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[Tccc] ICCCN 2008: Call for Papers
by arunita jaekel 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

**** Apologies for multiple copies. Please feel free to distribute *** ICCCN 2008: CALL FOR PAPERS 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://icccn.org/icccn08/ August 4-7, 2008 Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (USA) Sponsors: IEEE ComSoc (Technical Co-Sponsorship pending) ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving communications and networking related techniques. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that present challenging and innovative results. Please submit your papers to one of the tracks listed below for the conference. Optical Networking Pervasive Computing and Mobile Networking QoS Control and Traffic Modeling Cross-Layer Design and Optimization Signal Processing for Communications Network Security Cognitive Radio Networks Communication and Information Theory Internet Services and Applications Multimedia Networking Networking Algorithms and Performance Evaluation Future Internet Architectures and Protocols Information Processing in Sensor Networks Cellular Telephony: 3G and Beyond Wireless Platform: Applications and Testbeds Protocols and Algorithms for Wireless Networks General Topics IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: February 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 12, 2008 Camera ready papers due: June 1, 2008 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Submitted manuscripts must be of length up to 6 pages unless the authors are willing to pay the over-length charges at the time of publication (manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages). The manuscripts must be submitted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be registered and presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages) in standard IEEE camera-ready format. Each FULL registration covers up to THREE papers by an author. BEST PAPER AWARD: ICCCN08 plans to award one best paper and authors of the paper will be recognized at the conference. WORKSHOPS: ICCCN08 features satellite workshops. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshops co-chairs, Prof. Xiaolin (Andy) Li at xiaolin(a)cs.okstate.edu or Prof. Yunhao Liu at liu(a)cs.ust.hk. The details of Call for Workshop Proposals can be found on the ICCCN08 Web site. Please contact the ICCCN 2008 Officers below with any questions: Prof. Byrav Ramamurthy Technical Program Chair University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tel: (402) 472-7791 Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Web: http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/index.html Dr. Haohong Wang General Chair Marvell Semiconductors Tel: (408) 222-9779 Email: haohong(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by wolf＠ibr.cs.tu-bs.de 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

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CFP - Distributed Collaborative Sensors Network
by Herve Guyennet 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Workshop on "Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks" will be held on the 19th of May in Irvine, USA, in adjunction with the 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS 2008) May 19-23, 2008 The Hyatt Regency Irvine Irvine, California, USA http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ CALL FOR PAPERS Submission Deadline: January 15, 2008 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks aims at providing opportunities to present the most recent advances and future challenges in the field of distributed, wireless and mobile communications in sensors networks, as they relate to collaboration. Wireless Sensors Networks constitute a significant current technology, attracting considerable research interest from various disciplines. Indeed, the wireless sensor technology is employed in emerging areas with high potential for scientific research, being used for biomedical, environmental or industrial applications. These applications generally require intelligent dense environment monitoring which generates important data volumes. Data collection and analysis need to deal with cooperation and coordination topics in order to prolong network lifetime and to provide useful, synthesized information for automation, decision making and support. Topology control, by means of clusters or groups, is another applied technique to overcome these challenging problems. The 1st International Workshop on Distributed Collaborative Sensors Networks will focus on the research of developing collaboration infrastructures and solutions in the context of wireless sensors networks, aiming to bring together researchers and practitioners in these fields. In addition, the workshop will highlight recent innovative research results which will strengthen the formal foundation of this emerging area. This workshop is to be held as part of the 2008 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS08). Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to): - Data and Resource Sharing in Sensors Networks - Collaborative Data Management on Large Scale - Distributed Sensors Architectures - Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks - Interfacing with Wireless/Mobile Systems - Routing and Data Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks - Group Collaboration in Sensor Networks - Visualization Techniques and Visual Languages for Collaborative Sensor Networks - Multi-sensor Data Fusion - Methods for Ad Hoc Deployment - Algorithms for Sensor Localization and Tracking of Mobile Users - Energy Issues and In-Situ Calibration Methods - Performance Evaluation of Distributed Sensor Networks - Trust and Security Issues in Distributed Collaborative Sensor Systems - Intelligent Sensor Technologies and Applications - Applications Enabled by Collaborative Sensor Network Architectures SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite papers reporting original and unpublished research work on above and any other related topics from researchers in academia and industry. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email addresses. Include also an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short list of keywords. Please submit an electronic copy of your full manuscript (not exceeding 10 pages in IEEE format, single-spaced, double-column, including figures, tables and references). Electronic submissions will be accepted only in PDF format, sent by email to the organizers. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the Symposium's web site later. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. All submitted papers and posters will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS The technical program committee of DCSN 2008 is co-chaired by Herve Guyennet LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France Email: guyennet(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr Violeta Felea Email: felea(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr LIFC, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon, France Technical Program Committee The members of the Program Committee are: - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Huah Yong Chan, University Sains, Malaysia - Patrice Clemente, ENSI Bourges, France - Dan Grigoras,, University College Cork, Ireland - Jean-Christophe Lapayre, LIFC, Besançon, France - Vincent Lecuire, CRAN Nancy, France - Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy - Vladimir Oleshchuk, Agder University College, Norway - Thierry Villemur, LAAS, Toulouse, France IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline January 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance February 8, 2008 Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due March 3, 2008 If you have questions regarding workshop paper submission or the workshop content, please contact Herve Guyennet (guyennet(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr) or Violeta Felea (felea(a)lifc.univ-fcomte.fr). For information or questions about the full Symposium's program, tutorials, exhibits, demos, panel and special sessions organization, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://cisedu.us/cis/cts/08/ or contact the symposium co-chairs: Bill McQuay at AFRL/IFSD, WPAFB (William.McQuay(a)wpafb.af.mil) or Waleed W. Smari at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dayton (Waleed.Smari(a)notes.udayton.edu).

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CfP: OMNeT++ 2008 - Deadline extended to Dec 16
by Isabel Dietrich 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Due to several requests, we extended the submission deadline to December 16, 2007. Please note that this is now a firm deadline. No further extensions will be granted. CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International OMNeT++ Workshop <www.omnet-workshop.org> held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008 <http://www.simutools.org> Marseille, France, March 3, 2008 Sponsored by: ICST, ACM SIGSIM, IEEE France, INRIA, SCS OMNeT++ is a public-source, component-based, modular and open-architecture simulation environment with strong GUI support and an embeddable simulation kernel. Its primary application area is the simulation of communication networks. Because of its generic and flexible architecture it has been successfully used in other areas like the simulation of IT systems, queuing networks, hardware architectures, and business processes. OMNeT++ is rapidly becoming a popular simulation platform in the scientific community as well as in industrial settings. Several open source simulation models have been published, in the field of Internet simulations (IP, IPv6, MPLS, etc), mobility and ad-hoc simulations and other areas. However, such a growing community faces also growing challenges and problems: Integration of different simulation tools, porting of simulation models between different platforms, testing and comparison of applications. Different initiatives were started in the last years for unifying and integrating the already existing simulation models, which involves however also organization and coordination among the different user groups. An important task is making the existing tools and applications easily available. The goal of this workshop is to bring together OMNeT++ users and their tools, applications and ideas. It intends to provide a forum for presentations of recent developments and novel ideas in the broad context of network simulation with focus on OMNeT++. It will bring together researchers to focus on the important topics of integrating simulation models, coupling different simulation tools, providing better modeling approaches, and contributing to the active modeling and simulation community with respect to identifying some of the most promising candidate solution methods, architectures and techniques to address the various challenges of network simulation. The benefits are two-fold: On the one hand OMNeT++ users get into direct discussion and on the other hand they can meet with developers. Furthermore, the developers can pick up ideas for the future development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Parallel simulation * Simulation control * Result interpretation and analysis * Debugging * Simulation in the loop * Modeling techniques * Coupling with other simulation/emulation tools * Integration of hardware-specific code * Cross-layer protocol design methodologies * Mobility models * Simulation of wireless networks * Industrial applications * Use of OMNeT++ in other domains Submission Instructions: Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, or short papers of up to 3 pages, in ACM conference proceedings format. All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. Detailed submission instructions, together with format files, are available on the website. Workshop co-chairs: - Andras Varga, Simulcraft Inc. - Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen - Andreas Willig, TU Berlin TPC chair: - Cristina Comaniciu, Stevens Inst. TPC vice-chair: - Christoph Sommer, Univ. Erlangen - Anna Foerster, Univ. Lugano - Andreas Koepke, TU Berlin Publicity co-chairs: - Isabel Dietrich, Univ. Erlangen - Daniel Willkomm, TU Berlin Program committee: - Ingmar Baumgart, TU Karlsruhe - Roland Bless, TU Karlsruhe - Cristina Comaniciu, Stevens Inst. - Isabel Dietrich, Univ. Erlangen - Thomas Dreibholz, Univ. Duisburg - Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen - Anna Foerster, Univ. Lugano - Patrick Haeflinger, Alcatel-Lucent - Raja Jurdak, UCD Dublin - Andreas Koepke, TU Berlin - Andreas Lagemann, TU Cottbus - Amy L. Murphy, ITC-IRST - Gregory M.P. O'Hare, UCD Dublin - Tom Parker, TU Delft - Dan Pescaru, Univ. of Timisoara - Alfonso A. Quintana, Univ. Malaga - Antonio G. Ruzzelli, UCD Dublin - Guenter Schaefer, TU Ilmenau - Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash Univ. - Christoph Sommer, Univ. Erlangen - Michael Tuexen, FH Muenster - Andras Varga, Simulcraft Inc. - Klaus Wehrle, Univ. of Aachen - Andreas Willig, TU Berlin - Daniel Willkomm, TU Berlin - Martina Zitterbart, TU Karlsruhe Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 MET): - Full paper (extended deadline): December 16, 2007 - Notification: January 15, 2008 - Final version: February 1, 2008

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFPs: ICDCS'08 Workshop on Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Mobile Networks]
by Lars Wolf 28 Nov '07

28 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFPs: ICDCS'08 Workshop on Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Mobile Networks Datum: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:41:00 -0600 (CST) Von: Dr. Hongyi Wu <wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd International Workshop on Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Mobile Networks (In conjunction with ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 20, 2008. http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu/DTMN08/. Mobile communication has experienced an explosive growth since close to quarter of a century. In particular, the mobile ad hoc network technology has attracted significant attention in the last decade or so due its challenging research problems, and span off such new research areas as mesh-based mobile networks and sensor networks. What characterizes nearly all of those mobile technologies is that during the exchange of information between the source and destination terminals, there exists a set of links which constitutes an end-to-end path over which the information is communicated. In some application scenarios, however, the connectivity between the mobile stations is poor due to very sparse network conditions (low node density) or due to unstable connectivity conditions (interference, fading, etc), and thus it is difficult to form a well-connected mesh network for transmitting data through end-to-end connections. In fact, even if there temporarily exists a path in the network for some portion of the communication, it is likely that the terminals will only be intermittently connected due to mobility. As a result, data are delivered in a store-carry and forward paradigm in such networks. Examples include vehicular networks, mobile sensor networks, deep space communications, etc. In this workshop we aim to explore novel research issues related to Delay (or Disruption)-Tolerant Mobile Networks (DTMN) and bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New Network Architectures and Applications * Mobile sensor networks * Vehicular networks * Heterogeneous mobile networks * Delay-tolerant applications - Protocol Design and Optimization * Delay-tolerant transport protocols * Mobility/disruption-aware routing protocols * Reliability and fault tolerance * Energy, processing power and storage requirement * Mobility modeling and mobility management * Localization and location management * Nodal synchronization * Security, privacy and incentives for co-operation * Resource allocation and QoS support - Performance Analysis and Evaluation - Testbed Implementation and Experimental Results Important Dates: - Paper Submissions: Dec. 15, 2007 - Notification: Feb. 11, 2008 - Final Version: March 9, 2008 - Workshop date: June 20, 2008 Submission Instructions: Papers are solicited in the IEEE proceedings format with up to eight (8) pages. Blinded submissions in PDF format must be sent to wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu no later than December 15, 2008. Please include the authors' names and affiliations in the email body only. You will receive a confirmation within 24 hours. All submissions must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed blindly and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop, and will appear in the ICDCS workshop proceedings. Please email wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu if you have any questions. Program Co-Chairs: - Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University - Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Ichiro Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Program Committee: - Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology - Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University - Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University - Mooi Choo Chuah, Lehigh University - Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge - Cecilia Mascolo, University College of London - Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Corporate Research - Dmitri Perkins, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo - Konstantinos Psounis, University of Southern California - Kun Tan, Microsoft Research Asia - Nian-Feng Tzeng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Yu Wang, Microsoft - Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University - Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center --Hongyi ======================================================================== Dr. Hongyi Wu, Associate Professor The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, U.S.A. Tel: 337-482-5779, Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WoWMoM Industrial Track]
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '07

27 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WoWMoM Industrial Track Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:16:48 -0800 (PST) Von: Qi Han <qh1c4(a)yahoo.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: jain(a)ics.uci.edu, mkumar(a)uta.edu, fanjum(a)qualcomm.com, qhan(a)mines.edu 9th IEEE International Symposium on A WORLD of WIRELESS, MOBILE, and MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 June 23-27, 2008 Newport Beach/Irvine, California, USA http://www.ieee-wowmom.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS: "INDUSTIAL TRACK" Important dates * Paper submission deadline: February 11, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 17, 2008 * Camera-ready deadline: April 04, 2008 As part of an expanded involvement of industry researchers and professionals, IEEE WoWMoM 2008 (http://www.ieee-wowmom.org/) is soliciting original and previously unpublished research papers for a one-day Industry Session. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobility and handover aspects * Security for mobile multimedia * (evolved) MBMS and security * Standards enhacements and upcoming technologies (3GPP/2, IEEE, IETF) * Middleware support for mobile multimedia * Mobile content distribution and authorization * Presence-awareness and multimedia signaling in provider networks * Service creation and provisioning for mobile applications * Broadcast/Multicast based applications and architectures * Power control and energy-efficient systems for pervasive communication * RFID/sensor applications in enterprise and provider networks * Innovative methods for charging/billing * Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) systems * Network simulation and validation tools The Industry Session track is intended to specially highlight system experiences and proofs-of-concept in the areas of wireless communication and multimedia applications. Like regular papers, the "industry session" papers will undergo a review process by an international TPC and will appear in the conference proceedings. However, the selection criteria for "industry session" papers are slightly different. In particular, papers should describe applications, prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. Papers with narrow algorithmic focus or only high-level design details are discouraged. A key goal of these sessions is to present systems-oriented research that exposes the academic and research communities to "real-life" issues and problems being faced in industry. Accordingly, papers will be evaluated, less on the novelty of specific algorithmic content, but by the originality and general applicability of insights that can be inferred from the authors' implementation experience. Papers must be submitted in PDF format via the Easy Chair Website: http://www.easychair.org/wowmom08/. Papers should be double-column, 10pt IEEE format and no longer than 8 pages. Industry Session Chairs: Anand R. Prasad (DoCoMo Euro-Labs) Anjum Farooq (Qualcomm) E-mail: aprasad(a)ieee.org fanjum(a)qualcomm.com More details on the committees for industry sessions and up-to-date submission deadlines etc. are available at: http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/industrial.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" in CSNDSP 2008
by Periklis Chatzimisios 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" organized in association with the Sixth Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008) 23-25 July 2008, Graz, Austria Important Dates: ================ Full Paper due: January 27, 2008 Notification of acceptance by: April 1, 2008 Camera ready paper due: May 5, 2008 Scope: ====== CSNDSP 2008 is organizing a Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" aiming to offer the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet, present latest research results and discuss future directions. Topics of Interest: =================== All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - QoS in the Internet - QoS and Routing (MPLS, Multicast Service) - QoS Network Architectures and Network services - Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability - Traffic Modelling, Control and characterization - Performance Modelling - Queuing Theory - Network Design - Simulation and Measurements techniques - Tools and software for Performance Evaluation - Envisaged performance studies on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Paper submission: ================= Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Please visit http://www.csndsp08.tugraz.at/ for submission guidelines. It would be helpful if authors mention the Special Session when submitting their papers. Further inquiries could also be directed to the Special Session organizers. Special Session organizers: =========================== Hind Castel, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Technical Program Committee: =========================== Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Tijani Chahed (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Thomas Lagkas (Aristotle University, Greece) Ian Marsh (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Lynda Mokdad (University of Paris-Dauphine, France) Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Nihal Pekergin (University of Paris12, Creteil, France) Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, UK) Luca Vollero (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Theodore Zahariadis (TEI of Chalkida, Greece) -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2007: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP - IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM'08)
by Stefan Schmid 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

(Please accept our apology if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM 2008) April 11, 2008 - Salvador, Brazil http://www.netlab.nec.de/acnm08/ In conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008) The purpose of this workshop is to present and to discuss new theories, mechanisms and applications of Autonomic Communication - a new paradigm for forthcoming networks in the fixed as well as the mobile world. The focus of ACNM is on intelligent communication, network control and management paradigms based on smart network and service elements that are capable to automatically configure and organize themselves. Autonomic networks will be able to sense their environment to perceive these changes, to understand the meaning of these changes, and to react in an intelligent manner through adaptation. This facilitates new ways to perform network control, management, service creation, etc. Autonomic networking naturally also applies to mission critical distributed systems, since autonomic behavior allows for immediate reaction to changes in the networking environment or context, and correction of any (predicted) problems. Such behavior also facilitates fault-tolerance and resilience. ACNM offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange their research ideas and findings. The workshop will be held in conjunction with NOMS'08, which draws many leading researchers in the field of Network and Systems Management. It is co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) and the EU IST Project ANA. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following (the full CFP can be found at http://www.netlab.nec.de/acnm08/): *** TOPICS *** - Autonomic network architectures and principles - Paradigms, tools and techniques autonomic communication systems - Control and management in dynamic/mobile network environments - Self-management of communication systems and networks (e.g., based on peer-to-peer principles) - Policy control for autonomic networks & systems - Sensing, monitoring and measurements for autonomic networks - Advances in and application of control theory - Self-co-operating peer-to-peer networks - Self-organizing network elements, and administrative domains - Self-* technologies - Fault-tolerance and resilience - Cognitive networking - Plug and play networking components - Knowledge based network control - Bio-inspired networks and systems - Experiences with self-* solutions - Application of autonomic management to mobile and wireless networking including 3GPP evolved UTRAN, SAE networks, etc. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Submission deadline: January 11th, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: February 22nd, 2008 - Camera ready version: March 21st, 2008 *** PAPER SUBMISSION *** Papers must be original material, not currently be under review, and not have been previously published by another conference or journal. They must be written in English. They must follow the IEEE two-column document style, limited to 6-8 US Letter size pages, with a main text font size of no less than 10pt. Submissions must be in PDF format. To submit your paper, please go to the JEMS system at https://jems.sbc.org.br/noms2008_acnm2008. *** WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS *** - Raouf Boutaba (rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) University of Waterloo, Canada - Marcus Brunner (brunner(a)nw.neclab.eu) NEC Europe, Germany *** TPC CO-CHAIRS *** - Stefan Schmid (schmid(a)neclab.eu) NEC Europe, Germany - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (granville(a)inf.ufrgs.br) Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul (UFRGS), Brazil --- Stefan Schmid (stefan.schmid(a)neclab.eu) NEC Labs Europe NEC Europe Ltd. Registered Office: NEC House, 1 Victoria Road, London W3 6BL. Registered in England 2832014 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" in CSNDSP 2008
by Periklis Chatzimisios 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" organized in association with the Sixth Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2008) 23-25 July 2008, Graz, Austria Important Dates: ================ Full Paper due: January 27, 2008 Notification of acceptance by: April 1, 2008 Camera ready paper due: May 5, 2008 Scope: ====== CSNDSP 2008 is organizing a Special Session on "QoS, Reliability and Performance Modelling" aiming to offer the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals and academics around the world to meet, present latest research results and discuss future directions. Topics of Interest: =================== All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics: - QoS in the Internet - QoS and Routing (MPLS, Multicast Service) - QoS Network Architectures and Network services - Standardization Aspects of QoS and Reliability - Traffic Modelling, Control and characterization - Performance Modelling - Queuing Theory - Network Design - Simulation and Measurements techniques - Tools and software for Performance Evaluation - Envisaged performance studies on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Paper submission: ================= Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Please visit http://www.csndsp08.tugraz.at/ for submission guidelines. It would be helpful if authors mention the Special Session when submitting their papers. Further inquiries could also be directed to the Special Session organizers. Special Session organizers: =========================== Hind Castel, Institut National des Telecommunications, France Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Technical Program Committee: =========================== Gennaro Boggia (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Tijani Chahed (Institut National des Telecommunications, France) Thomas Lagkas (Aristotle University, Greece) Ian Marsh (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Lynda Mokdad (University of Paris-Dauphine, France) Jalel Ben-Othman (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, France) Nihal Pekergin (University of Paris12, Creteil, France) Rouzbeh Razavi (University of Essex, UK) Luca Vollero (Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy) Theodore Zahariadis (TEI of Chalkida, Greece) -- Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios Researcher in Wireless Communications & Multimedia Networks Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki GR-57400, Thessaloniki (GREECE) Phone: +30 2310-791604 Fax: +30 2310-791290 Email: peris(a)it.teithe.gr, pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org Web: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~peris ------------------------------------------------ PIMRC 2008: http://www.pimrc2008.org MediaWiN 2007: http://mediawin.it.teithe.gr CSNDSP 2008: http://www.csndsp.com

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[Fwd: CFP WiMAN 2008]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP WiMAN 2008 Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:46:09 +0100 Von: Frank Reichenbach <frank.reichenbach(a)uni-rostock.de> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'08) Beijing, China, June 20, 2008 in conjunction with ICDCS 2008 http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2008/index.htm Submission Deadline: December 7, 2007 **************************************************************************************** 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, 2007 Acceptance notification: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready due: March 9, 2008 Workshop: June 20, 2008 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) with at most two additional pages with extra charge. One additional page costs $150. Please check the workshop webpage for detailed submission instructions. 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 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 (cpoellab(a)cse.nd.edu) Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu) Workshop Program Vice Chair Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Publicity Co-Chairs Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China (cuiyong(a)tsinghua.edu.cn) Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany (frank.reichenbach(a)uni-rostock.de) Technical Program Committee Wessam Ajib, University of Qu�bec at Montr�al, Canada Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia 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 Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Hyunjeong Hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Haiying Sheng, University of Arkansas, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China Takashi Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Jianbin Wei, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Yang Yang, University College London, UK Yang Yu, Motorola Labs, USA Advisory Committee Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ****************************************************************************************

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[Fwd: [Cost290] [Fwd: CFP IWQoS 2008]]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] [Fwd: CFP IWQoS 2008] Datum: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:51:49 +0200 Von: Yevgeni Koucheryavy <yk(a)cs.tut.fi> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi ------------------------------------------------------------ 16th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUALITY OF SERVICE (IWQoS 2008) June 2-4, 2008 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands http://iwqos08.ewi.utwente.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008 *** *** Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008 *** CALL FOR PAPERS Since 1994, IWQoS has served as the prime annual workshop on Quality of Service, providing an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge research in the field. Building on the success of previous workshops, the objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, and to identify future directions and challenges in developing practical computer/communication systems where predictable, controlled, and robust performance is a central requirement. IWQoS has a long standing tradition of being highly interactive, while maintaining highest standards of competitiveness and excellence. The scope of the workshop covers the main and currently important aspects of QoS research, including related issues such as availability, reliability, security, pricing, resource management, and performance guarantees. The program will include the following highlights: - Key-note by industrial speaker - A session with short position papers - Key-note and invited paper The session with short position papers will be highly interactive and leave much room for the audience to get involved. The short papers will go through the general reviewing process. TECHNICAL PROGRAM As in previous years, the workshop covers a broad spectrum of QoS issues in communications networking. IWQoS 2008 will particularly emphasize the increasing importance of application level QoS and perceived QoS, i.e., the quality of applications as experienced by the end users, which is usually expressed in terms of a 'mean opinion score' (MOS). Relevant topics for the workshop include the following: - End-to-end QoS provisioning in heterogeneous network environments - Application protocols and QoS - QoS in overlay and peer-to-peer networks - QoS adaptation, adaptive applications - Perceived QoS for VoIP and multimedia applications - Mapping network performance to perceived QoS - Service-level agreements (SLAs) and QoS - QoS modelling for gaming applications - Measurement based QoS estimation and verification - QoS in wireless, mobile, ad hoc and sensor networks - QoS in context aware systems (also related to mobility) - End-to-end QoS signalling and support - QoS in home networks, intranets and Metro Ethernets - Operating systems support and end-system design for QoS COMMITTEE General chair: Boudewijn Haverkort, University of Twente TPC co-chairs: Hans van den Berg, TNO Information and Communication Technology Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Local chair: Georgios Karagiannis, University of Twente BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD Award will be given at the conference to the best student paper, whose first author is/was a student at the time of the paper submission. PROCEEDINGS IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results and that neither have been published nor are currently under review for another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. The proceedings will be published by IEEE ComSoc. We also solicit submissions for the short position papers session. The short papers will be included in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract deadline: January 21, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Paper submission deadline: January 28, 2008, 11:59pm CET - Notification of acceptance: March 18, 2008 - Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2008 - Early registration deadline and hotel reservation cut-off date: April 15th, 2008 - Workshop dates: June 2-4, 2008 - Workshop reception and welcome party: June 1, 2008 This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 2008]
by Lars Wolf 26 Nov '07

26 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP Networking 2008 Datum: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:38:09 +0100 Von: Andreas J Kassler <andreas.kassler(a)kau.se> Antwort an: andreas.kassler(a)kau.se Organisation: Karlstad University An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Sincere apologies for receiving this CFP more than once. Please consider submitting a paper to IFIP Networking 2008. ** Paper Submission Deadline: December 1, 2007 ** *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Conference Title: IFIP Networking 2008 Conference Location & Date: Singapore, May 5th to 9th of 2008 Host: Nanyang Technological University Publication: Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/ Networking 2008 is the seventh event in a series of International Conferences on Networking, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC 6). The main objectives of Networking 2008 are to bring together active and proficient members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in this broad and fast-evolving field of telecommunications, and to highlight key-issues, identify trends and refresh vision in the field of telecommunications. The conference objectives will be pursued through technical sessions, keynote talks, and tutorials offered by invited experts, as well as panel discussions on hot topics. The technical sessions will be structured into three tracks: . Applications and services Quality of service, Authentication and security, Intrusion detection, Web architectures and protocols, Network measurements and testbeds, Network management systems, Content distribution, Peer to peer and overlay networks, Pricing and billing, Multimedia protocols . Next Generation Internet technologies All-IP networking, Congestion control, Evolution of IP network architecture, Multilayer design and optimization, MPLS and GMPLS, Multicasting, Network modeling and simulation, Quality of Service, Real-time voice/video over IP networks, Resource allocation, Routing and switching, Scheduling and queue management, Traffic engineering . Wireless and Sensor Networks Ad hoc and sensor Networks, Broadband wireless access, Location management, Location services, Handoff, Mobile networks, Mobility models, Cross-layer design, Mesh networks, Wireless protocols, Multicast and anycast, Energy and power management, Routing, Scheduling, Synchronization, Fault tolerance and recovery, Self-organization, Modeling and performance evaluation Important Dates Submission of full papers: December 1, 2007 (11:59 EDT) Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready Copy Due: February 25, 2008 Paper Submission Guidelines All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Papers must be submitted electronically. The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures, according to the formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript of Springer-Verlag LNCS. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Details of the submission will be available in the website. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper as well as a number of student travel grants. Download the Call for Paper: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/networking2008/CFP2008.pdf _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CFWP: Internet of Things 2008
by Florian Michahelles (IOT 2008 Workshops Chair) 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

************************************************** Call for Internet of Things 2008 Workshop Papers ************************************************** INTERNET OF THINGS 2008 International Conference for Industry and Academia March 26-28, 2008, Zurich (Switzerland) Organized by ETH Zurich, University St.Gallen, and MIT www.internet-of-things-2008.org We are proud to play host to a range of interesting workshops in the area of the Internet of Things. Below please find the titles, abstracts, and organizer names of the four workshops that will be held on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, in the Conference Hotel. Please follow the individual links to the workshop homepages for detailed topics, deadlines, and submission information. WS1: Producing Standards for the Internet of Things (PROSIT) Organizers: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen, Robin Williams, Univ. of Edinburgh Workshop homepage: http://www.prosit-ws.org WS2: Sketchtools - Creative Tools for Prototyping Smart Devices Organizers: Matt Cottam, Tellart Jasper Speicher, Tellart Katie Wray, Tellart Workshop homepage: http://sketchtools.com/iot08/ WS3: 1st International Workshop on Interoperable Vehicles (IOV 2008) Organizers: Markus Strassberger, BMW Robert Lasowski, Softlab Group Workshop homepage: http://www.iov2008.org WS4: Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organisation (Social-IoT) Organizers: Daniel Boos, ETH Zurich Katharina Kinder, Lancaster University Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University Workshop homepage: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008/ For more information please see below or visit http://www.internet-of-things-2008.org/cfp/workshops.html. ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS1: Producing Standards for the Internet of Things (PROSIT) Imagine a network with literally billions of mobile nodes, without any pre-defined communication infrastructure, whose nodes are primarily sensors and actuators with limited processing capabilities. Such networks exhibit specific communication requirements between individual nodes, and between nodes and central access points that provide connectivity with the outside world. Many, if not most of these nodes are integrated into everyday devices; they will be found inside cars, at home, and in the shopping mall. The application areas based on such networks are varied and numerous, including, for example, intelligent homes, car safety, and item tracking. Many such applications will become part of our lives, and are prone to collect information that would be considered as private by many. For the average user, it will be next to impossible to establish who has access to these information, and for which purposes. This unprecedented penetration of virtually everyone's life suggests the need for a close scrutiny of the various processes to be associated with the development of such a technology and its subsequent wide deployment. International standardisation of information and communication technologies (ICT) is among the most important of these processes. It is linked to both the technological development and the policy and legal frameworks within which the technology is to be developed and deployed. Accordingly, this Workshop aims to discuss the development of adequate standards setting processes for the Internet of Things. The analysis of the current situation in ICT standards setting, the current legal situation with respect to the role of standards, and the development of recommendations on how to adapt the processes to adequately serve the environment created by the IoT will be addressed through insights from various disciplines. Organizers: Kai Jakobs, RWTH Aachen Robin Williams, Univ. of Edinburgh Workshop homepage: http://www.prosit-ws.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS2: Sketchtools - Creative Tools for Prototyping Smart Devices As an "Internet of Things" becomes a reality and everyday objects become enabled with information processing capabilities, we must carefully and considerately design the interaction between humans and these (not quite completely, but increasingly) ubiquitous digital devices. Designers should always have access to tools that allow them to prototype and/or sketch the product, object, system, or experience that they are responsible for. The design process is heavily dependent on cycles of prototype and revision - software developers go through numerous iterative cycles of production and updates to refine a product; industrial designers create sketch models out of foam, wood, fabric, etc. to model interaction; engineers use scale sketch models as proofs of concept or to explore new ideas. However, prototyping ubiquitous computing devices is a difficult task. The broad range of technologies involved - wireless communications, RFID, sensors, localization devices, networking, processors, etc. - makes it difficult to have all of the expertise necessary to sketch human/digital interaction. Physical computing toolkits provide a way for designers to experiment with how the physical actions of the user translate into the digital response of the system, and vice versa. It is that translation that defines the interaction between the user and the digital object; the interaction between the human and the internet of things. The workshop aims at gathering a group of people invested in the physical computing field to discuss ideas, methods, challenges, innovations, and potentials of physical computing toolkits. Organizers: Matt Cottam, Tellart Jasper Speicher, Tellart Katie Wray, Tellart Workshop homepage: http://sketchtools.com/iot08/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS3: 1st International Workshop on Interoperable Vehicles (IOV 2008) Since a couple of years, some initial telematics services that inform the driver about current road and traffic conditions are already in the market. With new wireless communication capabilities available like WLAN, WiMAX or UMTS, many additional services become feasible. Therefore, one of the major automotive trends is keeping both the vehicle and the driver seamlessly connected with their environment, providing high-quality traffic related information, increasing active safety and offering passengers high-bandwidth internet connectivity. On the one hand, the vehicles require information from the environment in order to optimally support the driver. On the other hand, the local knowledge of vehicles which is based on a variety of on-board sensor systems can also contribute to support other (not necessarily automotive) services. Enabling new opportunities of interaction between vehicles, passengers, (mobile) devices and services, there are a couple of topics that have to be thought of e.g. novel applications, network management and scalability, security and privacy, market introduction and roll-out strategies. Organizers: Markus Strassberger, BMW Group Research and Technology Robert Lasowski, Softlab Group Workshop homepage: http://www.iov2008.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- WS4: Designing the Internet of Things for Workplace Realities: Social and Cultural Aspects in Design and Organisation (Social-IoT) The rise of the Internet of Things has important socio-technical implications for organizations. While ubiquitous and wireless technologies are developed to enable new ways of working, to increase safety and to facilitate coordination, they may interfere with established work practices, undermine productivity and individuals satisfaction, and have an unforeseen impact on relations of power and control. These issues, however, are rarely addressed in development and research projects for the Internet of Things and in the public discourses surrounding it. This workshop has the goal to increase awareness of organizational issues of the Internet of Things and to provide a forum for discussion of design approaches to manage critical organisational issues. Furthermore we would like to build a bridge between the various research communities exploring organizational, social and cultural aspects of the Internet of Things and ubiquitous computing. We welcome contributions from practitioners, technologists, designers and social scientists in organizational studies, science and technology studies, anthropology and human computer interaction. Organizers: Daniel Boos, ETH Zurich Katharina Kinder, Lancaster University Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University Workshop homepage: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/social-iot2008/ -- For more information see: www.internet-of-things-2008.org Questions? Want no e-mails? Contact us: <info(a)iot2008.org>

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[Tccc] CFP--IEEE ISCC 2008, July 6-9 Morocco
by Nidal Nasser 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2008 July 6-9, 2008 - Marrakech, Morocco http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computer Society ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Technical Topics *** Continuing the tradition of this series of symposia, ISCC 2008 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in the areas listed below. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to the creation, management, dissemination, and communication of information. You are invited to submit a full paper, or a proposal for a panel, invited session, or tutorial, related to the following topics: * Access Networks * Bioinformatics * Data Mining and Database Applications * Distributed Systems Architecture and Management * Digital Satellite Communications * E-Commerce and E-Services * Economic and Regulatory Issues * Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery * Grid and Cluster Computing * Human Language Technologies * Image Processing and Visualization * Internet Services and Applications * Internet Protocols - Advances and Evolution * Management of Telecommunications Services * Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks * Digital Media Technologies * Modeling and Simulation * Network Design, Optimization, and Management * Network Reliability and Quality of Service * Optical Networking * Overlay and Programmable Networks * Peer-to-Peer Computing * Real Time Communication Services * Routing and Multicast * Security and Cryptography * Software Engineering * Standards * Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications * Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures *** Important Dates *** Dec. 15, 2007 Submission Deadline Feb. 22, 2008 Notification of Acceptance Apr. 12, 2008 Final Manuscript Due *** Submissions *** * Papers should describe original work and be 15 double-spaced pages or less in length. A concise and representative abstract should be included. The paper should clearly indicate the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the phone number of the corresponding author. Please follow the submission guidelines at http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2008 * Accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Papers that exceed that page limit will be charged an over length fee. * For additional information contact the technical co-chairs and local co-chairs. *** Organization Committee *** Conference General Chair: Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA adel(a)louisville.edu Technical Program Co-chairs: Abdelghani Bellaachia, George Washington University, USA, bell(a)gwu.edu Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA, biazsaa(a)auburn.edu Local Committee Co-Chairs: Amine Bensaid, Al Akhawayn U. of Ifrane, Morocco, amine(a)alakhawayn.ma Driss Aboutajdine, School of Science, Rabat, Morocco, aboutaj(a)fsr.ac.ma Finance and Registration Chair: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Plenary Chair: Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT&T Labs Publication Chair: Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T Labs, USA Keynote Chair: Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA Web Chair: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's U., Canada Publicity Chair: Nidal Nasser, U. of Guelph, Canada Steering committee: Reda Ammar, U. of Connecticut, USA Antonio Corradi, U. of Bologna, Italy Mahmoud Daneshmand, AT &T, USA Adel Elmaghraby, U. of Louisville, USA Hussein Mouftah, U. of Ottawa, Canada Sartaj Sahni, U. of Florida, USA Ahmed Tantawy, IBM, USA We hope to see you in beautiful Marrakech, Morocco! _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP - 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2008) Datum: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:08:01 +0100 Von: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)IFI.UZH.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Zurich, IFI An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security AIMS 2008 "Resilient Networks and Services" http://www.aims2008.org 1-3 July 2008 Jacobs University Bremen, Germany The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across different communities and among PhD students. AIMS 2008 focuses on resilient networks and services and in particular on novel technologies that can provide resilience in a scalable, economic, secure, and autonomic way. To achieve resilience, new techniques such as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization techniques, or self-organizing overlays must be explored. Modeling, analysis, and visualization is essential in order to understand the emerging overall system behavior. * Conference Topics Authors are invited to submit unpublished papers that are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, or related topic areas: Scalable and autonomic infrastructures - Autonomic network and service management - Dynamic overlays and P2P-based management systems - Fully decentralized and distributed approaches Economic management - Economic aspects of IT infrastructures - Distributed accounting and monitoring - Reputation and incentive mechanisms Security and trust management - Inter-domain trust management and security concepts - Resilience and reliability of network and service infrastructures - Defense against distributed attacks and botnets - Management and evaluation of security services Virtualization - Virtualization of resources and services - Management of virtual network laboratories (e.g. GENI, PlanetLab) - Economics of network and service virtualization - Management of Grid resources and virtual organizations Modeling and visualization - Modeling of management technologies and procedures - Modeling and analysis of policies and promises - Visualization of management data and systems behavior * Conference Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original, full papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted to the AIMS 2008 paper track. Each submission will be limited to 12 pages in the LNCS paper format. Papers exceeding 12 pages, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. Paper submission is handled by the JEMS system, accessible from the AIMS 2008 Web page. Submissions to the conference are expected to report substantial research results relevant for the subjects listed above. * PhD Workshop Submission The PhD workshop provides PhD students the opportunity to present, discuss, and obtain feedback from the AIMS 2008 audience about their research work. PhD students are invited to submit short papers (4 pages, written in English and in PDF format) describing the current state of their research. The paper should include a clear description of the research problem and the chosen approach, argue why the problem is hard and the approach novel, and it should outline the results achieved to date. Specific, low-level technical details should be avoided. Papers should have no more than two authors--the student and the advisor. Accepted submissions will be published in the AIMS proceedings. * Best Paper Award The program committee will select one paper for the Best Paper Award (all regular papers are eligible). The winner will be presented at the conference. * Location Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. The green campus located in the city of Bremen has ideal meeting facilities and can host a large number of people during the summer on campus. * Deadlines 10 Feb 2008 Conference paper submission deadline 10 Feb 2008 PhD workshop paper submission deadline 06 Apr 2008 Notification about paper acceptance 06 Apr 2008 Notification of PhD workshop paper acceptance 20 Apr 2008 Camera ready paper copies due 01 Jul 2008 AIMS 2008 conference * Organization General Chair: - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Technical Program Chairs: - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany PhD Workshop Chairs: - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands Tutorials and Keynotes: - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK * Steering Committee - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Mark Burgess, HIO, Norway - Olivier Festor, INRIA, France - David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany - Rolf Stadler, KTH, Sweden * Technical Program Committee - Panayotis Antoniadis, University of Pierre and Marie Curie Paris, France - Arosha Bandara, Imperial College London, UK - Jan Bergstra, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway - Georg Carle, Univeristy of Tuebingen, Germany - Isabelle Chrisment, Nancy University, France - Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA - Costas A. Courcoubetis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Vasilios Darlagiannis, EPFL, Switzerland - Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany - Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany - Olivier Festor, INRIA Lorraine, France - Thomas Fuhrmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil - Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea - Alexander Keller, IBM, USA - Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, USA - Emil Lupu, Imperial College London, UK - Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada - David A. Maltz, Microsoft Research, USA - Martin May, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - George Pavlou, CCSR, University of Surrey, UK - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Bruno Quoitin, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - Danny Raz, Technion, Israel - Helmut Reiser, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany - Giancarlo Ruffo, Universita di Torino, Italy - Joan Serrat, UPC, Spain - Radu State, INRIA Lorraine, France - Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland - Maarten van Steen, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany - Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany - Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA

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[Fwd: CfP - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008) Datum: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:07:58 +0100 Von: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)IFI.UZH.CH> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Zurich, IFI An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies for possibly receiving multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Bandwidth on Demand (BoD 2008) http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/ In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008 http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/noms2008/ April 11, 2008 Salvador da Bahia, Brazil "From Bandwidth on Demand to Networks on Demand - Bandwidth Trading in the Era of Network Virtualization" Scope The second BoD workshop follows the first successful workshop which was held in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2006. Driven by the recent technical advances in telecommunications, especially in the area of network virtualization and wireless mesh networks, as well as based on the new potential of emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) and next generation networking (NGN) concepts, the goal of this workshop is to take a fresh and innovative look at the concept of bandwidth on demand (BoD). The rapid technological progress in the area network virtualization, mainly driven by new optical fiber technology and virtual router infrastructures, is generating a new trend for "on demand" provisioning of bandwidth or even whole networks for applications that require short-term bandwidth assignments at large scale, such as large sporting events or cultural open air activities. However, suitable business models for "on demand" bandwidth services are currently missing. The BoD 2008 workshop seeks original papers, both from industry as well as academia, dealing with the technical, economic, and legal dimensions of BoD mechanisms. The workshop will include presentations and discussions of accepted technical papers, as well as invited talks and a panel session. Topics of Interest * Technical design of scalable, reliable, and cost-effective bandwidth trading infrastructures, including market mechanisms as a way to increase efficiencies o Scalability of bandwidth trading mechanisms o Secure and reliable bandwidth trading mechanisms o IP-based and decentralized trading mechanisms o P2P trading infrastructures, distributed markets, P2P auctions o Management of bandwidth trading infrastructures o Provisioning of bandwidth on demand o Provisioning of networks on demand * Economic studies and modeling of market and business models in carrier and service provider networks o Economics of networks on demand o Economic management of network virtualization o Game theoretical bandwidth on demand models o Cost and revenue models o Bandwidth on demand business models o Market liquidity aspects * Resource allocation and provision in non-profit bandwidth trading systems (economic modeling, incentive mechanisms, policies) o Neighborhood wireless mesh networks o Peer-to-peer Internet access sharing o Network testbed infrastructures (e.g., GENI, Planetlab) * Industrial developments of new technologies that facilitate or create impediments to bandwidth on demand o Network virtualization technologies o Wireless mesh networks o Network management aspects o Technical improvements in transport and data networks * Legislative and regulatory issues related to the Telecom Act and in comparison to other commodities markets such as the electric grid o Telecom legislation o Telecom regulation o Commodities markets o Legal issues of P2P trading infrastructures Paper Submissions Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 8 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions must be in PDF and will be handled using the JEMS system. Please refer to http://www.csg.uzh.ch/events/bod08/ for further submission instructions or contact bod08(a)ifi.uzh.ch for additional information. Those papers accepted will be published in proceedings with an ISBN number. Important Dates * Submission deadline: January 7, 2008 * Notification of acceptance: February 7, 2008 * Final versions of papers due: February 21, 2008 * Workshop date: April 11, 2008 Workshop Chairs * Panayotis Antoniadis, LIP6, France * David Hausheer, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Kohei Shiomoto, NTT Labs, Japan * Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley, USA

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[Tccc] MMTC-Track within EuroMicro SEAA 2008
by Paul Mueller 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

******************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------- -- Call for Paper -- -- -- -- EuroMicro 2008 -- -- Multimedia and Telecommunications Track -- -- Network of the Future and its Applications -- -- -- -- http://www.icsy.de/conferences/euromicro2008/ -- -- -- -- Sept. 1st - Sept. 5th, 2008 -- -- Parma, Italy -- -- -- -- http://seaa2008.isti.cnr.it/ -- -- -- -------------------------------------------------------- The current inter-networking paradigm, although highly successful as exemplified by the Internet, has become sub-optimal due to its sheer popularity. There has always been an answer to all requirements, no matter whether caused by new applications or technologies. So, over time the formerly simple and clear Internet architecture became a patchwork of new balconies, workarounds and bypasses. In this conference track we should discuss the two mainstreams in this area: the “Clean-Slate Approach” as well as the “Evolutionary Approach”. Beside future networks also new applications especially in the Grid using collaboratively distributed computer resources are emerging and becoming popular. One of the major goals in Grid computing is to hide its complexity from the software developers and end users resulting in new approaches for Grid architects, middleware and application developers. We invite you to contribute to this conference track by submitting papers in one or more of the categories outlined below. Multimedia • IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) • (Multimedia) Information systems for emergency services • Integration of IP and broadcast services • Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia • Ambient multimedia services • Home entertainment • Gaming Telecommunications • Future Internet (Clean-Slate versus Evolution) • Embracing P2P communities as a new business approach for Telcos • Access networks • Layer-2 Technologies • Self-engineering communications • Performance evaluation of fixed and mobile networks • QoS control and scheduling • Security Grid Computing • Programming models, tools and environments • Software architectures and middleware • Virtualization • Robustness, fault-tolerance and self-healing • Scalability • Data distribution and data access • Ad-hoc computing grids • Integration of problem solving environments • Distributed applications We encourage submissions demonstrating the potential of new approaches by providing case studies, experiments, and quantitative data. Submission of papers -------------------- Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of their paper to http://www.icsy.de/EM08 Papers should not exceed 8 pages (in IEEE/CS proceedings format; 10pt, single-space, double-column) or 6000 words and include an abstract of up to 150 words. A cover page should clearly show the name, mailing address, e-mail address and fax number of the author to contact, as well as the topic areas of the submitted paper. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE. Selected papers will be offered the opportunity to appear as extended versions in a special issue of a scholarly journal. The following signed statement should be included on the cover page: "Neither this paper nor any version close to it has been or is being offered elsewhere for publication. All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the paper will be made available in Camera-ready forms by June 6th 2008, and it will be personally presented at the EUROMICRO 2008 Conference by the author or one of the co-authors. The presenting author(s) will pre-register (full fee) for EUROMICRO 2008 before the due date of the Camera-ready paper." Program Chairs --------------- Paul Mueller University of Kaiserslautern pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de phone +49 631 205 2263 Rainer Stotzka Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe stotzka(a)ipe.fzk.de phone +49 7247 82 4738 Program Committee ------------------ Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Isabel Campos, Instituto de Fisica Cantabria, Santander, Spain Hermann deMeer, University of Passau, Germany Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany Thomas Friese, Siemens AG, Germany Gerhard Haßlinger, T-Systems, Germany Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Marcel Kunze, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany David Larrabeiti, University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain Daniel Kofman, ENST Paris, France Prabhat Kumar Mahanti, University of New Brunswick, Canada Laurent Mathy, University of Lancaster, UK Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Andreas Mauthe, University of Lancaster, UK Harald Müller, Siemens AG, Germany Marcin Plociennik, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Erwin P. Rathgeb, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ivica Rimac, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Simon P. Romano, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy Jens Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Matti Mikael Siekkinen, University of Oslo, Norway Ralf Steinmetz, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Phuoc Tran-Gia, University Wuerzburg, Germany Michael Weber, University of Ulm, Germany Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: March 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 9, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: June 6, 2008 Updated information -------------------- http://www.euromicro.org General information --------------------- This track is an integral part of the EUROMICRO SEAA 2008 conference. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Paul Mueller email: pmueller(a)informatik.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern Phone: ++49-(0)631-205-2263 Dep. of Computer Science Fax: ++49-(0)631-205-3056 Paul Ehrlich Strasse Geb. 34 http://www.icsy.de D-67653 Kaiserslautern Germany ___________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[EUROSIS] EUROMEDIA 2008, April 9-11, 2008, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Call for Papers
by Eurosis 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

------------EUROMEDIA 2008, APRIL 9-11, 2008, UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, PORTO, PORTUGAL, CALL FOR PAPERS------------ EUROMEDIA 2008 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS WEBSITE http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 UNIVERSITY OF PORTO PORTUGAL APRIL 9-11, 2008 Organized by ETI Sponsored by EUROSIS Delft University of Technology Belgacom TTVI Ghent University DG-INFSO Introduction The 2008 Euromedia conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. New topics are human computer interaction with a focus on the interaction of users with multimodal interfaces and the usability and experiences of users with multimodal systems based on different media. The EUROMEDIA conference is held concurrently with the ECEC and FUBUTEC conferences. The conference is structured around 5 tracks: WEBTEC-MEDIATEC-COMTEC-APTEC and ETEC This year the conference will feature the following Special tracks: - Knowledge Management and e-Mobility - In-Car Applications - Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication - Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: - Medical Imaging Systems - D-TV Applications WEBTEC The WEBTEC conference focuses on new developments with respect to Internet, Intranet, HTML, and WWW. Because of the large amount of new tools and developments, scientific papers focusing on this subject should always include references to other ideas and products. If your paper describes a new language or tool, include the theoretical basis,application, and (tested) experiences. Topics: Internet Viewers and Programs * Development and Design Tools for the Web * Tactical Internet * Web Programming * Web Simulation and Animation * Interactive Web Publishing Tools * Dynamic New Languages and Standards * Java Security * CORBA and the Web * IPV6 (next generation internetprotocol) Visual Programming Languages * Advanced Web Authoring and Development Tools * Visual Web Programming * Visual HTML - XML , XSL editors * Applets and Scripting Languages over Networks 3D Web Programs * 3D Worlds * Rule Based Programming for 3D Environments (avatars) * Building Online Communities Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * Video Telephony, Web Video and Web Conferencing * Video and Audio Libraries * Internet telephone networks AI on the Web * Intelligent Agents, Knowbots and REBOL Bots * Worm Programs, Data Mining and MDX, SQL, SQLJ Based Tools * Mobile Network Agents * Site Analysis Tools * Collaborative Filtering * Intelligent Interactive Characters * Semantic Web Applications * Webbased Information Systems Software for Web-based Business Applications and E-Commerce * Building Interactive Advertising and Information Interfaces * Business Objects and Business to Business E-Commerce * Customer Tracking Tools, E-Commerce Tools & Architectures * Electronic Cash Transfer Protocols on the Web * Joint Electronic Payments Initiative * Internet Open Trading Protocols * Security and E-Commerce * Web Based Training and Web Based Networked Simulation * PC VR Based Training MEDIATEC The MEDIATEC conference looks at new developments in multimedia technology. Step by step, multimedia computing becomes more common and more popular. DVD technology, videoconferencing, and real-time 3-D animation have become widely available for standard hardware platforms. The type of papers we are looking for try to give a theoretical foundation to developments in multimedia hardware and software, if possible comparing different alternatives so that empirical results can form a basis for new standards and choice among alternatives. Topics: Multimedia Techniques and Telecommunications * Real Time Interactive Systems * Hardware for multimedia storage * Hardware and networks for multimedia transmission * CD-Interactive Systems and Online DVD Technology * Removable Storage Technology * Multimedia Sensors (RF Tags) * Intelligent Analysis and Interpretation of Multimedia Data Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Presentation Tools * Presentation Software * Animation /Facial Animation * Animation Tools * 3D Authoring Tools, 3D Graphics, 3D Accelerators and Motion Capture * Video and Audio Editing * PC-DVD Video Imaging, Editing Techniques and Tools * Video Compression Techniques and Tools * Video Accelerators * Non Linear Video Editing Systems * Digital Video * MPEG 5 PC-Video Encoding and Decoding * (MPEG) Image Compression * Colour Palette Strategies * Audio Editing * Digital Audio Software * CD Recording Software * Voice Recognition Systems * Industrial Applications * automatic speech recognition Multimedia Building Blocks * Multimedia Databases * Toolboxes for Moving Graphics * Productivity Tools * Multimedia and CORBA COMTEC The COMTEC conference covers different types of communication technology utilising both fixed and mobile infrastructures. Of course, this conference must be seen in alliance with the overall theme of the conference: new media that are used on a world-wide basis in relation to information and communication infrastructures. Topics: Telecommunications Technologies * High Speed Interconnects * Optical Networks and Switching * Transport Networks * HSI in Parallel/Distributed Systems * Message Passing Communication Standards * Communication Servers and Networks * Access Networks and Protocols * Systems and Applications Software * Clusters and Load Balancing * Traffic Models and Performance Simulations * Fault Tolerance, Reliability Models, Performance Studies and System Validation Networks * Quality of Service * Multicast * ISDN, Intelligent Networks, LAN-WAN Interconnection, WIFI * Broadband and Wideband Networks * Information Super Highways, GRID * Network Management * Case Studies on Large Networks Simulation technology * Network Planning & Management & Software Radio * Broadband convergence networks (BcN) Network Security * Encryption and Coding * Software Protocols * Privacy, ID Verification, Authentication, Message Integrity, Message Non-Repudiation and Security Policies * Access Control + Firewalls + Intrusion Detection * Smart Card Technology Mobile Communications * Satellite Services * WAP compliant Broadband Mobile Communication * Voice Paging, Mobile Fax, Mobile Video Text * 3G Networks * Mobile Networks Planning * W-CDMA (3rd generation mobile telecommunications) * Mobile adhoc networks (MANETS) TV Technology * CATV, HDTV, 3D TV * Interactive Video * DAVIC * Digital TV * DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) QoS * QoS in TP Networks * QoS in ATM Networks * QoS in Public Networks * QoS in Mobile Networks * QoS in Heterogeneous Networks * QoS Charging APTEC The APTEC conference shows how effectiveness and efficiency of individuals and public and private organisations can be improved using telematics, advanced communications, and multimedia technology. Papers in the APTEC conference should present the relation between the type of activity that is supported by new technology and the characteristics of the technology itself. If possible, empirical test results should be included in the paper. Topics: Telematics Consumer Applications * Home Banking * Video-on-Demand, Video and PC-Gaming * Video Kiosks Cooperative Telematics Applications * Home Shopping * Teleconsulting * Teleworking * Teleprocessing * Telepresence * Web Enabled Devices Tele-Education * Tele-Teaching * Multimedia and DVD Technology * Computer Based Training * CBT Authoring Software * Computer Assisted Instruction * Simulation Based Training * Interactive Tools * Tele-Education on the Web * Case Studies Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) * VHDL and Verilog Applications * Product Data Interchange * Synthetic Environments and Simulation on the Web * Distributed Simulation (DIS) * Virtual Reality * Innovative e-mail applications * Shared Memory, Shared Screen * Group Decision Support * Group Scheduling * Group Editing * Video Conferencing and standards * Desktop Video Conferencing * Workflow Software * Putting Interactive Training Online Telemedicine * Multimedia * Real-Time Systems * Telediagnostic * Fault Tolerance * Telemonitoring * Data Bases * Case Studies Ubiquitous computing Applications * health care * Pervasive computing * Video human interaction * Mediascapes * Interactive posters * Electronic tags * Ambient intelligence * System architecture and concepts, software and intelligent receptors * Smart homes and transport (cars,planes, Digital home concept) * smart surroundings using ubiquitous wireless sensor networks * self organising digital sensor networks of individual motes * GPS, active RFID technology * context aware systems (f.ex SIREN) * privacy and security from motes, smart sensors to smart dust Embedded Systems and future product market combinations * modelling specification and validation of embedded systems * intelligent clothing and polytronics * rfid technology * intelligent products and environments * active silenced machines (adaptronics) * simulated environments (reverse engineering) * man-machine interaction (converging technology) * security systems (biometric and other dataprocessing techniques Multimodal communication *context sensitive sensing *affective computing *speech recognition, recognition of facial expressions *recognition of emotion in text, speech and video *usability *engineering experiences ETEC The ETEC conference reviews the latest trends and technologies applied in the growing field of electronic commerce. This event will be exclusively dedicated to practical applications in business to business and business to customer environments. This programme provides valuable guidance on reconfiguring the structure and interaction between organisations, businesses, and customers, to create effective new possibilities and to stay ahead of competition, by implementing new advanced information and communications technology. It focuses on the reality rather than the hype which tends to surround these items. This conference is a unique occasion to find out the key issues and essential facts from case studies and unbiased expert presentations. Topics include: . Tele-X . E-commerce . Security . Medical Information Systems . Challenges of tomorrow and beyond Trust and security: provisions and instruments . Online availability of public services . Service survivability and maintainability . Interoperability of services . Security in e-democracy (including e-participation and e-voting) . E-justice (administration and workflow security for legal processes) . Secure federating information access (from different government and third party agencies) . Security and reliability in media integration . Secure e-government and Identity Management . Security and reliability of Smart Card System . Availability and reliability of mobile services . Data protection and data privacy (e.g. e-health and e-education) . Intrusion detection and prevention . Anti-spam legislation and solution . Public-private- partnerships management . Role-based management and usage restriction Special Tracks Special Track on Knowledge Management and e-Mobility * Knowledge warehouse * Knowledge acquisition and datamining * E-blended learning * MPEG2 standards in e-mobility Special Track on In-Car Applications This track will cover the embedded systems envisaged in future car design based on multimedia applications. * Look-Ahead Radar * Automatic Braking * Blind Spot Detection * Steer by Wire * LEDS * Lane Departure Warning * Conversational Voice Recognition * Browsiness Sensors * Cockpit Controllers * Split Displays * In-car Entertainement Systems * Glass Cockpit * Smart Navigation * Networking Special Track on Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication Facial expressions play an important role in human communication. We are able to read emotions from human faces. Turn taking in human dialogues can be regulated by facial expressions. There is an ongoing discussion about the universal character of emotions. Psychologist P. Ekman claims that there are 6 universal emotions corresponding with unique facial expressions: happiness, sadness, disgust, anger, fear and surprise. But there are much more emotions, which can be conveyed by facial expressions, way of speaking, gestures and other body language. For many years researchers have been involved in the automatic recognition and generation of emotions. There are systems which are able to read faces and analyze speech signals to recognize emotions. Researchers have developed “talking faces” which are able to show facial expressions and to speak with appropriate emotions. At this moment here robots and avatars which are able to display emotions and are able to recognize emotion. The goal of the session/track is to invite researchers to present papers in the area of non verbal communication. Special Track on Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications This track will cover Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications using Motion Capture Technology in * Advertising * Healthcare * Market research * Auto Safety * Mobile Phones * Security Workshops Medical Imaging Systems The workshop will cover topics related with medical imaging systems, such as image acquisition, signal processing, image processing and analysis, virtual reality, computer aided diagnosis, surgery, therapy, and treatment, computational bio-imaging and visualization, software development, tele-medicine systems and their applications. D-TV Workshop 2nd Workshop on Digital Television & Digital Special Interest Channels at the Euromedia 2008 - From Realisable Visions to Feasible and Sustainable Applications. The programme consists of parallel sessions with lectures, practitioner's workshops, poster sessions, and a specialised exhibition. CONFERENCE VENUE University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Http://www.fe.up.pt TUTORIALS Tutorials can be proposed in the following three categories: T1- Introductory tutorials T2- State of the Art Tutorials T3- Software and Modelware Tutorials Tutorial proposals should be emailed to Philippe.Geril(a)eurosis.org POSTER SESSION The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings. STUDENTS SESSION This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings. DIVERSE ACTIVITIES For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact EUROSIS. Special session will be set up for vendor presentations in co- ordination with the scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. Exhibition There will be a special exhibition section for universities and non-profit organisations, and a special section for publishers and commercial stands. If you would like to take part in this exhibition please contact the EUROSIS for a full price schedule and stand layout. Deadlines and Requirements EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION December 20, 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINE JANUARY 20, 2008 Full Paper or Extended Abstract Submission January 20, 2008 Short Paper Submission Deadline: January 20, 2008 LATE PAPER SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 5, 2008 Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Copies: March 17, 2008 Registration Fees Author EUROSIS Other Members Participants Pre-registr. Before 485 EURO 485 EURO 535 EURO 25/03/2008 Registr. After Pre.Reg. 535 EURO 595 EURO 25/03/2008 Req. Registration fees should preferably be paid in EUROs, but can also be paid in the equivalent amount of US$.. Payment is possible by Creditcard The registration fee includes one copy of the Conference Proceedings, coffee and tea during the breaks, all lunches, a welcome cocktail, the conference dinner and conference visit. Author Registration Authors are expected to register early (at a reduced fee) and to attend the conference at their own expense to present the accepted papers. Without early registration and payment, the paper will not be published in the Conference Proceedings. Each registration covers one presentation. PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references, at least five pages, double column) During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages, single column) Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the EUROMEDIA'2008 Conference Proceedings. SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages) Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the EUROMEDIA'2008 Conference Proceedings. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Refereeing and Camera-ready papers The notification of acceptance or rejection, in combination with suggestions to improve the paper, will be sent by FEBRUARY 15, 2008. Along with the notification of acceptance, an author kit with complete instructions for preparing a camera-ready copy for the Proceedings will be sent to authors of accepted abstracts or drafts. The camera-ready copy of the papers must be in by MARCH 17, 2008. In order to guarantee a high-quality conference, the camera-ready papers will be checked as well, to check see the suggestions of the program committee have been incorporated. REPLY CARD Surname:.................................................. First Name:............................................... Affiliation:.............................................. MailingAddress:........................................... .......................................................... ......................................................... Zipcode:...........City:.................................. Country:.................................................. Telephone:....................Fax:........................ E-mail:................................................... Yes, I intend to attend the 2008 Euromedia Conference: * Without presenting a paper * Contributing to the Exhibition * Proposing a vendor presentation with the following title:.................................................... * Proposing a tutorial about the following subject: * Proposing a panel discussion with the following title: * Proposing the following short paper (abstract at least 2 pages) * Proposing the following full paper (based on extended abstract or full paper submission Title of submission .................................. ................................... The paper belongs to the following theme (please tick one): [] WEBTEC * Internet Viewers and Programs * Visual Programming Languages * 3D Web Programs * Video and Audio Streaming on the Web * AI on the Web * Software for Web-based Business Applications [] MEDIATEC * Multimedia Techniques and Telecom * Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software * Multimedia Building Blocks [] COMTEC * Telecommunications Technologies * Networks * Network Security * Mobile Communications * TV Technology * QoS [] APTEC * Telematics Consumer Applications * Cooperative Consumer Application * Tele-Education * Integrated Enterprise Software and Groupware * Telemedicine * Ubiquitous Computing Applications * Embedded Systems and Future Product Market Combinations * Multimodal communication [] ETEC * Tele-X and E-Commerce * Knowledge Management and E-Mobility Special Tracks: [] Knowledge Management and e-Mobility [] In-Car Applications [] Facial Recognition or Non Verbal Communication [] Virtual Reality 2.0 Applications Special Workshops: [] Medical Imaging Systems [] D-TV Do you know others interested in the topic of the conference? Name: .................................... Address: ..................................... ........................................... For general information, contact the EUROSIS: European Simulation Office, c/o Philippe Geril Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Management, Technologiepark 903, B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium Tel. (Office) +32.9.264.55.09; Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Or website: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 -- Unsubscribe from this newsletter: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=newsletter/confirm/remove/0a40f1ec086459t102

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CfP - MobileHCI 2008
by Robert James Steele 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

** In-Cooperation event with ACM SIGMOBILE Our apologies in case of multiple copies. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI 2008 The 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Royal Tropical Institute Conference Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 - 5 September 2008 http://www.mobilehci2008.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobileHCI is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. The 10th conference in the MobileHCI series provides a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services. Categories for submissions --------------- Full Papers / Short Papers / Posters / Demonstrations / Panels / Workshops / Industrial Case Studies / Doctoral Consortium / Student Design Competition / Mobile Experiences Important Dates --------------- 21 January 2008: Workshop Proposal due 4 February 2008: Full Papers due 3 March 2008: Short Papers, Posters, Demonstrations, Panels, Industrial Case Studies, Doctoral Consortium, Student Design Competition due 7 April 2008: Notification of acceptance 28 April 2008: Mobile Experience proposals due 9 May 2008: Final camera-ready versions due Suggested topics --------------- * Audio and speech interaction * Context-dependent systems * Designing (interactive services for) Web sites for mobile devices * Ethnographical and field studies with mobile technology * Evaluation of mobile devices and services/Usability of mobile devices and services * Group interaction and mobility * Intelligent environments * Location-aware interaction * Methods to evaluate mobile usability/User experience research for & with mobile devices * Model-based design of interactive mobile systems * Mobile phenomena * Mobility and work environments * Multimodal interaction * Novel user interfaces and interaction techniques * Perception and modeling of the environment * Safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces, payments) * Specific classes of handheld devices (PDA, Pocket PC, WAP phone, etc.) * 3D graphics on mobile devices * 3G/4G devices and services * Visualization techniques for the mobile context * Interdisciplinary perspectives towards mobile interaction (e.g. Social aspects) * User centered design tools and methods for mobile systems * Wearable computing * Mobile Entertainment * Urban and Location based gaming * Smart clothes * Mobile social networks * Mobile persuasion * Personal monitoring & coaching with mobile devices * Trust, privacy, content protection, legal aspects & issues in mobile applications & services * Implicit interaction styles for mobile devices * Studies on the use of mobile devices for special target groups (e.g. seniors) Conference attendance by at least one author is mandatory. MobileHCI 2008 is organized by Telematica Instituut and Philips Research Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGMOBILE. For more information, please browse to http://www.mobilehci2008.org <http://www.mobilehci2008.org/> or e-mail info(a)mobilehci2008.org We look forward to seeing you in Amsterdam! Organizing Committee -------------------- Henri ter Hofte, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Ingrid Mulder, Telematica Instituut & Rotterdam University, the Netherlands Esmeralda Wouters, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Gea Costeris, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Olga Steen, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Joke Kort, TNO Information and Communication Technology, the Netherlands Thiemo Burger, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Martijn Kriens, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Daan Velthausz, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Jozien Ensing, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Elize Harmelink, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Margot Franken-Richelle, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Rob Kottink, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Johan Koolwaaij, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Program Committee ----------------- Boris de Ruyter, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Maddy Janse, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Kris Mihalic, Yahoo! Mobile, USA Fabio Patern�, CNR/ISTI, Italy Henk de Poot, Telematica Instituut, the Netherlands Panos Markopoulos, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg & CURE, Austria Marc Smith, Microsoft Research, USA Elly Pelgrim, Philips Research Europe, the Netherlands Elisabeth Dykstra-Erickson, ACCESS Systems America, USA Pieter Jan Stappers, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen & Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany ----------------------------------------------------- To be removed from future issues of the SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS, please enter your email address wolf(a)IBR.CS.TU-BS.DE at http://optout.acm.org/listserv_index.cfm?ln=sigmobile-members and we'll remove you. Association for Computing Machinery Advancing Computing as a Science and Profession (c) 2007 ACM, Inc. All rights reserved. -----------------------------------------------------

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ACM SenSys 2008: First Call for Papers
by Thiemo Voigt 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

*** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *** ============================================================================ ACM SenSys 2008: Call for Papers The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 5-7, 2008 Raleigh, NC, USA http://sensys.acm.org/2008/ ============================================================================ The 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. Distributed systems based on networked sensors and actuators with embedded computation capabilities enable an instrumentation of the physical world at an unprecedented scale and density, thus enabling a new generation of monitoring and control applications. This conference provides an ideal venue to address the research challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. We particularly encourage papers that extend the scope of the conference beyond wireless mote-class sensor networks and we seek contributions from a broad range of sensing-related fields, such as actuator networks, RFID applications, mobile ad-hoc networks, camera networks, and others. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Sensor network architecture and protocols * Rich sensor systems leveraging RFID, mobile devices (e.g., cell phones), cameras, robotics, etc. * Analysis of real-world systems and fundamental limits * Sensor network planning, provisioning, calibration and deployment * Deployment experience and testbeds * Experimental methods, including measurement, simulation, and emulation infrastructure * Programming methodology * Operating systems * Sensor network algorithms such as localization, routing, time synchronization, clustering, topology control, and coverage control algorithms * Failure resilience and fault isolation * Energy management * Data, information, and signal processing * Data storage and management * Distributed actuation and control * Applications * Security and privacy * Integration with back-end systems such as web-based information systems, process control, and enterprise software Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University; Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS and SIGBED; with support from NSF. Important dates: * Paper Registration and Abstract: April 7, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time * Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2008, 5pm US Eastern Time * Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 18, 2008 * Camera Ready Paper Copy: August 25, 2008 All deadlines are firm; we will not honor extensions. Papers must be original, unpublished work not under consideration elsewhere. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format, fitting length and formatting guidelines as directed on the submission webpage. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The review process is double-blind and hence, all submissions must be anonymized. Selected papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. For submission details, see the conference web site. Demos: Demonstrations showing innovative research and applications are solicited. SenSys is very interested in demonstrations of technology, platforms, and applications of sensor systems. Abstracts of accepted demos will be published in the SenSys conference proceedings. Submissions from both industry and academia are encouraged. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for demos with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Posters: Posters showing exciting early work on sensor systems are solicited. Areas of interest are the same as those listed in the technical call for papers. While the poster need not describe completed work, it should report on research for which at least preliminary results are available. For submission details, see the conference web site. A call for posters with submission dates, etc., will be posted at a later point. Workshops: Workshop proposals are highly encouraged in emerging areas related to sensor networks. A call for workshop proposals will be posted on the SenSys website. Organization: General Chair: Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Program Co-Chairs: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton) and Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin) Poster Co-Chairs: Philippe Bonnet (U. Copenhagen) and Tian He (U Minnesota) Demo Co-Chairs: Kamin Whitehouse (U Virginia) and Yunhao Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University) Publicity Co-Chairs: Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Liqian Luo (Microsoft Research), and Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University) Sponsorship Chair: Matt Welsh (Harvard) Web Chair: Ying Zhang (PARC) Registration Chair: Peter Corke (CSIRO ICT Centre) Finance Chair: Jie Liu (Microsoft Research) Workshop Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth) Student Award Chair: Sam Madden (MIT) Publication Chair: Joe Polastre (Sentilla) Steering Committee Chair: Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth)

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ICEC 2008: first announcement]
by Lars Wolf 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ICEC 2008: first announcement Datum: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:27:16 +0100 Von: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL for PAPER International Conference on Entertainment Computing ICEC 25-27th September 2008 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA http://www.etc.cmu.edu/icec2008/ We are pleased to invite you to participate in the prestigious 7th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Based on the very successful first international workshop (IWEC 2002) and the following international conferences (ICEC 2003, ICEC 2004, ICEC 2005, ICEC 2006, ICEC 2007), ICEC 2008 will be an international forum for the exchange of experience and knowledge amongst researchers and developers in the field of entertainment computing. Different submission types are invited that present scientific ideas or improvements to existing techniques in the broad multi-disciplinary field of entertainment and edutainment applications. ICEC is the longest established and most prestigious conference in the field of entertainment computing. You can find more information on how you could participate here. This conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for advanced research and helps to determine the state of the art. Worldwide leading experts from academia and industry will present their newest insights, products and demonstrations. Under the auspice of: International Federation for Information Processing Sponsored by: The Entertainment Technology Center Carnegie Mellon University, US **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP: Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment Datum: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:55:46 -0000 Von: Edmond Prakash <e.prakash(a)mmu.ac.uk> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> Referenzen: <20071120083704.23D50502C7(a)iris.tue.nl> ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment Call for Papers http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/si/upe.html Today the computer game and interactive market is highly competitive, and entertainment industry needs to find new forms of entertainment to stay competitive. In the age of ambient intelligence - which deals with making computers invisible available throughout the natural environment of the consumer - the technical foundations for new forms of entertainment, education, training, and art are laid. This form of entertainment can be referred to as ubiquitous and pervasive entertainment. However, not solely technology makes a new form of entertainment successful. Players and users today are more knowledgeable. They demand more and expect interactive digital media applications that have a much more diverse set of features than in the past. Ubiquitous and pervasive entertainment provides these new features with its natural and smart ways how consumers can interact with game content. Another trend in today's game environment is the quest to be more collaborative and social to give in such a way additional value to services. As seen on the Internet, social media sites attract more and more members to activate and broaden their social networks with games and entertainment content. Also, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment benefits from the viewpoints of social media's collaborative production and distribution models which builds on user-generated content, peer productions, and open interfaces with external software modules. From the consumer viewpoint the question remains, are they also ready to join collective action and transform into co-designers and active participants before the end result is there to consume. This special issue deals with the latest in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment. This special issue on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment is a multidisciplinary approach to view newly emerging entertainment technology. It focuses on the latest scientific research and developments in the field of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Entertainment. This special issue presents some selected papers from the MindTrek Conference 2007, held between 2nd and 4th October 2007 in Tampere, Finland. Authors submitted to different tracks of the conference, and revised versions of their paper will be invited for the special issue. The special issue is also open for outside contributions as well as contributions from the conference. The topics to be addressed in this special issue include, but not limited to, the following: Ubiquitous and ambient services, devices, and environments Context awareness, sensing, and interfaces for ubiquitous computation Ergonomics, human-computer interaction designs, and product prototypes Software, hardware, and middleware framework demonstrations Pervasive and ubiquitous games Entertainment and experience technology Technical description of artistic works related to ubiquitous computation Authors should follow the International Journal of Computer Games Technology manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijcgt/. 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 January 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews April 1, 2008 Publication Date July 1, 2008 Guest Editors: Artur Lugmayr, NAMU Lab,Tampere University of Technology, Finland Katri Lietsala, Hypermedia Lab,Tampere University, Finland Jan Kallenbach, Laboratory of Media Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:33:53 -0500 (EST) Von: Ratul Guha <rguha(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 2007)*************************************************** APOLOGIES IF MULTIPLE COPIES RECEIVED *************************************************** Call for Participation 2nd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (IEEE AutoNet 2007) Co-located at IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 Washington, D.C., U.S.A. November 30, 2007 (Friday) Duration: 9:00 - 17:00 URL: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007 for Workshop W8 This one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-with-infrastructure networking technologies, and their applications including safety-assistance and driver-convenience. The tentative Workshop Agenda is as follows. 9:00 AM 9:05 AM, Opening and Welcome 9:05 AM 9:30 AM, Keynote Speech Reengineering of Network towards Sensor and Automobile Communications Prof. Tadao Saito, CTO and Chief Scientist Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan 9:30 AM 12:00 Noon, Morning Session Enhanced Perimeter Routing for Geographic Forwarding Protocols in Urban Vehicular Scenarios by K. Lee, J. Harri*, U. Lee and M. Gerla University of California Los Angeles, USA; and *University of Karlsruhe, Germany Border Node Based Routing Protocol for VANETs in Sparse and Rural Areas by M. Zhang and R. Wolff Montana State University, USA Invited Talk V2V Networks and Applications Prof. Raj Rajkumar Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Location-Based Message Aggregation in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by H. Saleet and O. Basir University of Waterloo, Canada Local Peer Groups and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications by J. Chennikara-Varghese, W. Chen, R. Onishi* and T. Hikita+ Telcordia Technologies, USA; *Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA; and +Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan An Automobile Control Method for Alleviation of Traffic Congestions Using Inter-Vehicle Ad Hoc Communication in Lattice-Like Roads by S. Inoue, K. Shozaki, and Y. Kakuda Hiroshima City Univeristy, Japan 12:00 Noon 1:00 PM, Lunch 1:00 PM 5:00 PM, Afternoon Session Invited Talk DSRC Standards, Prototyping and Field Testing Dr. Luca Delgrossi, Vehicle IT & Services Research (REI/VP) Mercedes-Benz Research and Technology North America Inc., U.S.A. Wireless Traffic Service Communication Platform for Cars by T. Sukuvaara, D. Stepanova, P. Urmi, P. Eloranta*, E. Suutari+, and K. Ylisiurunen# Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland; *Mobisoft, Finland; +Sunit, Finland; #Infotripla, Finland The Feasibility of a Search Engine for Metropolitan Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks by C. Wewetzer, M. Caliskan, A. Luebke, and M. Mauve* Volkswagen Group, Germany; and *University of Dusseldorf, Germany Invited Talk Securing Vehicular Communications and Transportation Safety Cannot Be At Odds Dr. Panagiotis (Panos) Papadimitratos Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Vulnerabilities of Geocast Message Distribution by E. Schoch, F. Kargl, T. Leinmuller* UlmUniversity, Germany; and *Denso Automotive, Germany A Certificate Validation Protocol for VANETs by K. Papapanagiotou, G. Marias*, P. Georgiadis University of Athens, Greece; and *Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece Illusion Attack on VANET Applications - A Message Plausibility Problem by N-W Lo and H-C Tsai National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan An Entropy Based Model for System-Level Downlink Capacity Requirements in V2R Telematic Systems by P. Belanovic and T. Zemen Telecommunications Research Center (FTW), Vienna, Austria Synthesizing Realistic Vehicular Mobility for More Precise Simulation of Inter-vehicle Communication by K. Nakanishi, T. Umedu, T. Higashino, H. Kitaoka*, and H. Mori* Osaka University, Japan; and Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan Intra-vehicular Wireless Networks by M. Ahmed, M. Ames*, T. ElBatt+, C. Saraydar*, T. Talty*, J. Yin# HRL Laboratories, USA; *General Motors R&D, USA; +San Diego Research Center, USA; and #TrellisWare Technologies, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007
by gi-mitglieder-info＠gi-ev.de 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 -------------------------------------------- ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany) 1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems February 26, 2008 http://vaust.uni-lueneburg.de/arcs2008_aal_workshop Call for Papers: ARCS 2008 PDF-Download http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/sonstige_einrichtungen/vaus t/files/ARCS2008_AAL-Workshop_E.pdf Submit a Paper http://www.conftool.net/aal2008/ The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life. The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently. Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods. Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence · Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms · Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing · User Interfaces · UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing · Technologies for vital data sensing · Position tracking, inertial sensors · Knowledge based Methods · Middleware · Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services · Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet · Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X · Trust · System on Chip platforms · Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions · Service oriented platforms Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods · Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models · Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems · Social preferences of eldery people · Parameters of acceptance · AAL scenarios Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration · E-Health, E-Care · Decentralized Communications Support · Autonomous Intelligent Systems Sustainability of AAL Solutions Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008)]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:45:33 -0600 (CST) Von: Ashwin Gumaste <ashwin(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers IEEE INFOCOM 2008 High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2008) Phoenix, Arizona, USA Sunday, April 13, 2008, from 1 pm to 6 pm http://www.arl.wustl.edu/~hsn2008 Technical Sponsors * IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN) * IEEE ComSoc Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Traditionally held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, the workshop on High-Speed Networks brings together researchers from a wide spectrum of areas related to end-to-end communications at rates up to the Tbps range. While physical transmission media enable such high-bitrate communications, existing link, network, transport, and application protocols and their software and hardware implementations in both end systems and core nodes have not yet realized this potential. The limitations of the current designs justify exploration of novel clean-slate approaches to dependable high-bitrate networking desired in e-Science, medicine, entertainment, data centers and other application domains. HSN 2008 provides a unique forum for discussions centered on the design, validation and deployment of high-speed networks without imposing the constraint of straightforward integration of the proposed ideas into the existing network infrastructure. All topics pertinent to high-speed networking are of interest. They include but are not limited to the following: * Network architectures including clean-slate approaches * Switching technologies including packet and circuit switching * Transport protocols including congestion control, scheduling and reliable delivery * Applications requiring high-speed end-to-end services * Cross-layer network protocols * Security at high bitrates and with large data volumes * Node design including network processors, configurable logic, input/output and storage * Innovative physical transmission media and associated systems * Metropolitan area networks, Carrier Ethernet and next-generation optical transport * High-speed access technologies Submission Guidelines The workshop solicits submissions between 3 and 6 pages long. The following is a summary of the submission guidelines: * File format: PDF * Formatting instructions (except for the size): http://cse.unl.edu/~byrav/INFOCOM2008/paper-layout.html * Size of original submissions: between 3 and 6 pages * Maximum size of camera-ready versions: 6 pages * System for original submissions and reviews: EDAS * Publication venue for camera-ready versions: IEEE Xplore Important dates are as follows: * Paper submission: February 7, 2008 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2008 * Camera-ready version due: April 4, 2008 General Chairs * Nasir Ghani, University of New Mexico, USA * Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India Technical Program Committee * Lachlan Andrew, California Institute of Technology, USA * Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland * Georg Carle, University of Tuebingen, Germany * Vincent Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center, Finland * Maurice Gagnaire, ENST, France * Sergey Gorinsky, Washington University in St. Louis, USA * Ashwin Gumaste, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India * Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore * David Hunter, University of Essex, UK * Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Admela Jukan, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany * Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan * Tom Lehman, University of Southern California, ISI-East, USA * Jayaram Mudigonda, HP Labs, USA * Bernhard Plattner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Chunming Qiao, State University of New York Buffalo, USA * Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA * David Starobinski, Boston University, USA * Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA * Joe Touch, University of Southern California, ISI, USA * Marcel Waldvogel, University of Konstanz, Germany * Jianping Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong * Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA * Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: 2nd Intl. IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'08)
by Christian Poellabauer 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- The Second IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN'08) Beijing, China, June 20, 2008 in conjunction with ICDCS 2008 http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2008/index.htm Submission Deadline: December 7, 2007 ************************************************************************ *********************** 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 Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN 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 Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols Quality of Services provisioning Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks Network deployment, localization, and synchronization Topology construction and maintenance Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation Modeling and performance evaluations Physical layer techniques Cross layer optimizations Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks Security-related issues in 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, 2007 Acceptance notification: February 11, 2008 Camera-ready due: March 9, 2008 Workshop: June 20, 2008 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) with at most two additional pages with extra charge. One additional page costs $150. Submission method will be posted on the workshop webpage shortly. 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 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 (cpoellab(a)cse.nd.edu) Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang(a)cs.iusb.edu) Workshop Program Vice Chair Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Publicity Co-Chairs Yong Cui, Tsinghua University, China (cuiyong(a)tsinghua.edu.cn) Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany (frank.reichenbach(a)uni-rostock.de) Technical Program Committee Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University, USA Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia Junzhao Du, Xidian University, China Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA Hyunjeong Hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China Takashi Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Jianbin Wei, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, USA Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Yang Yang, University College London, UK Yang Yu, Motorola Labs, USA Advisory Committee Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ************************************************************************ **************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Iscc] IEEE Policy 2008 -- 2nd Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Iscc] IEEE Policy 2008 -- 2nd Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:42:22 -0500 Von: Alessandra Toninelli <alessandra.toninelli(a)unibo.it> An: iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this cfp] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --- POLICY 2008 --- 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. This year, in addition to the latest research results from the communities working in any area of policy-based management and computing, we encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of management and security of all types of wireless networks: cellular, Wi-Fi, Mobile Ad Hoc, hybrids, etc. POLICY 2008 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based management. This year, as part of the technical program we also plan a special session devoted to the demonstrations of innovative policy based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: POLICY MODELS AND LANGUAGES: * Abstract models and languages for policy specification * Representing policies in XML, RDF, and OWL * Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning * Policy standards, their extensions and refinements * Formal semantics of policies * Relationships between policies in IT processes and devices or across multiple applications * Methodologies/tools for discovering, specifying, analyzing, refining, evaluating and visualizing policy * Models of policy negotiation * Representation of belief, trust, and risk in policies POLICY APPLICATIONS: * Application of policies for autonomic computing, QoS adaptation, and security * Application of policies for identity and privacy management * Business rules and organizational modeling * Identity management * Personalization * Risk adaptive policy systems * Database policies * Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing * Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration * Case studies of applying policy-based management POLICIES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS: * Service management in mobile ad hoc networks * Policy systems for small devices * Policy-based spectrum management * Privacy and security * Policies in location based services * Context-aware policies in pervasive and mobile computing ------------------------------------------------ PAPER or DEMO SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------ Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2008. Paper or demo submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. For System Demo, of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy based technologies. Policy 2008 invites contributions in the form of either: * Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). * Short position papers describing preliminary systems or experimental results (max. length 4 pages). Please check out http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 for details. --------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------- Paper Registration deadline: 15 December 2007 Paper submission deadline: 21 December 2007 Author notification: 5 March 2008 System demonstration submission deadline: 3 March 2008 System demonstrator notification: 17 March 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair * Dakshi Agrawal -- IBM Research, US Program Chairs * Ehab Al-Shaer -- DePaul University, US (ehab "AT" cs.depaul.edu) * Lalana Kagal -- MIT, US lkagal "AT" csail.mit.edu) * Jorge Lobo -- IBM Research, US (jlobo "AT" us.ibm.com) Finance Chair * Claudio Bartolini -- HP Labs, UK Publicity Chair * Alessandra Toninelli -- University of Bologna, Italy Publication Chair * Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville -- Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil System Demonstrations Chair * Daniel Olmedilla -- L3S Research Center and Hannover University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Akhil Sahai -- HP Laboratories Alva Couch -- Tufts University Andrea Westerinen -- Microsoft Corp Andreas Schaad -- SAP Anna Cinzia Squicciarini -- Purdue University Arcot Rajasekar -- University of California at San Diego Arosha Bandara -- Open University Babak Sadighi -- Swedish Institute of Computer Science Bhavani Thuraisingham -- The University of Texas at Dallas Bruno Crispo -- Vrije Universiteit Carl Gunter -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian Jensen -- University of Denmark Duminda Wijesekera -- GMI Elisa Bertino -- Purdue University Emil Lupu -- Imperial College Filip Perich -- Shared Spectrum Francisco Garcia -- Agilent Gail Ahn -- UNC Charlotte Gregory Cirincione -- Army Research Lab Hanan Lutfiyya -- University of Western Ontario Helge Janicke -- De Montfort University Hong Li -- Intel Corporation John Strassner -- Motorola Labs Ken Moody -- Cambridge University Lisandro Z. Granville -- UFRGS Manish Dave -- Intel Corporation Marco Casassa Mont -- Hewlett-Packard Labs Marianne Winslett -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Morris Sloman -- Imperial College London Nahid Shahmehri -- Linkopings University, Sweden Naranker Dulay -- Imperial College London Olivier Festor -- LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Pierangela Samarati -- University of Milan Rebecca Montanari -- University of Bologna Ritu Chadha -- Telcordia Sanjai Narain -- Telcordia Seraphin Calo -- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sushil Jajodia -- George Mason University William Winsborough -- University of Texas at San Antonio Yuri Demchenko -- University of Amsterdam _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WWASN 2008 workshop (extended deadline)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WWASN 2008 workshop (extended deadline) Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:08:23 -0500 Von: Katrin Höper <khoeper(a)engmail.uwaterloo.ca> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for multiple copies. Please distribute to interested colleagues and students. The Fifth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks WWASN2008 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~softart/WWASN2008.html A full day workshop held on June 20, 2008 in conjunction with the ICDCS 2008, The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems June 17-20, 2008 in Beijing, China Manuscript Submission: December 8, 2007 (extended!) Acceptance Notification: February 11 , 2008 Final Manuscript Due at IEEE: March 9, 2008 SUBJECT Wireless ad-hoc networks are formed by a set of hosts or nodes that communicate with each other over a wireless channel. They operate in a self-organized and decentralized manner and message communication takes place via multi-hop spreading, wherein a packet is sent to its target node through a set of intermediate nodes that act as routers. Wireless networks and mobile computing research has until recently concentrated on single-hop networks such as cellular or satellite systems. However, multi-hop scenarios in which network nodes communicate via other network nodes, for example conference, hospital, battlefield, rescue, and monitoring scenarios, are rapidly becoming prevalent in practice. This workshop covers the area of ad hoc networking in single- and multi-hop scenarios, 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 (but not limited to) the issues related to their topology, routing, performance, data gathering and filtering, energy efficiency, and mobility. The submitted articles will be carefully reviewed for quality and relevance. Each article will be reviewed by experts of the same topic. In the selection process, a comprehensive coverage will be sought, covering the most important topics such as (but not limited to): - Key communication abstractions for ad hoc and sensor networks - Topology construction and maintenance - Physical, media access, and routing layers - Routing, broadcasting and multicasting - Energy-efficient protocols - Quality of service in medium access control and routing - Fault tolerance and redundancy schemes - IEEE 802.11 and 802.15.x-based medium access control - Hybrid networks and wireless internet - Models for analysis, performance assessment, mobility, and validation models - Methods and tools for ad hoc and sensor networks simulation - Heterogeneous networks and challenges in analyzing and designing them - Pervasive and wearable computing - Security, trust, and other security-related issues - Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery - Applications and history of ad hoc and sensor networks _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:09:14 +0100 (CET) Von: gi-mitglieder-info(a)gi-ev.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de New Deadline: Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 ARCS 2008 February 25-28, Dresden (Germany) ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems 1st GI/ITG FG APS+PC Workshop Ambient Assisted Living - Human centric Assistance Systems February 26, 2008 Call for Papers: ARCS 2008 PDF-Download Submit a Paper The demographic change of most Industrial Communities is still in progress. Caused by an increasing life expectancy, aging of the baby boom generation and low actual birthrates it is assumed that the number of elderly people will be doubled in 2050. Especially the number of the 80+ people will have been tripled since today. Regarding actual social trends the proportion of elderly people living alone will increase highly. On the other hand the demographic change will be a chance for the European Community and its economy. More and more elderly people will need and buy goods, services and appropriate technologies in order to participate in social life. The demographic change will be a challenge for the European Community in terms of social impacts and public finances. It is not possible to increase the public institutional care systems in the same way due to incurring unacceptable costs. Hence transition of elderly people into institutional care has to be delayed. Many individual persons need support and help by innovative technologies to stay as long as possible in their own living environment independently. On the part of medicine general practitioners home visits play the main role in developing diagnosis and treatment concepts for the elderly people. As a consequence of the demographic change much more home visits will be required. Critical questions arise at this point. Is it possible to reduce the amount of visits by using appropriate technologies? What would be the social impacts? Would it be possible to economize home visits, e.g. by using remote vital data sensing technologies? On the part of technology Ambient Intelligence is one of the key words. Computational power embedded into buildings sensors, actors and devices in day-to-day usages give chances for seamless integration of mobile users into wireless networking environments offering cooperative services for independent living and social participation anywhere. Accurate context recognition and data mining in mobile and highly dynamic ad hoc peer-to-peer environments are basic prerequisites for useful services. Middleware based convergence of environmental network services, local area and internet services involve ontologies for sharing context informations across the networks. Focus of the Workshop: Human centric Assistance Systems Ambient Assisted Living is an interdisciplinary approach. Medical, social, ethical and commercial aspects are as important for systemic solutions as technological aspects. The GI/ITG FG APS+PC is soliciting contributions dealing with topics of human centric assistance systems. Social, medical and technological aspects of highly deterministic scenarios like e.g. vital data sensing, processing and communications are as welcome as non deterministic scenarios like e.g. community building for social participation introducing knowledge based methods. Technological Aspects · Pervasive Computing, Ambient Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Ambient Intelligence · Smart environments, sensor networks, integrated building technologies, home platforms · Wearable Computing Systems, Wireless Communications, Mobile Computing · User Interfaces · UWB Technologies, UWB Communications, UWB Remote Sensing · Technologies for vital data sensing · Position tracking, inertial sensors · Knowledge based Methods · Middleware · Context-aware Smart Products, locations based Services · Convergence of Environmental Networks, Local Area Networks and Internet · Adaptive and learning capable systems, SELF-X · Trust · System on Chip platforms · Method, tools and reference architectures for AAL Solutions · Service oriented platforms Medical and Social Aspects · Vital data and sensing methods · Modelling of medical and psychological situations, basic disease pattern and appropriate health care, individualization of models · Ethical and social aspects of AAL Systems · Social preferences of eldery people · Parameters of acceptance · AAL scenarios Ambient Assisted Living Solutions · Social Integration · E-Health, E-Care · Decentralized Communications Support · Autonomous Intelligent Systems Sustainability of AAL Solutions Deadlines Submission until Dec. 10, 2007 Notification of acceptance Jan. 10, 2008 Final version until Jan. 21, 2008 ARCS 2008 - Architecture of Computing Systems ___________________________________________________ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Welge welge(a)uni-lueneburg.de Forschungsgruppe VauST (Verteilte autonome Systeme und Technologien) Universitaet Lueneburg Fakultaet Umwelt und Technik Volgershall 1 21339 Lüneburg Tel.: +49-4131-677 5462 Fax.: +49-4131-677 5300 Sekretariat: +49-4131-677 5316 Mobile: +49-151-112 02 937

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[Fwd: ICINCO 2008 - Int'l Conf. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: extended deadline.]
by Lars Wolf 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ICINCO 2008 - Int'l Conf. Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: extended deadline. Datum: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:36:40 -0500 Von: ICINCO Secretariat <postmaster12(a)303media.net> Antwort an: secretariat(a)icinco.org <secretariat(a)icinco.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Dear Lars Wolf Let me kindly inform you that the paper submission deadline for ICINCO 2008 has been extended to December 4, which is rapidly approaching in case you're interested in submitting a paper. Please find additional details below. We also would like to highlight the possibility to submit to the following ICINCO satellite workshops: - Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) - Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP) - Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS) Kind regards, Marina Carvalho ICINCO Secretariat Av. D.Manuel I, 27A 2ºesq. 2910-595 Setúbal, Portugal Tel.: +351 265 520 185 Fax: +44 203 014 5435 Email: secretariat(a)icinco.org Web: http://www.icinco.org ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - ICINCO 2008 http://www.icinco.org May 11 - 15, 2008 Funchal, Madeira - Portugal Co-sponsored by IFAC and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society In cooperation with AAAI Co-organized by INSTICC and University of Madeira ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The conference is composed of 3 main tracks: 1. Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization 2. Robotics and Automation 3. Signal Processing, Systems Modeling and Control All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support. A book including a selection of the best conference papers will be edited and published by Springer. The proceedings will be indexed by ISI ProceedingsSM, INSPEC and DBLP. EI already agreed to index the proceedings of ICINCO 2006. Proceedings of ICINCO 2007 are under evaluation and the proceedings of ICINCO 2008 will be evaluated by EI after their publication. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: December 4, 2007 **extended and final deadline** Authors Notification: January 25, 2008 Final Paper Submission and Registration: February 11, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Miguel Ayala Botto, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal - Peter Simon Sapaty, Institute of Mathematical Machines and Systems National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine - Ronald C. Arkin, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (list not yet complete) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS: (Full paper submission deadline: February 4, 2008) - Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) (http://www.icinco.org/MARS.htm) - Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP) (http://www.icinco.org/ANNIIP.htm) - Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS) (http://www.icinco.org/IVCS.htm) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To SUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/reg.Asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To FORWARD: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/fwd.asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98… ----------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE: http://internetmailmanager.com/s/us.asp?a=47BAMBPN5GYNA9L9JJPMJFG&b=A49M98K… ---------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ANSyM'2008: Submission deadline extended to Nov.25, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ANSyM'2008: Submission deadline extended to Nov.25, 2007 Datum: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:53:39 +0200 (EET) Von: Costin Badica <badica_costin(a)software.ucv.ro> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ANSyM2008: Adaptive Networked Systems and Media ------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline extended to November 25, 2008 !!! June 18-20, 2008, Wroclaw, Poland http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ANSyM2008 Special session within the framework of IEA/AIE 2008 conference http://www.iea-aie.pwr.wroc.pl/ Please submit your paper here: http://www.iea-aie.pwr.wroc.pl/conftool Session Organizers ------------------ Dan Popescu, http://automation.ucv.ro/membri/Dan%20Popescu/DPopescu.htm University of Craiova, Romania, dpopescu(a)automation.ucv.ro Costin Badica, http://software.ucv.ro/~badica_costin University of Craiova, Romania, badica_costin(a)software.ucv.ro Adrian Giurca, http://www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~agiurca/index.htm Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany, giurca(a)tu-cottbus.de Call for Papers --------------- Adaptability is a generic property of a system that consists in the systems capability to self-adjust its behavior according to its input, load or users in order to meet certain performance criteria. Adaptability has been described as a characteristic of autonomous behavior and is often related to possessing learning capabilities through analysis of past behaviors and interactions. Adaptability has been intensely studied by various areas of engineering including artificial intelligence, control systems and human centered systems. Adaptability has been set as an important requirement for systems devised to work in new generation global networked and distributed environments like wireless networks, P2P networks, Web systems, multi-agent systems, grids, etc. Such systems are expected to pose new challenges for the development and application of adaptation techniques, due to their special characteristics including: interconnectivity, interactivity, distribution, heterogeneity and fault-tolerance. This special session welcomes submissions covering all aspects of adaptability in networked systems and media, including (but not limited to): - Self-configuring and self-structuring systems - Adaptive control in communication networks - Adaptive networked control systems - Rule-based adaptive systems - Computational intelligence and adaptability - Adaptability in multi-agent systems - Personalized and adaptive hypermedia - Adaptive information provisioning - Adaptive coordination - Adaptability in e-services, including e-learning and e-commerce - Adaptive negotiation - Context-aware systems - Machine learning methods for adaptive systems - Adaptive security systems Papers acceptance will be judged based on their relevance, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. The papers will be published in the IEA/AIE 2008 conference proceedings, in a bound volume by Springer Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. Important dates --------------- Papers submission: November 25, 2007 (extended) Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2008 Final submission: February 28, 2008 Workshop date: To be announced (Inside June 18-20, 2008) Program Committee ----------------- Rajendra Akerkar, Technomathematics Research Foundation, India Steve Banks, University of Sheffield, UK Dumitru Burdescu, University of Craiova, Romania Dorian Cojocaru, University of Craiova, Romania Jens Dietrich, Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, New Zealand Petr Dostal, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Maria Ganzha, Elblag University of Humanities and Economics, Poland Dariusz Krol, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Philippe Trigano, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Poland Janusz Sobecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Vladimir Rasvan, University of Craiova, Romania Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP wnc3-2008]
by Lars Wolf 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP wnc3-2008 Datum: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:10:07 +0100 Von: yezekael hayel <yezekael.hayel(a)univ-avignon.fr> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS The international workshop on "Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition" (WNC3'08) will be held on the 4th of April in Berlin, Germany, in adjunction with the WiOpt'08 conference (March 27-April 4). Additional information: -- see http://www.wiopt.org/ and http://www.wnc3.org/ IMPORTANT DEADLINES Paper submission deadline : December 1st, 2007 Notification of acceptance : January 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due : February 21, 2008 Early registration deadline : March 1, 2008 SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM Research in the area of wireless communication networks has recently experienced an unprecedented embrace by both industry and academia. Interest has been fueled by advances that promise exponential gains in the error performance of networks with reduced structure, little central oversight, and limited computational capabilities. The research area's utility and challenging nature is demonstrated both by the contributions from a variety of disciplines, such as information theory, discrete mathematics, game theory and finance, as well as from the effort to unify the above and to bring forth the inherent complexities of multi-terminal communication and interaction. In pace with the above challenges, the workshop will promote new results which explore the theoretical limitations of network communications, propose novel network coding schemes, present relaying methods and cooperation protocols, and investigate fundamental tradeoffs between cooperation and competition for resource allocation. The aim being to provide the participants with an in-depth and unifying exposition to the complex nature of analyzing, coding, cooperating and competing in wireless networks, the workshop will seek to expose the intricacies of multi-terminal network theory and the advanced mathematical structures that support network communication and interactions. TOPICS OF INTEREST In the framework of communication, cooperation and competition over wireless networks, papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following directions. ? Cooperative diversity ? Network coding techniques ? Information theoretic bounds ? Stochastic network optimization ? Queueing theoretic aspects ? Application of game theory tools ? Application to sensor networks WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Yezekael Hayel Samson Lasaulce TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eitan Altman Konstantin Avrachenkov Sergio Barbarossa Jean-Claude Belfiore Rajarathnam Chandramouli Ron Dabora Rachid El Azouzi Patrick Maillé Kavé Salamatian Luc Vandendorpe -- Dr. Yezekael Hayel, PhD, Assistant Professor. University of Avignon, IUP GMI +33 (0) 4 90 84 35 36 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFPs: INSS 2008 (5th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems)
by Radu Stoleru 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Paper Submissions Due: December 1, 2007 ********************************************************************** Call For Papers Fifth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2008) June 17-20, 2008 Kanazawa, Japan http://www.inss-conf.org/ Sponsored by SICE, 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 2008 is the fifth annual conference in the series, and features a highly selective technical program. We invite outstanding research papers for the regular paper track from the field of sensor technology, wireless networking, and applications of networked sensor systems. The conference especially encourages submissions that investigate research issues shared between all three areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Applications of Networked Sensing Systems - Prototypes, Field Studies & Testbeds for Networked Sensing Systems - Security for 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 INSS 2008 invites the submission of both regular and short papers. 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 and poster space for discussions. INSS 2008 is specifically seeking papers that are of interest to the interdisciplinary community represented at the conference. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, technical correctness, and presentation. Papers submitted must contain original, unpublished material and must not be under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal, workshop, or other publication. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and accessible online via IEEE Explorer. Authors are required to attend the conference to present their work. See the web site at http://www.inss-conf.org/ for submission details. Call for Industrial Contributions --------------------------------- This year, INSS offers an industry track. 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 industrial 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 See the web site at http://www.inss-conf.org/ for submission details. Important Dates --------------- Paper Submissions Due: December 1, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: February 6, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: March 7, 2008 Conference Dates: June 17 - 19, 2008 Important Dates for Industrial Track ------------------------------------ Paper Submissions Due: January 7, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: February 6, 2008 (same to regular track) Camera-Ready Papers: March 7, 2008 (same to regular track) Organization ------------ General Co-chairs: Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Steven Glaser, University of California Berkeley, USA Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Centre, Finland Program Chair: Marc Langheinrich, ETH, Zurich Program Vice-chairs: Jin Nakazawa, Keio University, Japan Steven Garverick, Case Western Reserve University, USA Publicity Chair: Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Jan Beutel, ETH, Zurich Industrial Track Program Chair: Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Posters Chair: Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Demonstrations Chair: Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Workshop Chairs: Hartmut Hillmer, Universita"t Kassel, Germany Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, JAPAN Tutorial Chair: Hideyuki Kawashima, University of Tsukuba, Japan Financial Chair Hiroyuki Shinoda, The University of Tokyo, Japan Treasurer Masashi Toda, Future University - Hakodate, Japan Steering Committee Co-chairs: Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Steering Committee: Shigeru Ando, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany Paul J. M. Havinga, University of Twente, the Netherlands Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sang Hyuk Son, University of Virginia, USA Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA Program Committee (confirmed): Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig, Germany Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Haowen Chan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Paul Havinga, University of Twente, the Netherlands Hartmut Hillmer, University of Kassel, Germany Satoshi Honda, Keio University, Japan Hidekata Hontani, Nagoya 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 Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University, USA Pedro Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Pedram Mohseni, Case Western Reserve University, USA Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, 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 Norman Tien, Case Western Reserve University, USA Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia, USA Darrin Young, Case Western Reserve University, USA Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yoshiyuki Nakamura, AIST, Japan Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA Industrial Track Program Committee: Albert Krohn, Particle Computer, Germany Oliver Kasten, SAP Research, Swizerland Andrew Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Yoichi Takayanagi, Toshiba, Japan Narito Kurata, Kashima, Japan Li Zheng, Yamatake, Japan Shoichi Sakane, Yokogawa, Japan Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Hideto Iwaoka, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan Masahiko Yoshimoto, Kobe University, Japan Tomonori Seki, Omron Corporation, Japan Hidekuni Takao, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Local Arrangement Chair: Razvan Beuran, NICT, Japan Local Arrangement Vice-chair: Junya Nakata, NICT, Japan Conference Management: June Echizen, Echizen & Associates, Japan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] QoSim 2008 - submission deadline extended to Nov 30]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] QoSim 2008 - submission deadline extended to Nov 30 Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:08:54 +0100 Von: Giovanni Stea <g.stea(a)iet.unipi.it> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Due to numerous requests from authors, we announce that the submission deadline for QoSim 2008 has been EXTENDED to Nov. 30 (hard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - QOSIM - First International Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet Marseille, France, March 3, 2008 http://www.qosim.org - info(a)qosim.org Held in conjunction with SIMUTools 2008, http://www.simutools.org In Cooperation with ACM SIGSIM Technical Sponsors: ICST, Create-Net, IEEE France Section, INRIA and SCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: The aim of this workshop is to bring together academic and industry researchers and practitioners from both the networking and the simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in simulation techniques, models and practices for the Future Internet and to foster interdisciplinary collaborative research in this area. We solicit submission of manuscripts presenting original research results, not previously published nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit PDF versions of full papers of up to 8 pages in ACM conference proceedings format through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org), following the instructions available on the workshop website. All submitted papers will go through a rigorous peer review process. The workshop values both theoretical and practical research contributions, which will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be available online through the ACM digital library (approval pending). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a journal special issue. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Emerging access technologies (WiMax, 3.5G and beyond, Wireless Mesh Networks, 802.11x, etc.). - Disruptive network paradigms (bio-inspired, autonomic, opportunistic networking, etc.). - Multi-layer network architectures. - Cross-layer simulation. - End-to-end simulation of heterogeneous, mobile and multi-domain networks. - Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large scale networks. - New and emerging services and applications. - QoS negotiation, service chain negotiation and Service Level Agreements. - QoS components (scheduling algorithms, admission control schemes, QoS routing and traffic engineering schemes, etc.). - Scalability analysis. - Traffic modeling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Manuscript Submission Due: EXTENDED To Nov 30, 2007 (HARD). Acceptance Notification: Jan 7, 2008. Final Manuscript Due: Jan 20, 2008. Conference Date: March 3, 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS: Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy. Halina Tarasiuk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Eitan Altman (INRIA, France). - Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain). - Christof Brandauer (Salzburg Research, Austria). - Wojciech Burakowski (Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland). - Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira (Drexel University, USA). - Armando Caro Jr (BBN Technologies, USA). - Kenjiro Cho (IIJ, Japan). - Claudio Cicconetti (University of Pisa, Italy). - Markus Fiedler (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden). - Chuanxiong Guo (Nanjing University, China). - Qi He (Yahoo! Inc., USA). - Polly Huang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan). - Gianluca Iannaccone (INTEL, UK). - Robert Janowski (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland). - Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK). - Benjamin Melamed (Rutgers Business School, USA). - Telemaco Melia (NEC Network Labs, Germany). - Michela Meo (Politecnico Torino, Italy). - Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy). - Krzysztof Pawlikowski (University of Canterbury, New Zealand). - Simone Redana (Nokia Siemens Networks, Italy). - Fabio Ricciato (Forschunszentrum Telekommunikation, Austria). - Werner Sandmann (University of Bamberg, Germany). - Susana Sargento (Technical University of Aveiro, Portugal). - Kurt Tutschku (University of Wuerzburg, Germany). - Manuel Villen Altamirano (Telefonica I+D, Spain). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - SimulationWorks 2008]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - SimulationWorks 2008 Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:39:13 +0100 Von: WATTEYNE Thomas RD-TECH-GRE <thomas.watteyne(a)orange-ftgroup.com> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Please find attached the call for papers for SimulationWorks 2008, the Industry Track of SIMUTOOLS 2008. My sincere apologies for possible cross-posting. Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- SimulationWorks 2008 Industry Track of SIMUTOOLS 2008 First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems March 4, 2008, Marseille, France http://www.simulationworks.org Full Papers due: December 15, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- CALL FOR PAPERS SimulationWorks is the industry track of SIMUTools 2008 (www.simutools.org). The focus of the conference and the industry track is on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks, and Systems. The goal of the industry track is to promote the results that have been applied or have a potential application in an industrial field. Papers are sought on the topics of methodology, tools, applications, and practices (case studies). Particular emphasis will be given to papers that bridge multiple areas. We encourage industry participation. The papers will be not so much assessed by their novelty as by their applicability and impact in different fields of industry. Possible topics include, but are not limited to * Case studies: Applications of simulation Simulation-based optimization Cost/performance trade-offs Simulation-based systems design * Application areas: Computer Systems, Telecommunications, and Networks. * Tools: OPNET, NS-2, Interconnected simulation platforms, ATDI ICS, Qualnet, OMNET++, NIIST, Dymola, Matlab/Simulink, Verilog simulators, CSIM, and open source tools... The event is in cooperation with ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation (SIGSIM) and Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). All accepted papers will be made available in ACM Digital Library, as well as indexed by EI and ISI Index. -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Industry Track Chairs: Bozidar Radunovic, Microsoft Research, UK Herb Schwetman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, US Coordinator: Tibor Kovacs, ICST TPC: To Be Announced --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Full Papers due: December 15, 2007 - Notification of Acceptance: January 4, 2007 - Camera-ready Manuscripts due: January 18, 2008 ------------------------------------------ Submission Instructions & Reviewing Policy ------------------------------------------ Papers should be submitted through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/SimulationWorks08) Authors are invited to submit either Regular Papers or Short Papers, in a PDF file, complying with the ACM conference proceedings format. Regular papers are 6 to 8 pages long, short papers are 4 to 6 pages long. Short Papers are intended for authors that wish to present their ongoing work or new open issues. Each paper will be peer reviewed for quality and correctness by at least three reviewers. Only original papers, written in English, which have not been published previously elsewhere, will be accepted. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:06:04 -0500 Von: Varshavsky Alex <walex(a)cs.toronto.edu> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers MobiSys 2008 The 6th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. Breckenridge, Colorado June 10-13, 2008 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2008/ +-------------------------------------------------------------+ MobiSys 2008 seeks to present innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services. This conference builds on the success of the previous four MobiSys conferences. It is jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association. We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components. We value results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations. If you have any questions regarding relevance or other submission-related issues, please contact the program chairs at mobisys_pcchairs(a)acm.org. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Middleware and service architectures for mobile and wireless applications * Data management for mobile and wireless applications * Operating systems for resource-constrained mobile devices * Disconnected and weakly connected operation * Proxies and data adaptation * Mobile agents * Infrastructure support for mobility * Security and privacy in mobile and wireless systems * System-level energy management for mobile and wireless devices * Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design * Personal-area networks and systems * Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile services * Systems for context sensing and context awareness * Tools and design methodologies for building mobile and wireless systems * Mobile computing support for pervasive computing * User interfaces and usability issues for mobile and wireless applications * Experience with mobile and wireless systems * Experience with sensor networks and systems * Support for social networking Submissions should be full papers, up to 14 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references, in two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading with reasonable margins. The first page of each paper should include the names and affiliations of the authors, i.e., the submissions should not be anonymous. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness. Accepted papers will be shepherded by a member of the program committee. MobiSys, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference or publication, that submissions must not be previously published, and that accepted papers must not be subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. As customary with the scientific peer review process, submissions will be handled as confidential material during the review. Abstracts are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, November 26, 2007. Full papers are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, December 3, 2007. These are hard deadlines; no extensions will be granted. The important dates, as well as the organizing and program committee members are listed below. We look forward to seeing you at MobiSys 2008. Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky <walex(a)cs.toronto.edu> MobiSys 2008 Publicity Chair Important Dates --------------- Abstracts due: 26 November 2007 Full papers due: 3 December 2007 Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2008 Final camera-ready due: 5 April 2008 Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: - Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, US - Richard Han, University of Colorado, US Steering Committee Chair: - Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, US Program Committee Co-Chairs: - Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto, CA - Carla Ellis, Duke University, US Poster and Demo Chair: - Landon Cox, Duke University, US Publications Chair: - Anmol Sheth, Intel Research Seattle, US Publicity Chair: - Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, CA Program Committee ----------------- - Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US - Ramon Caceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US - Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, US - Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US - Landon Cox, Duke University, US - Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK - Maria R. Ebling, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US - Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, US - Hans Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK - Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, CA - Anthony D. Joseph, University of California, Berkeley, US - Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, US - Todayoshi Kohno, University of Washington, US - Robin Kravets, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US - Anthony LaMarca, Intel Research Seattle, US - Natalia Marmasse, Google, Haifa, IL - M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, US - Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, US - Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, US - Roy Want, Intel Research, US - Matt Welsh, Harvard University, US - Lin Zhong, Rice University, US

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[Tccc] [CFP] WMCNR 2008 Deadline extension - 25th November
by Jung-Min Park 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] ============================================================================ The First Workshop on Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics (WMCNR 2008) April 4th, Berlin, Germany http://www.wmcnr.org in conjunction with 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'08) March 31-April 4, Berlin, Germany http://www.wiopt.org Call for papers: http://www.wmcnr.org/CFP_WMCNR2008.pdf ============================================================================ *** Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) *** Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage http://www.wmcnr.org *** Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it Call for Papers The wireless multihop communication has been one of key research issues in recent years both in academia and wireless industry. It encompasses ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop relay related to the industrial and standardization activities such as IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.4, 802.16j, etc. Further the multihop communications can be combined with cooperative communications and network coding, which attracted more researchers in this field. The idea behind such multihop communications is to utilize the availability of other nodes or to borrow their transmission capability. This in many cases exceeds the delay caused by the multihop relay, the gain from which is capacity enhancement as well as coverage extension of plain radio networks. Now we turn our attention to the robotics area. In these days, many researchers are noticing group behaviors found in small insects or animals such as ants, birds, and fish, trying to realize such behaviors into the control and coordination of a team of robots with their local interaction. The multiple (usually small) robots communicate each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications. In this respect, wireless multihop communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information exchange. The main idea of this workshop is to bridge the above two areas (wireless multihop communications and networked robotics) by opening a place for researchers to meet and exchange their ideas. The workshop welcomes submissions on all aspects of the themes, which include (but not limited to) the following topics: - Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems - Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality - Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications - Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics - Learning and adaptation in cooperative environments - Applications of multi-robot network systems - Ad hoc robot networks - Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work - Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks - QoS support in networked robotics - Wireless multihop networks under node mobility ============================================================================ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: January 5, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: February 1, 2008 Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage : http://www.wmcnr.org Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it ============================================================================ Workshop Chair: Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim(a)yonsei.ac.kr) Technical Programming Chairs: Riku Jantti, Helsinki Univ. Tech., Finland (wireless communications, riku.jantti(a)tkk.fi) DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (networked robotics, daeeun(a)yonsei.ac.kr) Technical Programming Committee: Timothy Brown, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Brian Gerkey, SRI, USA Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland Mikael Johansson, Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden Rolf Johansson, Lund Univ., Sweden Smail Menani, PUV, Finland Klaus Schilling, Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany Dezhen Song, Texas A&M Univ., USA Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA Sameer Tilak, Univ. California, San Dieo, USA Andreas Willig, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany Alan FT Winfield, Univ. West England, UK Yuping Zhao, Peking Univ., China ============================================================================ For questions about the workshop, please contact us at "wmcnr(a)ramo.yonsei.ac.kr" _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] RAWNET 2008 Deadline extension - 26th November!]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] RAWNET 2008 Deadline extension - 26th November! Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:33:29 +0000 Von: Bozidar Radunovic <bozidar(a)microsoft.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS RAWNET 2008 The 4th workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks March 31st, Berlin, Germany http://www.rawnet.org Full Papers due: November 26, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tomorrow's wireless network must be optimized to offer enhanced rate performance, at higher and often heterogenous quality-of-service levels, in user scenarios with ever increasing mobilily. To meet these challenges, system designers can resort to a number of tools and techniques at PHY, MAC or higher layers of the protocol stack. In order to increase the network efficiency (Bit/Sec/Hz per Euro/Dollar) while providing the required QoS, a more efficient utilization of the spectral resource across the network will be required. Smart resource allocation schemes should help provide the customer with a smooth user experience while efficiently tackling interference issues in agressive reuse environment, whether in cellular or adhoc scenarios. Ideally, they should be aware, i.e. jointly designed with lower layer algorithms (multiple antenna systems, spatial division multiple access, OFDMA, multi-cell cooperative coding) and potentialy upper layers as well (transport/routing/application). ----------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- Paper submission deadline : November 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance : January 21, 2008 Camera-ready papers due : February 21, 2008 Early registration deadline : March 1, 2008 -------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST -------------------- This workshop seeks original work within the fields described by (but not limited to) the bullets below: - User scheduling (single cell /multicell /OFDMA); - Cross-layer design (e.g. combined MIMO - Resource allocation schemes) - Power control and energy-efficient communication; - Resource allocation-based interference mitigation; - Cooperation schemes for interference control, range extension (multicell, multihop cooperation); - Performance evaluation methods for wireless networks; - Game theoretic resource allocation; - Pricing-based, auction-based schemes in ad-hoc/cellular networks; - Fairness vs. performance issues ----------------- INVITED SPEAKERS ----------------- - Olivier Lévêque (EPFL) ----------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ----------------------- Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rawnet2008). Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, and can be prepared using the standard IEEE format. The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library. ----------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ----------------------- Workshop chairs: David Gesbert (Institut Eurecom) Bozidar Radunovic (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Technical program commitee: Alexandre Proutiere (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Atilla Eryilmaz (Ohio State University) Daniel Palomar (UST) Edmund Yeh (Yale University) Eduard Jorswieck (KTH) Erik Larsson (Linkopings) Jeff Andrews (University of Texas, Austin) Michael Honig (Northwestern University) Michele Zorzi (UCSD) Mikael Johansson (KTH) Olivier Dousse (Deutsche Telekom) Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay) Randall Berry (Northwestern University) Rob Heath (University of Texas, Austin) Sem Borst (Eindhoven University) Stavros Toumpis (University of Cyprus ) Vivek Mhatre (Bell Labs, Bangalore) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Secure Multimedia Communication
by Yan ZHANG 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Wiley Journal: Security and Communication Network (SCN) Call for Paper Special Issue: Secure Multimedia Communication http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/CFP/SCN-SIcfp.htm Background ========== With the rapid progress in information technology and an enormous amount of media appearing over Internet, e.g. text, audio, speech, music, image and video, guaranteeing information security is becoming increasingly important. Several pivotal challenges include copyright protection, integrity verification, authentication, and access control etc. As a consequence, the subject of security protection in multimedia communication has attracted intensive research activities in academia, industry and also government. Multimedia data like images, audios or videos are different from plain text. They are often of large volumes and are compressed in order to save the storage cost and bandwidth. Due to such requirement and property, the media protection mechanisms for images, audios or videos are significantly different from the ones for text or binary data. With the recent advances in network and multimedia technology, the applications in commercial scenario become increasing crucial. There is an increasing trend in the multimedia content distribution from the central service provider to the individuals, e.g. video-on-demand, IPTV and p2p sharing. In these applications, piracy is becoming a critical issue. Solutions are needed to protect the copyright of multimedia content. During the past decades, schemes have been reported for secure multimedia communication, e.g., key management, multimedia encryption, authentication, digital watermarking, digital fingerprinting, access control and digital rights management. These techniques are able to protect multimedia content's confidentiality, integrity, ownership, traitor traceability. In addition, in different networks such as Internet, 3G wireless, DVB-H and p2p, different secure protocols and algorithms are required to provide the system security. All these topics are in active development. This special issue aims to expose the readership of SCN to the latest research results on secure multimedia communication. The issue focuses on secure transmission or distribution of multimedia content. Topics ======== Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: . Copyright techniques . Digital rights management for multimedia . Secure multimedia transcoding in communication . Secure media streaming . Secure multimedia content sharing in P2P network . Broadcast encryption and authentication . Security in multimedia message sending . Security in mobile TV . Security in IPTV . Attacks and prevention in multimedia communication . Secure multimedia broadcasting over wireless networks . Secure multimedia broadcasting over IEEE 802.x families . Secure multimedia over multi-hop networks, e.g. Ad hoc network, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks . Hardware Implementations of secure multimedia techniques . Low-power Architectures for portable appliances Submission Procedures ===================== Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal. Submissions of both in-depth research papers and review/application-oriented papers are encouraged. All submissions should be done in Wiley's manuscript central whose web link is: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/scn and all submissions are subject to peer review before publication. For more detailed information on the submission requirements, please refer to the journal home-page at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security. Schedule ======== . Manuscript Due: May 1, 2008 . Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2008 . Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2008 . Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2009 Guest Editors: ============== Shiguo Lian France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China Email: shiguo.lian(a)orange-ftgroup.com Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang(a)ieee.org Jong Hyuk Park Kyungnam University, Korea E-mail: parkjonghyuk1(a)hotmail.com Paris Kitsos Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece Email: pkitsos(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE SECON 2008: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:14:48 -0500 Von: Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org Antwort an: MailSupport(a)comsocconferences.org An: Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org *Call for Papers *Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2008) Merged with IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) *16-20 June 2008, San Francisco, California, USA *[] *Important Dates*: Registration Deadline: December 4, 2007 Submission Deadline: December 11, 2007 Acceptance Notification: March 14, 2008 Camera Ready: April 4, 2008 (Midnight Eastern Standard Time) [] For details and to submit a paper, visit: *http://www.ieee-secon.org * <http://www.ieee-secon.org/> To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsocconferences.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsocconferences.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Tccc] CFP: ICC2008 Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking: Theory, Practice & Applications.
by Zhang, Qinqing 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

[We apologize if you received multiple copies of this call for papers. Please feel free to distribute it to others who might be interested.] Call for Papers IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC) 2008 19-23 May 2008, Beijing, China Workshop on Cooperative Communications and Networking: Theory, Practice and Applications Scope: Cooperative communications and networking for wireless systems has recently attracted enormous attention. Unlike conventional point-to-point communications, cooperative communications and networking offers tremendous advantages such as allowing users or nodes to share resource to create collaboration through distributed transmission and processing. Cooperative communication and networking is a new paradigm offering significant reliability and spectral efficiency gains in wireless systems. It realizes a new form of cooperative diversity to combat the hostile wireless fading channels. For instance, there are lot standardization activities such as IEEE802.16j trying to exploit the potential benefits of cooperative communications. Although some initial understanding of cooperative communications and networking has been demonstrated in recent years, there are still a lot of open problems in the area both from the theoretical aspects and the practical considerations. The objective of this workshop are (1) to bring together experts and researchers from the International research community from Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, (2) business leader to address the market potential and emerging applications and services, and (3) the engineers from the wireless telecommunication vendors and service providers to enhance the understanding of the promising (but yet challenging) paradigm and deployment practices of cooperative networking. Topic of Interest: The workshop is calling for paper contributions to (but not limiting to) the following topics on cooperative networking. Information and Communication Theory ¨ Information Theoretical Aspects on Cooperative Networking ¨ Coding and Signal Processing Techniques for Cooperative Communications ¨ Cooperative Diversity Schemes ¨ Game Theoretical Aspects on Cooperation, Coalition and Competition Networking Protocol and Applications ¨ Cross-layer Resource allocation in Cooperative Networking ¨ Multi-hop Routing and Networking in Cooperative Communications ¨ Delay Sensitive Applications in Cooperative Networks ¨ Cooperative Sensing Applications Architecture, Implementation and Market Potential ¨ Implementation and Engineering Challenges on Cooperative Networking ¨ Business Model and Market Potential ¨ Emerging Applications and Services Standards Activities ¨ Standardization Issues ¨ Interoperability ¨ Current Standardization Activities This workshop is in conjunction to IEEE ICC2008 and therefore, all papers for this workshop must be submitted through the official ICC2008 web-based paper processing system. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a limited or full registration in order to be appeared in the conference proceedings. For more information, please check the official workshop website at http://www.IEEE-CoopNet.org <http://www.ieee-coopnet.org/> Important Deadlines 20 December 2007 -- Paper Submission Deadline (on EDAS) 31 January 2008 -- Notification of Acceptance 28 February 2008 -- Camera Ready Paper Workshop Co-Chairs Dr Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA, Email: skota(a)harris.com Dr Qinqing Zhang, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, USA, Email: qinqing.zhang(a)jhuapl.edu Professor Vincent Lau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Email: eeknlau(a)ee.ust.hk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CfP: NGI 2008 Conference
by Piotr Cholda 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* * Call for Papers * * * * 4th Conference on NEXT GENERATION INTERNET NETWORKS (NGI 2008) * * * * April 28-30, 2008 Krakow, Poland * * * ************************************************************************* WEBPAGE http://www.kt.agh.edu.pl/ngi2008 CONTACT ngi2008(a)kt.agh.edu.pl TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORSHIP IEEE Communication Society IFIP TC6 (International Federation for Information Processing, Technical Committee 'Communications Systems') OVERVIEW NGI 2008 focuses on the design, engineering, and operation of Next Generation Internet networks. It is organized by the Network of Excellence (NoE) Euro-FGI (http://www.eurongi.org), former Euro-NGI, that was initiated by the European Commission during the 6th framework program and will be continued in the next funding period. NGI serves as its main platform for interaction, dissemination, and collaboration. To stimulate discussions, NGI 2008 invites scientists and practitioners from industry and academia, and especially welcomes contributions from outside Euro-FGI. To guarantee the high visibility of the conference, the proceedings will be available through IEEE Explore. TOPICS Original papers on recent advances in next generation networking are invited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: ** Applications and services * Applications for wireless sensor networks * Grid computing * Location-based and context-aware services * Network co-operation * Overlay networks and peer-to-peer ** Optical networks * Multi-layer networks * Routing & wavelength assignment * Traffic grooming and traffic engineering * Transport Ethernet, PON, WDM ** Wireless networks * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Cellular networks * Cross-layer design * Integration of fixed and mobile networks * WiFi and WiMax ** Network architecture * Access, regional, metropolitan, and core networks * Future Internet * Inter-domain issues * Network design, provisioning, and optimization * Network management and control * Network survivability and resilience * Routing: unicast, multicast, anycast * Security architectures and mechanisms * Testbeds and experimental evaluations ** Traffic engineering * Admission and congestion control * Performance evaluation of next generation networks * Quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) * Service differentiation and multi-service support * Traffic measurement & modelling SUBMISSION All papers must be submitted electronically by EDAS (http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=5881&) as PDF according to the IEEE publisher format and must not exceed EIGHT double-column pages with a font of at least 10pt. All accepted contributions will be full papers with oral presentations. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2007 Acceptance notifications: January 31, 2008 Camera-ready due: February 29, 2008 Conference: April 28-30, 2008 ORGANIZATION & EXECUTIVE COMITTEE General Chair Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Advisory Board Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal Klaus Hackbarth, University of Cantabria, Spain Guenter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria Daniel Kofman, ENST, France Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland James Roberts, France Telecom, France Gerardo Rubino, INRIA, France Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Lab Italy (CoRiTel), Italy Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Technical Program Committee Chairs Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Michael Menth, University of Wuerzburg, Germany

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[Fwd: CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc - Abstract Due in 1 Week!]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP - 9th ACM MobiHoc - Abstract Due in 1 Week! Datum: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:15:16 -0500 Von: My T. Thai <mythai(a)CISE.UFL.EDU> Antwort an: My T. Thai <mythai(a)CISE.UFL.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS - The 9th ACM MobiHoc =================================================== The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing May 26-30, 2008, Hong Kong http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2008 Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE =================================================== Important Dates: Abstract registration deadline: Nov 19, 2007 Paper submission deadline: Nov 28, 2007, 5pm PT ==================================================== ACM MobiHoc is the premier international symposium dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from the design and applications of wireless communication networks. This symposium will be held in Hong Kong during the week of May 26, 2008. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from a broad spectrum of wireless networking research to present the most up-to-date results and achievements in the field. The symposium will include a highly selective technical program, hands-on research demonstrations, a distinguished keynote address, panels, and tutorials. We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on a variety of wireless ad hoc networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless personal area networks, vehicular networks, RFID networks, and hybrid networks including unmanned aerial vehicles and underwater unmanned vehicles. The symposium solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad range of issues important to the design, performance control, and security of wireless ad hoc networks. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Transport, Network, and MAC protocol design - Cross-Layer Design and Control - Energy Efficiency - Modeling and Performance Analysis - Network control - Distributed algorithms - Computational Complexity and Approximability - Scaling Laws and Fundamental Limits - Network Coding - Optimization based techniques - Location Discovery - Functional Computation and Data Aggregation - Distributed Sensing, Coordination, and Control - Network Security, Privacy, and Trust - Resiliency, Fault tolerance, and Reliability - Quality of Service - System design and Testbeds - Measurements and Data Collection The symposium especially encourages the submission of exploratory studies that identify new challenges in the network design, innovative services, and applications that may stimulate far-reaching future research. This year's symposium will introduce a Best Paper Award among all the papers submitted to the conference. =========================================================== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Papers must not exceed 10 pages (US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must NOT appear in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the symposium webpage. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs. ============================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Abstract Registration: November 19, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: November 28, 2007, 5pm PT Notification of Acceptance: Feburary 28, 2008 Camera-Ready Version Deadline: March 22, 2008 ============================================================ General Chair: Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, jia(a)cs.cityu.edu.hk Program Co-Chairs: Ness B. Shroff, The Ohio State University, shroff(a)ece.osu.edu Pengjun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology, wan(a)cs.iit.edu Industrial Co-Chair: Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, yanzhang(a)ieee.org Panel Co-Chairs: Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, xue(a)asu.edu Workshops Chair: Ivan Stojmenovic, Ottawa University, ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca Tutorial Co-Chairs: Randy Berry, Northwestern University, rberry(a)ece.northwestern.edu Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, qianzh(a)cse.ust.hk Poster Chair: Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, mihaela(a)cse.fau.edu Publicity Chair: My T. 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[Iscc] R: CFP: DPDNS08
by Antonio Puliafito 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message DEADLINE EXTENSION to NOVEMBER 30, 2007 *********************************************************************** 13th IEEE Workshop on Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems - DPDNS '08 Miami, Florida USA April 14-18, 2008 Held in conjunction with the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium *********************************************************************** Theme Increasingly large and complex parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems provide unique challenges to the researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the high failure rates intrinsic to these systems. The goal of this workshop in continuation of the FTPDS (Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems) workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss all aspects of dependability including reliability, availability, safety and security for parallel, distributed and network-centric systems. All aspects of design, theory and realization are of interest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric systems • High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems • Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems • Autonomic network computing • Dependable high-speed wide, local, and system area networks • Dependable mobile computing • Dependable clusters of workstations and PCs • Dependable internet servers • Dependability in distributed embedded systems • Using COTS for designing dependable network-centric computing systems • Dependable protocols for distributed and network-centric systems • Protocol verification and validation • Practical experiences and prototypes • Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed and network-centric systems • Dependable quantum computing • Dependable organic computing • Dependable biocomputing Program Chair: Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy e-mail: apuliafito(a)unime.it Program Committee: M. Atighetchi, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy G. Deconinck, University of Leuven, Belgium A. Doering, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland S. Geoghegan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA K. E.Grosspietsch, Fraunhofer AIS, Germany R. Khazan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA T. Kikuno, Osaka University, Japan E. Nett, University of Magdeburg, Germany D. Nikolos, University of Patras, Greece F. Quaglia, University of Roma, Italy P. Romano, University of Roma, Italy M. Roy, LAAS-CNRS, France F. Salfner, Humboldt University, Germany P. Sobe, University of Luebeck, Germany M. Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary C. Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany Steering Committee: D. Avresky, IRIANC, Boston USA/Munich Germany (Chair) E. Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing. For further information, please see http://www.ipdps.org/ and http://cia.unime.it/dpdns08. or contact the Program Chair via email: dpdns08(a)unime.it. Submission Guidelines To submit papers, send the file (at most 8 pages long including figures and references in the IEEE format (see http://www.ieee.org/)) describing original unpublished research by November 30, 2007 in either Postscript or PDF format electronically via the workshop webpage cia.unime.it/dpdns08 All papers will be reviewed. Notification of authors: December 20, 2007. Camera-ready papers: January 28, 2008. The proceedings for workshops will be published (on CD-ROM) along with the regular proceedings for The IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium. Signature Puliafito No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1125 - Release Date: 11/11/2007 21.50 _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CFP: ASSESS'08 -- Workshop on Assessing Models of Networks and Distributed Computing Platforms
by Marinho P Barcellos 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ********************************************************************** * ASSESS * * Workshop on Assessing Models of Networks and * * Distributed Computing Platforms * * May 19-22, 2008 * * Lyon, France * * http://www-id.imag.fr/Laboratoire/Membres/Legrand_Arnaud/assess08/ * * * * Workshop held in conjunction CCGrid 2008 * * http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/ccgrid2008/ * ********************************************************************** Paper Submission Deadline: November 19, 2007 -------------------------------------------- Description The Workshop on "Assessing Models of Networks and Distributed Computing Platforms" (ASSESS) is a one-day event held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid ([7]CCGrid 2008), which will be held in Lyon, France, on May 19th, 2008. Motivation Models are the organization of thoughts and facts through more or less simple laws. These models can then be used to think about reality or to make predictions. Therefore, scientists strive for objective models and knowledge based on objective observations. With the first computers, or even before, computer scientists have designed computing models, from the architectural point of view as the classical Von Neuman model, to complexity models like the Turing Machine. Then, with the parallel machines there appeared several computing models from the first ones, such as PRAM, and ranging from more architectural ones like LogP, to more conceptual ones such as CGM/BSP. These models were adapted with some changes to the cluster computing. There is still the need though for specific models for large-scale distributed platforms like grids or peer-to-peer infrastructures where heterogeneity and changes are usual. Wide area networks are crucial components of such platforms and thus raise the same issues. Clearly, a "good" model should be: * Realistic; * Tractable; * Instantiable. Evaluating the quality of a model is tricky. In particular because results of computer measurements are generally brittle and sensitive to initial conditions. Moreover due to the rapid evolution of technology and systems, measurements and analysis often quickly become obsolete. As a consequence, computer measurements do not lead to a universal and enduring truth. This difficulty is not a curse but computer scientists should thus be even more careful and precise than any other scientists. In particular they should regularly check the validity of their models and precisely detail the circumstances under which the data they use is collected. A particular emphasis should be put on providing enough information to enable others to reproduces results. This good practice is unfortunately not very common. Most people often use models (either from their own or from others) without ever questioning their relevance. Many projects and platforms such as PlanetLab, Grid5000, DAS3 enable people to perform large scale experiments and check the validity of their hypothesis. However resorting to simulation is very common as driving real life large-scale experiments is very tedious. This may be a reasonable option but very few simulation users and developers question the validity of the models underlying their simulators. Coming up with validated models and simulators is thus very difficult, especially when dealing with large-scale distributed infrastructures like grids or peer-to-peer infrastructures. Goal This workshop aims to provide advances on models for distributed computing (e.g. grids, clusters, network, peer-to-peer infrastructure, etc.), gathering mainly experimental work. The workshop welcomes analysis, experience reports, simulations, emulation, performance evaluation techniques; Proposals for model extensions, as well as proposals for innovative models accompanied with experiments are welcome. A particular attention will be paid to methodology and reproducibility of results. This workshop also aims to be an opportunity to meet people and have live discussions on this hot topic. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, experiments, measurements, performance analysis, evaluation, validation and experiences on: * Communication Models * Network Models (contention, topology, traffic...) * Storage Models * Programming Models * Benchmark, Profiling and Forecast * Workload * Scalable Models * Simulation, Emulation * Global Computing * Peer-to-Peer * Grid Computing * Cluster Computing All workshop papers are a maximum of 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). The publication of proceedings will be by the IEEE alongside the CCgrid conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop and all workshop participants must pay the CCGrid 2008 workshop registration fee, as well as the conference fee. Furthermore, authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions for publication in a special issue in a higly reputation journal (we consider contacting Parallel Computing). PC chairs: * Alfredo Goldman (Universidade de Sao Paulo - Brazil) * Arnaud Legrand (CNRS, LIG, Grenoble, France) * Martin Quinson (INRIA/LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France) * Olivier Richard (LIG, Grenoble, France) Program Committee: * Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) * Cristina Boeres (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil) * Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) * Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade de Campina Grande - Brazil) * Franck Cappello (INRIA Futurs and LRI, France) * Henri Casanova (University of Hawaii, Manoa) * Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA) * Jay Lepreau (University of Utah, USA) * Marco Danelutto (Universita de Pisa, Italy) * Marinho Barcellos (Unisinos - Brazil) * Mitsuhisa Sato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) * Mohamed Jemni (Universite de Tunis, Tunisia) * Olivier Aumage (INRIA, Bordeaux, France) * Olivier Dalle (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) * Paulo Goncalves (INRIA, ENS Lyon, France) * Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) * Wolfgang Nagel (TU Dresden, Germany) Important dates * Paper Submission Deadline: November 19, 2007 * Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2008 * Camera-ready Manuscripts due: January 30, 2007 * Conference Dates: To determine in May 19-22, 2008 Regards, Marinho. Prof. Marinho P. Barcellos (PIPCA/UNISINOS) marinho(a)acm.org, http://p2p-sec.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium(CNS'08)
by Hala ElAarag 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL NOVEMBER 27, 2007 Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------ 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'08) Part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'08) Sponsored by: The Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) and in cooperation with ACM/SIGSIM April 14-17, 2008 Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel Ottawa, Canada Submission website: http://www.softconf.com/scs/CNS08/ CFP: http://www.scs.org/confernc/springsim/springsim08/cfp/cns08.htm SpringSim'08 Home Page http://www.scs.org/springsim SCS Home Page http://www.scs.org/ ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- Full paper due Novemeber 27, 2007 Notification of acceptance sent December 21, 2007 Camera-ready paper due January 11, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Communications and networking embody the heart and the nerve system of the information technology -- a technology that is profoundly affecting our daily lives. Experts, researchers, managers, and entrepreneurs in this dynamic field often encounter challenges that lead to innovative basic as well as applied research and developments. You are invited to submit full papers reporting original work to a forum where experts from industry and academia meet and exchange ideas on the topics. This international forum provides a bridge between the communications industry and academic research laboratories. All accepted papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We welcome papers describing design principles as well as applications pertinent to communications and networks with special emphasis on modeling and simulation. Papers are solicited in the following (but not limited to) area of interests for peer review and presentation in the conference: Network Security and Management Network Design and Performance Analysis Wireless Communications and Mobile Networks Traffic Engineering and Measurements Clusters and Grid Computing & Communications Distributed Simulation and Real Time Systems Application of High Level Architecture for Networking Industry Network Centric Defense Application Network Centric Virtual Environments Virtual Environments for Training Web-Based Simulation and Applications Peer-to-Peer Communications and Computations Dynamic Data Driven and Sensor Networks Data Communications and Protocols Ad Hoc Networks and Applications Large Scale Networks Load Balancing and Congestion Control Simulation Tools for Communications and Networks Internet and Mobile QoS Architectures Modeling Techniques, Verification and Validation Best Paper Award ---------------- A paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award. The selected paper will be published in a special issue of Modeling & Simulation Magazine. Tutorials and Workshops ----------------------- * * Using and Extending NS3; presented by George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology The US National Science Foundation has funded a multi-year effort, led by Tom Henderson at University of Washington and George Riley of Georgia Institute of Technology, to create a new network simulation environment. The new simulation, called NS3, will be completely open source, and is intended to supersede the aging NS2 simulator. The design team took a clean sheet of paper approach, and has designed the basic framework for simulating computer networks. In this tutorial, I will discuss the basic design of NS3, including event list management, memory management, data packet representation, protocol stack data flow, statistics collection, and random variables. We will then go through several example NS3 simulations, showing by example how to create and run a simulation using NS3. Proposals are also invited for tutorials and workshops to be presented at CNS 08. The proposal should include the tutorial or workshop objectives, a brief description (500 words), an outline, proposed length (one-hour, two-hour, or four-hour) and, a short professional resume of the instructor. Key dates are the same as paper submission dates. Tutorial and workshop presentation materials (in PDF or MS PowerPoint format) and handouts (in PDF, MS Word or MS PowerPoint format) are due by the camera ready due date. For submissions and additional information regarding tutorials and workshops, please contact the Chairs. Paper Submission ---------------- Original papers should be submitted to the SCS Conference Proceedings Management System at: http://www.scs.org/springsim/submission/ All papers must include the authors' affiliation and e-mail addresses of all authors. The e-mail addresses should be related to the authors' institutions and not public portals. Paper formatting instructions and copyright form are available at: http://www.scs.org/Conferences.cfm All papers will be fully refereed for accuracy, technical content, and relevance. Papers should be no longer than 8 single-spaced double-column pages. At least one author must pre-register for the conference, paying the full registration fee, in order to have their paper included in the CD. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM digital library. Contact the Chairs with any questions concerning the paper submission and review process, or questions regarding the relevance of a paper to the conference. Steering Committee ------------------ General Chair: Aftab Ahmad , Norfolk State University, aahmad(a)nsu.edu Co-Chair: Arnold Bragg RTI International, abrag(a)rti.org Program Chair: Hala ElAarag, Stetson University, helaarag(a)stetson.edu Technical Program Committee: ---------------------------- *Abodolreza Abhari, Ryerson University, Canada *Mohiuddin Ahmed, International Islamic University, Malaysia *Shakil Akhtar, Clayton State University, USA *Mohamad Badra, LIMOS Laboratory, CNRS France *Bohdan Bodnar, Lemko Corporation, USA *Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada *Xuejun Cai, Nokia Siemens Networks, China *Jin Seek Choi, Hanyang University, Korea *James Conrad University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA *Max Ehammer, University of Salzburg, Austria *Jonathan Graham, Norfolk State University, USA *Ibrahim Habib, City College of New York, USA *Wolfang Haidegger, Siemens, Austria *Usman Javaid, Orange Labs, France *Yusheng Ji, National Institute of Informatics, Japan *Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland *Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University, Canada *Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Resaerch Lab, Rome, NY *John Laskar, Government Consultant, USA *Axel Lehmann, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany *Susan Lincke-Salecker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA *Wasim Malik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State University, USA *Sumit Naiksatam, Santa Clara University, USA *Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University, USA *George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *Mona Rizvi, Norfolk State University, USA *Yelena Rykalova, Boston University, USA *Augustine Samba, Kent State University, USA *Mohammed Smadi, McMaster University Canada *Lev Sofman, Alcatel-Lucent North America, USA *Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, USA ----------------------- Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International P.O. Box 17900 San Diego, California 92177 Phone 858-277-3888 Fax 858-277-3930 E-mail scs(a)scs.org Hala ElAarag, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stetson University 421 N. Woodland Blvd. DeLand, FL 32723 URL: http://www.stetson.edu/~helaarag phone: 386-822-7554 fax: 386-822-7560 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: PFLDNET2008 Protocols for very long distance high speed networks
by Lachlan Andrew 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

(Apologies if you get this multiple times. I just sent it, and it seemed to bounce, so I'm re-sending...) > > CALL FOR PAPERS > PFLDNET2008 > > > Sixth International Workshop on > Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Networks > 5-7 March 2008 > The Schuster Building, The University of Manchester, UK > > http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/PFLDnet2008/cfp.php > > Important Dates > > Initial Abstract submission: > Monday 10 December, 2007 > Notification of acceptance: > Monday 14 January, 2008 > Early (discounted) Registration: > Monday 4 February, 2008 > Final paper submission: > Friday 22 February, 2008 > Workshop: > Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 5 to 7 March, 2008 > > > ------------------------------------------- > > With the emergence of hybrid network facilities, future networks will > increasingly contain high bandwidth, high delay paths. Protocols for > fast, long distance networks will have to expand from experimental > testbeds and into the wider world. In that process, it is increasingly > important for protocols which achieve high utilization on fast, long > distance networks also to have the qualities required for widespread > use, such as fairness and scalability to many users. > > > > The goal of the International Protocols for Fast Long-Distance > Networks workshop series is to bring together researchers and > practitioners from all continents in this area to exchange ideas and > experience. This single-track workshop will provide researchers and > technologists with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to > present, discuss and exchange experience on leading research, > development and future directions in high performance transport and > application protocols over fast long-distance networks. > > In order to facilitate discussions, attendance will be limited to 60 > participants. Please register early to ensure your participation. > Depending on the number of people who register, we may need to > restrict the number of people from a given organization to allow for a > broader representation of the research community. Registration will > open on 8 October 2008. > > PFLDnet2008 solicits papers which will further research on protocols > for tomorrow's high speed Internet, at all stages along the continuum > from the requirements of today's Grid networks, through optical > transports, throughbenchmarking of proposals, to the selection of the > next generation of TCP and other transport protocols. > > Participants wishing to present a paper should upload a four-page > extended abstact to the submission site by Monday 10 December 2007. > Final papers should be typically 4-5 pages, but no longer than 6 > pages. > > Scope: (choose at least one of the subject areas below - multiple > selections are possible) > > Protocol issues in fast long-distance networks: > > Protocol development > Enhancements of TCP and its variants > Novel data transport protocols designed for new Networks and > Application Services > Explicit signaling protocols: Optimization criteria and deployment > strategies > Pacing and shaping of TCP and UDP traffic > Parallel transfers and multistreaming > Performance evaluation > Modeling and simulation-based results > Experiments on real networks and actual measurements > Protocol benchmarking > Hardware-specific issues > Transport over optical networks > Protocol implementation and hardware issues (PCs, NICs, TOEs, routers, > switches, etc.) > End system performance > Data replications and striping > RDMA over WANs > Application focus > Requirements and experience from applications with demanding network > performance requirements > Bulk-data transfer applications both TCP and non-TCP based > Transport service for Grids > QoS and scalability issues > Multicast over fast long-distance networks > Fiber To The Home (FTTH) > > > > Authors whose papers are selected for presentation will have the > option to submit a revised paper, to be published on the PFLDnet 2008 > web site and in the PFLDnet 2008 proceedings. We propose to collect > the best papers from PFLDnet 2008 and make a joint publication with > those from PFLDnet 2007 in a special edition of a journal, if the > authors are interested. > > > > COMMITTEES > > Co-Chairs: > > Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) > Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) > > Steering Committee: > > Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) > Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) > Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) > > > Technical Program Committee: > > Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck - AT) (Co-chair) > Bill Allcock (Argonne - USA) > Eitan Altman (INRIA - FR) > Lachlan Andrew (Caltech - USA) > Chadi Barakat (INRIA - FR) > Richard Carlson (Internet2 - USA) > Jean-Laurent Costeux (Orange - FR) > Dirceu Cavendish (KIT - JP) > Les Cottrell (SLAC - USA) > Michel Diaz (LAAS - FR) > Larry Dunn (Cisco - USA) > Wesley Eddy (NASA -USA) > Lars Eggert (NEC - DE) > Ted Faber (ISI - USA) > Wu-Chun Feng (Virginia Tech - USA) > Sally Floyd (ICIR - USA) > Paola Grosso (University of Amsterdam- NL) > Go Hasegawa (Osaka University - JP) > Richard Hughes-Jones (Manchester - UK) (Co-chair) > Dina Katabi (MIT - USA) > Katsushi Kobayashi (NICT - JP) > Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST - JP) > Cees de Laat (University of Amsterdam - NL) > Jason Leigh (EVL - USA) > Doug Leith (Hamilton Institute - IE) (Co-chair) > Steven Low (caltech - USA) > Saverio Mascolo (University of Bari - IT) > Masayuki Murata (Osaka University - JP) > Anders Persson (SUN - USA) > Balakrishna Prabhu (CWI -NL) > Injong Rhee (North Carolina State University - USA) > Hideyuki Shimonishi (NEC - JP) > Dimitra Simeonidou (Essex - UK) > Martin Swany (Delaware - US) > Robin Tasker (Daresbury Lab - UK) > Brian Tierney (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories - USA) > Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA - FR) (Co-chair) > David X. Wei (Caltech - USA) > > Local Arrangements: > > Anne Morrow (Manchester - UK) > Stephen Kershaw (Manchester - UK) -- Lachlan Andrew Dept of Computer Science, Caltech 1200 E California Blvd, Mail Code 256-80, Pasadena CA 91125, USA Ph: +1 (626) 395-8820 Fax: +1 (626) 568-3603 http://netlab.caltech.edu/~lachlan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Iscc] CfP: IEEEE WoWMoM 2008 - Submission Deadline EXTENDED to NOV. 25, 2007
by Giuseppe Anastasi 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

[Apologies for possible multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------- 9th IEEE International Symposium on A WORLD of WIRELESS, MOBILE, and MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 June 23-27, 2008 Newport Beach/Irvine, California, USA http://wowmom08.ics.uci.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- **** Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOV. 25, 2007 **** Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society The University of Texas at Arlington IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) Organized by University of California at Irvine, USA WoWMoM 2008 BEST PAPER and BEST DEMO AWARDS sponsored by ELSEVIER --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2008 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. The emergence of wireless network standards and their future evolutions offer exciting new opportunities for delivering rich multimedia content over wireless networks. Users will be able to seamlessly and ubiquitously accomplish their tasks such as accessing and retrieving information, communicating with other users or devices, exploiting advanced context-dependent services, and so on. Papers that present original 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. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Networking services for pervasive systems - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Content management and distribution - IP-based wireless/mobile multimedia services - IP-based wireless/mobile networks - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - Network management and control - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN, and RAN - Ad-hoc and mesh networks - Vehicular networks - Wireless Sensor Networks - Opportunistic Networking - Security, privacy and dependability - Pricing and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation ---------------------------------------------- BEST PAPER AWARD AND FAST TRACK PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------- The best paper presented at the symposium will be awarded with the Best Paper Award sponsored by the Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Papers of particular merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. ---------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------- Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. ---------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------- The IEEE WoWMoM 2008 technical program will also include one-day workshops on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. ---------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline:..........EXTENDED TO NOV. 25, 2007 Notification of Paper Acceptance:...........February 15, 2008 Camera-ready Submission:.......................March 31, 2008 ---------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------- GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine, USA Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Roger Zimmerman, National University of Singapore, Singapore DEMO CHAIR: Shivajit Mohapatra, Motorola Research Labs, USA INDUSTRIAL SESSION CHAIR: Anand Prasad, DoCoMo, USA KEYNOTE CHAIR: Vincent Stanford, NIST, USA PANEL CHAIR: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR: Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS Seon Ho Kim, University of Denver, USA Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS: Mario Di Francesco, University of Pisa, Italy Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS: Lichun Bao, University of California at Irvine, USA Athina Markopolou, University of California at Irvine, USA WEB DESIGNER & MANAGER: Bo Xing, University of California at Irvine, USA STEERING COMMITTEE: Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA ---------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------- Kevin Almeroth, University of California at S. Barbara, USA Nilanjan Banerjee, IBM Research Lab, India Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Edoardo Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome at Tor Vergata, Italy Chris Blondia, University of Antwerpen, Belgium Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Yong Cui, Tsing Hua University, China Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Murat Demirbas, SUNY at Buffalo, USA Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA Nikil Dutt, University of California at Irvine, USA Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Magda El Zarki, University of California at Irvine, USA Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Rajesh Gupta, University of California at San Diego, USA Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA Albert Harris III, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany Kevin A. Kwiat, Airforce Research Lab, USA Qilian Liang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Haitao Lin, Nortel, USA Christoph Lindemann, University of Leipzig, Germany Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Giridhar Mandayam, Qualcomm, USA Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Refik Molva, Institut Eurecom, France Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jörg Ott, TKK/HUT, Finland Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy George Polyzos, Athens Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Alessandro Puiatti, SUPSI, Switzerland Fengyuan Ren, Tsing Hua University, China Ricky Robinson, NICTA, Australia Vasilios Siris, University of Crete, Greece Cormac J. Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Wendong Xiao, I2R, Singapore Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA You-Chiun Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Gergely Zaruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Tccc] CogNet-2008 CFP
by Vprasad＠ewi.tudelft.nl 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

CALL FOR PAPERS: Second IEEE CogNet 2008 Workshop 'Towards Cognition in Wireless Networks' Sponsored by IEEE ComSoc Technical Sub-committee on Cognitive Networks (http://ieee-cognet.org) Scope of the Workshop Recently we have been witnessing an unbounded growth in communication technology; in particular, wireless devices have been proliferating. There is a serious demand for spectrum to support the communication needs of all these devices. At the same time, many researchers are developing methodologies to sieve the unused spectrum. There are already many solutions proposed under the 'Cognitive Radio' (CR) umbrella that address this issue. The efforts by IEEE 1900 Working Group and various researchers are blazing a trail in the direction of intelligently using the spectrum available locally for communication needs, making Cognitive Radio Networking (CRN) one of the promising candidates for future communication. They are usually in terms of architecture, sensing, optimization, resource allocation, cross layer issues, etc. However, an end user requires a system that is capable of intelligently finding and handling the available frequency band without any compromise on the QoS. Thus there is a need for the community to look at the whole issue holistically such that these solutions, results and proposals can lead to the rapid deployment of Cognitive Radio. The need is to bring together all the efforts resulting in a cohesive approach. This workshop will enable such a platform. We select, from the submissions, a small set of papers discussing novel ideas that should not only analyze the issues in a CRN but also incorporate a clear direction towards the implementation of the CRN systems. This workshop brings together researchers, practitioners and the early proponents of CR. This workshop will be planned so as to allow more interactions amongst the participants rather than a conference would allow. CRW paradigm has been trying also to gain industrial relevance through the Cognitive Radio work done especially in the USA. The workshop aims to bring in together both long-term academic and shorter term industrial viewpoints. Topics of Interest * Architectures for Hardware and Software defined CR * Regulatory policies for non-centralized spectrum management * Enforcement of policies for CR devices * Pricing and billing for CR devices * Authorization and authentication of CR devices * Novel Dynamic/Opportunistic Spectrum Access techniques * MAC and Network layer management in CR context * Cross-layer optimization of CRWN (Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks) * End-to-End modeling of CRWN * Security of CRWN * Applications of CR, i.e., CR for Personal Area Networks * Spectrum Sensing and Quality of Detection * Signal Processing for CRWN * Game Theoretical Analysis of CRWN * Error correction and coding for CR * Testbeds, Experiences of CR implementations Organizing Committee * Ignas Niemegeers (General Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Joseph Evans (Vice General Chairperson), University of Kansas, USA * R. Venkatesha Prasad (TPC Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Petri Mahonen (TPC Vice-Chairperson), RWTH Aachen, Germany * Przemysław Pawełczak (Posters and Demos Chairperson), Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands * Sai Shankar (Publicity Chairperson), Qualcomm, USA Contact Information Delft University of Technology Wireless and Mobile Communications Group Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, the Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)15 27 87372 Fax: +31 (0)15 27 81774 E-mail: vprasad(a)ewi.tudelft.nl, p.pawelczak(a)ewi.tudelft.nl WWW: www.ieee-cognets.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CfP: Special Session on Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management - ISCRAM2008
by Nicolas C. Liebau 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message... +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Papers SPECIAL ACADEMIC SESSION ON * Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructure * * for Crisis Response and Management * http://www.quap2p.tu-darmstadt.de/de/events/iscram-2008/ Session ID: INT-03 at ISCRAM 2008 The 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Washington, DC, USA May 4-7, 2008 http://www.iscram.org +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Motivation Recent crisis like the recent Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and Hurricane Katrina demand quick first response organization as well as a high number of participating helpers and organizations. These two requirements are naturally supported by decentralized and self-organizing IT-infrastructures. While p2p systems like Groove achieve an easy way of enabling communication between heterogeneous first response teams. There are crucial inefficiencies in terms of network resource utilization, which is a vitally important requirement in crisis response situations. There are still numerous open topics necessary to put crisis response and management software on a solid technical base. Focus for this special session is the technical management of distributed crisis response systems. The areas covered by this session are listed below. Additional contributions concerning crisis response systems that are not explicitly mentioned but fit into the scope of this session are welcomed as well. Research Area The technical challenges for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System can be divided in three main areas. --------------------------------------------------------- Crisis Management Applications --------------------------------------------------------- Decentralized and Self-organizing IT Infrastructure --------------------------------------------------------- TCP/IP-based Communication Layer --------------------------------------------------------- While the base for communication, shown as TCP/IP based communication layer is crucial for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response System, the main focus of this special session is the second layer "Decentralized and Self Organizing IT infrastructure". The underlying TCP/IP based communication layer becomes increasingly more a commodity product while intelligent replica placement, distributed storage, service discovery, access control and context awareness need to be provided by the second layer. Based on the available services and infrastructure of the second layer the top layer provides various user interfaces to the deployed services. While all three layers are needed for a successful deployment of a Crisis Response and Management System, the main focus of this session is on the design of the second layer. Topics . Overlay networks specialized for Decentralized Crisis Response and Management . Decentralized service discovery . Distributed information storage and retrieval . Decentralized and self-organizing mechanisms for replica management . Decentralized location awareness . Group membership and access control . Simulation environments for "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management" . Decentralized Crisis Response and Management Systems . Systems Implications on Policy and Organizational Structures . Case Studies on "Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures" *Important ISCRAM 2008 Dates:* December 21, 2007: Paper submission deadline February 10, 2008: Notification of (conditional) acceptance February 22, 2008: Early registration deadline March 1, 2008: Final camera-ready paper submission deadline May 4-7, 2008: ISCRAM 2008 Session Chairs: . Nicolas Liebau, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Nicolas.Liebau(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (Ralf.Steinmetz(a)KOM.tu-darmstadt.de) . Dirk Bradler, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany (bradler(a)tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) . Jussi Kangasharju, University of Helsinki, Finland (Jussi.Kangasharju(a)cs.helsinki.fi) Type of contribution: . Academic Session: We invite researchers from academia or research labs to present their research or research-in-progress papers. Prospective presenters submit a regular research (or research-in-progress) paper. Important Notice: . All submissions must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2008 formatting guidelines. Templates and instructions are published on www.iscram.org. . All submissions must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2008 conference paper submission web page at www.conftool.com/iscram2008. Instructions for the ConfTool system can be found on www.iscram.org. . All papers and presentations will go through a double-blind review process, leading to a decision of (conditional) acceptance or rejection. . Accepted papers will be included in the ISCRAM 2008 program and published in the official proceedings if and only if (1) the paper is formatted according to the instructions, (2) the authors sign the copyright transfer form and (3) one of the authors registers for the conference and pays the registration fee before the cut-off date for early registration. . Authors who have multiple papers accepted can only register for and present one paper at the conference; co-authors need to register separately. About ISCRAM: The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. At its annual international conference alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All information on ISCRAM can be found at http://www.iscram.org ISCRAM 2008 will be held from 4-7 May at the George Washington University (GWU) located in Washington, DC, USA. The conference will be hosted by GWU's Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management (ICDRM). All details on this conference will be made available via the ISCRAM website mentioned above. -- ______________________________________________________KOM P2P Networking Nicolas C. Liebau Nicolas.Liebau(a)kom.tu-darmstadt.de Head of Peer-to-Peer Networking http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/en/research/research-areas/peer-to-peer-netw… Multimedia Communications Lab - KOM http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de Technische Universität Darmstadt Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Tel.: +49 6151 16-5240, FAX: +49 6151 16-6152 postal address: TU Darmstadt, FB 18, KOM, Merckstr. 25, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany ___________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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