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[Fwd: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006]
by Lars Wolf 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Contributions: UbiComp 2006 Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 07:39:44 +0100 From: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ====================== UbiComp 2006 - The Eigth International Conference on Ubiquituous Computing http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/ Conference Date: 17. - 21.09.2006 Conference Venue: Marriott Newport Beach, Orange County, California Hosted by: Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine Overview: ========= Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance. Orange County is located in coastal Southern California, south of Los Angeles and north of San Diego. Typical September weather is sunny and dry with temperatures around 25C. We invite you to submit original, high-quality research contributions in all program categories, including full papers, demonstrations, posters, videos, and the doctoral colloquium. Contributions on all topics related to ubiquitous computing are welcome, including: * tools and techniques for designing, implementing, & evaluating ubiquitous computing systems * mobile, wireless, and ad hoc networking infrastructures for ubiquitous computing * laboratory and in situ studies of ubiquitous computing technologies in use * location-aware and context-based systems for ubiquitous computing * privacy, security, and trust in ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The UbiComp conference has traditionally had a strong workshop program. Workshops allow small groups to gather for intensive discussion around focused topics of interest. The goal of workshops is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions. NOTE: Ubicomp 2006 will have two days for workshops. Important Dates and Deadlines: ============================== 03/31/2006: Paper and workshop proposals 06/16/2006: Demos and videos 08/18/2006: Early registration 09/17-21/2006: Conference Call for Papers: ================ Ubicomp 2006 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing systems and their applications. This conference seeks to present novel research results impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology that migrates beyond the desktop. Submissions should report original research that contributes to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state of the art. Examples of appropriate areas of inquiry include: Improving natural interaction (e.g. applied sensing, fusion and reasoning, AI and speech technologies for Ubicomp, increasing machine understanding of human action & vice versa) Constructing ubicomp systems (e.g., systems and toolkit support for constructing, maintaining and deploying and prototyping Ubicomp environments) Embedding computation (e.g. novel user interfaces, computational and sensing/ actuator platforms, assistive technolgies, applied to Ubicomp) Understanding ubicomp and its consequences (e.g. conceptual models, lessons learnt, user studies and results from Ubicomp experiments) Deploying ubicomp technologies (e.g. privacy, security, and trust, real-world and deployment experiences, studies of ubicomp settings) Ubicomp 2006 seeks papers that reflect the full breadth and scope of ubiquitous computing research, including conceptual development, empirical investigations, technological advances, application experiences, and more. Authors should write for the broader Ubicomp audience, however, and make clear how their work contributes to the whole. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers submitted must not have been previously published or be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. We solicit papers up to 18 pages but explicitly welcome shorter papers. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers, but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. Contacts: ========= General Chair: Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs: Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Adrian Friday, Lancaster University, UK For additional information regarding UbiComp 2006, please visit http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2006/

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (New Year's 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (New Year's 2006) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 11:16:26 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (New Year's 2006) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements SPW 2006 2006-01-13 http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~strrjh/SP2006/ USENIX 2006 2006-01-17 http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix06/index.html SIGCOMM 2006 2006-02-03 http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2006/ * SelfMan 2006 2006-02-08 http://research.ihost.com/selfman2006/ NOSSDAV 2006 2006-02-08 http://www.nossdav.org/2006/cfp.html EmNets 2006 2006-02-27 http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/emnets/ SysML 2006 2006-03-03 http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/sysml/ * QEST 2006 2006-03-20 http://www.qest.org * NetEcon 2006-03-27 http://issg.cs.duke.edu/netecon06/ (* = new this month) 2. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements SPW 2006 Title: 14th International Workshop on Security Protocols Deadline: 2006-01-13 Webpage: http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~strrjh/SP2006/ Conference: March 27/28/29 2006 Contact: J.M.Hunt AT herts.ac.uk Location: Cambridge, England Synopsis: The theme of this year's workshop is "putting the human back in the protocol". The trend over the last 30 years has been to regard humans as the least reliable (and least secure) parts of the system, but the human is often the only part of the system which is directly aware of the security requirement. Our intention is to stimulate discussion, not merely to consider finished work. As with previous years, attendance is by invitation only; to be invited you must submit a position paper. You are therefore encouraged to submit such a paper (see web site). ____________________________________________________________ USENIX 2006 Title: 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'06) Deadline: 2006-01-17 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix06/index.html Conference: May 30 - June 3, 2006 Contact: usenix06chairs(a)usenix.org Location: Boston, MA, USA Synopsis: The Program Committee for the Systems Practice & Experience Track (formerly the the Refereed Papers General Track) is seeking your participation. Please note that the submissions deadline is January 17, 2006. Authors are invited to submit original and innovative papers that further the knowledge and understanding of modern computing systems, with an emphasis on practical implementations and experimental results. We encourage papers that break new ground or present insightful results based on experience with computer systems. The USENIX conference has a broad scope, and we encourage papers in a wide range of topics in systems. ____________________________________________________________ SIGCOMM 2006 Title: ACM SIGCOMM 2006 Abstract: 2006-02-03 Deadline: 2006-02-10 Webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2006/ Conference: September 11-15, 2006 Contact: Location: Pisa, Italy Synopsis: The SIGCOMM 2006 conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where full papers typically report novel results firmly substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! SelfMan 2006 Title: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services Deadline: 2006-02-08 Webpage: http://research.ihost.com/selfman2006/ Conference: June 16, 2006 Contact: selfman2006(a)gmail.com Location: Dublin, Ireland Synopsis: As the networks, systems and services that sustain our day-to-day IT and communication infrastructures become increasingly complex, traditional solutions to manage and control them seem to have reached their limits. Researchers are thus testing alternate paradigms to organize these infrastructures. In recent years, self-* principles have raised much interest in integrated management, networking, distributed systems and software engineering. During this workshop, we wish to gather people with different backgrounds to analyze and discuss the potential of self-* technologies for managing and controlling networks, systems and services. Areas of interest include self-management, self-organization, self-adaptability, self- monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair and self-configuration. ____________________________________________________________ NOSSDAV 2006 Title: The 16th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Abstract: 2006-02-08 Deadline: 2006-02-15 Webpage: http://www.nossdav.org/2006/cfp.html Conference: May, 22-23, 2006 Contact: brian(a)cs.umass.edu, claypool(a)cs.wpi.edu Location: Newport, Rhone Island, USA Synopsis: NOSSDAV fosters cutting-edge, state-of-the-art research in multimedia and newly emerging areas. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking. Papers grounded in experimental research based on prototype and real systems are highly valued. Papers proposing new directions for research or calling into question existing conventional wisdom are welcomed. NOSSDAV will give extra consideration to papers where the source code to experimental or real systems is released and to papers that aim to comprehensively validate previous work in some topic within multimedia. ____________________________________________________________ EmNets 2006 Title: 3rd IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets'06) Deadline: 2006-02-27 Webpage: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/emnets/ Conference: May 30-31, 2006 Contact: emnets(a)eecs.harvard.edu Location: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Synopsis: The Third Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006) will focus on groundbreaking research in wireless sensor systems with an emphasis on three topic areas: (1) Emerging research directions for sensor networks; (2) Application experiences; and (3) Early results from new research efforts. In keeping with the focused workshop format, EmNets encourages submissions that present exciting new work, challenge conventional ideas, propose new research directions, evaluate real-world applications and deployments, and generate controversy. We especially welcome papers reporting on highly original or risky research, position papers, and reports on application experiences and deployments. ____________________________________________________________ SysML 2006 Title: First Workshop on Tackling Computer Systems Problems with Machine Learning Techniques Deadline: 2006-03-03 Webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/sysml/ Conference: June 27, 2006 Contact: emrek(a)microsoft.com Location: Saint-Malo, France Synopsis: More and more researchers are borrowing machine learning techniques to attack a wide-range of systems problems, from reliability and performance in large-scale systems and networks to power efficiency in sensor networks and self-configuration in complicated systems. Regardless of the domain, applying machine learning techniques requires us to deal with many similar issues, from scalably collecting training data to interpreting and responding to algorithm results. We invite submissions of short position papers or reports of early work, and especially encourage reports of experiences with real-world systems and lessons likely to be applicable across a variety of computer systems. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! QEST 2006 Title: 3rd International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems Abstract: 2006-03-20 Deadline: 2006-03-27 Webpage: http://www.qest.org Conference: September 11-14, 2006 Contact: Alma.Riska(a)seagate.com Location: Riverside, CA, USA Synopsis: The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is the leading forum on evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks, through stochastic models and measurements, possibly incorporating non-deterministic behavior. Quantitative properties of interest include performance, reliability, availability, safety, security, survivability, correctness, timeliness, and efficiency. In short, QEST aims to create a sound methodological basis for assessing and designing trustworthy computing systems and networks. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! NetEcon Title: Workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems Deadline: 2006-03-27 Webpage: http://issg.cs.duke.edu/netecon06/ Conference: June 11, 2006 Contact: chase(a)cs.duke.edu Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Synopsis: NetEcon merges two workshops held in previous years: P2PEcon (Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems) and PINS (Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems). The workshop solicits 6-page position papers that will promote a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas on the role of incentives and game-theoretic or economic principles in the design and analysis of networked systems. Contexts of particular interest for this workshop include Internet routing and traffic control, peer-to-peer services, distributed hosting platforms (utilities or grids), and wireless mesh networks. ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in these mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extended: Wiley IJCS Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms on Wireless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline Extended: Wiley IJCS Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms on Wireless Sensor Networks Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 00:38:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jun Zheng <vjzheng(a)site.uottawa.ca> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ========================================================== * Call for Papers * * * * A Special Issue * * of * * Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems * * on * * Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms * * for Wireless Sensor Netowrks * * * ========================================================== Extended Deadline: January 20, 2006 Wireless sensor networking is an emerging technology that promises a wide range of potential applications in both civilian and military areas, and has therefore received tremendous attention from both academia and industry in recent years. A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a large number of inexpensive and small nodes with sensing, data processing, and communication capabilities, which are densely deployed in a region of interest and collaborate to accomplish a common task, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and industry process control. Distinguished from traditional wireless networks and ad hoc networks, WSNs are characterized of dense node deployment, unreliable sensor node, frequent topology change, and severe power, computation, and memory constraints. These unique characteristics and constraints present many new challenges to practical realization of WSNs, such as energy conservation, self-organization, fault tolerance, etc. In particular, sensor nodes are usually battery-powered and should operate without attendance for a relatively long period of time. In most cases, it is very difficult and even impossible to change or recharge batteries for these sensor nodes. For this reason, energy efficiency is of primary importance for the operational lifetime of a sensor network. To prolong the lifetime of a sensor network, energy efficiency must be considered in almost every aspect of sensor network design, not only at the physical layer but also at the link layer and the network layer. From the networking perspective, energy efficiency must be considered in the design of various network protocols and algorithms, including those for topology discovery, self-organization, medium access control, routing, data aggregation, fault-tolerance, etc. An energy-efficient network protocol or algorithm can provide significant power savings in individual sensor nodes and thus prolong the lifetime of the entire network. However, most existing network protocols and algorithms for traditional wireless ad hoc networks cannot effectively address the power constraint and other constraints of sensor networks. To realize the vision of sensor networks, it is imperative to develop various energy-efficient network protocols and algorithms in order to efficiently use the limited power in each sensor node and prolong the lifetime of the network. The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that focus on energy-efficient network protocols and algorithms for WSNs. We are soliciting original contributions that were previously unpublished and are currently not under consideration by any other journal. As applicable to this theme, topics of interests include but are not limited to: - Topology discovery and self-organization - Medium access control (MAC) - Routing and data dissemination - Multicasting, geocasting, and broadcasting - Quality of service routing - Energy and resource management - Query processing and data aggregation - Localization and time synchronization - Fault-tolerance and self-healing - Performance modeling and analysis Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the publication format described in the Instructions to Authors (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/5996/ForAuthors.html). There will be only one round of technical reviews and acceptance will be limited to papers requiring only minor to moderate revisions. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscripts (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 MB) to jzheng at ieee.org according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: January 20, 2006 (Extended Deadline) Acceptance notification: May 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: July 1, 2006 Tentative publication date: Late 2006 Guest Editors Dr. Jun Zheng School of Information Technology and Engineering University of Ottawa 800 King Edward Street Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Tel: (613)562-5800x6243 Fax: (613)562-5664 Email: jzheng at ieee.org Dr. Petre Dini Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA Tel: (408) 853-4050 Fax: (408) 527-6351 Email: pdini at cisco.com Prof. Abbas Jamalipour School of Electrical & Information Eng. University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Phone: +61 2 9351 2843 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 Email: a.jamalipour at ieee.org Prof. Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace IUT, 34 rue du Grillenbreit Colmar, 68008, France Tel: 33 (0)6 3263-0204 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 Email: lorenz at ieee.org Prof. Dr. Do van Thanh Wireless Communications Telenor R&D Norwegian University of Science & Technology Snarøyveien 30 1331 Fornebu, Norway Tel: +47 909 77 102 Fax: +47 962 10 492 Email: thanh-van.do at telenor.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] CFP: Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISCC06] CFP: Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2006) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:23:52 +0200 From: Periklis Chatzimisios <peris(a)it.teithe.gr> To: Chatzimisios Periklis <pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= 1st Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2006) April 2, 2006 Athens, Greece In conjunction with 12th European Wireless Conference (EW 2006) (http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/EW2006) Scope The purpose of the MediaWiN 2006 Workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing recent advances in multimedia systems, services and applications over wireless networks. In particular, the Workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information and new findings as well as to study the special problems and challenges of the multimedia mobile and wireless environments. Topics of Interest The workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to the following: Quality and Reliability of Wireless Multimedia * Providing QoS over wireless networks (Scheduling, Call admission Control and Rate control,packetization schemes, prioritization schemes) * Cross-Layer techniques for multimedia communications over wireless networks * Provisioning, monitoring, and management of IP services for WPANs/WLANs * Traffic charging and accounting of integrated systems and services * Multimedia support over multi-hop wireless networks (mesh, ad-hoc, sensor networks) Performance Modeling and Analysis of High-speed Wireless PANs and LANs * Performance evaluation of multimedia services via analysis, simulation and experiments (voice, video, interactive gaming) * Design, implementation and testbed/experimental results for wireless multimedia systems * Energy efficiency in wireless multimedia protocols Emerging Standards and Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications * Performance of VoIP, VoD services and related protocols (IPv4, IPv6, H.323, SIP,RTP,RTCP) * Standardization activities in emerging standards: IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16 * New network architectures and management solutions for WLANs (IEEE 802.11v,CAPWAP) * Emerging and visionary multimedia applications for wireless mobile networks * Authentication and security issues in wireless multimedia systems Important dates Submission of research papers: February 5, 2006 Notification of paper acceptance: February 25, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 6, 2006 Workshop date: April 2, 2006 Submission Guidelines We encourage submission of high-quality technical papers reporting original work and previously unpublished research in the above theoretical and experimental research areas. Submitted papers must be submitted to any of the Chairs as a .PDF file and must not exceed 7 A4 pages, double columned, single-spaced format, using 12-point font size. All submissions must also contain full contact information of the authors along with an abstract no more than 150 words describing the presented research content. Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Vasileios Vitsas, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Co-Chairs Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy Andrea Zanella, University of Padova, Italy Technical Program Committee Dimitrios Amanatiadis (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Leonardo Badia (University of Ferrara, Italy) Frank Ball (Bournemouth University, UK) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Anthony Boucouvalas (Bournemouth University, UK) David Everitt (University of Sydney, Australia) Fary Z. Ghassemlooy (Northumbria University, UK) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy) Ibrahim Habib (City University of New York, USA) Pi Huang (Bournemouth University, UK) Christos Ilioudis (TEI of Larissa, Greece) Alexandros Kaloxylos (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Michael Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece) Vasileios Lourdas (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland) Ioannis Mavridis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece) Kostas Pentikousis (VTT Tech. Research Centre, Finland) Luca Scalia (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Yang Xiao (University of Memphis, USA) Michele Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy) -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki, GR-574 00 Thessaloniki, Greece E-mail: pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org URL: http://decweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/pchatzimisios Tel: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended deadline: Jan 15, 2006 for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms]
by Lars Wolf 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Extended deadline: Jan 15, 2006 for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:32:56 +0100 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <all(a)ist-mobilife.org>, <spice-all(a)eurescom.de>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended deadline for manuscript submission: January 15, 2006 !!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Communications Magazine Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems Call for Papers http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag906.htm Background Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment. Scope of Contributions The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects: - Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) - Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) - Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) - Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) - Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) - Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu. Schedule of Submissions Manuscript submission: January 15, 2006 --- EXTENDED DEADLINE! Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 2006 Publication date: September 2006 Guest Editors Wolfgang Kellerer DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-56824-222 Email: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Stefan Arbanowski Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197 Email: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless (Adhoc-Now 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless (Adhoc-Now 2006) Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Mieso Denko <denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> To: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <isworld(a)lyris.isworld.org>, <agents(a)cs.umbc.edu>, <admin(a)ai-gakkai.org.jp>, <conf(a)takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp>, <amlist(a)takilab.k.dendai.ac.jp>, <discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org> [We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS - AD HOC NOW 2006 5th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Ottawa, August 17-19, 2006 http://kunz-pc.sce.carleton.ca/AdHocNow2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Abstract Submission: February 24, 2006 Paper Submission : March 3, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 3, 2006 Camera-ready versions due: June 7, 2006 Demo proposals due: May 1, 2006 SCOPE ------ We are interested in work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Of interest, but not limited to, are research papers in any of the following areas: * Access Control * Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems * Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation * Application for Ad Hoc Networks * Architectures of Ad-Hoc Networks * Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks * Location Discovery and Management * Low Power and Energy-Efficient Designs * Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds * Quality-of-Service * Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.) * Secure Services and Protocols * Sensor Networks * Self-Configuration * Service Discovery * Timing Synchronization * Wireless Internet PROCEEDINGS ----------- As in the past years, we plan to have the proceedings of Adhoc Now 2006 published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------ Authors are strongly encouraged to (but not required to) submit a 150 word abstract of their paper along with three keywords by the abstract submission deadline (February 24, 2006). Acceptable formats for the abstracts are plain text, postscript (PS) and portable document format (PDF). Submissions should not exceed 14 pages (including a 150 word abstract, all figures, tables and references) in Springer Verlag LNCS format. Acceptable formats for papers are PS and PDF. Submissions which are not in the appropriate format will be rejected without review. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Each accepted paper will be published in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference. All abstract and paper submissions will be handled electronically at the conference website. SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS --------------------- Proposals for system demonstrations related to wireless networks are also solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages in LNCS format and should include a description of the demo and the equipment to be used. Potential demonstrators are requested to submit a proposal in PS or PDF format to one of the Co-Chairs of the Technical Program Committee (Thomas Kunz -- tkunz(a)sce.carleton.ca or S. S. Ravi -- ravi(a)cs.albany.edu) by May 1, 2006. Please include contact information (postal address, email address, phone and fax numbers) in the submission. Accepted proposals for system demonstrations will be allotted three pages in the proceedings, provided at least one author registers to present the demo at the conference. TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- Program Committee Co-Chairs: Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Steering Committee: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Publicity Committee: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Technical Program Committee: Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, SUNY Binghamton, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Rida Bazzi, Arizona State Univ., USA Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada Torsten Brown, Univ. Berne, Switzerland Gruia Calinescu, Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan Jorge Cobb, Univ. Texas Dallas, USA Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Pilu Crescenzi, Univ. Florence, Italy Mieso Denko, Univ. of Guelph, Canada Stefan Dobrev, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Mischa Dohler, King's College, London, UK Andras Farago, UT Dallas, USA Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Stefan Fischer, Univ. Luebeck, Germany Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Alex Hall, ETH, Zurich Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech, USA Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Valerie King, Univ. Victoria, Canada Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University, USA Sven Krumke, Univ. Kaiseslautern, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton Univ., Canada Louise Lamont, Communications Research Center, Canada Errol Lloyd, Univ. Delaware, USA Angela Mielke, Los Alamos National Labs, USA Jelena Misic, Univ. Manitoba, Canada Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Lata Narayanan, Concordia Univ, Canada Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. Alberta, Canada J. Opatrny, Concordia Univ., Canada Marina Papatriantafilou, Chalmers Univ., Sweden Paolo Penna, Univ. Salerno, Italy Cristina Pinotti, Univ. Perugia, Italy Guy Pujolle, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France Ravi Prakash, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Jean-Marc Robert, Alcatel, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Christian Schindelhauer, Univ. Paderborn, Germany Andrew Scott, Lancaster Univ., UK Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research LLC and Clemson Univ., USA Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. Ottawa, Canada Ravi Sundaram, Northeastern University, USA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Damla Turgut, Univ. of Florida, USA Anil Kumar Vullikanti, Virginia Tech., USA Paul Ward, Univ. Waterloo, Canada Gergely Zaruba, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Jerry Zhao, ICSI-Berkeley, USA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accommodation, etc, please contact Thomas Kunz (mailto:tkunz@sce.carleton.ca). Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to S. S. Ravi (mailto:ravi@cs.albany.edu). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: ACM SenSys 2006]
by Lars Wolf 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: ACM SenSys 2006 Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:56:56 -0800 From: Wei Ye <weiye(a)ISI.EDU> To: tcgn(a)comsoc.org Our Apologies if you have received multiple copies of the CFP. Wei Ye and Cormac J. Sreenan SenSys'06 Publicity Co-Chairs --------- ACM SenSys 2006: Call for Papers The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 1-3, 2006 Boulder, Colorado, USA http://www.isi.edu/sensys2006/ Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support from NSF. The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities allow for an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, new research results in the following areas for sensor networks: -Sensor network architecture and protocols -Distributed coordination algorithms such as localization, time synchronization, clustering, and topology control -Failure resilience and fault isolation -Energy management -Operating systems -Data, information, and signal processing -Data storage and management -Distributed actuation and control -Programming methodology -Security and privacy -Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment -Operational experience and testbeds -Experimental methodology, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure -Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits -Applications -Sensor networks in unusual environments -Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Important dates: Paper Registration and Abstract: March 30, 2006, midnight US Eastern Time Paper Submission Deadline: April 6, 2006, midnight US Eastern Time Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 29, 2006 Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 22, 2006 All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. For submission details, see the conference web site. Selected papers from the conference will be forwarded to the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks for possible publication. For the first time SenSys 2006 will present a best paper/presentation award. Demos: Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of wireless sensor networks. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industries and universities are encouraged. For the first time SenSys 2006 will present a best demo award for the best student demo. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Posters: Posters showing exiting early work on sensor networks are solicited. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. We especially encourage submissions by students (that is, for which a student is the first author on the poster). For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Committees: General Chair: Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College Program Co-Chairs: Philippe Bonnet, DIKU; John Heidemann, USC/ISI Program Committee Members: Anish Arora, Ohio State Tucker Balch, GaTech Jan Beutel, ETHZ Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State U. Erdal Cayirci, Istambul Dave Culler, UCB Deepak Ganesan, UMass Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research Leonid Guibas, Stanford Sanjay Jha, UNSW Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt Phil Levis, Stanford Sam Madden, MIT Shivakant Mishra, U. Colorado Joe Paradiso, MIT Greg Pottie, UCLA Andreas Savvides, Yale Sergio Servetto, Cornell Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki U. Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Local Arrangements Chair: Rick Han, U. Colorado Poster Co-Chairs: Henry Tirri, Nokia; Robert Szewczyk, Moteiv Demo Co-Chairs: Chieh Yih Wan, Intel; Jie Liu, Microsoft Publicity Co-Chairs: Wei Ye, USC/ISI; Cormac J. Sreenan, Cork Publications Chair: Sam Madden, MIT Web Chair: Mark Hansen, UCLA Registration Chair: Akos Ledeczi, Vanderbilt U. Finance Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC Sponsorships Chair: Injong Rhee, NCSU Travel Awards: Haiyun Luo, UIUC Steering Committee: Anish Arora, Ohio State Victor Bahl, Microsoft Hari Balakrishnan, MIT David Culler, Berkeley Deborah Estrin, UCLA Ramesh Govindan, USC Craig Partridge, BBN Jason Redi, BBN Mani Srivastava, UCLA John Stankovic, U. Virgina Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research Taieb Znati, U. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] Ad Hoc Networks Journal Call For Papers: Wireless Mesh Networks]
by Lars Wolf 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Ad Hoc Networks Journal Call For Papers: Wireless Mesh Networks Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 19:21:42 -0500 (EST) From: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: Xudong Wang <wxudong(a)ieee.org>, Anthony Ephremides <etony(a)mintaka.isr.umd.edu>, Edward Knightly <knightly(a)ece.rice.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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cfp : 32nd Euromicro Conference
by khan＠ibr.cs.tu-bs.de 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

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[Fwd: CfP of IWSOS 2006 (International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems) - Passau, Germany]
by Lars Wolf 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP of IWSOS 2006 (International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems) - Passau, Germany Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:36:29 +0100 From: Amine Houyou <houyou(a)fmi.uni-passau.de> To: Amine M. Houyou <Amine.Houyou(a)Uni-Passau.De> Dear colleagues, please find attached the CfP of IWSOS 2006. Apologies for the multiple copies. Season's Greetings, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS New Trends in Network Architectures and Services: International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006) September 18 - 20, 2006 University of Passau, Germany http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwsos Overview: The evolution of the Internet reveals surprising turns and obstacles. Centralized approaches of introducing new services and architectures consistently failed to materialize at large scale. Quality of Service, group communication, or mobility support are only some examples for the difficulty with orchestrated approaches. The success story of the Internet, on the other hand, is strongly linked to decentralization. Robustness to failures or flexibility in introducing new applications such as the World Wide Web or Peer-to-Peer systems have been key momentum to technological advancements and economics. Future networks are envisioned to be highly complex and difficult to manage due to heterogeneity of networks, spontaneous set-up of networks, and the envisioned number of interconnected devices, appliances, and artifacts. The question that poses itself is whether self-organization can be exploited to a larger scale for solving some of the pending problems for such future networks. Self-organization may even play a key architectural role of the future Internet for enhanced flexibility and evolvability. It is the goal of this workshop to bring together leading international and multi-disciplinary researchers to create a visionary forum for inves- tigating the potentials in self-organization and the means to achieve it. Key Note Speaker: * A Panel on "Would self-organized or self-managed networks lead to a better networking world?" * A Works in Progress Session focusing on emerging research * Industrial exhibitions and demonstrations Important Dates: * Paper abstract deadline: March 23rd 2006, 11:59pm CET * Paper submission deadline: April 1st 2006, 11:59pm CET * Notification of acceptance: May 15th 2006 * Camera-ready papers due: June 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET * Author registration deadline: June 15th 2006, 11:59 CET * Early registration deadline: August 1st, 2006 * Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th, 2006 * Workshop dates: September 18th - 20th 2006 * Workshop reception and welcome party: September 17th 2006 Steering Committee: * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany * David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * James Sterbenz, University of Kansas, USA Program Chairs: * Hermann De Meer University of Passau Passau, Germany * James Sterbenz University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA -- Contacts: Amine Houyou Richard Holzer University of Passau Germany

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine special issue - Inter-Vehicular Communications]
by Lars Wolf 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine special issue - Inter-Vehicular Communications Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:17:38 +0800 From: Dr. Daniel Wong <daniel_wong(a)ieee.org> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu 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 <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 <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 <mailto:daniel_wong@ieee.org>) and Kemal Tepe (ktepe(a)windsor.ca <mailto:ktepe@windsor.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 <mailto:daniel_wong@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 <mailto:ktepe@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 <mailto:wchen@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 <mailto:gerla@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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E-Learn 2006 Call (Honolulu, Hawaii)
by Martin Gutbrod 22 Dec '05

22 Dec '05

E-Learn 2006 Call (Honolulu, Hawaii) >> Call for Participation Deadline: April 27th << * Please forward to a colleague * http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm _______________________________________________________________ E-Learn 2006 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education October 13-17, 2006 * Honolulu, Hawaii CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submission Deadline: April 27, 2006 ** Organized by: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) (http://www.aace.org) Co-sponsored by: International Journal on E-Learning (http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel) ______________________________________________________________ ** What are your colleagues saying about E-Learn conferences? ** http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/testimonials.htm COLOR POSTER--E-Learn 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/EL06poster.pdf >> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) << 1. Submission Information, Deadline April 27th: Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm Presenter Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge 2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm 3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm 4. Products/Services Showcases & Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm 5. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs 6. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm 7. Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Honolulu 8. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm INVITATION: E-Learn 2006 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international, annual conference which serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in these four sectors. E-Learn Is Unique: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/unique.htm E-Learn is an innovative collaboration between the top public and private academic researchers, developers, education and business professionals, and end users from the Corporate, Healthcare, Government, and Higher Education sectors. All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected, international Executive Advisory Board (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/exec.htm) and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees. E-Learn, the premiere international, non-commercial conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit proposals for presentations. All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: * Keynote Speakers * Invited Panels/Speakers * Papers * Best Practice Sessions * Roundtables * Demonstrations/Posters * Research/Technical Showcases * Products/Services Showcases * Tutorials/Workshops SUBMISSION INFORMATION: For Call for Presentations, connect to: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge TOPICS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the e-Learning and the technologies supporting e-Learning. 1. Sectors or Application Domains: General & Cross-Domain Corporate Government Health Care Higher Education Informal Learning (Museums, Communities, Homes) K-12 Military Training Professional Associations & Non-Profits 2. Major Topics relating to or technologically supporting E-Learning: Content Development Evaluation Implementation Examples and Issues Instructional Design Policy Issues Research Social and Cultural Issues Standards and Interoperability Tools and Systems 3. Specific Topic Examples: Accessibility Asynchronous Learning Authoring Tools Building E-Learning Architectures Collaborative Learning Community Building Courseware Development Customer Training Developing an Organizational e-Learning Strategy Developing, Integrating, and Delivering E-Learning Solutions Digital Libraries for E-Learning Distance Learning Electronic Publishing Tools for E-Learning Evaluation/Performance Measurement & Assessment Good Practice Concepts & Examples Human-Computer Interaction Industry-University Partnering Infrastructure of E-Learning Environments Innovative Curriculum in E-Learning Instructional Design for E-Learning Intelligent E-Learning Technology Interactive E-Learning Systems Knowledge Management in E-Learning Learning & Content Management Systems Management of Learning Resources Marketing/Promoting Learning Activities Multimedia-based E-Learning Systems Organizational E-Learning Strategies Pedagogical & Issues Policy and Law Quality Management and Assessment in E-Learning Research Perspectives for E-Learning Simulations Societal Issues, Including Legal, Standards, & International Issues Virtual Universities, Classrooms, and Laboratories PRESENTATION CATEGORIES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. PRODUCTS/SERVICES SHOWCASES & PRESENTATIONS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/corporate.htm Organizations have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their e-learning related products and services in through Products/Services Showcases & Presentations. PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS: http://www.aace.org/pubs Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM. Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/ hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in EdITLib-- Education and Information Library, http://www.EdITLib.org/ Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the - International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), or - Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR). All presented papers will be considered for Outstanding Paper Awards within several categories. Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals. FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $465 U.S. (non-members). Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee. All conference sessions will be held at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/hotel.htm) located on the famous Waikiki Beach and in walking distance to the city's shopping district - with magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean. Special discount hotel and airline rates have been obtained for E-Learn participants. WAIKIKI BEACH, HONOLULU, HAWAII http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Honolulu Whether your idea of fun is soaking up the sun on a pristine, white sand beach or nightclubbing in Waikiki, hiking the trails or sampling some of the fantastic Hawaiian Regional Cuisine, we know that you're going to enjoy yourself on O'ahu. Explore Hawaii online at: www.gohawaii.com * www.visit-oahu.com DEADLINES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm Submissions Due: April 27, 2006 Authors Notified: May 28, 2006 Proceedings File Due: Sept. 6, 2006 Early Registration: Sept. 6, 2006 Conference: Oct. 13-17, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link to http://www.aace.org/info.htm If you have a question about E-Learn, please send an e-mail to AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org Contact: AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education P.O. Box 1545 Chesapeake, Virginia 23327 USA Phone: 757-366-5606 * Fax: 703-997-8760 E-mail: conf(a)aace.org * http://www.AACE.org *************************************************************** ======================================================== To Unsubscribe from this listserv, send "unsubscribe eductech" to listserv(a)listserv.uh.edu; to Subscribe, send "subscribe eductech your_name" to the same address. Please do not reply to this email address. It is for sending only.

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] cfp: ACM 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] cfp: ACM 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:48:13 -0600 From: Sriram Subramanian <sriram(a)cs.usask.ca> Reply-To: sriram(a)cs.usask.ca Organization: Department of Computer Science To: <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG>, <BCS-HCI(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, <presence-l(a)listserv.temple.edu>, <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> CC: 'Gerald Morrison' <GeraldM(a)smarttech.com> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ******* ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** ** not this IFIP ICEC News Service ** **************************************************** **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **** ********************************************************************** ACM 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) ********************************************************************** Banff, Alberta, Canada, 4-8 November 2006 www.CSCW2006.org *************************************************************** CSCW Papers and notes deadline is March 17th, 2006 (Other important dates are listed at the end of this message) *************************************************************** Dear Colleague, We would like to invite you to participate in the ACM 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, which will convene November 4- 8 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The conference program will include full research papers, notes, videos, interactive posters, demonstrations, panels, tutorials, workshops, a doctoral colloquium, and other exciting activities. Please forward this message to anyone who you think may be interested; our apologies if you receive multiple copies. If you have any questions, please visit our web site (http://www.cscw2006.org) or contact us by email (info(a)cscw2006.org). We look forward to seeing you in Banff! Pamela Hinds and David Martin Conference Co-Chairs ====================================================================== ACM 2006 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2006) Sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Supporting Group Work (SIGGROUP) and Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) The CSCW Conference is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, introduction, and use of technology that affect groups, organizations, communities and societies. Although work is an important area of focus for the conference, technology is increasingly supporting a wide range of recreational and social activities. As more and more people in all regions of the globe are able to interact online we are rapidly moving toward a Computer Supported Collaborative World. Appropriate topic areas for CSCW 2006 include all contexts in which technology is used to mediate human activities such as communication, coordination, cooperation, competition, entertainment, education, medicine, art, and music. The technology may include: email, instant messaging, blogs, shared workspaces, teleconferencing, games, co- located systems, robotics, haptics, and much more. Given its broad scope, CSCW is a multi-disciplinary conference, and participation of people from diverse backgrounds, cultures and perspectives is strongly encouraged. We welcome submissions from researchers and practitioners in all sectors, including academia, industry and government. CSCW has consistently been at the leading edge of thinking about the role of coordination and communication technologies in our lives. With your help, CSCW 2006 will play an important role in continuing this tradition. Come and help us make CSCW 2006 a stimulating and exciting event. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to the following: -Innovations and experiences with Intranets, the Internet, WWW -Innovative installations: CSCW and the arts -Innovative technologies and architectures to support group activity, awareness and telepresence -Social and organizational effects of introducing technologies -Theoretical aspects of coordination and communication -Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative practices -Ethnographic and case studies of work practice -Working with and through collections of heterogeneous technologies -Emerging issues for global systems -Studies exploring the appropriate balance between individual and collaborative work. -Systems for emergency preparedness and large-scale rapid deployment (e.g. disaster relief) The following is a list of the CSCW 2006 participation categories; prospective participants should visit our web site (www.cscw2006.org) to learn more about these categories and how to prepare a submission. FULL RESEARCH PAPERS CSCW NOTES VIDEOS INTERACTIVE POSTERS DEMONSTRATIONS PANELS TUTORIALS WORKSHOPS DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM STUDENT VOLUNTEERS SUBMISSIONS: CSCW 2006 requires online submission. Please see the CSCW 2006 website (http://www.cscw2006.org) for details about how to do an online submission. All submissions should be formatted according to the standard ACM SIGCHI publication guidelines. **** IMPORTANT DATES **** March 17, 2006: Full Paper and Notes submissions due April 28, 2006: Videos, Panels, Tutorial Proposals and Workshop Proposals due June 2, 2006: Notification of accepted Papers, Notes, Videos, Panels, and Tutorials June 12, 2006: Notification of accepted Workshops June 23, 2006: Interactive Papers due July 7, 2006: Demonstration Proposals and Doctoral Colloquium submissions due August 2, 2006: Final version of Videos and Video Abstracts due August 7, 2006: Notification of accepted Interactive Papers August 11, 2006: Notification of accepted Demonstrations and Doctoral Colloquium submissions August 18, 2006: Final version of Papers and Notes due. September 15, 2006: Workshop position papers due. September 23, 2006: Final versions of Interactive Papers, and Panel abstracts, descriptions and position statements due. Tutorial notes due. October 1, 2006: Doctoral Colloquium final abstracts due October 6, 2006: Demonstrations final abstracts due November 4, 2006: CSCW 2006 conference begins ************************************************************** For more information, please visit our web site (http://www.cscw2006.org) or send us email (info(a)cscw2006.org). ************************************************************** **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** and subscribe directly ** **************************************************** ** News archives: ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ ** **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ** **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP-MEDHOCNET2006: 5th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:49:59 +0200 From: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org We apologize in advance for the multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************ 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. 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] [Reminder] [CFP] IEEE TSPUC 2006 - workshop affiliated with IEEE WoWMoM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] [Reminder] [CFP] IEEE TSPUC 2006 - workshop affiliated with IEEE WoWMoM 2006 Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:33:43 +0100 From: Pietro Michiardi <Pietro.Michiardi(a)eurecom.fr> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) CALL FOR PAPERS: ---------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing (TSPUC2006) Niagara-Falls, NY, USA 26 June 2006 (workshop affiliated with IEEE WoWMoM 2006) ----------------------------------------------------------- This workshop aims at focusing the attention of the research community on the increasing complexity and relevance of trust, privacy and security issues in ubiquitous computing. TOPICS Suggested submission topics include, but are not limited to the following ones in mobile (ad Hoc) networks, sensor networks, P2P systems, portable/embedded/wearable devices ... · Key establishment and distribution · Access control models, policies and mechanisms · Trust and reputation management · Privacy and identity management · Digital assets management · Context/location aware computation · Self-organizing networks/communities · Intrusion and anomaly detection · Secure user-device interfaces · Distributed consensus in the presence of active adversaries · Analysis/simulation/validation techniques · Handling emergent properties · Phishing - attacks and countermeasures · Case studies IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: Jan. 17, 2006 Author Notification: Feb. 28, 2006 Final version: Mar. 17, 2006 Workshop: 26 Jun. 2006 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS · Virgil Gligor (University of Maryland, US) · Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR, Italy) . Pietro Michiardi (EURECOM, France) . Refik Molva (EURECOM, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Claude Castelluccia, INRIA Bruno Crispo, Vrije University Breno De Medeiros, Florida State University Xuhua Ding, Singapre Management University Valérie Issarny, INRIA Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota Donggang Liu, University of Texas at Arlington Javier Lopez, University of Malaga Luigi Mancini, University of Rome Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica Radha Poovendran, University of WA Joachim Posegga, University of Hamburg Yves Roudier, Institut Eurecom Shiuhpyng Shieh, Nat'l Chiao Tung University Paul Syverson, Naval Research Laboratory Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University Gene Tsudik, University of California, Irvine Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas San Antonio Xiaowei Yang, University of California, Irvine SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Paper submitted to IEEE TSPUC2006 should neither have been published elsewhere, nor currently under review by another workshop, conference or journal. As accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE, we recommend to format manuscripts according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be Times Roman 11pt (or greater). Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or equivalent. Papers that will be significantly exceed page limit of 5 pages will be automatically rejected. -- Pietro Michiardi Assistant Professor Networking and Security Dept. Institut Eurecom 2229, route des Cretes BP193 - 06904 Sophia Antipolis http://www.eurecom.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ISMW'06 Deadline extended to Jan. 15th, 2006]
by Lars Wolf 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ISMW'06 Deadline extended to Jan. 15th, 2006 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:23:23 -0600 (CST) From: jqchen(a)dimitra.ece.northwestern.edu (Junqing Chen) To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org ** Aplogies for multiple copies of this message ** ************************ CALL FOR PAPERS ************************ SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMEDIA OVER WIRELESS (in conjunction with IWCMC 2006) Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada July 3-6, 2006 http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/ismw2006/index.html The rapid growth in interactive multimedia applications, such as video telephonies, video games and TV broadcasting has resulted in spectacular strides in the progress of wireless communication systems. The current third generation (3G) wireless systems and the next generation (4G) wireless systems in planning support higher bit rates. However, the high error rates and stringent delay constraints in wireless systems are still significant obstacles for these applications and services. On the other hand, the development of more advanced wireless systems provides opportunities for proposing novel wireless multimedia protocols and new applications and services that can take the maximum advantage of the systems. The symposium aims to provide an excellent forum for all experts working in these areas to join together and to discuss various important issues on multimedia over wireless. The timing of this symposium is set such that the ideas that come out of it can affect the evolution of 4G. The papers submitted to this symposium should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important areas related to emerging technologies and standards on the coding and transmission of multimedia information over wireless networks. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but not limited to the following subjects: Advanced multimedia coding algorithms Error resilient and error concealment Video quality assessment Rate control for wireless video Scalable and multiple description multimedia coding and transmission Joint source-channel coding Efficient transport protocols for wireless Optimal resource allocation for energy-efficient wireless multimedia Cross-layer multimedia communication system design and optimization Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution Lightweight video encoding methods based on distributed source coding Quality of Service issues Multimedia processing for wireless sensor networks Wireless multimedia traffic modeling Only original and unpublished paper will be considered. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers of no more than six (6) pages in double-column IEEE format before December 15, 2005. ** Important dates ** Manuscript Submission: December 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 30, 2006 Conference Date: July 3, 2006 ** Organizing Committee ** Co-Chairs: Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc., USA Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Switzerland Vice-Chairs: Chingyao Huang, National Chiao Tung Univeristy, Taiwan Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity Char: Junqing Chen, Unilever Inc, USA ** Technical Program Committee ** Ghassan AlRegib, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Lap-Pui Chau, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Chang Wen Chen, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Junqing Chen, Unilever Inc, USA Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada Zhu Han, University of Maryland, USA Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA Lisimachos P. Kondi, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University, Canada Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Jung Tao Liu, Lucent Bell Labs, USA Yuxin Zoe Liu, Nokia Research Center, USA Zhen Liu, Qualcomm Inc, USA Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia, Canada King N. Ngan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HongKong Mirek Pawlak, University of Manitoba, Canada Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, France Clark Taylor, Brigham Young University, USA A. Murat Tekalp, Rochester University, USA Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany Jiqiang Song, ASTRI, Hong Kong Vincent S. Tseng, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Hideki Tode, Osaka University, Japan Olivier Verscheure, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California, USA

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[Fwd: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Call for Papers & Expo]
by Sven Jaap 20 Dec '05

20 Dec '05

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 Call for Papers & Expo Datum: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:15:11 -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"> b9bf671.jpg 49th Annual IEEE Globecom Conference and the 1st Annual IEEE COMMUNICATIONS EXPO Call for Papers - Technical Symposia (to be linked to <http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/papers.html>http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/papers.html) Call for Technical Expo Program (to be linked to http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/expo.html) Invitation to Prospective Exhibitors (to be linked to http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/exhibits.html) 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: CFP: IWSAWC 2006 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: IWSAWC 2006 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:47:27 GMT From: Martin Strohbach <strohbach(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> To: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> ************************************************************************ Call for Papers IWSAWC 2006 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing In conjunction with ICDCS 2006 July 4, 2006, Lisboa, Portugal (Submission deadline January 15, 2006) http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/iwsawc2006 ************************************************************************ Through recent technological development researchers are now able to embed sensing, computation, communication and actuation in personal devices and everyday artefacts giving them the possibility to create large scale systems of interacting smart appliances, physical objects and wearable computers. This penetration of computation in all aspects of everyday life and work requires thorough exploration of new kinds of embedded and smart devices and software infrastructures and architectures that support such large-scale scenarios beyond the lab environment. The diversity of systems, devices, services and applications and their distributed nature raises important questions about collaboration between system components. Appropriate solutions often have to take potential resource limitations of connected devices and appliances into account. Contextual awareness, digital representations of physical system components as well as access methods and processing of distributed information are of specific importance - especially as smart devices and objects along with their services are seamlessly integrated in the real world to support users in their daily living activities. ## Scope: This workshop serves as a forum for the exchange of new findings in collaborative technologies and smart appliances deployed in real world environments. We intend to bring together practitioners from academia as well as industry to present their most recent research in these rapidly moving fields. Technical papers on smart appliances and collaborative technologies are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2006. Papers reporting new developments in computing with smart devices such as PDAs, wearable computers, and cellular phones as well as new insights in instrumentation of everyday artefacts and their infrastructures will be invited for presentation. Workshop topics include but are not limited to: - Enabling Technologies - Collaboration Concepts - Infrastructure Solutions - Home and Office Appliances - Novel Smart Objects - Portable Devices and Smart Sensors - Wireless-phone Computing - Home Networks and Wearable Networks - Networking Protocols - Security and Privacy Aspects - Wearable Computers and PDAs - Software and Service Architectures - Location and Context-Aware Computing ## Format: Authors of accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. There will also be a poster session provinding an opportunity for researchers to present their planned, on-going or recently-finished work and highlighting recent results in the field of Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. Presenters are encouraged to show additional demonstrations facilitating the poster. ## Important Dates *********************************************** Submission deadline: January 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 29, 2006 Camera ready papers: March 29, 2006 *********************************************** ## Paper Submission: Technical papers should be submitted via the workshop webpage, not exceed a maximum length of 6 two-column pages and include an abstract of 100-150 words. We explicitly welcome shorter papers reporting about current work in progress up to a maximum length of 3 two-column pages. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the workshop publications format, including all figures and references. Poster submissions may also include a further single page which describes the poster itself for review purposes, this may be a draft of the poster, or text describing the proposed layout. The use of this page is encouraged to convey to reviewers visual aspects of the envisioned poster which may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page will not be published. Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the organizing and program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers should follow the IEEE format. Extended poster abstracts will be published as adjunct proceedings and wil be circulated to workshop participants. They will also be available under the program section of this webpage. Please refer to our workshop homepage at http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/iwsawc2006 for further information. ## Program Co-Chairs Martin Strohbach (Lancaster University, UK) Masateru Minami(Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan) ## Organizing Committee Yoshihiro Kawahara (University of Tokyo, Japan) Masayuki Iwai (KEIO University, Japan) Nicky Kern (Darmstadt University of Technology , Germany) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Stuttgart , Germany) ## Programme Committee Jalal Al-Muhtadi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Michael Beigl (University of Karlsruhe , Germany) Christian Decker (University of Karlsruhe , Germany) Yasuyuki Kono (NAIST, Japan) Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK) Goro Kunito (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) Kristof Van Laerhoven (Lancaster University, UK) Kent Lyons (Georgia Tech, USA) Bernt Schiele (Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany) Albrecht Schmidt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita¨t Munich, Germany) Kazunori Takashio (Keio University, Japan) Yasuo Tan (JAIST, Japan) Tsutomu Terada (Osaka University, Japan) Simon Tsang (Telcordia Research, USA) Khai Truong (University of Toronto, Canada)

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: 20. DFN-AT über Kommunikatio nsnetze]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: 20. DFN-AT über Kommunikatio nsnetze Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:38:55 +0100 From: Paul Müller <pmueller(a)RHRK.UNI-KL.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 Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, der Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e.V. (DFN-Verein) veranstaltet gemeinsam mit der Technischen Universität Kaiserslautern und der Hochschule Heilbronn in der Woche nach Pfingsten 2006 (vom 7.-9. Juni 2006) die 20. Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze (http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de). Mitveranstalter sind die Zentren für Kommunikation und Informationsverarbeitung in Forschung und Lehre e.V. (ZKI) und die Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI). Auch in diesem Jahr hat der Programmausschuss aktuelle und spannende Themen aus dem Bereich der Hochschul-IT für die Themenkreise der Arbeitstagung vorgeschlagen (http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de/cfp.shtml). Es wird um Vortragsanmeldungen zu den nachfolgend aufgeführten Themenkreisen (TK) gebeten: TK I: IT-Management in Hochschulen TK II: E-Science und Grid TK III: Neue Netztechnologien und deren Management TK VI: Anwendungen TK V: IT-Services / Provisioning Bitte reichen Sie Ihre Vortragsanmeldung zu den angegebenen Themenkreisen bis zum 15.1.2006 (im PDF Format) ein unter: http://dfn2006.uni-kl.de/einreichen.shtml. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Paul Mueller -- _____________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Paul Mueller email: pmueller(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern Phone: ++49-(0)631-205-2263 Dep. of Computer Science Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3056 Paul Ehrlich Strasse Geb. 34 http://icsy.informatik.uni-kl.de D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany ______________________________________________________________

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[Fwd: CfP - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:48:50 -0600 (CST) From: haohong(a)dimitra.ece.northwestern.edu (Haohong Wang) To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org MY SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES: ========================================================== Call for Papers: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/wcmc/index.html Deadline for Submission: January 1, 2006 Scope In recent years, there has been a rapidly increasing demand for the development of advanced interactive multimedia applications, such as video telephony, video games and TV broadcasting. However, these applications are always stringently constrained by current wireless system architectures because the request of high data rate for video transmission. To better serve this need, 4G broadband mobile systems are in planning and are expected to increase the mobile data transmission rates and bring higher spectral efficiency, lower cost per transmitted bit, and increased flexibility of mobile terminals and networks. The new technology strives to eliminate the distinction between video over wireless and video over wireline networks. In the meantime, great opportunities are provided for proposing novel wireless video protocols and applications, and developing advanced video coding and communications systems and algorithms for the next-generation video applications that can take maxim um advantage of the 4G wireless systems. The papers in this issue will focus on state-of-the-art research on all aspects of the video communications for 4G wireless systems, from video coding, resource allocation to transportation systems. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics including but not limited to the following topics: Advanced video coding algorithms Advanced video error resilient and concealment algorithms for wireless systems Video quality assessment for wireless communications Rate control for wireless video Scalable and multiple description video coding and video transmission Joint source-channel coding for wireless video Optimal resource allocation for energy-efficient wireless video Cross-layer wireless video communication system design and optimization Wireless video traffic modeling Wireless video streaming and synchronization Video processing for wireless sensor networks New multimedia wireless protocols and standards New video applications over 4G wireless systems Packetization schemes for wireless video transmission Efficient transport protocols for wireless networks QoS issues for video over wireless, especially for low-delay communication The merging of various wireless systems: cellular, metropolitan, and local area networks Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution Lightweight video encoding methods based on distributed and multi-user coding Schedule: Manuscript submission deadline: January 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2006 Camera-ready papers: August 31, 2006 Publication of special issue: Early 2007 Submission Procedure: Papers not exceeding 25 double-spaced pages may be submitted electronically (in PDF files) to Prof. Lisimachos P. Kondi (lkondi(a)eng.buffalo.edu) or Dr. Haohong Wang (haohongw(a)qualcomm.com). Authors are also requested to submit a separate cover letter via email, which contains the paper title, the authors’ names and affiliations, and a 200 word abstract. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html. Guest Editors Haohong Wang haohongw(a)qualcomm.com QUALCOMM Incorporated 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA Lisimachos P. Kondi lkondi(a)eng.buffalo.edu Dept. of Electrical Engineering The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA Ajay Luthra aluthra(a)motorola.com Motorola Corporation 6420 Sequence Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA

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[semanticweb] First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
by Martin Gutbrod 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

Call for Papers __________________________________________________ First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing - Crete, Greece - October 1-4, 2006 URL: http://www.ectel06.org Organized by the PRO-LC Cluster (http://www.professional-learning-cluster.org/) __________________________________________________ With the shift towards the knowledge society, changing working conditions and the continuous evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge and skills need continuous development. Technology enhanced learning is one of the strategic objectives of the EU/IST Work Programme, with the goal of "improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace." Innovative infrastructuctures, methods and approaches are needed to reach this goal, and will facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge between individuals and in organisations. For e-learning, as in e-commerce and e-business, systemic changes wrought by emerging technologies are also changing the relationships between consumption and production - in this case of knowledge - as what many call 'Web 2.0' becomes more interactive and user-generated content becomes more widespread. The First European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning provides a unique forum for all research related to technology- enhanced learning, as well as its interactions with knowledge management, business processes and work environments. It will provide a competitive yet broad enough forum for technology enhanced learning research in Europe and world-wide through specialized workshops and the main conference. The conference will provide unique networking possibilities for participating researchers throughout the week and include project meetings and discussions for several EU/IST projects funded within the 6th framework program under the action line of "Technology- Enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage". We welcome submissions describing innovative research on all relevant issues, focusing on aspects from computer science, business and/or education, as well as experience reports and case studies describing innovative applications of new learning environments and approaches. EC-TEL 2006 invites submissions in the following categories: - Papers and posters - Doctoral consortium papers - Industrial reports - Workshops Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: - Collaborative Learning: Learning Communities, Distributed Teams, Instructional Methods for Collaborative Learning, Problem Solving Support, Collaborative Knowledge Building and Sharing, Collaborative Games, Online Experiments - Personalized Learning: Reasoning Techniques, Adaptation Patterns and Techniques, Data Mining, Learner Modeling, Learner Assessment and Testing, Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Instructions, Competencies in Workplace Learning - Multimedia Content: Autoring of Multimedia/ Virtual Reality Content, Multimedia / Virtual Reality Streaming, Web Video Lectures - Semantic Web, Metadata and Learning: Learning Objects, Learning Activities, Learning Design, Narrative and Navigation Models, Semantic Clustering, Metadata for Search and Information Retrieval Workplace Learning: - Knowledge Management and Learning, Business Processes and Learning, Cost and Economy Models, Leveraging Expertise, Informal Learning, Social Software, Organizational Learning, Knowledge Sharing. - Learning Repositories and Infrastructures for Learning: Peer-to-Peer Infrastructures, Runtime Engines for Learning Design and Learning Objects, Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, Deployment Strategies, Re-Use of Learning Objects, Re-Authoring and Re-Purposing - Experience Reports, Assesment, and Case Studies All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, soundness and clarity by three reviewers. Format: Publication of the proceedings is planned in Springer LNCS (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). For camera-ready format instructions, please see "For Authors" instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The page limit is 15 pages for full papers, 6 pages for posters. Selected papers will be considered for special issues of relevant journals. Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification to Authors: June 1, 2006 Camery-Ready Papers: June 30, 2006 Conference: October 3 - 5, 2006 Deadline for Workshop Proposal Submissions: March 30, 2006 Notification of Workshop Acceptance: May 1, 2006 Deadline for Proceedings of Workshops: September 1, 2006 Workshops: October 1 - 2, 2006 Co-located Events and PRO-LC Meetings: September 29 - 30, October 5 - 6, 2006 Program Committee Chairs: Wolfgang Nejdl, Germany Klaus Tochtermann, Austria Publicity Chair: Erik Duval, Belgium Workshop Chair: Peter Scott, UK Industry Chair: Volker Zimmermann, Germany Doctoral Consortium Chairs: Katherine Maillet, France Ralf Klamma, Germany Program Committee Members: Heidrun Allert, Austria Kalina Bontcheva, UK Paul de Bra, The Netherlands Paul Brna, UK Peter Brusilovsky, USA Fabrizio Cardinali, Italy Stefano Ceri, Italy Pierre Dillenbourg, Switzerland Peter Dolog, Germany Erik Duval, Belgium Dieter Euler, Switzerland Monique Grandbastien, France Jˆrg M. Haake, Germany Kai Hakkarainen, Finland Friedrich Hesse, Germany Nicola Henze, Germany Wayne Hodgins, USA Geert-Jan Houben, Belgium Matthias Jarke, Germany Ralf Klamma, Germany Rob Koper, The Netherlands Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria Peter Loos, Germany Erica Melis, Germany Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan Enrico Motta, UK Gustaf Neumann, Austria Roy Pea, USA Juan Quemada, Spain Jeremy Roschelle, USA Vittorio Scarano, Italy Peter Scott, UK Marcus Specht, The Netherlands Ralf Steinmetz, Germany Julita Vassileva, Canada Vincent Wade, Ireland Gerhard Weber, Germany Organizing Chair: Constantin Makropolous, Greece Organizing Committee: Peter Dolog, Germany Sofia Kalokerinou, Greece Vana Kamtsiou, Greece Martin Wolpers, Belgium Helen Zabaka, Greece Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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Last Reminder: ED-MEDIA 2006 Call (Orlando, FL) due Mon., Dec. 19
by Martin Gutbrod 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

AACE Announcements schrieb: > NEWLY ADDED: > Learning Management Systems Symposium (1-day) added to ED-MEDIA 2006: > Call for Symposium Papers: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/symposium2006.htm > > _______________________________________________________________ > > >> Call for ED-MEDIA 2006 Participation--Deadline: December 19th << > > * Please forward to a colleague * > > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > _______________________________________________________________ > > ED-MEDIA 2006 > > World Conference on Educational Multimedia, > Hypermedia & Telecommunications > > June 26-30, 2006 * Orlando, Florida > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > > ** Submissions Due: Dec. 19, 2005 ** > > Organized by > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) > http://www.aace.org > ______________________________________________________________ > > ** What are your colleagues saying about ED-MEDIA conferences? ** > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/testimonials.htm > > COLOR POSTER--ED-MEDIA 2006 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/ed06poster.pdf > > > >> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) << > > 1. Call for Papers and Submission & Presenter Guidelines, Deadline Dec. 19th: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge > > 2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > 3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm > 4. NEW: Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentDissertationsHelp.htm > > 5. Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm > > 6. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs > 7. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm > > 8. Orlando, Florida: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Orlando/defaultEDMED.htm > 9. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm > > > INVITATION: > ED-MEDIA 2006--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & > Telecommunications is an international conference, sponsored by the > Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This > annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion > and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications > on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and > telecommunications/distance education. > > ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all > disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,500 attendees > from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend ED-MEDIA and submit > proposals for presentations. > > All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three > reviewers on the > respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the > conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings. > > For Call for Presentations, connect to: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm > > All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/submitguide.htm > > For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/PresenterLounge > > > PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: > * Keynote Speakers > * Invited Panels/Speakers > * Papers > * Panels > * Demonstrations/Posters > * Corporate Showcases & Demonstrations > * Tutorials/Workshops > * Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions > * Roundtables > > > TOPICS: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following > major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of > multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications. For subtopics, please see: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm > > 1. Infrastructure: (in the large) > 2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications: > 3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner: > 4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI): > 5. Cases & Projects: > 6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility ** > > > PRESENTATION CATEGORIES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/categories.htm > The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful > activities > designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. > > Student Panel Dissertation Help Sessions > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/studentDissertationsHelp.htm > Submissions are invited for the ED-MEDIA Student Panel Dissertation Help > Sessions (DHS). The DHS will provide an opportunity for students at any > stage in their graduate studies (ie. Masters, EdD, or PhD level) to present > their work to an audience of peers and faculty. This will be a friendly and > constructive event designed to provide participants with valuable feedback > on their dissertation effort from leading professors and a variety of peers. > > > CORPORATE SHOWCASES & DEMONSTRATIONS: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/corporate.htm > > Companies have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their educational > technology products and services in through Corporate Showcases and > Demonstrations/Literature. > > > PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS: > http://www.aace.org/pubs > Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on > CD-ROM. > Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/ > hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of > the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are > internationally distributed through and archived in the Education and > Information Technology Digital Library, http://www.EdITLib.org > > Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for > publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the > - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), > - International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), or > - Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR). > > All presented papers will be considered for Best Paper Awards within > several categories. > Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals. > > > FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rates.htm > > The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be > approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members). > Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions > except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee. > > All conference sessions will be held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at > SeaWorld (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/hotel.htm) located in the heart > of Orlando's amusement parks, shopping, restaurants, and > entertainment. Special discount hotel and airline rates have been obtained > for ED-MEDIA participants. > > > ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Sensational! > http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Orlando/defaultEDMED.htm > > World-renowned art galleries and museums. Distinctive dining. High-energy > nightlife. Hair-raising roller coasters. Sumptuous dining. Inspiring > scenery and nature. Major-league shopping. Tropical breezes. Invigorating > spas. Unrivaled theme parks and attractions. And of course, miles of > smiles. All the essential ingredients for an over-the-top vacation. And all > in one place - Orlando! > > For further Orlando information see: > http://www.orlandoinfo.com | http://www.flausa.com > > > DEADLINES: > http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm > > Submissions Due: December 19, 2005 > Authors Notified: February 23, 2006 > Proceedings File Due: May 2, 2006 > Early Registration: May 2, 2006 > Hotel Reservations: May 25, 2006 > Conference: June 26-30, 2006 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link > to http://www.aace.org/info.htm > > If you have a question about ED-MEDIA, please send an e-mail to > AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org > > Contact: > AACE--Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education > P.O. Box 1545 > Chesapeake, Virginia 23327 USA > Phone: 757-366-5606 * Fax: 703-997-8760 > E-mail: conf(a)aace.org * http://www.AACE.org > *************************************************************** > > ======================================================== > To Unsubscribe from this listserv, send "unsubscribe eductech" > to listserv(a)listserv.uh.edu; to Subscribe, send "subscribe eductech > your_name" to the same address. > > Please do not reply to this email address. It is for sending only. > -- TU Braunschweig, Institut für Betriebssysteme und Rechnerverbund Mühlenpfordtstr. 23 Phone: +49 531 391 3155 D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany Fax: +49 531 391 5936 http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/ Email: gutbrod(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Participation: International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 5-7 April 2006 - Cambridge (UK)]
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Participation: International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 5-7 April 2006 - Cambridge (UK) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:37:21 -0000 From: Marco Combetto <Marco.Combetto(a)microsoft.com> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ******* ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** ** not this IFIP ICEC News Service ** **************************************************** CALL FOR PARTECIPATION International Symposium on Intelligent Environments 'Improving the quality of life in a changing world' The Intelligent Environments group at Microsoft Research Cambridge is pleased to announce our "International Symposium on Intelligent Environments", to be held at Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom on 5-7 April 2006. The symposium will bring together top researchers from a variety of disciplines, including artists, philosophers, computer scientists, designers and sociologists, to discuss and debate how intelligent environments can contribute to improving the quality of everyday life. Symposium Chairs * Tom Rodden - University of Nottingham * Richard Harper - Microsoft Research Program Committee: * Emile Aarts - Philips Research * Alan Blackwell - University of Cambridge * Alex Brandle - Microsoft Research * Yang Cai - Carnegie Mellon University * Luca Chittaro - University of Udine * Gillian Crampton Smith - CONVIVIO * Bernard Burdek - HFG Offenback * Geraldine Fitzpatrick - University of Sussex * David Frohlich - University of Surrey * Matt Jones - Swansea University * Kristina Höök - SICS Sweden * Hani Hagras - University of Essex * Wendy MacKay - INRIA * Ryohei Nakatsu - Kwansei Gakuin University * Matthias Rauterberg - University of Eindhoven * Albrecht Schmidt - University of Munich * Naoko Tosa - Kyoto University * Ken Wood - Microsoft Research We define 'Intelligent Environments' as those that seamlessly incorporate the thoughtful and insightful use of computer technology to improve and enrich everyday life. We want to promote discussions that take a completely fresh view of the interaction between society and technology; rethinking how computer technology should be used in the future to maximise the benefits to individuals and society. We look forward to receiving insightful views on the significant research opportunities and challenges that we face, the effects on society and the way we live our lives, the possibilities, the limitations, what we have achieved so far and what challenges we have failed to address. The format of the event will include refereed papers, posters, demonstrations, workshops and panel discussions. Keynotes speaker include: Don Norman, François Pachet, Naoko Tosa Call for Papers We invite papers to examine and challenge the relationship between humans, society and technology in our changing world. We are especially interested in inspiring papers in the following areas: -Computer-augmented living -Designing intelligent devices for everyday life -Improving social intelligence and supporting human habits -Modeling and managing intelligent environments Papers must be written in English and consist of no more than 10 pages, including references, appendices, and figures. Papers must include title, author names, affiliations, contact details, abstract, a list of keywords, body, and references. Papers can be submitted online via https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ISIE/. If you have any questions relating to the submission of papers please mail msriepi(a)microsoft.com. For all accepted papers at least one author must attend the conference and present the ideas contained in the paper. The event will be held at Homerton College in Cambridge, UK. Papers, Posters, Demos submission deadline: 13th January 2006 Marco Combetto Research Program Manager External Research Office Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) E-mail: marcomb(a)microsoft.com Web: http://research.microsoft.com/users/marcomb Fax:+44 (0)1223 479 999 **************************************************** ** 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: ACF-Members: CFP: MUCS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: CFP: MUCS 2006 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:56:15 -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> 3rd International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services ======================================================================== ==== www.mucs2006.org Autonomic Pervasive Computing & Communications In cooperation with Pervasive 2006 Venue: National Maritime College, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland Date: May 4th and 5th 20 CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Communications, as evidenced in pervasive computing and smart space applications present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, middleware, applications and devices. Today’s management systems are unable to cope with the complexity, heterogeneity and automation required by the pervasive computing vision. New paradigms, models and technology need to be developed to allow computer systems manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans. This workshop seeks to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational challenges in managing ubiquitous communications and application services. The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a blend of keynote presentations from leaders in the research of communications and services management systems, peer-reviewed papers and a small selection of invited presentations. The goal of the workshop is to investigate the state of the art in managing ubiquitous communications and services from a broad perspective. Submissions are invited for original, and previously unpublished research in all aspects of management techniques in ubiquitous communications, including: • Context Aware Self Management and Self Configuration Management • Policy Based Management • Autonomic Communication Management • Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated Management • Management of Smart Spaces and Applications (Smart Home/Office) • Adaptive Service and Network Management • Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Ubiquitous Communications • Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks • Content Oriented Network & Service Management • Distributed Self Management & Collaborative Governance • Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management • Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation • Managing Collaborative Ubicomp Applications • Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in Ubicomp environments • Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Distributed Management Services • User Interaction with Self-Managing UbiComp Systems Workshop Chair: Dirk Pesch, CIT, IRL Scientific Programme Committee: Nazim Agoulmine, Uni d’Evry, FR Owen Conlan, TCD, IRL Kieran Delaney, CIT, IRL Simon Dobson, UCD-Dublin, IRL William Donnelly, WIT, IRL Brendan Jennings, WIT, IRL Martin Klepal, CIT, IRL David Lewis, TCD, IRL Ryusuke Masuoka Kevin Curran, UU, UK Mícheál Ó Foghlú, WIT, IRL Fergus O'Reilly, CIT, IRL Declan O'Sullivan, TCD, IRL Tom Pfeifer, WIT, IRL Roy Sterritt, UU, UK Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, GER Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK John Strassner, Motorola, USA Sven van der Meer, WIT, IRL Vincent Wade, TCD, IRL Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, IIE-CNAM, FR Hani Hagras Important dates: ================ Submission deadline: February 1st, 2006 (new date) Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2006 Final manuscript due: March 31st, 2006 Workshop: May 4th and 5th 2006 Papers should be emailed to: MUCS2006(a)cit.ie Papers should be in Springer Verlag LNCS format and be no longer that 10 pages in length -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications]
by Lars Wolf 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:26:10 -0800 From: Wang, Haohong <haohongw(a)qualcomm.com> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> MY SINCERE APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES: ========================================================== Dear colleagues, Enclosed please the Call-for-Papers for the IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications. Please help to disseminate the CfP to your friends and colleagues who might have interest. For more information, please visit _http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong/com_magz/index.html_. Thanks. Haohong <<cfp.pdf>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine* *Special Issue on “Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications”* *Background* Modern multimedia communication applications such as mobile television, video telephony, streaming and gaming over wired and wireless networks have had different economic success and societal impact to-date. Such successes depend, to a large extend, on their abilities to surpass technical challenges related to visual content adaptation and delivery, which rely on solutions provided by visual content analysis. On the other hand, current communications networks consist of channels with various throughputs, quality of services (QoS) and protocols, and heterogeneous terminals with wide range of capabilities, accessibilities and user preferences. The rapidly increasing gap between the richness of multimedia content and the variations of the channels and terminals urges the development of techniques for universal multimedia content access, which heavily relies on the visual analysis tools to understand the data from all perspectives including network conditions, terminal capabilities, coding and transmission efficiencies and user preferences. Therefore, to effectively improve the usability, efficiency and robustness of multimedia communications in general and visual content access, adaptation and delivery in particular, visual analysis and processing methods must be able to provide automatic or semi-automatic solutions for: * High accuracy content segmentation and representation * Adapting or transcoding data for various channels and terminals * Scalability across the visual content * Content-aware robust coding and transmissions *Scope of contributions* The goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate recent and relevant contributions in the area of visual content analysis including content representation, understanding, access, adaptation, protection and transmission, with focus on their impact on visual communication systems. Tutorial papers are solicited that cover the topics including but not limited to: * Channel-aware visual content adaptation - Visual content repurposing - Visual content transcoding - Visual content protection * Terminal-aware visual content adaptation - Object segmentation and tracking - Model-based and object-based representations - Layered and scalable representations * Visual content access and delivery - Resource-efficient content-aware adaptation and transmission policies - Robust content-based coding and transmissions - Content-adaptive cross-layer system design and optimization * Applications - Video game repurposing for wireless transmission - Video content indexing and retrieval for mobile appliances - Visual analysis for mobile broadcasting *Schedule:* Full article submission: April 1, 2006 Acceptance/rejection/revision: July 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: September 1, 2006 Publication date: January 1, 2007 *Submission of the papers:* For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at _http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html_ Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at _http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/_. Please select "January 2007/Advances in Visual Content Analysis and Adaptation for Multimedia Communications" in the drop down menu. *Guest Editors:* Haohong Wang Qualcomm Inc. USA Email: haohongw(a)qualcomm.com King N. Ngan Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Email: knngan(a)ee.cuhk.edu.hk Joern Ostermann University of Hannover Germany Email: ostermann(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de

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