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Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding
by Frederic Dufaux 16 Feb '08

16 Feb '08

-------- Sorry for cross-posting ----------- EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/si/dvc.html) Call for Papers Distributed source coding (DSC) is a new paradigm based on two information theory theorems: Slepian-Wolf and Wyner-Ziv. Basically, the Slepian-Wolf theorem states that, in the lossless case, the optimal rate achieved when performing joint encoding and decoding of two or more correlated sources can theoretically be reached by doing separate encoding and joint decoding. The Wyner-Ziv theorem extends this result to lossy coding. Based on this paradigm, a new video coding model is defined, referred to as distributed video coding (DVC), which relies on a new statistical framework, instead of the deterministic approach of conventional coding techniques such as MPEG standards. DVC offers a number of potential advantages. It first allows for a flexible partitioning of the complexity between the encoder and decoder. Furthermore, due to its intrinsic joint source-channel coding framework, DVC is robust to channel errors. Because it does no longer rely on a prediction loop, DVC provides codec independent scalability. Finally, DVC is well suited for multiview coding by exploiting correlation between views without requiring communications between the cameras. High-quality original papers are solicited for this special issue. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): · Architecture of DVC codec · Coding efficiency improvement · Side information generation · Channel statistical modeling and channel coding · Joint source-channel coding · DVC for error resilience · DVC-based scalable coding · Multiview DVC · Complexity analysis and reduction · DSC principles applied to other applications such as encryption, authentication, biometrics, device forensics, query, and retrieval Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing manuscript format described at <http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/> http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ivp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscripts through the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing Manuscript Tracking System at <http://mts.hindawi.com/> http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: · Manuscript Due: May 1, 2008 · First Round of Reviews: August 1, 2008 · Publication Date: November 1, 2008 Guest Editors · <mailto:frederic.dufaux@epfl.ch> Frederic Dufaux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland · <mailto:wgao@pku.edu.cn> Wen Gao, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · <mailto:stefano.tubaro@polimi.it> Stefano Tubaro, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy · <mailto:avetro@merl.com> Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, USA _____________________________________________ Dr. Frederic Dufaux Multimedia Signal Processing Lab. Electrical Engineering Institute, School of Engineering Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL - STI - IEL - MMSPL - Station 11 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland email: <mailto:frederic.dufaux@epfl.ch> frederic.dufaux(a)epfl.ch web : <http://mmspl.epfl.ch/> http://mmspl.epfl.ch phone: +41 21 693 4714 mobile: +41 79 757 5963 fax: +41 21 693 7600

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[Tccc] Call for Participation: WEEDEV 2008
by Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

We apologise in advance if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION to the 1st Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV 2008) March 18, 2008, Hotel Grauer Baer, Innsbruck, Austria (in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2008) SCOPE: Many people in modern societies spend a lot of time in their cars. Communication possibilities in vehicles have been restricted in the past mainly to cellular communication networks. Enabling broader communication facilities in cars is an important contribution to the global trend towards ubiquitous communications. Cars should provide access to Internet and should be able to communicate among themselves, supporting new services and applications. The objective of this 1-day workshop is to attract the most recent developments in the area of experimental evaluation and deployment experiences on vehicular networks, and bring together active researchers in an environment that encourages discussion and exchange of ideas. CONFERENCE PROGRAM: Besides a the presentation of the high quality accepted papers, the technical programme will include: - A key-note speech by Dr. Hannes Stratil, tittled "The European CVIS Project and IPv6 Deployment for ITS" - A panel session: "The future of vehicular communications" The detailed conference program is available at http://www.weedev.org/ LOCATION: The workshop will take place at the Hotel Grauer Baer (www.innsbruck-hotels.at/grauerbaer) which is located in the immediate city center, just a two-minute walk away from the historic Old Town of Innsbruck. The Universitätsstrasse is part of a very quiet area and is well known for its numerous cafes and bars. REGISTRATION: Early Registration is open until February 15th 2008 (https://icst.org/registration/reg_tridentcom_2008_eu.php). Reduced registration fees are available for students and members of ICST, CREATE-NET, ACM and INRIA. Joint registration to WEEDEV and TRIDENTCOM is also possible for a reduced fee. COMMITEES: Workshop chair: Carlos J. Bernardos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) TPC chair: María Calderón (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Technical Program Commitee: Roberto Baldessari (NEC Laboratories Europe) Fernando Boavida (Universidade de Coimbra) Carlos J. Bernardos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) María Calderón (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Thierry Ernst (INRIA) Hassnaa Moustafa (France Telecom) Ignacio Soto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Ryuji Wakikawa (KEIO University) ========================================================================== -- ¡ASÓCIATE! Gratis para estudiantes http://www.telematica.ws Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano http://www.netcoms.net GPG FP: D29B 0A6A 639A A561 93CA 4D55 35DC BA4D D170 4F67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WEEDEV 2008: 1st Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks http://www.weedev.org/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: The 2008 International Workshop on Mobile IPv6 and Network-based Localized Mobility Management
by Youn-Hee Han 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------- MobiWorld 2008 The International Workshop on Mobile IPv6 and Network-based Localized Mobility Management (In conjunction with Mobility Conference 2008) National Ilan University, Taiwan September 10-12, 2008 http://sun.dju.ac.kr/~mobiworld2008/ Overview As mobile computing is more and more widespread, mobility support for Internet devices becomes very important. Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is a promising technology that handles the mobility management and provides the seamless mobile communications. It is expected that MIPv6, as a standard for mobile communication, will open the Mobile Internet Age. In MIPv6, it has been observed that mobility for mobile devices can be more efficiently handled if mobility management is broken down into localized mobility management and global mobility management. Therefore, host-based approaches such as Fast-Handovers for MIPv6 (FMIPv6) and Hierarchical MIPv6 (HMIPv6) have been proposed for localized mobility management. In addition, Proxy MIPv6 (PMIPv6) has been presented for the network-based localized mobility management (NETLMM), which does not require mobile devices to be involved in the signaling for mobility management. This workshop will focus on the challenges and solutions for MIPv6 with an emphasis on PMIPv6 and NETLMM, which have recently gained considerable attention. The MobiWorld workshop will provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of MIPv6 and NETLMM. In addition, the workshop will publish high quality papers which are closely related to the various theories and practical applications in MIPv6 and NETLMM. Furthermore, we expect that the workshop and its publications will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in this important subject. Topics (included, but are not limited to) - Communications network architecture for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Efficient handover mechanism in MIPv6 and NETLMM - Enhanced route optimization for MIPv6 and NETLMM - QoS protocol in MIPv6 and NETLMM - Performance model for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Applications and services based on MIPv6 and NETLMM - Security issues and protocols for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Security threats and model for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Privacy and trust for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Key management and authentication for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Access control for MIPv6 and NETLMM - AAA Infrastructure for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Early binding update and credit based access control for MIPv6 and NETLMM - Personal or Cellular communications services based on MIPv6 and NETLMM - Successful MIPv6 and NETLMM deployment - Mobility support for the next generation internet - Mobile IP for business - Mobility management for wireless network - Implementing mobile IP enterprise management solution - Integrating mobile data services into enterprise infrastructure - Others and emerging new topics General Co-Chairs Han-Chieh Chao (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Korea) Program Co-Chairs Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan) Youn-Hee Han (Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea) Steering Co-Chairs Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan) Rajeev Koodli (Nokia Research Center, USA) Victor C.M. Leung (The University of British Columbia, Canada) Yi-Bing Lin (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) Publicity Co-Chairs Eun Kyoung Paik (KT, Korea) Pedro M. Ruiz (University of Murcia, Spain) Ryuji Wakikawa (Keio University, Japan) Xiaolin Li (Oklahoma State University, USA) Cyber-Chair Byoung-Soo Koh (DigiCAPS Co., Ltd, Korea) Program Committee Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta (University of Murcia, Spain) Byungjoo Park (KT, Korea) Chih-Yung Chang (Tamkang University, Taiwan) David Simplot-Ryl (IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, France) Gabriel Montenegro (Microsoft Corporation, USA) Hangbae Chang (Daejin University, Korea) HeeJin Jang (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) Hidetoshi Yokota (KDDI Lab, Japan) Hyun Gon Kim (Mokpo National University, Korea) Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Computer Technology Institute, Greece) Jani Puttonen (Magister Solutions Ltd, Finland) Jiyoung Lim (Korean Bible University, Korea) Josep Paradells (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Juan A. Sanchez (University of Murcia, Spain) Keiichi SHIMA (IIJ Research Laboratory, Japan) Ki-Sik Kong (Korea University, Korea) Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Masugi Inoue (NICT, Japan) Morris Chang (Iowa State University, USA) Myung-Ki Shin (ETRI, Korea) Roksana Boreli (University of New South Wales/National ICT, Australia) Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea) Tin-Yu Wu (I- Shou University, Taiwan) Tzung-Shi Chen (National University of Tainan, Taiwan) Ved P. Kafle (NICT, Japan) Venkatesh Sarangan (Oklahoma State University, USA) Whai-En Chen (National Ilan University, Taiwan) Yao-Chung Chang (National Taitung University, Taiwan) Important dates Paper Submission deadline: 15 May 2008 Acceptance notification: 15 June 2008 Camera-ready due: 15 July 2008 Author Instruction Authors are invited to submit original papers: they must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel to any other conferences that have proceedings. The submission of contributions to MobiWorld 2008 occurs through Cyber-Chair E-mail . In the submission mail, the author should furnish the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, e-mail address of the author, and about 200-250 word abstract. Paper must be prepared with PDF. Please use the exact ACM SIG templates (Click here to download the format: MS-WORD). Submissions must not exceed more than 8 pages, including tables and figures, with only PDF. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Proceedings Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding, which will be indexed in ACM Digital Library and EI. The proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop. After conference, outstanding papers will be published for a Special Issue on WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING indexed by SCIE). For more detail information about the special issue, please visit: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/wirelesscomms Contact For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact MobiWorld 2008 Cyber-chair at cyberchair4mobiworld(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Deadline Extension: CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine: "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks"]
by Marcelo Dias de Amorim 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

!!!!EXTENDED DEADLINE!!!! Please apologize for multiple copies. ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************** IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks" ********************************************************** Wireless and mobile computing advanced significantly in the last decade. In particular, we now face the possibility to spontaneously establish wireless self- organizing networks, such as ad hoc, disruption-tolerant, sensor, and wireless mesh networks. These spontaneous self-organizing networks have been the focus of intensive research activity in recent years. Spontaneous networks arise from the cooperation of mobile devices in an ad hoc fashion requiring no previous infrastructure in place. A key point to couple research and real-life applications in this context is to understand how mobility (of devices, users, and applications) impacts practical networking aspects. The knowledge accumulated so far in the area of wireless self-organizing networks is in general supported by either simulation or theoretical analysis relying on strong assumptions. The research community needs a step forward and should definitely consider real aspects of mobility in their protocols and algorithms. Such a situation is to be compared with the one found for infrastructure-based networks (e.g., cellular networks), in which mobility has been thoroughly investigated (both theoretically and through measurements) and properly incorporated in their management architecture. In wireless self-organizing networks, contrary to common belief, much is still to be done in this domain, and definitive solutions are still to emerge. Mobility can no longer be seen as an issue to be hidden from higher layers of the protocol stack, but as an expected characteristic of today's communication systems. In this context, it is of utmost importance to address issues related to the impact of mobility as seen in practice, covering characterization, modeling, and applications of mobility in modern wireless networks. The research community working on wireless self-organizing networks has recently started giving more attention to the practical mobility issues in this area. This may be attested by the increasing number of initiatives worldwide like the many measurement campaigns and the considerable body of developed theoretical background work supported by practical arguments (e.g., mobility models, mobility increasing network capacity, relationship between node mobility and wireless channel conditions). The goal of this special issue is to help filling this gap by presenting contributions ranging from the impact of mobility on self-organizing networks to mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. As we intend to focus on the practical impacts of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks, papers presenting insights from the applicability of mobility measurements and realistic mobility models in this context are also expected. We will be particularly interested in contributions that explore mobility to improve the behavior of network protocols and algorithms. We are soliciting papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics: * Mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. * Impact of mobility on self-organizing networks. * Practical applicability of wireless testbeds and mobility measurements. * Realistic mobility models for self-organizing networks. * Mobility-centric killer applications. 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 wmag(a)rp.lip6.fr. SCHEDULE * Manuscript Submission Due: February 22, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2008 * Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2008 * Publication: December 2008 GUEST EDITORS Marcelo Dias de Amorim Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Email: amorim(a)rp.lip6.fr Artur Ziviani National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Email: ziviani(a)lncc.br Yannis Viniotis North Carolina State University, USA Email: candice(a)ncsu.edu Leandros Tassiulas University of Thessaly, Greece Email: leandros(a)inf.uth.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Erinnerung: Aufruf WMAN FG 2008]
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Erinnerung: Aufruf WMAN FG 2008 Datum: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:46:50 +0100 Von: Matthias Frank <matthew(a)CS.UNI-BONN.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: Institute of Computer Science IV, University of Bonn An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Liebe Mitglieder des KUVS-Mailverteilers, die Frist zur Einreichung für das WMAN-Fachgespräch im April 2008 liegt in etwa zwei Wochen von heute - hieran möchte ich Sie heute kurz erinnern. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Matthias Frank, Frank Kargl, Burkhard Stiller ============================================================== 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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ICST - International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS) 22-24 July 2008, Dublin
by info＠icstconferences.org 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '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=qqoifbgave and enter your email address.

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ICST - International Symposium on Vehicular Computing Systems (ISVCS) 22-24 July 2008, Dublin
by info＠icstconferences.org 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '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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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008)
by Qian Wang 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies for receiving multiple copies, and we appreciate if you can forward to potentially interested persons. --------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008) Sponsored by ACM Sigmetrics 2008 http://www.controlofsystems.org/febid2008/ Traditional practice in performance modeling focuses on using a variety of techniques including mathematical modeling, simulation, and analysis to understand the behavior of systems for the purpose of better design and evaluation. As IT systems, networks, and services become increasingly complex, this task becomes ever more difficult. In recent years, there has been considerable success in applying feedback control theory to analyzing and designing run-time IT control systems. Feedback control theory complements traditional modeling by providing formal mechanisms to dynamically control behavior of systems at run-time. The Third International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks (FeBID 2008) will be held June 6th, 2008 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. The FeBID 2008 workshop will offer a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss recent and innovative results in applying control theory to controlling performance of computing systems and networks. It will provide a forum to exchange ideas and experiences on practical control system design and implementation and to identify future directions and challenges in aligning feedback control techniques with traditional performance modeling and simulation. Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Control engineering and applications to server and network systems . Automated resource allocation . Virtual environment management . Centralized or distributed load balancing . Workload management . Power management . Automated configuration management . Congestion control and queue management . Control of IT services and business operations . Control of networks (overlay networks, sensor networks, wireless networks) . Control of middleware (Web servers, application servers, database servers) . Case studies in applying control theory to systems 2. Control models, methodologies and paradigms . Control system architecture . System identification and modeling techniques . Controllability and observability in computer and network systems . Actuator and sensor design . Analysis of system stability and convergence . Control performance evaluation . Analysis of system robustness and robust control . Control algorithms and functions . Adaptive control design . Optimal control design . Nonlinear control . Decentralized and distributed control . Supervisory control and discrete event systems 3. Self-configuring, self-organizing, self-tuning, self-healing, or self-managing systems . Self-* systems analysis . Online estimation and adaptation of models . Problem diagnosis and recovery . Adaptive performance troubleshooting . Other emerging techniques for self-* system management (machine learning, economic models) The structure of this workshop will include paper presentations and panels to encourage discussions and foster future collaborations. We encourage papers that position research directions in new areas, or share lessons learned in practical applications. Authors are invited to submit original contributions in PDF through the workshop website. All submissions should be formatted according to the standard ACM proceedings guidelines and not exceed 6 pages in length. Links to manuscript templates are available at http://www.controlofsystems.org/febid2008/ -------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Submission of full papers: 31 March, 2008 Notification of acceptance: 25 April, 2008 Submission of final manuscript: 9 May, 2008 Workshop date: 6 June 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: CfP: Workshop on "Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities"]
by Lars Wolf 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Workshop on "Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities" Datum: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:49:29 +0100 Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 8th Wuerzburg Workshop on IP: Joint ITC, ITG, and EuroNF Workshop "Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities" http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2008/ on July 21st and 22nd 2008 in Wuerzburg/Germany OVERVIEW The workshop's tradition and intention are to foster the communication among researchers from industry, universities, and other research institutes. To that end, technical talks about current research, invited sessions, and keynotes by outstanding experts will be presented. The workshop is the continuation of a series of successful events held previously in Wuerzburg including EuroView in 2006 and 2007. The workshop "Future Internet Design and Experimental Facilities" is technically and financially sponsored by the International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), The German Information Technology Society and the Network of Excellence EuroNF (within the European Union Framework Programme 7). The focus of this year's workshop is on current efforts towards a future Internet. This comprises overviews of selected IETF working groups as well as current and future national and international collaborative projects. We would like to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications, future wireline and wireless Internet architectures, and experimental facilities. The following invited sessions are confirmed * Future Internet Activities in FP7 * The Future Wireless Internet * Future Internet Projects * 100GET: Towards 100 Gigabit Ethernet * German Activities in IETF Several international experts from Korea, Japan, and USA have acknowledged to present their visions. We seek for further technical presentations addressing research issues for the future Internet. They should communicate identified research issues, early insights, and they should strive to foster discussions among participants. ORGANIZERS Professor Phuoc Tran-Gia (general chair) Dr. Michael Menth (chair of program organization) Tobias Hossfeld (chair of local organization) VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS The workshop takes place in the computer science building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Wuerzburg/Germany. Wuerzburg is well accessible via airport Frankfurt/Main and another 90 minutes by railway. We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for workshop participants. http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2007/unterkunft.shtml SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION May 22th 2008: submission of an abstract by email: title of the talk and abstract, max. 1 page June 6th 2008: notification of acceptance July 1st 2008: registration by email registration fee: 120 Euro Contacts: Michael Menth, menth(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tobias Hossfeld, hossfeld(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de -- Dr. Michael Menth, Assistant Professor University of Wuerzburg, Institute of Computer Science Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany, room B206 phone: (+49)-931/888-6644, fax: (+49)-931/888-6632 mailto:menth@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/research/ngn

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[Tccc] IEEE SPAWN 2008 -- deadline approaching + updated CFP
by K. P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '08

* * Call for Papers IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in Wireless Networks (http://personal.stevens.edu/~ksubbala/CFP/SPAWN/spawn-08.htm<http://personal.stevens.edu/%7Eksubbala/CFP/SPAWN/spawn-08.htm> ) in IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, (WoWMoM) 2008 (****NEW****: *Authors of **selected papers will be invited to expand their work into full length journal paper for submission to a special issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks** **(IJSN)****)* *Organizers* * * Chair: K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Co-Chair Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA * * *Call for Papers* * * Recent years have seen an increase in the number of wireless devices as well as number of applications that run on these devices. It is fairly common to expect to use these devices to check e-mails and stock quotes as well as pay bills on line. Given the sensitive nature of the information that is currently being exchanged over these networks, it is essential to make sure that high levels of security and privacy be maintained. This workshop aims to bring together research work in the areas of security and privacy in wireless networks. The workshop aims to attract research work that not only address the major research issues involved in achieving a high level of security and privacy for existing applications, but also research work that envisages new applications for wireless networks and the security and privacy challenges unique to these applications. The workshop solicits papers describing recent, unpublished research in the general areas of security and privacy in wireless networks. *Authors of **selected papers will be invited to expand their work into full length journal paper for submission to a special issue of the International Journal of Security and Networks** **(IJSN).* Details of the special issue will be published shortly. Example topics include: - Cross-layer approaches to security - Mobile network security - Key exchange, distribution and management in ad-hoc/sensor networks - Location aware security in mobile networks - Security in large scale networks - Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks - Secure group communications - Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols - Distributed systems security - Secure cooperation in wireless networks - Pricing issues - Jamming and counter measures - Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis - Application layer encryption - Capacity and security analysis of covert channels - Light-weight cryptography and protocols - Ad hoc network security - Cognitive radio network security - Intrusion detection, localization, and avoidance - Key distribution and management - 3G, 4G security - Encryption standards - Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks *Submission Information:* Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted using the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the proceedings of the WoWMoM 2008 workshop. *Important Dates* Paper submission: February 20, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: March 20, 2008 Camera Ready Paper due: March 31, 2008 -- Suba ~~~~~~~ K.P. Subbalakshmi Ph: 201 216 8641 Associate Professor Fax: 201 216 8246 Burchard 208 e-mail: ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Department of E.C.E http://personal.stevens.edu/~ksubbala<http://personal.stevens.edu/%7Eksubbala> Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, 07030 -- Suba ~~~~~~~ K.P. Subbalakshmi Ph: 201 216 8641 Associate Professor Fax: 201 216 8246 Burchard 208 e-mail: ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Department of E.C.E http://personal.stevens.edu/~ksubbala Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ, 07030 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] MobiHoc'08 call for posters
by Mihaela Cardei 12 Feb '08

12 Feb '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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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine: "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks"]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: CFP Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine: "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks" Datum: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:09:26 +0700 Von: Marcelo Dias de Amorim <Marcelo.Amorim(a)lip6.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please apologize for multiple copies. ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ******************** IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Practical aspects of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks" ********************************************************** Wireless and mobile computing advanced significantly in the last decade. In particular, we now face the possibility to spontaneously establish wireless self- organizing networks, such as ad hoc, disruption-tolerant, sensor, and wireless mesh networks. These spontaneous self-organizing networks have been the focus of intensive research activity in recent years. Spontaneous networks arise from the cooperation of mobile devices in an ad hoc fashion requiring no previous infrastructure in place. A key point to couple research and real-life applications in this context is to understand how mobility (of devices, users, and applications) impacts practical networking aspects. The knowledge accumulated so far in the area of wireless self-organizing networks is in general supported by either simulation or theoretical analysis relying on strong assumptions. The research community needs a step forward and should definitely consider real aspects of mobility in their protocols and algorithms. Such a situation is to be compared with the one found for infrastructure-based networks (e.g., cellular networks), in which mobility has been thoroughly investigated (both theoretically and through measurements) and properly incorporated in their management architecture. In wireless self-organizing networks, contrary to common belief, much is still to be done in this domain, and definitive solutions are still to emerge. Mobility can no longer be seen as an issue to be hidden from higher layers of the protocol stack, but as an expected characteristic of today's communication systems. In this context, it is of utmost importance to address issues related to the impact of mobility as seen in practice, covering characterization, modeling, and applications of mobility in modern wireless networks. The research community working on wireless self-organizing networks has recently started giving more attention to the practical mobility issues in this area. This may be attested by the increasing number of initiatives worldwide like the many measurement campaigns and the considerable body of developed theoretical background work supported by practical arguments (e.g., mobility models, mobility increasing network capacity, relationship between node mobility and wireless channel conditions). The goal of this special issue is to help filling this gap by presenting contributions ranging from the impact of mobility on self-organizing networks to mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. As we intend to focus on the practical impacts of mobility in wireless self-organizing networks, papers presenting insights from the applicability of mobility measurements and realistic mobility models in this context are also expected. We will be particularly interested in contributions that explore mobility to improve the behavior of network protocols and algorithms. We are soliciting papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics: * Mobility-aware architectures for self-organizing networks. * Impact of mobility on self-organizing networks. * Practical applicability of wireless testbeds and mobility measurements. * Realistic mobility models for self-organizing networks. * Mobility-centric killer applications. 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 wmag(a)rp.lip6.fr. SCHEDULE * Manuscript Submission Due: February 15, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2008 * Final Manuscript Due: July 30, 2008 * Publication: December 2008 GUEST EDITORS Marcelo Dias de Amorim Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France Email: amorim(a)rp.lip6.fr Artur Ziviani National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Email: ziviani(a)lncc.br Yannis Viniotis North Carolina State University, USA Email: candice(a)ncsu.edu Leandros Tassiulas University of Thessaly, Greece Email: leandros(a)inf.uth.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [IEEE AOC 2008 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers - Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [IEEE AOC 2008 - WoWMoM Workshop]: Call for Papers - Deadline Extended Datum: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:46:00 +0100 Von: Chiara Boldrini <chiara.boldrini(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED ***** *** FEBRUARY 18, 2008 *** --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2008) June 23, 2008 - Newport Beach (CA), USA http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2008/ organized by ANA and HAGGLE projects funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc Submission Deadline --- February 11, 2008 **** Extended to February 18, 2008 **** --------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications and are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployments are welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements * Algorithmic aspects associated with autonomic communications environments and problems PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------- Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2008/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers due: February 11, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- WORKSHOP Chairs Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Vania Conan, Thales, France Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Stephen Farrell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe, Germany Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland Vincent Lenders, Princeton University, USA Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Antonios Panagakis, University of Athens, Greece Symeon Papavassiliou, NTUA, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Calicrates Policroniades, Telenor, Norway George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California, USA Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland John Strassner, Motorola, USA Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy ==================================================== Chiara Boldrini - Ph.D. Student AOC 2008 Publicity Chair Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) Italian National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy ==================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM FOWANC]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline Extension: ACM FOWANC Datum: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:37:42 -0600 Von: Rong Zheng <rzheng(a)cs.uh.edu> Antwort an: rzheng(a)cs.uh.edu An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP. -------------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing (FOWANC 2008) In conjunction with ACM MobiHoc 2008 May 26, 2008 Hong Kong SAR, CHINA http://nrl.uncc.edu/FOWANC/ IMPORTANT DATES Registration of papers: 18 Februrary 2008 Submission of Papers: 25 February 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 18 March 2008 Final version: 26 March 2008 CONFERENCE THEME Recent research in a variety of wireless ad hoc networks, such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks, raises a number of interesting, and difficult, theoretical and algorithmic issues. This workshop is devoted to distributed algorithms and theoretical methods in the context of mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile ad hoc and sensor networking and theoreticians in algorithm and theory, and push the theoretical research forward for a deeper understanding about ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. This workshop covers the all areas of ad hoc and sensor networking and computing, from physical issues up to applications, with a focus of theoretical and algorithmic aspect. In particular, it will cover distributed algorithms, optimizations, analysis and modeling, randomized algorithms, mechanism design, and theoretical methods in ad hoc and sensor networking and computing. Typical topics include (but not limited to): Channel assignment and management Coding theory and network coding Cryptography, security and privacy Distributed algorithms Dynamic and random networks Dynamic graph algorithms Energy conservation methods and protocols Localization and location tracking Mechanism design and game theory Modeling and complexity analysis Routing, multicast and broadcast Scheduling Selfish behavior and cooperation Synchronization Protocol optimization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS FOWANC 2008 will only accept electronic on-line submissions. Detailed instructions can be found in the workshop web page. Accepted papers will be published by ACM. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings are not allowed. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA PUBLICATION CHAIR: Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Andras Farago, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jie Gao, University of SUNY Stony Brook, USA Santosh Kumar, University of Memphis, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Zongpeng Li, University of Calgary, Canada Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Archan Misra, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research, USA Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, USA Srinivasan Parthasarathy, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome, Italy Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA Wen-Zhan Song, Washington State University, USA Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research, USA Subhash Suri, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Xinbing Wang, ShangHai JiaoTong University, China Chih-Wei Yi, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Rong Zheng, University of Houston, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CFP for SI of Hindawi Int. Jou. on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CFP for SI of Hindawi Int. Jou. on Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Datum: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:10:33 +0100 Von: Marina Mondin <marina.mondin(a)polito.it> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. --- C A L L F O R P A P E R S --- We are pleased to inform you that the Hindawi International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting is launching a Special Issue on Iterative Decoding and Cross-Layering Techniques for Multimedia Broadcasting and Communications described at the link: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/si/idcmbc.html according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due April 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews July 1, 2008 Publication Date November 1, 2008 Guest Editors * Fred Daneshgaran, ECE Dept., California State University Los Angeles, USA * Massimiliano Laddomada, Dip. di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Marina Mondin, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] ADAMUS 2008 - Deadline extension
by Katarzyna.Wac＠cui.unige.ch 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous Systems ADAMUS 2008 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'08) Newport Beach, CA, USA, 23rd June, 2008 Sponsored by NOKIA ---- WoWMoM web site : http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/ ADAMUS'08 cfp pdf : http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/CFP_adamus08.pdf _______________________________________________________________ Important Dates (DEADLINE EXTENDED): * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 20, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 17, 2008 * Demo Plans submission deadline: March 31, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: April 4, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Submission deadline extended. - This year, ADAMUS will host a DEMO COMPETITION. The Best demo will be awarded with a special NOKIA hi-tech gift! - The BEST PAPER will be also awarded with another NOKIA gift! - ADAMUS'08 will open with a KEYNOTE TALK by Franklin Reynolds, NOKIA distinguished engineering fellow. See below for details. WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain novel ubiquitous services with challenging dependa- bility requirements in highly heterogeneous and error-prone mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for sup- porting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current solutions can satisfy the challenging adapta- bility and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile ubiquitous services, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise con- ceptual models and paradigms for change tolerance; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure system ability to withstand faults and to optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop scalable, maintainable, cost- effective middleware infrastructures able to support and ease the development of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous services. Building on the success of the last year event, this workshop aims at fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions in order to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to participate with high quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable applications over mobile environments. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and adaptation requirements and open issues for mobile ubiquitous systems; * Design principles, models, and techniques for realizing dependable and adaptive mobile ubiquitous systems; * Context data provisioning and modelling, and context-based infrastructures; * Human-machine interaction and usability; * Multi-device and highly heterogeneous ubiquitous systems; * Cross-layer adaptation techniques; * End-to-end approaches to the quality of experience of mobile services; * Autonomous systems for adaptation and dependability; * Mobile-enabled middleware architectures and mechanisms for heterogeneous wireless networks; * Dependability and scalability of web technologies to ubiqui- tous systems; * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adapta- tion to networks conditions; * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services. DEMO COMPETITION, BEST PAPER, AND RELATED PRIZES ---------------------------------------------------------------- A Demo Competition (sponsored by NOKIA) will be conveniently scheduled to provide authors with the opportunity to run live demonstrations of their research and to interact directly with ADAMUS and other WoWMoM attendees that will be required to vote for the best demos (See below for demos submission guidelines). Best demos will be awarded with special Nokia gifts based on their review scores, on-site voting results, and technical program committee evaluation. The best full paper will be awarded as well with another Nokia gift, based on review scores. The BEST DEMO PRIZE will consist of a Nokia N95 8GB multimedia computer (http://www.nseries.com/products/n95_8gb/). The BEST PAPER PRIZE will be a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet device (http://www.nseries.com/products/n810/index.html). NOKIA KEYNOTE TALK ---------------------------------------------------------------- We are proud to announce ADAMUS 2008 will open with a Keynote Talk by Franklin Reynolds, distinguished engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. FULL PAPER AND DEMO PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2008 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. This year, ADAMUS seeks two different kinds of contribu- tion: full papers and live demonstration proposals. Live demon- strations must be accompanied by a short demo proposal descri- bing the demo and the related research activity. * Full papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo proposals must be written in English and should not exce- ed 3 pages in IEEE proceedings style. * Demo Plans: Authors of all accepted demo proposals must also submit a Demo Plan including a short description of the demo (text, video, poster) and a short report on infra- structure needs (power, network, physical space needed). All submissions will be handled electronically. Full papers and demo proposals should submit a PostScript or PDF file, including names and contact information of all authors, through the sub- mission Web site (http://www.adamus.ua.ac.be/) by February 11th, 2008. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will regi- ster and present the paper. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members.All papers and demo proposals will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of adaptive and dependable mobile ubiquitous systems. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by March 10th, 2008. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by March 31st, 2008. Authors of accepted demo proposals will be requested to provide demo Plans by March 20th, 2008, as well as the camera- ready version of the short demo proposal paper by March 31,2008. All accepted papers (including both full papers and demo propos- als) will be published on CD by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Chris Develder, University of Ghent, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Frederic Le Mouel, Inria, France - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Massimiliano Rak, Università di Napoli, Italia - Oriana Riva, Institute of Pervasive Computing, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Swasea University, UK _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] MCN-Infocom'08 -- Submission Deadline EXTENDED (Abstract Feb-15, Full paper Feb-22)
by Mohamed Younis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

2nd IEEE Workshop on Mission-Critical Networking (MCN'2008) http://www.criticalnet.org/ In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM'2008 Phoenix, Arizona, April 13-18 Abstract Submission Deadline EXTENDED to Feb-15 "Mission-Critical Networking (MCN)" refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection, emergency and crisis intervention, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity and emergent behaviors. MCN should comprise the best possible networking technology, infrastructure and services that may alleviate the risk and help save the lives of both the general public and the network users. As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication, ad hoc and mesh networking and networked sensor systems continue, more opportunities are being opened to mission-critical networks to benefit from these technologies. A primary challenge to the operations of mission-critical networks is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, autonomic, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of authorized and unauthorized entities, audio and video communication, secure emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, visual analytics, and service-oriented architecture. Another key feature for mission-critical networking is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop solicits high quality technical contributions to the area of mission-critical networking. The manuscript must explicitly address relevance to MCN. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: . Smart environments and infrastructures . Rapidly deployable services and networks . Vehicular networks . Body sensor networks . Cognitive and autonomic networks, protocols, and services . Ubiquitous networking and services . Security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and trade-offs . Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control . Decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation . Trust management, security, interoperability, survivability and QoS support . Context-aware network and service management . Location determination and tracking . Energy efficiency . Admission, load and flow control . Visual analytics . Critical traffic and mobility analysis . Cross-layer design and optimization . Components and architectures for next-generation emergency calling and alerting . Network policy management . Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies General Chairs . Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA . Henning Schulzerinne, Columbia University, USA Program Chairs . Hannes Tschofenig, Siemens AG, Germany . Moustafa Youssef, Alexandria University, Egypt Publicity Chairs . Silvia Girodano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland . Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Panels Chair . Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Awards Chair . Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA . Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Technical Program Committee * Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA * Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany * Cory Beard, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA * David Du, National Science Foundation (University of Minnesota), USA * Hossam Hassanein, Queens University, Canada * Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA. * Sushil Jajodia., George Mason University, USA * James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA. * Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA * Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada * Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA. * Nader Moayeri, NIST, USA * Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France * Cristina Pinotti, University of Perguia, Italy * Jean-Jacque Quisquater, Catholic University, Belgium * Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain * Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA * Robin Sommer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Doru Tiliute, University of Suceava, Romania * Gene Tsudik, University of California Irvine, USA * Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, UK * Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan * Michele Weigle, Old Dominion University, USA Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Manuscript Submission Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages and in font size no smaller than 11 points. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details and make sure the manuscript conforms to the format/font/page requirements. Manuscripts that are not compliant with the requirements may be declined without review. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through peer reviewing, where TPC members are invited to assess the scientific contributions of papers. Proceedings will appear in IEEE Xplore and INFOCOM CD. For more information send email to info(a)criticalnet.org. Important Dates Abstract Submission: February 7, 2008 --> February 15, 2008 Paper Submission: February 15, 2008 --> February 22, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 10, 2008 Camera Ready Due: March 18, 2008 Workshop Date: April 18, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ManWeek 2008 Preliminary CFP
by ntan＠teimes.gr 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ================================================================ MANWEEK 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 4th International Week on Management of Networks and Services 22–26 September 2008 Samos Island, Greece http://www.manweek.org/2008/ The conference will take place at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) in the Greek island of Samos situated in the Eastern part of the Aegean Sea, at a short distance from the coast of Asia Minor. Samos is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. Manweek 2008 that is going to host six of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: o DSOM 2008 - 19th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management o MMNS 2008 - 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services o IPOM 2008 - 8th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management o EVGM 2008 – 4th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management o MACE 2008 – 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments o NGNM 2008 – 5th International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware Important Dates MMNS, IPOM 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Submission: April 28 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Submission: May 17 2008 MMNS, IPOM 2008Notification: May 30 2008 DSOM, MACE 2008 Notification: June 13 2008 EVGM, NGNM 2008 Notification: June 20 2008 Manweek 08 Conference: September 22-26 2008 ================================================================ MMNS 08 CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================ 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2008) “Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services” Co-chairsGeorge Pavlou University College London, United Kingdom Toufik Ahmed University Bordeaux 1, France Tasos Dagiuklas TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will be held in September 22 to 26, 2008 at the Doryssa Bay Resort (www.doryssa-bay.gr) on the Greek island of Samos (http://www.samosin.gr) as part of the 4th International Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2008). MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society and specifically the Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2008 Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference for research and innovation in the management of multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded in recent years to include management of emerging mobile and wireless networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art management of converged multimedia networks and services across heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a promising opportunity for existing providers to increase theirs service subscriber base so that 4G vision and beyond becomes a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport technology, session signalling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Efficient management of these services is a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective, innovative services, and mass market solutions that are likely to become a major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, triple play (data/voice/video) convergence, and the integration of embedded computing and communications. The academic and industry research communities should unify forces to address the challenges of developing and operating converged multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management is a key element in addressing this challenge. The MMNS 2008 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management that address new models, architectures and technological designs to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2008 intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the management of converged multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Management of media streaming and real-time service delivery * Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks * Management of NGN/4G networks and services * Management of sensor and actuator networks * Management of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Multi-service/ multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and mobility over IP) network management * Grid networking for multimedia * Cross-layer management * Multimedia in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks * Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks * Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks * IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management * Management of service delivery platforms * Management of content distribution networking * Distributed multimedia service management * Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services * Wireless/Mobile Multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies * Novel protocols for multimedia services * Multi-point, multicast service management * Seamless mobility of multimedia services * Pricing, accounting and billing for multimedia services * Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia networks and services * Self-properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services * Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning * Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks * End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in mobile/wireless networks * Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services * Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks * Novel network architectures for mobile network management services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2008. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): * Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) * Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2008 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2008 will be invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper Registration: March 21 2008 Submission: March 28 2008 Notification: May 30 2008 Camera ready: June 20 2008 MANWEEK 2008 Conference: September 22-26 2008 MMNS 2008: September 22-23 2008

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[Tccc] Final CFP: Special Issue on Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
by Harald Kosch 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Personalization of Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting Special issue of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Hindawi Publishing Corporation ---- Final Call for Papers ---- Due March 1, 2008 In recent years, the widespread adoption of multimedia computing, the deployment of mobile and broadband networks, and the growing availability of cheap yet powerful mobile have converged to gradually increase the range and complexity of mobile multimedia content delivery services for devices such as PDAs and cell phones. Basic multimedia applications are already available for current generation devices, and more complex broadcasting services are under development or expected to be launched soon, among which mobile and interactive television (ITV). Among the many challenging issues opened by these developments is the problem of personalization of such services: adaptation of the content to the technical environment of the users (device and network type) and to their individual preferences, providing personalized assistance for selecting and locating interesting programes among an overwhelming number of proposed services. This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research contributions to all research areas either directly applying or contributing to solving the issues related to digital multimedia broadcasting personalization. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Mobile TV * Mobile multimedia broadcasting personalization * Interactive broadcasting services/interactive television * Personalization and multimedia home platform (MHP) * Multimedia content adaptation for personalization * User behavior and usage modelling * Standards for modelling and processing (MPEG-21, CC/PP, etc.) * Personalization issues in DVB-H, DMB, MediaFLO, CMMB, MBMS, and other systems * Mobile web initiative * Personalized multimedia and location-based services * Security and digital rights management * Applications for personalized mobile multimedia broadcasting with cost-effective implementation. Authors should follow the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript: Due March 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews: June 1, 2008 Publication Date: September 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guest Editors: Harald Kosch, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany Jörg Heuer, Siemens AG, 80333 Munich, Germany Günther Hölbling, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany László Böszörményi, University Klagenfurt, 9020 Klagenfurt, Austria David Coquil, University of Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - MobiQuitous 2008 - One month to paper registration
by info＠icstconferences.org 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '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 and ACM-SIGMOBILE 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 Papers: IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008)
by Sergey Gorinsky 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Call for Papers IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 1 pm to 6 pm http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~hsn2008 Technical Sponsors * IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) * IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains. HSN 2008 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following: * Network architectures including clean-slate approaches * Switching technologies including packet and circuit switching * Transport protocols including congestion control, scheduling and reliable delivery * Applications requiring high-speed end-to-end services * Cross-layer network protocols * Security at high bitrates and with large data volumes * Node design including network processors, configurable logic, input/output and storage * Innovative physical transmission media and associated systems * Metropolitan area networks, Carrier Ethernet and next-generation optical transport * High-speed access technologies Submission Guidelines The workshop solicits submissions between 3 and 6 pages long. The following is a summary of the submission guidelines: * File format: PDF * Formatting instructions (except for the size): http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/paper-layout.html * Size of original submissions: between 3 and 6 pages * Maximum size of camera-ready versions: 6 pages * System for original submissions and reviews: EDAS * Publication venue for camera-ready versions: IEEE Xplore Important dates are as follows: * Paper submission: February 7, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready version due: April 4, 2008 General Chairs * Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Technical Program Committee * Lachlan Andrew, California Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland * Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India * Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore * David Hunter, University of Essex, UK * Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany * Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan * Tom Lehman, University of Southern California, ISI-East, USA * Jayaram Mudigonda, HP Labs, USA * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA * Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA * Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Joel Rodrigues, University of Beira Interior, Portugal * George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Takashi Shimizu, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan * David Starobinski, Boston University, USA * Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA * Joe Touch, University of Southern California, ISI, USA * Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany * Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications]
by Lars Wolf 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Cooperative and Relay Communications Datum: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:10:31 +0800 Von: Chin, Woon Hau <w.h.chin(a)ieee.org> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Advances in Cooperative and Relay Communications In wireless networks, relays have been traditionally used to extend the range of communication systems. However, in recent years, other applications of relay communications have emerged. One such emerging application is to assist in the communication between the source and destination via some cooperation protocol. By controlling medium access between source and relays coupled with the appropriate modulation or coding in such cooperative schemes, it has been found that the diversity of the system can be improved. In multi-user systems, different users can also act as cooperative partners or relays to share resources and assist each other in information transmission, thereby creating a cooperative network. One other emerging application is the exchange of information between multiple users through relay(s). In such cases, by exploiting the knowledge of one's own transmitted signal, the throughput of these systems can be drastically increased. For cooperative and relay communications, the MAC layer also has many unique features. The MAC in this case, is concerned with more than one hop communication, is distributed and cooperative and works for multipoint-to-multipoint communication. The MAC also needs to have knowledge about network topology and account for node mobility. Accordingly, a new design of the MAC layer has to be devised to include new functionalities as well as MAC layer routing. With the large benefits to be reaped from employing cooperative and relay techniques, several standardization groups, such as IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.11, have started standardization processes to include such technologies into their prevailing standards. These efforts will no doubt attract even more interests from the academia and industry, advancing cooperative and relay technologies even further in the coming years. With interests from both the research and industrial communities gaining momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research in cooperative and relay communications. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in cooperative and relay communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following topics: . Cooperative algorithms and protocols . Partner(s) selection in cooperative relay and routing . Cooperative resource allocation and management . Relay strategies for cooperative communications . Cooperative and relay technologies applied to WLAN, WMAN and cellular networks . Multidirectional relaying . Distributed coding and modulation . Multiple antenna systems and protocols for cooperative communications . Information theoretic aspects of cooperative communications . MAC issues and MAC layer routing . Cross-layer approaches for joint PHY and MAC optimization Schedule: Full manuscript due: June 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: October 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: February 2009 Submission: Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). Choose "February 2009/Cooperative and Relay Communications" from the drop down menu. Guest Editors: Woon Hau Chin Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore w.h.chin(a)ieee.org Yi Qian National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA yqian(a)nist.gov Giovanni Giambene University of Siena, Italy giambene(a)unisi.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [IEEE CNOM] [PIMRC 2008] 1 month to submission deadline (fwd)
by Carlos Becker Westphall 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

===================================================================== IEEE PIMRC 2008 Cannes, French Riviera, France 15-18 September 2008 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 15-18 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 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 four major categories: * Fundamentals & Physical Layer * MAC & Cross-Layer Design * Mobile and Wireless Networks * Applications, Services & Business Approach Papers should be in English, strictly not exceeding 5 double-column pages. Authors should use the relevant IEEE template, ensuring an IEEE Xplorer compatible PDF-format. Important dates are: * full papers: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 1 May 2008 * final manuscript: 2 June 2008 * presentation: 16-18 September 2008 To access the full list of topics, submission guidelines, as well as venue and travel information please visit www.pimrc2008.org. Call for Tutorials: Tutorial presenters are invited to submit high-quality tutorial proposals to Prosper Chemouil [prosper.chemouil(a)orange-ftgroup.com] by using the submission form provided online. Tutorials should focus on recent cutting-edge R&D topics and should be self-contained in nature. Important deadlines are: * tutorial proposal: 3 March 2008 * acceptance notice: 17 March 2008 * handout due: 1 September 2008 * presentation: 15 September 2008 Committee: The updated committee is available at www.pimrc2008.org --> Committees _______________________________________________ cnom mailing list cnom(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] [IEEE CNOM] JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT = Contents - Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 (fwd)
by Admin 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT Contents Vol. 16, No. 1, March 2008 Special Issue on Management of IP Multimedia Subsystems Guest Edited by Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista THRESHOLDS Congestion Control in the Internet: Inspiration from Balanced Food Chains In the Nature Morteza Analoui and Shahram Jamali GUEST EDITORIAL Management Challenges and Solutions for IP Multimedia Subsystems Thomas Magedanz, Edmundo Madeira, and Paolo Belavista PAPERS A review of policy-based resource and admission control functions Christian Esteve Rothenberg and Andreas Roos Device Management in the IMS Jun Ma, Jianxin Liao, and Xiaomin Zhu Towards a Standardized and Automated Fault Management and Service Provisioning for NGNs N. Blum, P. Jacak, F. Schreiner, and P. Weik Supporting ubiquitous IMS-based teleconferencing through discovery and composition of IMS and web components Kevin Doolin, Robert Mullins, Rafael Morón Abad, Marta García Moreno, Telma Mota, Babak A. Farshchian, and Miguel Gómez REPORT Managing Next Generation Networks and Services: A Report on APNOMS 2007 Hiroshi Kuriyama, Kyung-Hyu Lee, G. S. Kuo, Shingo Ata, and Choong Seon Hong Bringing Autonomic Principles for Managing Next Generation Networks and Services - A Report on LANOMS 2007 José Neuman de Souza, Bruno Schulze, Jacques Philippe Sauvé, Edmundo Madeira, and Artur Ziviani Forthcoming contributions Call for paper: Special issue on Ontologies for Network and Systems Management _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] SPECTS 2008 - deadline approaching : February 25, 2008
by Farid Naït-Abdesselam 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2008 June 16-18, 2008, Edinburgh, UK http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. SPECTS 2008 is sponsored by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE SMC Society. =========================================================================== Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion and Admission Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architecture Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA Program Chairs Jose Marzo Univ. of Girona, Spain Helena Szczerbicka Univ. of Hannover, Germany Program Vice Chairs Pawel Gburzynski Univ. of Alberta, Canada José Luis Sevillano Univ. of Seville, Spain Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Awards Chair Franco Davoli Univ. of Genoa, Italy Publicity Committee Essia Elhafsi Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair) Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam Univ., Korea Farid Naït-Abdesselam Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France Abdelmajid Khelil Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany Local Arrangement Chair Graham Shanks Baesystems, UK Webmasters Antonio Bueno Univ. of Girona, Spain Michael J. Chinni US Army TACOM-ARDEC Deadlines Special sessions proposals: December 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2008 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 5, 2008 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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