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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (HotOS XI Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CfP: 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:25:04 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.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 **************************************************** 5th European Interactive TV Conference - EuroITV 2007 Interactive TV: a Shared Experience http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24-25, 2007 Sponsored by CWI In-Cooperation with ACM (SIGMM, SIGCHI, and SIGWEB) Co-organized by IFIP TC14 Paper submission will be peer-reviewed. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue in a journal. A selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Computers in Entertainment (http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/). Final Call for Papers Following on from previous conferences, the steering committee of EuroITV has decided to hold the 5th European Interactive TV conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. EuroITV brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that include human-computer interaction, media studies, computer science, telecommunications, audiovisual design and management. The organizing committee invites you to submit original high quality papers addressing the special theme and the topics, for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Special Theme The special theme for the EuroITV 2007 conference is: "Interactive TV: a shared experience" We welcome submissions that address interactive TV with a focus on the following emerging research and practice issues: - Shared TV: sociability, playability, emotional design - Shared Home: cross-media, home media station, smart home - Shared Distribution: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, mobile TV - Shared Content: recommendations, end-user annotations - Shared Communications: instant messaging, video conferencing Important Dates Full and short papers Submissions December 15, 2006 Courses and workshops Proposals November 1, 2006 Doctoral consortium, Videos, demos, panels January 26, 2007 Research in progress February 17, 2007 Keynote speakers: "Interactive Media: Shared Experiences in the Extended Home Environment" Maddy Janse; Philips Research, The Netherlands "Interactive Television in Brazil: System Software and the Digital Divide" Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares; PUC-RIO, Brazil "The Future of Entertainment Computing" Matthias Rauterberg; Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands Workshops: "Social Interactive Television" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: David Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gunnar Harboe, Motorola Labs, US Noel Massey, Motorola Labs, US "Personalization in iTV" Duration: Half day (5 hours) Organizers: Lora Aroyo, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Pieter Bellekens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Zeljko Obrenovic, CWI, The Netherlands "The Future of Television: Ambient Entertainment and Interactive TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany "Interactive Applications for Mobile TV" Duration: Session (3 hours) Organizers: Johan Lilius, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Petri Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Tutorials: "Shape shifted TV: Authoring and delivering new forms of interactive TV" Duration: Full day (6 hours) Organizers: Marian F. Ursu, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, UK Ian Kegel, BT, UK Doug Williams, BT, UK "User-generated Content - a Mega-trend in the New Media Landscape" Duration: Half day (3 hours) Organizer: Jens F. Jensen, Aalborg Univesity, Denmark "Modern Techniques in Professional Film & TV Productions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizer: Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland "Introduction to iTV: State of the Art and Future Directions" Duration: Session (2 hours) Organizers: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands Final Call for Papers, we invite - Full and short papers - Demos, videos - Proposals for doctoral consortium Submissions guidelines are available in the webpage of the conference (http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007). Topics Your contributions on any aspect of interactive TV are invited. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - Authoring, production, content enrichment, and annotations - Business models, media management, media economics - Communication services, video conferencing, messaging - Content management, digital rights management - Interactive storytelling, Interactive advertising - Electronic program guide, video search, video navigation - Enhanced TV (news, weather, sports) - Standards (TV-Anytime, MPEG-4, MPEG-7, SMIL) - Multimedia, graphics, broadcast and video technology - Personalization, user modelling, intelligent user interfaces - Usability, accessibility, universal access, multimodal interaction - Ethical, regulatory and policy issues - Ambient intelligence - Audience research - P2P broadcast - Mobile TV - VR systems, 3DTV - t-commerce, t-learning - Entertainment computing - Meta-data - Television content modelling - Games, betting, play-along game shows Organizing Committee General Chair: P. Cesar, CWI Conference co-chairs: K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar J. Jensen, Aalborg University Doctoral colloquium chair: J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen Work in progress chair: L. Pemberton, Brighton University Demonstration chairs: B. Gammon, BBC New Media M. Howell, BBC New Media Workshops chairs: L. Ardissono, University of Torino A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology Tutorials chairs: B. Bushoff, Sagasnet C. Peng, VTT Treasurer D.G.C. Broekhuis, CWI Program Committee S. Agamanolis, Independent Scholar, USA L. Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy L. Aroyo, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands L. Barkhuus, University of Glasgow, UK A. Berglund, Linkoping University, Sweden M. Bove, MIT Media Lab, USA B. Bushoff, Sagasnet, Germany P. Cesar, CWI, the Netherlands K. Chorianopoulos, Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany O. Daly-Jones, Serco Usability Services, UK N. Ducheneaut, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), USA L. Eronen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland B. Gammon, BBC New Media, UK D. Geerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium D. Goren-Bar, Haifa University, Israel T. Hujanen, University of Tampere, Finland J. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark J. Henriksson, Nokia, Finland C. Klimmt, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany H. Knoche, UCL, UK M. Howell, BBC New Media, BBC, UK N. Lee, ACM Computers in Entertainment, USA G. Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece J. Lilius, Abo Akademi University, Finland P. Looms, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark R. Luckin, University of Sussex, UK A. Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology, Finland J. Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland M. Pagani, Bocconi University, Italy J. Pazos, University of Vigo, Spain L. Pemberton, Brighton University, UK C. Peng, VTT, Finland J.A. Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands R.P. Picard, Jönköping International Business School, Sweden R. Puijk, Lillehammer University College, Norway C. Quico, TV Cabo, Portugal B. Rao, Polytechnic University, USA T. Rasmussen, Aalborg University, Denmark M. Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, the Netherlands B. Shen, HP Labs, USA L.F.G. Soares, PUC-RIO, Brazil J. Stewart, University of Edinburgh, UK G. Uchyigit, Imperial College London, UK P. Vuorimaa, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland J. Yagnik, Google Research, USA Z. Yu, Nagoya University, Japan Social Events and Excursions Social events will be arranged during the conference. Contact For up to date information and further details please visit: http://www.cwi.nl/events/2007/euroitv2007 Send your contributions and any inquiry about the conference to: euroitvinfo(at)cwi.nl Host CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science (http://www.cwi.nl) **************************************************** ** 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] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '06

28 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Autonomics'07 in Rome - first cfp Datum: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:58:17 +0100 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers ***** AUTONOMICS ***** First International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communication Systems http://www.autonomics-conference.eu/ 28-30 October 2007, Rome (Italy) In recent years, a plethora of electronic devices embedded into everyday objects and able to interface with the surrounding environment have emerged, foreshadowing the deployment of pervasive context-aware services. Similar to the Internet, these trends will revolutionize existing paradigms of communication, networking, and computing. In particular, the complexity hidden in such dynamic large-scale networks and services calls for self-management and autonomicity as a necessary condition for obtaining purposeful systems. The challenges posed by such a vision cover a wide range of disciplines and sciences, including computing, communication, distributed systems, and control systems. Further, these challenges call for a new, integrated and multidisciplinary approach to pervasive computing and communication environments, giving rise to a new converged science, able to work at the junction of systems, computing and communication sciences. The AUTONOMICS conference provides an international forum driving the emergent science of autonomic systems, bringing together research communities in communication and computing, promoting cross-fertilization among the different disciplines involved. Scope: The primary research challenges faced are the communication, design, programming, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of autonomic, pervasive, context-aware systems running on top of dynamic, possibly large-scale, distributed systems. Authors are invited to submit papers to Autonomics07 reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of autonomic systems. The conference intends to attract attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in autonomic, pervasive, and context-aware systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations of autonomic systems - Models and metrics - Energy-efficient algorithms - Programming paradigms - Middleware for pervasive systems - Software architectures and toolkits - Positioning and tracking technologies - Architectures & algorithms for self-* systems - Privacy, security, dynamic trust and social issues - Location- and context-awareness - Tools, languages and platforms - Applications and systems - Resource, network and service (self) management - Enabling technologies for pervasive environments Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full paper due: April 18, 2007 Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2007 Final version due: September 5, 2007 Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through COCUS (http://cocus.create-net.it) _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: F. Davide (Telecom Italia, Italy) Vice Chair: D. Miorandi (CREATE-NET, Italy) TechnicalProgram Co-Chairs: R. Baldoni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) V. R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, US) Steering Committee Chair: I. Chlamtac (CREATE-NET, Italy) Workshop Chair: A. Manzalini (Telecom Italia, Italy.) Publicity Co-Chairs: J. Tang (Montana State Univ., US) P. Bellavista (Univ. of Bologna, Italy) M. Takizawa (Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan) Industry Chair F. Morabito (Telecom Italia, IT) Finance Chair: K. Decker (ICST, US) Conference Coordinator: Zs. Kaszab (ICST, US) Webmaster: S. Scipioni (Univ. of Rome La Sapienza, Italy) Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline!]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] SECON 2007: 3 days to paper registration deadline! Datum: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:29 -0500 (EST) Von: Vijay Raghunathan <vr(a)ecn.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu **************** 3 DAYS TO PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE!! *************** ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE SECON 2007 The Fourth IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/ Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc & Sensor Networks (IWWAN) San Diego, California, USA June 18-21, 2007 ======================================================================== The fourth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM in 2004, in order to create an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of sensor, mesh and ad-hoc communications and networks. This year, SECON has been merged with the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN). Original technical papers that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of mesh and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited. PAPERS: Full papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad-hoc, and mesh communications and networks are solicited. Authors are particularly encouraged to submit papers that have a deep focus on a specific discipline, are stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines, or describe practical application of technology to real-world problems. Submitted papers should not be concurrently under review at any another workshop, symposium, conference, or journal. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and protocols to support wireless communication, localization, time synchronization, routing, data dissemination, and other distributed services in heterogeneous, large-scale, distributed mesh and sensor networks. * Algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad-hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes. * Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor networks. * Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks. * Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service in mesh and sensor networks, including admission control, resource allocation and fairness, and capacity planning. * Performance measurement and modeling techniques for large-scale distributed ad-hoc and sensor networks and their evaluation. * Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including techniques for exploiting on-sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for online self-calibration and self-testing, and schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms. * Hardware platforms and testbeds incorporating multiple sensors, embedded processors, actuators, and wireless interfaces. * Software architectures, middleware, and tools for mesh and sensor network applications development, deployment, and management. * Practical implementations, case-studies, and real-world experiences in designing and deploying large scale ad-hoc, mesh, and sensor network applications. POSTERS, DEMOS, AND EXHIBITS: SECON will also include poster/demo sessions that provide an interactive forum to present work in progress, showcase real system implementations, highlight industrial/commercial developments, and discuss key research challenges in the fields of sensor, mesh, and ad-hoc networks. Details about the poster and demo submission procedure will soon be available on the conference web site. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Paper submissions will be handled electronically through the EDAS web based system. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions and templates are available at the conference website located at http://www.ieee-secon.org/2007/. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be archived on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Communications Society policy mandates that all accepted SECON 2007 papers must have at least one associated registration at the regular rate. For authors co-authoring multiple papers, one regular registration is valid for up to three papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration: November 30, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Full paper submission: December 7, 2006 (by 11:59pm PST) Decision notification: February 26, 2007 Camera ready paper due: March 22, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Rene Cruz, UC San Diego (cruz(a)ece.ucsd.edu) VICE-CHAIR: Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester (wheinzel(a)ece.rochester.edu) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara (almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu) Robin Kravets, UIUC (rhk(a)cs.uiuc.edu) PANELS CO-CHAIRS: Wenye Wang, NC State University Al Harris, University of Padova POSTERS/DEMOs CO-CHAIRS: Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan Jie Liu, Microsoft Research WORKSHOP CHAIR: Rajeev Shorey, GM Research PUBLICITY CHAIR: Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR: Curt Schurgers, UC San Diego EXHIBITS CHAIR: Cedric Westphal, Nokia TRAVEL AWARDS CHAIR: Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona WEB CHAIR: Navid Ehsan, UC San Diego STANDING COMMITTEE: Fred Bauer, PacketHop (fred(a)fredbauer.com) - Chair Hamid Aghvami, King's College London Mischa Dohler, France Telecom Harvey Freeman, Booz Allen Hamilton Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Available on the conference webpage ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 2nd Call for Papers: WPNC'07 - 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:47:01 +0100 Von: Jens Schroeder <jens.schroeder(a)ikt.uni-hannover.de> An: <germany-com(a)IEEE.ORG> ### SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO Dec. 10, 2006 ### ### 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ### 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC07) Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany March 22, 2007, right after CeBIT07 www.wpnc.net The Institute of Communications Engineering (IKT) of the University of Hannover, and its partners IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, IEEE Communications Society Germany Chapter, VDE ITG, PULSERS and IHK Hannover are proud to announce the 4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007 (WPNC'07), which will take place at the University of Hannover, Germany, 22 March 2007, right after CeBIT'07. ### Scope ### Mobile position-aware systems, combined with modern wireless technologies, are getting more and more important. When developing systems of this kind, problems in various fields of information and communication technology need to be solved. The workshop shall give an overview of state-of-the-art approaches and systems. As many technologies are available to deal with the variety of applications, we would like to continue to cover ultra-wideband technology as it is becoming of great importance in the area of positioning, navigation and communication. ### Topics ### You are invited to submit papers presenting scientific work or practical implementations addressing, but not limited to the following topics: * Positioning * Outdoor-Radio Systems (terrestrial & satellite-based) * Indoor-Positioning * Hybrid Approaches * Navigation * Pedestrian Navigation * Vehicle and Robot Navigation * Communication and Services * Integrated Positioning and Communication * Location Based Services * Application Scenarios * Ultra-Wideband * Positioning and Localization * Architectures, Systems, Protocols * Hybrid Positioning and Communication * Regulatory Issues, EMC/EMI ### Submission Guidelines ### Full-paper or poster submissions in the form of extended abstracts (max. 2 pages) or full papers (max. 10 pages) are requested electronically in PDF-format in English language until Dec. 10, 2006. Paper submission is handled only through the TrackChair paper review system at http://wpnc07.trackchair.com. With acceptance, complete contributions of up to 10 pages are expected until Feb. 16, 2007. ### Important Dates ### Submission of Extended Abstracts until: Dec. 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance or denial until: Jan. 08, 2007 Submission of Camera Ready Manu-scripts until: Feb. 16, 2007 ### Publishing ### The workshop proceedings in book-form will be published in the series Hannoversche Beiträge zur Nachrichtentechnik by SHAKER publishing. In addition, an application to publish in the IEEE Xplore database has been filed. ### Contact ### Prof. T. Kaiser Prof. K. Jobmann email: workshop2007(a)wpnc.net phone: +49 (0) 511 762 2814 web: www.wpnc.net ### Technical Program Committee ### Susanne Boll University of Oldenburg, Germany Dorota Brzenzinska Ohio State University, USA Vicente Casares-Giner Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Li-Der Chou National Central University, Taiwan Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Manuel Esteve Polytechnique University of Valencia, Spain Hermann Eul Infineon, Germany Adolf Finger TU Dresden, Germany Laurent Herault CEA-LETI, Centre de Grenoble, France Adam Hoeher University of Kiel, Germany James Irvine University of Strathclyde, UK Klaus Jobmann University of Hannover, Germany Thomas Kaiser University of Hannover, Germany Rolf Kraemer IHP Microelectronics, Germany Thomas Kürner TU Brunswick, Germany Kyandoghere Kyamakya University of Klagenfurt, Austria Heinz Lüdiger IMST, Germany Andreas F. Molisch Lund University, Sweden Kyle OKeefe University of Calgary, Canada Kaveh Pahlavan Worcester Polytechnique Institute, USA Robert Piché Tampere University, Finland Ulrich Reimers TU Brunswick, Germany Hermann Rohling TU Hamburg Harburg, Germany Robert Schober University of British Columbia, Canada Reiner Thomä TU Ilmenau, Germany Andy Ward Ubisense, UK

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[Fwd: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CfP]: UbiComp Challenge Datum: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:39 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de UbiComp Challenge ----------------- UbiComp 2007 [1] will introduce a new instrument to promote and encourage high quality research in the area of UbiComp: The UbiComp Challenge. It is a field test intended to accelerate research, development and applicability of UbiComp technology. Using an "eating your own dog's food" approach, the UbiComp2007 Challenge is seeking for submissions of how to implement an audience voting system to finally determine the winner of the "Best Presentation Award" which will be given at UbiComp2007 for the first time. The central requirement is that the proposed solution makes clever and efficient use of UbiComp technology, and can actually be implemented by the proposers before and used at the conference in September 2007. The conference organizers reserve a grant of up to 2000 EUR to buy necessary equipment claimed and justified by the best proposal. The challenge call [2] is intentionally underspecified in terms of approaches and technologies to allow for a creative and innovative scientific solution employing all kinds of ubiquitous computing technologies and techniques that are appropriately addressing the problem space. The challenge offers an excellent way to showcase tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to approx. 500 attendees from academia and industry, which is also the amount of people which are expected to use the winner's system at the same time, so it should scale adequately. We believe that the experiences and findings from developing and running a system of this scale provide valuable results to the UbiComp community. The UbiComp Challenge committee will carefully review all submissions to identify the most appealing approach, which is still realistic to be implemented in the given timeframe: Submission Deadline: Feb 01, 2007 Notification: Mar 15, 2007 Conference: Sep 16-19, 2007 We expect submissions in form of an abstract that describes the ubicomp technology being adopted and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas, but also provide justification for the feasibility of the approach and cost estimates. The challenge abstract of the best five submissions will be published in the Conference Supplement and should therefore be self-contained. The best submissions are also given the opportunity to showcase their apporaches in the UbiComp demo program. The abstracts should be a maximum of 8 pages, in the LNCS conference publications format, including all figures and references and one additional page for the review process summarizing all pieces of equipment you expect to use and a complete cost estimation of your solution. Submit your proposals as PDF document to challenge(at)ubicomp2007.org We are looking forward to your submissions! UbiComp 2007 Challenge Chair Matthias Kranz, University of Munich [1] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/ [2] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/calls/#Chall

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[Fwd: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP ACM TAAS Special Issue on Organic Computing Datum: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:11:08 +0100 Von: Hartmut Schmeck <schmeck(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: OC-Interessenten:; Dear colleague, I'd like to draw your attention to the CfP for a Special Issue of ACM TAAS on Organic Computing. Please, distribute this CfP to further colleagues who might be interested in submitting a paper. Kind regards Hartmut Schmeck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! with apologies for multiple postings !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call for Papers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Special Isssue of ACM TAAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! on Organic Computing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems Special Issue on Organic Computing SCOPE Organic Computing (OC) has emerged recently as a challenging vision for future information processing systems, based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by systems with massive numbers of processing elements, sensors and actuators. Because of the size of these systems it is infeasible for us to monitor and control them entirely from external observations; instead they will need to help us monitor, control and adapt themselves. To do so, these components will need to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and services that are required. The presence of such networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens up fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems as robust, safe, and trustworthy as possible. In order to achieve all these goals, our computing systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously. Thus, we are interested in new analytic methods and architectures underlying complex systems. In OC, we put an emphasis on systems that exhibit life-like properties, such as being self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of OC and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Science & Engineering. In this special issue, we welcome contributions from all these areas to OC. We seek theoretical as well as carefully evaluated practical papers dealing with complex computing systems that adapt dynamically to the current conditions of their environments, exhibit self-x properties as described above, and are partly inspired by biological information processing principles. For more information on OC see: OC Page: http://www.organic-computing.org DFG research program OC: http://www.organic-computing.de/SPP IEEE OC Task Force: http://www.neuroinformatik.rub.de/thbio/project/oc ACM TAAS ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects of complex computing systems exhibiting autonomous and adaptive behavior. TAAS encourages contributions advancing the state of the art in the understanding, development, and control of such systems. For more information, please follow the link: http://www.acm.org/pubs/taas REVIEW & SUBMISSION PROCESS Manuscripts will first be screened for topical relevance, and those that pass the screening process will undergo a full review procedure according to the standards of TAAS. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a preliminary single page abstract by February 16, 2007. This will help in planning an efficient review process and providing initial feedback to the prospective authors. The manuscripts should be formatted according to the ACM TAAS guidelines available from the journal homepage and submitted to: octf(a)neuroinformatik.rub.de GUEST EDITORIAL TEAM Kirstie L. Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Christian Igel, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Hartmut Schmeck, Institut fuer Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB), Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany Rolf P. Wuertz, Institut f¨ur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany IMPORTANT DATES Single page abstract submission (not required) deadline is February 16, 2007. Paper submission deadline is May 1, 2007. Submission feedback to authors will be sent in July 2007. The tentative publication date is June 2008. supported by the IEEE Emergent Technologies Task Force Organic Computing

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[Fwd: Call for papers: NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:55:34 +0100 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)ifi.uio.no> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Colleague, please forward this call for papers for NOSSDAV 2007 to colleagues who may be interested, and excuse us if you receive multiple copies of this email. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPER 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 ========================================================================== If you don't want me to send CFPs to this address, please tell me. You find my official mail address on http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~griff/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE TVT SI on Vehicular Communications Networks Datum: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:44:39 -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: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2007]
by Lars Wolf 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NOSSDAV 2007 Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:08:04 -0500 (EST) Von: Dongyan Xu <dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <364166302.04202(a)eyou.net> My sincere apologies if you received multiple copies! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: ACF-Members: CFP: IEEE/ACM MASCOTS]
by Lars Wolf 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP: IEEE/ACM MASCOTS Datum: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:00:03 +0000 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, autonomic-computing(a)listserv.uni-augsburg.de MASCOTS 2007 15 th Annual Meeting of the IEEE / ACM* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) http://www.mascots-conference.org/ mascots(a)cmpe.boun.edu.tr http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/mascots07/ October 24-26, 2007 Overview The IEEE Computer Society’s annual MASCOTS conferences have a long and distinguished history in the field of Performance Modeling, Measurement and Analysis of Computer Systems and Networks. The 15th MASCOTS international meeting will be organized by Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in October of 2007 and we encourage researchers worldwide to submit both theoretically and practically significant results in the field of computer systems performance analysis and evaluation, that have not previously been published. The IEEE Computer Society will publish the conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2007. The symposium scope includes, but is not limited to Modeling, Measurement and Simulation Methodologies for Computer Systems and Networks, as well as Performance Studies of: * Pervasive Computing Environments * Computer Architecture * Parallel and Distributed Systems * Real-Time and Multimedia Systems * Internetworking Protocols * Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing * Broadband & Telecommunication Networks and Software * Web-Based Systems, * Middleware Related areas such as Workload Characterization and Generation, Discrete Event Simulation Methodology and Tools, and Parallel / Distributed Simulation, are also within the scope of the conference. Paper length and formatting requirements are provided in the symposium web site. Important Dates: 27 April 2007 – Paper Submissions Due 27 June 2007 – Notification of Acceptance 27 July 2007 – Final Papers Due 24-26 October 2007 – Conference Dates Conference Chair: * Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, United Kingdom Program Chairs: * M. Ufuk Çaglayan, Bogaziçi U., Turkey * Tony Field, Imperial College, United Kingdom Local Organization Committee: * Fatih Alagoz, Bogaziçi U., Turkey, Financial Chair * Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical U., Turkey, Publicity Chair * Albert Levi, Sabanci U., Turkey, Local Arrangements Chair * Tuna Tugcu, Bogaziçi U., Turkey, Awards Chair * Özgür B. Akan, METU, Turkey, Tutorials Chair Program Committee * Khaldoun AlAgha, LRI, France * Şahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany * Emin Anarım, Bogaziçi U., Turkey * Konstantin Avrachenkov, INRIA, France * Kallol Bagchi, U. of Texas at El Paso, USA * Javier Barria, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Roberto Battiti, U. di Trento, Italy * Yanghee Choi , SNU, S. Korea * Tugrul Dayar, Bilkent U., Turkey * Hakan Deliç, Bogaziçi U., Turkey * Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland * Cem Ersoy, Bogaziçi U., Turkey * Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Jean-Michel Fourneau, U. de Versailles, France * Robert Ghanea-Hercock, BT, United Kingdom * Giovanni Giambene, U. Siena, Italy * Vincent Guffens, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Peter Harrison, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Jane Hillston, U. of Edinburgh, United Kingdom * Giuseppe Iazeolla, U. di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy * Philippe Jacquet, INRIA, France * Abbas Jamalipour, Sydney U., Australia * Tania Jimenez, U.of Avignon, France * Helen Karatza, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, Greece * Nei Kato, Tohoku U., Japan * Will Knottenbelt, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Ricardo Lent, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Pascal Lorenz, U. of Haute Alsace, France * Vasilis Maglaris, NTUA, Greece * Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy * Deep Medhi, U. of Missouri at Kansas City, USA * Jose Augusto Suruagy Monteiro, UNIFACS, Brasil * Hussein Mouftah, U. of Ottawa, Canada * Yoram Ofek, U. di Trento, Italy * Krishna V. Palem, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Josep Sole Pareta, UPC, Spain * Nihal Pekergin, U. de Versailles, France * George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Berc Rustem, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Fabrice Saffre, BT, United Kingdom * Ruslan Smeliansky, Moscow State U., Russia * Helena Szczerbicka, U. of Hannover, Germany * Yeonghwan Tscha, Sangji U, S. Korea * Salvatore Tucci, U. di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy * Adelinde Uhrmacher, U. of Rostock, Germany * Bülent Yener, RPI, USA * Abbas Yongaçoglu, U. Ottawa, Canada * Franco Zambonelli, U. di Modena, Italy * Taieb Znati, U. of Pittsburgh, USA Steering Committee: * Dharma Agrawal, U. of Cincinnati, USA * Kallol Bagchi, U. of Texas at El Paso, USA * Thomas Bräunl, U. of Western Australia, Australia * Giovanni Chiola, Universitat di Genova, Italy * Doug DeGroot, U. of Leiden, Netherlands * Patrick Dowd, U. of Maryland, USA * Jozo Dujmovic, San Francisco State U., USA * David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA * Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, United Kingdom * Darrell Long, U. of California at Santa Cruz, USA * Marco Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy * George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Herb Schwetman, Mesquite Inc., USA * Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA * Jean Walrand, U. of California at Berkeley, USA +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> +++++++++

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[cfp] [Fwd: CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada Datum: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:28:17 +0100 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)DIF.UM.ES> Antwort an: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)DIF.UM.ES> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG 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 Important Dates Abstracts 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, kranakisscs.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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MOBIQUITOUS 2007]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: MOBIQUITOUS 2007 Datum: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:06:59 +0100 Von: Antonio Capone <capone(a)elet.polimi.it> Antwort an: capone(a)elet.polimi.it An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. -- ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS MOBIQUITOUS 2007 The 4th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org August 6-10, 2007 - Philadelphia, PA ======================================================================== The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm. Through the use of mobile devices and devices embedded in the surrounding physical environments, users can be provided transparent computing and communication services at all times and in all places. The complexity of providing such services stems from the fact that the communication devices and the objects with which they interact may both be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services, and an understanding of the cross-layer interactions between all of these components. The Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous-07) will provide a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions, design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences needed to build successful ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics as applied to mobile and ubiquitous environments: - Ubiquitous architectures, systems and applications - Wearable computing and personal area networks - Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) - Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems - Ad hoc and sensor networks support for ubiquitous computing - Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks - Wireless/mobile service management and delivery - Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems - Service and knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms - Location-based services and tracking in ubiquitous environments - Context- and location-aware applications - Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems - Context modeling, services and frameworks - Toolkits, testbeds, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing - Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications - Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing - Mobile and ubiquitous data management and processing - Data replication, migration and dissemination in ubiquitous environments - Queries, transactions and workflows in mobile and ubiquitous environments - Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. The purpose of these workshops is to discuss work in progress and explore opportunities for new research related to mobile and ubiquitous systems: computing, networking and services. Proposals for workshops should be at most four pages in length and should be submitted to Dr. Suman Banerjee by February 1, 2007. IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop Proposal Deadline: February 1, 2007 Paper Registration Deadline: March 13, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2007 Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 4, 2007 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIR: Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR: Robin Kravets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University Hui Lei, IBM WORKSHOP CHAIR: Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison DEMO CHAIR: Hao Zhu, Florida International University POSTER CHAIR: Al Harris, Universita di Padova Dong Xuan, Ohio State University FINANCE CHAIR: Karen Decker, ICST PUBLICATION CHAIR: Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue university PUBLICITY CHAIR: Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University LOCAL CHAIR: Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania WEB CHAIR: Hui Song, Penn State University CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Anna Rieger, ICST STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net (chair) Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento Tom La Porta, Penn State University Chiara Petrioli, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza" Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County Michele Zorzi, Universita di Padova TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: See http://www.mobiquitous.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 10th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2007 (deadline February 5, 2007) Datum: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:05:09 -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, AL, 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 in conjunction 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. 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. Execute Committee - TPC Chairs: Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon - Web Chair: Jun Li, University of oregon - Publication Chair: Jakob Eriksson, MIT - Local Arrangment: 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 Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University Paul Francis, Cornell University Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Tim Griffin, University of Cambridge, UK Ahmed Helmy, Univ. Florida Kevin Jeffay, UNC Anestis Karasaridis, AT&T Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia Bin Liu, Tsinghua University John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong Christos Papadopoulos, University of Colorado Craig Partridge, BBN, USA 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, BYU 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: [Tccc] WWIC 2007: submission deadline in two weeks]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WWIC 2007: submission deadline in two weeks Datum: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:14:22 -0000 Von: Edmundo Monteiro <edmundo(a)dei.uc.pt> Organisation: University of Coimbra An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> WWIC 2007 5th International Conference on Wired / Wireless Internet Communications May 23-25 2007, Coimbra, Portugal http://wwic2007.dei.uc.pt Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. Important dates: Submission deadline: December 8, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 19, 2007 Camera ready papers: February 28, 2007 Conference topics: The conference objectives will be pursued through highly technical sessions organized thematically and invited keynote talks offered by recognized experts. Topics of interest to WWIC 2007 include (but are not limited to) the following: AAA in mobile environments, Ambient networks, Ad-hoc mobile networks, Blended network configurations, Beyond 3G networks technologies, Cross layer interactions, Economical issues of wireless networks, End-to-end Quality of Service support, Handover techniques, Heterogeneous wireless access networks, Hybrid wired / wireless environments, Integration of wired and wireless networks, Mobile service level agreements / specification, Mobility management, Network design and network planning, Network mobility, Network coding in mobile networks, Network security in mobile environments, Performance evaluation of wireless systems, Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks, QoS routing in mobile networks, QoS signalling in mobile environments, Resource management and admission control, Service creation and management for wireless, Simulation for next generation mobile networks, Traffic characterisation and modeling, Traffic engineering, Transport protocols and congestion control, Wireless mesh networks, Wireless multi-hop networks, Wireless multimedia systems, Wireless network monitoring Wireless sensor networks Proceedings: The authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. Please adhere to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. General Chairs: Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Yevgeni Koucheryavy, TUT, Finland TPC Chairs: Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Saverio Mascolo, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy Local Organizing Committee: Fernando Velez, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal Jorge Sá Silva, Paulo Simões, Marília Curado, Univ. Coimbra, Portugal Steering Committee: Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Georg Carle, University of Tubingen, Germany Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Yevgeni Koucheryavy, TUT, Finland Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois, USA Program Committee: Bengt Ahlgren, SICS, Sweden, Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey, Manuel Alvarez-Campana, UPM, Spain, Farooq Anjum, Telcordia Technologies, USA, Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France, Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK, Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA J.L. van den Berg, TNO / U. of Twente, NL, Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland, Wojciech Burakowski, WUT, Poland, Georg Carle, University of Tubingen, Germany, Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA, Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France, Adam Dunkels, SICS, Sweden, Peder Emstad, Norwegian U. of Science and Tech., NO Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA, Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy, Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands, Marc Heissenbüttel, Swisscom Mobile, Switzerland, Markus Hofmann, Lucent/Bell Labs, USA, Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University, Australia, Daniel Kofman, ENST, France, Yevgeni Koucheryavy, TUT, Finland, Rolf Kraemer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany, Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany, Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy, Remco Litjens, TNO, The Netherlands, Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France, Christian Maihöfer, DaimlerChrysler, Germany, Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany, Paulo Mendes, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, Ingrid Moerman, Ghent University, Belgium Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada, Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki, GR, Ruy de Oliveira, CEFET-MT, Brazil, Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France, George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK, George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece, Theodoros Salonidis, Rice University, USA, Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau, Germany, Jochen Schiller, Free University Berlin, Germany, Xuemin Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, Andrew Scott, Lancaster University, UK, Patrick Sénac, ENSICA, France, Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Vasilios Siris, University of Crete /ICS-FORTH, Greece, Dirk Staehle, University of Würzburg, Germany, Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada, Burkhard Stiller, U. of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland Phuoc Tran-Gia, Universität Würzburg, Germany, Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece, Fernando Velez, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal, Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy,Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden, Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan, Ossama Younis, University of Arizona, USA, Chi Zhang, Florida International University, USA, Martina Zitterbart, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy. For more information please see the conference site wwic2007.dei.uc.pt or contact the Conference Secretariat at wwic2007(a)dei.uc.pt. _______________________________________________ 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 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada Datum: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:41:08 +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 Important Dates Abstracts 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, kranakisscs.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] CFP: B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7 Datum: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:47:04 +0900 Von: Jie Li <lijie(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) 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 Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST In-technical cooperation with: IEEE Communications Society (approval pending) ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): January 17, 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, gaming, and interactive digital art as well as in healthcare and patient monitoring. Despite the recent technological developments in the fields of 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: * Wireless Communication and Networking Protocols: キ的n-body・networks キ哲ear-body・networks * Applications キ Interactive Virtual Reality and Gaming キ WSN based Interactive Digital Art キ Human Computer Interaction キ Entertainment キ Ambient intelligence キ Smart Spaces, Personalization キ Healthcare and patient monitoring * Server side information processing: キ Data querying キ Event detection, classification,tracking * Middleware * Quality of service, security and fault tolerance issues * Enabling technologies: キ Novel sensors and materials キ Transceivers キ Microcontrollers キ Hardware platform * In Network information processing: キ 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, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. Submission instructions are available on the website: www.bodynets.org. 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 Karen Decker (Financial Chair), ICST, US Zita Rozsa (Conference Coordinator), ICST, Europe STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols Datum: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:29:10 -0600 Von: Song Ci <sci(a)engr.unl.edu> Antwort an: sci(a)engr.unl.edu Organisation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu =============== 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 Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, 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 N2L 3G1, Canada. Email: xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca -- --------------------------------------- Song Ci 402-554-2005 sci(a)engr.unl.edu http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci --------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------- Song Ci 402-554-2005 sci(a)engr.unl.edu http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [AAS] News 18 Nov 2006]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AAS] News 18 Nov 2006 Datum: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:42:00 +0000 Von: Roy Sterritt <r.sterritt(a)ulster.ac.uk> An: undisclosed-recipients:;;;;@ulster.ac.uk@webapps.ulst.ac.uk;;; ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Autonomous & Autonomic Systems ----------- --------------------------- News -------------------------- ------------------- 18 November 2006 ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: --------- 1. CFP SASO'07 (Deadline 31 Jan 2007) 2. CFP ECBS'07 (Deadline 5 & 20 Jan 2007) 3. CFP PCAC'07 (Deadline 22 Nov 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************** 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) 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007) The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 11-14 July 2007. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/iceccs07/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Complex computer systems are common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, and are driven by many diverse requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and their satisfaction therefore requires managing the trade-off among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Avionics and Automobile Software + Content Production and Distribution Systems, Mobile and Multi- channel Systems + Context Awareness Computing + Formal Methods and Approaches to Manage and Control Complex Systems + Human Factors and Collaborative Aspects + Integration of Heterogeneous Technologies + Interoperability and Standardization + Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing + Real-time and Embedded Systems + Sensor Network Systems and Applications + Software and System Development and Control Processes for Complex Systems + Software Architecture and System Engineering + Software Complexity Visualization + Systems and Software Safety and Security + Tools, Environments, and Languages for Complex Systems + Verification Techniques for Complex Software Systems + Virtual Environments for Managing Complexity + Web Services Modeling and Compositions Different kinds of contributions are sought, including research papers, lessons learned, status reports, and discussion of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and industrial experience reports should describe practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Papers should not exceed 10 pages including figures, references, and appendices and be in PDF format. Submissions of papers will be carried out electronically via the Web (Submission Page). Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages in the aforementioned IEEE proceedings format. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: January 5, 2007 Paper submission: January 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2007 Camera ready copy due: April 8, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Michael G Hinchey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Gillian Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM CHAIRS Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand WORKSHOP CHAIR Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR Jim Woodcock, Special Session Chair on Grand Challenges - Complex Program Verifier, University of York, United Kingdom LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR John Hamer, The University of Auckland, New Zealand SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE Timo Aaltonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Robert Amor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Pierfrancesco Bellini, University of Florence, Italy Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, USA Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom Manfrey Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Jim Davies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ewen Denney, RIACS / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jurgen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Chris George, United Nations University, China Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Jane E. Hayes, University of Kentucky, USA John Hosking, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Zhenjiang Hu, University of Tokyo, Japan Pankaj Jalote, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA Kung-Kiu Lau, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Kueng Hae Lee, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Peter Lindsay, University of Queensland, Australia Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, China Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia Andrew Martin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Hong Mei, Peking University, China Huaikou Miao, Shanghai University, China Shin Nakajima, National Instutite of Informatics, Japan Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom Sungyong Park, Sogang University, Korea Mauro Pezze, University of Lugano, Switzerland Shengchao Qin, Durham University, United Kingdom Zhongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Rudolph E. Seviora, University of Waterloo, Canada Xiaoyu Song, Portland State University, USA Mark Staples, National ICT Australia, Australia Frank Stomp, Wayne State University, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Paul Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tetsuo Tamai, The University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Utting, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hai Wang, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huiqun Yu, East China University of Science and Technology, China Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== The Second IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC-07) to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 21th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07),Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/ =================================================================== Aims and Scopes --------------- Pervasive computing has emerged as a new computing and communication environment with the aim of providing services anytime and anywhere for everyone. To facilitate resource sharing and support group communications, pervasive computing devices should be able to support ad hoc communications and networking. With ad hoc communications, seamless and transparent access to services and applications can be achieved while providing mechanisms for establishing spontaneous and interactive networking among communicating entities. Despite considerable progress in mobile computing and wireless communication technologies, new user demands and emerging applications introduce challenges in several areas including security, privacy, processing, auto configuration, scalability, software infrastructure, communication models and networking infrastructure. To support flexibility and unlimited mobility, services and applications should adapt to heterogeneous networking environment supporting multihop communication in hybrid wired/wireless environment. This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to present their current research results and discuss future trends in pervasive computing and ad hoc communications. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Pervasive computing architectures - Wearable computers - Smart devices and smart spaces - Location-dependent and personalized applications - Service discovery mechanisms - Agent technologies - Mobility management - Sensors and actuators - Resource management - Embedded systems - Device and service interaction - Location-aware services - Middleware for pervasive computing - Middleware fro ad hoc computing - Hardware, OS and convergence issues - Security and privacy issues for pervasive computing systems - Positioning and tracking technologies - Identification and authentication technologies - Social Issues and Implications of pervasive computing - Data management infrastructure and algorithms - Caching and prefetching strategies - Resource discovery - Ad hoc communication and networking - Group communication and management - Ad hoc computing - User interfaces and interaction models - Prototyping and performance evaluation - Personal Area networks - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, and 802.20 - Context based and implicit computing - Ad hoc networking protocols and service discovery - Wireless Mesh Network Submissions and Proceedings --------------------------- The manuscript should follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Outstanding papers will be considered for a Special Issue in Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI) (http://www.aspbs.com/juci.html). PCAC-07 submission website: http://pcac07.ehpclab.org/ Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: Nov. 22, 2006 Authors Notification: Jan. 22, 2007 Authors Registration: Jan. 31, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: Feb. 19, 2007 Organising Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Jian Ma, Nokia, China Steering Chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Program Committee ----------------- Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Pascal Chatonnay (NUMERICA/ISTI/LIFC , France) Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, South Korea) Chun Tung Chou (University of New South Wales, Australia) Tarik Cicic (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Felipe A. Cruz-Perez (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico) Fei Dai (North Dakota State University, USA) Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany) Paal E. Engelstad (Telenor R&D, Norway) Carles Gomez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Peter C.J. Graham (University of Manitoba, Canada) Jadwiga Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Andreas Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden) Dimitrios Katsaros (Aristotle University, Greece) Guanling Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan) Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Leszek T. Lilien (Western Michigan University, USA) Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Luigi Logrippo (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada) Seng Wai Loke (Latrobe University, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University College London, UK) Chris McDonald (The University of Western Australia, Australia) Yongwan Park (Yeung Nam University, South Korea) Elhadi Shakshuki (Acadia University, Canada) Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Tor Skeie (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Limin Sun (Institute of Software, China Academy of Science, China) Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Torab Torabi (LaTrobe University, Australia) Javier Garcia Villalba (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain) Jianping Wang (University of Mississippi, USA) Tadeusz A. Wysocki (University of Wollongong, Australia) Yang Xiao (University Alabama, USA.) Yingqi Xu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Boon Sain Yeo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA) Baoxian Zhang (Graduation University, China Academy of Science, China) Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Hao Zhu (Florida International University, USA) -- *************************************************** This is the News Email of the IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems http://tab.computer.org/AAS/ It covers AAS community related activities by the members, which are not necessaray sponsored by the TF nor endorsed by IEEE CS. The Latest TF Newsletter is at: http://tab.computer.org/AAS/newsletter/ Manage your membership (including unsubscribe) at: http://www.computer.org/services/teca/ ***************************************************

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(FW) Call for papers for IEEE ICWS 2007 (Int. Conf. on Web Services)
by Martin Gutbrod 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks. CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) =================================================================== http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007 July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Theme: all aspects of Web services from Computer Science and Engineering perspectives Celebrating the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services! Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) ICWS 2007 organizing committee invites you to participate in the fifth year of ICWS in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on July 9-13, 2007. ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services. ICWS also aims to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web services. Over the past five years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 200 participants on a regular basis. ICWS 2006 was held on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; ICWS 2005 was held on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA; ICWS 2004 was held on July 6-9, 2004 in San Diego, California, USA; ICWS 2003 was held on June 23-26, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ICWS 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International Services Computing Contest will again be featured at this joint event. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, panels, and work-in-progress sessions in both research and industry tracks. Workshops and tutorials will run before and throughout the conference. ICWS 2007 research track seeks original, unpublished research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services from Computer Science perspective. Research papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web services. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations for Web Services Computing * Web Services-based Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure * Web Services Modeling * Web Services Standards and Implementation Technologies * Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, WSDL) * Web Services Discovery * Web Services Composition and Integration * Web Services Invocation * QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.) * Web Services Assessment (i.e., validation & verification) * Web Services-based Testing Methodologies * Web Services-based Software Engineering * Web Services-based Project Management * Semantic Web Services * IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services * Solution Management for Web Services * Multimedia Web Services * Web Services-driven Business Process Management * Web Services-based Mobile Computing * Web Services-based Grid Applications * Domain-specific Web Services Applications and Solutions All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should not be submitted to ICWS 2007 and SCC 2007 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from both conferences without review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in the ICWS 2007 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) , the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) , and the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC) . Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex. Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICWS 2007. The first author of the best student papers must be full-time student. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 Paper Submission Due Date: February 12, 2007 Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2007 General Chairs of SCC 2007: Frank Leymann, Ph.D. Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ming-Chien Shan, Ph.D. Director, SAP Research, USA Program Committee Chairs: Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D. Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kenneth P. Birman, Ph.D. Professor, Cornell University, USA Program Committee Vice-Chair: Jia Zhang, Ph.D. Assiatant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA Technical Steering Committee: Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA) Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc, USA) Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA) Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming-Chien Shan (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) For any enquires, please e-mail to the Program Committee Vice-Chair Jia Zhang via jiazhang AT cs DOT edu

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] ISCC'07 CFP - Aveiro, July 1st-4th - 1 month to submission]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] ISCC'07 CFP - Aveiro, July 1st-4th - 1 month to submission Weitersenden-Datum: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:46:25 +0000 Weitersenden-Von: <ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt> Datum: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:46:21 +0000 (WET) Von: ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt (Rui Aguiar) An: iscc07_chairs(a)av.it.pt ================================================================= O N E M O N T H T O S U B M I S S I O N ISCC'07 Aveiro, Portugal, 1-4 July 2007 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ================================================================= Website: http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2007/ ISCC is a event jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, and will have its 12th edition in 2007. It will be located in Aveiro, a major center for communications industry in Portugal, and the center town of a beautiful touristic region. The main technical topics cover all areas associated with computer communications, and in particular: . Access Networks . Agents, Mobile Agents, and Knowledge Base Technologies . Data Mining and Database Applications . Distributed Systems Architecture and Management . Digital Satellite Communications . E-Commerce and E-Services . Economic and Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications . Fault-Tolerant Computing and Error Recovery . Grid and Cluster Computing . Handoff and Mobility . High Performance Networking and Protocols . Internet Services and Applications . IPv6 . Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks . Mobile Communications . Modeling and Simulation . MPLS, GMPLS . Network Reliability . Network Design and Optimization . Network and Service Management . Quality of Service . Optical Networking . Overlay and Programmable Networks . Peer-to-Peer Computing . Real Time Communication Services (VoIP, Games, Audio/Video Streaming, .) . Routing and Multicast . Security and Cryptography . Signal Processing in Communications and Networking . Standards . Wireless and Cellular Communications . Web Services Main deadlines: - Tutorials and workshops proposals: 1st December 2006 - Full Paper Submission: 1st December 2006 - Notification of paper acceptance: 23rd March 2007 - Final papers due by: 5th April 2007 ISCC'07 General Co-Chairs Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France ISCC'07 Technical Co-Chairs Rui L. Aguiar, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal Anup Kumar, Univ. of Louisville, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2007/ Technical contact: iscc07_chairs(a)av.it.pt -- ============================================================================== Rui L.A. Aguiar || DD EEEE TTTTT II ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt || D D E T Dpt Electronica Telecomunicacoes Informatica || D D EEE T II Universidade de Aveiro || D D E T II 3810 AVEIRO PORTUGAL || DD EEEE T II Fax:+351.234.381941 or 381128; Phone:+351.234. 381937 or 370200(ext23022) http://www.av.it.pt/collaborators/personal/ruilaa ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2007 deadline reminder]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2007 deadline reminder Datum: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:02:42 -0500 Von: Ramon Caceres <caceres(a)US.IBM.COM> Antwort an: Ramon Caceres <caceres(a)US.IBM.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG REMINDER OF MOBISYS 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINES The abstract submission deadline is coming up soon on November 27. The full-paper submission deadline will follow one week later on December 4. Submission instructions are available from <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/call.html>. MOBISYS 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Puerto Rico 11-14 June 2007 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/ MobiSys 2007 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. This conference builds on the success of the previous four MobiSys conferences. It is jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registrations due: 27 November 2006 (23:59 EST) Full papers due: 4 December 2006 (23:59 EST) Notification of paper acceptance: 9 March 2007 Final camera-ready papers due: 6 April 2007 Conference dates: 11-14 June 2007

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] GDC07 Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] GDC07 Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications Datum: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:00:40 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.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 **************************************************** The IGDA has just launched the 7th annual Student Scholarship Program. Twenty-five college students will be awarded complimentary full access passes to the 2007 Game Developers Conference. Students can now apply online: http://www.igda.org/scholarships/ The deadline to enter is Wednesday, January 10, 2007. Recipients will be announced late January. Applicants are required to be full-time college students (or equivalent) and IGDA student members for consideration. Scholarship applications will be judged by a panel of professional game developers. Full details are online: http://www.igda.org/scholarships/ Regards, Susan -- Prof. Susan Gold IGDA Education SIG Chairperson education_sig(a)igda.org **************************************************** ** 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] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to December 7, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to December 7, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:40:49 +0200 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to December 7, 2006 ***] We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2007 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline :*(Extended)* December 7, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 7, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 17, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ -- 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 1261 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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[Fwd: CfP: SASO 2007]
by Lars Wolf 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: SASO 2007 Datum: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:27:27 +0100 Von: Patrick Wüchner <patrick.wuechner(a)UNI-PASSAU.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Dear Colleagues, *************************************************************** 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) 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 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 *************************************************************** Apologies for multiple copies. Best regards, Hermann de Meer (Publicity Chair) -- Patrick G. Wuechner, Research Fellow Computer Networks and Computer Communications, Prof. de Meer, http://www.net.fmi.uni-passau.de University of Passau, GERMANY

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