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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP - IEEE SCVT 2006]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP - IEEE SCVT 2006 Datum: Thu, 25 May 2006 18:10:43 +0200 Von: Guy Leduc <Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for papers IEEE SCVT 2006: 13th Symposium on Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux November 23rd, 2006, Liege, Belgium Organized by the IEEE Benelux Joint Chapter on Communications and Vehicular Technology The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2006. The papers will appear in IEEE Xplore (IEEE's Digital Library). Participants will also have free access to another one-day workshop on mobile multimedia communications organized the next day at the same place. More details and CfP available at: <http://scvt.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/>http://scvt.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ -- ________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Guy Leduc Phone : +32 4 366 26 98 Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91 Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89 Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Email: Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/ Interested in an open source toolbox for network traffic engineering? Try TOTEM: http://totem.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007]
by Lars Wolf 26 May '06

26 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] European Wireless 2007 Datum: Wed, 24 May 2006 23:39:05 +0200 Von: Alain SIBILLE <alain.sibille(a)ensta.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu The 13th European Wireless Conference (EW 2007) April 1-4, 2007 Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Paris, France Visit <http://uei.ensta.fr/EW2007>http://uei.ensta.fr/EW2007 for updates 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 10, 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 _______________________________________________________________ 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: CfP: EuroView - Deadline Extension to June 1st 2006]
by Lars Wolf 24 May '06

24 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: EuroView - Deadline Extension to June 1st 2006 Datum: Wed, 24 May 2006 13:49:34 +0200 Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Extended Deadline: June 1st 2006 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 6th Wuerzburg Workshop on IP: Joint EuroNGI and ITG Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks" (EuroView2006) http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/ July 31st - August 1st 2006 in Wuerzburg/Germany Organizer: Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ OVERVIEW The workshop's tradition and intention is to foster the communication among researchers from the industry, universities, and other research institutes. To that end, keynote speeches by outstanding personalities and technical talks about current research will be presented. The focus of this year's workshop is on "Visions of Future Generation Networks". http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/schwerpunkt.shtml We would like to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications and future wireline and wireless Internet architectures to accelerate their development. To that end, several distinguished international keynote speakers are invited (M. Crovella, C. Diot, D. Raychaudhuri, and J. Rexford have already confirmed). We seek for further technical presentations addressing the focus of this workshop and which are suitable to promote discussions among participants. The contributions will be selected by the technical programme committee with respect to these criteria. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chairs: Daniel Kofman (Chairman of Euro-NGI, ENST/INFRES/RHD Paris) Phuoc Tran-Gia (Director, Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg ) Kurt Tutschku (Co-Chairman of Euro-NGI Integration Activities, University of Wuerzburg and Technical University of Chemnitz) SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION June 1st 2006: submission of an abstract by email: title of the talk and abstract, max. 1 page June 9th 2006: notification of acceptance July 7th 2006: registration by email registration fee: 100 Euro; the participation is free of charge for members of EuroNGI institutions VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS The workshop takes place in the computer science building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Wuerzburg/Germany. Wuerzburg is well accessible via airport Frankfurt/Main and another 80 minutes by railway. We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for workshop participants. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Michael Menth, Andreas Binzenhoefer University of Wuerzburg Lehrstuhl für Informatik III Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg E-Mail: menth(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de binzenhoefer(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tel.: (0931) 888 66{44,54} (0931) 888 6631 (secretary) Fax: (0931) 888 6632 -- Dr. Michael Menth, Assistant Professor University of Wuerzburg, Institute of Computer Science Am Hubland, D-97074 Wuerzburg, Germany, room B206 phone: (+49)-931/888-6644, fax: (+49)-931/888-6632 mailto:menth@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/research/ngn

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[Fwd: Extension for VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Extension for VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Datum: Tue, 23 May 2006 08:09:07 -0500 Von: Yih-Chun Hu <yihchun(a)CRHC.UIUC.EDU> Antwort an: Yih-Chun Hu <yihchun(a)CRHC.UIUC.EDU> An: tciannounce(a)COMPUTER.ORG Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. The deadline for VANET 2006 has been extended to June 5, 2006. ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS VANET 2006 The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2006/ Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 26, 2006 -- Extended to June 5, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2006 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 31, 2006 The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the development of wireless vehicular ad hoc networking (VANET) technologies. Based on short- to medium-range communication systems (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside), vehicular ad hoc networks will enable vehicular safety applications including collision and other safety warnings as well as non-safety applications like real-time traffic congestion and routing information, high-speed tolling, mobile infotainment, and many others. The creation of high-performance, highly reliable, highly scalable, and secure VANET technologies, though, presents an extraordinary challenge to the wireless research community: a high degree of communication reliability is needed under unfavorable channel conditions. Clearly, the specificity of vehicular ad hoc networks in terms of mobility behavior and applications scenarios and requirements makes VANET research an exciting and demanding application- and purpose-driven sub-discipline of wireless networking. Following the successes of VANET 2004 held in Philadelphia and VANET 2005 held in Cologne, Germany, the Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks will be held in Los Angeles, September 29, 2006, in conjunction with MobiCom 2006. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Safety and non-safety applications - Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication - Communication protocol design - Channel modeling - Modulation and coding - Power control and scalability issues - Multi-channel organization and operation - Security issues and countermeasures - Privacy issues - Network management - Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds VANETs present a highly active field of research, development, standardization and field trials. Throughout the world, there are many national/international projects in government, industry, and academia devoted to VANETs, for example consortia like VSC (US), C2CCC (Europe) and InternetITS (Japan), standardization efforts like IEEE 802.11p (WAVE) and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US. Submission Instructions All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 10 pages (single- or double-column), in font no smaller than 11 points, and must fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5 inch x 11 inch) with reasonable margins. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through a double-blind review process, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions for paper submission will be posted on the VANET 2006 web page at: http://www.sigmobile.org/workshops/vanet2006/. Please email questions related to paper submission or the technical program to: vanet2006-pc-chairs(a)rz.uni-karlsruhe.de. General Co-Chairs: Wieland Holfelder, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. David B. Johnson, Computer Science Department, Rice University Technical Program Co-Chairs: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research Hannes Hartenstein, Universitat Karlsruhe Publicity Chair: Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Web Chair: Ken Laberteaux,Toyota Technical Center Technical Program Committee (partial list): Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Wai Chen, Telcordia Technologies Chen-Nee Chua, Univ. of California Davis Costas Constantinou, Univ. of Birmingham Luca Delgrossi, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Tamer El-Batt, HRL Laboratories Andreas Festag, NEC Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL Markus Jakobsson, Indiana Universtity Daniel Jiang, DaimlerChrysler RTNA, Inc. Timo Kosch, BMW Research and Technology Ken Laberteaux, Toyota Technical Center Martin Mauve, University of Duesseldorf Paolo Santi, Italian Natl. Research Council Raja Sengupta, Univ. of California Berkeley Marc Torrent-Moreno, Universitat Karlsruhe

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06)]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Von: Mieso Denko <denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Website: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~qzeng/MHWMN2006/CFP.htm In conjunction with IEEE MASS 2006 (www.ieee-mass.org), Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AIM and SCOPE The traditional centralized wireless and mobile networks are based on single-hop architecture and rely on the existing fixed infrastructure such as base stations or access points. The proliferation and deployment of radio access networks such as Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Wireless PANs with distinguishing characteristics of data rate, coverage range, power, mobility, and prices will clearly lead to a need for seamless and ubiquitous access across these various networks. Such an integrated heterogeneous environment enables a user to access a particular network depending upon the application needs and the types of radio access networks (RANs) available (e.g., cellular network, ad hoc, WLAN, WPAN etc). The heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks, on the other hand, provide unlimited mobility and greater flexibility but introduce a number of challenges due to dynamic network topology. The design of efficient and scalable protocols for existing multi-hop wireless and mobile networks such as wireless and mobile ad hoc networks continue to pose challenges at all the layers of networking stack. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate a global heterogeneous architecture and services that together provide seamless integration of single-hop networks (e.g., cellular, WLAN, WWAN) and multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks. The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the latest research and future research directions in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks. We are seeking original and previously unpublished research papers addressing theoretical and application issues in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless mobile networks. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Multi-hop architectures and protocols for resource management Quality of services (QoS) delivery in MHWMN Seamless Mobility, Vertical Handoff Robust and scalable routing protocols for MHWMN MAC protocols for MHWMN Self-configuration and synchronization for MHWMN Security issues in MHWMN Topology control and management for MHWMN Mobility models and location management in MHWMN Cross-layer design and interactions for MHWMN Modeling and performance evaluation for MHWMN Algorithms for localization and signal processing in MHWMN Implementation testbeds for MHWMN Operating systems and middleware for MHWMN Mesh networks SUBMISSION Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format), contact addresses, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail addresses (text format) to the co-chairs, Qing-An Zeng (qzeng(a)ececs.uc.edu) and Mieso Denko (denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca) by June 15, 2006. SPECIAL ISSUE Some selected high quality papers from the workshop will be published in the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)) (http://www.juci.org/) as Special Issue on Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks. For this purpose, the authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: June 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2006 Camera-ready papers: August 10, 2006 WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR: Anup Kumar Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA Email: ak(a)louisville.edu WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Qing-An Zeng Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA Email: qzeng(a)ececs.uc.edu Mieso Denko Department of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 Email: denko(a)cis.uoguelph.ca PUBLICITY CHAIR: Poonacha Machaiah Seamless Mobility Wireless Broadband and Wireline Services Motorola, Inc., USA Email: poonacha.machaiah(a)motorola.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Boukerche, Azzedine: University of Ottawa, Canada Caffery, James: University of Cincinnati, USA Cheng, Xiuzhen: George Washington University, USA Conrad, James: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Datta, Suprakash: York University, Canada Feng, Wu-Chun: Virginia Tech, USA Ketseoglou, Thomas: California State Polytechnic University, USA Leung, Victor C. M.: The University of British Columbia, Canada Li, Wei (Wayne): University Toledo, USA Nakano, Koji: Hiroshima University, Japan Nasser, Nidal: University of Guelph, Canada Olariu, Stephan: Old Dominion University, USA Pierre, Samuel: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Song, Jian: Tsinghua University, China Srimani, Pradip K.: Clemson University, USA Tseng, Yu-Chee: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Vlajic, Natalija: York University, Canada Wang, Li-Chun: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Watanabe, Takashi: University of Shizuoka, Japan Wu, Hong-Yi: University of Louisiana, USA Xue, Guoliang (Larry): Arizona State University, USA Yang, Yuanyuan: SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Youn, Jon (Jong-Hoon): University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Zhang, Jingyuan: University of Alabama, USA Zhou, Hong: University of Southern Queensland, Australia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AAA-IDEA 2006: extended submission deadline]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AAA-IDEA 2006: extended submission deadline Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 18:42:44 +0200 (CEST) Von: Novella Bartolini <novella(a)di.uniroma1.it> Antwort an: novella(a)di.uniroma1.it An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please apology for cross posting. AAA-IDEA: new submission deadline: May 30, 2006 -------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- The Second International Workshop on Advanced Architectures and Algorithms for Internet DElivery and Applications Pisa, Italy - October 10, 2006 (in conjunction with the First International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools: Valuetools '06) ----------------------------------------- *** Submission deadline extended: May 30, 2006 *** Innovations in network-based services continue to have strong impact on our world, resulting in a huge research interest in infrastructures that supports traditional and novel applications based on Internet. Accesses to interactive and multimedia services through a large variety of Internet devices require guaranteed performance, resource availability and proximity of content to the network access points. Scalability issues pose a number of design and performance problems at any level: systems, protocols, software. There is a number of open research challenges in improving content generation, personalization and delivery. The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, web service providers, application and network designers from academia and industry to exchange ideas about the problems they are facing and to discuss recent and innovative solutions. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) performance studies and solutions (algorithms, protocols, architectures) that tend to improve users experience in accessing interactive applications based on Internet. ------------------------------------------- Workshop Topics: Content delivery systems P2P architectures Scalable and adaptive web-based system Caching and replication Content adaptation and transcoding Quality of service SLA-based services Protocols for Web-based systems Reliability and high availability Security Performance measurement and monitoring tools Workload analysis and characterization Traffic monitoring and billing strategies Streaming media Mobility management IPv6 impact ------------------------------------------- Publication: The submissions to be presented at the workshop will be selected, based on their originality, technical merit and topical relevance of their contents. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings that will be available at the workshop. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore. ------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline: May 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2006 Camera ready due: July 20, 2006 Workshop date: October 10, 2006 ------------------------------------------- Instructions: We encourage full papers that present well-developed research results (up to 8 pages double column, including figures and references), but also short papers that are more speculative in nature, works in progress and position papers are solicited (up to 5 pages double column, including figures and references). Submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be currently under review for any other publication. If you are unsure whether your work falls within the scope of the conference, please contact the Program Co-Chairs. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by experts. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. All submissions should be sent electronically in Postscript or Adobe PDF format. Detailed instructions about submissions are available at the submission page. The electronic submission is available at COCUS. -------------------------------- -- Novella Bartolini, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Rome "La Sapienza" Tel: 0039-06-49918357 Mob: 0039-347-3669447 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007)]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:48:42 +0200 Von: marronpo(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail] CALL FOR PAPERS 4th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2007) Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands January 29-31, 2007 http://www.ewsn.org ================================================================================ Wireless sensor networks (WSN) - networks of tiny, autonomous sensor devices equipped with wireless communication - are a topic of active research in a number of different research communities, ranging from hardware to applications. WSNs are characterized by a need to carefully integrate functionalities traditionally considered to be separate in order to achieve maximum efficiency, especially with respect to energy consumption and management. Hence, a close interaction of research from different backgrounds is required. Additionally, WSNs are evolving from simple data transportation networks to functionally rich distributed systems, also because actuators in the network have to be supported. The goal of this conference is to create a forum where researchers with different experience and background, from hardware to applications, can discuss cross-layer integration, novel solutions for specific problems and envisage the future development of WSN functionalities. FULL PAPERS We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Hardware for WSN: transceiver concepts, wakeup radio, antenna design, system integration, process and cost of manufacturing, battery technology, energy scavenging, miniaturization * Communication protocols: MAC and link layer issues, routing and transport protocols tailored for WSN, redundancy, data aggregation, mobility support, gateways to fixed Internet * Operating systems and programming abstractions: novel concepts and tools for programming and debugging sensor nodes, high-level programming abstractions * Middleware and service infrastructures: (dynamic) configuration and installation support, lookup of available functionalities, group communication, QoS support, localization and synchronization services, integrating WSN in existing middleware architectures * Information processing: storage, querying, coding, compression, fusion, aggregation, cooperative algorithms, event detection, classification, tracking * Security: primitives for appropriate cryptographic protocols, secure system engineering * Novel applications: requirements, experiences with real-world applications, the role of WSN technology in realizing the visions of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence * Prototypes, field studies, and testbeds: novel sensor node prototypes, measurements within sensor network testbeds, debugging and testing * Models: energy and resource consumption, applications, mobility, and communication For further information, please contact the program co-chairs. POSTERS and DEMONSTRATIONS The poster session will provide a forum for researchers to showcase their work and obtain feedback on ongoing research from knowledgeable conference attendees. A poster presentation can also be accompanied by a demonstration to illustrate an application, technology, or platform. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The highly selective conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. We will adopt a DOUBLE-BLIND review process, where the identities of the paper authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names and their affiliations must not be revealed or mentioned anywhere in the paper. All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format. We require that they conform to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The length of the manuscript should not exceed 16 pages, including text, figures and references. Use of LATEX for typesetting is recommended. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers: Submission deadline: Sept 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Oct 30, 2006 Camera-ready version: Nov 13, 2006 Posters/Demonstrations: Submission deadline: Dec 3, 2006 (23:59 Delft local time; 17:59 EST) Notification of acceptance: Dec 18, 2006 Camera-ready version: Jan 8, 2007 Conference dates: Jan 29-31, 2007 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Koen Langendoen, Delft Univ. of Technology (CO-CHAIR) Thiemo Voigt, SICS (CO-CHAIR) Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Michael Beigl, TU Braunschweig Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich Athanassios Boulis, National ICT Australia (NICTA) Torsten Braun, Univ. of Bern Rebecca Braynard, Duke Univ. Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State Univ. Srdjan Capkun, TU Denmark Mun Choon Chan, National Univ. of Singapore Maarten Ditzel, TNO Jean-Pierre Ebert, IHP microelectronics Carlo Fischione, KTH Stockholm Vipin Gopal, United Technologies Research Center Takahiro Hara, Osaka Univ. Paul Havinga, Univ. of Twente Mike Hazas, Lancaster Univ. Wendi Heinzelman, Univ. of Rochester Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Univ. of Southern California Chenyang Lu, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Pedro J. Marron, Univ. of Stuttgart Amy L. Murphy, Univ. of Lugano Chiara Petrioli, Univ. La Sapienza Rome Marcelo Pias, Univ. of Cambridge Hartmut Ritter, FU Berlin Utz Roedig, Univ. College Cork Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ. Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Andreas Savvides, Yale Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen Dirk Westhoff, NEC Andreas Willig, TU Berlin Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin Wei Ye, USC/ISI

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 23 May '06

23 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP LOCAN 2006: 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:30:27 +0200 Von: Pedro M. Ruiz <pedrom(a)dif.um.es> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our apologies for duplicate postings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - LOCAN 2006 2nd International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad hoc Networks in conjunction with MASS-2006 (www.ieee-mass.org) Vancouver, Canada, October 9 - 12, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT AND SCOPE ----------------- This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the hot area of ad hoc and sensor networking. The design of data communication techniques in multi-hop ad hoc networks has challenges at all layers of communication. This workshop concentrates on the network layer problems like data communication (routing, QoS-routing, geocasting, multicasting, broadcasting, etc.) and topology control (neighbor discovery, power adjustment, neighbor elimination, etc.). Additionally, sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas by NSF. The area of sensor networking is gaining momentum within the research community. This workshop will address ongoing research on this field, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, temporal message ordering, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer. The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. The main objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Medium access control * Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Security in ad hoc networks * Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery * Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks * Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks * Quality of service in medium access control and routing * Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Manuscript Submission: June 19, 2006 Acceptance Notification: July 19, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2006 PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions at the conference website. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the MASS2006 workshops. Please submit papers via email to both program co-chairs (pedrom(a)dif.um.es, fei.dai(a)ndsu.edu). GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ----------------- David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Fei Dai, North Dakota State University, USA Program Committee ----------------- Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Ian Chakeres, Boing Inc., USA Misha Dohler, France Telecom R&D, France Stefan Dulman, University of Twente, Netherlands Jie Gao, State University of New York, USA J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Science, SUPSI, Switzerland Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta, University of Murcia, Spain Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France Mattias Handy, Univ. Rostock, Germany Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada Miguel A. Labrador, Univ. South Florida, USA Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Luis Orozco, Univ. Castilla La Mancha, Spain S. S. Ravi, State University of New York at Albany, USA Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ---------------------- Additional information about the workshop will be continuously updated at the LOCAN 2006 website. http://ants.dif.um.es/locan2006/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Call For Workshop Ideas co-located with CHINACOM2006
by Yabin Ye 23 May '06

23 May '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, We have received more than 750 submissions for CHINACOM conference. Currently we are accepting proposals for workshops. OVERVIEW: The "First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China," (CHINACOM2006) will be held in Beijing, China, from 25th to 27th October 2006. CHINACOM 2006 is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental advances in the field of Communications, Networks, and Internet Applications. The conference will consist of Technical Symposia, and Workshops. The Technical Symposia will describe significant research in all areas defined below; while the Workshops will focus on development, applications and related business issues. WORKSHOP SUBMISSION: CHINACOM 2006 is currently accepting proposals for one-day workshops. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages. An ideal proposal should focus on a specific theme, of current interest, and of interest to a large, diverse group of professionals. It should clearly identify the theme, the scope, and specific topic areas of interest which define the scope of the workshop. The proposal should also provide suggestions for potential program chairs and committee members. A biographical sketch of each chair should be included Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. The workshops will be held in conjunction to the main conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send workshop proposals in PDF format by June 6th, 2006 to the workshops chairs, Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA, <mailto:james.yang@utstar.com> james.yang(a)utstar.com T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA, thsing(a)telcordia.com IMPORTANT DATES: Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline: 6th June, 2006 Workshops: 24th and 28th October, 2006 We look forward to your submissions.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended!]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] AGNM'06 - Deadline Extended! Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 11:37:27 -0700 Von: Silvia Figueira <sfigueira(a)scu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers ================= AGNM 2006 - Deadline Extended to 6/8. Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management October 26th-27th, 2006, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin, Ireland Held as part of the IEEE/IFIP 2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services Website: http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/agnm.php Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and self-adapting parallel and distributed computing and associated data management on a distributed and parallel Grid of computational machines (PCs, servers, supercomputers, clusters) and storage systems. Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, which provides advanced services and supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer, which comprises the underlying systems, such as computers, operating systems, and storage systems. A fabric layer component of particular importance is the network since all distributed services rely on the capabilities of the interconnecting network. Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core services of a Grid middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are self-managing. For example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of statically allocating or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so adaptively, or self-heal to failures. However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI) is geared mainly towards computational (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in computational and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of Autonomic Grid Networks (AGN) that incorporates into the Grid the following: 1) Network resources distributed across LAN, MAN and WAN, 2) Autonomic and on-demand functions (into various layers and components, such as a Grid middleware). The autonomic functions may be conceptually similar to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers 3, 2, 1) networks, such as self-control (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting), self-protection ([G]MPLS Fast Rerouting and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and self-healing (control and data plane high-availability, etc.). For example, in a typical Grid, the resource management architecture is client-server oriented, where resources are typically registered to and pulled from a particular service. In contrast, in an AGN, the resource management architecture could be distributed and autonomous, where resource requests are routed by autonomous and distributed AGN middleware components. This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and potential future research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid Networking and Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to: - Grid middleware enhancements for AGN - Cluster middleware enhancements for AGN - Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling - Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management - Network-aware autonomic cluster scheduling and management - AGN specific resource discovery - AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management - AGN routing - AGN self-healing and self-protection - AGN high-availability - AGN monitoring and performance management - AGN effects on HPC applications - HPC applications (MPI and other) on AGN - HPC applications (MPI and other) on MAN and WAN AGN - Commercial applications (CRM, ERP, Financial, etc.) on AGN - P2P AGN Submission ---------- For online submission instructions please visit http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php Questions should be directed to agnm06(a)anut.fh-aachen.de IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission: Extended to June 8. Notification: July 7 2006 Camera ready: August 2 2006 Workshop: October 26-27 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Workshop Chair: Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco Systems, USA) Workshop TPC Co-chairs: Volker Sander (University of Aachen, Germany) and Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, USA) Technical Programme Committee ----------------------------- Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Rob Brennan, Ericsson R&D, Ireland Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy Markus Fidler, U Toronto, Canada Silvia Figueira, SCU, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore Edgar Magaña, UPC, Spain J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Pascale Primet, INRIA, France Volker Sander, U Aachen, Germany Dimitra Simeonidou, U Essex, UK John Strassner, Motorola Lab, USA Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria Peter Tomsu, Cisco Systems, Autria Yufeng Xin, MCNC, USA This message scanned for viruses and SPAM at SCU (MGW2) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking]
by Lars Wolf 21 May '06

21 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [TCCC] Foundations and Trends in Networking Datum: Sat, 20 May 2006 13:03:29 +0900 Von: Song Chong <song(a)ee.kaist.ac.kr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> By the request of James Finlay ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Announcing the first issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking. The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Networking has just been published and is available free online at www.nowpublishers.com/net. FnT Networking publishes high-quality survey and tutorial monographs of the field using modern techniques to enable both instant linking to the primary research in its electronic form and affordable paper copies. Each issue of Foundations and Trendscc in Networking will comprise a 50-100 page monograph written by research leaders in the field. Monographs that give tutorial coverage of subjects, research retrospectives as well as survey papers that offer state-of-the-art reviews fall within the scope of the journal. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope you can help us get the message out. Thanks. Regards, James James Finlay now publishers PO Box 179 2600 AD Delft The Netherlands Tel: +31-6-14483632 Fax: +31-76-5206138 james.finlay(a)nowpublishers.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 19 May '06

19 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP] SSS 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:00:21 +0200 (CEST) Von: mgradina(a)irisa.fr An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-stabilizing Systems) (SSS 2006) November 17th-19th, 2006 Dallas, Texas, USA http://www.irisa.fr/sss/2006/ ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification to Authors: August 21st, 2006 Camera-ready: August 31st, 2006 Symposium: November 17th-19th, 2006 ============================================================================= The Symposium is a prestigious international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of fault-tolerant distributed systems with self-* properties, such as self-stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing, self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and self-protecting. The theory of self-stabilization has been enriched in the last 25 years by high quality research contributions in the areas of algorithmic techniques, formal methodologies, model theoretic issues, and composition techniques. All these areas are essential to the understanding and maintenance of self-* properties in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, robotic networks, etc. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed systems. Now, more than ever, the theory of self-stabilization has tremendous impact in these areas. Therefore, this year, we are extending the scope of the symposium to cover all safety and security related aspects of self-* systems. The title of the conference has been changed to reflect this expansion. There will be three tracks: networking, safety and security, and self-* properties in static and dynamic systems. The symposium solicits contributions on all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Stabilization: - self-stabilizing systems - self-managed, self-assembling, autonomic and adaptive systems - self-optimizing and self-protecting systems - self-* abstractions for implementing fundamental services in static and dynamic distributed systems - impossibility results and lower bounds for self-* systems - application of stabilizing algorithms and techniques in dynamic distributed systems - data and code stabilization - algorithms for self-* error detection/correction Safety: - safety critical systems - trust models and specifications - semantics of trust, distrust, mistrust, over-trust, cheat, risk and reputation - trust-related security and privacy - reliable and dependable systems - fault-tolerant systems, hardware redundancy, robustness, survivable systems, failure recovery Security: - security of network protocols - security of sensor and mobile networks protocols - secure architectures, frameworks, policy, intrusion detection/awareness - proactive security - self-* properties and their relation with classical fault-tolerance and security - security protocols for self-* systems Networks and Applications: - models of fault-tolerant communication - stochastic, physical, and biological models to analyze self-* properties - communication complexity - data structures for efficient communication - self-stabilizing hardware, software, and middleware - algorithms for high-speed networks, sensors, wireless and robots networks - mobile agents - peer-to-peer networks, sensor networks, MANETs, and wireless mesh networks - network topologies, overlays, and protocols - protocols for secure and reliable data transport and search in wireless mesh networks - information storage and sharing in wireless mesh networks Contributors are invited to submit a PDF file of their paper. Submissions should be no longer than 4800 words and should not exceed 12 pages on letter-size paper using at least 11 point font and reasonable margins (the page limit includes all figures, tables, and graphs). Submissions should include a cover page (that does not count towards the 12 page limit) that includes paper title, authors and affiliations, contact author's e-mail address, an abstract of the work in a few lines, and a few keywords. Submitted papers may have appendices beyond the 12 page limit, but reviewers are free to disregard any material beyond the 12 page limit. A paper submitted to SSS 2006 is expected to be original research not previously published; a submission may not be concurrently submitted or to any other conference, workshop, or journal. The proceedings of the conference are expected to be published in the Springer Verlag LNCS series. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of a high quality journal devoted to SSS 2006. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM WMASH 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:30:45 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies. --------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH) 2006 In conjunction with ACM MobiCom http://wmash.dit.unitn.it/ September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Important Dates: . Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 . Notification to authors: August 4, 2006 . Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006 WMASH aim: ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments continue. The challenges are: What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers? How to achieve seamless interoperation between WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks? The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move quickly towards finding standardized solutions. This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research, experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not limited to: . Applications and services . New service and business models . Public WLAN and hotspot architectures . Community-owned WLAN infrastructures . WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management . Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh . Multi-radio mesh node designs . Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots . Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots . Application case studies of mobile routers . Inter-working with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16 . Mobility, roaming, and handoff management . Context-aware services and technologies . Location-aware applications and services . Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) . Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues . Security and privacy in public WLANs . Middleware support . Service location and discovery . Traffic measurements and modeling . Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental test beds Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Anand R. Prasad (prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com) and Sajal K. Das (das(a)cse.uta.edu) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. Paper Submission: The workshop solicits two types of contributions: regular papers and posters. Submitted regular papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. The poster session are meant for early research results. Posters may not preclude concurrent submissions on the same topic in regular conferences and journals. All submissions will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members, and will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted regular papers and poster descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the ACM digital library. Selected regular papers will also be included in a special issue of an ACM journal. The page limits for a regular paper and a poster description are 10 and 3 pages, respectively. All submissions will be handled electronically via the EDAS system. The exact format of the submission should be referred to the submission guideline at the workshop home page. We expect authors of accepted papers/posters will attend the workshop and present their work. Organizing Committee: General Chair . Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs . Anand R. Prasad, Docomo Euro Labs, Germany . Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Publicity Chair and Web Master . Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy Publications Chair . Sumantra Kundu The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Steering Committee: . Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA - Committee Chair . Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA . Sungyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Tentative Technical Program Committee: . Nilanjan Banerjee, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore . Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Andrew Campbell, Columbia University . Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino . Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida . Yatin Chawathe, Intel Research at Seattle . Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University . Marco Conti, CNR - Instituto CNUCE . Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science . Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research . Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa . Javier Gomez, National University of Mexico . Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy . Xingang Guo, Intel Corp. . Giulio Iannello, University of Rome . Kyunghun Jang, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology . Byoung-Jo Kim, AT&T Labs - Research . Young-bae Ko, Ajou University . John Krumm, Microsoft Research . Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs . Yui-Wah Lee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . John Lin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies . Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington . Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations . Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center . Saishankar Nandagopalan, Philips Research USA . Saverio Niccolini, NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories . George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business . Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University . Daji Qiao, Iowa State University . Bill Schilit, Intel Research . Puneet Sharma, HP Labs . Rajeev Shorey, GM Research Lab, Bangalore . Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology . Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) . Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo . Yang Xiao, University of Memphis . Gergely Zaruba, The University of Texas at Arlington _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 May '06

18 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended submission deadline!!!! Springer Special Issue "Seamless HO" Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:14:35 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Important dates and Submission: --> NEW Deadline of paper submissions: 22nd May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Guest Editors: Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue: Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced). Manuscript should be submitted to one of the guest editors: Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: selim.aissi(a)intel.com Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600 KOREA E-mail: schoi(a)snu.ac.kr Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: jravikumar(a)consistel.com Author information is available at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-00 0.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP WiNTECH 2006]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP WiNTECH 2006 Datum: Thu, 18 May 2006 02:46:27 +1000 Von: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> Antwort an: Robert James Steele <rsteele(a)it.uts.edu.au> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2006) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, CA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ *** Submission Deadline: June 19, 2006 *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW AND SCOPE ----------------------------- In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future advances in wireless technology. With this in mind, this workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished work addressing experimental wireless networking issues. The workshop program will include regular paper presentations and an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome demonstrations of novel wireless network testbed capabilities and measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed design efforts * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols (at different layers), and the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between various evaluation methodologies as well as to improve testbed accessibility * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of various real-world aspects such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Submission deadline: June 19, 2006 Author notification: July 21, 2006 Camera ready deadline: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Technical Program Co-Chairs: Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA) Mahesh Marina (UCLA) Program Committee: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) Elizabeth Belding-Royer (UCSB) Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY-Stony Brook) Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Edward Coyle (Purdue) Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Lab) Joe Evans (University of Kansas) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Ravi Jain (Google) Vikas Kawadia (BBN) Ed Knightly (Rice University) Jay Lepreau (University of Utah) Prasant Mohapatra (UC-Davis) Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Cambridge) Dipankar Raychauduri (Rutgers) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Peter Steenkiste (CMU) Mineo Takai (UCLA) Adam Wolisz (TU-Berlin) Poster/Demo Chair: Maneesh Varshney (UCLA) Publications Chair: Henrik Lundgren (UCSB) Web Chair: Yi Yang (UCLA) SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------------- All submissions will be handled electronically. Regular paper submissions should conform to the following requirements: EIGHT 8.5"x11" pages (including figures, tables, and references) in two-column format using 10-point size or greater and reasonable margins; they must use PDF format. For demo/poster submissions, authors should prepare an extended abstract no longer than TWO pages, including all figures and references. All submissions will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Besides the regular papers, the extended abstracts of the accepted posters and demos will also be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available via the ACM digital library. Please check the workshop website for additional details on submissions. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Please visit the WiNTECH 2006 workshop website: http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/

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[Fwd: [OC-ML] Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [OC-ML] Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems Datum: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:43:12 +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, on September 21, 2006, a technical discussion on " Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" is taking place at the University of Passau, Germany. It is co-located with the "Intern. Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2006)" (September 18 - 20, 2006). Submission deadline for contributions is July 15th. For further information including the Call for Contribution see http://www.iwsos.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/pmsos.html. Regards, Fabian Rochner ================================================ Overview Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable. We aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange. Important Dates * Extended abstracts / short paper submission deadline: July 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET * Notification of acceptance: August 1st 2006 * Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th 2006 * Meeting date: September 21st 2006 Paper Submission & Publication The submitted extended abstracts and short papers will be reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report. The publication of full papers within a Special Issue will depend on the success of the meeting. We solicit submission of selected full papers after the meeting. Technical Program Co-Chairs * Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Patrick Wüchner, University of Passau, Passau, Germany * Jens B. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany * Matthias Hollick, University of Technology Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Submissions & Contact * wuechner(a)fmi.uni-passau.de

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] CFP: ESAS 2006 (European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks)]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] CFP: ESAS 2006 (European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks) Datum: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:05:30 -0400 Von: Susanne Wetzel <swetzel(a)cs.stevens.edu> An: iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it ( Apologies for multiple postings) ========================================================================= ESAS 2006 (http://www.crysys.hu/ESAS2006) Third European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks September 20-21, 2006, Hamburg, Germany in conjunction with the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2006) Call for Papers ----------------- The vision of ubiquitous computing has generated a lot of interest in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. However, besides their potential advantages, these new generations of networks also raise some challenging problems with respect to security and privacy. The aim of this workshop is to bring together the network security, cryptography, and wireless networking communities in order to discuss these problems and to propose new solutions. The third ESAS workshop seeks submissions that present original research on all aspects of security and privacy in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Privacy and anonymity Prevention of traffic analysis Location privacy Secure positioning and localization Secure MAC protocols Secure topology control Secure routing Secure in-network processing Secure context aware computing Attack resistant data aggregation Cooperation and fairness Key management Trust establishment Embedded security Cryptography for resource constrained applications Distributed intrusion detection Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 29, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2006 Workshop: September 20-21, 2006 Camera ready version: October 9, 2006 General Chair --------------- Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Program Chairs -------------- Levente Butty?n, BME, CrySyS Lab, Hungary Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland, USA Publicity Chairs ------------------ Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee ------------------ Imad Aad, DoCoMo Lab Europe, Germany N. Asokan, Nokia, Finland Sonja Buchegger, University of California, Berkeley, USA Srdjan Capkun, Technical University of Denmark Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France Xuhua Ding, Singapore Management University, Singapore Roberto Di Pietro, Universita "La Sapienza" - Roma, Italy Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yih-Chun Hu, University of Illinois UC, USA Markus Jakobsson, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Breno de Medeiros, Florida State University, USA Ludovic Me, Supelec, France Pietro Michiardi, Eurecom, France Gabriel Montenegro, Microsoft, USA Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University, USA Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Panagiotis Papadimitratos, EPFL, Switzerland Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Frank Stajano, Cambridge University, UK Andre Weimerskirch, University of Bochum, Germany Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Network Lab, Germany Susanne Wetzel, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Jeong Hyun Yi, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea Instructions for Authors ------------------------- Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of their original work. Maximum length for submissions is 8 pages. The preferred submission format is PDF or PostScript. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors have published elsewhere or have submitted in parallel. All submissions will be refereed. Accepted papers should be presented at the workshop, in which case they will appear in the post-workshop proceedings. The final camera ready version should be sent in after the workshop and it must not exceed 15 pages. Further information on how to submit papers will be available here. Workshop Proceedings --------------------- As in previous years, the proceedings will be published by Springer after the workshop in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series (www.springer.de/comp/lncs/). Note that in order to be included in the proceedings, an accepted paper must be presented at the workshop. In addition, when preparing the final manuscript, the authors should take into account the reviewers' comments and the comments received at the workshop. _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: special issue of the Computer Communication on Concurrent Multipath Transfer]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: special issue of the Computer Communication on Concurrent Multipath Transfer Datum: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:25:36 -0400 (EDT) Von: Dilip Sarkar <sarkar(a)miami.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu =============== Apologies for multiple postings ===================== Attached please find a call for paper. Please disrtibute the CFP for a special issue of the Computer Communication on Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT). We solicit papers covering a variety of CMT topics including, but not limited to, the following subjects: * novel concurrent multipath Transport Control Protocols * concurrent variants of TCP, SCTP, and RTP protocols * variants of TCP, UDP, SCTP, and RTP protocols for utilization of multiple IP connections * video transport and streaming applications utilizing CMT * voice-over-IP applications utilizing CMT * mobility support and management utilizing CMT and multihoming capabilities utilizing CMT * security enhancement properties of CMT * scalability and robustness issues of CMT * architectural support for CMT * novel concurrent multipath Transport Control Protocols Submission Guidelines: Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered in this special issue. The manuscripts must be written in English and to be submitted electronically by using online manuscript submission at http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/comcom. For submissions to the the Concurrent Multipath Transfer Special Issue, please select ``SI: Concurrent Multipath Transfer" for 'Article Type'. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: June 16, 2006 Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2006 Camera-ready version due: December 15, 2006 Tentative Publication of the Special Issue: First Quarter, 2007 Guest Editors: Dilip Sarkar, University of Miami, email:sarkar@miami.edu Paul D. Amer, University of Delaware, email: amer(a)cis.udel.edu Randall Stewart, Cisco Systems, email: rrs(a)cisco.com ================================================ Dilip Sarkar ----------------------------- Associate Professor | Address for Express Mails| | Department of Computer Science, and | ----------------------------| Department of Electrical and | Dilip Sarkar | Computer Engineering | 1365 Memorial Dr, Ungar 437 | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL 33124 | Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA | USA | ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks (EuroView)"]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP: Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks (EuroView)" Datum: Mon, 15 May 2006 16:52:13 +0200 Von: Michael Menth <menth(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: University of Wuerzburg An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS 6th Wuerzburg Workshop on IP: Joint EuroNGI and ITG Workshop on "Visions of Future Generation Networks" (EuroView2006) http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/ July 31st - August 1st 2006 in Wuerzburg/Germany Organizer: Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ OVERVIEW The workshop's tradition and intention is to foster the communication among researchers from the industry, universities, and other research institutes. To that end, keynote speeches by outstanding personalities and technical talks about current research will be presented. The focus of this year's workshop is on "Visions of Future Generation Networks". http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ITG/2006/schwerpunkt.shtml We would like to stimulate discussions on future Internet applications and future wireline and wireless Internet architectures to accelerate their development. To that end, several distinguished international keynote speakers are invited (M. Crovella, C. Diot, D. Raychaudhuri, and J. Rexford have already confirmed). We seek for further technical presentations addressing the focus of this workshop and which are suitable to promote discussions among participants. The contributions will be selected by the technical programme committee with respect to these criteria. TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Chairs: Daniel Kofman (Chairman of Euro-NGI, ENST/INFRES/RHD Paris) Phuoc Tran-Gia (Director, Informatik III, University of Wuerzburg ) Kurt Tutschku (Co-Chairman of Euro-NGI Integration Activities, University of Wuerzburg and Technical University of Chemnitz) SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION May 21st 2006: submission of an abstract by email: title of the talk and abstract, max. 1 page June 9th 2006: notification of acceptance July 7th 2006: registration by email registration fee: 100 Euro; the participation is free of charge for members of EuroNGI institutions VENUE AND ACCOMMODATIONS The workshop takes place in the computer science building on the Hubland Campus of the University of Wuerzburg/Germany. Wuerzburg is well accessible via airport Frankfurt/Main and another 80 minutes by railway. We have reserved a limited number of hotel rooms for workshop participants. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Michael Menth, Andreas Binzenhoefer University of Wuerzburg Lehrstuhl für Informatik III Am Hubland 97074 Würzburg E-Mail: menth(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de binzenhoefer(a)informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Tel.: (0931) 888 66{44,54} (0931) 888 6631 (secretary) Fax: (0931) 888 6632

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[Fwd: Deadline extension to May 25th: European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006]
by Lars Wolf 17 May '06

17 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Deadline extension to May 25th: European Symposium on MobileMediaDelivery (EuMob) 2006 Datum: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:19:41 +0200 Von: Markus Kampmann (AC/EDD) <markus.kampmann(a)ericsson.com> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Apologies if you receive multiple copies: CALL FOR PAPERS ************* EuMob 2006 **************** European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery September 20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.eumob.org part of MobiMedia 2006 (see http://www.mobimedia.org) ------------------------------------------------- Organized by the European FP6 research projects "Ambient Networks" and "M-Pipe". ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: May 25, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 SCOPE -------------------------------------- Mobile multimedia services is a hotter topic than ever before. Network operators offer multimedia services over mobile networks but it is still limited to particular devices on specific networks. The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Mobile media can be delivered via a multitude of different networks with very different characteristics like cellular networks (WCDMA, HSDPA, 3G MBMS), broadcast networks (DVB-H, DMB) or other networks standards like WLAN or Wimax. Mobile terminals like mobile phones, mobile TVs or handheld computers have different capabilities and characteristics. Consequently, seamless interworking between these terminals and networks is becoming more important in order to make uniform media delivery possible. New mobile multimedia services for large user groups like MobileTV, interactive TV, video on demand, TV chatting and multimedia telephony are arising. Each service has its own characteristics and demands for mobile media delivery. As always for mobile services spectrum efficiency is a pre-requisite for large scale deployment. Several European research projects from the FP6 program are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area like Ambient Networks, PHOENIX and DAIDALOS, from the networked audiovisual systems area like DANAE, ENTHRONE and Visnet as well as from the content technologies area like M-Pipe are dealing with mobile media delivery. Besides these projects a lot other research work about mobile media delivery is carried at academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EuMob 2006 will give researchers the opportunity to highlight their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 research projects as well as other leading international researchers will participate and share their latest findings. Original unpublished contributions are solicited dealing with topics of mobile media delivery like: * Architectures for mobile media delivery * Next generation mobile media delivery frameworks * Overlay networks for mobile media delivery * Peer-2-Peer networks for mobile media delivery * Multimedia service composition for mobile media * Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks * QoS problems and solutions * Network convergence for media delivery * Media adaptation to networks and devices * Network-based mobile media adaptation and pro-active caching * Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery * (Scalable) source coding for mobile media * Source/channel coding, joint optimizations * Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources * Mobile media delivery for multi-user services * Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV * Security and protection for mobile media delivery * Context-aware mobile media delivery PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit articles of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through COCUS system at http://cocus.create-net.it/. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Conference Co-Chairs: Stefan Håkansson, Ericsson, Sweden Markus Kampmann, Ericsson, Germany Publications Chair: B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France Publicity Chair: James le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- M. T. Andrade, INESC, Portugal J. le Blanc, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden R. Cazoulat, France Telecom, France C. Griwodz, University of Oslo, Norway I. Fijalkow, ENSEA, France R. Glitho, Concordia University, Canada F. Hartung, Ericsson, Germany C. Henghan, UCD, Ireland W. Henkel, International University of Bremen, Germany L. Hiebinger, Siemens, Germany F. Kalleitner, Siemens, Austria C. Lamy, Thales Communications, France D. Marpe, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany B. Mathieu, France Telecom, France T. Petersen, TNO Information- & Communication Technology, Netherlands F. Reichert, Adger University, Norway A. Sadka, University of Surrey, UK S. Schmid, NEC, Germany E. Steinbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany D. Taniar, Monash University, Australia S. Wenger, Nokia, Finland M. Wien, Aachen University of Technology, Germany L. Wolf, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany M. El Zarki, University of California, Irvine, USA

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: FINAL CFP: Workshop on Autonomic Communications 2006]
by Lars Wolf 15 May '06

15 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: FINAL CFP: Workshop on Autonomic Communications 2006 Datum: Mon, 15 May 2006 12:39:01 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acca(a)autonomic-communication.org, "Greg O'Hare" <gregory.ohare(a)ucd.ie>, SRG Mailing List <srg-members(a)topos.ucd.ie>, acenet-members(a)autonomic-communication.org [Apologies for any cross-postings, and please distribute widely -- Simon] CALL FOR PAPERS -- ONE WEEK TO GET YOUR SUBMISSIONS IN... The Third Workshop on Autonomic Communications (WAC) 2006 http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/WAC.htm =================================================== Held in conjunction with Autonomic Networking 2006 http://www.Autonomic-Net.org ========================================= WAC'2006 is the third in the very successful and influential series of workshops previously held in Berlin (2004) and Athens (2005). We are especially excited that this year's workshop is being held in conjunction with the SMARTNET, INTELLICOM and IWAN activities as part of Autonomic Networking 2006. Call for papers ============ The programme committee invite technical contributions on any topic appropriate to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Theoretical foundations of autonomic network control * Designing evolvable next generation networks * Self-organisation for NGN * Autonomic Communications testbeds * Modelling and analysis of Autonomic Communication systems * Generic network-level service composition * Context handling within Autonomic Communications * Applied Autonomic Communication systems * Self-organised communications * Context and/or Autonomic Ontologies * Quality of Context Management As in previous years, WAC solicits both technical contributions on existing work and more speculative papers on possible directions for future developments in the field. We expect all papers to appear in a volume on the Springer-Verlag LNCS series. Submission ========= Papers should be submitted through the EDAS system <http://edas.info/ newPaper.php?c=4787>, and should conform to the LNCS layout. Important dates ============ Submission: 21 May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2006 Camera-ready copy due: 30 June 2006 Programme committee ================== S. Dobson (UCD Dublin, IE) R. Battiti (University of Trento, IT) R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) G. Carle (University of Tubingen, DE) H. Chaouchi (INT, FR) L. Chapin (Interisle, USA) A. Galis (UCL, UK) M. Gerla (UCLA, USA) Y. Gourhant (FT, FR) J. Labetoulle (GET, FR) M. Mulvenna (Ulster University,UK) G. Pavlou (Surrey University, UK) B. Plattner (ETH Zurich, CH) M. Smirnov (Fokus, DE) I. Stavrakakis (University of Athens, GR) Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University, JP) D. Zuckerman (Telcordia, USA) -- Simon +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> +++++++++

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[Fwd: CFP ACM MobiShare]
by Lars Wolf 10 May '06

10 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP ACM MobiShare Datum: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:10:43 +0200 Von: Christoph Lindemann <cl(a)informatik.uni-leipzig.de> An: multicomm(a)comsoc.org ========================================================== ACM Mobishare Workshop 2006 http://www.mobishare.org/ ========================================================== (in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006, Sept. 23 to 29, 2006) Los Angeles, CA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE The 1st International Workshop on Decentralized Resource Sharing in Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobishare) aims to provide a forum where researchers from the wireless networking community and the systems community can discuss and present new research relevant to the intersection between the two communities. In particular, MobiShare focuses on the applicability and transfer of decentralized/peer-to-peer techniques to multihop wireless networks (wireless mesh networks, opportunistic (ad hoc) extensions to the Internet, vehicular networks, etc.). The submission of early system design proposals is encouraged, which when complete could be relevant to a conference such as MobiCom, Sigcomm, NSDI, and MobiSys. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Overlay construction techniques for wireless networks * Techniques for epidemic information dissemination * Cross-layering techniques * Mobile applications (e.g. serverless email, IM, gaming) * Decentralized lookup services for wireless networks * System services and system support (distributed DNS/NFS) * Data transport and streaming protocols in wireless networks * Security issues * Incentive models * Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation Paper submission instructions: ------------------------------ Submission of papers based on work-in-progress is encouraged. Submitted papers must not be previously published elsewhere or currently under review for any other publication. Submitted papers should print on DIN A4 and US Letter sized paper and be not longer than 6 pages in 10 point font. Paper should be submitted in PDF format through the submission link on the website: http://www.mobishare.org. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the program co-chairs. Important dates =============== Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: August 7, 2006 Camera-ready papers due: August 21, 2006 Workshop date: 29th Sept Program committee: Christian Bettstetter (University of Klagenfurt) Miguel Castro (Microsoft Research) Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University) Marco Conti (Institute for Informatics and Telematics) Zygmunt Haas (Cornell University) Christoph Lindemann (University of Leipzig) (Co-chair) Giovanni Pau (UCLA) Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart) Antony Rowstron (Microsoft Research) (Co-chair) Ralf Steinmetz (Technical University of Darmstadt) Oliver Waldhorst (University of Leipzig) Ben Zhao (UCSB)

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IEEE CCNC 2007
by Xiaoyuan Gu 10 May '06

10 May '06

- CALL FOR PAPERS - CCNC2007 - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 11 - 13 January 2007 ~ Las Vegas, NV, USA - Harrah's Hotel & Casino ~ (Co-located with the International Consumer Electronics Show, 8-11 January 2007) "SEAMLESS CONSUMER CONNECTIVITY" Visit: http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. CCNC 2007 will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of wireless, multimedia, and consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, business application sessions, tutorials, and demonstration sessions. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors should submit a five-page technical paper manuscript (or a two-page demonstration summary) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract through EDAS, following the submission guidelines available on the CCNC2007 website. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Wireless Networking * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks * Body and Personal Area Networks * Wireless QoS * Cross Layer Optimization * Vehicle Networks * Wireless Access Networks (Wireless LANs, WiMAX, Cellular Networks) * Multi-hop networks * Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies * Wireless Home Networks: Architecture and Protocols * Wireless Security * Wireless Multimedia Networks * Power and Topology Management * Emerging Wireless Technologies (e.g., Ultra Wideband, OFDM) Multimedia Networking * Peer to Peer Networking * Software Radio for Multimedia Support * Image/Video Sensor Networks * Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks * Distributed Coding * Network Diversity for Multimedia Support (e.g., Path Diversity, Multiple Antennas etc.) * Network Security and Privacy * Multimedia Forensics * Technology and Economics of Entertainment Networks * High Definition Audio/Video Networking * Internetworking * Distributed Gaming Protocols * Last Mile Network Technologies * Multimedia Distribution Protocols * Multimedia Network Architecture * Network Management and Control * Multimedia QoS Protocols * QoS Support and Performance * Residential Gateways Enabling Technologies * Multimedia Technologies (e.g., Retrieval, Processing, Synchronization, Integration, Systems, etc.) * Digital Rights Management Systems * Gaming and Virtual Reality * Human-Machine Interface and Interaction * Thin Client Support * User and Service Mobility * Service Composition * Look-up Technologies * Operating Systems for Mobile Devices * Database Management Systems * The Semantic Web * Data and Program Migration * Service and Device Discovery * Standards and Interoperability * Wearable Computers * Pervasive Computing and Contextual Systems * Home and Internet Middleware (e.g. Java, .Net, XML, OSGi, JTWI, JXTA, MHP/OCAP, UPnP, etc.) * Embedded Platforms Novel Applications * Networked Appliances * Peer-to-Peer Applications and Services * Mobile Applications * Entertainment and Games * Multimedia Applications (Video Conferencing, Video-on-Demand, Distance Learning, Voice/Video over IP, IPTV, etc) * Home Automation * Medical and Health Care * Surveillance, Home Monitoring * Service Evaluation * Accessibility * Multi-Modal Interactions and Applications * Context-Aware Services and Applications * User Interface for Mobile Devices * Seamless Mobility * Quad Play * e-Commerce, m-Commerce * Location-based Services * Personalization * Virtual Home Environments * Field Trials and Usability # There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. # There will be a Best Demonstration Award for the best demonstration, as judged by a special Venture Advisory Committee. # Several Student Travel Grants will be made available. Important Dates: * Technical paper submission deadline and Special Session proposal submission deadline: 30 June, 2006 * Technical application panel and tutorial proposal submission deadline: 1 September, 2006 * Paper acceptance notification deadline: 15 September, 2006 * Demonstration proposal submission deadline: 18 September, 2006 * Final camera ready paper submission deadline: 10 October, 2006 NEW IEEE/COMSOC POLICY: all accepted CCNC 2007 technical paper presenters must register at the FULL registration rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. Steering Committee: Chair: Rob Fish, Panasonic, USA Vice Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia, USA John Barr, Motorola, USA Maurizio Beltrami, Philips, Netherlands V. Michael Bove Jr., M.I.T., USA K.C. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Alex Gelman, Panasonic, USA Alan Kaplan, Panasonic, USA Ki Won Lee, Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., Korea Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK Madjid Merabati, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Naohisa Ohta, Keio University, Japan Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson Inc., USA Curtis Siller, Cetacean Networks, USA Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Doug Zuckerman, Doug Zuckerman Associates, USA Organizing Committee: * General Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Technical Program Chair: Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Technical Program Vice Chairs: o Wireless Networking: Gary Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China o Multimedia Networking: Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA o Enabling Technologies: Alan Messer, Samsung, USA o Novel Applications: Bin Wei, AT&T Research Labs, USA * Special Sessions co-Chairs: Hang Liu, Thomson, USA; Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China * Workshop Chair: Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada o DRM Workshop Chair: Xin Wang, ContentGuard, USA o NIME Workshop co-Chairs: Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy; Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA; Abdennour El-Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK o HWN-RMQ Workshop Chair: Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada * Technology Applications Panels Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA * Demo Chair: Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK * Tutorial Chair: Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland * Career Forum Chair: Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs, USA * Publication Chair: Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * Publicity/Liaison Chairs: o Europe: Guenter Schaefer, Technische Universtaet Ilmenau, Germany o North America: Yi Shang, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA o Asia Pacific: Morikawa Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan o Latin America: Nelson da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil * Patron Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Local Arrangements Chair: Mei Yang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * IT co-Chairs: Lina Dong & Yingnan Zhu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Finance Chair: Mike Kincaid, MSK Associates, USA * Treasurer: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA * IEEE Society Liaison: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada * IEEE Communications Society Project Manager: Diane Williams, IEEE Communications Society, USA Patrons: Panasonic Please visit the website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007) for more info on the: CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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[Fwd: 1. Fachgespräch zu "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems"]
by Lars Wolf 10 May '06

10 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 1. Fachgespräch zu "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" Datum: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:23:07 +0200 Von: Jens B. Schmitt <jschmitt(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-KL.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> Organisation: DISCO Lab, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir möchten Sie auf folgenden Call for Contributions zum 1. Fachgespräch mit dem Thema "Performance Modeling of Self-Organizing Systems" aufmerksam machen. Über eine rege Beteiligung würden wir uns freuen. Für einen eventuell mehrfachen Empfang dieser Nachricht möchten wir uns entschuldigen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Jens Schmitt ************************** Call for Contributions ************************* (We apologize for multiple copies) GI/ITG/MMB/KuVS Technical Discussion (Fachgespraech) on "PERFORMANCE MODELING OF SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS" September 21, 2006, University of Passau, Germany http://www.iwsos.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/pmsos.html co-located with: EuroNGI IA.8.2 - New Trends in Network Architectures and Services: "INTERN. WORKSHOP ON SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS (IWSOS 2006)" September 18 - 20, 2006, University of Passau, Germany http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwsos OVERVIEW: Self-organization plays a key architectural role for the future Internet as well as for large-scale pervasive computing systems such as wireless sensor networks. Self-organization will enhance flexibility and evolvability of organically growing, large-scale distributed systems. Driven by randomness and feedback, the relation between cause and effect of these systems may appear chaotic: minor causes may have severe impact, whereas seemingly major causes may only have a small effect. Traditional mathematical models tend to be linear and, thus, are not suitable to model such chaotic systems. Models to be developed should be simple to remain scalable to the huge number of entities in the systems under investigation and to be generally applicable. We aim to investigate the methodology for modeling and evaluating the performance and reliability of complex self-organizing systems at the edge of chaos. To this end, this meeting brings together leading national and international experts and creates a forum for knowledge exchange. IMPORTANT DATES: - Ext. abstracts/short paper subm. deadline: July 15th 2006, 11:59pm CET - Notification of acceptance: August 1st 2006 - Hotel reservation cut-off date: August 15th 2006 - Meeting date: September 21st 2006 PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION: The submitted extended abstracts and short papers will be reviewed and published in form of a Technical Report. The publication of full papers within a Special Issue will depend on the success of the meeting. We solicit submission of selected full papers after the meeting. TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Passau, Germany Patrick Wchner, University of Passau, Passau, Germany Jens B. Schmitt, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany Matthias Hollick, University of Technology Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany SUBMISSIONS & CONTACT: wuechner(a)fmi.uni-passau.de This CfC is available as PDF at: http://www.iwsos.net.fmi.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/pdf/PMSOS06_CfC.pdf -- prof. dr. jens schmitt disco | distributed computer systems lab computer science department university of kaiserslautern p.o. box 3049, 67653 kaiserslautern, germany phone : +49.631.205.3288 fax : +49.631.205.3289 e-mail: jschmitt(a)informatik.uni-kl.de web : http://disco.informatik.uni-kl.de

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP BIONETICS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 10 May '06

10 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP BIONETICS 2006 Datum: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:26:57 +0200 Von: Falko Dressler <dressler(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS BIONETICS 2006 1st International Conference on Bio Inspired mOdels of NEtwork, Information and Computing Systems http://www.bionetics.org/ Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 11-13, 2006 In co-operation with IEEE CIS(*), SMC *** Submission deadline: July 31, 2006 *** ************************************************************** Technology is taking us to a world where myriads of heavily networked devices interact with the physical world in multiple ways, and at multiple scales, from the global Internet scale down to micro- and nano-devices. Many of these devices are highly mobile and autonomous, and must adapt to the surrounding environment in a totally unsupervised way. A fundamental research challenge is the design of robust decentralized computing systems capable of operating under changing environments and noisy input, and yet exhibit the desired behaviour and response time, under constraints such as energy consumption, size, and processing power. These systems should be able to adapt and learn how to react to unforeseen scenarios as well as to display properties comparable to social entities. Biological systems are able to handle many of these challenges with an elegance and efficiency still far beyond current human artifacts. Based on this observation, bio-inspired approaches have been proposed in the past years as a strategy to handle the complexity of such systems. The goal is to obtain methods on how to engineer technical artifacts which have similar high stability and efficiency as biological entities often have. The BIONETICS conference aims at bringing together researchers and scientists from several disciplines in computer science and engineering where bio-inspired methods are investigated. We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following five areas including but not limited to the following topics: a) Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools - Mathematical models of biological processes - Qualitative assessment of evolutionary algorithms - Multiscale dynamics of emergent properties b) Bio-inspired software - Engineering methods and tools for bio-inspired systems - Bio-inspired service evolution and optimization - Pandemic service deployment strategies c) Bio-inspired security mechanisms - Artificial immune and self-healing systems - Cell, body, population-level security mechanisms - Adaptive and evolving protection mechanisms d) Bio-inspired networks and communication systems - Bio-inspired network algorithms and protocols - Bio-inspired autonomic communication systems - Evolution of network architectures and protocols e) Bio-inspired and bio-based nano-scale communication and information systems - Molecular communication - Biological computing - Nano-scale biologically engineered systems Prospective authors should submit full papers with up to 8 pages using 10pt font. Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted. Submission instructions: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do --------------------------------- Important dates: Submission deadline: July 31, 2006 Acceptance notification: September 18, 2006 Camera ready paper: October 23, 2006 --------------------------------- Committees: General Chairs: Tatsuya Suda, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA Christian Tschudin, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland Vice-Chairs: Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net Research Association, Italy Lidia Yamamoto, Univ. of Basel, Switzerland Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Research Association, Italy TPC Chair: Masayuki Murata, Osaka Univ., Japan TPC Vice-Chairs: -- Bio-inspired mathematical models, methods and tools: Andreas Deutsch, Dresden University of Technology, Germany -- Bio-inspired software: Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany -- Bio-inspired security mechanisms: Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy -- Bio-inspired networks and communication systems: Kenji Leibnitz, Osaka University, Japan, -- Bio-based nano-scale communication and information systems: Yuki Moritani, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan (TBC) Panel Chair: Csaba Kiraly, Univ. of Trento, Italy Publicity Chair: Europe: Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen, Germany US: Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, US Financial Chair: Karen Decker, ICST, USA Local Arrangement Chair: Giuseppina Alfano, Create-Net Research Association, Italy --------------------------------- TPC memebrs: --------------------------------- Andrew Adamatzky, Univ. of the West of England David Basanta, ZIH, TUD, Dresden Kalyan Basu, University of Texas Subhayu Basu, Princeton Univ. Peter Bentley, University College London Lutz Brusch, ZIH, TUD, Dresden Geoffrey Canright, Telenor R & D Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Pierpaolo Degano, University of Pisa Falko Dressler, Univ. Erlangen Niloy Ganguly, Indian Institute of Technology Arobinda Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Masami Hagiya, Univ. of Tokyo Henry Hess, Univ. of Florida Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo Yoshiteru Ishida, Toyohashi University of Technology Mark Jelasity, University of Bologna, Igor Kotenko, Russian Academy of Sciences Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology Alberto Montresor, University of Trento Tadashi Nakano, Univ. of California, Irvine Shin-ichiro M. Nomura, Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ. Kazuhiro Oiwa, NICT Oznur Ozkasap, Koc University Kay Roemer, ETH Zurich Yoshihiro Sasaki, NAIST Biplab Sikdar, Bengal Engineering and Science University Adrian Stoica, JPL, NASA Akira Suyama, Univ. of Tokyo Shoji Takeuchi, Univ. of Tokyo Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University Matthew Williamson, HP Lab (*) Pending Approval _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing]
by Lars Wolf 09 May '06

09 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing Datum: Tue, 9 May 2006 11:21:52 +0200 Von: W. Lamersdorf <lamersd(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.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 for multiple copies of this message ] ICSOC 2006: Call for Papers ---------------------------------------- The 4th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing December 4-7 2006, Chicago Submission deadline: June 12 Detailed info: http://www.icsoc.org Important dates: Workshop proposal submission: May 30, 2006 Paper abstract submission: June 12, 11:59pm, PST Full paper submission: June 19, 11:59pm, PST Tutorial and panel submission: July 6, 2006 Notification of acceptance: September 12, 2006 Final manuscript due: September 25, 2006 Workshops: December 4, 2006 Main conference (includes tutorials): December 5-7, 2006 --------------------------- ICSOC'06 seeks original papers in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences, with the emphasis on results that contribute to solve the many still open research problems that are of significant impact to the field of service oriented applications. Topics include but are not limited to the following: Business Service Modeling: Methods and tools for capturing business goals and requirements, Decomposition into business services, Business processes, Business policies, Modeling, analysis, and simulation, Specification of functional and non-functional quality requirements; Service Assembly: Development and Discovery: Model-driven development, Service composition architectures, Service registries, Service discovery mechanisms, Semantic matching, Methods and tools for service development, Governance, Verification and validation, Deployment strategies; Service Management: Instrumentation and service related data aggregation, end-to-end Measurement, Analysis, Modeling and Capacity planning, Definition of deployment topology, Infrastructure configuration, Problem determination for SOAs, ITIL processes, Change management in live systems. SOA Runtime: Service Bus for mediation, transformation and routing, Runtime registry, Integration of legacy applications, Information services for data access and data integration, Scalability, Topology and Optimization, Service oriented middleware, Policy based configuration & Workload management Quality of Service: Reliable Service-Oriented Computing, Security and Privacy in Service-Oriented Computing, SLA and Policy specification, QoS Negotiation, Autonomic management of service levels, Empirical Studies and Benchmarking of QoS, Performance and Dependability prediction in SOA; Grid Services: Services and architecture for management of infrastructural resources, Data and Compute intensive applications, Execution and resource allocation services for job scheduling, Protocols for coordination across multiple resource managers, Business value based allocation, Innovative Strategies for Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations, Prototype systems and Toolkits. ---------------------------- General Chairs: Ian Foster (The University of Chicago) Carlo Ghezzi (Politechnico di Milano) Program Chairs: Asit Dan (IBM) Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University) Industrial Track Chairs: Robert Johnson (IBM) Jeff Mischkinsky (Oracle) Workshop Coordination: Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (Telcordia) Norbert Ritter (Hamburg University) Tutorial Chairs: Frank Leymann (Univ. of Stuttgart) Heiko Ludwig (IBM) Local Arrangements Chair: Julie Wulf (Univa Corporation) Financial Chair: Vincenzo D'andrea (Univ. of Trento) Registration Chair: Martin Swany (Univ. of Delaware) Publicity Chair: Matei Ripeanu (Univ. of British Columbia) Publication Chair: Boualem Benatallah (UNSW) Area Coorfinators: Service Modeling: Wolfgang Emmerich (UC London) Mathias Weske (University of Potsdam) Service Assembly: Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano) Munindar Singh (North Carolina State University) Service Management: Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano) Hiro Kishimoto (Fujitsu) SOA Runtime: Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University) Steve Vinoski (Iona) Quality of Service: Priya Narasimhan (CMU) Jim Pruyne (HP) Grid Services: Dennis Gannon (Indiana University) Paul Watson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Steering Committee: Fabio Casati (Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA) Paco Curbera (IBM Research, USA) Mike Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Nederland) Paolo Traverso (ITC-IRST, Italy)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - AGNM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 09 May '06

09 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - AGNM 2006 Datum: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:11:30 -0700 Von: Silvia Figueira <sfigueira(a)scu.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers ================= AGNM 2006 Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management October 26th-27th, 2006, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin, Ireland Held as part of the IEEE/IFIP 2nd International Week on Management of Networks and Services Website: http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/agnm.php Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and self-adapting parallel and distributed computing and associated data management on a distributed and parallel Grid of computational machines (PCs, servers, supercomputers, clusters) and storage systems. Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, which provides advanced services and supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer, which comprises the underlying systems, such as computers, operating systems, and storage systems. A fabric layer component of particular importance is the network since all distributed services rely on the capabilities of the interconnecting network. Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core services of a Grid middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are self-managing. For example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of statically allocating or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so adaptively, or self-heal to failures. However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI) is geared mainly towards computational (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in computational and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of Autonomic Grid Networks (AGN) that incorporates into the Grid the following: 1) Network resources distributed across LAN, MAN and WAN, 2) Autonomic and on-demand functions (into various layers and components, such as a Grid middleware). The autonomic functions may be conceptually similar to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers 3, 2, 1) networks, such as self-control (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting), self-protection ([G]MPLS Fast Rerouting and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and self-healing (control and data plane high-availability, etc.). For example, in a typical Grid, the resource management architecture is client-server oriented, where resources are typically registered to and pulled from a particular service. In contrast, in an AGN, the resource management architecture could be distributed and autonomous, where resource requests are routed by autonomous and distributed AGN middleware components. This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and potential future research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid Networking and Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to the concepts described above, including, but not limited to: - Grid middleware enhancements for AGN - Cluster middleware enhancements for AGN - Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling - Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management - Network-aware autonomic cluster scheduling and management - AGN specific resource discovery - AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management - AGN routing - AGN self-healing and self-protection - AGN high-availability - AGN monitoring and performance management - AGN effects on HPC applications - HPC applications (MPI and other) on AGN - HPC applications (MPI and other) on MAN and WAN AGN - Commercial applications (CRM, ERP, Financial, etc.) on AGN - P2P AGN Submission ---------- For online submission instructions please visit http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php Questions should be directed to agnm06(a)anut.fh-aachen.de IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission: May 19 2006 Notification: July 7 2006 Camera ready: August 2 2006 Workshop: October 26-27 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- Workshop Chair: Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco Systems, USA) Workshop TPC Co-chairs: Volker Sander (University of Aachen, Germany) and Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, USA) Technical Programme Committee ----------------------------- Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Rob Brennan, Ericsson R&D, Ireland Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy Markus Fidler, U Toronto, Canada Silvia Figueira, SCU, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore Edgar Magaña, UPC, Spain J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Pascale Primet, INRIA, France Volker Sander, U Aachen, Germany Dimitra Simeonidou, U Essex, UK John Strassner, Motorola Lab, USA Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria Peter Tomsu, Cisco Systems, Autria Yufeng Xin, MCNC, USA This message scanned for viruses and SPAM at SCU (MGW2) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking - special issue on Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality]
by Lars Wolf 09 May '06

09 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking - special issue on Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: From Theory to Reality Datum: Mon, 8 May 2006 18:13:50 +0200 Von: Marco Conti <Marco.Conti(a)iit.cnr.it> An: iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it, <committee(a)networking.khu.ac.kr>, <advisor(a)networking.khu.ac.kr>, <co-advisor(a)networking.khu.ac.kr>, spects02(a)comp.leeds.ac.uk Apologies if you receive multiple copies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers * * EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking Special issue on MobileMAN (Mobile Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks): From Theory to Reality http://www.hindawi.com/journals/WCN/si/MobileMAN.html * * * * The aim of this special issue is to present, from an experimental perspective, architectures and protocols for implementing (mobile) ad hoc networks. This special issue constitutes a unique forum to present measurements/experiences/lessons obtained by implementing ad hoc networks testbeds and prototypes. The special issue will investigate the whole protocol stack from enabling technologies to middleware and applications. Original contributions are solicited, related to system and protocol development, measurement, and testing, in all areas related to ad hoc networking. Specifically, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Ad hoc networks applications * System prototypes and experiences * Mobile ad hoc networks * Opportunistic and delay tolerant networks * Sensor networks * Mesh networks * Vehicular networks * Protocol implementation and testing * Middleware platforms for ad hoc networks * Ad hoc networking for pervasive environments * Situated and autonomic communications * Location services * Positioning and tracking technologies and services * Measurement studies * Mobility models based on real data * Enabling technologies measurements (802.11, 802.15, etc.) * Experiment-based socio-economic analysis of ad hoc networks Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JWCN's manuscript tracking system at http://www.hindawi.com/mts/, according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due July 1, 2006 Acceptance Notification November 1, 2006 Final Manuscript Due February 1, 2007 Publication Date 2nd Quarter, 2007 *Guest Editor:* Marco Conti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Instituto di Informatica e Telematica (IIT-CNR), Via Giuseppe, Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, e-mail: Marco.Conti(a)iit.cnr.it -- ============================================== Marco Conti Pervasive Computing & Networking Lab. (PerLab) http://www.perlab.it Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) National Research Council (CNR) Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa,Italy tel.: + 39 050 315 3062 (direct) mobile: +39 348 3966807 fax.: +39 050 3152113 _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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[Fwd: CfP Workshop Organic Computing bei der GI-Jahrestagung]
by Lars Wolf 08 May '06

08 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP Workshop Organic Computing bei der GI-Jahrestagung Datum: Mon, 08 May 2006 14:21:49 +0200 Von: Hartmut Schmeck <schmeck(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> An: OC-Interessenten:; CC: Urban Richter <uri(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> Hallo Herr Richter, Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei erhalten Sie den Call for Papers für den Workshop über Organic Computing bei der diesjährigen GI-Jahrestagung mit der Bitte um Beachtung und Weitergabe an weitere potentiell interessierte Personen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Hartmut Schmeck !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Call for Papers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Workshop "Organic Computing Status and Outlook" October 5 or 6, 2006, Dresden, Germany part of INFORMATIK 2006 Informatik für Menschen! 36th GI-Jahrestagung, October 2 6, 2006, TU Dresden !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scope: Organic Computing has emerged as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Organic Computing is based on the insight that we will soon be surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems, which are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their environment, communicating freely, and organizing themselves in order to perform the actions and services that seem to be required. The 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 such systems - which we increasingly depend on - as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation 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-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. First steps towards adaptive and self-organizing computer systems are already being undertaken. Adaptivity, reconfigurability, emergence of new properties, and self-organization are topics in a variety of research projects. The priority research program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) addresses fundamental challenges in the design of Organic Computing systems; its objective is a deeper understanding of emergent global behavior in self-organizing systems and the design of specific concepts and tools to support the construction of Organic Computing systems for technical applications. This workshop will provide a forum to present the current status of research in Organic Computing and discuss challenges and future directions for research and development. Suggested topics for this workshop include but are not limited to: - self-organization and emergent behavior - complex adaptive systems - self-organization in production and logistics - self-organization in biological systems - bio-inspired computing - artificial life - multi-agent systems and cellular automata - technical usage and controllability of emergence - autonomic computing Paper submission: Authors should submit papers with a maximum of 8 pages before June 26, 2006, via the paper submission section on http://www.organic-computing.de/GI2006/ . Papers will be selected through a peer-review based on contribution to the overall topic, originality, and scientific value. All selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (and must be presented at the workshop). Important dates: - Deadline for paper submissions: June 26, 2006 - Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2006 - Camera-ready versions: August 7, 2006 - Workshop: October 5 or 6, 2006 Program committee: Martin Emele (Robert Bosch GmbH) Stefan Fischer (Universität Lübeck) Andreas Herkersdorf (TU München) Wolfgang Karl (Universität Karlsruhe) Erik Maehle (Universität Lübeck) Christian Müller-Schloer (Universität Hannover) Burghardt Schallenberger (Siemens AG) Hartmut Schmeck (Universität Karlsruhe, Chair) Theo Ungerer (Universität Augsburg) Rolf Würtz (Universität Bochum)

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[Fwd: [KuVS ELG] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - DAIS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 08 May '06

08 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [KuVS ELG] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - DAIS 2006 Datum: Mon, 08 May 2006 15:17:56 +0200 Von: Kurt Geihs <geihs(a)uni-kassel.de> An: KUVS-L <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>, gi3abs-l <gi3abs-l(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>, elg(a)kuvs.de 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems DAIS 2006 "From service-oriented architectures to self-managing applications" Bologna, Italy June 13-16, 2006 http://www.discotec06.cs.unibo.it/DAIS06/ To be held in conjunction with FMOODS 2006 and Coordination 2006 http://discotec06.cs.unibo.it ABOUT THE CONFERENCE ==================== The conference program presents the state of the art in research concerning distributed and interoperable systems. In recent years, distributed applications have indeed gained a practical and widely-known footing in everyday computing. Use of new communication technologies have brought up divergent application areas, including mobile computing, inter-enterprise collaborations, and ubiquitous services, just to name a few. New challenges include the need for service-oriented architectures, autonomous and self-managing systems, peer-to-peer systems, grid computing, sensor networks, semantic enhancements, and adaptivity and dynamicity of distribution constellations. Following the evolution of the field, DAIS 2006 focuses on architectures, models, technologies and platforms for interoperable, scalable and adaptable systems that are related to the latest trends towards service orientation and self-* properties. The papers to be presented at DAIS 2006 cover methodological aspects, tools and language of building adaptable distributed and interoperable services, fault tolerance and dependability, peer-to-peer systems, mobility issues, web services applications and performance issues and composition, semantic web and semantic integration, and context- and location-aware applications. This year, the technical program of DAIS drew from 99 submitted papers, among which 10 were explicitly submitted as work-in-progress papers. From these 21 regular and 5 work-in-progress papers were selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The DAIS 2006 conference is sponsored by IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) and it was the sixth conference in the DAIS series of events organized by IFIP Working Group 6.1. DAIS'06 will be held in the beautiful city of Bologna, Italy, colocated with the 8th IFIP Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS'06) and Coordination'06. Attendants of DAIS'06 will have the opportunity to attend the sessions of the two colocated conferences. TECHNICAL PROGRAM OF DAIS 06 ============================ SESSION 1 (joint with FMOODS and Coordination): Invited talk "Mobile Service Oriented Architectures (MOSOA)" Jan Bosch, NOKIA Research Center SESSION 2; Mobile and pervasive computing "A Spatial Programming Model for Real Global Smart Space Applications" Rene Meier, Anthony Harrington, Thomas Termin, Vinny Cahill "Mobile Process Description and Execution" Christian P. Kunze, Sonja Zaplata, Winfried Lamersdorf "An Application Framework for Nomadic, Collaborative Applications" James O'Brien, Marc Shapiro "Interfering effects of service adaptation: implications on self-adapting systems architecture" Jacqueline Floch, Erlend Stav and Svein Hallsteinsen SESSION 3: Peer-to-peer systems "Discovery of Stable Peers in a Self-organising Peer-to-Peer Gradient Topology" Jan Sacha, Jim Dowling, Raymond Cunningham, Rene Meier, "On the Value of Random Opinions in Decentralized Recommendation" Elth Ogston, Arno Bakker, Maarten van Steen SESSION 4: Semantic web "Information Agents That Learn to Understand Each Other Via Semantic Negotiation" Salvatore Garruzzo, Domenico Rosaci "Discovering Semantic Web Services with Process Speci?cations" Piya Suwannopas, Twittie Senivongse "Towards Building a Semantic Grid for E-learning" Wenya Tian, Huajun Chen SESSION 5 (joint with FMOODS and Coordination): Invited talk Chris Hankin, Department of Computing, Imperial College SESSION 6: Web services "A Code Migration Framework for AJAX Applications" Arno Puder "High Performance SOAP Processing Driven by Data Mapping Template" Wei Jun, Hua Lei, Niu Chunlei, Zheng Haoran "An Approach for Fine-Grained Web Service Performance Monitoring" Jan Schaefer "WSInterConnect: Dynamic Composition of Web Services through Web Services" Josef Spillner, Iris Braun, Alexander Schill SESSION 7: Fault tolerance 1 "Bounding Recovery Time in Rollback-Recovery Protocol for Mobile Systems Preserving Session Guarantees" Jerzy Brzezinski, Anna Kobusinska, Jacek Kobusinski "Intelligent Dependability Services for Overlay Networks" Barry Porter, Geoff Coulson, Daniel Hughes SESSION 8: Architectural adaptation and modelling "Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Services" Joao Paulo A. Almeida, Maria-Eugenia Iacob, Henk Jonkers, Dick Quartel "Utilising Alternative Application Configurations in Context- and QoS-Aware Mobile Middleware" Sten A. Lundesgaard, Ketil Lund, Frank Eliassen "Timing Driven Architectural Adaptation" Andrew Wils, Yolande Berbers, Tom Holvoet, Karel De Vlaminck SESSION 9 (joint with FMOODS and Coordination): Invited talk José Luiz Fiadeiro, Department of Computer Science, University of Leicester SESSION 10: Fault tolerance 2 "Fault-Tolerant Replication Based on Fragmented Objects" Hans P. Reiser, Rudiger Kapitza, Jorg Domaschka, Franz J. Hauck "Towards Context-Aware Transaction Services" Romain Rouvoy, Patricia Serrano-Alvarado, Philippe Merle "A Local Self-stabilizing Enumeration Algorithm" Brahim Hamid, Mohamed Mosbah "Adding Fault-Tolerance to a Hierarchical DRE System" Paul Rubel, Joseph Loyall, Richard Schantz, Matthew Gillen "Using Speculative Push for Unnecessary Checkpoint Creation Avoidance" Arkadiusz Danilecki and Michael Szychowiak SESSION 11: Software tools and languages "A Versatile Kernel for Distributed AOP" Eric Tanter, Rodolfo Toledo "Transformation of Centralized Software Components into Distributed" Abdelhak Seriai, Gautier Bastide, Mourad Oussalah "PAGE: a distributed infrastructure for fostering RDF-based interoperability" Emanuele Della Valle, Andrea Turati and Alessandro Ghioni REGISTRATION ============ Registration now open. o Early registration: until 31 May 2006. o for - further registration details (student reductions, presenter reductions, workshop fees...), - travel information and information about Bologna, see (under registration) http://www.discotec06.cs.unibo.it ORGANISERS ========== General chair: Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Steering committee: Lea Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland Hartmut Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Elie Najm, ENST, Paris, France PC Chairs: Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway Alberto Montresor, University of Trento, Italy Publicity chair: Ketil Lund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Local arrangements: Program committee: N. Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece D. Bakken, Washington State University, USA A. Bartoli, University of Trieste, Italy Y. Berbers, Yolande, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium A. Beugnard, ENST-Bretagne, France G. Blair, Lancaster University, UK A. Corsaro, Alenia Marconi System, Italy I. Demeure, ENST, France F. Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway P. Felber, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, K. Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany K. M. Goschka, Technical University of Vienna, Austria S. Graupner, HP Labs, USA R. Grønmo, SINTEF ICT, Norway D. Hagimont, INP Toulouse, France S. Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway J. Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia E. Jul, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK A. Keller, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus, Germany R. Kroeger, Univeristy of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden, Germany H. Krumm, University of Dortmund, Germany L. Kutvonen, University of Helsinki, Finland W. Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany C. Linnhof-Popien, University of Munich, Germany K. Lund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway R. Meier, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland A. Montresor, University of Trento, Italy E. Najm, ENST, France R. Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal K. Raymond, University of Queensland, Australia R. Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA A. Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK W. Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria T. Senivongse, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand K. Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland J.-B. Stefani, INRIA, France N. Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs T. +49 561 804-6275 F. +49 561 804-6277 -- Univ. Kassel, FB 16, Wilhelmshöher Allee 73, D-34121 Kassel -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _______________________________________________ elg mailing list elg(a)kuvs.de http://mail.ps-group.org/mailman/listinfo/elg

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] CCNC 2007: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 08 May '06

08 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] CCNC 2007: Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:42:53 +0200 Von: Guenter Schaefer <guenter.schaefer(a)tu-ilmenau.de> An: iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it CC: Guenter Schaefer <guenter.schaefer(a)tu-ilmenau.de> Please excuse if you receive multiple copies of this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CALL FOR PAPERS - CCNC2007 - IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 11 - 13 January 2007 ~ Las Vegas, NV, USA - Harrah's Hotel & Casino ~ (Co-located with the International Consumer Electronics Show, 8-11 January 2007) "SEAMLESS CONSUMER CONNECTIVITY" Visit: http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, is a major annual international conference organized with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of consumer communications and networking. CCNC 2007 will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of wireless, multimedia, and consumer networking, enabling technologies (such as middleware), and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, business application sessions, tutorials, and demonstration sessions. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors should submit a five-page technical paper manuscript (or a two-page demonstration summary) in double-column IEEE format including authors' names and affiliations, and a short abstract through EDAS, following the submission guidelines available on the CCNC2007 website. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Wireless Networking * Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks * Body and Personal Area Networks * Wireless QoS * Cross Layer Optimization * Vehicle Networks * Wireless Access Networks (Wireless LANs, WiMAX, Cellular Networks) * Multi-hop networks * Seamless Roaming Techniques and Technologies * Wireless Home Networks: Architecture and Protocols * Wireless Security * Wireless Multimedia Networks * Power and Topology Management * Emerging Wireless Technologies (e.g., Ultra Wideband, OFDM) Multimedia Networking * Peer to Peer Networking * Software Radio for Multimedia Support * Image/Video Sensor Networks * Multimedia Support over Multi-hop Networks * Distributed Coding * Network Diversity for Multimedia Support (e.g., Path Diversity, Multiple Antennas etc.) * Network Security and Privacy * Multimedia Forensics * Technology and Economics of Entertainment Networks * High Definition Audio/Video Networking * Internetworking * Distributed Gaming Protocols * Last Mile Network Technologies * Multimedia Distribution Protocols * Multimedia Network Architecture * Network Management and Control * Multimedia QoS Protocols * QoS Support and Performance * Residential Gateways Enabling Technologies * Multimedia Technologies (e.g., Retrieval, Processing, Synchronization, Integration, Systems, etc.) * Digital Rights Management Systems * Gaming and Virtual Reality * Human-Machine Interface and Interaction * Thin Client Support * User and Service Mobility * Service Composition * Look-up Technologies * Operating Systems for Mobile Devices * Database Management Systems * The Semantic Web * Data and Program Migration * Service and Device Discovery * Standards and Interoperability * Wearable Computers * Pervasive Computing and Contextual Systems * Home and Internet Middleware (e.g. Java, .Net, XML, OSGi, JTWI, JXTA, MHP/OCAP, UPnP, etc.) * Embedded Platforms Novel Applications * Networked Appliances * Peer-to-Peer Applications and Services * Mobile Applications * Entertainment and Games * Multimedia Applications (Video Conferencing, Video-on-Demand, Distance Learning, Voice/Video over IP, IPTV, etc) * Home Automation * Medical and Health Care * Surveillance, Home Monitoring * Service Evaluation * Accessibility * Multi-Modal Interactions and Applications * Context-Aware Services and Applications * User Interface for Mobile Devices * Seamless Mobility * Quad Play * e-Commerce, m-Commerce * Location-based Services * Personalization * Virtual Home Environments * Field Trials and Usability # There will be a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award. # There will be a Best Demonstration Award for the best demonstration, as judged by a special Venture Advisory Committee. # Several Student Travel Grants will be made available. Important Dates: * Technical paper submission deadline and Special Session proposal submission deadline: 30 June, 2006 * Technical application panel and tutorial proposal submission deadline: 1 September, 2006 * Paper acceptance notification deadline: 15 September, 2006 * Demonstration proposal submission deadline: 18 September, 2006 * Final camera ready paper submission deadline: 10 October, 2006 NEW IEEE/COMSOC POLICY: all accepted CCNC 2007 technical paper presenters must register at the FULL registration rate. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL registration is valid for up to three papers. Steering Committee: Chair: Rob Fish, Panasonic, USA Vice Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia, USA John Barr, Motorola, USA Maurizio Beltrami, Philips, Netherlands V. Michael Bove Jr., M.I.T., USA K.C. Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Alex Gelman, Panasonic, USA Alan Kaplan, Panasonic, USA Ki Won Lee, Samsung Electronics Co. LTD., Korea Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK Madjid Merabati, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Naohisa Ohta, Keio University, Japan Kumar Ramaswamy, Thomson Inc., USA Curtis Siller, Cetacean Networks, USA Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Doug Zuckerman, Doug Zuckerman Associates, USA Organizing Committee: * General Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Technical Program Chair: Wenjun Zeng, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Technical Program Vice Chairs: o Wireless Networking: Gary Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China o Multimedia Networking: Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA o Enabling Technologies: Alan Messer, Samsung, USA o Novel Applications: Bin Wei, AT&T Research Labs, USA * Special Sessions co-Chairs: Hang Liu, Thomson, USA; Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech, China * Workshop Chair: Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada o DRM Workshop Chair: Xin Wang, ContentGuard, USA o NIME Workshop co-Chairs: Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy; Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA; Abdennour El-Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK o HWN-RMQ Workshop Chair: Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Ryerson University, Canada * Technology Applications Panels Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA * Demo Chair: Dave Marples, Telcordia Technologies, UK * Tutorial Chair: Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland * Career Forum Chair: Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs, USA * Publication Chair: Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * Publicity/Liaison Chairs: o Europe: Guenter Schaefer, Technische Universtaet Ilmenau, Germany o North America: Yi Shang, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, USA o Asia Pacific: Morikawa Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan o Latin America: Nelson da Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil * Patron Chair: John Barr, Motorola, USA * Local Arrangements Chair: Mei Yang, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA * IT co-Chairs: Lina Dong & Yingnan Zhu, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA * Finance Chair: Mike Kincaid, MSK Associates, USA * Treasurer: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA * IEEE Society Liaison: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada * IEEE Communications Society Project Manager: Diane Williams, IEEE Communications Society, USA Patrons: Panasonic Please visit the website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007) for more info on the: CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION PAPERS CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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CELDA 2006 (Barcelona, Spain): CFP - deadline: 2 June 2006
by Martin Gutbrod 08 May '06

08 May '06

Deadline for submissions: 2 June 2006 (for all contributions) IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006) December 8 - 10, 2006 - Barcelona, Spain (http://www.iadis.org/celda2006) Endorsed by: IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology and Japanese Society of Information and Systems in Education * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor David Merrill, Brigham Young University Hawaii, USA * Invited Talk (confirmed): Dr Marco Marsella, European Commission, DG Information Society, Directorate E, Unit E3 TeL * Tutorial Expert (confirmed): Professor J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA * Conference background and goals The IADIS CELDA 2006 conference aims to address the main issues concerning with the evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in digital age. There have been huge advancements in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines has never been faster before and this marriage has affected the very basis of the academia. Paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivist approaches, student-cantered learning and collaborative approaches have emerged, and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations, virtual reality and multi-agents systems to name a few. This merger has created both opportunities and areas of serious concerns. This conference aims to cover both technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below). However innovative contributions that do not fit into these areas will also be considered as long as they are directly related to the overall theme of the conference. * Format of the Conference The conference will comprise of invited talks, oral presentations for discussion-oriented papers, and poster sessions for work-in-progress. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM. Authors of the best published papers in the CELDA 2006 proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in Journal of Research on Technology in Education. * Types of submissions Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection papers and Tutorials. All submissions will go through a double- blind refereeing process with at least two international experts. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: - Acquisition of expertise - Assessing progress of learning in complex domains - Assessment of exploratory learning approaches - Assessment of exploratory technologies - Cognition in education - Collaborative learning - Educational psychology - Exploratory technologies (such as simulations, VR, i-TV and so on) - Just-in-time and Learning-on-Demand - Learner Communities and Peer-Support - Learning Communities & Web Service Technologies - Pedagogical Issues Related with Learning Objects - Learning Paradigms in Academia - Learning Paradigms in Corporate Sector - Life-long Learning - Student-Centered Learning - Technology and mental models - Technology, learning and expertise - Virtual University * Important Dates: - Submission Deadline: 2 June 2006 - Notification to Authors : until 11 September 2006 - Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration : Until 16 October 2006 - Late Registration : After 16 October 2006 * Conference Location The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain. * Secretariat IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CELDA 2006 Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3 1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal E-mail: celda_sec(a)iadis.org Web site: http://www.iadis.org/celda2006 * Program Committee Conference Chair Pedro Isaias, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal Program Co-Chairs Kinshuk, Massey University, New Zealand Demetrios G Sampson, University of Piraeus, Greece J. Michael Spector, Florida State University, USA Committee Members: please see http://www.iadis.org/celda2006/committees.asp for updated list. * Co-located Conference: This conference is co-located with the IADIS International Conference on e-Commerce 2006 (http://www.iadis.org/ec2006) - participants of one conference may attend the sessions from the other conference at no extra charges.

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] FUMCA'06 cfp - within UbiComp'06]
by Lars Wolf 08 May '06

08 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] FUMCA'06 cfp - within UbiComp'06 Datum: Mon, 08 May 2006 11:02:20 +0200 Von: Paolo Bellavista <pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it> An: iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it ******************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on System Support for Future Mobile Computing Applications (FUMCA 06) September 17, 2006, Newport Beach Marriott Hotel, Irvine, California, USA http://research.nokia.com/events/workshops/ubicomp2006 SPONSORED BY Nokia ( http://research.nokia.com) To be held in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2006) http://www.ubicomp.org ******************************************************************************** Development, deployment, and usage of mobile services and applications typically require extensive compiler and runtime support (i.e., system support) from all the different layers of a mobile devices system software. System support platforms can significantly affect the widespread and rapid adoption of novel mobile devices, because they influence both functional and non-functional characteristics of the forthcoming mobile applications. In fact, novel support for future mobile computing applications should be capable of reconciling the heterogeneity of low-level system features with application-specific requirements. In addition, it should be capable of managing the dynamic evolution of platforms and application requirements by accommodating novel system features and application requirements efficiently. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to foster an exchange of research results and experiences in the area of mobile applications from a system support perspective. The ultimate goal is to envision new trends and ideas about theoretical and practical aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating future system platforms for next-generation mobile computing applications. Submitted papers must be original work with no substantial overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - System support infrastructures, services, middleware, and tools; - Supporting functional and non-functional requirements (dependability, resource consumption, portability across heterogeneous devices, hw/sw personalization, QoS); - Runtime and programming language abstractions; - Support for system-, context-, and location-awareness; - Multi-platform solutions and runtime platform interworking; - OS support and integration between runtime platforms and native OS; - Usability, user acceptance and social impact of system support on nomadic end-users, 3rd party developers, and/or device designers and manufactures; - Supporting novel HCI paradigms, programming models, and design methodologies; - Supporting novel user interfaces and novel display (e.g., omni directional 3D displays, power-aware displays) and audio-rendering devices SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Each submission should include either a short or a full position paper including names and contact information of the authors. - Full papers should be at most 8 pages in IEEE proceedings style (two-column, single space, using 10-point font and 1-inch margins) including all figures and references; - Short papers should be at most 5 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Submissions must be made electronically in non-editable PDF or Postscript format by sending an email to fumca2006(a)nokia.com by June 16, 2006. Submission implies the acceptance that at least one author will register to the main conference and present the paper if accepted. The selection process will involve peer reviews and reviews by program committee members. The papers will be selected for the workshop based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of system support for future mobile computing applications. Notification of acceptance will be sent to contact authors by July 24, 2006. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide the camera-ready version of the paper by August 8, 2006. All Accepted papers (both full and short papers) will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Best papers will be selected for post-workshop publication into a special issue of a highly respected scientific journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 - Acceptance Notification: July 24, 2006 - Camera-ready version due: August 8, 2006 - Workshop: September 17, 2006 - UbiComp Main Conference: September 19-21, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Domenico Cotroneo, Federico II University of Naples, Italy, Cristiano di Flora, Nokia Research Center. Tampere, Finland PUBLICATION CHAIR: Paolo Bellavista, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Christopher D. Gill, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Eija Kaasinen, Human-Centered Design research group, VTT Information Technology, Finland Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Stefano Russo, ITEM Lab, Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per lInformatica, Italy A PDF version of this CFP is available at: http://research.nokia.com/events/workshops/ubicomp2006/fumca2006-call.pdf FUMCA 2006 Web-site: http://research.nokia.com/events/workshops/ubicomp2006 Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: pbellavista(a)deis.unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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NWeSP'06 - Call for papers
by Martin Gutbrod 08 May '06

08 May '06

** Call for Papers ** International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'06) September 25-28, 2006 Seoul, Korea http://www.nwesp.org Proceedings published by IEEE CS press NWeSP'05 Proceedings: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLPublication.jsp?pubtype=p&acronym=NWESP Call for Papers International Conference on Next generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'06) is a forum which brings together researchers and practitioners specializing on different aspects of Web based information systems. The inaugural conference will bring together the world's most respected authorities on semantic web, Web based services, Web applications, Web enhanced business information systems, e-education specialists, Information security, and other Web related technologies. The aim of NWeSP'06 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. NWeSP'06 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research in all areas of Web based information systems and their applications in science, technology, business and commerce. You will find NWeSP'06 as the best forum to share your knowledge with other peers in the Web services field. NWeSP'06 will focus on the following themes: Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) Database Technologies for Web Services Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling Customization, Reusability, Enhancements Web Services Standards Web Services Applications Web Based e-Commerce, e-learning applications Home Network Grid Based Web Services Web Services Intellectual Property We invite you to submit a: - full paper of 6 pages (Letter or A4 paper) for oral presentation - proposal to organize a technical session and/or workshop (see the call for events proposals for more information). Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results. A post conference proceedings of the conference are anticipated to be published by IEEE CS Press (same like NWeSP'05). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. All full papers are to be submitted in PDF electronically via the web site. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least three independent referees of the international program committee of NWeSP'06. Papers Formatting The paper must be prepared according to IEEE CS style format. Authors may find additional information from the following link: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/ Journal Publication Opportunities Good quality papers will be invited for publication in the International Journal of Web Services Practices (IJWSP --> http://www.nwesp.org/ijwsp). Several other International Journal special issues are being planned and will be available in the conference web site very soon. Important Dates June 15, 2006: Deadline for full paper submission July 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance July 31, 2006: Deadline for camera ready papers and authors' registration For more information, please contact General Co- Chair, Dr. S.Y. Han <hansy(a)cau.ac.kr> or Program Co-Chair, Dr. A. Abraham <ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: semanticweb-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006]
by Lars Wolf 08 May '06

08 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006 Datum: Sun, 7 May 2006 22:33:25 -0700 Von: Mahesh Marina <mahesh(a)cs.ucla.edu> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- The First International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization (WiNTECH 2006) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, CA, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ *** Submission Deadline: June 15, 2006 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW AND SCOPE ----------------------------- In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks) have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB) are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future advances in wireless technology. With this in mind, this workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental wireless networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers addressing experimental wireless networking issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms * Experiences/lessons from recent testbed design efforts * Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation methodologies * Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures * Testbed management issues and monitoring support * Wireless testbed case studies * Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols (at different layers), and the impact of cross-layer interactions * Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations * Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks * Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks * Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing * Implementation approaches to ease transition between various evaluation methodologies as well as to improve testbed accessibility * New measurement methodologies and infrastructures * Measurement and characterization (modeling) of various real-world aspects such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics * Interference and spectrum usage measurements * Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies * Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and management IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------ Submission deadline: June 15, 2006 Author notification: July 21, 2006 Camera ready papers: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------------------- Technical Program Co-Chairs: Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA) Mahesh Marina (UCLA) Program Committee Members (partial list): Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) Elizabeth Belding-Royer (UCSB) Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY-Stony Brook) Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy) Edward Coyle (Purdue) Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Lab) Joe Evans (University of Kansas) Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) Ravi Jain (Google) Ed Knightly (Rice University) Jay Lepreau (University of Utah) Prasant Mohapatra (UC-Davis) Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Cambridge) Dipankar Raychauduri (Rutgers) Mani Srivastava (UCLA) Peter Steenkiste (CMU) Mineo Takai (UCLA) FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------- Please visit the WiNTECH 2006 workshop website: http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [mycolleagues] Announcing IFIP/IEEE MANWEEK 2006 Extensions]
by Lars Wolf 06 May '06

06 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [mycolleagues] Announcing IFIP/IEEE MANWEEK 2006 Extensions Datum: Sat, 6 May 2006 11:34:36 -0300 (BRT) Von: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)inf.ufsc.br> Antwort an: mycolleagues(a)inf.ufsc.br An: mycolleagues(a)inf.ufsc.br ************************************************************************ Submission deadlines for DSOM/MMNS/IPOM/AGNM have been extended to May 19th 2006. See:- http://www.manweek2006.org/index.php for further details. ************************************************************************ _______________________________________________ mycolleagues mailing list mycolleagues(a)inf.ufsc.br http://listas.inf.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Fwd: MobiCom'06 Call for Panel, Demos & Exhibits]
by Lars Wolf 06 May '06

06 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiCom'06 Call for Panel, Demos & Exhibits Datum: Sat, 6 May 2006 18:13:32 +0800 Von: Yongguang Zhang <ygz(a)MICROSOFT.COM> Antwort an: Yongguang Zhang <ygz(a)MICROSOFT.COM> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Sincere apologies for multiple postings. More information: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2006/. ======================================================================= MobiCom 2006 Call for Panel Proposals Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panel Co-Chairs: Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (shivkumaecse.rpi.edu) and Adam Wolisz (awo(a)ieee.org). Proposal deadline: May 15, 2006 ======================================================================= MobiCom 2006 Call for Research Demonstrations and Exhibits Proposals for research demonstrations and exhibits are strongly solicited. Research demonstrations should be innovate research prototypes that show new research related to the practice of mobile computing or wireless and mobile networking. 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 * Fundamental aspects of mobile computing and wireless networking * Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Location-dependent applications and protocols * Modeling, measurement and simulation aspects of mobile networks * Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks * Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing and networking * Performance of mobile and wireless networks and systems * Security, privacy, and fault-tolerance of mobile/wireless systems * Wireless access technologies for mobile nodes (e.g., multi-radio and mesh systems, personal area networks) * Implementations and experimental mobile systems Submissions should be in pdf format and no longer than two pages. It should include a description of the demonstration, including both a 250 word abstract and a description of the underlying research contributions being demonstrated. It should also include a URL with any extra information. Proposals should be sent by email to: kfall(a)intel.com and antr(a)microsoft.com with the subject "Mobicom Research Demo Submission". All submissions will be acknowledged. Important dates: Demo submissions due: 1st June 2006 Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006 =======================================================================

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CoNEXT’2006 - 2nd Conference on Future Networking Technologies]
by Lars Wolf 06 May '06

06 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CoNEXT’2006 - 2nd Conference on Future Networking Technologies Datum: Fri, 05 May 2006 17:18:51 +0100 Von: Rui J Lopes <Rui.Lopes(a)iscte.pt> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our apologies for multiple copies. ====================================== ..:: CoNEXT’2006 - “Changing Internetworking Paradigms” ::.. ======================================= Lisbon, Portugal 4-7 December, 2006 In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM http://www.co-next.net http://www.adetti.pt/events/CONEXT06/ The 2nd CoNext conference follows the highly successful one held in Toulouse, France in 2005. CoNext 2006 will be a major forum in the area of future networking technologies. CoNext emphasizes synergies between various international and technical communities. The conference will feature a single-track, high quality technical program with significant opportunities for technical and social interaction among a close-knit community of participants. CoNext aims to be open and accommodating to multiple viewpoints and is committed to fairness in the review process and to returning deep and sound technical feedback to authors of submitted paper. CoNext 2006 will emphasize the emerging new paradigms for large-scale, ubiquitous networking. These generally aim to achieve new functionality to support advanced networked services and to provide seamless integration for embedded, wireless, and mobile devices into the network fabric. Relevant topics for the conference include (but not limited to) the following: - Autonomic communications - Pervasive networks - Delay and disruption tolerant networks - Dependable networks - Experimental networks and testbeds - Mobility - Content distribution - Network and protocol architecture - Networked games - Economic aspects of the Internet - Wireless communication - Ad-hoc and sensor networks - Measurement and monitoring - Network management - Security and privacy - Overlay and peer-to-peer Networks - Multimedia applications - Optical networking - Micro vs. macro Internet modelling - Traffic and network engineering - Routing, forwarding and addressing - SLA and service engineering - Traffic and network engineering - Clean-slate approaches to networking - Incentive to cooperate, micro-payments Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the CoNEXT web site and must be less than 12 pages in the ACM Sigcomm format (strictly enforced). The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. The best paper will be fast-tracked to ToN. Abstract registration: July 1st, 2006 Submission: July 7th, 2006 Notification: September 25th, 2006 Final version: October15th, 2006 ** Conference Chairs** Carlos Sá da Costa, ADETTI/ISCTE, Portugal Rui Lopes, ADETTI/ISCTE, Portugal Ana Rita Leitão, ADETTI, Portugal **Program Chairs** Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Christophe Diot, Thomson, France **Steering Committee** Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Christophe Diot, Thomson, France Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie-Paris, France Jim Kurose, University of massachussets Amherst, USA Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Jennifer Rexford, Princeton university, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy **Program Committee** Sharad Agarwal, Microsoft Research, USA Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Jussara Almeida, UFMG, Brazil Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Francois Baccelli, ENS, France Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin, USA Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin, USA Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint, USA Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France Nevil Brownlee, University of Auckland, New-Zealand Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson, France Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Manheim, Germany Christi Estan, University of Wisconsin, USA Kevin Fall, Intel Research, USA Serge Fdida, LIP6, France Nick Feamster, GaTech, USA Clarence Filsfils, Cisco, Belgium Teruo Higashino, Osaka University Kevin Jeffay, UNC, USA Dina Katabi, MIT, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA, France Dmitri Krioukov, CAIDA, USA Jay Lepreau, University of Utah, USA John C. S. Lui, Chinese University of Hong-Kong, China Morley Mao, University of Michigan, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Martin May, ETHZ, Switzerland Pietro Michardi, Eurecom, France Maximilian Ott, NICTA, Australia Philippe Owezarski, LAAS, France Giovani Pacifici, IBM, USA Venkat Padmanabahan, Microsoft Research, USA Thomas Plageman, University of Oslo, Norway Narasimha Reddy , Texas A & M University, USA Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft Research, UK Carlos Sá da Costa, Adetti, Portugal Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Anees Shaikh, IBM, USA Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University, Israel Peter Steenkiste, CMU, USA Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA Joe Touch, ISI, USA Daryl Veitch, University of Melbourne, Australia == Organized with the support of: == Cisco Systems Thomson Intel Microsoft ADETTI ISCTE IST – Information Society Technologies FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia e-NEXT http://www.co-next.net info(a)co-next.net _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [CFP]: 4-th ACM MobiWac 2006, Deadline: June 5th, 2006]
by Lars Wolf 05 May '06

05 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [CFP]: 4-th ACM MobiWac 2006, Deadline: June 5th, 2006 Datum: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:29:40 +0200 (CEST) Von: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it (Luciano Bononi) An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Apologies if you receive multiple copies ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-th ACM(*) MobiWac 2006 ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access October 2, 2006 Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain URL: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mobiwac2006/ To be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2006 (the 9-th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) October 2-6, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Following the success of MobiWac events in Forth Worth, Philadelphia, and Maui, the 4-th Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC 2006) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2006 in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, on October 2-6, 2006. SCOPE Wireless communications technology is enjoying its fastest growth period in history. This unprecedented growth continues to affect the way that we live, work and play. Yet solutions for mobile wireless access are still in the early stages of development. The MobiWAC workshop solicits papers from researchers and practitioners that address architectures, technologies and protocols for mobile computing and wireless access. Topics of particular interest include mobility and location management, ubiquitous and ad hoc access, awareness, mobile computational ambient agents, natural interaction and seamless access. The workshop will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, panel discussions and tools demonstrations. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings published by ACM press. TOPICS Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to: * Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols * Wireless/Mobile Web Access * Wireless Internet and All-IP integration * Next Generation Wireless systems * Mobile Broadband Wireless Access * Pervasive Communication and Computing * Ubiquitous and mobile access * Wireless Applications and testbeds * Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff * Multi-Channel Multi-Radio management * Channels and resources allocation * Energy and power management * Context-aware services and applications * Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures * Interactive applications * Mobile commerce technologies * Mobile database management * Wireless Multimedia Protocols * Mobile and Wireless Entertainment * Mobile Info-services * QoS management * Mobility Control and Management * Localization and tracking * Mobile/Vehicular environment access * Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Security, Trust management and Privacy issues * Fault Tolerance solutions * Wireless Systems' Design * Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems * Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis SUBMISSIONS Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages in double column ACM style including tables and figures. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. A Journal Special Issue will be planned after the Workshop including revised extended versions of MobiWac selected papers. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in postscript or pdf format. Information for paper submission can be found on the MobiWac webpage: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mobiwac2006/ Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - a short abstract, - a complete list of authors and their affiliations, - a contact person for correspondence, - postal and e-mail addresses For more information, please contact the PC Chair: Luciano Bononi (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 5th, 2006 Camera Ready version due: TBA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Program Chair: Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Technical Program Committee: Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brasil Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Amitava Datta, The University of Western Australia, Australia Khalil El-Khatib, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Afonso Ferreira, CNRS & ESF COST Office, Belgium Alois Ferscha, Universität Linz, Austria Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Kyandoghere Kyamakya, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Bjorn Landfeldt, The University of Sydney, Australia Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France Sotiris Nikoletseas, Univ. of Patras and Computer Tech. Institute, Greece Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland Mirela Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Salvatore Rotolo, STMicroelectronics, Italy Christian Schindelhauer, University of Paderborn, Germany Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras, Greece Yu Wang, Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Peter Widmayer, Swiss Federal Institute of Techn., ETH Zurich, Switzerland Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Publicity Co-Chairs Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal Univ., Florianopolis, SC Brazil Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Insitute (CTI), Greece .

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT'06) - Final CFP]
by Lars Wolf 05 May '06

05 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT'06) - Final CFP Datum: Fri, 5 May 2006 14:50:45 +1000 Von: Lavy Libman <Lavy.Libman(a)nicta.com.au> Organisation: NICTA An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear colleagues, Final reminder: the submission due date for the workshop is only 10 days away. We look forward to receiving your papers and seeing you at the workshop. ========================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Networking in Public Transport (WNEPT 2006) in conjunction with QShine 2006 Jointly sponsored by ICST, Create-Net, and the EU (IST-FET) Waterloo, Ontario, Canada August 10, 2006 http://www.wnept.org Public transport (PT) systems, including buses, taxis, trains, ships and airplanes, are used daily by millions of people worldwide, ranging from regular commuters in metropolitan areas to long-distance business and leisure travellers. The ability to communicate and access information during travel is becoming increasingly crucial to maintain productivity or provide entertainment for PT passengers. However, despite phenomenal advances in mobile wireless networking technologies in recent years, commercial deployments of special networking solutions to support PT passengers remain scarce (except in airplanes). For the most part, mobile end users can only communicate by connecting directly to their individual wireless service providers. This prevailing situation offers a very limited and often inadequate support for the wide range of applications and needs of PT passengers, such as broadcast of multimedia entertainment and travel-related updates, and interactive multiplayer games. Additionally, networking support to PT vehicles is necessary to enable other PT-specific applications that do not directly involve the passengers, such as real-time surveillance, remote telemetry, and management of PT-specific road infrastructure (e.g. traffic lights on priority bus lanes and rail crossings). All of these require the deployment of integrated on-board network solutions to connect between passengers, content/application servers and other vehicle-mounted devices, neighboring vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and the Internet. Moreover, some inherent features of PT, such as the repetitiveness and predictability of routes and timetables, can be used to design specialized network protocols to further improve the quality of service perceived by PT passengers. Authors are invited to submit original full papers on any aspect of public transport networking. Contributions describing theoretical research, protocol design, experiments and measurements, commercial deployments, business models, or position/vision statements are all encouraged. Descriptions of work in progress, test trials, and future work plans are highly appreciated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Broadband access to trains and airplanes * Mobile routers and network mobility * Intra-vehicle networks * IP and IPv6 mobility support for public transport * Multiple access networks in public transport * Authorization and authentication in public transport * Inter-vehicular communications, VANETs * Intermittent-connectivity and delay-tolerant networks * Protocol design for predictable mobility * Signalling between public transport and roadside infrastructure * Content distribution and on-board caching * Location privacy for public transport passengers * Novel public transport applications and services * Billing and charging for public transport networking * Experimental results and practical deployments Important dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2006 Notification: June 16, 2006 Final Version Due: June 30, 2006 For further information and submission instructions, visit http://www.wnept.org . _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) deadline extended (to May 12)]
by Lars Wolf 05 May '06

05 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) deadline extended (to May 12) Datum: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Von: Dave Maltz <dmaltz(a)cs.cmu.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu By popular request, the deadline to submit papers to INM'06 is now Friday, May 12 at 11:59pm EDT. Paper abstracts must be registered by May 8 at 11:59pm EDT. No further extensions are possible. ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS SIGCOMM 2006 - Workshop on Internet Network Management (INM'06) Pisa, Italy, September 11 http://www.research.microsoft.com/~dmaltz/inm06 ===================================================================== In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of networking, with are few well-established principles to guide the design of network management systems and little scientific theory to support reasoning about and controlling the state of a network. This workshop will provide an opportunity to elevate our collective experiences with IP networks into principles and ideas that can be implemented today and carried forward into the clean-slate design of new networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating it as a bolt-on afterthought. We seek original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless, are welcomed. The workshop will provide a forum for exchange of experience, challenges, and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of interest include: * new abstractions for network configuration management; * new control plane architectures; * data plane mechanisms to support management; * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors; * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems; * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications; * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures; * requirements for experimental platforms that support network management research; * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management; * defining and enforcing network borders; * automatic and adaptive control of networks; * cross-layer interactions, including IP/Optical or Servers/IP; * hitless planned maintenance; and * fault and performance management. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract Registration Deadline: 8 May 2006 at 11:59pm EDT - Hard deadline Paper Submission Deadline: 12 May 2006 at 11:59pm EDT - Hard deadline Notification of Acceptance: 9 June 2006 Camera Ready Deadline: 19 June 2006 Workshop Date: 11 Sept 2006 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions should be no more than 6 pages long, two columns, and in PDF. The review process will be single-blind - please include author information in your submission. Submissions must be original work not under review at any other workshop, conference, or journal. Submission URL: https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/INM2006/ TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: co-Chairs: * Albert Greenberg (AT&T Labs Research) * David A. Maltz (Microsoft Research) * Hui Zhang (CMU) Members: * Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) * Javier Baliosian (NMRC, Ericsson Ireland) * Anne-Marie Bosneag (NMRC, Ericsson Ireland) * Doug Comer (Purdue University) * Dina Katabi (MIT) * Eugene Ng (Rice University) * Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) * Olivier Festor (INRIA) * Paul Francis (Cornell University) * Gisli Hjalmtysson (Reykjavik University) * David Hutchison (Lancaster University) * Gianluca Iannaccone (Intel Research) * Farnam Jahanian (University of Michigan) * Arvind Krishna (IBM) * Patrick McDaniel (Penn State) * Gerard Parr (Ulster University) * Francoise Sailhan (NMRC, Ericsson Ireland) * Jürgen Schönwälder (IU Bremen) * Ignacio Soto (Madrid University) * Rolf Stadler (KTH) * Nino Vidovic (Cisco) * Geoff Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) * Yin Zhang (UT Austin) * Ty Znati (University of Pittsburgh) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: ACM MobiWac'06]
by Lars Wolf 05 May '06

05 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM MobiWac'06 Datum: Thu, 4 May 2006 15:28:15 -0400 (EDT) Von: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-th ACM* MobiWac 2006 ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain URL: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mobiwac2006 To be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2006 (the 9-th ACM*/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) URL: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 October 2-6, 2006 ------------ *ACM pending ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Following the success of MobiWac events in Forth Worth, Philadelphia, and Maui, the 4-th Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC 2006) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2006 in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, on October 2-6, 2006. SCOPE Wireless communications technology is enjoying its fastest growth period in history. This unprecedented growth continues to affect the way that we live, work and play. Yet solutions for mobile wireless access are still in the early stages of development. The MobiWAC workshop solicits papers from researchers and practitioners that address architectures, technologies and protocols for mobile computing and wireless access. Topics of particular interest include mobility and location management, ubiquitous and ad hoc access, awareness, mobile computational ambient agents, natural interaction and seamless access. The workshop will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, panel discussions and tools demonstrations. Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings published by ACM press. TOPICS Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to: * Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols * Wireless/Mobile Web Access * Wireless Internet and All-IP integration * Next Generation Wireless systems * Mobile Broadband Wireless Access * Pervasive Communication and Computing * Ubiquitous and mobile access * Wireless Applications and testbeds * Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff * Multi-Channel Multi-Radio management * Channels and resources allocation * Energy and power management * Context-aware services and applications * Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures * Interactive applications * Mobile commerce technologies * Mobile database management * Wireless Multimedia Protocols * Mobile and Wireless Entertainment * Mobile Info-services * QoS management * Mobility Control and Management * Localization and tracking * Mobile/Vehicular environment access * Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Security, Trust management and Privacy issues * Fault Tolerance solutions * Wireless Systems' Design * Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems * Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis SUBMISSIONS Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages in double column ACM style including tables and figures. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in postscript or pdf format. Information for paper submission can be found on the MobiWac webpage: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mobiwac2006/ For more information, please contact the PC Chair: Luciano Bononi (bononi(a)cs.unibo.it) IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: June 5th, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: July 5th, 2006 Camera Ready version due: TBA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Program Chair: Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Email: bononi(a)cs.unibo.it Technical Program Committee: Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Alois Ferscha, Universit.t Linz, Austria Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brasil Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Amitava Datta, The University of Western Australia, Australia Khalil El-Khatib, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Afonso Ferreira, CNRS & ESF COST Office, Belgium Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Kyandoghere Kyamakya, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Bjorn Landfeldt, The University of Sydney, Australia Farid Nait-Abdesselam, Univ. of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France Sotiris Nikoletseas, Univ. of Patras and CTI, Greece Paddy Nixon, The University of Strathclyde, UK Mirela Notare, Barddal University, Brasil Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece Salvatore Rotolo, STMicroelectronics, Italy Christian Schindelhauer, University of Paderborn, Germany Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras, Greece Yu Wang, Univeristy of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Peter Widmayer, Swiss Federal Institute of Tech.,ETH Zurich, Switzerland Linda Jiang Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: CFP: Workshop on Autonomic Communications 2006]
by Lars Wolf 04 May '06

04 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: CFP: Workshop on Autonomic Communications 2006 Datum: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:49:58 +0100 Von: Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, acca(a)autonomic-communication.org, "Greg O'Hare" <gregory.ohare(a)ucd.ie>, SRG Mailing List <srg-members(a)topos.ucd.ie>, acenet-members(a)autonomic-communication.org [Apologies for any cross-postings, and please distribute widely -- Simon] CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE The Third Workshop on Autonomic Communications (WAC) 2006 http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/WAC.htm =================================================== Held in conjunction with Autonomic Networking 2006 http://www.Autonomic-Net.org ========================================= WAC'2006 is the third in the very successful and influential series of workshops previously held in Berlin (2004) and Athens (2005). We are especially excited that this year's workshop is being held in conjunction with the SMARTNET, INTELLICOM and IWAN activities as part of Autonomic Networking 2006. Call for papers ============ The programme committee invite technical contributions on any topic appropriate to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Theoretical foundations of autonomic network control * Designing evolvable next generation networks * Self-organisation for NGN * Autonomic Communications testbeds * Modelling and analysis of Autonomic Communication systems * Generic network-level service composition * Context handling within Autonomic Communications * Applied Autonomic Communication systems * Self-organised communications * Context and/or Autonomic Ontologies * Quality of Context Management As in previous years, WAC solicits both technical contributions on existing work and more speculative papers on possible directions for future developments in the field. We expect all papers to appear in a volume on the Springer-Verlag LNCS series. Submission ========= Papers should be submitted through the EDAS system <http://edas.info/ newPaper.php?c=4787>, and should conform to the LNCS layout. Important dates ============ Submission: 21 May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2006 Camera-ready copy due: 30 June 2006 Programme committee ================== S. Dobson (UCD Dublin, IE) R. Battiti (University of Trento, IT) R. Boutaba (University of Waterloo, CA) G. Carle (University of Tubingen, DE) H. Chaouchi (INT, FR) L. Chapin (Interisle, USA) A. Galis (UCL, UK) M. Gerla (UCLA, USA) Y. Gourhant (FT, FR) J. Labetoulle (GET, FR) M. Mulvenna (Ulster University,UK) G. Pavlou (Surrey University, UK) B. Plattner (ETH Zurich, CH) M. Smirnov (Fokus, DE) I. Stavrakakis (University of Athens, GR) Y. Takahashi (Kyoto University, JP) D. Zuckerman (Telcordia, USA -- Simon +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Simon Dobson <simon.dobson(a)ucd.ie> +++++++++

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[Fwd: Call for papers: MMCN 2006]
by Lars Wolf 04 May '06

04 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for papers: MMCN 2006 Datum: Thu, 4 May 2006 08:01:22 +0200 Von: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> Antwort an: Carsten Griwodz <griff(a)IFI.UIO.NO> An: SIGMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Our apologies if you receive multiple copies. ===================================================================== Call for Papers and Announcement SPIE/ACM MMCN 2007 Multimedia Computing and Networking 2007 http://www.ifi.uio.no/mmcn2007 In cooperation with: ACM SIG Multimedia Part of the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging 28 January - 1 February 2007 San Jose Marriott and San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA, USA ===================================================================== The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners contributing to all facets of multimedia computing and networking. We especially encourage full and original papers on emerging technologies such as home networking and digital appliances, mixed and augmented reality systems, multimedia and QoS support for WLANs and 3G networks, multimedia in P2P networks, grids, and sensor networks, power-aware computing and communications, mobile and fixed wireless multimedia networks and content distribution networks. The conference will feature industrial design experiences and showcase tools for next-generation multimedia systems and applications. Presenters will be encouraged to make multimedia presentations and demonstrate their solutions in person. All presentations are plenum presentations. Papers are solicited in all areas of multimedia, including, but not limited to: Multimedia Computing . multimedia OS services . power-aware systems . video-on-demand services . peer-to-peer media systems . mixed and augmented reality systems Measurement and Modeling . performance measurement of multimedia systems . statistical modeling of server traffic and server software . multimedia system simulations and benchmark comparisons Multimedia Networking . home, mobile and broadband networks . QoS control and scheduling . push technologies, content distribution and other emerging access technologies . Internet data streaming, delivery and wide-area caching . multimedia security and rights management Case Studies and Applications . multimedia search engines . entertainment and networked games . distributed augmented and virtual reality . multimedia authoring Authors are invited to submit both research and industrial papers on original, unpublished work describing current research and novel ideas in the area of multimedia computing and networking. Papers whose contributions are supported by experimental evaluations are strongly encouraged. Full paper submissions should not exceed 12 single-spaced, single column pages including figures, tables, and references, using a typeface no smaller than 10 points. Short paper submissions should not exceed 8 pages. Papers must be electronically submitted to the conference website at http://www.electronicimaging.org. Please also submit a 500-word text abstract with your paper submission that includes your topic area. MMCN meeting information may also be found at http://www.ifi.uio.no/mmcn2007. | Full Paper for Review Due: 17 July 2006 | | Short Paper for Review Due: 17 July 2006 | | Final Manuscript Due: 23 October 2006 | | 200-word Final Summary Due: 20 November 2006 | | Proceedings of this conference will be published and | | available at the meeting. | Conference Chairs: Roger Zimmermann, Univ. of Southern California (USA) Carsten Griwodz, Univ. of Oslo (Norway) Publicity Co-Chairs: Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA) Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (USA) Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame (USA) Adrian Cheok, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore) Mark Claypool, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) David H. Du, Univ. of Minnesota (USA) Wu-chi Feng, Portland State University (USA) Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology/Lausanne (Switzerland) Ahsan Habib, Siemens TTB Center/Berkeley (USA) Pål Halvorsen, Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) Martin Karsten, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada) Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto (Canada) Kang Li, Univ. of Georgia (USA) Ketan Mayer-Patel, Univ. of North Carolina/Chapel Hill (USA) Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster Univ. (UK) Reza Rejaie, Univ. of Oregon (USA) Christoph Rensing, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany) Utz Roedig, Univ. College Cork (Ireland) Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Wei Tsang Ooi, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore) Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Univ. of California/Irvine (USA) Michael Zink, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IPOM 2006, Deadline extended -- May 19th]
by Lars Wolf 04 May '06

04 May '06

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2006 - Extended Deadline - May 19th]
by Lars Wolf 04 May '06

04 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IFIP/IEEE MMNS 2006 - Extended Deadline - May 19th Datum: Thu, 4 May 2006 00:58:33 +0100 (IST) Von: Brendan Jennings <bjennings(a)tssg.org> Antwort an: bjennings(a)tssg.org An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies for any cross postings. The 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS 2006) CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- Date: Oct 25-27th 2006 Place: Dublin, Ireland Extended Submission Deadline: May 19th Web: http://www.manweek2006.org/mmns/ The International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will hold its ninth annual meeting on October 25 through October 27, 2006, in Dublin, Ireland. A single-track conference, MMNS will provide participants with a high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate. The conference is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). SCOPE OF MMNS 2006 MMNS has established itself as a premier conference for research and innovation in management of emerging multimedia technology and networked services. The scope of the conference has been expanded recently to include management of emerging mobile networks. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists from industry and academia researching and developing state-of-the-art management and multimedia systems, while creating a public venue for results dissemination and intellectual collaboration. The demand for multimedia real-time services and mobile applications continues to grow rapidly, bringing forth enormous challenges in the management of their supporting networks. The need to evolve management tools and methodologies to keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with the proliferation of mobility and wireless systems, intelligent and broadband networks, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in all devices. Concepts such as self organizing, self-healing adaptive networks and autonomic communications are bringing the academic and industry research communities together to address the challenges of managing complexity and systems problems, where management is inevitably key. In addition to the challenges provided by the requirements of multimedia services (e.g., delay/jitter bounds), mobility introduces yet another set of management challenges with highly dynamic (intermittently connected) network topology and resource constrained portable devices. The MMNS 2006 technical program committee is soliciting research papers in the broad area of network and service management and new models, architectures and designs in technology and services to enable multimedia and mobility proliferation. MMNS 2006 will continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in management of mobile networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Mobile multimedia network management - Management of wireless ad-hoc networks - Management of sensor and actuator networks - Network management models and architectures - Network measurement/monitoring for multimedia and mobile services - Multi-service over IP (voice, video and data over IP) network management - Grid networking for multimedia - Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks - Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks - Planning and optimisation of multimedia and mobile networks - IP Multimedia System (IMS) operations and management - Content distribution networking - Management implications of supporting new digital media - Distributed multimedia service management - Deployment of multimedia services - Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services - Novel protocols for multimedia services - Multi-point, multicast service management - Management of advanced audivisual services - Seamless mobility of multimedia services - Adaptive multimedia services - Creation and management of composed multimedia services - Pricing, Accounting and Billing for multimedia services - Security management for mobile and multimedia networks and services - Application of autonomic networking concepts to multimedia and mobile networks and services PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission to MMNS 2006. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to MMNS 2006. Authors are requested to submit either long papers or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS format (see below): - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 4 pages) Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be reviewed and returned to the authors. Please see Submission for detailed instructions. PROCEEDINGS The MMNS 2006 proceedings will be published in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For more information regarding manuscript format please visit the author's instruction links at LNCS Springer. An award will be presented to the best student paper at the conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS will also get a chance to be published as an extended version in a special edition of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management - eTNSM. IMPORTANT DEADLINES - Submission: May 19th 2006 - Notification: July 7th 2006 - Camera ready: August 2nd 2006 - Workshop: October 25-27th 2006 COMMITTEE MMNS 2006 CO-CHAIRS: International chair: Ahmed Helmy, University of Southern California, USA; Brendan Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Liam Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland. MMNS STEERING COMMITTEE: Nazim Agoulmine, Univ. of Evry, France; Kevin Almeroth, Univ. of California in Santa Barbara, USA; Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul Univ., USA; Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada; Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA; David Hutchison, Univ. of Lancaster, UK; Alan Marshall, Queens Univ. of Belfast, UK; Guy Pujolle, LIP6, France; John Vicente, Intel, USA. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Pablo Arozarena, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Spain; Åke Arvidsson, Ericsson, Sweden; Chadi Assi, Concordia Univ., Canada; Fan Bai, General Motors Research Labs, USA; Javier Barria, Imperial College, UK; Mohamed Bettaz, Philadelphia Univ., Jordan; Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Greg Brewster, DePaul Univ., USA; Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA; Nicola Cranley, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland; Spyros Denazis, Univ. of Patras, Greece; Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, USA; Go Hasegawa, Osaka Univ., Japan; James Irvine, Strathclyde Univ., UK; Vana Kalogeraki, Univ of California, Riverside, USA; Ahmed Karmouch, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada; Lukas Kencl, Intel Research, Cambridge, UK; Andrej Kos, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Jun Li, Univ. of Oregon, USA; Hanan Lutfiyya, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada; Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City Univ., Ireland; Gerard Parr, Univ. of Ulster, UK; George Pavlou, Univ. of Surrey, UK; Andrew Perkis, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway; Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland; Reza Rejaie, Univ. of Oregon, USA; Karim Seada, Nokia Research Labs, USA; Rolf Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Burkhard Stiller, Univ. of Zurich/ETH Zurich, Switzerland; John Strassner, Motorola Labs, USA; Marina Thottan, Bell Labs, USA; Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands; Sven van der Meer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland; Theodore Willke, Intel, USA; Lawrence Wong, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore; Theodore Zahariadis, Ellemedia Technologies, Greece; Roger Zimmerman, Univ. of Southern California, USA; Michele Zorzi, Univ. of Padova, Italy. (in addition to all the steering committee members) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Algorithm and Protocol Design in Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 04 May '06

04 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Algorithm and Protocol Design in Sensor Networks Datum: Wed, 3 May 2006 12:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Von: Lin Cai <cai(a)ECE.UVic.CA> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [ Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message ] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For papers International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET) Special Issue on: "Energy-Efficient Algorithm and Protocol Design in Sensor Networks" http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=346 Sensor networks operate under a set of unique constraints and requirements, which spark numerous research interests in almost every layer of the network protocol stack. Sensor nodes are usually battery-powered and energy-constrained, so energy efficiency is of primary importance for the operational lifetime of a sensor network. Novel signal processing technologies, network architectures, protocols, algorithms and applications are needed to improve the energy efficiency and prolong the lifetime of sensor nodes and sensor networks. There are extensive efforts happening in energy-conscious network topology control, collaborative signal processing, media access control (MAC), variable topology multi-hop routing, flow and error control, and domain-specific application design. Novel cross-layer approaches have also been emerging to address the energy efficiency issue through a combined solution via efforts from different layers. The main purpose of this Special Issue is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research in this fast moving area, and to promote further research interests and activities on energy-efficient algorithm and protocol design in sensor networks. We are interested in analytical, experimental, and systems-related papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Network topology control * Collaborative signal processing * Optimal power control * Network reconfiguration architectures and protocols * Mobility management in mobile sensor networks * Energy aware task and resource allocation * Energy-conscious scheduling and media access control * Variable topology multi-hop routing * Flow and error control * Energy-aware transport protocol * Energy/efficiency/security tradeoffs * Cross-layer protocol design and development * Inter-connection between sensor networks and the Internet * Sensor networks testbeds, experiments, algorithms and measurements Important Dates Manuscript due: 1 July, 2006 Acceptance/rejection notification: 1 November, 2006 Final manuscript due: 31 December, 2006 Guest Editors: Dr. Lin Cai, University of Victoria, Canada Dr. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Papers Submission section under Author Guidelines (http://www.inderscience.com/papers/about.php). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Call for ED-MEDIA 2008 (Europe) Host Proposals: Due June 15
by Martin Gutbrod 04 May '06

04 May '06

_________________________________________________________ ED-MEDIA 2008 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications June 2008 * Europe CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST Proposals Due: June 15, 2006 Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) www.aace.org ________________________________________________________ ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, & Telecommunications (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia) is planning to hold its conference in Europe, June 2008. The ED-MEDIA conference held in Europe every 3 years always is a popular and successful event! Proposals to host this conference are requested. Deadline for proposals is: June 15, 2006. The Request for Proposals to Host ED-MEDIA 2008 is located at: http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/rfp.htm If you and your institution are interested in hosting this conference, please email your proposal to Gary Marks (mailto:gmarks@aace.org). We look forward to receiving your proposal. All proposals will be discussed by the ED-MEDIA Steering Committee prior to and at ED-MEDIA 2006 (June 26-30) in Orlando. You need not be present at this event to be considered. Please let me know if you need any assistance. Best regards, Gary Marks, Ph.D. AACE Executive Director & Founder Contact: Email: GMarks(a)aace.org Mailing address: AACE, P.O. Box 1545, Chesapeake, Virginia 23327-1545 ======================================================== To Unsubscribe from this listserv, send "unsubscribe eductech" to listserv(a)listserv.uh.edu; to Subscribe, send "subscribe eductech your_name" to the same address. Please do not reply to this email address. For sending only.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication)]
by Lars Wolf 03 May '06

03 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks (Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication) Datum: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:07:38 +0200 Von: Prasad, Anand <prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: Aissi, Selim <selim.aissi(a)intel.com>, Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr>, Ravikumar <jravikumar2002(a)yahoo.com> Apologies if you recieved this CFP multiple times. ---- Springer's International Journal on Wireless Personal Communication Special Issue on Seamless Handover in Next Generation Wireless/Mobile Networks Guest Editors Anand R. Prasad, DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH, Munich, Germany Selim Aissi, Intel Corporation, Portland, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Jeevarathinam Ravikumar, Consistel, Singapore Scope of Special Issue Mobile communication has evolved in a rapid pace from the introduction of Analog Cellular networks in 1980s. Technology has gone through tremendous changes in terms of security, access techniques, protocol stacks, bandwidth usage and also convergence into packet switching based on All-IP network from the conventional circuit switched techniques. Complexity has increased due to the introduction of different access technologies, available services, and other aspects as mentioned above during the telecom evolution for the past 20 years. Pressure is mounting to harmonize various technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless handover can be provided that exploits the benefits of available radio access technologies. Seamless handover should be achieved not only for Inter-Technology but also for Inter-Operator handover. Operators and the consumers will be greatly benefited in terms of cost effectiveness, enhanced features, location independence and ease of use through the introduction of seamless heterogeneous handover mechanisms. Several standardization activities have already started working on technical solutions for seamless handover. One of the well known activities is that of next-generation networks (NGN) making use of IMS based solution for service provisioning and handover between fixed and mobile operators. Within 3GPP and 3GPP2, activities are on-going to provision handover between different technologies and recently, in 3GPP, between different domains. This activity within 3GPP falls under All-IP Network (AIPN) System Architecture Evolution (SAE)/Radio Access Network (RAN) Long Term Evolution (LTE). IEEE 802 is also looking into media-independent handover (MIH) in 802.21 while 802.11u is working on inter-technology handover. Handover enhancement within IEEE 802.11 is taking place within Task Group R (TGr). IETF has produced some solutions in the seamoby working group while further enhancements are being done in various other groups including mobopts, mipshop and mobike. Along with standardization activities, various operators and vendors are also involved in developing harmonized solution for heterogeneous networks, like, UMA. At the same time a lot of research and development activities are taking place by academia, research institutes and industries too. So far, the work has focused on one specific topic of handover such as security, QoS, and routing. However, the focus should be on developing an end-to-end network perspective that covers the whole span of the network from radio aspects to OSS aspects that includes value added services. With the above background, this special issue invites people to present papers on seamless handover in heterogeneous networks in the following (but, not limited to) areas: - Handover security - Solutions for mobility support - Charging and billing, and AAA infrastructure - Fraud Management across various networks - Access Control techniques in heterogeneous networks - QoS provisioning for inter-technology and intra-/inter-domain handover - Content provisioning and seamless use of VAS across different networks - Standardization activities - Testbed or measurement results Important dates Deadline of paper submissions: 15th May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2006 Final Manuscripts Due: 1st November 2006 Publication of Feature Topic: February 2007 Submission Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced). Manuscript should be submitted on-line at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/ <https://www.editorialmanager.com/wire/> You MUST select article type: "Special Issue: Seamless Handover" Author information is available at: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-00 0.html <http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-40109-70-35706624-0 00.html> Guest Editors Contact Information Anand R. Prasad DoCoMo Comm. Labs. Europe GmbH Landsbergerstrasse 308-312 80687 Munich, Germany E-mail: prasad(a)docomolab-euro.com <mailto:prasad@docomolab-euro.com> Selim Aissi Mobile Platforms Group Intel Corporation CO5-166, 15400 NW Greenbrier Parkway Beaverton, Oregon, 97007, USA E-mail: selim.aissi(a)intel.com <mailto:selim.aissi@intel.com> Sunghyun Choi School of Electrical Engineering Seoul National University Kwanak P.O.Box 34 Seoul 151-600, Korea E-mail: schoi(a)snu.ac.kr <mailto:schoi@snu.ac.kr> Jeevarathinam Ravikumar Consistel (Singapore) Pte Ltd 5 Jalan Kilang Barat, #08-01/03 Petro Centre Singapore 159349 E-mail: jravikumar(a)consistel.com <mailto:jravikumar@consistel.com> _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE COM MAG CALL FOR PAPERS "QoS Routing" JUNE 1st]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE COM MAG CALL FOR PAPERS "QoS Routing" JUNE 1st Datum: Tue, 02 May 2006 20:02:38 +0200 Von: Abdelhamid Mellouk <mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear All, The deadline for this feature topic is fast approaching (june 1st) .. ************************************************************************************ Please note the following CFP: Deadline for Papers Submission is june 1st. Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine, http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag0207.htm Special Issue on "Quality of Service based Routing Algorithms for Heterogeneous Networks" Background Currently, due to the growing needs in telecommunications (VoD, Video-Conference, VoIP, etc.) and the diversity of transported flows, Internet network does not meet the requirements of future integrated-service networks, which will carry out multimedia data traffic with a high Quality of Service (QoS). Therefore, it is necessary to develop a high quality control mechanism to check the network traffic load and ensure QoS requirements. It's clear that the integration of these QoS parameters will increase the complexity of the algorithms used in heterogeneous networks. Thus, there will be QoS relevant technological challenges in today emerging heterogeneous networks that include different types of networks (e.g., wired, wireless, mobile, etc.). We shall focus in this special topic on QoS routing policies, and their effectiveness on heterogeneous wired and wireless networks. Thus, in this special issue, we are seeking papers that explore routing algorithms which take into account the dynamic's change of communication networks and discuss their advantages and drawbacks when compared to traditional solutions. Compared to the previous special issues on the integration of QoS, this issue will focus on a tutorial-based approach, and on the evolution of routing decisions applied in heterogeneous networks, which may include the load level traffic patterns and topology of the network changes, that the routing policy adapts the decision's router. Scope of Contributions Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of QoS routing policies and related areas with concrete experimental studies to show the validity of their approach. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to : - Dynamic state-dependent routing policies - Quality of Service policies versus Best effort policies - Routing in hybrid Networks - Dynamic Routing in inband or outband network control protocols - Traffic shaping in QoS Routing - Policy-Based Management in QoS Routing - Ad hoc networking routing solutions for heterogenous wired and wireless networks - The role of dynamic routing in irregular traffic networks - QoS based routing and data gathering protocols for wireless sensor networks Submission Instructions 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 "February 2007/ Quality of service based routing algorithms for heterogeneous networks" in the drop down menu. For any inquiries, please contact mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr Schedule of Submissions Manuscripts Submission June 1, 2006. Acceptance Notification October 1, 2006. Final Revised Manuscripts Due November 15, 2006. Publication Date February 2007 Guest Editors Abdelhamid Mellouk Universite de Paris XII-Val de Marne, IUT Creteil-Vitry FRANCE Email: mellouk(a)univ-paris12.fr Pascal Lorenz Universite de Haute Alsace, IUT de Colmar FRANCE Email: lorenz(a)ieee.org Azzedine Boukerche SITE, University of Ottawa CANADA Email: boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca Moon Ho Lee Instiute of information & Communication, Chonbuk National Univ. KOREA Email: moonho(a)chonbuk.ac.kr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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