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[Fwd: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '08

26 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications Datum: Mon, 26 May 2008 23:14:14 +0800 Von: Qian Zhang <qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> CC: <sci(a)engr.unl.edu>, <haohong(a)ieee.org>, "'Aggelos K. Katsaggelos'" <aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu>, <anargyr(a)ieee.org> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies. *Call for Papers* *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia* *Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications* *Guest Editors: * *Aggelos Katsaggelos*, Northwestern University, aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu <mailto:aggk@eecs.northwestern.edu> *Song Ci*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu> *Haohong Wang*, Marvell Semiconductors, haohong(a)ieee.org <mailto:haohong@ieee.org> *Qian Zhang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk <mailto:qianzh@cse.ust.hk> *Antonios Argyriou*, Phillips Research Laboratories, anargyr(a)ieee.org <mailto:anargyr@ieee.org> *Timeline:* Manuscript Submission: October 1st, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: March 15th, 2009 Publication: August 2009 With the rapid growing of emerging multimedia communications applications, such as online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, and mobile TV, along with the prevalent HD contents and the ever-increasing hardware capability with lower cost, consumers nowadays are seeking for higher quality of multimedia services in terms of desirable audio and visual quality, friendly user interactivity, powerful system adaptability and capability, and other user-preferred performance metrics. However, various applications and media formats may have different quality evaluation criteria and control parameters. For example, scalability and interactivity are very crucial performance metrics for 3D graphics scene model representation and delivery, while they may not be that important for some other multimedia applications. Thus, there is a strong impetus to develop new quality evaluation methodologies for various media formats under different multimedia application scenarios. Recently, cross-layer design has become a popular design methodology for enhancing Quality-of-Service (QoS) over various multimedia communications systems. However, most existing cross-layer designs for QoS provisioning in multimedia communications are mainly focused on improving network-oriented QoS such as throughput, delay, and jitter, while the multimedia application-oriented QoS have not been fully considered in the existing cross-layer design optimization. Therefore, quality-driven multimedia communications need to be extensively investigated under various communications scenarios involving audio, video, VoIP, image, and/or graphics. Under such a background, it is very important to highlight the importance of quality-driven cross-layer design as one of the enabling technologies for the next-generation quality-aware service-oriented multimedia networks. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of quality-driven cross-layer designs for multimedia communications. Original completed and unpublished works not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: User perceptual quality enhancement methodology Media quality measurements for communications applications Optimized 3D graphics scene representation and transmissions Optimized image/video representation and transmissions Optimized audio/speech coding and transmissions Content-aware cross-layer design and optimization Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design Quality-driven cross-layer design architecture Quality-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control Quality-driven cross-layer MAC and routing protocols Cross-layer protocol stacks for quality support Performance evaluation of quality-driven cross-layer system design Standardization issues related to quality-driven cross-layer design Cross-layer design for P2P streaming Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks *Submission Procedure: * Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html <http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html>. Note that mandatory over-length page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. A completed copyright form is required to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page. More specifically, please note that the following five items must be ready before you submit your paper: • A single-column, double-spaced (1-column) version of 30 pages or less for regular papers, 12 pages or less for correspondence papers • A double-column, single-spaced (2-column) version of 8 pages or less for regular papers, 6 pages or less for correspondence papers • Complete contact information for ALL authors on the cover page (name, address, e-mail, phone, fax) • A fully executed and signed IEEE Copyright Form (kindly write the paper number on top of the form for identification) either by to fax: +1.732.235.1627, or you may e-mail a scanned version to d.tomaro(a)ieee.org <mailto:d.tomaro@ieee.org> • References (not yet published). You will need to e-mail (to sci(a)engr.unl.edu <mailto:sci@engr.unl.edu>) a .pdf file for each of the references listed in your paper that have NOT YET been published or are otherwise hard to access for reviewers. Updated information of this call can be found at: http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci <http://www.engr.unl.edu/%7Esci>.

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CfP Autonomics 2008
by Falko Dressler 26 May '08

26 May '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** 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 <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=autonomics2008>. 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 -- Dr.-Ing. Falko Dressler Computer Networks and Communication Systems University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Phone: +49 9131 85-27914 / Fax: +49 9131 85-27409 EMail: dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de / fd(a)acm.org WWW: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/

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[Tccc] [ACM PE-WASUN 2008]: Call for Paper
by Isabelle Guerin-Lassous 26 May '08

26 May '08

[CFP] ACM PE-WASUN 2008: Deadline Extended! We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE! paper registration June 1st, 2008 (firm) paper upload deadline: June 4, 2008 (firm) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Montr??, 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: June 1st, 2008 - Extended! Full paper due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! 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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[Tccc] CHANTS 2008 Call for Demos Reminder
by Katia Obraczka 26 May '08

26 May '08

The demo submission deadline for CHANTS 08 is fast approaching. See the Call for Demos below. 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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SIMUTools'09: Call for papers
by Claudio Cicconetti 25 May '08

25 May '08

++++ SIMUTools 2009 ++++ Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques March 2-6, 2009 - Rome (Italy) http://www.simutools.org ++ Sponsored by ICST ++ In technical cooperation with SIGSIM, SCS, INRIA (approval pending) ++ Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 ++ SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices. -- TOPICS -- The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are not limited to: ** Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event, Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation interoperability techniques, etc. ** Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc. The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks, computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.) * Mobility models * Overlay networks * Network traffic modeling and generation * Topology generation * Quality of service * Networked applications and new networking paradigms * Energy-efficient computing * Distributed systems * Operating systems * Interconnection networks * Fault tolerant systems * Embedded and real time systems * Logistics * Security and emergency response * Health care * Transportation * Manufacturing * Education and training * Environmental and biological systems * Social networks * Public systems -- SUBMISSION -- Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through easychair (http://www.easychair.org). Regular papers (7 to 10 pages) will be eligible for awards and journal extension. The conference will include a "work in progress" session, which will accommodate short papers (4 to 6 pages) presenting ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. -- SPONSORSHIP -- The event is organized in cooperation (approval pending) with the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, and they will be indexed by EI and ISI. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International. -- AWARDS -- Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be identified by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. -- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- We invite proposals for one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop proposals should be sent to workshop(a)simutools.org, by June 29th, 2008. Acceptance notifications will be emailed by July 15th, 2008. -- CALL FOR POSTER SESSION -- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster(a)simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 8, 2008. -- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -- ** David Nicol (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ** Francesco Quaglia (Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Workshop submission deadline: June 29th, 2008 Workshop acceptance notification: July 15th, 2008 Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 Poster submission deadline: December 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan 10, 2009 Camera ready: Jan 25, 2009 Conference: March 2-6, 2009 -- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -- Steering Chairs Imrich Chlamtach, Create-Net John Heath, University of Southern Maine General Chairs Olivier Dalle, INRIA/University of Nice Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University Local Chair Andrea D'Ambrogio, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Program Chairs Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University Conference Organization Chair Melissa Ezell, ICST Publication Chair Frederic Mallet , INRIA/University of Nice Publicity Chairs Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy (Europe) Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Asia/Pacific) Rodrigo Castro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (America) Financial Chair Karen Decker, ICST Webmaster Juan-Carlos Maureira, INRIA -- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- (to be completed) * Fernando Barros - University of Coimbra, Portugal * Luciano Bononi - University of Bologna, Italy * Jean-Pierre Briot - LIP6, Paris, France * Franck Cappello - INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France * Carlos Christoffersen - Lakehead University, Canada * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy * Bernard Espinasse - LSIS, Marseille, France * Javier Garcia Villalba - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Norbert Giambiasi - LSIS, Marseille, France * Tom Henderson - Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA * Dohy Hong - N2NSoft, France * Tania Jimenez - University of Avignon, France * Helen Karatza - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ernesto Kofman - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina * Pierre L'Ecuyer - University of Montreal, Canada * Zhen Liu - IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Chung-Horng Lung - Carleton University, Canada * Benjamin Melamed - Rutger Business School, USA * Sandor Molnar - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Pieter Mosterman - Mathworks, USA * Krzysztof Pawlikowski - University of Canterbury, New Zealand * Ramon Puigjaner - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain * Martin Quinson - University Henry Poincare' & Loria, Nancy, France * George Riley - Georgia Tech Institute, USA * Herb Schwetman - Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA * Robert Szabo - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Dietmar Tutsch - Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany * Jean-Marc Vincent - ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France * Bernard Zeigler - Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA http://www.simutools.org

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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: First Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 24 May '08

24 May '08

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

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[Tccc] CFP: SOSOC 2008 - Security in Opportunistic and Social Networks
by Melek Onen 23 May '08

23 May '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************ * * * SOSOC 2008 * * * * International Workshop on * * Security in Opportunistic and SOCial Networks * * * * September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey * * (as part of SecureComm 2008) * * * * http://www.sosoc.org * * * ************************************************************ Call for papers ***************** Opportunistic Networks are considered as an evolution of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networking paradigm, in which the assumption of an existing end-to-end connectivity is relaxed. The evolving topologies are expected to resemble the actual social networks of the communicating users and information on their characteristics can be a powerful aid for any network operation. Online services that assist social networks (facebook, linkedin, xing, etc.) in consequence are able to provide additional information on contacts and their relations. The lack of end-to-end connectivity and the use of personal information for the networking operations raise entirely new privacy concerns and require new reflections on security problems. The aim of this workshop is to encompass research advances in all areas of security, trust and privacy in Opportunistic and Social Networks. ============================= Topics of Interest ============================= - new aspects of trust - privacy concerns - availability and resilience - community based secure communication - data confidentiality, data integrity - anonymity, pseudonymity - key management - secure bootstrapping - security issues in forwarding, routing - security aspects regarding cooperation - reputation systems for opportunistic/social networks - new security issues, new attack paradigms - new requirements for software security - malware analysis in opportunistic/social networks ============================= Important Dates ============================= Submission deadline: July 7, 2008 Notification date: August 18, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 1, 2008 ============================= Submission instructions ============================= Submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sosoc2008 Submissions must be made in PDF to the submission website. Paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages in ACM proceedings style. They should be thoroughly edited and read as though written by an English native speaker. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing. Authors' names must not appear in the paper. ============================= Technical Program Committee ============================= Önen, Melek EURECOM, France (co-chair) Strufe, Thorsten EURECOM, France (co-chair) Blass, Erik-Oliver EURECOM, France Cavallaro, Lorenzo UCSB, USA Conti, Mauro Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Crowcroft, Jon University of Cambridge, UK Dacier, Marc Symantec, France Di Pietro, Roberto Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Eichhorn, Alexander Simula, Norway Hecker, Artur TELECOM ParisTech, France Levi, Albert Sabanci University, Turkey Molva, Refik EURECOM, France Noubir, Guevara North Eastern University, USA Rohner, Christian Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Roudier, Yves EURECOM, France Schäfer, Günter TU Ilmenau, Germany Sotiris, Ioannidis Forth, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] 2nd CFP SWiN 2008 - First Int'l Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks
by thomas.watteyne＠orange-ftgroup.com 23 May '08

23 May '08

Dear colleagues, Please find attached the second call-for-papers for SWiN 2008, the First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks, held in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2008. Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. You are welcome to forward this CFP to your friends and colleagues working in the field. Kind regards, Thomas Watteyne. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWiN 2008 First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks 12 October, 2008, Avignon, France http://ieee.org/go/swin2008/ in conjunction with IEEE WiMob 2008 Full Papers due: June 14, 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (pdf version: http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/swin/2008/cfp_swin08.pdf) The First International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks (SWiN 2008) will be held in conjunction with the fourth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008) in Avignon, France, on October 12th, 2008. The main focus of this workshop is on simulation of wireless multi-hop networks. The SWiN workshop is devoted to the topic of wireless multi-hop network simulators. An efficient and accurate simulation of these networks raises various issues which generally need to be addressed from several research domains simultaneously. As examples, we can consider the wireless physical layer modeling and simulation, the support of large scale networks, the simulation of complex R/F systems such as MIMO ones, the emulation of wireless nodes, etc. In particular but not exclusively, the Program Committee will be seeking high quality papers on the following aspects of wireless network simulation: - Radio medium modeling & simulation; - Scalability, large scale networks support; - Validation of simulators and simulation results; - Simulators benchmarking and comparisons; - Support of advanced R/F systems (MIMO, smart-antenna); - Support of distributed physical layer schemes (distributed signal processing, cooperative schemes); - Wireless node simulation or emulation; - Interoperability of simulators, emulators and experiments; - Distributed simulation; - Implementation of simulators. This workshop will be an opportunity to present the current works in these domains as well as to foster discussion and cooperation among researchers coming from the fields of simulation, radio medium modeling, ad hoc networking and wireless sensor networking. It will also be the occasion for people directly involved in the development and implementation of simulators to meet and confront their work with the models, applications and requests coming from the research communities that effectively use the simulators. In addition to contributed talks, the workshop program will include two tutorials on wireless physical layer modeling and wireless network simulators. SWiN 2008 will be held in Avignon, in the "Provence" part of Southern France. Avignon is known for its "Palais des Papes" (Palace of the Popes), where the Popes lived for much of the 14th century. With Avignon being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special workshop. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Paper submission due: June 14, 2008 - Paper acceptance notification: July 16, 2008 - Final manuscript due: August 14, 2008 - Registration and full payment due: August 20, 2008 ----------------------- Submission Instructions & Reviewing Policy ----------------------- All papers will be included in the main conference proceedings and published by the IEEE. The maximum paper length is SIX printed pages (10-point font) including figures, graphics and tables. We will accept papers that are up to SEVEN pages in length, but the over-length papers will be subject to an overlength fee. Please refer to the WiMob 2008 website for additional information. Prospective authors are kindly asked to submit their paper through EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5907&). When submitting your paper, choose "SWiNWiMob'2008", in the submenu containing the names of the workshops. ---------------------- Organization Committee ---------------------- Workshop co-chairs Guillaume Chelius, CITI Lab / INRIA, INSA Lyon, France. Christian Ibars, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne, Orange Labs / CITI Lab,INRIA, France ------------------ Program Committees ------------------ Faoudi Bader, CTTC, Spain Azzedine Boukerche, U. of Ottawa, Canada Luis M. Correia, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Portugal Marcelo Dias de Amorim, U. Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain Zygmunt Haas, Cornell U., USA Mathieu Lacage, INRIA, France Ana Pérez-Neira, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Marc Ribet, Opnet Technologies, France George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Fabrice Valois, INSA de Lyon, France Andreas Willig, Technical U. of Berlin, Germany _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ACM PE-WASUN 2008: Deadline Extended!
by bononi＠cs.unibo.it 23 May '08

23 May '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE! paper registration June 1st, 2008 (firm) paper upload deadline: June 4, 2008 (firm) ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Guén Lassous Universitéyon 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 Montré, 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: June 1st, 2008 - Extended! Full paper due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA .

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WSNS'08 Submission Deadline Extended to June 23, 2008]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '08

23 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WSNS'08 Submission Deadline Extended to June 23, 2008 Datum: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:57:11 -0500 (CDT) Von: Wensheng Zhang <wzhang(a)cs.iastate.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS'08) September 29, 2008 www.cs.wcupa.edu/~zjiang/wsns08.htm held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems September 29 - October 2, 2008 Atlanta, Georgia, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Theme and scope: Wireless networks have experienced an explosive growth during the last few years. Nowadays, there is a large variety of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to non-infrastructure wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks. The security issue is a central concern for achieving secured communication in these networks. This workshops aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from wireless and sensor networking, security, cryptography, and distributed computing communities, with the goals of promoting discussions and collaborations. We are interested in novel research on all aspects of security in wireless and sensor networks and their cost-effective solutions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest: We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of secured wireless/sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Attacks and Countermeasures · Authentication and Access Control · Computer-Aided Tool for Security · Cross-layer Design for Security · Cryptographic Protocol · Denial of Service (DoS) · Key Management · Information Hiding · Intrusion Detection and Response · Malicious Behavior Detection and Analysis · Privacy and Anonymity · Secure Localization and Synchronization · Security and Performance tradeoff · Security Policy and Enforcement Issues · Security Protocols Analysis, Design, and Proof · Secure Routing/MAC · Surveillance and Monitoring · Trust Establishment and Management -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: Submit a full paper of about 6 pages (IEEE two column, single-spaced format), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. Each submitted paper will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings of the MASS'08. Use the Author Guidelines available at conference website (http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/). Prepare your papers in PDF file only (Adobe format), paper title, names, affiliations, postal address, and e-mail address of the authors, about 100-150 word abstract, and at most five keywords. Submit your paper to EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6431&). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the workshop to present the work. A full conference registration is needed and will include the ability to attend any workshop and regular conference session. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Manuscript Submission (Extended): 6/23/2008 Acceptance Notification: 7/1/2008 Final Manuscript Due: 7/18/2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-chairs Dr. Falko Dressler University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany dressler(a)informatik.uni-erlangen.de Dr. Zhen Jiang West Chester University, USA zjiang(a)wcupa.edu Dr. Wensheng Zhang Iowa State University, USA wzhang(a)cs.iastate.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steering Committee member Dr. Dharma Agrawal University of Cincinnati, USA Dr. Sajal Das University of Texas at Arlington, USA Dr. Yong Guan Iowa State University, USA Dr. Thomas La-Porta Pennsylvania State University, USA Dr. Jie Wu Florida Atlantic University & National Science Foundation, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee A. Agah, West Chester University S. Ahamed, Marquette University L. Bao, University of California at Irvine L. Burgazzi, ENEA, Italy S. Chen, Florida International University X. Chen, Texas State University Y. Chen, State University of New York at Binghamton Z. Chen, Beijing University, China H. Choi, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs L. Cui, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China E. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University Q. Gu, Texas State University Z. Hass, Cornell University T. He, University of Minnesota Q. Li, William and Mary College D. Liu, University of Texas at Arlington W. Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China F. Kargl, Ulm University, Germany Q. Li, William and Mary College D. Liu, University of Texas at Arlington Q. Ma, Juniper Networks V. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada P. Nikander, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland G. Noubir, Northeastern University S. Olariu, Old Dominion University D. Ostry, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia R. Sridhar, State University of New York at Buffalo H. Shen, University of Arkansas H. Song, Frostburg State University W. Trappe, Rutgers University P. Traynor, Pennsylvania State University S. Upadhyaya, University of New York at Buffalo Y. Wang, North Carolina University at Charlotte A. Weimerskirch, Escrypt Inc. Y. Xia, University of Florida H. Yang, IBM Research S. Yang, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute S. Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo X. Zou, Purdue University at IUPUI _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] ACM WMuNeP 2008 - Submission Deadline June 10th
by Polychronis Koutsakis 23 May '08

23 May '08

[CFP] 4th ACM WMuNeP 2008, Submission Deadline June 10th, 2008 We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE MODELING (WMUNEP 2008) 27-31 October 2008, Vancouver, Canada http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ To be held jointly with the 11-th ACM MSWIM http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/ SCOPE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008) will be a highly selective one-day event, held in conjunction with the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Wireless multimedia network management -Wireless multimedia traffic modeling -Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia -Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution -Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems -Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services -Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks -Protocols for wireless multimedia networks -QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks -Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks -End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications -Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks -Distributed wireless multimedia services -Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools -Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications -Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking -Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks -E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks -Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks -Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks -Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks -Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems -Wireless multimedia sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: June 10, 2007 Author Notification: July 16, 2008 Camera-ready Paper: August 1, 2008 Other information on WMuNeP2008 can be found at the workshop site: http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: Third International Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'08)
by Paolo Costa 23 May '08

23 May '08

======================================= Third international workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'08) http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/midsens08/ Leuven, Belgium, December 1st 2008 co-located with Middleware2008 http://middleware2008.cs.kuleuven.be/ OBJECTIVES: ---------- The aim of this workshop is to stimulate research in the specific domain of middleware for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), to collect current expertise, and to further refine and integrate different approaches. In particular, the workshop will investigate how middleware architectures can relieve programmers from the lowest level sensor details, while still enabling them to exploit a sensor node’s resource capabilities in the most optimal way. This workshop aims to trigger and guide research efforts to create an integrated middleware vision, which is required to handle the challenges inherent to developing and deploying complex sensor applications in an efficient way. BACKGROUND: ---------- Many current projects on sensor middleware focus on developing algorithms and components for data aggregation, localization, service discovery, routing, synchronization, etc. These projects, however, often do not pay sufficient attention to integrating these algorithms and components into a generic middleware architecture, and for helping application developers to compose a system that exactly matches their requirements. This is particularly timely as commercial WSN platforms begin to emerge. This complexity of sensor network programming is partly caused by the highly resource limited, dynamic and heterogeneous environments in which sensor applications must operate. These specific WSN characteristics require a specific approach for middleware development that goes beyond dealing with resource constraints: middleware for WSNs should involve an end-to-end approach that handles the WSN as a whole rather than as a group of individual nodes. This implies considerable consequences for typical middleware services such as mobility, coordination, service discovery, security, data aggregation, quality of service, handling hardware heterogeneity, handling communication errors, scalability, and network organization. SUGGESTED TOPICS: ---------------- The workshop seeks papers in, but not limited to, the areas listed below: Software engineering support: - Software architectures for sensor middleware - Sensor middleware programming models and abstractions - Dynamic reconfiguration and adaptation of sensor middleware - Sensor middleware for self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and autonomic computing in general - Sensor mobility - Sensor heterogeneity - Technology trade-offs (agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event based middleware) - Lightweight agent middleware for WSNs Middleware services: - Location tracking, localization, and synchronization services - Aggregation techniques and data management - Energy-aware middleware mechanisms - Cross layering and resource awareness - Fault tolerance and reliability - In-network QoS control - Privacy and security services - Middleware for mobile sensors Management of WSNs: - Overlay and topology management - Resource discovery and management - Effective naming and device/service discovery in end-to-end WSNs - Interoperability of WSNs with existing/legacy middleware - architectures Sensor applications/tools: - Testing and simulation tools for middleware - Experience/application/assessment of sensor middleware for real-world applications DATES: ------ Abstract Submission deadline: July 25, 2008 Submission deadline: August 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera ready version: October 8, 2007 Workshop date: December 1, 2008 Main Conference date: December 1-5, 2008 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: --------------------- All submitted papers will be evaluated based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of sensor middleware. Submitted papers must be original work without substantial overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages, must strictly follow the ACM conference proceedings format, must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions, and Must be submitted in PDF format. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. The paper submission site will be available at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/midsens08/submission.html The proceedings will be uploaded to the ACM Digital Library. ORGANISATION: ------------ Program Chairs: - Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK - Sam Michiels, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Program Committee: - Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK - Athanassios Boulis, NICTA, Australia - Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland - Paolo Costa, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands - Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden - Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA - Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia - Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK - Wouter Joosen, K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Darmstadt - Sam Michiels, K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA - Kay Römer, ETH, Switzerland ================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Cost290] CFP - IEEE Comms Mag - Coop and Relay Comms
by Giovanni Giambene 23 May '08

23 May '08

Dear Colleagues, please consider the opportunity to submit a paper for the call for papers below (the submission deadline is June 15, 2008). Sincerely, Giovanni ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of ones own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: Cooperative algorithms and protocols Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing Cooperative resource allocation and management Relay strategies for cooperative communications Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks Multidirectional relaying Distributed coding and modulation Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications MAC issues and MAC layer routing Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 15, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Giovanni Giambene Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universita' degli Studi di Siena Via Roma, 56 53100 Siena, Italy Phone: +39 0577 234603 Mobile phone: +39 320 43 55 871 Fax: +39 0577 233602 E-mail: giambene at unisi.it Home page: http://marconi.ltt.dii.unisi.it/~giambene/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: ACM WMUNEP 2008]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '08

23 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: ACM WMUNEP 2008 Datum: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:03:36 -0400 (EDT) Von: smadim2(a)grads.ece.mcmaster.ca An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br [CFP] 4th ACM WMuNeP 2008, Submission Deadline June 10th, 2008 We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE MODELING (WMUNEP 2008) 27-31 October 2008, Vancouver, Canada http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ To be held jointly with the 11-th ACM MSWIM http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/ SCOPE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008) will be a highly selective one-day event, held in conjunction with the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Wireless multimedia network management -Wireless multimedia traffic modeling -Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia -Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution -Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems -Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services -Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks -Protocols for wireless multimedia networks -QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks -Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks -End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications -Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks -Distributed wireless multimedia services -Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools -Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications -Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking -Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks -E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks -Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks -Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks -Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks -Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems -Wireless multimedia sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: June 10, 2007 Author Notification: July 16, 2008 Camera-ready Paper: August 1, 2008 Other information on WMuNeP2008 can be found at the workshop site: http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Researchers] 33rd IEEE LCN 2008 / 4th IEEE P2MNet 2008 - International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 22 May '08

22 May '08

*** Apologies for multiple copies received*** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL-FOR-PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks. URL: http://paradise.site.uottawa.ca/p2mnet2008/ Jointly with the 33rd IEEE conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2008) http://www.ieeelcn.org/ October 14-17 October 2008 Montreal, Qc, Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: May 23rd, paper registration through EDAS system. May 30th , Full Paper submission ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: In Recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. However, without creating a new set of issues and trade-offs. The performance and resource management of wireless and mobile communication systems are becoming a very crucial phase for future generation of wireless and mobile networks. This workshop focus upon the design, performance and resource management of wireless and mobile networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Performance and management of mesh and Bluetooth networks - Performance and resource management of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. - Performance and management of wireless multimedia systems. - Resource allocation. - Power and energy management. - Wireless network design and management. - Measurement, analysis, modeling, and generation. - Traffic measurement (wireless TCP, etc..). - Billing and wireless web services. - (3G/4G wireless billing systems, GPRS billing, etc..). - Web-Based wireless management. - Wireless security management. - Wireless Network planning. - Wireless Intelligent Networks. - Performance and Management of Broadband Wireless Management. - Management and monitoring of wireless and mobile systems. - User mobility modeling - Topology construction and maintenance - Interoperability, and performance of heterogeneous wireless networks of different standards All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE LCN Proceedings. At least one author must attend and present the paper. Important Dates: - Paper registration deadline:May 23rd 2008 - Paper submission deadline: May 30th, 2008. - Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008. - Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2008. - Author registration by: July 28, 2008. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers (no more than 10 camera-ready pages, 10pt font in IEEE format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers in excess of page limits shall not be considered for review or publication. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Authors are required to submit their papers through LCN 2008 EDAS. The following EDAS web site (http://www.edas.info/) will take you directly to P2MNet Web-site submission If you have any questions, please contact directly the Program Chair. Organizing Committee - General Chair: Azzedine Boukerche SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca - Program Chair Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare Barddal University, Brazil mirela(a)barddal.br - Program Vice Chair: Samer Samarah University of Ottawa, Canada ssamarah(a)site.uottawa.ca -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM WMUNEP 2008]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '08

21 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: ACM WMUNEP 2008 Datum: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:07:52 -0400 (EDT) Von: smadim2(a)grads.ece.mcmaster.ca An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [CFP] 4th ACM WMuNeP 2008, Submission Deadline June 10th, 2008 We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message -------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FOURTH ACM INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE MODELING (WMUNEP 2008) 27-31 October 2008, Vancouver, Canada http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ To be held jointly with the 11-th ACM MSWIM http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/ SCOPE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008) will be a highly selective one-day event, held in conjunction with the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs, VANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. TOPICS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Wireless multimedia network management -Wireless multimedia traffic modeling -Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia -Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution -Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems -Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services -Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks -Protocols for wireless multimedia networks -QoS and Resource Allocation in wireless multimedia networks -Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks -End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications -Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks -Distributed wireless multimedia services -Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools -Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications -Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking -Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks -E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks -Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks -Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks -Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks -Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems -Wireless multimedia sensor networks IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: June 10, 2007 Author Notification: July 16, 2008 Camera-ready Paper: August 1, 2008 Other information on WMuNeP2008 can be found at the workshop site: http://wmunep2008.mcmaster.ca/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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2nd CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by Harald Meyer 21 May '08

21 May '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 10 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 20 May '08

20 May '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications Datum: Tue, 20 May 2008 05:59:42 -0500 Von: Song Ci/ENG/UNL <sci(a)engr.unl.edu> Antwort an: sci(a)engr.unl.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, multicomm(a)comsoc.org, mm-interest(a)acm.org, sigcomm(a)postel.org, WTC.Mail(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies. *Call for Papers* *IEEE Transactions on Multimedia* *Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications* *Guest Editors: * *Aggelos Katsaggelos*, Northwestern University, aggk(a)eecs.northwestern.edu *Song Ci*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, sci(a)engr.unl.edu *Haohong Wang*, Marvell Semiconductors, haohong(a)ieee.org *Qian Zhang*, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk *Antonios Argyriou*, Phillips Research Laboratories, anargyr(a)ieee.org * * *Timeline:* Manuscript Submission: October 1st, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: March 15th, 2009 Publication: August 2009 With the rapid growing of emerging multimedia communications applications, such as online gaming, video conferencing, video streaming, and mobile TV, along with the prevalent HD contents and the ever-increasing hardware capability with lower cost, consumers nowadays are seeking for higher quality of multimedia services in terms of desirable audio and visual quality, friendly user interactivity, powerful system adaptability and capability, and other user-preferred performance metrics. However, various applications and media formats may have different quality evaluation criteria and control parameters. For example, scalability and interactivity are very crucial performance metrics for 3D graphics scene model representation and delivery, while they may not be that important for some other multimedia applications. Thus, there is a strong impetus to develop new quality evaluation methodologies for various media formats under different multimedia application scenarios. Recently, cross-layer design has become a popular design methodology for enhancing Quality-of-Service (QoS) over various multimedia communications systems. However, most existing cross-layer designs for QoS provisioning in multimedia communications are mainly focused on improving network-oriented QoS such as throughput, delay, and jitter, while the multimedia application-oriented QoS have not been fully considered in the existing cross-layer design optimization. Therefore, quality-driven multimedia communications need to be extensively investigated under various communications scenarios involving audio, video, VoIP, image, and/or graphics. Under such a background, it is very important to highlight the importance of quality-driven cross-layer design as one of the enabling technologies for the next-generation quality-aware service-oriented multimedia networks. The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of quality-driven cross-layer designs for multimedia communications. Original completed and unpublished works not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: User perceptual quality enhancement methodology Media quality measurements for communications applications Optimized 3D graphics scene representation and transmissions Optimized image/video representation and transmissions Optimized audio/speech coding and transmissions Content-aware cross-layer design and optimization Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design Quality-driven cross-layer design architecture Quality-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control Quality-driven cross-layer MAC and routing protocols Cross-layer protocol stacks for quality support Performance evaluation of quality-driven cross-layer system design Standardization issues related to quality-driven cross-layer design Cross-layer design for P2P streaming Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks *Submission Procedure: * Authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published at www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/tmm/infotmm.html. Note that mandatory over-length page charges and color charges will apply. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://tmmieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications. A completed copyright form is required to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page. More specifically, please note that the following five items must be ready before you submit your paper: • A single-column, double-spaced (1-column) version of 30 pages or less for regular papers, 12 pages or less for correspondence papers • A double-column, single-spaced (2-column) version of 8 pages or less for regular papers, 6 pages or less for correspondence papers • Complete contact information for ALL authors on the cover page (name, address, e-mail, phone, fax) • A fully executed and signed IEEE Copyright Form (kindly write the paper number on top of the form for identification) either by to fax: +1.732.235.1627, or you may e-mail a scanned version to d.tomaro(a)ieee.org • References (not yet published). You will need to e-mail (to sci(a)engr.unl.edu) a .pdf file for each of the references listed in your paper that have NOT YET been published or are otherwise hard to access for reviewers. Updated information of this call can be found at: http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci <http://www.engr.unl.edu/%7Esci>. -- Song Ci iUbiComp Lab 402-554-2005 sci(a)engr.unl.edu http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci <http://www.engr.unl.edu/%7Esci> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] 2nd CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by karin anna hummel 20 May '08

20 May '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ IWSOS 2008 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems - Self-Organizing Networks and Networked Systems - December 10-12, 2008 Vienna, Austria http://iwsos.ani.univie.ac.at/ Submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 ********************************************************************* Workshop Scope -------------- IWSOS 2008 is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems. The necessity for and expected benefit of self-organization is caused by the growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of future networked systems, like the future Internet. For example, these networks will consist of interconnected infrastructure-based, mobile ad-hoc, and sensor networks that could be spontaneously deployed in hostile environments, have a dynamic population and a potentially short life time. In spite of this, there will be stringent user requirements, such as resilience and real-time guarantees. Although self-organization is desirable for these kinds of networks, it is not yet clear to what extent self-organization can be exploited. Research into networked systems has recently started to systematically investigate self-organization, which has lead to a multitude of open research issues. The applicability of well-known self-organizing techniques to specific networks and networked systems has to be investigated, as well as adaptations and novel approaches inspired by, e.g., cooperation in nature and evolutionary dynamics, sociology, and game theory. Additionally, models originating from areas like feedback control and complex system's research, are required for these networked systems in order to analyze their controllability and emergent behavior. Aspects of engineering self-organizing networked systems should be studied that discuss paradigms like programmable networks, and tools and frameworks for deploying, testing, and monitoring self-organizing networks. The role of self-organization in the future Internet and the impact on its architecture is an important topic, as well as the application of self-organization in future intelligent transportation systems and vehicular ad-hoc networks. Building on the success of its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading international researchers to create a visionary forum for investigating the potential of self-organization for networked systems by including the following key topics (not a restricted list): * Self-organization and self-management * Self-configuration and self-optimization * Self-protection, -diagnosis, and -healing * Autonomic networking principles and practice * Control theory based models and approaches of self-organization * Feedback control in networked systems * Group-forming networks and techniques * Programmable and cognitive networks for self-organization * Visualization of network system state * Inspiring models of self-organization in nature and society (e.g., bio-inspired or based on game theory) * Risks in self-organization and risk management techniques * The (un-)controllability of self-organizing emergent systems * Quality of Service / service level agreements and self-organization * Resilience, robustness, and fault tolerance for networked systems * Security in self-organizing networked systems * Self-* sensor and ad-hoc networks * Self-* techniques in peer-to-peer networks * Self-organization of over- and underlays and in cross-layering * Self-* networks and networked systems for ubiquitous computing * Self-organization in heterogeneous network convergence * Evolutionary principles of the (future, emerging) Internet * Self-configuring place-and-play mobile networks * Self-organizing vehicular ad-hoc networks * Self-organizing multi-service networks and multi-network services * Methods for configuration and management of large, complex networks * Applications, e.g. the self-organizing home network * The human in the loop of self-organizing networked systems Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline (full papers): June 22, 2008 * Notification of acceptance (full papers): September 1, 2008 Initial Submission (full papers) -------------------------------- IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers up to 10 pages using the LNCS style, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. All papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the international TPC and judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted Full Papers -------------------- The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must attend IWSOS 2008 to present the paper. Steering Committee ------------------ * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA * Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, USA General Chair ------------- * Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna, Austria Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- * Karin Anna Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Technical Program Committee --------------------------- * Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France * Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria * Ernst Biersack, Institute Eurecom, France * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Tarik Cicic, University of Oslo, Norway * Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA * Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany * Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark * Michael Fry, University of Sydney, Australia * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Manfred Hauswirth, National University of Ireland, Ireland * Joseph L. Hellerstein, Microsoft Developer Division, USA * Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany * Amine Houyou, University of Passau, Germany * Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany * Alexander V. Konstantinou, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Rajesh Krishnan, BBN Technologies, USA * Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Marco Mamei, University di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy * Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Mueller, Kaiserslautern University, Germany * Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan * Ben Paechter, Napier University, UK * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Christian Prehofer, Nokia Research, Finland * Lukas Ruf, Consecom AG, Switzerland * Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany * Paul Smith, Lancaster University, UK * Marcus Schoeller, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA * Zhili Sun, University of Surrey, UK * Kurt Tutschku, Wuerzburg University, Germany * Patrick Wuechner, University of Passau, Germany * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Local Organizing Committee --------------------------- * Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria * Alexander Adrowitzer, University of Vienna, Austria * Harald Meyer, University of Vienna, Austria _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: TRUST-08
by Agustinus Borgy Waluyo 20 May '08

20 May '08

[apologies for receiving multiple copies] Call-for-Papers =============================================================== The 3rd International Symposium on Trustworthiness, Reliability, and services in Ubiquitous and Sensor neTwork (TRUST-08) http://trust2008.csie.chu.edu.tw/ in conjunction with EUC 2008 Shanghai, China, December 17 - 20, 2008 =============================================================== With the proliferation of wireless technologies, there is a fast growing interest in Ubiquitous Environments (UE). UE enables to create a human-oriented computing environment where computer chips are embedded in everyday objects and interact with physical world. With a great potential to revolutionize our lives, UE also poses new research challenges. This symposium will focus on the challenges and solutions for UE with an emphasis on trust-worthiness, reliability, and services. The symposium will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of UE. The symposium will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in UE. In addition, we expect that the symposium and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. Topic ===== * Trust and reputation management in UE * Representations and formalizations of trust for UE * Trust metrics assessment and threat analysis in UE * Trust/risk-based security frameworks for UE * Privacy and privacy enhancing technologies in UE * Anonymity, pseudonymity, and unlinkability in UE * Reliable communications in UE * Autonomic networking for UE * Availability in UE * Resource and service management in UE * Network protocols and security in UE * Standards and light-weight communication protocols in UE * Applications of UE * Business architectures and underlying infrastructures for UE * Design of businesses models with security requirements for UE * Commercial and industrial security in UE * RFID technologies for UE * IPv6, Forensics for UE * Access control and security policies in UE * Intellectual property and digital rights management in UE * Key management in UE * Digital Forensics in UE * Case studies, prototypes and experiences in UE Organization ========== Steering Co-Chairs Jong Hyuk Park (Kyungnam University., Korea) Laurence T. Yang (St Francis Xavier University, Canada) General Co-Chairs Young-Sik Jeong (Wonkwang University, Korea) Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State University, USA) Program Co-Chairs Ching-Hsien Hsu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan) Hangbae Chang (Daejin University, Korea) International Advisory Committee Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Makoto Takizawa (Tokyo Denki University, Japan) Kyo-il Chung (ETRI, Korea) Tai-hoon Kim (Hannam University, Korea) Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan) Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Andrew Kusiak (The University of Iowa, USA) Publicity Co-Chairs Agustinus Borgy Waluyo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Deqing Zou (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Naixue Xiong (JAIST, Japan) Mieso Denko (University of GUELPH, Canada) Web Management Chairs Byoung-Soo Koh (DigiCAPS Co., Ltd, Korea) Program Committee Antonio Coronato (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Chaoguang Men (Harbin Engineering University, China) Cho-Li Wang (The University of Hong Kong) Emmanuelle Anceaume (IRISA, France) George A. Gravvanis (Democritus university of Thrace, Greece) JeongHyun Yi (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) Jin Wook Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) Marco Aiello (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Mario Ciampi (ICAR-CNR, Italy) Nicolas Sklavos (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi, Greece) Ning Zhang (University of Manchester, UK) Qi Shi (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Taejoon Park (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) Yeong-Deok Kim (Woosong University, Korea) Yuan Xie (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Chao-Tung Yang (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Eung-Nam Ko (Baeksuk Univ., Korea) Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Korea) Dunlu Peng (Fudan University, China) William? C. Chu (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Titi Roman (STI / University of Innsbruck, Austria) Justin Zhan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) David Taniar (Monash University, Australia) Keqin Li (SAP Research, France) Xiaoxia Huang (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China) Pingpeng Yuan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) Jean-Marc (PIERSON IRIT, Toulouse, France) Weiguo Fan (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) Yifeng Zhu (University of Maine USA) Dickson K.W. CHIU (Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong) Yann-Hang Lee (Arizona State University, USA) Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Tony Shan (Bank of America, USA) Lixin Zhang (IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA) Si Qing Zheng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) Matti Rossi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland) Yingshu Li (Georgia State University, USA) Wei Lou (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Vojislav B. Misic (University of Manitoba, Canada) Kui Wu (University of Victoria, Canada) Ishfaq Ahmad (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Andreas Wombacher (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Yu-Kwong Kwok (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Dan Zhu (Iowa State University, USA) Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA) Yi Mu (University of Wollongong, Australia) Koji Nakano (Hiroshima University, Japan) Don-Lin Yang (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) Kazuo Iwano (IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan) Teo Yong Meng (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Patrick Hung (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada) Chu-Hsing Lin (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Albert Y. Zomaya (The University of Sydney, Australia) Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech, USA) Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Jinjun Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Franciszek Seredynski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Michael Goul (Arizona State University, USA) Stefan Jablonski (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany) Important Dates ============ Paper Submission Deadline: May 31, 2008 Acceptance Notificatioan: July 15, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2008 Symposium: December 17 ~ 20, 2008 Paper Submission ============= Authors should submit paper with about 6 pages (PDF file) by using online systems for review. Please use IEEE CS paper format Submission System: http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc08workshops/sub/ -- Proceedings ========= All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed in EI). Distinguished papers accepted and presented in TRUST-08, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the international journal (Pending). Contact ======= For further information regarding the symposium and paper submission, please contact at Program Chairs: Profs. Ching-Hsien Hsu (chh(a)chu.edu.tw) and Hangbae Chang (hbchang(a)daejin.ac.kr). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 19 May '08

19 May '08

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[Tccc] CFP ACM Mobiwac 2008 to be held in conjunction with ACM MSWIM 2008
by Bjorn Landfeldt 19 May '08

19 May '08

------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers for ACM MobiWac 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2008) (to be held in conjunction with the 11-th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) (MSWiM 2008), October 27-31, 2008). Web page: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~mobiwac Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------ The 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Protocols (MobiWac 2008) is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols Wireless/Mobile Web Access Wireless Internet and All-IP integration Next Generation Wireless systems Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Pervasive Communication and Computing Ubiquitous and mobile access Wireless Applications and testbeds Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff Multi-Channel Multi-Radio management Channels and resources allocation Energy and power management Context-aware services and applications Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures Interactive applications Mobile commerce technologies Mobile database management Wireless Multimedia Protocols Mobile and Wireless Entertainment Mobile Info-services QoS management Mobility Control and Management Localization and tracking Mobile/Vehicular environment access Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks Security, Trust management and Privacy issues Fault Tolerance solutions Wireless Systems' Design Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis Technical Program Committee --------------------------- General Chair Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Program Chair Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University (USA) Luciano Bononi, Universitty of Bologna, (Italy) Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, (Sweden) Jonathan Chan, CSIRO, (Australia) Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University (Taiwan) Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, (Greece) Claude Chaudet, ENST, (France) Naveen Chilamkurti, Latrobe University (Australia) Hesham Elsayed, United Arab Emirate University, (United Arab Emirates) Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, (Austria) Scott Fowler, Aston University, (UK) Lisandro Granville. Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, (Brazil) Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, (Canada) Arshad Jhumka, University of Warwick, (UK) Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, (Austria) Peter Langerdoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, (Germany) Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, (USA) Justin Lipman, Intel Corporation, (China) Luis Loyola, DoCoMo Communications Laboratory, (Germany) Kami Makki, University of Toledo, (USA) Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University, (USA) Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII (France) Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, (Portugal) Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, (France) Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, (Greece) Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, (Australia) Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg, (Germany) Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, (Canada) Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras, (Greece) Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, (Greece) Zainab Zaidi, NICTA, (Australia) Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, (USA) Important Dates --------------- All papers must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system ( http://edas.info/). Paper registration deadline: June 3, 2008 Paper upload deadline for registered papers: June 6, 2008 Acceptance notification: July 18, 2008 Camera-ready version due: August 8, 2008 Workshop: October 27-31, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------- High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the workshop. Paper length should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present its paper. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: A paper title A short abstract A complete list of authors and their affiliations A contact person for correspondence (please check that the correct e-mail is configured on EDAS system) MobiWac 2008 electronic submission is now active on the EDAS system. For any question or problem related to MobiWac 2008 submission, please contact bjornl(a)it.usyd.edu.au with e-mail Subject: MobiWac 2008 submission problem. ------------------------------ -- Bjorn Landfeldt University of Sydney Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Tccc] CFP EXTENDED ISWCS 2008, 21-24 October 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland
by Boon Sain Yeo 17 May '08

17 May '08

***Apologise for multiple copies received*** CFP EXTENDED to 25 May 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2008 (ISWCS'08) 21-24 October 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland Wireless communications is at the centre of a new and passionate era for telecommunications. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) positions itself as a recognised and dynamic forum for researchers and technologists to present and discuss original ideas in all fields related to wireless communication systems. In 2008, ISWCS will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The event follows the successful ISWCS'04 in Mauritius, ISWCS'05 in Siena, ISWCS'06 in Valencia and IEEE ISWCS'07 in Trondheim. IEEE ISWCS'08 is organized by University of Iceland and is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE VTS, IEEE Iceland Section and is technically supported by IEEE Comsoc Authors are invited to submit original papers that must not be currently under review by another journal or conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . 3G, 4G and beyond systems . Antenna and RF subsystems . Coding, modulation and equalization . Convergence of wireless systems . Cross-layer design and optimisation . Audio / video on wireless networks . Experimental systems and field trials . Fixed and nomadic wireless access . Generic access networks (GANs) . Heterogeneous wireless networking . Intelligent transportation systems . Location and positioning . MIMO . Mobility management . Modelling, analysis and simulation . QoS in wireless networks / systems . Radio interfaces and technologies . Radio resource management . Relaying and user cooperation . RFID . Satellite & high altitude systems . Security/privacy in wireless systems . Service and middleware platforms . DSP for wireless systems . Software radio / cognitive radio . Space-time coding and diversity . Spectrum sharing and coexistence . Traffic control and engineering . UWB . Wireless access techniques . Wireless ad-hoc networks . Wireless networks and systems . Wireless comm. & net. in ITS . Wireless / Mobile Internet . Wireless LANs and PANs . Wireless mesh networks . Wireless network architectures . Wireless net. information theory . Wireless propagation and channel . Wireless switching and routing . Wireless sensor networks . Wireless services and applications Both extended abstracts and full papers are welcome. For extended abstracts, the length should not be longer than 2 pages, and for full papers, not more than 8 pages (in IEEE two-column format, 10pt). Papers must be submitted electronically via TrackChair (http://iswcs2008.trackchair.com/). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed for their quality, correctness, originality, and relevance. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for inclusion in a planned special journal issue.) *****Papers submitted as extended abstracts are likely to be considered to poster session.******* Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent, together with a one page summary and the presenter's biography, to the Tutorial Chair. Conference General Chair: - Karl Guomundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Conference General Co-Chairs: - Jon Atli Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Iceland - Boon Sain Yeo, SensiMesh, SG Technical Advisory Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft, USA Technical Program Chair: Saemundur Thorsteinsson, Siminn, Iceland Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yuming Jiang, NTNU, Norway Chin-Tser Huang, University of South Carolina, USA Speaker Chair: Kristinn Andersen, Marel, Iceland Tutorial Chair: Saemundur Thorsteinsson, Siminn, Iceland Important Dates: - Submission: 25 May 2008 - Acceptance: 07 July 2008 - Author registration: 03 Aug. 2008 - Camera-ready paper: 03 Aug. 2008 - Tutorial proposal: 03 Aug. 2008 - Tutorials: 21 Oct. 2008 - Conference: 22-24 Oct. 2008 Conference Web and Contact: - http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2008/ - E-mail: karlsq(a)hi.is and boonyeo(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] ACM Q2SWinet 2008 - Call For Papers
by Matteo Cesana 17 May '08

17 May '08

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FAST APPROACHING June 1: Manuscript Registration June 5: Manuscript Submission ---------------------------------------- =========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th ACM Workshop on Quality of Service and Security in Wireless Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet) http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/Q2SWinet2008bis.htm Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27-31 October 2008 (in conjunction with ACM MSWIM 2008) =========================================================== ================== SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ================== Q2SWinet 2008 is the 4th Annual International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks. Q2SWinet will be a one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 11-th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008). The workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government institutions. In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as inexpensive and promising architectures for ubiquitous communications. In this scenario, the provisioning of the required Quality of Service (QoS) to end users, as well as the management of network Security have become crucial tasks to determine the success of future generation wireless and mobile networking paradigms. This workshop calls for cutting-edge research achievements on the provisioning of QoS and Security in wireless and mobile networks. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new theoretical and/or practical research results in the field of Quality of Service (QoS) support and Security management in mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere, nor currently under review in other conferences or journals. ================== TOPICS AT A GLANCE ================== -Security in Wireless MANETs, VANETs, sensor, mesh and PCS networks -Secure wireless access and secure routing -Secure cooperation-based systems and services -Secure wireless communication in multi-modal, multi-homed systems -Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks -Peer-to-peer security -Privacy, anonymity and authentication -Trust management for cooperation-based systems and services -QoS for wireless multimedia networks and systems -QoS and wireless/wired systems integration -QoS-based Wireless Network Services -QoS and security in Wireless VoIP systems and services -QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia systems -QoS in the Wireless Internet -QoS Routing in Wireless Systems -Monitoring and control systems of wireless networks -QoS Metrics for Wireless Systems -Power and Energy Management in Wireless Systems -Wireless Video Surveillance Networks -Wireless Network Survivability -Wireless Systems Reliability -Field Operating Tests, Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques -Real-time and QoS-aware Wireless Networks ========== SUBMISSION ========== Submission instructions can be found at http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/Q2SWinet2008bis.htm Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM press. The Organizing Committee is planning to have a special issue of a major international journal to host noteworthy papers accepted at the workshop (pending approval). =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper registration deadline: June 1, 2008 Paper submission deadline: June 5, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 13, 2008 Camera Ready Submission: August 4, 2008 Workshop Date: October 27-31, 2008 =================== ORGANIZING COMMITTE =================== General Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Program Committee Chair: Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Committee available at: http://home.dei.polimi.it/cesana/ACM/committee.htm _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] SIMUTools'09: Call for papers
by Claudio Cicconetti 17 May '08

17 May '08

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ++++ SIMUTools 2009 ++++ Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques March 2-6, 2009 - Rome (Italy) http://www.simutools.org ++ Sponsored by ICST ++ In technical cooperation with SIGSIM, SCS, INRIA (approval pending) ++ Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 ++ SIMUTools 2009 is the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. This edition, which builds on the success of the first conference (168 participants from 31 countries), will focus on all aspects of simulation modeling and analysis. High quality papers are sought on simulation tools, methodologies, applications, and practices. -- TOPICS -- The aim of the conference is to bring academic and industry researchers together with practitioners (from both the simulation community and from the numerous simulation user communities). The conference will address current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices, and foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. While the main focus of the conference is on simulation tools, the conference also encourages the submission of broader theoretical and practical research contributions. General areas include, but are not limited to: ** Simulation Techniques and Methodologies: Discrete Event, Web-based, Agent-based, Petri Nets, Fluid-flow simulation, Bond Graphs, Simulation-based Scheduling, Simulation languages, Simulation interoperability techniques, etc. ** Tools: NS-2/3, OPNET, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, open source tools, etc. The principal points of focus for the conference are computer networks, computer systems, and interdisciplinary work bridging various areas. Position papers from industry representatives, stimulating collaboration between industry and academia (e.g. posing problems and giving input to the simulation community) are particularly encouraged. Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Wireless technologies (vehicular, mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular systems, IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16.) * Mobility models * Overlay networks * Network traffic modeling and generation * Topology generation * Quality of service * Networked applications and new networking paradigms * Energy-efficient computing * Distributed systems * Operating systems * Interconnection networks * Fault tolerant systems * Embedded and real time systems * Logistics * Security and emergency response * Health care * Transportation * Manufacturing * Education and training * Environmental and biological systems * Social networks * Public systems -- SUBMISSION -- Authors are invited to submit papers in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format, through easychair (http://www.easychair.org). Regular papers (7 to 10 pages) will be eligible for awards and journal extension. The conference will include a "work in progress" session, which will accommodate short papers (4 to 6 pages) presenting ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the work at the conference. -- SPONSORSHIP -- The event is organized in cooperation (approval pending) with the ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) . All accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library, and they will be indexed by EI and ISI. Best papers, after further reviews, will be considered for publication in a special issue of Simulation: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation, International. -- AWARDS -- Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be identified by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. -- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -- We invite proposals for one-day workshops on new and emerging topics in Simulation Tools and Techniques to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop proposals should be sent to workshop(a)simutools.org, by June 29th, 2008. Acceptance notifications will be emailed by July 15th, 2008. -- CALL FOR POSTER SESSION -- Authors are also invited to submit proposals for poster presentations. Submit a ONE page extended abstract in PDF format to poster(a)simutools.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Participants in the Poster Session are required to register and present their poster at the conference. Poster abstracts are due by December 8, 2008. -- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS -- ** David Nicol (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ** Francesco Quaglia (Universita` di Roma - La Sapienza) -- IMPORTANT DATES -- Workshop submission deadline: June 29th, 2008 Workshop acceptance notification: July 15th, 2008 Paper submission deadline: October 19, 2008 Poster submission deadline: December 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan 10, 2009 Camera ready: Jan 25, 2009 Conference: March 2-6, 2009 -- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -- Steering Chairs Imrich Chlamtach, Create-Net John Heath, University of Southern Maine General Chairs Olivier Dalle, INRIA/Universite' de Nice Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University Local Chair Andrea D'Ambrogio, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Program Chairs Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa Felipe Perrone, Bucknell University Conference Organization Chair Melissa Ezell, ICST Publication Chair Frederic Mallet , INRIA/University of Nice Publicity Chairs Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy (Europe) Polly Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Asia/Pacific) Rodrigo Castro, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina (America) Financial Chair Karen Decker, ICST Webmaster Juan-Carlos Maureira, INRIA -- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE -- (to be completed) * Fernando Barros - University of Coimbra, Portugal * Luciano Bononi - University of Bologna, Italy * Jean-Pierre Briot - LIP6, Paris, France * Franck Cappello - INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France * Carlos Christoffersen - Lakehead University, Canada * Andrea D'Ambrogio - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy * Bernard Espinasse - LSIS, Marseille, France * Javier Garcia Villalba - Complutense University of Madrid, Spain * Norbert Giambiasi - LSIS, Marseille, France * Tom Henderson - Boeing Phantom Works & University of Washington, USA * Dohy Hong - N2NSoft, France * Tania Jimenez - University of Avignon, France * Helen Karatza - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ernesto Kofman - Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina * Pierre L'Ecuyer - University of Montreal, Canada * Zhen Liu - IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Chung-Horng Lung - Carleton University, Canada * Benjamin Melamed - Rutger Business School, USA * Sandor Molnar - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Pieter Mosterman - Mathworks, USA * Krzysztof Pawlikowski - University of Canterbury, New Zealand * Ramon Puigjaner - Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain * Martin Quinson - University Henry Poincare' & Loria, Nancy, France * George Riley - Georgia Tech Institute, USA * Herb Schwetman - Sun Microsystems Laboratories, USA * Robert Szabo - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary * Dietmar Tutsch - Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Adelinde Uhrmacher - University of Rostock, Germany * Jean-Marc Vincent - ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France * Bernard Zeigler - Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA http://www.simutools.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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