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CFP: 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), December 13th ~ 15th, 2008, Hainan Island, China.
by Ming-Tuo Zhou 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

[Apologies if you receive this more than once] ***************************************************************** 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems (WITS-08), December 13th ~ 15th, 2008, Hainan Island, China. http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/WITS/ In conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking (FGCN 2008), http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/ SCOPE & Topics =============== A number of wireless communications technologies have been developed in recent years to meet the increasing needs of high-speed cordless connections in civil and military applications. The advances include WiFi (IEEE 802.11), WiMAX (IEEE 802.16), Wireless PAN (IEEE 802.15), sensor networks, Bluetooth, mesh/ad hoc networks, RFID, mobile IP, mobile management, smart antenna, Radio-over-fiber, OFDM/OFDMA, MIMO, cooperative communications, cognitive radio, and so on. These emerging technologies will significantly impact the design and operation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which aims to effectively provide higher vehicles safety, traffic management, and communications among vehicles and transport infrastructure. Currently, governmental institutes and societies in North America, Europe, Japan, and China, etc., are actively developing advanced wireless technologies for road, rail and maritime transport systems. For instance, the Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) band has been allocated in the USA at 5.9 GHz for vehicle-to-roadside (V2R) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. The IEEE 802.11p working group is developing enhancements of 802.11 standards to support ITS, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), vehicular telematics, and infotainment applications. This workshop covers the area of wireless communications technologies for ITS applications. It will bring together researchers to present new results and describe work in progress to reflect the latest advances in the state of the art in design, modeling, simulation, and applications of this area. The topics of the workshop cover, but not limited to, the following: * Smart antenna in ITS * Millimeter-wave Radar in ITS * RFID in ITS * Radio channel modeling for ITS * IEEE 802.11p for ITS * Dedicated Short Range Communications in ITS * Wireless communications for Maritime ITS * Sensor networks and technologies for ITS * Ad hoc/mesh networks for ITS * Mobile management in ITS * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous networks for ITS * Digital maps and location technologies Submission: =========================== The submission should be done according to the guidelines on http://www.sersc.org/FGCN2008/. Important Dates: ================ Submission Deadline: July 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera Ready Due: September 1, 2008 Workshop Date: December 13-15, 2008 Workshop Committee: ================== General Chair Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway General Co-Chair Thanos Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece TPC Chair Ming-Tuo Zhou, NICT (Japan), Singapore TPC Co-Chair Hassnaa Moustafa, France Telecom R&D (Orange Labs), France

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[Fwd: [Researchers] 11th ACM/IEE MSWiM´2008 - Vancouver, Canada - 26-30/10/2008]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Researchers] 11th ACM/IEE MSWiM´2008 - Vancouver, Canada - 26-30/10/2008 Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:52:01 -0300 Von: Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare <mirela(a)barddal.br> An: <researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br> ****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th ACM/IEEE* MSWiM 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 11th ACM/IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada October 27-31, 2008 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2008 * ACM and IEEE pending upon Approval -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 25, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note1: A special issue With Elsevier, Computer Networks is planned for extended versions of the best papers from MSWiM 2008 as well as additional papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note2: We have two Prominent keynote Speakers: Prof. Mario Gerla (UCLA) and Prof. Victor Leung (UBC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope and Overview: ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2008 is the Eleventh Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. MSWiM is an international forum dedicated to high level discussion of Wireless and Mobile systems, networks, algorithms and applications, with an emphasis on rigorous performance evaluation. MSWiM is a highly selective conference that is recognized as one of the most prestigious sources of innovative ideas and breakthroughs in the field. MSWiM 2008 will be held October 27-31, 2008, in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Topics of Interest: Papers related to wireless and mobile network Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Simulation are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in mobile and wireless systems: - Performance evaluation and modeling - Analytical models - Simulation languages and tools for wireless systems - Wireless measurements tools and experiences - Formal methods for analysis of wireless systems - Correctness, survivability and reliability evaluation - Mobility modeling and management - Capacity, coverage and connectivity modeling and analysis - Wireless network algorithms and protocols - Wireless PANs, LANs, MANs - Wireless Mesh networks, Mobile Ad hoc networks, VANET - Wireless Communication - Sensor and actuator networks - Integration of wired and wireless systems - Pervasive computing and emerging models - Wireless multimedia systems - QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Algorithms and protocols for energy efficient operation and power control - Mobile applications, system software and algorithms - RF channel modeling and analysis - Design methodologies - Tools, prototype and testbeds - Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems Submission instructions can be found at http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2008 Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM press. Note: A special issue With Elsevier, Computer Networks is planned for extended versions of the best papers from MSWiM 2008 as well as additional papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Paper submission deadline April 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance July 8, 2008 Tutorial submission deadline June 5, 2008 Poster/Demos/Tools Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2008 Workshop submission deadline March 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas, CTI/University of Patras, Greece General Vice Chair: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Brahim Bensaou, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Tutorial Co-Chairs: Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia Workshop Chair: Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, SQU and University of Glasgow, UK Poster Co-Chairs: Nirwan Ansari, NJIT, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Demo/Tools Co-Chairs: Kemal E. Tepe, University of Windsor, Canada David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Web/Master Co-Chairs: Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy MarcoDi-Felici, University of Bologna, Italy Registration Chair Khalil El-Khatib, UOIT, Canada Publicity Co-Chairs: Geyong Min, Bradford University, UK Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Lille, France Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Steering Committee Chair: Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Committee: http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/mswim2008/committee.htm -- 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] [ACM PE-WASUN 2008]: Call for Paper]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [ACM PE-WASUN 2008]: Call for Paper Datum: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:56:07 +0200 Von: Isabelle Guerin-Lassous <Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2008 5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 11th ACM MSWiM Symposium) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun08 Vancouver, CANADA 27-31 October, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) Isabelle Guérin Lassous Université Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Yasunori Owada Space-Time Engineering Inc., Japan Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Chiara Petrioli University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Samuel Pierre Ecole Polytechnique Montréal, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted via OpenConf on the following link: http://pe-wasun08.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/openconf/openconf.php. Important Dates: ---------------- Paper registration due: May 20th, 2008 Full paper due: June 1st, 2008 Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP--VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008]
by Lars Wolf 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP--VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008 Datum: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:21:21 -0400 Von: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> Antwort an: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ACM VANET 2008 Vehicle to Vehicle -- Vehicle to Roadside -- Vehicle to Internet The Fifth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2008 Date: September 15, 2008 San Francisco, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2008/ Important Dates (tentative): Paper Submission Deadline: April 13th Notification of Acceptance: June 6th Camera-Ready Deadline: June 27th The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of vehicular inter-networking (VANET) technologies. Based on short- and medium-range communication as well as on cellular systems, vehicular inter-networking will enable vehicular safety applications (including collision and other safety warnings) as well as non-safety applications (like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others). The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, secure, and privacy-preserving VANET technologies presents an extraordinary challenge for the wireless research community. A high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular inter-networking in terms of mobility behavior, applications scenarios, and application requirements makes VANET research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Furthermore, VANET present a very active field of research, development, standardization, and field trials. Throughout the world, there are many national and international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANET. These include consortia like Vehicle Safety Consortium (US), Car-2-Car Communication Consortium (Europe), and Advanced Safety Vehicle Program (Japan), standardization efforts like IEEE 802.11p (WAVE), and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US. Following the successes of VANET 2004 held in Philadelphia, VANET 2005 held in Cologne, Germany, VANET 2006 in Los Angeles, CA, and VANET 2007 in Montréal, QC, Canada, the Fifth ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Inter-Networking (VANET) will be held in San Francisco, CA in conjunction with MobiCom 2008. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular inter-networking (VANET). All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Medium access control protocols - Multi-channel organization and operation - Communication protocol design - Safety and non-safety applications - Vehicle-to-vehicle/roadside/Internet communication - Simulation frameworks - Field operational testing - Network management - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues Submission Instructions All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), in font no smaller than 11 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions for paper submission will be posted on the VANET 2008 web page at: http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2008/. Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Varsha Sadekar, General Motors Paolo Santi, Italian Natl. Research Council Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Martin Mauve, Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf Technical Program Committee: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Fan Bai , General Motors Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University Levente Buttyan Budapest University of Technology and Economics Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Andreas Festag, NEC Europe Ltd Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL Mary Ann Ingram, Georgia Tech Markus Jakobsson , Indiana University Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Frank Kargl, Ulm University Timo Kosch , BMW PR Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Research Christof Paar, Ruhr-University Bochum Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, EPFL Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University Maxim Raya, EPFL Björn Scheuermann, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research Daniel Stancil, Carnegie Mellon University Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University Pravin Varaiya, University of California at Berkeley Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University Andre Weimerskirch, escrypt GmbH Web and Publicity Chair: Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Technical Center ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. 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Virtualization in Mobile Computing workshop
by Ramon Caceres 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Call for Papers WORKSHOP ON VIRTUALIZATION IN MOBILE COMPUTING (MobiVirt) http://mobivirt08.cs.duke.edu/ Held in conjunction with ACM/USENIX MobiSys 2008 Breckenridge, Colorado, USA June 17, 2008 The Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing (MobiVirt) will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in virtual execution environments for mobile applications and systems. The workshop seeks original papers on virtualization at all levels of the mobile hardware and software stack. We are particularly interested in position papers that propose new directions of research, advocate nontraditional approaches to old (or new) ideas, or generate insightful discussion. The workshop proceedings will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. TOPIC AREAS OF INTEREST: * Virtual machine monitors for mobile devices * Application-level virtualization on mobile devices * Virtual machines for high-level languages on mobile devices * Abstractions for mobile shared-resource infrastructures (e.g. GENI slivers and slices) * Programming language support for virtualization suitable for mobile environments * Novel techniques and applications of interpreters on mobile devices * Virtualization for security, reliability, and isolation on mobile devices * Operating system support for virtualization on mobile devices * Applications of virtual wireless networks (e.g., Virtual WiFi) * Mobile applications that use virtualization in novel ways * Performance analysis and debugging for mobile virtual execution environments * Other experiences with mobile virtual execution environments IMPORTANT DATES: * Abstract submission deadline: April 14, 2008, at 11:59pm EDT * Paper submission deadline: April 21, 2008, at 11:59pm EDT * Notification of acceptance: May 23, 2008 * Final papers due: June 6, 2008 * Workshop date: June 17, 2008 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: MobiVirt 2008 invites insightful new contributions that apply aspects of virtualization to problems in mobile computing. Titles, authors, and abstracts must be registered by 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, April 14, 2008. Complete papers in PDF format must be received by 11:59 p.m. US Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, April 21, 2008. Papers must be no longer than 5 pages including figures, tables, and references. Text should be formatted in two columns on 8.5-inch by 11-inch paper using 10-point fonts on 12-point leading (single-spaced) and 1-inch margins. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page (reviewing is not blind). Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white without requiring magnification. Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review or deadline extensions. Submissions will be handled electronically at <http:// mobivirt08.cs.duke.edu/>. Please direct any questions regarding submissions to the program co-chairs: Ramon Caceres <ramon(a)research.att.com> and Landon Cox <lpcox(a)cs.duke.edu>. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Ramon Caceres (AT&T Labs) Landon Cox (Duke U) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David F. Bacon (IBM Research) Suman Banerjee (U of Wisconsin) Jorg Brakensiek (Nokia Research) Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke U) Mark Corner (U of Massachusetts-Amherst) Sam King (UIUC) Uli Kremer (Rutgers U) Jay Lepreau (U of Utah) Nitya Narasimhan (Motorola Research) Jason Nieh (Columbia U) Jens Palsberg (UCLA) Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers U) M. Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon U) Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon U) Sang-bum Suh (Samsung) Matt Welsh (Harvard U) ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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[Mycolleagues] [CFP: deadline is April 10] IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks 2008
by Kenta Umebayashi 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

This message is cross-posted to several lists. Apologies for any duplicate postings. ======================================================= Call For Papers - Deadline: 10 April, 2008 IEEE International Workshop on WDN 2008 International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks Date and Location: September 15, 2008, Cannes, France http://www.icwdn.org/wdn/ ======================================================= We would like to invite prospective authors to submit technical papers to IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks (WDN 2008), which will be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2008, 15 September, 2008, Cannes, France. Authors are encouraged to submit original, high uality research papers addressing the below stated areas. * IMPORTANT DATES: *********************************** 10 April, 2008 Submission deadline *********************************** 19 May, 2008 Notification of acceptance 2 June, 2008 Final manuscript 15 Sept, 2008 Workshop * SCOPE: With diversification of wireless access technologies and their application fields, the role of wireless access is no longer the last hop terminal access, but also for repeating functionality such as mesh/multi-hop/ad-hoc/sensor networking. Thereby more complicated wireless networking, especially radio resource management is required to well organize whole the networks. In such cases, it is almost impossible to optimally conduct wireless resource management based on a centralized control policy. Rather, distributed and/or cooperative control techniques should be introduced in necessary parts in any layer, such as distributed antenna, cognitive radio, distributed MAC, and dynamic heterogeneous networking. To systematize an academic basis of this new research field and to discuss the adaptability of these new technologies to enhance the performance of wireless distributed networks (WDN), the workshop named WDN 2008 will be held. In order to achieve such purpose, we believe that cross layer discussions among researchers in the field of physical, MAC, and network layers are required. WDN 2008 will be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2008, as part of the conference workshops to make up various contributions as well as invited contributions from many research fields related to wireless distributed networks. * TOPICS AREAS: The main purpose of this workshop is to systematize an academic basis over the various topics in wireless distributed networks as listed below, and to discuss the adaptability of these new technologies to enhance the performance of wireless distributed networks. - Application Ad-hoc network, Multi-hop network, Mesh network, Sensor network, Cognitive radio, heterogeneous network, and cooperative transmission system - Technology Network coding, Super position coding, Cooperative sensing, Cooperative relay, Virtual antenna array, Distributed antenna system, BS or AP cooperation, Distributed RRM or scheduling, Distributed MAC, Distributed MIMO, Radio Spectrum Sensing, Spatial spectrum sharing, Cross layer optimization - Theory Multi-dimensional Information theory, Convex optimization, Game theory, Graph theory, Bayesian network * PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Papers should be written following the PIMRC 2008 paper instruction. Papers should be written in English, not exceeding 5 double-column pages (overlength pages will be charged for). Please, submit your paper using EDAS before 10 April 2008. * CONTACT ---------------- For more information, please visit the conference web site or contact the PR person: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Tel/Fax: +81 (0) 42 388 7483 Email: ume[AT]suzuki-lab.tuat.ac.jp Kenta Umebayashi Conference web site: http://www.icwdn.org/wdn/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] ICNP 2008: Call for papers
by Ramana Kompella 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2008 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Orlando, Florida October 19-22, 2008 ICNP 2008, the sixteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is a conference covering all aspects of network protocols, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. ICNP 2008 will be held in Orlando, Florida, on October 19-22, 2008. Papers with significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers cannot be previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Protocol testing, analysis, design and implementation 2. Measurement and monitoring of protocols 3. Protocols designed for specific functions, such as: routing, flow and congestion control, QoS, signaling, security, network management, or resilience 4. Protocols designed for specific networks, such as: wireless and mobile networks, Ad hoc and sensor networks, virtual networks, and ubiquitous networks Papers must deal specifically with protocols. Papers of general networking nature where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered only if they are of exceptional high quality and only a very limited number of such papers will be included in the technical program. ICNP will select an accepted full paper for the best paper award. For the first time, ICNP is using a double-blind review process. The identity of authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations should not appear in the paper; bibliographic references should be made in such a way as to preserve author anonymity. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registration: April 19, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Paper submission: April 25, 2008 11:59 PM EDT Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2008 Camera ready version: September 5, 2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jim Kurose, University of Massachussetts, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Lee, Ohio State University, USA (chair) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA GENERAL CHAIRS: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, Austin, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS: Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ramana Rao Kompella, Purdue University, USA James Minseok Kwon, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA WEB CHAIR: Ossama Younis, Telcordia Applied Research, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Simon Lam, University of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State University, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA Ken Calvert, University of Kentucky, USA Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Raymond Miller, University of Maryland, USA Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See Web site. FURTHER INFORMATION: Web site: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/fahmy/icnp2008/ E-mail: icnp2008(a)cs.purdue.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: Special Session on Mobile Mixed Reality Games at DIMEA 2008
by Irma Lindt 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** We apologize for possible multiple copies. Please distribute the CfP to those who might be interested. -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION *** Mobile Mixed Reality Games *** 3rd International Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts (DIMEA 2008) 10-12 September 2008, Athens, Greece http://www.dimea2008.org Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Mixed Reality games are games that are played in a physical environment augmented with virtual game artifacts. While former Mixed Reality applications were mainly stationary, advances in mobile computing and positioning technology have made this new type of games possible. Players wear mobile computers equipped with positioning technology, head-mounted displays, laptops, personal digital assistants, or mobile phones in order to play this kind of games. Early prototypes such as ARQuake, Human Pacman, or NetAttack showed the technical feasibility but also the potentials of mobile Mixed Reality games. Players find it fascinating to play their own avatar, to physically move in the game world and to directly interact and compete with their co-players. The close integration of Mixed Reality games in the physical environment offers a new player experience that cannot be achieved with traditional computer or console games. While the technology has matured since the first games in this field leading to Mixed Reality systems running on off-the-shelf computers and there are already some related commercial systems available such as Sony's Eye of Judgment, many issues related to the design, development and evaluation of mobile Mixed Reality games are still open and need to be further researched. We would like to invite papers to be submitted to this special session of DIMEA 2008 that focus on one or several issues of Mobile Mixed Reality Games including but not limited to: . Design and evaluation of Augmented Reality and MR games . Design guidelines for Augmented Reality or MR games . Ethical issues of mobile Mixed Reality games . Positioning technology for MR games including marker-based and marker-less tracking . MR hardware and software systems for games . Tools for rapid prototyping of MR games In the special session we will bring together researcher and practioneers who work in this new and emerging field of MR games. The session will draw the attention to the potentials of this new form of media in entertainment and will push the state-of-the-art in this field. *** SUBMISSIONS *** Please note that the submission and review of papers for the Special Session will be conducted through the same on-line system (www.dimea2008.org) used for regular papers. Papers submitted to the Special Session should follow the same style as regular DIMEA papers. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers of not more than 8 pages, including tables, figures and references. Papers should present original research related to the above mentioned scientific areas, not published elsewhere. Full paper submissions should adhere to the ACM SIG Proceedings style guidelines. The respective templates may be found at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html Please use the style "Strict Adherence to SIGS style - (Sheridan Printing)" on that page. *** IMPORTANT DEADLINES *** Full Paper Submission: April 30, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2008 Camera-ready Paper Submission: June 15, 2008 *** ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT *** Wolfgang Broll (wolfgang.broll(a)fit.fraunhofer.de), Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Irma Lindt (irma.lindt(a)fit.fraunhofer.de), Fraunhofer FIT, Germany **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Tccc] Fwd: CFP -- MODENETs 2008
by Yuanzhu Chen 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

CALL FOR PAPERS MODENETs 2008 First International Workshop on MOdelling and DEsign of wireless mesh NETworks http://www.modenets.org In conjunction with Valuetools 2008 October 24, 2008, Athens, Greece In technical cooperation with ACM OVERVIEW: The aim of MODENETs 2008 is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in analytical and simulation tools and techniques for performance evaluation and modeling of wireless mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Simulations techniques and tools for large scale wireless networks * Queuing and scheduling theory applied to WMNs * Traffic analysis and modeling of existing and future WMNs * Network measurement techniques * Modeling of wireless ad-hoc, mesh and sensor networks PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.modenets.org) for detailed instructions. PAPER PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be be included in the Proceedings of MODENETs 2008 and published in the ACM digital library. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due May 25, 2008 Notification of acceptance July 27, 2008 Final manuscript due August 31, 2008 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIR: Yuanzhu Peter Chen (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Roberto Riggio (CREATE-NET) Sebastian Max (RWTH Aachen University) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See http://www.modenets.org -- Yuanzhu Peter Chen ----------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, A1B 3X5, Canada Phone: +1-709-737-6944 Fax: +1-709-737-2009 Web: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~yzchen/ ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP - 1st IEEE International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING (FMN´08): 1 Month Deadline
by Eduardo Cerqueira 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Dear colleague, Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the same announcement. CALL FOR PAPER ********************************************************************** 1st IEEE International Workshop on FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING http://fmn2008.dei.uc.pt 2008 September 17, Cardiff, Wales, UK Technical Co-sponsorship by IEEE Communications Society Collocated with IEEE NGMAST 2008 (http://www.ngmast.com/) ********************************************************************** AIMS AND GOALS Real-time multimedia services are contributing to enhance our life experience and are expected to be among the most important applications in future generation networks. The management of real-time multimedia services is an important key to attract and keep customers, while increasing profits to content providers. The efficient delivery and deployment of real-time multimedia services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wired and wireless systems is a challenging research objective. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols, as well as, the demand for improved Quality of Service (QoS) and user experience, and seamless mobility control creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols, architectures and methods towards Future Multimedia Networking Systems. The objective of the Future Multimedia Networking (FMN´08) workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research and developing activities contributing to aspects of multimedia systems, and networking. We are inviting both theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Multimedia management in next generation networks - Content delivery networks - Audio-visual systems - Novel protocol for multimedia services - Grid networking for multimedia services - Multimedia in personal, sensor and ad-hoc networks - Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks - Quality of service management in multimedia networks - Quality of experience management in multimedia networks - Management of service oriented architectures - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Novel multimedia architectures/platforms - Multicast and broadcast multimedia service management - IP multimedia system operations and management - Resource reservation for multimedia services - Multimedia in mobile and broadband wireless access networks - Experiments/lessons from recent deployments - Performance evaluation of multimedia services - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia services - Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services - Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services Special Issue Journal Publication: Best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT). PAPER SUBMISSION Full papers reporting original and unpublished research results on FMN´08 topics are solicited. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere while being evaluated for this conference. - Formatting: The proceedings will be published by the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Press. Submissions must be in IEEE two-column format and must not exceed 6 pages, including figures, tables and references. The cover page should contain title, author names, affiliations, and email addresses. Please indicate clearly the corresponding author. Include up to five keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 300 words. - How to submit: The paper submission for FMN´08 will only be accepted through the EDAS Paper Submission System accessible from the link on the website. Only papers in PDF will be accepted for reviewing. Submissions as e-mail attachment will not be accepted. To register or submit a paper click on http://edas.info/6285 - Reviewing: Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive rigorous peer reviewing. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance and clarity of presentation. Selection will be based on full papers. All accepted papers of the conference are expected to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 2008 / April / 28 Acceptance notification: 2008 / June / 01 Camera ready: 2008 / June / 20 COMMITTEES General Chair Eduardo Cerqueira, University of Coimbra, Portugal - ecoelho (at) dei (.) uc (.) pt General Co-chair Thomas Michael Bohnert, Siemens CT, Germany - thomas.bohnert (at) siemens (.) com TPC Chair Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal - boavida (at) dei (.) uc (.) pt TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMITTEE Parag Mogre, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA; Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Dmitri Moltchanov, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy; Antônio Jorge Abelém, Federal University of Para, Brazil; Eng Keong Lua, NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan; Luigi Iannone, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Petros Belimpasakis, Nokia Research Center, Finland; Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy; Marília Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Fernando Kuipers, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Edmundo Madeira, University of Campinas, Brazil; Matti Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway; Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom; Artur Ziviani, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil; Alexey Vinel, Saint-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Russia; Ralf Schmitz, Zühlke Engineering GmbH, Germany; Bilhanan Silverajan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland; Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University, PRC; Pedro Neves, Portugal Telecom Inovacao, Portugal; Nicola Ciulli, NeXtworks S.r.l., Italy; Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden; Matthias Scheffel, Siemens CT, Germany; Guome Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Luis Veloso, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Augusto Neto, Institute of Telecommunications - Aveiro, Portugal; Marc Brogle, University of Bern, Switzerland; Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; Alexandre Fonte, Polytechnical Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal; Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, PRC; Kelvin Dias, Federal University of Para, Brazil; _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Inter-Perf 2008
by Giovanni Neglia 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

----------------------------------------------------------------------- INTER-PERF 2008 Third International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Systems Approach in Performance Evaluation and Design of Computer & Communication Systems October 24, 2008, Athens, Greece http://www.inter-perf.org Full Papers due: June 1, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Communication networks is now a diverse area featuring sensor networks, mobile networks, ad hoc networks, and various application layer networks. A great deal of current research focuses on the networking aspect of interacting computer systems, which are typically large scale and highly dynamic. Interestingly, operational principles of these networking systems may exhibit great similarity with complex systems found in other sciences, when studied at an appropriate level of abstraction. This observation suggests that models and techniques developed in other sciences can potentially be used in order to evaluate and understand the performance of existing communication systems and also to drive design of new ones. The workshop aims at getting together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas, including biology, economics, physics, artificial intelligence and social sciences, to present their contributions applicable to performance evaluation and design of computer & communications systems. In particular this third edition of the workshop will focus on completely distributed self-organizing systems. Approaches from the following research areas are considered of particular interest: * Biology * Microeconomics * Mechanism design * Multiple agent systems * Social networks --------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------- Submission Deadline: June 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: July 7, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscripts: August 8, 2008 --------------------------- Submission Instructions --------------------------- Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in the ACM conference proceedings format, which are limited to 8 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All of the papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair Conference Management System (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interperf2008). At least one listed author on the final paper must register by the camera-ready due date and attend the workshop to present her/his paper. --------------------------- Publication --------------------------- All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Accepted papers will be published in Valuetools 2008 conference proceedings. --------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS --------------------------- Giovanni Neglia INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France giovanni.neglia(a)sophia.inria.fr Vasileios Pappas IBM Watson Research Lab, Hawthorne, NY vpappas(a)us.ibm.com --------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------- Konstantin Avrachenkov INRIA Ozalp Babaoglu University of Bologna Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Hermann de Meer University of Passau Andreas Deutsch Technische Universität Dresden Olivier Dousse Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Falko Dressler University of Erlangen Stephen Eubank Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Erol Gelenbe Imperial College London Rica Gonen Yahoo! Research Zahia Guessoum Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI Spyros Kontogiannis University of Ioannina Matthieu Latapy Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris VI Jean-Yves Le Boudec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Pietro Lio University of Cambridge Anil Somayaji Carleton University Ilenia Tinnirello University of Palermo José Vidal University of South Carolina Milan Vojnovic Microsoft Research Lidia Yamamoto University of Basel _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2008
by Christer Åhlund 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ---------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE LCN ON-MOVE 2008 Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/ Montreal, Canada; October 20-23, 2008. ---------------------------------------------------- To be held in conjuction with IEEE LCN http://www.ieeelcn.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------- IMPRTANT DATES: * Paper registration deadline: April 25, 2008 * Paper submission deadline: May 2, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008 * Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2008 * Author registration by: August 28, 2008 SCOPE: Users are becoming increasingly mobile and this requires solutions to manage network connectivity in different situations and places both in urban and rural areas. We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers in the area of mobility management including protocols enabling mobility, heterogeneous network access, vehicular networks, security and applications. These are the areas of interest for the workshop: Vehicular networks -------------------------------- Mobility issues in DSRC Gateway access and selection Inter-vehicle communication (V2V) Vehicle to infrastructure communication (V2I) Network availability User Mobility -------------------------- Mobile IP issues SIP related issues Transport layer mobility Cross layer design for mobility Policy-based management of mobility Service discovery Heterogeneity ------------------------ Managing vertical handover Multihoming Performance metrics Access network selection QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks Network operation and maintenance Security ------------------- AAA mobility support Specific demands in mobile environments Trust and privacy for mobile users Applications -------------------------- Multimedia for mobile users Media support for mobile users and vehicles Scalable applications Service deployment issues Quality of Experience Guidance applications Workshop chairs ------------------------------ Christer Åhlund, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Poster and Demo session chairs ------------------------------------------------- Satoko Itaya, ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Japan Salil Kanhere, University Of New South Wales, Australia A list of the program committee can be found at: http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/committee.php <http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/committee.html> Paper submissiom and publication --------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages, 10 pt font in IEEE transactions format) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop (see below). Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. All submission instructions can be found here: http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/submission.php <http://www.ieee-lcn-onmove.org/submission.html> Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of IEEE LCN and on IEEE Xplore. Poster papers are an opportunity to present initial results and obtain feedback on on-going research. We also welcome submissions for demonstrations that showcase original research, practical implementations and realistic applications of user mobility and vehicular networks. Poster/demo papers must be restricted to 2 camera-ready pages. Christer Åhlund ------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC)
by Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers and Demos] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (IEEE WiVeC'08) 21-22 September 2008, Calgary Marriott, 110 9th Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 5A6 Canada http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ Sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Wireless vehicular communications has been identified as a key technology for increasing road safety and transport efficiency, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless ubiquitous connectivity. The potential of this technology has been acknowledged with the establishment of ambitious research programs worldwide, such as the European eSafety initiative, the US programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) currently covers through its areas of interest (Mobile Radio, Transportation Systems and Automotive Electronics) all technical aspects needed to make wireless vehicular communications a reality. As a result, the IEEE VTS society has decided to establish a technical symposium on wireless vehicular communications, with the first issues planned to be co-located with the reputed IEEE VTC conferences. The IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) will cover all vehicular wireless communications aspects of Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, including implications on transport efficiency and safety, implications on automotive electronics, liability issues, standardizations efforts and spectrum assignment. After a successful first WiVeC edition in 2007 (http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2007/) with over 150 participants in the 2-day event, the second IEEE WiVeC symposium will be co-located with the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2008 Fall conference and will take place at the Calgary Marriott Hotel in Calgary on the 21st and 22nd of September 2008. Combined registrations packages will be offered for WiVeC and VTC events. All accepted papers will be included in the VTC 2008-Fall conference proceedings and will be published on the IEEE Xplore database. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine http://www.ieeevtm.org Authors are encouraged to submit full papers (a maximum of five pages) through the conference web site. Topics of interest ------------------ The WiVec Symposium seeks original papers - not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal - in the area of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * RF technologies, antenna design, physical layer and propagation models. * Radio resource management and interference management. * Spectrum assignment and EMC regulations. * Architecture, networking protocols (including ad-hoc, routing, data dissemination, etc) and their evalutation. * QoS and cross-layer optimization design. * Communications systems and technologies. * Testbeds and simulation platforms. * Interworking with sensor network technologies. * In-car electronics and embedded integration of wireless vehicular communications. * Roadside infrastructure. * Mobility management, mobility and vehicle traffic models. * Digital maps and location technologies. * Decision and control issues. * Human-Machine Interface. * Applications (Ecall, toll collection, traffic information, wireless diagnosis etc.). * Security, liability and privacy. * Standards development, business models, policies (e.g., Cooperative aspects of vehicular communication). * Assessment of impact on transport efficiency and safety. * Scalability issues in metropolitan-wide vehicular networks. Regular Paper Submissions ------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit full length papers (maximum 5 pages) following the submission guidelines provided at http://www.ieeevtc.org/wivec2008/ Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. A selection of the best WiVeC papers will be published in a special issue of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (www.ieeevtm.org <http://www.ieeevtm.org> ). Important Dates for regular papers ---------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 30 April 2008 Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2008 Camera-ready papers due: 9 June 2008 Call for Demos --------------- Together with the poster session, WiVeC will feature a demo session designed to allow industrials and researchers to showcase their latest industrial applications and research prototypes in WiVeC related topics. Poster and demo sessions will be co-located to ensure maximum visibility and a close interaction between presenters and participants. Demo proposals covering innovative technologies, platforms, analysis tools and applications related to wireless vehicular communications are encouraged. Submissions describing both mature or innovative systems and prototypes developed for commercial use or for research purposes, from industries or universities, are encouraged. The submitted demo proposal should include in a maximum of 2 A4 pages following the WiVeC paper format: 1. Title, authors and contact information. 2. Technical content to be demonstrated. 3. An overview of the demonstration set-up (the inclusion of photographs of the demonstrator are encouraged) and the results that will be shown to attendees. 4. Any URLs that link to screen-shots, live demos, or related information The authors should also email the Demo Chair with information on the equipment or facilities required for the system demonstration (e.g., power supplies, Internet connections, table dimensions, etc). Demonstrations could be supported by a poster describing the general set-up of the demonstration, its background and technical content to be demonstrated. Demo participants interested to use a poster should also inform the demos chair. Demonstrations will be selected based on their novelty, technical quality, and attractiveness of the demonstrated system. Accepted demonstrations will be included in IEEE Xplore and the Conference CDROM. Please note that for every accepted demonstration, it is required that at least one person registers for the conference and presents the demo. However, no additional paper charge is needed for authors that are already presenting a regular paper in IEEE WiVeC'08. Important Dates for Demos ------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 10 May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 30 May 2008 Camera-ready papers due: 9 June 2008

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[Mycolleagues] Deadline Extension for EURASIP CFP: WIRELESS ACCESS IN VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT AND FUTURE VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS
by Weidong Xiang 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

------------Deadline Extended to May 1, 2008 as many requests!----------------------------------------- Thanks for considering... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS RECENT PROGRESSES IN WIRELESS ACCESS IN VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENT (WAVE) AND FUTURE VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-art solution to contemporary vehicular communications, which is anticipated to be widely applied in the near future to radically improve the transportation environment in the aspects of safety, intelligent management and data exchange services. WAVE systems will fundamentally smooth the progress of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) by providing it with high performance physical platforms. WAVE systems will build upon the IEEE 802.11p standard, which is still active and expected to be ratified in April, 2009. Meanwhile, the VHF/UHF (700MHz) band vehicular communications systems are attracting increasingly attention recently. The fast varying and harsh vehicular environment bring about several fresh research topics on the study of WAVE systems and future vehicular communications systems, which include physical layer challenges associated with mobile channels, capacity evaluation, novel network configuration, effective media access control (MAC) protocols, and robust routing and congestion control schemes. The objective of this special section is to gather and circulate recent progresses in this fast developing area of WAVE and future vehicular communications systems spanning from theoretical analysis to testbed setup, and from physical/MAC layers' enabling technology to network protocol. These research and implementation activities will be considerably helpful to the design of WAVE and future vehicular communications systems by removing major technical barriers and presenting theoretical guidance. This special issue will cover, but not limit to, the following main topics: · 700MHz/5.8GHz vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) single-input single-output (SISO)/MIMO channel measurement and modeling, channel spatial and temporal characteristics exploration; · Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency synchronizations, channel estimate and prediction; · Utilization of MIMO, space-time coding, smart antenna, adaptive modulation and coding; · Performance study and capacity analysis of V2V and V2I communications operating over both 5.8GHz and 700Mz; · Software radio, cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access technologies applied to WAVE and future vehicular communications systems; · Mesh network and other novel network configurations for vehicular networks; · Efficient MAC protocols development; · Routing algorithms and congestion control schemes for both real-time traffic warning message broadcasting and high-speed data exchange; · Cross-layer design and optimization; · Testbed or prototype activities. * * *Submission:* We only accept relevant original drafts in a PFD format that are not at present under review by other journals. Each draft will receive a minimum of three reviews. Details about preparing and submitting your submission can be obtained through the following link. *Guest Editors:* * * Prof. *Weidong Xiang* University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA Email: xwd(a)umich.edu <mailto:xwd@umich.edu> Prof. *Javier Gozalvez* University Miguel Hernández, Spain Email: j.gozalvez(a)umh.es <mailto:j.gozalvez@umh.es> Prof. *Zhisheng Niu* Tsinghua University, China Email: niuzhs(a)tsinghua.edu.cn <mailto:niuzhs@tsinghua.edu.cn> Dr. *Onur Altintas* Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Co. Ltd, in Tokyo Email: onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com <mailto:onur@jp.toyota-itc.com> Prof. *Eylem Ekici* Ohio State University, USA Email: ekici(a)ece.osu.edu <mailto:ekici@ece.osu.edu> * * *Deadlines* *Paper Submission Deadline*: May 1, 2008 *First Reviews*: July 1, 2008 *Second Reviews Deadline*: September 1, 2008 *Final Manuscripts*: October 1, 2008 *Publication*: November or December, 2008 -- _________________________________________________ Weidong Xiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn Tel: 313.593.5525 Email: xwd(a)umich.edu http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~xwd/ _________________________________________________ -- _________________________________________________ Weidong Xiang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Michigan, Dearborn Tel: 313.593.5525 Email: xwd(a)umich.edu http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~xwd/ _________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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CFP IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2008 (part of MANWEEK 2008, September 22-26)
by Kellerer, Wolfgang 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ================================================================ DSOM 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management DSOM 2008 (part of MANWEEK 2008, September 22-26) Samos Island, Greece www.manweek.org/2008/dsom "Managing Large Scale Service Deployment" The International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM) is the premier annual workshop in the general area of network and services management. It has built up its strong reputation over a period of almost two decades. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). In its 19th edition, DSOM 2008 will be held September 25-26, 2008 on the Island of Samos, Greece, as part of the 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK 2008). SCOPE OF DSOM 2008 The primary theme of DSOM 2008 will be "Managing Large Scale Service Deployment" focusing both on management of overlay networks and on virtualized service infrastructures. The concepts of abstract overlays and virtualization could constitute key contributors for efficient large scale service deployment and testing. Scalable abstract overlay networks accompanied with appropriate management techniques could offer flexibility for future service deployment and consumption with high quality of experience. Virtualization decouples service substantiation from its actual realization over networking and IT infrastructures enabling wide-scale deployment of services. The goal of DSOM 2008 is to bring together industry and academia to address the research issues related to managing large scale services deployment, report on practical experiences and discuss about future research steps. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Management of next generation service networks - Virtualization of networks and services - Self-management and virtualization in distributed systems - Performance and QoS management in virtualized environments - Scalable overlay network management - Algorithms for dynamic overlay network topology construction and service selection - Distributed, decentralized, and P2P-based overlay network management - QoS and resilience through overlay networks - Dynamic service deployment for fault tolerance, resource efficiency and high availability - Federated experimental facilities - Large scale distributed middleware - Management and operations of massively redundant data centers - P2P techniques for management of massive amounts of data and services - Middleware for efficient management of sensor network services - Large scale personal content management systems - Managing security in a virtual environment - Fault management and event correlation - Monitoring and measurements PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to DSOM 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): . Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) . Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please visit JEMS conference management system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/ (only PDF files are accepted) for detailed submission instructions. PROCEEDINGS The DSOM 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of DSOM 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management - TNSM. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: April 21 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 Camera ready: June 30 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 CO-CHAIRS Filip De Turck (Ghent University, Belgium) Wolfgang Kellerer (DoCoMo, Germany) George Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece) TPC Members Alexander Keller (IBM Global Technology Services) Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia) Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) Carlos Westphall (Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina) Claudio Bartolini (HP Laboratories) Cynthia Hood (Illinois Institute of Technology) Danny Raz (Technion) David Lewis (Trinity College Dublin) Declan O'Sullivan (Trinity College Dublin) Emil Lupu (Imperial College) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London) Evaggelos Pallis (Centre for Technological Research of Crete) Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Frιdιric Le Mouλl (INRIA Amazones / INSA Lyon) Gabi Dreo Rodosek (University of Federal Armed Forces) Gabriel Jakobson (Altusys Corp.) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) George Xylomenos (Athens University of Economics and Bussiness) Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario) Hong Li (Intel Corporation) Issam Aib (University of Waterloo) James Hong (POSTECH) Javier Baliosian (University of the Republic) Joan Serrat (Universitat Politθcnica de Catalunya) John Vicente (Intel Corporation) Jorge Lσpez de Vergara (Universidad Autσnoma de Madrid) Jose-Marcos Nogueira (UFMG) Juergen Quittek (NEC Europe Ltd.) Juergen Schoenwaelder (Jacobs University Bremen) Kurt Geihs (Universitδt Kassel) Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS) Luca Deri (ntop.org) Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS) Makoto Yoshida (The University of Tokyo) Marcus Brunner (NEC Europe Ltd.) Masum Hasan (Cisco Systems) Metin Feridun (IBM Research) Nevil Brownlee (The University of Auckland) Omar Cherkaoui (University of Quebec in Montreal) Philippe Dobbelaere (Alcatel-Lucent) Radu State (LORIA - INRIA Lorraine) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo) S. Felix Wu (University of California at Davis) Saverio Niccolini (NEC Europe Ltd.) Stιphane Frιnot (INRIA Amazones) Symeon Papavassiliou (National Technical University of Athens) Thierry Coupaye (France Telecom) Thierry Pollet (Alcatel-Lucent) Tim Wauters (University of Ghent) Vincent Wade (Trinity College Dublin) Xiaoyun Zhu (Hetlett Packard Labs) Yacine Ghamri-Doudane (LRSM - ENSIIE) Yang Richard Yang (Yale University) Yangcheng Huang (Ericsson) Yixin Diao (IBM Research) Yoshiaki Kiriha (NEC) ------------------------------------------ Dr. Wolfgang Kellerer Senior Manager Ubiquitous Networking Research DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com http://www.docomolab-euro.com Managing Directors (Geschaeftsfuehrer): Dr. Toru Otsu, Dr. Narumi Umeda, Kazushige Yoshida Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 132967 ------------------------------------------ private URL: http://www.wolfgangkellerer.de

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[Tccc] MoMM2008 Call for Papers
by Ismail Khalil Ibrahim 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

********************* Apology for Multiple Posting ************************* C A L L F O R P A P E R S 6th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2008) 24-26 November, 2008 Linz, AUstria Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2008 ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- July 1, 2008 : Full papers submission September 15, 2008 : Acceptance Notification October 15, 2008 : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration November 24-26, 2008 : Conference ********************************************************** The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs. MoMM'2008 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------- Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics: Mobile Computing Track - Mobile Applications & Services - Mobile Computing Software Architectures - Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization - Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure - Database and Data Management Mobile Computing - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing - Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing - Mobility and Location Management - Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments - Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks - Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing - Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing - Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems Multimedia Track - Multimedia Databases - Multimedia streaming and services - Multimedia Coding and Encryption - Multimedia for Learning - Multimedia Description Language and Standard - Image Clustering - Content-Based Image Retrieval - Interfaces for Multimedia Creation - Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation - Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation - Video Mining and MPEG - Image Modeling and Editing - AI and Image Recognition - Distributed Multimedia System Mobile Multimedia Track - Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services - Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures - Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management - Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization - Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia - Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia - Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models - Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services - Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia PUBLICATION ----------- MoMM2008 Proceedings will be published by the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and indexed in ISI- Proceedings and included in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and ACM Digital Library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of : [1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia (http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jmm/index.html ) [2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems (http://www.iospress.nl/flyers_j/1574017x.pdf ) [3] Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/530 ) [4] More are pending approval SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------- Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at ((http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/submission.html) Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages and must follow the OCG guidelines (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/cfp.htm). COMMITTES Steering Committee Chair Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Johannes Kepler Uni Linz, Austria General Conference Chair Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria General Program Committee Co-Chairs David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Workshops Chair Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Masters and Doctoral Colloquium Chair Wolfram Wˆﬂ, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Organizing Committee Chair Wieland Schwinger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Publicity Coordinators Kerstin Altmanninger, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Laura Rusu, La Trobe University, Australia Publicity Chairs Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada (Canada) Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE (North Africa) Ruzana Ishak, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia (Asia) Rene Mayrhofer, University of Lancaster, UK (Europe) Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait (Middle East) Bo Yang, Bowie State University, USA (North America) Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan (Asia) Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, Universidad AutÛnoma de Bucaramanga, Colombia (South America) Awards Co-Chairs Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, AUstralia Bernady O Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan Program Committee Ashraf M. A. Ahmad, Princess Sumaya University of Technology, Jordan Marios C. Angelides, Brunel University, UK Laszlo Boszormenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano, UNAB, Colombia Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK Mohamed Ali Feki, I2R, Singapore Vincenzo de Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium Panayotis E. Fouliras, University of Macedonia, Greece Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Kaori Fujinami, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Peter C. J. Graham, University of Manitoba, Canada Christos Grecos, University of Central Lancashire, UK Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Abdelhakim Hafid, University of Montreal, Canada G¸nter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Dimitrios Katsaros, Aristotle University, Greece Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Birgitta Kˆnig-Ries, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitdt Jena, Germany Hong Va Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Clement Leung, Victoria University, Australia Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing, China Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Luigi Logrippo, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano Via Ponzio, Italy Max M¸hlh‰user, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Vicente Pelechano, Universidad PolitÈcnica de Valencia, Spain Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Tom Pfeifer, TSSG - Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Zili Shao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Lambert Spaanenburg, Lund University, Sweden Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Klaus Turowski, University of Augsburg, Germany Andreas Uhl, Salzburg University, Austria Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, I2R, Singapore Zheng Da Wu, Bond University, Australia Yuping Yang, University of Exeter, UK Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan ORGANIZATION ----------------------- The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS), hosted and organized and by the Institute of Teleccoperation, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the tenth international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS'2008 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2008/). CONTACT ------- David Taniar, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia Email: david at iiwas.org Eric Pardede, MoMM'2008 PC Co-Chair Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC 3083 Australia Email: eric at iiwas.org ------------------------------- END OF CFP -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] MMSP 2008(IEEE) Call For Papers -- Paper submission is due on 18 April 2008
by Jian Zhang 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

======================================================================= 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing October 8-10, 2008 Shangri-la Hotel Cairns, Queensland, Australia http://www.mmsp08.org/ MMSP-08 Call for Papers (please look at the New part of Introduction to Keynote Speakers!!!!) MMSP-08 is the tenth international workshop on multimedia signal processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. A new theme of this workshop is Bio-Inspired Multimedia Signal Processing in Life Science Research. The main goal of MMSP-2008 is to further the scientific research within the broad field of multimedia signal processing and its interaction with other new emerging areas such as life science. The workshop will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including brainstorming a roadmap for the success of future research and application. MMSP-08 workshop consists of interesting features: * A Student Paper Contest with awards sponsored by Canon. To enter the contest a paper submission must have a student as the first author * A Best Paper from oral presentation session with awards sponsored by Microsoft. * A Best Poster presentation with awards sponsored by National ICT Australia (NICTA). * New session for Bio-Inspired Multimedia Signal Processing SCOPE Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following general areas: > Bio-inspired multimedia signal processing * Multimedia processing techniques inspired by the study of signals/images derived from medical, biomedical and other life science disciplines with applications to multimedia signal processing. * Fusion mechanism of multimodal signals in human information processing system and applications to multimodal multimedia data fusion/integration. * Comparison between bio-inspired methods and conventional methods. * Hybrid multimedia processing technology and systems incorporating bio-inspired and conventional methods. > Joint audio/visual processing, pattern recognition, sensor fusion, medical imaging, 2-D and 3-D graphics/geometry coding and animation, pre/post-processing of digital video, joint source/channel coding, data streaming, speech/audio, image/video coding and processing > Multimedia databases (content analysis, representation, indexing, recognition and retrieval) > Human-machine interfaces and interaction using multiple modalities > Multimedia security (data hiding, authentication, and access control) > Multimedia networking (priority-based QoS control and scheduling, traffic engineering, soft IP multicast support, home networking technologies, position aware computing, wireless communications). > Multimedia Systems Design, Implementation and Application (design, distributed multimedia systems, real time and non-real-time systems; implementation; multimedia hardware and software) > Standards Keynote speakers: 1. Multimedia Medical Signal Management -- New Challenges in Crossing the Image Chasm between Signal Acquisition, Processing, Diagnosis and Treatment -- presented by Prof. H.K. Huang, University of Southern California 2. Multimedia Application to the Simulation of Human Musculoskeletal System: A Visual Lower Limb Model from Multimodal Captured Data -- presented by Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva 3. Multimedia Search: Past and Current Approaches -- Presented by Dr. HongJiang Zhang, Microsoft China 4. Technical Challenges in Video Coding and Processing for Future Digital Entertainment -- presented by Prof. Chang Wen Chen (editor in Chief of T-CSVT), The State University of New York SCHEDULE * Special Sessions (contact the respective chair): March 8, 2008 * Papers (full paper, 4-6 pages, to be received by): April 18, 2008 * Notification of acceptance by: June 18, 2008 * Camera-ready paper submission by: July 18, 2008 TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE C.W. CHEN (Univ. at Buffalo, The State Univ. of New York), T. CHEN (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), I.J. COX (Univ. College London, UK), A. VETRO (MERL, USA), S.F. CHANG (Columbia Univ.), J.L. DUGELAY (Institute Eurécom, France), P. FROSSARD (EPFL, Switzerland), J. ZHANG (NICTA, Australia), L. GUAN (Ryerson Univ.), Y. ALTUNBASAK (Georgia Inst. Tech), A. CAVALLARO (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), L. DONG (Microsoft Research), A. DUMITRAS (Apple, USA), C. GUILLEMOT (INRIA, France), Y. HE (Tsinghua Univ), A. KATSAGGELOS (Northwestern Univ.), C.- C. Jay KUO (Univ. of Southern California), S. LI (Microsoft Research), H.Y.M. LIAO (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), C. Y. LIN (IBM), K.J.R. LIU (Univ. of Maryland), N. MEMON (Polytechnic Univ.), S. NARAYANAN (Univ. of Southern California), B. PESQUET-POPESCU (France), F. PEREIRA (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), H. RADHA (Carnegie Mellon Univ.), A. SAID (HP Lab), J. VILLASENOR (Univ. of California Los Angeles), Z. ZHANG (Microsoft Research), W. ZENG (Univ. of Missouri), Y-H HU(Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Y. Q. SHI (New Jersey Inst. Tech), E. IZQUIERDO (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), W. LI (Univ. of Wollongong), X. He (Univ. of Tech. Sydney), M. VAN DER SCHAAR (Univ. of California Davis), F. PORIKLI (MERL, USA), Y. WANG (Polytechnic Univ.), Z. XIONG (Texas A&M Univ.), J. APOSTOLOPULOS (HP Labs), P. CHOU (Microsoft Research), K. ROSE (Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA), M. WU (Univ. of Maryland), ), M. Li (Microsoft Research), X. Hua (Microsoft Research), (Y.N. ZHANG (Northwestern Polytech. Univ.), T. Mei (Microsoft Research), L. ZHUO (Beijing Univ. of Tech), W.D. CAI (Univ. of Sydney), Z.Y. WANG (Univ. of Sydney), Q. WU (Univ. of Tech. Sydney), M. Frater (Uni. of NSW, Australia), M. Peaking (Uni. of NSW), G. Lu (Monash Uni.), S. Luo (Newcastel Uni. Australia), H.T. Shen (Queensland Uni.), Zhenghua Yu (Seekpai Inc, China), M. Murshed (Monash Uni.), M. Paul (Monash Uni.), H. Wu (RMIT, Australia), D. Taubman (Univ. of NSW, Australia), W. Huang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), K. H. Yap(Nanyang Technological Univ. Singapore) H.S. Wong (City Univ, of Hong Kong), P. Muneesawang (Naresuan Univ. Thailand), M. Kyan (Ryerson Univ. Canada),J. Lay (Univ. of Sydney, Australia), S. W. Perry (CSIRA Canon, Australia), I. Lee (Univ. of South Australia, Aust.), Z. Ma (CiSRA Australia),S. Hardy (CiSRA Australia),Y. Shi (NICTA, Australia),E. Choi (NICTA, Australia),C. Shen (NICTA, Australia),R. Mathew (Univ. of NSW, Australia),Y. Wang (NICTA, Australia),L. Wang (ANU, Australia),H. Li (ANU, Australia) General Co-Chairs Prof. David Feng, University of Sydney, Australia, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University feng(a)it.usyd.edu.au Prof. Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin Germany sikora(a)nue.tu-berlin.de Prof. W.C. Siu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University enwcsiu(a)polyu.edu.hk Technical Program Co-Chairs Dr. Jian Zhang, National ICT Australia jian.zhang(a)nicta.com.au Prof. Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada lguan(a)ee.ryerson.ca Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institute EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France Jean-Luc.Dugelay(a)eurecom.fr Special Session Co-Chairs: Prof. Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri, USA zengw(a)missouri.edu Prof. Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Publicity Co-Chairs Prof. Yu-Hen Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA hu(a)engr.wisc.edu Prof. Yun He, Tsinghua University, China hey(a)tsinghua.edu.cn Publication Chair Dr. Wanqing Li, University of Wollongong, Australia wanqing(a)uow.edu.au Registration Mr. Sijun Lu, National ICT Australia Sijun.lu(a)nicta.com.au Finance Chair Dr. Qiang Wu, University Technology of Sydney, Australia wuq(a)it.uts.edu.au Electronic Media Chair Dr. Rupeng Zhao, Science Platform Corporation Pty Ltd, Australia rpzhao(a)optusnet.com.au Local Arrangements Chair Dr. Getian Ye, National ICT Australia getian.ye(a)nicta.com.au Europe Liaison Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK ebroul.izquierdo(a)elec.qmul.ac.uk North America Liaison Prof. Yun Qing Shi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA shi(a)njit.edu IEEE Signal Processing Society _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[ISCC] 5th Int. Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM): cfp
by Magedanz, Thomas 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp. ===================================================================== Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM) 2008 (part of MANWEEK 2008, September 22-26) September 24, Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ In this workshop, we seek original, unpublished papers on different aspects of middleware technologies for enabling Next-Generation Network (NGN) services and applications. Topics of submission include, but are not limited to: * Middleware architecture for converged networks * NGN middleware for triple play and quad play services * NGN middleware for ad hoc, mobile and wireless services * Middleware for NGN mobility support * NGN middleware adaptation to underlying technologies (e.g., cellular, metropolitan area and short range systems) * Resource Allocation and Heterogeneous Network Access in Converged Networks * NGN middleware for content distribution infrastructures and services * Middleware for peer-assisted carrier-grade content delivery. * Publish/subscribe middleware * Scalable, adaptive, and self-managing aspects of middleware * Converged networks policy-based management, monitoring, and control * QoS provisioning, service differentiation, accounting, and billing * Identity management infrastructures and anonymity support infrastructures * Trust, security and privacy issues * Presence and contextual data management * NGN middleware for context-aware applications * NGN middleware for collaborative/P2P applications * NGN middleware for enterprise applications * Middleware support for NGN inter-networking and interoperability with non-NGN systems * Middleware for distributed experimental test beds with real or virtual components * Web Service/Grid-enabled middleware for converged networks * Service modeling and composition * Service deployment and orchestration * Programming paradigms, Web 2.0, and mashups Important Dates Paper Registration: May 10 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Camera ready: June 30 2008 NGNM 2008: September 24 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 Web Page: http://magellan.tssg.org/2008/ngnm/ngnm.php?lang=en Workshop Co-Chairs Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin / FOKUS, Germany Markus Muck, Infineon, Germany Lambros Sarakis, NCSR "Demokritos", Greece Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CFP AICCSA 2009
by Essia Hamouda Elhafsi 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2009 May, Rabat, Morocco May http://www.congreso.us.es/aiccsa2009/cfp.html =========================================================================== The seventh ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-09) will be held in Rabat, Morocco May 2009. This is an ideal time to be in Morocco. AICCSA is the premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference in the Middle East and North Africa. Authors are invited to submit papers describing new advances in computer systems and their applications. We welcome papers that are theoretical, conceptual, descriptive in nature, or a survey of the state of the art. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Algorithms and Bioinformatics Computer Architecture and Real time Systems Database and Data Mining DSP/Image Processing/Pattern Recognition/Multimedia· Geographical Information Systems/ Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GIS/GNSS) Modeling and Simulation Networking and Telecommunications Parallel and Distributed Systems Security and Information Assurance Soft Computing (AI, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, etc.) Software engineering Important Due Dates: Paper and Poster Submissions: September 29, 2008 Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions: September 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance: December 8, 2008 Camera ready copy due: January 26, 2009 Author Registration: January 26, 2009 Proceedings Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be available at IEEE XploreTM. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Submission Guidelines To submit a paper, visit http://edas.info/showConferenceDetails.php?c=6407& Regular Papers Papers must be submitted electronically by September 29, 2008. Each paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs. Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere. Short Papers Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Submissions Proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels should be submitted directly to the appropriate chair. Posters and Doctoral Symposium Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may be submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to doctoral research proposals and related research. Extended abstracts should be submitted directly to the Posters Chair. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP-Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications
by Massimiliano Laddomada 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

%%% Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement %%%% Hindawi - International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/ Call for Papers Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications The explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet and the ever-increasing users' demands over commercial terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting all over the world call for efficient physical and cross-layer techniques able to mitigate the potential problems limiting broadband services over wireless networks. In this scenario, mobile multimedia is expected to be one of the key services of future wireless mobile networks. Meanwhile, recent advances in digital communications have paved the way to a variety of standards aimed at providing multimedia services over terrestrial broadband networks. To cite but a few, DVB-H, T-DVB, T-DMB, wireless LANs, and wireless MANs are some of the most recent standards enabling such technology. Iterative decoding techniques for both source, channel, and joint source-channel coding and decoding and cross-layering techniques have proven to be very effective for providing a viable means of achieving capacity-approaching performance at very reduced computational burden. The main aim of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art techniques on the most recent research advances enabling digital multimedia services over broadband wireless networks, focused on physical and cross-layering solutions. Novel contributions, previously unpublished, that are not being submitted to any other journal, are sought. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following subject categories: Iterative decoding techniques for concatenated channel codes (turbo codes and serially concatenated codes) Iterative decoding techniques for joint source-channel decoding Novel capacity-approaching channel codes: coding strategies and efficient decoding algorithms Cross-layer modelling/analysis and optimization techniques Standardization activities on digital multimedia broadcasting protocols Space-time coding and decoding Novel MIMO solutions for counteracting multipath mobile channels Channel estimation and equalization Improved channel equalization techniques for SIMO and MIMO systems Experimental testbeds Hardware Implementation and SoC solutions Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: April 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: July 1, 2008 Publication Date: November 1, 2008 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Researchers] Extended CFP Globecom Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
by Profa Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

============================================================================= CALL-FOR-PAPERS IEEE Globecom 2008: Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium www.ieee-globecom.org/2008 November 30th- December 4th, 2008 New Orleans, LA, USA Deadline Extended : ===> March 31st (Firm Deadline) ============================================================================= TPC Co-Chairs: Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Prof. Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Nirwan.Ansari(a)njit.edu Prof. Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca SCOPE Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including entertainment, civilian, military, etc. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high-level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop to multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges face are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support, etc. This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page). Standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. Alternatively you can follow the sample instructions in template.pdf at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/downloads/template.pdf Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done through EDAS at http://edas.info/ Topics of Interest You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the following topics. . Applications and Evolutions of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Autonomic Networking . Wireless, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Devices . Physical Layer Design of Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Frequency and Channel Allocation Algorithms . Topology Control and Management . Algorithms and Modeling for Localization, Target Tracking, and Mobility Management . Architectures of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing . MAC Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . QoS Provisioning in Medium Access Control and Routing for Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks . Analytical, Mobility, and Validation Models for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Mobile, Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Integrated Simulation and Measurement based Evaluation of Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems . New Simulation Languages, Methodologies, and Tools for Wireless Systems . Analysis of Correctness and Efficiency of Protocols . Data Management, Data Aggregation, Data Dissemination, and Query Processing . Cryptography and Security Issues in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Distributed Algorithms . Pricing Modeling and Solutions . Pervasive and Wearable Computing . Co-existence Issues of Hybrid Networks . Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Resource Management Algorithms in Mobile, wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks . Synchronization and Scheduling Issues in Mobile and Ad Hoc Networks . Service Discovery for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks . Cross-layer Design and Interactions . Mobile Service and QoS Management for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks . Survivability and Reliability Evaluation and Modeling for Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networks . Ubiquitous and Mobile Access for Wireless Mesh Networks . Security and Privacy Issues for Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, and Sensor Networks -- 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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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: IWSOS 2008 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
by karin anna hummel 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. ************************ 1st 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 * 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 **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Tccc] ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA '08)
by Mark S Squillante 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS -- MAMA 2008 The Tenth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis MAMA 2008 June 2, 2008 Annapolis, Maryland, USA Held in conjunction with SIGMETRICS 2008 http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/MAMAindex.html Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS The complexity of computer systems, networks and applications, as well as the advancements in computer technology, continue to grow at a rapid pace. Mathematical analysis, modeling and optimization are playing an important role in research studies to investigate fundamental issues and tradeoffs at the core of performance problems in the design and implementation of complex computer systems, networks and applications. The Tenth Workshop on MAthematical performance Modeling and Analysis (MAMA 2008) seeks to bring together researchers working on the mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of performance analysis, modeling and optimization. It is intended to provide a forum at SIGMETRICS conferences for talks on early research in the more mathematical areas of computer performance analysis. These talks tend to be based on very recent research results (including work in progress) or on new research results that will be otherwise submitted only to a journal (or recently have been submitted to a journal). Thus, part of the goal is to complement and supplement the SIGMETRICS Conference program with such talks without removing any theoretical contributions from the main technical program. This year's workshop will be held on June 2 (before the main SIGMETRICS technical program). In addition to the presentation of extended abstracts, the workshop will include time for informal technical discussions among the speakers and attendees. SUBMISSION INFORMATION April 18, 2008: Abstract Submission Deadline May 2, 2008: Acceptance Notification May 9, 2008: Final Abstracts for Workshop Aug 1, 2008: Final Extended Abstracts for PER MAMA 2008 encourages the submission of abstracts describing early research on the general mathematical, methodological and theoretical aspects of performance analysis, modeling and optimization. Authors are asked to submit 2-3 page abstracts, following the same formatting instructions as the main SIGMETRICS conference (refer to http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/cfp.html), before the above deadline. (NOTE that this is different from the submission guidelines in previous years.) Submissions violating these formatting guidelines will be returned without review. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, as an e-mail attachment, to mss(a)watson.ibm.com. Postscript or PDF is preferred, although other arrangements can be made by contacting Mark Squillante (mss(a)watson.ibm.com). Submissions will be reviewed by the MAMA program committee, from which a number of abstracts will be selected for inclusion in the workshop program. A version of the abstracts will be provided at the workshop. Extended versions of the abstracts will appear in a special issue of Performance Evaluation Review (PER), with a due date after the workshop making it possible for authors to incorporate the results of, or simply mention, any relevant discussions at the workshop. Note that there are no copyright issues with PER, and thus authors will have complete freedom to submit their work elsewhere. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Laboratories Sem Borst, Bell Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology C.S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Ed Coffman, Columbia University Jim Dai, Georgia Institute of Technology Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Nick Duffield, AT&T Labs Research Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan David Gamarnik, MIT Ayalvadi Ganesh, Microsoft Research Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University Pete Harrison, Imperial College Alain Jean-Marie, University of Montpellier, INRIA Predrag Jelenkovic, Columbia University Guy Latouche, Universite Libre de Bruxelles Zhen Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yingdong Lu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center John Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Michel Mandjes, CWI, University of Amsterdam Vishal Misra, Columbia University Dick Muntz, University of California at Los Angeles Philippe Nain, INRIA Sindo Nunez Queija, CWI, TNO Philippe Robert, INRIA Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Mark Squillante, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts David Yao, Columbia University Bert Zwart, Georgia Institute of Technology Additional information about the MAMA 2008 Workshop can be found at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/MAMAindex.html For more information about the workshop, please contact Mark Squillante (mss(a)watson.ibm.com). Additional information about the SIGMETRICS Conference can be found at: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sigmet08/index.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - CfP: MobiMedia 2008 Extended deadline 4.4.2008
by info＠icstconferences.org 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CfP ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS MobiMedia2008 4th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference *** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: 4th of April 2008 *** ************************************************************* Sponsored by ACM, ICST, CREATE-NET and VTT MobiMedia 2008 Web-site: http://www.mobimedia.org Paper submission: http://www.cocus.eu 7-9th of July, Oulu, Finland Important Dates --------------- Full Papers due: April 4, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2008 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: May 24, 2008 Conference Dates: July 7-9, 2008 KEYNOTE SPEECHES: ----------------- Bartolome Arroyo-Fernandez, European Commission Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen Scope ----- The development and deployment of the multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Different type of semantic characteristics of media, human interpretation of audiovisual information, coding standards and interaction with networking, mobility and security protocols are research issues that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. The efficient delivery and deployment of multimedia applications and services over emerging diverse and heterogeneous wireless networks is a challenging research objective. The research efforts e.g. for the 3G/4G and 3G LTE visions of interworking among heterogeneous technologies to achieve multimedia session continuity, retain multimedia QoS characteristics etc., amplifies the need to evaluate the conditions and restrictions under which delivery of such services can be accomplished. The demand for efficient multimedia communications can be also seen as one of main driving forces towards the Future Internet and Post-IP solutions. The interoperability of applications, transport and network protocols and radio access, as well as the demand for improved quality of service and user experience, security and mobility support creates a challenging study field and also possibilities for research of novel communication protocols and methods towards the Future Internet. In addition for the technical challenges caused by the increased amount of multimedia usage and delivery through different community services, peer-to-peer networks, Web, Internet IPTV etc. the multimedia delivery is also affecting to industry value chains, commerce transactions between businesses (B2B), and business and customers (B2C). Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a unique international forum for researchers from industry and academia, working in multimedia coding and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. The conference key research areas include, but are not limited to * Application and channel coding paradigms, including for example joint source and channel coding paradigms, scalable video coding, wireless and ad hoc network solutions, ciphering and authentication. * Networking and transmission mechanisms including for example transport and network protocol solutions, cross-layer techniques, rate control and adaptation mechanism for video delivery, impact of mobility and heterogenous networks in multimedia delivery and p2p content delivery * Multimedia services, business models and concepts, including for example new business models and service concepts, trust and security paradigms for multimedia delivery, test beds and experimentation platforms for multimedia delivery. Papers ------ The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Multimedia semantic characteristics in wireless, mobile and ubiquitous environments * Multimedia QoS in wireless networks * Extraction and usage of semantic information with multimedia * Performance evaluation of multimedia services * Multimedia Retrieval in wireless and mobile environments * Mechanisms supporting triple-play services in emerging wireless networks * Scalable Coding of multimedia in wireless and mobile networks * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Joint source-channel coding * Multimedia services over ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks * Rate Control and Adaptation for wireless multimedia * P2P multimedia streaming in wireless and mobile networks * Transport protocols for multimedia in emerging wireless networks * Mobile Content Delivery Networks * Test and experimentation test beds for multimedia delivery * Impact of heterogeneous wireless network environment and mobility * Trust and security in multimedia delivery * Service concepts and new business models Technical program ----------------- The conference will also include invited panels to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Paper submission and publication -------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites manuscripts that present original materials not previously published in, or currently under review by, another conference or journal. Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 7 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Full-length papers should report on completed work and will be considered for oral presentations. A separate abstract of no longer than 200 words should be submitted as well. Submissions will be judged by their originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Poster sessions and demonstrations ---------------------------------- MobiMedia 2008 invites the poster and demonstration session parallel with the main conference event. These short papers should report on work in progress or discuss open problems, and will be considered for poster presentations. A maximum of 4 page proposal for poster/demonstration presentation for the session should be submitted to the Poster Session co-chairs. For information on exhibit space or sponsorship opportunities, please contact the corresponding conference Poster and Demosession Chair, General Co-Chairs and Conference Organizing Co-Chairs. Workshops and special sessions ------------------------------ Proposals for one-day workshops or special session to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted directly to Workshop Chair and to e-mail: mobimedia(a)willab.fi. STEERING BOARD: GENERAL CHAIRS: TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS: --------------- --------------- ------------------------ Imrich Chlamtac Jyrki Huusko Rahim Tafazolli Luigi Atzori Tapio Frantti Djamal Zeghlache Frank Fitzek -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Communications Magazine - Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:52:11 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> 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 one's 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 1, 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 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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