Guest Editors Theo Dimitrakos Head of Security Architectures Research, BT Group CTO, British Telecommunications plc, UK Fabio Martinelli Institute of Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council, Italy Bruce Schneier Chief Security Technology Officer, British Telecommunications plc, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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