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[Tccc] PMC Special Issue on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management
by Jadwiga Indulska 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal on Context Modelling, Reasoning and Management ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Context-awareness plays an important role in pervasive and mobile computing and therefore context information modelling, reasoning and management have been studied for a number of years. Pervasive computing conferences and in particular dedicated workshops (i.e., the CoMoRea?2003-2008 workshops at PerCom and the Ubicomp workshops) are attracting a large number of papers related to context modelling, reasoning and management and influence the direction of research in this area. There is already a consensus in the research community that formal modelling of context information and appropriate reasoning and management techniques are needed. However, many research issues in this field are still open, including heterogeneity of context information, imperfection of context information, complex mapping between raw context data (e.g., sensor readings) and abstract context information required by applications, privacy of context information, limitations and efficiency of reasoning techniques, and difficulties of managing and provisioning context information in systems where mobility and disconnections are common. The purpose of this special issue is to present the state-of-the-art in context information modelling, reasoning and management. The special issue will include a collection of papers that discuss concepts, theories and methods applicable to context modelling and reasoning, as well as system-oriented issues related to the design and implementation of context-aware systems. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts containing original research. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: * Context information modelling techniques, * Domain-specific models of context information, * Hybrid models of context information (integration of various modelling techniques), * Context information reasoning algorithms, their complexity and accuracy, * Discovery and reuse of context information, * Privacy of context information, * Distributed and scalable context information management, * Context model driven application design. Manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be at least 1.5 spaced and must not exceed 35 pages (all inclusive.) If the paper has been published in a conference, the submitted version should be a significantly enhanced version. Authors are requested to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscript preparation guidelines can be obtained from the PMC Journal's web page (<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc>). The deadline for submitting manuscripts is February 1, 2008 and authors will be notified of the decision by June 15, 2008. The final manuscripts will be due Dec 1, 2008. Authors should submit their full manuscripts to the PMC Special Issues Editor-in-Chief, Behrooz Shirazi, using the Elsevier online Editorial System (EES) at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc. Guest editors Jadwiga Indulska, Daniela Nicklas _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CfP: Mensch & Computer 2008
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Mensch & Computer 2008 7.-10. September 2008 in Lübeck Call for Papers - Aufruf zur Mitgestaltung Veranstalter: Gesellschaft für Informatik German Chapter of the ACM Konferenzthemen: Ein besonderes Kennzeichen dieser Tagung soll die Interdisziplinarität in der benutzerzentrierten Entwicklung interaktiver Systeme und Medien sein, die eine Zusammenarbeit unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen wie Informatik, Psychologie, Arbeitswissenschaft, Designdisziplinen und Kunst sowie Ingenieurwissenschaften erforderlich macht. Wirkliche Interdisziplinarität ist "Viel Mehr" als die Summe ihrer Teile. Die Tagung setzt sich mit diesem Motto auseinander und hat u.a. die folgenden thematischen Schwerpunkte: Software-Ergonomie: Theorien, Modelle und kriterienbasierte Analytik für die Entwicklung, Bewertung und Optimierung interaktiver Anwendungssysteme; hierbei wird die ursprüngliche Beschränkung auf den Arbeitskontext aufgelöst und die Betrachtung auch auf Anwendungskontexte in Bildung und Freizeit ausgeweitet. Interaktionsdesign: Konzeption und Gestaltung interaktiver Systeme in allen Anwendungskontexten; neben der Gestaltung klassischer Anwendungen vor allem die Entwicklung und Erprobung neuerer Paradigmen wie Web 2.0 und Semantic Web; eingebettete und ambiente Systeme; Virtuelle, Gemischte und Erweiterte Realitäten sowie Tangible Media; Avatare und 3D-Welten sowie Virtuelle Personen und Roboter; Computer und Körperlichkeit; emotionale und erlebnisreiche Systeme. Usability-Engineering: Prozesse, Methoden und Werkzeuge für die systematische und ökonomische aufgaben- und benutzerzentrierte Systemgestaltung; neue und verbesserte Formen der Evaluation und Benutzerbeteiligung; interdisziplinäre und verteilte Entwicklung; Kosten und Return of Investment (ROI) gebrauchstauglicher Systeme. Anwendungen & Fallbeispiele: innovative Anwendungssysteme auf Grundlage der genannten Methoden, Techniken und Prozesse; gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und Ethik der interaktiven und vernetzten Systeme; neue Formen der flexiblen und zeitgemäßen Lebensgestaltung mit Hilfe interaktiver und vernetzter Systeme; sicherheitskritische Mensch-Computer-Systeme; kooperative Systeme und Kooperationsplattformen; multiple Identitäten und Schutz der Privatsphäre. Die Tagung soll im Besonderen auch das neue Gebiet der Medieninformatik als Schnittstellendisziplin zwischen interaktiven Systemen und Medien und den damit verbundenen Disziplinen diskutieren. Innerhalb der GI wurde dazu kürzlich im Fachbereich Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (FB MCI) die Fachgruppe Medieninformatik (FG MI) gegründet, die das Thema aufgegriffen hat. Die Mitglieder der Fachgruppe beabsichtigen sich im Rahmen von Special Sessions zu treffen. Reguläre Tagungsbeiträge für diesen Bereich, Vorschläge zu besonderen Veranstaltungen sowie Informationssammlungen (z.B. zu Lehrcurriculum, Forschungsallianzen, Literaturübersichten) sind besonders erwünscht. Termine: 09.03.2008: Einreichung von Vorträgen, Design-Präsentationen, System-Demonstrationen, Postern und Workshops 13.04.2008: Einreichung von Tutorien 09.05.2008: Benachrichtigungen über Annahme/Ablehnung der Beiträge 01.06.2008: Eingang der druckfertigen Beiträge 15.06.2008: Einreichung von Positionspapieren an die Workshopveranstalter 04.07.2008: Information über Annahme/Ablehnung der Workshopbeiträge Einreichung: Bitte beachten Sie die Hinweise und Richtlinien für Einreichungen, sowie die Autorenrichtlinien unter http://www.vielmehr.org/muc/?Beitr%26auml%3Bge#Einreichung http://www.vielmehr.org/muc/?Beitr%26auml%3Bge#Autorenrichtlinien Organisation: Prof. Dr. Michael Herczeg Dr. Martin C. Kindsmüller Kontakt und Information: Dr. Martin C. Kindsmüller, Sandra Nyholm Universität zu Lübeck Institut für Multimediale und Interaktive Systeme Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck Tel.: +49 (0) 451 500 5103 Fax: +49 (0) 451 500 5102 Informationen zur übergreifenden Multikonferenz: http://www.vielmehr.org

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[Tccc] [WISTP2008] Third Call for Papers: Deadline extended to 31th of January
by Damien Sauveron 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

******************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ******************************************************************* Workshop in Information Security Theory and Practices 2008: Smart Devices, Convergence and Next Generation Networks May 13-16, 2008, Sevilla, Spain Workshop URL: http://wistp2008.xlim.fr/ ******************************************************* WISTP2008 is: - Co-Sponsored by IFIP WG 11.2 Small System Security - Co-Sponsored by the British Computer Society - Co-Sponsored by the SEE - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society - Technical Committee on Systems Safety and Security - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society - Technical Committee on Information Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile Communications - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE France - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Spain - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE Spain Section, Computer Society Chapter and the Signal Processing Society + ComSoc Joint Chapter - Technical sponsorship of the IEEE UKRI Section Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Chapter - In cooperation with the ACM SIGBED - In cooperation with the ACM SIGSAC - Supported by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) - Supported by the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems, Technical Committee 7, Safety, Reliability and Security ******************************************************* WISTP2008 Background and Goals: With the rapid technological development of information technologies and with the transition from the common to the next generation networks, computer systems and especially embedded systems are becoming more mobile and ubiquitous, increasingly interfacing with the physical world. Ensuring the security of these complex and yet, resource constraint systems has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges. Another important challenge is related to the convergence of these new technologies. The aim of this second workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in related areas and to encourage interchange and cooperation between the research community and the industrial/consumer community. The workshop will consist of technical paper presentations, one special session for student papers and six invited talks. ******************************************************* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: A. Smart Devices * Biometrics, National ID cards * Embedded Systems Security and TPMs * Interplay of TPMs and Smart Cards * Mobile Codes Security * Mobile Devices Security * New Applications for Secure RFID Systems * RFID Systems Security * Smart Card Security * Smart Devices Applications * Wireless Sensor Node Security B. Convergence: Security Architectures, Protocols, Policies and Management for Mobility * Critical Infrastructure (e.g. for Medical or Military Applications) Security * Digital Rights Management (DRM) * Distributed Systems and Grid Computing Security * Industrial and Multimedia Applications * Information Assurance and Trust Management * Intrusion Detection and Information Filtering * Localization Systems Security (Tracking of People and Goods) * M2M (Machine to Machine), H2M (Human to Machine) and M2H (Machine to Human) Security * Mobile Commerce Security * Public Administration and Governmental Services * Privacy Enhancing Technologies * Security Models and Architecture * Security Policies (Human-Computer Interaction and Human Behavior Impact) * Security Protocols (for Identification and Authentication, Confidentiality and Privacy, and Integrity) * Security Measurements C. Next Generation Networks * Ad Hoc Networks Security * Delay-Tolerant Network Security * Domestic Network Security * Peer-to-Peer Networks Security * Security Issues in Mobile and Ubiquitous Networks * Security of GSM/GPRS/UMTS Systems * Sensor Networks Security * Vehicular Network Security * Wireless Communication Security: Bluetooth, NFC, WiFi, WiMAX, WiMedia, others ******************************************************* Submission Details: Authors are invited to submit original papers (written in english) not previously published nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or journal. All submissions will be subjected to thorough blind review by at least three reviewers (if the paper involved a Program Committee member, the paper will be reviewed at least by five reviewers). All submitted papers should be anonymous with no author(s) names, affiliations, acknowledgements, nor obvious references. Each paper should begin with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords, following the template indicated by Springer at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The papers will be in .pdf format, at most 10 pages long excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most 14 pages long in total, using at least 11-point fonts with reasonable margins. As the reader should not be required to read any appendices, the paper should be intelligible even without them. 20 papers will be accepted for presentation at the workshop (they will be included in the proceedings) and 12 additional papers will be selected to be presented as A1 poster at the workshop (they will NOT be included in the proceedings). If a submitted paper is mainly the result of the work of a student author, this paper could have the chance to be selected as "Best student paper" (even if the paper has been written with senior co-authors). To participate to this selection process, please add the word "STUDENT" in the affiliation field in the submission form. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Conference and present the paper. For authors presenting multiple papers, one normal registration is valid for up to two papers. For electronic paper submission please use the following URL: http://wistp2008.xlim.fr/wistp2008/iChair/ The secure version is not yet available https://wistp2008.xlim.fr/wistp2008/iChair/ For further inquiries, please contact the secretariat at wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr Workshop Proceedings: Like for the first edition, accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, that should be published by Springer in their LNCS series. Camera-ready versions of the papers should not exceed 10 pages excluding bibliography and well-marked appendices (14 pages in total) and must comply with the "Authors Instructions" that can be found at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html We plan to index the proceedings to the DBLP, ISI Proceedings and Inspec. ******************************************************* Awards: * Best student paper: 800€ * Best workshop paper: 800€ + the Handbook of Computer Networks * Best innovative technology: 800€ * Each speaker of a selected papers will receive a kit containing a smart card reader, a card and several software ******************************************************* Important Dates: - Intention of submission: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr - Intention of attendance: ASAP. Send a mail to wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr - Paper submission: January 31th, 2008 (23h59 UTC) *firm deadline* - Notification: February 20th, 2008 - Author Registration: March 3rd, 2008 - Camera-ready papers: March 5th, 2008 ******************************************************* WISTP2008 Committees and Chairs: ##### General chairs ##### * Jose Onieva. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France - Local organisers: * Diego Lopez. Red.es - RedIRIS, Spain * Javier Lopez. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain ##### Workshop/panel/tutorial chair ##### * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK ##### Publicity chairs ##### * Claudio Ardagna. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Italy * Samia Bouzefrane. CEDRIC, CNAM, France * Joonsang Baek. Cryptography and Security Department of Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore ##### Program chairs ##### * Serge Chaumette. LaBRI, University Bordeaux 1, France * Dieter Gollmann. Security in Distributed Applications, Institutes of the TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany ##### Program Committee ##### * Rafael Accorsi. IIG, University of Freiburg, Germany * Manfred Aigner. IAIK, Technical University Graz, Austria * François Arnault. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Ioannis G. Askoxylakis. FORTH-ICS, Greece * Christophe Bidan. SSIR, Supélec, France * Pierre-François Bonnefoi. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Stefano Campadello. Nokia Research Center, Finland * Sajal K. Das. CReWMaN, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA * Mads Dam. KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Estíbaliz Delgado, European Software Institute (ESI), Spain * Tassos Dimitriou. Athens Information Technology, Greece * Boris Dragovic. CREATE-NET, Italy * Pierre Dusart. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Eduardo Fernández-Medina Patõn. Alarcos Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Theodoulos Garefalakis. Department of Mathematics, University of Crete, Greece * Stefanos Gritzalis. Info-Sec-Lab, University of the Aegean, Greece * Olivier Heen. Security Laboratory, Thomson R&D, France * Jaap-Henk Hoepman. TNO and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands * Sotiris Ioannidis. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece * Sokratis Katsikas. Dept. of Technology Education & Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece * Evangelos Kranakis. Carleton University, Canada * Jean-Louis Lanet. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Christian Laforest. IBISC, University of Evry, France * Deok-Gyu Lee. Information Security Technoogy Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea * Javier Lopez. Computer Science Department, University of Malaga, Spain * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Fabio Martinelli. Information Security Group, IIT-CNR, Italy * Keith Mayes. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Jan de Meer. smartspacelab.eu, Brandenburg Technical University (BTU), Germany * Sjouke Mauw. SATOSS of Computer Science and Communications, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Rolf Oppliger. eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland * Pierre Paradinas. INRIA/CEDRIC, CNAM, France * Jong Hyuk Park. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea * Erik Poll. SOS (Security of Systems) group of the Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands * Joachim Posegga. Security in Distributed Systems, University of Hamburg, Germany * Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium * Kai Rannenberg. Chair of Mobile Commerce and Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany * Konstantinos Rantos. GSPAEG at the Hellenic Ministry of Interior, Public Administration and Decentralisation, Greece * Pierangela Samarati. Department of Information Technologies, University of Milan, Italy * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France * Willy Susilo. CCISR, University of Wollongong, Australia * Michael Tunstall. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Cork, Ireland * Paulo Jorge Esteves Veríssimo. University of Lisboa, Portugal ##### Steering committee ##### * Angelos Bilas. FORTH-ICS & University of Crete, Greece * Konstantinos Markantonakis. ISG-SCC, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Jean-Jacques Quisquater. DICE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium * Damien Sauveron. XLIM, University of Limoges, France ******************************************************* Keynote Speakers: - TBA ******************************************************* Opportunities for students: To help the students looking for a PhD thesis or a postdoctoral position, we will propose them to add a colorized sticker on their badge. In the same way, we will propose to persons offering these positions to add a sticker with a different color. We hope this mechanism will help to support the exchanges between young and senior researchers. ******************************************************* Thanks to our main sponsors: Elopsys Limousin Expansion Nokia SCM Microsystems WILEY ******************************************************* We hope you will be interested by this event. For further inquiries, please contact the secretariat at wistp2008sec(a)xlim.fr -- Damien Sauveron _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2008: Call for Papers
by Shamik Sengupta 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

(Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) *********************************************** IEEE MoViD 2008 First IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2008 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 23 June 2008 Newport Beach, CA, USA *********************************************** The unprecedented growth in video content generation and delivery has created the new era of video Internet where video-based applications have gained tremendous popularity. This trend has forced the network and service providers to understand the limitations of current Internet and bring new technologies for delivering the video content to the end-user. Furthermore, criticality of the wireless networks pose new challenges in video delivery specific to the diverse set of underlying network technologies including Wi-Fi, WiMax etc. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with 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 combined WoWMoM 2008 workshop proceedings. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Feb 11 Accept/reject notification: Mar 15 Camera ready paper due: Apr 02 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sujit Dey, University of California, San Diego Pascal Frossard, EPFL Dilip Krishnaswami, University of California, Davis Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Raja Neogi, Radisys Inc. Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, India Deepak Turaga, IBM Research Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Jian Zhang, University of New South Wales Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Int. Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous System (ADAMUS'08)
by Luca Foschini 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers-and-Demos ________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers and Demos: Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mobile Ubiquitous System 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: * Full Paper and Demo submission deadline: February 11, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2008 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: March 31, 2008 ________________________________________________________________ WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP Enterprise Mobility Services (IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine)
by Antonio Sánchez 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Dear colleagues, Please find attached the call for papers for a Feature Topic on "Enterprise Mobility Services" for IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine. Manuscript submission due: June 15, 2008 (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfpwcm0409.htm) Our sincere apologies for cross-posting. Best regards ------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine Feature Topic on Enterprise Mobility Services Enterprise market constitutes a very large share of the ICT sector. Normal market segmentation differentiates between big corporations for which tailored solutions can be offered and SMEs, businesses and professionals, for which generic solutions are designed, taking into account the so called long tail effect. In the ICT era of the 21st century, mobile services have a promising outlook. Companies are no longer static, premises based. On the contrary they have full mobility needs, with global customers that can be based worldwide, a growing number of remote offices that need to be interconnected, teleworkers that work from home, employees that are always travelling, longer times out of office, etc. On the other hand mobile technologies have evolved significantly over the last years improving the performance offered to users: mobile broadband thanks to 3.5G and beyond with growing coverage for several Mbps bandwidth; more powerful mobile handsets that support more complex applications and offer better user interfaces including larger screens and new features like embedded GPS, NFC,&; a massive penetration of mobile data telephony specially in the enterprise; smaller and lighter laptops at decreasing prices; maturity of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) for telco grade IP communications, etc. Given this starting point where workers have permanent access to email in the mobile, and full remote desktop connectivity with laptops and VPNs in this special issue we will go beyond with current research activities related to future enterprise mobility with a total focus on services and applications. Among the different existing vertical enterprise markets special attention will be given to wireless eHealth applications. Original, unpublished contributions will be considered for the issue in any of, but not limited to, the following or related topic areas: ? Mobile convergent communications (IMS Corporate services) ? Wireless eHealth ? Networked applications ? Telework and mobile desktop ? Mobile enterprise 2.5: collaboration, semantics,& ? Mobile grids Manuscript submission Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the magazine format described at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, 6 tables/figures, or 15 references. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to cfp_ieeewircommmag_entmobserv(a)tid.es Schedule Manuscript submission due: June 15, 2008 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2008 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2009 Publication: April 2009 Guest Editors Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas Telefónica, Spain Belén Carro-Martínez University of Valladolid, Spain Bhumip Khasnabish Verizon Laboratories, USA Ajay Gupta Hewlett-Packard Labs, India _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WiMob 2008 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiMob 2008 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication Datum: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:04 +0100 Von: Abderrahim Benslimane <abderrahim.benslimane(a)univ-avignon.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------- +---------------------------------------------------------+ | | | WiMob'2008 | | | | 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on | | Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+ Avignon, FRANCE October 12-14, 2008 http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. WiMob’08 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob’08 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montréal (QC), Canada in 2005 and 2006 and the last one in New York, USA in 2007. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Abstract submission due: May 6, 2008 Paper submission due: May 16, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2008 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2008 This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedia over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. WiMob'08 solicits workshops in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. Please see the CALL FOR WIMOB 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS below. -------------------------------------- CALL FOR WIMOB 2008 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------- The 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008) will be held in Avignon, France, 12-14 October 2008. As an important part of the program at WiMob 2008, a limited number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. The workshops aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for researchers to present their early research results and share experiences with focus on more specific research areas than the main conference. We solicit workshops in all areas and topics related to wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile and wireless communications, pervasive computing and networking, and its services and applications. All papers accepted in WiMob 2008 workshops will be published in the WiMob 2008 Proceedings published by IEEE. The workshops will be held on 12 October 2008. The workshop proposal should contain the following information: 1. The title of the workshop. 2. The names, addresses, and affiliation of Workshop organizers. 3. A brief description of the workshop (eg. the goals and its relevance, etc.). 4. The names of potential program committee members, 5. Expected number of submissions. 6. A description of the publicity plan. 7. A draft call for papers Workshop organizers should send their workshop proposals to the workshop co-chairs at the email addresses given below by 4 February 2008. The proposals can be submitted in PDF or plain text. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent to workshop organizers by 4 March 2008. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca ----------------------------- WiMoB'08 CONFERENCE COMMITEES ----------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR Abderrahim BENSLIMANE University of Avignon, France STEERING COMMITTEE Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France Pierre Boucher, Ericsson Research Canada Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Samuel Pierre, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Do Van Thanh, Telenor & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Guy Pujolle, university of Paris 6, France FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Christine Nora, IEEE France Section, Christophe Pruvost, University of Avignon TPC CO-CHAIRS Chadi Assi, CIISE, University of Concordia, Montréal, Canada Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Ronald Beaubrun, Université Laval, Canada Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Congduc Pham, University of Pau, France EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada CONTACT INFORMATION Abderrezak Rachedi, University of Avignon abderrezak.rachedi(at)univ-avignon.fr --------------------------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________________________ Professor Abderrahim BENSLIMANE LIA/Univ. Avignon, 339 Chemin des Meinajaries BP 1228 - 84911 AVIGNON CEDEX 9 Tél : (+33/0) 4 90 84 35 61 ------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some coming events: - Fourth IEEE International CONFERENCE on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications: http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/wimob2008 - Globecom’2008: TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2008/symposium/compcom.html _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP HotEmNets'08 - please note - 6 weeks left
by Radu Stoleru 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= The Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008) http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~tianhe/sites/emnets/ June 2-3 , Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Important Dates: ================ Papers Due: Feb 29th, 2008 Notification: April 27th, 2008 Camera Ready: May 4th, 2008 Conference: June 2-3, 2008 Overview: ========= The Fifth Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (HotEmNets 2008) brings together wireless sensor network researchers from academic and industrial backgrounds to present groundbreaking results that will shed light on present and future research challenges. The workshop emphasizes results from experiments or deployments that quantify the challenges in the wireless sensor systems of today as well as early results from new ideas that introduce promising approaches that will define the challenges in the wireless sensor systems of tomorrow. We especially welcome papers reporting on results that refute common assumptions, deployment experiences, novel and original approaches, and, more generally, papers that will help inform and guide research. The EmNets Program Committee discourages submissions that are short versions of papers that will be submitted to other conferences in the near future, since its goal is to engage the research community in a discussion of future challenges and issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: =================================================== # Validation/refutation of prior results # Application experiences: measurements, successes and failures # Future applications: requirements and challenges # Hardware platforms, tradeoffs, and trends # Data and network storage # Delay-tolerant networking # Management, debugging, and troubleshooting # Network and software reliability # Network and system architectures # Software bug detection and tools # Energy sources, scavenging, and low-power operation # Human-Computer interfaces for sensornets # Benchmarks and evaluation suites Paper submission: ================= # Papers should be submitted in Adobe PDF format. # No longer than five pages in US letter or A4 paper size, including all text, figures, references, appendices, etc. # Two column formatting. # One-inch margins on all sides. # Minimum 10-point font size (smaller fonts are acceptable for footnotes, references, and figure captions). Organization Committee: ======================= General Chair John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia Program Co-Chairs: Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University Tian He, University of Minnesota Publicity Chair Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University Local Arrangements Chair: Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia Technical Program Committee: =========================== Anish Arora, Ohio State University Tarek F. Abdelzaher, UIUC Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College Polly Huang, National Taiwan Univ. Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt University Liqian Luo, Microsoft Qun Li, College of William and Mary Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation Ying Zhang, PARC Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to sensornet-on(a)mail-list.com To unsubscribe, send a blank message to sensornet-off(a)mail-list.com To change your email address, send a message to sensornet-change(a)mail-list.com with your old address in the Subject: line To contact the list owner, send your message to sensornet-list-owner(a)mail-list.com To unsubscribe, click on the following web page. http://cgi.mail-list.com/u?ln=sensornet&nm=tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu This message was launched into cyberspace to tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP--IEEE ISCC 2008, July 6-9 Morocco
by Nidal Nasser 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2008 July 6-9, 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Technical Topics *** Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2008 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the following topics: * Access Networks * Bioinformatics * Data Mining and Database Applications * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * Digital Satellite Communications * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet Services and Applications * Internet Protocols - Advances and Evolution * Management of Telecommunications Services * Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Digital Media Technologies * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimization, and Management * Network Reliability and Quality of Service * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security and Cryptography * Software Engineering * Standards * Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures *** Important Dates *** Jan. 28, 2008 Submission Deadline (Extended) Feb. 22, 2008 Notification of Acceptance Apr. 12, 2008 Final Manuscript Due *** Submissions *** * Papers should describe original work and be 15 double-spaced pages or less in length. A concise and representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone number of the corresponding author. Please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 * Accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Papers that exceed that page limit will be charged an over length fee. * For additional information contact the technical co-chairs and local co-chairs. *** Organization Committee *** Conference General Chair: Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA adel(a)louisville.edu Technical Program Co-chairs: Abdelghani Bellaachia, George Washington University, USA, bell(a)gwu.edu Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA, biazsaa(a)auburn.edu Local Committee Co-Chairs: Amine Bensaid, Al Akhawayn U. of Ifrane, Morocco, amine(a)alakhawayn.ma Driss Aboutajdine, School of Science, Rabat, Morocco, aboutaj(a)fsr.ac.ma Finance and Registration Chair: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Plenary Chair: Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Publication Chair: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA Keynote Chair: Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA Web Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's U., Canada Publicity Chair: Nidal Nasser, U. of Guelph, Canada Steering committee: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Antonio Corradi, U. of Bologna, Italy Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT &T, USA Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA Hussein Mouftah, U. of Ottawa, Canada Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA We hope to see you in beautiful Marrakech, Morocco! _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE SECON Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh)
by Daji Qiao 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================= Call for Papers Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh) San Francisco, California, USA June 16, 2008 * PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE - March 14, 2008 * PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE - March 21, 2008 * Notification of Acceptance - April 22, 2008 * Paper length - 6 pages (IEEE format) Wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest as a low-cost networking platform to support ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or a larger, community or metro-scale networking. Many universities, as well as industrial labs have on-going research projects on various aspects of mesh networking, i ncluding architectures, protocols, services and applications. Several startups are building mesh networking platforms and deploying services. WiMesh 2008 will be a one-day forum for meeting, presenting and discussing core technical issues and current research problems in wireless mesh networking. Unlike previous years, WiMesh 2008 would like to solicit 6-page papers in the area of wireless mesh networking on topics including, but not limited to: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for wireless mesh networks * Experiences with the deployment of wireless mesh networks * Wireless mesh network performance * Unique challenges found in wireless mesh networks * Co-existence of wireless mesh networks with existing 802.11 infrastructure and solutions * Experimental validation of wireless mesh network algorithms * Localization and mobility in wireless mesh networks * Security, privacy, and trustworthiness * Integration of wireless mesh networks with other wired and wireless networks * Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios * Wireless mesh network testbeds Paper submission will be through EDAS (ready shortly). Please visit http://www.cs.wisc.edu/wimesh2008/ for more information. WiMesh 2008 TPC chairs Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin at Madison Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Secure Multimedia Communication
by Yan ZHANG 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Wiley Journal: Security and Communication Network (SCN) Call for Paper Special Issue: Secure Multimedia Communication http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/cfp/SCN-SIcfp.html Background ========== With the rapid progress in information technology and an enormous amount of media appearing over Internet, e.g. text, audio, speech, music, image and video, guaranteeing information security is becoming increasingly important. Several pivotal challenges include copyright protection, integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in multimedia communication has attracted intensive research activities in academia, industry and also government. Multimedia data like images, audios or videos are different from plain text. They are often of large volumes and are compressed in order to save the storage cost and bandwidth. Due to such requirement and property, the media protection mechanisms for images, audios or videos are significantly different from the ones for text or binary data. With the recent advances in network and multimedia technology, the applications in commercial scenario become increasing crucial. There is an increasing trend in the multimedia content distribution from the central service provider to the individuals, e.g. video-on-demand, IPTV and p2p sharing. In these applications, piracy is becoming a critical issue. Solutions are needed to protect the copyright of multimedia content. During the past decades, schemes have been reported for secure multimedia communication, e.g., key management, multimedia encryption, authentication, digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, access control and digital rights management. These techniques are able to protect multimedia content's confidentiality, integrity, ownership, traitor traceability. In addition, in different networks such as Internet, 3G wireless, DVB-H and p2p, different secure protocols and algorithms are required to provide the system security. All these topics are in active development. This special issue aims to expose the readership of SCN to the latest research results on secure multimedia communication. The issue focuses on secure transmission or distribution of multimedia content. Topics ======== Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: · Copyright techniques · Digital rights management for multimedia · Secure multimedia transcoding in communication · Secure media streaming · Secure multimedia content sharing in P2P network · Broadcast encryption and authentication · Security in multimedia message sending · Security in mobile TV · Security in IPTV · Attacks and prevention in multimedia communication · Secure multimedia broadcasting over wireless networks · Secure multimedia broadcasting over IEEE 802.x families · Secure multimedia over multi-hop networks, e.g. Ad hoc network, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks · Hardware Implementations of secure multimedia techniques · Low-power Architectures for portable appliances Submission Procedures ===================== Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submissions of both in-depth research papers and review/application- oriented papers are encouraged. All submissions should be done in Wiley's manuscript central whose web link is: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn and all submissions are subject to peer review before publication. For more detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the journal home-page at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. Schedule ======== · Manuscript Due: May 1, 2008 · Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2008 · Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2008 · Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2009 Guest Editors: ============== Shiguo Lian France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China Email: shiguo.lian(a)orange-ftgroup.com Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: parkjonghyuk1(a)hotmail.com Paris Kitsos Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece Email: pkitsos(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

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[Tccc] CFP REALWSN 2008
by Adam Dunkels 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks http://www.sics.se/realwsn08/ April 1, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland In conjunction with ACM EuroSys 2008 The purpose of the third Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research. Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. Published papers will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Experimental validation/refutation of previous simulation results obtained by others * Real-world performance of self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems, sensor network programming paradigms, and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Hardware and software methods for energy measurement and profiling Important dates (tentative) Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 Notification of acceptance: 3 March, 2008 Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008 Workshop: 1 April 2008 Organizers Workshop Chair: * Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical program committee chairs: * Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science * Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Technical program committee (under construction): * Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA * Saumitra M. Das, Purdue University, USA * Carlo Fischione, UC Berkeley, USA * Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden * Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia * Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany * Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, The Netherlands * Luis Orozco, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain * Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy * Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA * Utz Rödig, University of Lancaster, UK * Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden * Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research * Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany * Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany -- Adam Dunkels <adam(a)sics.se> http://www.sics.se/~adam/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Call For Papers - WSAN 2008
by Jaime Lloret Mauri 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Apologize if you receive multiple copies. ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= 2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks July 14th to 15th, 2008 School of information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada http://www.site.uottawa.ca/WSAN08/ The 2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks (WSAN 08) will be held from Monday, July 14th, to Tuesday, July 15th, 2008, at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of University Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ottawa is Canada's national capital, and features a wealth of festivals and cultural activities. It is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. The conference location is in the city centre, conveniently located near shopping, museums, and public transportation. Previously unpublished contributions describing original, completed or on-going research are solicited, including (but not limited to) the following areas: AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) Analysis, Simulation and Measurement Ad-Hoc Networking Coordination in Actor Networks Communication Protocols Cross-Layer Optimizations Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management Information Processing Localization and Tracking Middleware Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions Physical Architecture QoS Real-Time Communications in Actor Networks Robots as Actor Nodes Security and Privacy Wireless Multimedia Networking WSAN Applications Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding published by Springer. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Network journal. Awards will also be given for the best paper, and the best student paper. Important Dates Submission Deadline: February 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2008 Final Version Due: April 1, 2008 CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair: Ali Miri (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Luis Orozco-Barbosa (Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) and Ivan Stojmenovic (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) -- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] IEEE JSAC Special Issue: Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for Wireless Networks
by Olivier Dousse 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

IEEE JSAC - CALL FOR PAPERS Stochastic Geometry and Random Graphs for Wireless Networks ----------------------------------------------------------- http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/stochasticgeometryCFP.pdf The aim of this issue is to bring together state-of-the-art research contributions using probabilistic combinatorics, geometric probability, and the theory of random graphs in conjunction with the established techniques from information, communication, and queueing theories. While papers that are of primarily mathematical interest will be considered, the main focus of the issue is on applications of these techniques to communication systems. The issue seeks original research papers that use techniques from stochastic geometry and random graphs to address problems in: • Point process models • Percolation and connectivity • Capacity of wireless networks • Dynamic graph models • Mobility models • Transient behavior of networks • Interference characterization • Propagation delay characterization • Combinations with information theory • Combinations with queueing theory • Spatial and frequency reuse • Navigation in random graphs • Flooding techniques • Cognitive radio and spectrum sharing • Impact of path loss models • Extension to non-Poisson models Timetable: Manuscript Submission: August 15, 2008 First Round of Reviews: December 15, 2008 Revised Versions Due: January 31, 2008 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: April 15, 2009 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2009 Martin Haenggi Jeffrey Andrews Francois Baccelli Olivier Dousse Massimo Franceschetti GUEST EDITORS _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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

16 Jan '08

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

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

16 Jan '08

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

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

16 Jan '08

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

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

16 Jan '08

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

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

15 Jan '08

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

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

15 Jan '08

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

15 Jan '08

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

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

14 Jan '08

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

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

14 Jan '08

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

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