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[Fwd: CfP: Workshop Algorithms and Protocols for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Applications]
by Lars Wolf 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: Workshop Algorithms and Protocols for Efficient Peer-to-Peer Applications Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:13:42 +0100 From: Thomas Fuhrmann <fuhrmann(a)TM.UKA.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 *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies *** *** Please distribute the call to interested parties *** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on ALGORITHMS AND PROTOCOLS FOR EFFICIENT PEER-TO-PEER APPLICATIONS as part of the GI-Conference INFORMATIK 2004 in Ulm, Germany (see http://www.informatik2004.de/index.php?id=workshops for details) SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST Peer-to-peer protocols and applications have drawn much attention recently. Especially file-sharing applications like Gnutella, Kazaa, and e-Donkey have become very popular. But other areas in the field of communication networks and distributed systems have also begun to use peer-to-peer concepts. Meanwhile, peer-to-peer protocols are used in quite diverse areas, such as multicast streaming of multimedia content, distributed databases, instant messaging services, and grid-computing middleware. However, as diverse as the applications are the algorithms and protocols that are based on peer-to-peer concepts. In order to achieve efficient, scalable solutions, it is thus especially important to support the respective application with a suitable peer-to-peer approach. Following the overall motto of the conference “Informatik verbindet”, this workshop aims at bringing together researchers from all areas of informatics and computer science to discuss how the diversity of peer-to-peer protocols and algorithms can be leveraged to create efficient and scalable solutions for all kinds of distributed systems. We expect this workshop to be of interest for researchers from both, academic institutions and industry. The participants may either have a peer-to-peer networking background themselves, or have an interest in the application of peer-to-peer technology to other areas of distributed systems. Topics of interest include (non-exhaustive list): * lessons learned from deploying real-world P2P protocols * evolution of P2P file sharing protocols/state-of-the-art P2P file sharing techniques * trust, security, anonymity, and accounting: special focus on P2P in open environments * performance evaluation of P2P applications using different underlying P2P protocols * tools and frameworks for P2P protocol and application development * incentives for using the P2P approach in systems like distributed databases and grid computing middleware * challenges faced and benefits gained when turning traditional client-server applications into P2P applications * P2P grid computing: tackling platform heterogeneity and code mobility * trends and advances in P2P application development * examples of modern P2P applications from diverse research areas * free-riding and other non-technical aspects with using P2P applications and any further topic promoting the common understanding of and research efforts in performance related issues of P2P protocols and applications. IMPORTANT INFORMATION The workshop will cover one day. Currently, it is scheduled for Thursday, 23.09. but the organizers of the Informatik 2004 event might shift it to another day of that week. Please note the following deadlines: Submission deadline: 30 April 2004 Notification about acceptance/rejection: 28 May 2004 Deadline for camera-ready version: 30 June 2004 Submissions have to be formatted according to the style guidelines of the Springer LNI series (available via www.gi-ev.de/LNI/index.html). Submissions must not exceed five pages, including figures. Please send your submission electronically and only in pdf format to: fuhrmann(a)tm.uka.de Accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings of the Informatik 2004 conference. Further information will be available soon at www.informatik2004.de. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Thomas Fuhrmann, Karlsruhe, (Chair), Hermann de Meer, Passau, (Chair), Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt, Klaus Wehrle, Tübingen, Martina Zitterbart, Karlsruhe

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-March-2004)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-March-2004) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 23:00:27 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-March-2004) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements ASPLOS-XI 05-Mar-2004 http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 SIGOPSEW 2004 09-Mar-2004 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/SIGOPSEW04/ Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence 12-Mar-2004 http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~pjpf/CFP-Ambient-Intelligence.htm IEEE Pervasive Computing 15-Mar-2004 http://www.computer.org/pervasive/edcal0704.htm FORMATS & FTRTFT 2004 01-Apr-2004 http://www-formats-ftrtft.imag.fr/ IWNDA 2004 16-Apr-2004 http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~kartik/iwnda.html WCW 2004 26-Apr-2004 http://2004.iwcw.org/ OSDI 2004 14-May-2004 http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/ * FTDCS 2004 26-May-2004 http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/ftdcs2004/ DOA 30-May-2004 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ (* = new this month) 2. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements Title: Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Deadline: 05-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 Conference: October 9-13, 2004 Location: Boston, MA, USA Synopsis: ASPLOS is a multi-disciplinary conference that seeks cross-fertilizing research in areas of hardware, architecture, compilers, operating systems, networking, and applications. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past 15 years. Today multi-disciplinary research is becoming even more important, as boundaries between hardware/software and local/network computing blur, as the form and capabilities of computing devices becomes ever more varied, and as the user-base and applications expand exponentially. Like its predecessors, the eleventh ASPLOS conference will focus on ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research. In addition, the program committee welcomes research papers on a wide range of non-traditional topics that emphasize the multi-disciplinary aspects of their work. ____________________________________________________________ Title: Eleventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop Deadline: 09-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/SIGOPSEW04/ Conference: September 20-22, 2004 Location: Leuven, Belgium Synopsis: Authors are invited to submit position papers to the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, and analysis of computer systems. We seek contributions from all fields of systems practice. ____________________________________________________________ Title: Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence -- Mobility, Ubiquity and Wearables Get Together Deadline: 12-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~pjpf/CFP-Ambient-Intelligence.htm Conference: Special Issue for Computers & Graphics (Elsevier) Synopsis: High quality original manuscripts are sought for a special issue of Computers & Graphics on Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence -- Mobility, Ubiquity and Wearables Get Together. Ambient Intelligence is a keyword that suggests an ambitious vision of the future: a world in which computers adapt to people, instead of being the other way round, as it happens today. This vision requires high quality research in a large number of computer science topics that range from hardware specific devices and operating systems to advanced multimodal user interfaces. (More details in the web page). ____________________________________________________________ Title: Building and Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software Deadline: 15-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.computer.org/pervasive/edcal0704.htm Conference: Synopsis: IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine invites articles relating to system software for ubiquitous computing environments. We welcome papers that provide new software paradigms or algorithms, or relate implementation experience that other researchers can build upon. Successful submissions will clearly address an explicit ubiquitous system model and problem statement, which the authors relate to existing research. They will evaluate the proposed solution and so contribute to our knowledge of software for these systems in general. ____________________________________________________________ Title: Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS) & Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault Tolerant Systems (FTRTFT) Deadline: 01-Apr-2004 Webpage: http://www-formats-ftrtft.imag.fr/ Conference: FORMATS&FTRTFT2004/22-24-Sep-2004 Location: Grenoble, France Synopsis: The conference unites two previously independently organised conferences FORMATS and FTRTFT. The joint conference is devoted to considering the problems and the solutions in designing real-time and/or fault-tolerant systems, and to examining how well the use of advanced design techniques and formal methods for design, analysis and verification serves in relating theory to practice. ____________________________________________________________ Title: International Workshop on Network Design and Architecture Deadline: 16-Apr-2004 Webpage: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~kartik/iwnda.html Conference: August 15 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Synopsis: IWNDA 2004 provides a forum to discuss the emerging research directions in modern networking architectures. Submissions are invited in all areas relevant to networking architecture research including, but not limited to: Traffic engineering and MPLS, Overlay Networks, Metro-scale networking technologies, Wireless LANs and Mesh networks, GPRS and GSM-based access networks, Mobility support, Optical Networks, Trustworthy infrastructure, Quality-of-Service, Routing and Protection, Congestion management, Network virtualization, Resource allocation and Pricing. ____________________________________________________________ Title: 9th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution Deadline: 26-Apr-2004 Webpage: http://2004.iwcw.org/ Conference: WCW 2004 / 18-20 October 2004 Location: Beijing, China Synopsis: WCW serves as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content caching, distribution, and delivery. Research in content distribution has broadened its scope to cover practically all areas related to the intersection of content and networking, including such areas as data grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, utility computing, edge computing, application networking, pervasive networking and content computing. Building on the success of previous WCW meetings, WCW9 plans to form a strong technical program that covers the newest and most interesting areas relating to content services as they move through the Internet. ____________________________________________________________ Title: The 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Deadline: 14-May-2004 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/ Conference: December 6-8, 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Synopsis: OSDI 2004 will bring together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. Emphasizing both innovative research and quantified experience, OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from all fields of systems practice including, but not limited to: operating systems, networking, file and storage systems, distributed systems, mobile systems, secure systems, embedded systems, and the interaction of hardware and software development. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas or groundbreaking results that push the frontier of systems research. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: 10th International Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems Deadline: 26-May-2004 Webpage: http://www.cercs.gatech.edu/ftdcs2004/ Conference: May 26-28, 2004 Location: Suzhou, China Synopsis: The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in distributed computing systems around the world to present their results, and exchange ideas and experience. In contrast to large international conferences in this area, this workshop will place emphasis on more in-depth discussions and project future trends. ____________________________________________________________ Title: Distributed Objects and Applications Deadline: 30-May-2004 Webpage: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ Conference: October 25-29 2004 Location: Cyprus Synopsis: If you are a researcher or practitioner who is building innovative distributed object systems or applications, consider contributing a practice report or research paper to this event. Existing distributed object systems such as COM, CORBA, and EJB have been generally successful, but we're still evolving them, and applying lessons learned into areas such as Web Services, CORBA Components, J2EE, and .NET. All these approaches aim to provide openness, reliability, scalability, distribution transparency, security, ease of development, and support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Significant research and development is required to continue to broaden the applicability of distributed object systems. ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in these mailings, go to http://www.cs.duke.edu/~albrecht/acm.html. ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)cs.ucsd.edu>, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MWCN 2004 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] MWCN 2004 CFP Date: 01 Mar 2004 11:44:04 -0800 From: Elizabeth Belding-Royer <ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *************************************************** ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ********* *************************************************** * * * IFIP/IEEE MWCN 2004 * * The Sixth IFIP/IEEE International Conference on * * Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks * * * * Paris, France, 25 - 27 October, 2004 * * * * http://mwcn2004.lri.fr/ * *************************************************** MWCN 2004 is the sixth annual international conference dedicated to advancing research on mobile wireless networks. In the past few years, there has been growing interest in integrating stand-alone mobile networks with infrastructured wireless networks to create more robust and adaptable wireless networks. To further encourage research in this area, the theme of this years conference is: ** Convergence of Mobile Wireless Networks and the Internet ** You are invited to submit original papers to the conference for review. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Mobile network architecture * Resource and information management * Mobility support, protocols, and algorithms * Connection management * Applications * Mobile ad hoc networks * Wireless local area networks * Analysis and simulation of mobile networks * Evaluation of mobile network testbeds * Mobile network security * Quality of service * Energy efficiency of protocols and devices All papers should be submitted electronically in Portable Document Format (PDF). Submissions should be in English, and the maximum page length is 6 pages in no smaller than 10 point font. The name and affiliation of all authors should be included on the paper, and the contact information for the lead author should be included in a cover page. Full submission instructions can be found at http://mwcn2004.lri.fr IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission deadline: March 31, 2004, 11:59PM PST Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2004 Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2004 Conference: 25-27 October 2004 Conference General Chairs ------------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha LRI, University of Paris XI, France khaldoun.alagha(a)lri.fr Guy Pujolle University of Paris VI, Francs guy.pujolle(a)lip6.fr Conference Technical Program Chair ---------------------------------- Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer University of California, Santa Barbara ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP:The First ACM International Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (ACM WAMES 2004)]
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP:The First ACM International Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (ACM WAMES 2004) Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 09:00:02 -0800 From: Mani Srivastava <mbs(a)ee.ucla.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS ACM WAMES 2004 The First ACM International Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (In conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2004) http://lcawww.epfl.ch/luo/WAMES%202004.htm June 6, 2004 Boston, MA, USA The relentless development of wireless technology paves the way to novel applications, based on sensor networks or wireless systems. This workshop aims at bringing together specialists of application areas along with researchers of mobile computing and networking. A first goal of the workshop is to exchange information about the most promising upcoming applications. A second goal is to identify the research challenges raised by these applications. The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Environmental monitoring, including pollution, wildlife, water, etc. - Smart factories, supply chains, retail systems (including those based on RFID) - Intelligent Transportation Systems, automotive applications - Aerospace applications - Mobile systems for disabled or elderly people - Smart buildings, smart homes The ideal submission should describe an existing or a potential application; it should also discuss the technical challenges raised by this application, with an emphasis on those related to mobile computing and networking. Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs Jean-Pierre.Hubaux(a)epfl.ch and Mani Srivastava ( mbs(a)ee.ucla.edu ) to determine appropriateness. A submission should contain at most 3 pages and be typed in at least font 10, with reasonable margins; both US letter and A4 formats are eligible; the document must be a pdf or a ps. There will be no published proceedings. The accepted contributions will be presented during the workshop in a talk of 25 minutes each + 5 minutes for questions; the final version of the abstract will be posted on the Web site of the workshop. Important Dates Workshop submissions deadline: March 12, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2004 Final version of abstracts due: May 15, 2004 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CfP MIPS'04, November 2004, Grenoble, France]
by Lars Wolf 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: CfP MIPS'04, November 2004, Grenoble, France Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:16:23 +0100 From: Vincent Roca <vincent.roca(a)inrialpes.fr> Organization: INRIA Rhone-Alpes To: mips2004(a)inrialpes.fr +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Please accept our apologies for multiple copies +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Preliminary CALL FOR PAPERS MIPS 2004 Second International Workshop on Multimedia Interactive Protocols and Systems (Formerly IDMS/PROMS) November 16-19, 2004 Castle of Sassenage, Grenoble, France http://mips2004.inrialpes.fr/ http://mips2004.imag.fr Past history and scope of the Workshop -------------------------------------- Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems (IDMS) and Protocols for Multimedia Systems (PROMS) have been two successful series of international events bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry in all areas of multimedia systems. These two workshops have successfully merged in 2003 and now constitute the MIPS workshop. MIPS 2004 is intended to contribute to scientific, strategic and practical advances in the area of distributed multimedia applications, protocols, and intelligent management tools, with emphasis on their provision over novel network architectures. MIPS 2004 will consist of a two days and a half technical program, plus a full day of tutorials. Papers should describe innovative and significant work. Topics of Interest ------------------ * Mobile & wireless multimedia systems * Multimedia middleware * Multimedia communication protocols * Quality of Service issues and multimedia * Resource management for multimedia services * Active and programmable networking for multimedia applications * Multimedia-specific mobile agents * Multimedia distribution and transport * Multimedia traffic engineering * Multimedia service engineering * Ubiquitous computing for multimedia * Networked audio-video devices * Development tools for distributed multimedia applications * Multimedia applications: video-on-demand, digital video libraries, video games, virtual community, teleworking, teleteaching, e-commerce, virtual reality simulations * Performance of multimedia protocols and applications: modeling, simulation and optimisation in different networks * Multimedia content management * Multimedia service access * Security, authentication, privacy, watermarking for multimedia * Accounting and tariff policing for multimedia teleservices * Multimedia encoding and compression * Standards (e.g. MPEG) and related issues Paper Submissions ----------------- Authors are invited to submit papers in PDF or Postscript format through the workshop website. Submitted papers must describe original work not submitted elsewhere. Papers must not be longer than 12 single-spaced pages. Papers should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words, and include title, authors and affiliations. Final versions of accepted papers must be structured according to Springer's instructions. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission June 1st, 2004 Tutorial submission July 4th, 2004 Notification of acceptance July 26th, 2004 Camera ready version September 15th, 2004 (TBC) Best paper award ---------------- A jury will select the best paper, on the basis of both the quality of the written paper and of the presentation at the workshop. The winner will be awarded a prize donated by one of the workshop sponsors. Tutorials --------- MIPS 2004 will feature one day of half-day tutorials covering single topics in detail. Proposals should be sent to the Program Chairs and must include an extended abstract containing a description of the topic, the intended audience, and a short bio of the speaker. Contacts -------- Web site: http://mips2004.inrialpes.fr or http://mips2004.imag.fr Email: mips2004(a)inrialpes.fr Program Chairs -------------- Vincent Roca, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France Franck Rousseau, LSR-IMAG, France Steering Committee ------------------ Hans Scholten, Twente University, The Netherlands Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Technology, Poland Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Marten van Sinderen, Twente University, The Netherlands Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Girgio Ventre, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy +++ Posted to members-istenext by Vincent Roca <vincent.roca(a)inrialpes.fr> +++

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WG: DeLFI 2004
by Stefan Fischer 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Wolfgang Nejdl [mailto:nejdl@kbs.uni-hannover.de] Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Februar 2004 13:44 An: mm-ansprechpartner-niedersachsen(a)offis.de; sbmm(a)offis.de; elan-piloten(a)sbmm-niedersachsen.de Betreff: DeLFI 2004 Sicherlich auch für ELAN-Teilnehmer interessant, Deadline ist der 28. März. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Wolfgang Nejdl ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, anbei der Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beitraegen zur DeLFI 2004. Es waere nett, wenn Sie diesen Aufruf an Interessierte weiterleiten. Mir freundlichen Gruessen -- Silke Seehuen *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS DeLFI 2004 2. e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 5.-8. September 2004 Universität Paderborn http://www.delfi2004.de http://www.mensch-und-computer.de/mc2004 delfi2004(a)upb.de Hinweis: Die DeLFI 2004 findet parallel (gleiche Zeit, gleicher Ort) zur Mensch & Computer 2004 statt. ------------------------------------------------------------------- * Termine * Ziele und Inhalt * Themengebiete * Einreichungsrichtlinien * Programmkomitee * Organisationskomitee * Adresse der Tagungsleitung ------------------------------------------------------------------- TERMINE * 28. 3. 2004 Einsendeschluss für die Beiträge * 15. 5. 2004 Benachrichtigung über Annahme * 14. 6. 2004 Ablieferung der druckreifen Manuskripte * 5. 9. 2004 Tutorientag * 6.-8.9. 2004 Tagungstermin --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ziele und Inhalt Die Fachgruppe e-Learning der Gesellschaft für Informatik beschäftigt sich mit allen Aspekten rechnergestützter Lehr- und Lernformen in Hochschule, Schule und Beruf sowie für das lebenslange Lernen. Das Thema hat Berührungspunkte zu vielen Bereichen der Informatik, z.B. Softwaretechnik, Mensch-Computer-Interaktion, CSCW, Wissensmanagement und intelligente Lehr- und Lernsysteme, Multimedia und Wirtschaftsinformatik. Die Fachgruppe e-Learning betrachtet insbesondere bereichsübergreifende Fragestellungen und ist den drei Fachbereichen Informatik und Ausbildung/Didaktik der Informatik, Wirtschaftsinformatik sowie Mensch-Computer-Interaktion zugeordnet. Die DeLFI-Tagungsreihe wurde im Jahre 2003 ins Leben gerufen und ist als jährlich stattfindende Tagung geplant. Die DeLFI 2004 wird an der Universität Paderborn stattfinden, zusammen mit der Tagung Mensch & Computer. Die DeLFI-Tagung ist die einschlägige wissenschaftliche Tagung im deutschsprachigen Raum, auf der neueste informatiknahe Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Praxis zum Thema e-Learning einem Fachpublikum präsentiert werden. Die Tagung wird begleitet von einem Tutorien-, Ausstellungs- und Demonstrationsprogramm. Interessierte Aussteller werden gebeten, direkt mit der Tagungsleitung Kontakt aufzunehmen. Ein Schwerpunkt der Tagung wird im Jahre 2004 die Präsentation von Ergebnissen der in den letzten Jahren vom BMBF geförderten informatiknahen Projekte im Rahmen des Programms "Neue Medien in der Bildung" sowie "Notebook-University" sein. Hierzu sind insbesondere Erfahrungsberichte zum Einsatz von e-Learning-Materialien erwünscht. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Themengebiete Infrastrukturen, Schnittstellen und Standards für e-Learning Technische Infrastruktur Schnittstellen und Standards e-Learning und XML Metadaten Wiederverwendung von Lernmodulen Infrastrukturen für e-Learning - Notebook University, mobiles Lernen Lernumgebungen und Werkzeuge Plattformen Digitale Bibliotheken Content Management Systeme kooperatives e-Learning Lernermodellierung adaptive und adaptierbare Lehr- und Lernsysteme Erstellung von Lernmaterialien Vorgehensmodelle Autorenwerkzeuge Ergonomie, Gestaltung Content Engineering Wissensakquisition Lehr- und Lernszenarien Fallstudien Erfahrungen aus e-Learning Projekten Informatik-Inhalte Weiterbildung didaktische Aspekte des e-Learning interdisziplinäre Ansätze Evaluation Integration des e-Learning in die Organisation e-Learning und Wissensmanagement Hochschulverwaltungssysteme und e-Learning Förderung der Nachhaltigkeit von e-Learning-Ansätzen in der Hochschule Geschäftsmodelle für e-Learning Qualitätsmanagement ------------------------------------------------------------------- Einreichungsrichtlinien Die Beiträge sind in vollständiger Fassung ausschließlich in elektronischer Form (pdf oder ps) per E-Mail an die Tagungsleitung (delfi2004(a)upb.de) bis zum 28.03.2004 einzureichen. Der Tagungsband wird in der GI Edition "Lecture Notes in Informatics" (LNI) erscheinen. Beiträge dürfen einschließlich Abbildungen 12 Seiten im LNI-Format nicht überschreiten. Über die Annahme der Beiträge wird bis zum 15.05.2004 informiert. Das angenommene druckreife Manuskript ist bis zum 14.06.2004 nach den Richtlinien und Stilvorlagen der GI einzusenden. Siehe auch: http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI Die angenommenen Beiträge werden in einem Vortrag von 30 Minuten (einschl. Diskussion) auf der Tagung vorgestellt. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Programmkomitee Gregor Engels (Co-Chair, Uni Paderborn) Silke Seehusen (Co-Chair, FH Lübeck) Werner Beuschel (FH Brandenburg) Arndt Bode (TU München) Jörg Desel (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) Ernst-Erich Doberkat (Uni Dortmund) Wolfgang Effelsberg (Uni Mannheim) Jörg Haake (FU Hagen) Michael Herczeg (Uni Lübeck) Peter Hubwieser (TU München) Reinhard Keil-Slawik (Uni Paderborn) Andrea Kienle (Uni Dortmund) Johannes Magenheim (Uni Paderborn) Klaus Meißner (TU Dresden) Wolfgang Nejdl (Uni Hannover) Thomas Ottmann (Uni Freiburg) Sabine Rathmayer (TU München) Gunter Saake (Uni Magdeburg) Alexander Schill (TU Dresden) Johann Schlichter (TU München) Olaf Schröder (hamburg.de) Sigrid Schubert (Uni Siegen) Andreas Schwill (Uni Potsdam) Cornelia Seeberg (TU Darmstadt) Djamshid Tavangarian (Uni Rostock) Martin Wessner (Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organisationskomitee Gregor Engels Alexander Förster Hendrik Voigt Beatrix Wiechers ------------------------------------------------------------------- Adresse der Tagungsleitung Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels Universität Paderborn Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik Institut für Informatik Warburger Straße 100 33098 Paderborn Tel.: 05251-60 3336 Fax.: 05251-60 3431 delfi2004(a)upb.de -------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Extended deadline (March 12) and EDAS submission]
by Lars Wolf 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Extended deadline (March 12) and EDAS submission Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:09:02 -0500 (EST) From: Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira <jau(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: itc(a)comsoc.org We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ANNOUNCEMENTS: - PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO MARCH 12, 2004. - PAPERS WILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH EDAS SYSTEM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Med-Hoc-Net 2004 The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey http://www.medhoc04/diit/unict.it Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Ad hoc network applications are emerging continuously imposing their own stringent constraints which cannot be fulfilled by generic approaches and thus spur new research efforts. Therefore, ad hoc networks attract growing attention from the research community. The aim of Med-Hoc-Net 2004 is to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the globe to share their ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad-hoc networking and communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2004 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel ad-hoc network architectures and applications, - Sensor network applications and protocols, - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Interfacing ad-hoc systems with different networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Power management and control, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Self organization and network reconfiguration, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - QoS support in Bluetooth, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11 etc., - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Congestion control, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Signal processing algorithms (coding, compression) for ad-hoc networks The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be published in the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal. Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages. NEW: THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO MARCH 12, 2004 PAPERS WILL BE SUBMITTED THROUGH EDAS SYSTEM Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through EDAS system (http://edas.info) according to the following timetable: Important Dates: Full Paper Electronic Submission: March 12, 2004 Tutorial proposal submission: April 15, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 3, 2004 Camera ready submission of full papers: May 17, 2004 Tutorial date: June 27, 2004 Conference dates: June 28-30, 2004 Organization Committee: General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA General Vice Chair: Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY Technical Program Chairs: Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Tutorial Chairs: Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome - La Sapienza, ITALY Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GREECE Publicity Chairs: Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA Registration Chair: Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Technical Program Committee: Khaldoun Al Agha, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, FRANCE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Eitan Altman, INRIA, FRANCE Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, ITALY Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA Walid Dabbous, INRIA, FRANCE Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, TUNISIA Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, TURKEY Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, GREECE Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, CANADA Ariel Orda, Technion, ISRAEL Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, ITALY Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRANCE Paolo Santi, CNR, ITALY Adrian Segall, Technion, ISRAEL Ness Shroff, Purdue University, USA Moshe Sidi, Technion, ISRAEL Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, GREECE Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, GREECE Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen University of Technology, GERMANY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY

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WG: CfP - Forwarding Bitte (fwd)
by Stefan Fischer 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Mailing List Manager Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2004 13:15 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CfP - Forwarding Bitte (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:25:50 +0100 From: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)TIK.EE.ETHZ.CH> To: KUVS-L-request(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de Subject: CfP - Forwarding Bitte Mit der Bitte um Weiterleitung auf der "KUVS-L(a)listserv.uni-heidelberg.de" Danke und Gruss, Burkhard Stiller Subject: CfP: ICQT'04 - October 1, 2004, Barcelona, Spain Body: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Apologies for multiple copies. +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Internet Charging and QoS Technologies (ICQT04) "QoS has its Price" co-located with the Fifth International Workshop on Quality of future Internet Services (QofIS04) September 29 - October 1, 2004 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain ICQT04 URL: http://www.ftw.at/icqt Scope ^^^^^ The current shift of Internet communications towards differentiated services enables and supports a huge variety of prosperous business models. The resulting combination of support service issues with technological and economic perspectives drives many relevant and interesting research topics for application developers, business architects, network providers, service providers, and customers. Especially the identification of novel Internet charging solutions, the investigation and evaluation of their technical feasibility, and the consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms for enabling a fast, guaranteed, and efficient charging of communications services is of fundamental importance for the future evolution of the Internet, and as such the central focus of the international ICQT workshop series. ICQT04 is the fourth event in this series, following the highly successful workshops ICQT01 in Vienna (Austria), ICQT02 in Zurich (Switzerland) and ICQT03 in Munich (Germany). The focus of this years workshop is on the economics of Internet services, pricing for Quality-of-Service (QoS), and the required technology in support of charging. Besides charging technology in terms of monitoring, accounting, and security mechanisms, also pricing and charging models for peer-to-peer applications, multicast, wireless, and QoS services are of importance. Therefore, authors are invited to submit work on issues related to, but not limited by, the following list of topics: o Network economics and economic models for the Internet o Internet pricing, tariffing, and billing o Internet charging technologies o Monitoring, measuring, and accounting o ISP cost and business models o Charging for QoS, services, and content o Pricing mobile and wireless services o Application service provider models o Security mechanisms for charging o Management of Service Level Agreements Papers and Submissions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should already follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.ftw.at/icqt for further submission instructions or contact icqt04(a)ftw.at for additional information. The conference proceedings are being published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series and will be available during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCSs guidelines (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be strictly followed without exception, including the 10 page limit. Important Dates ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2004 Notification of acceptance: July 2, 2004 Camera ready version: July 25, 2004 Workshop date: October 1, 2004 General Information ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The final program will be run as a full day on October 1, 2004, preceded by QofIS04 on September 29-30, 2004, http://www.qofis.org. The registration fee for this event will include the attendance of both ICQT04 and QoFIS04. For more information please visit http://www.ftw.at/icqt or contact icqt04(a)ftw.at. Program Co-Chairs ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Burkhard Stiller UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Reichl FTW Vienna, Austria Richard Gibbens Cambridge University, U.K. Program Committee ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Joern Altmann University of Berkeley, U.S.A. Ragnar Andreassen Telenor, Norway Sandford Bessler FTW Vienna, Austria Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Bob Briscoe BT exact Technologies, U.K. Roland Bueschkes T-Mobile International, Germany Costas Courcoubetis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Chris Edwards Lancaster University, U.K. Martin Karsten University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Key Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. Claudia Linnhoff-Popien LMU Munich, Germany Simon Leinen SWITCH Zuerich, Switzerland Peter Marbach University of Toronto, Canada Robin Mason University of Southampton, U.K. Lee McKnight Syracuse University, U.S.A. Andrew Odlyzko University of Minnesota, U.S.A. Huw Oliver Consultant, U.K. Maximilian Ott Semandex Networks, U.S.A. Kihong Park Purdue University, U.S.A. Guido Petit Alcatel, Belgium Douglas Reeves North Carolina State University, U.S.A. Bjoern Rupp Arthur D. Little, Germany Jens Schmitt Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Vasilios Siris ICS Forth, Greece Otto Spaniol RWTH Aachen, Germany Bruno Tuffin INRIA Rennes, France +--------------------------------------------------------------------+

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[matta@cs.bu.edu: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1]
by Joerg Diederich 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

------- Start of forwarded message ------- Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:37:42 -0500 Thread-Topic: ASWN 2004 - deadline March 1 Thread-Index: AcPrMlGscl58GFbhRdyYgcqskvb4MAPsOL/Q From: "Ibrahim Matta" <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: "Ibrahim Matta" <matta(a)bu.edu> Call For Papers http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 9-11, 2004 ASWN 2004 is the fourth workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. The previous events were held in France and Switzerland, and in 2004 the workshop will take place in the United States for the first time. ASWN 2004, to be held in Boston, aims at investigating new developments in wireless networks focusing on applications and services. The workshop will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of leveraging wireless and mobile environments. Tutorial proposals are also requested. All papers, including invited papers, will go through a thorough review process. TOPICS Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services on Wireless Networks include, but are not limited to: * Media Distribution over Wireless Networks * New Data Services for Wireless Networks * Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business * Mobile Multimedia * Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services * Service Execution Environments * Service Creation * Mobile Service Interworking * Service Discovery * Location-based Services * Context Awareness and Personalization * Service Development, Validation, Testing & Deployment * Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility * QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS * Security and AAA Aspects * Nomadic Services, Interface Management * Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Nets, Sensor Nets * Wireless Personal Area Networks * Reconfigurable Systems and Networks * Self Organizing Systems * Enabling 3G and Beyond Technologies and Architectures * Performance of Wireless Networks and Systems * Cooperative Networks PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, papers that neither have been previously published nor are under review by another conference or journal. Priority will be given to original contributions describing recent and innovative research results or developments in the scope of the workshop. Papers must be written in English, using font no smaller than 10 points and not exceed 10 pages. Only PDF and PostScript formats will be accepted. All submissions will be handled electronically. Further details on submission available on the Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Workshop main page: http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full paper submission: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004 Camera ready due: May 7, 2004 ORGANIZATION The workshop is sponsored by IEEE and its Communications Society (IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications), and WWRF-WG2 on Applications and Services. The workshop is organized by the Web and InterNetworking Group (WING) from the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The workshop will be held on the BU campus. GENERAL Co-CHAIRS Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburg, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS, Germany Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology Elizabeth Belding-Royer, UCSB, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA François Carrez, Alcatel, France Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA Sajal Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany Henk Eertink, Telematica Institut, Netherlands Jeremy Elson, UCLA, USA Anthony Ephremides, Univ. Maryland College Park, Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University, USA Ioannis Fikouras, University of Bremen, Germany Savo Glisic, University of Oulu, Finland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Whay Lee, Motorola Labs, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris VI, France Jochen H. Schiller, Freie University, Germany David Starobinski, Boston University, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Hector Velayos, KTH, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Cedric Westphal, Nokia Research, USA Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, CA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA - -- Ibrahim Matta, Associate Professor Computer Science, Boston University 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/matta ------- End of forwarded message ------- Hallo, Grüße, /Jörg

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[Fwd: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS: February List Digest]
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS: February List Digest Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:34:01 -0500 From: Andreas Terzis <terzis(a)cs.jhu.edu> Reply-To: Andreas Terzis <terzis(a)cs.jhu.edu> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the February List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. -Andreas Terzis infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM conference news - February 2004 update. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for all of the following conference "member rates", even if it's an IEEE or SPIE conference. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers - Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 30, 2004 Call for Papers - Workshop on Practice and Theory of Incentives and Game Theory in Network Systems (PINS) in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 19, 2004 Call for Papers - Network Troubleshooting: Research, Theory and Operations Practice Meets Malfunctioning Reality in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Call for Papers - NetGames'04 in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2004 Location: Portland, Oregon, USA Submission deadline: April 16, 2004 Call for Papers - The Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2004) Conference Dates: November 3-5, 2004,=20 Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA (tentative) URL: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/sensys04 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: Call for papers -- NOSSDAV 2004 Location: Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Workshop dates: June 16-18, 2004 Paper registration deadline: Feb 23, 2004 (*firm*) Paper submission deadline: Mar 1, 2004 (*firm*) URL: http://www.nossdav.org/2004/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals in the data communications area: Call for Papers - MobiCom 2004 Conference Dates: September 26 - October 1, 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA URL: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2004/ Call for Papers - Global Internet & Next Generation Networks Symposium at IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 Location: Dallas, Texas, USA Conference Dates: 29 Novemeber - 3 December, 2004 URL: http://www.globecom2004.org/ Call for Papers - Med-Hoc-Net 2004 Location: Bodrum, Turkey Conference Dates: June 27-30, 2004, URL: http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ Call for Papers - EUROSIM'04 Location: ESIEE, Cite Descartes, Marne la Vallee, France Conference Dates: 6-10 September 2004 URL: http://www.esiee.fr/~eurosim4/ Call for Papers - PWC 2004 The Ninth International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications Location: Technical University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands Conference Dates: September 21-23, 2004 URL: http://www.pwc2004.irctr.tudelft.nl/ Call for Papers - The Tenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems DMS'2004 Location: Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay Conference Dates: September 8 - 10, 2004 URL: http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms04.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: GLOBECOM 2004 CFP Deadline Nears]
by Lars Wolf 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: GLOBECOM 2004 CFP Deadline Nears Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:29:10 -0500 From: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org Reply-To: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> To: conferencesx(a)comsoc.org GLOBECOM 2004 Emerging Technologies Applications and Services 29 November - 3 December Dallas, Texas USA www.globecom2004.org Call for Papers Deadline 1 March 2004 - Hard deadline no extensions You are invited to submit original technical papers for presentation at GLOBECOM 2004 and publication in the Conference Record. The Technical Program will be presented in seven major symposia: Communication Theory General Symposium Global Internet and Next Generation Networks Optical Communications, Networks, and Systems Security and Network Management Signal Processing for Communications Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Proposals for tutorials and workshops in important or emerging communications topics are also invited. The complete call for papers, submittal instructions and additional information can be found at www.globecom2004.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.

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WG: Communication Abstractions in Distributed Computing (CADS 04)
by Stefan Fischer 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Ludger Fiege Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Februar 2004 13:45 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: CFP: Communication Abstractions in Distributed Computing (CADS 04) CALL FOR PAPERS Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems ECOOP 2004 Workshop Oslo, Norway, June 14 or 15, 2004 http://perso-info.enst-bretagne.fr/~beugnard/ecoop/WS-CADS04-CFP.html Applications have become increasingly distributed. Distribution complicates systems building and exacerbates problems such as dealing with failure, and providing security, quality of service, reliability, and manageability. System development is eased by abstraction and modeling. How to model distributed systems? Distributed systems can be understood as communicating objects. To tackle the problems of building distributed systems, it is useful to focus on the abstract issues of inter-component communication. Examples of distributed communication mechanisms include messaging systems, remote procedure calls, distributed objects, peer-to-peer and publish-and-subscribe. Within any such paradigm, there are many opportunities for specialized and detailed engineering decisions. While mechanisms such as these are a good foundation for dealing with the problems of distribution, there remain many issues about how to mold these ideas to deal with the problems of real systems. At the previous ECOOP workshops, we identified some problems (security, privacy, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, meta-object protocols, and ordering of events) that are important concerns of any communication abstraction. The goal of this workshop is to contrast and compare communication abstractions for distributed systems. Participants will be asked to submit a position paper on some aspect of communication abstractions for distributed systems. To focus the groups discussion, this year we consider the distributed aerospace information problem, described in the call-for-papers. Prospective participants are requested to relate their contribution to some facet of that that problem. The workshop itself will consist of short presentations, discussion of those presentations, and division into smaller topic study groups. At the previous ECOOP workshops on Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (2003), The Next 701 Distributed Object Systems (2002), and The Next 700 Distributed Object Systems (2001), we identified some problems (security, privacy, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, meta-object protocols, and ordering of events) that are important concerns of any communication abstraction. The goal of this workshop is to contrast and compare communication abstractions for distributed systems. To focus the discussion, participants will be asked to present ideas about communication abstractions with respect to a candidate problem, the distributed aerospace information problem. Call for participation We are interested in papers reporting practical experiences relating both benefits and obstacles in using communication abstractions. The word /abstraction/ should be understood as higher level. (Communications should also be understood as communications among machines, not human-machine interface.) The main questions are what are the possible abstractions, what are their properties, how to implement them. At previous ECOOP workshops (Communication Abstractions for Distributed Systems (2003) and The Next 701 Distributed Object Systems (2002)) we studied some problems inherent to distribution, such as security, partial failure, guaranteeing quality of service, run-time evolution, and considered what tools an object system might supply to help address them. Technologies included grouping objects into components, immutable objects, application-level protocols, reflection (both introspection and reification), and event-ordering. This year, to help increase the coherence of the discussion, we prefer position papers that speak to the distributed information issues of modernizing Airspace Systems (http://www.nas-architecture.faa.gov/Tutorials/NAS101.cfm). In 25 years, we'd like to have every aircraft, counter, terminal, baggage carousel, control tower and gate networked so that information generated by any of these is conveyed to other interested parties. That is, if a plane flies over the Alps and experiences turbulence, then that turbulence information should be communicated to other pilots on the same path. If the turbulence has slowed down the plane's arrival, then the gates and baggage carousels, connecting flights, automobile rentals of the passengers, etc. all bear notification and perhaps rescheduling. Someone studying patterns of Alpian turbulence should find the data in her database, though not with the same alacrity as a pilot flying from Paris to Milan. Important ilities that proposed organizations need to deal with are efficiency (you can't tell everyone everything), maintainability (you can't turn off the air system), evolvability (you don't know all the future applications of the data), scalability (this is a big system), reliability (for obvious reasons), quality of service (getting important information to its destinations quickly and deferring the unimportant) and security (all the issues of keeping fake messages out of the system, and also federated security: airlines may be willing to share some information with the governing authorities and the respective airplane manufacturers, but not with each other). Possible topics for communication abstractions include: * Communication abstractions themselves, such as synchronous and asynchronous messages, publish-and-subscribe, peer-to-peer, and group and broadcast communications, and parts of communication abstractions, such as coordination, mobility, migration, persistence, security, privacy and reliability techniques. * Embodiments of communication abstractions, such as middleware services, mediation, glueware, communications-centric programming languages, communication frameworks, and communication components, such as run-time system and protocol evolution. * Dealing with failure in communications and communicants, including transactions and recovery mechanisms. * Semantic issues of communications, such as ordering of events. * Conceptual organizations for communications, such as design patterns for communication and distribution, and composition mechanisms for protocols. Our long-term goal is to define and refine abstractions that address some of these problems and other like them. What are the right abstractions, APIs, development methods, reasoning systems, and tools for building the next generation of Distributed Object Systems? This workshop aims to foster discussion during the workshop. The workshop is not a mini-conference. Position papers, not to exceed 6 pages in length, are solicited by April 5, 2004. Papers based on experience with the above issues are particularly welcome. Submission Guidelines Please send positions papers electronically in PDF or Postscript format to Eric Jul at eric(a)diku.dk <mailto:eric@diku.dk> and Antoine.Beugnard(a)enst-bretagne.fr <mailto:Antoine.Beugnard@enst-bretagne.fr> by April 5, 2004. Notification of acceptance will be given by April 26. A maximum of 20 participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted material. Submitted position papers should include a 100 word abstract and a set of relevant keywords. The number of participants per position paper is limited to 2. Springer-Verlag will publish the ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader as an Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html> volume. This book will include a report for each workshop. The organizers will write the report, in collaboration with the participants of the workshop. The organizers will produce a report that provides a summary of the workshop with the major issues discussed and the conclusions of the working groups (if applicable). The report will also include the current research being carried out in the area and open research directions on the workshop themes. Important Dates Positions papers deadline: April 5, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2004 ECOOP 2004 early registration deadline: May 7, 2004 Workshop: June 14 or 15, 2004 Organizers * Antoine Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, Brest, France antoine.beugnard(a)enst-bretagne.fr * Eric Jul, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark eric(a)diku.dk * Laurence Duchien, Universit de Lille, France duchien(a)lifl.fr * Ludger Fiege, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany fiege(a)gkec.tu-darmstadt.de * Robert Filman, NASA Ames Research Center, USA rfilman(a)arc.nasa.gov * Salah Sadou, Valoria, Universit de Bretagne Sud, France salah.sadou(a)iu-vannes.fr

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FW: Last Call For Papers: 18 Joint Conferences in CS & CE - USA, June 21-24, 2004
by Muhammad Asadullah Khan 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

-----Original Message----- From: Hamid Arabnia [mailto:hra@cs.uga.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:04 PM To: khan(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: Last Call For Papers: 18 Joint Conferences in CS & CE - USA, June 21-24, 2004 Extended deadline: Feb. 29, 2004 Extended deadline: Feb. 29, 2004 Call For Papers The 2004 International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering (18 Joint Conferences) http://www.world-academy-of-science.org Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 Dear Colleagues: You are invited to submit a draft paper. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings. Any help in distributing this announcement would be most appreciated. The International Multiconference in Computer Science and Computer Engineering is a major annual research event. It assembles a spectrum of affiliated research conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at a common time. This model facilitates communication among researchers in different fields of computer science and computer engineering. We expect to have over 2,000 attendees. The 2004 event is composed of the following 18 conferences: 1. The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'04) 2. The 2004 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'04) 3. The 2004 International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST'04) 4. The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'04) 5. The 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'04) 6. The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04) 7. The 2004 International Conference on Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'04) 8. The 2004 International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'04) 9. The 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04) 10. The 2004 International Symposium on Web Services and Applications (ISWS'04) 11. The 2004 International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04) 12. The 2004 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'04) 13. The 2004 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (METMBS'04) 14. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'04) 15. The 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'04) 16. The 2004 International Conference on VLSI (VLSI'04) 17. The 2004 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'04) 18. The 2004 International Conference on Algorithmic Mathematics and Computer Science (AMCS'04) (a link to each conference's URL can be found at http://www.world-academy-of-science.org ) You are requested to send your submission to the Multiconference chair whose address appears below (The chair may be forwarding the papers to respective conference chairs/committees). MultiConference Chair: H. R. Arabnia, PhD The University of Georgia Department of Computer Science 415 Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A. Tel: (706) 542-3480 Fax: (706) 542-2966 E-mail: hra(a)cs.uga.edu SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper (about 5 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 29, 2004. E-mail submissions in MS document or PDF formats are preferable (Fax submissions are also acceptable.) The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street shows, ...). IMPORTANT DATES: Feb. 29, 2004: Extended Deadline; Draft papers (about 5 pages) March 22, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 21, 2004: Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due June 21-24, 2004: 2004 Int'l Multiconference in CS & CE --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. 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[Fwd: FW: IMA 2004 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

hierzu sollten wir etwas einreichen! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: IMA 2004 - Call for Papers Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:32:33 +0100 From: Lemmer, Karsten <Karsten.Lemmer(a)dlr.de> Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, anliegenden Call for Papers erhalten Sie zu Ihrer Kenntnis und zur eventuellen Weiterverteilung. Call for Papers IMA 2004 - Informationssysteme für mobile Anwendungen 20./21. Oktober 2004 IHK Braunschweig Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tamara Scharf *********************************************************** ___ __ /__ /__ /__ /__ /__ / /__ / DLR Tamara Scharf Sekretariat Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Institut für Verkehrsführung und Fahrzeugsteuerung Lilienthalplatz 7 38108 Braunschweig Tel.: +49 (0)531 295- 3401 Fax: +49 (0)531 295- 3402 e-mail: Tamara.Scharf(a)dlr.de info: www.dlr.de/fs

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DSOM 2004 Call for Papers
by Frank Strauß 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

15th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management November 15-17, 2004, Davis, California, USA http://www.dsom2004.org Recent efforts in the network and system computing community have been to create systems that are goal-driven, that use resources optimally and transparently to the clients, are uniformly manageable irrespective of the inherent heterogeneity and are autonomic. On the other hand, in the academic research community and grid computing community, many networked computing infrastructures, such as Emulab and Planetlab, have been built and shared among research scientists to run various types of research experiments. Utility Computing (UC) is a paradigm that enables distributed resources (network, systems, applications, services) being provided to users on-demand and in a uniform manner. A utility infrastructure thus has to be dynamic, virtualized, secure and automated, in nature and operate on a wide range of resources. While the UC paradigm itself will very likely enable many exciting distributed applications over the Internet in the near future, technologies related to the manage ment of networks, computing systems, and resources under utility computing systems must be carefully studied and examined. Therefore, this year's DSOM workshop will focus on infrastructure, techniques and methods that can be used to enable the paradigm of utility computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Management Architectures Automation for enabling self-management, self-configuration, and policy-based management Management Information Models Use of service-oriented architectures (web services, grid services) for management Provisioning/Maintaining the Performance and QoS Management Security, Privacy, and Isolation Fault Management and Fault Tolerance Monitoring, event and fault handling Closed-loop management Configuration, Accounting, Billing Experience with distributed Management of Systems, Applications, Networks Inter-domain management Adaptive Services and Applications Transaction Monitoring and Management Integration with Standardized frameworks, management APIs and models (CIM/WBEM, OSI/TMN, CORBA, SNMP, JMX etc) Implementation, Instrumentation, and Experience Important Dates: Submission: May 24, 2004 Notification: July 12, 2004 Camera ready version: Aug 5, 2004 Workshop date: November 15, 2004 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 2004. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2004 Authors are requested to submit: -Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or -Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or postscript format via the "Paper Submission" link (from March 1, 2004 on) of the web site. Program Committee Chairs: Akhil Sahai Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo-Alto, CA, USA S. Felix Wu University of California, Davis, USA Technical Program Committee: Nikos Anerousis IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun University of Bern, Switzerland Marcus Brunner NEC Europe, Germany Mark Burgess University College Oslo, Norway Omar Cherkaoui Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Metin Feridun IBM Research, Switzerland Olivier Festor LORIA-INRIA, France Kurt Geihs TU Berlin, Germany Wolfgang Gentzsch Sun Microsystems, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering Institut für Informatik der LMU, Germany Joseph L Hellerstein IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabe Jakobson Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gail E. Kaiser Columbia University, USA Gautam Kar IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryutaro Kawamura NTT Cyber Solutions Labs, Japen Alexander Keller IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Yoshiaki Kirha NEC, Japen Jaynarayan H. Lala Raytheon, USA Lundy Lewis Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu Imperial College London, UK Hanan Lutfiyya University of Western Ontario, Canada J.P. Martin-Flatin CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar Avaya Labs Research, Avaya, USA 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 Danny Raz Technion, Israel Gabi Dreo Rodosek Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen, Germany Adarshpal Sethi University of Delaware, USA Sharad Singhal Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Morris Sloman Imperial College London, UK Rolf Stadler KTH, Sweden Radu State LORIA-INRIA, FRANCE Burkhard Stiller UniBW Munich, Germany & ETH Zurich, Switzerland Yi-Min Wang Microsoft Research, USA Carlos Becker Westphall Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil _______________________________________________ Cnom mailing list Cnom(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom

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[Fwd: Updated CfP for UbiComp 2004]
by Lars Wolf 18 Feb '04

18 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Updated CfP for UbiComp 2004 Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:17:03 -0700 From: Fahd Al-Bin-Ali <albinali(a)cs.arizona.edu> To: <albinali(a)cs.arizona.edu> Dear colleague, This is an updated CfP for the 6^th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2004). As a reminder, the deadline for submitting papers is March 12^th 2004. Please circulate this announcement to encourage contributions. Thank you and I apologize if you received this message more than once. Sincerely, Fahd Al-Bin-Ali Publicity Chair UbiComp 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS UBICOMP 2004 The 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 7-10 September, 2004 Nottingham, UK http://www.ubicomp.org <http://www.ubicomp.org/> You are invited to contribute original and exciting ideas to UbiComp 2004, the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond our desktops and becomes increasingly embedded in a wide variety of other objects. Submissions to UbiComp 2004 must be original, unpublished work and may not be simultaneously submitted to any other conference or journal. Papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Each conference attendee will receive a printed copy of the proceedings; additional copies can be purchased through Springer-Verlag. The proceedings will also be made available through digital libraries. Submissions must be in the LNCS format; full instructions and templates are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html For Ubicomp 2004 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that describe original, unpublished research on handheld, mobile or ubiquitous computing. Potential areas of interest include: technologies, methodologies and formalisms to support ubiquitous computing and the development of ubiquitous computing applications (e.g. novel devices, system software, software engineering techniques and interaction methods); reports on experiences of designing, developing, deploying and living with ubiquitous computing systems; and, studies of the wider implications of ubiquitous computing. We are particularly seeking papers appropriate to the interdisciplinary community represented at the UbiComp 2004 conference. Submissions should report concrete, transferable results that contribute to our understanding of ubiquitous computing and help advance the state-of-the-art. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness and presentation. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the UbiComp 2004 program committee and by additional members of the ubiquitous computing research community. Papers submitted to UbiComp 2004 must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop or other publication. Technical papers should be no longer than 18 pages, including an abstract of no more than 100 words, all figures and references, and should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS format. In contrast to previous Ubicomp conferences there are no separate categories for long and short papers; all papers will be considered as full papers and should be an appropriate length for their content. Accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2004 Proceedings and authors are, of course, required to attend the conference to present their work. UbiComp 2004 submissions should be properly anonymized to facilitate blind reviewing: papers being submitted should not list the authors, affiliations or addresses on the first page -- to preserve formatting, it would be best to leave these sections blank. Author, affiliation and address information should still be filled out on the electronic form for submitting the paper, and final camera-ready copies should have this information included. Authors are also encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or institutions. UbiComp 2004 requires electronic submission. 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. Full submission details and information on other ways to participate in Ubicomp 2004 are available at http://www.ubicomp.org <http://www.ubicomp.org/>. Deadline for Submission: Papers due midnight GMT on March 12th 2004. Program Committee ----------------- Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK and University of Arizona, USA (program co-chair) Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (program co-chair) Itiro Siio, Tamagawa University, Japan (program co-chair) Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington and Intel Research Seattle, USA W. Keith Edwards, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Ken Fishkin, Intel Research Seattle, USA Armando Fox, Stanford University, USA Alois Ferscha, Universität Linz, Austria Rebecca E. Grinter, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Bill Gaver, Royal College of Art, UK Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK Beverly L. Harrison, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, USA Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Stephen Intille, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Toshiyuki Masui, AIST, Japan Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan

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[Fwd: Einladung zum MEDIDA-PRIX 2004 - Preisgeld EURO 100.000,-]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Einladung zum MEDIDA-PRIX 2004 - Preisgeld EURO 100.000,- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:01:31 +0100 From: Medida-Prix <medidaprix(a)iwm-kmrc.de> To: <medidaprix(a)iwm-kmrc.de> *Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz: Aufruf zum MEDIDA-PRIX 2004 !** *Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, die Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft e.V. (GMW) schreibt diesjährig zum fünften Mal einen trinationalen Wettbewerb aus, den *MEDIDA-PRIX*, um didaktisch motivierte Medienprojekte zu unterstützen, die einen besonderen Beitrag zur Qualitätssicherung und der nachhaltigen Verankerung digitaler Medien in der Hochschullehre leisten. Als Einreichungen kommen sowohl Neuentwicklungen, der didaktisch innovative Einsatz bereits bestehender Produkte als auch strategisch angelegte Konzepte zur Integration digitaler Medien in die Hochschullehre in Betracht. Das Spektrum der Einreichungen kann von der Entwicklung multimedialer Lehr- und Lernsoftware über Maßnahmen zu einer Gender-bewußten Gestaltung von Lernumgebungen, Teleteaching/ Telelearning, Maßnahmen der Organisations- und Personalentwicklung bis hin zu neuen Evaluationsverfahren reichen. Im Vordergrund steht nicht das Medienprodukt, sondern die didaktisch motivierte Lehr- und Lernumgebung bzw. der Hochschul-Entwicklungsprozess. Das Preisgeld von *EURO 100.000.-* (diesjährig finanziert vom österreichischen Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur bm:bwk) wird auf Basis einer Juryentscheidung zweckgebunden für die weitere Projektentwicklung vergeben. Der Preis richtet sich an alle Studierenden, Hochschulmitarbeiter/innen und -lehrer/innen in Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz, die wir hiermit recht herzlich zur Teilnahme einladen! Projekteinreichungen werden bis zum *31. März 2004* entgegengenommen. Detaillierte Informationen unter: *http://www.medidaprix.org <http://www.medidaprix.org/>* Bitte leiten Sie diese Nachricht auch an Ihnen bekannte interessierte Personen und Projektgruppen weiter. Vielen Dank! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Dr. Joachim Wedekind (Wissenschaftlicher Leiter) MEDIDA-PRIX Mediendidaktischer Hochschulpreis der GMW Organisationsbüro (Monika Topper) c/o IWM Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 40, D-72072 Tübingen Tel.: +49 (0)7071/ 979-341, Fax: -200 eMail: _medidaprix(a)iwm-kmrc.de_, Internet: http://www.medidaprix.org <http://www.medidaprix.org/>

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[Fwd: cfp: EUNICE summer school]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: cfp: EUNICE summer school Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:26:27 +0200 From: Yevgeni Koucheryavy <yk(a)cs.tut.fi> To: cost290(a)tut.fi ======================================================================= Apologies for multiple copies ======================================================================= Call for Papers 10th EUNICE Open European Summer School EUNICE 2004: Advances in fixed and mobile networks June 14 - 16, 2004 Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.tut.fi/eunice2004/ General The EUNICE network (http://www.eunice-forum.org/) has been created to foster the mobility of students, faculty members and research scientists working in the field of information and communication technologies and to promote educational and research cooperation between its member institutions. The main goal of the EUNICE Summer School is to give researchers and particularly Ph.D. students the opportunity to present their work at an international level. In addition to the research paper presentations, a number of tutorials or invited talks, presented by experts in the field, will be given. Call for Contributions Researchers and Ph.D. students from institutes affiliated with the EUNICE network and from the member institutes of E-NEXT Network of Excellence are especially invited to contribute. EUNICE Summer School is open to other researchers as well. Topics include, but are not limited to - Mobile and Wireless Networking - End-to-End Quality of Service - Ad-Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks - Congestion Control - Pervasive Computing - Performance Evaluation and Measurement - 3G/WLAN Internetworking - IPv6 Experiments and Transition Techniques - Radio Network Planning and Optimisation - Network Traffic Characterisation - Positioning in WCDMA Networks - Network Management - Service Discovery and Location Awareness - Network Security - Peer-to-Peer and Overlay Networks - Multimedia Services and Teleservices - Cross-Layer Network Design - Adaptive Applications and Architectures - IPv4/IPv6 Multicast and Datacast - Middleware for mobile computing Authors are invited to submit original papers, which will be reviewed by the program committee members. All accepted papers will be presented in the sessions of the Summer School, and camera-ready versions will be published in the conference proceedings (a book with ISBN number). Papers should be written in English and not exceed eight single-spaced A4 pages, 10-point Times New Roman style, 2 columns. The cover page should include name, affiliation, complete postal address and e-mail-address of all authors. EUNICE or E-NEXT member institutes are cordially invited to present tutorials (approx. 50 minutes) at the Summer School. Prospective tutorial speakers are kindly asked to submit proposals covering one or more of the technical areas indicated above. The tutorial proposals should include a brief outline and the speaker's full postal address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Submission Instructions Only electronic submissions will be accepted; the format should be PDF or Postscript (PS). Electronic submissions should be sent to: eunice-submission(a)cs.tut.fi The PDF or PS document must be attached to the e-mail. Please direct your questions to the program chair, Jarmo Harju, jarmo.harju(a)tut.fi or Bilhanan Silverajan, bilhanan.silverajan(a)tut.fi. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1, 2004 Notification of Acceptance: April 7, 2004 Final Paper due: May 5, 2004 Early Registration Deadline: May 7, 2004 Venue The conference will take place in the campus of Tampere University of Technology, located in Hervanta, some 8 kilometers from the city center of Tampere. Technical Program Committee Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland (Chair) Finn Arve Aagesen, University of Trondheim, Norway Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Arturo Azcorra, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Rolv Braek, University of Trondheim, Norway Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Irek Defee, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Jörg Eberspächer, Technical University of Munich, Germany Olivier Festor, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy, France Edit Halász, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Tamas Henk, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Petri Jarske, Nokia Mobile Phones, Finland Yvon Kermarrec, ENST Bretagne, France Paul Kühn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Jukka Lempiäinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Pekka Loula, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Sándor Molnár, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Maurizio Munafo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Joao Orvalho, University of Coimbra, Portugal Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Jari Porras, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Andras Racz, Ericsson Research, Hungary Markku Renfors, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Sebastià Sallent, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland Rolland Vida, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Gennady Yanovsky, St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, Russia More information Information about the hotels and accommodation in Tampere and Hervanta, tourist information about Finland and Tampere, registration fee and registration form, etc will soon appear on the web site: http://www.cs.tut.fi/eunice2004

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[Fwd: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 CFP - Deadline is fast approaching]
by Lars Wolf 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Med-Hoc-Net 2004 CFP - Deadline is fast approaching Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:51:21 -0500 (EST) From: Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira <jau(a)ece.gatech.edu> To: itc(a)comsoc.org My sincere apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Med-Hoc-Net 2004 ================ The Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop June 27-30, 2004, Bodrum, Turkey http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/ Call for Papers --------------- Ad hoc network applications are emerging continuously imposing their own stringent constraints which cannot be fulfilled by generic approaches and thus spur new research efforts. The aim of Med-Hoc-Net 2004 is to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry from all over the globe to share their ideas, views, results, and experiences in the field of ad-hoc networking and communications. Med-Hoc-Net 2004 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. After Sardinia (Italy) and Mahdia (Tunisia), this year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the Mediterranean Sea: Bodrum (Turkey) where you will find wonderful nature and amazing historical sites close to hand. Bodrum is easy to reach via frequent flight connections from Istanbul. Topics of Interest: ------------------- The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Novel ad-hoc network architectures and applications, - Sensor network applications and protocols, - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Interfacing ad-hoc systems with different networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Power management and control, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Self organization and network reconfiguration, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - QoS support in Bluetooth, HIPERLAN, IEEE 802.11, etc., - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Congestion control, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery - Signal processing algorithms (coding, compression) for ad-hoc networks The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. PAPERS OF PARTICULAR MERIT WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AD HOC NETWORKS (ELSEVIER) JOURNAL. Submission and Important Dates: ------------------------------- Manuscripts must be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be 11pt. Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or their equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 (double-column) pages. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format via email to medhoc04(a)diit.unict.it according to the following timetable: Full Paper Electronic Submission: March 2, 2004 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 3, 2004 Camera ready submission of full papers: May 17, 2004 Tutorial date: June 27, 2004 Conference dates: June 28-30, 2004 Keynote Speakers: ----------------- Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA, USA), and Imrich Chlamtac (UTDallas, USA). Steering Committee: ------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France), Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA), Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia), Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA), and Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France). Organization Committee: ----------------------- General Chair: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA General Vice Chair: Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, TURKEY Technical Program Chairs: Giacomo Morabito, University of Catania, ITALY Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Tutorial Chairs: Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome - La Sapienza, ITALY Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, GREECE Publicity Chairs: Buyurman Baykal, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA Registration Chair: Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, TURKEY Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- Khaldoun Al Agha, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, FRANCE Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, UK Eitan Altman, INRIA, FRANCE Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, ITALY Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, CANADA Walid Dabbous, INRIA, FRANCE Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, NETHERLANDS Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, TUNISIA Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY Ulf Korner, Lund Institute of Technology, SWEDEN Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Albert Levi, Sabanci University, TURKEY Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Lazaros Merakos, University of Athens, GREECE Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, CANADA Ariel Orda, Technion, ISRAEL Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, ITALY Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", ITALY Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRANCE Paolo Santi, CNR, ITALY Adrian Segall, Technion, ISRAEL Ness Shroff, Purdue University, USA Moshe Sidi, Technion, ISRAEL Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, GREECE Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CANADA Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Leandros Tassiulas, University of Thessaly, GREECE Bernhard H. Walke, Aachen University of Technology, GERMANY Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, ITALY -------------------------------------------------- For more information on the workshop, please check http://www.medhoc04.diit.unict.it/

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[Fwd: Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen: 2. Workshop: Automotive Software Engineering auf der INFORMATIK 2004]
by Lars Wolf 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, im Rahmen der 34. GI Jahrestagung INFORMATIK 2004, 20. - 24. September 2004 an der Universität Ulm findet am 23.09. der 2. Workshop: Automotive Software Engineering statt. Beiliegend finden Sie den Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen / Call for Papers als PDF-Datei. (See attached file: CfP-GI2004-Automotive.pdf) Bitte leiten Sie den CfP auch an potentielle Interessenten weiter. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Bernhard Hohlfeld Dr. Bernhard Hohlfeld Forschung und Technologie Leiter Software-Architekturen (RIC/SA) HPC 096 - U800 Tel. +49-(0)7 31-5 05-2134 / 2803 Fax +49-(0)7 31-5 05-42 23 bernhard.hohlfeld(a)daimlerchrysler.com Postfach 2360 89013 Ulm

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special session on Network Simulation and Performance Analysis
by Antonio Pescape' 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - Special Session The 2004 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'04) Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA June 21-24, 2004 (conference's URL is currently under construction.) Special Session on: Network Simulation and Performance Analysis: Practice and Theory SCOPE This session is a forum for professionals and researchers involved in performance evaluation of computer networks and telecommunication systems. Performance analysis and evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed for understanding system behavior and the analysis of innovative proposals. The research in the field of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the last years. Considerable progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems and this work has been made from researchers in different fields. Thus, this special session at MSV'04 is intended to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions as technical papers related to architectures, protocols and applications. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectures and protocols for heterogeneous network - Wireless Networks - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Internet Technology - Quality of Service - MPLS - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control - Network Capacity Planning - Network security and privacy issues - High speed switching and routing - Optical networks Multimedia Communications - Heterogeneous wireless networks (WLAN/3-4 G, .) - Mobility, seamless handover and QoS adaptation - Mobile multimedia communications - Next generation multimedia communications - Multimedia middleware and architectures - Voice over IP - Distributed Architectures - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Queuing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement - Practical experiences and results CATEGORIES OF ACCEPTED PAPERS: The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 (IEEE style) pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, & Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) & a maximum of 5 keywords. (RRP) Regular Research Papers 7-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings. 20-minute formal presentation slot. (RRR) Regular Research Reports 7-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings. Presentation in an informal setting (during Discussion Sessions) (SRP) Short Research Papers 4-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings. Presentation in an informal setting (during Discussion Sessions) (PST) Posters 1-page IEEE-style publication in the proceedings. Presentation in an informal setting (during Discussion Sessions) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Authors are requested to submit 12 font size, single colon and single spaced papers (MS document, PS or PDF formats) with contact addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. Please send your paper via email to pescape(a)unina.it AND antonio.pescape(a)napoli.consorzio-cini.it by March 1, 2004. The e-mail body must be the following: Paper Type: RRP or RRR or SRP or PST Title of Paper: Author(s): Contact Author's Name: Complete mailing address of Contact Author: e-mail address of Contact Author: IMPORTANT DATES: Papers due: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2004 Camera-ready paper due: April 21, 2004 MSV'04 Conference: June 21-24, 2004: EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the topical area. The Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by session chair. The chair will check that the comments provided by the reviewers' have been incorporated in the revised text and that the revised paper follows the formatting rules. The chair will get back to you directly in case there are additional changes that need to be made. PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available at the conference. Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). All conference proceedings published by CSREA Press are considered for inclusion in major database indexes that are designed to provide easy access to the current literature of the sciences (database examples: ISI Thomson Scientific, IEE INSPEC, DBLP, ...). After the conference, some sessions will be considered for publication in appropriate journals as Special Issues with the session chair as the Guest Editor of the journal. Session Chair: Antonio Pescape' University of Napoli "Federico II", Napoli, Italy e-mail: pescape(a)unina.it fax: +39 081 7683816 LOCATION OF CONFERENCES: The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). The Monte Carlo Resort is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities & over 3,000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to & from the airport. This hotel has many recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools & kiddies pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day & most are suitable for families & children. The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable. The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining & night clubs, free street shows, ...). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antonio Pescapè Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" Via Claudio, 21 80125 - Napoli (Italy) Phone: +39 081 7683825 -- Fax: +39 081 7683816 e-mail: pescape(a)unina.it http://www.grid.unina.it << The reasonable man adapt himself to the world; The unreasonable one persist in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. >> George Bernard Show, Maxims for Revolution

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WG: Pervasive Computing auf der DFN Arbeitstagung (extended deadline)
by Stefan Fischer 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Martin Mauve [mailto:mauve@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de] Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Februar 2004 14:29 An: Martin Mauve Cc: Jan v. Knop Betreff: CFP: Pervasive Computing auf der DFN Arbeitstagung (extended deadline) Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, im Rahmen der 18. DFN-Arbeitstagung über Kommunikationsnetze (2.6.2004-4.6.2004, Düsseldorf) ist eine Sitzung mit Vorträgen und Demonstrationen aus dem Bereich Pervasive Computing geplant. Von besonderem Interesse sind Projekt Präsentationen sowie Übersichtsvorträge zu zentralen Problemstellungen aus diesem Gebiet. Mögliche Themen für Beiträge umfassen (sind aber keinesfalls beschränkt auf): - Algorithmen und Protokolle zum Datenaustausch im Bereich Pervasive Computing - Schutz der Privatsphäre bei Einsatz von Pervasive Computing - Dienstsuche und -ankündigung - Fallbeispiele für den Einsatz von Pervasive Computing in der Lehre und im operativen Betrieb von Rechenzentren - Identity Management für Pervasive Computing Beiträge können als Hauptvortrag (25 Minuten + 5 Minuten Diskussion), Kurzvortrag (10 Minuten + 5 Minuten Diskussion) oder als Demonstration/Poster eingereicht werden. Bitte senden Sie Ihre Vortragsanmeldung bis zum 18.2.2004 (Extended Deadline) im Format Word/OpenOffice/PDF an den Vorsitzenden des Programmausschusses, Herrn Prof. Dr. J. von Knop, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf, E-Mail: knop(a)uni-duesseldorf.de. Die Vortragsanmeldung sollte beinhalten: -Namen und Kontaktinformationen der Autoren -Angabe zur gewünschten Beitragsart -Maximal 2-seitige Zusammenfassung des Beitrages Die eingereichten Vortragsanmeldungen werden vom Programmausschuss begutachtet, die Benachrichtigung der Autoren erfolgt im März 2004. Angenommene Beiträge werden nach der Tagung in einem Tagungsband veröffentlicht, der in der Reihe Lecture Notes in Informatics der Gesellschaft für Informatik erscheint. Weitere Informationen zur 18. DFN-Arbeitstagung finden Sie unter: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/dfn2004/ Über das Einreichen eines Beitrages von Ihnen oder Ihrer Arbeitsgruppe würden wir uns sehr freuen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Martin Mauve -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Martin Mauve phone: +49.211.81.11636 Lehrstuhl für Rechnernetze fax: +49.211.81.11638 Institut für Informatik Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1 mauve(a)cs.uni-duesseldorf.de D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany http://www.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: ECUMN'2004- Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ECUMN'2004- Call for Papers Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:56:09 -0000 From: Mario Freire <mario(a)di.ubi.pt> Reply-To: Mario Freire <mario(a)di.ubi.pt> To: <tcgn(a)comsoc.org> *(*My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) *CALL FOR PAPERS* *3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks* *(ECUMN '04)* *October 25-27, 2004 - Porto, Portugal* *URL: **http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html* ** *GENERAL INFORMATION* The European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN) was born in Colmar, France under the sponsorship of SEE (Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information). After the first two successful venues in Colmar in 2000 and in 2002, the 3rd European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04) is moving to Portugal and will take place at Hotel D. Henrique, in Porto (Oporto) from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 October, 2004. The conference is jointly organized by Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and OE (Ordem dos Engenheiros), with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Portugal Section, EUREL and SEE. The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and service convergence issues. The conference will provide a forum where the academia shall be able to present up-to-date research results and the industry describe emerging technologies and new research problems related to them. The conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasis on Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues. Graceful evolution of Networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services, hybrid networks reliability, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met by the various technologies that will be discussed during the conference. A competition for the best student paper will be organized to recognize and encourage excellence in graduate studies. *TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Evolution of Telecommunication Networks Architecture: Next Generation Networks (NGN) Active Networks Optical Networks Access Networks Mobile Networks Storage Area Networks Network measurements and testbeds - Protocols issues: Multicast Switching and routing Signalling Mobility management Security and privacy Real time and multimedia - Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment: Intermediation Network design and planning Network management and control Traffic engineering Interfaces and Reference points Flow control - Service differentiation Real time services over IP/IPv6 Pricing and real time billing Traffic control and QoS Service reliability, availability Congestion and admission control Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc). *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Authors notification: June 15, 2004 Deadline for full-length camera ready paper: July 15, 2004 *INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS* The authors should submit their original contribution as full paper, no longer than 10 pages, or as an extended abstract summarizing the original work. All the contributions must be written in English. The top of the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper, authors' names, address, telephone, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence. Submissions must be made electronically through the paper submission page <http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04/submission.html>. Acceptable formats are Postscript, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word. Please use A4 paper format when formatting your submission. Proceedings of ECUMN'2004 will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html> series. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts, which must be structured according to the instructions of Springer-Verlag. LNCS Authors Instructions sub page is available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html For more information please contact: Mário Freire Institute of Telecommunications - Covilhã Lab, Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, P-6200-001 COVILHA, PORTUGAL Tel.: + 351 275 319891 Fax: + 351 275 319888 E-mail: ecumn04(a)co.it.pt <mailto:ecumn04@co.it.pt> Check our Web page at http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html for the latest information concerning the conference. *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* *General Co-Chairs* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Mario Freire (Portugal)- Univ. Beira Interior/Instituto de Telecomunicações *Steering Committee* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Jean-Gabriel Rémy - (France) Cegetel Sylvie Ritzenthaler - (France) Alcatel Pierre Rolin (France) - France Telecom R&D *Technical Program Committee * P. Bertin (France) - France Telecom R&D F. Boavida (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Bregni (Italy) - Politecnico Milano P. Brown (France) - France Telecom R&D E. Carrapatoso (Portugal) - University of Porto P. Castelli (Italy) - Telecom Italia Labs T. Chahed (France) - INT J. Craveirinha (Portugal) - University of Coimbra M. Diaz (France) - LAAS-CNRS N. Fonseca (Brazil) - Campinas University A. Jamalipour (Australia) - Univ. of Sydney N. Kamiyama (Japan) - NTT S. Karnouskos (Germany) - Fraunhofer FOKUS L. Lancieri (France) - France Telecom R&D M. Maknavicius-Laurent (France)- INT Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse E. Monteiro (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Oueslati (France) - France Telecom R&D G. Petit (Belgium) - Alcatel M. Pioro (Poland) - Warsaw University of Technology S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Alcatel A. Santos (Portugal) - University of Minho R. Valadas (Portugal) - University of Aveiro M. Villen-Altamirano (Spain) - Telefonica I+D J. Yan (Canada) - Nortel *Organizing Committee* Carlos Salema (Portugal) - IST/Ordem dos Engenheiros/Institute of Telecommunications Luís Sá (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Mário Freire (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Henrique Silva (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Joel Rodrigues (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Fernando Perdigão (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Rui Rocha (Portugal) - IST/Institute of Telecommunications ****** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Marques Freire Assistant Professor Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Informatics, University of Beira Interior Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal FAX: +351 275 319 888 Phone: + 351 275 319 891 Email: mario(a)di.ubi.pt <mailto:mario@di.ubi.pt>, mfreire(a)acm.org <mailto:mfreire@acm.org>, mfreire(a)ieee.org <mailto:mfreire@ieee.org> URL: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. As a member of the list you are encouraged to use it for all messages that meet this general criteria. To make this list "self correcting" please send any concern you may have to mailmanager(a)comsoc.org. You can leave this list by sending a blank email from the address you are subscribed under to tcgn-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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WG: [CFP] First International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems INSS 2004
by Stefan Fischer 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Christian Becker Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Februar 2004 10:43 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: [CFP] First International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems INSS 2004 (We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) -------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers First International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2004) http://www.conferences.jp/inss2004/ University of Tokyo, Japan June 22-23, 2004 Sponsored by the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) http://www.sice.or.jp/index-e.html In cooperation with: Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) URON group Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) UBI group IPSJ MBL group Institute of Eletrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) -------------------------------------------------------------- INSS 2004 is the first conference to form symbiosis of networking and sensing technologies. It provides a forum of interdisciplinary discussions on networked sensing for researchers, engineers, and practitioners in various fields. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity for further exploration of selected topics and for the presentation of the most recent research and development findings in these rapidly changing fields. Development and spread of global networks and information terminals have brought about a social change. In addition, the progress of sensor technologies has enabled monitoring of various kinds of information. These technologies are combined with wireless communications and produce richer application spaces for monitoring and control: earth environment, habitation environment information, home appliances, industrial apparatus, human body information, medical treatment, and welfare apparatus. TOPICS We encourage contributions describing innovative work related to networked sensing. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Wireless sensor networks - Operating systems and middleware for sensor networks - RF-ID tags - Nano/MEMS sensors and actuators - Telemetry - Ultra low power technologies for sensors and actuators - Micro power source/supply sensors and actuators - Ubiquitous and autonomic sensing - Wearable sensing systems - Distributed sensing systems - Knowledge sharing in network environments - Tag-based vision - Human Interface using sensors and actuators - IPv6 applications for sensing - Sensing agents - Networked robotics - Sensor fusion - Applications for networked sensing (production/management, social systems, logistic systems, security/safety systems, medical and care systems, transportation systems, building/environmental automation) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to send in papers not exceeding 4 pages that include an abstract of 100 - 150 words. Preparation guideline is available for download.@ Send the paper in PDF file to: inss2004(a)conferences.jp When you are submitting the paper, please send the following information in the mail body text. 1 PAPER TITLE 2 PRINCIPAL AUTHOR 3 AFFILIATION 4 FULL MAILING ADDRESS 5 E-MAIL 6 TELEPHONE 7 AUTHORS (NAMES IN ORDER DESIRED) 8 TOPIC MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THIS PAPER (Select from the Topic List above) Deadline for submission is March 20, 2004 REVIEW AND PROCEEDINGS All papers submitted to INSS2004 will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Acceptance will be notified by May 1, 2004. After notification, authors are expected to resubmit camera-ready copies by May 15, 2004. All papers to be presented at INSS will be included in the workshop proceedings to be distributed at the meeting. (Copyrights will be transferred to SICE.) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: March 20, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2004 Camera ready papers: May 15, 2004 INSS 2004 Committee Members General Co-chairs Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Norman C. Tien, University of California at Davis, USA Program Co-chairs Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Yokogawa Electric, Japan Secretary Hidekata Hontani, Yamagata University, Japan Program Committee Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Mitsuru Baba, Okayama University, Japan Yoshito Bando, Shimizu Corporation, Japan Christian Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Paul Havinga, University of Twente, Netherland John Heidemann, USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA Hongrui Jiang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Akira Mita, Keio University, Japan Mikhail Nesterenko, Kent State University, USA Joseph K. Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University, PRC Takuichi Nishimura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Shiro Ogata, Omron, Japan John Owens, University of California at Davis, USA Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Renshi Sawada, NTT, Japan Takahiro Sakamoto, Yamatake, Japan Yosuke Tamura, Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Japan Norman C. Tien, University of California at Davis, USA Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Shuuji Yamamoto, Yokogawa Electric, Japan Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA CONTACT & INFORMATION June Echizen INSS 2004 Workshop Manager Inss2004(a)conferences.jp -- Dr. Christian Becker - IPVS - Universitaet Stuttgart http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de/people/beckercn/

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WG: [prolearn] Call for Papers: Adaptive Hypermedia Conference 2004 in Eindhoven
by Stefan Fischer 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: prolearn-admin(a)learninglab.de [mailto:prolearn-admin@learninglab.de] Im Auftrag von Wolfgang Nejdl Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Februar 2004 14:37 An: prolearn(a)learninglab.de Betreff: [prolearn] Call for Papers: Adaptive Hypermedia Conference 2004 in Eindhoven Dear all, Please find enclosed the Call for Papers for the 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems to print out and to redistribute. Submission deadline is March 29, 2004, the conference will take place in Eindhoven from August 23-26, 2004. Best regards, Wolfgang Nejdl

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