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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE SECON 2009 (Submission deadline: January 5, 2009)]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE SECON 2009 (Submission deadline: January 5, 2009) Datum: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:17:19 +0100 Von: Gaia Maselli <maselli(a)di.uniroma1.it> Antwort an: maselli(a)di.uniroma1.it An: smac-users(a)mailman.isi.edu, sympa(a)objectweb.org, tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu We apologize if you receive this announcement multiple times +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE SECON 2009 The 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks Roma, Italy, June 22-26 2009 www.ieee-secon.org/2009 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The sixth annual IEEE SECON conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers and practitioners in the field of sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks and systems. IEEE SECON grew out of the IEEE INFOCOM conference in 2004, in order to create an event that focuses on the important and exciting topics of Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications Networks. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and networks are solicited. Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modeling, Algorithms, and Performance Evaluation * Measurements and Experimental Research * Hardware and Software Platforms, Middleware * New Architectures * MAC, Network, Transport, Application Protocols and Cross-Layer Design * Network Coding, MIMO, Cooperative Communications and Other Novel Techniques * Cognitive Radios, Vehicular Networks, Underwater Networks, Urban Sensing, and other Emerging Areas * Security, Survivability and Fault Tolerance IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Registration Deadline: January 5 2009, 7:59pm EST Manuscript Submission Deadline: January 12 2009, 7:59pm EST Decision Notification: April 13 2009 Camera Ready Due: April 30 2009 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. All papers for IEEE SECON 2009 must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system: http://edas.info/ . Papers must be no longer than 9 pages and in font size no smaller than 10 points. Please refer to the IEEE SECON website for detailed instructions on preparing and submitting the manuscript. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. A sufficiently extended version of the best paper(s) in the area of wireless sensor networks will be considered for inclusion into the JSAC special issue on Simple Wireless Sensor Networking Solutions (www.jsac.ucsd.edu). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * GENERAL CHAIR Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles * TPC CO-CHAIRS Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. * TPC VICE CHAIR Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California * PUBLICITY CHAIR Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University Gaia Maselli, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy * WEB CHAIR Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke University * LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy * DEMO/POSTER CO-CHAIRS Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, Madison * STANDING COMMITTEE Fred Bauer, Nokia (Chair) Hamid Aghvami, King's College, London Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain Harvey Freeman, HAF Consulting, Inc. Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs Prasant Mohapatra, University of California at Davis Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Reminder: CfP First International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon 09)]
by Lars Wolf 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Reminder: CfP First International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon 09) Datum: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:40:56 +0100 Von: Frank Dürr <frank.duerr(a)IPVS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE **************************** Call for Papers *************************** First International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon '09) http://www.quacon09.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/ 25 - 26 June, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany ************************************************************************ Advances in sensor technology, wireless communication, and mobile devices lead to the proliferation of sensors in our physical environment. At the same time detailed digital models of buildings, towns, or even the globe become widely available. Integrating the huge amount of available sensor data into spatial models results in highly dynamic models of the real world, often called context models. A wide range of applications can substantially benefit from common context models. However, context data is inherently associated with uncertainty, which has to be taken into account by both context management systems and applications. Appropriate ontologies, models, and metrics are needed to specify the quality of context data, including aspects of degradation, consistency, and trust. Those concepts are needed on different levels of abstraction, including the raw sensor data, observable context, as well as the high-level context derived from other context information by means of reasoning techniques. In addition, methods and calculi are required to assess the quality of context data on various levels. For an integrated context-management approach a framework is needed that defines the appropriate abstraction levels and that provides quality mappings between these layers. Other important issues are application-specific quality concepts and methods to handle uncertain context data. If context data is to be presented to human users, appropriate visualizing techniques are required to present the data together with its quality assessments. On the other hand, if applications specify what level of degradation they accept, this information can be used to optimize context management by means of suitable relaxation techniques. Research in context management and in particular context quality requires an interdisciplinary approach. Therefore, the QuaCon Workshop aims to bring together researchers from various fields to discuss approaches to context quality and to make a consolidated contribution towards an integrated way of treating context quality. Topics covered by the workshop include the following: - Models for degradation and consistency of context data - Degradation, spatial ontologies and spatial data mining - Trust in context data - Methods and calculi for context quality assessment - Frameworks and metrics for context quality - Uncertainty in sensor data processing - Quality-aware algorithms for context management - Quality-aware event and stream processing - Uncertainty in reasoning on context data - Application-specific context quality and case studies - Visualization of context quality Submitted papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by the program committee, and accepted papers will be published in the post-workshop proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 10 pages and be formatted according to the LNCS guidelines [1]. Papers not adhering to these guidelines or the page limit are subject to rejection without review. The deadline for submitting the paper is January 31, 2009. For detailed submission instructions and further details please visit the QuaCon '09 website at http://www.quacon09.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de. Important Dates --------------- January 31, 2009 Submission of Papers March 10, 2009 Notification of Authors April 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Copies Due June 25 - 26, 2009 Workshop QuaCon '09 Organizing and Program Committees -------------------------------------------- General chairs: Dieter Fritsch, Kurt Rothermel Collaborative Research Center Nexus, University of Stuttgart Program Committee: Reynold Cheng, University of Hongkong Alois Ferscha, University of Linz Christian Freksa, University of Bremen Andrew U. Frank, Technical University of Vienna Johann-Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Hans Gellersen, University of Lancaster Christopher Gold, University of Glamorgan Michael F. Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart Max Muehlhaeuser, Technical University Darmstadt Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin Sunil K. Prabhakar, Purdue University Kishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology [1] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

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[Tccc] CFP: GeoSensor Networks 2009, Oxford, UK
by Andrew Markham 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS GEOSENSOR NETWORKS 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13-14 July 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom Website: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geosensornetworks/ Sponsored by: University of Oxford Papers to be published by Springer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geosensor networks shift the traditional centralized paradigm of monitoring a geographical area from the macroscale to the microscale, by using distributed sensors to measure variables of interest (such as environmental, biological and chemical variables, seismic activity and geolocated videofeeds). Whilst having the ability to provide data with unparalleled temporal and spatial resolution, geosensor networks have pushed the frontiers of traditional GIS research into the realms of computer science, introducing issues such as data fusion, geolocated queries, energy efficient data collection and data mining and interpretation. The incorporation of mobile devices into these networks allows data acquisition to be undertaken on a spatially varying sampling resolution, introducing new research avenues such as co-operative sensing and dynamic coverage. Furthermore, geosensor networks are not only constrained to passively monitor a region, through actuators, they also have the ability to influence or modify their environment. Research in geosensor networks spans multiple fields, ranging from strategies for intelligent data acquisition to virtual reality interactions with environmental dynamics. Of particular interest are applications of geosensor networks, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, early warning systems and wildlife tracking. This workshop seeks to address these issues, by bringing together leading experts in a two day forum to present novel research and exchange ideas relating to the state of the art and its future directions. Real world results are particularly welcomed, as are reports of interesting or challenging deployments. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Andreas Savvides (UCLA) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 3 April 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 27 April 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 5 May 2009 Conference: 13-14 July 2009 TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following as they relate to spatio-temporal applications and geosensor networks: * Data mining across sensor themes * Modeling spatio-temporal data streams * Data stream processing * Handling uncertainty and imprecision in geospatial data * Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion * Location-based queries * Middleware for pervasive computing * Mobile computing * Co-operative sensing and organization * Peer-to-peer collaboration strategies using geospatial information * Queries (aggregate and statistical) and reasoning over data streams * Query optimization over sensor networks * Real-time updating of geospatial databases * Sensor information management systems * Spatiotemporal sensor data mining * Video and motion imagery analysis for real-time scene and event modeling and monitoring * Virtual modeling of large geographic areas * Time geography * Privacy, geo-privacy * Sensor networks and interaction with actuators * Applications of geosensor networks (e.g. disaster management, early warning systems, environmental monitoring) * Real world deployments, issues, challenges and results ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General chair: - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Steering committee: - Silvia Nittel, University of Maine - Alex Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Publicity chair: - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras, Greece - Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece - Dinos Ferentinos, University of Athens, Greece - Alvaro Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA - Yannis Kotidis ,Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Antonio Kruger, University of Muenster, Germany - Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne, Australia - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford, UK - Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK - Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK - Monika Sester, LUH, Germany - Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia - Theodore Tsiligiridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford, UK (Chair) - Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland - Mike Worboys, University of Maine, USA - Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Wireless Monitoring and Control--WCMC (Wiley)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline extension for the Special Issue on Wireless Monitoring and Control--WCMC (Wiley) Datum: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 05:45:41 +0800 Von: Prof. Jiming Chen <jmchen(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ** *CALL FOR PAPER* ** Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (Wiley) Special Issue on Wireless Monitoring and Control --------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION! Due to several requests, the deadline has been postponed till: January 1, 2009 --------------------------- The rapid development of wireless technology plays extremely important roles in monitoring and control related applications nowadays. This special issue aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions of wireless monitoring, control, actuator coordination as well as their co-designs. In recent years, the demand for wireless communications in many monitoring and control applications has grown tremendously, such as military, aerospace, industrial, commercial, environmental, and health monitoring, etc. Some new technologies like Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Mobile Robots, and Bluetooth have already made significant contribution to data acquisition. As the same time, they arise some new challenges to guarantee a highly reliable, accurate, and fault-tolerant process. It is a critical issue to develop innovative approaches to deal with multi-variable, multi-space problem domains (detection, identification, tracking, data fusion, energy-efficiency, and fault-tolerant framework) as well as practical implementation in wireless monitoring and control application. The purpose of the special issue is to focus on the novel ways by which monitoring, detection, identification, coordination and control schemes are applied in wireless monitoring and control applications. Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Emerging wireless technology for monitoring and control; Data fusion in monitoring and control; Cooperative signal and information processing in wireless monitoring and control; Fault (Event)-detection, identification and tracking; Network coverage algorithm for wireless monitoring; Power and topology control in wireless networks; Closed-loop framework for wireless monitoring and control; Protocols for wireless monitoring, coordination and control; Integration of monitoring and control for wireless networks; Controller design for wireless monitoring network based system. Developments and novel applications for wireless monitoring and control; Mobile Robots for monitoring and control etc. If the file is larger than 1MB, the authors are encouraged to use WINZIP. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html. Submission Details Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered for this Special Issue. If the paper has been published at a conference, the submitted journal version should be significantly extended. In this case, authors should submit a short summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscripts must be prepared in English. See instructions on the preparation and submission of manuscripts at the journal's website: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/wirelesscomms The journal version must be submitted via the online submission system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm Please ensure you correctly select/enter the following details: Manuscript Type: Special Issue Paper Special Issue: Yes Special Issue Information: Wireless Monitoring and Control Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short abstract; a complete list of authors and their affiliations; a contact person for correspondence; postal and e-mail addresses of the Authors. Important Dates Submission deadline: Jan.1 2009 Notification of acceptance: Apr.1 2009 Submission of final version: 15th April 2009 Publication of special issue: Second half of 2009 Guest Editors Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA E-mail: yangxiao(a)ieee.org Youxian Sun, Zhejiang University, China E-mail <yangxiao(a)ieee.orgE-mail>: yxsun(a)iipc.zju.edu.cn Julia Deng, Intelligent Automation, Inc., USA E-mail: hdeng(a)i-a-i.com Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China E-mail <hdeng(a)i-a-i.comE-mail>: jmchen(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] International Workshop on Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks
by firdous kausar 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

*International Workshop on Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks (IAWSN-09) * *June 25-27, 2009 ** **Korea University, Seoul, Korea * The 1st International Workshop on Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks (IAWSN-09) www.mcs.edu.pk/iawsn09 will take place in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Information Security and Assurance, Seoul, Korea http://www.sersc.org/ISA2009<http://mail.google.com/mail/%20http:/www.sersc.org/ISA2009>. * * *Call for Papers* A wireless sensor network (WSN) is an emerging research field with several interesting application domains ranging from battlefield monitoring to environmental observation. The primary domains for sensor deployment are: military, ecological, health related, and some miscellaneous applications like car theft detection, inventory control, habitat monitoring, home applications. Secure communication in sensor networks is the biggest constraint in the successful deployment of sensors. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ** - Authentication and access control - Secure coding for WSNs - MAC and link layer security protocol - Primitives for cryptographic protocols - Secure system engineering - Secure routing and transport protocols - Secure data aggregation - Secure information processing - Key management - Secure bootstrapping - Secure group communication - Trust Management - Intrusion detection - Threat Models & countermeasures - Secure real-world applications - Secure localization & synchronization - Security policy & enforcement issues - Incentive-aware secure protocol design - Jamming/anti-jamming communication - Cross-layer design for security - Formal methods for WSN security - Resilient revocation mechanism - Mobile platform and systems security *Paper Submission * Every submitted paper will be carefully reviewed by at least two members of the International Program Committee. Authors should submit paper with no more than 6 pages length as an attachment (in PDF or doc format) by email to the workshop chair at firdous.imam(a)gmail.com and ayesha.naureen(a)gmail.com. Authors should use IEEE double column format. The suggested instructions to follow for the IEEE format are available at http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published by IEEE CS (indexed by EI). Distinguished papers that have been presented at IAWSN-09 will be selected for publication in Special Issue of the International Journals http://www.sersc.org/ISA2009/issues.php . * * *Important Dates * Submission deadline: January 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final Manuscript due: April 03, 2009 *Workshop Chairs *** - Firdous Kausar National University of Science and Technology Rawalpindi, Pakistan Email: firdous.imam(a)gmail.com - Farag Azzedin King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran, Saudia Arabia Email: fazzedin(a)kfupm.edu.sa <fazzedin(a)kfupm.edu.sa> - Ayesha Naureen National University of Science and Technology Rawalpindi, Pakistan Email: ayesha.naureen(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP Networking 2009 - deadline Dec. 8]
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP Networking 2009 - deadline Dec. 8 Datum: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:46:52 +0100 Von: Guy Leduc <Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu >Dear colleague, > >manuscript submissions for Networking 2009 will be considered >until the new extended (sharp!) deadline Monday, December 8, 2008. > >Best regards >Otto Spaniol > >----------------------------------------------------------- > > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >The event: NETWORKING 2009; > 8th international conference in this series. > The "flagship event" of IFIP TC6. > >The venue: Aachen (Germany); situated at the borders of Belgium, > Germany, and the Netherlands. > >TPC chairs: Luigi Fratta, Henning Schulzrinne, Yutaka Takahashi. > >General chair: Otto Spaniol. > >Topic areas: Applications and Services. > Wireless networks. > Next Generation Internet. > ...... > >The date: May 11-15, 2009 > Main conference: May 12-14; > Workshops: May 11 + May 15. > >Publication: Springer LNCS + IFIP Digital Library. > >Submission via: EDAS (www.edas.info) > >Deadline for >submissions: December 8, 2008. > >Acceptance >notification: January 31, 2009. > >Camera ready due: February 28, 2009. > >More detailed >information: www.networking-2009.org -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009)]
by Lars Wolf 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) Datum: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:00:12 +0800 (HKT) Von: GU Zonghua <zgu(a)cse.ust.hk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) --- in conjunction with ICDCS 2009, June 22, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Workshop site: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ Conference site: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs2009/ICDCS_2009.html Important Dates: Paper submission: December 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 11, 2009 Camera ready papers: March 13, 2009 We are currently witnessing the emergence an infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution that is enabled by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Cyber-physical systems are physical and engineered systems whose operations are integrated, monitored, and controlled by a computational core. The integration of computational and physical processes exhibit complicated behavior that can not be analyzed by the computational or physical sciences alone. These systems also transcend traditional computer-controlled systems because of their scale, dependence on man-machine interaction and their rich communication infrastructure that is enabled by the Internet. Some of the most challenging R&D software problems for cyber-physical systems are those associated with producing distributed, real-time, and embedded platforms and applications, and where computers control physical, chemical, or biological processes or devices. Examples of such systems include airplanes and air traffic control systems, automobiles, power grids, oil refineries, and patient monitoring systems. Despite advances in standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, key challenges must be addressed before COTS software can be used to build mission-critical distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems effectively and productively. Furthermore, there are existing critical infrastructures that oversee the operations of everything from nuclear power plants to traffic lights and yet they may not even be able to accept static upgrades, or patches, or any dynamic change of behavior, but they will remain with us for quite some time. Dynamically retrofitting these systems while maintaining their stability within a cyber environment is a significant challenge yet to be overcome. The International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of CPS, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of CPS. The technical program of WCPS2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Topics of Interest In summary, the main topics of interest are on grand challenges, requirements, architectures, innovations and abstractions for Cyber-Physical Systems as well as technical challenges to interface and manipulate the Physical World. In particular, we are seeking papers in, but not limited to, the following main areas: [Architecture and infrastructure] Current architectures for cyber physical systems tend to be based on layers of network, OS, and middleware that have evolved over decades in the context of general-purpose computing systems. One goal of this topic area is to seek architectural abstractions, mechanisms, and formalisms that are better suited to the needs of cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include: approaches for refactoring the technology base to collapse/remove layers; techniques for managing QoS properties top-to-bottom; and end-to-end in ultra-large-scale cyber-physical systems. [Fundamental system services] Decades of experience with enterprise systems have yielded reasonably good abstractions and technologies for developing reusable services, such as transactions, discovery, naming, and event notification. There is much less consensus and experience, however, on the appropriate abstractions and technologies for fundamental system services in cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include 'multi-ility' services, such as security, reliable, and predictable replica-based fault detection and isolation frameworks that can operate in resource-constrained safety- and mission-critical CPS environments. [Service composition/synthesis] This area involves rigorous, evidence-producing composition (and composites) of system services, often using novel languages and models of computation. Some example topics include "type systems for QoS contracts" or "checkable properties of dynamic event structures" or "synthesis of mixed-criticality RTOS tailored for domain X". The time and scheduling, behavioral interaction, and partitioning/isolation will be central cross-cutting issues. [Interaction and coordination] A single critical infrastructure facility can have thousands of devices, such as in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, that spread over hundreds of miles. The devices themselves are typically in a physically protected environment; yet the interactions among them, on the other hand, go through the cyber space which poses a challenge to us and calls for a paradigm that is interaction and coordination centric. [Integration] CPS research is fundamentally different from prior computer controlled research. One aspect of the difference lies in the tighter integration and co-design of the cyber and the physi-cal subsystems. In the past the stability theory in engineering concerns about the suppression of various kind of errors -- uncertainties in the model, disturbance from environment, noise in sensing and errors in actuators -- except that bugs in at the heart of the control process: the complex software that controls the plant. On the other hand, main stream software fault tolerance techniques such as primary-and-standby do not take advantage of the fact that the physical plants must obey laws of nature; This opens new insights for the integration of cyberand physical systems. [Proactive monitoring] There are numerous existing systems, such as chemical plants, oil refiners, power grids, that have been in existence and correctly functioning for many years, and until now were not considered vulnerable because these systems were not envisioned to run in the cyber environment which has become today's reality. Theses systems face the high risk of being a terrorist target though cyber invasions. On the other side, it is out of the question that we re-build or prescribe a complete upgrade of all these systems. Worse yet, it may even be too expensive to take the mentality of ``dispatch-and- then-patch''. Therefore, external, lightweight and proactive monitoring of the systems is essential in building or retrofitting CPS. [Applications and experiences] New CPS applications and experiences, such as Tele-Physical Services, Smart Transportation, etc. We learn from our past experiences: through our encounters with real-life applications and experiences with new technologies, we develop the skill set and tools to perform better in the future. Paper Submission The workshop solicits original and previously unpublished papers reporting results from research and/or industrial experience as well as discussion of grand challenges and requirements. Submit a full paper of 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Contact author must input the following information at the WCPS2009 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 150-250 word abstract, and keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and send it through the following web site. The submission web site is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcps09 Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the workshop. Each accepted paper must have a full registration in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Furong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee: Helen Gill, National Science Foundation, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Aloysius K. Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA Program Committee Please see the complete PC list at the workshop website: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [All at car-2-car.org] Car2Car - WG: ITS World Congress 2009 Stockholm - Paper Submission deadline extended]
by Lars Wolf 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [All at car-2-car.org] Car2Car - WG: ITS World Congress 2009 Stockholm - Paper Submission deadline extended Datum: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 11:43:45 +0100 Von: Proskawetz <proskawetz(a)gzvb.de> An: <all(a)car-2-car.org> Dear C2C-CC members, I like to call you attention to the extended Deadline (12 Jan. 2008) for Submissions to the ITS Stockholm. More details are given in the e-mail enclosed. With best regards K.-O. Proskawetz ========================== www.gzvb.de =============================== | Dr.-Ing. K.-O. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] MOBILIGHT 2009 - Call for Papers (New Deadline 7 Dec, 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MOBILIGHT 2009 - Call for Papers (New Deadline 7 Dec, 2008) Datum: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:55:13 +0200 Von: Periklis Chatzimisios <pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org> Antwort an: Periklis Chatzimisios <pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 1st International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (MOBILIGHT 2009) May 18-20, 2009, Athens, Greece http://www.mobilight.org Sponsored by ICST Technically Co-Sponsored by Create-NET *** Submission Deadline -- December 7, 2008 (Hard deadline) *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Wireless communications are becoming increasingly pervasive, as the number and diffusion of portable wireless-equipped devices is exponentially increasing (ranging from cellular phones to handheld game consoles, from personal digital assistant and personal navigation devices to still and video cameras). This results into an unprecedented request for lightweight, wireless communication devices with high usability and performance able to support added-value services in a highly mobile environment - following the user everywhere he goes (at work, at home, while travelling, in a classroom, etc.), but also in opening exciting research, development and business opportunities. This scenario clearly demands significant upgrades to the existing communication paradigm in terms of infrastructure, devices and services to support the ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANY DEVICE philosophy, introducing novel and fast-evolving requirements and expectations on research and development in the field of information and communication technologies. The core issue is to support wireless users' desire of 24/7 network availability and transparent access to "their own" services. In this framework and motivated by the interdisciplinary competences needed to build successful lightweight wireless systems, the MOBILIGHT conference will provide an international forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in lightweight wireless systems design and deployment will be able to interact and exchange experiences. The event will enable information exchange and cross-fertilization among the different worlds of academy, research centers and industry through the organization of specific and interacting tracks related to: (i)technology, including wireless (WPAN, WLAN, WMAN/cellular) as well as architectures and design methodologies to support seamless access to the communication facility; (ii) services, in the vision of "always on" requirement; (iii) business models, opportunities and solutions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST (INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING) TECHNOLOGIES & ARCHITECTURES - Wireless Communication Standards (IEEE 802.11x, Personal Area Networks, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15, Wireless USB, HiperLAN2, WiMAX) - Cellular Networks (2.5G, 3G, 3G LTE, LTE-A) - Ultra Wide Band - Next Generation Networks - Lightweight Devices Architecture (smart phones, PDAs) - Internetworking & Interoperability - Protocol Stack Design (Layering, Cross-layering) - Performance Evaluation and Optimization - Service-Oriented Architectures - Cognitive Radios and Networks SERVICES - Anytime, Anywhere, Any device - Interactive Multimedia - Voice and Voice over IP - Usability and HMI - Location Services - Seamless roaming - Emerging and Next Generation Services BUSINESS MODELS, OPPORTUNITIES AND SOLUTIONS - Architectures Deployment - Service Provisioning - Value-Added Services - Business Models - Next Generation Lightweight Devices - Industry Perspectives and Market Evolution - Users Needs and Requirements - Available and Emerging Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted papers will be subject to a rigorous peer-review. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in the MOBILIGHT Conference Proceedings and made available online through the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). Selected high-quality papers will be invited to Special Issues in prestigious International Journals. Perspective papers must be formatted using Springer LNICST Authors' Kit (http://www.icst.org/?page=conf&site=lnicst) and submitted only through the COCUS conference management system (http://www.cocus.eu). The length of the submitted papers must not exceed ten (10) pages in LNICST format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHD FORUM A forum specifically oriented to PhD students will be held, in order to enable interaction and exchange of ideas among young researchers in the field of mobile communications. Interested PhD students are invited to contact Dr. Adlen Ksentini (adlen.ksentini(a)irisa.fr) by January 19, 2009. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers due:==> December 7, 2008 (extended - Hard deadline) Notification of acceptance: ==> February 16, 2009 Camera Ready papers due: ==> March 16, 2009 Conference Date: ==> May 18-20, 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs: Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Charalabos Skianis,University of Aegean, Greece Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Periklis Chatzimisios, University of Macedonia, Greece Simone Redana, Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA Steering Committee Chair: Ιmrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy Tutorials/Workshops Co-Chairs: Alexey Vinel, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Publications Chair: Mauro Biagi,University of Rome, Italy Publicity/Sponsorship Chair: Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK PhD Forum Chair: Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes, France Local Arrangements Co-Chairs: Nikos Papaoulakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece Web Chair: Eirini Karapistoli, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Conference Coordination: Gergely Nagy, ICST Technical Program Committee: A detailed list can be found in http://www.mobilight.org -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Adjunct Lecturer in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Technology Management, University of Macedonia GR-59200, Naousa (GREECE) Phone: +30 23320 52460 Fax: +30 23320 52462 Email: pchatzim(a)uom.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ ISCC 2009: http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2009 MOBILIGHT 2009 http://www.mobilight.org MediaWiN 2009: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ewsn09] Call for Posters & Demos: Submission Due December 1st
by Chenyang Lu 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

============================================================================ EWSN 2009 Call for Posters/Demos The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks February 11th-13th, Cork, Ireland http://www.ewsn.org/ ============================================================================ EWSN is acknowledged as one of the most competitive and well-established international conferences in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It attracts papers of the highest quality from researchers around the globe, emphasising work that involves inter-disciplinary collaboration. EWSN is consistently well-attended, with delegates that reflect a healthy mix of university academics and industry representatives, that are drawn from all the major centres of WSN research activity and that span all the main continents. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experiences and backgrounds, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. Important Dates, Posters and Demos Submission: Dec 1st 2008 Notification: Dec 15th 2008 Camera-ready: Jan 9th 2009 Posters and Demos (no more than 2 pages): The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. Submission guidelines and further information is available at http://www.ewsn.org The organizers can be contacted at ewsn09-chairs(a)cs.ucc.ie Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * WSN Hardware: transceiver concepts, antenna design, system integration and manufacturing, battery technology and energy harvesting; * Communication Protocols: MAC and link layer issues, radio resource assignment, routing and transport protocols, topology control protocols, gateways to Internet and other networks, 6LoWPAN; * Algorithms and Protocols: localization techniques and protocols, performance control, time synchronization and related protocols, object tracking; * Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions: concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor networks, high-level programming abstractions; * Middleware and Service Infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, network management, group communication, QoS support, integrating WSNs in existing middleware architectures; * Information Processing: storage, querying, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection; * Practical Models and Algorithms: resource consumption, network performance, network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment, mobility models; * Security and Resilience: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering, failure resilience and fault isolation, robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware; * Novel Applications: application requirements, experiences with real-world applications, management of (large-scale) sensor networks; * Prototypes, Field Studies, and Testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within testbeds, debugging and testing, experimental validation/refutation of simulation results. Chairs Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, UK Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland _______________________________________________ ewsn09 mailing list ewsn09(a)mail.cse.wustl.edu http://mail.cse.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/ewsn09

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[Fwd: [Tccc] The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications]
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Datum: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:08:36 -0500 Von: S. Masoud Sadjadi <sadjadi(a)cs.fiu.edu> An: S. Masoud Sadjadi <sadjadi(a)cs.fiu.edu> (Apology for multiple copies) The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE José Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, Google, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose A. Lozano, Telefónica, ES HOT TOPICS CHAIR Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac(a)autonomic-conference.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi(a)cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[acf-members] The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications
by S. Masoud Sadjadi 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

(Apology for multiple copies) The 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications Barcelona, Spain, June 15-19, 2009 Sponsored by IEEE CS (Pending) and in cooperation with ACM (Pending http://icac2009.acis.ufl.edu/ Call for papers SCOPE To deal with the increasing complexity of large-scale computing systems, computers and applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans - a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing. Meeting the grand challenges of autonomic computing requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software and system architectures that support the effective integration of the constituent technologies. The purpose of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC-09) is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of self-management in computing systems and applications. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing systems. The conference builds on previous highly influential meetings in New York, Seattle, Dublin, Jacksonville and Chicago. Papers are solicited on a broad array of topics of relevance to autonomic computing, particularly those that bear on connections and relationships among different areas of research or report on prototype systems or experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic computing systems or prototype systems that exhibit self-monitoring, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, and/or self-protection. * Fundamental science of self-managing systems: understanding, controlling, or exploiting emergent behavior, fault-tolerance, machine learning, control theory, predictive methods and their use to automate manual operations and enforce behavior. * Software engineering principles and architectures for self-managing systems, based on interoperable Grid Services, agent-based systems, Web Services, model-based systems or novel paradigms such as biological, economic or social. * System-level technologies, middleware or services that entail interactions among two or more components of self-managing systems in standalone, distributed, cluster, and Grid computing environments (e.g., health monitoring, dependency analysis, problem localization or remediation, workload management, and provisioning). * Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler technologies for building self-managing components, systems or applications. * Specific self-managing components, such as server, storage, network, data center or specific application elements. Emphasis should be placed on techniques or lessons that may generalize to other components. * Management topics, such as specification and modeling of service-level agreements, negotiation/conversation support, behavior enforcement, etc., tie in with IT governance, and interaction with legacy systems. * Interfaces to autonomic systems, including user interfaces, interfaces for monitoring and controlling behavior, techniques for defining, distributing, and understanding policies. * Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes: measurements, evaluations, or analyses of system behavior, user studies, experiences with large-scale deployments of self-managing systems or applications. * Applications of autonomics to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are invited on a wide variety of topics relating to autonomic computing as indicated above. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including correctness, originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference themes. Submitted papers must include original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. They should also not be under review or be submitted to another forum during the ICAC-09 review process. Authors should submit full papers or posters electronically (PDF or postscript) via EDAS using the link on the ICAC-09 conference web site. Formatting instructions will also be posted at the web site. Accepted papers and posters will appear in proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (to be confirmed), which will be distributed at the conference. Authors of accepted papers/poster are expected to present their work at the conference. WORKSHOPS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND EXHIBITION ICAC-09 welcomes proposals for co-located workshops on specific topics of general interest to the autonomic computing community. Workshops are expected to publish proceedings, and should cover areas that may not be properly addressed in the main scientific program. ICAC-09 will also feature a demonstration and exhibition session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts such as demonstrating autonomic software or autonomic computing principles. Entries will be judged by a separate subcommittee led by the demo/exhibit chair. INDUSTRY SESSION A singular value of ICAC is the confluence of top researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. ICAC-09 will provide a readout of various technologies currently in play from product perspectives. Among the areas to be addressed are core enablers for autonomic capabilities to be realized, such as frameworks, protocols and autonomic engines in production systems. The industry session also will address current areas of difficulty that present direct opportunities for both academic and corporate research. Topics will be relevant to entrepreneurs, product developers, architects, managers, marketers and end users. Papers and posters reflecting such industry perspectives are especially encouraged and can be submitted as described above. STUDENT AWARDS A student best paper award will be presented, consisting of a commemorative plaque, complimentary student registration to the conference and an honorarium that will partially cover travel & hotel costs. (A student paper is defined as one in which the principal (not sole) author is a student.) The student will be required to present the paper to receive the award. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals: September 25, 2008 Full paper submission: 11:59 EST, January 19, 2009 Author notification: March 9, 2009 Hot Topics submission: 11:59 EST, March 20, 2009 Demo/Exhibit proposals: March 20, 2009 Final manuscripts due: April 06, 2009 ORGANISATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE STEERING COMMITTEE Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE José Fortes Univ. of Florida, US Salim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, US Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research, US Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Brent Miller, IBM, US Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, US John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE John Wilkes, Google, US Mazin Yousif, Avirtec, US PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., US Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, IL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The ICAC 2009 programming committee is an internationally recognized group of leading researchers covering a broad range of topics related to the conference themes. DEMO/EXHIBIT CHAIR Simon Dobson, UCD Dublin, IE John Strassner, Waterford Inst. Of Tech., IE WORKSHOP CHAIR Omer Rana, Cardiff Univ., UK PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, US James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, South Korea Dave Lewis, Trinity, IE LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Joan Serrat, UPC, Barcelona, ES FINANCE/INDUSTRY CO-CHAIRS Brent Miller, IBM Corporation, US Michael Nunez, Sun Microsystems, US Jose A. Lozano, Telefónica, ES HOT TOPICS CHAIR Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern Univ., US DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Jian Zhang, Microsoft, US Andres Quiroz Hernandes, Rutgers Univ., US CYBER CHAIR Ming Zhao, FL Intl. Univ., US SPONSORS (PENDING) IEEE Computer Society and ACM INFORMATION WWW: www.autonomic-conference.org E-mail: icac(a)autonomic-conference.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ Masoud Sadjadi, PhD Assistant Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences Florida International University University Park, ECS 212C 11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199 Email: sadjadi(a)cs.fiu.edu Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi Tel: 305-348-1835 Fax: 305-348-2336 ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ acf-members mailing list acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie https://lists.cs.tcd.ie/mailman/listinfo/acf-members

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ICST - Mobilware 2009 - submission deadline extended to *** December 7, 2008 ***
by info＠icstconferences.org 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Due to the numerous requests, the submission deadline has been extended to ** December 7, 2008 ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Second International ICST Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware 2009) April 28-30, 2009, Berlin, Germany http://www.mobilware.org Sponsored by ICST Technically Co-Sponsored by Create-NET *EXTENDED DEADLINE* *EXTENDED DEADLINE* *EXTENDED DEADLINE* ++ Extended paper submission deadline: December 7, 2008 ++ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of this pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. MOBILWARE is dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless software-related areas. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems. It aims to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers, engineers, and standards developers to present their latest research, techniques, and experiences in the field of software technology for mobile wireless systems. PAPERS Original and unpublished research achievements in various aspects of middleware/operating systems/applications are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to: * OS/middleware for embedded systems, wearable networks, and personal area networks * OS/middleware support for the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks * Middleware for mobile computing * Middleware for QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services * Middleware for opportunistic networking in delay-tolerant mobile services * Location-aware and context-aware mobile supports and services * Mobility management and hand off management in heterogeneous integrated networks * Location and tracking supports and services * Mobility-aware wireless service discovery, management, and delivery * Intelligent and mobile agent technologies for mobile systems and services * Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices * Middleware/applications for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, home networks, and P2P systems * Modeling and performance of mobile wireless services (VoIP, gaming, P2P sharing, urban monitoring, ) * Deployment and management supports for large-scale mobile services * Policy, trust, security, and privacy issues for mobile wireless networks WORKSHOPS Proposals for workshops/tutorials are solicited. Potential workshop/tutorial organizers are requested to submit a proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each proponent, to the Workshop/Tutorial Chair by December 1, 2008. Proposal evaluation will be based on proponents' expertise and relevance of the subject matter. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and invited reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the novel Springer Lecture Notes of ICST series and then be included in major article indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers from MOBILWARE09 will be published in a dedicated special issue of the Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper, poster, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page at www.mobilware.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. ***************************** STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Jean-Marie Bonnin, ENST, France Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Cristian Hesselman, Telem.I., Netherlands PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Ghadaa Alaa, Information Tech Inst., Egypt Michael Chen, Inst. Information Ind., Taiwan Andrej Krenker, Sintesio, Slovenia Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA C. Esteve Rothenberg, CpQD, Brazil Jatinder Pal Singh, Stanford University, USA CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION CHAIR Gergely Nagy, ICST LOCAL CHAIR Julia Ovtchinnikova, Fraun. FOKUS, Germany PUBLICATION and WEB CHAIR Carlo Giannelli, University of Bologna, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE For the full list, please see http://www.mobilware.org *** -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Fourth International Conference on Access Networks]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Fourth International Conference on Access Networks Datum: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:19:46 -0500 Von: assi(a)ece.concordia.ca An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * ACCESSNETS 2009 * * Fourth International Conference on Access Networks * * November 2-4, 2009, Hong Kong, China * * http://www.accessnets.org * * * ************************************************************** Submission deadline: April 2, 2009 OVERVIEW: With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bottleneck between end-users and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks, and even home networks) are getting increasing attention for ensuring quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a financial as well as a research perspective. The aim of the annual International Conference on Access Networks (AccessNets) is to provide a forum that brings together scientists and researchers from academia as well as managers and engineers from the industry and government organizations to meet and exchange ideas and recent work on all aspects of access networks and how they integrate with their in-home counterparts. AccessNets'09 is the fourth edition of this exciting event, which will be held in Hong Kong, China, on November 2-4, 2009. The conference will consist of technical sessions, industry track, workshops, and panels. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the industry track, workshops and panels will focus on development, application, and related business issues in this hot and exciting area. TOPICS: The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * FTTx and PON technologies * xDSL technology and DSM * Hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) technology * Cable-based access technology * Powerline communication technology * Digital satellite access technology * WiFi and WiMax networks * Wireless mesh networks * Integrated wired/wireless networks * Long reach Ethernet * Home networks * Networked appliances * Hybrid wired/wireless LANs * Municipal and community networks * Network architectures and protocols * Medium access control * Cross-layer design * OFDM, OFDMA, CDMA techniques * MIMO techniques * Service convergence * Quality of service provisioning * Network scalability and upgradeability * Network survivability and security * Deployment/standardization statuses PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: We solicit panel and workshop proposals on hot and controversial topics in access networks. Proposals should be submitted to the panel and workshop co-chairs, respectively. Please visit the conference website for detailed instructions. PAPER SUBMISSION: Please visit the conference website (http://www.accessnets.org) for detailed instructions. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due April 2, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009 Final manuscript due July 31, 2009 CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR Danny H.K. Tsang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China TPC CO-CHAIRS Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology USA Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Vincent K.N. Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Chonggang Wang, NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA Nei Kato, Tohoku University, Japan PANEL CO-CHAIRS Martin Maier, INRS, Canada Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, USA PUBLICATION & WEB CHAIR Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Rong Zhao, Detecon International GmbH, Bonn, Germany INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Carlson Chu, PCCW, Hong Kong, China CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Szilvia Papp, ICST LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Lawrence Cheung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Wilson Chu, Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-net, Italy Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE See http://www.accessnets.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] 4,3,2,1,Deadline! + 7 more days]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] 4,3,2,1,Deadline! + 7 more days Datum: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:03:33 +0100 Von: Otto Spaniol <spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> An: <elg(a)kuvs.de> Networking 2009 4,3,2,1,Deadline! + 7 more days Dear colleague, manuscript submissions for Networking 2009 will be considered until the new extended (sharp!) deadline Monday, December 8, 2008. Best regards Otto ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The event: NETWORKING 2009; 8th international conference in this series. The "flagship event" of IFIP TC6. The venue: Aachen (Germany); situated at the borders of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. TPC chairs: Luigi Fratta, Henning Schulzrinne, Yutaka Takahashi. General chair: Otto Spaniol. Topic areas: Applications and Services. Wireless networks. Next Generation Internet. ...... The date: May 11-15, 2009 Main conference: May 12-14; Workshops: May 11 + May 15. Publication: Springer LNCS + IFIP Digital Library. Submission via: EDAS (www.edas.info) Deadline for submissions: December 8, 2008. Acceptance notification: January 31, 2009. Camera ready due: February 28, 2009. More detailed information: www.networking-2009.org _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)nets.rwth-aachen.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IFIP MedHocNet'09 (June 29-July 2, 2009) CFP]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP MedHocNet'09 (June 29-July 2, 2009) CFP Datum: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:17:28 +0200 (IST) Von: Hanan Shpungin <shpungin(a)cs.bgu.ac.il> Organisation: CS Department An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Med-Hoc-Net 2009 http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm June 29-July 2, 2009 Haifa, Israel Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now, that some of the fundamental issues and challenges have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, and service creation and support. Moreover, new and exciting challenges are posed by closely related networks such as wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, and vehicular networks. Med-Hoc-Net is a major annual international workshop, aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry. Following Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), and Palma de Mallorca (2008), Med-Hoc-Net 2009 will take place in Haifa (Israel). It will be held at the Viterbi Computech Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. PAPERS The papers solicited cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, and mesh networks, including but not limited to: * Routing algorithms and protocols * MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation * Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Application driven architectures and protocols * Sensor network applications and protocols * Vehicular networks * Cognitive radio networks * Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks * Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes * Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.) * Self organization and network reconfiguration * Optimization models and algorithms * Resource and service discovery * Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) * Security and privacy Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS or IFIP Series. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers should address original work not published or under review elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (http://springer.com/series/6102) and should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/7056). All submissions will be reviewed by members of the TPC and experts in the field. TRAVEL GRANTS Graduate students with accepted papers will receive travel grants to partially cover travel expenses. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2009 Final version due: March 20, 2009 Conference dates: June 29-July 2, 2009 GENERAL CHAIR Adrian Segall, Technion TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Reuven Cohen, Technion Gil Zussman, Columbia University STEERING COMMITTEE Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles Farouk Kamoun, Escole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique Giovanni Pau, University of California at Los Angeles Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6 For more information, please visit http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm, or contact the General Chair, Adrian Segall (segall(a)ee.technion.ac.il), or to the Publicity Chair, Hanan Shpungin (shpungin(a)cs.bgu.ac.il). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

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[Tccc] WoWMoM 2009 - new deadline
by Alessio Vecchio 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 New Deadline!!! Papers Due: December 8, 2008 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 15-19 June 2009, Kos, Greece http://www.ieee-wowmom.org ***************************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE WoWMoM 2009 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The evolution of wireless networking technologies offers an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context-awareness and so on. Papers that present work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trial, or real deployments, are also welcome. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Differentiated services for wireless multimedia - IP-based wireless multimedia services - Networking services for pervasive systems - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Network management and troubleshooting - IP-based mobile networks - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, and MAN - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Vehicular wireless networks - Third and fourth generation systems - Wireless security and dependability - Content Management and Distribution - Modeling and Performance evaluation The WoWMoM 2009 technical program will also include two-days workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. General Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Vasilios Siris, FORTH-ICS, Greece TPC Chairs: Prasant Mohapatra, Univ. California, Davis USA Jörg Ott, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Workshops Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Industrial Chair: Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson, USA Sponsorship Chair: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA Finance & Registration Chair: Yonghe Liu, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Local Organizing Committee Chair: Ioannis Askoxylakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece Publicity Chairs: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Alessio Vecchio, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece Steering Committee: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers Univ., USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA -- ====================================================== Alessio Vecchio Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Univ. of Pisa Via Diotisalvi, 2 - 56122 Pisa - Italy Voice: +39 050 2217463 Fax: +39 050 2217600 http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/~vecchio/ ====================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ICST - BodyNets 2009 - Final Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICST - BodyNets 2009 - Final Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:02:03 -0500 Von: info(a)icstconferences.org Antwort an: info(a)icst.org An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Final Call for Papers ****** B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 9 ****** 4th International Conference on Body Area Networks April 1-3, 2009 UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA, USA http://www.bodynets.org Sponsored by ICST Technical support from ACM Scope Networks of sensing, computing, and communication devices are increasingly being deployed as wearable, and even implantable, systems to form Body Area Networks (BodyNets). BodyNets allow for unidirectional (monitoring) and even bidirectional (effecting) interactions with subjects. BodyNets are now appearing in diverse applications, including physiological monitoring for diagnosing, treating, tracking, and studying diseases and disorders; biokinetic monitoring for improving physical medicine and rehabilitation; human-computer interactions; and education and entertainment through interactive games. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying BodyNets. This will also include sessions devoted to presenting applications that are creating new business opportunities as well as compelling research challenges. In this regard, the BodyNets conference, now in its third year, aims to establish a forum for convening research professionals from diverse fields, including computer science and electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, medicine, and other disciplines in both academia and industry to address the technical, social, and application opportunities being driven by BodyNets. Topics The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: *BodyNets Systems and Technology -In-vivo, on-body, and near-body networks -Information systems including (but not limited to) architectures integrating sensing, signal processing, sensor data fusion, and related technologies -Novel communication techniques and protocols supporting BodyNets -System design issues including reliability, sensing integrity, system performance, energy, operating lifetime, security, and privacy *HCI/Wearable Computing -Wearable system architectures -BodyNets entertainment technologies -Assistive technologies for geriatric subjects and the disabled -Social impact of BodyNets *Medical Applications -Pervasive health care and personal monitoring and guidance -BodyNets for prosthetic devices -Novel applications of BodyNets in healthcare The proceedings of the conference will be published by ACM and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Extended versions of technically superior papers will be invited for a special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). *** Important Dates *** Abstract Due: December 1, 2008 by 11:59pm PST Full Paper Due: December 8, 2008 by 11:59pm PST Notification of Acceptance: January 26, 2009 Submission Instructions: The length of submitted articles is a maximum of 8 pages, following the guidelines described in the Author's Kit on the conference website. The criteria of selection for papers will be based on novelty, innovation and originality. Conference sessions will include technical contributions from papers included in the Topics above. In addition, position papers will also be included and may introduce relevant technology advances, specific wireless health product challenges and trends, as well as advances in industry associated with wireless health and other BodyNets applications. General Chair: William Kaiser (UCLA) Publicity Chair: John Lach (University of Virginia) Web Chair: Michael Golamco (UCLA) Publication Chair: Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Majid Sarrafzadeh (UCLA), Mark Yarvis (Intel) Technical Program Committee: Alex Bui (UCLA Radiology), Roozbeh Jafari (UT Dallas), Steffen Leonhardt (RWTH Aachen, Germany), Tom Martin (Virginia Tech), Sal Mastroianni (Motorola), Alex Mihailidis (Univ Toronto), Joe Paradiso (MIT), Jack Stankovic (Univ Virginia), Eric Yeatman (Imperial College), Y. T. Zhang (CUKH, Hong Kong), Lin Zhong (Rice Univ) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Sandeep Gupta, David Tacconi, William Kaiser, Majid Sarrafzadeh -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://icstconferences.org/unsubscribe.php?p=ggjzadyfjh and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Dependable Computing forUbiquitous Services (DCUS), Journal of Communications (JCM)
by Shu, Lei 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

CALL FOR PAPERS Journal of Communications (JCM) Special Issue on Dependable Computing for Ubiquitous Services (DCUS) Journal of Communications (JCM), a scholarly peer-reviewed international scientific journal, would like to have a special issue on "Dependable Computing for Ubiquitous Services (DCUS)" (Academy publisher). The latest developments in theories, systems, methods, algorithms and applications in communications have enabled new dimensions in dependable computing for ubiquitous services, such as dependable hardware and dependable software. As applications of dependable computing have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing has become increasingly critical. The aim of the special issue is to provide fast publication outlet for refereed, high quality original research papers in the various aspects of advances in Reliability and its applications. The special issue would focus on the research challenges and issues in the design and implementation (theories, technologies, architecture and applications) on DCUS. DCUS shall always welcome all research results on the traditional and on-going developing reliability technologies and next generation reliability technologies. Novel techniques, algorithms, architectures, and experiences regarding DCUS are invited. Topics appropriate for this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification and validation - Dependability measurement, modeling and evaluation - dependability/Security evaluation/tools - Self-healing, self-protecting and fault-tolerant Systems - Software aging and rejuvenation - Architecture and design for dependability - Fault tolerant algorithms and protocols - Reliability in Web systems and applications - Reliability/security in Internet - Multi-medium/ Bioinformatics in dependable computing - Dependability in distributed and parallel systems - Dependability in real-time systems, database and transaction processing systems - Dependability issues in autonomic computing Important Dates Submission Deadline: February 28, 2009 Acceptance Notice: May 30, 2009 Final Manuscript: June 30, 2009 Publication Date: 4th Quarter, 2009 (Tentative) Submission Submissions must include the following elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, index terms, introduction, main text, conclusions, appendixes, acknowledgement, references, and biographies. All the papers should ideally not exceed 12,000 words (14 pages) in length. Font: Times and 10-size. Supply complete address, fax/phone number and e-mail address of the corresponding author. For more details, please refer to the "Instructions for Authors" page at the journal website, http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/forauthors.html Further, the manuscript must be submitted in the form of PDF file to the following addresses: nxiong(a)cs.gsu.edu and chlin(a)whu.edu.cn. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on both quality and suitability to the special issue. For further questions or inquiries, please contact the corresponding editor Dr. Neal N. Xiong at nxiong(a)cs.gsu.edu Guest Editors Athanasios V. Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia, Greece E-mail: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Neal N. Xiong Department of Computer Science Georgia State University, USA E-mail: nxiong(a)cs.gsu.edu Laurence T. Yang Department of Computer Science St. Francis Xavier University, Canada E-mail: lyang(a)stfx.ca Chuan Lin School of Mathematics and Statistics Wuhan University, China E-mail: chlin(a)whu.edu.cn Leon L. Shu Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) National University of Ireland, Ireland E-mail: lei.shu(a)deri.org http://lei.shu.deri.googlepages.com/SI_JCM.pdf _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[acf-members] CFP : SPECTS 2009
by Abdelmajid Khelil 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2009 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems July 13-16, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2009/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. =========================================================================== Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 31, 2009 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 23, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 24, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 22, 2009 http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ _______________________________________________ acf-members mailing list acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie https://lists.cs.tcd.ie/mailman/listinfo/acf-members

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[ISCC] ICST Mobilware'09 cfp: deadline extended to Dec. 7
by Paolo Bellavista 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this cfp _________________________________________________________________________ Due to numerous requests, the deadline for MOBILWARE'09 has been extended to December 7, 2008. Please consider it as a firm deadline, no further extension will be given. Let us take the opportunity to inform you that: - Mobilware'09 will be honored to host a keynote speech from Nokia, Embedded Systems Technology research group - conf proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNICST series and indexed by SCI, EI, DBLP, GoogleScholar, and Prequest - extended versions of best conference papers will be published in a special issue of Springer MONET (approval pending) - the special issue of MONET about MobilWare'08 is now in print and will be available very soon Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin next April for this very promising Mobilware'09 edition. __________________________________________________________________________ ***** MOBILWARE 2009 ***** The Second International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE,Operating Systems, and Applications http://www.mobilware.org/ Berlin, Germany, April 28-30, 2009 Sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net; Proceedings published by Springer *************** IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Due Date: December 7, 2008 (firm deadline) Workshop Proposals Due Date: December 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2009 Camera Ready Versions Due: February 20, 2009 *************** SCOPE The advances in wireless communication technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have enabled the realization of intelligent environments for people to communicate with each other, interact with information-processing devices, and receive a wide range of mobile wireless services through various types of networks and systems everywhere, anytime. A key enabler of this pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity environments is the advancement of software technology in various communication sectors, ranging from communication middleware and operating systems to networking protocols and applications. MOBILWARE is dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in various mobile wireless software-related areas. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of middleware, operating systems, and applications for computing and communications in mobile wireless systems. It aims to provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers, engineers, and standards developers to present their latest research, techniques, and experiences in the field of software technology for mobile wireless systems. PAPERS Original and unpublished research achievements in various aspects of middleware/operating systems/applications are solicited. Topics include, but are not limited to: * OS/middleware for embedded systems, wearable networks, and personal area networks * OS/middleware support for the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks * Middleware for mobile computing * Middleware for QoS awareness, adaptation, and fault-tolerance of mobile services * Middleware for opportunistic networking in delay-tolerant mobile services * Location-aware and context-aware mobile supports and services * Mobility management and handoff management in heterogeneous integrated networks * Location and tracking supports and services * Mobility-aware wireless service discovery, management, and delivery * Intelligent and mobile agent technologies for mobile systems and services * Human-computer interface and portable 3D graphics for mobile devices * Middleware/applications for wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, home networks, and P2P systems * Modeling and performance of mobile wireless services (VoIP, gaming, P2P sharing, urban monitoring, ) * Deployment and management supports for large-scale mobile services * Policy, trust, security, and privacy issues for mobile wireless networks WORKSHOPS Proposals for workshops/tutorials are solicited. Potential workshop/tutorial organizers are requested to submit a proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each proponent, to the Workshop/Tutorial Chair by December 1, 2008. Proposal evaluation will be based on proponents' expertise and relevance of the subject matter. PUBLICATION All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members and invited reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the novel Springer Lecture Notes of ICST series and then be included in major article indexing services. Extended versions of selected papers from MOBILWARE09 will be published in a dedicated special issue of the Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper, poster, and workshop submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page at www.mobilware.org for detailed submission requirements and procedures. ***************************** STEERING COMMITTEE Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Jean-Marie Bonnin, ENST, France Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany WORKSHOP/TUTORIAL CHAIR Cristian Hesselman, Telem.I., Netherlands PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Ghadaa Alaa, Information Tech Inst., Egypt Michael Chen, Inst. Information Ind., Taiwan Andrej Krenker, Sintesio, Slovenia Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA C. Esteve Rothenberg, CpQD, Brazil Jatinder Pal Singh, Stanford University, USA CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION CHAIR Kolos Esztergalyos, ICST LOCAL CHAIR Julia Ovtchinnikova, Fraun. FOKUS, Germany PUBLICATION and WEB CHAIR Carlo Giannelli, University of Bologna, Italy TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE For the full list, please see http://www.mobilware.org Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Fwd: CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks]
by Lars Wolf 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Datum: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:46:42 +0100 Von: Argyriou, Antonios <antonios.argyriou(a)philips.com> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org <multicomm(a)comsoc.org>, p2prg(a)irtf.org <p2prg(a)irtf.org> *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Preliminary Call for Papers August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA http://icccn.org/icccn09/ ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. Scope: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research to one of the following tracks: * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) * Track on Optical Networking (ON) * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) Instructions for Authors: Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6903&) as PDF files (formatted for letter (8.5x11-inch) paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). Please indicate the corresponding author. Note: A new requirement for this year’s conference is that a paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed the respective track TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore (pending IEEE approval). **************************************************************** Important Dates: * February 20, 2009: Abstract registration deadline * February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline * May 1, 2009: Author Notification * May 15, 2009: Camera-ready papers due **************************************************************** Workshops: ICCCN 2009 will feature satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the TPC Vice Chair for Workshops, Xiaobo Zhou (zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu). The details on the call for workshop proposals can be found on the conference web site. For additional information on track TPCs, student travel grants, best paper award, and other information see the conference web page or contact the general or TPC co-chairs. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA TPC Co-Chairs * Song Ci, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA TPC Vice Chairs * Lavy Libman, NICTA Sydney, Australia * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tutorial Chair * Chia-Chin Chong, Docomo USA Labs, USA Local Arrangements Chair * Ismail Guvenc, Docomo USA Labs, USA Publicity Chair * Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA * Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research, Netherlands * Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan * Zhao-yang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Registration Chair * Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton, USA Student Travel Grant Chair * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Industry Liaison Chair * Mei Wang, Cisco, USA Steering Committee Liaison * Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductor, USA Web Chair * Danai Chasaki, University of Massachusetts, USA Track Chairs * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) o Fei Tong, Motorola UK o Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) o Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA o George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) o Fernando Kuipers, TU Delft, Netherlands o Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) o Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia o Joe Touch, University of Southern California, USA * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) o Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA o Adam Wierman, Cal Tech, USA o Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) o Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA o Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA * Track on Optical Networking (ON) o Xavier Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain o Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) o Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University, USA o Arnaud Legout, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) o Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA o Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) o Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA o Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) o Bala Natarajan, Kansas State, USA o Fu-Chun Zheng, University of Reading, UK The information contained in this message may be confidential and legally protected under applicable law. 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[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) - in conjunction with ICCCN 2009!
by Ammari, Habib M 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Colleagues, We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP for the The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) Please forward this CFP to your colleagues and students to submit their fine work to this workshop! Best Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Call for Papers *** The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) (in conjunction with ICCCN 2009, Aug 2 - 6, 2009, San Francisco, California, USA) In recent years, sensor networks have attracted many researchers and practitioners. We would like to set forth a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas in development of sensor networks and their applications. The Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009) will be held in conjunction with the 2009 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009) . The workshop welcomes researchers, practitioners, and students to join us in the workshop. The areas of interests include but are not limited to the following: * Media access control * Topology discovery and management * Localization * Routing * Network and battery lifetime * Network coverage and connectivity * Network scalability * Security and privacy * Quality of service * Mobility management * Self-organization * Robustness, faculty-tolerance, self-healing, and reliability * Two-dimensional and three-dimensional sensor deployment * Integration of wireless sensor networks and the Internet * Modeling and simulation * Sensor network testbed design and development * Data transportation, aggregation, and visualization * Network monitoring * MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Underwater/Acoustic sensor networks * MAC, PHY, routing, and applications of Body sensor networks Hightlights: * Extended versions of selected best papers will be recommended for possible publication in the International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) . * The proceedings of the workshop will be included in the IEEExplore digital library and indexed by the EI. * One registration of ICCCN'09 covers up to two papers (including both main conference and workshops). Please refer to ICCCN'09 registration policy for detail. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers limited to 6 pages. Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the ICCCN 2009 website. Please submit your papers via http://edas.info. Important Dates: Abstract registration: March 12, 2009 Paper Submission: March 20, 2009 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2009 Camera Ready Papers: May 15, 2009 Conference Dates: August 2-6, 2009 Organizing Committee General Co-Chair : * Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA * Kin K. Leung, Imperial College, London, UK Publicity Chair: * Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: * Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA * Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA Technical Program Committee (Pending Approval ...) Ala Al-fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Regina Borges de Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Eesa Bastaki, Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, U.A.E Jalel Ben-othman, UniversitÃ© de Versailles, France Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, Universite de Technologie - Compiegne, France Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Raffaele Bruno, IIT - CNR Pisa, Italy Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ruay-Shiung Chang, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, USA Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Soumaya Cherkaoui, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada Yun Won Chung, Soongsil University, Korea Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA Abdelouahid Derhab, Centre de recherche sur l'information scientifique et technique (CERIST) Eryk Dutkiewicz, University of Wollongong, Australia Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Mustafa Ergen, University of California Berkeley, USA Luigi Fratta, Politechnico Di Milano, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Mona Ghassemian, King's Collge London, UK Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College London, UK Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman Bijendra Jain, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Houda Labiod, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications - TELECOM ParisTech, France Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Sunho Lim, South Dakota State University, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Xiaowen (Jason) Liu, Florida International University, USA Yunxin Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Qingming Ma, Juniper Networks Petri H. Mahonen,RWTH Aachen University, Germany Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France Bratislav Milic, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Alaa Muqattash, Olympus Communication Technology of America, USA Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK M. Reza Nakhaei, King's College London Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Ozgur Oyman, Intel Corporation, USA Fatin Said, King's College London, UK Abdallah Shami, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Santosh Pandey, Cisco, USA Susan Rea, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Rui M. Rocha, Instituto de TelecomunicaÃ§Ãµes, Portugal Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Bo Sun, Lamar University, USA Min Song, Old Dominion University, USA Said Soulhi, Ericsson Rahim Tafazolli, The University of Surrey, UK Yutaka Takahashi, Kytoto University, Japan Jian Tang, Montana State University, USA Duc Tran, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Spyros Vassilaras, Athens Information Technology, Greece Chonggang Wang, University of Arkansas, USA Thomas Watteyne, France Telecom, France Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada Lie-Liang Yang, University of Southampton, UK Shuhui Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Wenbing Yao, Brunel University, UK Yinghua Ye, Nokia Simens Networks Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt Hongqiang Zhai, Philips Research North America, USA Li X Zhang, University of Leeds, UK Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University, USA Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada Contact Us You are welcome to contact us for issues regarding the workshop. _______________________________________________________ References 1. http://icccn.org/icccn09/ 2. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 3. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 4. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 5. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 6. http://www.icccn.org/icccn09/venue.html 7. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 8. http://sest.vsu.edu/~hchen/conference/ICCCN_SN09/ 9. http://icccn.org/icccn09/workshops.html 10. http://www.inderscience.com/ijsnet 11. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ 12. http://www.ei.org/ 13. http://icccn.org/icccn09/author.html 14. http://edas.info/ _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] The Second International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2009) - In conjunction with ICDCS'09
by Ammari, Habib M 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues that could be interested. ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS SAHNS 2009 The Second International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems Montreal, Canada, June 26, 2009 http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/ In conjunction with the IEEE 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. SCOPE The Workshop provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in specialized ad-hoc networks and systems. As an alternative to one-size-fits-all general solutions in the area of ad hoc networking and systems, we want to stimulate the application-oriented divide-and-conquer approach to ad hoc network and system research. The goal is to provide sound and efficient specialized ad hoc networks and systems (SAHNS), suitable for building solutions specific for well-defined classes of applications or even individual applications. We want to consider both specialized ad hoc networks and specialized ad hoc systems. The latter can be built on top of specialized ad hoc networks. Alternatively, they can be constructed independently of specialized ad hoc networks, e.g., on top of general-purpose ad hoc networks. It should be emphasized that SAHNS is interested only in solutions specific to specialized ad hoc networks and systems. The Workshop is not interested in broad general-purpose solutions for all ad hoc networks and systems, or in generic solutions for extremely broad subclasses of ad hoc networks and systems. For example, the Workshop is not interested in general-purpose solutions for all sensornets or all P2P systems but is instead interested in specialized solutions for their application-oriented subclasses. One example of SAHNS targeted by this workshop are Incident Area Networks (IANs), dedicated to single incidents or events. An IAN can be pre-deployed for a planned event, such as a sporting or "nationally significant" event, or can be dynamically deployed for an unplanned incident, such as a local law enforcement situation or a natural disaster. Another example are opportunistic resource utilization networks (e.g., oppnets), in which the network reacts to a lack of resources by finding and incorporating "helpers" that have needed resources or services. Areas and topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: a) Design issues for SAHNS: o Novel network and system architectures o Economically-based models and solutions o Operating systems and middleware o Customized network protocols (incl. cross-layer protocols) o Resource management solutions (incl. resource discovery) o Algorithms and models for localization and mobility management o Privacy, security, and trust o Reliability and dependability o Novel hardware platforms b) Development issues for SAHNS: o Development methodologies, models and tools o Analytical and validation models o Performance evaluation and modeling (incl. simulation tools) c) Operation and management issues for SAHNS: o Topology control and management o Energy control and management o Resource and service discovery and control o QoS provisioning and management o Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing o Assuring survivability and reliability o Controls for privacy, security, and trust management d) Application issues for SAHNS: o Best current and future applications for SAHNS o Experience with SAHNS deployments and products o Social and business impacts of SAHNS-based applications 2. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in the PDF format, with numbered pages. They should have no more than 6 pages following the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (8.5 by 11 inch sheets, double-column, 10 point or larger font, single-spaced). The following information must be provided on the first page: o Paper title o Full names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors o An abstract (up to 150 words) o Five to ten keywords/phrases o A footnote with the indication of the corresponding author, plus the complete address, phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author Papers should be submitted by emailing them to: llilien(a)cs.wmich.edu Each received submission will be confirmed, usually within two workdays. 3. PAPER REVIEW AND PUBLISHING Each paper will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers and their comments will be provided to the authors. If accepted, the paper will be published in the workshop proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, provided that at least one of its authors registers for ICDCS (which includes SAHNS) by the early registration deadline. As all conferences published by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS), ICDCS proceedings will be indexed through INSPEC, the leading English-language bibliographic information service for scientific and technical literature. ICDCS proceedings will also be submitted for indexing to EI's Engineering Information Index, Compendex, ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings, ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette (ISI Thomson). We plan a special issue of an international journal with extended versions of the selected SAHNS papers. 4. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission - December 19, 2008 Author notification - January 30, 2009 Final manuscript due - February 27, 2009 5. COMMITTEES --------- Steering Committee --------- Prof. Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA Prof. Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA Prof. Leszek Lilien (Workshop Chair), Western Michigan University, USA Dr. Mark Linderman, Air Force Research Lab, USA Prof. Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Prof. Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece --------- Organizing Committee --------- a) International Publicity Co-Chairs - Asia and Australia: Prof. Mamata Jenamani, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur, India - Africa and Europe: Prof. Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece - Latin America: Prof. Ruy de Oliveira, Centro Federal de Educação Técnológica de Mato Grosso, Brazil - North America: Prof. Ala Al-Fuqaha, Western Michigan University, USA b) Industry Liaison Co-Chairs To be announced c) Publications Chair Prof. James Yang, Western Michigan University --------- Technical Program Committee --------- To be announced. 6. FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please visit the SAHNS 2009 web pages at: http://www.cs.wmich.edu/~alfuqaha/SAHNS2009/ or contact Leszek T. Lilien, Workshop Chair (llilien(a)cs.wmich.edu). _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[cfp] [Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: SENSORCOMM 2009 || June 14-19, 2009 - Athens, Greece
by Ammari, Habib M 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Colleagues, We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues and students who would be interested. Best Regards, ============== SENSORCOMM 2009 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SENSORCOMM 2009, The Third International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications June 18-23, 2009 - Athens, Greece General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/SENSORCOMM09.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPSENSORCOMM09.html Submission deadline: January 20, 2009 Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Greece Chapter Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster Forum and Work in Progress special submission with on progress and challenging ideas. SENSORCOMM 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site): APASN: Architectures, protocols and algorithms of sensor networks MECSN: Energy, management and control of sensor networks RASQOFT: Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance in sensor networks PESMOSN: Performance, simulation and modelling of sensor networks SEMOSN: Security and monitoring of sensor networks SECSED: Sensor circuits and sensor devices RIWISN: Radio issues in wireless sensor networks SAPSN: Software, applications and programming of sensor networks DAIPSN: Data allocation and information in sensor networks DISN: Deployments and implementations of sensor networks UNWAT: Under water sensors and systems ENOPT: Energy optimization in wireless sensor networks ========================== SENSORCOMM Advisory Chairs Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal / IEEE Computer Society - Portugal Chapter Jens Martin Hovem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Jean Philippe Vasseur, Cisco Systems, Inc., France SENSORCOMM 2009 General Chair Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece SENSORCOMM 2009 Industrial Chairs Saied Abedi, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe LTD. (FLE)-Middlesex, UK Steven Corroy, Philips Research Europe - Eindhoven, The Netherlands Jianlin Guo, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories America, USA SENSORCOMM 2009 Publicity Chair Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Yacine Benallouche, Universit? de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France SENSORCOMM 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs Younzi Xu, Jonkoping University, Sweden Merja Tikkakoshi, Finland, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland Radosveta Sokkulu, Ege University - Izmir, Turkey Winston KG Seah, Institute for Infocomm Research (Member of A*STAR), Singapore Zhen Liu, Nokia Research - Palo Alto, USA ========================== _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: The Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2009) - in conjunction with ICDCS'09
by Ammari, Habib M 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Dear Colleagues, We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. Please disseminate it to your colleagues and students who would be interested. Best Regards, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sixth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks WWASN 2009 - in conjunction with The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), June 22-26, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada This workshop covers the area of ad hoc networking, from physical issues up to application aspects. In particular, it will cover physical, data link, network and transport layers, as well as applications, security, simulation and power management issues in sensor, local area, personal, and mobile ad hoc networks. It is the goal of this workshop to review ad hoc protocols and models and to reflect the latest in the state of the art in ad hoc networks. It seeks to provide up to date information on research and development activities in the rapidly growing area of ad hoc networks. The workshop will also address the rapidly growing field of sensor networks, including the issues related to their topology, routing, performance, data gathering and filtering, energy efficiency, and mobility. Topics of interest include (but no limited to): * Applications and history of ad hoc networks * Physical layer of ad hoc networks * Pervasive and wearable computing * Opportunistic spectrum access in ad hoc networks * IEEE 801.11x, 802.15.x and other types of medium access control * Methods and tools for ad hoc networks simulation * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless internet * Security in ad hoc and sensor networks * Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery in sensor networks * Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance * Information processing in sensor networks and systems Selected best papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks journal. Submission details Papers should be submitted via email (glxing(a)cse.msu.edu and vmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca). Papers should be submitted as PDF files, using either the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced, US Letter, all margins no smaller than one inch). Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical area(s) most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail address. Number each page in the manuscript. While there are no page length restrictions on the length of submitted papers, please note that the paper length for accepted papers will be limited to six (6) pages with up to two (2) additional pages at $150 per page. IMPORTANT: For each accepted paper, authors are required to submit at least one full registration for the ICDCS2009 conference. Accepted papers supported by at least one full registration will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the proceedings of ICDCS'2009 workshops. Timetable Manuscript Submission: December 15, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2009 Final Manuscript Due at IEEE: March 13, 2009 General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan/ David Simplot-Ryl IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1, France http://www.lifl.fr/~simplot/ Program Co-Chairs Vojislav B. Misic' University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/ Guoliang Xing Michigan State University, USA http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/ Program committee See the full list at http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~softart/WWASN2009.html _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), Special Issue on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems
by Yu Cao 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers ************************************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) Special Issue on Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems Manuscript due: December 15, 2008 http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042 (the second one in the listing) http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_11042… In the last decade, substantial progress has been made in content-based analysis and multimedia streaming to facilitate the development of large-scale multimedia information systems. Together with the recent progress on semantic web, it is now possible to build a new generation of multimedia applications that enable large-scale semantic representation, analysis, and delivery of multimedia data from heterogeneous data sources. However, there is still a long way to go for mature solutions of multimedia database systems that are capable of processing semantics-rich, large-volume multimedia data. It could be even more challenging if such systems are under stringent functional and non-functional (e.g., QoS) requirements. The goal of this special issue is to bring the semantic web community and multimedia processing & computing community together and provide a forum for multidisciplinary research opportunities, with a focus on how to apply the semantic technologies to the acquisition, generation, transmission, storage, processing, and retrieval of multimedia information. Discussions on future challenges in multimedia information manipulation, as well as practical solutions for the design and implementation of multimedia database software systems are also encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span both semantic technologies and multimedia processing & computing: . Automatic generation of multimedia presentations . Semantic multimedia metadata extraction . Annotation tools and methods for multimedia semantics . Media ontology generation/learning/reasoning . Content-based multimedia analysis . Multimedia indexing, searching, and retrieving . Multimedia streaming . Semantic-based QoS control and scheduling . Semantic-based Internet data streaming and delivery . Multimedia standards (e.g., MPEG-7 and XMP) and Semantic Web . Semantics enabled multimedia applications (including annotation, browsing, storage, retrieval, and visualization) . Semantics enabled networking and middleware for multimedia applications Submission Details Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers in A4/US letter, single column, double space format, up to 30 pages long including figures, tables and references. Manuscript submission is handled by the MTAP Online Manuscript Submission website at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/. During submission, you should select your article type as "SI:Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems". Detailed information about the Journal, including an author guide and detailed formatting information is available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/journal/11042. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: December 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2009 Publication Date: Fall 2009 (Tentative) Guest Editors: Dr. Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA. shyu(a)miami.edu Dr. Jie Bao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. baojie(a)cs.rpi.edu Dr. Yu Cao, California State University, Fresno, USA. yucao(a)csufresno.edu Dr. Jun Kong, The North Dakota State University, USA. jun.kong(a)ndsu.edu Dr. Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA. mingli(a)csufresno.edu Dr. Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria. mlux(a)itec.uni-klu.ac.at -- Yu Cao Email: yucao(a)csufresno.edu _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Mycolleagues] CFP--WiMAN 2009 (International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks)
by liqiang zhang 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

*** We apologize if you receive multiple copies.*** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'09) June 26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada in conjunction with ICDCS 2009 http://www.cse.nd.edu/~darts/wiman09.html Submission Deadline: December 7, 2008 *************************************************************************************************** Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer. Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: - Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking - Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking - MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) - Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols - Quality of Services provisioning - Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks - Network deployment, localization, and synchronization - Topology construction and maintenance - Modeling and performance evaluations - Cross layer optimizations - Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms - Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks - Testbed, prototype, and practical systems - Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks - Vehicular mesh and ad hoc networks - Wireless sensor networks - Self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems Important Dates ----------------------- - Paper submission due: December 7, 2008 - Acceptance notification: February 7, 2009 - Camera-ready due: March 7, 2009 - Workshop: June 26, 2009 Submissions and Publications -------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Authors must submit their papers through the CMT conference management site (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WIMAN2009). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. All papers will be peer reviewed and the reviewers' comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library. Organizing Committees ---------------------------------- Workshop Program Co-Chairs Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA Publicity Chair Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Technical Program Committee Wessam Ajib, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology, USA Junzhao Du, Xidian University, China Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ricky Kwok, Colorado State University, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA Qiang Ni, Brunel University, UK Frank Reichenbach, ABB AS, Norway Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Haiying Shen, University of Arkansas, USA Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA Jianbin Wei, Yahoo!, USA *************************************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2009, Imperial College London
by karatza＠eng.auth.gr 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MASCOTS 2009 SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems September 21-23, 2009 South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK http://www.mascots-conference.org/ The MASCOTS conference is a well-established international forum for state-of-the-art research on measurement, modelling and performance analysis of computer systems and communication networks. The 17th annual meeting of MASCOTS will be held at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London, UK. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical programme for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters. The fourth International workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling (PASM) will be held jointly with MASCOTS, on September 24: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nigel.thomas/PASM09.html We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not been published elsewhere. The conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2009 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. PAPERS MASCOTS 2009 seeks original technical papers describing research in the areas of computer systems and network performance evaluation. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: Computer Architecture Distributed/Parallel Systems Computer Networks Heterogeneous Systems Industrial Practice and Experience Internetworking Protocols Multi-core Systems Multimedia Systems Performance Evaluation Methodologies Pervasive Web and Mobility Sensor Networks Software and Operating Systems Storage Systems Web-based Systems Wireless Networks Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2009 will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors of highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals. POSTERS Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent work, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full papers is accepted the poster will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to two pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described in the submission page. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to three pages in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES March 27, 2009 – Abstract submission April 3, 2009 – Paper submission April 30, 2009 – Poster Submission May 20, 2009 – Acceptance Notification June 10, 2009 – Camera Ready Submission SUBMISSION Authors should submit manuscripts by the above deadlines by following the instructions on the conference web site. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS . Don Towsley University of Massachusetts . To be announced ORGANISERS Conference General Chairs Tony Field Imperial College London, UK George Riley Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Chairs James M. Conrad University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA William Knottenbelt Imperial College London, UK Proceedings Chair Jeremy Bradley Imperial College London, UK Publicity Chair Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Local Arrangements Chairs Nicholas Dingle Uli Harder Imperial College London, UK Programme Committee Ismail Ari (HP Labs) Marta Beltran (Rey Juan Carlos University) Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London) Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University) Ken Christensen (University of South Florida) Lucia Cloth (University of Twente) Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary) Stephen Gilmore (University of Edinburgh) Garth Goodson (Network Appliance) Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science) Marco Gribaudo (University of Turin) Peter Harrison (Imperial College London) Felix Hernandez-Campos (Google) Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) Andras Horvath (University of Turin) Stephen Jarvis (University of Warwick) Nikolai Joukov (IBM) Bharat Joshi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Peter King (Heriot-Watt University) Pieter Kritzinger (University of Cape Town) Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Catalina Llado (University of the Balearic Islands) Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz) Anirban Mahanti (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) Daniel Menasce (George Mason University) Ethan Miller (University of California at Santa Cruz) David Nicol (UIUC) Jianping Pan (University of Victoria) Dave Parker (University of Oxford) Naresh Patel (Network Appliance) Alma Riska (Seagate) Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto) Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Mark Squillante (IBM) Nigel Thomas (University of Newcastle) Kishor Trivedi (Duke University) Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam) Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle) Adam Wierman (Cal Tech) John Wilkes (Google) Carey Williamson (University of Calgary) Andrew Willis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Soraya Zertal (University of Versailles) Xiaoyun Zhu (HP Labs) Steering Committee Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA) Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA) Thomas Braunl (U. of Western Australia, Australia) Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy) Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands) Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA) Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA) David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK) Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA) Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA) Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA) Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA) LOCATION Imperial College’s South Kensington campus is located in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a quiet and green part of the capital, yet close to several of London's major cultural landmarks. Imperial is next door to the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, the Albert Memorial, the Science museum and the Victoria and Albert museum. Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Harrods are a short walk away. London's other major attractions, including Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Westminster, the West End and Covent Garden can be reached in a few minutes by bus, tube (metro) or taxi. ----------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Swarm Intelligence Journal - Special Issue on SI for Telecommunications Networks
by Gianni Di Caro 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

(APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CALL) ***************************************************************** Call For Papers SWARM INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721 ***************************************************************** Special Issue: SWARM INTELLIGENCE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS Submission Deadline: DECEMBER 31, 2008 ***************************************************************** Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a computational and behavioral metaphor for distributed problem solving originally inspired by the collective behavior of social insects and other animal societies, such as ant colonies and flocking birds. More generally, SI refers to the bottom-up design of distributed systems that display forms of useful and/or interesting behaviors at the global level as a result of the relatively simple actions of a number of composing units interacting with one another and with their environment at the local level. When properly engineered, an SI system can conjugate easiness of design with high performance in terms of robustness, scalability, and adaptivity. All these characteristics have made SI an attractive framework to tackle the challenges of modern networked systems, which are made of a large number of components, are highly heterogeneous in terms of communication technologies, protocols, and services, and are dynamic, due to continuous changes in topology, traffic patterns, and number of active users and services. These challenges ask for the development of novel control and management algorithms and protocols that are adaptive, robust, scalable, and can let the network behave as an autonomous and self-organizing system. Since these are the properties that can almost naturally result when adopting a properly engineered SI design approach, a considerable amount of work in the domain of SI has successfully addressed a variety of problems in the area of communication networks. This special issue aims to bring together state-of-the-art results in the application and evaluation of the SI paradigm to problems arising in the context of analysis, design, control, management, and protection of networked systems. The Swarm Intelligence Journal is the principal peer-reviewed publication dedicated to reporting on research and developments in the multidisciplinary field of swarm intelligence. The journal is published quarterly by Springer US. **************************** SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST: **************************** Particularly welcome are contributions focusing on SI solutions for: + Mobile Ad Hoc Networks + Mesh Networks + Sensor Networks + Robotic Networks + Internet + Delay Tolerant Networks + QoS Networks + Satellite Networks + Secure Networks Topics of interest in relationship to the above networks include but are not limited to: - Network analysis and design - Distributed medium access control - Routing protocols - Transport layer protocols - QoS provisioning - Load balancing - Protection and security systems - Self-configuration, self-optimization and self-adaptation - Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems - Online monitoring and performance evaluation - Formal modeling of SI systems - Comparisons between SI and other design frameworks - Implementation of SI approaches in testbeds - Evaluation of SI approaches in real-world settings ************** GUEST EDITORS: ************** Gianni A. Di Caro - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland gianni AT idsia DOT ch Frederick Ducatelle - IDSIA-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland frederick AT idsia DOT ch Muddassar Farooq - NUCES, Islamabad, Pakistan muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu *********** SUBMISSION: *********** All manuscripts must be prepared according to the publication guidelines of the Swarm Intelligence Journal that can be found at the journal website: http://www.springer.com/computer/artificial/journal/11721 Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers using the online submission system of the journal at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm, selecting "Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence for Telecommunications Network" (Special Issue on Swarm Int. for Networks) as the article type. When submitting a paper, please send at the same time also an e-mail to Gianni Di Caro (gianni AT idsia DOT ch) with paper title and author list to inform about the submission. **************** IMPORTANT DATES: **************** Manuscript due: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: April 30, 2009 Submission: December 31, 2008 Notification: March 15, 2009 Final version: April 30, 2009 ***************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/) Datum: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:09:55 -0500 Von: Aaron Striegel <striegel(a)nd.edu> An: Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Preliminary Call for Papers August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA http://icccn.org/icccn09/ ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. Scope: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research to one of the following tracks: * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) * Track on Optical Networking (ON) * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) Instructions for Authors: Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6903&) as PDF files (formatted for letter (8.5x11-inch) paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). Please indicate the corresponding author. Note: A new requirement for this year’s conference is that a paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed the respective track TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore (pending IEEE approval). **************************************************************** Important Dates: * February 20, 2009: Abstract registration deadline * February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline * May 1, 2009: Author Notification * May 15, 2009: Camera-ready papers due **************************************************************** Workshops: ICCCN 2009 will feature satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the TPC Vice Chair for Workshops, Xiaobo Zhou (zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu). The details on the call for workshop proposals can be found on the conference web site. For additional information on track TPCs, student travel grants, best paper award, and other information see the conference web page or contact the general or TPC co-chairs. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA TPC Co-Chairs * Song Ci, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA TPC Vice Chairs * Lavy Libman, NICTA Sydney, Australia * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tutorial Chair * Chia-Chin Chong, Docomo USA Labs, USA Local Arrangements Chair * Ismail Guvenc, Docomo USA Labs, USA Publicity Chair * Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA * Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research, Netherlands * Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan * Zhao-yang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Registration Chair * Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton, USA Student Travel Grant Chair * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Industry Liaison Chair * Mei Wang, Cisco, USA Steering Committee Liaison * Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductor, USA Web Chair * Danai Chasaki, University of Massachusetts, USA Track Chairs * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) o Fei Tong, Motorola UK o Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) o Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA o George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) o Fernando Kuipers, TU Delft, Netherlands o Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) o Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia o Joe Touch, University of Southern California, USA * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) o Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA o Adam Wierman, Cal Tech, USA o Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) o Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA o Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA * Track on Optical Networking (ON) o Xavier Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain o Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) o Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University, USA o Arnaud Legout, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) o Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA o Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) o Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA o Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) o Bala Natarajan, Kansas State, USA o Fu-Chun Zheng, University of Reading, UK _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP-Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
by Naveen Chilamkurti 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Call for Papers SI on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing Wireless pervasive computing is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its tremendous potential impact on the quality of life and the environment. To enable green pervasive computing, it is necessary to integrate technologies, many of which are highly heterogeneous, from various fields including distributed computing, networking, communications, and signal processing. Pervasive technologies can be used in various ways to develop and enhance design models for environment sustainability. Pervasive computing is a power tool used in businesses and social contexts to develop computing devices and solutions which are more environment friendly. This Special Issue focuses on enabling wireless technologies that have the potential to make green pervasive computing truly ubiquitous. Many enabling wireless technologies continue to be deployed in various pervasive computing environments. There is an increasing interest in the computing community on how these technologies can be responsibly used environmentally to provide ubiquitous information access. The main aim of this special issue is to present the latest research achievements and results in the area of green pervasive computing and, in particular, how next generation wireless systems can help support and promote a sustainable environment. Topics include (but are not limited to): o Cross-layer design issues o Green pervasive computing o Wearable devices and technologies o Sensor devices, designs, protocols, and applications for green pervasive computing o RFID applications, designs, standards, and data management o Wireless technologies and architectures in pervasive computing o Wireless smart vehicle systems and networking o Pervasive e-services o QoS support in wireless systems for green pervasive computing o Smart vehicular networks and systems for green pervasive computing o Cellular technologies (UMTS, GSM, GPRS, etc.) for green pervasive computing o Fault-tolerant and resilient networks o Performance evaluation of wireless systems, and technologies Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located athttp://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal's website http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due March 1, 2009 First Round of Reviews June 1, 2009 Publication Date September 1, 2009 Lead Guest Editor o Naveen Chilamkurti, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria 3086, Australia; n.chilamkurti(a)latrobe.edu.au Guest Editors o Sherali Zeadally, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC 20008, USA; szeadally(a)udc.edu o Abbas Jamalipour, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; a.jamalipour(a)ieee.org o Sajal k. Das, Department of Computer Science and Engineering ,University of Texas, Arlington, TX 76019, USA; das(a)uta.edu Naveen Chilamkurti PhD, SMIEEE Computer Science and Computer Engineering La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne Australia-3086 Ph: 61-3-94791269 Fax: 61-3-94793060 http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/naveen/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009), Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
by Toufik Ahmed 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

CALL FOR PAPERS Int’l Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless (ISMW 2009) in conjunction with The 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009) 21-24 JUNE 2009, LEIPZIG, GERMANY http://www.iwcmc.com/ One of the key elements in the convergence of future networks and services to IP technology is the efficient support of rich multimedia applications and services over wireless networks including sensor and mesh networks. The delivery and transport of multimedia in such wireless environments, to heterogeneous mobiles and users, is very challenging. The multimedia services should face many shortcomings caused mainly by the wireless channel unreliability and its sharing among many users, limited bandwidth, random time-varying fading effect, different protocols and standards, etc. Future multimedia services require innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, cross-layer interaction and optimization, QoS provisioning and continuity, adaptive transmission techniques, and scalability support, among others. The purpose of this symposium is to solicit high-quality theoretical and practical research on the landscape of recent advances on multimedia over wireless. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Architectures for wireless multimedia communications - Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks - Multimedia delivery over various types of wireless networks (3G, 4G, ad hoc networks/relay, WLAN, WMAN, multi-hop wireless, and hybrid networks) - Wireless video sensor networks - Multimedia over wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) network - Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks - QoS support for wireless multimedia networks - Multimedia delivery over wireless embedded devices - Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless - Multimodal multimedia services - Error resilience and concealment - Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery - Cross-layer optimizations and interactions - Interaction among (MAC), radio link control (RLC), IP and application layers - Wireless multimedia terminal and devices - Wireless multimedia traffic modeling - Multimedia delivery to energy-constrained embedded devices - Multimedia over wireless testbeds and related research infrastructures and demo - QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia - Applications, best practices, and standard's support Paper Submission - Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008 - Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009 - Camera-ready Paper Submissions: April 15, 2009 - Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009 Contact - Toufik Ahmed, tad(a)labri.fr - Christian Timmerer, christian.timmerer(a)itec.uni-klu.ac.at All papers are limited to six printed pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and follow the standard IEEE double -column format. The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS system at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6843& and must be in PDF format. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a double peer -reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC2009, which will be included in ACM/IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)," and "International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS)". There will also be best paper and best symposium awards. Chair - Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France Co-Chair - Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria Technical Program Committee - Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France - Eugen Borcoci, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania - Cyril Concolato, TELECOM ParisTech, France - Annie Gravey, INSTITUT TELECOM - TELECOM Bretagne, France - Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA - Zhihai He, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA - Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria - ChingYao Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan - Andreas Hutter, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany - Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK - Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany - Francine Krief, University of Bordeaux I, France - Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France - Ahmed Mehaoua, University of Paris - Descartes, France - Marta Mrak, University of Surrey, UK - Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland - Hamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland - Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy - George Pavlou, University College London, UK - Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland - Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria -- Toufik AHMED Associate Professor / Maître de Conférences http://www.labri.fr/~tad +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | LABRI- COMET Team | E.N.S.E.I.R.B. | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ |351 Cours de la Libération, |1 Av. du Dr Schweitzer, BP 99, | |33405 Talence Cedex, FRANCE. |33402 Talence Cedex, FRANCE. | | | | |portable : +33 6 61 11 30 71 | | |phone : +33 5 40 00 35 01 |phone : +33 5 56 84 21 83 | |fax : +33 5 40 00 66 69 |fax : +33 5 56 84 21 80 | |email : tad(a)labri.fr |email : tad(a)enseirb.fr | +------------Like a comet Blazing cross the evening sky----------+ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] EvoCOMNET'09 & EvoStar: Extended deadline
by Gianni Di Caro 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

(APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS CALL) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers *** EvoCOMNET 2009 *** 6th European Workshop on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunications Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems * Tubingen, Germany, April 15-17, 2009 * ------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline (Extended): 30 November 2008 Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009 Camera ready papers: 28 January 2009 ------------------------------------------------- http://evostar.na.icar.cnr.it/EvoWorkshops/EvoCOMNET/EvoCOMNET.html -- Part of the EVOSTAR 2009 events: http://www.evostar.org -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Many biological systems and processes are characterized by a parallel and distributed architecture in which a large number of autonomous and minimalist units synergistically generate global-level behaviors through local interactions, communications, and the adoption of relatively simple stochastic action policies. The resulting global-level behaviors usually show a number of properties essential for success in natural environments such as: adaptivity to environmental variations, robustness to internal changes and failures, and effectiveness and scalability of performance. Because of all these architectural and performance properties, the observation and reverse-engineering of successful processes in organic, inorganic, and animal systems in nature, has drawn in recent years the attention of many researchers and engineers working in the fields of parallel and distributed systems, and, more in particular, in telecommunications networks. In these domains, nature has provided basic inspiration for the definition of a number of novel algorithms and computational frameworks able to deal effectively with the challenges of current networked systems, which show a growing structural and computational complexity and are made of a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous components. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present cutting edge research on nature-inspired approaches to problems arising in the design, control, protection, and management of network systems, and to outline new trends in parallel nature-inspired computation for the solution of complex problems. EvoCOMNET is part of EVOSTAR (EVO*), Europe's premier co-located events in the field of evolutionary and nature-inspired computing. EVO* includes the EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoBIO conferences and a number of workshops collectively entitled EvoWorkshops. EVO* 2009 is the 11th edition of the event, details and cfps can be found at: http://www.evostar.org --------------------------- SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------- EvoCOMNET 2009 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the definition, analysis, and development of novel parallel and distributed algorithms, and to the solution of problems of practical and theoretical interest in all domains related to network systems. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the contribution of nature-inspired approaches to the following domains: + Network analysis and design + Routing protocols + Transport protocols + Network protection systems + Load balancing + Quality-of-service provisioning + Mobile ad hoc networks + Sensor networks + Network robotics and sensor-actor networks + Distributed inference and cooperative communication systems + Distributed search and computation in P2P networks + Parallel and distributed optimization algorithms + Grid computing + Distributed data mining + Tuning and application of hybrid approaches Particularly welcome are papers reporting: * Applications of nature-inspired techniques to novel problems in the domain of telecommunications networks and parallel and distributed systems * Detailed comparative studies of nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques * Definition of innovative techniques and/or computational frameworks based on biological systems or processes that have not been considered so far in the literature of nature-inspired systems * Analytical studies of the behavior of the proposed systems * Performance evaluation and visualization of parallel and distributed systems inspired by nature * Real-world implementations * Studies based on real-world data sets * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior ------------------------------ PUBLICATION DETAILS AND AWARDS ------------------------------ + Conference Proceedings: ---------------------- Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) together with papers from other workshops of the EVO* conference. + Journal Special Issue: --------------------- The authors of the best selected papers from the EvoCOMNET workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of the International Journal of Adaptive Communication Systems (IJAACS). + Best Paper Award: ---------------- A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper presented at the workshop that will receive the best evaluation marks from the reviewers and the Session Chairs. -------------------- SUBMISSION PROCEDURE -------------------- Please refer to the http://www.evostar.org website for the submission procedure. The maximum length for a paper is 10 PAGES in LNCS format. Papers will be reviewed by at least three reviewers according to a double blind peer process. --------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS --------------- + Gianni A. Di Caro IDSIA Lugano, Switzerland gianni AT idsia DOT ch + Muddassar Farooq NUCES Islamabad, Pakistan muddassar DOT farooq AT udo DOT edu + Ernesto Tarantino ICAR-CNR Naples, Italy ernesto DOT tarantino AT na DOT icar DOT cnr DOT it --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission deadline (Extended): 30 November 2008 * Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2009 * Camera ready papers: 28 January 2009 * Events: 15-17 April 2009 -------------------------- WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE -------------------------- Uwe Aickelin, University of Nottingham, UK Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Jarmo Alander, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Payman Arabshahi, Washington University, USA Mehmet E. Aydin, University of Bedfordshire, UK Peter J. Bentley, University College London, UK Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Frederick Ducatelle, IDSIA, Switzerland Jin-Kao Hao, University of Angers, France Malcolm I. Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan Manuel Lozano Marquez, University of Granada, Spain Domenico Maisto, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy Vittorio Maniezzo, University of Bologna, Italy Roberto Montemanni, IDSIA, Switzerland Umberto Scafuri, ICAR-CNR, Italy Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA Kwang M. Sim, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Luigi Troiano, University of Sannio, Italy Lidia Yamamoto, University of Basel, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] JSAC CFP: Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] JSAC CFP: Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking Datum: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:06 +0200 Von: Moustafa Youssef <moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <mailman.30608.1227101994.28270.tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Our apology if you receive multiple posts of this announcement. ============================================== JSAC CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) refers to networking for application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure protection and operation, emergency and crisis intervention, healthcare services, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity, emergent behaviors, and the need for reliable and timely response. MCN should comprise networking technology, infrastructures and services that may alleviate the risk and directly enable and enhance connectivity for mission-critical information exchange among diverse, widely-dispersed, mobile users. A primary challenge to MCN is to deploy and dynamically configure and evolve communication networks that are dependable, autonomic, secure, adaptive, and rapidly deployable to support critical missions and their priorities. In order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support services such as location determination of both authorized and unauthorized entities, quality-of-service aware audio and video communication, emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, on-demand federation, and service-oriented architecture. Also important is the integration of MCN with the Internet to reduce cost of deployment and maintenance and to enhance reachability and ubiquity. This special issue of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications solicits high quality technical contributions in mission-critical networking including, but not limited to: - Architecture and design of MCN and next-generation emergency calling and alerting - Rapidly and dynamically deployable services and networks - Evolving "elastic" networking with decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation - Federation and policy management for heterogeneous networks and protocols - Trust, security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and management for MCN - Sensor and actuator networks for critical information gathering, tracking and real-time control - MCN traffic and mobility analysis - Formal methodology for cognitive, autonomic, and context-aware protocols and network management - Spectrum management and access - Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies ** Paper Submission Manuscripts should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review. Argument justifying contribution specific to the unique features of MCN must be provided. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors at: http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to mcn-jsac(a)criticalnet.org according to the following timetable: - Manuscript submission: April 1, 2009 - First review notification: August 1, 2009 - Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2009 - Acceptance notification: November 1, 2009 - Final manuscript due: January 2, 2010 - Publication: June, 2010 ** Guest Editors - Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA - Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland - Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA - Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt - Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA - Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA - David Du, National Science Foundation and University of Minnesota, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS2009)
by Jin Nakazawa 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

[Our apologies if you receive multiple postings of this CFP] Paper Submissions Due: January 9th, 2009 ********************************************************************** Call For Papers Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009) http://www.inss-conf.org/2009/ June 17 - 19, 2009 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Sponsor: Transducer Research Foundation Technical Sponsor: IEEE ********************************************************************** During the past years, the International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS) has established itself as THE scientific event where academic and industrial experts from the areas of sensor systems, wireless networks, and sensor network applications come together. The INSS provides a forum to hear about the latest developments in these areas, to exchange ideas, and to start up collaborations within these fields and between industry and academia. Call for Scientific Contributions --------------------------------- INSS 2009 is the sixth annual conference in the series, and features a highly selective technical program. We invite outstanding research papers from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking, or application of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that investigate research issues shared between all three areas. INSS 2009 invites the submission of regular, short, and industry papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, technical correctness, and presentation. Papers submitted must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop, or other publication. All accepted papers will be published from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), and also from IEEE Explore. Regular/Short Paper Track --------------------------------- Regular papers must be 4-8 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. Short papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. Short papers are suitable for interactive discussions; the presenters of accepted short papers are given short oral presentation times. Topics of regular paper track include but are not limited to: * Applications of Networked Sensing Systems * Prototypes, Field Studies & Testbeds for Networked Sensing Systems * Safety and Security of Networked Sensing Systems * Data Management for Networked Sensing Systems * Middleware for Networked Sensing Systems * Communication Protocols * Sensor Phenomena and Modeling * Sensors and Sensing Systems * Materials, Fabrication, and Packaging of Sensors Industry Paper Track --------------------------------- INSS 2009 continues the industry track. Experts from industry are encouraged to publish their work at INSS 2009 and to have a lively exchange of their experiences with conference attendees. Industry papers are suitable for industry researchers to present not only technical, but also practical issues surrounding production, deployment, and commercialization of networked sensing technology. Industry papers must be 2-4 pages long (two-column format) and include an abstract of 100-150 words. All papers should be formatted according to the "IEEE transactions" format. The submitted industry papers will be reviewed by industry track TPC members. Accepted industry papers will be presented in the main conference's industry track session given full oral presentation times. The industry track aims at providing a forum among practitioners, developers, and researchers to discuss practical issues including but not limited to: * Designing networked sensing systems for commercial applications * Service models and architectures for successful deployments * Production engineering for networked sensing systems Evaluation of * Networked sensing systems in practical applications Important Dates --------------- Paper Registrations Due: January 9th, 2009 (IMPORTANT!) Paper Upload Due: January 9th, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 1st, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: April 17th, 2009 Conference Dates: June 17 - 19, 2009 Important Dates for Industry Track ------------------------------------ Paper Submissions Due: January 17, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 1st, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: April 17th, 2009 Organization ------------ General Co-chairs: Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Hide Tokuda, Keio University, Japan Program Co-Chairs: Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Tamal Mukherjee, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Program Vice-chairs: Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Publicity Chairs: Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Hartmut Hillmer, Universitat Kassel, Germany Industry Track Program Chairs: Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Narito Kurata, Kajima, Japan Peter Boda, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, USA Publication Chair Razvan Beuran, NICT, Japan Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Lin Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hartmut Hillmer, University of Kassel, Germany Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Yoshihiro Kawahara, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Yonghe Liu, UT Arlington, USA Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn, Germany Masateru Minami, University of Tokyo, Japan Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marcelo Pias, Cambridge University, UK Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Silvia Santini, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Shivakumar Sastry, The University of Akron, USA Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan Sang Son, University of Virginia, USA Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kristof Van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany Dan Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Lan Wang, University of Memphis, USA Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Hongyi Wu University of Louisiana at Lafayette,USA Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Andrew Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary,USA _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: 12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,Deadline!]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

CALL FOR PAPERS The event: NETWORKING 2009; 8th international conference in this series. The ?flagship event" of IFIP TC6. The venue: Aachen (Germany); situated at the borders of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. TPC chairs: Luigi Fratta, Henning Schulzrinne, Yutaka Takahashi. General chair: Otto Spaniol. Topic areas: Applications and Services. Wireless networks. Next Generation Internet. ...... The date: May 11-15, 2009 Main conference: May 11-14; Workshops: May 15. Publication: Springer LNCS + IFIP Digital Library. Submission via: EDAS (www.edas.info) Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2008. Acceptance notification: January 31, 2009. Camera ready due: February 28, 2009. More detailed information: www.networking-2009.org

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) Datum: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:08:20 +0800 (HKT) Von: GU Zonghua <zgu(a)cse.ust.hk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS The Second International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) --- in conjunction with ICDCS 2009, June 22, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Workshop site: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ Conference site: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/icdcs2009/ICDCS_2009.html Important Dates: Paper submission: December 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 11, 2009 Camera ready papers: March 13, 2009 We are currently witnessing the emergence an infrastructure for a technical, economic and social revolution that is enabled by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Cyber-physical systems are physical and engineered systems whose operations are integrated, monitored, and controlled by a computational core. The integration of computational and physical processes exhibit complicated behavior that can not be analyzed by the computational or physical sciences alone. These systems also transcend traditional computer-controlled systems because of their scale, dependence on man-machine interaction and their rich communication infrastructure that is enabled by the Internet. Some of the most challenging R&D software problems for cyber-physical systems are those associated with producing distributed, real-time, and embedded platforms and applications, and where computers control physical, chemical, or biological processes or devices. Examples of such systems include airplanes and air traffic control systems, automobiles, power grids, oil refineries, and patient monitoring systems. Despite advances in standards-based commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies, key challenges must be addressed before COTS software can be used to build mission-critical distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems effectively and productively. Furthermore, there are existing critical infrastructures that oversee the operations of everything from nuclear power plants to traffic lights and yet they may not even be able to accept static upgrades, or patches, or any dynamic change of behavior, but they will remain with us for quite some time. Dynamically retrofitting these systems while maintaining their stability within a cyber environment is a significant challenge yet to be overcome. The International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (WCPS2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of CPS, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of CPS. The technical program of WCPS2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Topics of Interest In summary, the main topics of interest are on grand challenges, requirements, architectures, innovations and abstractions for Cyber-Physical Systems as well as technical challenges to interface and manipulate the Physical World. In particular, we are seeking papers in, but not limited to, the following main areas: [Architecture and infrastructure] Current architectures for cyber physical systems tend to be based on layers of network, OS, and middleware that have evolved over decades in the context of general-purpose computing systems. One goal of this topic area is to seek architectural abstractions, mechanisms, and formalisms that are better suited to the needs of cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include: approaches for refactoring the technology base to collapse/remove layers; techniques for managing QoS properties top-to-bottom; and end-to-end in ultra-large-scale cyber-physical systems. [Fundamental system services] Decades of experience with enterprise systems have yielded reasonably good abstractions and technologies for developing reusable services, such as transactions, discovery, naming, and event notification. There is much less consensus and experience, however, on the appropriate abstractions and technologies for fundamental system services in cyber-physical systems. Some example topics include 'multi-ility' services, such as security, reliable, and predictable replica-based fault detection and isolation frameworks that can operate in resource-constrained safety- and mission-critical CPS environments. [Service composition/synthesis] This area involves rigorous, evidence-producing composition (and composites) of system services, often using novel languages and models of computation. Some example topics include "type systems for QoS contracts" or "checkable properties of dynamic event structures" or "synthesis of mixed-criticality RTOS tailored for domain X". The time and scheduling, behavioral interaction, and partitioning/isolation will be central cross-cutting issues. [Interaction and coordination] A single critical infrastructure facility can have thousands of devices, such as in supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, that spread over hundreds of miles. The devices themselves are typically in a physically protected environment; yet the interactions among them, on the other hand, go through the cyber space which poses a challenge to us and calls for a paradigm that is interaction and coordination centric. [Integration] CPS research is fundamentally different from prior computer controlled research. One aspect of the difference lies in the tighter integration and co-design of the cyber and the physi-cal subsystems. In the past the stability theory in engineering concerns about the suppression of various kind of errors -- uncertainties in the model, disturbance from environment, noise in sensing and errors in actuators -- except that bugs in at the heart of the control process: the complex software that controls the plant. On the other hand, main stream software fault tolerance techniques such as primary-and-standby do not take advantage of the fact that the physical plants must obey laws of nature; This opens new insights for the integration of cyberand physical systems. [Proactive monitoring] There are numerous existing systems, such as chemical plants, oil refiners, power grids, that have been in existence and correctly functioning for many years, and until now were not considered vulnerable because these systems were not envisioned to run in the cyber environment which has become today's reality. Theses systems face the high risk of being a terrorist target though cyber invasions. On the other side, it is out of the question that we re-build or prescribe a complete upgrade of all these systems. Worse yet, it may even be too expensive to take the mentality of ``dispatch-and- then-patch''. Therefore, external, lightweight and proactive monitoring of the systems is essential in building or retrofitting CPS. [Applications and experiences] New CPS applications and experiences, such as Tele-Physical Services, Smart Transportation, etc. We learn from our past experiences: through our encounters with real-life applications and experiences with new technologies, we develop the skill set and tools to perform better in the future. Paper Submission The workshop solicits original and previously unpublished papers reporting results from research and/or industrial experience as well as discussion of grand challenges and requirements. Submit a full paper of 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page. URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Contact author must input the following information at the WCPS2009 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 150-250 word abstract, and keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and send it through the following web site. The submission web site is: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcps09 Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the workshop. Each accepted paper must have a full registration in order to include the paper in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Organization Committee General Co-Chairs: Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Furong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee: Helen Gill, National Science Foundation, USA Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Aloysius K. Mok, University of Texas at Austin, USA Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Publicity Co-Chairs: Zonghua Gu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China Guoliang Xing, Michigan State University, USA Program Committee Please see the complete PC list at the workshop website: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~xueliu/Confs/WCPS2009/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] DEADLINE Extension - International Workshop on Mobile Urban Sensing (MobiUS09)
by Ling-Jyh Chen 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ================================================================== Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Mobile Urban Sensing (MobiUS09) May 18-21, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/MobiUS09/ To be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware (MDM 2009) ================================================================== With wireless networking technologies permeating nearly every aspect of our working and living environments, WSN applications are going mobile, people-centric, pervasive, and ubiquitous. Aggregating mobile and wireless sensors into sophisticated sensing, computational, and communication infrastructures will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, industrial, health-care and domestic, establishing ubiquitous computing that will pervade society redefining the way in which we live and work. The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of mobile urban sensing technologies. This is a very challenging task, as it involves several technical issues (e.g., data mining, machine learning, software design, mobility management, performance modeling, resource control, and security), as well as the socio-economic issues (e.g., business model, cyber-physical interaction, human-machine interaction and social networking). The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals, and application developers both from the industry and academia. Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems and protocols design, and development and analysis, in all areas related to Mobile Urban Sensing are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Submissions and Proceedings ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts via the website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobius09 The manuscript should be written in English and follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The proceedings will be a single CD-ROM combining the proceedings of the main conference and the workshops, and will be archieved in IEEE Xplore and IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: Dec. 8, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 01, 2009 Camera-ready version: Mar. 15, 2009 General Co-Chairs Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles, USA Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Mycolleagues] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mycolleagues] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension Datum: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:01:45 +0100 Von: Nils Aschenbruck <aschenbruck(a)cs.uni-bonn.de> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br ***************** *Extended Deadline - Nov. 28* ****************** ================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= The First Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009) http://www.scenes-workshop.org Rome, Italy March 6th, 2009 to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS For the reliable performance evaluation of wireless networks, realistic models and credible simulation scenarios are crucial. Recently, in the area of wireless networks, it has been shown that simplistic models for mobility, traffic, and signal propagation yield results that are too optimistic. In order to provide more credible models, traces from specific scenarios need to be acquired and then realistic scenario models need to be developed and validated. We solicit papers on mobility, traffic, propagation, and scenario modelling for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on trace measurement architectures and trace characterizations of wireless networks are also welcome. The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research interests and activities on scenario modelling of wireless networks. It is also aimed at increasing the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, theoretical, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of wireless network scenarios. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Classification of scenarios * Challenges in trace acquisition * Tools for mobility, traffic and propagation modelling * Methods in localization and tracking to acquire accurate movement traces * Movement trace measurement architectures * Characterization of movement traces * Mobility modelling * Validation of mobility models * Traffic measurement, traffic characterization, traffic modelling * Combined mobility and traffic modelling * Characterization of signal propagation * Propagation modelling * Impact of mobility on radio characterization * Impact of scenario modelling on performance Authors are invited to submit full papers and work-in-progress papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages in ACM conference proceedings format) should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. For detailed submission instructions, together with format files, see the SCENES website. All submissions will be handled via EDAS: http://edas.info/7006 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: Nov. 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 6, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: Jan. 25, 2009 COMMITTEE: Program Chairs: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK Matthias Paetzold, University in Agder, Norway Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/)]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Preliminary CFP: ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (http://icccn.org/icccn09/) Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:25:46 -0500 Von: striegel(a)nd.edu An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *Apologies if you receive multiple copies* ICCCN 2009 - 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Preliminary Call for Papers August 2-6, 2009 -- San Francisco, CA http://icccn.org/icccn09/ ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. Scope: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Authors are invited to submit papers that present original research to one of the following tracks: * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) * Track on Optical Networking (ON) * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) Instructions for Authors: Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6903&) as PDF files (formatted for letter (8.5x11-inch) paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages). Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). Please indicate the corresponding author. Note: A new requirement for this years conference is that a paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: All submitted papers will be reviewed the respective track TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers by an author. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings that will be available through IEEE Xplore (pending IEEE approval). **************************************************************** Important Dates: * February 20, 2009: Abstract registration deadline * February 27, 2009: Paper submission deadline * May 1, 2009: Author Notification * May 15, 2009: Camera-ready papers due **************************************************************** Workshops: ICCCN 2009 will feature satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the TPC Vice Chair for Workshops, Xiaobo Zhou (zbo(a)cs.uccs.edu). The details on the call for workshop proposals can be found on the conference web site. For additional information on track TPCs, student travel grants, best paper award, and other information see the conference web page or contact the general or TPC co-chairs. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA TPC Co-Chairs * Song Ci, University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA TPC Vice Chairs * Lavy Libman, NICTA Sydney, Australia * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Yang Yang, University College London, UK * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Andy Li, Oklahoma State University, USA * Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Tutorial Chair * Chia-Chin Chong, Docomo USA Labs, USA Local Arrangements Chair * Ismail Guvenc, Docomo USA Labs, USA Publicity Chair * Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA * Antonios Argyriou, Philips Research, Netherlands * Hideki Tode, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan * Zhao-yang Zhang, Zhejiang University, China Registration Chair * Kartik Gopalan, SUNY Binghamton, USA Student Travel Grant Chair * Yan Luo, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Industry Liaison Chair * Mei Wang, Cisco, USA Steering Committee Liaison * Haohong Wang, Marvell Semiconductor, USA Web Chair * Danai Chasaki, University of Massachusetts, USA Track Chairs * Track on Emerging Wireless Technologies and Platforms (EWTP) o Fei Tong, Motorola UK o Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK * Track on Internet Services, Systems and Applications (ISSA) o Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Northwestern University, USA o George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * Track on Multimedia and QoS (MQoS) o Fernando Kuipers, TU Delft, Netherlands o Jörg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland * Track on Network Architecture and Protocols (NAP) o Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia o Joe Touch, University of Southern California, USA * Track on Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation (NAPE) o Alex Sprintson, Texas A&M University, USA o Adam Wierman, Cal Tech, USA o Guoliang (Larry) Xue, Arizona State University, USA * Track on Network Security and Privacy (NSP) o Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA o Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, USA * Track on Optical Networking (ON) o Xavier Masip, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain o Eiji Oki, University of Electro-Communications, Japan * Track on Peer-to-peer Networking (P2PN) o Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University, USA o Arnaud Legout, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Track on Pervasive Computing and Grid Networking (PCGN) o Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA o Li Xiao, Michigan State University, USA * Track on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN) o Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA o Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA * Track on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing (WCSP) o Bala Natarajan, Kansas State, USA o Fu-Chun Zheng, University of Reading, UK _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WoWMoM 2009 - new deadline]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] WoWMoM 2009 - new deadline Datum: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:25:52 +0100 Von: Alessio Vecchio <a.vecchio(a)iet.unipi.it> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 New Deadline!!! Papers Due: December 8, 2008 ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** WoWMoM 2009 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 15-19 June 2009, Kos, Greece http://www.ieee-wowmom.org ***************************************************************** Call for Papers IEEE WoWMoM 2009 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The evolution of wireless networking technologies offers an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, create and exploit context-awareness and so on. Papers that present work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academy, duly documenting the lessons learned from test-beds, field-trial, or real deployments, are also welcome. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the EDAS system. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Differentiated services for wireless multimedia - IP-based wireless multimedia services - Networking services for pervasive systems - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Network management and troubleshooting - IP-based mobile networks - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, and MAN - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Vehicular wireless networks - Third and fourth generation systems - Wireless security and dependability - Content Management and Distribution - Modeling and Performance evaluation The WoWMoM 2009 technical program will also include two-days workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. General Chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Vasilios Siris, FORTH-ICS, Greece TPC Chairs: Prasant Mohapatra, Univ. California, Davis USA Jörg Ott, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland Workshops Chairs: Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Industrial Chair: Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson, USA Sponsorship Chair: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA Finance & Registration Chair: Yonghe Liu, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Local Organizing Committee Chair: Ioannis Askoxylakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece Publicity Chairs: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Alessio Vecchio, Univ. Of Pisa, Italy George Xylomenos, AUEB, Greece Steering Committee: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers Univ., USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA -- ====================================================== Alessio Vecchio Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione - Univ. of Pisa Via Diotisalvi, 2 - 56122 Pisa - Italy Voice: +39 050 2217463 Fax: +39 050 2217600 http://vecchio.iet.unipi.it/~vecchio/ ====================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: NOSSDAV 2009]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '08

17 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: NOSSDAV 2009 Datum: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:29:56 -0800 Von: Kuan-Ta Chen <cychen(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Antwort an: cychen(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw Organisation: Academia Sinica An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive this more than once] === [ ACM NOSSDAV 2009 ] === The 19th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Williamsburg, Virginia June 3-5, 2009 http://www.nossdav.org/2009/ * Important Dates Paper Deadline: 9 February, 2009 Notification: 23 March, 2009 Camera Ready: 13 April, 2009 * About NOSSDAV NOSSDAV 2009 will continue the workshop's long tradition of focusing on emerging topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research, held in a setting that stimulates lively discussions among the senior and junior participants. It is also an established practice for NOSSDAV to encourage experimental research based on real systems and data sets. Public availability of source code and data sets is highly encouraged. The scope of NOSSDAV has evolved over the years. For NOSSDAV 2009, we would like especially highlight two new topics of interest: unconventional use of GPU for multimedia and multi-core processors support for multimedia. NOSSDAV 2009 continues to welcome submissions in the traditional topics of networked multimedia systems, operating system support for multimedia, and multimedia security and rights management. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * OS, middleware and network support for multimedia * Overlay networks for multimedia * Media streaming, distribution and storage * Web 2.0 systems and social networks for multimedia * Wireless and mobile multimedia systems * Media sensor and ad hoc networks * Grid/cloud computing support for multimedia * Embedded systems for multimedia * Multicore architecture support for multimedia * GPU for multimedia * Network processor support for multimedia * Tele-immersion and mixed-reality systems * Networked graphics and virtual environments * Networked games * Multimedia communications and system security * Digital rights management A broad view will be taken in deciding what topics are within scope. Please contact the workshop co-chairs if you are unsure and wish to check if a particular topic is within the scope of NOSSDAV. Submissions should be at most SIX pages in length using standard ACM proceedings style. We expect these submissions to be the kernel of what will eventually lead to full-length papers at high-quality conferences or journals. Authors of selected, high quality papers from NOSSDAV 2009 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MMSJ). ----------------------------- Co-Chairs: Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore Local Arrangement: Ketan Mayer-Patel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Publicity: Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews, UK Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Grenville Armitage , Swinburne U. of Tech, Australia Ernst Biersack , Institute Eurecom, France Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Mark Claypool, WPI, USA Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University, USA Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University, USA Romulus Grigoras, IRIT-Toulouse, France Carsten Griwodz , University of Oslo, Norway Pal Halvorsen, University of Oslo, Norway JongWon Kim, GIST, Korea Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada Kang Li, University of Georgia, USA Yong Liu, Polytechnic University, USA Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University, UK Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC, USA Ketan Mayer-Patel, UNC Chapel Hill, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Sanjay Rao, Purdue University, USA Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA Prashant Shenoy, UMass, Amherst, USA Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP--SPECTS 2009
by Essia Hamouda 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ========================================================================== 2009 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems July 13-16, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2009/ This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. =========================================================================== Deadlines Special sessions proposals: January 31, 2009 Submission of papers (and tutorials proposals): February 23, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: April 24, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Submission Due: May 22, 2009 http://atc.udg.edu/SPECTS2008/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP SCENES - Deadline Extension
by Nils Aschenbruck 16 Nov '08

16 Nov '08

***************** *Extended Deadline - Nov. 28* ****************** ================================================================= Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ================================================================= The First Workshop on Scenarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES 2009) http://www.scenes-workshop.org Rome, Italy March 6th, 2009 to be held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2009. CALL FOR PAPERS For the reliable performance evaluation of wireless networks, realistic models and credible simulation scenarios are crucial. Recently, in the area of wireless networks, it has been shown that simplistic models for mobility, traffic, and signal propagation yield results that are too optimistic. In order to provide more credible models, traces from specific scenarios need to be acquired and then realistic scenario models need to be developed and validated. We solicit papers on mobility, traffic, propagation, and scenario modelling for various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular networks. Papers on trace measurement architectures and trace characterizations of wireless networks are also welcome. The main purpose of this workshop is to promote further research interests and activities on scenario modelling of wireless networks. It is also aimed at increasing the synergy between academic and industrial researchers working in this area. We are interested in experimental, systems-related, theoretical, and work-in-progress papers in all aspects of wireless network scenarios. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Classification of scenarios * Challenges in trace acquisition * Tools for mobility, traffic and propagation modelling * Methods in localization and tracking to acquire accurate movement traces * Movement trace measurement architectures * Characterization of movement traces * Mobility modelling * Validation of mobility models * Traffic measurement, traffic characterization, traffic modelling * Combined mobility and traffic modelling * Characterization of signal propagation * Propagation modelling * Impact of mobility on radio characterization * Impact of scenario modelling on performance Authors are invited to submit full papers and work-in-progress papers for presentation at the workshop. Papers (no more than 8 camera-ready pages in ACM conference proceedings format) should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. For detailed submission instructions, together with format files, see the SCENES website. All submissions will be handled via EDAS: http://edas.info/7006 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: Nov. 28, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Jan. 6, 2009 Camera-ready paper due: Jan. 25, 2009 COMMITTEE: Program Chairs: Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Technical Program Committee: Kevin Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Marco Conti, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, Pisa, Italy Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, Scotland Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Robin Kravets, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK Mirco Musolesi, University of Cambridge, UK Matthias Paetzold, University in Agder, Norway Maria Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Deadline Extension - IEEE Network- SI on Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks
by Matteo Cesana 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Due to numerous requests the deadline of the following IEEE Network special issue has been extended to December, 2 Our apologies in case of multiple receptions IEEE Network Special Issue on Networking over Multi-Hop Cognitive Networks Schedule for Submission New Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 December 2, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Background In recent years, the exponential growth of unlicensed band usage has prompted possible wireless spectrum shortage. Moreover, today's wireless networks are characterized by fixed spectrum assignment policies, which often lead to wasting large spectrum portions due to sporadic utilization of the licensed users (according to FCC, only 15% to 85% of the licensed spectrum is utilized on the average). This situation has motivated and pushed forward the development of novel low-power wireless Cognitive Radio transceivers with the capability of changing their transmitter parameters (operating spectrum, modulation, transmission power and communication technology) based on interaction with the surrounding environment. Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) based on nodes equipped with cognitive transceivers have consequently emerged as viable architectural solutions to solve current wireless network problems resulting from the limited available spectrum and the inefficiency in the spectrum usage by exploiting the existing wireless spectrum opportunistically. Scope and Contributions This special issue aims to consolidate and disseminate the latest developments and advances in the emerging area of Multi-hop CRNs, which is defined as a collection of cognitive transceiver-equipped nodes forming a multi-hop communication network. The main focus of this special issue is on networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs where the information needs to be relayed over multiple wireless links. Multi-hop CRNs responsibility is not only limited to the discovery and allocation of wireless resources while avoiding service disruption for primary users. Additional tasks must be accomplished to sustain end-to-end communication, including identification of sets of relay nodes, ensuring that required bandwidth is available over all necessary links, and regulating resource sharing among all flows in the network. Most importantly, these goals must be achieved while coping with negative effects of frequent link outages due to primary user access. Preferably, the multi-hop CRN must also ensure that flow requirements, such as bandwidth, delay, and jitter bounds, are met. This special issue provides opportunities for the research community, the standardization bodies, and the industry to showcase the-state-of-the-art of the research on networking aspects of Multi-hop CRNs, implementation studies, and feasibility analyses. Moreover, since the success of CRN also depends on spectrum regulatory aspect, we also solicit critical contributions addressing the problem of managing the competition in spectrum access under regulated, partially regulated or unregulated Multi-hop CRN architectures. While the nature of the multi-hop CRNs necessitates high levels of interaction and dependency between the physical layer and protocols and solutions at MAC layer and above, the main focus of this special issue is the networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. Therefore, the design of cognitive transceivers and hardware, signal processing techniques, modulation and coding methods, physical layer channel models, as well as networking issues primarily concerning single-hop CRNs fall outside the scope of the special issue. In addition to original research articles, we also solicit survey and position articles in the area of networking aspects of multi-hop CRNs. These topics include, but are not limited to: o Medium access control for multi-hop CRNs o Routing solutions for multi-hop CRNs o Real-time communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Cross-layer design of communication protocols for multi-hop CRNs o Centralized and distributed dynamic spectrum management and spectrum leasing o Performance evaluation and modeling of multi-hop CRNs o Regulatory Aspects and CRN Architectures Schedule for Submission Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008 December 2, 2008 Feedback to Authors: February, 15 2009 Publication of the Special Issue: Second Half of 2009 Authors must follow the IEEE Network Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Network Magazine Web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to ieee-network-si(a)ece.osu.edu before the deadline (November 15th 2008). Accepted papers will also be included in Network Interactive (NI) the online version of Network Magazine. Guest Editors Prof. Matteo Cesana Dip. di Elettronica e Informazione Politecnico di Milano, Italy cesana(a)elet.polimi.it Prof. Eylem Ekici Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The Ohio State University , US ekici(a)ece.osu.edu Prof. Yeheskel Bar-Ness Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research New Jersey Institute of Technology, US barness(a)yegal.njit.edu <mailto:barness%20(at)%20yegal%20(dot)%20njit%20(dot)%20edu> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS , Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS , Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications Datum: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:46:22 +0200 Von: Thanos Vasilakos <vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr> An: <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com>, <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu>, <tccn(a)comsoc.org> Call for Book Chapter Title: Delay Tolerant Networks: Protocols and Applications (to be published by <http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/> Auerbach Publications, CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group) Introduction Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) arises primarily as a result of various forms of host and router mobility, but may also come into being as a result of disconnection due to power management or interference. Examples of such networks include: * Terrestrial Mobile Networks: In many cases, these networks may become un-expectedly partitioned due to node mobility or RF interference. In other cases, the network may never have an end to end path and may be expected to be partitioned in a periodic and predictable manner. * Exotic Media Networks: Exotic communication media includes near-Earth satel-lite communications, very long-distance radio links (e.g. deep space RF communications with light propagation delays in the seconds or minutes), communication using acoustic modulation in air or water, and some free-space optical communications. These systems may be subject to high latencies with predictable interruption (e.g. due to planetary dy-namics or the passing of a scheduled ship), may suffer outage due to environmental conditions (e.g. weather), or may provide a predictably available store-and-forward network service that is only occasionally available (e.g. low-earth orbiting satellites that "pass" by one or more times each day). * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks: These networks are frequently characterized by extremely limited end-node power, memory, and CPU capability. Recommended Topics (not limited to) * Routing, broadcast, multicast * Medium Access Control * Self-x properties, i.e. self-organization, self-management, self-healing and self-protection * Economic approaches and social model * Learning techniques * Design, analysis and simulation * Network coding * P2p * Mobility * Robustness and stability * Security, immunity and resilience * Auto-configuration, authentication and trust management * Bio-computing inspired approaches * Generic network-level service composition at run-time * Context Transparency and Awareness * Sensor networks-based DTN * Ambient, invisible, implicit, and adaptive computing * Context-aware computing and location-based services and applications * Testbed, prototype and experiment * Challenges, visions and roadmap Important Dates You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal discribing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter summary, table of content, and contact authors. Estimatedly, each chapter should has about 35 pages with 12 font size, double-space format. Proposal Deadline: 31 December 2008 Notification of proposal acceptance: 31 Jan. 2009 Full chapter submission: 30 April 2009 Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book. Contact Please make correspondence and chapter submissions to: Dr. Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Email: vasilako[AT]ath.forthnet.gr Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang[AT]ieee.org Dr. Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos ETH Zurich, Switzerland Email: spyropoulos[AT]tik.ee.ethz.ch _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] ICMCS'09 -Ouarzazate-Morocco April2-4, 2009 (IEEE-Conference)-Deadline Extension to November 30, 2008
by Youssef Zaz 15 Nov '08

15 Nov '08

Dear Colleague, As requested by many potential authors, the paper submission deadline of ICMCS'09 is extended to November 30, 2008. Therefore, please spread the word and inform your colleagues, students and research fellows about the approaching deadline, to assure a high number of paper submissions and a high quality and successful conference. ********************************************************************** Deadline Extension / November 30, 2008 ********************************************************************** Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for papers to those potentially interested to submit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICMCS'09 - IEEE Conference International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems April 2-4, 2009. Ouarzazate, Morocco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference website: http://www.icmcs09.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICMCS'09 is organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all facets of multimedia, content authoring, processor technology, and systems design. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications. A key objective of ICMCS'2009 is to create a program that achieves a balance between theory and practice, academia and industry, systems/tools-oriented research and content creation. ICMCS'09 is an IEEE technically co-sponsored conference. We are planning to have the papers published in this conference's proceedings to be published in the IEEE Digital Library and to publish two special issues of international journals (*) out of selected papers from those presented in it. (*) - International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies - International Journal on Computer Science and Applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Network and operating system support for multimedia - Quality-of-service control and scheduling algorithms - Multimedia file systems and databases - Audio and video compression - Sound and MIDI music, surround and around video - Set-top technologies and operating systems - Multimedia processor architecture - Computer-aided training and education, tele-medicine - Animation and morphing, fractals and rendering - Virtual reality - Mobile network architecture - Intelligent network applications - Internet and intranet applications - Web servers and services - Multimedia conferencing, internet phones, and mail - Electronic commerce - User interfaces - Authoring systems - Entertainment and games - Medical applications - Pattern recognition - Systems and Networks security - Electronics, modeling and control systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-CHAIRMEN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamed Essaaidi, Prof. Dr .(*) Youssef Zaz, Dr. (**) ICMCS'2009 Co-chairs (*) IEEE Morocco Section Chair Abdelmalek Essaadi University Tetuan, Morocco (**) Assistant Professor Polydisciplinary Faculty of Ouarzazate Ibn Zohr University, Morocco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Multimedia in the Mobile Age. (Ismail Khalil - Johannes Kepler University of Linz - Austria) - Large-scale Photo Annotation Using Collective Wisdom of Data and Users. (Edward Chang - University of California - USA) - Interactive search in large video collections. (Marcel Worring - University of Amsterdam - Netherlands) - Human-centered multimedia computing inspired by focus on disabilities and impairments. (Sethuraman Panchanathan - University of Arizona - USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission (Full paper): November 30, 2008 Acceptance notification to authors: January 11, 2009 Final version and registration: January 31, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE Standard template available at ICMCS'09 website should be used to prepare the extended paper (up to 6 A4 pages). WEBSITE http://www.icmcs09.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youssef ZAZ E-mail: icmcs09(a)gmail.com Phone: (+212)-62-10-21-67 _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [CFP] Elsevier Performance Evaluation: SI on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP] Elsevier Performance Evaluation: SI on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor and Ubiquitous Networks Datum: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:29:57 +0100 (CET) Von: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it (Luciano Bononi) An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Apologies if you received multiple copies Elsevier's Performance Evaluation: an International Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/peva/ Call for Papers for a Special issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. Performance Evaluation solicits papers from researchers and practitioners that address the issues of performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks for inclusion in a special issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks". Scope of contributions Authors are encouraged to submit original contributions, with both theoretical and practical results of significance on all timely aspects of wireless and mobile technologies with an emphasis on performance evaluation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: . Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks . Analytical modeling . Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks . Queuing and network information theoretic analysis . Tracing and trace analysis . Software tools for network performance and evaluation . Simulation methods and tools . Automatic performance analysis . Performance comparison . Performance of wireless and sensor devices . RF channel capacity modeling and analysis . Mobility modeling and management . Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks . Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, mesh, sensor, vehicular and hybrid networks . Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks . Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning . Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks . Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks Submission details Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered for this special issue. If the paper has been published at a conference, the submitted journal version should be significantly extended. In this case, authors should submit a short summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The manuscripts must be prepared in English. See instructions on the preparation and submission of manuscripts at the journal's website: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/peva/ The journal version must be submitted via the online submission system: http://ees.elsevier.com/peva/ Please ensure you correctly select/enter the following details: Manuscript Type: 'Special Issue Paper' Special Issue: 'Yes' Special Issue Information: 'Ubiquitous Networks' Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - a short abstract; - a COMPLETE list of authors and their affiliations; - a contact person for correspondence; - postal and e-mail addresses of the authors. Important dates Submission deadline: December 1st, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: June 15, 2009 Publication: End 2009 - beginning 2010 Guest editors Luciano Bononi Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy www: http://www.cs.unibo.it/~bononi/ e-mail: bononi (at) cs.unibo.it Isabelle Guerin-Lassous UFR d'Informatique, Batiment Nautibus Universite Lyon I/LIP, Lyon, France e-mail: Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous (at) ens-lyon.fr For more information, please contact the Guest co-Editor Dr. Luciano Bononi (e-mail: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it). University of Bologna, Italy .

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