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[Fwd: Pervasive Games Symposium with ACM Journal Support - CfP PerGames]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Pervasive Games Symposium with ACM Journal Support - CfP PerGames Datum: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:39:46 +0100 Von: Carsten Magerkurth <magerkurth(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de> An: Carsten Magerkurth <magerkurth(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PerGames 2007 http://www.pergames.de 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming Applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: The best paper submissions will be published in the prestigous ACM Journal Computers in Entertainment (CIE). Additional papers will be published in the Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB) that will bring out a dedicated special issue about Pervasive Games. UPDATE: In addition to the scientific programme, PerGames will feature high profile tutorials about Pervasive Gaming from the IPerG EU project. The IPerG project on Pervasive Games has been running for several years and offers a wealth of technological and game design insights to share. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PerGames 2007 will take place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on June 11. & 12. 2007. It will be co-located with the ACM Conference on Advancements in Entertainment Technologies (ACE). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. Previous PerGames events were held in Vienna (2004), Munich (2005), Dublin (2006) and attracted researchers and practitioners from all over the world. PerGames 2007 will feature high quality paper presentations and demos reviewed by an international program committee of experts from the fields of Pervasive Computing and Gaming. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This time, we call for four categories of participation: * Research Papers * Research Posters * Live Demonstrations * Citywide Games ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Papers: Research Papers present the latest findings from pervasive gaming research. Each research paper should be six to ten pages in ACM SIGCHI format and should address a relevant topic for pervasive gaming applications. Participants will be chosen on the quality/ originality of their submission by an international program committee. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Mixed reality installations * Innovative input devices * Augmented tabletop games * Emerging pervasive game concepts * Augmented reality games * (Mis-)use of enabling technologies in games * Mobile computing entertainment * Business cases for pervasive computing games * Privacy and awareness issues in pervasive games * Mixing games and serious applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Research Posters: Research posters will be displayed and discussed during the symposium. They should include nifty ideas or ongoing work that might be too premature for a full paper submission, but interesting to discuss and share with the audience. A poster submission includes a two page description in ACM SIGCHI format and upon acceptance the respective poster. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Live Demonstrations: Due to their intrinsic nature, Pervasive Games are best understood by experiencing them firsthand and therefore PerGames will host a number of innovative demonstrations of games as part of the conference. We encourage submissions of live demos of complete, playable Pervasive Games or novel technology demonstrators. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees and provoke discussions. A demo submission includes an abstract that describes the exhibit and discusses its novelty and distinguishing ideas or approaches. It should be two to four pages using the ACM SIGCHI format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Citywide Games: Citywide Games are larger than Live Demonstrations with respect to the suggested temporal or spatial expansion. Typically, they will be played over several hours or days within the city of Salzburg or within the conference building. PerGames 2007 will help with the advertisement, the local organization, permissions, legal issues and press contacts. Possible types of Citywide Games include (but are not limited to): * Mobile phone games * Augmented reality games * Casual games * Alternate reality games * Online on street games * Event-based games * Proximity games * Crossmedia games * Technology-enhanced larp games Citywide Game proposals should be submitted electronically and include a game title, a brief description of the game experience (appr. 200 words), as well as the names and contact information of the Citywide Game organizers. The proposal should also identify the intended audience, its size, all technical infrastructure requirements (e.g. WiFi, GSM, GPRS, Bluetooth, GPS, ...) as well as and further requirements (e.g. required space, time, power supply, etc.). Please describe the requirements in detail and be precise. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submissions will be due 1. March 2007 with the acceptance notification coming 30. March and printer ready versions due afterwards. Accepted papers will be published in a printed proceedings volume and will also be made available online. The deadline for demo submissions, posters, and citywide games will be 15. April 2007. The ACM SIGCHI format template can be downloaded from http://sigchi.org/chipubform/cpf.doc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For further information, please check the symposium website: http://www.pergames.de Organizers: Annika Waern: SICS, Sweden Carsten Magerkurth: Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany Irma Lindt: Fraunhofer FIT, Germany Karl-Petter Åkesson: SICS, Sweden Peter Ljungstrand: Interactive Institute, Sweden Regina Bernhaupt, University of Salzburg, Austria Staffan Björk: Interactive Institute and Göteborg University, Sweden To contact the organizers, please send email to: 2007(a)pergames.de <mailto:2007@pergames.de> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline: Feb. 15, TVT SI on Veh. Comm. Net.]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline: Feb. 15, TVT SI on Veh. Comm. Net. Datum: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:50:15 -0800 (PST) Von: Lin Cai <cai(a)ECE.UVic.CA> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [ Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks ****** Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 ****** Traffic congestion, delays, and accidents in the transportation systems have caused significant loss of lives, waste of energy, and loss in productivity. To improve the safety, security and efficiency of the transportation systems and enable new mobile services and applications for the traveling public, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been developed, which apply rapidly emerging information technologies in vehicles and transportation infrastructures. The development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks is one of the most challenging and critical issues for the ITS industry, which also sparks numerous interests in the communications and networking research community. The objective of this special section is to disseminate the state-of-the-art R&D results in this fast-moving research area, to facilitate the deployment of vehicular communications networks, and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of fostering interaction among them to promote further research interests and activities to enable new transportation products and services, e.g., advanced traffic management, vehicle control, safety control, and networking and information services for users on the road. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies - Vehicular network architecture and protocol - Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis - Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols - Vehicular network flow and congestion control - Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems - Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems - Networking and information services for users on the roads (by automobiles, trains, planes, or ships) - Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks - Mobility management and intersystem handovers - Simulations models and testbeds for ITS - Implementation and field tests of ITS systems - Network self-organization and self-configuration - Network security and trustworthy networks - Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Submission: We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All papers for this section must be submitted in PDF format through IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Manuscript Central (http://tvt-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). When submitting the paper, select the category "Special Issue Paper". Guest Editors: Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia University, USA nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Prof. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada cai(a)ece.uvic.ca Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 First Reviews: April 15, 2007 Revised Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007 Final Reviews: July 1, 2007 Final Manuscripts: August 1, 2007 Publication: November 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: MTAP (Springer) Special Issue - last call]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MTAP (Springer) Special Issue - last call Datum: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:32:29 +0100 (CET) Von: Marco Roccetti <roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: Marco Roccetti <roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it> CALL FOR PAPERS Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) Special Issue on New Achievements in Pervasive and Interactive Multimedia Systems and Applications Recent technological advancements have transformed almost any computer, electronic device and appliance into concrete multimedia systems. From a simple laptop to the hype iPod, from wearable computers to wireless sensors, from RFID tags to cell phones, those systems have pervasively got into our homes, offices and places where we have fun, deeply revolutionizing our lifestyle and common habits. Whats really new here is that, surprisingly, not only we can use these devices in a passive way, to listen to music or watch TV for example, but we can use them to customize and adapt all the information we want to receive: We are about to spend our days in an environment saturated with computing and communication devices able to produce and/or adapt a lot of multimedia contents, based on a set of sophisticated interactions these systems carry out with us, as well as with the environment surrounding us. One of the key issue is how to structure this universe of devices and applications, without bothering users with an explicit awareness of the underlying communications and computing technologies, while guaranteeing to them a full control on the results. To this aim, new technical challenges include several different aspects, ranging from the underlying network (is the client-server communication model adequate to support all this?) to the human computer interaction interface (how can a human being simply interact with an embedded system or an RFID tag?) and to the privacy/security mechanisms (how can we ensure privacy in such a pervasive environment?). The goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate recent and relevant contributions in the area of Pervasive and Interactive Multimedia Systems and Applications including content representation, customization, indexing, access, protection and transmission. Papers are solicited that cover the topics including but not limited to: * Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV * Techniques and architectures for streaming media * Multimedia delivery to wireless embedded devices * Mobile content distribution networks * Multimedia QoS support for wired and wireless networks * MAC protocols with multimedia QoS support in wireless networks * Multimedia QoS in peer-to-peer and overlay networks * Online gaming (Service, architecture, protocol, and security) * Privacy and Security Issues * Distributed services middleware and systems for multimedia communications (e.g. Open Service Interfaces) * TV-centric home networks, DTV, and home networked entertainment and games * Information hiding and watermarking * Multimedia Standards, formats and models for multi-channel content distribution * GRID and distributed systems for content production * Web services for content distribution; distribution with P2P architectures * Legal aspects related to digital content (e.g., digital rights management); business, payment and transaction models Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered. Prospective contributors should submit papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30 pages long including figures, tables and references. Authors should submit a pdf version of their manuscript (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 MB) according to the following timetable, directly to the e-mail address of Marco Roccetti: roccetti(a)cs.unibo.it. Camera-ready papers will have to conform to the manuscript style of the target journal (www.springer.com/journal/11042/about). Timetable: Manuscript Submission: February 15, 2007 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2007 Publication Date: First available issue Guest editors: Marco Roccetti (University of Bologna, IT) Marco Furini (University of Piemonte Orientale, IT) Xiao-Ping Zhang (Ryerson University, Canada) Zhu Liu (AT&T Research Labs, USA) Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA)

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] ESAS 2007 - (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED) - Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Cambridge, England]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] ESAS 2007 - (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED) - Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Cambridge, England Datum: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:54:25 +0100 Von: Joao Girao <joao.girao(a)netlab.nec.de> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br -- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP -- In response to numerous requests, we have agreed to postpone the deadline to the 7th February 2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS 2007) http://www.netlab.nec.de/esas/ Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, England July 2-3, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The vision of ubiquitous computing has generated a lot of interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. However, besides their potential advantages, these new generations of networks also raise some challenging problems with respect to security and privacy. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the network security, cryptography, and wireless networking communities in order to discuss these problems and to propose new solutions. The fourth ESAS workshop seeks submissions that present original research on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Privacy and anonymity Cooperation and fairness Secure topology control Secure localization Secure in-network processing Security for embedded systems Prevention of traffic analysis Key management Secure routing Secure MAC protocols Secure time synchronization Distributed intrusion detection Location privacy Trust establishment Secure context aware computing --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Submission deadline: February 07, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2007 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2007 Workshop: July 2-3, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for Authors and Workshop Proceedings: Authors are invited to submit a complete paper of their original work. Maximum length for submissions is 15 pages in LNCS format. The preferred submission format is PDF and for the final version the sources of the contribution in LaTeX will also be required. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel. All submissions will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. Further information on how to submit papers will be available on the web site of the workshop: http://www.netlab.nec.de/esas/ As in previous years, we expect to publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (currently under negotiation). Note that this year the final proceedings volume will be distributed at the workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization Committee: General chair: Frank Stajano, University of Cambridge Program co-chairs: Cathy Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich Local arrangements chair: Tyler Moore, University of Cambridge Publicity chair: Joao Girao, NEC Europe Network Lab Steering Committee: Levente Buttyan, BUTE Claude Castelluccia, INRIA Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab Program Committee: Imad Aad, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany Tansu Alpcan, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/TU Berlin Farooq Anjum, Telcordia research, USA N. Asokan, Nokia, Finland Gildas Avoine, MIT, USA Lejla Batina, ESAT SCD/COSIC, Belgium Levente Buttyan, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore Saurabh Ganeriwal, Google, USA Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark Markus Kuhn, University of Cambridge, UK Loukas Lazos, University of Washington, USA Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mingyan Li, Boeing, USA Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Refik Molva, Institute Eurocom, France Peng Ning, NC State, USA Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Michael Roe, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Mani Srivastava, UCLA, USA Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE/WoWMoM EXPONWIRELESS 2007 (Extended deadline: Feb. 11, 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: IEEE/WoWMoM EXPONWIRELESS 2007 (Extended deadline: Feb. 11, 2007) Datum: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:12:03 -0600 Von: Yonghe Liu <yonghe(a)cse.uta.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ========================================================= My Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy, and Successful 2007 and apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ========================================================= 2nd IEEE Workshop on advanced EXPerimental activities ON WIRELESS networks & systems EXPONWIRELESS - 2007 http://www.ics.forth.gr/EXPONWIRELESS07 18 June, Helsinki, Finland in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2007 (http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/) CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless networks represent a challenging and ever growing research area. In these systems the interactions among the different network layers are very complex and their effects on the overall performance are not easy to accurately identify. Additionally, many simplifying assumptions considered in analytical studies do not hold in practise. Experimental activities involving the development of systems and device prototypes and the collection and analysis of measurements from actual networks can provide insight on the behaviour of such systems in realistic environments, which can be beneficial for understanding how cross-layer interactions impact in practise the overall performance, for deriving realistic simulation models, for analyzing particular phenomena and evaluating algorithms and protocols, and for exploring the design choices in building actual wireless networks. Such activities are pivotal for researchers, developers, service managers and providers, as well as for end users involved in the evolution of these networks. After a successful first event last year, EXPONWIRELESS 2007 aims to again bring together all the aspects related to experimental activities on wireless networks, creating a forum where researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, current requirements, and future visions, that are important for the development of new protocols, algorithms, devices and systems. High quality papers discussing original and innovative experimental activities on wireless networks are solicited for submission. The main topics of the workshop are (but are not limited to): * Device prototypes for wireless BANs, PANs, LANs, and MANs * Prototype implementation of wireless/mobile networks and systems * Deployment and experience with multi-hop multi-radio wireless mesh networks * QoS for real-time voice/video in wireless networks * Differentiated services in wireless multimedia networks * Systems and methods for collecting and analyzing measurements in wireless networks * Power control and channel assignment * Algorithms for self-configuration and self-management of beyond-3G systems * Seamless internetworking and architectures for beyond-3G systems * Handoff and mobility management in beyond-3G systems * Energy-efficient protocols and power management algorithms * Wireless security * Wireless vehicular networks * Wireless/Mobile applications and services * Middleware platforms for wireless/mobile environments * Mobility models * Location services * Positioning and tracking technologies PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submitted manuscripts should adhere to the IEEE double-column standard format with 10pt font size for texts. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 6 pages. This limit includes figures, appendix, bibliography, etc. Papers significantly exceeding this limit will be automatically rejected. All papers must be submitted in PDF format to the address exponw(a)ics.forth.gr. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE in the combined WoWMoM 2007 workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: Feb. 11, 2007 (extended deadline) Acceptance Notification: February 26, 2007 WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS Rosario G. Garroppo, Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Vasilios A. Siris, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] STREAM 2007 || First International Workshop on Data Stream Processing || July 1-6, 2007 - Silicon Valley ||]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] STREAM 2007 || First International Workshop on Data Stream Processing || July 1-6, 2007 - Silicon Valley || Datum: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:35:13 -0500 (EST) Von: andy(a)confpromo.com An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: pdini(a)cisco.com Invitation, Please consider to contribute and distribute to the appropriate groups the following: CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Data Stream Processing STREAM 2007 July 1-6, 2007 - Silicon Valley, USA see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/STREAM.html in conjunction with The Second International Conference on Digital Telecommunications ICDT 2007 see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2007/ICDT07.html Important deadlines: Submission deadline: February 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2007 Registration/camera ready: March 31, 2007 On online monitoring applications, in which continuous queries operate in near real-time over rapid and unbounded "streams" of data such as telephone call records, sensor readings, web usage logs, network packet traces, are fundamentally different from traditional data management. The difference is induced by the fact that in applications such as network monitoring, telecommunications data management, manufacturing, sensor networks, and others, data takes the form of continuous data streams rather than finite stored data sets. As a result, clients require long-running continuous queries as opposed to one-time queries. These requirements lead to reconsider data management and processing of complex and numerous continuous queries over data streams, as current database systems and data processing methods are nit suitable. Event stream processing is a new paradigm of computing that supports the processing of multiple streams of event data with the goal of identifying the meaningful events within those streams The International Workshop on Data Stream Processing, STREAM 2007, brings together practitioners and researchers for discussion and work on the emerging aspects pertaining to new algorithms for data stream processing, optimization, and system design methodologies using these techniques. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to): Fundamentals on data stream processing Data stream processing and event stream processing Continuous query languages Time management in data stream systems Aggregated queries support Query processing with multiple, continuous, rapid, time-varying data streams Processing frequent item set discovery queries Real-time stream data processing Network-aware operator placement for stream-processing systems Integrating database queries and Web searches Scalable Distributed Stream Processing Optimization of data stream processing Performance and overhead in data stream processing QoS adaptation in data stream systems Adaptive query processing in data stream Interactive distributed data stream processing and mining Data stream management systems Control theory on stream processing Processing high-speed data streams Stream processing in production-to-business software Multi-site cooperative data stream analysis Grid-based data stream processing Hyper databases for P2P data stream processing Sensor data stream processing in health monitoring Processing and sharing data streams in Grid-based P2P infrastructures INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS The STREAM 2007 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted on IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and indexed with major indexes. Regular papers Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. Every submission will receive an ID from the EDAS system. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page <http://www.iaria.org/instructions.html#format> . Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will be published in the conference's CD collection, together with the regular papers. [ pdini(a)cisco.com ] Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. [ pdini(a)cisco.com ] Panel proposals The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. [ pdini(a)cisco.com ] --------------------------------- ICDT 2007 Chair Petre Dini, Cisco, USA, pdini(a)cisco.com ========================================================= _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks Datum: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:51:40 -0200 (EDT) Von: Admin <adm(a)lrg.ufsc.br> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] =============== Call for Papers =============== IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols ===================================================== Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods, hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems, emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet access and so on. This wide range of applications have different technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications. ====================== Scope of Contributions ====================== This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call- for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of interest include: * Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services * Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure network reliability, scalability and interoperability * Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self- management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery, establishment and maintenance of mesh networks * Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide admission control algorithms * Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity, coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference management * Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based wireless mesh networks * Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas ===================== Manuscript Submission ===================== The special issue will consider original research and survey articles prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang(a)ieee.org) before the deadline. Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format with the font size larger than 10 points. =============== Important Dates =============== * Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007 * Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007 * Final version ready: October 1, 2007. * Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008 ============= Guest Editors ============= * Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email: y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk * Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh CM2, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. Email: sci(a)engr.unl.edu * Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo Ontario _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SPECTS07: Ten Years < One Month???]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SPECTS07: Ten Years < One Month??? Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:51:56 -0800 (PST) Von: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, tcgn(a)comsoc.org CC: zhuhua(a)hotmail.com', wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu, khelil(a)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Hi All: This year marks the 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS. Thanks to the continuous efforts of 10 years of its TPC's generation by generation under the great leadership of Prof. Obaidat, SPECTS has grown into a great conference in this great information age. For SPECTS, 10 years is like 1 day in terms of efforts. For all of you, 10 years is less than one month. You are kindly reminded of the submission deadline Feb. 25, just one month away. Thanks for your great support! Guoping Zeng, Chair, Publicity Committee, SPECTS07 *************************************************************** 2007 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2007 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS http://eia.udg.es/SPECTS2007/ July 16-18, 2007 San Diego, California, USA Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: April 22, 2007 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 20, 2007 ******************************************************************************************************** This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Helena Szczerbicka University of Hannover, Germany E-mail: hsz(a)sim.uni-hannover.de Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India dharmar(a)maths.iitd.ernet.in Awards Chair Franco Davoli University of Genoa, Italy E-mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Publication Chair Pawel Gburzynski University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: pawel(a)cs.ualberta.ca Guoping Zeng (Chair), Nortel Networks, USA E-mail: zenggu(a)nortel.com Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, CA, USA E-mail: hua.zhu(a)sdrcinc.net Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California-Riverside, USA E-mail: essia(a)cs.ucr.edu Abdelmajid Khelil, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: khelil(a)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy E-mail: pescape(a)unina.it Local Arrangement Chair Richard McDonald RMC, USA rmacd(a)ramlabs.com Web Masters Antonio Bueno University of Girona, Spain E-mail: jbueno(a)silver.udg.es Michel J. Chinni U. S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Carlos Belo, Instituto de Telecomunicações-IST, Portugal Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Fernando Cerdan, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Tomaso de Cola, University of Genoa, Italy S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Daniel Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta, Canada Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Xiaoyan Hong, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Petteri Mannersalo, University of Vaasa, Finland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA Michele Zorzi, Universit? di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 8-10 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2007 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference. Proposals for special sessions should also be submitted to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] Call for Paper :: UBICC Journal]
by Lars Wolf 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] Call for Paper :: UBICC Journal Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:11:43 +0000 Von: Usman Tariq <usman_one(a)hotmail.com> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br CC: info(a)ubicc.org *UBICC Journal ©* *- - - -* Call For Paper *- - - - * *Navigation* UBICC Home <http://www.ubicc.org/> Registration <http://ubicc.org/register_author.aspx> Author Login <http://ubicc.org/login.aspx> CFP <http://ubicc.org/Paper_Call_Detail.aspx?ID=2> Contact Us <http://ubicc.org/contactus.aspx> Recent advances in electronic and computer technologies have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous computing. The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. We are seeking research papers, technical reports, dissertation etc for these interdisciplinary areas. The goal of the UBICC journal is to publish the most recent results in the development of system aspects of ubiquitous computing. Researchers and practitioners working in this area are expected to take this opportunity to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges, and state of the art solutions addressing various issues in this area. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* 1. Probabilistic or predictive performance models and analysis of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks 2. RF channel capacity modeling and analysis 3. Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks 4. Mobility modeling and management 5. Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks 6. Analytical modeling 7. Simulation methods 8. Performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks 9. Software tools for automatic network performance and evaluation 10. Network performance improvements by optimization algorithms 11. Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks 12. Wireless mesh networks 13. Security issues in ubiquitous and sensor networks 14. Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks * _For More Information:_* * *Managing Editor: * email:* * *info*(a)*ubicc.org * Visit Us:* http://www.ubicc.org copyright ⓒ 2007 UBICC.org Home <http://ubicc.org/> Menu Script Format <http://ubicc.org/authors.aspx#DocData/UBICC_ManuScript_template.doc> Author Login <http://ubicc.org/login.aspx> Contact Us! <http://ubicc.org/contactus.aspx> Thanks *Usman Tariq* _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] IEEE Network -- SI on Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Sven Lahde 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] =============== Call for Papers =============== IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols ===================================================== Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods, hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems, emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet access and so on. This wide range of applications have different technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications. ====================== Scope of Contributions ====================== This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call- for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of interest include: * Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services * Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure network reliability, scalability and interoperability * Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self- management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery, establishment and maintenance of mesh networks * Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide admission control algorithms * Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity, coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference management * Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based wireless mesh networks * Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas ===================== Manuscript Submission ===================== The special issue will consider original research and survey articles prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang(a)ieee.org) before the deadline. Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format with the font size larger than 10 points. =============== Important Dates =============== * Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007 * Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007 * Final version ready: October 1, 2007. * Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008 ============= Guest Editors ============= * Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email: y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk * Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Pittsburgh CM2, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. Email: sci(a)engr.unl.edu * Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo Ontario

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SASO 2007 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SASO 2007 Call for Papers) Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:33:59 -0800 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG (This CfP is sent by Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany. Apologies for multiple copies.) ***************************************************************** Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS (approval pending) and ISCE Research The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. Topics o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems Systems & Technologies o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems Research Communities o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization Organization General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Industry Chair: Fabrice Saffre, BT, UK Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA Submission Instructions See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide. Important Dates Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007 ***************************************************************** Best regards, Hermann de Meer ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP 1st International Workshop on Policy-based Computing (PBAC 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP 1st International Workshop on Policy-based Computing (PBAC 2007) Datum: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:53:11 -0000 Von: Duncan Johnston Watt <Duncan(a)enigmatec.net> An: <acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org> Call for papers 1st International Workshop on Policy-Based Autonomic Computing- PBAC 2007 http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/pbac2007 Sponsors: IEEE and ACM A one-day workshop to be held at: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007 - http://www.acis.ufl.edu/~icac2007/index.shtm) June 11-15, 2007, Jacksonville, Florida, USA The theme and scope of the workshop Policy-based computing is one of many techniques used to implement autonomic computer systems. The business function is expressed in terms of workflow (logic + actions) or behavioural rules to be performed in response to certain situations, which is decoupled from the implementation mechanism. The mechanisms are fixed at design time, but the actual run-time behaviour is decided by the policy. This facilitates contextual awareness as the policy may take account of various environmental inputs from sensors and external software systems. Policy-based mechanisms are also very useful in specifying system behaviour – such as when specifying Service Level Agreements, and subsequently monitoring whether these agreements have been adhered to. Policy-based configuration is highly versatile and generally applicable across a very wide application space. When compared with other autonomics techniques, policies represent one of the lowest risk and lowest cost solutions; because there is relatively low complexity. The workshop intends to discuss all aspects of using policies in the context of autonomic computing. We invite papers reporting novel contributions to policy-based computing within an autonomics context. Submissions must describe original work that has not been published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Indicative keywords and themes Policy languages and tools Policy languages and semantics. Policy frameworks for autonomic computing. Platforms and tools to aid the development of policies and policy-based systems. Visualisation tools - for policy configuration and also for policy execution traces. Policy-autonomics concepts Multiple-policy systems. Combining policy-based computing with other autonomics techniques. Dynamic adaptation / evolution of policy configuration. Automated evaluation of policies. Models of policy negotiation and collaboration. Policy-based applications Development and verification of policy-based applications. Autonomic applications of policy-based computing. Feasibility and requirements for the deployment of policy-based solutions. Policy-based virtualisation tools. Context and environmental awareness in policy systems Context-aware privacy policies. Policies for dealing with trust and risk in autonomic systems. Policy conflict management. Please note that the keywords and themes are indicative and we welcome submissions in other relevant areas. However, it is intended that the workshop will have an empirical / experiential emphasis, and thus preference will be given to papers that are supported by an implementation, prototypes and/or simulations. Also of interest are theoretical approaches to the study of policy languages and semantics with a view towards exploitation in an autonomics context. Target audience Policy-based computing in autonomics is equally relevant and important to industry, research and academia. The workshop will be of great interest to a practitioner audience although no particular level of expertise is expected and we welcome multi-disciplinary contributions. We intend that the workshop will provide a forum for focussed discussion of policy-based computing as a technique for implementing autonomic systems, and hope that delegates will be able to exchange ideas concerning ways in which policies can be developed and deployed. The workshop is expected to have the effect of promoting the use of policies and encouraging further research in this area. Submissions Full papers of up to 10 pages should be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column conference proceedings format. Shorter work-in-progress papers (up to 4 pages) will also be considered based on individual merit. Actual submission will be via on-line upload to the website. Publication The workshop proceedings will be published in the Whitestein Series on Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing. In addition, authors of selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit expanded versions of their papers for inclusion in a forthcoming ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) special issue on Policy-based Autonomic Computing. Programme committee Richard Anthony, University of Greenwich, UK. Toshi Nakata, NEC Research, Japan. Duncan Johnston-Watt, Enigmatec Corporation, UK. Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK. Omer Rana, University of Cardiff, UK. Alex Heneveld, Enigmatec Corporation, UK. Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA. Richard Connor, Strathclyde University, UK. Torsten Eymann, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Alan Dearle, University of St Andrews, UK. Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK. John Strassner, Motorola, USA. Mohamed Ibrahim, University of Greenwich, UK. Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Noria Foukia, University of Otago, New Zealand. Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK. John Wilkes, HP, USA. Alun Butler, Morgan Stanley, UK. Monique Calisti, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland. Key dates The following timetable shall apply to the workshop submissions: Full paper submissions: March 31st, 2007 Author notification: April 15th, 2007 Final manuscripts due: April 31st, 2007 Review process Submitted papers will each be reviewed by three members of the program committee, and will be evaluated for originality, significance and technical merit. We shall ensure that the reviewing process is prompt and that detailed feedback is provided to all submissions whether accepted or not. Contact us We welcome any enquiries or comments, please address these to: Richard Anthony, R.J.Anthony(a)gre.ac.uk Duncan Johnston-Watt, duncan(a)enigmatec.net Omer Rana, o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: ICST - ROBOCOMM 2007 - First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - ROBOCOMM 2007 - First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination Datum: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:02:05 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icstconferences.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de **************************************************************** C A L L F O R P A P E R S ROBOCOMM 2007 First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination Athens, Greece http://www.robocomm.org *************************************************************** In-Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE Paper submission: April 13, 2007 Notification: June 22, 2007 Camera-ready copy: July 20, 2007 Conference: September 10-12, 2007 Description --- ROBOCOMM is the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination. As the name suggests, it aims at the convergence of two fields, acting as a common forum for the Robotics and Communications research communities. The expected outcome of the event is to promote cross-pollination of these two areas leading to growth in the capabilities of both. Robotics is an interdisciplinary field that includes the following key competencies: mechanics, control theory, electronics and communications. Initially the first three areas dominated in their roles. However, in the last two decades we have witnessed the unprecedented growth of wireless communication technologies, with increasing attention given to sensor networks and ad-hoc networks, enlarging the possible configurations of a network. Meanwhile, building more than just one or two robots at a time has become cheaper and more common, thus opening a whole new range of applications for multi-robot systems with networking capabilities. Network robotics offers a framework to study coordination mechanisms for complex systems through communication channels, thus providing the natural common ground for convergence of information processing, communication theory and control theory. Networked robotics poses significant challenges, requiring the integration of communication theory, software engineering, distributed sensing and control into a common framework. Furthermore, robots are unique in that their motion and tasking control systems are co-located with the communications mechanisms. This allows the co-exploitation of individual subsystems to provide completely new kinds of networked or distributed autonomy. Hence, ROBOCOMM will be a leading-edge conference where prominent researchers with different backgrounds will gather and merge different ideas into a common framework that will enable new applications based on large scale networks of mobile robots. A partial list of conference themes that will be part of the ROBOCOMM technical program is listed below. We encourage discussion of both wired and wireless networking aspects for robots. Although the intended focus is on networked robotics, papers on advanced communications for single robot systems (for tele-operation for instance) will also be welcome. - Robotic interactions with sensors - Communication protocols for tele-operated and tele-reflexive robots - Intra-sensor communications within individual robots - Communication protocols for flocks and swarms of networked robots - Biologically inspired or biomimetic robot communication - Exploiting the interactions between communications and autonomy - Localization and tracking using robotic communications - Distributed coordination of mobile robot teams - Industrial applications of networked robotics - Real-time software for mobile robots Submissions --- Authors are invited to submit their paper electronically in PDF format by April 13, 2007. The maximum number of pages is limited to 8 pages (10pt, double column, IEEE format). The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library. Organizing Committee --- General Co-Chairs: Alan Winfield (UWE, England) Jason Redi (BBN, USA) Vice Chairs: Luca Schenato (University of Padova, Italy) Francesco De Pellegrini (CREATE-NET, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois,USA) Magnus Egerstedt (GATECH, USA) Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece) Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) Technical Program Committee: Calin Belta (Boston University, USA) Jorge Cortes (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA) Emilio Frazzoli (MIT, USA) Vijay Gupta (Caltech, USA) Saikat Ray (Bridgeport University, USA) Christoforos Hadjicostis (UIUC, USA) Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech, USA) Chris Kitts (Santa Clara University, USA) Eric Klavins (University of Washington, USA) Naomi Leonard (Princeton, USA) Zhi-Hong Mao (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Sonia Martinez (University of California at San Diego, USA) Mehran Mesbahi (University of Washington, USA) Kristi Morgansen (University of Washington, USA) Abubakr Muhammad (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Todd Murphey (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Natasha Neogi (UIUC, USA) Reza Olfati-Saber (Dartmouth, USA) Bruno Sinopoli (University of California at Berkeley, USA) Panagiotis Tsiotras (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming Li (California State University, USA) Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH. Sweden) John Lygeros (ETH, Switzerland) Enrico Pagello (University of Padua, Italy) Dimitris Hristu-Varsakelis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Joao Tasso (Porto University, Portugal) Cyrill Stachniss (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany) Francesco Vasca (University of Sannio, Italy) Rolf Johansson (Lund University, Sweden) Benedetto Piccoli (Istituto "Mauro Picone", Italy) Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Greece) Anders Robertsson (Lund University, Sweden) Mounir Mokhtari (INT/GET, France) Nikos Vlassis (TUC, Greece) Pedro U. Lima (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal) Hajime Asama (University of Tokyo, Japan) Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) Nobuto Matsuhira (Coucils for Science and Technology Policy, Japan) Seiji Yamada (NII, Japan) Kohtaro Ohba (AIST, Japan) Kazuhiro Kosuge (Tohoku University, Japan) Hiroshi G Okuno (Kyoyo University, Japan) Tomomasa Sato (University of Tokyo, Japan) Kazuhiro Nakadai (Honda RI, Japan) Takayuki Kanda (ATR, Japan) Kazuya Yoshida (Tohoku University, Japan) Hideki Hashimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan) Hide Tokuda (Keio University, Japan) Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Yuichiro Yoshikawa (JST ERATO Asada Project, Japan) Masahiro Fujita (Sony, Japan) Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan) Makoto Kaneko (Osaka Univesity, Japan) Hiroshi Takemura (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Yunhui Liu (Chinese University of HongKong, China) Zhou Changjiu (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy), Alcherio Martinoli (EPFL, Switzerland) Colette Maloney (European Commission: Cognitive Systems and Robotics) Local Arrangements Chair: Evangelos Papadopoulos (NTU Athens, Greece) Publicity Co-Chairs: Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University, USA) H. Jin Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) Francesco Mondada (EPFL, Switzerland) Publication Chair: Klaus Schilling (University of Wurzburg, Germany) Industrial Sponsorship Chair: Roberto Sannino (ST Microelectronics) Panels Chair: Vijay Kumar (UPenn, USA) Financial Chair: Karen Decker (ICST, USA) Conference Coordinator: Zsuzsa Lanyi-Kaszab (ICST, Europe) -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Cost290] [IEEE AOC 2007] - Extended deadline (11 February)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] [IEEE AOC 2007] - Extended deadline (11 February) Datum: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:33:19 +0100 Von: Andrea Passarella <a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> An: cost 290 <Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> fyi We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ******************************************************************** *CALL FOR PAPERS* First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on *** AUTONOMIC and OPPORTUNISTIC COMMUNICATIONS - AOC 2007 *** June 18, 2007 - Helsinki, Finland http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2007/ organized by *ANA and HAGGLE projects* funded by the FET-IST Programme in the area Situated and Autonomic Communications (SAC) **** *EXTENDED Deadline --- February 11, 2007* **** Fast Track on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pmc ******************************************************************** We are faced with an era where the widespread use of small portable wireless devices and wireless technologies are building the pervasive vision. This pervaded world has generated new communication paradigms: autonomic and opportunistic communications. Communication among devices in a pervasive environment can happen if the devices can communicate autonomously, and manage their own evolution and configuration changes in the network, without explicit user or administrator action. In a pervasive world, even in the absence of any connectivity infrastructure mobile devices can communicate using the connection "opportunities" that arise due to mobility. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum between the autonomic and opportunistic communication communities to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from industry and academia. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic communications and computing are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment are particularly welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architecture and models for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic and opportunistic networks * Adaptive security for self protection of networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Mobility models for opportunistic networking * Novel management techniques for autonomic and opportunistic communications * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing networks * Advanced technologies for enabling autonomic and opportunistic communications * Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and measurements PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/ aoc2007/. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Full papers due: *February 11, 2007 (Extended)* Notification: March 15, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== WORKSHOP Chairs: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece PUBLICITY Chair: Luciana Pelusi, IIT-CNR, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Spyros Denazis, Hitachi Europe, France & University of Patras, Greece Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech., USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Vincent Lenders, ETH, Switzerland Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, UK Martin May, ETH, Switzerland Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy Refik Molva, Eurécom, France Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece Joerg Ott, HUT, Finland Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaustubh Phanse, Uppsala University, Sweden George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA Kave Salamatian, EPFL, Switzerland Fabrizio Sestini, FET, European Commission Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA John Vicente, Intel, USA Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena-Reggio, Italy Ellen W. Zegura, Georgia Tech, USA -- Andrea Passarella ========================================================= Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 || voice: +39 050 315 3269 56124 Pisa, Italy || fax: +39 050 315 2113 a.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it || mobile: +39 346 0082 540 web: bruno1.iit.cnr.it/~andrea ========================================================= _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007) Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:13:00 -0800 (PST) Von: Jun Li <lijun(a)cs.uoregon.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (in conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2007 <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2007>) Anchorage, AK, May 11-12, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 *** with a new open review process *** Call for Papers The 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium will be held simultaneously and co-located with IEEE Infocom 2007. All relevant dates, location, and travel information are available from the IEEE Infocom 2007 conference site: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2007. Paper submission guidelines can be found at http://netsec.cs.uoregon.edu/gi2007. Symposium Topics IEEE Global Internet 2007 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss advances in Internet-related technologies. The focus of the symposium is on experimental systems and on emerging Internet technologies. The Program Committee encourages original submissions describing promising work in progress, speculations about the future of the Internet, and progressive position papers. Authors are invited to submit papers on any issue related to Internet technology, including but not limited to the following topics: * P2P networking and overlay networks * Privacy and/or security issues in the Internet * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services (VPNs, traffic engineering, mobility support, etc.) * Content networking (caching, content distribution, content routing, content services, load balancing, etc.) * Distributed Internet applications including games, VoIP, and video conferencing * Novel applications and new paradigms (telephony, streaming media, etc.) * Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity (by applications and/or the network) * Routing (unicast, multicast, anycast, etc.) * Flow management (fairness/sharing, congestion control, differentiated services, etc.) * The Internet and mobility/mobile devices * Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling, and visualization * Anomaly, intrusion and attack detection Important Dates Paper Registration Due: January 29, 2007 Paper Submissions Due: February 5, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: April 9, 2007 Symposium: May 11-12, 2007 Open Review Process The review process will follow a radically different format: the reviewers' names will be made known to the authors. In addition, if the authors of the paper consent, the reviews and the names of the reviewers will be posted on our website. The goal is to put more stress on the reviewers to be gentle and thorough in their reviews. Note that GI 2007 is arguably the first forum to implement this approach in the recent past. Executive Committee - TPC Co-Chairs: Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon - Web Chair: Jun Li, University of Oregon - Publication Chair: Jakob Eriksson, MIT - Local Arrangement: Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, Storrs Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs Anup Basu, University of Alberta Azer Bestavros, Boston University Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University Paul Francis, Cornell University Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Tim Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida Kevin Jeffay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Anestis Karasaridis, AT&T Labs Jorg Liebeherr, University of Toronto Bin Liu, Tsinghua University John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong Christos Papadopoulos, Colorado State University Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies George C. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Peter Reiher, University of California, Los Angeles Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University Samar Singh, La Trobe University, Australia George Stamoulis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece James Sterbenz, The University of Kansas Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: MobiEval -- System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms -- Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MobiEval -- System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms -- Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:23:07 -0800 Von: Pering, Trevor <trevor.pering(a)INTEL.COM> Antwort an: Pering, Trevor <trevor.pering(a)INTEL.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Please forward as appropriate; our apologies if you receive multiple copies. ************************************************************************ *** CALL-FOR-PAPERS MobiEval: System Evaluation for Mobile Platforms Metrics, Methods, Tools and Platforms Workshop associated with Mobisys 2007 June 11th, 2007, Puerto Rico, USA Website: http://mesl.ucsd.edu/MobiEval e-mail : mobieval(a)cs.ucsd.edu Paper submission deadline : March 15, 2007 (23:59 EST) Paper acceptance notification : April 20, 2007 Final camera ready version due: May 15, 2007 Organizers: Trevor Pering, Intel Research, USA Yuvraj Agarwal, University of California, San Diego, USA Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Program committee TBA ************************************************************************ *** Workshop Overview: A core aspect of any engineering systems research is evaluation: What are the metrics and methods to determine if the system is behaving as expected. In mobile systems, this task becomes more challenging due to considerations imposed by the mobile aspect of the system. This workshop aims to bring together systems researchers to explore the basic question of evaluating mobile systems. Specifically we will examine challenges and advances made in the metrics, tools, methods, and the platforms used to evaluate mobile systems effectively. Submissions are encouraged to highlight the specific areas relating to mobile systems that make proper evaluation difficult - and include discussions how novel techniques can be used to address the various issues that arise. The focus of the workshop is not necessarily the underlying research for mobile systems, but rather the techniques and considerations necessary for evaluating and quantifying the gains of the basic research itself. Some example areas where mobile platforms and systems evaluation issues intersect include: * Reproducibility and Consistency * Experimental Design * Power Considerations * Metrics * Applications * Dynamic environments * Form factor * Platforms/Test-beds * Simulation Paper Submission: Submissions should be full papers, up to 6 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading with reasonable margins. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous and reviewing is single-blind. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Full Papers are due Thursday, March 15th, 2007, 23:59 EST. Manuscripts must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified above. It will be possible to send a revised version of the manuscript until the deadline (Thursday, March 15th,2007, 23:59 EST). Please email a PDF copy of your manuscript to mobieval(a)cs.ucsd.edu.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:11:54 -0500 (EST) Von: Dongyan Xu <dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <034101c565ab$c8c6ec60$710ba8c0@VAIOPC> CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2007) Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA June 4-5, 2007 Sponsored by ACM SIGMM http://www.nossdav.org/2007 Paper Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 For seventeen years, NOSSDAV has fostered cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas such as networked games and peer-to-peer streaming. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. In 2007, NOSSDAV will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. Papers grounded in high quality experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. NOSSDAV will give extra consideration to papers that aim to comprehensively validate previous work in some topic within multimedia, propose new directions for research or call into question existing conventional wisdom. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Peer-to-peer streaming - Networked games - Sensor networks and architectures - In-network stream processing - Wireless and mobile multimedia systems - 3D multimedia and tele-immersion - Streaming 3D graphics and virtual worlds - Application-level multicast - Multimedia security - Digital rights management - Real-time operating system support for multimedia - Multimedia middleware and frameworks - Multimedia grids - Programmable and GPU/SPU-enabled multimedia A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular paper or topic is within the workshop scope. As always, student participation is strongly encouraged. To encourage a good mix of seasoned researchers as well as students, we will be offering discounted registration for non-student co-authors of a paper or other non-student participants associated with the author of a paper (participants from the same institution). Submissions (as well as the camera ready final versions of accepted papers) should be no longer than 6 pages. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. This year, a few of accepted NOSSDAV papers with highest quality are selected and their authors are invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). MMSJ is a well-known International journal, published by the Springer Verlag, and sponsored by the ACM SIGMM organization. This journal publishes new research results in the areas of multimedia systems, multimedia networking, multimedia applications, multimedia security, multimedia education, multimedia coding, and multimedia retrieval systems. Program Co-chairs: Reza Rejaie (University of Oregon) Klara Nahrstedt (UIUC) Important Dates: Paper registration: February 5, 2007 Paper submission: February 12, 2007 Notification: March 31, 2007 Camera ready: April 19, 2007 Workshop: June 4-5, 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada]
by Lars Wolf 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada Datum: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:49:16 +0100 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2007 The Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 9-14, 2007 Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. New this year, Mobicom will be jointly held with ACM Mobihoc. The two conferences will run in parallel, and will have many joint plenary sessions (such as the keynote, panels, and welcoming reception). Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Applications and services for mobile users * Cyber-physical computing and networking * Delay/disruption tolerant networks * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Implementations and experimental testbeds for mobile/wireless networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Protocols exploiting dynamic spectrum, UWB, MIMO, directional antennas * Resource management and quality-of-service for real-time traffic support * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g., mesh networks, personal area networks) Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/cfp.html Panel proposals must be submitted by February 23 to either of the panel co-chairs: Martha Steenstrup (steenie(a)rcn.com) Ioanis Nikolaidis (yannis(a)cs.ualberta.ca) Important Dates Abstracts submission due: February 23, 2007 Panel proposals submission due: February 23, 2007 Paper submissions due: March 2, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 29, 2007 General Chair: Evangelos Kranakis, kranakis(a)scs.carleton.ca Technical Co-Chairs: Jennifer C. Hou, jhou(a)cs.uiuc.edu Ram Ramanathan, ramanath(a)bbn.com FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, Ph.D. E-mail: pedrom(a)dif.um.es Fac. Informatica, Univ. of Murcia Phone: +34968364335 Campus de Espinardo s/n Fax: +34968364151 E-30100, Espinardo, Murcia www: ants.dif.um.es/~pedrom/ SPAIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks]
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks Datum: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:13:56 -0800 (PST) Von: Lin Cai <cai(a)ECE.UVic.CA> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [ Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For papers IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Section on Vehicular Communications Networks ****** Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 ****** Traffic congestion, delays, and accidents in the transportation systems have caused significant loss of lives, waste of energy, and loss in productivity. To improve the safety, security and efficiency of the transportation systems and enable new mobile services and applications for the traveling public, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been developed, which apply rapidly emerging information technologies in vehicles and transportation infrastructures. The development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks is one of the most challenging and critical issues for the ITS industry, which also sparks numerous interests in the communications and networking research community. The objective of this special section is to disseminate the state-of-the-art R&D results in this fast-moving research area, to facilitate the deployment of vehicular communications networks, and to bring together people from both academia and industry, with the goal of fostering interaction among them to promote further research interests and activities to enable new transportation products and services, e.g., advanced traffic management, vehicle control, safety control, and networking and information services for users on the road. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless communication technologies - Vehicular network architecture and protocol - Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis - Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols - Vehicular network flow and congestion control - Quality of Services (QoS) provisioning in wireless-enabled ITS systems - Traffic management, vehicle control, and safety related applications for ITS systems - Networking and information services for users on the roads (by automobiles, trains, planes, or ships) - Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks - Mobility management and intersystem handovers - Simulations models and testbeds for ITS - Implementation and field tests of ITS systems - Network self-organization and self-configuration - Network security and trustworthy networks - Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Submission: We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All papers for this section must be submitted in PDF format through IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Manuscript Central (http://tvt-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). When submitting the paper, select the category "Special Issue Paper". Guest Editors: Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Prof. Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia University, USA nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Prof. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada cai(a)ece.uvic.ca Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2007 First Reviews: April 15, 2007 Revised Paper Deadline: May 15, 2007 Final Reviews: July 1, 2007 Final Manuscripts: August 1, 2007 Publication: November 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ICST - BodyNets 2007 - Submission Deadline Extended: February 5, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - BodyNets 2007 - Submission Deadline Extended: February 5, 2007 Datum: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:32:04 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icstconferences.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Due to numerous requests, we have extended the submission deadline to February 5, Monday 2007 at 24:00 GMT. CALL FOR PAPERS *************** B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7 **************** 2nd International Conference on Body Area Networks 11-13 June, 2007, Florence (Italy) http://www.bodynets.org Jointly sponsored by: - Create-Net - ICST - AICT "Networks and Telecommunication systems" Group In-technical cooperation with: - ACM SIGCHI - The European Association for Signal and Image Processing (EURASIP) ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): February 5, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 11, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------- With recent advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), their practical applications in general sensing and monitoring are rapidly broadening. Although originally conceived for wide area environment or process monitoring, WSNs are increasingly being used in human computer interaction, brain computer interaction, gaming, and interactive digital arts, as well as in healthcare and patient monitoring. Despite the recent technological developments in sensing, embedded electronics, and sensor networking, several challenging issues need to be addressed. In particular, technological scaling, wireless communication and networking, sensor data processing and presentation are key aspects that need to be investigated in an integrated fashion for enabling visionary applications in the above areas of WSN. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of this conference is to bring researchers in WSN to address the following technical and application issues: * Body Area Networks and Human Computer Interaction · Interactive Virtual Reality and Gaming · Entertainment * Body Area Networks and Brain Computer Interaction · Invasive BCI · Non-invasive BCI * Wireless Communication and Networking Protocols: · �In-body� networks · �Near-body� networks * Applications · WSN based Interactive Digital Art · Ambient intelligence · Smart Spaces, Personalization · Healthcare and patient monitoring * Server side information processing: · Data querying · Event detection, classification,tracking * Middleware * Quality of service, security and fault tolerance issues * Enabling technologies: · Novel sensors and materials · Transceivers · Microcontrollers · Hardware platform * In Network information processing: · Data aggregation and fusion algorithms * Tools and test beds * Performance evaluation * Internetworking with heterogeneous networks Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers of up to 2 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it). The proceedings will be an ACM Publication and the papers will be listed on the ACM digital library. Please refer to the website for more detailed information. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------ Romano Fantacci (General Chair), University of Florence , Italy David Tacconi (Vice-Chair), Create-Net, Italy Guang-Zhong Yang (TPC chair), Imperial College of London, UK Hsiao-Hwa Chen (TPC chair), NSYSU, Taiwan Prithwish Basu (TPC chair), BBN Technologies, USA Francesco Chiti (Local Arrangement Chair), University of Florence , Italy Jie Li (Publicity Chair), University of Tsukuba, Japan Yang Yang (Publicity Chair), University College of London, UK Sinem Coleri Ergen (Publicity Chair), Pirelli/Telecom Italia WSN Lab,Berkeley, US Giada Mennuti (Sponsorships Chair), University of Florence , Italy Thomas Watteyne (Web Chair), INRIA / France Telecom, France Karen Decker (Financial Chair), ICST, US Zita Rozsa (Conference Coordinator), ICST, Europe STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy -------------------------------------------------- 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/cmc/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACE 2007 - Call for Short Papers, etc]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACE 2007 - Call for Short Papers, etc Datum: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:39:23 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> Referenzen: <4D26CD7F4BA16F4095C154349E5BB3ED1B7C62(a)idexchange.campus.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** ACE 2007 - Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology invites you to submit short papers, demos, posters, panels or show cases. Deadline for short papers, posters, demos, panels and interactive user experience show cases: February 9th, 2007 Deadline for industrial case studies: May 4th, 2007 For submissions of papers use our online submission tool http://www.ace2007.org/submissions.html Please follow the ACM SIG Submission Format. All accepted papers are published in the conference proceedings (ACM Press) and on DVD, and are made available in ACMs digital library! The conference will take place June 13th - 15th, 2007 in Salzburg, Austria. Recently, the field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized to show high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed to deserve both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing, and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers, and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. The conference covers analysis, design, evaluation and application of new concepts, prototypes and products in the area of computer entertainment. For further information please visit: www.ace2007.org Regina Bernhaupt and Stephane Natkin (Program Chairs ACE 2007) If you need further information don't hesitate to contact ace2007(a)icts.sbg.ac.at **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Preliminary CfP: IEEE Wireless Comm. Mag. Special issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in All-IP Mobile Networks"]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Preliminary CfP: IEEE Wireless Comm. Mag. Special issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in All-IP Mobile Networks" Datum: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:54:55 +0200 Von: Nikos Passas <passas(a)di.uoa.gr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in All-IP Mobile Networks" The success of next generation mobile networks will rely much on the degree of seamless mobility support among heterogeneous technologies. Seamless mobility is a many-faceted challenge that needs to be addressed to alleviate or eliminate today's restrictions on supported media, access technologies, devices or vendors. As we move in this direction, maintaining reliability, availability, quality of service and security at optimal levels across different systems is extremely important. Most modern mobile access technologies include advanced mechanisms for the support of intra-system handover and mobility to ensure seamless service provision. These mechanisms require proper parameterization and real-time adjustment according to a large range of traffic, QoS and channel conditions. On the other hand, inter-system handover and mobility management across heterogeneous networks are challenging problems that require efficient and reliable interoperation of the various schemes deployed in the different systems. Furthermore, simultaneous mobility must be supported, i.e., when both end hosts are mobile and they move at the same time, the session should not be dropped (as may happen with Mobile IPv6). Recent efforts are focusing on providing seamless handover and service continuity among access systems through close coordination with the QoS support and resource management mechanisms. Effort is placed into architectures that integrate different access technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless mobility support will exploit the benefits of each technology. Several standardization activities are currently underway by different bodies. 802.21 is an IEEE emerging standard that aims at enabling seamless handover between networks of the same type as well as handover between different network types, also called Media Independent Handover (MIH). The standard provides information to allow handing over to and from several popular networks through different handover mechanisms. 3GPP is defining mobility from circuit-switched to IMS domain in the form of voice call continuity (VCC) and seamless mobility between different packet-switched domains belonging to existing and evolving 3GPP access networks and non-3GPP access networks as a part of System Architecture Evolution effort. This special issue will be devoted to the architectures, protocols, and mechanisms for mobility management and seamless handover support in next generation mobile networks. We seek original, high-quality and previously unpublished contributions, not currently under review by another magazine or journal. Contributions emphasizing recent advances and new research directions are strongly encouraged. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Handovers in IEEE 802.16e - Handovers in Evolved UMTS - Comparison between 3GPP and IETF MM protocols - Mobility between 3GPP and non-3GPP radio access networks - Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6) - Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6) - Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G, WMANs and WLANs - Mobility Management using Proxy Mobile IPv4/v6 - Localized Mobility Management - Simultaneous mobility support (when both end hosts are mobile) - Architectures and protocols for mobility management in heterogeneous environments - Seamless intra- and inter-system handover - Media Independent Handovers (IEEE 802.21) - Security issues / solution in mobility management - Inter-domain mobility: AAA and other architectures and protocols All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly encouraged and should be sent to one of the Guest Editors at the addresses indicated below. If electronic submission is not possible, please contact the guest editors. Time Schedule ---------------- Manuscript Due: July 2, 2007 Acceptance Notification: Oct. 15, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 17, 2007 Planned Publication Date: April 2008 Guest Editors: ---------------- Nikos Passas Department of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens GR-15784 Athens, Greece Tel: +30-210-7275651 E-mail: passas(a)di.uoa.gr Apostolis K. Salkintzis Motorola 32 Kifissias Ave. GR-15125 Athens, Greece Tel: +30-210-8172335 E-mail: salki(a)motorola.com Daniel Wong Assistant Professor Malaysia University of Science and Technology GL33, Block C, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26 47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: +603 7880 1777x282 Email: daniel_wong(a)ieee.org Vijay Varma Telcordia Technologies 331 Newman Springs Road Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA Tel: +1 732-758-2811 Email: vvarma(a)telcordia.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Friendly Reminder - SPECTS07 Calling You]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Friendly Reminder - SPECTS07 Calling You Datum: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:39:41 -0800 (PST) Von: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, tcgn(a)comsoc.org CC: zhuhua(a)hotmail.com', wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu, khelil(a)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de 2007 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2007 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS http://eia.udg.es/SPECTS2007/ July 16-18, 2007 San Diego, California, USA Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 7, 2007 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 25, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: April 22, 2007 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 20, 2007 ******************************************************************************************************** This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Helena Szczerbicka University of Hannover, Germany E-mail: hsz(a)sim.uni-hannover.de Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India dharmar(a)maths.iitd.ernet.in Awards Chair Franco Davoli University of Genoa, Italy E-mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Publication Chair Pawel Gburzynski University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: pawel(a)cs.ualberta.ca Guoping Zeng (Chair), Nortel Networks, USA E-mail: zenggu(a)nortel.com Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Hua Zhu, San Diego Research Center, CA, USA E-mail: hua.zhu(a)sdrcinc.net Essia H. Elhafsi, University of California-Riverside, USA E-mail: essia(a)cs.ucr.edu Abdelmajid Khelil, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany E-mail: khelil(a)informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Antonio Pescapè, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy E-mail: pescape(a)unina.it Local Arrangement Chair Richard McDonald RMC, USA rmacd(a)ramlabs.com Web Masters Antonio Bueno University of Girona, Spain E-mail: jbueno(a)silver.udg.es Michel J. Chinni U. S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Carlos Belo, Instituto de Telecomunicações-IST, Portugal Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Fernando Cerdan, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Tomaso de Cola, University of Genoa, Italy S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Daniel Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta, Canada Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Xiaoyan Hong, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Petteri Mannersalo, University of Vaasa, Finland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA Michele Zorzi, Universit? di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 8-10 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2007 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference. Proposals for special sessions should also be submitted to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! 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[Fwd: CFP: MobiArch'07 at SIGCOMM 2007]
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: MobiArch'07 at SIGCOMM 2007 Datum: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:41:07 +0100 Von: Xiaoming Fu <fu(a)CS.UNI-GOETTINGEN.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Goettingen, Germany An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch 2007) Kyoto, Japan, August 27, 2007 (to be held with ACM SIGCOMM 2007, August 27-31, 2007) http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------- With the recent development of technologies in wireless access and mobile devices, user, terminal, and network mobility has become an indispensable component of today's Internet vision, and it is likely to continue in the near future, while affecting the whole architectural design of the future Internet. Yet, issues like efficient mobility management and optimization, locator-identifier split, multihoming, security, and related operational/deployment concerns are still in their early stages of development. Moreover, the Internet architecture, its end-to-end principles, and business models will require rethinking due to the massive penetration of mobility into the Internet. MobiArch'07 welcomes submissions, from both researchers and practitioners, in exploration of recent advances in architectures, protocols, and experiences with emerging technologies on wireless and mobility over the Internet, with an emphasis on wireless infrastructures and mobility patterns for mobility support, new mobility protocols, service discovery, routing and location management, mobile network performance evaluation and modeling, multi-homing, security, architectural impacts and deployment considerations. Topics of Interest: ================== Topics of MobiArch’07 cover all aspects of architectural issues and system support for wireless and mobility in the Internet, including but not limited to: - Impacts of new wireless technologies/services and mobility patterns on the Internet architecture - Architectures and protocols for mobility support in the Internet, ranging from approaches in link, network, transport to session/application layers and cross-layer design - Location management, positioning and data management systems for wireless and mobility - Routing and addressing, including locator/identifier split issues and their impacts to the Internet architecture - IP multihoming including flow distribution and load sharing for wireless and mobility - Performance evaluation, experimentation and modeling of mobility in the Internet - Accounting, access control, security and privacy issues and impacts to Internet architecture - Economic, scalability and deployment issues of mobility infrastructure design - Mechanisms and issues with connecting developing regions into the Internet Following the success of MobiArch'06, the MobiArch'07 workshop will be a single-track one-day workshop. Early stages, position papers, systems and measurement papers will be particularly welcome. The proceedings will be published by the ACM and ACM digital library. Submissions: =========== Submissions must be made to MobiArch'07 EDAS entry: http://edas.info/5238, following the guidelines in MobiArch'07 webpage: http://user.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/~mobiarch/2007 Important Dates: =============== Abstract registration: March 20, 2007 Submission Deadline: March 27, 2007 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 12, 2007 MobiArch'07 Workshop: August 27, 2007 SIGCOMM'07: August 27-31, 2007 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================= Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen (Germany) Katherine Guo, Bell Labs (USA) Sue Moon, KAIST (Korea) Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University (Japan) PUBLICITY CHAIR =============== Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge (UK) QUESTIONS ========= Please consult the Program Co-Chairs (mobiarch(a)informatik.uni-goettingen.de) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks " Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal]
by Lars Wolf 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks " Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal Datum: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:13:55 +0200 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers COMPUTER NETWORKS JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS Submission deadline: April 30, 2007 _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have recently been the focus of a significant amount of attention and effort of the research community. The main motivation has been to address the challenges posed by the WSN paradigm, i.e., limited node power, processing, and communication capabilities, dense network deployment, multi-hop communications, and heterogeneous application-specific requirements. The vast majority of these studies applies to conventional WSN applications which need reliable and efficient communication of scalar event features and sensor data such as temperature, pressure, humidity. With the availability of low-cost small-scale imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, microphones, which may ubiquitously capture multimedia content from the field, Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) have been proposed and drawn the immediate attention of the research community. WMSN applications, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems, require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. To this end, additional challenges for energy-efficient multimedia processing and communication in WMSN, i.e., heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands, must be addressed as well. This special issue solicits papers describing the state-of-the-art, reliable and efficient multimedia processing and delivery solutions imperative for the realization of WMSN. Original contributions (previously unpublished and not currently under review) are solicited in areas including (but not limited to) the following: * Novel WMSN architectures and applications * Protocols for real-time, reliable multimedia streaming in WMSN * Energy-efficient MAC, routing, and traffic management for WMSN * Cross-layer design for effective communications in WMSN * Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN * Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for WMSN * Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in WMSN * Information fusion and multimedia aggregation in WMSN * Group and cooperative communications for multimedia delivery in sensor/actor networks * WMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis * Delay-tolerant networking for WMSN * Topology control, localization, synchronization, and mobility * Physical layer technologies for efficient WMSN * Secure multimedia communications in WMSN * Experimental and testbed studies of WMSN Submission Instructions and Important Dates: ____________________________________________ Prospective Authors: Please follow Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal format described at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comnet, and submit your papers to the online submission and reviewing system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/comnet. Please select Article Type: Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Papers must be in single- column format, double-spaced,and use at least 11pt fonts, and should not exceed 25 pages including references. Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2007 Camera-Ready Papers Due: November 30, 2007 Online Publication Date: April 2008 Journal Publication Date: August 2008 Guest Editors: ____________________________________________ Ozgur B. Akan ( akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr ) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Nikil Jayant ( jayant(a)ece.gatech.edu ) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Pascal Frossard ( pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch ) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Qian Zhang ( qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk ) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 2304 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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