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[Tccc] Extended Demo deadline IEEE WiVeC - 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
by Moritz Killat 09 May '08

09 May '08

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message] IEEE WiVeC 2008 -- 2nd Call for Demos We are pleased to announce that the deadline for the submission of demo proposals to IEEE WiVeC 2008 has been extended to **May, 19th 2008**. This is a firm deadline. This year, the WiVeC demo session will be designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Due to the particular nature of demos of vehicular communication technologies, movies or visualizers demonstrating the course of a vehicular testbed performed on a remote site also qualify to WiVeC'08 demo session. In order to optimize the illustration of the design of such demo, candidates are yet encouraged to bring examples of some transportable equipments used for their testbed. We also would like to emphasize that this year, accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore. Demo proposal of 2 A4 pages should be submitted to the Demo Chair Dr. Jérôme Härri at haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de Further submission guidelines may be found below. --------------- 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'08) 21--22 September 2008, Calgary Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After a successful first WiVeC edition in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/) with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the 21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVeC and VTC events. This year, the WiVeC demo session will be designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities, are encouraged. Submission Instructions : ------------------------- The submitted demo proposal should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages, including figures and references : 1. Title, authors and contact information. 2. Technical content to be demonstrated. 3. An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees. 4. Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information The submission format should follow the IEEE submission guidelines (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/A4.rtf). Demo proposals may be sent to the Demo Chair Dr. Jérôme Härri at haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de The authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a poster should also inform me. Demonstrations will be selected based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the demonstrated system. *Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore and the Conference CDROM*. Please note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a regular paper in IEEE WiVeC'08. Important Dates for Demos : ------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: *19 May 2008* Notification of acceptance: *30 May 2008* Camera-ready papers due: *9 June 2008* -- Dr. Jérôme Härri Assistant Professor Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Institut für Telematik Geb. 20.20 Zirkel 2 D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel: +49 721 608-6407 Fax: +49 721 32550 Email: haerri(a)tm.uni-karlsruhe.de Url: http://dsn.tm.uni-karlsruhe.de/haerri.php _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call for Paper zur Automotive – Safety & Security 2008
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 09 May '08

09 May '08

Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen zur Automotive – Safety & Security 2008 Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit für automobile Informationstechnik 19. – 20. November, Stuttgart Veranstaltungsort: Auditorium Boschzentrum am Feuerbach, Borsigstraße 14, Stuttgart Erwünscht sind Beiträge zu folgenden Themen aus dem Automotive Engineering oder ähnlichen Bereichen der Softwareentwicklung: • Zuverlässigkeit und Sicherheit für fahrbetriebskritische Software und IT-Systeme • Evaluation und Zertifizierung von Sicherheitseigenschaften automobiler Firmware/Software • Zuverlässigkeit mit AUTOSAR • Zuverlässige Echtzeit-Betriebssysteme • Zuverlässige Integration von modellbasierten Architekturen mit regelungstechnischen Werkzeugen • Betriebssicherheit und Manipulationsschutz von Firmware und Software im Fahrzeug • Verlässliche Aktualisierungsverfahren • Zuverlässigkeit und Sicherheit bei Ferndiagnose und Fernwartung von Fahrzeugen • Sichere Steuerungs- und Kommunikationssysteme (X-by-Wire, Bussysteme, Bluetooth, WLAN etc.) • Nutzungs-, Bewegungsprofile und Datenschutz • Fortschritte bei Normen und Standardisierungen • Werkzeuge zur Verbesserung der Zuverlässigkeit im Automotive Software Life Cycle • Zuverlässigkeitsaspekte kognitiver Fahrerassistenzsysteme • Zuverlässigkeit von Multi-Core-Architekturen Termine: 16. Juni 2008 Einreichung der Beiträge (erweiterte Kurzfassung, Vollfassung bevorzugt) 15. Juli 2008 Benachrichtigung über Annahme 5. Sept.2008 Eingang Druckvorlage der Langfassung des Beitrags (max. 15 Seiten) Einreichung der Beiträge und Kurzfassungen: Einreichung der Beiträge (erweiterte Kurzfassung, Vollfassung bevorzugt) bitte nur per E-Mail an: beitrag(a)automotive2008.de Format der schriftlichen Fassung: RTF Format, max. 15 Seiten, Schriftgröße 12 pt, Layout nach Richtlinien des Shaker Verlags, siehe http://www.automotive2008.de Tagungsbericht: Die wissenschaftlichen Beiträge der Tagung werden als Fachbericht im Shaker Verlag in der Reihe Softwaretechnik publiziert. Programmkomitee: Gemeinsamer Vorsitz: Hubert B. Keller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Erhard Plödereder, Universität Stuttgart Gerhard Beck, Rohde Schwarz SIT GmbH, Nellmersbach Carsten Böckmann, Volvo Gothenburg, Schweden Manfred Broy, TU München Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Dirk Dickmanns, EADS, Ottobrunn Simon Fürst, BMW AG, München Günter Glöe, TÜV Nord, Hamburg Peter Göhner, Universität Stuttgart Klaus Grimm, Daimler AG, Sindelfingen Karl-Erwin Großpietsch, FG FERS, St. Augustin Albert Held, Daimler AG, Ulm Thomas Kropf, Robert Bosch GmbH, Leonberg Sergio Montenegro, DLR, Bremen Isabel Münch, BSI, Bonn Kai Rannenberg, J. W. Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt/Main Hans-Christian Reuss, Universität Stuttgart Francesca Saglietti, F.-A.-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg Christian Scheidler, Daimler AG, Berlin Jörn Schneider, Robert Bosch, Schwieberdingen Claus Stellwag, 3Soft GmbH, Erlangen Hans-Jörg Wolff, ETAS GmbH, Stuttgart Die Tagung Automotive 2008 wird das technische Programm mit eingeladenen Hauptvorträgen umfassen. Eine Ausstellung zu Werkzeugen zur Softwareentwicklung für das Automobil wird die Tagung begleiten (Kontakt unter: ausstellung(a)automotive2008.de). Aktuelle Informationen zur Tagung finden Sie unter: http://www.automotive2008.de/ Veranstalter: Gesellschaft für Informatik mit den Fachgruppen Ada, ASE, ENCRESS, EZQN; VDI/VDE-Gesellschaft Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik mit dem FA 5.11 ES; TÜV Nord; Ada Deutschland. Organisation: Katharina Ade, Peter Dencker, ETAS GmbH; Hubert B. Keller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dr. Peter Dencker Sprecher FG Ada ETAS GmbH Borsigstr. 14 70469 Stuttgart Phone +49 711 89661-375

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[Tccc] *SUBMISSION EXTENSION*: IEEE QoISN'08: QoI for Sensor Networks
by Chatschik Bisdikian 08 May '08

08 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Registration Date: May 20, 2008 (150 word abstract) Submission Date: May 25, 2008 (6 pages) Author notification: July 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------- QoISN: First IEEE Workshop on Quality of Information (QoI) for Sensor Networks ------------------------------------------- September 29 - October 2, 2008 Atlanta, Georgia [in conjunction with the: Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2008)] Workshop co-chairs: Chatschik Bisdikian IBM T.J. Watson Research Center bisdik(a)us.ibm.com James P. Richardson and Vicraj Thomas Honeywell Labs {james.p.richardson, vic.thomas}(a)honeywell.com http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/qoisn.htm ------------------------------------------- In the dynamic, ad-hoc world envisaged for wireless sensor networks, the notion of the quality of information (QoI) produced by the network will be key to bringing together data capturing and information processing systems to support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring. QoI, broadly speaking, represents a level of confidence that may be placed on information. It touches every part of the end-to-end flow of sensor-derived information, from the sensors themselves and the observation data they produce to the various fusion layers that process these data and eventually to the applications (and their users) that use them. The objective of the QoISN Workshop is to foster constructive discussions among researchers from academic, industrial and governmental institutions for formalizing the science of QoI for sensor networks. We seek novel contributions covering all aspects of QoI for sensor network, including: - Formal QoI characterization and representation; - QoI performance metrics and estimation techniques; - Sensor fault analysis and sensor data cleansing and their impact on QoI; - QoI-aware networking; - Security, privacy, and data provenance and their impact on QoI; - QoI driven data fusion; - QoI calculus, brokering, and trade-off analysis; - QoI-driven system design; - QoI impact at the application level (e.g., detection-based decision making - and surveillance analysis) Paper preparation/submission details: Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-space, two-column format using at least 10 point size type. The maximum page limit is 6 pages. Papers deemed outside the scope of the Workshop or longer than 6 pages will be administratively disqualified. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and published by IEEE. The paper must be correctly formatted to fit on U.S. "letter" size page (8.5" by 11") with at least 1" margins on all 4 sides. Please use only standard fonts such as Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website. Paper submission is managed through EDAS ( http://www.edas.info/showConferenceDetails.php?c=6460&). All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Please submit your paper to EDAS. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. Following the convention of past MASS conferences, there will be NO workshop-only or workshop-specific registration. A full conference registration is needed and will include the ability to attend any workshop and regular conference session. ------------------------------------------- Important dates Paper registration (250 word abstract): May 20, 2008 (*** NEW ITEM***) Paper submission (6 pages): May 25, 2008 (*** NEW DATE***) Author notification: July 2, 2008 Camera ready: July 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------- The QoISN'08 Workshop Program Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Session on Wireless AdHoc Networks at the 5th IEEE Symposium on Swarm Intelligence
by Di Caro Gianni 08 May '08

08 May '08

**************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S **************************************************************** Special Session at the 5th IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 21-23, 2008 http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/?q=node/5 IMPORTANT DATES ***************** Paper submission: May 15, 2008 Notification: June 15, 2008 Camera-Ready: July 15, 2008 Conference: Sept 22-23, 2008 SCOPE ******* Wireless ad hoc networks are communication networks that consist entirely of wireless nodes, placed together in an ad hoc manner, i.e. with minimal planning. Nodes can enter or leave the network at any time, and may be mobile, so that the network topology continuously experiences alterations during deployment. Examples include: Wireless ad hoc networks pose substantially different challenges compared to more traditional communication networks: they are highly dynamic, have limited resources (in terms of bandwidth, computation power, battery, etc.), have a highly decentralized organization, rely on often unreliable wireless communication channels, etc. As a consequence, new algorithms and protocols are needed for all aspects of the organization of these networks. Swarm Intelligence methods seem particularly interesting in this context. This is because their ability to solve difficult tasks in a distributed and robust way using locally interacting simple agents fits closely to the typical environment created by an ad hoc network. In this special session, we solicit novel and interesting contributions in this area, with special reference to applications of Swarm Intelligence in the domain of: - Mobile ad hoc networks - Sensor networks - Networks of mobile robots Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Distributed medium access control using Swarm Intelligence - Swarm Intelligence routing protocols in ad hoc networks - Swarm Intelligence transport layer protocols in ad hoc networks - Swarm Intelligence for QoS provisioning - Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation through swarm intelligence - Off-line optimization for ad hoc networks through swarm intelligence - Comparisons between Swarm Intelligence and other algorithms for ad hoc networks - Implementation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in testbeds - Evaluation of Swarm Intelligence approaches in real-world settings SUBMISSION ************ Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than eight (8) pages including results, figures and references. Authors should submit their papers as PDF through the online submission system, which is available at: http://www.computelligence.org/SIS/2008/Sub/ The paper format is the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings and can be found at: http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.html A Microsoft Word version of the paper format can be found at: http://www.computelligence.org/sis/2008/paperform.doc ORGANIZERS ************ Anna Forster (University of Lugano, Switzerland), anna.egorova.foerster(a)lu.unisi.ch Frederick Ducatelle (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), frederick(a)idsia.ch Gianni Di Caro (IDSIA-SUPSI, Switzerland), gianni(a)idsia.ch Ganesh Venayagamoorthy, (Missouri U. of Science and Technology, USA), ganeshv(a)mst.edu ************************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] ACM Workshop on Network Data Anonimization: submission deadline approaching
by Elisa Boschi 08 May '08

08 May '08

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------- Network Data Anonymization (NDA) Workshop An ACM CCS workshop October 31, 2008 Alexandria, VA, USA http://www.ics.forth.gr/~antonat/nda08.html -------------------------------------------- Over the last decade, the network security community (and the Internet measurement community in general) has suffered from two fundamental and related problems: (1) a lack of "real" network data for research studies and prototype testing, and (2) a lack of network data sharing among organizations, which impedes cooperation in network defense; as attacks typically cross organizational boundaries, effective prevention requires defenders to look beyond their own perimeter in cooperation with other organizations. Anonymization techniques are crucial for the safe sharing of network data. They are necessary to obscure certain identifying information (e.g., IP addresses) in order to protect the privacy of end users and the security of internal networks. While current network data anonymization techniques are generally acknowledged to be useful, it is difficult to ensure they are free from information leakage. Also, anonymization involves fundamental tradeoffs between the protection of user privacy and the utility of the resulting data, and these tradeoffs need to be better understood. This workshop seeks to focus on new and innovative solutions for anonymizing network data that will ensure appropriate protection of host identities, network configurations, and network security practices within enterprise networks. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - data sharing via anonymization - privacy-preserving data mining - data anonymization tools - data anonymization policy creation/implementation - data anonymization case studies/best practices - streaming data anonymization - anonymization issues specific to network data - business services enabled by anonymization - data protection laws relevant to data anonymization Papers submitted documenting attacks on anonymized systems are strongly encouraged to propose a corresponding protection solution. While the focus of this workshop is on network data anonymization, applications of anonymization to other data domains ( e.g., medical data, homeland security, reputation systems, government records, transportation etc.) are welcome if the authors include a statement of relevance. ---------------- Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submissions due: Sunday, May 25, 2008 Author notification: Monday, July 7, 2008 Camera ready papers due: Sunday, August 10, 2008 Workshop at CCS '08: Friday, October 31, 2008 --------------------- Organizing Committee: --------------------- Bill Yurcik, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) [Program Chair] Spiros Antonatos, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Michele Bezzi, SAP Research (France) Elisa Boschi, Hitachi Europe (Switzerland) Brian Trammell, CERT/NetSA (USA) ---------------------------- Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Matthias Bossardt, KPMG (Switzerland) Nevil Brownlee, CAIDA/University of Auckland (New Zealand) KC Claffy, CAIDA/University of California San Diego (USA) Michael Collins, CERT/NetSA (USA) Marco Cremonini, University of Milan (Italy) Michalis Foukarakis, ICS-FORTH (Greece) Carrie Gates, CA Labs (USA) David Maltz, Microsoft (USA) John McHugh, Dalhousie University (Canada) Ruoming Pang, Google (USA) Stefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo (Italy) Dave Plonka, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA) Carsten Schmoll, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) Tim Shimeall, CERT/NetSA (USA) Panos Trimintzios, European Network and Information Security Agency (Greece) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Extended deadline IEEE WiVeC - 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications
by Sepulcre Ribes, Miguel 07 May '08

07 May '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers and Demos] FINAL EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE (papers and demos): 19th May 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'08) 21-22 September 2008, Calgary Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/> Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide, such as the European eSafety initiative, the US programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society has decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications, with the first issues planned to be co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After a successful first WiVeC edition in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/> ) with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the 21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVeC and VTC events. All accepted papers will be included in the VTC 2008-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine http://www.ieeevtm.org <http://www.ieeevtm.org/> Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (a maximum of five pages) through the conference web site. Topics of interest ------------------ The WiVec Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models. * Radio resource management and interference management. * Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations. * Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc) and their evalutation. * QoS and cross-layer optimization design. * Communications systems and technologies. * Testbeds and simulation platforms. * Interworking with sensor network technologies. * In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications. * Roadside infrastructure. * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models. * Digital maps and location technologies. * Decision and control issues. * Human-Machine Interface. * Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis etc.). * Security, liability and privacy. * Standards development, business models, policies (e.g., Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication). * Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety. * Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks. Regular Paper Submissions ------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ <http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/> Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (www.ieeevtm.org <http://www.ieeevtm.org/> ). Important Dates for regular papers ---------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 19th May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 7h June 2008 Camera-ready papers due (strict deadline): 14th June 2008 Call for Demos --------------- Together with the poster session, WiVeC will feature a demo session designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities, are encouraged. The submitted demo proposal should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages following the WiVeC paper format: 1. Title, authors and contact information. 2. Technical content to be demonstrated. 3. An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees. 4. Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information The authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a poster should also inform the demos chair. Demonstrations will be selected based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the demonstrated system. Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore and the Conference CDROM. Please note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a regular paper in IEEE WiVeC'08. Important Dates for Demos ------------------------- Demo Submission Deadline: 19th May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 7h June 2008 Camera-ready papers due (strict deadline): 14th June 2008

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[Tccc] CFP: Journal of High Speed Networks, Special Issue on QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
by Kemal Akkaya 07 May '08

07 May '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies. -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------- Journal of High Speed Networks Special Issue on QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks -------------------------------------------------------- Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) is a promising technology that offers solutions for low-cost broadband Internet access by extending the local area networks to wide area. Unlike mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, the mesh nodes in a WMN are stationary and have access to unlimited power. Typically, mobile clients connect to the mesh nodes and use the backbone to communicate with one another over large distances and with nodes on the Internet through a gateway. One of the distinct characteristics of WMNs is that the mesh nodes can employ multiple radios and utilize multiple channels which thereby bring a potential to improve the throughput and bandwidth of the network. In addition, directional and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas can be employed. Such technologies can be exploited for end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning that can be used to offer some level of service differentiation to facilitate multimedia/real-time data communication, Video on Demand, VoIP, etc. over WMNs. Prior research on QoS provisioning in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks has mostly addressed the challenges under the single channel paradigm. While the research community has recently started to study the QoS challenges in WMNs, the current focus has largely been on bandwidth guarantees for traffic going out of the WMN to the Internet via the gateway(s). Therefore, further research is needed to provide QoS guarantees for intra-WMN traffic not only on bandwidth but also on delay, delay jitter and reliability so that WMNs can be realized as a technology in the near future. The goal of this special issue is to collect papers in the area of QoS provisioning in multi-radio, multi-channel, multi-hop WMNs. We solicit papers which will address QoS challenges under multiple radios and channels, provide the foundation for applications such as Video on Demand, teleconferencing and VoIP, and deal with channel assignment and routing problems simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: - QoS routing with multiple radios/channels - Providing delay and delay jitter guarantees - Cross-layer design and optimization - Dynamic channel assignment with QoS routing - MIMO techniques for QoS provisioning - Handling mobility of mesh clients during QoS support - Performance analysis - Wireless mesh network testbed design and measurements - Fault-tolerance and QoS provisioning - Security and QoS provisioning - Utilization of cognitive radio for QoS provisioning - Centralized vs. distributed QoS algorithms Important Dates: - Manuscript Due: November 14, 2008 - Acceptance Notification: January 14, 2009 - Final Manuscript Due: February 4, 2009 Submission Guidelines: All submissions to the Journal must be in English and based on original research of some fundamental significance. The paper must not be published or submitted for publication elsewhere, although part of the paper may have been published in conference proceedings. A manuscript largely based on a conference paper must be so identified. It is expected that the author(s) have obtained necessary approval or clearance prior to submitting the paper. All submissions to the Journal will be reviewed by competent referees and are considered on the basis of their technical correctness, contribution, novelty, readability and usefulness to the Journal's readership. The font size should be at least 10 and the number of pages should not exceed 15. IEEE transaction style is preferable. Please send the papers in pdf format to kemal(a)cs.siu.edu with a title of Special Issue of Journal of High Speed Networks. Guest Editors: Kemal Akkaya Dept. of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale Carbondale, IL 62901 Email : kemal(a)cs.siu.edu Suleyman Uludag School Computer Science University of Michigan Flint Flint, MI 48502 Email : uludag(a)umflint.edu Ali Bicak Stradford University Falls Church, Virginia 22043 Email: bicakali(a)ieee.org -- Kemal Akkaya Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer Science Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 Tel: 618-453 60 54 Fax: 618-453 60 44 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: JCOMSS Special Issue - Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: JCOMSS Special Issue - Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks Datum: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:39:21 +0100 Von: Joel Rodrigues <joeljr(a)ieee.org> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP Special Issue on* Medical Applications for Wireless Sensor Networks* (_http://lab405.fesb.hr/jcomss/index.php?call=1_) ** JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS (_http://lab405.fesb.hr/jcomss/index.php_) Submission deadline: June 1, 2008 Guest Editors: Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (_joeljr(a)ieee.org_ <mailto:joeljr@ieee.org>) Farid Farahmand, Central Connecticut State University, USA (_farahmandfar(a)ccsu.edu_ <mailto:farahmandfar@ccsu.edu>) Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France (_lorenz(a)ieee.org_ <mailto:lorenz@ieee.org>) Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play an important role in medical diagnosis and patient monitoring. New wireless sensors and medical devices continue to be developed to create safer health care environments. The rapid growth of using such devices and technologies in medical fields has created new opportunities and applications. However, enormous challenges still remain to be resolved in order to develop flexible, reliable, secure, and power-efficient networks suitable for medical needs. High-quality, original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue. Authors wishing to submit papers should send an electronic version (PDF or postscript file only) with a separate cover letter containing the paper title, authors with affiliations, and up to 200 words abstract, to one of the Guest Editors. Topics include, but not limited to, the following: • /Biomedical Sensors and Systems / • /Biotelemetry / • /Biosurveillance Systems and Applications / • /Body Sensor Networks / • /Clinical Biofeedback / • /Communications Protocols and Architectures / • /e-Health / • /Embedded Computing Systems / • /Medical Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing / • /MicroElectricoMechanical Systems (MEMS) / • /Mobile Applications / • /Modeling and Simulation / • /Performance Evaluation / • /Real-time Systems / • /Security and Privacy / • /Telemedicine / • /Weareable Sensors and Systems / • /Wireless Sensor Networks / // Best regards, Joel Rodrigues __________________________________________________ Joel Rodrigues PhD, MSc, Eng, IEEE Senior Member. Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior Rua Marques d'Avila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilha, Portugal

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP - ROIA Workshop at Euro-Par 2008 - Abstract Deadline May 19th
by Frank Glinka 07 May '08

07 May '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 **************************************************** Call For Papers: * Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID * on the 25th of August 2008 * at Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island/Spain * August 26-29, 2008 * Submission Deadline (Abstract): May 19, 2008 * URL: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia *************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************** Workshop on Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID at the Euro-Par 2008, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island/Spain, August 26-29, 2008 http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia Through recent advancements in network technology, graphics cards, and displays a new type of applications - real-time online interactive applications (ROIAs) - has become more and more popular. Everyday life has been affected and transformed not only by the use of web technology, but also by collaborative multimedia applications, networked computer games, cooperative scientific visualisations, networked virtual environments and real-time graphical displays. Users dislocated all over the globe are enabled to work with a variety of tools and graphical user interfaces to communicate and jointly solve problems using sophisticated graphical interfaces. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is a hot topic which will most likely increase the impact on ROIAs. The grid and its technologies is known to provide a sophisticated basis for ROIAs and collaborative work. This event encourages paper submissions concerning the application and usage of real-time online Gird applications, as well as the technologies supporting them in scientific and industrial context. Authors are expected to emphasize the benefits of their real-time online applications for human users with focus on up-to-date characteristics of hard-, soft and middleware aspects. This workshop offers the possibility to discuss the different approaches Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID and supportive technologies, to show the latest results, products, or research prototypes to potential users, and to establish connections between developers and users of associated technologies. The following areas and related topics are of interest: * Interactive grid tools and environments * Development of associated parallel and distributed computing solutions * Integration of networking and grid computing technology * Gaming approaches on the Grid * Approaches using novel interaction techniques * E-learning applications using Grid technology * Requirement studies for future Grid tools * Evaluation of existing ROIAs and practical experiences Paper Submission: -------------------- We invite you to submit an extended abstract of 1 page (A4), describing new and original results, for oral presentation. Submission implies the willingness of one of the authors to register and present the described work. After the presentation at the workshop a paper for the workshop proceedings is to be prepared by the authors. The submitted paper must already be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of LNCS (Springer Verlag). Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages in Springer LNCS format (excluding references and appendices). Please follow the ROIA 2008 guidelines http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia for more information on paper submission. Please include a cover page which lists the following: * name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of each author * name of the presenting author; name of the contact author * a maximum of 5 keywords Submission details will be available on the webserver at: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia Proceedings: ------------ The proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and distributed to all participants who paid their attendance fees for the workshop. Important Dates (provisional): ------------------------------ May 19th, 2008 - Submission of the abstract May 26th, 2008 - Acceptance notification for presentation June 2nd, 2008 - Registration deadline August 25, 2008 - ROIA Workshop August 26-29, 2008 - Euro-Par Conference October 1st, 2008 - Submission deadline for the final paper October 15th, 2008 - Acceptance notification for the final paper October 31st, 2008 - Submission of camera ready version Executive Committee: -------------------- Christoph Anthes (1), Thomas Fahringer (2), Dieter Kranzlmueller (1) (1) GUP Linz (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing) Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria (2) Institute for Computer Science University of Innsbruck, Austria Program Committee: ------------------ Alexis Aragon Darkworks S.A., France Damjan Ceric Amis d.o.o, Slovenia Justin Ferris IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, UK Frank Glinka Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany Sergei Gorlatch Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany Roland Landertshamer GUP - Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria Mark Lidstone BMT Cordah Ltd., UK Arton Lipaj Amis d.o.o, Slovenia Jens Müller-Iden Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany Vlad Nae Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria Alexander Ploss Institute of Computer Science, University of Münster, Germany Radu Prodan Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria Christopher Rawlings BMT Cordah Ltd., UK Mike Surridge IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, UK Jens Volkert GUP - Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing, Joh. Kepler University Linz, Austria Contact Information: -------------------- Christoph Anthes eMail: roia(a)gup.jku.at URL: http://www.gup.uni-linz.ac.at/roia GUP Linz (Institute of Graphics and Parallel Processing) Johannes Kepler University of Linz A-4040 Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, Austria/Europe Telephone: (+43) 732 2468 8884 Facsimile: (+43) 732 2468 9496 or (+43) 732 2468 10 *************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************** **************************************************** ** 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: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine - Automotive Networking Series]
by Lars Wolf 07 May '08

07 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine - Automotive Networking Series Datum: Wed, 7 May 2008 10:11:49 -0400 (EDT) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for Multiple Copies *********************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Automotive Networking Series Issue 2 (Manuscript submission due date: May 16, 2008) http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommagautomotiveseries.htm ************************************************************ The series on Automotive Networking is published twice a year, with issues appearing in May and November. The Automotive Networking series is created to address the growing importance in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. Such importance led to allocation of new spectrum for this kind of communications and creation of R&D partnerships among governments, highway authorities, automobile manufacturers, and the academy community. The Automotive Networking series invites manuscript submissions in the areas of: > Automotive networking applications, service creation and management > Automotive networks and system architectures > Physical and link layer technologies for V2V / V2I communications > Networking technologies for V2V / V2I communications (routing, multicast, mobility management, etc.) > Security and privacy technologies for V2V / V2I communications > Network management of automotive networking > Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for automotive networking > Experimental systems and testbeds for vehicular communications > Emerging standards in automotive networking All submissions are peer reviewed to ensure that only the highest-quality original articles are published. Submitted articles should be written in a clear, concise language and at a level suitable for practicing engineers engaged in the design, development, and application of products, systems and networks. The length of the article should not exceed six magazine pages (approximately 4500 words), should not contain more than six to eight graphics / tables / photographs, and should not include more than 15 references. Manuscripts must be submitted through the magazines submissions Web site at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ On the Manuscript Details page please click on the drop-down menu to select Automotive Networking Series Important Dates: Manuscript Submission Due: May 16, 2008 Acceptance Notification: July 21, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2008 Editors: Dr. Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies wchen(a)research.telcordia.com Dr. Luca Delgrossi Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America Dr. Timo Kosch BMW Group Research and Technology Dr. Tadao Saito Toyota InfoTechnology Center _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Secure Multimedia Communication (deadline: 30 May)
by Yan ZHANG 07 May '08

07 May '08

[Apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Wiley Journal: Security and Communication Network (SCN) Call for Paper Special Issue: Secure Multimedia Communication Background ========== With the rapid progress in information technology and an enormous amount of media appearing over Internet, e.g. text, audio, speech, music, image and video, guaranteeing information security is becoming increasingly important. Several pivotal challenges include copyright protection, integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in multimedia communication has attracted intensive research activities in academia, industry and also government. Multimedia data like images, audios or videos are different from plain text. They are often of large volumes and are compressed in order to save the storage cost and bandwidth. Due to such requirement and property, the media protection mechanisms for images, audios or videos are significantly different from the ones for text or binary data. With the recent advances in network and multimedia technology, the applications in commercial scenario become increasing crucial. There is an increasing trend in the multimedia content distribution from the central service provider to the individuals, e.g. video-on-demand, IPTV and p2p sharing. In these applications, piracy is becoming a critical issue. Solutions are needed to protect the copyright of multimedia content. During the past decades, schemes have been reported for secure multimedia communication, e.g., key management, multimedia encryption, authentication, digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, access control and digital rights management. These techniques are able to protect multimedia content's confidentiality, integrity, ownership, traitor traceability. In addition, in different networks such as Internet, 3G wireless, DVB-H and p2p, different secure protocols and algorithms are required to provide the system security. All these topics are in active development. This special issue aims to expose the readership of SCN to the latest research results on secure multimedia communication. The issue focuses on secure transmission or distribution of multimedia content. Topics ======== Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: · Copyright techniques · Digital rights management for multimedia · Secure multimedia transcoding in communication · Secure media streaming · Secure multimedia content sharing in P2P network · Broadcast encryption and authentication · Security in multimedia message sending · Security in mobile TV · Security in IPTV · Attacks and prevention in multimedia communication · Secure multimedia broadcasting over wireless networks · Secure multimedia broadcasting over IEEE 802.x families · Secure multimedia over multi-hop networks, e.g. Ad hoc network, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks · Hardware Implementations of secure multimedia techniques · Low-power Architectures for portable appliances Submission Procedures ===================== Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submissions of both indepth research papers and review/application-oriented papers are encouraged. All submissions should be done in Wiley’s manuscript central whose web link is http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn. For more detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the journal home page at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. When submitting the papers, the authors should make sure to choose the manuscript type as ‘Special Issue,’ enter the ‘Running Head,’ and the ‘Special Issue title’ as ‘SCN-SI-002’ and ‘Multimedia Security,’ respectively. Schedule ======== · Manuscript Due: May 30, 2008 · Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2008 · Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2008 · Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2009 Guest Editors: ============== Shiguo Lian France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China Email: shiguo.lian(a)orange-ftgroup.com Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: parkjonghyuk1(a)hotmail.com Paris Kitsos Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece Email: pkitsos(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] 2nd CFP PhD-NOW'08
by Srdjan Krco 07 May '08

07 May '08

---------------------------------------------------------- International PhD Workshop on Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks PhD-NOW'08 (http://www.senzations.net/phd-nowworkshop) To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on AdHOC Networks and Wireless Ad Hoc - NOW 2008 (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/workshop.html) September 10-12, 2008, Sophia Antipolis, France ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The PhD-NOW seminar aims to provide a friendly and supportive atmosphere where PhD students can present their ongoing research for an open discussion, get constructive feedback and learn what problems are being tackled by the fellow students. More importantly, it also provides a venue for all participants to "network" with their peers and established networks researchers, obtain valuable guidance tips and participate in a forum designed specifically to benefit graduate students. We particularly encourage PhD students from the EU convergence regions and Western Balkan countries to take part in the workshop. The seminar is supported by the FP7 PROSENSE project. Applicants should be far enough into their PhD to have a concrete proposal, and have initially outlined the most important issues and proposed research methodology. Selected abstracts will appear in the AdHOC-NOW proceedings. Comprehensive surveys of the state-of-the-art in relevant technologies are also encouraged. Format The PhD workshop will be a one-day, seminar-style event, consisting of short presentations followed by roundtable discussions. Time will be allotted to each student for the presentation, and for the following in-depth consideration and discussion. Submission Topics of interest are the same as those for the main conference (http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/index.html). All submissions should comply with the following guidelines: 1. A research summary (2-3 pages) describing the work in progress, and including a 100 word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and results so far. 2. Student's CV, including the names and affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of dissertation submission The research summary and biographical sketch should be prepared according to the formatting instruction at the LNCS web site. All submissions should be submitted as PDF files. Submissions should be submitted using the EasyChair conference management system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phdnow2008). All research summaries will be reviewed. Time table Manuscript Submission: May 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2008 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2008 Workshop: September 13, 2008 Workshop co-chairs Dr Srdjan Krco, Ericsson Ireland Research Centre Dr Konrad Wrona, NATO C3 Agency Program committee (tentative) Prof. Sotiris Nikoletseas (CTI Patras) Prof. Antoine Fraboulet (INSA de Lyon) Prof. Veljko Milutinovic (University of Belgrade) Prof. Liljana Gavrilovska (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje) Dr. Roman Trobec (JSI Ljubljana) Prof. Krzysztof Szczypiorski (WUT Warsaw) Dr. Vlasios Tsiatsis (Ericsson Research Sweden) Dr. Alex Gluhak (Ericsson Ireland Research Centre) Prof. Neeli Prasad (University of Aalborg) Prof. Dirk Pesch (CIT Cork) __________________________________________________ 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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[KuVS ELG] PiK Service Oriented Computing CfP
by Kurt Geihs 07 May '08

07 May '08

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation Fachzeitschrift für den Einsatz von Informationssystemen SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE A recent trend in software and enterprise engineering is Service-oriented Computing (SOC), which can be used to design and develop complex and distributed systems. The core concept of SOC is a "service", a self-describing encapsulation of domain-specific functionalities. Business processes and applications supporting SOC can be built based on compositions of distributed and loosely coupled services. SOC relies heavily on existing open Internet standards and protocols like HTTP and XML (e.g., Web services), which allow easy integration and cost-effective adoption of SOC using an existing infrastructure. Currently, it can be observed that SOC-related technologies and approaches become more and more mature and widespread, both in research and in real-life projects. Therefore, this special issue of the PIK magazine covers ongoing research as well as reports from SOC projects in the industry. AREAS OF INTEREST Topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Service management ** Service lifecycle management ** QoS and SLA management ** Service monitoring ** Service rating ** Business protocols * Semantic support for SOC ** Service specifications and enhancements ** Service modeling ** Semantic services and service ontologies ** Autonomous & intelligent agents for SOC ** Interoperability and integration of external services * Service composition and workflows ** Service discovery and delivery ** Matchmaking and resource allocation ** Orchestration and choreography * Service integration ** Enterprise Service Bus ** Service repositories ** SOC and virtualization * SOC security, privacy & trust * Service engineering ** Models, methodologies, and tools ** Dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration ** Evaluation, validation and testing ** Implementation and deployment technologies ** Governance of service-based systems ** Formal methods for SOC * Standardization for SOC * Service-based applications (e.g., Grid and utility computing, software as a service) IMPORTANT INFORMATION The submission should cover about 6 pages (one page of the PIK equals 6000 characters excluding figures). Both German and English language submissions will be accepted for review. All papers will be reviewed double-blind. Please use the EasyChair Conference Management System to submit your papers: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=piksoc2008 * Submission deadline: 2008-06-27 * Notification of acceptance: 2008-08-01 * Submission of camera-ready version: 2008-09-05 SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS Nicolas Repp, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Multimedia Communications Lab (KOM), repp(at)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de Sebastian Hudert, Universität Bayreuth, Wirtschaftsinformatik (BWL VII), sebastian.hudert(at)uni-bayreuth.de -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs T. +49 561 804-6275 F. +49 561 804-6277 -- Univ. Kassel, FB 16, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, D-34121 Kassel ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Konferenz KiVS'09 in Kassel 02.-06.03.2009 www.kivs09.de ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)nets.rwth-aachen.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Tccc] CHANTS 2008 Call for Demos
by Katia Obraczka 06 May '08

06 May '08

Apologies for the multiple postings. Katia Obraczka UC Santa Cruz CHANTS'08 Demo Chair ============== Call for Demos Third Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2008) Co-located with Mobicom 2008, 15 September 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop URI: http://wavedesk.usc.edu/chants/ Important Dates: Demo submission deadline: 5 June 2008 Demo acceptance notification: 16 June 2008 Camera-ready due: 29 June 2008 Workshop date: 15 September 2008 Challenged networks are characterized by a heterogeneous mix of nodes and widely varying network conditions. Nodes in today's challenged networks often include mobile nodes, space-based nodes, sensor/actuator nodes and other devices. Performance of the network paths interconnecting such nodes can be highly varying in terms of bandwidth, latency, disruption characteristics and security requirements. Conventional Internet access in performance-limited environments such as developing countries can also be regarded as challenged networks as can be ad-hoc communication between personal devices. The Internet protocol architecture suffers some problems when used in a challenged network setting. For example, when disconnection and reconnection is common or link performance is highly variable or extreme, one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop following CHANTS 2007, CHANTS 2006 and WDTN 2005, we wish to explore ongoing efforts in dealing with physical networks that operate significantly differently from wired, connected networks and the protocol architectures and algorithms used to deal with such situations. Techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are also in scope. CHANTS 2008 Demonstration Program offers an excellent way to showcase to attendees from academia and industry tangible results from research and development in the exciting area of challenged networks. Demos have the ability to communicate ideas and concepts in a very powerful way. We invite you to contribute your vision and experience with challenged networks to CHANTS 2008 Demonstration Program. Demo proposals shall present recent practical results from the area of challenged networks. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable, too. Accepted demonstration abstracts will be published in the Conference proceedings. Topics: Characterization of performance-challenged networks e.g. measurements, modelling. Networking systems operating over unusual/challenged networks. Protocol design and evaluation of operations over challenged networks. System architecture and design for challenged networks. Applications in challenged networks. Robust network application design and implementation techniques. Delay tolerant and disruption tolerant networks (DTN). Configuration and management of challenged networks. Format and submission instructions: Demo proposal abstracts (to be published as part of the proceedings) shall not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements. Submitted abstracts should be formatted in two columns, with characters no smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. Demo proposals should be sent as a pdf e-mail attachment to chants08-demo(a)inrg.soe.ucsc.edu. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: WICON 2008: Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 06 May '08

06 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WICON 2008: Call For Papers Datum: Mon, 5 May 2008 15:54:56 -0400 Von: Tommaso Melodia <tmelodia(a)ENG.BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Tommaso Melodia <tmelodia(a)ENG.BUFFALO.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ***** WICON 2008 ***** The Fourth Annual International Wireless Internet Conference November 17-19, 2008 Maui, Hawaii, USA http://www.wicon.org Sponsored by CREATE-NET and ICST In cooperation with ACM Sigmobile. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of ACM MOBILE NETWORKS and APPLICATIONS (MONET). ********************************************************************** Wireless Internet is quickly emerging as a reality, thanks to the fast evolution of many wireless access technologies. Convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet further brings wireless Internet into a variety of application scenarios which provide mobile users with a wide range of highly demanding services, such as high speed data and real-time multimedia delivery. On the other hand, it is of critical importance to obtain a fundamental understanding of wireless Internet architectures and explore new services and solutions in order to achieve the ultimate goal of wireless Internet access anytime anywhere. The Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) will continue to serve as a premier international forum to discuss novel research results related to the emerging Wireless Internet. WICON 2008 is soliciting both academic research and industry practice papers. Papers solicited in the WICON 2008 span a wide range of areas of interest including but not limited to: Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Networks ============================================== * Convergence and interworking of heterogeneous wireless networks * Vertical handoff and seamless roaming * Mobile P2P networking, systems, and applications * Next generation Internet services and applications Cross-layer Design and Optimization =================================== * Clean-slate wireless Internet architecture * Interaction among PHY/MAC, routing, and congestion control * PHY-aware wireless scheduling * QoS provisioning of Multimedia wireless networks Wireless Access Technologies ============================ * WLANs, WiMAX, satellite, 3G and Beyond * QoS management and traffic modeling * Algorithm design and performance analysis Multi-hop Wireless Networks =========================== * Wireless sensor networks * Mobile ad hoc networks * Wireless mesh networks Emerging Technologies and Applications ====================================== * Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) * Cognitive radio networks * Bio-inspired networks * Context-aware mobile networking * Wireless body area networks (WBANs), tele-medicine/e-health networks Network Security ================ * Architectural support for security * Security, privacy, and dependability issues * Security in cooperative networks Wireless Internet Platforms and Software ======================================== * Testbeds and simulation tools * Middleware, operating system, and programming languages * Experimental measurements SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: ======================== Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through the COCUS system: http://www.cocus.eu. The page limit is 9 pages in ACM double column format with fonts not smaller than 10 points. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Submission deadline: July 15, 2008 23:59 (Central European Time) Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera-ready version: October 15, 2008 Workshop proposal due: July 1, 2008 Notification date: July 15, 2008 Panel proposal due: September 1, 2008 Notification date: September 15, 2008 WORKSHOPS: ========== Proposals for workshops should be submitted to the Workshop Chair at farkas(a)inf.nyme.hu. The evaluation of the workshop proposals will be based on the expertise and experience of the instructors, and on the relevance of the subject matter. PANELS: ======= Proposals for panel discussions that focus on the next generation wireless Internet are encouraged. Potential panel organizers should submit a panel proposal directly to the Panel Co-Chairs at knightly(a)ece.rich.edu and linx(a)ecn.purdue.edu. INDUSTRY PRACTICE PAPERS: ========================= Industry papers that highlight experiments/testbeds and demonstrate the successful implementation of recent or on-going research work are welcome. The topics of industry papers can be from any of the 7 listed tracks. Submitted industry papers will be assigned to the Industry Chair for review. For more information, please contact Industry Chair at jing.z.zhu(a)intel.com. INVITED PAPERS: =============== WICON 2008 will include a number of invited papers from distinguished researchers with impressive outcomes on various advanced research topics or cutting-edge techniques. B2B EVENT: ========== An industry B2B event will be co-located with WICON 2008. The B2B event will include invited talks by industry/technology leaders, business and product presentations, as well as exhibitions and demos. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ness Shroff Ohio State University, USA Xudong Wang Kiyon Inc., USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: ---------------------------- Junshan Zhang Arizona State University, USA Sanjay Shakkottai University of Texas-Austin, USA Jiang (Linda) Xie Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA Steering Committee Chair: ------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy Industry Chair: --------------- Jing Zhu Intel Research Labs, USA Workshop Chair: --------------- Karoly Farkas University of West Hungary, Hungary Panel Co-Chairs: ------------ Edward Knightly Rice University, USA Xiaojun Lin Purdue University, USA Publicity Chair: ---------------- Tommaso Melodia State Univ. of New York-Buffalo, USA Gyorgy Dan KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Azman O. Lim NICT, Japan Publication Chair: ------------------ Atilla Eryilmaz Ohio State University, USA Local Arrangement Chair: ------------------------ Yingbin Liang University of Hawaii, USA Conference Chair: ----------------- Dorothy Bany ICST Web Chair: ---------- Ping Zhou Qualcomm, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.wicon.org -------------------------------------------------------- Tommaso Melodia Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering State University of New York at Buffalo Office: 215G Bonner Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 Tel: (716) 645-3115 ext. 1147 Email: tmelodia(a)eng.buffalo.edu Web: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~tmelodia/ -------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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[Mycolleagues] IEEE WNM 2008
by Anura Jayasumana 05 May '08

05 May '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies Anura P. Jayasumana <http://www.engr.colostate.edu/%7Eanura> Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 Phone: (970) 491-7855 Fax: (970) 491-2249 Email: <Anura.Jayasumana(a)Colostate.edu> _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] [ACM PE-WASUN 2008]: Call for Paper
by Isabelle Guerin-Lassous 05 May '08

05 May '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2008 5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 11th ACM MSWiM Symposium) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun08 Vancouver, CANADA 27-31 October, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Yasunori Owada Space-Time Engineering Inc., Japan Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Chiara Petrioli University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Samuel Pierre Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted via OpenConf on the following link: http://pe-wasun08.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/openconf/openconf.php. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: May 20th, 2008 Full paper due: June 1st, 2008 Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: IEEE MeshTech 2008 - deadline extended to May 24, 2008
by Enzo Mingozzi 05 May '08

05 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO ***** MAY 24, 2008 (11:59pm EDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS MeshTech 2008 Second IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech08 co-located with IEEE MASS 2008 sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing, IEEE TC on Simulation, and IEEE TC on Computer Communication September 29, 2008 Atlanta, GA, USA Wireless mesh networks are emerging as a key technology for next generation wireless networking. A wireless mesh network is characterized by dynamic self - organization, self-configuration and self-healing, which allow it for easy and fast, highly scalable, reliable and cost- effective network deployment under very diverse environments, and provision of better coverage and capacity to stationary and mobile users. Because of this, wireless mesh networks have not only become a hot topic in the research community, but are also experiencing a very fast deployment in many today's environments, such as public city-wide broadband WiFi networks, rural networks, private neighbourhood communities, or private business networks that are characterized by frequent topology changes, cabling troubles, or hard environmental conditions. Triggered by these fast advances in both research and industry communities, several standardization bodies have started working on specifying recognized protocols and architectures for interoperable WMNs, including both the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (inside the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX, the IEEE 802.11s, the IEEE 802. and the IEEE 802.15.5 Working Groups) and the IETF in the context of wireless access and mobility support in Next Generation Internet (inside, e.g., the MIPSHOP, NETLMM and MANET Working Groups). However, it is still to be fully understood what technological challenges these standardization efforts have to face, how they will evolve, and what application scenarios will be able to drive their possible success. Building on the success of the last year event, MeshTech 2008 aims at bringing together again practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to discuss the recent advances and future evolution of next generation mobile mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies and standards. Within the scope of wireless mesh networks, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Routing protocols - Medium access control protocols - Quality of Service and fairness provisioning - Mesh networks configuration and management - Topology discovery, association and control - Mesh networks measurement - Mobility management - Interworking in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks - Coexistence with existing wireless infrastructures - Security architectures, functions and protocols - Performance evaluation - Comparative study of competing solutions - Cross-layer design and optimization - Advanced antenna technologies - Cognitive and frequency-agile radios - Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by May 24, 2008, 11:59pm EDT. You can find detailed submission instructions at http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech08/submission.html. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings of IEEE MASS 2008 and published by the IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission Due: May 24, 2008 (11:59pm EDT). ** EXTENDED ** Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: July 18, 2008. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. Xudong Wang, Kiyon Inc., USA. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy. Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy. Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany. Lars Berlemann, Deutsche Telekom, Germany. Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy. Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland. Antonio Capone, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy. Javier Cardona, Cozy Bit, USA. Aik Chindapol, Nokia Siemens Networks, USA. Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy. Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy. Dee Denteneer, Philips Research, The Netherlands. Donald Eastlake, Motorola, USA. Steve Emeott, Motorola, USA. Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary. Frank Fitzek, University of Aalborg, Denmark. Susan Hares, NextHop, USA. Guido Hiertz, RWTH Aachen, Germany. Kyeong Soo Kim, Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK. Jarkko Kneckt, Nokia Research Center, Finland. Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea. Myung J. Lee, City University of New York, City College, USA. Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy. Azman Osman Lim, NICT, Japan. Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland. Sebastian Max, RWTH Aachen, Germany. Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy. Mitsuo Nohara, KDDI Corporation, Japan. Alexander Safonov, Russian Academy of Science, Russia. Kazuyuki Sakoda, Sony Corporation, Japan. Vasilios Siris, University of Crete/FORTH-ICS, Greece. Hideyuki Suzuki, Sony, Japan. Rakesh Taori, Samsung, South Korea. Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund, Germany. Yunpeng Zang, RWTH Aachen, Germany.

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[Tccc] CHANTS 2008 Call for Demos
by Katia Obraczka 04 May '08

04 May '08

The Third Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS 2008) co-located with Mobicom 2008 will include a Demo Session which will provide an excellent way to showcase to attendees from academia and industry tangible results from research and development in the exciting area of challenged networks. The Call fo Demos is attached and important dates are as follows: Demo submission deadline: 5 June 2008 Demo acceptance notification: 16 June 2008 Camera-ready due: 29 June 2008 Workshop date: 15 September 2008 We look forward to receiving your submission. Katia Obraczka UC Santa Cruz CHANTS08 Demo 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 WiMob 2008 (AVIGNON: Palace of the Popes)
by Mieso Denko 04 May '08

04 May '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | WiMob'2008 | | | | 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on | | Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Avignon, FRANCE October 12-14, 2008 http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. ~ WiMob08 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob08 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montral (QC), Canada in 2005 and 2006 and the last one in New York, USA in 2007. Best papers award and travel grants * 1 X Student best paper award for full time student * 1 X Best paper award * 2 X Travel grant for students from outside Europe: To apply, you must be student from outside EU. The application will be open on EDAS. The committee will review your applications and will award the grants to the students deserving as regards the social aspects, the recommendation of the PhD supervisor, the interest for the student to attend the conference and the quality of the paper. Special issues of Journals Conjointly with WiMob 2008, Special Issues (SI) of journals will be organized and launched (the detail is coming soon). The call of these SI will be open to all public. However, we invite a certain number of original and technically sound papers (selected by the TPC co-chairs and following the reviewing process) to be improved and submitted to a designated SI. Social Event: Dinner and dancing Cruise IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Abstract submission due: May 6, 2008 Paper submission due: May 16, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2008 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2008 This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedia over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. Seven Workshops are organized conjointly with WiMob 2008 on 12 October: 1. Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications 2. Broadband Wireless Internet Access 3. Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments 4. Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS 5. Context-awareness and User Interfaces for Professional Applications of Mobile and Wearable Computing 6. War & Peace Driving: Wireless Security and Public Uptake 7. Simulators for Wireless Networks For more information, please visit the web page: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/index.php?id=612 ----------------------------- WiMoB'08 CONFERENCE COMMITEES ----------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Abderrahim BENSLIMANE University of Avignon, France STEERING COMMITTEE Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Samuel Pierre, %cole Polytechnique de Montral, Canada Do Van Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Guy Pujolle, university of Paris 6, France FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Christine Nora, IEEE France Section, Christophe Pruvost, University of Avignon TPC CO-CHAIRS Chadi Assi, CIISE, University of Concordia, Montral, Canada Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ronald Beaubrun, Universit Laval, Canada Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Congduc Pham, University of Pau, France EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada CONTACT INFORMATION Abderrezak Rachedi, University of Avignon abderrezak.rachedi(at)univ-avignon.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Tccc] IEEE SASO 2008 - Abstracts due May 5, Papers due May 12
by Gupta, Indranil 02 May '08

02 May '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies.) ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd IEEE International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO 2008) Venice, Italy, October 20-24, 2008 www.saso-conference.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic System (Note: The First IEEE SASO in 2007 had an acceptance rate of 20%.) The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications. The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self- organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. A challenge is often to identify how to change specific behaviors to achieve the desired improvement. Self-organizing systems work bottom up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to typically simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions. Here, a challenge is often to predict and control the resulting global behavior. This year's edition is specifically focused at improving our understanding of the properties inherent to self-adaptation and self-organization, a necessary requirement for the effective engineering and building of usable self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. Contributions should present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. TOPICS The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: * Self-organization * Self-adaptation * Other self-* properties (self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc.) * Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems * Management and control of self-* systems * Robustness and dependability of self-* systems * Approaches to engineering self-* systems * Control of emergent properties in self-* systems * Biologically, socially, and physically inspired self-* systems * Applications and experiences with self-* systems The systems and application areas of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: * P2P Systems * Mobile, pervasive, ad-hoc, and sensor network systems * Autonomic computing and communication systems * Robotics systems * Multiagent systems * Web and service systems SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS See the conference website (www.saso-conference.org) for detailed information on how to submit papers. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. The proceedings will be printed and published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available on the IEEE digital library. A separated call for poster submissions will be launched during Spring 2008. REVIEW CRITERIA Papers should present novel ideas in the topic domains listed above, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect claims to be substantiated by formal analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or superiority to alternative approaches. If the application is still early work in progress, then the authors are expected to provide strong arguments as to why the proposed approach will work in the chosen domain. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 5, 2008 Paper submission: May 12, 2008 Notification: June 29, 2008 Camera Ready Version of Accepted Papers: July 20, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) Franco Zambonelli (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sven Brueckner (NewVectors, a Division of TTGSI, USA) Paul Robertson (BBN Technologies, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Salvatore Orlando (University of Venice, Italy) FINANCE CHAIR Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birkbeck Univesity London, UK) Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Université de Toulouse, France) TUTORIAL CHAIR Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA) INDUSTRY CHAIR Mazin Yousif (Intel, USA) POSTER CHAIR Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay, India) PUBLICATION CHAIR Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) SPONSOR CO-CHAIRS AMERICAS: Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) EMEA: Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS EMEA: Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) AMERICAS: Indranil Gupta (UIUC, USA) WEB CHAIR Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Christiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada) * Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna, Italy) * Leonard Barolli (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan) * Alberto Bartoli (University of Trieste, Italy) * Ken Birman (Cornell University, USA) * Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University, USA) * Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) * Prasanta Bose (Locheed Martin, USA) * Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) * Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) * Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, USA) * Chi-Hung Chi (Tsinghua University, China) * Alexander Clemm (Cisco Systems, USA) * Michael Cox (BBN Technologies, USA) * Prithviraj Dasgupta (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) * Jon Doyle (Noth Carolina State University, USA) * Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) * Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) * Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) * Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Toulouse, France) * Cordell Green (Kestrel Institute, USA) * Rod Grupen (Univeristy of Massachusetts, USA) * Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) * Salima Hassas (University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France) * David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy) * Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) * Mike Hinchey (Loyola College, USA) * Tom Holvoet (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) * James Won-Ki Hong (Postech, Korea) * Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) * Dag Johansen (University of Tromso, Norway) * Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University, USA) * Randy Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA) * Anne Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France) * Mitch Kokar (Northeastern University, USA) * Ihor Kuz (MICTA, Australia) * John Mallery (MIT, USA) * Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) * Paul Marrow (British Telecom, UK) * Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin (NetExpert, Switzerland) * Philip McKinley (Michigan State University, USA) * Alex Meng (MITRE Corporation, USA) * Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) * Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) * Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) * Salvatore Orlando (University Cà Foscari of Venice, Italy) * Van Parunak (NewVectors, USA) * Dusko Pavlovic (University of Oxford, UK) * George Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK) * Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) * Wolfgang Renz (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Luis Rodrigues (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) * Fabrice Saffre (British Telecom, UK) * Hartmut Schmeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Juergen Schoenwalder (Jacobs University, Germany) * Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birbeck University London, UK) * Howie Shrobe (MIT, USA) * Swami Sivasubramanian (Amazon, USA) * Mikhail Smirnov (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) * Mark Squillante (IBM Watson Centre, USA) * Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) * Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster, UK) * Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Jan Sudeikat (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Gregory Sullivan (BAE Systems, USA) * Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA) * Paul Valckenaers (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) * Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle, UK) * Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich, Zwitzerland) * Craig Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) * Liu Xuezeng (Microsoft Research Asia, China) ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2008 - (Part of MANWEEK 2008) Extended deadline to 5 May 2008
by Toufik Ahmed 02 May '08

02 May '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MMNS 08 C A L L F O R P A P E R S ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairs: -George Pavlou (University College London, United Kingdom) -Toufik Ahmed (University Bordeaux 1, France) -Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece) The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery • Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks • Management of NGN/4G networks and services • Management of sensor and actuator networks • Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) • Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management • Grid networking for multimedia • Cross-layer management • Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks • Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks • Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks • IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management • Management of service delivery platforms • Management of content distribution networking • Distributed multimedia service management • Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services • Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies • Novel protocols for multimedia services • Multi-point, multicast service management • Seamless mobility of multimedia services • Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services • Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services • Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services • Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning • Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks • End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks • Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services • Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks • Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): • Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) • Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - TNSM. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission: May 5, 2008 Notification: June 20, 2008 Camera ready: June 30, 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26, 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems [AUTONOMICS 2008]
by Antonio Di Ferdinando 02 May '08

02 May '08

======================================================================== Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** AUTONOMICS 2008 ***** 2nd International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics.eu/ September 23-25, 2008, Turin, Italy In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The Autonomics conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics 2008 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. _________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: June 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2008 Final version due: August 15, 2008 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through Easychair. The proceedings will be an ICST publication and the papers will be listed in the ACM digital library and indexed by EI. _________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: A. Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy Vice Chair: F. Saffre, BT Group, UK Steering Committee: I. Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy D. Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy R. Baldoni, Univ. of Roma, Italy F. Davide, Telecom Italia, Italy TPC Co-Chairs: F. Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany L. Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal Industry Chair: R. Ghizzioli, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland Workshop Chair: C. Moiso, Telecom Italia, Italy Publication Co-Chairs: A. Di Ferdinando. Imperial College, UK Publicity Co-Chairs: B. K. Benko, Budapest Univ., Hungary Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST Local Chair: G. Alfano, Politech. Torino, Italy Web Chair: D. Schreckling, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab, ICST ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP]Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications
by Jung-Min Park 02 May '08

02 May '08

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] =================================================== Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issue on: Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics http://www.comsoc.org/dl/pcm/cfpwcm0209.htm =================================================== Background: Wireless communication has been a key driving force in recent years both in academia and in industry. It has currently expanded to wireless multihop networks, which include ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop relay systems. With multihop capability, wireless communication can be combined with cooperative communications and network coding, which has attracted even more researchers to this field. In many wireless multihop networks, the merits of capacity enhancement as well as coverage exceed the delay caused by multihop relay. Still, however, there are unresolved issues that may not be necessarily technical; one question regards the real motivation of a relay node that allows packet relay for the other transmitting nodes by consuming its own energy. There is also a security issue in multihop communications, in the sense that one's own data transmission is received by someone else in close proximity. On the other hand, in the networked robotics area, researchers try to realize group behaviors found in small insects or animals, in order to control and coordinate a team of robots. Especially, real-time wireless communication can help dynamic resource management and self-organization for a team of cooperative robots. The multiple robots communicate with each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications. In this respect, wireless communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information exchange. This special issue is an attempt to bridge these two dynamic areas. We welcome submissions on all aspects of these themes, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems - Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality - Multiple robot networking with multihop- and cooperative communications - Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics - Applications of multi-robot network systems - Ad hoc robot networks - Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work - Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks - QoS support and resource management in networked robotics - Wireless networks under node mobility Manuscript Submission With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via EDAS at http://edas.info (direct link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6595&) Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2008 - Final manuscript Due: November 15, 2008 - Publication date: February, 2009 Guest Editors: - Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim AT yonsei.ac.kr) - Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland (jean-yves.leboudec AT epfl.ch) - Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany (burgard AT informatik.uni-freiburg.de) - DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (daeeun AT yonsei.ac.kr) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Cluster Computing, Special Issue: Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks
by Yu Wang 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Apologies if you have received multiple copies ------------------------------------------------ Springer the Journal of Cluster Computing http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/10586 Call for Paper Special Issue: Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/cfp/WSN-cfp.html Introduction ============ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are attracting significant interests in both academy and industry with recent advances of the enabling technologies, including digital electronics, embedded systems, signal processing, and wireless communications. A WSN consists of a large number of small sensors with sensing, control, data processing, communications, and networking capabilities. WSNs are characterized of dense node deployment, unreliable sensor, frequent topology change, and severe power, computation, and memory constraints. These unique characteristics pose considerable challenges on the design of large-scale WSNs. In addition, sensor networks usually transmit data and operate in hostile unattended environments, the requirements and design of sensor networks are significantly different from other wireless networks like cellular network, ad hoc networks or mesh networks. In such scenarios, distributed algorithms without global information exchange have compelling characteristics, e.g. lower overhead and energy consumption. To achieve the full potential of limited resource, there is always trade-off problem in investigating the sensor networks performance. Such formulated problem normally needs efficient, distributed, scalable, and robust algorithms. The issues include routing, MAC, energy-efficient protocols, topology control in sensor networks. Classical approaches may be employed, e.g. dynamic programming, integer programming, game theory, and simulated annealing. However, the problems in different scenarios require different analytical model as well as algorithms to achieve optimal performance. This special issue aims to foster the research with any new idea, approach, theory, and technique to resolve the issues in sensor networks from the algorithmic and/or distributed computing perspective. Original and research articles are solicited including new technologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Recommended Topics(not limited to) =================================== * Network deployment * Topology control * Energy management * Routing, broadcast, gossip, and multicast * Localization * Self-organization, self-management, and self-protection * Medium access control * Cross-layer optimization * Model and performance analysis * Multimedia QoS over sensor networks * Game theoretic approaches * Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination * Case studies, testbed, and experiment * Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking * Fault tolerance, dependability and reliability * Security, authentication, and trust * Synchronization Submission ========== Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journals. Submissions of both in-depth research papers and review/application-oriented papers are encouraged. For detailed information on the submission requirements and manuscript preparation, please refer to the journal home page at http:// www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/10586 The special issue paper submission has two steps. * All submissions should be done in Springer manuscript central at http://www.editorialmanager.com/clus/. During the submission, please mention the special issue title "Algorithm and Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks". * After submitting the paper online, please send the guest co-editors a copy of the paper with the email subject "Algorithm WSN Special Issue - paper submission". Important Dates =============== * Manuscript submission deadline: Jan. 1, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 * Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2009 * Publication of special issue: Fall, 2009 Guest Co-Editors ================ Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org Dr. Irfan Awan University of Bradford, UK Email: I.U.Awan[AT]Bradford.ac.uk Dr. Yu Wang University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Email: yu.wang[AT]uncc.edu Dr. Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea Email: parkjonghyuk1[AT]hotmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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