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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM MobiCom 2007, September 4-9 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada Datum: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:41:08 +0100 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCom 2007 The Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking September 9-14, 2007 Montreal, QC, Canada http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiCom is the premier international conference dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. It has served as an exciting international forum since 1995, addressing networks, systems, algorithms, and applications that support the symbiosis of mobile computers and wireless networks. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. New this year, Mobicom will be jointly held with ACM Mobihoc. The two conferences will run in parallel, and will have many joint plenary sessions (such as the keynote, panels, and welcoming reception). Authors are invited to submit full papers, challenges papers, student posters, and research demos and exhibits, presenting new research related to the theory or practice of mobile computing and/or wireless and mobile networking. All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures, protocols, and algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, limited power and/or intermittent connectivity * Applications and services for mobile users * Cyber-physical computing and networking * Delay/disruption tolerant networks * Fundamental understanding of mobile computing and wireless networking * Implementations and experimental testbeds for mobile/wireless networks * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Modeling, measurement and simulation of mobile networks * Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Performance evaluation of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Protocols exploiting dynamic spectrum, UWB, MIMO, directional antennas * Resource management and quality-of-service for real-time traffic support * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Wireless access technologies (e.g., mesh networks, personal area networks) Submission Instructions Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2007/cfp.html Important Dates Abstracts submission due: February 23, 2007 Paper submissions due: March 2, 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2007 Camera-ready version due: June 29, 2007 General Chair: Evangelos Kranakis, kranakisscs.carleton.ca Technical Co-Chairs: Jennifer C. Hou, jhou(a)cs.uiuc.edu Ram Ramanathan, ramanath(a)bbn.com FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact the General Chair or Program Co-Chairs for more information. For information on ACM SIGMOBILE and the MobiCom series of conferences, see http://www.sigmobile.org/ or contact mobicom_info(a)acm.org. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, Ph.D. E-mail: pedrom(a)dif.um.es Fac. Informatica, Univ. of Murcia Phone: +34968364335 Campus de Espinardo s/n Fax: +34968364151 E-30100, Espinardo, Murcia www: ants.dif.um.es/~pedrom/ SPAIN --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7 Datum: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:47:04 +0900 Von: Jie Li <lijie(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) CALL FOR PAPERS *************** B O D Y N E T S 2 0 0 7 **************** 2nd International Conference on Body Area Networks 11-13 June, 2007, Florence (Italy) http://www.bodynets.org Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST In-technical cooperation with: IEEE Communications Society (approval pending) ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): January 17, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 12, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 11, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------- With recent advances in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), their practical applications in general sensing and monitoring are rapidly broadening. Although originally conceived for wide area environment or process monitoring, WSNs are increasingly being used in human computer interaction, gaming, and interactive digital art as well as in healthcare and patient monitoring. Despite the recent technological developments in the fields of sensing, embedded electronics, and sensor networking, several challenging issues need to be addressed. In particular, technological scaling, wireless communication and networking, sensor data processing and presentation are key aspects that need to be investigated in an integrated fashion for enabling visionary applications in the above areas of WSN. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------- The aim of this conference is to bring researchers in WSN to address the following technical and application issues: * Wireless Communication and Networking Protocols: キ的n-body・networks キ哲ear-body・networks * Applications キ Interactive Virtual Reality and Gaming キ WSN based Interactive Digital Art キ Human Computer Interaction キ Entertainment キ Ambient intelligence キ Smart Spaces, Personalization キ Healthcare and patient monitoring * Server side information processing: キ Data querying キ Event detection, classification,tracking * Middleware * Quality of service, security and fault tolerance issues * Enabling technologies: キ Novel sensors and materials キ Transceivers キ Microcontrollers キ Hardware platform * In Network information processing: キ Data aggregation and fusion algorithms * Tools and test beds * Performance evaluation * Internetworking with heterogeneous networks Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. Submission instructions are available on the website: www.bodynets.org. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------ Romano Fantacci (General Chair), University of Florence , Italy David Tacconi (Vice-Chair), Create-Net, Italy Guang-Zhong Yang (TPC chair), Imperial College of London, UK Hsiao-Hwa Chen (TPC chair), NSYSU, Taiwan Prithwish Basu (TPC chair), BBN Technologies, USA Francesco Chiti (Local Arrangement Chair), University of Florence , Italy Jie Li (Publicity Chair), University of Tsukuba, Japan Yang Yang (Publicity Chair), University College of London, UK Sinem Coleri Ergen (Publicity Chair), Pirelli/Telecom Italia WSN Lab,Berkeley, US Giada Mennuti (Sponsorships Chair), University of Florence , Italy Karen Decker (Financial Chair), ICST, US Zita Rozsa (Conference Coordinator), ICST, Europe STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols Datum: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:29:10 -0600 Von: Song Ci <sci(a)engr.unl.edu> Antwort an: sci(a)engr.unl.edu Organisation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu =============== Call for Papers =============== IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks: Applications, Architectures and Protocols ===================================================================== Wireless mesh network (WMN) technologies have been actively researched and developed as key solutions to improve the performance and services of wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) for a variety of applications, such as voice, data and video. Compared with mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and infrastructure-based mobile cellular networks, WMNs are (1) quasi-static in network topology and architecture, (2) not resource constrained at mesh routers and (3) easy and flexible to deploy. These technological advantages are especially appealing to the emerging market requirements on future wireless networks and services, such as flexible network architecture, easy deployment and self-configuration, low installation and maintenance costs, interoperable with the existing WPAN, WLAN and WMAN networks, support of multiple radios and access methods, hierarchical mobility management, ability to attain efficient frequency reuse, high system capacity, reliable multi-hop and multi-path communications. Potential applications of WMNs include broadband home networking, community and neighbourhood networking, enterprise networking, building automation, health and medical systems, public safety and security systems, intelligent transportation systems, emergency/disaster networking, metropolitan area broadband Internet access and so on. This wide range of applications have different technical requirements and challenges in the design and deployment of mesh networking architectures, algorithms and protocols. This special issue aims to systematically address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the design, implementation and deployment of mesh networking algorithms, equipments and applications. ====================== Scope of Contributions ====================== This special issue will present the state-of-the-art applications of WMN technologies and the corresponding technical advances in the design and deployment of feasible network architectures and protocols. We are soliciting original survey and research articles written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. Contributions from academic researchers, industrial engineers, equipment manufacturers and service providers are all very welcome and will go through an open call- for-papers and a rigorous peer review process. Specifically, topics of interest include: * Applications and usage scenarios, such as neighbourhood and community networking, campus and enterprise networking, emergency and instant networking, and wireless broadband Internet access services * Network design and planning, such as homogeneous and heterogeneous network architectures, tradeoff study of computation, storage and bandwidth requirements for real implementations, techniques to ensure network reliability, scalability and interoperability * Network management and operation, such as self-configuration, self- management, self-healing, low overhead control protocols for discovery, establishment and maintenance of mesh networks * Resource management algorithms and communication protocols, such as MAC protocols, routing protocols, end-to-end QoS support and system-wide admission control algorithms * Performance analysis and optimisation, such as network capacity, coverage, fairness, energy efficiency, frequency reuse and interference management * Standardization and internetworking of WPAN-, WLAN-, WMAN- and cellular-based wireless mesh networks * Mesh platforms, such as testbed experiments, design and deployment of mesh nodes and networks with multiple radios, channels and antennas ===================== Manuscript Submission ===================== The special issue will consider original research and survey articles prepared in accordance to the guidelines of the IEEE Network magazine (http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html) written in a tutorial manner comprehensible to the non-specialists. The manuscripts must be written in English and submitted electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, contact information, a 250-word abstract and 3-5 keywords, via email to Dr. Yang Yang (YangYang(a)ieee.org) before the deadline. Please prepare your manuscript in single-column and double-spaced format with the font size larger than 10 points. =============== Important Dates =============== * Paper submission due date: April 15, 2007 * Notifications of acceptance: August 15, 2007 * Final version ready: October 1, 2007. * Publication of the special issue: First Quarter 2008 ============= Guest Editors ============= * Dr. Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK. Email: y.yang(a)ee.ucl.ac.uk * Dr. Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Cambridge, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK. Email: dina.papagiannaki(a)intel.com * Professor Song Ci, Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 200B Peter Kiewit Institute, NE 68182, USA. Email: sci(a)engr.unl.edu * Professor Sherman Shen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada. Email: xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca -- --------------------------------------- Song Ci 402-554-2005 sci(a)engr.unl.edu http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci --------------------------------------- -- --------------------------------------- Song Ci 402-554-2005 sci(a)engr.unl.edu http://www.engr.unl.edu/~sci --------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [AAS] News 18 Nov 2006]
by Lars Wolf 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AAS] News 18 Nov 2006 Datum: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:42:00 +0000 Von: Roy Sterritt <r.sterritt(a)ulster.ac.uk> An: undisclosed-recipients:;;;;@ulster.ac.uk@webapps.ulst.ac.uk;;; ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Autonomous & Autonomic Systems ----------- --------------------------- News -------------------------- ------------------- 18 November 2006 ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ Contents: --------- 1. CFP SASO'07 (Deadline 31 Jan 2007) 2. CFP ECBS'07 (Deadline 5 & 20 Jan 2007) 3. CFP PCAC'07 (Deadline 22 Nov 2006) ------------------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************** Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. Topics o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems Systems & Technologies o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems Research Communities o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization Organization General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA Submission Instructions See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide. Important Dates Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS The Twelfth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2007) The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 11-14 July 2007. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/iceccs07/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Complex computer systems are common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks, and are driven by many diverse requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and their satisfaction therefore requires managing the trade-off among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. The scope of interest includes long-term research issues, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, existing complex systems, and commercially available tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Avionics and Automobile Software + Content Production and Distribution Systems, Mobile and Multi- channel Systems + Context Awareness Computing + Formal Methods and Approaches to Manage and Control Complex Systems + Human Factors and Collaborative Aspects + Integration of Heterogeneous Technologies + Interoperability and Standardization + Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing + Real-time and Embedded Systems + Sensor Network Systems and Applications + Software and System Development and Control Processes for Complex Systems + Software Architecture and System Engineering + Software Complexity Visualization + Systems and Software Safety and Security + Tools, Environments, and Languages for Complex Systems + Verification Techniques for Complex Software Systems + Virtual Environments for Managing Complexity + Web Services Modeling and Compositions Different kinds of contributions are sought, including research papers, lessons learned, status reports, and discussion of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and industrial experience reports should describe practical projects carried out in industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format. Papers should not exceed 10 pages including figures, references, and appendices and be in PDF format. Submissions of papers will be carried out electronically via the Web (Submission Page). Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign a copyright release form. IEEE Computer Society Press will publish the proceedings. Final versions of accepted papers will be limited to 10 pages in the aforementioned IEEE proceedings format. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission: January 5, 2007 Paper submission: January 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance: March 9, 2007 Camera ready copy due: April 8, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Michael G Hinchey, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Gillian Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM CHAIRS Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand WORKSHOP CHAIR Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR Jim Woodcock, Special Session Chair on Grand Challenges - Complex Program Verifier, University of York, United Kingdom LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR John Hamer, The University of Auckland, New Zealand SPONSORSHIP CHAIR Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE Timo Aaltonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Robert Amor, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Pierfrancesco Bellini, University of Florence, Italy Shawn Bohner, Virginia Tech, USA Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom Manfrey Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom W.K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, China Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Jim Davies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Ewen Denney, RIACS / NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jurgen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Yuxi Fu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Chris George, United Nations University, China Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany Jun Han, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Jane E. Hayes, University of Kentucky, USA John Hosking, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Zhenjiang Hu, University of Tokyo, Japan Pankaj Jalote, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Phillip Laplante, Penn State University, USA Kung-Kiu Lau, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Kueng Hae Lee, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Peter Lindsay, University of Queensland, Australia Zhiming Liu, United Nations University, China Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia Andrew Martin, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Hong Mei, Peking University, China Huaikou Miao, Shanghai University, China Shin Nakajima, National Instutite of Informatics, Japan Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom Sungyong Park, Sogang University, Korea Mauro Pezze, University of Lugano, Switzerland Shengchao Qin, Durham University, United Kingdom Zhongyan Qiu, Peking University, China Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada Rudolph E. Seviora, University of Waterloo, Canada Xiaoyu Song, Portland State University, USA Mark Staples, National ICT Australia, Australia Frank Stomp, Wayne State University, USA Paul Strooper, The University of Queensland, Australia Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Paul Swatman, University of South Australia, Australia Kenji Taguchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Tetsuo Tamai, The University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Utting, The University of Waikato, New Zealand Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hai Wang, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Ian Warren, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden Huiqun Yu, East China University of Science and Technology, China Daqing Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom ------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== The Second IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC-07) to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 21th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07),Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007 http://www.aina-conference.org/2007/ =================================================================== Aims and Scopes --------------- Pervasive computing has emerged as a new computing and communication environment with the aim of providing services anytime and anywhere for everyone. To facilitate resource sharing and support group communications, pervasive computing devices should be able to support ad hoc communications and networking. With ad hoc communications, seamless and transparent access to services and applications can be achieved while providing mechanisms for establishing spontaneous and interactive networking among communicating entities. Despite considerable progress in mobile computing and wireless communication technologies, new user demands and emerging applications introduce challenges in several areas including security, privacy, processing, auto configuration, scalability, software infrastructure, communication models and networking infrastructure. To support flexibility and unlimited mobility, services and applications should adapt to heterogeneous networking environment supporting multihop communication in hybrid wired/wireless environment. This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia to present their current research results and discuss future trends in pervasive computing and ad hoc communications. Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Pervasive computing architectures - Wearable computers - Smart devices and smart spaces - Location-dependent and personalized applications - Service discovery mechanisms - Agent technologies - Mobility management - Sensors and actuators - Resource management - Embedded systems - Device and service interaction - Location-aware services - Middleware for pervasive computing - Middleware fro ad hoc computing - Hardware, OS and convergence issues - Security and privacy issues for pervasive computing systems - Positioning and tracking technologies - Identification and authentication technologies - Social Issues and Implications of pervasive computing - Data management infrastructure and algorithms - Caching and prefetching strategies - Resource discovery - Ad hoc communication and networking - Group communication and management - Ad hoc computing - User interfaces and interaction models - Prototyping and performance evaluation - Personal Area networks - Integration of wired and wireless networks - Enabling technologies such as Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, and 802.20 - Context based and implicit computing - Ad hoc networking protocols and service discovery - Wireless Mesh Network Submissions and Proceedings --------------------------- The manuscript should follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality,technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Outstanding papers will be considered for a Special Issue in Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI) (http://www.aspbs.com/juci.html). PCAC-07 submission website: http://pcac07.ehpclab.org/ Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: Nov. 22, 2006 Authors Notification: Jan. 22, 2007 Authors Registration: Jan. 31, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: Feb. 19, 2007 Organising Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada Jian Ma, Nokia, China Steering Chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Program Committee ----------------- Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Pascal Chatonnay (NUMERICA/ISTI/LIFC , France) Yuh-Shyan Chen (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, South Korea) Chun Tung Chou (University of New South Wales, Australia) Tarik Cicic (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Felipe A. Cruz-Perez (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico) Fei Dai (North Dakota State University, USA) Falko Dressler (University of Erlangen, Germany) Paal E. Engelstad (Telenor R&D, Norway) Carles Gomez (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Peter C.J. Graham (University of Manitoba, Canada) Jadwiga Indulska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Andreas Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweden) Dimitrios Katsaros (Aristotle University, Greece) Guanling Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan) Jie Li (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Leszek T. Lilien (Western Michigan University, USA) Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Luigi Logrippo (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada) Seng Wai Loke (Latrobe University, Australia) Cecilia Mascolo (University College London, UK) Chris McDonald (The University of Western Australia, Australia) Yongwan Park (Yeung Nam University, South Korea) Elhadi Shakshuki (Acadia University, Canada) Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan) Tor Skeie (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway) Limin Sun (Institute of Software, China Academy of Science, China) Xueyan Tang (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Torab Torabi (LaTrobe University, Australia) Javier Garcia Villalba (Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Spain) Jianping Wang (University of Mississippi, USA) Tadeusz A. Wysocki (University of Wollongong, Australia) Yang Xiao (University Alabama, USA.) Yingqi Xu (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Boon Sain Yeo (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA) Baoxian Zhang (Graduation University, China Academy of Science, China) Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Hao Zhu (Florida International University, USA) -- *************************************************** This is the News Email of the IEEE Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems http://tab.computer.org/AAS/ It covers AAS community related activities by the members, which are not necessaray sponsored by the TF nor endorsed by IEEE CS. The Latest TF Newsletter is at: http://tab.computer.org/AAS/newsletter/ Manage your membership (including unsubscribe) at: http://www.computer.org/services/teca/ ***************************************************

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(FW) Call for papers for IEEE ICWS 2007 (Int. Conf. on Web Services)
by Martin Gutbrod 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks. CALL FOR PAPERS 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007) =================================================================== http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007 July 9-13, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Theme: all aspects of Web services from Computer Science and Engineering perspectives Celebrating the 2007 IEEE Congress on Services! Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing (http://tab.computer.org/tcsc) ICWS 2007 organizing committee invites you to participate in the fifth year of ICWS in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on July 9-13, 2007. ICWS has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web services. ICWS also aims to identify emerging research topics and define the future of Web services. Over the past five years, ICWS has grown steadily, attracting over 200 participants on a regular basis. ICWS 2006 was held on September 18-22, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois, USA; ICWS 2005 was held on July 11-15, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA; ICWS 2004 was held on July 6-9, 2004 in San Diego, California, USA; ICWS 2003 was held on June 23-26, 2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ICWS 2007 will be co-located with the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007). IEEE Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) Industry Summit and IEEE International Services Computing Contest will again be featured at this joint event. The technical program will include refereed paper presentations, panels, and work-in-progress sessions in both research and industry tracks. Workshops and tutorials will run before and throughout the conference. ICWS 2007 research track seeks original, unpublished research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of Web services from Computer Science perspective. Research papers must properly cite related work and clearly indicate their contributions to the field of Web services. Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Mathematical Foundations for Web Services Computing * Web Services-based Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure * Web Services Modeling * Web Services Standards and Implementation Technologies * Web Services Specifications and Enhancements (e.g., UDDI, SOAP, WSDL) * Web Services Discovery * Web Services Composition and Integration * Web Services Invocation * QoS for Web Services (e.g., security, privacy, reliability, performance, fault tolerance, etc.) * Web Services Assessment (i.e., validation & verification) * Web Services-based Testing Methodologies * Web Services-based Software Engineering * Web Services-based Project Management * Semantic Web Services * IT Infrastructure Management for Web Services * Solution Management for Web Services * Multimedia Web Services * Web Services-driven Business Process Management * Web Services-based Mobile Computing * Web Services-based Grid Applications * Domain-specific Web Services Applications and Solutions All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Please note that the same paper should not be submitted to ICWS 2007 and SCC 2007 simultaneously. Such duplicate submissions will be rejected from both conferences without review. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Extended versions of selected best papers published in the ICWS 2007 will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) , the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM) , and the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC) . Both the ICWS Proceedings and JWSR are included in EI Compendex. Submitted manuscripts will be limited to 8 (IEEE Proceedings style) pages and required to be formatted using the IEEE Proceedings template. Electronic submission of manuscripts (in PDF or Word format) is required. Detailed instructions for electronic paper preparation and submission, panel proposals, tutorial proposals, and review process can be found at http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2007/. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. One Best Paper award and one Best Student Paper award will be granted at ICWS 2007. The first author of the best student papers must be full-time student. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: February 5, 2007 Paper Submission Due Date: February 12, 2007 Decision Notification (Electronic): April 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: May 1, 2007 General Chairs of SCC 2007: Frank Leymann, Ph.D. Professor, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ming-Chien Shan, Ph.D. Director, SAP Research, USA Program Committee Chairs: Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang, Ph.D. Research Staff Member and Founding Chair of Services Computing Professional Interest Community IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kenneth P. Birman, Ph.D. Professor, Cornell University, USA Program Committee Vice-Chair: Jia Zhang, Ph.D. Assiatant Professor, Northern Illinois University, USA Technical Steering Committee: Carl K Chang (Iowa State University, USA) Ephraim Feig (Kintera Inc, USA) Hemant Jain (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee , USA) Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA) Ming-Chien Shan (Hewlett-Packard, USA) Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Liang-Jie Zhang (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA) For any enquires, please e-mail to the Program Committee Vice-Chair Jia Zhang via jiazhang AT cs DOT edu

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] ISCC'07 CFP - Aveiro, July 1st-4th - 1 month to submission]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] ISCC'07 CFP - Aveiro, July 1st-4th - 1 month to submission Weitersenden-Datum: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:46:25 +0000 Weitersenden-Von: <ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt> Datum: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:46:21 +0000 (WET) Von: ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt (Rui Aguiar) An: iscc07_chairs(a)av.it.pt ================================================================= O N E M O N T H T O S U B M I S S I O N ISCC'07 Aveiro, Portugal, 1-4 July 2007 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ================================================================= Website: http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2007/ ISCC is a event jointly sponsored by IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, and will have its 12th edition in 2007. It will be located in Aveiro, a major center for communications industry in Portugal, and the center town of a beautiful touristic region. The main technical topics cover all areas associated with computer communications, and in particular: . Access Networks . Agents, Mobile Agents, and Knowledge Base Technologies . Data Mining and Database Applications . Distributed Systems Architecture and Management . Digital Satellite Communications . E-Commerce and E-Services . Economic and Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications . Fault-Tolerant Computing and Error Recovery . Grid and Cluster Computing . Handoff and Mobility . High Performance Networking and Protocols . Internet Services and Applications . IPv6 . Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks . Mobile Communications . Modeling and Simulation . MPLS, GMPLS . Network Reliability . Network Design and Optimization . Network and Service Management . Quality of Service . Optical Networking . Overlay and Programmable Networks . Peer-to-Peer Computing . Real Time Communication Services (VoIP, Games, Audio/Video Streaming, .) . Routing and Multicast . Security and Cryptography . Signal Processing in Communications and Networking . Standards . Wireless and Cellular Communications . Web Services Main deadlines: - Tutorials and workshops proposals: 1st December 2006 - Full Paper Submission: 1st December 2006 - Notification of paper acceptance: 23rd March 2007 - Final papers due by: 5th April 2007 ISCC'07 General Co-Chairs Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Prosper Chemouil, France Telecom, France ISCC'07 Technical Co-Chairs Rui L. Aguiar, Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal Anup Kumar, Univ. of Louisville, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2007/ Technical contact: iscc07_chairs(a)av.it.pt -- ============================================================================== Rui L.A. Aguiar || DD EEEE TTTTT II ruilaa(a)det.ua.pt || D D E T Dpt Electronica Telecomunicacoes Informatica || D D EEE T II Universidade de Aveiro || D D E T II 3810 AVEIRO PORTUGAL || DD EEEE T II Fax:+351.234.381941 or 381128; Phone:+351.234. 381937 or 370200(ext23022) http://www.av.it.pt/collaborators/personal/ruilaa ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: MobiSys 2007 deadline reminder]
by Lars Wolf 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiSys 2007 deadline reminder Datum: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:02:42 -0500 Von: Ramon Caceres <caceres(a)US.IBM.COM> Antwort an: Ramon Caceres <caceres(a)US.IBM.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG REMINDER OF MOBISYS 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINES The abstract submission deadline is coming up soon on November 27. The full-paper submission deadline will follow one week later on December 4. Submission instructions are available from <http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/call.html>. MOBISYS 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Puerto Rico 11-14 June 2007 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/ MobiSys 2007 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. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registrations due: 27 November 2006 (23:59 EST) Full papers due: 4 December 2006 (23:59 EST) Notification of paper acceptance: 9 March 2007 Final camera-ready papers due: 6 April 2007 Conference dates: 11-14 June 2007

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] GDC07 Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications]
by Lars Wolf 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] GDC07 Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications Datum: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:00:40 +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 **************************************************** The IGDA has just launched the 7th annual Student Scholarship Program. Twenty-five college students will be awarded complimentary full access passes to the 2007 Game Developers Conference. Students can now apply online: http://www.igda.org/scholarships/ The deadline to enter is Wednesday, January 10, 2007. Recipients will be announced late January. Applicants are required to be full-time college students (or equivalent) and IGDA student members for consideration. Scholarship applications will be judged by a panel of professional game developers. Full details are online: http://www.igda.org/scholarships/ Regards, Susan -- Prof. Susan Gold IGDA Education SIG Chairperson education_sig(a)igda.org **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to December 7, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to December 7, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:40:49 +0200 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to December 7, 2006 ***] We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth 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 2007 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. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline :*(Extended)* December 7, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 7, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 17, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: SASO 2007]
by Lars Wolf 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: SASO 2007 Datum: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:27:27 +0100 Von: Patrick Wüchner <patrick.wuechner(a)UNI-PASSAU.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Dear Colleagues, *************************************************************** Call for Papers SASO 2007 International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007 http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/ Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (approval pending) The complexity of current computer systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to deduce properties of the global system by studying only the local properties of its parts. This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should present novel theoretical results, or practical experience with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. Topics o Self-* properties: - self-organization - self-adaptiveness - self-management - self-monitoring - self-tuning - self-repair - self-configuration - etc. o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems o Management and control of self-* systems o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-* systems o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems Systems & Technologies o P2P applications o Mobile robots o Sensor networks o Mobile ad hoc networks o Grids o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications o Computer networks, telecommunication networks o Multi-agent systems o E-business systems and services o Complex adaptive systems Research Communities o Distributed artificial intelligence o Networking o Software engineering o Distributed systems o Integrated management o Robotics o Knowledge-based systems o Machine learning o Control theory o Mathematical optimization Organization General Co-Chairs: Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Howard E. Shrobe, MIT, USA Program Committee Chairs: Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Mark Jelasity, University of Szeged, Hungary Finance Chair: Paul Robertson, MIT, USA Applications Track Chair: Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Tutorial Chair: David Hales, University of Bologna, Italy Panel Chair: Robert Laddaga, BBN Technologies, USA Publicity Chair: Hermann De Meer, University of Passau, Germany Sponsor Chair: Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, NetExpert, Switzerland Local Arrangements Chair: Thomas J. Green, MIT, USA Submission Instructions See conference website. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide. Important Dates Submission: January 31, 2007 Notification: March 19, 2007 Final paper: April 6, 2007 *************************************************************** Apologies for multiple copies. Best regards, Hermann de Meer (Publicity Chair) -- Patrick G. Wuechner, Research Fellow Computer Networks and Computer Communications, Prof. de Meer, http://www.net.fmi.uni-passau.de University of Passau, GERMANY

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS'07)]
by Lars Wolf 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems (ADAMUS'07) Datum: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:53:38 +0100 Von: Luca Foschini <lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call-for-Papers ____________________________________________________________________________ Call for Papers: First IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Adaptive and DependAble Mission- and bUsiness-critical mobile Systems ADAMUS 2007 In conjunction with the 8th Int. Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM'07) Helsinki, Finland, 18th June, 2007 ( WoWMoM web site : http://ieee-wowmom.tml.hut.fi/ ADAMUS web site : http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/ ADAMUS'07 cfp pdf : http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/CFP_adamus07.pdf) WORKSHOP SCOPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A truly extended use of mobile computing technologies asks for effective software engineering techniques to design, develop and maintain mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments. In recent years, we witnessed an increasing demand for mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments. To overcome the intrinsic limitations of mobile devices and environments, a variety of research studies have produced a plethora of methods and proof-of-concept prototypes for supporting non-critical applications. However, it is still unclear whether current technologies, methods, and solutions can satisfy the challenging adaptability and dependability requirements of the emerging mobile mission- and business- critical systems and applications, such as mobile commerce, wireless control of robots, healthcare computing, and video-surveillance. To be effective, these applications must endorse provisions that allow them to continue the optimal distribution of their service despite the occurrence of potentially significant and sudden changes or faults in their infrastructure and the surrounding environment. Hence, it is becoming increasingly important: to devise conceptual models and paradigms able to mange and to express strategies and provisions for change tolerance and for cross-layer adaptation; to propose mechanisms to model, design, and develop adaptive and dependable systems; to provide analytical and simulation tools to measure a system's ability to withstand faults and optimally re-adjust to new environments; to develop design-/run-time solutions to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between energy consumption, performance, safety, and security. The main goal of this first workshop is that of fostering exchange of ideas and lively discussions to reduce the gap between research achievements and industrial applications in the field of adaptive and dependable mission- and business- critical mobile systems and applications. Researchers and practitioners from the academia and the industry are encouraged to participate. High quality papers able to identify open issues, to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing solutions, or to propose original and innovative techniques for adaptive and dependable mission- and business-critical applications over mobile environments are solicited for submission. The main topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * Dependability and real-time adaptation requirements for mobile systems * Dependability measurement of mobile systems and services * Design principles, models, and tools for adaptive mobile systems * Mobile-enabled middleware for heterogeneous wireless networks * Middleware support for adaptation and dependability * Context data provisioning and modelling * Context-based adaptive infrastructures * Human-machine interaction and usability * Multi-device systems * Integration of heterogeneous software platforms and operating systems * Architectures for resource and network monitoring and adaptation * Cross-layer adaptation * Software dependability in multimedia systems over wireless media * Group communication and group membership services * QoS control and component scheduling PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADAMUS 2007 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE proceedings style. All submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should submit a PostScript or PDF file through the submission Web site (http://www.mobilab.unina.it/ADAMUS/). Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper. Accepted papers will appear in the WoWMoM'07 Workshops proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ____________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: January 20, 2007 * Notification of acceptance: March 3, 2007 * Final camera-ready manuscripts due: March 24, 2007 ____________________________________________________________________________. ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: - Chris Blondia, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Marcello Cinque, Mobilab group, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, PATS group, University of Antwerp, Belgium - Filip De Turck, Intec group, University of Ghent, Belgium - Cristiano Di Flora, Nokia Research Center, Finland Publication Chair: - Luca Foschini, Mobile Middleware group, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy Technical Program Committee: - Stefan Arbanowski, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany - Andrea Bondavalli, Università di Firenze, Italy - Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA - Angelo Corsaro, SELEX-SI, Italy - Domenico Cotroneo, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy - Bart Dhoedt, University of Ghent / Intec, Belgium - Markus Endler, PUC-Rio, Brasil - Stephane Frenot, INRIA, France - Ibrahim Habib, CCNY, USA - Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France - Eija Kaasinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Eurolabs, Germany - Konrad Klöckner, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany - Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Gianluca Mazzini, Università di Ferrara, Italy - Joe McCarthy, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA - Ali Abu-Rgheff Mosa, School of Computing, Communications and Electronics, Plymouth, UK - Eric Pardede, Latrobe University, Australia - Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK - Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland - Francisco Valera, UC3M, Madrid, Spain - Sven Van der Meer, TTSG, Ireland - Katarzyna Wac, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland - Xinheng Henry Wang, Kingston University, UK -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini PhD Candidate DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACE 2007 - June 13th - 15th, 2007 - call for submission - paper deadline: January 12th, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] ACE 2007 - June 13th - 15th, 2007 - call for submission - paper deadline: January 12th, 2007 Datum: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:18:23 +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 **************************************************** ACE 2007 - www.ace2007.org Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology invites you to submit papers, workshops, demos, posters, panels or show cases. * January 12th, 2007: Deadline for papers and workshops. * February 9th, 2007: Deadline for short papers, posters, demos, panels and interactive user experience show cases. * May 4th, 2007: Deadline for industrial case studies. The conference will take place June 13th - 15th, 2007 in Salzburg, Austria. Recently, the field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest amongst researchers and developers in academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized to show high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed to deserve both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing, and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers, and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. The conference covers analysis, design, evaluation and application of new concepts, prototypes and products in the area of computer entertainment. For further information please visit: www.ace2007.org Regina Bernhaupt and Stephane Natkin (Program Chairs ACE 2007) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-Advanced Location-based Services]
by Lars Wolf 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-Advanced Location-based Services Datum: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:33:11 -0500 Von: Miguel A. Labrador <labrador(a)cse.usf.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. **************************************************************************** COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS - SPECIAL ISSUE ON ADVANCED LOCATION-BASED SERVICES **************************************************************************** Advances in end-system devices, localization techniques and availability of positioning data, information technology, mobile cellular networks, and the Internet are allowing innovative applications and services that may have been unattainable only a few years ago. At the same time, the proliferation of powerful and handy mobile devices makes these innovations more convenient than ever. This special issue of Computer Communications will provide researchers from academia and industry an avenue to present their possible solutions on the development, deployment, and application of advanced Location-Based Services (LBS). The focus of this issue is on advanced LBS and the regulatory and technical platforms that are needed to make them possible. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Advanced indoor and outdoor location-based applications: real-time tracking, multimedia, bidirectional, proactive applications Protocols, architectures and middleware in support of LBS New positioning techniques in support of LBS (indoor, cellular, satellite, hybrid) Standards and guidelines LBS based on integrated cellular, ad hoc, RFID, and sensor networks IP-based location services Position and location management Quality of location data Location representation, ontology, management, and distribution Geographic Information Systems for supporting LBS Algorithms and solutions for LBS-related functions (geocoding, reverse geocoding, ...) LBS applications for national security and community services Profiling using location information LBS regulatory, policy, and privacy issues and solutions LBS value chain and stakeholder management Papers describing current research are solicited. Survey, tutorial, industry experience, and business models and case study papers are also solicited. Important Dates: Deadline for title and abstract: 1 March 2007 Deadline for submission: 1 June 2007 Notification of acceptance: 1 November 2007 Publication: Spring 2008 Submission Guidelines: Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/authorin structions. Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to the either of the guest editors given below. Miguel A. Labrador Department of Computer Science and Engineering 4202 E. Fowler Ave., ENB 118 University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 E-mail: labrador(a)cse.usf.edu Axel Küpper Mobile and Distributed Systems Group Institute for Informatics - Research Unit 1 Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 Munich, Germany E-mail: axel.kuepper(a)ifi.lmu.de Katina Michael School of Information Technology and Computer Science University of Wollongong NSW Australia 2522 E-mail: katina(a)uow.edu.au Regards, Miguel ********************************************************************* Miguel A. Labrador, Ph.D. Department of Computer Science (813) 974-3260 and Engineering (813) 974-5456 (fax) University of South Florida labrador(a)cse.usf.edu 4202 E. Fowler Avenue ENB118 http://www.cse.usf.edu/~labrador Tampa, FL 33620-5399 ********************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 22:01:42 -0500 (EST) Von: Romit Roy Choudhury <romit(a)ee.duke.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ************ Call for Papers ************* MobiHoc 2007 The 8th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing September 9-14, 2007, Montreal, Canada http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiHoc is the premier international meeting dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. This year's symposium will include a highly selective technical program, as well as hands-on research demonstrations, keynote, panel, and tutorials. Further, new this year, MobiHoc will be jointly held with ACM MobiCom. The two conferences will run in parallel, and will have many joint plenary sessions (such as the keynote, panels, and welcoming reception). We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Applications, operating system, and middleware support * Transport, network, and MAC protocols * Energy-efficient algorithms * Quality of Service issues * Location discovery techniques * Network scaling and limits * Cross layer design * Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability * Trust, security and privacy * Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination * Measurements and practical experience from experimental systems and testbeds * Modeling and performance evaluation PAPERS Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. 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: January 9, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: January 16, 2007, 5pm U.S. Pacific Time TPC CO-CHAIRS: Elizabeth Belding ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu Eytan Modiano modiano(a)mit.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Cost290] FW: CFP (Due 11/19/2006) IEEE WoWMoM 2007, Helsinki, Finland, June 18-21, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] FW: CFP (Due 11/19/2006) IEEE WoWMoM 2007, Helsinki, Finland, June 18-21, 2007 Datum: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:47:31 +0200 Von: Vasilios Siris <vsiris(a)ics.forth.gr> An: <cost290(a)cs.tut.fi> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. *********************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS WoWMoM 2007 The 8th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://www.ieee-wowmom.org Helsinki, Finland, June 18-21, 2007 Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society The University of Texas at Arlington Technically co-sponsored by The IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) Organized by NOKIA and TKK/HUT *********************************************** Submission Deadline --- November 19, 2006 *********************************************** IEEE WoWMoM 2007 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 broadband wireless access standards (e.g., from the 3GPP, IEEE, IETF, and other regional fora) 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 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 welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice and video in wireless networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - IP-based wireless multimedia services - Multimedia session signaling in wireless environments - Networking services for pervasive systems - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking and self-organization - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Network management and control - IP-based mobile networks - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Location mechanism and services - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN, and RAN - Ad-hoc and sensor networks - Broadband wireless access and mesh networks - Vehicular wireless networks - Wireless security, privacy and dependability - Content management and distribution - Authentication, authorization, and accounting - Modeling and performance evaluation IEEE WoWMoM 2007 technical program will also include one-day workshops and industry sessions on hot topics on wireless, mobile and multimedia networks. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ================================= Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor currently under review by another conference or journal. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting will be provided on the website. Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES ============== Full papers due: November 19, 2006 Notification: February 14, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== GENERAL Chairs: Sudhir Dixit, Nokia, USA Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany PROGRAM Chairs: Giuseppe Bianchi, Univ. of Roma 2 Tor Vergata, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National Univ., Korea WORKSHOPS Chair: Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland FINANCE & REGISTRATION Chair: Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Antti Yla-Jaaski, HUT, Finland PUBLICITY Chairs: Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National Univ., Korea Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA WEB DESIGNER & MANAGER: Sanna Suoranta, TKK/HUT, Finland STEERING COMMITTEE ================== Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (chair) Dipankar Raychaudhuri WINLAB/Rutgers University, USA Satish K. Tripathi, SUNY Buffalo, USA _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: UbiComp 2007: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: UbiComp 2007: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:53:06 +0100 Von: Matthias Kranz <matthias(a)hcilab.org> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de UbiComp2007 Call for Papers --------------------------- UbiComp 2007 [1] will be the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, held in Innsbruck, Austria, on 16-19 September 2007. UbiComp 2007 invites original, high-quality research papers in the areas of ubiquitous, mobile, embedded, and handheld computing. The conference provides a forum for original research that enables new capabilities, appropriate security and privacy, improved user experiences, and simplified and powerful development and deployment practices. In addition, we are interested in studies of existing and emerging technologies, everyday use of technologies, and insightful commentary on the state of the field. Researchers are encouraged to submit papers on the following topics: • Inferring the state of the user, such as location, activity, intentions, resources, and capabilities in the past, present, and future • Developing ubicomp systems, including representations, architecture, middleware, resource management, and service discovery • Embedding computation for new user interfaces, assistive technologies, communication, novel sensors, intelligent environments, wearable computing, and continuous monitoring and actuation • Building ubicomp systems for health, gaming, socializing, and other applications • Ensuring user trust through privacy and security • Understanding ubicomp and its consequences through conceptual models, hard-won experience, user studies, business scenarios, and real deployments UbiComp has a history of being a very selective conference, and there is no desire to reduce expectations on quality. In an effort to enhance the breadth of the conference, we aim to increase the number of accepted full papers to approximately 40 for this year, which is up from 30 last year and 22 the year before. Presentations will be scheduled in a dualtrack format. The conference will institute a process for nominating and selecting awards for best paper and presentations at the conference. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and by selected expert reviewers. Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality, significance of contribution, technical correctness, overall appeal to the general UbiComp reader, and presentation. Papers submitted must not have been previously published nor currently under review for any publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI number. If submitted work may appear to overlap with the authors’ previous work, the authors should email the PC chairs [2] directly to explain how the new work is different. All reviewers will be instructed to keep submissions confidential, although submissions must be publishable by the cameraready deadline. Accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and all submissions should be formatted according to their guidelines [3]. Misformatted submissions, or those longer than 18 pages, are subject to rejection without review. Shorter submissions will not be penalized, and each submission’s length should be appropriate for its content. One author from each accepted paper will be required to attend the conference to present their work. Paper submissions must be anonymized to facilitate blind review. Authors are encouraged to take care throughout the entire document to minimize references that may reveal the identity of the authors or their institutions. Relevant references to an author's previous research should not be suppressed but instead referenced in a neutral way. Papers should be submitted as PDF files through PCS at [4]. A PDF version of this CfP is also available [5]. Important Dates --------------- 9 March – Paper submissions due (23:59 PST) 25 May – Accept/reject notifications 29 June – Camera ready papers due 16-19 September – UbiComp2007 in Innsbruck Program Chairs -------------- John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech, USA Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Conference Chair ---------------- Thomas Strang, University of Innsbruck and German Aerospace Center [1] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/ [2] pcchairs(at)ubicomp2007.org [3] http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0 [4] https://precisionconference.com/~ubicomp [5] http://www.ubicomp2007.org/files/UbiComp2007-CfP-Main.pdf

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Reminder: TERENA Networking Conference TNC 2007 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Reminder: TERENA Networking Conference TNC 2007 - Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:16:04 +0100 Von: Thomas C Schmidt <schmidt(a)informatik.haw-hamburg.de> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *Deadline for extended abstracts approaching: 30. November 2006* FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS TERENA Networking Conference 2007 21 - 24 May Lyngby, Denmark Visible Services - Transparent Networks The TERENA Networking Conference 2007 is organised by the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association and hosted by UNI-C, the Danish IT centre for education and research. The conference will be held at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby, a vibrant university town just north of Copenhagen. Transportation will be provided between Lyngby and the city of Copenhagen where most of the hotels and social events are located. TERENA Networking Conferences are well-established events focusing on new directions, trends and technology. The conference brings together leading figures from research, management, industry and governance to present and discuss the technical and strategic aspects of the provision of networks and services to the research and education community. In the modern world the availability of fresh water, gas and electricity in our homes is taken for granted to such an extent that we rarely have to think about the underlying infrastructure. As the exchange of information and networked service becomes more pervasive and integrated into every aspect of our lives, it is important that this infrastructure acquires the same degree of transparency. The underlying network infrastructure needs to become more transparent, so that we can focus all of our attention on providing applications that deliver high quality services that are easy and intuitive to use. In this way it should be possible to raise the visibility of services above that of the supporting technology. It is my pleasure to invite you to bring your experiences, ideas and results to TNC 2007 and share them with colleagues from the international research and education networking community. Thomas C. Schmidt Programme Committee Chair CONFERENCE TOPICS Extended abstracts (rather than full papers) are invited on all subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference: to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology for the research and education community and their use by the community. The topics below are an indication of the planned scope of the conference, but are not meant to be restrictive. VISIBLE SERVICES * Connecting Users - voice over IP, videoconferencing, streaming and immersive environments * Protecting Users - user privacy, legislative issues and policies, delegations and spam fighting * Enabling Users - bandwidth-on-demand, mobility and roaming, identity management, federations and location-based services * Novel Uses - e-science, e-arts/humanities, environmental monitoring, advanced and mobile Web technologies and content networks TRANSPARENT NETWORKS * Quality Infrastructure - quality of service, measurement and monitoring, high-speed/optical networks and service management * Protecting the Infrastructure - redundancy, intrusion detection and prevention and security design * Beyond the Infrastructure - autonomous networks, peer-to-peer, mobile ad hoc networks, overlays, storage and sensor networks * Getting to the Infrastructure - access networks, bridging the gap on campus and advanced mobile technologies Extended abstracts of 600 - 1200 words (rather than full papers) can be submitted via the drop box at: http://tnc2007.terena.nl/submit/ The deadline for submission is *30 November 2006* and authors should follow the submission and formatting instructions for extended abstracts. PUBLICATION Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special edition of 'Campus-Wide Information Systems' (Emerald Publishing) in the autumn of 2007. Authors of extended extracts that are selected to be presented at the conference and all invited speakers will be encouraged to submit a full paper. Please visit http://tnc2007.terena.nl/cfp/ -- ° Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt ° HAW Hamburg, Dept. E & I ° University of Applied Sciences ° Berliner Tor 7, D 20099 Hamburg ° Germany ° Fon: +49-40-42875-8157 ° http://www.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~schmidt _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [European Wireless 2007] Submission deadline extension to November 19]
by Lars Wolf 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [European Wireless 2007] Submission deadline extension to November 19 Datum: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 14:08:31 +0100 Von: Honggang Zhang <honggang.zhang(a)create-net.it> Organisation: CREATE-NET An: <tcgn(a)comsoc.org> CC: Alain Sibille <alain.sibille(a)ensta.fr> *_Our apologies if you have received multiple copies._* *--> EW 2007 Paper Submission Deadline Extented to November 19, 2006.* -------------------- +++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ --------------------- *The 13th European Wireless Conference (EW 2007)* (http://www.ew2007.org <http://www.ew2007.org/>) *Important Dates Extension:* _*Paper submission extension: November 19th, 2006*_ Notification of acceptance: *January 31st, 2007* Camera ready due: *February 23rd, 2007* ** *CONFERENCE SCOPE **à** * ** The sector of wireless communications is today among the most dynamic ones of our global economy, and it brings a major contribution to the latters performance and productivity. The extraordinary progress of wireless technologies over the past decade, and their penetration deeply into society has generated both a technology push and a user demand, which meet in the solicitation from researchers further progress and more innovation. Not only higher bandwidth, higher mobility, better QoS are required at lower costs, but also novel multimedia services in order to cope with new societal needs. The integration of a variety of radio access technologies and networks, from cellular to local and personal or body area networks, is thus in the near future projected to provide individuals in the private or professional sphere more and more ubiquitous and rich content access to a wealth of interconnected information systems. *PAPERS **à*** ** Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to , the following: * Modulation and Coding for Wireless Communications * Signal Processing, Synchronization, Equalization * Communication Theory, Fundamental Limits * Radio Channel Measurements and Modeling * Antenna Issues in Wireless Communications * Smart antennas and MIMO systems * Radio Transmission Technology * Multiple Access Schemes * Multiuser detection algorithms and Theory * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Network Coding and Cooperative Diversity * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Radio Resource Management * Ultra-Wideband Communications * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile and Wireless * Networks * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Cognitive Radio * Power Management for Small Terminals * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modeling and Simulation * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration, Evolution and Interworking * Wireless LAN/PAN/BAN * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Convergence of 3G wireless, Broadcasting and Internet * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Location-based Services and Positioning * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites *PAPERS SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS **à*** ** * All paper submissions will be handled electronically, following instructions found at: http://www.ew2007.org/submissions.html * All papers will be reviewed by the program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference CD-ROM. The copyright will be held by VDE. * About 8/9 of the best papers falling into the topics of Wiley's */_European Transactions on Telecommunications_/** *will be published in a special issue of this journal devoted to EW 2007. * The best papers falling into the topics of Elsevier's */_Computer Networks_/** *will be published in a special issue of this journal devoted to wireless communications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *GENERAL CHAIR* * * Alain Sibille (ENSTA, Paris, France) *LOCAL ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE* Emmanuel Jaffrot (ENSTA, Paris, France) Christophe Roblin (ENSTA, Paris, France) Alain Sibille (ENSTA, Paris, France) Béatrice Valdayron (SEE, Paris, France) *STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR * Bernhard Walke (RWTH, Aachen, Germany, SC chair) *STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Luis Correia (IST, Lisbon, Portugal) Alain Sibille (ENSTA, Paris, France) Jan Sykora (CTU, Prague, Czech Republic) Armin Wittneben (ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland) Jens Zander (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden) *TUTORIALS CHAIR * ** Honggang Zhang (Create-Net, Trento, Italy) *TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR * Michel Terré (CNAM, Paris, France) *TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Angeliki Alexiou (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, UK) Carles Anton-Haro (CTTC, Catalonia) Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain) Gerd Ascheid (TH Aachen University, Germany) Lars Berlemann (Swisscom, Switzerland) Hendrik Berndt (DoCoMo Eurolabs) Götz-Philip Brasche (European Microsoft Innovation Center) Alister Burr (University of York, UK) Luis Castedo (Universidad de A Coruña) Periklis Chatzimisios (TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal) Laurie Cuthbert (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Klaus David (University of Kassel, Germany) Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus) Mischa Dohler (France Telecom, Grenoble, France) Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece) John Dunlop (University of Strathclyde, UK) Jean-Pierre Ebert (IHP microelectronics GmbH, Germany) Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University, USA) Cengiz Evci (Alcatel, France) Gerhard Fettweis (Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany) Bernard Fino (CNAM, Paris) Jorge Garcia-Vidal (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) John Gardiner (University of Bradford, UK) David Gesbert (Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, France) Philippe Jacquet (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France) Yuming Jiang (NTNU University, Trondheim, Norway) Friedrich Jondral (Karlsruhe University, Germany) Georgios Kambourakis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Athanasios Kanatas (University of Piraeus, Greece) George Karetsos (National technical university of Athens, Greece) Konosuke Kawashima (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) Georgios Kormentzas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Rolf Kraemer (IHP microelectronics GmbH, Germany) Vinod Kumar (Alcatel R&I, France) Sofoklis Kyriazakos (Aalborg University, Denmark) Luciano Lenzini (University of Pisa, Italy) Matthias Lott (Siemens AG, Münich, Germany) Malamati Louta (Institute of Western Macedonia) Yves Louet (Supélec, Rennes, France) Marco Luise (University of Pisa, Italy) Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Michael Meyer (Ericsson Research, Aachen, Germany) Engo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, UK) Saishankar Nandagopalan (Qualcomm Inc., USA) Norbert Niebert (Ericsson GmbH, Eurolab R&D, Germany) Jacques Palicot (IETR/Supélec, Rennes, France) Josep Paradells (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Matthias Paetzold (Agder University College, Grimstad, Norway) Dirk Pesch (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland) Ramesh Pyndiah (ENST Bretagne, Brest, France) Phillip Regalia (Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France) João Romano (DSPCom-Unicamp: Silvia Ruiz (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) Philippe Sehier (Alcatel, Velizy, France) Alain Sibille (ENSTA, Paris, France) Giovanni Stea (University of Pisa, Italy) Arne Svensson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Jan Sykora (Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic) Yutaka Takahashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Leandros Tassiulas (University of Thessaly, Greece) Michel Terré (CNAM, Paris, France) Samir Tohme (University of Versailles, France) Elias Tragos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Demokritos University, Greece) Murat Uysal (University of Waterloo, Canada) Emmanouel Varvarigos (University of Patras, Greece) Vasos Vassiliou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Véronique Vèque (University of Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France) Roberto Verdone (University of Bologna, Italy) Dimitrios Vergados (University of the Aegean, Greece) Guillaume Vivier (Motorola Labs, Saclay, France) Bernhard Walke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Bernd Wolfinger (University of Hamburg, Germany) Christos Xenakis (University of Athens, Greece) Bangnan Xu (T-Systems, Technologiezentrum, Darmstadt, Germany) Djamal Zeghlache (Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France) Hans-Juergen Zepernick (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden) Wolfgang Zirwas (Siemens, München, Germany) *-------------------- +++++++++ **_See You In Paris_** ++++++++++++ ---------------------* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended deadline : European Wireless 2007]
by Lars Wolf 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended deadline : European Wireless 2007 Datum: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:45:45 +0100 Von: Alain SIBILLE <alain.sibille(a)ensta.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Extended Deadline : November 19, 2006 The 13th European Wireless Conference (EW 2007) April 1-4, 2007, Paris, France Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris, France Visit http://www.ew2007.org for submission details CONFERENCE SCOPE The sector of wireless communications is today among the most dynamic ones of our global economy, and it brings a major contribution to the latters performance and productivity. The extraordinary progress of wireless technologies over the past decade, and their penetration deeply into society has generated both a technology push and a user demand, which meet in the solicitation from researchers further progress and more innovation. Not only higher bandwidth, higher mobility, better QoS are required at lower costs, but also novel multimedia services in order to cope with new societal needs. The integration of a variety of radio access technologies and networks, from cellular to local and personal or body area networks, is thus in the near future projected to provide individuals in the private or professional sphere more and more ubiquitous and rich content access to a wealth of interconnected information systems.the European Wireless 2007 Conference which will take place in Paris from April 1 to 4, 2007, will disseminate the most recent results on technologies, protocols, services and applications intended to make this goal a reality. CONFERENCE TOPICS * Modulation and Coding for Wireless Communications * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Signal Processing, Synchronization, Equalization * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Communication Theory, Fundamental Limits * QoS and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks * Radio Channel Measurements and Modelling * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Antenna Issues in Wireless Communications * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Smart antennas and MIMO systems * Cognitive Radio * Radio Transmission Technology * Power Management for Small Terminals * Multiple Access Schemes * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Multiuser detection algorithms and Theory * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration, Evolution and Interworking * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Wireless LAN/PAN/BAN * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Network Coding and Cooperative Diversity * Convergence of 3G wireless, Broadcasting and Internet * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Radio Resource Management * Location-based Services and Positioning * Ultra-Wideband Communications * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites IMPORTANT DATES November 19, 2006 (full papers due) January 31, 2007 (notification of Acceptance) February 23, 2007 (camera Ready due) STEERING COMMITTEE Alain Sibille, ENSTA (general chair) Bernhardt Walke (RWTH, Aachen, SC chair) Luis Correia (IST, Lisbon) Jan Sykora (CTU, prague) Armin Wittneben (ETHZ, Zürich) Jens Zander (KTH, Stockholm PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR Michel Terré (CNAM, Paris) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Emmanuel Jaffrot, ENSTA Christophe Roblin, ENSTA Alain Sibille, ENSTA Béatrice Valdayron (SEE, Paris, France) TUTORIALS CHAIR Honggang Zhang (Create-Net, Trento, Italy) PANELS CHAIR Luis Correia (IST - Tech. Univ. Lisbon, Portugal) _______________________________________________________________ Please receive our apologies for multiple reception of this announcement _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NetCri07]
by Lars Wolf 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for Papers: NetCri07 Datum: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:50:39 -0500 Von: James Joshi <jjoshi(a)mail.sis.pitt.edu> Antwort an: jjoshi(a)mail.sis.pitt.edu An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu =================================================================== The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sharno/NetCri07/ In conjunction with The IEEE IPCCC 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13 http://www.ipccc.org/ =================================================================== Program Description ------------------- As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication and sensor networks continue, more opportunities are open to first responders and critical infrastructures to benefit from these technologies. Providing first responders with the best possible technology, infrastructure and services help save the lives of the general public and the first responders as well. One of the main challenges to the operations of first responders and critical infrastructures is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed network supports services such as location determination, audio and video communication, and in site and remote sensing. Another key feature for first responders and critical infrastructures networks is to support interactions among multiple heterogeneous networks. This workshop provides a forum for researchers, industry, and government agencies to discuss the challenges facing the design, deployment and operational issues for next generation network support for first responders and critical infrastructure. The workshop will identify and define fundamental concepts and techniques, resolve conflicts between different approaches in the area, and provide a common ground for an advanced research and development agenda. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Smart environments (buildings, roads, vehicles, etc.) - Fast roaming in heterogonous network environment - Localization and time synchronization - Rapidly deployable and self configuring services and networks - Security, dependability, privacy, and performance trade-offs - QoS in heterogeneous wireless networks - Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control - Network and system support for augmented reality and visual analytics - Test beds - Simulation studies of first responders and critical infrastructures? networks - Novel and adaptive communication protocols to support first responders and critical infrastructure? operation - Resource management and allocation - Power control management - Admission, load and flow control - Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks - Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks - Interoperability among WLANs, Cellular, WSN and wired networks - Measurements on heterogeneous networks - Mobility models and traffic patterns in disaster areas - Cross-layer design Workshop Co-chairs ------------------ Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Moustafa Youssef, University of Maryland, USA Publicity Chair ------------------ Tamer Elsharnouby, Microsoft Corporation, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA Technical Program Committee ------------------ Arup Acharya, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Tech, USA Jonathan Agre, Fujitsu Lab, USA Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Farag Azzedine, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia Doreen Cheng, Samsung Research, USA Nagwa Elmakky, Alexandria University, Egypt Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Elena Guara, Coventry University, UK Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA P. Krishnan, Avaya Labs, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research, USA Dragos Niculescu, NEC Labs, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA Adel Youssef, Google, USA -- Best wishes. James ----------------------------------------------------- James B D Joshi Assistant Professor Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications University of Pittsburgh 412-624-9982 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~jjoshi ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP Tridentcom 2007 - NEW CONFERENCE DATE: MAY 21-23]
by Lars Wolf 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP Tridentcom 2007 - NEW CONFERENCE DATE: MAY 21-23 Datum: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 08:03:52 +0100 Von: Frank Steuer <frank.steuer(a)dai-labor.de> CC: Frank Steuer <frank.steuer(a)dai-labor.de>, Nirmala Shenoy <ns(a)nssa.rit.edu> [Our apologies if receive multiple copies.] The conference date had to be changed! *** NEW CONFERENCE DATE: MAY 21-23 *** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** T R I D E N T C O M 2 0 0 7 **************** Third International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Test beds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities May 21-23, 2007, Grosvenor Resort, Orlando, Florida USA http://www.tridentcom.org ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************* IMPORTANT DEADLINES ********************* ------------------------------------------------------------- Full papers due (to be received by): December 31, 2006 Demo proposals due: December 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: March 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------- Telecommunication infrastructures play a vital role in modern society. Advances in the range of network service offerings, performance, quality of service, security, and ubiquity continue to flourish, despite global economy fluctuations. Access to experimental infrastructures for real-life applications by specific user communities benefits all of the stakeholders involved: the end users, because of the first-hand evaluation of the provided services, the researchers and infrastructure experimenters, because of the knowledge gained from hands-on study and analysis, and the service providers, because of the business exploitation of the network. The goal of TridentCom is to create a forum where telecommunication networks researchers, vendors, providers and users can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs, and visions for future establishment of such infrastructures. It showcases experimental activities, such as testing, verification, integration, measurement, and deployment, which are pivotal to achieving next generation communications. PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit high quality papers as well as demonstration proposals reporting on all aspects of testbed and research infrastructure operation and management, including, but not limited to: * Next Generation Internet Testbeds * Next Generation Wireless Network Testbeds * Next Generation Optical Network Testbeds * Ubiquitous Network Testbeds * Wireless Sensor Testbeds * Testbed Operation & Management for User Communities * Testbed Operation & Management for Research Communities * Testbed Cooperation & Integration * Innovative Measurements Methodologies & Tools * Traffic Measurements Testbeds * Software Tools to Support Distributed Testbeds / Virtual Laboratories * Management of Massive Databases of Experimental Data * Knowledge & Technology Transfer Procedures * Security (AAA) Testing on Open Testbeds * Social Impacts of Infrastructures * Infrastructures for Real-Life Applications * Business Models for Infrastructure Budgeting & Planning * Infrastructure Renting & Pricing Policies * Vendors & Providers Partnerships Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 10 pages, including references, figures and tables, formatted according to the IEEE 8.5" x 11" proceedings format. Submission instructions are available on the website: www.tridentcom.org. Special Session ------------------------------------------------------------- Testbed and trials for Governmental, Military and other Special Purpose networks DEMOS ------------------------------------------------------------ Demo proposals should consist of the following: * title and description of the demo, * picture of demo setup and/or screenshots of demo GUIs * infrastructure requirements, and * biographical sketch of the presenter(s). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------ General Chair Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary Vice General Chair Janise McNair, University of Florida, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs Thomas Woo, Bell-Labs, USA Tereza Carvalho, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil Miguel Ángel Lagunas, CTTC - UPC, Spain Local Arrangements Chair Damla Turgut, Univ. Central Florida, USA Demo Co-Chairs Miguel Ponce de Leon, Waterford Inst. Technology, Ireland Raheem Beyah, Georgia State University Panel Co-Chairs Diego Bartolome, CTTC, Spain Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University Publicity Co-Chairs Frank Steuer, TU Berlin, Germany Nirmala Shenoy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Web Chair: Sungrae Cho, Georgia Southern University STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------------- Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Univ. Trento, Italy Albert Sitja, CTTC, Spain Brian Bigalke, IEEE COMSOC Csaba A. Szabo, BUTE, Hungary +++++++++ posted to acf-members by "Frank Steuer" <frank.steuer(a)dai-labor.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: eSCo-Wi 2007 Workshop]
by Lars Wolf 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: eSCo-Wi 2007 Workshop Datum: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 01:45:49 -0500 Von: Nidal Nasser <nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ===================================================== Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) [please forward to anyone you believe may be interested -- thanks] ===================================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second IEEE International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (eSCo-Wi 2007) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. April 11-13, 2006 In conjunction with 26th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.cis.umassd.edu/escowi/ Email: escowi at umassd.edu Topics of Interest ================== With the realization of wide range of heterogeneous wireless networks from wireless local area networks (WLANs), second and third generations (2G/3G) of cellular networks to mobile ad hoc (MANET) and wireless sensor networks (WSN), many new applications such as Wireless Internet, Intelligent Transportation and Telemedicine are becoming realities. The fourth generation (4G) of wireless communications is expected to support such applications and to enable ubiquitous access to multimedia information and remote computing services regardless of location or mobility while integrating these different wireless technologies. Network convergence, through the co-existence and the interoperability between heterogeneous wireless networks, is therefore regarded as the major challenge in the integration of systems used in numerous applications. In this Workshop we are especially interested in innovative applications and protocols to be adopted in a more secure heterogeneous wireless networks environment. The objective of this workshop is therefore to provide an eSafety forum for researchers and technologists. It aims to bring them together to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and to present their contributions as technical papers related to the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks towards real time safety applications through the intelligent control of mobile systems. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit theoretical and experimental results on topics of interest included but not limited to the following: * Physical layer issues for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless technologies * Efficient mobility and handoff management protocols for seamless roaming within the converged communication architecture * Resource management and allocation * Power control management * Admission, load and flow control * Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks * Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks * Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols * QoS in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks * Security, authentication, and billing solutions for the converged architecture * Interoperability among WLANs, Cellular, WSN and wired networks * Novel and adaptive communication protocols at all layers, i.e., MAC layer problems, routing, reliable and multimedia transport, for integration of diverse wireless systems * Simulation study of heterogeneous wireless networks * eSafety applications and measurements (Telemedicine solutions to healthcare problems, intelligent vehicles and driver assistance systems.) in Heterogeneous wireless networks. Paper Submissions ================= Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed 6 pages technical paper manuscript. Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to present the paper and to register at the full registration rate. Papers should be submitted in a .pdf format by selecting IPCCC'07 at the EDAS paper submission website and then selecting the workshop submission link. Important Dates: ================== Paper submission due: November 30, 2006 Author notification due: January 8, 2007 Camera-ready Copy: January 22, 2007 Author Registration Deadline: January 26, 2007 Workshop Co-Chairs ================== Emad Aboelela (University of Massachusetts of Dartmouth, USA) eaboelela at umassd.edu Tarek Bejaoui (Mediatron, University of Carthage, Tunisia) tarek.bejaoui at issatm.rnu.tn Nidal Nasser (University of Guelph, Canada) nasser at cis.uoguelph.ca Technical Program Committee ======================= Jalel Ben-Othman, University of Versailles, France Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA Gozalvez Sempere, Javier Manuel, University of Miguel Hernandez, Spain Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Lille, France Nabil Tabbane, University of Carthage, Tunisia Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Queen's University, Canada Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Veronique Veque, University of Paris 11, France Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, USA Liudong Xing from University of Massachusetts, USA Wenbing Zhao, Cleveland State University, USA Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiHoc 2007, Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 00:31:45 -0500 Von: Romit Roy Choudhury <romit(a)EE.DUKE.EDU> Antwort an: Romit Roy Choudhury <romit(a)EE.DUKE.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ************ Call for Papers ************* MobiHoc 2007 The 8th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing September 9-14, 2007, Montreal, Canada http://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2007/ Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ACM MobiHoc is the premier international meeting dedicated to addressing challenges emerging from wireless ad hoc networking and computing. This year's symposium will include a highly selective technical program, as well as hands-on research demonstrations, keynote, panel, and tutorials. Further, new this year, MobiHoc will be jointly held with ACM MobiCom. The two conferences will run in parallel, and will have many joint plenary sessions (such as the keynote, panels, and welcoming reception). We invite paper, poster, and demonstration submissions on mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and ad hoc computing systems, with the focus being on issues at and above the MAC layer. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Applications, operating system, and middleware support * Transport, network, and MAC protocols * Energy-efficient algorithms * Quality of Service issues * Location discovery techniques * Network scaling and limits * Cross layer design * Network resilience, fault-tolerance, and reliability * Trust, security and privacy * Distributed sensing, actuation, control, and coordination * Measurements and practical experience from experimental systems and testbeds * Modeling and performance evaluation PAPERS Papers must report new results substantiated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. 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: January 9, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: January 16, 2007, 5pm PT TPC CO-CHAIRS: Elizabeth Belding ebelding(a)cs.ucsb.edu Eytan Modiano modiano(a)mit.edu

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[Fwd: www2007info WWW2007 -- Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: www2007info WWW2007 -- Call for Papers Datum: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 10:34:22 -0700 Von: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org Antwort an: www2007info(a)iw3c2.org An: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference Banff, Alberta, Canada http://www2007.org May 8-12, 2007 ******************************************************************** WWW2007 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Topics include but are not limited to: * Browsers and User Interfaces * Data Mining * E-Applications * Industrial Practice and Experience * Performance and Scalability * Pervasive Web and Mobility * Search * Security, Privacy, Reliability, and Ethics * Semantic Web * Technology for Developing Regions * Web Engineering * Web Services * XML and Web Data IMPORTANT DATES Refereed papers due: November 20, 2006 (HARD deadline; no extensions) Acceptance Notification: January 29, 2007 Conference dates: Tuesday-Saturday, May 8-12, 2007 Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work and can be up to 10 pages in length. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. In addition to regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. General queries regarding WWW2007 submissions can be sent to www2007questions(a)iw3c2.org. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via the conference Web site. Authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer form. Detailed formatting and submission requirements are available at http://www2007.org/. Authors of top-ranked papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions of their papers for publication in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web. The WWW2007 program will also include Posters, Tutorial and Workshops, Panels, a W3C track and a Developers track. See http://www2007.org for details. PROGRAM CHAIRS * Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research (USA) * Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts (USA) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:38:08 -0500 (EST) Von: Linda Jiang Xie <jxie1(a)uncc.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to November 15, 2006 ***] We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth 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 2007 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. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline :*(Extended)* November 15, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 1, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 21, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Fourth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2007)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Fourth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2007) Datum: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:30:59 -0500 Von: Yu Wang <wangyu1(a)iit.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We apologize if you received multiple copies of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPER The Fourth Workshop on Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (WWASN2007) in conjunction with the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2007) Monday, June 25, 2007 in Toronto, ON, Canada http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~softart/WWASN2007.html CONFERENCE THEME This workshop covers the area of ad hoc and sensor networking, from physical issues to applications 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. Among the goals of the workshop is to review ad hoc and sensor network protocols and models, and to reflect the latest advances in the state of the art in modeling, design, and deployment of such networks. Typical topics include (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 IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript Submission: December 15, 2006 Acceptance Notification: February 10, 2006 Final Manuscript Due at IEEE: around March 15, 2006 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be submitted via email to program chairs. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, using either the IEEE Computer Society proceedings format (two column, 10 point, single-spaced) or a single-column, 12 point, at least 1.5 line spacing format. There are no page lenth restrictions on the length of submitted papers, but note that the paper length for accepted papers will be limited; the exact details to be determined later. (For your guidance, last year's limit was 6 pages in the IEEE CS proceedings format.) Number each page in the manuscript. Include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the technical area(s) most relevant to your paper, and the corresponding author's e-mail address. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the proceedings of ICDCS'2007 workshops, provided that each paper has at least one accompanying registration. GENERAL CHAIRS: David Simplot-Ryl, IRCICA/LIFL, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs: Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Yu Wang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Cherita Corbett, Sandia National Laboratory, USA Aysegul Cuhadar, Carleton University, Canada Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue University, USA Bengi Karacali, Avaya Labs, USA Deepa Kundur, Texas A&M University, USA Ibrahim Korpeoglu, Bilkent University, Turkey Cheng Li, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Susan Lincke-Salecker, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA Sahra Sedigh-Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada Zhanping (Walter) Yin, University of British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] 20. Int. Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Ottawa/Kanada, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 04 Nov '06

04 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] 20. Int. Teletraffic Congress (ITC), Ottawa/Kanada, 2007 Datum: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:23:22 +0100 Von: Paul J. Kühn <paul.j.kuehn(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de> An: itgfg521(a)ifn.et.tu-dresden.de, mmb(a)ira.uka.de, elg(a)kuvs.de Sehr geehrte Mitglieder der GI/ITG-Fachgruppen KUVS und MMB, der Int. Teletraffic Congress (ITC) wird 2007 zum 20. Male durchgeführt. Gastgeberland ist Kanada; der ITC 20 findet vom 17.-21.06.07 in Ottawa statt. Als deutscher Vertreter im Int. Advisory Council (IAC) des ITC und gegenwärtiger Vorsitzender des IAC möchte ich Sie auf diese traditionsreiche Veranstaltung aufmerksam machen; Sie finden den Call for Papers auf http://www.itc20.ca Die Deadline wurde gerade um 14 Tage verlängert und ist 15.11.06 für Konferenzbeiträge (Papers) 15.12.06 für Tutorial-Vorschläge Traditionell stellt Deutschland (nach den USA) den zweithöchsten Anteil an Beiträgen und (mit Ausnahme des jeweiligen Gastlandes) der Teilnehmer. Ich würde mich freuen, wenn über unsere nationalen Fachgrupppen eine rege Beteiligung zustande käme. Mit den besten Grüßen Ihr P. J. Kühn Chairman IAC of ITC -- -------------------------------------- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. mult. Paul J. Kühn Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 47 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Please note our new phone and fax numbers! Tel.: +49 711 685 68027, Fax: +49 711 685 67983 e-mail: paul.j.kuehn(a)ikr.uni-stuttgart.de; www.ikr.uni-stuttgart.de _______________________________________________ ELG mailing list ELG(a)kuvs.de https://kuvsmail.ds-group.info/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: CFP IEEE Communications Magazine Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming - extended deadline]
by Lars Wolf 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP IEEE Communications Magazine Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming - extended deadline Datum: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:27:06 -0200 (BRST) Von: nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br Call for Papers - IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming In recent years, peer-to-peer (p2p) multimedia streaming has aroused much interest both in research communities and in industries. By allowing peers serving each other in the network, p2p technology overcomes many limitations in traditional client-server paradigm to achieve user and bandwidth scalabilities. It has been shown that performance of a properly-designed p2p network actually improves, rather than deteriorates, with the increase of population size. Peer-to-Peer technology is promising for large content distribution as demonstrated by a number of proof-of-concept prototypes in both academia and companies. In a p2p multimedia streaming system, multimedia contents are delivered to a large pool of distributed users with low delay, high quality and high robustness. Fueled by advances in networking and compression technologies, p2p multimedia streaming has experienced much initial deployment success for applications such as Internet TV (IPTV), video conferencing, and surveillance. It is the key to address the emerging needs of large-scale digital IPTV, interactive videos, interactive games and other next-generation broadcast-based or personalized multimedia services. A scalable peer-to-peer multimedia system should support many hosts, possibly in excess of hundreds or even millions, with diverse heterogeneity in bandwidth, capability, storage, network, and mobility. It should also be able to support various applications under dynamic user arrival and departure, frequent host failures and unavailability, and unpredictable user behaviors, network traffic and congestion. In a p2p streaming networks, users should be able to share, search, and access contents in a distributed and efficient manner. To achieve these goals, it is particularly important to address the challenges in architecture design, network/transport support, resource discovery and content delivery mechanisms. Scope of Contributions This feature issue is devoted to original surveys and tutorials on these emerging issues in P2P streaming. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished original articles that are not under review in any other conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but not limited to the following: Peer-to-peer media distribution, systems and infrastructures Novel peer-to-peer streaming applications and services Overlay networks and application-level multicast for media streaming Robustness in peer-to-peer streaming networks Scalability, reliability, accessibility, manageability, and availability for P2P streaming systems Resource discovery and location in peer-to-peer streaming Performance measurement and monitoring of peer-to-peer streaming systems Deployment experience and application of peer-to-peer media distribution systems Peer-to-peer streaming prototypes and their implementation Reputation, trust and incentives in peer-to-peer streaming systems Peer-to-peer based content distribution Business models for P2P media distribution Mobile P2P streaming Schedule Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2006 <=========== Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2007 Final Manuscript: April 1st, 2007 Publication date : June, 2007 Submission of Papers For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please select "June 2007/Peer to Peer Multimedia Streaming" in the drop down menu. Guest Editors S.-H. Gary Chan Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong, China gchan(a)cs.ust.hk Nelson L. S. da Fonseca Institute of Computing State University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br Giovanni Pau Department of Computer Science University of California Los Angeles, USA gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wireless Communications Magazine special Issue CFP on MAC Protocols for Wireless LANs]
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wireless Communications Magazine special Issue CFP on MAC Protocols for Wireless LANs Datum: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:29:50 +0200 Von: Nicopolitidis Petros <petros(a)csd.auth.gr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on "Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless LANs" The field of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is experiencing a tremendous growth in the last years. One of the key points is the design of performance-efficient WLANs. However, there are fundamental differences between wireless and wired LANs that pose difficulties in the design of medium-access control (MAC) protocols for WLANs. WLANs utilize wireless transmission for information exchange, which is characterized by bit-error rates (BER) having an order of magnitude even up to ten orders of the magnitude of wired transmission. Furthermore, in WLANs, errors occur in bursts. Moreover, a fully connected topology between the nodes of a WLAN cannot be assumed due to the inherent mobility of WLAN nodes. Thus, WLANs are characterized by unreliable links between nodes, resulting in bursts of errors and dynamically changing network topologies. These problems obviously impact both the performance of a WLAN and its ability to support QoS applications. Desired properties for a WLAN MAC that have been identified in the literature include the following: * Throughput. The capacity of WLANs should ideally approach that of their wired counterparts. This should be done by efficiently utilizing the scarce spectrum resource. * Dynamic topology. In a WLAN, fully connected topologies cannot be assumed. A WLAN MAC should take this issue into consideration. * Number of nodes. WLANs often need to support tens or hundreds of nodes. Therefore the WLAN MAC should pose no limit to the network's maximum number of nodes. * Interference and Reliability. Interference, (due to collisions, "hidden terminal" problem, collocated network operation or wireless medium unreliability) should not degrade the reliability of data transport. * Robustness-Security. In a WLAN, the transmission range of a station cannot be confided in a certain geographical area. Thus, WLANs are more prone to security attacks and eavesdropping. This should be taken into account by the MAC. * Power Consumption. Wireless devices are power-limited as they are typically battery powered. Therefore, energy-efficient MACs are desirable. This may result in a tradeoff between performance and energy efficiency. * Quality of Service. In today’s wireless networks, there is a great need for QoS, because of the time-bounded voice, audio and video traffic, which have to be efficiently transmitted along with the traditional data traffic. This special issue aims at providing a timely and concise, tutorial-oriented reference of the current activities and new findings in the field of WLAN MACs. In this context, papers are solicited reporting on representative topics regarding new and innovative MAC protocols. Such protocols should not be based upon or improve already proposed work (especially the work addressing the IEEE 802.11 MAC), but should constitute an advancement by widening the field of eligible MAC protocols for future WLANs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following list: * MAC for multimedia applications over WLANs * Energy efficient WLAN MACs * WLAN MACs with QoS support * Adaptive WLAN MACs * Power controlled WLAN MACs * Directional/adaptive antenna WLAN MACs * MACs for multihop WLANs * Standardization activities * Performance studies of WLAN MACs. Submitted papers, which should not be considered elsewhere for publication, should be of tutorial in nature and the authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts. For further details, potential authors should refer to "Information for Authors" in IEEE Wireless Communications website at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Papers should have no more than 4500 words, a total of 6 figures and tables, 15 references and 3 simple equations. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to Mohammad S. Obaidat (obaidat(a)monmouth.edu) or Petros Nicopolitidis (petros(a)csd.auth.gr) no later than 28 February 2007. Deadlines Manuscript submission deadline: February 28, 2007. Notifications: June 15, 2007. Revised submission: July 15, 2007. Final notification: September 15, 2007. Publication date: First quarter of 2008. Guest Editors Mohammad S. Obaidat Department of Computer Science Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ07764, USA e-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Petros Nicopolitidis Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Box 888, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece e-mail: petros(a)csd.auth.gr Petre Dini Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA Email: pdini(a)cisco.com Jung-Shian Li Department of Electrical Engineering Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering National Cheng Kung University 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan E-Mail: jsli(a)mail.ncku.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Ambient Entertainment: Final Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Ambient Entertainment: Final Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 09:32:19 +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 **************************************************** **************************************************** ** 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: [mycolleagues] DCOSS 2007 CFP; Submission deadline Feb 5, 2007]
by Lars Wolf 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] DCOSS 2007 CFP; Submission deadline Feb 5, 2007 Datum: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:55:19 -0800 (PST) Von: Amol Bakshi <amol(a)usc.edu> An: mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers in your email inbox. ========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 18 - 20, 2007 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA ========================================= WWW.DCOSS.ORG The 2007 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '07) will take place in Santa Fe during June 18 - 20, 2007. The first and second DCOSS conferences, held at Marina Del Rey and San Francisco respectively, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '07 is intended to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers, a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session. SPONSORED BY IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) Held in co-operation with ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3 MEETING INFORMATION The advance program will be available in April 2007. Check http://www.dcoss.org/ for updated information. IMPORTANT DATES Monday February 5, 2007 Paper Submission Due Monday April 2, 2007 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection Monday April 16, 2007 Camera-Ready Paper Due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ============================== CALL FOR PAPERS Distributed sensor systems have become a highly active research area due to their potential for providing diverse new capabilities. Such systems allow intelligent dense monitoring of physical environments, which makes them immensely useful for data collection and analysis. While much ongoing research has addressed networking, communication and low-level self-configuration issues in such systems, there are also significant challenges pertaining to systematic design, algorithm development and analysis, and abstract modeling in order to achieve efficient and robust realizations of large-scale distributed sensor systems. The large number of sensor devices involved, severe power, computational and memory limitations, resource heterogeneity, dense deployment and frequent failures pose novel challenges to design, algorithms, analysis and implementation. The focus of the conference is on distributed computing issues in large-scale networked sensor systems (including algorithms, applications, and systematic design techniques and tools), but networking-related contributions that support high level abstractions are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Computation and programming models - Energy models, minimization, awareness - Distributed algorithms for collaborative information processing - Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability, fault-tolerance - Abstractions for modular design - Languages, operating systems - Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration - Dynamic resource management - Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level) - Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives - Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation - Design automation and application synthesis techniques - Case studies: lessons from real world deployments PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 12 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures and tables. References may be included in addition to the 12 pages. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submission procedures will be available via Web access at http://www.dcoss.org/ All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by February 5, 2007, by 5 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by April 2, 2007. Camera-ready papers will be due April 16, 2007. DCOSS '07 Proceedings will be distributed at the Conference. PROGRAM CHAIR James Aspnes Yale University USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Christian Scheideler, TU Munich, Germany Applications: Anish Arora, Ohio State Univ., USA Systems: Samuel Madden, MIT, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION The conference will include a poster session for researchers and practitioners to present novel on-going work-in-progress and to obtain feedback from conference attendees in an informal setting. Authors of accepted posters will have an opportunity to briefly present their work in this session. Select invited presentations and posters from industry and academia may also be included in this session. Submission details and deadlines will be available at the DCOSS website. POSTER CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman Univ. of Rochester USA BEST PAPER AWARDS Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the three conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, and systems. ================================= DCOSS '07 ORGANIZATION ================================= GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA VICE GENERAL CHAIR Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa Canada PROGRAM CHAIR James Aspnes Yale University USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Jim Reich Palo Alto Research Center USA POSTER CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Yang Yu Motorola Labs USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Amol Bakshi University of Southern California USA Sanjay Jha University of New South Wales Australia Christian Schindelhauer University of Freiburg Germany FINANCE CHAIR Germaine Gusthiot University of Geneva Switzerland STEERING COMMITTEE Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR) _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Partiicipation: ACE 2007 Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology]
by Lars Wolf 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Partiicipation: ACE 2007 Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Datum: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:08:35 -0600 Von: Timothy Roden <timothy_roden(a)hotmail.com> An: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> Referenzen: <20061031110004.7CEC810C090(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 **************************************************** ACE 2007 - Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology invites you to submit papers, workshops, demos, posters, panels or show cases. * Deadline for papers and workshops: January 12th, 2007 * Deadline for short papers, posters, demos, panels and interactive user experience show cases: February 9th, 2007 * Deadline for industrial case studies: May 4th, 2007 The conference will take place June 13th - 15th, 2007 in Salzburg, Austria. Recently, the field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized to show high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed to deserve both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing, and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, artists and designers, and computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. The conference covers analysis, design, evaluation and application of new concepts, prototypes and products in the area of computer entertainment. For further information please visit: www.ace2007.org <http://www.ace2007.org/> Regina Bernhaupt and Stephane Natkin (Program Chairs ACE 2007) **************************************************** ** 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] NetCri 2007: Call for papers]
by Lars Wolf 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] NetCri 2007: Call for papers Datum: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:31:27 -0500 Von: James Joshi <jjoshi(a)mail.sis.pitt.edu> Antwort an: jjoshi(a)mail.sis.pitt.edu An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu =============================================================================== Call for Papers NetCri 07 The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures http://www.cs.umd.edu/~sharno/NetCri07 In Conjunction with IEEE IPCCC 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11-13 =============================================================================== As advances in pervasive computing, wireless communication and sensor networks continue, more opportunities are open to first responders and critical infra- structures to benefit from these technologies. Providing first responders with the best possible technology, infrastructure and services help save the lives of the general public and the first responders as well. One of the main challenges to the operations of first responders and critical infrastructures is to deploy a communication network that is dependable, secure, and rapidly deployable. In order to operate effectively, the deployed network supports services such as location determination, audio and video communication, and in site and remote sensing. Another key feature for first responders and critical infrastructures networks is to support interactions among multiple heterogen- eous networks. This workshop provides a forum for researchers, industry, and government agencies to discuss the challenges facing the design, deployment and operation- al issues for next generation network support for first responders and critical infrastructure. The workshop will identify and define fundamental concepts and techniques, resolve conflicts between different approaches in the area, and provide a common ground for an advanced research and development agenda. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Smart environments (buildings, roads, vehicles, etc.) - Fast roaming in heterogonous network environment - Localization and time synchronization - Rapidly deployable and self configuring services and networks - Security, dependability, privacy, and performance trade-offs - QoS in heterogeneous wireless networks - Sensor and actuator networks for information gathering and real-time control - Network and system support for augmented reality and visual analytics - Simulation studies of first responders and critical infrastructures’ networks - Novel and adaptive communication protocols to support first responders and critical infrastructure’ operation - Resource management and allocation - Power control management - Admission, load and flow control - Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks - Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks - Interoperability among WLANs, Cellular, WSN and wired networks - Metrics and measurements on heterogeneous networks - Mobility models and traffic patterns in disaster areas - Cross-layer design - Testbeds Paper Submission Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 6 pages papers including the abstract, figures and references. Papers should include the title, author(s), authors' affiliation and an abstract. The formatting should be according to IEEE rules. Papers should be submitted in a PDF format using the EDAS submission system. Accepted papers will be accessible through the IEEE digital library and are included in the conference proceedings. Important Dates Submission deadline: November 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: January 5, 2007 Camera ready version: January 26, 2007 Workshop Organizing Committee Program Co-Chairs Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA Moustafa Youssef, University of Maryland, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Tamer Elsharnouby, Microsoft Corporation, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburg, USA Technical Program Committee Arup Acharya, IBM, USA Ashok Agrawala, University of Maryland, USA Jonathan Agre, Fujitsu Lab, USA Mustaque Ahamad, Georgia Tech, USA Nils Aschenbruck, University of Bonn, Germany Farag Azzedine, King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia Doreen Cheng, Samsung Research, USA Nagwa Elmakky, Alexandria University, Egypt Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA Elena Guara, Coventry University, UK Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA P. Krishnan, Avaya Labs, USA Scott Midkiff, Virginia Tech, USA Tamer Nadeem, Siemens Research, USA Dragos Niculescu, NEC Labs, USA Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Stephen D. Wolthusen, University of London, USA Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland at BC, USA Adel Youssef, Google, USA -- Best wishes. James ----------------------------------------------------- James B D Joshi Assistant Professor Dept. of Information Science and Telecommunications University of Pittsburgh 412-624-9982 http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~jjoshi ----------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [e-next] E-NEXT.members: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Wireless AccesS (IWAS07) - CFP]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [e-next] E-NEXT.members: IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Wireless AccesS (IWAS07) - CFP Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:20:04 +0300 Von: Raimo Kantola <Raimo.Kantola(a)hut.fi> An: members <members(a)ist-e-next.net> Dear Friends, TKK jointly with Nokia (et al) and UC Dublin organise ****************************************************** * IWAS07 Call For Papers * 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic Wireless AccesS (IWAS07) * in conjunction with WoWMoM 2007, Helsinki. * June 17th, 2007 *************************************************************** IWAS 2007 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards autonomic control and management of future wireless access networks and systems. Access network devices and wireless terminals are becoming more and more complex, and they include support for multiple wireless technologies. Access networks are dynamically optimized for applications under different conditions, and service performance is affected by a large number of parameters and control algorithms. From the end users perspective, however, multi-access networks are desirable only if they do not deteriorate the quality of experience. It is therefore of vital interest to operators and vendors to minimize operational effort and cost and add intelligence to terminals, network elements and management tools through the adoption of Autonomic Communications and Computing (ACC) principles for self-configuring and self-optimizing access systems. The full CFP and other info is available at the WS site: http://www.netlab.tkk.fi/IWAS2007/ Important dates: * Full paper submission: January 20th 2007 * Notification of acceptance: March 3rd 2007 * Final papers due: March 24th 2007 Raimo Kantola -- Professor of Communications Technology Networking Laboratory Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering Helsinki University of Technology tel. +358-9-451 2471 or +358-40-750 1636, fax +358-9-451 2474 http://www.netlab.hut.fi/u/kantola +++ Posted to members-istenext by Raimo Kantola <Raimo.Kantola(a)hut.fi> +++ -- !! This message is brought to you via the `e-next' mailing list. !! Please do not reply to this message to unsubscribe. To unsubscribe or adjust !! your settings, send a mail message to <e-next-request(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> !! or look at http://agitator.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e-next.

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SOSP'07 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (SOSP'07 Call for Papers) Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:37:37 -0700 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles October 14-17, 2007 Skamania Lodge Stevenson, WA www.sosp2007.org General chair Thomas C. Bressoud, Denison University bressoud(a)denison.edu, (740) 587-5630 Program chair M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT kaashoek(a)csail.mit.edu Sponsored by ACM SIGOPS Authors are invited to submit papers to the 21st SOSP reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of operating systems. We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for possible publication in a special issue. The symposium attracts attendees with diverse backgrounds. We solicit papers in the traditional core of the operating system field, as well as in the interfaces to areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, and databases. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Robustness of complex systems Mobile computing Scalability and performance Fault tolerant computing Security Power management Storage systems Sensor networks I/O architectures Web services Overlay networks Empirical studies Virtualization System management A good paper will demonstrate that the authors: * are attacking a significant problem, * have devised an interesting, compelling solution, * have demonstrated the practicality and benefits of the solution, * have drawn appropriate conclusions, * have clearly described what they have done, and * have clearly articulated the advances beyond previous work. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. In addition to citing relevant, published work, authors should relate their SOSP submissions to relevant submissions of their own that are simultaneously under review for this or other venues. The SOSP PC reserves the right to ask authors to provide copies of related simultaneously-submitted papers. Submissions will be done electronically. Detailed instructions for the submission process will be posted on the conference Web site, <www.sosp2007.org>. Submitted papers must be no longer than fourteen (14) 8.5"x11" or A4 pages in a typeface no smaller than 10 point. The page limit includes everything: references, title page, figures, appendices, etc. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions, and not identify themselves either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through the references or acknowledgments). Submissions violating the detailed formatting and anonymization rules on the Web site will not be considered for publication. There will be no extensions for reformatting. Blind reviewing of full papers will be done by the program committee, with limited use of outside referees. Papers will be provisionally accepted subject to revision and approval by a program committee member acting as a shepherd. On acceptance, authors will be required to sign an ACM copyright release form. Your submission indicates that you agree to this. Papers will be held in full confidence during the reviewing process, but papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be rejected without review. Authors of accepted papers will be expected to supply electronic versions of their papers and encouraged to supply source code and raw data to help others replicate and better understand their results. There will be a scholarship program to support student registration and attendance. Details will be posted on the Web site. Important Dates Deadline to register abstracts March 11, 2007 Submission deadline (HARD, NO EXTENSIONS) March 18, 2007 Acceptance notification June 22, 2007 (tentative) Camera-ready deadline Aug 5, 2007 (tentative) Program Committee Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, U. Wisconsin Andrew Myers, Cornell Paul Barham, Microsoft Research Jeff Mogul, HP Labs Peter Chen, U. Michigan Vivek Pai, Princeton Mike Dahlin, U. Texas Adrian Perrig, CMU Jeff Dean, Google Sharon Perl, Google Richard Draves, Microsoft Research Sylvia Ratnasamy, Intel Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford Carla Ellis, Duke Mema Roussopoulos, Harvard Hermann Haertig, TU Dresden Stefan Savage, UC San Diego M. Frans Kaashoek, MIT Michael Schroeder, Microsoft Research Orran Krieger, IBM Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Hank Levy, U. Washington Yuanyuan Zhou, U. Illinois David Mazieres, Stanford WeiMin Zheng, Tsinghua U. Conference organizers General Chair: Thomas C. Bressoud, Denison University Local Arrangements: Jonathan Walpole, Portland State University Sponsorships: Jacob R. Lorch, Microsoft Research Publicity: Jason Flinn, University of Michigan Scholarship committee: Robbert van Renesse & Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP: EvoCOMNET 2007]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP: EvoCOMNET 2007 Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:05:13 +0200 Von: Di Caro Gianni <gianni(a)idsia.ch> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org ****** EvoComNet2007 ****** 4th European Workshop on the application of Nature-inspired techniques to Telecommunication Networks and other Connected Systems Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007 --------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 10 November 2006 Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006 Camera ready papers: 08 January 2007 --------------------------------------------- http://www.evostar.org/ EvoCOMNET 2007 is the fourth European Workshop on the application of Nature-inspired techniques to networked systems, with special emphasis to telecommunication networks. EvoCOMNET 2007 is part of EVO*, that joins the Europe's premier co-located events in the field of Evolutionary Computing and Nature-inspired techniques. The rapid advances in computing and transmission technologies are giving impetus to the large-scale deployment of interconnected systems for communication and transport of data, voice, video and resources. The global Internet, and cellular, satellite, and Wi-Fi networks, as well as power and logistic networks, just to mention a few remarkable examples, are at the same time ubiquitous and at the very heart of the functioning and success of modern societies. On the other hand, all these networks are increasingly heterogeneous, complex, and dynamic, such as they present a number of challenging issues concerning their analysis and design, management and control, robustness and security. Biological systems show a number of properties, such as self-organization, adaptivity, scalability, robustness, autonomy, locality of interactions, distribution, which are highly desirable to deal with the growing complexity of current and future networks. Therefore, in recent years a growing number of effective solutions for problems related to networked systems have been proposed by taking inspiration from the observation of natural systems and processes such as natural selection, insect societies, immune systems, cultural systems, collective behaviors of groups of animals/cells, etc. The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum to present the cutting edge research on Nature-inspired approaches to network-related problems. The workshop sought to provide a deep insight into the effective potentialities of Nature-inspired design to tackle the numerous problems arising in networked systems, and, in particular, in modern telecommunication networks. ------------------------------------ Areas of Interests and Contributions ------------------------------------ EvoCOMNET 2007 solicits contributions dealing with the application of ideas from natural processes and systems to the solution of problems of practical and/or theoretical interests in all domains related to the analysis, design, control, management, protection, and testing of network systems. All systems based on a physical network structure and/or on an abstract network model are of interest for the workshop. The scope of the workshop emphasizes the following domains: * Communication systems: telecommunications; mobile, satellite, optical, and voice communications; personal communication systems; switching and routing; transmission systems; access systems; communication systems simulation; station and antenna design; information and speech processing; intrusion detection; error control coding; compression and cryptography; propagation and channel modelling; protocol design; etc. * Networks: networks and graph problems; unconstrained and constrained network design problems; network flows; network and computer security; Internet problems; electrical, power, and data networks; computer networks; location and link design; reliability and failure; corporate network design; location placement; network physical and software architecture; network hardware and software technologies; operations, maintenance, and management; signalling and control; active networks; network services and applications; etc. * Wireless networks: mesh networks; mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs); peer to peer mobile networks; sensor area networks; GSM/GPRS networks; energy efficient and techniques and QoS for MANETs and sensor area networks; real world implementations; network services and applications in wireless mobile networks; security in wireless networks; hybrid networks; intelligent mobile agents for network control and management; RFID based systems; robotic networks; etc. * Connected systems: network problems in non-technical environments; manufacturing, distribution and logistics networks; supply and disposal networks; inter-personal communication; communication analysis; inter-organisational communication; supply chains; information networks; etc. * Formal methods and techniques: formal techniques and methods to model the behavior and working of above-mentioned systems. - Particularly welcomed are submissions contributing with: * Applications of Nature-inspired techniques (e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Ant Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Cultural Algorithms, etc.) to novel network-related problems * Definition of novel Nature-inspired techniques and/or general frameworks specifically addressing network challenges * Detailed comparative studies of Nature-inspired solutions versus more classical/established techniques * Analytical studies of the behavior and working of the proposed solutions * Real-world implementations * Studies based on real-world data sets * Live demonstrations of algorithm behavior -------------------- Submission procedure -------------------- High quality papers are sought on the topics related to the focus of the workshop, ranging from theoretical work to innovative applications. Submitted papers must be a maximum of TEN A4 pages long and must conform to Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format for multi-author proceedings. Please download the LNCS package for proceedings directly from the Springer web site. The reviewing process is DOUBLE BLIND. Authors should remove their names from submitted papers, and avoid statements and references that would identify the authors. Papers must be submitted using the conference management software. Please follow the instructions on the web site ----------- Publication ----------- All the peer-reviewed papers accepted in the EVO* workshops will be published in the volume "Applications of Evolutionary Computing" in Springer's LNCS series. We will also consider the possibility to arrange a journal special issue with the best papers submitted. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: 10 November 2006 (deadline extended!) Notification of acceptance: 15 December 2006 Camera ready papers: 8 January 2007 Events: 11-13 April 2007 ---------------- Workshop Chairs ---------------- Muddassar Farooq Informatik III 44221 Dortmund Germany muddassar.farooq(a)udo.edu Gianni Di Caro IDSIA Galleria 2 6928 Manno-Lugano Switzerland gianni(a)idsia.ch -------------------------- Workshop Program Committee -------------------------- Payman ARABSHAHI - University of Washington (USA) Eric BONABEAU - Icosystem Corp. (USA) Frederick DUCATELLE - IDSIA, Lugano (Switzerland) Luca M. GAMBARDELLA - IDSIA, Lugano (Switzerland) Jin-Kao HAO - University of Angers (France) Marc HEISSENBUETTEL - Swisscom Mobile Ltd. (Switzerland) Malcolm I. HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) Nur ZINCIR-HEYWOOD - Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada) Bryant JULSTROM - St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud (USA) Vittorio MANIEZZO - University of Bologna (Italy) Alcherio MARTINOLI - EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland) Jose' Luis MARZO - University of Girona (Spain) Ronaldo MENEZES - Florida Tech., Melbourne (USA) Roberto MONTEMANNI - IDSIA (Switzerland) Martin ROTH - Deutsche Telekom Ltd., Berlin (Germany) Leon ROTHKRANTZ - Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Chien-Chung SHEN - University of Delaware, Newark (USA) Kwang M. SIM - Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong) Mark C. SINCLAIR - Royal University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) George D. SMITH - University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK) Christian TSCHUDIN - University of Basel (Switzerland) Tony WHITE - Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada) Yong XU - University of Birmingham (UK) Lidia YAMAMOTO - University of Basel (Switzerland) Franco ZAMBONELLI - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia (Italy) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by "Di Caro Gianni" <gianni(a)idsia.ch> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: DEADLINE EXTENDED to November 15, 2006: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:40:59 +0300 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [*** Submission Deadline has been *extended* to November 15, 2006 ***] We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth 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 2007 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. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline :*(Extended)* November 15, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 1, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 21, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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New2an CFP
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

The 7th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking NEW2AN 2007 http://www.new2an.org/ September 3 - 7, 2007 St.Petersburg, Russia CALL FOR PAPERS About the Conference Next-generation mobile networks will evolve out of existing wired and wireless networks of different nature by means of convergence, fusion and mutual penetration; next-generation multimedia services in turn pose new requirements and challenges on treatment of traffic within communication networks. This forms a framework on harmonization of results obtained separately in different areas of network research like network performance evaluation, architecture and protocol design, and low layer network design. The conference goal is in the identification, investigation and integration of new algorithms, approaches, architectures, methods and mechanisms to enable proper and efficient operation of a next-generation IP-based wireless network. Special emphasis will be given to next-generation traffic issues, it indeed remains true that much uncertainty surrounds the future traffic features and volumes, mainly because of converged type of traffic resulted from converged network operation under converged services and applications. Moreover, wireless access networks and their interaction shall be widely examined and addressed throughout the conference. Since the middle of the 1990s a sequence of seminars and conferences sponsored by International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) have been successfully organized in Saint-Petersburg. The meeting point between east and west, the mutual history and experience can be seen and felt in the host country and the beautiful city. Topics of interest Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * New Teletraffic and Network Traffic Challenges and Paradigms * Emerging Teletraffic Models and Tools * Future Internet Services: Teletraffic and Performance Issues * Traffic Classification and Characterization * Performance Evaluation of Mobile and Wireless Networks * Multidisciplinary Approaches for Traffic Analysis and Management * Traffic Engineering & QoS in all-IP Networks * Network Modeling, Simulation, Emulation and Tomography * Network Planning and Network Engineering * Resource Management and Congestion control * Traffic and performance monitoring in Future Networks * Overlay Networks * 3G and Beyond Networks * Autonomous Communications * Ad hoc and Sensor Networks * Wireless Mesh and Multi-Hop Networks * Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks * Wireless Protocols * Mobility Management * Medium Access Control Protocols and Scheduling Techniques for Wireless Systems * Cross-layer Interactions * Applications for Multimedia-enabled Wired And Wireless all-IP Networks * Network Security * AAA, pricing, charging and billing for Wireless Technologies Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers in English of not more than 20 double-spaced pages, 12 pt font size. All papers must include a title, complete contact information for all authors, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author should be identified clearly. Papers must be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via on-line submission procedure. Proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer (pending). Selected best papers will appear in a journal special issue. Important dates Paper submission April 04, 2007 Notification of acceptance May 29, 2007 Camera ready version June 12, 2007 Conference dates September 3 - 7 , 2007 The Conference is organized by Tampere University of Technology (Finland) and Baltic IT (Russia) in cooperation with ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Popov Society, IEEE (Pending), COST 290 and support of NOKIA. For further and up-to-date information please visit official web page of the Conference http://www.new2an.org

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[Fwd: CFP#4: Journal of Computer Communications: Special Issue on Foundations of P2P Computing]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP#4: Journal of Computer Communications: Special Issue on Foundations of P2P Computing Datum: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:29:58 -0400 Von: Editorial Help <editor(a)cs.kent.edu> An: tcgn(a)comsoc.org *Apology if you have received multiple copies. ******************************************************************* Call for Papers – Special Issue on Foundations of Peer-to-Peer Computing: Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications • Submission Deadline: October 28, 2006 Website: http://www.cs.kent.edu/~editor/jcompcomm06-p2p/ Guest Editors: Javed I. Khan & Adam Wierzbicki ________________________________________ Peer-to-peer computing has quite conspicuously emerged as one of the most innovation rich areas in computer networking. P2P has emerged out of user community but it is increasingly finding its base on rich foundation of computing. Various aspects of peer-to-peer systems are now being modeled, formalized, and even engineered based on distributed hashing, complex search models, self-organization, complex networking, and graph theories. The objective of this special issue of the Journal of Computer & Communication is to highlight recent innovative research results which will strengthen the formal foundation of this area. ________________________________________ The special issue invites papers from diverse P2P community ranging from practitioners, system builders, networking researchers, computing engineers, as well as social scientists. Authors from these divergent communities are encouraged to submit high-quality and original works. The review process of this special issue will be respectful to the difference in the scientific methodologies used by the communities. Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to the following: P2P systems, practice & performance • Case study architectures • Performance analysis of existing systems • Distributed hashing, routing, advanced & special search • Self-organization neighborhood optimization • Fault tolerance, stability, churning • Privacy and security P2P overlay networks • Publish/subscribe & event routing overlays • Multicast optimization • Multimedia and streaming overlays Social engineering • Reputation and trust functions. • Social engineering • Virtual communities on P2P: socials study • Study of P2P virtual networks Applications • File sharing, distributed storage/caching, backup storage. • News feed • P2P games, online auction. • Multimedia streaming, distribution. • Anonymous systems ________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: October 28, 2006 • Acceptance decision: February 6, 2007 • Final paper due: March 6, 2007 • Publication date: Spring 2007 ________________________________________ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are request to submit the manuscript electronically by using online manuscript submission. The manuscript should be original, previously unpublished and should not be under concurrent submission elsewhere. To submit your manuscript please logon at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/comcom. Then select article type “SI: Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Computing”, and follow the instructions. For any query about the special issue feel free to contact the guest editor at: Prof. Javed I. Khan javed(a)kent.edu Department of Computer Science Kent State University 233 MSB, Kent, OH-44242 Prof. Adam Wierzbicki adamw(a)pjwstk.edu.pl Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Ul. Koszykowa 86 02-008 Warsaw, Poland ******************************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a closed mailing list exclusively for the business of the IEEE ComSoc TCGN. As a member of the list you are encouraged to use it for all messages that meet this general criteria. To make this list "self correcting" please send any concern you may have to mailmanager(a)comsoc.org. You can leave this list by sending a blank email from the address you are subscribed under to tcgn-remove(a)comsoc.org.

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[Fwd: www2007info WWW2007 Newsletter -- October Issue]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: www2007info WWW2007 Newsletter -- October Issue Datum: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:53:11 -0600 Von: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org Antwort an: www2007info(a)iw3c2.org An: www2007announce(a)iw3c2.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WWW2007 Newsletter -- October/06 Issue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the third issue of the WWW2007 Newsletter. In this issue: 1. Paper submissions due November 20 2. Tutorial proposals due November 27 3. Two new Silver Sponsors confirmed 4. Super EarlyBird Passports still available 5. The Banff Springs Hotel awaits you ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Paper submissions due November 20 ------------------------------------ The deadline for paper submissions to WWW2007 is less than a month away! WWW2007 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. All refereed papers must be submitted on or before November 20, 2006 (by 11:59pm Hawaii time). This is a hard deadline: NO EXTENSIONS!! In addition to regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. The WWW2007 technical program will be divided into 13 tracks, and authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an enhanced version of their work for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on the Web. The Call For Papers, with the complete list of research tracks, program committee members, as well as formatting and submission details can be found at http://www2007.org/cfp.php 2. Tutorial proposals due November 27 ------------------------------------- The deadline for submitting Tutorial proposals to WWW2007 is also fast approaching. Tutorial proposals are desired for both half-day and full-day sessions on topics of current and ongoing relevance to Web design, services, operation, use, and evaluation. Proposals must clearly identify the learning objectives, the target audience, the relevance to the WWW2007 audience, references to relevant material, and a short biography of the presenter(s). The deadline for submitting Tutorial proposals is November 27, 2006. Formatting and submission instructions can be found at http://www2007.org/prog-Tutorials.php 3. Two new Silver Sponsors confirmed ------------------------------------ Finnegan Henderson and Google join the University of Calgary as Silver Sponsors of WWW2007. Finnegan Henderson is a law firm specializing in intellectual property law. The firm has traditionally specialized in the high tech sector, and has represented clients in the areas of gene therapy, multimedia content delivery systems, cardiocare products, and Internet operating systems. In 2002, the firm was included for the first time in American Lawyer's list of the 100 largest U.S. law firms. Finnegan Henderson is the only law firm in the listing that focuses exclusively on intellectual property law Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in Web search and advertising have made its Web site a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of Web sites and other content. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its vast online index. More information at http://www2007.org/sponsors.php 4. Super EarlyBird Passports still available -------------------------------------------- Until November 1, you can get a Super EarlyBird Passport for $1295 CDN. Only 20 such passports will be available, and 12 have been requested already. The regular Early Registration deadline is March 5, 2007. Two registration options are available for WWW2007. The conference Passport covers all 5 days of the event, while the 3-day ticket covers any 3 consecutive days of the conference. Full registration gives you access to the welcoming reception; tutorials; workshops; core conference sessions, including plenaries, panels, posters, and refereed papers; proceedings CD; exhibit area; daily lunch and coffee breaks; plus the Thursday evening banquet buffet at Brewster's MountView Barbecue. The on-line registration system will be activated in early November. Please note that the registration fees are not yet finalized. Tentatively, the Passport registration will cost $1350 CDN (by March 5), while the 3-day registration will cost $800 CDN (by March 5). Early registration fees for students are $800 CDN (Passport) and $500 CDN (3-day). More information at http://www2007.org/registration.php 5. The Banff Springs Hotel awaits you ------------------------------------- If you are planning to attend WWW2007, please think seriously about making your hotel reservation soon. Hotel rooms are at a premium in Banff in the summer, both in price and availability. A large petroleum industry conference (http://www.piass.org) will make it even harder to find hotel rooms in Banff next May. The main WWW2007 room block is at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. We encourage as many of you as possible to stay there, perhaps sharing a room if necessary. The room block is open now for booking. The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel is located in a spectacular setting in the Rocky Mountains, just above the Bow Falls, and within walking distance of downtown Banff. The main view from the hotel is across the valley and towards Mount Rundle. The hotel, built over a century ago by the Canadian Pacific Railway in a Scottish baronial style, marked the beginning of the tourism boom for Banff National Park. Today, it retains its historic elegance and magnificent views of the Bow River and surrounding peaks, but now includes modern amenities that make for a luxurious lodging experience, including a world-class spa, 10 restaurants and bars, golf course, tennis courts, pool, and gym. High speed Internet access is also available. The Banff Springs is a one-of-a-kind hotel in a truly breathtaking setting. And yes, the conference rate of $279 CDN per night (plus service charges and taxes) is really a fabulous deal. Check it out! More information at http://www2007.org/hotel.php ----------------------- The WWW2007 Newsletters will be sent periodically, roughly once every month leading up to the conference. The newsletters will be archived at the 'Media and Publicity' section of http://www2007.org/ Contact the WWW2007 Publicity Chair (Denilson Barbosa, denilson(a)ucalgary.ca) with news and/or announcements for upcoming editions. We have made every effort to keep the circulation of the newsletters amongst those interested in receiving them. If you are not in this group, please accept our apologies; we ask you to send an email to contact(a)iw3c2.org requesting to be removed from our mailing list. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC - Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems]
by Lars Wolf 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE JSAC - Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems Datum: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:17:22 +0800 (HKT) Von: Dr. Danny Tsang <eetsang(a)ee.ust.hk> Antwort an: eetsang(a)ee.ust.hk An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, emerging with Napster in 1999, has become increasingly popular, accounting for as much as 70% of Internet traffic by some estimates. Along with the widespread adoption of broadband residential access and the increasing demand of multimedia service over the Internet, we are now witnessing the emergence of a new class of popular P2P applications, namely, P2P audio and video streaming. Popular P2P video streaming applications have successfully demonstrated the support of thousands of concurrent peers per channel at bit rates in excess of 400 kbps. While traditional P2P file distribution applications are targeted for elastic data transfers, P2P streaming focuses on the efficient delivery of audio and video content under tight timing requirements. Still in its infancy, both live and on-demand P2P streaming present many research challenges. To date, a number of architectures have been suggested by using either the tree-based push approach (e.g., Narada and SplitStream) or the mesh-based pull approach (e.g., CoolStream) which basically divides the media content into blocks for trading among peers. Further improvements are possible by taking advantage of advanced source and channel coding techniques such as layered coding, multiple description codes, fountain codes, and network coding. Given the initial success of P2P live streaming, questions still remain about how to extend the existing peer-to-peer models for more advanced applications with more stringent requirements such as video-on-demand services and how to support live and on-demand streaming in the same P2P network. Furthermore, with the wide deployment of wireless networks (WLAN, ad hoc, and 3G networks) and various wireless backhaul technologies (wireless mesh networks and WiMax), there are still open research challenges on how to realize a large-scale P2P media streaming over highly dynamic wireless channels and with user mobility. This special issue solicits original state-of-the-art works addressing all aspects related to supporting peer-to-peer multimedia content distribution service from both theoretical and implementation aspects. It aims at putting together a collection of the latest high-quality research results in this area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Novel live or on-demand P2P streaming architectures * Traffic measurement and deployment experience * Topology design and locality aware P2P system * Performance evaluation and analysis * Applications of advanced coding techniques * Security issues * Routing and QoS provisioning * Digital rights management * Content partitioning and block scheduling algorithms * Wireless P2P streaming * Peer-matching algorithms for efficient media distribution * Cross-layer design Prospective authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via email to Danny H.K. Tsang, eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk, according to the following timetable. Along with the paper submission, authors are also requested to submit a cover letter via email to the above email address, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and an abstract. Submission deadline: March 1, 2007 Acceptance notification: July 1, 2007 Final manuscript due: September 1, 2007 Publication of issue: First Quarter 2008 Guest Editors Danny H.K. Tsang Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong eetsang(a)ece.ust.hk Keith W. Ross Dept. of Computer & Information Science Polytechnic University Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA 11201 ross(a)poly.edu Jin Li Communication & Collaboration Systems Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA jinl(a)microsoft.com Pablo Rodriguez Systems & Networking Research Group Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K. pablo(a)microsoft.com Hui Zhang Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA 15213 hzhang(a)cs.cmu.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) Datum: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:41:04 -0500 Von: Kamil Sarac <ksarac(a)utdallas.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, Kamil Sarac <ksarac(a)utdallas.edu> Dear Colleagues, (This message is sent to multiple lists. Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of it.) ============================================================================================= The 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/e2emon07/ 21st May 2007, Munich, Germany In conjunction with the IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (IM2007) E2EMON is a workshop focusing on advances in end-to-end (e2e) monitoring technology, and particularly new distributed monitoring techniques for emerging technologies such as Grid, overlay, peer-to-peer (p2p) and ad hoc networks, and e2e path measurements. E2EMON offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences concerning the next-generation of monitoring systems. The workshop also provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of e2e monitoring. The workshop will be held in conjunction with IM2007, which draws many leading researchers in the field of Network and Systems Management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. TOPICS ------- * Active and programmable monitoring * Adaptive monitoring systems * Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring * Correlation-based monitoring * Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes * Distributed application steering * High-speed network monitoring * Languages for packet and distributed monitoring * Large-scale monitoring techniques * Monitoring and measurements * Monitoring embedded systems & pervasive environments * Monitoring grid & pervasive computing environments * Monitoring models, architectures and systems * Monitoring of path characteristics * Monitoring of service level agreements * Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services * Multicast network/service monitoring * Open monitoring platforms * Overlay monitoring services * Real-time monitoring * Traffic monitoring and data mining * Visualization of monitoring information IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission deadline : January 1, 2007 * Notification of acceptance : February 20, 2007 * Final version : March 5, 2007 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 8 US Letter size pages, with a main text font size of no less than 10pt. Submissions must be in PDF format, containing only fully embedded and subsetted PostScript Type 1 and/or TrueType fonts. To submit your paper, please go to the EDAS system at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2007-E2EMON. For submission details, see the E2EMON website. Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------- * Kamil Sarac, University of Texas at Dallas * Timur Friedman, Université Pierre et Marie Curie TPC members ------------ * Ehab S. Al-Shaer DePaul University, USA * Ernst Biersack Institut Eurécom, France * Herbert Bos VU Amsterdam, Netherlands * Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo, Canada * Nevil Brownlee The University of Auckland, New Zealand and CAIDA * Marcus Brunner NEC Europe Ltd., Germany * Taesang Choi ETRI, Korea * Mark Crovella Boston University, USA * Salvatore d'Antonio CINI, Italy * Jordi Domingo-Pascual University Polytechnic of Catalunya, Spain * Timur Friedman Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France * Vera Goebel University of Oslo, Norvey * Ahsan Habib University of California Berkeley, USA * Choong Seon Hong Kyung Hee University, Korea * James Won-Ki Hong POSTECH, Korea * Hani Jamjoom IBM Watson, USA * Turgay Korkmaz The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA * Simon Leinen SWITCH, Switzerland * Evangelos P. Markatos ICS Forth, Greece * Masayuki Murata Osaka University, Japan * Philippe Owezarski LAAS-CNRS, France * Aiko Pras University of Twente, Netherlands * Reza Rejaie University of Oregon, USA * Fulvio Risso Politecnico di Torino, Italy * Keith Ross Polytechnic University, USA * Kavé Salamatian Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France * M. Yahya Sanadidi UCLA, USA * Kamil Sarac The University of Texas at Dallas, USA * Yuval Shavitt Tel Aviv University, Israel * Neil Spring University of Maryland, USA * Radu State LORIA - INRIA Lorraine, France * Henk Uijterwaal RIPE, Netherlands Sincerely, Kamil Sarac -- Kamil Sarac Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75083-0688 Phone: (972) 883 2337 Fax: (972) 883 2349 Email: ksarac(a)utdallas.edu Web: www.utdallas.edu/~ksarac _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Deadline extension for the MDM 2007!]
by Lars Wolf 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline extension for the MDM 2007! Datum: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:56:34 +0200 Von: Pedro Jose Marron <marronpo(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this E-mail] Paper submission deadline extended due to multiple requests to November 6. Abstract submission extended to October 30. ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07) Mannheim, Germany, May 7-11, 2007 http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOD/SIGMOBILE (pending), IEEE CS (pending) and Infos ========================================================================== SCOPE: The rapid advances in computing and wireless communication technologies along with their integration into commodity devices such as personal digital assistants, mobile phones, and portable computers provide a technical infrastructure that enables a broad range of mobile services and applications. These include scenarios where seamless access to a computing infrastructure is provided, scenarios where interaction and data sharing among mobile users occur in mobile ad hoc networks, and hybrid scenarios that combine these two. The continued miniaturization of computing devices along with improvements in the performance/price ratio enable new services and applications, e.g., in environmental monitoring and transportation. Although substantial research has been conducted, this area remains ripe with open research challenges, e.g., in relation to context-aware computing, such as location-based services or ubiquitous computing applications; mobile applications in hybrid networks; and consistency and data processing in sensor networks. The conference focuses on research contributions within data management in relation to mobile, wearable, and pervasive computing. The conference invites submissions within this area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing * Location and mobility semantics * Data placement, caching, replication and relocation to support mobility * Data dissemination in mobile environments * Data presentation, scripting and exchange languages * Data management for pervasive computing * Data management in sensor networks * Resource advertising and discovery techniques to support mobility * Metadata management and exchanges * Query processing and optimization for mobile users * Transactions and workflows in mobile computing * Middleware support for mobility * Middleware support for ubiquitous computing * Multimedia delivery in 3G mobile networks * Context-aware computing and location-based services * Operating system and network support for mobile devices * Security and privacy issues of mobile data management * Integration of sensor networks into pervasive environments * Quality of service issues for data-intensive services * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems * Data mining for mobile application SUBMISSION: The conference invites original, unpublished submissions whose length does not exceed 8 pages in the camera-ready IEEE style. Submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference web-based submission system. More information will be available at: <http://mdm2007.uni-mannheim.de>. Industrial/experience papers as well as proposals for panels, demos, tutorials, and workshops are also sought by October 30th, 2006. Submission instructions will be made available on the conference homepage. Industrial/experience papers are expected to discuss novel aspects of deployed applications and/or prototypes as well as experiences and standards. Updated dates: Abstract Registration October 30, 2006 Paper Submission November 6, 2006 Notification of Acceptance January 23, 2007 Camera-Ready Copies Due February 23, 2007 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Jianwen Su, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA INDUSTRIAL/EXPERIENCE TRACK CHAIR: Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany DEMONSTRATION CHAIR: Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece LOCAL ORGANIZING CHAIR AND COMITTEE: Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany (chair) Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Armin Heinzl, University of Mannheim, Germany Martin Schader, University of Mannheim, Germany PUBLICITY CHAIR: Klemens Boehm, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada PANELS CHAIR: Agnes Voisard, Fraunhofer ISST and FU Berlin, Germany TUTORIALS CHAIR: Ralf Hartmut Gueting, FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany WORKSHOPS CHAIR: Birgitta Koenig-Ries, University of Jena, Germany FINANCIAL/REGISTRATION CHAIR: Torben Weis, University of Stuttgart, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Karl Aberer, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Jalal Al-Muhtadi, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Michael Beigl, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland Claudio Bettini, University of Milano, Italy Peter Boncz, CWI, Netherlands Thomas Brinkhoff, Oldenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Erik Buchmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Marco Conti, IIT, Italy Bin Cui, Peking University, China Alex Delis, University of Athens, Greece Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Stefan Fischer, University of Luebeck, Germany Hannes Frey, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, University of Southern California, USA Bugra Gedik, IBM Research, USA Stephane Grumbach, CNRS/LIAMA, China Joerg Haehner, University of Stuttgart, Germany Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Ibrahim Kamel, University of Sharjah, UAE Dimitris Katsaros, Aristotele University of Thessaloniki, Greece Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan George Kollios, Boston University, USA Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Dik Lun Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Ki-Joune Li, Pusan National University, Korea Bin Lin, NCR/Teradata, USA Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong, China Bernhard Mitschang, University of Stuttgart, Germany Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK Moira Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mourad Ouzzani, Purdue University, USA Dieter Pfoser, CTI, Greece Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Kay Roemer, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland Simonas Saltenis, Aalborg University, Denmark George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joerg Sander, University of Alberta, Canada Ichiro Satoh, NII, Japan Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA Markus Schneider, University of Florida, USA Michel Scholl, CNAM Paris, France Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yufei Tao, City University of Hong Kong, China Yannis Theodoridis, University of Pireaus, Greece Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University, USA Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA Wei Wang, Fudan University, China Carola Wenk, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Cui Yu, Monmouth University, USA Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University, USA ************************************************************************* PD Dr. habil. Pedro Jose Marron University of Stuttgart IPVS, Distributed Systems Group Universitaetsstr. 38 Phone: +49-711-7816-223 D-70569 Stuttgart Fax: +49-711-7816-424 Germany email: pedro.marron(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de *************************************************************************

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Workshop "Organic Computing" at ARCS 2007]
by Lars Wolf 19 Oct '06

19 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Call for papers: Workshop "Organic Computing" at ARCS 2007 Datum: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Von: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> An: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the Organic Computing Mailinglist, at ARCS 2007, taking place March 12-15, 2007 at Zurich, a workshop on Organic Computing will take place on the last day of the conference. Deadline for submissions to this workshop is December 21st. Further details on the conference can be found at http://arcs07.ethz.ch/. Regards, Fabian Rochner ================================================== WORKSHOP ORGANIC COMPUTING - TOOLS, APPLICATIONS AND ARCHITECTURES March 15, 2007, ETH Zürich Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Organic Computing is based on the insight that in the near future we will be surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems equipped with sensors and actuators to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to support people at work and in their everyday life. This presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems - which we increasingly depend on - as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation of these systems towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the technologically possible seems absolutely central. In order to achieve these goals, our technical systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously, i.e. they will have to exhibit life-like properties. We call those systems "organic". Hence, an "Organic Computing System" is a technical system, which adapts dynamically to the current conditions of its environment. It will be self-organizing, self-configuring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of Organic Computing and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Engineering. Central aspects of Organic Computing systems have been and will be inspired by an analysis of information processing in biological systems. The focus of this OC workshop will be on technical applications, tools and architectures for organic computing systems. Workshop topics - tools and toolboxes for organic computing - organic computing applications - architectures for organic computing - self-X in production systems - complex adaptive systems - technical usage and controllability of emergence Deadlines Submission until Dec. 21, 2006 Notification of acceptance Jan. 13, 2007 Final version until Jan. 21, 2007 Submission of papers Papers can be submitted in PDF format in english. The papers should have a maximum of 10 pages and must be formatted in the VDE-Verlag style. http://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/tagungd.html Papers must be submitted at http://ocws07.informatik.uni-augsburg.de Worshop chairs Wolfgang Trumler, University of Augsburg Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg Program committee Bernhard Bauer, Universität Augsburg Jürgen Becker, Universität Karlsruhe Michael Beigl, Universität Braunschweig Uwe Brinkschulte, Universität Karlsruhe Martin Emele, Robert Bosch GmbH Dietmar Fey, Friedrich Schiller-Universität Jena Stefan Fischer, Universität Lübeck Hans-Ulrich Heiß, TU Berlin Jörg Henkel, Universität Karlsruhe Andreas Herkersdorf, TU München Christian Hochberger, TU Dresden Wolfgang Karl, Universität Karlsruhe Paul Lukowicz, Universität Passau Erik Maehle, Universität zu Lübeck Christoph von der Malsburg, Universität Bochum Christian Müller-Schloer, Universität Hannover Wolfgang Reif, Universität Augsburg Jochen Schiller, Freie Universität Berlin Hartmut Schmeck, Universität Karlsruhe Bernhard Sick, Universität Passau Dirk Timmermann, Universität Rostock

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CFP: The 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-07)]
by Lars Wolf 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: CFP: The 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-07) Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:35:12 +0200 Von: Xiaoyuan Gu <xiaogu(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Organisation: TU Braunschweig An: members(a)ist-e-next.net ******************* ATC-07 Call For Papers********************** The 4th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-07) - Bring Safe, Self-x and Organic Computing Systems into Reality - http://www.atc-conference.org/2007/ http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~atc07/ Organized by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China In Cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007 ****************************************************** Computing systems including hardware, software, communication and networks are growing towards an ever increasing scale and heterogeneity, becoming overly complex. Such complexity is getting even more critical with the ubiquitous permeation of embedded devices and other pervasive systems. To cope with the growing and ubiquitous complexity, Autonomic Computing (AC) focuses on self-manageable computing and communication systems that exhibit self-awareness, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, self-protection and other self-x operations to the maximum extent possible without human intervention or guidance. Organic Computing (OC) additionally emphasizes natural-analogue concepts like self-organization and controlled emergence. Any autonomic or organic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trust and/or distrust relationships in the Internet and in pervasive infrastructures are key factors to enable dynamic interaction and cooperation of various users, systems and services. Trusted/Trustworthy Computing (TC) aims at making computing and communication systems as well as services available, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable, sustainable, dependable, persist-able, security/privacy protect-able, etc. A series of grand challenges exist to achieve practical self-manageable autonomic systems with truly trustworthy services. ATC-07 addresses the most innovative research and development in these challenging areas and includes all technical aspects related to autonomic/organic computing (AC/OC) and trusted computing (TC). ATC-07 is a successor of the First Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES-05, Japan, Dec.), the Int'l Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS-06, Austria, Apr.), and the 3rd International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-06, Three Gorges, China, Sep.). Topics include but are not limited to the following: -AC/OC Theory and Models * Nervous/organic models, negotiation, cooperation, competition, self-organization, emergence, etc. -AC/OC Architectures and Systems * Autonomic elements & their relationship, frameworks, middleware, observer/controller architectures, etc. -AC/OC Components and Modules * Memory, storage, database, device, server, proxy, software, OS, I/O, etc. -AC/OC Communication and Services * Networks, self-organized net, web service, grid, P2P, semantics, agent, transaction, etc. -AC/OC Tools and Interfaces * Tools/interfaces for AC/OC system development, test, monitoring, assessment, supervision, etc. -Trust Models and Specifications * Models and semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk, reputation, reliability, etc. -Trust-related Security and Privacy * Trust-related secure architecture, framework, policy, intrusion detection/awareness, protocols, etc. -Trusted Reliable and Dependable Systems * Fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery, etc. -Trustworthy Services and Applications * Trustworthy Internet/web/grid/P2P e-services, mobile/ pervasive services, novel applications, etc. -Trust Standards and Non-Technical Issues * Trust standards and issues related to personality, ethics, sociology, culture, psychology, economy, etc. ==IMPORTANT DATES== Submission Deadline: January 15, 2007 Authors Notification: March 15, 2007 Final Manuscript Due: April 15, 2007 ==ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION== Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the ATC-07 submission site: http://ehpclab.stfx.ca/~atc07/sub/ ==PAPER PUBLICATION== Accepted papers will be published by Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of the Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN). A set of high quality papers of the conference, after further revisions, also will be published in an edited book published by Springer, Germany, and in an edited book published by IDEA Publishing Group, USA, respectively. ==Organizing Committees== General Chairs Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Christian Muller-Schloer, University of Hannover, Germany Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mazin Yousif, Intel, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Bin Xiao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Program Vice Chairs Xiaobo Zhou, Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Wolfgang Reif, University of Augsburg, Germany Dimitris Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science, Switzerland Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair) , St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., China Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany International Advisory Committee Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Zhong Chen, Peking University, China Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan David Ogle, IBM, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Franz J. Rammig, University of Paderborn, Germany Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA Xinmei Wang, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Xinwen Fu, Dakota State University, USA Xiaoyuan Gu, Technical Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., China Noria Foukia, Otago University of Otago, New Zealand International Liaison Chairs* Benno Overeinder, Vrije University, The Netherlands Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Yuanshun Dai, Indiana University-Purdue University, USA Noriaki Yoshikai, Nihon University, Japan Publication Chairs Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University, USA Award Chairs* Yi Mu, University of Wollongong, Australia Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Panel Chairs* Huaglory Tianfield, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Zhen Liu, IBM Research Center, USA Financial Chair TBA Web Administration Chair Tony Li Xu, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chairs Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Kang Ying Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HK Program Committee See ATC-07 web site: http://www.atc-conference.org/2007/ or www.atc-conference.org/2007/ Further questions, please contact with ATC07 Chairs *to be confirmed. ============ End of ATC-07 CFP ================ +++ Posted to members-istenext by Xiaoyuan Gu <xiaogu(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> +++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WCMC Special Issue on Disruption Tolerant Networking]
by Lars Wolf 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WCMC Special Issue on Disruption Tolerant Networking Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:05:46 -0700 (PDT) Von: Kevin C Almeroth <almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing* *Special Issue Announcement* *Disruption Tolerant Networking for Mobile or Sensor Networks* * * *Guest Editors:* Professor M. Chuah, Lehigh University, chuah(a)cse.lehigh.edu Professor Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu Dr Mark-Oliver Stehr, SRI, mark-oliver.stehr(a)sri.com Traditional network architecture that works well for Internet may not work in many challenging environments e.g. sparsely connected ad hoc networks, mobile sensor networks, interplanetary or battlefield communications. In such environments, end-to-end paths may not exist or the path between a source and destination pair may be constantly disrupted or largely delayed. This special issue will provide a forum for academic researchers and industry professionals to present their latest research results on architectural and protocol designs that allow nodes in such environments to communicate. The submitted papers should focus on the state-of-the-art research in various important aspects of this exciting research area. Topics of interests include but are not limited to: - new architecture for delay/disruption tolerant networks - protocol design and evaluation for message delivery in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Delay & Fault tolerance design for mobile or sensor networks - Modeling and analysis of delay/disruption tolerant networks - characterization of traffic and mobility patterns in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Security, privacy issues in delay/disruption tolerant networks - Declarative approaches to networking - Name management for disruption tolerant networks - Resource management and policy control for disruption tolerant networks - Machine learning techniques for disruption tolerant networks - Routing or topology formation algorithms for disruption tolerant networks Submission: Manuscripts in PDF or zipped postscript format should be sent directly by email to one of the Guest Editors. Please also submit a separate cover letter via email, which contains the paper title, authors' names and affiliations, and an abstract. Please refer to this URL for the manuscript style: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html *Schedule:* Submission deadline: 15th, Nov, 2006 Notification of acceptance: 30th, Dec, 2006 Camera-ready paper deadline: 15th, Jan, 2006 Schedule Publication Date: Feb , 2007 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS07 - 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS]
by Lars Wolf 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP for SPECTS07 - 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Von: Guoping Zeng <guopingtx(a)yahoo.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, tcgn(a)comsoc.org CC: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu "We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CFP", SPECTS07 Publicity Committee **************************************************************************************************** 2007 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS 2007 10Th Anniversary of SPECTS http://eia.udg.es/SPECTS2007/ July 16-18, 2007 San Diego, California, USA This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks has progressed rapidly in the past decade and has begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems Internet Technology Quality of Service (QoS) DiffServ/IntServ MPLS/GMPLS TCP World Wide Web (WWW) Technology Networking Techniques Unicast and Multicast Routing Congestion Admission and Control Switching Techniques Tele-traffic Network Protocols Network Management and Control Network Capacity Planning Network Architecture Evaluation Service and QoS Pricing Security and Authentication Broadband Networks High-Speed Networking Optical Networks Wireless Systems and Networks Satellite Systems UMTS Mobile Networks/Computing Ad-hoc Networks Sensor Networks Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems Distributed Architectures Client/Server Distributed Systems and Agents Parallel and Distributed Computing Massively Parallel Systems Cluster Computing Grid Computing Interconnection Networks Computer Architectures Microprocessors/Microcomputers Memory Systems High Performance I/O Real-time Systems Scheduling Schemes Software Software Performance, Evaluation, and Testing Parallel Algorithms and Languages Electronic Commerce Hardware and Software Monitors High-Performance Computing Information Assurance Reconfigurable Computing Scientific Computing Algorithms Workload and Traffic Characterization Tools, Methodologies, and Applications Parallel and Distributed Simulation Verification and Validation Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models Queuing Systems and Networks Scalability Studies Integrated Modeling and Measurement On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning Process Algebra-Based Models Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Program Chairs Jose L. Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada E-mail: ljilja(a)cs.sfu.ca Helena Szczerbicka University of Hannover, Germany E-mail: hsz(a)sim.uni-hannover.de Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair S. Dharmaraja Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India dharmar(a)maths.iitd.ernet.in Awards Chair Franco Davoli University of Genoa, Italy E-mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Publication Chair Pawel Gburzynski University of Alberta, Canada E-mail: pawel(a)cs.ualberta.ca Publicity Chair Guoping Zeng Nortel Networks, USA E-mail: zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com Local Arrangement Chair Richard McDonald RMC, USA rmacd(a)ramlabs.com Web Masters Antonio Bueno University of Girona, Spain E-mail: jbueno(a)silver.udg.es Michel J. Chinni U. S. Army TACOM-ARDEC E-mail: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil Technical Program Committee Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Tricha Anjali, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Carlos Belo, Instituto de Telecomunicações-IST, Portugal Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Fernando Cerdan, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Tomaso de Cola, University of Genoa, Italy S. Dharmaraja, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Floriano De Rango, D.E.I.S. Dept., University of Calabria, Italy Rachid El Abdouni Khayari, University of the Armed Forces Munich, Germany Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Foxband Consultancy, UK Laurent Franck, Telecom Paris, France Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Daniel Garcia, University of Oviedo, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta, Canada Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Xiaoyan Hong, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonici, Greece Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Michalis E. Kounavis, Intel Research, USA Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo, USA Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Petteri Mannersalo, University of Vaasa, Finland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Stephen Pink, Lancaster University, UK Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Desa Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Jernej Polajnar, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Barbara Sorensen, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Pere Vila, University of Girona, Spain Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA Michele Zorzi, Universit? di Ferrara, Italy Paper Submission Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://www.scs.org/confernc/submit.asp. Instructions for authors will be posted on the paper submission web site. Submissions should not exceed 8-10 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs or the Local Arrangement Chair. Extended versions of selected accepted papers at SPECTS 2007 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for 1.5 hour tutorials should be sent to Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Tutorial abstracts along with keynote speeches abstracts will be included in the proceedings of the conference. Proposals for special sessions should also be submitted to the Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair. Deadlines Submission of papers: February 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2007 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 28, 2007 Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (MobiSys 2007 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (MobiSys 2007 Call for Papers) Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:47:38 -0700 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG MOBISYS 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Puerto Rico 11-14 June 2007 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/ MobiSys 2007 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. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract registrations due: 27 November 2006 (23:59 EST) Full papers due: 4 December 2006 (23:59 EST) Notification of paper acceptance: 9 March 2007 Final camera-ready papers due: 6 April 2007 Conference dates: 11-14 June 2007 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 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 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 of papers are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, November 27, 2006. Full papers are due by 23:59 EST on Monday, December 4, 2006. These are hard deadlines; no extensions will be granted. CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chair: Edward Knightly, Rice University, US Steering Committee Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, US Program Committee Chairs: Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, US Ramon Caceres, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US Program Committee: Elizabeth M. Belding, University of California, Santa Barbara, US Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US Nigel Davies, Lancaster University, UK Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto, CA Maria R. Ebling, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, US Jason Flinn, University of Michigan, US Bill Griswold, University of California, San Diego, US Richard Han, University of Colorado, US S. Keshav, University of Waterloo, CA Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington, US Natalia Marmasse, Google, Haifa, IL Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, US Jason Nieh, Columbia University and Vmware, US Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research Redmond, US James Scott, Intel Research Cambridge, UK M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, US Sean Smith, Dartmouth College, US Daniel Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University, US Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, US Roy Want, Intel Research, US David Wetherall, Intel Research Seattle and University of Washington, US Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research Redmond, US Lin Zhong, Rice University, US ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. 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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking]
by Lars Wolf 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP-NETWORKING2007: 6th IFIP International Conference on Networking Datum: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:06:52 +0300 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** Networking 2007 ******** ****** ****** **** IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) **** ** International Conference on Networking ** * * * May 14-18, 2007 * * Georgia Tech Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA * * * * http://www.ifip-networking.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Networking 2007 is the sixth 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 2007 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. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking. Topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: =============================== Authentication and security; Algorithms and protocols; Admission control; Data dissemination; Environment monitoring; Energy and resource consumption; Fault tolerance and error recovery; Interconnection of ad hoc / wired networks; Localization; Location services; MAC protocols; Mesh networks; Mobility; Modeling and performance evaluation; Network reconfiguration; Power management; Quality of Service; Resource allocation; Routing; Scheduling; Self-organization; Time synchronization; Traffic shaping; (2) Wireless Networks: ====================== Broadband wireless access; Cellular networks ( 2G, 2.5G, 3G and Beyond); Cross-layer design and optimization; Location management; Handoff; Ubiquitous networks; Hybrid networks; Interworking of 2G, 3G, 4G Mobile IP networks; Mobile networks architecture and protocols; Mobility models; Multimedia over wireless; Overlay networks; Quality of Service; Standards and Protocols; Wireless local and personal area networks; Wireless multimedia systems; Wireless protocols; Wireless authentication and security; Wireless network modeling, algorithms, and simulation; Wireless network reliability; Wireless LAN/MAN/WAN interoperability; (3) Next Generation Internet: ============================= All-IP networking; Congestion control; Evolution of IP network architecture; Multilayer design and optimization; MPLS and GMPLS; Multicasting; Multimedia protocols; Network management systems; Network measurements and testbeds; Network modeling and simulation; Peer-to-peer networks; Pricing, billing, and economic models; Quality of Service; Real-time voice / video over IP networks; Resource allocation; Routing and switching; Scheduling and queue management; Traffic engineering; Traffic management; Traffic modeling; Web architecture and protocols; Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline : October 30, 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of acceptance : February 1, 2007 Camera-ready version : February 21, 2007 Submission Details: =================== Authors are invited to submit full papers including references, figures, and tables, of up to 6 pages, double-column format, with minimum 10-point font, 2.5cm margins at the top, bottom, and on each side. Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS. Detailed submission instructions are available on the conference website. All papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. There will be a Best Paper Award for the best submitted paper. Organization Committee: ======================= General Co-Chairs: ------------------ Ian F. Akyildiz Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghupathy Sivakumar Georgia Institute of Technology, USA TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici Ohio State University, USA Janise McNair University of Florida, USA Jaudelice de Oliveira Drexel University, USA For more information about the conference, see http://www.ifip-networking.org/ -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP IEEE Communications Magazine Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming]
by Lars Wolf 17 Oct '06

17 Oct '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP IEEE Communications Magazine Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming Datum: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:43:57 -0200 (BRST) Von: nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org, csim(a)comsoc.org, tccc(a)comsoc.org Call for Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming In recent years, peer-to-peer (p2p) multimedia streaming has aroused much interest both in research communities and in industries. By allowing peers serving each other in the network, p2p technology overcomes many limitations in traditional client-server paradigm to achieve user and bandwidth scalabilities. It has been shown that performance of a properly-designed p2p network actually improves, rather than deteriorates, with the increase of population size. Peer-to-Peer technology is promising for large content distribution as demonstrated by a number of proof-of-concept prototypes in both academia and companies. In a p2p multimedia streaming system, multimedia contents are delivered to a large pool of distributed users with low delay, high quality and high robustness. Fueled by advances in networking and compression technologies, p2p multimedia streaming has experienced much initial deployment success for applications such as Internet TV (IPTV), video conferencing, and surveillance. It is the key to address the emerging needs of large-scale digital IPTV, interactive videos, interactive games and other next-generation broadcast-based or personalized multimedia services. A scalable peer-to-peer multimedia system should support many hosts, possibly in excess of hundreds or even millions, with diverse heterogeneity in bandwidth, capability, storage, network, and mobility. It should also be able to support various applications under dynamic user arrival and departure, frequent host failures and unavailability, and unpredictable user behaviors, network traffic and congestion. In a p2p streaming networks, users should be able to share, search, and access contents in a distributed and efficient manner. To achieve these goals, it is particularly important to address the challenges in architecture design, network/transport support, resource discovery and content delivery mechanisms. Scope of Contributions This feature issue is devoted to original surveys and tutorials on these emerging issues in P2P streaming. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished original articles that are not under review in any other conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but not limited to the following: * Peer-to-peer media distribution, systems and infrastructures * Novel peer-to-peer streaming applications and services * Overlay networks and application-level multicast for media streaming * Robustness in peer-to-peer streaming networks * Scalability, reliability, accessibility, manageability, and availability for P2P streaming systems. * Resource discovery and location in peer-to-peer streaming * Performance measurement and monitoring of peer-to-peer streaming systems * Deployment experience and application of peer-to-peer media distribution systems Peer-to-peer streaming prototypes and their implementation * Reputation, trust and incentives in peer-to-peer streaming systems * Peer-to-peer based content distribution * Business models for P2P media distribution * Mobile P2P streaming Schedule Submission Deadline: November 1st, 2006 Acceptance Notification: February 15th, 2007 Final Manuscript: April 1st, 2007 Publication date : June, 2007 Submission of Papers For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please select "June 2007/Peer to Peer Multimedia Streaming" in the drop down menu. Guest Editors S.-H. Gary Chan Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong, China gchan(a)cs.ust.hk Nelson L. S. da Fonseca Institute of Computing State University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil nfonseca(a)ic.unicamp.br Giovanni Pau Department of Computer Science University of California Los Angeles, USA gpau(a)cs.ucla.edu

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