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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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[Fwd: Invitation from SPECTS06 - 24 Days to Prepare and Submit Your Paper(s)]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation from SPECTS06 - 24 Days to Prepare and Submit Your Paper(s) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:26:18 -0800 (PST) From: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> To: tcgn(a)comsoc.org ================CALL FOR PAPERS for SPECTS06================= (We apologize if you have received multiple copies) 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2006 http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects July 31 – August 2, 2006 The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Calgary, Canada This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems • Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology • Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication • Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking ATM Optical Networks • Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks • Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems • Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks • Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes • Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages • Electronic Commerce • Hardware and Software Monitors • High-Performance Computing • Information Assurance • Reconfigurable Computing • Scientific Computing Algorithms • Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications • Parallel and Distributed Simulation • Verification and Validation • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications • Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models • Queuing Systems and Networks • Scalability Studies • Integrated Modeling and Measurement • On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning • Process Algebra-Based Models • Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance • Case Studies 2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems, WiNCS’2006 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS06.pdf http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu <mailto:obaidat@monmouth.edu> Vice General Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it <mailto:franco@dist.unige.it> Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es <mailto:joseluis.marzo@udg.es> Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca <mailto:ljilja@cs.sfu.ca> Local Arrangement Chair Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada E-mail: Carey(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca <mailto:Carey@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Tutorial Chair John Fox Foxband Consultancy, UK E-mail: fox.conf(a)btinternet.com <mailto:fox.conf@btinternet.com> Publicity Committee: Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com <mailto:zenggu@nortelnetworks.com> Vice Chair: Yi Su, Masergy Communications, Inc., USA, ysu(a)masergy.com <mailto:ysu@masergy.com> Vice Chair: Weiguang Shi, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca <mailto:wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca> Vice Chair: Abdelmajid Khelil, University of Stuttgart - IPVS - VS, Germany, abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:abdelmajid.khelil@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> Web Master Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil <mailto:mchinni@pica.army.mil> Technical Program Committee Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Sam Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the Web Master, Program Co-Chairs, or the Conference Coordinator, Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92 111, USA, Tel. (858) 277-3888, Fax (858) 277-3930, E-mail: sbranch(a)scs.org <mailto:sbranch@scs.org>. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2006 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Co-Chairs. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2006 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. As a member of the list you are encouraged to use it for all messages that meet this general criteria. To make this list "self correcting" please send any concern you may have to mailmanager(a)comsoc.org. You can leave this list by sending a blank email from the address you are subscribed under to tcgn-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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[Fwd: CfP: IPv6DFI06 Workshop - Silicon Valey, July 16-18, 2006]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: IPv6DFI06 Workshop - Silicon Valey, July 16-18, 2006 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 16:03:49 +0100 From: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organization: University of Wuerzburg To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE IPv6 Today - Deploying the Future Infrastructure http://www.iaria.org/conferences/IPV6DFI06.html Collocated with ICNS’06 http://www.iaria.org/conferences/ICNS06.html July 16-18, 2006 Silicon Valley, USA Call for Papers IPv6, the Next Generation of the Internet Protocol, has seen over the past three years tremendous activity related to its development, implementation and deployment. Its importance is unequivocally recognized by research organizations, businesses and governments worldwide. To maintain global competitiveness, governments are mandating, encouraging or actively supporting the adoption of IPv6 to prepare their respective economies for the future communication infrastructures. In the United States, government’s plans to migrate to IPv6 has stimulated significant interest in the technology and accelerated the adoption process. Business organizations are also increasingly mindful of the IPv4 address space depletion and see within IPv6 a way to solve pressing technical problems. At the same time IPv6 technology continues to evolve beyond IPv4 capabilities. Communications equipment manufacturers and applications developers are actively integrating IPv6 in their products based on market demands. IPv6 creates opportunities for new and more scalable IP based services while representing a fertile and growing area of research and technology innovation. The efforts of successful research projects, progressive service providers deploying IPv6 services and enterprises led to a significant body of knowledge and expertise. It is the goal of this workshop to facilitate the dissemination and exchange of technology and deployment related information, to provide a forum where academia and industry can share ideas and experiences in this field that could accelerate the adoption of IPv6. The workshop brings together IPv6 research and deployment experts that will share their work. The audience will hear the latest technological updates and will be provided with examples of successful IPv6 deployments; it will be offered an opportunity to learn what to expect from IPv6 and how to prepare for it. We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. The IPv6DFI 2006 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society and posted on Xplore IEEE system. A best paper award will be granted by the IARIA’s award selection committee. TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST (but not limited to) IP Upgrade – An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity? Worldwide IPv6 Adoption – Trends and Policies National Strategies in Stimulating IPv6 Adoption IPv6 in Government Infrastructures - Specific Requirements IPv6 Infrastructures for Emergency Response and Law Enforcement – MetroNet6 Communications Equipment Certification for IPv6 Support IPv6 in Broadband Networks IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination IPv6 Technology – Practical Information Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6 IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: February 15, 2006 Abstract based acceptance: March 5, 2006 Registration and first draft: March 20, 2006 Camera-ready paper: April 15, 2006 INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE AUTHORS The IPv6DFI 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-%20Formattin… 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 cpopovic(a)cisco.com <mailto:cpopovic@cisco.com>, geof.lambert(a)gmail.com <mailto:geof.lambert@gmail.com> or gvandeve(a)cisco.com <mailto:gvandeve@cisco.com> using “ICNS’06 IPv6DFI” 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 cpopovic(a)cisco.com <mailto:cpopovic@cisco.com>, geof.lambert(a)gmail.com <mailto:geof.lambert@gmail.com> or gvandeve(a)cisco.com <mailto:gvandeve@cisco.com> using “ICNS’06 IPv6DFI” in the email subject. For questions and comments, please feel free to contact Ciprian Popoviciu (cpopovic(a)cisco.com <mailto:cpopovic@cisco.com>), Geof Lambert (geof.lambert(a)gmail.com <mailto:geof.lambert@gmail.com>) and Gunter Van de Velde (gvandeve(a)cisco.com <mailto:gvandeve@cisco.com>)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MOBIQUITOUS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '06

02 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] MOBIQUITOUS 2006 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 15:34:19 -0500 From: Prasun Sinha <prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> MOBIQUITOUS 2006 Sponsored by Create-Net and ICST The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Service http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17 - 21, 2006 San Jose, California, USA In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE Pending Sponsorship: IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Computer Society The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The Third Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-06) will cover all these aspects, providing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, data management and services, all with special focus on mobility and ubiquitous computing. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure, data and services. Technical papers clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following feature topics: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area networks * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Wireless Internet access in ubiquitous systems * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless networks * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer computing and networking * Emerging industrial/business/scientific scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Location-based services and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, and mobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * Context modeling, services and frameworks * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Rapid prototyping of ubiquitous applications * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing * Mobile and ubiquitous data management SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare an Adobe Acrobat PDF version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is February 20, 2006. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the international technical program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. WORKSHOPS: Four workshops will be run in conjunction with the conference. Please see the web site for more information. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 3 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed equipment. Proposals should be submitted to the Demo Chair by May 1, 2006. General Co-Chairs Hamid Ahmadi, IBM, hahmadi(a)us.ibm.com Tom La Porta, Penn State, tlp(a)cse.psu.edu Program Co-Chairs Ravi Jain, Google, ravi.jain(a)acm.org Asim Smailagic, CMU, asim(a)cs.cmu.edu Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash Univ.,arkady.zaslavsky(a)csse.monash.edu.au Workshop Chair Kin Leung, Imperial College, kin.leung(a)imperial.ac.uk Demo Chair Sencun Zhu, Penn State, szhu(a)cse.psu.edu Finance Chair Karen Decker, ICST, karen(a)icst.org Local Arrangements Chair Ulas Kozat, DoCoMo Labs, kozat(a)docomolabs-usa.com Publicity Chair Prasun Sinha, Ohio State University, prasun(a)cse.ohio-state.edu Web Chair Patrick Traynor, Penn State, traynor(a)cse.psu.edu Conference Coordinator Anna Rieger, ICST, anna.rieger(a)icst.org Steering Committee Chair Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, imrich.chlamtac(a)create-net.it Important Dates Paper submission: February 20, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 21, 2006 Camera-ready version due: May 22, 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] ACM/SIGMOBILE REALMAN 2006: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Cost290] ACM/SIGMOBILE REALMAN 2006: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:12:02 +0100 From: Andrea Passarella <andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it> To: cost 290 <Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> [Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Multi-hop Ad hoc Networks: from theory to reality REALMAN 2006 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/realman Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE in conjunction with MobiHoc 2006 jointly organized by University of Cambridge, UK CNR-Institute for Informatics and Telematics, I May 26, 2006 Florence, Italy Ad hoc networking technologies have big potentialities for innovative applications of great impact on our everyday life. To exploit these potentialities, simulation modeling and theoretical analyses have to be complemented by real experiences (e.g., measurements on real prototypes) which provide both a direct evaluation of ad hoc networks and, at the same time, precious information to realistically model these systems. The need for more experimental activities stimulated a new community of researchers combining theoretical research on ad hoc networking with experiences/measurements obtained by implementing ad hoc network prototypes. The aim of REALMAN is to bring together this community. Following the success of the first edition, this workshop constitutes a unique forum for presenting and discussing measurement studies and experiences based on real ad hoc network test-beds and prototypes. Original contributions are solicited, related to systems and protocols *development*, *measurement* and *testing*, in all areas related to ad hoc networking. We encourage authors willing to submit a regular paper to also submit a *demo* proposal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Ad Hoc Networks Applications * System Prototypes and Experiences * Mobile Ad Hoc Networks * Opportunistic and Delay Tolerant Networks * Sensor Networks * Mesh Networks * Vehicular Networks * Protocols Implementation and Testing * Middleware Platforms for Ad Hoc Networks * Ad Hoc Networking for Pervasive Environments * Situated Autonomic Communications * Location Services * Positioning and Tracking Technologies and Services * Measurement Studies * Mobility Models based on Real Data * Enabling Technologies (802.11, 802.15, etc.) * Experiment-based Social and/or Economic Analysis of Mobile Ad hoc Networks DEMO SESSION A demo session will be held during the workshop, showing real prototypes at work. Demo proposals are highly welcome, and will be evaluated by the Program Committee. An extended abstract (up to three pages) describing the demo will be published in the workshop proceedings. More information on demo-proposal submission can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/realman. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers must not be already under submission for any other publication. Paper submissions for regular papers must be limited to 8 pages including text, figures, references, and appendices; single- or double-column are fine for submissions. The font size used in the text of your submission must not be smaller than 10 points. Papers significantly exceeding the maximum length of 8 pages will be automatically rejected. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. More information on paper submission instructions can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/realman. SPECIAL ISSUES Distinguished papers will be invited to submit extended versions to high-quality journal. In this regard, we will take into particular consideration papers for which a demo will be accepted for presentation during the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission 15 February 2006 Demo Submission 10 March 2006 Notification 27 March 2006 Camera-ready due 10 April 2006 ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chair Marco Conti IIT-CNR, Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Program Chair Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, UK jon.crowcroft(a)cl.cam.ac.uk Program Vice Chair Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy University of Cambridge, UK andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE I. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA K. Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA G. Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy E. Biagioni, University of Hawaii, USA L. Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy E. Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy C.F. Chiasserini, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy S.K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA S.R. Das, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA C. Diot, Thomson Research, F S. Fdida, University Pierre et Marie Curie, F E. Fleury, INSA Lyon, F M. Gerla, UCLA, USA S. Giordano, SUPSI, CH P. Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden T. Henderson, Dartmouth College, USA H. Karl, Paderborn University, Germany D. Katabi, MIT, USA E. Knightly, Rice University, USA S.J. Lee, HP Labs, USA C. Mascolo, University College London, UK M. Mauve, Duesseldorf HH University, Germany P. Michiardi, EURECOM, F G. Morabito, University of Catania, Italy J. Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland D. Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK C. Petrioli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy G. Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece D. Remondo, University Polytechnic of Catalonia, Spain K. Roemer, ETH Zurich, CH C. Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden J. Scott, Intel Research, UK F. Sestini, European Commission V.A. Siris, FORTH-ICS and Crete University, Greece M. Srivastava, University of California at Los Angeles, USA I. Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, Canada N. Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA W. Wang, North Carolina State University, USA X. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA A. Wolisz, Techical University of Berlin, Germany -- Andrea Passarella REALMAN 06 Program Vice Chair ========================================================= University of Cambridge Computer Lab Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 || voice: +39 050 315 3063 56124 Pisa, Italy || fax: +39 050 315 2113 email: andrea.passarella(a)iit.cnr.it web: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ap458/ ========================================================= _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call for Papers: Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:44:59 -0500 From: Tilman Wolf <wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ANCHOR 2006 - Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/anchor Held in conjunction with the 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2006), Boston, MA, June 17-21, 2006 Workshop Overview: The rapid expansion of networking applications and data traffic is leading to new specialized network component designs that can keep up with the growing field of networking and communications. Network component design becomes more challenging as performance and usage of communication networks increase. This workshop focuses on hardware architecture design approaches for packet-switched networks. The workshop aims at providing a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss their latest research on emerging network services. There is a growing interest in extensible networks, overlay networks, and grid computing, and higher layer processing built in hardware can effectively support these networks and computational approaches. This year's workshop will be looking for contributions that can benefit these communities. Workshop Topics: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Switch and router architectures (including optical and fiber channel networks) - Communications and network processors - Co-processors (classification, search engine, traffic manager, etc.) - Specialized offload engines (protocol offload engines, I/O adapters, etc.) - Architectures for security applications - Architectures for processor-memory interconnection - Hardware accelerators for emerging network services (overlay, extensible, grid computing, etc.) - Application-specific designs (compression, QoS, etc.) - Power-efficient architectures - High-level software for networking hardware Submission Guidelines: - Submit a 200-word abstract including title and complete author list in email (plain text preferred) to anchor(a)ece.northwestern.edu by March 24th, 2006. - Submit a 6000-word manuscript in email (pdf or ps format) to anchor(a)ece.northwestern.edu by March 31st, 2006. Notifications will be sent out on April 28th. The final versions of the papers will be due May 22nd, 2006. Organizers: Taskin Kocak, University of Central Florida, tkocak(a)cs.ucf.edu Gokhan Memik, Northwestern University, memik(a)ece.northwestern.edu Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu Program Committee: Brad Calder, UCSD Maria Gabrani, IBM Research - Switzerland Andreas Herkersdorf, TU Munchen Mark Heinrich, UCF Dirk Hoenicke, IBM T.J. Watson Bill Mangione-Smith, Quantum Intellectual Property Steve Melvin, Zytek Communications Christian Sauer, Infineon _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACM SIGCHI Advances in Computer Entertainment 2006]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACM SIGCHI Advances in Computer Entertainment 2006 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:17:28 +0100 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> 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 ** **************************************************** Dear Scientist/Artist Following the great success of ACE 2004 in Singapore and ACE 2005 in Valencia, we have great pleasure in announcing ACM SIGCHI ACE 2006 to be held in the capital of entertainment: Hollywood, USA from 14 to16 June 2006, www.ace2006.org. Make sure to submit your paper/poster/art work/demo to the conference at www.ace2006.org by 14 March 2006 and we hope to see you in Hollywood! This year we have an amazing line-up of Keynote speakers which surely you would not want to miss! Each of these Keynote speakers is famous around the world for their work and impact in the entertainment and new media community: NEWTON LEE Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computers in Entertainment magazine; a senior producer at Disney Online. STEPHANE NATKIN Director of the French National Video Games School of Angouleme France. MASAKI FUJIHATA Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music, Pioneer New Media Artist; Winner of Golden Nica. JULIAN BLEEKER Head of Mobile and Pervasive Lab, Researcher and Professor at the University of Southern California. JOEL SLAYTON ISEA Academic Chair, Professor at San Jose State University where he is Director of the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic program in the School of Art and Design. MARC TUTERS Pioneering New Media Art and Technology Researcher, USC, Interactive Media Division, School of Cinema Television. NAOKO TOSA Breakthrough Media Artist and Professor in Kyoto University. With best regards ACE 2006 Committee **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** and subscribe directly ** **************************************************** ** News archives: ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ ** **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ** **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call For Papers: Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call For Papers: Wireless Mesh Networks Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:54:38 -0500 (EST) From: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies] ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAl ISSUE ON WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/ Guest editors: Xudong Wang, Kiyon, Inc. Edward Knightly, Rice University Marco Conti, National Research Council, Italy Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh routers. Mesh routers form a wireless backbone via multi-hop ad-hoc networking but with minimal-mobility. The mesh backbone provides network access for both wired and wireless clients including mesh clients, and enables the integration of various wired and wireless networks. Mesh clients can run as a mobile ad hoc network. However, in order to achieve much better network performance, it is always preferable for them to work under the coordination of mesh routers. Due to the existence of a mesh backbone, wireless mesh networks possess many advantages over other wireless networks, and are expected to be one of the most promising wireless networking technologies. Despite recent progresses in wireless mesh networks, many research issues still remain. This special issue is dedicated to state-of-the-art research achievements in the area of wireless mesh networking. The papers must focus on research problems that are specific to wireless mesh networking, rather than on generic topics of ad-hoc or multi-hop networking. This special issue will cover all aspects of wireless mesh networking. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Mesh network architecture and performance analysis Mesh network capacity Scalability issues and solutions Medium access control and routing protocols Protocol design for MIMO, adaptive antenna, reconfigurable radios, software radios, and cognitive radios Cross-layer design and optimization QoS and multimedia traffic over wireless mesh networks Topology, power, and mobility management Interworking between heterogeneous networks and adaptive protocols Network self-organization and self-configuration Trustworthy networks and security algorithms Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems Testbed, deployment, and application practice Authors must submit their manuscripts through Elsevier Editorial System at http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/, and must choose article type as Special Issue-Wireless Mesh Networks. For detailed formatting instructions, please refer to the guidelines available at the AD HOC Networks journal web site, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/. The review process will be based on a pre-review phase for screening papers out of the scope of this special issue, and a single round of technical reviews. Acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only minor revisions. The key dates are listed as follows: Manuscript Submission Due Date: March 15, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission: September 1, 2006 On-line Publication Date: November 1, 2006 Publication Date: November 2007 =================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:16:14 +0200 From: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP. NEWS - Pictures from Lipari: http://www.medhoc.diit.unict.it/2006/pictures.html ************************************************************ PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS MED HOC NET 2006 The Fifth Annual MEDITERRANEAN AD HOC NETWORKING Workshop http://www.medhoc.diit.unict.it/2006/ June 14-17 2006 Lipari, Italy ************************************************************ Ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now that some of the fundamental issues and challenges of ad hoc networking have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous Organization and operation, optimization and control, service creation and support, middleware. Moreover, wireless MESH networking is emerging as an "ad hoc spin-off" aimed at extending and integrating the multi-hop paradigm with more traditional networking, which poses new and exciting technical challenges. Med-Hoc-Net 2006 is the major annual international workshop aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world. Sharing ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of wireless multi-hop networking is what Med-Hoc-Net 2006 intends to be about. Anything from theoretical and experimental achievements, to innovative ad hoc systems, prototyping efforts, and case studies is of interest to the Med-Hoc-Net community. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2006 cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc and MESH networks, including but not limited to: - Novel multi-hop wireless network architectures - Routing algorithms and protocols - MAC protocols, scheduling, power control and radio resource sharing - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks - Middleware for ad hoc networks - Application driven architectures and protocols - Sensor network applications and protocols - Vehicular networks - Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes - Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.20, etc.) - Self organization and network reconfiguration - Optimization models and algorithms - Resource and service discovery - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks - Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) - QoS support - Security and privacy The members of program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, with the exception of the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 8 pages, including figure, tables and references. Med-Hoc-Net will have a Poster/Demo Session as well. Authors that want to present their work in such format are solicited to submit a description of their contribution in no more than 3 pages by April 7, 2006. More details can be found in the web site. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through EDAS system (http://edas.info) according to the timetable below. IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Electronic Submission: Friday February 24, 2006 Tutorial proposal submission: Sunday April 23, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection: Tuesday May 2, 2006 Camera ready submission of full papers: Friday May 22, 2006 Tutorial date: June 14, 2006 Conference dates: June 15-17, 2006 -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:14 +0900 From: Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Aissi, Selim' <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, 'Ravikumar' <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Aplogies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.h tml> http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-000.ht ml Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> jravikumar(a)consistel.com --- Sunghyun Choi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Multimedia & Wireless Networking Laboratory (MWNL) School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Office: +82-(0)2-880-1753 Mobile: +82-(0)11-798-0180 Email: <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> schoi(a)snu.ac.kr URL: <http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi> http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~schoi _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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