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(FW) E-Learn 2005 Call (Vancouver, Canada)
by Martin Gutbrod 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

>> Call for Participation Deadline: April 28th << * Please forward to a colleague * http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm _______________________________________________________________ E-Learn 2005 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education October 24-28, 2005 * Vancouver, Canada CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submission Deadline: April 28, 2005 ** Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) (http://www.aace.org) Co-sponsored by International Journal on E-Learning (http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel) ______________________________________________________________ ** What are your colleagues saying about E-Learn conferences? ** http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/testimonials.htm COLOR POSTER--E-Learn 2005 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/EL05poster.pdf >> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) << 1. Submission Information, Deadline April 28th: Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm Presenter Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge 2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm 3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm 4. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs 5. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm 6. Vancouver, Canada: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver 7. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm INVITATION: E-Learn 2005 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international, annual conference which serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in these four sectors. E-Learn Is Unique: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/unique.htm E-Learn is an innovative collaboration between the top public and private academic researchers, developers, education and business professionals, and end users from the Corporate, Healthcare, Government, and Higher Education sectors. All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected, international Executive Advisory Board (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/exec.htm) and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees. E-Learn, the premiere international, non-commercial conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit proposals for presentations. All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: * Keynote Speakers * Invited Panels/Speakers * Papers * Best Practice Sessions * Roundtables * Demonstrations/Posters * Research/Technical Showcases * Products/Services Showcases * Tutorials/Workshops SUBMISSION INFORMATION: For Call for Presentations, connect to: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge TOPICS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the e-Learning and the technologies supporting e-Learning. 1. Sectors or Application Domains: General & Cross-Domain Corporate Government Health Care Higher Education Informal Learning (Museums, Communities, Homes) K-12 Military Training Professional Associations & Non-Profits 2. Major Topics relating to or technologically supporting E-Learning: Content Development Evaluation Implementation Examples and Issues Instructional Design Policy Issues Research Social and Cultural Issues Standards and Interoperability Tools and Systems 3. Specific Topic Examples: Accessibility Asynchronous Learning Authoring Tools Building E-Learning Architectures Collaborative Learning Community Building Courseware Development Customer Training Developing an Organizational e-Learning Strategy Developing, Integrating, and Delivering E-Learning Solutions Digital Libraries for E-Learning Distance Learning Electronic Publishing Tools for E-Learning Evaluation/Performance Measurement & Assessment Good Practice Concepts & Examples Human-Computer Interaction Industry-University Partnering Infrastructure of E-Learning Environments Innovative Curriculum in E-Learning Instructional Design for E-Learning Intelligent E-Learning Technology Interactive E-Learning Systems Knowledge Management in E-Learning Learning & Content Management Systems Management of Learning Resources Marketing/Promoting Learning Activities Multimedia-based E-Learning Systems Organizational E-Learning Strategies Pedagogical & Issues Policy and Law Quality Management and Assessment in E-Learning Research Perspectives for E-Learning Simulations Societal Issues, Including Legal, Standards, & International Issues Virtual Universities, Classrooms, and Laboratories PRESENTATION CATEGORIES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. PRODUCTS/SERVICES SHOWCASES & PRESENTATIONS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/commercial.htm Organizations have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their e-learning related products and services in through Products/Services Showcases & Presentations. PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS: http://www.aace.org/pubs Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM. Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/ hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in the AACE Digital Library, http://www.aace.org/DL Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the - International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), or - Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR). All presented papers will be considered for Outstanding Paper Awards within several categories. Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals. FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $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 Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/hotel.htm) Vancouver's premier hotel - ideally located in the heart of the city's business, financial and shopping districts - with magnificent views of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Special discount hotel and Delta Airlines rates have been obtained for E-Learn 2004 participants. Vancouver, Canada http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver Vancouver is a dynamic, multicultural city with a cosmopolitan flair set in a spectacular natural environment. Nestled between majestic mountains and sparkling ocean, Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Explore Vancouver online at: http://www.tourismvancouver.com DEADLINES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm Submissions Due: April 28, 2005 Authors Notified: May 28, 2005 Proceedings File Due: September 12, 2005 Early Registration: September 12, 2005 Conference: Oct. 24-28, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link to http://www.aace.org/info.htm If you have a question about E-Learn, please send an e-mail to AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org Mailing address: AACE, P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514 USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [manet] ACM MONET Special Issue on SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] [manet] ACM MONET Special Issue on SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:57:52 -0600 (CST) From: Dr. Hongyi Wu <wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu> To: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <announce(a)tcos.org> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ============================================================== ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue On SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS =============================================================== ********** Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2005 ********** With Guest Editors Dr. Guohong Cao Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University TEL: 814-863-1241 FAX: 814-865-3176 E-mail: gcao(a)cse.psu.edu Dr. Dapeng Wu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Florida TEL: 352-392-4954 FAX: 352-392-0044 E-mail: wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Dr. Hongyi Wu (contact) The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette TEL: 337-482-5779 FAX: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu Dr. Junshan Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University TEL: 480-727-7389 FAX: 480-965-8325 E-mail: Junshan.Zhang(a)asu.edu With various network characteristics, a number of wireless systems have been developed over past years, targeting at different applications. While most of these wireless technologies are deployed independently for now, the service providers surely intend to own and operate overlaid heterogeneous wireless systems, which integrate multiple wireless technologies with partially overlapped coverage areas and provide ubiquitous network service to mobile users. Recent advances in reconfigurable computing have greatly advanced the design of soft radios, which enable the communication with many different radios with only a reconfiguration in software parameters. The maturation of soft radio technology is becoming one of the most important milestones for seamless integration of the heterogeneous wireless network. Serving as the "glue", the soft radio technology has its niche in in two folds: (1) the network infrastructure can be built upon soft radio, where the base stations are tunable to different frequency bands and serve as general access points for various mobile hosts (MHs), e.g., cellular handsets, laptops, and PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants); and (2) the MHs may employ soft radio, and accordingly, get access to various wireless systems (such as wireless LAN, cellular, IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.16), providing ubiquitous service for mobile users. An important design issue is to capitalize on the recent achievement in soft radio technology for providing improved and more efficient connectivity and service in heterogeneous wireless networks. With this special issue we aim at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area of soft radio-enabled heterogeneous wireless networks. We are seeking for papers reporting novel research or commercial/industrial experiences. These papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other conference, workshop, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - System optimization - Efficient spectrum allocation and management - Dynamic network topology discovery and optimization - Smart handoff and inter-system signaling - Quality of service in the heterogeneous networks - Routing and load balancing - Mobility management - System modeling and performance evaluation - Cognitive radio and testbed design * PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: o MANUSCRIPT DUE: March 1, 2005 o ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2005 o FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: July 1, 2005 o EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: First Quarter, 2006 * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors should email an electronic (Postscript or PDF) copy of their papers to Dr. Hongyi Wu, wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu, by March 1, 2005. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email submission is impossible then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to: Dr. Hongyi Wu The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504-4330 Tel: 337-482-5779 All submissions will be reviewed following the standard procedure. --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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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:08:41 -0500 (EST) From: MASS 2005 <xinrong(a)ece.wpi.edu> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Our Apologies for multiple messages. =========================================== CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **** MASS 2005 **** The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems November 7-10, 2005 - Washington, DC, USA www.mass05.wpi.edu =========================================== Important Dates: - Paper Submission: April 22, 2005 - Workshops Proposal Submission: April 30, 2005 - Acceptance Notification: July 22, 2005 - Final Submission: August 26, 2005 Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including but not limited to: - MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (801.11, Bluetooth, etc) - Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast, etc) - Power-aware and energy-efficient design - Directional and smart antennas for ad-hoc networks - QoS, security, and fault-tolerant issues - Location and mobility management - Topology construction and coverage maintenance - Distributed Algorithms - Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination - Operating system and middleware support - Complexity analysis of algorithms - Analytical, mobility, and validation models - Applications of ad-hoc and sensor networks Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See detailed submission instructions at www.mass05.wpi.edu Proposals for Workshops are solicited. The selection criteria include the expertise and experience of the workshop coordinators and relevance to the central themes of the conference. Proposals of at most 4 pages, including 1-page biographical sketch, should be submitted to the Workshops Chair, Ivan Stojmenovic (ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca), by April 30, 2005. =========================================== GENERAL CHAIR Kaveh Pahlavan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky, USA Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark TECHNICAL PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Ian Oppermann (Applications), Univ. of Oulu, Finland Abbas Jamalipour (Network and Higher Layers), Univ. of Sydney, Australia Shigang Chen (Reliability and Security Issues), Univ. of Florida, USA Guohong Cao (Algorithms and Topology), Pennsylvania State Univ., USA Arup Acharya (MAC and Lower Layers), IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA WORKSHOP CHAIR Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada STEERING COMMITTEE Dharma P. Agrawal (CHAIR), University of Cincinnati, USA Tomas La Porte, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nign Tzeng, University of Louisiana, USA Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA =========================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [CFP] UbiComp 05]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CFP] UbiComp 05 Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:14:57 +0100 From: Christian Becker <christian.becker(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE ............................................................................ ..... ..... Call for Papers ..... ..... Ubicomp.05 ..... The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing ..... September 11-14, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan ..... ..... Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2005 ............................................................................ ..... Ubicomp 2005 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing. This conference seeks to present novel research results impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology that migrates beyond the desktop. Submissions should report concrete, transferable results that contribute to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state of the art. Authors are invited to submit papers within the general scope of the conference in the following areas: ..... Devices : low power devices, novel device types ..... User Interfaces : embedded, novel ..... Systems : operating systems, middleware, distributed and database systems ..... Context : perception, fusion, use ..... Communication : ad-hoc, wireless, low power ..... Privacy, Security, Trust Ubicomp 2005 will include a highly selective program for technical papers, accompanied by posters, videos, demonstrations, workshops and a doctoral colloquium. ............................................................................ ..... ..... Paper Submission Ubicomp 2005 is seeking papers appropriate to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. Technically-oriented papers should clearly put their work in the context of ubiquitous computing settings, and non-technicallyoriented papers should clearly put their work in the context of technical feasibility. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Ubicomp 2005 program committee and by additional members of the ubiquitous computing research community. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. We solicit papers up to 18 pages but explicitly welcome shorter papers. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers, but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. ............................................................................ ..... ..... Important Dates March 7, 2005 ..... Deadline May 15, 2005 ...... Notification June 21, 2005 ..... Camera ready Sept 11-14, 2005 .. Conference ............................................................................ ..... ..... General Chair Hide Tokuda ........ Keio University, Japan ..... Program Co-Chairs Michael Beigl ...... University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stephen Intille .... MIT, USA Jun Rekimoto ....... Sony CSL, Japan ............................................................................ ..... ..... Program Committee Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Allison Woodruff, Intel Research, USA Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Elizabeth Churchill, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Intel Research Seattle, USA Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex, UK Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Itiro Siio, Tamagawa University, Japan John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA Masaaki Fukumoto, NTT DoCoMo, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michiaki Yasumura, Keio University, Japan Mirjana Spasojevic, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK W. Keith Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan -- PD Dr. Christian Becker - IPVS - Universitaet Stuttgart http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de/people/beckercn/

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[Fwd: SPECTS 2005 CFP (Deadline March 15, 2005)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SPECTS 2005 CFP (Deadline March 15, 2005) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 17:50:15 -0500 From: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ece.ufl.edu> To: <itc(a)comsoc.org> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to numerous requests, the organizing committee of SPECTS2005 (http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects), has decided to extend the submission deadline to March 15, 2005. This will be a firm deadline. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS ***** International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS) Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society July 2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects ** SCOPE ** This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now 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 ** 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 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 - 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 - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce 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 NEW! 2005 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems WiNCS’2005 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS05.pdf ** GENERAL CHAIR ** Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu <mailto:obaidat@monmouth.edu> ** VICE GENERAL CHAIR ** Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it <mailto:franco@dist.unige.it> ** PROGRAM CHAIRS ** Mario Marchese CNIT - Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications University of Genoa Research Unit, Italy E-mail: mario.marchese(a)cnit.it <mailto:mario.marchese@cnit.it> Jose L Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es <mailto:joseluis.marzo@udg.es> ** VICE PROGRAM CHAIR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR ** Imad Mahgoub Florida Atlantic University, USA E-mail: imad(a)cse.fau.edu <mailto:imad@cse.fau.edu> Vice Program Chair and Local Arrangement Chair Constantine Katsinis Drexel University, USA E-mail: ckatsini(a)ece.drexel.edu <mailto:ckatsini@ece.drexel.edu> Vice Program Chair Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace, France E-mail: lorenz(a)ieee.org <mailto:lorenz@ieee.org> Tutorial Chair Abbas Jamalipour School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of Sydney, Australia Email: a.jamalipour(a)ieee.org <mailto:a.jamalipour@ieee.org> ** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK 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 Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. & Ohio Sate Univ., USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Idaho, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universitat der Bundeswehr München, Germany Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Pascale Minet, INRIA, France 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, University of Napoli, Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Università di Milano, Italy Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy ** WEB MASTER ** Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Email: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil <mailto:mchinni@pica.army.mil> ** PUBLICITY COMMITTEE ** Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com <mailto:zenggu@nortelnetworks.com> Vice Chairs: Martin Kappes, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, kappes(a)docomolab-euro.com <mailto:kappes@docomolab-euro.com> Nouerddine Boudriga, SUPCOM, Carthage University, Tunisia, nab(a)supcom.rnu.tn <mailto:nab@supcom.rnu.tn> Susan Yi Su, President, SEEZONE INC., USA, seezonetx(a)yahoo.com <mailto:seezonetx@yahoo.com> Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca <mailto:wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca> Kejie Lu, Univeristy of Florida, USA, lukejie(a)ece.ufl.edu <mailto:lukejie@ece.ufl.edu> Antonio Pescapè, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, pescape(a)unina.it <mailto:pescape@unina.it> ** SUBMISSION ** Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chair or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch(a)scs.org <mailto:sbranch@scs.org> sbranch(a)scs.org <mailto:sbranch@scs.org>. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2005 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 Vice Program Chair and special Sessions Chair, Imad Mahgoub. For more information regarding exhibits at SPECTS 2005 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Submission of Papers: March 15, 2005 (Extended Firm Deadline) Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2005 Final Camera-Ready Submission: May 23, 2005 ** FURTHER INFORMATION ** http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS ***** Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International. Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ICCCN 2005]
by Lars Wolf 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: ICCCN 2005 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:44:23 -0500 From: Sandy Thuel <thuel(a)lucent.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ******* ICCCN05 paper submission website is open! ******* ICCCN 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS October 17-19, 2005 San Diego, California USA Marriott Hotel San Diego Mission Valley Conference Website: http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC (Technical Committee on Computer Communications), IBM, Avaya Labs, and Nokia (*pending approval of sponsorships) ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that address novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics include, but are not limited to: eCommerce Internet Services/Applications Protocols Network Control and Management Intelligent Networks Data Traffic Engineering Networked Databases Optical Communication Networks Wireless/Mobile/Satellite Networks Cable Broadband Technologies Mobile and Pervasive Computing Multimedia Communication over IP Networks Voice over IP Security/Reliability/Dependability of wired/wireless networks Network Interoperability Multicasting Streaming Networks Network Performance Network Architectures Terabit Optical Technologies Wireless Multimedia Applications DSL Technologies Network Processing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) Sensor Networks SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers to be submitted should not have been previously published in another forum, and should not be currently under review by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Of particular interest are papers that address concrete experiences with computer communications/networks and applications. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue. These accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Press. All manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages with font size 10 in standard IEEE camera ready format (double column). The Program Committee reserves the right to decline without review any papers that exceed these length specifications. Submissions also must include the title, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address, fax/phone numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Electronic submission is required (ps or pdf format is preferred). Manuscripts should be submitted by April 15, 2005 to the ICCCN2005 website. STUDENT POSTER PAPER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper session and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks, with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are not considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are not considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not allowed. Please contact Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Yuanyuan Yang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook yang(a)ece.sunysb.edu +1 631 632 8474 (voice) +1 631 632 8494 (fax) Dr. Sandra R. Thuel Bell Laboratories, Room 4F515 Networking Techniques Research Department 101 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 thuel(a)lucent.com +1 732 949 8897 IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission deadline: April 15, 2005 Poster paper submission deadline: April 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2005 Camera ready papers due: July 30, 2005 STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Some travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. WEBSITE: Please visit the ICCCN2005 web site http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu for paper submission and more up-to-date information. Paper submission website is up and ready for paper submissions. GENERAL CHAIR: Prof. Luiz DaSilva Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ldasilva(a)vt.edu ****************************************************************** BEST PAPER AWARD: ICCCN will select the best paper each year and authors of the paper will be recognized at the conference ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [ieee-cnom] IPOM 2005: Call for Papers - IPOM 2005 (fwd)
by Frank Strauß 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br> > Date: 19. Februar 2005 13:58:01 Uhr MEZ > To: cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br > Cc: Subject: [ieee-cnom] IPOM 2005: Call for Papers - IPOM 2005 (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:26:59 -0200 (BRST) > From: IPOM 2005 <edmundo(a)ic.unicamp.br> > To: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br> > Subject: IPOM 2005: Call for Papers - IPOM 2005 > > Dear TPC member, > > This is the First Call for Papers for IPOM 2005. Please, distribute it > to your colleagues. > > Regards, > > Edmundo and Thomas. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [My apologies if you receive this more than once] > ================================================ > > IPOM 2005 > > The 5th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations & Management O&M > Challenges in Next Generation Services and Networks > > October 26-28, 2005, Barcelona, Spain > http://www.iaria.org/conferences/IPOM05.html > > (IPOM 2005 is co-located with DSOM, MMNS and SSS events) > > Call for Papers > > > Scope ------ > > The IPOM 2005 is the fifth in a series of dedicated events to > Operations > and Managementin IP-based networks. Building on the success of the > previous events, IPOM 2005 focuses on complexity of interoperability > between networks and service providers, the performance versus costs in > operating the IP-based networks, and the OM challenges in next > generation networks (NGN) and related seamless service provision. Also > issues related to Fixed- Mobile Convergence and the emerging IP > Multimedia System (IMS) are of prime interest. > > Paper submissions ------------------ > > Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages including > figures, tables, references and annexes in .pdf or .doc formats. The > proceedings of the workshop will be published by Springer-Verlag in the > Lecture Notes on Computer Science series. Thus submissions should > follow > the LNCS style guides. LNCS Authors Instructions sub page is available > at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and the IPOM > submission > page at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ipom2005. Further details on > submission can be found at http://www.iaria.org/conferences/IPOM05.html > > > Panels -------- > > Proposals for panels are solicited. Please send the proposal to the > panel chair, at steglich(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de > > Topics of interest: ------------------ > > Topics of interested areas include but are not limited to: > > Fixed / Mobile all-IP Network Planning and Design Traffic Modeling, > Measurement, Analysis, Engineering, and Visualization for IP Networks > Network Monitoring, Measurement, and Visualization of fixed and > wireless > IP Networks IP Troubleshooting in Mobile/Wireless IP Networks Security > and Privacy in IP Networks Intra-/Inter-Domain Routing Policy Issues > and > Management Intra-/Inter-Domain QoS IPOM based on Autonomic > Communications principles Self-Configuration, Self-Healing, and > Self-Management of IP routers and networks Interworking / > Interoperability Testing for Operations and Management of IP networks > Enterprise IP Network Management Management of Sensor Networks IP Grid > Management and Grid Services Large-Scale IP Network Operations & > Management Managed Services on IP Networks IP services and network > Provisioning & Restoration Management of Dynamic Service Level > Agreements Self provisioning of IP services Charging and Accounting for > IP Services Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) Services and Infrastructures > O&M IP Multimedia Systems Service and Network O&M QoS Management in the > IP Multimedia Systems Management of seamless NGN Services / Interdomain > Management IT for IP O&M, e.g. CORBA, Java, Webservices / XML for IP > O&M > Emerging standards, Case studies and recent field trials for IP O&M > > Important dates ---------------- > > Full paper due: 8th May 2005 Tutorial > proposals: 3rd July 2005 Notification of > acceptance: 3rd July 2005 Final papers due: > 31st July 2005 Final Tutorial proposals: > 15th June 2005 > > > General Chair Petre Dini, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S.A. > > Programme Co-Chairs Thomas Magedanz, TU Berlin, Germany Edmundo > Madeira, > Unicamp, Brazil > > Technical Programm Committee (pending) Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, > U.S.A. Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, > Poland Bernard Vilain, Alcatel, France Carlos Becker Westphall, UFSC, > Brazil Deep Medhi, University of Missouri, U.S.A. Gerard Parr, > University of Ulster, Ireland Iakovos Venieris, NTUA, Greece Iraj > Saniee, Bell Labs, U.S.A. Joerg Heuer, T-Labs, Germany Johan Zuidweg, > Telefonica, Spain John-Luc Bakker, Telcordia, U.S.A. Karthikeyan > Ramasamy, Juniper, U.S.A. Kevin Woollard, BT, UK Manu Malek, Stevens > Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany > Mario Baldi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Martin Stiemerling, NEC, > Germany Masum Hasan, Cisco Systems, U.S.A. Max Michel, France Telecom, > France Meng Luoming, BUPT, P.R. China Michal Pioro, Warsaw University > of > Technology, Poland Nail Akar, Bilkent University, Turkey Richard > Schaedler, Tekelec, U.S.A. Roberto Minerva, Telecom Italy Labs, Italy > Sascha Karlich, Siemens, Austria Stamatios Kartalopoulos, University of > Oklahoma, U.S.A. Tassos Gavras, EURESCOM, Germany Wolfgang Kellerer, > DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany Wulf Bauerfeld, T-Systems, Germany > > Panel Chair Stephan Steglich, FOKUS, Germany > > ======================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Cnom mailing list > Cnom(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br > http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom >

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[Fwd: CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp05)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Feb '05

19 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp05) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:51:15 +0100 From: announce(a)teco.edu To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ................................................................................. ..... Call for Papers ..... ..... Ubicomp.05 ..... The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing ..... September 11-14, 2005 | Tokyo, Japan ..... ..... Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2005 ................................................................................. Ubicomp 2005 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions in the area of ubiquitous, pervasive and handheld computing. This conference seeks to present novel research results impacting the design and usage of ubiquitous computing technology that migrates beyond the desktop. Submissions should report concrete, transferable results that contribute to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state of the art. Authors are invited to submit papers within the general scope of the conference in the following areas: ..... Devices : low power devices, novel device types ..... User Interfaces : embedded, novel ..... Systems : operating systems, middleware, distributed and database systems ..... Context : perception, fusion, use ..... Communication : ad-hoc, wireless, low power ..... Privacy, Security, Trust Ubicomp 2005 will include a highly selective program for technical papers, accompanied by posters, videos, demonstrations, workshops and a doctoral colloquium. ................................................................................. ..... Paper Submission Ubicomp 2005 is seeking papers appropriate to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. Technically-oriented papers should clearly put their work in the context of ubiquitous computing settings, and non-technicallyoriented papers should clearly put their work in the context of technical feasibility. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the Ubicomp 2005 program committee and by additional members of the ubiquitous computing research community. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. We solicit papers up to 18 pages but explicitly welcome shorter papers. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers, but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Papers should be formatted according to the Springer Verlag LNCS format. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. All paper submissions will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Note that submission is a two-stage process - authors need to register their paper first and then submit the final manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format and conform to the guidelines specified in the call for papers. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link as above. Reviewers will be instructed to maintain the confidentiality of all materials for submitted papers throughout the entire reviewing process. Submissions should contain no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication. ................................................................................. ..... Important Dates March 7, 2005 ..... Deadline May 15, 2005 ...... Notification June 21, 2005 ..... Camera ready Sept 11-14, 2005 .. Conference ................................................................................. ..... General Chair Hide Tokuda ........ Keio University, Japan ..... Program Co-Chairs Michael Beigl ...... University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stephen Intille .... MIT, USA Jun Rekimoto ....... Sony CSL, Japan ................................................................................. ..... Program Committee Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Allison Woodruff, Intel Research, USA Alois Ferscha, University of Linz, Austria Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Elizabeth Churchill, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Intel Research Seattle, USA Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex, UK Gregory Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Itiro Siio, Tamagawa University, Japan John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA Masaaki Fukumoto, NTT DoCoMo, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michiaki Yasumura, Keio University, Japan Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Paul Dourish, University of California, Irvine, USA Roy H. Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK W. Keith Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

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[Fwd: MILCOM 2005 abstract submission date extended to March]
by Marc Bechler 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

... für diejenigen, die schon immer mal D. "The Terminator" Rumsfeld persönlich kennenlernen möchten. -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MILCOM 2005 abstract submission date extended to March Datum: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:39:48 -0500 Von: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: conferencesx(a)comsoc.org <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed"> 2f525c00.jpg ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY OCTOBER * 17-20 * 2005 MILCOM 2005 abstract submission date extended to March 15, 2005 New Topics in 2005: Homeland Security Information Management & Dissemination For conference information and Call For Papers, please click http://www.milcom.org General Information Preparations for MILCOM 2005 are under way. We invite you to participate in the conference being held October 17-20 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. MILCOM 2005 is the premier conference on military communications sponsored by the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the Ft. Monmouth Team C4ISR is the MILCOM 2005 DoD Advisor. Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is the corporate host for MILCOM 2005. MILCOM offers a full program of technical sessions, tutorials, keynote speakers, and panel discussion focusing on the technology, systems and operations for military and tactical communications networks. The theme for MILCOM 2005 is Innovation...Fueling the Transformation. The technical sessions and exhibits will focus on information relevant to communication and information systems capabilities that address the 21st century challenges of National Defense and Homeland Security. The conference will take place at the Atlantic City Convention Center and accommodations for the conference will be the Tropicana Hotel and the Sheraton Hotel. We look forward to seeing you in Atlantic City for MILCOM 2005! http://www.milcom.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 </div>

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: Extended Deadline - MSAN 2005 (Multimedia Services Access Networks)]
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: Extended Deadline - MSAN 2005 (Multimedia Services Access Networks) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:12:08 +0100 From: Rolland Vida <Rolland.Vida(a)tmit.bme.hu> To: <members(a)ist-e-next.net> +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Please accept our apologies for multiple copies +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Dear Colleagues, Please find below the CFP for MSAN 2005, the First International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (http://msan.org/). Note that we have extended two weeks ago the submission deadline to February 18, 2005. However, due to some server problems, the web page of the conference was not accessible for a couple of days this week. Moreover, even now you can find only an old version of the official page at the above address, with the deadline still set to February 4. Therefore, please disregard the information on the page, and keep in mind that the correct deadline is February 18. We are sorry for this inconvenience. If you have a paper to submit, and you still need a couple of days to finish it, please write an e-mail to the TPC Co-chair Francesco G.B. De Natale (denatale(a)ing.unitn.it). Please note also, that there will be four workshops co-located with MSAN: - BWAN 2005: International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access Network on fixed network (http://www.bwan.org/) - COMNETS 2005: Deployment Models and Technologies for Broadband Community Networks (http://www.comnets.org/) - AAA-IDEA 2005: International Workshop on Internet DElivery of Advanced Services (http://www.aaa-idea.org/) - SID-WAS 2005: International Workshop on Standardization, Interoperability and Deployment of Wireless Access Solutions (http://standardswireless.org/) The deadline for these workshops was extended to March 15, 2005 (on the website you can still find a February 4 deadline, which is obsolete as well). Best regards, Rolland Vida and Wenjing Lou MSAN publicity co-chairs ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - MSAN 2005 First International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society June 13-15, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA http://msan.org ** SCOPE ** Access networks (the ‘last-’ or ‘first-’ mile according to provider’s or customer’s perspective) represent one of the most important parts in telecommunication systems, being responsible for the high-quality, reliable and secure delivery of services to end users. They also encompass some of the most demanding networking problems, such as the coexistence of a large variety of technologies based on both wired and wireless solutions, the need of optimal integration with the core network in terms of bandwidth and availability mismatch, the provision of an acceptable quality of service in very different application scenarios and traffic conditions. Perhaps, the most important challenge is that the design of access networks – from the analysis of requirements to the implementation and operation of the system – can only be successful if it is based on an integrated approach, taking into account the needs of different user groups, the technical constraints posed by different application technologies, as well as the related business and societal aspects. Within this framework, MSAN’05 is intended to provide a unique international forum to explore the new research frontiers in the field of current and next generation multimedia service access networks. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient access technologies and the relevant provision of advanced multimedia applications. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST ** Topics of interest are organized in three tracks addressing respectively: access network technologies (with particular emphasis on network design methodologies, protocols, analysis of performance and quality of service); multimedia service delivery (mainly focusing on the integration/adaptation between multimedia data processing and transmission techniques and access networks characteristics); implementation, operation and performance (providing an opportunity to present innovative applications and testbeds for the above technologies, as well as new approaches to testing and performance evaluation). Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Track 1: Access technologies and networks in MSANs (technologies and protocols) - Wire-based access (PON, FTTx, xDSL) - Wireless fixed access solutions (802.11x and 802.16 networks) - Mobile and nomadic access (3G and beyond, WiFi, etc.) - Other emerging technologies (power lines, CATV, DOCSIS, FSO) - Integration/migration among different technologies (heterogeneous nets, seamless handover) - Integration with core network - Handling bandwidth and availability mismatch between optical and wireless Track 2: Delivery of multimedia services - Technologies for multimedia-multimodal services - Streaming over IP (VoIP, packet video, rate control, error control) - Scheduling and allocation of network resources (bandwidth allocation, power management, etc.) - Quality of service (at network and application level) - Terminals and devices - Security issues Track 3: MSAN implementation, operation and performance - Testbeds and laboratory experiments - Performance evaluation and measurements - Interoperability of last mile solutions - Case studies of novel networking solutions and services implemented - Application techniques, tools and experiences (e.g., health, tourism, e-government, entertainment) - Specific operation and management issues - Planning and design methodology and tools ** CHAIRS ** General Co-Chairs: Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Northwestern University, USA Csaba A. Szabo BUTE, Budapest, Hungary Technical Program Co-Chairs: Francesco G.B. De Natale Univ. of Trento, Italy Nelson L.S. Fonseca Univ. of Campinas, Brasil Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac Create-Net, Italy Local Chair: Ladislau L Bölöni Univ. Central Florida, USA Local Vice-Chair: Damla Turgut Univ. Central Florida, USA Workshops Chair: Iacopo Carreras Create-Net, Italy Tutorials & Panels Chair: Viktoria Fodor KTH, Stockolm, Sweden Demo and Exhibit Chair: Scott A. Valcourt Univ. New Hampshire, USA Sponsorship Chair: Jing Deng University of New Orleans, USA Publications Chair: Luigi Atzori University of Cagliari, Italy Publicity Co-Chairs: Wenjing Lou Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Rolland Vida BUTE, Budapest, Hungary Financial Officer: Karen Decker ICST, USA ** Technical Program Committee ** K. Aizawa, Univ. Tokyo, JPN J. Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA M. Barni, Univ. Siena, ITA S. Bregni, Polytechnic Milan, ITA Y. Cai, Iowa State Univ., USA R. Civanlar, Koc Univ., TUR R. Cohen, Technion, ISR E. Delp, Purdue Univ., USA T. Ebrahimi, EPFL, SUI P. Frossard, EPFL, SUI B. Gandhi, Motorola, USA B. Gavish, South. Methodist Univ., USA A. Gelman, Panasonic Research, USA A. Gumaste, Fujitsu Labs., USA N. Jayant, GeorgiaTech, USA M.G. Kang, Yonsei Univ., KOR G. Kramer, Teknovus, USA M. Krunz, Univ. Arizona, USA R. Lagendijk, Delft Univ., NED G. Lemos, Natalnet, BRA T. Miki, NTT DoCoMo, JPN J. Modestino, Univ. Miami, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. Univ, GBR T. Pappas, Northwestern Univ., USA G. Pau, UCLA, USA F. Pereira, IST, POR D. Pitt, Univ. Santa Clara, USA C. Regazzoni, Univ. Genova, ITA M. Reisslein, Arizona State Univ., USA J. Roberts, France Telecom R&D, FRA I. Rubin, UCLA, USA Gy. Sallai, BUTE, HUN M.R. Salvador, CPqD Telecom, BRA T. Sikora, Technical Univ. Berlin, GER L.F. Soares, PUC-Rio, BRA W. Tavanapong, Iowa State Univ., USA M. Tekalp, Univ. Rochester, USA D. Tran, Univ. Dayton, USA H. Wang, Qualcomm, USA S. Wright, BellSouth, USA Y. Wang, Polytechnic Univ., USA H. Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Y.-Q. Zhang, Microsoft, USA ** SUBMISSION ** Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper of no more than five (5) pages including figures and references. Submissions will be accepted only by EDAS electronic submission system, accessible through the conference website. The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Full papers due (to be received by): February 18, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2005 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 30, 2005 ** FURTHER INFORMATION ** For further information, please go to our website: http://msan.org +++ Posted to members-istenext by "Rolland Vida" <Rolland.Vida(a)tmit.bme.hu> +++

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[Fwd: MMNS2005: Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MMNS2005: Call For Papers Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:57:43 +0900 From: Go-Hasegawa <hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp (Please accept our apology if you received this multiple times) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services (MMNS2005) Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain October 24-26, 2005 The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its eighth annual meeting on October 24 through October 26, 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for discussion and debate. MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia communications and mobile application services thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2005 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit novel research in management of integrated multimedia services. The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Multiservice over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management - Distributed multimedia service management - Mobile multimedia network management - DVB-H management - Advanced audiovisual services management (e.g. videostreaming) - Quality of service (QoS) management - Internet QoS assurance - Multi-point, multicast services management - Deployment of multimedia services - Network management models and architectures - Management of sensor and actuator networks - Billing and security for multimedia services - Content distribution networking - Grid networking for multimedia - Network measurement/Monitoring for multimedia services - Novel protocols for multimedia services For further information, please contact the co-chairs: Jordi Dalmau (jordi.dalmau(a)retevision.es) or Go Hasegawa (hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp) Paper Submission: Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MMNS 2005. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2005. Authors are requested to identify submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted online en PDF format via the EDAS web cite (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Proceedings: The MMNS 2005 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) series. For that reason we recommend that the PDF file of each paper be generated using LaTeX and the LCNS style available from Springer-Verlag. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LCNS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important dates: Submission deadline: May 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2005 Camera-ready: August 8, 2005 MMNS2005 Conference: October 24-26, 2005 MMNS2005 Program Committee Co-chairs: Jordi Dalumau, Abertis Telecom, Spain Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan Steering Committee: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Guy Pujolle, Paris 6 University, France Advisory Committee Members: Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Masum Hasan Cisco Systems, Inc. Alan Marshall, Queen's University of Belfast John Vicente, Intel Corporation -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Go Hasegawa hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp hasegawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp http://www.ane.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hasegawa/

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Fwd: Extended deadline - E2EMON Workshop
by Frank Strauß 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Aiko Pras <pras(a)ctit.utwente.nl> > Date: 18. Februar 2005 11:25:14 MEZ > To: IM 2005 TPC <im2005tpc(a)comsoc.org> > Subject: Extended deadline - E2EMON Workshop > > Extended submission deadline: February 22, 2005 > > E2EMON - CALL FOR PAPERS > ------------------------ > > Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) > 15th May 2005, Nice-Acropolis, Nice, France > http://www.ieee-im.org/e2emon > In conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated > Network Management (IM2005) > > E2EMON is a workshop focusing on advances in monitoring technology, and > particularly new distributed monitoring techniques for emerging > technologies such as Grid, overlay, p2p and Ad hoc networks, and > end-to-end path measurements. E2EMON offers a unique opportunity for > researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences to develop > next-generation monitoring systems. The workshop also provides an > intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group > work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing > research in the area of e2e monitoring. Accepted papers will be > published in the workshop's preceedings and a selection may be > published > in an international journal (details will be provided later). The > participants in this workshop will have the added advantage of meeting > a > lot of the attendees of IM2005, which draws many leading researchers in > the field of Network and Systems Management. > > TOPICS: > Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services > Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring > Monitoring Grid & pervasive computing environment > Path characteristics monitoring > Large-scalable monitoring techniques > Adaptive monitoring systems > Monitoring embedded systems & pervasive environment > Active and programmable monitoring > Correlation-based monitoring > Traffic monitoring and data mining > Real-time monitoring > High-speed network monitoring > Multicast network/service monitoring > Overlay monitoring services > Monitoring of service level agreement > Distributed application steering > Monitoring and measurements > Open monitoring platforms > Monitoring models, architectures and systems > Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes > Languages for packet and distributed monitoring > Visualization of monitoring information > Distributed application steering > Monitoring and measurements > Open monitoring platforms > Monitoring models, architectures and systems > Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes > Languages for packet and distributed monitoring > > IMPORTANT DATES > Submission deadline: February 22, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2005 > Final version: April 1, 2005 > > PAPER SUBMISSION > The paper must be original material that is not currently under review, > and has not been previously published by another conference or journal. > The paper must be formatted as PDF format. Paper length should be > limited to 10 pages with reasonable margins and a font size of no less > than 11pt. To submit your paper, go to the EDAS system at > https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2005-E2EMON. For submission > details, see the E2EMON website. > > Co-Chairs: Ehab Al-Shaer, Aiko Pras and Philippe Owezarski >

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] CFP: IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005)
by Frank Strauß 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hanan Lutfiyya <hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca> > Date: 17. Februar 2005 0:57:05 Uhr MEZ > To: ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > Subject: [Ifip_nm] CFP: IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management > Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005) > > We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this > CFP > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Extension: February 27 > > Call for Papers > > > IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and > Challenges in > Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005) > http://www.csd.uwo.ca/MICMC2005 > > co-located with IM 2005 > http://www.im2005/org > > > Nice, France, May 15 2005 > > > Program Co-chairs > ------------------ > Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada > (hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca) > Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada (hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca) > > Scope > ----- > We are seeing an increased demand for mobilility which is seen as a way > to enhance the reach of networked services e.g., allowing mobile users > to connect to an application, enhance networked applications e.g., > using > the user's location with a resource discovery protocol to discover the > "nearest" service with respect to the user's location, and > develop new applications e.g., using mobile ad-hoc networks to exchange > information between emergency teams in disaster recovery. Providing a > management infrastructure in an environment > where increasingly the computing environments incorporate > wireless and wired components such that the distinctions are fuzzy > and that provides information not only "anytime anywhere" but > also "all the time everywhere" in a timely and seamless fashion > presents > many challenging research problems. > > > The goal of this workshop is to gather people with different > backgrounds > to analyze and discuss challenges and possible solutions in providing a > management infrastructures for mobile computing environments. Areas of > interest include location management, Quality of Service (QoS) > management, > security management, management of of handoffs among content > providers, and managing adaptive offloading. > > Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, > the > following: > > -managing the organization of MANETs and sensor networks > -adaptive offloading > -managing location and other context information > -QoS management > -resource management > -energy-aware network management > -management issues in heterogeneous networks > -policies for vertical handoff > -load balancing > -service discovery > -managing distributed commuting in mobile environments > -intrusion detection in wireless and mobile networks > > The structure of this workshop will encourage discussions and foster > future > collaborations. Attendance will be limited to 50 participants. > Authors should > submit 4-page position papers to hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca in PDF format. > Selected > papers will be available on the workshop website (no transfer of > copyright). > > > > Important Dates > ---------------- > > Submission deadline: February 15, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2005 > Final paper due: April 15, 2005 > > _______________________________________________ > IFIP_NM mailing list > IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm >

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] FW: MMNS2005
by Frank Strauß 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Raouf Boutaba" <rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> > Date: 17. Februar 2005 18:04:20 Uhr MEZ > To: <ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> > Subject: [Ifip_nm] FW: MMNS2005 > Reply-To: <rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> > > (Please accept our apology if you received this multiple times) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Call for Papers > > 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia > Networks & Services (MMNS2005) > > Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain > October 24-26, 2005 > > The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and > Services (MMNS) will hold its eighth annual meeting on October 24 > through October 26, 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. A single-track > conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting > for discussion and debate. > > MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and > innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and > networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring > together researchers and scientists from industry and academia > researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while > creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual > collaboration. > > This is the first time that MMNS will be co-located with four other > events in order to strengthen the links between our respective > communities. These co-located conferences are the 16th International > Workshop on Distributed Systems Operations and Management (DSOM > 2005), the 7th Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS 2005), the > 5th Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2005), and the > International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management > (AGNM 2005). > > The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia > communications and mobile application services thrives in today's > consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and > methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical > juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, > intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the > integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts > such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive > computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research > communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity > and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. > > MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and > new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to > enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2005 will continue > the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize > and solicit novel research in management of integrated multimedia > services. > > The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing > research in the area of management of multimedia networks and > services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: > > - Multiservice over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network > management > - Distributed multimedia service management > - Mobile multimedia network management > - DVB-H management > - Advanced audiovisual services management (e.g. videostreaming) > - Quality of service (QoS) management > - Internet QoS assurance > - Multi-point, multicast services management > - Deployment of multimedia services > - Network management models and architectures > - Management of sensor and actuator networks > - Billing and security for multimedia services > - Content distribution networking > - Grid networking for multimedia > - Network measurement/Monitoring for multimedia services > - Novel protocols for multimedia services > > For further information, please contact the co-chairs: > Jordi Dalmau (jordi.dalmau(a)retevision.es) or > Go Hasegawa (hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp) > > Paper Submission: > > Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or > experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from > ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MMNS > 2005. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS > 2005. Authors are requested to identify submit either long papers or > short papers (work-in-progress reports): > > - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) > - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) > > Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be > reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted online > en PDF format via the EDAS web cite (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). > > > Proceedings: > > The MMNS 2005 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's > Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) series. For that reason we > recommend that the PDF file of each paper be generated using LaTeX and > the LCNS style available from Springer-Verlag. For more information > regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction > links at LCNS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. > > Important dates: > Submission deadline: May 8, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2005 > Camera-ready: August 8, 2005 > MMNS2005 Conference: October 24-26, 2005 > > MMNS2005 Program Committee Co-chairs: > Jordi Dalumau, Abertis Telecom, Spain > Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan > > Steering Committee: > Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada > Guy Pujolle, Paris 6 University, France > > Advisory Committee Members: > Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France > Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA > Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA > David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK > Masum Hasan Cisco Systems, Inc. > Alan Marshall, Queen's University of Belfast > John Vicente, Intel Corporation > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Go Hasegawa hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp > hasegawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp > http://www.ane.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hasegawa/ > > _______________________________________________ > IFIP_NM mailing list > IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm >

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Fwd: DSOM 2005 - Call For Papers
by Frank Strauß 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de> > Date: 18. Februar 2005 0:02:51 Uhr MEZ > To: im2005tpc(a)comsoc.org > Subject: DSOM 2005 - Call For Papers > Reply-To: j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de > > > Call for Papers (DSOM 2005) > > 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management > > >> Management of Ambient Networks << > > October 24-26, 2005, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain > > <http://www.dsom2005.org/> > > > The sixteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: > Operations and Management (DSOM 2005) will be held October 24-26, 2005 > in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop is sponsored by the International > Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on > Management of Networks and Distributed Systems with technical > co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee > on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop's location > is the Campus Nord of Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in > Barcelona. UPC is in a residential area in the north of the city, at > walking distance of hotels and commercial areas and well accessible by > public transportation from downtown. > > This is the first time that DSOM will be co-located with four other > events in order to strengthen the links between our respective > communities. These co-located conferences are the 8th International > Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS > 2005), the 7th Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems (SSS 2005), the > 5th Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM 2005), and the > International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management > (AGNM 2005). > > > SCOPE OF THE DSOM WORKSHOP > -------------------------- > > Ambient Networks are a new vision to provide accessibility and > distributed services through the dynamic composition of networks. The > wide adoption of packet switched networking technologies and the fast > growing wireless networking infrastructures in public as well as in > private spaces allow systems to choose how to obtain connectivity. > Systems may also dynamically form new networks and the devices or the > whole network may be mobile. Furthermore, many ambient networks will > be in private spaces, owned and "operated" by non technical users > (home networks). The heterogeneity of the services and resources > participating in ambient networks and the dynamics associated with the > composition of networks poses new management challenges. > > Ambient networks and services cannot be managed in the classic way. > Instead, management of ambient networks must become an invisible and > integrated part of a highly automated and adaptive control plane. > Autonomic and self-management approaches therefore are of key > importance. Important and challenging questions related to security, > privacy, trust, and isolation in ambient networks need to be > answered. In addition, questions related to the interface between > managed and self-managed networks need to be addressed. Papers > addressing these research questions are especially welcome. > > Topics of interest include but are not limited to: > > * Self-management and self-configuration > * Management of Home Networks > * Autonomic Management of Networks and Services > * Inter-domain Management > * Context-driven Management > * Adaptive Management Services and Applications > * Control Theoretic Management Approaches > * Distributed and Decentralized Management > * Security, Privacy, Trust, and Isolation > * Composable Management Systems > * Performance and QoS Management > * Fault Management and Fault Tolerance > * Policy-based Management and Service Level Agreements > * Monitoring, Event, and Fault Handling > * Configuration, Accounting, Billing > * Management Architectures and Information Models > * Standardized Frameworks, Models, and Programming Interfaces > * Implementation, Instrumentation, and Experience > > > PAPER SUBMISSION > ---------------- > > Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or > experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from > ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2005. > Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2005. > Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers > (work-in-progress reports): > > * Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) > * Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) > > Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be > reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted online > in PDF format via the "Paper Submission" link that can be found on the > the DSOM 2005 web page. > > > PROCEEDINGS > ----------- > > The DSOM 2005 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's > Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For that reason we > recommend that the PDF file of each paper be generated using LaTeX and > the LNCS style available from Springer-Verlag. For more information > regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction > links at LNCS: <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html> > > > IMPORTANT DEADLINES > ------------------- > > Submission: May 8th 2005 > Notification: July 18th 2005 > Camera ready: August 8th 2005 > > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS > ------------------------ > > Juergen Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany > Joan Serrat, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain > > > TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE > --------------------------- > > - Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, Chicago, USA > - Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada > - Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland, CAIDA, New Zealand > - Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany > - Mark Burgess, University College Oslo, Norway > - Omar Cherkaoui, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada > - Alexander Clemm, Cisco, California, USA > - Luca Deri, ntop.org, Italy > - Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland > - Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France > - Alex Galis, University College London, UK > - Lisandro Z. Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, > Brazil > - Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA > - Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Institut fuer Informatik der LMU, Germany > - Joseph L Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > - James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea > - Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA > - Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > - Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA > - Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK > - Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK > - Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada > - Yoshiaki Kirha, NEC, Japan > - J.P. Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland > - Jose Marzo, Universitat de Girona, Spain > - Jose M. Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > - George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK > - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands > - Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe, Germany > - Chris Ramming, DARPA, USA > - Danny Raz, Technion, Israel > - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany > - Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA > - Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA > - Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden > - Radu State, LORIA-INRIA, France > - Burkhard Stiller, UniBW Munich, Germany & ETH Zurich, Switzerland > - Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany > - Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK > - John Vicente, Intel, USA > - Victor Villagra, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain > - Vincent P. Wade, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland > - Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA > - Makoto Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan > > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen > <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, > Germany >

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - 8th MSWiM 2005]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP - 8th MSWiM 2005 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:28:03 +0200 From: Helen Karatza <karatza(a)csd.auth.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies -------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 8th MSWiM 2005 Sponsored by ACM and IEEE (Pending approval) The Eigth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems October 10-13, 2005 Montreal, Canada http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/ MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and wireless data dissemination * Modeling and simulation of inter-vehicular networks * Wireless PANs and LANs * Ad hoc and sensor networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Instructions for paper submission will be posted at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/ Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 3rd, 2005 Notification: July 24th, 2005 Camera Ready due: August 22nd, 2005 Organizing Committee General Co-chairs Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Email: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca <mailto:boukerch@site.uottawa.ca> Victor Leung University of British Columbia, Canada E-mail: vleung(a)ece.ubc.ca <mailto:vleung@ece.ubc.ca> Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it <mailto:chiasserini@polito.it> Vikram Srinivasan National University of Singapore Email:elevs@nus.edu.sg Workshop Chair Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK E-mail: mohamed(a)dcs.gla.ac.uk <mailto:mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk> Poster Chair Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece E-mail: nikole(a)cti.gr <mailto:nikole@cti.gr> Finance Chair Carl Tropper McGill University, Canada E-mail: carl(a)cs.mcgill.ca <mailto:carl@cs.mcgill.ca> Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it <mailto:bononi@cs.unibo.it> Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza(a)csd.auth.gr <mailto:karatza@csd.auth.gr> Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, Brazil Email: mirela(a)barddal.br <mailto:mirela@barddal.br> Local Arrangement Chair Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Email: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca <mailto:boukerch@site.uottawa.ca> Webmaster and System Chair Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it <mailto:bononi@cs.unibo.it> Program Committee Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Italy Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Kameswari Chebrolu, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, USA Ralph Gholmieh, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tham Chen Khong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Minkyong Kim, Dartmouth College, USA Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Francesco Lo Presti, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece Mehul Motani, National University of Singapore, Singapore Pavan Nugehalli, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Bhaskar Raman, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call For Papers: E-WIND (corrected dates)]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call For Papers: E-WIND (corrected dates) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:15:02 -0600 From: Edward Knightly <knightly(a)ece.rice.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu References: <20050216111822.A17925(a)ece.rice.edu> My apologies - the corrected dates are below and on the web page. Call For Papers: E-WIND: Workshop on Experimental Approaches to Wireless Network Design and Analysis (An ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop) http://www.ece.rice.edu/E-WIND/ Research in wireless networking is rapidly becoming more experimental. Research prototypes are being developed for systems ranging from large-scale sensor networks to high-speed wireless access networks. Moreover experimentation and measurement studies are being performed with off-the-shelf hardware and operational testbeds. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimentalist researchers from diverse backgrounds including wireless hardware platforms, wireless communications, wireless testbeds, and measurement of deployed wireless systems. The workshop will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, challenges, and work-in-progress discussions between both the wireless and wireline measurement communities. The workshop will leave a large space to discussion and possible coordination. Important Dates: Submission deadline April 15, 2005 Author notification May 20, 2005 Camera ready papers June 3, 2005 Workshop date August 22, 2005 Submission of Papers Submissions should be 4 to 6 p pages long, in pdf, two column, and address one or more of the following topics: - Testbed architectures - Wireless prototypes - Challenges in testbed and prototypes design - Wireless devices or networks measurement methodology - Comparative evaluation of wireless platforms - Measurement studies of all aspects of wireless systems and networks - Experimental evaluation of new mechanisms, protocols, and wireless technologies (with special emphasis on cross-layer, meshed and multi-hop issues) Workshop Co-chairs: Edward W. Knightly, Rice University Christophe Diot, Intel Corporation Program Committee Members: Andrew Campbell, University of Cambridge Rene L. Cruz, University of California, San Diego Michael Fitz, University of California, Los Angeles Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles Robert Heath, University of Texas at Austin Sanjoy Paul, Lucent Bell Laboratories Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Andras Veres, Ericsson Research David Wetherall, University of Washington _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP-"Next Generation Networking Middleware", NGNM'05; 6 May 2005, Waterloo Ontario, Canada]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP-"Next Generation Networking Middleware", NGNM'05; 6 May 2005, Waterloo Ontario, Canada Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:15:09 +0200 From: Kormentzas Georgios <gkorm(a)aegean.gr> To: Kormentzas Georgios <gkorm(a)aegean.gr> [My apologies if you receive this more than once] ================================================ *2^nd International WORKSHOP on** ‘Next Generation Networking Middleware’ **(NGNM05)* * */*in the scope of */‘Networking 2005’, 4^th IFIP – TC6 Networking Conference (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/networking2005/ <http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004/>) *Date*: May, 6^th 2005 *Venue*: Waterloo Ontario, Canada * **IMPORTANT DATES* - Submission of papers: March 20, 2005 - Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2005 - Camera-ready due: April 15, 2005 Scope ====== Networking middleware is the software that integrates applications, the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Towards this end, it provides a set of common services and abstractions that enable applications and end-users to exchange information across heterogeneous distributed networking environments. Next-generation applications will be increasingly developed using middleware. This poses several challenges, such as hiding latency, masking partial failures, providing information assurance and security, legacy integration, dynamic service partitioning and load balancing and end-to-end quality of service specification and enforcement. As middleware gains widespread adoption, it becomes essential to investigate, and to capture, the basics and the methodologies of middleware technologies. Middleware technologies, such as CORBA, Java, EJB, Jini and Web Services, became increasingly popular for building both embedded and enterprise applications. A new generation of middleware technologies (so-called vertical, or Internet middleware technologies) is beginning to emerge to solve the problems of interoperability and integration across language, operating system and hardware platform boundaries. The realization of an Internet middleware could dramatically reduce the cost of integration both within and among enterprises and dramatically reduce time-to-market for some types of software, as service re-use becomes a realistic possibility. The underlying technologies for Internet middleware are the familiar industry standard Internet protocols (i.e., IP, TCP, HTTP, SMTP, and others). Support for Web Services standards - like SOAP, WSDL and UDDI - based on XML message formats is layered upon Internet protocols to provide platform-neutral communications between applications. These are then viewed as business services. Before such services can be deployed on a large scale, issues for licensing, usage, billing, versioning and delivery to contracted levels of service performance, need to be addressed. NGNM04 constituted a forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of Internet middleware. Both the requirements and expectations from various perspectives (i.e., networking, middleware and application level) were presented and analyzed. The special issue on “Emerging Middleware for Next Generation Networks” of Computer Communications journal complemented the success of NGNM04. NGNM05 will focus on the identification of composite business services running on an Internet middleware platform that allows enterprises/networking actors to publish the services they provide, use services available globally in a secure manner as components of a generic middleware service, automatically compile the service description into an executable process, to deploy and monitor the execution of such composite processes, etc.The middleware platform will contain re-configuration and self-repairing features to enable a composite business service to adapt itself to changes caused by insertion or withdrawal of services, changes in network conditions and changes in user requirements. Relevant topics ---------------- Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished works as well as works on progress in the following, but not limited to, topic areas: Standards and APIs Formal methods and tools for middleware systems Middleware for Web services and Web service composition Platforms for cluster, grid and peer-to-peer computing Benchmarking and comparison of middleware platforms Event-based, publish/subscribe and message-oriented middleware Middleware for ubiquitous and mobile computing Reconfigurable, adaptable, autonomic and reflective middleware Programmable, active and adaptive networks Programmable, mobile and intelligent agents "Plug-and-Play" Components-Based management Emerging information models and frameworks Interworking between heterogeneous middleware technologies Software engineering for middleware Security and performance aspects of middleware ** *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION* ---------------- The workshop welcomes original and review papers from academic and industry contributors dealing with the above or related issues. All submissions will be subjected to review by two reviewers. Papers should be up to 6000 words in English, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. To submit a paper, send an email to Prof. George Kormentzas (gkorm(a)aegean.gr), containing the title, the authors' names, e-mail and post addresses, phone and fax numbers, identification of the contact author, and attach to the same message your paper in PDF or PostScript format. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. All the accepted papers will be published in the workshop’s proceedings. Furthermore, as it happened with NGNM04, some selected papers will be extended in order to be considered for publication in a forthcoming special issue of a journal related to the workshop’s goals. *WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Nikos Anerousis, IBM, USA George Kormentzas, University of the Aegean, Greece *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France Maria Teresa Andrade, INESC Porto, Portugal Hamid Asgari, TRT, UK Eugen Borcoci, Transilvania University, Romania Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Abdellatif Benjelloun-Toumi, France Telecom, France David Hutchison, Lancaster University, UK Chuck Kalmanek, ATT, USA Alexander Keller, IBM, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, DoCoMo Europe, Germany Alexander Konstantinou, IBM, USA Nick Koudas, ATT, USA Michael Kounavis, Intel, USA Maria Koutsopoulou, University of Athens, Greece Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Versailles, France George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Thimios Panagos Voicemate, USA Evaggelos Pallis, University of Crete, Greece Dimitris Pendarakis, IBM, USA Christos Politis, University of Surrey, UK Prashant Pradhan, IBM, USA Martin Stiemerling, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany Noemi Simoni, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France John Soldatos, AIT, Greece Gosia Steinder, IBM, USA Evaggelos Vayias, Intracom, Greece Iakovos Venieris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Michael Welzl, University of Innsburg, Austria

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[Fwd: DRCN 2005 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: DRCN 2005 - Call for Papers Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:27:21 -0600 From: Medhi, Deep <DMedhi(a)umkc.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br> *Our apologies if you receive multiple postings of this Call for Papers* ** *CALL FOR PAPERS* *DRCN 2005* *The 5th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks* */"Reliable Networks for Reliable Services"/* Island of Ischia, Italy, on 16-19 October 2005 On behalf of the DRCN 2005 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to participate as a speaker or delegate in the 5th Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Workshop (www.drcn.org <http://www.drcn.org/>), which will be held at the Albergo della Regina Isabella in the beautiful Island of Ischia, Italy, on 16-19 October 2005. You can get the DRCN 2005’s *Call for Papers* in http://drcn2005.telecomitalialab.com/callforpapers.htm. The International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) is a biannual conference to provide a platform for presentations and discussions of recent developments and future trends in communication networks and network subsystems, focusing on all aspects of network reliability. The workshop consists of technical presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, posters, exhibitions and demos. *Relevant dates* April 15, 2005 – Paper submission June 3, 2005 – Notification of acceptance June 15, 2005 – Tutorial proposals due September 2, 2005 – Final paper due October 16-19, 2005 – Conference dates *Topics * Under the central theme “Reliable Networks for Reliable Services” detailed topics of relevance for DRCN 2005 include, but are not limited to: *Equipment and Technology for Survivability* · Next-generation SONET/SDH, resilient packet rings (RPR), coarse WDM, Ethernet, WDM optical and photonic networks · IP-centric control, GMPLS, fast IGP, OSPF, IS-IS convergence, integrated IP and optical mechanisms · Fault detection and isolation schemes, link monitoring protocols, digital wrapper, GFP, LCAS applications to restoration · Reliability or availability of key equipment: MEMs, Lasers, OXCs · Photonic cross-connect and OADM designs · Impact of ultra long haul DWDM on restoration strategies and architecture *Basic Methods and Theory for Survivable Network Design and Operation* · Algorithms for survivable routing, capacity planning and reconfiguration · Design and evolution of ring, mesh, hybrid, p-cycle, loop-back, shared-backup path, and other architectures · Physical and virtual topology design, design heuristics, simulation and experimental methods · Integration of survivability and dynamic demand adaptation techniques · Survivable design under demand uncertainty · Supporting multiple quality of protection and multiple failure design considerations, SRLG issues · Fast restoration in mesh-based networks · Reliability and availability analysis methods and theory *Network Planning, Management, Monitoring and Control* · Multi-technology network management (MTNM), monitoring and control · Network planning, simulation, visualisation and analysis tools · Operations research methods in design, pre-planning, and on-line operations · Coordinating multi-layer and multi-service survivability requirements · Rapid service provisioning, pre-provisioning, inventory strategies, and service level agreements · Survivable metro-edge/access and core network evolution planning *Operations, Applications and Services Oriented* · Protection requirements for different of network services · Business case studies of survivable service offerings · Novel applications and service requirements (health care, for example) · Government and defence needs for reliability / availability / survivability · Reliability and fault tolerance of web server clusters, storage area networks (SAN), fixed and mobile wireless and satellite · Disaster recovery, ad-hoc networks · Papers are particularly welcomed on reliability and survivability aspects of non-traditional networking contexts such as SANs, satellite networks, or server farms for example, as well as papers documenting case studies, measurement programs and data and operational accounts of actual failures, their impacts, and the recovery process. Organizing Committee * *Roberto Clemente*, */General Chair/* Telecom Italia Lab, /Italy/ * *Antonio Manzalini*, /*Technical Program Co-Chair*/ Telecom Italia Lab, /Italy/ * *Andrea Bianco*, */Technical Program Co-Chair/* Politecnico di Torino, /Italy/ * *Giuseppe Ferraris*, /*Tutorials Chair*/ Telecom Italia Lab, /Italy/ * *Tiziana Ferrari*, */Exhibit Chair /* INFN - CNAF, /Italy/ * *Arijs Peter*, */Publicity Chair, Europe/* OPNET, /Belgium/ * *John Doucette*, */Publicity Chair, USA and Canada/* TRLabs, University of Alberta, /Canada/ * *Clotilde Canepa Fertini*, */Treasurer/* Istituto Internazionale delle Comunicazioni, /Italy/ * *Cristina Calderaro*, */Secretariat/* Telecom Italia Lab, /Italy/ Special Advisory Representatives * *Achille Pattavina, /Editor-in-Chief, European Transactions on Telecommunications/ * Politecnico di Milano, /Italy/ * *Manu Malek, /Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Network and Systems Management/* Stevens Institute of Technology, /USA/ Program Committee * *Andreas Antonopoulos*, CEU Graduate School of Business, /Hungary/ * *Bela Berde*, Alcatel CIT, /France/ * *Paul Bonenfant*, Optimum Online, /USA/ * *Sid Chaudhuri*, Nextel, /USA/ * *Matthieu Clouqueur*, Siemens AG, /Germany/ * *Giancarlo D'Orazio*, Telecom Italia, /Italy/ * *John Doucette*, TRLabs, University of Alberta, /Canada/ * *Peter Edwards*, Bell Canada, /Canada/ * *Andrea Fumagalli*, The University of Texas at Dallas, /USA/ * *Nasir Ghani*, Sorrento Networks, /USA/ * *Paramasiviah Harshavardhana*, VPISystems, /Canada/ * *Monika Jaeger*, T-System, Deutsche Telekom, /Germany/ * *Raj Jain*, Nayna Networks and Ohio State University, /USA/ * *Dave Johnson*, British Telecommunications plc, /UK/ * *Artur Lason*, AGH University of Science and Technology, /Poland/ * *Per Lindberg*, TeliaSonera, /Sweden/ * *Yu Liu*, OPNET, /USA/ * *Jesús Felipe Lobo Poyo*, Telefónica I+D, /Spain/ * *Muriel Médard*, MIT, /USA/ * *Deep Medhi*, University of Missouri-Kansas City, /USA/ * *Filip Meyer*, Teledanmark, /Denmark/ * *Eytan Modiano*, MIT, /USA/ * *Naohide Nagatsu*, NTT Network Innovation Labs, /Japan/ * *G.P. O'Reilly*, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, /USA/ * *Erwin Patzak*, Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications, HHI, /Germany/ * *Mario Picavet*, Ghent University, IMEC, /Belgium/ * *Giuseppe Pignari*, Vodafone, /Italy/ * *Sathya Rao*, Telscom AG, /Switzerland/ * *Jacques Robadey*, Swisscom, /Switzerland/ * *Dominic A. Schupke*, Siemens AG, /Germany/ * *Piergiorgio Sessarego*, Marconi, /Italy/ * *Jim Slevinsky*, Telus, /Canada/ * *Alexandros Stavdas*, NTUA, /Greece/ * *Jean Philippe Vasseur*, Cisco Systems, /USA/ * *Carlos Becker Westphall*, UFSC, /Brazil/ * *Jing Wu*, Communications Research Centre Canada, /Canada/ * *Hui Zang*, Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories, /USA/ * *Evi Zouganeli*, Telenor R&D, /Norway/

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[Fwd: [itst2005] ITST2005: Deadline extension]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [itst2005] ITST2005: Deadline extension Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:37:08 +0100 From: nobody(a)enst-bretagne.fr Reply-To: com-itst2005(a)bscw.enst-bretagne.fr To: com-itst2005(a)bscw.enst-bretagne.fr Dear Colleague, Due to numerous requests, the ITST2005 Technical Committee has decided to extend the deadline for the abstract submissions until *February 28th, 2005, 11:59 pm. * Please, note that this new deadline is a *hard *deadline that cannot be extended. Sincerely, The secretary of the Organizing Committee, Pascale FERRY Web site : http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/itst2005/

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[Fwd: ACM SIGCHI ACE 2005 DEMOS]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACM SIGCHI ACE 2005 DEMOS Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:17:33 +0800 From: ace(a)inmeet.com.sg <ace(a)inmeet.com.sg> To: <lars.wolf(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de> Dear ACM SIGCHI ACE 2005 (http://www.ace2005.org) will feature the most exciting new demos in entertainment computing. You are highly encouraged to submit your demo submissions, together with paper or poster submissions, or solely demo submissions. Accepted demos will be provided a beautiful and wonderful exhibition space in the conference area, as can be seen in the pictures below. You will have an excellent forum for showcasing your work. Please kindly note Paper/poster/demo Submission Deadline is only a few hours away: 15th February 2005 Best wishes ACE Demo Chairs Masihako Inami (JPN), Joe Finney (GBR), Clara Boj (ESP)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SIGCOMM workshops: Announcement and Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SIGCOMM workshops: Announcement and Call for papers Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:14:31 -0500 (EST) From: Saswati Sarkar <swati(a)seas.upenn.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu SIGCOMM Workshops, August 22-26, 2005, Philadelphia, USA This year, SIGCOMM 2005 continues its expanded scope with significant emphasis on workshops. We solicit papers and participation for the following one-day workshops, that will be held in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2005 from August 22 - August 26, 2005 in Philadelphia, PA, US. For a detailed description of the workshops and submission guidelines, visit: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/workshops.html 1. Workshop on mining network data (MineNet-05) Todays IP networks are extensively instrumented for collecting a wealth of information including traffic traces (e.g., packet or flow level traces), control (e.g., router forwarding tables, BGP and OSPF updates), and management (e.g., alarms, SNMP traps) data. The real challenge is to process and analyze this vast amount of primarily unstructured information and extract structures, relationships, and higher level knowledge embedded in it and use it to aid network management and operations. The goal of this one day workshop is to explore new directions in network data collection, storage, and analysis techniques, and their application to network monitoring, management, and remediation. The workshop will provide a venue for researchers and practitioners from different backgrounds, including networking, data mining, machine learning, and statistics, to get together and collaboratively approach this problem from their respective vantage points. 2. Workshop on experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis (E-WIND-05) Research in wireless networking is rapidly becoming more experimental. Research prototypes are being developed for systems ranging from large-scale sensor networks to high-speed wireless access networks. Moreover experimentation and measurement studies are being performed with off-the-shelf hardware and operational testbeds. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experimentalist researchers from diverse backgrounds including wireless hardware platforms, wireless communications, wireless testbeds, and measurement of deployed wireless systems. The workshop will provide a forum for exchange of ideas, challenges, and work-in-progress discussions between both the wireless and wireline measurement communities. The workshop will leave a large space to discussion and possible coordination. 3. Workshop on delay tolerant networking and related networks (WDTN-05) Today, the most successful network architecture is that of the Internet. It has scaled well beyond the original plan of its designers, and the Internet Protocol has been carried on a great number of underlying protocols, including itself. However, the Internet's protocol architecture suffers some problems when implemented on classes of networks for which it was not originally designed. For example, when disconnection and reconnection is common, or link performance is highly variable or extreme, one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop, we wish to explore physical networks that operate significantly differently from wired, connected networks and the protocol architectures and algorithms used to deal with such situations. Techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are also requested. 4. Workshop on economics of peer-to-peer systems (P2PECON-05) From file-sharing to distributed computation, from application layer overlays to mobile ad hoc networking, the ultimate success of a peer-to-peer system rests on the twin pillars of scalable and robust system design and alignment of economic interests among the participating peers. Following the success of the first two workshops, the Third Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems will again bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss the economic characteristics of P2P systems, application of economic theories to P2P system design, and future directions and challenges in this area. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MMNS2005: Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] MMNS2005: Call For Papers Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:18:10 +0900 (JST) From: Go-Hasegawa <hasegawa(a)ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (Please accept our apology if you received this multiple times) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 8th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services (MMNS2005) Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain October 24-26, 2005 The International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its eighth annual meeting on October 24 through October 26, 2005, in Barcelona, Spain. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with an intimate setting for discussion and debate. MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networking services. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The demand for real-time services, integrated multimedia communications and mobile application services thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as autonomics, self-healing, self-organized and adaptive computing systems are bringing both the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. MMNS broadly solicits research in network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia proliferation. This year, MMNS 2005 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, but also emphasize and solicit novel research in management of integrated multimedia services. The MMNS program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of management of multimedia networks and services. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Multiservice over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management - Distributed multimedia service management - Mobile multimedia network management - DVB-H management - Advanced audiovisual services management (e.g. videostreaming) - Quality of service (QoS) management - Internet QoS assurance - Multi-point, multicast services management - Deployment of multimedia services - Network management models and architectures - Management of sensor and actuator networks - Billing and security for multimedia services - Content distribution networking - Grid networking for multimedia - Network measurement/Monitoring for multimedia services - Novel protocols for multimedia services For further information, please contact the co-chairs: Jordi Dalmau (jordi.dalmau(a)retevision.es) or Go Hasegawa (hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp) Paper Submission: Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to MMNS 2005. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2005. Authors are requested to identify submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports): - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Papers must be submitted online en PDF format via the EDAS web cite (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br). Proceedings: The MMNS 2005 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LCNS) series. For that reason we recommend that the PDF file of each paper be generated using LaTeX and the LCNS style available from Springer-Verlag. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LCNS: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Important dates: Submission deadline: May 8, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2005 Camera-ready: August 8, 2005 MMNS2005 Conference: October 24-26, 2005 MMNS2005 Program Committee Co-chairs: Jordi Dalumau, Abertis Telecom, Spain Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan Steering Committee: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Guy Pujolle, Paris 6 University, France Advisory Committee Members: Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, USA David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Masum Hasan Cisco Systems, Inc. Alan Marshall, Queen's University of Belfast John Vicente, Intel Corporation -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Go Hasegawa hasegawa(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp hasegawa(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp http://www.ane.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hasegawa/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [ICEC] Pervasive Games Workshop with ACM Journal Publication Opportunity]
by Lars Wolf 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ICEC] Pervasive Games Workshop with ACM Journal Publication Opportunity Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:35:42 +0100 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- PerGames 2005 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Gaming Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- held at 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2005) in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday, May 11th 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- The best paper submissions will be published in the prestigious ACM Journal Computers in Entertainment (CIE) - www.acm.org/pubs/cie.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- With the emergence of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technology, we are facing a radical paradigm shift in computer entertainment. In recent years, the immersiveness of gaming experiences had to be created and conveyed through keyboard and screen alone. Now, the computer as a medium steps back and weaves itself into the fabric of our physical and social environments creating potentially richer experiences. For entertainment and gaming, this holds the chance of reclaiming social and physical aspects to create new and revolutionary forms of play that bridge the gap between the real world and virtual entertainment. With this workshop we bring together researchers who are interested in interactive entertainment and the chances and risks that pervasive computing might add to it. We want to discuss results from this emerging field and share our experiences and visions to identify relevant research questions and future research directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Mixed reality installations * Innovative input devices (Eye-Toys, Magic Wands etc) * Augmented tabletop games * The physical world as a game board * Social experience vs technological experience * Emerging game concepts * Augmented reality games * (Mis-)use of enabling technologies * Mobile computing entertainment * Experience design for heterogeneous devices * Business cases for pervasive computing games * Social implications and social protocols * Privacy and awareness issues * Mixing games and serious applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- Please visit the workshop site www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/pergames2005 for information about participation and submitting papers. Best paper submissions will be published in the ACM CIE Journal. Submission deadline is February 25, 2005. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- Workshop Website: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/pergames2005 Pervasive Conference Website: http://www.pervasive.ifi.lmu.de/ Organisers: Carsten Magerkurth (Fraunhofer IPSI), Adrian David Cheok (NUS), Trond Nilsen (HIT Lab NZ), Regan Mandryk (Simon Frasier University) Contact: magerkurth(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de _______________________________________________ icec mailing list icec(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd : ERSA '05 : Extended Deadline : Feb 18, 2005]
by Muhammad Khan 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ERSA CFP: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Feb 18, 2005 From: "ERSA" <ersa(a)lsbu.ac.uk> Date: Mon, February 14, 2005 7:36 pm To: "ersa" <ersa(a)lsbu.ac.uk> Dear Colleague, Please find enclosed the CFP of ERSA Conference ENGINEERING OF RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS (ERSA'05) =============================================================http://www.scism.lsbu.ac.uk/ERA/ersa.html June 27 - 30, 2005 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA NEW Extended Deadline: February 18, 2005 =============================Please forward this message to your colleagues. I apologize if you receive multiple copies. Yours sincerely, Toomas P. Plaks ERSA Chairman ====================================================================================================================================CALLFOR PAPERS ============The 2005 International Conference on ENGINEERING OF RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS --- ERSA'05 ===============================================================http://www.scism.lsbu.ac.uk/ERA/ersa.html June 27-30, 2005 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA NEW Extended Deadline: February 18, 2005 Introduction ==========The recent years have shown a growing interest in using reconfigurable computing platform for the design of application-specific computer systems. The reason is that the traditional market of microelectronics is shifting from industrial to consumer application. The driving forces are mobile computing industry and automotive industry, where the traditional approaches, basing on microprocessors and/or ASICs, do not work well. The new applications demand new technology. Many companies and researchers believe that the answer will be configurable or adaptive computing platform. This conference focuses on the different approaches in engineering of reconfigurable systems and implementing of algorithms, including theory, architecture, algorithms, design systems and applications that demonstrate the benefits of reconfigurable computing. ** General Topics ================= 1. Theory - Synthesis, Mapping, Parallelization, Partitioning... 2. Software - CAD, Languages, Compilers, Operating Systems... 3. Hardware - Adaptive and Dynamic Hardware, Reconfigurable Architectures... 4. Applications - Mobile Computing, Automotive Industry, Smart Cameras... ** Multiconference Keynote Talk from ERSA ========================================Where Intel's Microprocessor Architecture is Going Robert P. Colwell, PhD, Independent Consultant, USA ** ERSA Keynote Talks (Preliminary) ===================1. Enabling Killer Applications of Reconfigurable Systems Prof. Donald Bouldin, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA ** ERSA Invited Talks (Preliminary) ===================1. Reconfigurable Architectures for Adaptable Mobile Systems Dr.ir. Gerard J.M. Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands 2. Microprocessors: The New LUT Dr Steven A. Guccione, Cmpware, Inc., USA 3. Reconfigurable Instruction Set Computing for Embedded Processing Charle' R., Rupp, PhD, Chief Architect, Stretch, Inc., USA 4. Configurable Processors and the Evolution of System-on-Chip Design Dr. Dror E. Maydan, Director of Software, Tensilica, Inc., USA 5. What's the future of C-based Programmable SoC design? Dr Chris Sullivan, Celoxica, Inc., UK ** Sessions =========A number of Focus Sessions are planned to organize. If you are interested in, please contact with ERSA Chairman Toomas Plaks (plakst(a)lsbu.ac.uk) Focus sessions (Preliminary List) -------------- 1. Energy-Efficient reconfigurable mobile systems. Chairman: Gerard J.M. Smit, University of Twente, The Netherlands 2. Reconfigurable Hardware in the Automotive Industry. Chairman: Christian Hochberger, TU Dresden, Germany 3. Embedded Multiprocessors. Chairman: Steven Guccione, CMPWare, USA 4. Operating System Approaches for Reconfigurable Hardware. Chairmen: Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany, Christophe Bobda, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany 5. Reconfigurable Supercomputing. Chairman: Maya B. Gokhale, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 6. Reconfigurable System-On-Chip and HW/SW Codesign Chairman: Michael J. Wirthlin, Brigham Young Univ., USA 7. Runtime Resource Management Chairman: Ronald F. DeMara, Univ. of Central Florida, USA ** Demos/Exhibs ============== Interested parties should contact ERSA Chairman Toomas Plaks. ** Best Papers ============After the conference, authors of best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a Special Issue of an International Journal (The Journal of Supercomputing, Kluwer). ** Important Dates ================SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NEW Extended Deadline: February 18, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Full papers (max 10 pages, IEEE format): February 18, 2005 ** Notification of acceptance: March 21, 2005 ** Camera-ready papers and registration: April 20, 2005 ** Conference: June 27--30, 2005 ** Submission ===========Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper that must be an original, unpublished work, not currently submitted for publication or for consideration elsewhere. All papers are reviewed by at least 4 reviewers. There will be arranged a poster session (for ongoing not finished work, etc.) with simplified review process. Authors of posters have to submit an extended abstract of no more than 4 pages. Submission is open up to the conference beginning. Only poster presentation. Full details will be available on the ERSA Web-site: http://www.scism.lsbu.ac.uk/ERA/ersa.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you have any questions or problems, please do not hesitate to e-mail: ersa(a)lsbu.ac.uk or directly to conference chair Toomas Plaks: plakst(a)lsbu.ac.uk. Conference Chairman =================Dr. Toomas P. Plaks email: plakst(a)lsbu.ac.uk London South Bank University 103 Borough Road London SE1 0AA United Kingdom

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