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[ISCC] Personalized Networks (PerNets) cfp, within IEEE CCNC
by Paolo Bellavista 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ Third International Workshop on Personalized Networks http://pernets.irctr.tudelft.nl/ to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009) - http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ January 13, 2008 - Harrah's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library ============================================================ Purpose of this workshop The ubiquitous nature of wireless networks has spawned many interesting applications that were unimagined hitherto. It has also brought many challenges for the communication and networking community to address. On one hand we see present day mobile devices are capable of providing many services that required several devices before. For example, most cell phones nowadays provide high speed data access, still and video cameras, PDA functionality, etc. These advances in device sophistication and service offerings, including wireless hotspots, have made a difference in the way we communicate. With increased user mobility and user's desire to always be connected, we have seen a growing interest in Personal Area Networks (PANs) and Body Area Networks (BANs). These networks can be tuned and applied meaningfully for individual users and their requirements. On the other hand the Internet has changed our way of interacting dramatically. These two major communication areas are having an in-depth influence on the way we communicate; it is worth considering them 'together' as the future communication vehicle. Personalized Networks is one such future oriented concept where we seek to bring BANs, PANs, WLAN, sensor networks, ad hoc networks, home networks, vehicular networks and the Internet together onto one platform under one broader vision of future (4G) communication networks. The idea is to enable continuous and seamless connectivity of all the personal devices of a user, information sources, and network enabled controllers in an unobtrusive way, regardless of where these entities are located - be they local or remote. It is a microcosm of the persons themselves with their associated accessories somewhere on the Internet. It is equivalent to the Internet presence that has become a prominent concept in the last decade. This advanced overlay network is strongly person oriented and must be ad hoc, intelligent and must behave as a user-friendly virtual intelligent personal assistant to its owner. It is a personal distributed environment, global in scope that can co-exist on the present day Internet with its active participation. Such a platform enables many new applications, especially for users with rapidly changing communication demands that often operate in various contexts simultaneously. It can also provide the much needed user-friendliness to many services of today. There are numerous issues which are challenging to the communication network community in realizing a Personalized Network. Most of them arise from the lack of current technology to deal in a transparent way with the dynamic and mobile nature of the entities, the unpredictable topology of the network, the power constraints of the mobile devices, and the heterogeneity of the networking and link-level technologies. Therefore, creating a Personalized Network yields new architectures, protocols, algorithms, platforms, middleware, etc. They take care of addressing, routing, resource and service discovery, the self-organization of the network, the localization of the devices/person, the complex security and privacy requirements, the offering of context aware services and service management. Many of these issues, ventured upon earlier under various mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and mobile network research initiatives, need to be reconsidered in this case. These technologies have to meet strict requirements with respect to user perception, viable business models, usage of communication bandwidth, protocol complexity, robustness, availability of links and infrastructure, dependability and trust. Four broader areas under which the presentations are classified: * Architectures and systems * End-to-end networking * Security and privacy * Operations, administration, management, and provisioning Scope of the submission We seek original contributions which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems that are outlined above towards realization of a Personalized Network. We have identified the following major topics under which we try to categorize the submissions. However, we will consider any other original, interesting, and imaginative ideas and thoughts towards meeting this goal of a Personalized Network. * The architectural framework of personalized networks * Context awareness and support * Resource, service and context discovery * Self-organization and adaptation * Addressing and routing * Interworking between PANs, ad hoc networks, etc, and infrastructure-based heterogeneous networks * Mobility of personalized networks * Security, privacy and accounting * Zero configuration methods and other enablers for ease-of-use * Dependability * Context-aware and application-driven communication substrates * Interactions between persons through their networks, federations of such networks * Handling of QoS across heterogeneous and dynamically changing link layers * New QoS concepts in personalized networks * Mapping of functional requirements to physical devices and resources * Modeling and simulation of personalized networks * P2P paradigm in personalized networks * Innovative applications or prototypes and demonstrations of such person centric applications are equally valued Why should you participate in this workshop? Personalized Networks is a concrete vision of the future networks, yet very current, in the field of communications. It attracts researchers from both wired and wireless domains. This workshop is an ideal platform to share a vision of where we are heading, interact, and strongly advocate an exciting new avenue for researchers and practitioners in the field of communication. Further, the final program will consist of carefully selected - with at least three peer reviews - and high quality submissions with a large emphasis on new ideas rather than incremental contributions to the field. Submissions of shorter versions of full papers that can be submitted to other conferences/journal in the near future are discouraged. Contact Information Email: wpn(a)ewi.tudelft.nl General chairperson Ignas Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Program Co-Chairpersons Sonia Heemstra de Groot, University of Twente, Netherlands Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA Organizing Committee Martin Jacobsson, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands R. V. Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Publicity Chairperson Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] Keynote Announcement - CFP: IEEE DANMS 2008 (co-located with Globecom 2008)
by Yangcheng Huang 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.) Keynote Announcement: "In-network Management: a shift in the management paradigm?" Dr. Marcus Brunner, NEC Laboratories Europe "Design of Next Generation Internet Based on Application-Oriented Networking" Prof. Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Submission Deadline: 15 July (Submission URL: http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6653&track=4693&) ====================================================== Call for Papers DANMS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Co-located with Globecom 2008, New Orleans, USA 30 November, 2008 http://www.danms.org The DANMS workshop series focuses on distributed and autonomous principles for network management and applications of those principles in network design. This year's workshop emphasizes Service Centric Network Management considering the impact on the system, across the whole information flow from service creation to deployment in the network. This workshop is looking for full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences with existing systems and industrial developments in the field of autonomous network management. Papers with a deep focus on a specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines are encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest: Architecture and Systems Topics relating to Autonomic Networks * Cross-layer system architecture design * Middleware and O&M techniques for network management * Resource modeling approaches for network management * Peer-to-peer techniques for autonomic network management * Scalability issues in network management * Security aspects in network management Autonomic Techniques * Adaptive & context-based self-management in networks * Policy (refinement techniques, policy models) * Knowledge based techniques to support autonomics * Data management for real-time dynamic service provisioning * Real-time MIB engineering to provide cross-layer provisioning Aspects of Service Management * Use of semantics to enable service deployment and composition * Automated service composition and orchestration * Automated service provisioning across multiple service providers Case Studies in Existing & Emerging Networks * Lessons, shortcomings and real world experiences with existing network management systems, protocols and architectures. * Experiences with service deployment in challenged networks (ad-hoc, pervasive, sensor etc.) and the implications on the network management plane Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2008 Camera Ready Deadline: 28 September, 2008 Workshop Date: 30 November, 2008 Workshop Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Canada Rolf Stadler, KTH Sweden TPC Chairs: Brian Lee, Ericsson Ireland Research Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Organizing Team: Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Technical Program Committee: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni. of Evry Val d'Essonne, France Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica I+D, Spain Javier Baliosian, Uni. of the Republic, Uruguay Arosha K Bandara, Open University, UK Saleem Bhatti, Uni. of St Andrews, UK Anne-Marie Bosneag, Ericsson Ireland Research Monica Brockmeyer, Wayne State University, USA Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zoran Despotovic, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Yixin Diao, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Simon Dobson, UCD, Ireland Susanne Engberg, Ericsson Research, Sweden Patrick Eugster, Purdue Uni., USA Alex Galis, University College London, UK Francisco J. Garcia, Agilent Labs, UK Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland Research Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA James Hong, POSTECH Korea Yangcheng Huang, Ericsson Ireland Research Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS Germany Richard Mortier, Vipadia, UK Marcelo Perazolo, IBM, USA Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Francoise Sailhan, LIFC Uni. of Franche Comté, France Richard Schlichting, AT&T Labs, USA Maarten van Steen, Vrije Uni., Netherlands Filip de Turck, Ghent University, Belgium Carlos Westphall, Federal Uni. of Santa Catarina, Brazil Martin Zach, Siemens AG Austria Xiaoyun Zhu, Hetlett Packard Labs, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/aasn/ To be held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’2008), Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE, October 26-30, 2008. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - New sensor network applications - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 Submission Guidelines: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08) This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ingo J. Timm , Institute of Computer Science Information Systems and Simulation, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France. Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE CCNC Special Session on Virtual Worlds
by Krishna Dhara (Kishore) 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds" Part of 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference CCNC 2009, 10 - 13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ The conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Paper Deadline: July 31, 2008. ************** Call for Papers ************** Special Session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds combine 3D web technologies with social networking techniques to offer new models of user interactions, collaborative learning, information sharing, and present new business opportunities. Collaboration and communication in virtual worlds are key to the success of these models. Using advances from various studies on virtual reality environments, existing virtual worlds provide a rich environment for users to provide new and innovative end user services. These end user services depend on multiple users collaborating in shared spaces, interaction with other users and with other worlds, real time nature of user interactions in virtual environments, collaboration and communication tools in virtual environments, scalability, and security. The goal of this special session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds is to provide a forum for researchers, architects, and practitioners for discussing these and other related issues to collaboration and communication in virtual worlds and virtual environments. We solicit papers covering various topics that include (but not limited to) the following: * Sharing Spaces in VR environments * User Interactions in VR * Real-time or immediacy of interactions * Chat, voice, or video communication in virtual worlds * Collaboration tools and techniques in VR applications * Social networking in VR environments * Collaborative learning in Virtual Worlds * Consumer-business interactions * Enterprise collaboration in VWs * Scalability, security, and persistence of VR Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author Information on the CCNC web site. Important Dates: Papers submission: July 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2008 Camera-ready versions: Oct 10, 2008 Session Organizer: Krishna Kishore Dhara Avaya Labs Research 1N275, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd Lincroft, NJ, USA. dhara(a)research.avayalabs.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Thanos Vasilakos 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

============== ICAS 2009 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICAS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain General page: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html Call for Papers: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html Submission deadline: November 1, 2008 Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: <http://www.iariajournals.org> http://www.iariajournals.org Extended versions of selected papers will also be published in the Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems: <https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf> https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas. ICAS 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site): SYSAT: Advances in system automation AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral networks and services MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SO SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems KUI: Knowledge-based user interface ================= ICAS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, UK Mauricio Marin, Yahoo!, Chile ICAS Advisory Chairs Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece ================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs
by Chih-Yung Chang 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** Call For Papers Journal of Information Science and Engineering (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems Aim and Scope: -------------- With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the Vehicular Wireless Networks (V-Winet) and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems (V-ITS) have recently received much attention. V-Winets and V-ITS aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption with many potential applications. For instance, vehicular safety applications include automatic collision notification, heavy fog detection and notification, remote diagnostics, emergency management, and other assistances for safe driving. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile high speed Internet access, in-place traffic view, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communications and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications for V-Winet and V-ITS to provide timely information or Internet access to vehicles, drivers, and passengers. Consequently, V-Winet and V-ITS need to integrate existing networking technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC, 3G, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, Sensor networks, and ZigBee for easy, accurate, effective and simple communications among vehicles, users, and infrastructure networks. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects of V-Winet and V-ITS communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings: - Network Architecture of V-Winet/V-ITS - V-Winet/V-ITS Services and Applications - Cooperative Aspects of V-Winet/V-ITS - Availability and Scalability Issues in V-Winet/V-ITS - Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for V-Winet/V-ITS - Cross-layer Optimization Techniques for V-Winet/V-ITS - Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for V-Winet/V-ITS - Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Protocols - Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for V-Winet/V-ITS - Driving Safety and Related Applications and Services - Green Technologies and V-Winet/V-ITS Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the Guest Editors, Prof. Chih-Yung Chang, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw , or Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw, with clear indication that submission is for the Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Important Dates: ------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 31, 2009 Publication Date: May, 2010 (Tentative) Guest Editors --------------- Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA, cshen(a)mail.eecis.udel.edu Xuemin(Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Papers Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play
by Rauterberg, G.W.M. 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play at International Conference on Fun and Games Wednesday October 22, 2008 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/m.m.bekker/WorkshopSPG.htm Organizers Emilia Barakova, e.i.barakova(a)tue.nl Tilde Bekker, m.m.bekker(a)tue.nl Janienke Sturm, j.sturm(a)tue.nl Advancements in technology determine several trends in today's society that pose serious threats to social interaction. At present, more people interact through media and less in a face-to-face manner. Another trend is that people lead less active lifestyles. At the same time, new technologies provide novel entertainment and interaction opportunities. We aim to combine these trends and explore the opportunities that technology-driven physical play offers for enhancing and stimulating real social interaction (as opposed to virtual interaction through a computer). This can be beneficial for diverse reasons: For children to counter the trend of playing computer games and watching television on their own, for elderly to socialize more when making new contacts becomes more difficult and for autistic children because they particularly like technological toys. The main goal of the workshop is to share information and experiences among researchers in the area of social interaction through physical play. We invite position papers addressing social and physical issues including (but not restricted to) the following fields: - Social robotics - Design for diverse user groups, such as children and elderly - Social games - Creative toolkits - Exertion interfaces - Pervasive and head-up games - Embodied facilitation - Spatial and tangible interaction Paper contributions should be submitted by email to one of the organizers. Papers should be 4-6 pages in PDF format LNCS style. Contributions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes (with ISBN number), distributed at the workshop, and published on the workshop's web site. The organizing committee intends to organize a special issue in an international journal. Workshop participants are required to also register for the main conference. Program Committee Nadia Berthouze, University College London, UK Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK Berry Eggen, TU/e, The Netherlands Loe Feijs, TU/e, The Netherlands Newton Fernando, National University of Singapore Ole Sejer Iversen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Narcis Peres, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Matthias Rauterberg, TU/e, The Netherlands Ben Robins, University of Hertfordshire, UK Important dates September 1, 2008: Deadline paper submission September 22, 2008: Notification of acceptance September 29, 2008: Deadline final version October 22, 2008: Workshop **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Tccc] Deadline extended: Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008
by T. S. Eugene Ng 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Co-located with ICNP 2008 Orlando, Florida October 19, 2008 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08 ======================================================================= New extended deadlines: Paper registration: 5:00pm EDT, July 7, 2008 Paper submission: 5:00pm EDT, July 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 5, 2008 In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state. The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought. The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management Program Chairs: Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) Steering Committee: Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Labs) David Maltz (Microsoft Research) Richard Mortier (Vipadia) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [acf-members] WONS 2009: Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] WONS 2009: Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ece.neu.edu> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ----------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: WONS 2009 # # ####### # # ##### # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # ## ## ####### # # ##### ##### ### ### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ####### ### ### ##### The Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (IEEE/IFIP sponsorship pending) February 2-4, 2009. Snowbird, Utah, USA http://wons09.cs.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ Scope of the conference ----------------------- As more and more users become increasingly dependent on wireless and mobile communications, it is necessary to secure a reliable and dependable technology support for "on-demand" services through any of the wireless architectures that have been in development recently, such as mesh networks, WiMAX, WiFi, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, etc. However, there are serious challenges to overcome, such as the integration of infrastructure-based and ad hoc networks, robust algorithms for self-organizing, reconfigurable wireless networks, on-demand service models and their provision in a highly-volatile interconnection environment, and smooth interoperability of architectures. WONS, now in its sixth edition, has established itself as a high-quality forum to address these challenges in the context of a workshop that is rich in intense interactions and based on innovative contributions by experts in the field. This announcement solicits original submissions of high-quality research papers on "wireless on demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modeling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models, practical implementations, service level aspects and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to wireless ad hoc networks, mesh networks, vehicular networks and sensor networks comprise, but are not limited to: * Architecture and Design * Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation * Modeling * Internet integration * Social and economic aspects * Pervasive / ubiquitous computing * Localization and mobility management * Security * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Applications and Service Support * Data dissemination and Peer-to-Peer systems * Middleware aspects * Self-X and network management Manuscript submission --------------------- Submitted papers should not have been published before or they should not be currently under review at another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column full (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) in PDF format. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Short papers should present future research directions, ongoing work, visionary and innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper if accepted. Conference proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore library. Further submission instructions will be published on the conference web site. Important Dates --------------- Full Paper Submission: October 2nd, 2008 Acceptance notification: November 17th, 2008 Camera-ready due: December 7th, 2008 Organization - Executive Committee ---------------------------------- General Chair Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Technical Program Co-Chairs Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Publicity and Web-Chairs Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Dae-Ki Cho (UCLA Network Research Lab) Gaia Maselli (Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza") Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, Chair (University of Trento) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Technical Program Committee [to be completed] Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech) Eitan Altman (INRIA) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma, Tor Vergata) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG Laboratory) Azadeh Faridi (Pompeu-Farba University in Barcelona) Jorge Garcia (UPC, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Silvia Giordano (SUPSI of Lugano) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento) Martin Haenggi (Notre Dame) Hannes Hartenstein (University of Karlsruhe) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom) Pietro Michiardi (Institute Eurecom) Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe) _______________________________________________ acf-members mailing list acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie https://lists.cs.tcd.ie/mailman/listinfo/acf-members

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[Tccc] AlPACa 2008 deadline extended
by Imad Aad 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email ----------------------------------------------------- AlPACa 2008 Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications (in conjunction with Securecomm 2008) September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.alpaca-workshop.org/ ----------------------------------------------------- During the last few decades we have seen a tremendous number of activities (and publications) regarding anonymous communication systems, how to make them better, various attacks, defenses etc. Even though the implicit assumption of any anonymity work is to have it applied in a real world, few of those activities focus on actual practical systems, and the questions remain if we are doing research on the right thing? how far we are from dealing with the real issues? and are the goals that we try to achieve with these systems those that we are optimizing for? This workshop solicits papers concerned with what happens on top of and around the anonymizing layer, with a view of how this affects the anonymity system. That is in some ways the user's, operator's, ISP's, etc. view of and experience with anonymity systems and how anonymity systems need to be improved. Topics of interest are (but not limited to): * Use cases for anonymous communication systems * Practical experiences with anonymous communication systems * Case studies * Novel applications of anonymous communication systems * Economic incentives / business models for using or deploying anonymous communication systems * Performance and evaluation tools of real systems * Usability * Feedback from real users * Legal issues with running anonymous communication Important dates: ---------------- * Submission deadline: (extended to) 6 July 2008 * Notification date: 24 July 2008 * Camera ready submission deadline: 10 August 2008 * Workshop: 22 September 2008 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Only PDF formats are accepted for all submissions. Paper submissions must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE conference style, two-column format, including the bibliography and appendices. The Authors' kit can be found on the workshop webpage. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at: aad(a)docomolab-euro.com ; zugenmaier(a)docomolab-euro.com Submissions can be made at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alpaca2008 Program Committee: ------------------ Imad Aad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany (co-chair) Andrew Adams, University of Reading, UK Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France George Danezis, Microsoft Research, UK Claudia Diaz, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Adolf Hohl, SAP Research, Germany Dogan Kesdogan, University of Siegen, Germany Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University, USA Alf Zugenmaier, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany (co-chair) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2009
by Qi Han 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its seventh year, is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications, which aim at providing a ubiquitous platform for supporting exciting anytime and anyplace services paradigms. Pervasive computing and communications is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances of a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2009 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present state-of-the-art research in the respective fields of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of presentation forums including core technical sessions, several targeted workshops, demonstrations, keynote speeches and panel discussions from domain experts. The conference will take place in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the leading technology centers of the United States. Topics: Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications Autonomic computing and communications Context-aware computing Enabling technologies (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN) Low power and green pervasive computing Middleware services and agent technologies Mobile/Wireless computing systems and services in pervasive computing Novel/innovative pervasive computing applications Pervasive computing and communication architectures Pervasive computing in the automotive domain Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications Pervasive sensing, perception and semantic interpretation Positioning and tracking technologies Programming paradigms for pervasive systems Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems Smart devices and intelligent environments Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems User interfaces and interaction models Virtual immersive communications Wearable computers Workshops and affiliated events: Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2009 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session. Please check the conference website frequently for more details. Submission Guidelines: Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Papers must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. The page limit is 10 IEEE conference proceedings format 2-column pages (including references, figures and tables, at least 11pt font). Detailed electronic submission procedures will be available at http://www.percom.org. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. IEEE Press will publish the conference proceedings. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. Organizing Committee: General Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA General Vice-chair: Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Chair: Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Program Vice-chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUSPI, Switzerland Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-chairs: Ben Lee, Oregon State University, USA Hao Chu, National Taiwan University Panels Chair: Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany Steering Committee Chair: Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Important Dates: Paper registration: September 15nd, 2008 Paper submission: September 22nd, 2008 Workshop proposal: May 23rd, 2008 Author notification: December 12th, 2008 Camera-ready due: January 7th, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] IEEE ICPADS workshop P2PNVE'08 2 weeks left
by publication acnlab 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments in conjunction with The 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008) December 8 -10, 2008 Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2008/ PURPOSE AND SCOPE The rapid growth and popularity of networked virtual environments (NVEs) such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in recent years have spawned a series of research interests in constructing such large-scale virtual environments. For increasing scalability and decreasing the cost of management and deployment, more and more studies propose using peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures to construct large-scale NVEs for games, multimedia virtual worlds and other applications. The goal of such research may be to support an Earth-scale virtual environment or to make hosting virtual worlds more affordable than existing client-server approaches. However, existing solutions for consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, and cheat-prevention may not be straightforwardly adapted to such new environments, novel ideas and designs thus are needed to realize the potential of P2P-based NVEs. The 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2007) was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2007. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE 2007, the theme of P2P-NVE 2008 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes and on the design and realization of P2P-based NVEs. The workshops aim to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. Student participations are also strongly encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *P2P systems and infrastructures *Applications of P2P systems *Performance evaluation of P2P systems *Trust and security issues in P2P systems *Network support for P2P systems *Fault tolerance in P2P systems *Efficient P2P resource lookup and sharing *Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and related issues *Constructions of P2P overlays for NVEs *Multicast for P2P NVEs *P2P NVE content distribution *3D streaming for P2P NVEs *Voice communication on P2P NVEs *Persistent storage for P2P NVEs *Security and cheat-prevention mechanisms for P2P games *Data structures and queries for P2P NVEs *Consistency control for P2P NVEs *Design considerations for P2P NVEs *Prototypes of P2P NVEs *P2P control for mobile NVEs *P2P NVE applications on mobile devices IMPORTANT DATES Submission: July 5, 2008 Notification: August 15, 2008 Camera ready: September 12, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 6 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to web site http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2008. Submitted papers should be in be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings). All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ICC 2009 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICC 2009 Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:22:05 -0400 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: ICC2009cfp(a)comsocconferences.org [] [] *http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/ <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html>*CALL FOR PAPERS <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html> /A Tradition of Innovation /*Submit your paper today to one of the 11 Symposia * *1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp01.html>*Co-Chairs: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Gabriel Jakobson, K.P. Subbalakshmi, Madjid Merabti, Sedat Oelcer *2. Communication Theory Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp02.html>*Co-Chairs: Lutz Lampe, Aylin Yener, Angela Yingjun Zhang *3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp03.html>*Co-Chairs: Luc Deneire, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Wai Pang Ng *4. Wireless Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp04.html>*Co-Chairs: Sonia Aissa, Nallanathan Arumugam, Erik Perrins, Yi Qian, Matthew Valenti, Takayo Yamazato *5. Wireless Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp05.html>*Co-Chairs: Yu Cheng, Hossam Hassanein, Mario Marchese, Abdelhamid Mellouk *6. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp06.html>*Co-Chairs: Dominic Schupke, Kyriakos Vlachos, Jun Zheng *7. Next Generation Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp07.html>*Co-Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Marcus Brunner, Latif Latid, Ivica Rimac *8. Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp08.html>*Co-Chairs: Nelson Fonseca, Ralf Lehnert, Hiromi Ueda *9. Adhoc and Sensor Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp09.html>*Co-Chairs: Tommaso Melodia, Hongchi Shi, Larry Xue, Mohamed Younis *10. Communications Software and Services Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp10.html>*Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Kellerer, Pascal Lorenz, Giovanni Pau, Lars Wolf *11. Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp11.html>*Co-Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, Stefanos Gritzalis, Jiankun Hu, Peter Müller Details on the *submission procedure for technical papers* via EDAS <http://edas.info/> can be found here <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_submission_proc.html> * * * Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008* *Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009* *Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009* *Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008* *Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008* *Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008* *Workshops, Tutorials and Panels* *The ICC 2009 Organizing team also invites you to submit your ideas and suggestions workshops, tutorials and panels on hot technology trends, recent advances in the communications field and future perspectives: * * Call for Workshop Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_workshops.html> * Call for Tutorial Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_tutorials.html> * Call for Panel Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_panels.html> # *Important Dates* Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009 Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008 Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Networking (VON-08)
by Ling-Jyh Chen 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

Apologies if you have received multiple copies ================================================================== Call for Papers The First IEEE International Workshop on Vehicular Networking (VON-08) http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VON08/ to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 2008 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2008), December 9-12, 2008, Yilan, Taiwan. ================================================================== Aims and Scope --------------- The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular networking technologies. Based on short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to- vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure vehicular networks technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes vehicular networks research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Topics of Interest ----------------- Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Vehicular Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Vehicular mobile ad-hoc networks - Routing protocols for V2V communications - MAC layer technologies - Physical layer and RF level technologies - Antenna technologies - Role of V2V communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems - Safety and non-safety applications - High-speed mobility management - Radio resource management and QoS support - Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Multi-channel organization and operation - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues - Network management - Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website: http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/VON08/ISAS/ 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 five (5) 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 CD proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: July 5, 2008 Authors Notification: August 20, 2008 Author Registration: August 30, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2008 General Chair --------------- Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Program Chair --------------- Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Local Chair --------------- Yih-Fuh Wang, Leader University, Taiwan Program Committee Members -------------------------- Matthew Barth, University of California, Riverside, USA Wai Chen, Telcordia, USA Costas Constantinou, Univ. of Birmingham, USA Luca Delgrossi, Mercedes-Benz Research, USA Peter Han Joo Chong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tamer El-Batt, HRL Laboratories, USA Mustafa Ergen, University of California, Berkeley, USA Andreas Festag, NEC Europe Ltd, USA Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA Yuan-Ying Hsu, Telcordia, USA Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany Hariharan Krishnan, General Motors R&D, USA Gustavo Marfia, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Peter C. Nelson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, EPFL, Switzerland Henrik Petander, National ICT Australia, Australia Maxim Raya, EPFL, Switzerland Daniel Stancil, Carnegie Mellon University, USA C.K. Toh, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY, China Yih-Fuh Wang, Leader University, Taiwan Hung-Yu Wei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Andre' Weimerskirch, Escrypt Inc., USA Ouri E. Wolfson , University of Illionois, USA Guang Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA Chung-Ping Young, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] CfP Workshop in Conjunction with ACM Multimedia: SAME 2008
by Artur R. Lugmayr 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Call for Papers Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2008) NAMU Series Workshop in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008 Vancouver, BC, Canada; October 27th - November 1st, 2008 http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html *) several papers will be published in the ACM Multimedia 2008 proceedings; *) workshop results will be published in special issues our journals; *) deadline for papers: 30th June 2008 DESCRIPTION OF THE WORKSHOP The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web, the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of distributed interlinked media - what is the message ambient media will tell us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer - in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as single entities to information - a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast. However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices, personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the challenges: - how to select, compose, and generate ambient content? - how to present ambient content? - how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences? - what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technology? - how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better supported and extended? - and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and art? The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction, and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the 'ambient media form' for entertainment services, such as: . case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones) . oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas . artistic installations and running system prototypes . user-experience studies and evaluations . technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples: . Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for adding intelligence to daily objects . Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation algorithms and techniques . Context awareness and collection and context aware composition/selection of ambient content . Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and data management . Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and co-creation of content and products . Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological platforms . Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming ambient media . Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic interpretation . Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure content in specific contexts . Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive advertising . Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user interfaces, and universal access . Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user studies, and interface design . Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and 'x'-commerce The workshop aims at answering the following questions: . What is 'content' and how can it be presented when it becomes 'ubiquitous' and 'pervasive'? . How to select, compose and generate ambient content? . How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application scenarios (e.g. e-learning)? . What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups in the ambient context? . How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported? . Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models exist? . How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? . How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema be extended by ambient media? IMPORTANT DATES . paper submission: June 30th , 2008 . notification of acceptance: July 15th, 2008 . final papers due: August 01st, 2008 please submit at: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html TARGET AUDIENCE The target audiences are researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall 'participate' rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously. We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, artistic, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome. WORKSHOP CHAIRS . Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND . Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY . Bjorn Stockleben, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), GERMANY . Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND . Kari Laurila, NOKIA, FINLAND PROGRAM COMMITTEE Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Heiko Schuldt, Uni Basel, SWITZERLAND Andreas Rauber, TU Vienna, AUSTRIA Mark Billinghurst, Canterbury University, NEW ZEALAND Carlos Ramos, Polytechnic of Porto, PORTUGAL Carsten Magerkurth, SAP Research, GERMANY Ismo Rakolainen, FogScreen, FINLAND Jan Nesvadba, Philips, THE NETHERLANDS Gabriele Kotsis, University Linz, AUSTRIA Jussi Kangasharju, Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Pablo Caesar, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, THE NETHERLANDS Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, JAPAN Tuula Leinonen, Fakegraphics, FINLAND Sofia Tsekeridou, Athens Information Technology, GREECE Richard Chbeir, Bourgogne University, FRANCE Bjorn Landfeldt, NICTA, AUSTRALIA Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Ionian University, GREECE Carmen Mac Williams, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, GERMANY

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IWSOS 2008 - Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Harald Meyer 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline for IWSOS 2008 has been ** EXTENDED ** to July 10, 2008. (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the announcement.) *************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- DEADLINE EXTENDED *************** IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): ** EXTENDED ** July 10, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): ext. to July 10, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, Scientific Systems Company, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria

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[Tccc] AdHoc-NOW Demo session
by Srdjan Krco 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

Call for Demos 7th International Conference on AD HOC Networks & Wireless, AdHoc-NOW 2008 (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/index.html) September 10-12, Sophia Antipolis, France Overview Ad HOC-NOW 2008 solicits demonstrations showing innovative research and applications. We are interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, algorithms and applications of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Demonstrations from both academia and industry related to the topics included in the AD HOC - NOW conference CFP are encouraged. Demos will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as their potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas. Demo proposals must be limited to 3 pages (conference template <http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/cfp.html> ) and should include the following: * Goals of the demo and the basic idea that it supports. * Any related publications or technical reports. * Equipment to be used for the demo. * Space needed. * Additional facilities needed including power and Internet/wireless access. Important dates: Demo Proposals Due: July 10, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2008 Topics of Interest: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Algorithmic Issues * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Energy Efficiency * Geometric Graphs * Location Discovery and Management * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet * Wireless Mesh Networks Submission Instructions: Proposals should be sent via email as PDF file to the Demo/poster session Co-chairs. Please indicate "AD HOC-NOW 2008 Demo Proposal Submission" as the subject of the email. All demo proposals will be reviewed by the AD HOC - NOW 2008 Poster and Demo committee. __________________________________________________ Dr Srdjan Krco Ericsson Ireland Research Centre (EIRC) E-mail: srdjan.krco(a)ericsson.com Phone:+353 1 2072238 LM Ericsson Limited Registered Office: Beech Hill, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4 Registered Number in Ireland : 21679 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you. LM Ericsson Limited does not enter into contracts or contractual obligations via electronic mail, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the parties concerned. E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interruption, unauthorised amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive e-mails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - CollaborateCom2008- Deadlin: 10 July, 2008
by info＠icstconferences.org 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

COLLABORATECOM 2008 The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing Sponsored by, Create-Net and the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST)) http://www.collaboratecom.org/ The Regal Sun Resort, Orlando, FL, USA, November 13-16, 2008 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 10, 2008. ===========================================================================Over the last two decades, many organizations and individuals have relied on electronic collaboration between distributed teams of humans, computer applications, and/or autonomous robots to achieve higher productivity and produce joint products that would have been impossible to develop without the contributions of multiple collaborators. Technology has evolved from standalone tools, to open systems supporting collaboration in multi-organizational settings, and from general purpose tools to specialized collaboration grids. Future collaboration solutions that fully realize the promises of electronic collaboration require advancements in networking, technology and systems, user interfaces and interaction paradigms, and interoperation with application-specific components and tools. The Fourth International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2008) will continue to serve as a premier international forum for discussion among academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in collaborative networking, Technology and systems, and applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: * Architectures, protocols, and enabling technologies for collaborative computing networks and systems * Autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Collaboration in pervasive computing applications * Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in large scale digital libraries * Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures * Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services * Collaborative, location aware mobile systems/applications * Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks & applications * Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure * Collaborative social networks & web-based collaboration * Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems * Distributed collaborative workflows * Data management and middleware support for collaborative information systems * Distributed technologies and architectures to support group collaboration, activity, and awareness * Energy management for collaborative networks * Group-driven composition of systems from components * Human/robot collaboration * Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration * Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications * Modelling for collaboration * Models & mechanisms for real-time collaboration * Multi-agent technology and software technologies for collaborative networking and applications * Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, & applications * P2P platforms for supporting collaboration * Security, privacy and trust management in collaborative networks, systems, and applications * Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications * Software design, testing, and experimentation technology for collaborative networking and applications * Theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration * Theoretical foundations and algorithms for collaborative networks, applications, and worksharing * Tools for collaborative decision making processes * Trustworthy collaborative business processing in virtual organizations * Visualization techniques, interaction devices and visual languages for collaborative networks and applications * Web services technologies and service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications * Workflow management for collaborative network/system --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPERS: We invite original research papers that have not been previously published and are not currently underreview for publication elsewhere. Contributions addressing all areas related to collaborative networking, technology and systems, and applications are solicited. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. Submitted papers should be a maximum of ten pages in IEEE double column format. Best Papers will be invited for a special issue in ACM/Springer?MONET. POSTERS: The conference will include a poster session that highlights recent and on-going research, experiments, and provocative ideas that have not been published elsewhere. Poster submissions will be reviewed and one page summaries of accepted posters will appear in the conference proceedings. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for half-day or full day workshops that focus on CollaborateCom08 related themes are solicited. Workshop proposals should be at most five pages, including a biographical sketch of each instructor, and submitted to the Workshop Chairs. Proposals will be evaluated based on the expertise and experience of the organizers and the relevance and importance of the subject matter. Please refer to call for workshop proposals for details. PANELS: Proposals for panel discussions that focus on future visions for collaborative networking, applications, and worksharing are preferred. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal of at most five pages, including biographical sketches of the proposed panelists, to the Panel Chairs. INDUSTRY SESSION: We are soliciting industry papers describing innovative applications, case studies and best practices with a goal of fostering collaboration between the research community and the private sector. Industrial submissions may be either full-length papers or extended abstracts up to 4 pages, and should be submitted to the Industrial Program Chairs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper, poster, panel, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website www.CollaborateCom.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Accepted papers and posters will be published by the IEEE in the conference proceedings and placed on IEEE Xplore. They will also be indexed by DBLP and the Engineering Information (EI). A selected number of best papers will be considered for publication in a leading journal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE July 10, 2008 : Paper submission deadline July 11th, 2008 : Posters and panel proposals deadline March 15, 2008 : Workshop proposal deadline September 26, 2008 : Notification of acceptance October 14, 2008 : Camera ready versions Due --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * General Chairs - Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway * Technical Program Chairs - Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA - James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Panel Chairs - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA * Workshop Chairs - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charollette, USA - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA * Industrial Program Chairs - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP, USA - Claudio Bartoni, HP, USA * Tutorial chair - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA * Publication Chair - Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Local Arrangement Chair - Lotzi Boloni, University of Central Florida, USA * Publicity Chair - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Conference Organization - Zsuzsi Kazsab, ICST Europe * Finance Chair - Karen Decker, ICST USA * STEERING COMMITTEE - Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy - Tao Zhang (Vice Chair), Telcordia Technologies, USA - Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA - Nim Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, USA - Arun Iyengar, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA - Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - Isidro Laso, D.G. Information Society and Media, EU * TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA - Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia - Cui Bin, Peking University, China - Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA - Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA - Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan - Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA - Bruno Crispo, Vrije University, Netherlands - Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, UK - Maria Luisa Damiani, University of Milan, Italy - Prasun Dewan, University of North Carolina, USA - Hans-Peter Dommel, Santa Clara University, USA - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Mohammed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA - Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy - Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA - Bugra Gedik, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Claude Godart, Nancy University, France - Le Gruenwald, NSF, USA - Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada - Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Youna Jung, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California - Riverside, USA - Murat Kantarcioglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA - Yuecel Karabulut, SAP Research, USA - Minkoo Kim, Ajou University, South Korea - Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany - Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey - Chung-Sheng Li, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Dan Lin, Purdue University, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA - Jean-Henry Morin, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Maheswaran Muthucumaru, McGill University, Canada - Surya Nepal, Networking Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia - Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria - Anne H. H. Ngu, Texas State University, San Marcos, USA - Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Federica Paci, Purdue University, USA - Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy - Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA - Indraskhi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Berthold Reinwald, IBM Almaden, USA - Philippe Roose, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour, France - Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA - Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden, USA - Amy Soller, USA - Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA - Qihua Wang, Purdue University, USA - Kun-Lung Wu, IBM T.J. Watson, USA - Xiaoxin Wu, Intel, China - Danfeng Yao, Rutgers University, USA - Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Fwd: FW: IEEE CCNC 09: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: FW: IEEE CCNC 09: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:25:41 -0500 Von: Wenjun (Kevin) Zeng <zengw(a)missouri.edu> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> FYI. *Submissions due **29 June 2008* Regards! -Wenjun -----Original Message----- *From:* Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org [mailto:Meetings@comsocconferences.org] *Sent:* Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:24 AM *To:* CCNC09_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org *Subject:* IEEE CCNC 09: Call for Papers *Empowering the Connected Consumer* *IEEE CCNC 2009 Call for Papers* *www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009 <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009>* IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – the 6th annual international conference – will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. *Technical Program *features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics, Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Entertainment and Multimedia Networking, Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery, Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies, and Security for CE Communications. *Submissions due **29 June 2008* *Tutorials *complement research reports of the technical sessions by providing participants with broad and comprehensive overviews of emerging fields. *Submissions due **15 August 2008* *Demonstrations* provide an exciting forum for researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss new applications and techniques, research demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming research challenges, practical implementations, commercial developments, and future directions. *Submissions due **12 September 2008* *Technical Panels* include, but are not limited to Home Networking; WLANs; Power Line Communications; Coax networks; UWB, Bluetooth; Home control, AMI; IPTV and Networking; Residential Gateways; Data Broadcasting; DRM; Device Control; UPnP, Bonjour; DLNA, IGRS; Multiplayer Networked Games; Regulatory Issues; Investments; and Other Consumer Applications. *Submissions due 17 September 2008* *Short Papers *are* *related to any of the conference technical topics that summarize speculative breakthroughs, work-in-progress, industry featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. *Submissions due 19 September 2008* For a list of potential topics and submission requirements, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ *_ _* *Important Technical Program Deadlines:* Technical Papers 29 June 2008 Acceptance Notification 12 September 2008 Camera Ready Artwork 10 October 2008 *_ _*_ _ *Tutorials, Demonstrations, Technical Panels, Short Papers Deadlines:* Tutorials 15 August 2008 Demonstrations 12 September 2008 Technical Panels 17 September 2008 Short Papers 19 September 2008 For more information on these specialized tracks, visit http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/ *_ _* <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/>*Patronage* *IEEE CCNC Patrons include Panasonic, Samsung, and Nokia.* Reach hundreds of engineers, marketing and product design specialists, and executives in the consumer networking, consumer electronics, and consumer content-provider fields. Patron status maximizes your company's exposure and enhances your company's reputation. See the IEEE CCNC website for patron opportunities! *http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/* *_ _* <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2009/>*Organizing Committee* */Honorary Chair/** Ki Tae Lee* Vice Chairman Corporate Technology Operations Samsung Electronics, Korea */General Co-Chairs/** Simon Gibbs* Samsung, USA *Alan Messer* Samsung, USA */Technical Program Chair/** John Buford* Avaya Labs, USA */Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics Chair/* *R. Chandramouli* Stevens Institute of Technology, USA */Personal Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Chair/* *Behrooz Shirazi* Washington State University, USA */Entertainment and Multimedia Networking, Chair/* *Zhu Li* Motorola Labs, USA */Peer-to-Peer and Content Delivery Chair/** Wolfgang Kellerer* DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe, Germany */Emerging Applications and Pervasive Technologies Chair/** Christian Becker * University of Mannheim, Germany */Security for CE Communications Chair/* *Chi-Sung Laih * National Cheng Kung University, China */Workshop Chair/* *Kurt Tutschku, *NICT, Japan */Special Sessions Chair/ Mario Kolberg* University of Stirling, UK */Short Papers Chair/** Florence Kolberg* University of Strathclyde, UK */Tutorial Co-Chairs/* *Dr. Frank den Hartog* TNO, The Netherlands *Dr. V. Prasad* Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands */Technology Applications Panels Chair/** Shoshana Loeb,* Telcordia, USA */Demos Co-Chairs/* *Andreas Heiner* Nokia, Finland *Subir Saha* Motorola, India To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list send a blank email message to CCNC09_CFP-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by email or regular mail. Please email a message with your email address and the list name (CCNC09_CFP(a)comsocconferences.org) to optout(a)comsoc.org or mail a note with the same information to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: [All at car-2-car.org] Call for Papers: Workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing"]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [All at car-2-car.org] Call for Papers: Workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing" Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:08:04 +0200 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de> Antwort an: matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de An: all(a)car-2-car.org, demo(a)car-2-car.org, app(a)car-2-car.org Dear all, please allow me to draw your attention to the car-to-car related workshop "Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing". The workshop is jointly organized by Christian Wewetzer, Susumu Matsui, Paul Holleis, and Matthias Kranz, If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Matthias Kranz DLR Call for Papers Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing Workshop at 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing COEX, Seoul, South Korea September 21 - 24, 2008 http://www.hcilab.org/events/uiivc Workshop Overview: ------------------ Vehicles are an interesting space for ubiquitous computing! - They can be host to mobile devices (e.g. PDAs, PNAs, mobile phones). Interaction with these devices in vehicular environments includes computer-computer interaction (e.g. exchanging data between vehicle and mobile device) and human-computer interaction involving voice, gesture and text input and output with their respective technologies. - Vehicles themselves are mobile networked sensing systems. They have a significant number of intra-vehicle communication systems such as busses connecting hundreds of sensors and delivering information at high data rates, both to other digital systems and to the driver. - The sensor density in modern cars is comparable to ubiquitous computing environments. Interconnecting sensor-equipped vehicles enables novel types of applications. Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication provide vehicles with information about their vicinity, allowing vehicle systems to augment the driver's perception of the environment, thereby increasing road safety, traffic efficiency and comfort. Workshop Topics: ---------------- - networked sensing systems integrated in vehicles, infra-structure or used by other traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, ...) - multi-modal human-machine interaction in vehicular environments; combinations of vehicle-integrated and mobile user interfaces - machine-machine interaction and information fusion for (seamless) integration of mobile devices into vehicular environments - mobile vehicular services and service management - new concepts for driving interfaces, driver assistance systems and driving assistance systems - methods and tools for automotive user interfaces and application research and their evaluation - novel multimedia interfaces and in-car entertainment - input and output technologies and systems while driving (text, speech, touch, ...) - user interfaces for on-the-road information exchange, navigation and inter-vehicle communication - detection, estimation and modeling of user intentions, vehicle context and traffic situation - application frameworks, toolkits or models for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication - applications, services, user interfaces and toolkits for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication Important Dates: ---------------- Fri, 27 Jun - Submission deadline Fri, 25 Jul - Acceptance notification Sun, 21 Sep - Day of workshop Submission and Submission Format: --------------------------------- We solicit submission of original work of 4-6 pages length. Please submit your papers in PDF format by email to uiivc08(a)googlemail.com Please use the following templates for preparing your submission: http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/chi2008pubsformat.doc http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008/chi2008pubsformat.cls Workshop Website: ----------------- http://www.hcilab.org/events/uiivc Workshop Organizers: -------------------- Matthias Kranz, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany Paul Holleis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Susumu Matsui, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Christian Wewetzer, Driver Information Systems Research, Volkswagen Group, Germany Please contact Matthias Kranz (matthias.kranz(a)dlr.de) if you have any inquiries. -- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Institut für Kommunikation und Navigation Matthias Kranz P.O. Box 1116 D-82230 Wessling, Germany Telefon: +49 (0)8153 28-1205 Telefax: +49 (0)8153 28-1871 E-Mail: mailto:matthias.kranz@dlr.de Internet: http://www.dlr.de/kn/ _______________________________________________ All mailing list All(a)car-2-car.org http://lists.car-2-car.org/mailman/listinfo/all

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs Datum: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:48:41 +0800 Von: Chih-Yung Chang <cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw> An: <Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** Call For Papers Journal of Information Science and Engineering (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems Aim and Scope: ----------------------- With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the Vehicular Wireless Networks (V-Winet) and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems (V-ITS) have recently received much attention. V-Winets and V-ITS aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption with many potential applications. For instance, vehicular safety applications include automatic collision notification, heavy fog detection and notification, remote diagnostics, emergency management, and other assistances for safe driving. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile high speed Internet access, in-place traffic view, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communications and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications for V-Winet and V-ITS to provide timely information or Internet access to vehicles, drivers, and passengers. Consequently, V-Winet and V-ITS need to integrate existing networking technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC, 3G, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, Sensor networks, and ZigBee for easy, accurate, effective and simple communications among vehicles, users, and infrastructure networks. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects of V-Winet and V-ITS communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings: - Network Architecture of V-Winet/V-ITS - V-Winet/V-ITS Services and Applications - Cooperative Aspects of V-Winet/V-ITS - Availability and Scalability Issues in V-Winet/V-ITS - Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for V-Winet/V-ITS - Cross-layer Optimization Techniques for V-Winet/V-ITS - Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for V-Winet/V-ITS - Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Protocols - Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for V-Winet/V-ITS - Driving Safety and Related Applications and Services - Green Technologies and V-Winet/V-ITS Submission Guidelines --------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the Guest Editor, Chih-Yung Chang, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw , with clear indication that submission is for the Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Important Dates: ------------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 31, 2009 Publication Date: May, 2010 (Tentative) Guest Editors --------------- Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA, cshen(a)mail.eecis.udel.edu Xuemin(Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] LoCA 2009: First Call for Papers
by Varshavsky Alex 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

************************ 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Submission deadline: December 18, 2008 ********************************************************************* The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: - New hardware platforms for sensing location and context - Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data - Location and context representation, management, and distribution - Privacy policies & communication protocols for location & context information - User studies of location- and context-aware systems - Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce radically new concepts, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited to 18 pages. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee Hamid Aghajan, University of Stanford, USA Christian Becker, UniversitatMannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, Georgia Tech, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates 18 December 2008 Submission Deadline 13 February 2009 Author Notifications 27 February 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) http://loca2009.context-aware.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP for ACE 2008
by Dairoku Sekiguchi 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** === ACE 2008 === http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ - Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology - Invites you to submit Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Creative Showcases. * Deadline for Full and Short Papers: July 15th, 2008 * Deadline for Posters and Creative Showcases: July 15th, 2008 Submissions of papers will be online on our conference website (http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/), and should follow the ACM Submission Format. The conference will take place: December 3rd - 5th, 2008 in Yokohama, Japan. Entertainment is one of the important magical ingredients in the 21st Century society. ACE 2008 is an annual international conference devoted to computer entertainment to provide a premium forum for researchers, developers, practitioners, artists and designers to present and discuss new problems, solutions, content design and technologies in entertainment areas. We warmly invite original papers, demos, art and design works in all areas of entertainment computing and design including (but not limited to): Affective Computing Internet Networking Media Ambient Intelligence Learning and Children Animation Techniques Location-Based Entertainment Augmented / Mixed Reality Metaverse Avatars and Virtual Community Mobile Entertainment Cultural Computing Multimodal Interaction Digital Entertainment and Sports Narratives / Digital Storytelling Digital Broadcasting/Podcasting Pervasive and Online Games Digital Cinema Physical Computing Elderly Entertainment Smart Gadgets and Toys Entertainment Design Theory Social Networking Human-Robots Interaction Sound and Music Experience Design Synesthetic Entertainment Funology Tangible Interfaces Graphics Techniques Visual Effects Interaction Design For further information please visit: http://www.ace-conf.org/ace2008/ Masa Inakage and Adrian David Cheok (General Chairs ACE 2008) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:42:31 +0200 (CEST) Von: Sven Tomforde <tomforde(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: tomforde(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing mailinglist, below you can find a Call for papers for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). Best regards, Sven Tomforde ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) BIO-INSPIRED NETWORKING Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of massively networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally distributed and unsupervised way. Recently, a number of approaches inspired by biological mechanisms and phenomena have been proposed as a strategy to handle the complexity of massively distributed systems such as the Internet, or wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. The goal of bio-inspired approaches is to discover and to adapt biological methods to technical solutions that are showing similarly high stability, adaptability, and scalability as biological entities often have. This special issue intends to highlight the latest achievements in the new research domain of bio-inspired networking. In particular, the issue focuses on methodologies for identifying relevant biological mechanisms, the modeling of these mechanisms, and their application to technical solutions. Prospective articles are expected to outline either proof of concept studies with direct comparison to classical technical solutions, or theoretical mathematical models of biological principles associated with fundamental challenges in communication systems. For this special issue, we consider all techniques with direct biological background including animal learning strategies, self-organizing methods as observed from swarms down to nano-structures that are observed and analyzed in molecular biology. Classical complex systems research is explicitly excluded from the scope whereas a comparison to well-known techniques in this domain is appreciated. This special issue is dedicated to bio-inspired approaches addressing various aspects of networking and communication systems. The topics of interest include the following domains: Self-organizing communication systems Evolutionary and adaptive systems and protocols Scalable systems and protocols Self-learning algorithms Self-healing systems and protocols Security mechanisms Network algorithms and protocols Scalable and adaptive network architectures Congestion control mechanisms Performance evaluation of bio-inspired networks Original unpublished contributions, and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to IEEE-JSAC guidelines. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via email to dressler(a)ieee.org according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: March 1, 2009 Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2009 Final Manuscript due to Pub: December 1, 2009 Publication: 2nd quarter 2010 Guest Editors Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany (dressler(a)ieee.org) Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA (suda(a)ics.uci.edu) Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy (iacopo.carreras(a)create-net.org) Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan (murata(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp) Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK (Jon.Crowcroft(a)cl.cam.ac.uk)

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[Fwd: ICC 2009 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICC 2009 Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:06:23 -0400 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: ICC2008CFP(a)comsocconferences.org [] [] *http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/ <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html>*CALL FOR PAPERS <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp.html> /A Tradition of Innovation /*Submit your paper today to one of the 11 Symposia * *1. Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp01.html>*Co-Chairs: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Gabriel Jakobson, K.P. Subbalakshmi, Madjid Merabti, Sedat Oelcer *2. Communication Theory Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp02.html>*Co-Chairs: Lutz Lampe, Aylin Yener, Angela Yingjun Zhang *3. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp03.html>*Co-Chairs: Luc Deneire, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Wai Pang Ng *4. Wireless Communications Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp04.html>*Co-Chairs: Sonia Aissa, Nallanathan Arumugam, Erik Perrins, Yi Qian, Matthew Valenti, Takayo Yamazato *5. Wireless Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp05.html>*Co-Chairs: Yu Cheng, Hossam Hassanein, Mario Marchese, Abdelhamid Mellouk *6. Optical Networks and Systems Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp06.html>*Co-Chairs: Dominic Schupke, Kyriakos Vlachos, Jun Zheng *7. Next Generation Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp07.html>*Co-Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Marcus Brunner, Latif Latid, Ivica Rimac *8. Communications QoS, Reliability and Modelling Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp08.html>*Co-Chairs: Nelson Fonseca, Ralf Lehnert, Hiromi Ueda *9. Adhoc and Sensor Networking Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp09.html>*Co-Chairs: Tommaso Melodia, Hongchi Shi, Larry Xue, Mohamed Younis *10. Communications Software and Services Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp10.html>*Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Kellerer, Pascal Lorenz, Giovanni Pau, Lars Wolf *11. Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_symp11.html>*Co-Chairs: Raouf Boutaba, Stefanos Gritzalis, Jiankun Hu, Peter Müller Details on the *submission procedure for technical papers* via EDAS <http://edas.info/> *[link to edas.info] *can be found here <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_submission_proc.html> * Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008* *Workshops, Tutorials and Panels* *The ICC 2009 Organizing team also invites you to submit your ideas and suggestions workshops, tutorials and panels on hot technology trends, recent advances in the communications field and future perspectives: * * * **Call for Workshop Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_workshops.html> * * Call for Tutorial Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_tutorials.html> * Call for Panel Proposals <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2009/cfp_panels.html> # *Important Dates* Paper Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Acceptance Notification: 15 Jan 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: 01 Mar 2009 Tutorial Submission: 08 Sep 2008 Workshop Proposals: 25 May 2008 Panel Proposals: 01 Sep 2008

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