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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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[Fwd: IEEE INFOCOM 2006: Special Announcement!]
by Lars Wolf 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE INFOCOM 2006: Special Announcement! Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:47:09 -0500 From: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Reply-To: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> To: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org 3155af.jpg 23 – 29 April 2006 / Barcelona, Spain /* _www.ieee-infocom.org/2006_ <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006> **CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS: Submission deadline 10 January 2006 *IEEE INFOCOM 2006 will include poster/demonstration sessions designed to provide a forum for collaboration between industry and academia to present and discuss: · Works in progress · Industry demonstrations of new applications and techniques · Research test beds and demonstrations · Recent research and implementation results · Upcoming research challenges · Future directions, and novel approaches in the field of computer communications and networks *Joint work between industry and academia is especially encouraged! *For additional information and submittal instructions, visit: _www.ieee-infocom.org _ <http://www.ieee-infocom.org/> To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06]
by Lars Wolf 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS06 Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:38:56 -0800 (PST) From: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> To: Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca, ysu(a)masergy.com, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu ================CALL FOR PAPERS for SPECTS06================= (We apologize if you have received multiple copies) SPECTS 2006 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects July 30 – August 3, 2006 The Coast Plaza Hotel and Conference Center, Calgary, Canada This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems • Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology • Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication • Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking ATM Optical Networks • Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks • Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems • Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks • Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes • Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages • Electronic Commerce • Hardware and Software Monitors • High-Performance Computing • Information Assurance • Reconfigurable Computing • Scientific Computing Algorithms • Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications • Parallel and Distributed Simulation • Verification and Validation • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications • Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models • Queuing Systems and Networks • Scalability Studies • Integrated Modeling and Measurement • On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning • Process Algebra-Based Models • Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance • Case Studies 2006 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems, WiNCS’2006 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS06.pdf http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Vice General Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Local Arrangement Chair Carey Williamson University of Calgary, Canada E-mail: Carey(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Tutorial Chair John Fox Foxband Consultancy, UK E-mail: fox.conf(a)btinternet.com Publicity Committee: Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com Vice Chair: Yi Su, Masergy Communications, Inc., USA, ysu(a)masergy.com Vice Chair: Weiguang Shi, Uinversity of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca Vice Chair: Abdelmajid Khelil, University of Stuttgart - IPVS - VS, Germany, abdelmajid.khelil(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Web Master Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Sam Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape', Universita' di Napoli "Federico II," Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10–12 point fonts. Please include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact the Web Master, Program Co-Chairs, or the Conference Coordinator, Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92 111, USA, Tel. (858) 277-3888, Fax (858) 277-3930, E-mail: sbranch(a)scs.org. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2006 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Program Co-Chairs. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2006 Notification of acceptance: April 23, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2006 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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(AW) DeLFI 2006 Call for Papers
by Martin Gutbrod 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

"info(a)delfi2006.de" schrieb: > ***************************************** > Call for Papers > Call for Demos / Wokshops / Tutorien > > DeLFI 2006 > Die 4. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik > der Gesellschaft für Informatik > > Darmstadt, 11.-14. September 2006 > > http://www.delfi2006.de > > ***************************************** > > > Die DeLFI-Tagung ist die einschlägige wissenschaftliche Tagung im > deutschsprachigen Raum, auf der dem interessierten Fachpublikum neueste > informatiknahe Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Praxis zum Thema e-Learning > präsentiert werden. > > Die DeLFI 2006 will sich dabei insbesonder den folgende Themen widmen: > > Infrastrukturen, Schnittstellen und Standards > * Contentformate / XML > * Metadaten > * Wireless und Mobile Learning > * Ambient Learning - Verschmelzen von Lernen und Arbeiten/Leben > * Augmented Learning - Rechnergestützte Präsenzveranstaltungen > > Lernumgebungen und Werkzeuge > * Lernplattformen > * Digitale Bibliotheken / Repositories > * Content Management Systeme > * Systeme für kooperatives e-Learning > * Lernermodellierung > * Adaptive Lernumgebungen > > Erstellung von Lehr- und Lernmaterialien > * Vorgehensmodelle > * Authoring- und Reauthoringwerkzeuge > * Ergonomie > * Content Engineering > * Wissensakquisition > * Informatik-spezifische Fragestellungen > > Lehr- und Lernprozesse und -szenarien > * Qualitätssicherung und Nachhaltigkeit > * Fallstudien und Erfahrungsberichte > * Informatik-Inhalte > * Prozesse der Weiterbildung > * didaktische Aspekte des e-Learning > * interdisziplinäre Ansätze > * Feedback und Evaluation > > Integration des E-Learning in die Organisation > * e-Learning und Wissensmanagement > * Qualitätsmanagement > * Geschäftsmodelle und Anreizsysteme > * e-Learning und Hochschulmanagement > > > ------------------------------ > Call for Papers > ------------------------------ > > Es werden Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Erfahrungsbeiträge zu den > genannten Themen erbeten. Forschungs- und Entwicklungsbeiträge sollen > über neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Forschungsergebnisse und -ansätze > berichten. Erfahrungsbeiträge sollen nicht nur den Einsatz von > e-Learning darstellen, sondern diesen auch auswerten und daraus > abgeleitete Erkenntnisse und Schlussfolgerungen darstellen. > Herausragende Beiträge werden mit einem Best Paper Award ausgezeichnet. > > Der Tagungsband wird in der GI Edition "Lecture Notes on Informatics" > (LNI) erscheinen. > Angenommene Beiträge werden in einem 30-minütigen Vortrag (einschl. > Diskussion) auf der Tagung vorgestellt. > > > ------------------------------ > Call for Demonstrations > ------------------------------ > Neueste Prototypen, Systeme und Anwendungen können für das > Demonstrationsprogramm vorgeschlagen werden. > > > ------------------------------ > Call for Workshops & Tutorien > ------------------------------ > Alle interessierten Wissenschaftler sind eingeladen, Vorschläge für > Workshops oder Tutorien zu einem relevanten Themengebiet per e-Mail an > die Tagungsleitung einzureichen. > > > ------------------------------ > Ausstellungsprogramm > ------------------------------ > Die Tagung wird von einem Ausstellungsprogramm für kommerzielle Anbieter > begleitet. > Interessierte Aussteller sind gebeten, mit der Tagungsleitung per e-Mail > direkten Kontakt aufzunehmen. > > > ------------------------------ > Termine > ------------------------------ > > Einreichung von Vorschlägen für Workshops/Tutorien: 14.02.2006 > Einreichung von Beiträgen: 20.03.2006 > Benachrichtigung der Autoren: 31.05.2006 > Einreichung von Demonstrationen: 19.06.2006 > Abgabe der Endversion v. Beiträgen 30.06.2006 > > Workshops/Tutorien 11.09.2006 > Tagung 12.-14.09.2006 > > > Den vollständigen Call for Papers im PDF-Format finden Sie auf der > Website der Tagung > http://www.delfi2006.de/fileadmin/delfi06/cfp-delfi2006.pdf > > Detaillierte Einreichungsrichtlinien finden Sie unter ebenfalls auf der > Website der Tagung > http://www.delfi2006.de/index.php?id=106 > > > ------------------------------ > Programmkomitte > ------------------------------ > Max Mühlhäuser (Co-Chair, TU Darmstadt) > Ralf Steinmetz (Co-Chair, TU Darmstadt) > > Hans-Jürgen Appelrath (Uni Oldenburg) > Peter Baumgartner (FernUni Hagen) > Arndt Bode (TU München) > Jörg Desel (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) > Wolfgang Effelsberg (Uni Mannheim) > Stefan Eicker (Uni Duisburg-Essen) > Stefan Fischer (Uni Lübeck) > Jörg Haake (FU Hagen) > Michael Herczeg (Uni Lübeck) > Thomas Herrmann (Uni Bochum) > Friedrich Hesse (Uni Tübingen) > Ulrich Hoppe (Uni Duisburg-Essen) > Firoz Kaderali (FU Hagen) > Reinhard Keil-Slawik (Uni Paderborn) > Andrea Kienle (FhG, Darmstadt) > Gabriele Kotsis (Uni Linz) > Torsten Leidig (SAP Research ) > Johannes Magenheim (Uni Paderborn) > Wolfgang Nejdl (Uni Hannover) > Andreas Oberweis (Uni Karlsruhe) > Thomas Ottmann (Uni Freiburg) > Sabine Rathmayer (TU München) > Christoph Rensing (httc, Darmstadt) > Raúl Rojas (FU Berlin) > Guido Rößling (TU Darmstadt) > Gunter Saake (Uni Magdeburg) > Uli Schell (FH Kaiserslautern) > Johann Schlichter (TU München) > Ulrik Schroeder (RWTH Aachen) > Olaf Schröder (hamburg.de) > Sigrid Schubert (Uni Siegen) > Silke Seehusen (FH Lübeck) > Elmar Sinz (Uni Bamberg) > Djamishid Tavangarian (Uni Rostock) > Martin Wessner (FhG, Darmstadt) > Udo Winand (Uni Kassel) > > > ------------------------------ > Veranstalter > ------------------------------ > Ausrichter der Tagung ist die TU Darmstadt in Zusammenarbeit der > Fachgebiete Multimedia Kommunikation und Telekooperation, > des e-learning center und des Forschungsschwerpunktes E-Learning in > Kooperation mit dem httc e.V. > > > ------------------------------ > Tagungsleitung > ------------------------------ > Prof. Dr. Ing. Ralf Steinmetz > Technische Universität Darmstadt & httc e.V. > Merckstr. 25 > 64283 Darmstadt > Tel. +49 (0) 6151 - 16 6150 > Fax +49 (0) 6151 - 16 6152 > > > ------------------------------ > Organisationskomitte > ------------------------------ > Dr.-Ing. Christoph Rensing (TU Darmstadt) > Dr.-Ing. Guido Rößling (TU Darmstadt) > Lasse Lehmann (TU Darmstadt) > > Kontakt: > Technische Universität Darmstadt > Fachgebiet Multimedia Kommunikation > Merckstr. 25 > 64283 Darmstadt > > Tel.: +49 (0) 6151 - 16 4111 > Fax: +49 (0) 6151 - 16 6152 > > E-Mail: info(a)delfi2006.de > http://www.delfi2006.de > > -- 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: [ISCC06] SIUMI cfp (within IEEE ICDCS'06)]
by Lars Wolf 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ISCC06] SIUMI cfp (within IEEE ICDCS'06) Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:04:08 +0100 From: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> To: ISCC2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers _________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers: 2nd International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet SIUMI 2006 In conjunction with the 26th Int. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'06) Lisbon, Portugal, July 4th, 2006 ( Web site: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/ pdf version of the SIUMI'06 cfp: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/cfp.pdf ) Advances in mobile and wireless communication are enlarging and enhancing the services provided by the Internet infrastructure towards any time, any place and any device features. Ubiquitous services impose new requirements to the entire infrastructure, from the system to the middleware and the applications that should adapt traditional services to different mobile user terminals and profiles, and embed new functions and tools to support the new services and new requirements of the future scenario. The new Internet service infrastructure can only succeed on the basis of a strict synergism between the heterogeneous variety of mobile wireless devices and the fixed network organization that should suite and follow the requirements and constraints imposed by the wireless and mobile counterpart. The specific limitations of mobile wireless devices, such as discontinuity in connections, disconnection, and energy and resource shortages, connected with the new location- and context-sensitivity property, are challenging issues. Only a new methodology to produce a synergic design of an integrated and unified middleware can permit the deployment of all viable and available services that make possible to consider new properties for fruition, mainly connected with the new features of context-awareness. Many different provisioning scenarios are on the way, from the possibility of providing non-strict real-time data streaming adapted to very different wireless devices, by taking advantage of caching and multicast wherever possible, to a possibility of creating dynamic and impromptu communities based on common current locality and on presently available heterogeneous devices, by taking into account different resources and energy consumption limitations After the encouraging answer to the first edition, this second workshop intends to offer a renovated opportunity of putting together different experiences by providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to compare and exchange new ideas, research results, experiences, and products about different aspects related to Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Distributed platforms * Content delivery architectures * Caching and replication * Peer-to-peer schemes * Context-based services and applications * Middleware and software supports * Mobile-enabled middleware mechanisms * Personalization and transcoding * Mobile code and mobile agent technology * Service deployment and adaptation * Resource discovery algorithms * Performance evaluation * Resource and network monitoring * Security issues * QoS-based protocols and servers * Resource and service management PAPER SUBMISSION SIUMI 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site ( http://lia.deis.unibo.it/siumi/), which will be soon available. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Emails and hard copies will be accepted only if motivated reasons prevent electronic submission. In that case, contact first one of the Technical Co-chairs: Antonio Corradi DEIS, Università di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy Phone: +39-051-2093083 E-mail: acorradi(a)deis.unibo.it Philip S. Yu IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York, USA E-mail: psyu(a)us.ibm.com ______________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline December 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance January 30, 2006 Final camera-ready manuscripts due February 15, 2006 ______________________________________________________________________ STEERING COMMITTEE - Michele Colajanni, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Giulio Iannello, University of Rome "Campus Bio-Medico", Italy - Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA - Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan - Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer Focus, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Cosimo Anglano, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy - Albert Banchs, Universidad de Madrid Carlos III, Spain - Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy - Claudio Bettini, University of Milano, Italy - Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy - Giovanni Chiola, University of Genova, Italy - Domenico Cotroneo, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy - Giuliano Di Vitantonio, HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA - Chris Gill, Washington University of St. Louis, USA - Theo Kanter, Ericsson Research, Sweden - Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institute, FOKUS, Germany - Cecilia Mascolo, UCL, London, UK - Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy - Simon Pietro Romano, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vittorio Scarano, University of Salerno, Italy - Niranjan Suri, IHMC, FL, USA - Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA - Kun-lung Wu, IBM Research, USA - Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:59:25 -0500 From: Dr. Dapeng Oliver Wu <wu(a)ece.ufl.edu> Organization: ECE Dept., University of Florida To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006) Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada July 3-6, 2006 IWCMC 2006 will be held in Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada (http://www.sheratonwallcentre.com/), on 3-6 July 2006. The technical program will consist of a general symposium, nine specific symposia, Tutorials and Workshops. For the technical sessions, the IWCMC 2006 program committee is soliciting original papers describing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of communications and networking. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral presentations at IWCMC 2006 and publication in the Conference Proceeding. IWCMC 2006 is technically supported by 4 IEEE ComSoc Committees, ACM, and IEEE ComSoc Vancouver Chapter. For more information, please visit the conference web site at http://www.IWCMC2006.cs.wmich.edu. All papers should be submitted to http://edas.info/index.cgi. Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops are also invited. Scope of IWCMC 2006 includes, but is not limited to, the symposia topics listed below. GENERAL SYMPOSIUM The General Symposium in IWCMC 2006 will include topics that are not covered under the individual symposia listed below. For further details, please contact the General Symposium Chair: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, and Co-Chairs: Huaping Liu, Oregon State University, USA, hliu(a)eecs.oregonstate.edu, Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada, jmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca. SPECIFIC SYMPOSIA In addition to the General symposium, IWCMC 2006 will feature other eleven separate symposia as listed below. For further information, please contact the co-chairs of the specific symposia of interest. Computer and Network Security Co-Chairs: Xiaojiang (James) Du, North Dakota State University, USA, xdu(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA, yangxiao(a)ieee.org Shigang Chen, University of Florida, USA, sgchen(a)cise.ufl.edu Communication and Information Theory Co-Chairs: Hamid Sadjadpour, University of California-Santa Cruz, USA, hamid(a)soe.ucsc.edu Robert Ulman, Army research office, USA, robert.ulman(a)us.army.mil Farid Dowla: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., USA, dowla1(a)llnl.gov Brian Sadler: Army research Laboratory, USA, bsadler(a)arl.army.mil Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Co-Chairs: Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, xizhang(a)ee.tamu.edu Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada, wzhuang(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea, schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Multimedia over Wireless Co-Chairs: Haohong Wang, Qualcomm, USA, haohongw(a)qualcomm.com Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Chingyao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, cyhuang(a)faculty.nctu.edu.tw Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada, zjanew(a)ece.ubc.ca Mobile Computing Co-Chairs: Jie Li, Tsukuba University, Japan, lijie(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk Zhenqiang Sun, China TeleCom, sunzhq(a)ctbri.com.cn Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan, hcc(a)mail.niu.edu.tw Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Co-Chairs: Yang Yang, University College London, UK, y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk Mischa Dohler, France Telecom, France, mischa.dohler(a)francetelecom.com Jiang-Chuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada, jcliu(a)cs.sfu.ca Rohit Nabar, Marvell Semiconductor, USA, rnabar(a)marvell.com Qian Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk Next Generation Mobile Networks Co-Chairs: Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada, vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada, ekram(a)ee.umanitoba.ca Javan Erfanian, Bell Canada, javan.erfanian(a)bell.ca Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs (Wireless Networking) Co-Chairs: Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada, ehab(a)cs.ualberta.ca Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA, yangxiao(a)ieee.org MIMO Systems Co-Chairs: Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, lichun(a)cc.nctu.edu.tw Andreas F. Molisch, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA/Lund University, Sweden, Andreas.Molisch(a)ieee.org Weifeng Su, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA, weifeng(a)eng.buffalo.edu Lutz Lampe, The University of British Columbia, Canada, lampe(a)ece.ubc.ca Ralf R. Muller, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NORWAY, mueller(a)iet.ntnu.no Sensor and Wireless Resource Management Chair, Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA, sohraby(a)uark.edu Co-Chairs: Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA, znati(a)cs.pitt.edu Keping Long, Chong Qing Univ. of Posts and Telecom., China, longkp(a)cqupt.edu.cn Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA, cgwang(a)uark.edu Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks Co-Chairs: Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA, wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu Dipak Ghosal, University of California--Davis, USA, ghosal(a)cs.ucdavis.edu TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS Proposals are invited for half or full-day tutorials and workshops in communication and networking topics. Tutorial proposals must be submitted to the Tutorials Chair: Daniel Wong (dwong(a)research.telcordia.com), Telcordia Technologies, USA. Workshop proposals should be submitted to Workshop Co-Chairs: Song Ci (sci(a)cs.umb.edu), University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, Sghaier Guizani (guizans(a)umoncton.ca), Universite de Quebec a Trois-Rivieres et Universite de Moncton, Canada. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: December 15, 2005 Paper Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2006 Camera-ready Paper Submissions: May 30, 2006 Tutorial/Workshop Proposal Due: December 15, 2005 CONTACTS General Chair: Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA, mguizani(a)cs.wmich.edu General Co-Chairs: Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, hshwchen(a)ieee.org Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan, sawahasi(a)mlab.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp TPC Co-Chairs: Jie Li, Tsukuba University, Japan, lijie(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, xizhang(a)ee.tamu.edu Financial Chair: Eun K. Park, University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA, ekpark(a)umkc.edu Local Chair: Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada, vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca Industrial Liaison Chair: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Publicity Chair: Dapeng Oliver Wu, University of Florida, USA, wu(a)ece.ufl.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] CfP IWSOS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Cost290] CfP IWSOS 2006 Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:56:56 +0200 From: Yevgeni Koucheryavy <yk(a)cs.tut.fi> To: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi Please apologize in case you receive multiple copies. 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 Prospective technical co-sponsors: EuroNGI, IFIP, IEEE, ACM, GI, IEE, IEICE, KICS 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 _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: IEEE ACC2006 CfP]
by Lars Wolf 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: IEEE ACC2006 CfP Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:16:26 +0100 (MET) From: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACC 2006 2nd IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Computing Niagara-Falls, Buffalo-NY, June 2006 in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2006 http://www.autonomic-communication.org/acc/index.html Papers due -------------------------- Jan. 10, 2006 Notification of acceptance ------------ Feb. 22, 2006 Camera-ready papers due --------------- Mar. 17, 2006 +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: EntNet 2006: Call for Participation!]
by Sven Jaap 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: EntNet 2006: Call for Participation! Datum: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:29:24 -0500 Von: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org An: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed"> [] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENTERPRISE NETWORKING AND SERVICES 2006 ~ INTRODUCING A NEW GENERATION OF ENTERPRISE SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS ~ 11-13 September 2006 Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Jointly organized by IEEE and IEC Co-located with Broadband World Forum Americas <http://www.comsoc.org> [] <http://www.comsoc.org> [] <http://www.iec.org> [] CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS The <http://www.comsoc.org/>IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) and the <http://www.iec.org/>International Engineering Consortium (IEC) cordially invite you to participate in the <http://www.ieee-entnet.org/2006>International Conference on Enterprise Networking and Services 2006 (EntNet 2006) Following the previous successful conferences held in Atlanta and Chicago, EntNet 2006 will present an excellent opportunity for enterprise networking and services professionals to examine the key enterprise networking business issues, learn new enabling technologies, and evaluate solutions for improving the enterprise operations and the quality of delivered services. The success of modern economies is profoundly based on enterprises able to deliver a variety of cost-effective, innovative, and secure services. Future economic expansion, continuing development of advanced technology solutions in optical and wireless broadband communication, as well as heightened demand for homeland security solutions, are giving strong impetus for rapid introduction of a new generation of enterprise networking and services solutions. The conference chairs invite proposals for panel sessions and short courses in, but not limited to, the following areas: · SoIP: Services over IP for the enterprise · Enterprise vertical market applications · Enterprise wireless strategies · e-Commerce networks and applications · Optical network implications on the enterprise · Enterprise data centers & storage area networks · Voice recognition applications · VoIP and VoWiFi technologies & applications · Integrated voice, data & video services · QoS & SLA within enterprise boundaries · Next generation access technologies · Virtual enterprises · Digital homes · Smart enterprises · Network and applications security · Security policies and governance Panel proposals should contain the panel title, one page abstract, panel chair name and affiliation, and list of potential panelists. Each panel session is 1.5 hours and has 4-5 panelists including the chair. Panel proposals and inquiries should be e-mailed to Lundy Lewis at <mailto:lundylewis@comsoc.org>lundylewis(a)comsoc.org. Course proposals should contain the course title, one page abstract, the instructors name and affiliation, and past course experience. The course length is 3 hours, including .5 hour for Q&A and working on individual problems related to the topic. Certificates of attendance from IEEE will be provided to course attendees. Course proposals and inquiries should be e-mailed to Daniel Minoli at <file:///\\hansolo\poneill\danielminoli@comsoc.org>danielminoli(a)comsoc.org. Workshop on Enterprise Wireless Technologies and Applications. Prior EntNet workshops have been hugely successful and very well attended. This years conference will feature a workshop on enterprise wireless technologies, products and applications. Proposals for presentations and product demonstrations should contain the title, one page abstract, product reference, presenters name and affiliation. Presentations and products related to SIP-enabled services, VoWiFi, fixed/mobile convergence, enterprise WiMax applications, and wireless location technologies are especially welcome. A nominal fee is required to cover networking and organizational expenses. Workshop proposals and inquiries should be e-mailed to Donald Fye at <file:///\\hansolo\poneill\donaldfye@comsoc.org>donaldfye(a)comsoc.org. For more information see www.ieee-entnet.org/2006 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 April 2006 AUTHOR NOTIFICATION: 29 May 2006 FINAL SUBMISSIONS: 3 July 2006 Conference General Chair: Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys Corp, USA Technical Program Chair: Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University, USA Technical Program Vice-Chair: Samir Chatterjee, Claremont Graduate University, USA Wireless Workshop Chair: Donald Fye, Fye Associates LLC, USA Course Chair: Daniel Minoli, Capital One Financial, USA IEC Liaison: Dan Coran, IEC, USA To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(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: IEEE Portable-2007]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: IEEE Portable-2007 Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:48:41 +0000 From: Prof Algirdas Pakstas <a.pakstas(a)londonmet.ac.uk> To: commsoft(a)IEEE.ORG, multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: gabejakobson(a)earthlink.net, mask(a)ktl.mii.lt, s.nenov(a)uctm.edu, kabacins(a)ET.PUT.Poznan.PL, j.m.h.elmirghani(a)swansea.ac.uk, mguizani(a)cs.wmich.edu, taos(a)comsoc.org, jonas(a)lema.lt, f.wang(a)Cranfield.ac.uk, WEY007(a)unl.ac.uk, Olegas Vasilecas <Olegas.Vasilecas(a)fm.vtu.lt>, "Vladimir A. Oleshchuk" <Vladimir.Oleshchuk(a)hia.no>, Virkovski(a)iba.by, inta(a)inta.lt, Dziugas Juknys <dziugas(a)infobalt.lt>, zvirblis(a)infobalt.lt, Mara Jakobsone <mara.j(a)dtmedia.lv>, Andrzej Jajszczyk <jajszczyk(a)kt.agh.edu.pl>, "Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas" <rudas(a)bmf.hu>, Rimas Juskaitis <rimas.juskaitis(a)eng.ox.ac.uk>, Rimvydas Ruksenas <rimvydas(a)dcs.qmul.ac.uk>, j.cook(a)londonmet.ac.uk, COLLYER Ms Jennifer <j.collyer(a)londonmet.ac.uk>, "Martin Wright" <m.wright(a)londonmet.ac.uk>, e.moschini(a)londonmet.ac.uk, stasysr(a)ktl.mii.lt Dear All, Please circulate attached CFP (sorry for possible cross-postings). -- Algirdas Pakstas, IEEE Portable-2007 Technical Program Co-Chair =========================================== PORTABLE-2007 IEEE International Workshop on Portable Information Devices (PIDs): Joint IEEE @ CTIA Wireless 2007 Interdisciplinary Intersociety Event Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, March 25-29, 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Arthur C. Clarke- Science Fiction Author The emergence of, and progress in, Portable Information Devices (PIDs) have revolutionized the telecommunications, information engineering, and entertainment systems of this decade and have become an essential part of our everyday life and business culture. PIDs allow vastly enhanced lifestyles from basics like reading, taking notes, or listening to music, to crunching numbers, watching video, and keeping up with news and sports events on the go. Today’s PIDs include cellular phones, palm-sized personal digital assistants, medical devices, intelligent clothing, iPODs, and others. Some devices have built-in organizers for to-do and shopping lists, scheduling and appointments, phone numbers, address book, customer contacts, even games, and video display. Both hardware and software are equally important in the design, use and reliability of these devices which should be easy to handle and operate, and last for a long time. PORTABLE 2007 will bring together electrical, materials, mechanical, optical, reliability, industrial and manufacturing engineers and business leaders involved or interested in various types of PIDs, and address and discuss the state-of-the-art, challenges, attributes and pitfalls in PID related areas of engineering and applied science, with an emphasis on the interaction of the hardware and software in the PIDs, as well as on their functional and physical (mechanical) performance, reliability and durability. PORTABLE 2007 is a program attribute of IEEE @ CTIA Wireless 2007, an umbrella, collocated event sponsored by the IEEE New Technology Directions Committee (NTDC), Communications Society (ComSoc), Broadcast Technology Society (BTS), Computer Society (CS), and Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society (CPMTS). PORTABLE 2007 is technically co-sponsored by the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). We are seeking the cooperation with, and participation of, several non-IEEE societies and government agencies. Call for Papers Scope: PORTABLE 2007 is looking for technical paper contributions (initially, in the form of extended abstracts, and then in the form of full-length papers), coupled with tutorial, panel discussion, and demonstration (trade show type) proposals on the different aspects of the Portable Information Device engineering, including, but not limited to, the following topics, standards, technologies and areas (directions): Topics: Cell Phones; “Smart” Cell Phones (containing ICs); Medical Devices; Intelligent Clothing; Portable Digital Assistants (PDAs); Portable Musical Devices (MP3 Players); Portable Video Devices; Portable Multimedia Devices; Global Positioning Systems (GPS); Handheld (“Wearable”) Computers (HHC); Multi-function entertainment and communication terminals. Standards: “Digital Video Broadcast, Hand-Held” (DVBH); Reliability and Quality Standards Technologies: New and Emerging PID Technologies; Wireless Technologies (antennas, RF Circuits, Signal Processing, Security); Microwave Technologies; Input/Output (user interfaces, displays); Distributed Networking (peer-to-peer, wireline-wireless); Battery/Power (micro fuel cells, others): Sensors; Display Technologies Areas (Directions): Packaging, Physics, and Mechanics of various PIDs; Functional (electrical, optical) Design; Physical (mechanical) Design; Manufacturing; Mobile Devices and Related Areas; Materials (and, particular, Nano- and Polymeric Materials); Reliability and Performance in Harsh Environments; Hardware/Software Interaction; Power Generation, Supply and Conversion; Multi-Modal Man-Machine Communication; Anywhere/Anytime Access to Information; Voice and Image Recognition and Processing; Audio and Video Processing; Shock Protection; Bio-Medical Applications; Nanotechnology Applications; Advanced Experimental Techniques, Experimental Evaluations and Testing; Predictive Modeling; Economics and Business Related problems; Government/Regulatory; Homeland Security Related Issues; Impact on the Society and other Social Areas; Home Entertainment Systems and Networks. Duration and Content: Eight half-day tutorials (short courses) will be held on Sunday, March 25, the day preceding the workshop. Key-note presentations, invited talks, technical sessions and business-related panel discussions will be held on Monday through Wednesday, March 26-28. An IEEE Pavilion featuring technology exhibits and demonstrations will be open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 27-29. Anticipated Attendance: 150-200 participants. Chairs: General Co-Chairs: Ephraim Suhir (University of California, USA), Curtis Siller (IEEE ComSoc President, USA), Tom Gurley (IEEE BTS President, USA) Administrative Assistants: Nicole Tom (UCSC, USA), Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Kanji Otsuka (Meisei Univ., Japan), Algirdas Pakstas (LONDONMET, UK), Claire Gu (UCSC, USA), Rolf Aschenbrenner (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany), Hideo Itoh (AIST, Japan), Ton-Yan Tee (STMicroelectronics, Singapore) Keynote/Panel Sessions Co-Chairs: Ephraim Suhir (UCSC, USA) and David Whalley (Loughborrough Univ., UK) Tutorial (Short Course) Co-Chairs: John Emerson (Sandia National Laboratories, USA), Ramesh Harjani (University of Minnesota, USA), Demin Wang (Communications Research Center, Canada), Yiyan Wu (Communications Research Center, Canada) Publicity Co-Chairs: Michael Kincaid (IEEE ComSoc, USA), Joseph Fjelstad (SiliconPipe, Inc, USA), David Whalley (Loughborrough Univ., UK), Mario El-Khoury (CSEM, Switzerland) Publications Co-Chairs: Ephraim Suhir (UCSC, USA), Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA) Exhibits/Demonstrations Chair: Brian Bigalke (IEEE ComSoc, USA) Webmaster: Brian Bigalke (IEEE ComSoc, USA), Paul Wesling (CPMT Soc., USA) Liason with other IEEE and non-IEEE Organizations and Societies: Ephraim Suhir (UCSC, USA) Local Hosts: David Flinchbaugh and Michael Miller (both IEEE Orlando Chapter) Organizing Committee Members (Partial List): Joe Barrett (Intel, USA), Phil Chan (HKUST, Hong Kong), George McClure (IEEE, USA), Rich Cox (AT@T, USA), Steve Diamond (IEEE, USA), Mario El-Khoury (CSEM, Switzerland), Alex Gelman (Panasonic, USA), Reza Ghaffarian (NASA, USA), William Gruver (Intelligent Robotics Corporation, USA), Ronald Kelley (Motorola, USA), Jorma Kivilahti (HUT, Finland), Ricky Lee (HKUST, Hong Kong), Robert Lorenz (IEEE, USA), Petri Mahonen (MOBNETS, Germany), Louis Manzione (Lucent, Ireland), Wataru Nakayama (Japan), Shlomo Novotny (AAVID, USA), Kanji Otsuka (EI MEISEI-U, Japan), CP Wong (Georgia Tech, USA), Heather Yu (Panasonic, USA), Richard Ziolkowski (Univ. of Arizona, USA). Abstract Submission: Extended abstracts written in English should consist of a minimum 1000 words and a maximum of 1500 words, with relevant figures and tables describing results. Abstracts should include the following sections: 1) background/incentive/motivation; 2) objective(s); 3) approach; 4) major results; 5) conclusions and recommendations; 6) future work; 7) references. The abstracts will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. The preliminary decision on including a talk into the Workshop program will be based on the submitted abstract. The final decision will be made based on the full-length (typically 6-page long) paper. IEEE Placeholder features the process for authors to submit abstracts and full-length papers -- With friendly greetings, Professor Algirdas Pak?tas, DrTech, PhD, MSc, SMIEEE, MACM, MNYAS Departmental Research Manager London Metropolitan University - North Campus Dept. Computing, Communications Technology and Mathematics Eden Grove Building, 2-16 Eden Grove, London N7 8EA, England Tel.: +44-(0)20-71337028 (direct line), +44-(0)20-7423000 (switchboard) FAX: +44-(0)20-71337053 E-mail: a.pakstas(a)londonmet.ac.uk URL: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/cctm/ IEEE ComSoc Director - Sister Societies (2002-2003) IEEE Sister Societies Board (2004-2005) -- With friendly greetings, Professor Algirdas Pakštas, DrTech, PhD, MSc, SMIEEE, MACM, MNYAS Departmental Research Manager London Metropolitan University - North Campus Dept. Computing, Communications Technology and Mathematics Eden Grove Building, 2-16 Eden Grove, London N7 8EA, England Tel.: +44-(0)20-71337028 (direct line), +44-(0)20-7423000 (switchboard) FAX: +44-(0)20-71337053 E-mail: a.pakstas(a)londonmet.ac.uk URL: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/cctm/ IEEE ComSoc Director - Sister Societies (2002-2003) IEEE Sister Societies Board (2004-2005)

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: NEW2AN CfP]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: NEW2AN CfP Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:18:26 +0100 (MET) From: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org FYI: Autonomous Communication is a topic: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2006 http://www.new2an.org/ May 29 - June 2, 2006 St.Petersburg, Russia Important dates Paper submission January 16, 2006 Notification of acceptance March 05, 2006 Camera ready version March 19, 2006 Conference dates May 29 - June 2, 2006 The Conference is organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and BalticIT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Popov Society, IEEE St.Petersburg BT/CE/COM Chapter, COST 290 and support of Infosim GmbH. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems]
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:55:05 -0800 From: Wang, Haohong <haohongw(a)qualcomm.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> 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 Submission deadline: January 1, 2006 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 maximum 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 Guest Editors: Haohong Wang QUALCOMM Incorporated 5775 Morehouse Drive San Diego, CA 92121 USA haohongw(a)qualcomm.com Lisimachos P. Kondi Dept. of Electrical Engineering The State University of New York University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260, USA lkondi(a)eng.buffalo.edu Ajay Luthra Motorola Corporation 6420 Sequence Drive San Diego, CA 92121 USA aluthra(a)motorola.com Important Dates: 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@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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Haohong Wang Qualcomm CDMA Technology Phone: (858) 658-1665 Email: haohongw(a)qualcomm.com Homepage: http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~haohong _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications]
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP - IEEE JSAC, Special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:34:40 +0100 From: Pascal Frossard <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Reply-To: <e-notice-reply(a)ieee.org> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> References: <A11319870705495640274.pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZED WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Recent advances in wireless and mobile communications provide ample opportunities for introducing new services. Supporting multimedia applications and services over wireless networks is challenging due to constraints and heterogeneities such as limited battery power, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. Cross-layer design methodologies hold great promise for addressing these challenges and providing reliable and high-quality end-to-end performance in wireless multimedia communications. This issue solicits the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions in the area of cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications and networking. The issue will provide a compelling forum for researchers and practitioners to present their results. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited to) the following: - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks, WLAN, WMAN, or hybrid networks) - End-to-end QoS support for wireless networks - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Caching and content management in WLANs and WMANs - Interaction among medium access control (MAC), radio link control (RLC), and routing protocols for media delivery over multi-hop wireless networks - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - Secure multimedia communications - System prototypes and experiences with broadband wireless multimedia delivery Please note that submitted papers must explicitly address cross-layer design issues. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors, at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html. Authors MUST submit their manuscripts through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) at https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/COWMC2006/CallForPapers.aspx, together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words) in the CMT website form. In addition, the mandatory cover page is not included in the page count. The cover page should include paper title, abstract, list of keywords indicating the paper's topic area, authors' full names, affiliations with complete addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Please note potential authors should create their own accounts through the CMT peer review website before submitting manuscript(s). CMT will accept manuscripts in PDF format only. There will be one round of reviewers and acceptance will be limited to those papers requiring only moderate revisions. The following timetable will apply: Manuscript submission: MAY 15, 2006 Acceptance notification: November 1, 2006 Final manuscript due: December 1, 2006 Publication: 2nd Quarter 2007 Guest Editors: Chang Wen Chen Dept Elect & Comp Engr Florida Inst of Technology Melbourne, FL 32901 cchen(a)fit.edu Pascal Frossard Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne - 1015, Switzerland pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch Cormac Sreenan Dept of Comp Science Univ College Cork Cork, Ireland cjs(a)cs.ucc.ie K. P. Subbalakshmi Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Stevens Inst of Technology Hoboken, NJ 07733 ksubbala(a)stevens.edu Dapeng Oliver Wu Dept of Elect & Comp Engr Univ of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Qian Zhang Dept of Comp Science Hong Kong Univ of Science & Tech Hong Kong qianzh(a)cs.ust.hk

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-December-2005)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-December-2005) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 10:35:19 -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 (12/01/2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements * DSN 2006 2005-11-18 http://www.dsn.org WMPI 2006 2005-12-09 http://www.cs.utah.edu/wmpi/2006/ * ECRTS 06 2005-12-11 http://ecrts06.tudos.org/ * VEE 2006 2005-12-15 http://www.veeconference.org/vee06 HP-PAC 2006 2005-12-19 http://fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac/ * 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/ * 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/ (* = 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 * NEW THIS MONTH! DSN 2006 Title: 2006 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Abstract: 2005-11-18 Deadline: 2005-12-09 Webpage: http://www.dsn.org Conference: June 25-28, 2006 Contact: timothy.tsai(a)sun.com Location: Philadephia, USA Synopsis: The professional society of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) will be holding its 36th annual conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN, previously called FTCS) in the city of Philadelphia, USA, June 25-28, 2006. DSN is an annual conference of academic and industry leaders from all over the world doing research and advancing the technology for improving the reliability, security, and trustworthiness of computer systems and networks. I invite you to check the website <http://www.dsn.org> and consider submitting a paper to this premier forum. Please note that the deadline for submitting a paper is December 9, 2005. ____________________________________________________________ WMPI 2006 Title: 4th Workshop on Memory Performance Issues, conjunction with HPCA Deadline: 2005-12-09 Webpage: http://www.cs.utah.edu/wmpi/2006/ Conference: 2/11/2006 Contact: legion(a)cs.utah.edu Location: Austin, Texas, USA Synopsis: WMPI is a one-day workshop that provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss advances in computer technology, architecture, software systems, and algorithms that address the growing disparity between processor and memory/network speeds. Hardware and software mechanisms that address this performance gap are equally welcome. We are particularly interested in new or controversial ideas. Work in early stages of development is encouraged. The workshop will include one or more keynote speakers. The best five to seven papers of this workshop will be published in a special issue of SIGMICRO newsletter. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! ECRTS 06 Title: 18th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems Deadline: 2005-12-11 Webpage: http://ecrts06.tudos.org/ Conference: July, 5-7, 2006 Contact: lipari(a)sssup.it Location: Dresden, Germany Synopsis: The 18th EUROMICRO Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 06) is a forum aimed at covering state-of-the-art research and development in real-time computing. Papers on all aspects of real-time systems are welcome. These include, but are not limited to: applications, infrastructure and hardware, software technologies, system design and analysis. We particularly encourage submission of papers on industrial case studies and application of real-time technology on realistic systems, real-time operating systems implementations. The submission page is now available at http://ecrts06.tudos.org/submit.shtml. Pursuing a succesful tradition at ECRTS, a set of satellite workshop will be hosted at ECRTS 06, including WCET, RTN, and OSPERT. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! VEE 2006 Title: 2nd International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments Deadline: 2005-12-15 Webpage: http://www.veeconference.org/vee06 Conference: June 14-16, 2006 Contact: groved(a)us.ibm.com Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Synopsis: VEE is a forum that brings together leading practitioners and researchers in the broad area of virtualization, which includes topics such as high-level language virtual machines (JVM, CLR, etc.), process and system virtual machines, translators, machine emulators, and simulators. VEE'06 will be co-located with PLDI'06 in Ottawa, Ontario from June 14-16, 2006. ____________________________________________________________ HP-PAC 2006 Title: 2nd IEEE Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing Deadline: 2005-12-19 Webpage: http://fortknox.csc.ncsu.edu/proj/hppac/ Conference: April 25-29, 2006 Contact: dkl(a)cs.uga.edu Location: Rhodes, Greece Synopsis: The goal of this workshop is to provide a timely forum for research in power-aware, high-performance computing. This includes work that reduces (1) power, (2) energy consumption, or (3) heat generation, with little or no performance penalty. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following. . Novel power-aware architectures for HPC . Power-aware middleware for HPC . Power-aware runtime systems for HPC . Reduced power/energy/heat algorithms & applications . Surveys or studies of power/energy/heat usage of HPC applications ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! 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! 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. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! 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. ____________________________________________________________ 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: Joint ASME/IEEE VTS Rail Conference]
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Joint ASME/IEEE VTS Rail Conference Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 12:00:00 -0500 From: ieee-enotice(a)ieee.org Reply-To: d.bodson(a)ieee.org To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de References: <A11334536388042291940.wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> 2006 ASME/IEEE VTS Joint Rail Conference The annual ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference in Atlanta 4-6 April 2006 provides a forum for technical information exchange among professionals in the business of passenger and freight rail transportation. The 2-day technical conference will feature technical papers centered on advances in design, analysis and testing of equipment serving the rail industries, and a technical tour tentatively scheduled for a MARTA maintenance facility. Full details on http://www.asmeconferences.org/JRC06/ Sincerely, Dennis Bodson President Vehicular Technology Society _____________________________________________________ Manage your subscription at: <http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?LN=VT006>

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WinMee CFP (Papers due Dec 4th)]
by Lars Wolf 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] WinMee CFP (Papers due Dec 4th) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:00:54 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin C. Almeroth <almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu The submission date is less than a week away... ---------------------------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt) April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/ WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy, and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data, and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another difficult environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location, weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables. Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement. The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006 Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10. Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie) Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] CfP WWIC2006, Deadline Dec. 8, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Cost290] CfP WWIC2006, Deadline Dec. 8, 2005 Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:37:52 +0100 From: Thomas Bernoulli <bernoull(a)iam.unibe.ch> Reply-To: wwic2006(a)iam.unibe.ch To: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi Call for Papers 4th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006), May 9-12 2006, Bern, Switzerland, www.wwic2006.org supported by COST Action 290 approved by the IEEE Communications Society for technical co-sponsorship Next generation mobile networks will be based on Internet core networks and wireless access networks. The need for efficient merging of the wired and wireless infrastructure as well as the new multimedia services and applications of next generation networks call for novel network architectures, protocols and traffic-related mechanisms. WWIC addresses research topics such as the design and evaluation of protocols, the dynamics of the integration, the performance tradeoffs, the need for new performance metrics, and cross-layer interactions. The goal of the conference is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance. Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. The best conference paper as well will be awarded at the conference, based on reviewer comments and suggestions of the Technical Program Committee members. The paper should not exceed 12 pages and the conference proceedings will be published by Springer's Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS). A special issue with selected papers will be published by Elsevier Computer Communications. Papers should address one of the following topics. * Network design and network planning * Traffic engineering * Traffic characterisation and modeling * Mobile service level agreements / specification * Simulation technologies for next generation mobile networks * Transport protocols and congestion control * Cross layer interactions * Mobility management * End-to-end Quality of Service support * Heterogeneous wireless access networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Handover techniques * Wireless multimedia systems * Service creation and management environments for mobile/wireless systems * Resource management and admission control * QoS signaling * QoS routing * Wireless Multi-Hop Networks * Wireless Mesh Networks * Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks * Economical issues of wireless networks * Pricing, charging and accounting in wireless networks * Wireless Sensor Networks * Network Security * Network Mobility * Wireless network monitoring Submission deadline December 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance February 17, 2006 Camera ready papers February 28, 2006 Conference May 9-12, 2006 _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: 3rd Call for Papers: WPNC'06 - 3rd Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication - Submission date extended]
by Lars Wolf 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: 3rd Call for Papers: WPNC'06 - 3rd Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication - Submission date extended Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:03:23 +0100 From: Jens Schroeder <jens.schroeder(a)ant.uni-hannover.de> To: <germany-com(a)IEEE.ORG> 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission date extended - 11. Dec. 2005 3rd Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2006 (WPNC’06) University of Hannover, Germany 16. March 2006, right after CeBIT’06 www.wpnc.net _______________________________________________ Due to several requests, we have extended the submission date to 11. Dec. 2005. _______________________________________________ Niccimon, the competence center of Lower Saxony for information systems for mobile usage, and its partners IEEE Communications Society Germany Chapter, VDE ITG, VDI FVT, IHK Hannover and University of Hannover is proud to announce the 3rd Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2006 (WPNC'06), which will take place at the University of Hannover, Germany, 16 March 2006, right after CeBIT'06. _______________________________________________ Scope Mobile position aware systems combined with modern wireless technologies are getting more and more important. When developing systems of this kind, problems in various fields of information and communication technology need to be solved. The workshop shall give an overview of state-of-the art approaches and systems. As many technologies are available to deal with the variety of applications, we would like to continue to cover ultra-wideband technology as it is becoming of great importance in the area of positioning, navigation and communication. _______________________________________________ Topics You are invited to submit papers presenting scientific work or practical implementations, addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: * Positioning - Outdoor-Radio Systems (terrestrial & satellite-based) - Indoor-Positioning - Hybrid Approaches * Navigation - Pedestrian Navigation - Vehicle and Robot Navigation * Communication and Services - Integrated Positioning and Communication - Location Based Services - Application Scenarios * Ultra-Wideband - Positioning and Localization - Architectures, Systems, Protocols - Hybrid Positioning and Communication - Regulatory Issues, EMC/EMI _______________________________________________ Submission Guidelines Full-paper or poster submissions in the form of extended abstracts (max. 3 pages) are requested electronically in PDF- or PS-format in English language until 27. Nov. 2005 to workshop2006(a)wpnc.net. With acceptance, complete contributions of up to 10 pages for full-papers and up to 6 pages for posters are expected until 10. Feb. 2006. _______________________________________________ Publishing The workshop proceedings in book-form will be published in the series “Hannoversche Beiträge zur Nachrichtentechnik“ by SHAKER publishing. _______________________________________________ Technical Program Committee Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Susanne Boll University of Oldenburg Li-Der Chou National Central University, Taiwan Hermann Eul University of Hannover Adolf Finger Dresden University of Technology Peter Adam Hoeher University of Kiel Klaus Jobmann University of Hannover Thomas Kaiser University of Duisburg Rolf Kraemer IHP-Microelectronics Hans-Peter Kuchenbecker University of Hannover Thomas Kürner Technical University at Brunswick Kyandoghere Kyamakya University of Klagenfurt, Austria Robert Piché Tampere University of Technology, Finland Ulrich Reimers Technical University at Brunswick Hermann Rohling Technical University Hamburg-Harburg Robert Schober University of British Columbia, Canada Reiner Thomä Ilmenau Technical University _______________________________________________ Contact Prof. K. Jobmann Prof. K. Kyamakya email: workshop2006(a)wpnc.net phone: +49 (0) 511 762 2871 fax: +49 (0) 511 762 3030 web: http://www.wpnc.net _______________________________________________ Important dates * Submission of Extended Abstracts until: 11. Dec. 2005 ! Changed ! * Notification of acceptance or denial until: 09. Jan. 2006 * Submission of Camera Ready Manuscripts until: 10. Feb. 2006

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] upcoming events]
by Lars Wolf 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] upcoming events Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 20:47:18 +0100 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ******* ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl ** **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** ** not this IFIP ICEC News Service ** **************************************************** **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** ** and subscribe directly ** **************************************************** ** News archives: ** ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ ** **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ** **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:35:41 +0100 From: Mario Di Francesco <mario.difrancesco(a)iet.unipi.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Apologies for possible multiple copies] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC 2006) http://www.ing.unipi.it/mdc06/ June 26, 2006 Niagara Falls/Buffalo, NY, USA In conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2006 (http://ieee-wowmom.cse.buffalo.edu/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 6, 2006 ******* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS With the advance in mobile wireless communication technology, research in distributed computing is beginning to extend its scope to address problems relevant to mobile environments. Mobile distributed computing has emerged as a discipline of distributed systems research and practice toward support for mobility. It is concerned with creating solutions using mobile communication networks and mobile computing devices to enable the sharing of distributed resources/services and to facilitate remote collaborations while people work away from the fixed, wired facilities. MDC 2006 is the fourth in series. Following the success of the first three editions -- MDC 2003 in Rhode Island, USA, MDC 2004 in Tokyo, Japan, and MDC 2005 in Columbus, USA -- MDC 2006 provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of mobile distributed computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures and systems for mobile distributed computing - Distributed applications in mobile environments - Distributed algorithms for mobile computing - Synchronization and coordination in mobile environments - Networking protocols for distributed mobile computing - Cooperating mobile agents - Environments, middleware and tools for mobile distributed computing - Operating system support for mobile distributed computing - Fault tolerance and security in mobile distributed environments - Real-time issues in mobile distributed computing - Context-aware services and applications - Sensor networks and RFID technologies - Mobile cluster computing - Mobile Peer-to-Peer computing - Resource/service sharing and management in mobile distributed environments - Mobile distributed transactions - Modelling and performance evaluation of mobile distributed systems PAPER SUBMISSION MDC 2006 invites authors to submit original and unpublished works. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer by e-mail to mdc06(a)ing.unipi.it. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined IEEE WoWMoM 2006 Workshops proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due ------------------------ Jan. 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance -------- Feb. 22, 2006 Camera-ready papers due ----------- Mar. 17, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-chairs Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Chair Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Vice Program Chair Andrea Passarella, University of Cambridge, UK Publicity Co-chairs Cheng Hui, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (more confirmations Still pending) Alberto Bartoli, University of Trieste, Italy Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Christian Becker, Technical University Stuttgart, Germany Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Cristian Borcea, NJ Institute of Technology, USA Dipanjan Chakraborty, IBM India Research, India Keith Chan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Franca Delmastro, National Research Council, Italy Kent Fuchs, Cornell University, USA Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland Brisbane, AU Vana Kalogeraki, University of CA, Riverside, USA Jian Lu, Nanjing University, China Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Ravi Prakas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA Xingwei Wang, Northeastern University, China Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK, Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University, USA Jian-liang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University, HK Jun Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University of China Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN'06)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN'06) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:28:51 -0600 (CST) From: Dr. Hongyi Wu <wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu> To: manet(a)ietf.org, <dtn-interest(a)mailman.dtnrg.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <announce(a)tcos.org> ======================================================================== IEEE Workshop on Delay Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN'06) in conjunction with IEEE IWCMC 2006 (IEEE Sponsorship Pending) ======================================================================== Objective: Mobile communication has experienced an explosive growth during the last few years. Various researches have been carried out for mesh-based mobile networks, where an end-to-end path from the source to the destination always exists. In many application scenarios, however, the connectivity between the mobile stations is poor, and thus it is difficult to form a well-connected mesh network for transmitting data through end-to-end connections. In this workshop we aim to explore novel designs for such delay tolerant mobile networks and bring together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area. Topic of Interests: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * New architecture of delay tolerant mobile networks * New design of protocol stack for delay tolerant mobile networks * Delay and fault tolerance in mobile peer-to-peer and sensor networks * Mobility management and modeling * Security and privacy * Localization and synchronization * System modeling and performance evaluation * Testbed implementation and experimental results Submission deadline and guideline: see details at IEEE IWCMC website http://www.iwcmc2006.cs.wmich.edu/. Workshop Co-Chairs: Hongyi Wu Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette Email: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu Dipak Ghosal Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis E-mail: ghosal(a)cs.ucdavis.edu Program Committee: TBD. --Hongyi ======================================================================== Dr. Hongyi Wu, Assistant Professor The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, U.S.A. Tel: 337-482-5779, Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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