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[Fwd: [Tccc] First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) - Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) - Call for papers Datum: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:18:53 +0000 Von: Thomas Karagiannis <Thomas.Karagiannis(a)microsoft.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN) http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/wosn/ Call for papers With half a billion active users, online social networks (OSN) have attained critical mass and triggered intense research interest in collaborative systems and the analysis of the structure and properties of online communities. WOSN will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges and important questions posed by emerging online social applications. Of particular interest are problems related to network and system architecture design that can best support emerging and future social and collaborative systems, and how those social networks can shape the design of existing distributed systems and real networks. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion of relevance to computer networking, involving novel ideas and applications, and experimental results. The workshop solicits original, previously unpublished ideas on completed work, position papers, and/or work-in-progress papers. We encourage papers that propose new research directions or could generate lively debate at the workshop. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Implications of social networking on network and distributed systems design - System design for social networks - Network architecture design to support large scale social applications - Search strategies in social networks - Rating, review, reputation, and trust systems - Recommendation / collaborative filtering systems - Expertise / interest tracking - Identification of communities and their evolution in time - Anonymity and privacy - Measurement and analysis of online communities - Social media analysis: blogs and friendship networks - Mobile social networks - Information sharing and forwarding - Decentralized (ad hoc) network applications and services - Challenges posed by social networks Important Dates: Full paper submission: Friday March 7, 2008 Acceptance notification: Friday April 11, 2008 Camera-ready: Friday May 2, 2008 Workshop date: Monday Aug 18, 2008 Submission Instructions: Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length and must be a pdf file. Reviews will be single-blind: authors name and affiliation should be included in the submission. Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/ . Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. Workshop Organizers: Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Peter Key (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs - Research) Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Program Co-chairs: Christos Faloutsos (CMU) Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica) Program Committee: Lada Adamic (University of Michigan) Virgílio Almeida (UFMG) Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge) Christophe Diot (Thomson Research) Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck) Bernardo Huberman (HP labs) David Kempe (University of Southern California) Peter Key (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University) Gueorgi Kossinets (Cornell University) Balachander Krishnamurthy (AT&T Labs - Research) Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research) Sue Moon (KAIST) Mema Roussopoulos (FORTH) Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CAPS 2008 - CFP (Deadline January 25th)]
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CAPS 2008 - CFP (Deadline January 25th) Datum: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:58:34 +0100 Von: Hassine Moungla <Hassine.Moungla(a)inria.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy New Year 2008 from the CAPS Workshop Please, feel free to forward this message to interested people. We apologize if you receive this email more than once. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAPS 2008 4th International Workshop on Context-Aware Proactive Systems June 16th-17th 2008 INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France http://www-rocq.inria.fr/caps2008 Important Dates --------------- Submission of papers and posters: January 25th, 2008 Submission of demo: February 8th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 22nd, 2008 Camera ready due: March 14th, 2008 CAPS 2008 workshop: June 16th-17th, 2008 Topics of Interest ------------------ Proactive computing systems are connected to the physical world by means of sensors and actuators which are used to both measure and manipulate the physical surroundings. Mobile and pervasive environments have turned out to be a promising application area for proactive systems, as environmental data is used to provide users with appropriate resources, information, and services. To achieve this, proactive systems need to be able to understand the different contexts that apply in and for any given user/communication situation. Such context awareness poses many challenges, including the modeling and represention of context, the design of scalable and secure frameworks and architectures for context gathering and processing, or the efficient adaptation of distributed applications in dynamic environments. CAPS invites submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): * Context modeling and representation * Tools and techniques for reasoning on context information * Frameworks and architectures for scalable context-aware systems * Experience with deploying context-aware applications in proactive systems * Trust and privacy of context information in proactive systems * Context learning and prediction techniques * Context-aware reconfiguration of distributed applications * Sensor and actuator management Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------- * Heikki Ailisto, VTT, Finland * Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany * Guy Bernard, Institut National des Telecommunications, France * David Bonnefoy, Motorola, France * Klaus David, University of Kassel, Germany * Frank Duerr, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany * Heinz-Josef Eikerling, Siemens, Germany * Stewart Fallis, BT, United Kingdom * Patrik Floreen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland * Sandra Haseloff, University of Kassel, Germany * Laurent Herault, CEA-LETI, France * Paul Havinga, University of Twente, Netherlands * Heikki Helin, TeliaSonera, Finland * Valerie Issarny, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Ralf Kernchen, University of Surrey, United Kingdom * Herma van Kranenburg, Telematica, Netherlands * Martti Mantyla, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, Finland * Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, United Kingdom * Hassine Moungla, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Bernd Mrohs, CyberConsult GmbH, Germany * Christian Prehofer, Nokia, Finland * Fano Ramparany, Orange-FT, France * Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Leetian Rong, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France * Francis Rousseaux, Université de Reims and IEEE France, France * David Simplot-Ryl, Lille 1 University, France * Vera Stavroulaki, University of Piraeus, Greece * Dirk Westhoff, NEC, Germany * Anna V. Zhdanova, ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien Betriebs GmbH, Austria --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Hassine Moungla ARLES Project INRIA Paris - Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay FRANCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [Submission deadline extended: January 30] CFP Med-Hoc-Net 2008: 7th IFIP Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
by Carlos Guerrero Tomé 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th IFIP MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2008) June 23-27 2008, Palma de Mallorca, Spain http://medhocnet08.uib.es ******************************************************************** Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now that some of the fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover, wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2008 is the major annual international workshop aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is what Med-Hoc-Net 2008 intends to be about. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2008 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) - QoS support - Security and privacy The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer Science-Business Media (SSBM) in LNCS or IFIP Series. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (URL: http://springer.com/series/6102). Authors should submit a paper in English of up to 12 pages, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Submitted papers should address original work not published or under revision elsewhere. All submissions will be refereed by experts in the field based on originality, significance, quality, and clarity. Papers should be submitted in PDF format according to the timetable below. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- *** New deadline for full paper electronic submission: January 30, 2008 *** *** Tutorial proposal submission: February 15, 2008 *** Paper notification of acceptance/rejection: February 29, 2008 Camera ready submission of full papers: March 20, 2008 Tutorial date: June 23 and/or June 24, 2008 Contact: Ramon PUIGJANER Universitat de les Illes Balears E-mail: medhocnet08(a)uib.es Check our Web page at http://medhocnet08.uib.es for the latest information concerning the conference GENERAL CHAIR ------------- R. Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PROGRAM CHAIR ------------- P. Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR -------------------------- B. Serra, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- C. Guerrero, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ I. F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institue of Technology, US K. Al Agha, Université Paris-Sud, FR M. Gerla, UCLA, US F. Kamoun, ENSI, TN G. Pau, UCLA, US G. Pujolle, Université Paris 6, FR PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ------------------- O. Altintas, Toyota IT Center, JP O. B. Akan, Middle East Tech. University, TR A. Azcorra, Universidad Carlos III, ES B. K. Bhargaya, Purdue University, US C. Blondia, University of Antwerp, BE A. Boukerche, University of Ottawa, CA J. C. Cano, Universitat Politècnica València, ES R. Cardell-Oliver, University of Western Australia, AU M. Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, IT T. Chahed, INT. Evry, FR S. Chandran, MIMOS, MY C. Chaudet, ENST, FR M. Conti, CNR, IT F. de Rango, Universita di Calabria, IT C. Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GR B. Dudourthial, UTC, FR E. Ekici, Ohio State University, US A. Farago, University of Texas, Dallas, US L. Fratta, Politecnico Milano, IT S. Galmés, Universitat de les Illes Balears, ES J. García-Vidal, Universitat Poliècnica Catalunya, ES A. Garrido, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES I. Guerin-Lassous, INRIA, FR G. Haring, Universität Wien, AT S. Heemstra de Groot, Delft University of Technology, NL H. Hellbrück, Universität Lübeck, DE O. Koné, Université Paul Sabatier-IRIT, FR H. Liu, University of Ottawa, CA M. López, UAM-I, MX M. Lenardi, Hitachi Europe, Sophia Antipolis Lab., FR P. Lorenz, Université d'Haute Alsace, FR M. Lott, Siemens AG, DE P. Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica València, ES C. Mascolo, University College London, UK D. Meddour, France Telecom, FR P. Minet, INRIA, FR A. Murphy, Universita di Lugano, IT S. Nikoletseas, CTI/University of Patras, GR L. Orozco-Barbosa, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, ES M. Pérez, Universidad Miguel Hernández, ES E. Rosti, Universita di Milano, IT P. Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, ES P. Santi, CNR, IT B. Serra, Universitat Illes Balears, ES D. Symplot-Ryl, Université de Lille, FR V. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, US D. Turgut, University of Central Florida, US J. Villalón, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES L. Villaseñor, CICESE, MX T. Watteyne, France Telecom, FR S. Weber, Trinity College Dublin, IE J. Wozniak, Technical University of Gdansk, PL H. Yomo, Aalborg University, DK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] IEEE Globecom2008 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium -- CFP--
by Abderrahim Benslimane 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************************************ IEEE Globecom 2008 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium CALL FOR PAPERS Brief description ----------------- The IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium (CCNS) will be held in New Orleans, USA, November 2008. With the advent of pervasive computer applications and due to the proliferation of heterogeneous wired and wireless computer networks, computer and network security has become paramount. The Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium will address all aspects of the modeling, design, implementation, deployment, and management of computer/network security algorithms, protocols, architectures, and systems. Furthermore, contributions devoted to the evaluation, optimization, or enhancement of security mechanisms for current technologies as well as devising efficient security and privacy solutions for emerging technologies are solicited. Original papers are invited in the area of computer and network security. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Contributions in CCNS symposium target wired networks as well as wireless networks.: 3G/ 4G, Satellite, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Ad hoc, vehicular, Sensor and RFID networks, WiMAX/ 802.16, 802.16e and Peer-to-peer systems. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Secure PHY, MAC, Routing and upper layer protocols - Secure Cross layer design - Authentication protocols and services authorization - Confidentiality - Data and system integrity - Availability of secure services - Key Distribution and management - PKI and security management - Trust models and Trust establishment - Identity management and access control - Deployment and management of computer/network security policies - Monitoring Design for security - Distributed Intrusion Detection Systems & Countermeasures - Traffic filtering and Firewalling - IPv6 security, IPSec - Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) - Prevention, Detection and Reaction Design - Revocation of malicious parties - Light-weight cryptography - Quantum Cryptography and QKD - Applications of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis in communications security - Security and mobility - Mobile code security - Network traffic analysis techniques - Secure naming and addressing (Privacy and anonymity) - Application/network penetration testing - Advanced Cryptographic Testbeds - Network security metrics and performance evaluation - Operating System(OS) security and log analysis tools - Security modelling and protocol design - Security specification techniques - Self-healing networks - Smart cards and secure hardware - Biometric security: technologies, risks and vulnerabilities - Information hiding and watermarking - Vulnerability, exploitation tools, and virus/worm analysis - Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDOS) attacks and countermeasures - DNS spoofing and security - Critical infrastructure security - Single- and multi-source intrusion detection and response (automation) - Web, e-commerce, m-commerce, and e-mail security - New design for unknown attacks detection Sponsoring Technical Committees ------------------------------- IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security (CISTC) IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications (RCC) Important Dates --------------- Papers submission deadline: March 15, 2008 Notification of decision: June 28, 2008 Camera-ready deadline: August 15, 2008 Instructions for Authors ------------------------ Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Original research papers are solicited in all areas of computer and communications network security. All submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS conference management system at www.edas.info and must be in pdf format, with a maximum length of five pages. A formatting template may be found at http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html. IEEE Gobecom 2008 Security Symposium co-Chairs ---------------------------------------------- Abderrahim Benslimane, LIA/CERI, France Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland ************************************************************************ -- ______________________________________________________________ Professor Abderrahim BENSLIMANE LIA/Univ. Avignon, 339 Chemin des Meinajaries BP 1228 - 84911 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 Tél : (+33/0) 4 90 84 35 61 ------------------------------------------------------------- TWO coming conferences to meet you: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/symposium/compcom.html _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[EUROSIS] EUROMEDIA'2008, April 9-11. 2008, University of Porto, SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE COMING UP
by info＠eurosis.org 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

------------EUROMEDIA'2008, APRIL 9-11. 2008, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE COMING UP------------ Dear Colleague, this is a quick reminder that the submissions for EUROMEDIA'2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, April 9-11, can be sent in from January 20 onwards till February 5. More info about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 The workshops page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 especially the track on D-TV The venue page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/478 The hotel page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/471 Regards Philippe - Philippe Geril Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 EUROSIS -ETI Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Ghent University E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Dept.of Industrial Mgmt. E-mail: pgeril(a)yahoo.co.uk Technologiepark 903 URL: http://www.eurosis.org Campus Ardoyen B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde Belgium ********************************************************************* * Your Scientific information site on * * Computer Simulation - Concurrent Engineering - Multimedia- Games * * WWW.EUROSIS.ORG * ********************************************************************* **** DISCLAIMER **** "This e-mail and any attachments thereto may contain information which is confidential and/or protected by intellectual property rights and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation." ======================================================================= This email is sent out to all those on the EUROSIS-ETI database.If you want to be removed from this database or want to update your address details, please send an email to Philippe.Geril(a)eurosis.org ===================================================================== -- Unsubscribe from this newsletter: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=newsletter/confirm/remove/0a40f1ec086459t115

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

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ICST - ICST Valuetools 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

VALUETOOLS 2008 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools October 20-24, 2008, Athens, Greece In cooperation with ACM (technical sponsorship pending) In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies and tools has been developed within disparate research communities for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The aim of the Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools conference is to build bridges between these communities, bringing theory and practice together in order to: - compare and debate the complete range of performance evaluation methodologies and their implementation into tools - promote interdisciplinary flow of technical information among industry systems designers and researchers. Performance Evaluation Techniques will be drawn from the following: - Advanced Simulation Tools (Simulation of Rare Events, Parallel/Distributed Simulation, Variance reduction techniques, Large deviations, Hybrid System simulation) - Stochastic Processes (Stochastic geometry, Long-range dependence, Self-similarity, Point processes, Traffic models and measurements) - Discrete Event Systems (Petri Nets, Max-plus algebra, Automata) - Queuing Theory (Network Calculus, Analytical Models, Approximation Methods, (In)Sensitivity, Dynamic Fluid Models, Diffusion Models, Dam Processes, Perturbation Approaches, Control of Queues) - Optimization Theory and Control (Supervisory Control, Reliability/Performability tools) - Neural Networks and Decision Theory - Graph Theory and Discrete Mathematics - Game Theory and Pricing Envisaged Applications are drawn from, but not limited to: - Computer Networks (Peer-to-peer Networks, Traffic Control Services) - Computer Systems (Grid Computing) - Communication Systems - Wireless Networks (MAC, Routing, Cellular, Ad Hoc Sensor, and Hybrids) - Distributed Systems - Road Traffic and Transportation Systems - Public Utility Networks - Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains - Call Centers - Economic, Biological, and Social Systems Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Performance Evaluation Journal (confirmed) and Discrete Events Dynamic Systems Journal (approval pending). Valuetools 2008 features 5 co-located workshops (to be held on Oct 20 and 24): - InterPerf (Workshop on interdisciplinary approaches in performance evaluation and design of Computer and Communications Systems) - GameComm (Workshop on Game Theory for Communication Networks) - WNS2 (Workshop on NS2) - Network Calculus (Workshop on Network Calculus) - SMCTools (Stochastic Markov Tools Workshop) SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format. IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: April 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 4, 2008 Final version due: July 25, 2008 General Chair: John Baras (U. of Maryland) Vice General Chair: Costas Courcoubetis (Athens U. of Economics and Business) Plenary Talks: Avishai Madelbaum (Technion) Jean Mairesse (U. Paris 7/CNRS) John Tsitsiklis (MIT) Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Eitan Altman (INRIA) Imritch Chlamtac (CREATE-NET) Steering Committee: Luciano Lenzini (U. of Pisa) Daniele Miorandi (CREATE-NET) Sean Meyn (U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Tijani Chahed (GET/INT) Stavros Toumpis (U. of Cyprus) Uri Yechiali (Tel Aviv U.) Workshops Co-Chair: Claudio Cicconetti (U. of Pisa) Sara Alouf (INRIA) Finance Chair: TBA Conference Coordinator: Dorothy Bany (ICST) Sponsors Chair: Giannis Marias (Athens U. of Economics and Business) Publicity Chair: Savvas Gitzenis (CERTH) Publication Chair: Dimitris Toumpakaris (U. of Patras) Local Organization Chair: George Xylomenos (Athens U. of Economics and Business) Web Chair: Ephie Deriche (INRIA) Technical Program Committee: Nail Akar (Bilkent) Urtzi Ayesta (LAAS-CNRS) Rachid El Azouzi (U. of Avignon) Xiren Cao (Hong Kong U. Science and Tech.) Oliver Dousse (Deutsche Telekom Labs) Iddo Eliazar (Holon Institute of Technology) Atilla Eryilmaz (Ohio State U.) Christina Fragouli (EPFL) Marco Gribaudo (U. of Torino) Moshe Haviv (Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) Esa Hyytia (FTW) Tania Jimenez (INRIA) Nijar Jindal (U. of Minesota) Mehdi Kalantari (U. of Maryland) Hisao Kameda (U. of Tsukuba) Arzad Alam Kherani (IIT New Delhi) Ger Koole (VUU Amsterdam) Iordanis Koutsopoulos (U. of Thessaly) Anurag Kumar (IISC Bangalore) Hanoch Levy (Tel Aviv U.) Muriel Medard (MIT) Jelena Misic (U. of Manitoba) Eytan Modiano (MIT) Evsey Morozov (Karelian Research Center) Sindo Nunez (CWI) George Polyzos (AUEB) Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI) Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research) Fabio Ricciato (FTW) Saswati Sarkar (U. of Pennsylvania) Nachum Shimkin (Technion) Eilon Solan (Tel Aviv U.) Sylvain Sorin (U. Pierre & Marie Curie) George Stamoulis (AUEB) Corinne Touati (INRIA) John Tsitsiklis (MIT) Bruno Tuffin (INRIA) Enrico Vicario (U. of Florence) Jorma Virtamo (Helsinki U. of Technology) Sriram Vishwanath (U. of Texas) George Xylomenos (AUEB) Bert Zwart (Georgia Tech) -------------------------------------------------- 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=qqoifbgave and enter your email address.

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Die INFORMATIK 2008 - Deadlines nähern sich ..... !!!
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Sehr geehrte Fachgruppensprecherinnen und -sprecher, sehr geehrte GI-Vertrauensdozentinnen und -dozenten, die Deadlines zur Einreichung von Workshop-Vorschlägen sowie sonstiger Beiträge für die INFORMATIK 2008 : Beherrschbare Systeme - dank Informatik (8. - 13.September, München) nähern sich Ende Januar !!. Dabei sind - mit Bezug zum obengenannten Tagungsmotto - Vorschläge erwünscht zu: * Tutorien * Vorschläge zur Durchführung von halb- oder ganztägigen Workshops * Vortragsbeiträge zu den Schwerpunktveranstaltungen zum Tagungsmotto: - Advanced Computing - Anwendungslandschften in Banken und Versicherungen - Automobil- und Verkehrssysteme - Autonome Systeme - Bioinformatik und -technologie - Logistik eines Hub-Flughafens - Kommunikationssysteme - Sicherheit Eine Liste der entsprechenden Ansprechpartner, der Tagungsstruktur, wie auch den Volltext der Tagungsankündigung finden Sie unter: www.informatik2008.de Bitte prüfen Sie eine Beteiligung Ihrer Fachgruppe in der ein- oder anderen Form ! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz-Gerd Hegering Axel Lehmann Christian Scheideler

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CFP: Third Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2008)
by Periklis Chatzimisios 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Third Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2008) (http://mediaWiN.it.teithe.gr) July 6th, 2008 Marrakech, Morocco organized in association with the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2008) (http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008) Scope Fortified by the success of the previous experience, the third edition of the MediaWiN Workshop will be again organized in association with the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2008). MediaWiN 2008 is an open forum, which aims at promoting interaction and discussion between the Workshop contributors. The event offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics around the world to meet, present their work, and discuss the latest advances in multimedia systems, services, and applications over wireless networks. Topics of Interest Starting with a rigorous review process in which each submitted paper will receive at least three independent peer reviews, including one from a TPC member, we expect the Workshop to provide relevant and knowledgeable feedback that will assist all authors to significantly enhance the quality of their work. The focal topics of the Workshop include: Multimedia Services Design and Characterization - Cooperative multimedia services - Health care, safety and emergency oriented multimedia services - Emerging and visionary multimedia applications for wireless networks Mathematical Models for Multimedia Applications - Mathematical models for multimedia traffic sources - Mathematical quality metrics for multimedia services - Models and tools for the simulation of multimedia traffic sources Experimentation: Testbeds, Field Trials and Empirical Results - Design and implementation of testbeds for multimedia over wireless - Filed trials, experimental measurements and results - Measurements-based models for multimedia over wireless - Testing of protocols and standards for multimedia over wireless Multimedia Services over Resource-constrained Wireless Networks (WSN, WPAN) - Energy efficiency issues in protocols for multimedia over wireless sensor networks - Scheduling and link adaptation techniques - Resilience to node failures and network topology variations - Low complexity cross layer techniques for multimedia over WSN or WPAN Multimedia Services over Wireless LAN, WAN and Ad-hoc Networks - Car-to-car and road-to-car multimedia communications in vehicular networks - Protocols for multimedia support and provisioning over mesh and heterogeneous networks - Context aware techniques for enhancing multimedia service support - Design and improvements of MAC service differentiation solutions - Mobility and handoff management - Security issues in wireless multimedia applications - Multimedia traffic charging and accounting techniques Emerging Standards and Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications - Recent work in standardization fora, including IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.21 - New network architectures for wireless communications (IEEE 802.11v, CAPWAP) - Compression techniques, standards and evaluation Important Dates Submission of research papers due: *February 15*, 2008 Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2008 Submission of camera-ready papers due: April 12, 2008 Workshop date: July 6, 2008 Paper submission Papers should contain original material and not be previously published,or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style and must be submitted by February 15, 2008. Accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site; submission will be based on the EDAS conference management system (http://edas.info/). The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2008 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore. Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs: Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Co-Chairs: Andrea Zanella, University of Padova, Italy Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy Vasileios Vitsas, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Technical Program Committee Rui Aguiar ( University of Aveiro, Portugal) Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca, Italy) Hussein Badr (Stony Brook University, USA) Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Paolo Bellavista (University og Bologna, Italy) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Anthony Boucouvalas (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Christos Bouras (University of Patras and RACTI, Greece) Raffaele Bruno (Institute for Informatics & Telematics, Italy) Hind Castel (Inst. National des Télécommunications, France) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) Chrysostomos Chrysostomou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Mischa Dohler (France Telecom R&D, France) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada) Ladan Gharai (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy) Ibrahim Habib (City University of New York, USA) Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (University of Athens, Greece) George Karetsos (CTR of Thessaly, Greece) Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada) Adlen Ksentini (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus Univ. of Technology, Cyprus) Michael Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ioannis Mavridis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece) Roberto Riggio (University of Trento, Italy) Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Susana Sargento (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Luca Scalia (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padova, Italy) Gil Zussman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Web Chair: Vasileios Lourdas, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece (lourdas(a)it.teithe.gr) -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2008: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com

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Networking and Electronic Commerce Conference - CFP B
by Bezalel Gavish 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

The 2008 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC2008) Riva Del Garda, Italy, September 25-28, 2008 http://atsma.org/NAEC_2008/ <http://atsma.org/NAEC2006/> [My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Following the success of NAEC2006 and NAEC2007, the 2008 Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference addresses these needs. NAEC conferences bring together academic and industrial researchers from various fields to discuss developments and challenges of networking and electronic business. The aim of the conference is to provide a high quality forum for the presentation of results, exchange of ideas, and scientific discussions on challenges, methodologies, new technologies and their impact, computational and deployment issues, policies and advanced applications in the area of networking and e-business. Our goal is to open the conference to participants from all fields, in particular, business, telecommunications, computer science, management sciences and operations research, economics, legal and policy studies. The conference will combine technical presentations grouped in research sessions, with industry and research plenary speakers, as well as industry-lead panels. Papers submitted for presentation at the conference will be refereed and selected based on the full paper (15 to 35 pages) or an extended abstract (2 to 4 pages). The papers or abstracts have to be submitted through E-mail, by May 1, 2008 to Professor <mailto:gavishb2000@yahoo.com> Bezalel Gavish. All papers selected for presentation will be published in the conference proceedings. Refereed revised full papers (no page limit) will be considered for publication in the <http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-5753> Electronic Commerce Research Journal or the <http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1018-4864/> Telecommunication Systems Journal. Further information and instructions will be announced later and will be posted on the conference web site http://atsma.org/NAEC_2008/. Paper or extended abstract e-mailing address: Professor Bezalel Gavish <http://tecom.cox.smu.edu/gavishb/vita.html> , <file:///\\gavishb2000@yahoo.com\> gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com. Tel: (214) 750-8474 . Professor Bezalel Gavish Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business Editor-in-Chief Electronic Commerce Research Journal Editor-in-Chief Telecommunication Systems Journal Edwin L. Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University POB 750333 Dallas, TX 75275-0333 E-mail: <mailto:gavishb2000@yahoo.com> gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com Tel: (214) 750-8474 skype bezalelgavish

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CHINACOM 2008
by Xiaoyuan Gu 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **************************************************************** * PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * CHINACOM 2008 * * Int'l Conference on Communications and Networking in China * * August 25-27, 2008, Hangzhou, China * * http://www.chinacom.org * * * **************************************************************** Co-Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST Technically Sponsored by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) IEEE China Vehicular Technology Chapter (IEEE CVTC) ***News: The ChinaCom2006 proceedings have been indexed by EI Compendex now. OVERVIEW: The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International researchers and practitioners in networking and communications under one roof to build a showcase in communications and networking research in China. Following the great success of CHINACOM06 and CHINACOM07, CHINACOM08 will be held in Hangzhou, China, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, on Aug. 25-27 2008, right after the Beijing Olympic Games. The conference will be technically sponsored by Zhejiang University. TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA: Prospective authors are welcome to submit original technical papers for publication in the conference proceedings and for presentation at the following symposia: 1. Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium 2. Optical Communications and Networking Symposium 3. Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium 4. Multimedia Communications Symposium 5. Advances in Internet Symposium 6. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium 7. Information and Coding Theory Symposium 8. Network and Information Security Symposium PANELS/WORKSHOPS: Proposals for panels/workshops are solicited. Potential organizers are welcome to submit a proposal to one of the panel/workshop chairs. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline January 20, 2008 Notification date April 30, 2008 Camera-ready due May 31, 2008 Conference dates August 25-27, 2008 PUBLICATION: All accepted and presented papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2008 Conference Proceedings, made available in IEEExplore Digital Library, and then indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Selected outstanding papers will be considered for international journal special issues. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Jian Chu, Zhejiang University, China Andreas F. Molisch, MERL, USA and Lund University, Sweden GENERAL VICE CO-CHAIRS Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Xianmin Zhang, Zhejiang University, China TPC CO-CHAIRS Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Chi Zhou, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA PANEL CO-CHAIRS Jian Ma, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Peng He, University of Ottawa, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Marek Hajduczenia, Nokia Siemens Networks, S. A., Portugal INTERNAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Zsuzsi Kaszab, ICST, Europe LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CO-CHAIRS Zhifeng Zhao, Zhejiang University, China Shengtian Yang, Zhejiang University, China Jing Li, Zhejiang University, China WEB CHAIR Guanding Yu, Zhejiang University, China SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS 1. Frontiers on Communications and Networking Symposium Hongya Ge, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Neelesh B. Mehta, India Institute of Science, India Zhifeng Tao, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA 2. Optical Communications and Networking Symposium Luying Zhou, Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore Jianjun He, Zhejiang University, China Abdallah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada 3. Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, China Nei Kato, Tohoku University, Japan Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA Claude Oestges, Universit catholique de Louvain, Belgium 4. Multimedia Communications Symposium Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Linda Jiang Xie, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Lu Yu, Zhejiang University, China 5. Advances in Internet Symposium Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA Baoxian Zhang, China Science Academy, China 6. Signal Processing for Communications Symposium Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Chong-Yung Chi, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, China Aiping Huang, Zhejiang University, China Sarah Kate Wilson, Santa Clara University, USA 7. Information and Coding Theory Symposium Yongyi Mao, University of Ottawa, Canada Jun Chen, McMaster University, Canada Peiliang Qiu, Zhejiang University, China 8. Network and Information Security Symposium Fei Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Andreas F. Molisch, MERL, USA, and Lund University, Sweden Zheng Zhou, Beijing U. of Posts and Telecommunications, China -------------------------------------------------- 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=rregfnjfen and enter your email address.

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ICST - MobiQuitous 2008 - Call for Papers
by info＠icstconferences.org 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) July 21-25, 2008, Dublin, Ireland http://www.mobiquitous.org Sponsored by ICST Technically-sponsored by Create-Net IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: March 1, 2008 Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version: May 18, 2008 THEME Combinations of mobile and ubiquitous computing are becoming increasingly present in our daily life. Through the use of mobile devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment, users can be provided with transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. Their implementation requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include systems, applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working system are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi, WiMAX) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor network support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to the workshop co-chairs by March 1, 2008. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Fabian E. Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Posters Chair Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Demonstrations Co-Chairs Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Cristian Borcea, NJIT, USA Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guohong Cao, Penn State University Dean Eckles, Nokia Research, USA Jonathan Engelsma, Motorola, Inc. Joseph B. Evans, University of Kansas, USA Tao Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Jonna Hakkila, Nokia Research, Finland Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland Sharad Mehrotra, University of California at Irvine Alan Messer, Samsung Electronics, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech Daniel Mosse', University of Pittsburgh Matt Mutka, Michigan State University Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Jason Nieh, Columbia University Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Tech Tinku Rasheed, Create-Net Stefan Saroiu, University of Toronto, Canada Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. 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[Tccc] Call for Participation, SIMUTools 2008
by WATTEYNE Thomas RD-TECH-GRE 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, Please find attached the call for participation for SIMUTools 2008. Early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008*. My sincere apologies for cross-posting. Thomas Watteyne. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIMUTools 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems March 3-7, 2008, Marseille, France http://www.simutools.org early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (pdf version: http://www.simutools.org/docs/CallForParticipation.pdf) Simulation software has a prominent place in the set of tools and techniques used to study communications, networks, and systems. The first aim of SIMUTools 2008 is to provide a meeting place for researchers and professionals who want to exchange and share their latest contributions to the design and improvement of techniques and tools in this rapidly evolving technology. The second aim of the conference is to give a prominent place to inter-domain approaches and actively support and promote valuable contributions to the general field of Simulation Engineering. --------------- Conference Program --------------- The detailed technical program is available at http://www.simutools.org/. The conference features the following keynote speakers: - Thomas R. Henderson (The Boeing Company, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington) - Richard M. Fujimoto (Parallel and Distributed Simulation, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology) - Bernard P. Zeigler (Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation) --------------- Industry Track --------------- SimulationWorks is the industry track of the conference; it promotes results that have been applied or have a potential application in an industrial field. The industry track features a keynote presentation by Richard Black (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK). More information can be found at http://www.simulationworks.org/. --------------- Related Workshops --------------- Four workshops will be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008: - QoSim: 1st International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet (www.qosim.org) - PNTAP: International Workshop on Petri Nets Tools and Applications (www.pntap.org) - OMNeT++: 1st International Workshop on OMNeT++ (www.omnet-workshop.org) - NCM&S: Workshop on Net-Centric Modeling & Simulation (osa.inria.fr/NCMS) --------------- Venue and Accomodation --------------- SIMUTools 2008 will take place in the Mercure Marseille Beauvau Vieux Port Hotel. Located in the centre of Marseille, it overlooks the Canebiere and the Vieux Port. It is the oldest in Marseille, but has been completely restored keeping its old-world charm with antique furnishings and Provencal style and decor. To register for the hotel, use the hotel registration form available on our website, with the code "ICST" when registering. Register before January 31, 2008 for the reduced Conference room price. --------------- Registration --------------- The early registration deadline is *January 31, 2008*. Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ICST, CREATE-NET, ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to SIMUTOOLS and one or more related workshops is also possible for a reduced fee. ---------------------- Organization Committee ---------------------- Steering Committee Chair, Imrich Chlamtac (Create-Net, Italy) Co-Chair, John Heath (University of So Maine, USA) General Chairs Sándor Molnár (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary) John Heath (Univ. of So Maine, USA) Technical Program Chairs Olivier Dalle (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France) Gabriel A. Wainer (Carleton Univ., Canada) Industry Track Chairs Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Ltd., United Kingdom) Herb Schwetman (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) Finance Chair Karen Decker (ICST) Local Chair Claudia Frydman (LSIS - Univ. Aix-Marseille, France) Workshops Chairs Kejie Lu (Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico) Hua Zhu (San Diego Research Center, USA) Local Workshop Chair Joanna Moulierac (Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS & INRIA, France) Publication Chair Tricha Anjali (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Publicity Chair Thomas Watteyne (INRIA, France Telecom R&D, France) Conference Organization Chair Tibor Kovács (ICST) Technical Program Committee A. D'Ambrogio (Univ. Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy) F. Barros (Univ. of Coimbra, Portugal) J-P. Briot (LIP6, Paris, France) A. Bruzzone (Univ. of Genoa, Italy) F. Cappello (INRIA Futurs & LRI, Orsay, France) C. Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) C. Christoffersen (Lakehead Univ., Canada) M. Debbah (SUPELEC, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France) B. Espinasse (LSIS, Marseille, France) S. Floyd (ICIR, Berkeley, USA) J-M. Garcia (QoSDesign, France) N. Giambiasi (LSIS, Marseille, France) E. Gokturk (Univ. of Oslo, Norway) T. Henderson (Boeing Phantom Works & Univ. of Washington, USA) D. R.C. Hill (ISIMA, Aubière, France) D. Hong (N2NSoft, France) K. Jensen (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark) T. Jimenez (Univ. of Avignon, France) H. Karatza (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece) T. G. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) E. Kofman (Univ. Nacional de Rosario, Argentina) M. Lacage (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France) P. L'Ecuyer (Univ. of Montreal, Canada) Z. Liu (IBM Watson Research Center, USA) C-H. Lung (Carleton Univ., Canada) P. J. Mosterman (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA) I. Nikolaidis (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) R. Puigjaner (Univ. de les Illes Balears, Spain) M. Quinson (Univ. Henry Poincaré & Loria, Nancy, France) G. F. Riley (Georgia Tech Institute, USA) R. Szabó (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, Hungary) D. Tutsch (Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany) A. Uhrmacher (Univ. of Rostock, Germany) J. Garcia Villalba (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain) J-M. Vincent (ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France) C. Williamson (Univ. of Calgary, Canada) B. P. Zeigler (Arizona Center for Integrative Modeling and Simulation, USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] Call for Papers: International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments, IEEE VR
by Carsten Griwodz 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2008) at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE08/ March 8th, 2008 Reno, Nevada, USA With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent booms of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments (MMVEs) becomes increasingly important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community-spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking/ distributed computing communities. This workshop hopes to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. We aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaborations, and move the state of the art forward. Keynote by Jon Watte (CTO, Forterra Systems) Jon Watte will give a keynote at the workshop, in which he'll describe some surprising places virtual worlds have been adopted; what the future looks like; and some sketches for open research areas. In addition to his job as CTO of serious virtual world platform company Forterra Systems, Jon is a regular contributor to the independent game development community. A Microsoft DirectX/XNA MVP and moderator of the Multiplayer and Networking forum on independent games site GameDev.Net, Jon has several published articles in the field and has spoken on the future direction of the interoperable 3D web on several occasions. He combines practical experience with solid theoretical underpinnings to bring success to the field of massive-scale, interactive distributed simulation. Prior to heading up Forterra Systems, Jon worked on products such as There.com, BeOS, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior. Important Dates Submission Deadline: January 26th, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 7th, 2008 Camera Ready Version: February 9th, 2008 Workshop Date: March 8, 2008 Organizers Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany Daniel Weiskopf, Universiy of Stuttgart, Germany Ben Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan Program Committee Dewan Tanvir Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada Christian Bouville, IRISA, France Bing-Yu Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yiorgos Chrysanthou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Mike Eissele, University of Stuttgart, Germany Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan Pedro Morillo Tena, University of Valencia, Spain Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil Juan Manuel Orduna, University of Valencia, Spain Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Gwendal Simon, ENST Bretagne, France Sandeep Singhal, Microsoft Corporation, USA Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Krzysztof Walczak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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[Tccc] CFP IEEE JSAC special issue
by Thanos Vasilakos 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare Wireless and Pervasive Communications for Healthcare, a new and growing interdisciplinary field, calls for innovation in information and communications technology to facilitate reliable, comprehensive, and high quality heathcare. Advances in networking infrastructure as well as middleware are vital to delivering telemedicine services regardless of a patient's physical location. In-home care for elderly persons is costly and can require sensors, wireless monitoring devices, and networking infrastructure and middleware to automatically contact emergency services. Healthcare is motivating unique basic research challenges in wireless and pervasive communications due to requirements for safe signal propagation characteristics, low network latency, low packet loss, high quality image and video transmission, and the need for safe, secure, and dependable operation. The goal of this issue is to report on cutting-edge research in communications for healthcare. Basic research papers are solicited, but papers on systems integration or deployment will also be considered. We seek papers that describe original and unpublished contributions, and that reflect those aspects of communications research for healthcare which are distinctly different from communications research in general. Possible topics include: . New Network architectures for wireless telemedicine . Unique wireless network research issues to support healthcare applications . Regionally-lossless and near-lossless coding for medical images . Unique middleware for enabling medical applications . Equipping ambulances with wireless and sensor networks . E-surgery using large bandwidth connections . Mobile and wearable technologies for next generation drug trials . Organic Computing for Healthcare Networks . Remote tactile sensors for remote diagnosis . Actuators and prompters for rehabilitation and behavior modification . Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring . Cyber-physical systems for patient monitoring . Sensor networks for hospitals, operating rooms, elderly monitoring . Autonomic Sensor Networks for Healthcare Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors under http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the EDAS peer review website. Submission deadline: July15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: Nov 15, 2008 Final Manuscript due: Jan 15, 2009 Publication: 2nd quarter 2009 Guest editors: Athanasios V. Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia, 50100, Kozani, Greece vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Hsiao-Hwa Chen Institute of Communications Engineering National Sun Yat-Sen University Taiwan 804, hshwchen(a)ieee.org Hussein Mouftah School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5,,mouftah(a)site.uottawa.ca Ibrahim Habib Department of Electrical Engineering City College and Graduate School City University of New York Convent Avenue at 140th Street New York, NY 10031, hab <mailto:habib@ccny.cuny.edu> ib(a)ccny.cuny.edu Kevin Montgomery National Biocomputation Center 701A Welch Road, Suite 1128 Stanford, CA 94305 kevin(a)cohiba.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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MobileHCI 2008: Workshop Proposals deadline 21 January 5pm CET
by Robert James Steele 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

** In-Cooperation with SIGMOBILE event ----------------- REMINDER - the first deadlines for submission to MobileHCI 2008 are approac hing quickly * Workshop proposals deadline: 21 January * Full papers: 4 February Our apologies in case of multiple copies. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI 2008 The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 - 5 September 2008 http://www.mobilehci2008.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The 10th conference in the MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services. Categories for submissions --------------- Full Papers / Short Papers / Posters / Demonstrations / Panels / Workshops / Industrial Case Studies / Doctoral Consortium / Student Design Competition / Mobile Experiences Important Dates --------------- 21 January 2008: Workshop Proposal due 4 February 2008: Full Papers due 3 March 2008: Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Industrial Case Studies, Doctoral Consortium, Student Design Competition due 7 April 2008: Notification of acceptance 28 April 2008: Mobile Experience proposals due 9 May 2008: Final camera-ready versions due Suggested topics --------------- * Audio and speech interaction * Context-dependent systems * Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices * Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology * Evaluation of mobile devices and services/Usability of mobile devices and services * Group interaction and mobility * Intelligent environments * Location-aware interaction * Methods to evaluate mobile usability/User experience research for & with mobile devices * Model-based design of interactive mobile systems * Mobile phenomena * Mobility and work environments * Multimodal interaction * Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques * Perception and modeling of the environment * Safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments) * Specific classes of handheld devices (PDA, Pocket PC, WAP phone, etc.) * 3D graphics on mobile devices * 3G/4G devices and services * Visualization techniques for the mobile context * Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects) * User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems * Wearable computing * Mobile Entertainment * Urban and Location based gaming * Smart clothes * Mobile social networks * Mobile persuasion * Personal monitoring & coaching with mobile devices * Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services * Implicit interaction styles for mobile devices * Studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors) Conference attendance by at least one author is mandatory. MobileHCI 2008 is organized by Telematica Instituut and Philips Research Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. For more information, please browse to http://www.mobilehci2008.org or e-mail info(a)mobilehci2008.org We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam! Program Committee ----------------- Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Maddy Janse, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Kris Mihalic, Yahoo! Mobile, USA Fabio Patern�, CNR/ISTI, Italy Henk de Poot, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg & CURE, Austria Marc Smith, Microsoft Research, USA Elly Pelgrim, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Elisabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ACCESS Systems America, USA Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Organizing Committee -------------------- Henri ter Hofte, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Ingrid Mulder, Telematica Instituut & Rotterdam University, the Netherlands Esmeralda Wouters, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Gea Costeris, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Olga Steen, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Joke Kort, TNO Information and Communication Technology, the Netherlands Thiemo Burger, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Martijn Kriens, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Daan Velthausz, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Jozien Ensing, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Elize Harmelink, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Margot Franken-Richelle, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Rob Kottink, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Johan Koolwaaij, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. 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ICST - ISVCS 2008 Call for Paper
by info＠icstconferences.org 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------ -**********************************************************- -* *- -* International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems *- -* ISVCS 2008 *- -* *- -* July 22-24, 2008 *- -* Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *- -* *- -* http://www.isvcs.eu/ *- -* *- -* Call for Papers *- -* *- -* *- -* Co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 *- -* *- -* Sponsored by ICST *- -* Technically-sponsored by Create-Net *- -* *- -**********************************************************- ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Paper registration: March 8, 2008 Paper submission: March 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 4, 2008 Camera-ready version due: May 18, 2008 THEME The ISVCS is an annual event that seeks to bring together people from academia, industry and government interested in building and using vehicular computing systems, middleware, protocols, services and applications. The symposium is primarily interested in papers reporting on innovative research resulting in real implementations and working prototypes. Work in progress and new ideas will also be accepted as well as presentations of new products. The program will consist of technical sessions, product/industrial presentations, a keynote, a demonstration session, a poster session and one panel, scheduled over 2.5 days. During the event, an industrial exhibition will be also organized. Short tutorials, especially in non-technical related areas, such as transportation policies and social aspects will also be organized, in order to offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on the field. The event is co-located with MobiQuitous 2008 (http://www.mobiquitous.org/), allowing researchers and practitioners from these related fields to meet and exchange their ideas and experiences. TOPICS OF INTEREST The symposium calls for three categories of contributions: research, position and product presentation papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Design and implementation of computer systems for network-connected vehicles - Middleware and service architectures for safety, road sensing, route planning, in-car networking and other vehicle-centric applications - Protocols for data collection and dissemination over network-connected cars - Security and privacy issues in vehicular networks, systems, services and applications - Location-aware computing models for vehicular systems - Driver-to-computer interfaces - Data management systems for road sensing and traffic monitoring - Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication protocols - Inter-vehicle distributed systems for entertainment and gaming - Pervasive computing applications using vehicular networks - Tools and methodologies for vehicular computing systems verification and evaluation - Fault-tolerance solutions for vehicular computing systems - Maintenance for vehicular computing software - Experience reports of testing vehicular computing systems on real-world conditions - Policies, laws and regulations for adopting vehicular computing technologies - Social and psychological implications of vehicular computing applications SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 10 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Please visit the Publications page for more information. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers presented in ISVCS will be considered for publication in the Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, Special Issue on Advances and Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Rene Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Program Chair Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Industry Chair Fan Bai, General Motors, USA Poster/Demo Co-Chairs Raja Sengupta, UC Berkeley, USA Sam Reisenfeld, UTS, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST Conference Coordinator Dorothy Bany, ICST -------------------------------------------------- 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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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2008 - 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
by Helen Karatza 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

MASCOTS 2008 16th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 8-10, 2008 Baltimore, Maryland USA http://www.mascots-conference.org/index-2008.html The 16th annual MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer networks, distributed/parallel systems, wireless/cellular telecommunication networks, and Web-based systems, and is cosponsored by the IEEE and ACM. The 16th edition of this conference will take place September 8a?"10, 2008 at the Tremont Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include tutorials, keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The conference organizers encourage researchers worldwide to submit their latest work in computer system performance analysis and evaluation, with results of theoretical and/or practical significance. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Paper Submission: Poster Submission: Tutorial Proposals: Notification Decisions: Camera-ready Versions: March 21, 2008 April 1, 2008 (firm deadlinea?"no extensions) May 1, 2008 May 1, 2008 May 15, 2008 June 9, 2008 PAPERS MASCOTS 2008 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer networks and computer systems performance evaluation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Computer Architecture Computer Networks Distributed/Parallel Systems Industrial Practice and Experience Internetworking Protocols Multimedia Systems Performance Evaluation Methodologies Pervasive Web and Mobility Sensor Networks Storage Systems Web-based Systems Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2008 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and submission requirements will be provided on the conference Web site. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full paper is accepted, the poster submission will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to 2 pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described above. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to 3 pages in the conference proceedings. TUTORIALS A program of tutorials will cover topics of current interest to Web design, development, services, operation, use, and evaluation. These half and full-day sessions will be led by internationally recognized experts and experienced instructors using prepared content. GENERAL CHAIRS Jackie Akinpelu (JHU-APL, USA) Douglas Schmidt (JHU-APL, USA) PROGRAM CHAIRS: Ethan Miller (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Carey Williamson (U. of Calgary, Canada) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ismail Ari (Hewlett Packard Labs) Tim Brecht (University of Waterloo) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Tony Field (Imperial College, UK) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Peter Harrison (Imperial College, UK) Windsor Hsu (Data Domain) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Anupam Joshi (Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Inst. of Technology Delhi) James Martin (Clemson University) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Yannis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) Michael O'Sullivan (University of Auckland) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) George Riley (Georgia Tech) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Robert Simon (George Mason University) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) STEERING COMMITTEE Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas BrA$unl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP--VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET) 2008 Datum: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:35:39 -0500 Von: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> Antwort an: Ken Laberteaux <klaberte(a)ACM.ORG> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ANNOUNCEMENT and 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: To be announced San Francisco, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2008/ Important Dates (tentative): Paper Submission Deadline: April 6th 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: Fan Bai , General Motors 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 Markus Jakobsson , Indiana University Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Frank Kargl, Ulm University Timo Kosch , BMW Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Research Christof Paar, Ruhr-University Bochum Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos, EPFL Maxim Raya, EPFL Björn Scheuermann, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research Daniel Stancil, 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. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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[Tccc] MobiHoc'08 call for posters
by Mihaela Cardei 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Dear Colleagues, Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for initial feedback on early research results. Poster descriptions of no more than 3 pages (US letter size 8.5 x 11 inches) using font size 10 should be submitted to the Poster Chair Mihaela Cardei (mihaela(a)cse.fau.edu). Please include the words "Poster Abstract:" to precede the title on the cover page. A selected subset of poster abstracts will be published in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Poster Submission Deadline: March 7, 2008 Acceptance Notifications: March 18, 2008 More information on the conference is available at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 We look forward to receiving your submission. Best Regards, Mihaela Cardei Poster Chair for MobiHoc 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen WMAN-FG 2008
by Matthias Frank 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

============================================================== Bitte entschuldigen Sie ggf. mehrfache Kopien dieses Aufrufs. Bitte leiten Sie den Aufruf auch an interessierte KollegInnen/MitarbeiterInnen weiter! ============================================================== 1. GI/ITG KuVs Fachgespräch WMAN (Wireless Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks) Fachgespräch der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme Universität Ulm, 24./25.04.2008 Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen Zielsetzung: Mobile Ad-hoc Netzwerke (MANETs) stellen heute eines der aktivsten Forschungsgebiete dar. Neben der grundlegenden Organisation des Routing-Prozesses finden sich in MANETs weitere wichtige Fragestellungen wie Autokonfiguration, Sicherheit oder effizienter Nutzung von Ressourcen. Bedingt durch die beschränkten Ressourcen mobiler Kleingeraete, das Fehlen zentraler Instanzen und die hohe Dynamik von Ad-hoc Netzen lassen sich bekannte Lösungen aus dem Bereich drahtgebundener Netze nicht ohne Weiteres übertragen. Aus diesen Gründen behandelt dieses Fachgespräch die zugrundeliegenden Funktechnologien ebenso wie Fragestellungen bis zur Anwendungsschicht. Auch konkrete Anwendungsszenarien wie Fahrzeug-Fahrzeug-Kommunikation oder Unterwasser-Ad-hoc Netze sind von Interesse. Die aus vielfältigen Themenbereichen bekannten Fachgespräche der KuVs zeichnen sich durch eine kommunikative, diskussionsorientierte Atmosphäre aus, bei der auch junge Forschungsaktivitäten sowie initiale Ideen zu Herausforderungen des jeweiligen Themenkreises präsentiert werden sollen. Autoren sind eingeladen, eine Kurzfassung ihrer zur Diskussion zu stellenden Aktivitäten im Umfang von maximal 2 Seiten als PDF einzureichen (in deutscher oder englischer Sprache, Formatierung im Stil der IEEE Transactions, siehe http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html). Die endgültigen Kurzfassungen (sowie ggf. die Präsentationsfolien) sollen in einem Technischen Bericht der Universität Ulm zusammengefasst und veröffentlicht werden. Ferner ist geplant, im Anschluss an das Fachgespräch ausgewählte Beiträge zur Einreichung einer Vollversion für ein Themenheft der PIK (Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation) einzuladen. Einreichungen sollen formlos per E-Mail an die drei Organisatoren geschickt werden (Termin und E-Mailadressen siehe unten). Wichtige Daten Fr 29.02.2008 - Frist für Einreichungen Mo 17.03.2008 - Benachrichtigung Do 10.04.2008 - Endgültige Fassung Do 10.04.2008 - Anmeldeschluss Do 24.04. - Fr 25.04.2008 Fachgespräch Veranstaltungsort/Genaue Zeiten Das Fachgespräch wird an der Universität Ulm stattfinden. Beginn der Veranstaltung ist am Do 24.04.2008 um 13.00 Uhr, um möglichst vielen TeilnehmerInnen die Anreise am Donnerstagvormittag zu ermöglichen. Das Treffen endet am Fr 25.04.2008 um 12.00 Uhr. Organisation Matthias Frank, Universität Bonn, matthew(a)cs.uni-bonn.de Frank Kargl, Universität Ulm, frank.kargl(a)uni-ulm.de Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich, stiller(a)ifi.uzh.ch

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[Tccc] Cannes, French Riviera --- IEEE PIMRC 2008 --- 14-18 September 2008 --- www.pimrc2008.org
by Chia-Chin Chong 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, The 19th edition of IEEE PIMRC will be held from 14-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. The paper submission deadline is 3 March 2008, and the deadline for workshops, special sessions and panels is 15 January 2008. The CFP can be found below, with more information available under [1]www.pimrc2008.org. Kind regards, Chia-Chin -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Chia-Chin Chong, Ph.D. DoCoMo USA Labs, 3240 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto CA, 94304 USA. Tel.: +1-650-496-4734 Fax: +1-650-493-9601 Email: [2]cchong(a)docomolabs-usa.com [3]Chia-Chin.Chong(a)ieee.org URL: [4]http://www.docomolabs-usa.com -------------------------------------------------------------- **********************Confidentiality Note********************** Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this e-mail and any attachment to it and may be covered by existing non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements. If you are not the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete it from your system. Thank you very much. ************************************************************* ====================================================================== ========================= IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 14-18 September 2008 [5]www.pimrc2008.org ====================================================================== ========================= Overview: The annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) is one of the premier conferences in the wireless research arena and has a long history of bringing together academia, industry and regulatory bodies. Today, it has become one of IEEE ComSoc's flagship conferences in telecommunications. The 19th edition of PIMRC will be held from 14-18 September 2008 in glamorous Cannes, French Riviera, France, at the "Palais des Festivals de Cannes" where traditionally the Cannes Film Festival is being held. With Cannes being one of the most charming places on earth, we expect this to be a truly special conference. For more details, please, visit [6]www.pimrc2008.org. Focus: PIMRC 2008 will provide a global forum for presenting the most recent advances, the future technical challenges and business opportunities that comprise the contemporary landscape in wireless communications. The organizers endeavour to attract contributions covering not only conventional areas of wireless communications (e.g., physical layer), but also emerging areas with high potential for essential scientific and societal impact such as wireless sensors for biomedical applications, non-trivial pervasive computing services and ambient technologies. The latter areas are expected to facilitate the development of a broad vision of innovative future applications in wireless communications. The high quality IEEE endorsed technical programme, will also include tutorials, workshops, exhibitions, panel discussions and keynote presentations from leading experts coming from the academic community, industry, as well as regulatory and standardisation bodies. Call for Papers: Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers describing original and previously unpublished contributions in a wide range of topics in wireless communications. These topics are clustered into the following three major categories: 1) Physical Layer and MAC 2) Mobile and Wireless Networks 3) Applications, Services and Business Models Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplore compatible PDF-format. To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit [7]www.pimrc2008.org. Important Dates: Full papers due: 3. March 2008 Acceptance notice: 1. May 2008 Final manuscript: 2. June 2008 Committee: 1 PIMRC Steering Committee: Prof Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK (founder) Prof. Shuzo Kato, NICT, Japan Prof. Kaveh Pahlavan, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, USA Roberto de Marca, IEEE 2 PIMRC 2008 General Chairs: Paul Friedel, Director of R&D, France Telecom, France Prof Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK 3 Technical Committee: TPC General Chairs: Dr Mischa Dohler, France Telecom, France Prof Alain Sibille, ENSTA, France Track #1: Fundamentals & PHY Chairs: Prof Jean-Claude Belfiore, ENST, France Prof David Gespert, Eurecom, France Prof John Cioffi, Stanford, USA Track #2: MAC & Cross-Layer Design Chairs: Prof Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome, Italy Prof John Shea, University of Florida, USA Prof Carles Anton, CTTC, Spain Track #3: Mobile and Wireless Networks Chairs: Prof Ivan Stojmenovic, EECE, UK Prof Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida, USA Dr Fabrice Valois, INSA, France Track #4: Services, Applications & Business Chairs: Dr Babak Jafarian, Ortiva Wireless, USA Prof Luis Correia, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Prof Rahim Tafazolli, Surrey University, UK Tutorial Chairs: Prof Muriel Medard, MIT, USA Dr Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France Panel Chairs: Dr. Jorge Pereira, EC DG-INFSO, Europe Prof Frank Fitzek, Alborg University, Denmark Workshop Chairs: Dr Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Prof Branka Vucetic, Sydney University, Australia Invited Papers Chairs: Prof Giorgos Giannakis, University of Minnesota, USA Prof Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France Special Sessions Chairs: Dr Didier Bourse, Motorola, France René Roussille, SEE, France Keynote Chairs: Cengiz Evci, Alcatel-Lucent, France Christophe Le Martret, Thales Group, France TPC Members: to be announced on website 4 Organizing Committee: Organizational Chairs: Béatrice Valdayron, SEE, France Debora Kingston, IEEE, USA Finance Chairs: Christine Nora, IEEE France Section, France Bruce Worthman, IEEE ComSoc, USA Publicity Chairs: Dr Chia-Chin Chong, DoCoMo USA Labs, USA Eric Fleury, INRIA, France National Ambassadors: Africa: Saurabh Sinha, University of Pretoria, South Africa Australia: Yonghui Li, University of Sydney Austria: Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt Brazil: Carlos B. Westphall, UFSC China: Huaibei (Barry) Zhou, Wuhan University Finland: Matti Latva-aho, Oulu University Germany: Gerhard Fettweis, TU-Dresden Greece: Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki Italy: Roberto Verdone, Bologna University Iran: Masoumeh Nasiri, Sharif University Japan: Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University Poland: Maciej Nawrocki, Wroclaw University of Technology Russia: Alexander Korotkov, St. Petersburg State Polytech. Uni. Spain: Oriol Sallent, UPC Turkey: Hakan Delic, Bogazici University UK: Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton Sponsorship Chairs: Prof Ramesh Pyndiah, ENST, France Dr Ian Oppermann, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Finland Publications Chairs: Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Victor Kueh, British Telecom, UK Web Chairs: Thomas Watteyne, INSA/FTRD, France 5 International Advisory Committee: R. Agusti, K.-C. Chen, L. Coreira, K.-P. Estola, G. Fettweis, S. Glisic, K. Gong, R. Kohno, M. Latvaaho, P. Leppanen, P. Mahonen, N. Morinaga, R. Prasad, O. Sallent, S. Sampei, E. Sousa, B. Walke References 1. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 2. mailto:cchong@docomolabs-usa.com 3. mailto:Chia-Chin.Chong@ieee.org 4. http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/ 5. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 6. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ 7. http://www.pimrc2008.org/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP]Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine on "Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics"]
by Lars Wolf 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP]Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine on "Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics" Datum: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:33:51 +0900 Von: Jung-Min Park <millfron(a)yonsei.ac.kr> An: TCCC <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies for possible multiple copies] =================================================== Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on: Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics =================================================== Background: Wireless communication has been a key driving force in recent years both in academia and in industry. It has currently expanded to wireless multihop networks, which include ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop relay systems. With multihop capability, wireless communication can be combined with cooperative communications and network coding, which has attracted even more researchers to this field. In many wireless multihop networks, the merits of capacity enhancement as well as coverage exceed the delay caused by multihop relay. Still, however, there are unresolved issues that may not be necessarily technical; one question regards the real motivation of a relay node that allows packet relay for the other transmitting nodes by consuming its own energy. There is also a security issue in multihop communications, in the sense that one's own data transmission is received by someone else in close proximity. On the other hand, in the networked robotics area, researchers try to realize group behaviors found in small insects or animals, in order to control and coordinate a team of robots. Especially, real-time wireless communication can help dynamic resource management and self-organization for a team of cooperative robots. The multiple robots communicate with each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications. In this respect, wireless communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information exchange. This special issue is an attempt to bridge these two dynamic areas. We welcome submissions on all aspects of these themes, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems - Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality - Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications - Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics - Applications of multi-robot network systems - Ad hoc robot networks - Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work - Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks - QoS support and resource management in networked robotics - Wireless networks under node mobility Manuscript Submission With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via email to slkim(a)yonsei.ac.kr. Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2008 - Final manuscript Due: November 15, 2008 - Publication date: February, 2009 Guest Editors: - Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim AT yonsei.ac.kr) - Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland (jean-yves.leboudec AT epfl.ch) - Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany (burgard AT informatik.uni-freiburg.de) - DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (daeeun AT yonsei.ac.kr) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP of HPCC-08
by Laurence Tianruo Yang 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08) Organized by Dalian University of Technology, China Sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing Dalian, China, September 25-27, 2008 http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION HPCC-08 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00 (Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999). The HPCC-08 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics include but are not limited to the following: * Languages and compilers for high performance computing * Parallel and distributed system architectures * Parallel and distributed software technologies * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Embedded systems * Peer-to-peer computing * Grid and cluster computing * Web services and internet computing * Performance evaluation and measurement * Tools and environments for software development * Distributed systems and applications * High-performance scientific and engineering computing * Database applications and data mining * Biological/molecular computing * Collaborative and cooperative environments * Network protocols, routing, algorithms * Mobile computing and wireless communications * Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence * Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance * Trust, security and privacy IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposal: February 28, 2008 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Authors Notification: June 01 , 2008 Final Manuscript Due: July 01, 2008 ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the HPCC-08 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc08/ PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the several international issues such as Journal of Supercomputing, IJHPCN, IJCSE, IJCSSE and WWW. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL In conjunction with the HPCC-08 conference, several workshops will be held. If you would like to organize a workshop, please submit a workshop proposal including call for paper, organizing committee, important dates, contact person, short bio of the organizers to the HPCC-08 workshop chairs before February 28, 2008. Proceedings of the HPCC-08 workshops will be published by IEEE CS Press. The workshops with more than 15 papers will be granted with a free complimentary registration and local accommodation for one leading workshop organizer. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES Honorary Chairs Jinping Ou, Dalian University of Technology, China General Chairs Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Program Chairs Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK Mitsuhisa Sato,University of Tsukuba, Japan Hans P. Zima, California Institute of Technology, USA Program Vice Chairs Shi-Jinn Horng, National Taiwan University of Sci. and Tech., Taiwan George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan Rajeev Raje, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Xiaolong Jin, University of Bradford, UK Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan Ahmed Y. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Mario Guarracino, Italian National Research Council, Italy Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK Cheng-Xiang Wang, Heriot-Watt University, UK Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Steering Chairs Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Committee Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA Ronald Perrott, Queen~s University of Belfast, UK Michael Gerndt, Technische University of München, Germany Dieter Kranzlmüller, John Kepler University Linz, Austria Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Workshop Chairs Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Publicity Chairs Yu Liang, Central State University, USA Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Sci. and Tech., China Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy Publication Chairs Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Web Administrator Chair Liu Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chair Yong Zhang, Dalian University of Technology, China Program Committee See HPCC-08 web site: http://hpcc08.dlut.edu.cn Further questions, please contact with Dr. Keqiu Li, Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Dalian University of Technology No 2, Linggong Road, Dalian, 116024, China Email: keqiu(a)dlut.edu.cn; hpcc2008(a)gmail.com Tel/Fax: 86-411-84709242 ABOUT DALIAN AND CITY TOUR Dalian, a well-known city with a longstanding history and civilization, lies in Northeast of China. Dalian, named as "Northern Hong Kong of China", has a world-class reputation for its seafood, shopping, and sightseeing. September is the best season for tourism and enjoying seafood. Dalian is also well-connected via air to major cities in the world. One day post-conference city tour on September 28, 2008 will be included into the conference package. -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP - IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and NetworkManagement (ACNM'08)
by Stefan Schmid 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

(Please accept our apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM 2008) April 11, 2008 - Salvador, Brazil http://www.netlab.nec.de/acnm08/ In conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008) The purpose of this workshop is to present and to discuss new theories, mechanisms and applications of Autonomic Communication - a new paradigm for forthcoming networks in the fixed as well as the mobile world. The focus of ACNM is on intelligent communication, network control and management paradigms based on smart network and service elements that are capable to automatically configure and organize themselves. Autonomic networks will be able to sense their environment to perceive these changes, to understand the meaning of these changes, and to react in an intelligent manner through adaptation. This facilitates new ways to perform network control, management, service creation, etc. Autonomic networking naturally also applies to mission critical distributed systems, since autonomic behavior allows for immediate reaction to changes in the networking environment or context, and correction of any (predicted) problems. Such behavior also facilitates fault-tolerance and resilience. ACNM offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange their research ideas and findings. The workshop will be held in conjunction with NOMS'08, which draws many leading researchers in the field of Network and Systems Management. It is co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) and the EU IST Project ANA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following (the full CFP can be found at http://www.netlab.nec.de/acnm08/): *** TOPICS *** - Autonomic network architectures and principles - Paradigms, tools and techniques autonomic communication systems - Control and management in dynamic/mobile network environments - Self-management of communication systems and networks (e.g., based on peer-to-peer principles) - Policy control for autonomic networks & systems - Sensing, monitoring and measurements for autonomic networks - Advances in and application of control theory - Self-co-operating peer-to-peer networks - Self-organizing network elements, and administrative domains - Self-* technologies - Fault-tolerance and resilience - Cognitive networking - Plug and play networking components - Knowledge based network control - Bio-inspired networks and systems - Experiences with self-* solutions - Application of autonomic management to mobile and wireless networking including 3GPP evolved UTRAN, SAE networks, etc. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Submission deadline: January 11th, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: February 22nd, 2008 - Camera ready version: March 21st, 2008 *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Papers must be original material, not currently be under review, and not have been previously published by another conference or journal. They must be written in English. They must follow the IEEE two-column document style, limited to 6-8 US Letter size pages, with a main text font size of no less than 10pt. Submissions must be in PDF format. To submit your paper, please go to the JEMS system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2008_acnm2008. *** WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS *** - Raouf Boutaba (rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) University of Waterloo, Canada - Marcus Brunner (brunner(a)nw.neclab.eu) NEC Europe, Germany *** TPC CO-CHAIRS *** - Stefan Schmid (schmid(a)neclab.eu) NEC Europe, Germany - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (granville(a)inf.ufrgs.br) Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul (UFRGS), Brazil _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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