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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for papers AD HOC NOW 2006]
by Lars Wolf 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call for papers AD HOC NOW 2006 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:52:47 +0100 From: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please, find below a call for papers that may be of your interest. All the best, --Pedro M. Ruiz http://ants.dif.um.es/staff/pedrom/ We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS - AD HOC NOW 2006 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Ottawa, August 17-19, 2006 http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/AdHocNow2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Submission: February 24, 2006 Paper Submission : March 3, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2006 Camera-ready versions due: June 7, 2006 Demo proposals due: May 1, 2006 SCOPE ----- We are interested in work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Of interest, but not limited to, are research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Location Discovery and Management * Low Power and Energy-Efficient Designs * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---------------- We will have to keynote talks by Prof. Mani Srivastava from the Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA and Prof. Victor Leung from the Univ. of British Columbia, Canada PROCEEDINGS ----------- As in the past years, proceedings of Adhoc Now 2006 will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------- Authors are strongly encouraged to (but not required to) submit a 150 word abstract of their paper along with three keywords by the abstract submission deadline (February 24, 2006). Acceptable formats for the abstracts are plain text, postscript (PS) and portable document format (PDF). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages (including a 150 word abstract, all figures, tables and references) in Springer Verlag LNCS format. Acceptable formats for papers are PS and PDF. Submissions which are not in the appropriate format will be rejected without review. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. All abstract and paper submissions will be handled electronically at the already available submission website: http://www.confhost.net/conf.php?confId=1 SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS --------------------- Proposals for system demonstrations related to wireless networks are also solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages in LNCS format and should include a description of the demo and the equipment to be used. Potential demonstrators are requested to submit a proposal in PS or PDF format to one of the Co-Chairs of the Technical Program Committee (Thomas Kunz -- tkunz(a)sce.carleton.ca or S. S. Ravi -- ravi(a)cs.albany.edu) by May 1, 2006. Please include contact information (postal address, email address, phone and fax numbers) in the submission. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be allotted three pages in the proceedings, provided at least one author registers to present the demo at the conference. TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs: Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Steering Committee: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Publicity Committee: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Technical Program Committee: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Rida Bazzi, Arizona State Univ., USA Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada Torsten Brown, Univ. Berne, Switzerland Gruia Calinescu, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan Jorge Cobb, UT Dallas, USA Pilu Crescenzi, Univ. Florence, Italy Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada Stefan Dobrev, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Mischa Dohler, King's College, London, UK Andras Farago, UT Dallas, USA Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Stefan Fischer, Univ. Luebeck, Germany Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Alex Hall, ETH, Zurich Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech, USA Valerie King, Univ. Victoria, Canada Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University, USA Sven Krumke, Univ. Kaiseslautern, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton Univ., Canada Louise Lamont, Communications Research Center, Canada Errol Lloyd, Univ. Delaware, USA Angela Mielke, Los Alamos National Labs, USA Jelena Misic, Univ. Manitoba, Canada Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Lata Narayanan, Concordia Univ, Canada Ioanis Nikolaidis, U. Alberta, Canada J. Opatrny, Concordia Univ., Canada Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Paolo Penna, Univ. Salerno, Italy Cristina Pinotti, Univ. Perugia, Italy Guy Pujolle, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France Ravi Prakash, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Jean-Marc Robert, Alcatel, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. Paderborn, Germany Andrew Scott, Lancaster Univ., UK Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research LLC and Clemson Univ., USA Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. Ottawa, Canada Ravi Sundaram, Northeastern University, USA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Damla Turgut, Univ. of Florida, USA Anil Kumar Vullikanti, Virginia Tech., USA Paul Ward, Univ. Waterloo, Canada Gergely Zaruba, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Jerry Zhao, ICSI-Berkeley, USA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accommodation, etc, please contact Thomas Kunz (mailto:tkunz@sce.carleton.ca). Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to S. S. Ravi (mailto:ravi@cs.albany.edu). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CFP - Workshop IFIP Networking2006]
by Lars Wolf 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: CFP - Workshop IFIP Networking2006 Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 01:35:02 -0000 From: Jorge Sá Silva <sasilva(a)dei.uc.pt> To: <alg(a)comm.toronto.edu> *3*^rd International WORKSHOP on * ‘Next Generation Networking Middleware’ * *(NGNM06)* _in the scope of_ *Networking 2006* 5^th IFIP – TC6 Networking Conference (http://www.ifip-networking.org <http://www.ifip-networking.org/>) *Date: May, 19 2006* *Venue: University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal* *IMPORTANT DATES* - Submission of papers: March 20, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2006 - Camera-ready due: April 10, 2006 NGNM04 held on May 2004, in conjunction with Networking 2004 conference in Athens, Greece, constituted a forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of Internet middleware. Both the requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e., networking, middleware and application level) were presented and analyzed. NGNM05 held on May 2005, in conjunction with Networking 2005 conference in Waterloo, Canada, focused on the identification of composite business services running on an Internet middleware platform that allows enterprises/networking actors to publish the services they provide, use services available globally in a secure manner and automatically compile the various services descriptions into executable processes. The special issue on “Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks” of Computer Communications journal complemented the success of NGNM04 and NGNM05. NGNM06 targets to address the challenges of middleware platforms required for new generation mobile/wireless heterogeneous radio networks and services. Mobile/Wireless middleware is anticipated to increase the performance of applications running across potentially mixed wireless networks, to support multiple mobile/wireless devices, to provide continuous wireless access to content and services, to ensure end-to-end QoS and secure content and services delivery and to offer cross-system and cross-layer optimization taking into account issues related to usage behavior, mobility patterns, traffic profiling, network selection and relevant horizontal/vertical handovers. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished works as well as works on progress in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: · Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility · Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) · Specification and enforcement of QoS · Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies · Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring) · Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks · Wireless Grids Middleware · Grid-enabled Networking Middleware · Performance evaluation and modeling in Wireless/Mobile Middleware · Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization · Middleware security, including authentication and authorization *_Submissions _* The workshop welcomes original and review papers from academic and industry contributors dealing with the above or related issues. All submissions will be subjected to review by two reviewers. Papers should be up to 6000 words in English, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. To submit a paper, send an email to Prof. George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr), containing the title, the authors' names, e-mail and post addresses, phone and fax numbers, identification of the contact author, and attach to the same message your paper in DOC format. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. All the accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings. Furthermore, as it happened with NGNM04 and NGNM05, some selected papers will be extended in order to be considered for publication in a forthcoming special issue of a journal related to the workshop’s goals. *NGNM Co-founders* Nikos Anerousis, IBM, USA George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece *NGNM06 Co-Chairs* George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Atílio Gameiro, Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal *NGNM06 TPC Co-Chairs* Maria Teresa Andrade, INESC Porto, Portugal Jonathan Rodriguez, Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal *NGNM06 Publicity Chair* Hamid Asgari, TRT, UK *Programme Committee * Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France Eugen Borcoci, Transilvania University, Romania Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Dhmhtra Kaklamanh, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Alexander Keller, IBM, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Europe, Germany Alexander Konstantinou, IBM, USA Maria Koutsopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Marc Lacoste, FT, France Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alan Marshall, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Versailles, France Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Evaggelos Pallis, University of Crete, Greece Dimitris Pendarakis, IBM, USA Christos Politis, University of Surrey, UK George Prezerakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Martin Stiemerling, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany John Soldatos, AIT, Greece Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Gosia Steinder, IBM, USA Evaggelos Vayias, Intracom, Greece Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michael Welzl, University of Innsburg, Austria -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.4/57 - Release Date: 22-07-2005

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[Fwd: [TrackChair] [VTC 2006 Fall] Extended deadline]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [TrackChair] [VTC 2006 Fall] Extended deadline Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:00:14 +0000 From: Alex Stephenne <account-1797(a)trackchair.com> To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Lars Wolf, Please note that the submission deadline for the 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference has been extended to 16 February 2006. Following many requests from prospective authors, this is a short extension to enable authors to finalize their submission. In order to enable you to plan your schedule, here is the updated paper review timeline: Thu Feb 16, 2006: Published deadline for submission to TrackChair© Fri Feb 17, 2006: Hard Deadline for submissions - Starting on this date, Track Chairs assign papers to TPC members Thu Feb 23, 2006: All Papers allocated to TPC members, TPC members start allocating papers to reviewers Thu Mar 2, 2006: All Papers assigned to reviewers Fri Mar 31, 2006: Reviews of papers due(soft deadline) - This gives reviewers a least 4 weeks for reviews Until Fri Apr 7, 2006: Reviewer chasing; additional reviewers assigned as required Fri Apr 7, 2006: Hard deadline for reviews Fri Apr 7, 2006: TPC/Track Chairs assess open issues - TPC meeting to resolve issues, if required Thu Apr 20, 2006: Assessment of papers: oral, poster, reject - TPC co-chairs also define number of sessions and titles Mon May 1, 2006: Authors notified of acceptance/rejection Looking forward to working with you, Fabrice Labeau and Alex Stéphenne VTC 2006 Fall TPC co-chairs -- Alex Stephenne, Ericsson Canada and INRS-EMT http://www.trackchair.com/account/1797 This message was sent using TrackChair.

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2006 -- Call for poster and demo proposals]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MobiSys 2006 -- Call for poster and demo proposals Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:44:29 -0800 From: Alec Wolman <alecw(a)microsoft.com> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> MobiSys 2006 Call for Poster and Demo Proposals IMPORTANT DATES Poster and demo proposals due: March 27, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006 POSTERS MobiSys seeks proposals for posters describing novel work on mobile systems, applications and services. Posters will be presented during a specially designated session of the conference. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Posters are specially suited for presenting controversial research directions that may generate discussion, or promising ideas not yet validated through extensive evaluation. Poster submissions must include (i) an electronic copy of the poster and (ii) an extended abstract no longer than two 8.5x11-inch pages, including all figures and references. Please note that easels will be provided at the conference for 3x4 feet posters (approximately 0.75x1.0 meters), and the posters should be sized appropriately. The extended abstract should be formatted in two columns, single-spaced, with a font no smaller than 10-point. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF. Posters must be submitted electronically, by sending both the poster and the extended abstract as separate attachments in a single email message to the Poster Chair at <mobisys_posters(a)acm.org>. The subject line should read "MOBISYS POSTER SUBMISSION" (in upper-case letters). The body of the email should include, in pure text, the title of the poster and the author list, including affiliations. The extended abstracts of accepted posters will be posted on the conference website, but will not appear in the conference proceedings. Poster Chair: Ramon Caceres, IBM Research, USA <mobisys_posters(a)acm.org> DEMONSTRATIONS MobiSys seeks proposals for live demonstrations of mobile computing technologies. Live demos provide an opportunity to give a flavor of real-life applications made possible by your system. Particularly encouraged are the demonstrations that include participation by conference attendees. Research prototypes as well as commercial products are welcome. However, MobiSys is not an appropriate forum for marketing or sales presentations. The presenter is expected to understand the system being demonstrated and explain the technical contributions of the system to the audience. Demonstrations of previously published systems are also welcome. The Demo Co-Chairs will select demonstrations based on the expected interest from the MobiSys audience. A demo submission requires only an extended abstract no longer than two 8.5x11-inch pages, including all figures and references, describing the demonstration as well as any special requirements (other than a demo booth/table). The extended abstract should be formatted in 8.5x11-inch pages, two columns, single-spaced, with a font no smaller than 10-point. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF. Demo proposals must be submitted electronically, by sending the extended abstract as an attachment in an email message to the Demo Co-Chairs at <mobisys_demos(a)acm.org>. The subject line should read "MOBISYS DEMO SUBMISSION" (in upper-case letters). The body of the email should include, in pure text, the title of the demo and the author list, including affiliations. The extended abstracts of accepted demonstrations will be posted on the conference website, but will not appear in the conference proceedings. Demo Co-Chairs: Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Ian Chakeres, Boeing Phantom Works, USA <mobisys_demos(a)acm.org>

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:18:03 -0000 From: Marco Combetto <Marco.Combetto(a)microsoft.com> To: <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 ICEC News Service ** **************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006) http://www.icec2006.org/ September 20, 21 & 22 September, 2006 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK We are pleased to invite you to participate in the prestigious 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The conference will be held in Cambridge, England, 20-21-22 September, 2006 Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003, ICEC 2004, ICEC 2005), ICEC 2006 will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment and edutainment applications. Important Dates: Full paper submission due: Friday 30 March, 2006 Short paper, demo: Friday 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance: Monday 29 May, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: Monday, 19 June, 2006 Web site: http://www.icec2006.org/ TOPICS: Any research addressing entertainment computing is welcome, in particular we suggest (but not limited) the categories listed below: Interactive Design for Entertainment Aesthetics, Ontology and Social Reflection Art, Design and Novel Media Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Computer Games and Game Based Interfaces Education, Training, and Edutainment Technologies Entertainment and Healthcare Novel and Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware Devices Social and Human Factors of Entertainment Interactive Digital Storytelling and Interactive Tele-Vision Mobile Entertainment via e.g. Mobile Phones, PDAs etc Narrative Environments and Intelligent Medias New Genres, New Standards Pervasive Entertainment and Game-Playing Robots and Cyber Pets Self Reflecting Entertainment Simulation Applications of Games, and Military Training Sound, Music, Creative Environments CASE STUDIES: Case studies are invited from any entertainment and edutainment application, including: Authoring Computer Games Cultural Heritage Home Entertainment Media System Design Service Robotics Affective Interaction Intelligent Environments Conference proceedings will be published with the Springer. **** Conference Committee ***** General Conference Chair: Richard Harper International Program Committee Chair: Matthias Rauterberg International Steering Committee: Marc Cavazza (University of Teesside, UK) Tak Kamae (Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan) Lizhuang Ma (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) Don Marinelli (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Stéphane Natkin (CNAM, France) Ryohei Nakatsu (Kwansei Gakuin University,Japan) Matthias Rauterberg (TU Eindhoven,The Netherlands) Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK) Andy Sloane (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Bill Swartout (University of Southern California, USA) Organisation Chair Marco Combetto **************************************************** ** 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: ACM REALWSN 06: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACM REALWSN 06: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:40:36 +0100 From: Thiemo Voigt <thiemo(a)sics.se> To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear colleague, we are pleased to inform you that the ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN 06) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, June 19, in conjunction with ACM Mobisys. Please find attached the call for papers. On behalf of the REALWSN 06 organizers Thiemo Voigt CALL FOR PAPERS ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks REALWSN'06 http://www.sics.se/realwsn06 June 19, 2006 Uppsala, Sweden In conjunction with ACM Mobisys 2006 Sponsored by ACM, ACM Sigmobile, SICS and VINNOVA The purpose of the second Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks. When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to: * Experiences with real-world deployments * Self-organization and self-management * Debugging, testing, and management * Deployment and configuration * Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc. * Security and trust * Scalability in practice * Development and prototyping platforms * Operating systems and programmability * Sensor network programming paradigms and languages * Middleware for heterogeneous networks * Real-time and dependability issues * Hardware support for real-world sensor networks * Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware * Energy efficient protocols * Methods for measuring and assessing energy consumption Important dates: Electronic submissions due: March 22, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2006 Camera-ready copy due: May 1, 2006 Workshop: 19 June 2006 Workshop Chair: Bengt Ahlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Technical program committee chairs: Pedro José Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science Local organization: Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Technical program committee (to be extended): Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Muneeb Ali, LUMS, Pakistan Leif Axelsson, Ericsson Microwave Systems, Sweden Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, Turkey Zinaida Benenson, Uppsala University, Sweden Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Mats Björkman, Mälardalen University, Sweden Jerker Delsing, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Fergus O'Reilly, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Hartmut Ritter, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Umar Saif, MIT, USA Jochen Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Andras Veres, Ericsson Research, Hungary

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[Fwd: [Tccc] New York - 28-30 June 2006 - IWWAN 2006 - Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks (deadline: 15 March 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] New York - 28-30 June 2006 - IWWAN 2006 - Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks (deadline: 15 March 2006) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:58:07 +0100 From: DOHLER Mischa RD-TECH-GRE <mischa.dohler(a)francetelecom.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: Ian Oppermann <ian(a)ee.oulu.fi>, Sayandev Mukherjee <sayan(a)lucent.com>, Hamid Aghvami <hamid.aghvami(a)kcl.ac.uk> Dear Colleagues, The 2006 International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN 2006) is an ideal opportunity to network and present latest results in the vibrant area of ad hoc and sensor networks. The workshop will be held in New York from Wednesday 28th - Friday 30th June 2006 and is hosted by Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies. Developing from the first event in Oulu in 2004 (http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/iwwan2004/) and the second event in London last year (http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/iwwan2005/), IWWAN 2006 will highlight the growing applications and power of ad-hoc and sensor networks in achieving ubiquitous, pervasive communications in next generation networks. The workshop will focus on the increasing importance of these type of architectures in next generation networks including interoperation with fixed and cellular networks. The list of topics will include (but is not limited to): Theory: - Information theory for wireless ad-hoc networks - Performance bounds, capacity limits - Multiple access and capacity analysis - Capacity of multi-hop networks - Routing strategies in multi-hop networks - Throughput and delay analysis - Heterogeneous wireless networks - Clustering and cooperative strategies - Networks for survivability - Power optimisation strategies - Sensor network architectures - Antenna & propagation issues Applications: - Positioning and location estimation - Performance of Mobile IPV6 - 802.11 and Bluetooth networks - Interoperation with fixed / cellular networks - Ad-hoc wireless extensions to the Internet - UWB networks - Test-bed performance - Tools for system analysis - Pervasive / ubiquitous systems - Implementation issues - "Value added" services The schedule is as follows: - Wednesday 28th June: Tutorials (no extra fee) - Thursday 29th June: Regular Sessions - Friday 30th June: Regular Sessions Important dates are: - Submission deadline: 15 March 2006 - Notification: 15 April 2006 - Event start: 28 June 2006 Submission procedures will be specified at http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/IWWAN2006/. If you wish to present a half-day tutorial or be part of the TPC, please, get in touch with us. Kind regards, Dr. Mischa Dohler IWWAN Technical Chairman France Telecom R&D Dr. Sayan Mukherjee IWWAN General Chairman Lucent Technologies _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Announcement of the 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications]
by Lars Wolf 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Announcement of the 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:04:13 +0800 From: ITST2006 <itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn> To: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> *********************************************************** *ITST 200**6* The 6^th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications Chengdu �CCHINA 21 - 22 - 23 June, 2006 *http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn <http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn>** **//* */Email: /**/itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn <mailto:itst2006@uestc.edu.cn>/**/ /*/ /*********************************************************** Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to announce this 6th International Conference on ITS/ Telecommunications/ (ITST 2006)/ //in a Futuristic Transport World/ will be held during June 21-22-23, 2006 in Chengdu, China. In Particular, a special session is arranged to discuss the trends in the filed of Information and Communication Technologies, it will be held at the famous JiuZhai Gou scenic areas which is one of the most beautiful place in China. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ITST 2006 Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Press. It will be entered into IEEE Xplore database. The Proceeding papers are be indexed by EI and ISTP. We welcome submissions of a full-length paper (4 pages normally and 6 pages maximum) on telecommunications and intelligent transport system applications before February 28^th , 2006. We would appreciate if you could redirect this announcement and the Call for Papers to anybody who you think would be interested. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact: */itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn <mailto:itst2006@uestc.edu.cn>/*/ /or to have a look at the website: *_http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn <http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn>_** *_ _Your sincerely On behalf of the Organizing Committee Guangjun Wen

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[Fwd: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Call for Papers Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:53:16 -0500 From: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Reply-To: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> To: conferencesx(a)comsoc.org [] *49th Annual IEEE Globecom Conference and the 1st Annual IEEE COMMUNICATIONS EXPO ** Call for Papers - Technical <http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/papers.html>Symposia <http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/papers.html> DEADLINE FAST APPROACHING - 5 MARCH 2006 * To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: MobileHCI 2006 Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MobileHCI 2006 Call for papers Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:24:41 +1100 From: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> Reply-To: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> To: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ** MobileHCI 2006 is In-Cooperation with SIGMOBILE ****************************** CALL FOR PAPERS MOBILEHCI 2006 The 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Date: 12-15 September 2006 Location: Espoo, Finland Website: www.mobilehci.org Deadlines: *Papers, Workshops and Tutorials: 1 March 2006 *Short Papers, Posters, Demos, Panels, Industry Cases, Doctoral Consortium: 7 May 2006 Purpose The 8th conference in the MOBILEHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and innovations towards effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: *Audio and speech interaction *Context-dependent systems *Designing Web sites for mobile devices *Ethographical and field studies with mobile technology *Evaluation of mobile devices and services *Group interaction and mobility *Intelligent environments *Location-aware interaction *Methods to evaluate mobile usability *Model-based design of interactive mobile systems *Mobile phenomena *Mobility and work environments *Multimodal interaction *Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques *Perception and modelling of the environment *Safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments) *Specific classes of handheld devices (PDA, Pocket PC, WAP phone,...) *3D graphics on mobile devices *3G/4G devices and services *Usability of mobile devices and services *Visualization techniques for the mobile context *Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects) *User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems Submissions The categories for submission: FULL PAPERS, SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS, TUTORIALS, DEMOS, PANELS, WORKSHOPS, INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES and DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM. Full details on submission can be found at www.mobilehci.org Accepted FULL PAPERS, SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS and INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES will appear in the conference proceedings. Arrangements The MobileHCI'06 conference is arranged together with Helsinki University of Technology (TKK, SoberIT) and Nokia. The MobileHCI Planning Group provides continuity for the conference series. Conference Chairs *Marko Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology *Mika Röykkee, Nokia Research Center Organising Committee *Timo Jokela, University of Oulu *Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila, Tampere University of Technology *Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology *Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland *Hannakaisa Isomäki, University of Lapland *Mikael Johnson, Helsinki University of Technology *Sari Kujala, Helsinki University of Technology *Anu Kankainen, Idean Research *Virpi Roto, Nokia Research Center *Jonna Häkkilä, Nokia *Raino Vastamäki, Adage *Antti Oulasvirta, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology *Antti Salovaara, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology *Marjaana Siivola, Desigence *Hannu Koskela, GE Healthcare *Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München *Turkka Keinonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki *Anne Kaikkonen, Nokia International Advisory Committee *Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore *Anne Kaikkonen, Nokia, Finland *Luca Chittaro, University of Udine, Italy *Fabio Paterno, CNR, Italy *Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, England *Mark Dunlop, Strathclyde University, Scotland *Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg, Austria *Matt Jones, Swansea University, Wales *Stephen Brewster, Glasgow University, Scotland Student volunteers are invited to help in the conference: more information on the conference website in March 2006. More Information The conference website will be kept updated at www.mobilehci.org, or contact: Marko Nieminen (Conference Chair) Professor of User Interfaces and Usability Software Business and Engineering Institute P.O. Box 9210 FIN-02015 HUT, FINLAND www.soberit.hut.fi/~mhtn Mika Röykkee (Conference Chair) Senior Research Manager, User Experience Nokia Research Center P.O.Box 100 (Visiokatu 1) FIN-33721 Tampere, Finland mika.roykkee[at]nokia.com Anne Kaikkonen (Secretary) anne.kaikkonen[at]nokia.com Welcome to MobileHCI 2006!

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[Fwd: CFP-"Next Generation Networking Middleware"- NGNM06, May 19 2006, Coimbra, Portugal]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP-"Next Generation Networking Middleware"- NGNM06, May 19 2006, Coimbra, Portugal Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:28:05 +0200 From: Kormentzas Georgios <gkorm(a)aegean.gr> To: Kormentzas Georgios <gkorm(a)aegean.gr> References: <C1D23DC6B63B99499FB377B9F664489E5AD923(a)hermes2.aegean.gr> <C1D23DC6B63B99499FB377B9F664489E5AD924(a)hermes2.aegean.gr> My apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================ *3^rd International WORKSHOP on ‘Next Generation Networking Middleware’ (NGNM06)* * */*in the scope of */‘Networking 2006’, 5^h IFIP – TC6 Networking Conference (http://www.ifip-networking.org <http://www.ifip-networking.org/>) *Date: May, 19 2006* *Venue: University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal* *IMPORTANT DATES* - Submission of papers: March 20, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2006 - Camera-ready due: April 10, 2006 NGNM04 held on May 2004, in conjunction with Networking 2004 conference in Athens, Greece, constituted a forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of Internet middleware. Both the requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e., networking, middleware and application level) were presented and analyzed. NGNM05 held on May 2005, in conjunction with Networking 2005 conference in Waterloo, Canada, focused on the identification of composite business services running on an Internet middleware platform that allows enterprises/networking actors to publish the services they provide, use services available globally in a secure manner and automatically compile the various services descriptions into executable processes. The special issue on “Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks” of Computer Communications journal complemented the success of NGNM04 and NGNM05. NGNM06 targets to address the challenges of middleware platforms required for new generation mobile/wireless heterogeneous radio networks and services. Mobile/Wireless middleware is anticipated to increase the performance of applications running across potentially mixed wireless networks, to support multiple mobile/wireless devices, to provide continuous wireless access to content and services, to ensure end-to-end QoS and secure content and services delivery and to offer cross-system and cross-layer optimization taking into account issues related to usage behavior, mobility patterns, traffic profiling, network selection and relevant horizontal/vertical handovers. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished works as well as works on progress in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: · Middleware support for micro/macro/multi-domain mobility · Emerging Information Models and Frameworks (i.e., MPEG-21) · Specification and enforcement of QoS · Interworking between Heterogeneous Middleware Technologies · Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring) · Programmable, Active and Adaptive Networks · Wireless Grids Middleware · Grid-enabled Networking Middleware · Performance evaluation and modeling in Wireless/Mobile Middleware · Middleware support for cross-system and cross-layer optimization · Middleware security, including authentication and authorization _Submissions _ The workshop welcomes original and review papers from academic and industry contributors dealing with the above or related issues. All submissions will be subjected to review by two reviewers. Papers should be up to 6000 words in English, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. To submit a paper, send an email to Prof. George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr), containing the title, the authors' names, e-mail and post addresses, phone and fax numbers, identification of the contact author, and attach to the same message your paper in DOC format. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. All the accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings. Furthermore, as it happened with NGNM04 and NGNM05, some selected papers will be extended in order to be considered for publication in a forthcoming special issue of a journal related to the workshop’s goals. *NGNM Co-founders* Nikos Anerousis, IBM, USA George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece *NGNM06 Co-Chairs* George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece Atílio Gameiro, Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal *NGNM06 TPC Co-Chairs* Maria Teresa Andrade, INESC Porto, Portugal Jonathan Rodriguez, Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal *NGNM06 Publicity Chair* Hamid Asgari, TRT, UK *Programme Committee * Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France Eugen Borcoci, Transilvania University, Romania Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Dhmhtra Kaklamanh, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Alexander Keller, IBM, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Europe, Germany Alexander Konstantinou, IBM, USA Maria Koutsopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Marc Lacoste, FT, France Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ilias Maglogiannis, University of the Aegean, Greece Alan Marshall, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Versailles, France Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Evaggelos Pallis, University of Crete, Greece Dimitris Pendarakis, IBM, USA Christos Politis, University of Surrey, UK George Prezerakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Martin Stiemerling, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany John Soldatos, AIT, Greece Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Gosia Steinder, IBM, USA Evaggelos Vayias, Intracom, Greece Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michael Welzl, University of Innsburg, Austria

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CHINACOM2006 First Call For Papers
by Yabin Ye 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

Dear Colleagues, Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please feel free to distribute. Best regards, The CHINACOM 2006 Organizing Committee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CHINACOM 2006 International Conference on Communications and Networking in China Jointly sponsored by Create-Net, ICST, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), and OBS/OPS Forum Technical Sponsorships (Pending): IEEE CS, IEEE CSS In Cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC October 16-19, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, US Bo Li, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CHAIR ================================================== Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CHAIR ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday) Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday) Conference Dates, October, 16-19, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline fast approaching: special issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications"]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline fast approaching: special issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications" Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:25:43 +0800 From: Daniel Wong <daniel_wong(a)ieee.org> To: manet(a)ietf.org, tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, itc(a)comsoc.org, SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)listserv.acm.org Sorry if you receive multiple copies of this CFP regards Daniel Wong ----------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Inter-Vehicular Communications" (pdf version of this CFP is available at http://www.3g-wireless.net/IVC-CFP.pdf) Wireless communications technologies (cellular phones, wireless LANs, etc.) have enabled many of the conveniences in our lives, and also increased our day by day productivity. Another area where there is much potential for wireless technologies to make a tremendous impact is the area of inter-vehicular communications (IVC). The field of IVC is also known as vehicle-to-vehicle communications (V2V) and vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). There are numerous emerging applications that are unique to the vehicular setting. For example, safety applications would make driving safer; driver information services could intelligently inform drivers about congestion, businesses and services in the vicinity of the vehicle, and other news. Mobile commerce could extend to the realm of vehicles. Existing forms of entertainment may penetrate the vehicular domain, and new forms of entertainment may emerge, all supported by the inter-vehicular communications capabilities. These emerging services are currently not well supported. Numerous research challenges need to be addressed in order for inter-vehicular communications to be widely deployed. The combination of unique features of inter-vehicular applications and networking opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas. The communications networking between cars has different characteristics from other communications networking problems. For example, because of the rapidly changing topology as cars move around, there are similarities with ad hoc networking scenarios. However, the constraints and optimizations are different. Power efficiency is not as important for inter-vehicular communications as it is for traditional ad hoc networking, since vehicles have a powerful and rechargeable source of energy. Vehicles in general are also constrained to move within roads (and within lanes most of the time). The purpose of this special issue is to showcase the variety of research being conducted in IVC and survey the state-of-the-art in this field. We solicit original unpublished manuscripts not currently being considered elsewhere for publication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Service creation and management • Vehicular communications applications in general • Navigation safety applications • Content distribution to vehicles • Vehicle data collection and harvesting • Role of IVC in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) • Link and physical layer issues, algorithms and protocols • Cross-layer protocol design • Network architectures, system architectures • Inter-working of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications • Network protocols and algorithms, including clustering, routing, etc. • Vehicle movement simulation • Security for IVC • Network management for IVC • Mobility management Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Further submission guidelines are available online at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html . Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to both Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org) and Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)uwindsor.ca) no later than 15 February 2006. Deadlines Manuscript due February 15 2006 Acceptance notification April 15 2006 Final manuscript due June 15 2006 Publication date October 2006 Guest Editors K. Daniel Wong (daniel_wong(a)ieee.org ) Malaysia University of Science and Technology Department of Information Technology GL33, Ground Floor, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26 47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)uwindsor.ca ) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada Wai Chen (wchen(a)research.telcordia.com ) Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Applied Research One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209 Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Mario Gerla (gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu ) 3732F BH Computer Science Dept UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP - SELF'06 Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: CFP - SELF'06 Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:50:47 -0000 From: David Lewis <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> Reply-To: <Dave.Lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> Organization: TCD To: <acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org> CC: <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> Another very relevant workshop! Apologies for any cross postings. Dave SELF - Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems ===================================================================== SELF'06 (http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SELF.html) July 19-21, 2006 Silicon Valley, USA Published by: IEEE Computer Society Press Collocated with ICAS'06 (http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICSA06.html) Abstract submission: February 15, 2006 Abstract based acceptance: March 5, 2006 Registration and first draft: March 20, 2006 Camera-ready paper: April 15, 2006 (hard deadline) Call for Papers =============== GENERAL Pervasive services and mobile computing are emerging as the next computing paradigm in which infrastructure and services are seamlessly available anywhere, anytime, and in any format. This move to a mobile and pervasive environment raises new opportunities and demands on the underlying systems. In particular, they need to be adaptive, self-adaptive, and context-aware. Adaptive and self-management context-aware systems are difficult to create, they must be able to understand context information and dynamically change their behavior at runtime according to the context. Context information can include the user location, his preferences, his activities, the environmental conditions and the availability of computing and communication resources. Dynamic reconfiguration of the context-aware systems can generate inconsistencies as well as integrity problems, and combinatorial explosion of possible variants of these systems with a high degree of variability can introduce great complexity. All these points pose considerable technical challenges and make self-adaptable context-aware systems costly to implement. These technical challenges lead the context-aware system developers to use improved and new concepts for specifying and modeling these systems to ensure quality and to reduce the development effort and costs. This workshop focuses on the emerging methodologies that enable the design of context-aware computing systems, which usually operate in dynamically changing environments, focusing on adaptability and self-adaptability. It includes design of system architectures and infrastructures that are needed for managing and using context, how to model and represent self-adaptable contexts and how to model adaptive and self-adaptive systems. We also welcome people willing to present adaptive design systems that can be used as a basis for case studies to be expanded during the workshop to drive discussion. Depending on the number of submitted design systems, the afternoon will may be split into a small demo session followed by a design exercise session. For the design session, the attendees will be split into smaller groups, each group studying and proposing extensions to one of the presented system. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to) - Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability - Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems - Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems - Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems - Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability - Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems - Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems - Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.) - System stability in the presence of context inconsistency - Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems - Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems - Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems - Scalability of self-adaptable context-aware systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS The SELF 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and posted on IEEE Xplore. Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via the EDAS system. Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11" (two columns IEEE format), not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found via anonymous FTP site at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/8.5x11%20-%20Format ting%20files/instruct.pdf Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the IEEE CS Press an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance. The submitted abstract should present original and new ideas in at least 500 words. You should specify, in this abstract, if the work was experimented or not (both experimented and non-experimented ideas are welcome). We advise the authors to join a list of key words to the abstract as well as an overview of the organization of the final paper (i.e., the different sections). A final version of a paper is assumed to present the ideas expressed in the originally submitted abstract. Tutorials Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals can be for half or full day tutorials. Please send your proposals to dhouha.ayed(a)cs.kuleuven.be, yolande.berbers(a)cs.kuleuven.be, or pdini(a)cisco.com using "ICAS'06 SELF" in the email subject. Panel proposals The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. Please send your proposals to dhouha.ayed(a)cs.kuleuven.be, yolande.berbers(a)cs.kuleuven.be, or pdini(a)cisco.com using "ICAS'06 SELF" in the email subject. Chairs: Dhouha Ayed, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, dhouha.ayed(a)cs.kuleuven.be Yolande Berbers, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, yolande.berbers(a)cs.kuleuven.be Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada, pdini(a)cisco.com TPC Members: Dhouha Ayed, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Yolande Berbers, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Guy Bernard, INT, France Abdel Boulmakoul, HPLabs - Bristol, UK Paul Couderc, IRISA, France Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA // Concordia University, Canada Frank Eliassen , University of Oslo, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany David Lewis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gerard Parr, University of Ulster- Coleraine, UK Chantal Taconet, INT, France ICAS Contact: petre(a)iaria.org -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. David Lewis Knowledge and Data Engineering Group Dave.Lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie Department of Computer Science +353 1 608 2158 Trinity College, Dublin http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dave.Lewis/ -------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++ posted to acf-members by "David Lewis" <dave.lewis(a)cs.tcd.ie> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CfP zu: SPECTS 2006 & ICOMP'06 & WNET'06 ---> Deadlines Approaching]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP zu: SPECTS 2006 & ICOMP'06 & WNET'06 ---> Deadlines Approaching Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:07:08 +0100 From: Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfinger <wolfinge(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ============================================ Call for Papers International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2006), 31.7. - 2.8.2006 in Calgary, Canada http://www.scs.org/confernc/summersim/summersim06/cfp/spects06.htm ============================================ Call for Papers International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'06), 26.6. - 29.6.2006 in Las Vegas, USA http://www.ic-icomp.org/ICOMP2006/index.html ============================================ Call for Papers IIASTED International Conference on Wireless Networks and Emerging Technologies (WNET 2006), 3. - 5. Juli 2006 in Banff, Canada http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2006/banff/c510.htm ============================================ ******************************************************** Prof. Dr. Bernd E. Wolfinger -- Telecommunications and Computer Networks Division -- Computer Science Department University of Hamburg Vogt-Koelln-Str. 30 D-22527 Hamburg (Stellingen) Tel.: +49-40-42883-2424 (direct) +49-40-42883-2422 (Mrs. Koester, secretary) Fax: +49-40-42883-2345 E-mail: wolfinger(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de URL: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TKRN ***************************************************** * In theory, theory and practice are the same. * In practice, they're different. *****************************************************

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[Fwd: [Tccc] FW: ICCCN2006 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 09 Feb '06

09 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] FW: ICCCN2006 CFP Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:55:24 -0600 From: 'Byrav Ramamurthy' <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ----- Forwarded message from Nasir Ghani <nghani(a)tntech.edu> ----- From: Nasir Ghani <nghani(a)tntech.edu> To: "'Byrav Ramamurthy'" <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> Subject: FW: ICCCN2006 Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:31:25 -0600 Importance: Normal ICCCN 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu/icccn06 October 9 - 11, 2006 Arlington, Virginia, USA Sheraton Crystal City Hotel (near Washington DC) Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending approval) ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of novel and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that present challenging and innovative results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Internet Services & Applications ? Network Management & Monitoring ? Wireless & Mobile Networking ? Broadband Networking ? Performance Evaluation ? Network Security & Dependability ? Network Protocols ? Optical & High-Speed Networking ? Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking ? Network Hardware & Architecture ? Multimedia ? Peer-to-Peer & Grid Networking IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Poster paper submission deadline: April 24, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2006 Camera ready papers due: July 28, 2006 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Submitted manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages and must be submitted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages if the paper is accepted for publication) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). ICCCN06 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society. STUDENT POSTER PAPER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are NOT considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are NOT considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not permitted. STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. The student must be the first author of accepted paper and must attend and give presentation to be qualified. BEST PAPER AWARDS: ICCCN plans to award one best paper in each of the three following areas: ? Theory & Simulation ? Systems Software ? Hardware and Architecture The authors of each best paper will be recognized at the conference. Please contact the Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Wu-chun Feng Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 feng(a)cs.vt.edu; +1 540-231-1192(voice) Dr. Katherine Guo Center for Networking and Network Management Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Room 4G-506 Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 kguo(a)bell-labs.com +1 732 949 8956 (voice); +1 732 949 4513 (fax) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor Room 363, Avery Hall Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115 Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CAMAD'06: deadline approaching]
by Lars Wolf 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CAMAD'06: deadline approaching Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:15:05 +0100 From: Fabrizio Granelli <granelli(a)dit.unitn.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, csim(a)comsoc.org Dear colleague, the deadline for paper submission to CAMAD'06 is only one week ahead (February 15th, 2006). If you are interested in submitting a contribution, please find below the call for papers. Papers must be submitted through the EDAS system. Thanks for your attention, and please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Best regards, Fabrizio Granelli CAMAD'06 General Chair ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 11th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'06) Trento, Italy, June 8-9, 2006 http://dit.unitn.it/~camad06 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communication Society The 11th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) is a unique forum that brings together major experts around the globe on modeling and simulation of communications systems. The workshop is a bi-annual event, often held in cooperation with flagship IEEE Communication Society conferences (Int.l Conference on Communications - ICC, Global Telecommunication Conference - GLOBECOM). Last CAMAD'04 was held in conjunction with Globecom2004 in Dallas, TX, on Nov.29th, 2004. CAMAD'06 will be a two days stand-alone event, held in the beautiful city of Trento, just before ICC 2006 (Instanbul, Turkey). Specific information about the connection between Italy and Turkey will be provided on the workshop website. CAMAD'06 is soliciting papers describing original, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics, including but not limited to, the following: o Modeling and Simulation techniques for Integrated Communication Systems o Traffic Engineering and Analysis o Network Measurements o Simulation techniques for large-scale Networks o Simulation and Fast Simulation Techniques for Communication Networks o Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements o Network Optimization and Resource Provisioning o Next Generation Internet o Overlay and Virtual Networks o Autonomic Communication Systems o Cross-Layer Protocol Design o Network Monitoring o Internet Traffic Modeling o Wireless, Mobile, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks o Modeling and Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks o Seamless Integration of Wireless (Cellular) Networks with Internet o Design of Satellite Networks o Integration of Terrestrial and Satellite Networks The event is sponsored by the University of Trento, and endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committees on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) and Satellite and Space Communications (SSC). ======================================================================== PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit full paper of not more than eight (8) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be reviewed with the standard reviewing procedure (each paper being sent to at least 3 independent anonymous reviewers). Accepted papers will be published on IEEExplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/). The best accepted paper will receive the Best Paper Award, sponsored by IEEE ComSocCSIM Technical Committee. - Paper Submission: February 15, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2006 - Submission of camera-ready papers: May 7, 2006 ======================================================================== COMMITTEES General Chair: Fabrizio Granelli (Univ. of Trento, Italy) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Georgios Lazarou (Mississippi State Univ., U.S.) Changcheng Huang (Carleton Univ., CA, U.S.) Publication Chair: Dzmitry Kliazovich (Univ. of Trento, ITALY) Local Arrangements: Ufficio Manifestazioni e Convegni (U. Trento, ITALY) Steering Committee Chair: Michael Devetsikiotis (North Carolina State Univ., U.S.) Steering Committee: Nelson L.S. da Fonseca (UNICAMP, Brazil) Pascal Lorenz (Univ. of Haute Alsace, France) Hussein Mouftah (Univ. of Ottawa, CA, U.S.) Technical Program Committee: Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey) Giulia Boato (Univ. Trento, IT) Stephen Bush (GE, USA) Luiz DaSilva (VirginiaTech, USA) Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Mike Devetsikiotis (NCSU, USA) Christos Douligeris (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Rachid Elazouzi (Univ. of Avignon, France) Lars Erup (EMS Satellite Networks, CA) Sally Floyd (ICIR, USA) Nelson L.S. da Fonseca (Unicamp, Brasil) Victor Frost (Univ. of Kansas, USA) Stefano Giordano (Univ. Pisa, IT) Pin-Han Ho (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) Rose Q. Hu (Nortel, USA) Abbas Jamalipour (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) Gabriel Junyent (UPC/CTTC, Spain) Dzmitry Kliazovich (U. Trento, Italy) Jie Li (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Xian Liu (Univ. of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA) Renato Lo Cigno (U. Trento, Italy) Pascal Lorenz (Univ. of Haute-Alsace, France) Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua Univ., China) Otilia Popescu (UTSA, USA) Petia Todorova (Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany) Steven Wright (BellSouth, USA) ======================================================================== -- Fabrizio Granelli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor DIT - University of Trento Via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Trento (ITALY) Phone: +39 0461 882062 Fax: +39 0461 882093 Email: granelli(a)dit.unitn.it, granelli(a)ieee.org http://dit.unitn.it/people/granelli.html ------------------------------------------------ CAMAD'06 Workshop: http://dit.unitn.it/~camad06 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: 10th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2006 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 10th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2006 CFP Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:41:57 -0500 From: DS-RT 2006 <ds-rt(a)site.uottawa.ca> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers DS-RT 2006 10th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, October 2-4, 2006 Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain * ACM and IEEE pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cs.unibo.it/ds-rt2006/ In Conjunction with the 9th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. *IEEE/ACM Approval Pending ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: May 12, 2006 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope In its tenth anniversary year, the 2006 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2006) will take place in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, in conjunction with the the 9th ACM Int'l Symposium International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. Symposium Objectives DS-RT 2006 serves as a forum for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2006 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2006 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. Call for Papers DS-RT is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very desirable. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: o- Collaborative Virtual Environments, e.g. interactive Virtual Reality, human communication through immersive environments, shared object manipulation; o- Multi-modal collaborative systems, e.g. collaborative future workspaces, psychological issues of collaborative VR; o- Interactive Simulation in Entertainment and Games; o- Applications of Distributed Simulation, e.g., Real Time, large distributed simulation systems; o- Agent Based Distributed Simulation, e.g., multi-agent based simulation, parallel and distibuted simulation of multi-agent systems; o- Real-Time application modeling for QoS evaluation; o- Algorithms and Studies relating to existing protocols, e.g., HLA,DIS, event synchronization, network time protocols; o- Data Distribution Management, Interest Management, Multi-resolution modeling and Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms; o- Current Critical Design Issues, e.g.: causality, simultaneous events,zero look-ahead, compensation for slower than real time; o- Methodology for Distributed and Parallel Simulation; o- Approaches to interoperation of COTS simulation modeling packages; o- Interface Definition, Communication, Management, Security; o- Performance of Distributed Simulation, e.g., benchmark, theoretical, empirical, and HLA/RTI studies; o- Visual Interactive Simulation, e.g., generic animation, visual interactive modeling, interactive computer based learning; o- Animating Language Tools, Visualization Tools for Computational Processes under Simulation; o- Modeling and Simulation Environments for Real Time Concurrent Systems; o- Influence of Network-Centric Systems, e.g., Java, and DCOM; o- Network support for distributed simulation and real-time systems e.g., QoS requirements, multicast for distributed/real-time simulation; o- Applications of Web-Based Simulation, e.g. Modeling Global Internet; o- Integration of Distributed Simulation and HLA with Web Technologies; o- Large Scale Distributed Simulation on the Grid. o- Software Design Patterns and Real-Time Simulation Environments o- Reproducing the face-to-face meeting through communication technology - e.g. immersive CVE, video conferencing, video reconstruction Important dates Submission Deadline: May 12, 2006 (hard copy or electronic paper submission) Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2006 Camera Ready version due: July 17, 2006 Symposium presentation: October 2-6, 2006 in Malaga, Spain IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages (single-spaced) or 18 pages (double-spaced). Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form, postscript pdf, or Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) only. Please submit papers to http://pdcc.ntu.edu.sg/~dsrt2005/ by May 12, 2006. Questions from authors may be directed to: Program Co-Chairs: Simon J E Taylor <simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk, David Roberts <D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk, or General Co-Chairs: Stephen Turner (ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg). Hardcopy papers also may be submitted, in which case four copies are required. Each submission, electronic or paper, must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract a complete list of authors and their affiliations a contact person for correspondence postal and e-mail addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs Enrique Alba University of Malaga, Spain Email: eat(a)lcc.uma.es Phone: 34-95-2132803 Fax: 34-95-2131397 Stephen J. Turner School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: ASSJTurner(a)ntu.edu.sg Phone: +65-6790-4054. Fax : +65-6792-6559 Program Co-Chairs Simon J. E. Taylor School of Information Systems, Computing and Maths Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH UK tel: +44 (0) 1895-265994 fax: +44 (0) 1895-251686 email: simon.taylor(a)brunel.ac.uk David J. Roberts Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University Road, University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Email: D.J.Roberts(a)salford.ac.uk Phone: +44-161-295-2926 Fax: +44-161-295-2925 Poster Chair A. El-Saddik, DISCOVER Research Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Canada Publicity Co-Chairs A. El-Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy For local information on the beautiful city of Malaga URL: http://www.andalucia.com/cities/malaga/home.htm

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Mobile and Wireless Learning Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, July 3-6, 2006
by Martin Gutbrod 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

Call for Papers MOBILE AND WIRELESS LEARNING WORKSHOP July 3-6, 2006, Vancouver Sheraton Wall, Canada http://www.massey.ac.nz/~yatif/ml06/ held in conjunction with: International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference http://www.iwcmc2006.cs.wmich.edu/ ================================================= The Mobile and Wireless Learning Workshop is held in conjunction with the International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference which will take place in Vancouver Sheraton Wall, Canada. The goal of this workshop is to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers and practitioners working in all areas of mobile learning (M-Learning). M-learning is emerging as a prominent discipline which is expected to exploit the massive growth rates of new wireless technologies over 3G and 4G networks as well as the intelligent service platforms on mobile devices. This ever increasing availability of wireless networking infrastructures and portable devices, have provided a rich environment for the proliferation of new mobile learning applications aiming at embedding learning into daily life. The convergence of enterprise applications and wireless devices are paving the way for new standards aiming at enabling learning platforms which provide personalized, location- and context-aware learning services. We invite researchers who are working on the design, development, use and evaluation of mobile learning technologies and applications to submit papers reporting original academic or industrial research. ================================================= Workshop topics include but are not limited to: - Architecture of Mobile Learning Systems - Tools, Technologies and Platforms for Mobile Learning - Location Based Learning - Designing and Teaching in Wireless Classrooms - Web Service Usability for Mobile Learning - Adaptivity in Mobile Learning - Architecture of Context Aware Learning - Peer-to-Peer Learning Applications - Virtual Spaces for Learning Communities - Mobile Learning Case Studies and Experiences - Collaborative, Cooperative and Contextual Mobile Learning - Advanced Curriculum and Courseware for Mobile Learning and Training - Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Learning - Learning Management Systems (LMS) for Mobile Learning - Testing and Assessment in Mobile Learning - Social, Administrative and Organizational Issues of Mobile Learning - Applications of Mobile Technology in Open, Distance, and Corporate Education - Mobile Agents for Learning - Learner-Supportive Interfaces for Mobile Learning - Evaluation of Mobile Learning Systems - Pedagogical Approaches and Theories for Mobile Learning - Mobile Learning in Educational Institutions - E-learning and Wearable Network Devices - Learner Modeling for Networked and Mobile Learning - Mobile Learning Standards Related Activities ================================================= Workshop Chair: Yacine Atif, Massey University, New Zealand, Y.Atif(a)massey.ac.nz Workshop Co-Chair: Rachid Benlamri, Etisalat University College, UAE, benlamri(a)euc.ac.ae ================================================= Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2006 Camera-Ready Version Due: May 30, 2006 Workshop and Conference: July 3~6, 2006 ================================================= Submission Guidelines: We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either technical papers (up to six pages), position or work-in-progress papers (up to three pages). All submissions should use the standard IEEE double-column format (IWCMC'06 submission guidelines). Authors should e-mail their submissions to Y.Atif(a)massey.ac.nz or benlamri(a)ece.ac.ae . Outstanding submissions will be considered for the conference best papers awards. All papers presented at the workshop will be published in the printed volume and CD-ROM proceedings of IWCMC06. ================================================= Program Committee · Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Virginia Tech University, USA · Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA · Abderahmane Lakas, UAE University, UAE · Ashraf Al-Najjar, Sharjah University, UAE · Brahim Medjahed, University of Michigan, Dearborn, USA · Chirine Ghedira, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France · Hazem El-Khatib, UAE University, UAE · Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Old Dominion University, USA · Jawad Berri, Etisalat University College, UAE · Kekang He, Beijing Normal University, China · Khaled Shuaib, UAE University, UAE · Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand · Lim Cher Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Maiga Chang, National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning, Taiwan · Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina, Canada · Masanori Sugimoto, Tokyo University, Japan · Mikko Nikkanen, Nokia Corporation, Finland · Mona Laroussi, University of Lille, France · Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA · Rachid Hamadi, The University of New South Wales, Australia · Saad Harous, Sharjah University, UAE · Sean Siqueira, Catholic Federal University of Goias, Brazil · Sharaf Al-Horani, Multimedia University, Malaysia · Woochun Jun, Seoul National University of Education, Korea · Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

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[Fwd: Reminder: MMTC Track within Euromicro 2006]
by Muhammad A. Khan 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The 17th ITC Specialist Seminar]
by Lars Wolf 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: The 17th ITC Specialist Seminar Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 15:21:32 +1100 (EST) From: Moshe Zukerman <mzu(a)unimelb.edu.au> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu The 17th ITC Specialist Seminar Call For Papers The 17th ITC Specialist Seminar will be held in conjunction with the 63rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2006-May) at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 May 2006. The seminar will be held immediately following the conclusion of the VTC conference on Wednesday 10th May and will continue for one additional day until the end of Thursday 11th May. The aim is to bring together researchers and technical experts from a cross-section of the ITC and VTC communities and to feature world-class technical sessions and tutorials on, but not limited to, the teletraffic engineering issues such as traffic models, congestion and admission control, resource allocation, performance, etc. as related to the following topics: * Mobility modelling * Performance of mobile channels under packet load * Modelling multi-service traffic in mobile environments * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Location and context-based services in mobile environments * Vehicular mobile traffic applications * Broadband mobile access (WiFi, WiMax) * Heterogeneous access networks with fixed relay points and WiFi * access points interconnected by fibre optic channels * Horizontal and vertical hand-off between identical and different network technologies * Mobile IP and its derivates * Peer-to-Peer applications across mobile networks * Traffic engineering methods for mobile access networks * Business models for mobile IP traffic Papers about the role of teletraffic in future wireless systems are especially encouraged - we wish to complement the work presented in the preceding VTC conference. Prospective authors are invited to submit 2-page extended abstracts via email (only pdf or MS Word formats are acceptable) to Prof. Richard Harris Massey University Institute of Information Sciences and Technology Private Bag 11 222 Palmerston North, New Zealand Tele: +64 6 350 5799 Xtn 2057 Fax: +64 6 350 2259 Email: R.Harris(a)massey.ac.nz This seminar is sponsored by the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN). Important Deadlines:- Submission of extended abstracts: February 15, 2006 Author notification: March 1, 2006. There will not be a camera ready submission stage and printed copies of the accepted extended abstracts (originals) will be handed out to participants at the seminar. General chair: Moshe Zukerman (mzu(a)ee.unimelb.edu.au) The ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks, The University of Melbourne, Australia Technical Program Chair: Richard Harris (R.Harris(a)massey.ac.nz) Massey University Institute of Information Sciences and Technology Private Bag 11 222 Palmerston North, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Ubiquitous Access Control workshop]
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Ubiquitous Access Control workshop Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:44:56 +0100 From: stefano salsano <stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] ============================================================ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UBIQUITOUS ACCESS CONTROL http://netgroup.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/IWUAC-06/ To be held in conjunction with MOBIQUITOUS 2006 http://www.mobiquitous.org/ July 17-21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA ============================================================ Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 10, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: May 30, 2006 (Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library) ============================================================ Background The access to resources or services located in "foreign" environments and owned by disparate entities is a painful process for mobile users. This is a significant deterrent to the ability to easily interconnect in a secure and spontaneous manner among disparate organizations. In fact, corporate wireless networks are generally run with severe access policies that do not offer access to guests. Public wireless networks typically do not support roaming agreements, so that users have to be a customer of the specific network provider or to "instantly" (and costly) buy access. Coalition access control encompasses mechanisms dealing with access between users and services of two or more different security domains. These mechanism are typically based on contractually or implicitly agreed collaboration between organizations. They are targeted to medium or long-term periods of inter-organizational coalition. Some real examples are supply chain management, international joint projects, logistics service, etc. The overhead to set up these mechanisms can be significant, as the access control mechanisms for resources of the participating partners require common inter-organizational agreements. The inter-provider agreements that allow users to roam across different wireless providers can be seen as a form of coalition access control. Work on the definition of architecture and protocols for inter-provider roaming is ongoing in several standardization fora or industry initiatives (3GPP, ETSI, ECMA, IRAP …) Spontaneous coalition access control investigates access mechanisms based on informally formed coalition scenarios. These informal coalition scenarios are strongly connected to particular contextual situations: for example communication sessions like calls, conferencing, and Instant Messaging (IM) or informal physical contacts that occur in meeting rooms, offices, and hallways. It is not possible to establish traditional "formal" cross-organizational agreements within these spontaneous coalition encounters. Anyway, access to local resources still need to respect corporate access policies. The notion of spontaneous coalition access implies an increase in the number of un-verified access points and presents a serious security issue. User mobility, wireless connectivity and the widespread diffusion of portable devices raise new challenges for ubiquitous service provisioning. Devices that participate in spontaneous coalition scenarios can introduce "new" foreign services into the environment; due to their mobility these device can change location changing the availability of resources and services un-predictably. Access control to resources is crucial to leverage the provision of ubiquitous services and calls for novel solutions based on various context information, e.g., user/device location, device properties, user needs, local resource visibility. ============================================================ Call for Submissions The workshop is interested in contributions addressing areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services as related to Ubiquitous Access Control. Under the "Ubiquitous Access Control" definition, we encompass both the "traditional" inter-provider roaming scenarios and the more advanced "spontaneous coalition" scenarios. The workshop will bring together the more "practical" aspects of the former scenario with the more advanced research aspects of the latter. Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, are solicited. Tutorial paper or papers reporting experiences of deployed systems or demonstrators are also welcome. The papers cannot be currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Integration of Contextual Models with Security Models. * Models for Authentication, Trust, Authorization and Access Control in Ubiquitous Computing Environments. * Coalition Access Control Models. * Ontologies for Security Policies. * Distributed Access Control Architectures and Models. * Access Control and Trust Models for Ubiquitous Devices * Group management for ad-hoc communities * Peer discovery in Ubiquitous Computing Environment * Architecture and protocols for inter provider roaming in wireless networks * Experiences and test-beds for inter provider roaming ============================================================ How to submit a paper Information on paper submission procedure and page formatting instructions are available on the workshop web page. ============================================================ Co-organizers and TPC chairs Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Stefano Salsano, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Technical Program Committee Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, USA Mahbubul Alam - Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA Michel Barbeau - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Tim Finin - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Patrick Hung - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Anupam Joshi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Lalana Kagal - MIT, USA Larry Korba - National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada Markus Muck, Motorola Labs, France Filip Perich - Shared Spectrum Company, USA Anand Prasad - Docomo Eurolab, Munich, Germany Neeli Prasad - Aalborg University, Demmark George Prezerakos - Technol. Education Institute of Piraeus, Greece Fabio Ricciato - Telecomm. Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Austria Simon Pietro Romano - Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy Enrico Rukzio - Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany Michael Smirnov - Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Nick Tselikas - National Technical University of Athens, Greece Miquel Vargas - University of Ontario, Oshawa, Canada Luca Veltri - University of Parma, Italy Lixia Zhang - UCLA, USA -- ******************************************************************* Stefano Salsano Dipartimento Ingegneria Elettronica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Roma - ITALY http://www.eln.uniroma2.it/Stefano_Salsano/ E-mail : stefano.salsano(a)uniroma2.it Cell. : +39 320 4307310 Office : (Tel.) +39 06 72597450 (Fax.) +39 06 72597435 ******************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: 2nd CFP for SelfMan 2006]
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

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[Fwd: Call For Papers of ICECCS2006 and AXMEDIS2006]
by Lars Wolf 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers of ICECCS2006 and AXMEDIS2006 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:02:56 +0100 From: DISIT <disita(a)OBOE.DSI.UNIFI.IT> Reply-To: conference(a)axmedis.org To: SIGMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear Sigmm Members You are cordially invited to Submitt a paper to the following conferences: -- 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICEECS 2006), Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006) Stanford University, CA, USA, 14-18 August 2006, http://www.iceccs.org -- 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, IEEE press proc., Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006 Sorry for multiple reception of this email, and please pass this email to other collegues that could be interested in the above events. In the following, and on the web site you may find more details. Best wishes, Paolo Nesi _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ ICEECS 2006 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ ICEECS Call for Papers 11th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Co-located with Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB 2006) Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory Stanford University, CA, USA, 10-14 August 2006. With the ever expanding range of computing platforms and applications, system complexity is on the rise. Increasing intelligence and autonomics in today’s systems requires innovative approaches to address these concomitant complexity issues. At this cross-section of volume and complexity, current technologies are often ineffective at coping with the demands for quality computer systems. Manifold dependencies between the critical software, hardware, communications, and human elements now drive computer system and software architectures. Complexity of software systems has grown significantly, pervading several key application areas including Manufacturing, Communications, Transportation, Internet, Entertainment, Mobile, Healthcare, Aerospace, and Energy. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, involving Internet technologies. Inundated by temporal constraints, boundless functionalities, complex algorithms, distributed and mobile architectures, security constraints, reliability, high performance, interoperability, security, and the like, these complexities are further weighing down development and evolution of today’s software systems and ultimately the organizations they serve. The goal of this conference is to assemble industrial, academic and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to examine key complexity problems and effective solutions. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of the interest includes long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing systems, and commercially available tools. Topic Areas: 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: -System and software architecture and system engineering -Tools, environments, and languages for complex systems -Formal methods and approaches to manage and control complex systems -Integration of heterogeneous technologies -Software and system development and control processes for complex systems -Human factors and collaborative aspects -Interoperability and standardization -Systems and software safety and security -Industrial automation, embedded and/or real time systems -Content production and distribution systems, mobile and multi-channel systems -Software complexity visualization -Virtual environments for managing complexity Paper Submissions: Research papers, case studies, lessons learned, status reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains are all welcome submissions. For review, submissions are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of IEEE-Computer Society Format: http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Submitted manuscripts must be in English and should be no longer than 4000 words or 10 formatted pages. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Submission Procedure: Please email your manuscripts in PDF format to the program chairs listed above. Panels and Special Sections: Proposals (1 page) for organizing panels and special sections should be sent to the general and program chairs via email. In both cases, the list of confirmed people involved should be included. Deadlines - 19 February, 2006 Paper submission - 7 April, 2006 Notification of acceptance - 19 May, 2006 Camera ready papers - 10-14 August, 2006 Conference Committee: General Chair: - Michael G Hinchey, NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Michael.G.Hinchey(a)nasa.gov Program Co-Chairs - Americas: - Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, sbohner(a)vt.edu - Phil Laplante, Penn State, plaplante(a)gv.psu.edu Program Co-Chair - Asia: - Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, IIST, Macao, lzm(a)iist.unu.edu Program Co-Chairs - Europe: - Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy, nesi(a)dsi.unifi.it - Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK, jim(a)cs.york.ac.uk Publicity Chair: - Denis Gracanin, Virginia Tech _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ AXMEDIS 2006 Call for Papers _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, Leeds, UK, 13-15 December 2006. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006 Recommended topics include, but are not limited to the following: * Automatic cross-media production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting, P2P, etc. * Formats and models for multi-channel content distribution * Multimedia standards, e.g. MPEG-7, MPEG-21, DMP, etc. * High quality audio visual coding * Multimedia music representation and formatting * Watermarking and fingerprinting techniques * GRID and distributed systems for content production * real-time streaming media distribution * Multimedia middleware * Workflow management systems * Web services for content distribution * Semantic Web * Distribution with P2P architectures * Legal aspects related to digital content * Collecting and clearing of rights and licences * Business, payment and transaction models * Digital Rights Management (DRM), models tools, and interoperability * Formats and tools for Content Aware * Archives managements for cultural and educational applications * Synchronisation technologies and solutions * Systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand * Digital content user interface * Digital content accessibility * Novel applications and case-studies of relevant technologies The conference proceedings is to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in special issues of one or more major peer-reviewed Journals in this domain. - Submission due: 18 March 2006 - Conference date: 13-15 December 2006 - Conference venue: University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK ----end----

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[Fwd: IEEE INFOCOM: Registration now Open!]
by Sven Jaap 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE INFOCOM: Registration now Open! Datum: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:25:13 -0500 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed"> [] [] IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 23-29 April 2006 / Barcelona, Spain / <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006>www.ieee-infocom.org/2006 Don't miss this landmark, 25th Anniversary event sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society! For program, registration and hotel information, visit: <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006>www.ieee-infocom.org/2006. Program features include: * Peer-to-peer Networking Opportunities * Technical Paper Presentations * Posters and Demos * Panel Sessions * Tutorials * Global Internet Workshop * Adaptive Policy-based Management in Network Management and Control Workshop * High-Speed Networking Workshop: The Terabits Challenge To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA </div>

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