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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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[Fwd: SecQoS Workshop 2006 deadline approaching]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SecQoS Workshop 2006 deadline approaching Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 17:46:00 +0200 Von: Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.it> Organisation: Create-Net An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> **************************************************************************** Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies **************************************************************************** Dear Colleagues, The paper submission deadline for the Second IEEE Communications Society/CREATE-NET Workshop on Security and QoS in Communication Networks (SecQoS'06) is getting closer: Manuscript Submission Due Date: May 10, 2006 Workshop Date: September 1, 2006 Workshop Web Site: http://www.secqos.org The workshop papers will be published in CD-ROM proceedings and online on IEEE Xplore. Authors of best contributions will be invited to submit extended papers to a special issue on Security and QoS in Communication Networks of the Springer's Telecommunication Systems Journal (http://www.springer.com/journal/11235). Please visit the workshop web site for the CFP and latest information. On behalf of the SecQoS organizing committee, Best regards, Cristina Costa <cristina.costa(a)create-net.org> and Wenye Wang <wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu> SecQoS '06 Co-Chairs

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[Fwd: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [IFIP-EC-NEWS] CFP Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 09:42:51 -0400 Von: Michael Zink <zink(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu> An: 2007(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu, for(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu, icec(a)listserver.tue.nl, MMCN(a)newworld.cs.umass.edu ** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Our apologies if you have received 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) **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl **************************************************** _______________________________________________ ICEC mailing list ICEC(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: [ISCC06] 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006)]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC06] 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006) Datum: Tue, 2 May 2006 20:19:50 +0800 Von: Alvin Chan <cstschan(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk> An: <ukubinet-announce(a)doc.ic.ac.uk>, <iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it> Sincere apologies if you receive this call for papers multiple times. -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS CIC2006 The 2006 International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC2006) October 25-27, 2006, Hong Kong, China http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/cic2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction ============= Cooperative computing aims at enabling different parties to work together towards a pre-defined non-trivial goal. It involves important technological areas like computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), workflow, computer-assisted design, databases, distributed systems, and concurrent programming. In the past few years, the prosperity of cooperative computing has been accelerated by the ubiquity of the Internet and the advent of wireless technologies, giving rise to the new research discipline of Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC). Now, cooperating parties can work on the Internet at any time and place. At the same time, we have also witnessed an enormous leap in communication speed. This has opened up a wide range of new cooperative applications that were not feasible in the past. Publication =========== The CIC2006 conference has partnered with World Scientific Publisher to publish the conference proceedings as book chapters in a book entitled "Cooperative Internet Computing". The book is scheduled to be published after the conference. Best papers will be selected for publication in the International Journal on High Performance Computing (pending). Scope and Interests ==================== The Conference invites papers on all aspects of Cooperative Internet Computing, and their applications. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cooperative Information System Architectures * Human-Computer Interaction for Cooperation * Agents and Brokers for Cooperative Computing * Middleware for Collaboration * Workflow Systems * Distributed Multimedia Systems * Collaborative Internet Learning * Pedagogical Theories for Collaborative Internet Learning * Mobile Cooperative Systems * Evaluation Methodologies for CIC systems * Interaction Models and Protocols for CIC Systems * Internet Communication Infrastructure for Collaboration * Computer-Supported Cooperative Work * Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing * Enterprise Knowledge Management * Java, CORBA, DCOM, and XML Cooperative Application * Innovative and Emergent CIC Applications * Case Studies Submission Information ======================= Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MS Word format. Electronic submission through the submission website is strongly encouraged. Hardcopies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Submission Web Site: http://cic2006.comp.polyu.edu.hk/myreview IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: June 30, 2006 Acceptance notification: Aug 1, 2006 Camera ready due: Sep 15, 2006 Conference: October 25-27, 2006 CONTACT ADDRESS Associate Prof. Edward Ho, Department of Computing The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: cic2006(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk _______________________________________________ Iscc2005 mailing list Iscc2005(a)mail.ing.unibo.it http://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc2005

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Game-On 2006 CfP, @TUBSIBR
by Oliver Wellnitz 02 May '06

02 May '06

GAME-ON 2006 November 29 - December 1, 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS Technische Universitaet Braunschweig Braunschweig, Germany Organized by EUROSIS-ETI Supported by Ghent University, Larian Studios, The Moves Institute, Binary Illusions, ModelBenders LLC, University of Bradford, Sheffield University, Liverpool John Moores University and TU Delft Conference website http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/news/ibr/game-on-2006/index.html The aim of the 7th annual European Game-On Conference on simulation and AI in Computer Games, is to bring together researchers and games people in order to exchange ideas on programming and programming techniques, which will be beneficial to the gaming industry and academia. Secondly it aims to steer young people into this industry by providing how-to tutorials and giving them the opportunity to show their ideas and demos to the gaming industry. The conference will concentrate mostly on the programming of games, with special emphasis on simulation, AI and fuzzy sets, and physics related computer graphics. Next to that, all of this will be fused in the topic of computer game design in stand-alone and networked games. Software providers will be able to show their latest packages and give hand-on tutorials for the participants. Companies will also have the opportunity to seek new talent at this event. The conference will cover two core tracks Artificial Intelligence Physics and Simulation a number of peripheral tracks Graphics Simulation and Techniques Facial, Avatar, NPC, 3D in Game Animation AI and Simulation Tools for games design Game Design Rendering Learning & Adaptation Intelligent/Knowledgeable Agents Collaboration & Multi-agent Systems Opponent Modelling Rendering Techniques Voice Interaction Artistic input to game and character design Storytelling and Natural Language Processing Security Issues in Online Gaming Some Special Sessions will be organised on: Networked gaming AIBO Based Gaming Applications Wargaming methodology and techniques applied to strategic game design using Campaign managers, character generators, terrain generators. Multiplayer wargaming and Web Wargaming Aerospace Simulations, Board Games etc.... Games for training. Games Console Design Tutorials, "Aren't we great" presentations, Student Demos. Students are encouraged to show demos of their work to the companies present at the conference. The best demo will receive a prize from the organizers. LOCATION AND VENUE The conference will be held at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; More information will be available on the web. POSTER SESSION The poster session only features work in progress. Next to the actual poster presentation, these submissions also feature as short papers in the Proceedings. STUDENTS SESSION This session is for students who want to present their work in progress or part of their doctoral thesis as a paper. Student papers are denoted by the fact that only the name of the student appears on the paper as an author. They are published as short papers in the Proceedings. DIVERSE ACTIVITIES For demonstrations or video sessions, please contact Philippe Geril. Special session will be set up for vendor presentations in co-ordination with the scientific program. User Group meetings for simulation languages and tools can be organised the day before the conference. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact the Conference Chairs. We will be happy to provide a meeting room and other necessary equipment. Partners for projects session(s) will be organised by EUROSIS to give potential project teams or individuals the opportunity to present their research in order to link up with fellow researchers for future research projects. Those wishing to participate in this session need to send a proposal to Philippe Geril EXHIBITION A special exhibition will be held during the conference focused on gaming tools. For more information please contact EUROSIS for further details. Email: Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be REGISTRATION FEES Registration Fees Author EUROSIS Other Members Participants Pre-reg before 485 EURO 485 EURO 535 EURO November 10th 2006 Reg after Pre-registration 535 EURO 595 EURO November 10th '2006 required Student authors pay: 250 EUR Students who register after November 10th and who are not authors pay 350 EUR. Before November 10, they pay 295 EUR. The registration fee includes a copy of the Proceedings, lunches, conference dinner, get-together party, coffee breaks, company visit and demonstrations. PAPER SUBMISSION TYPES FULL PAPER (including abstract, conclusions, diagrams, references) During review, the submitted full papers can be accepted as a regular 5 page paper. If excellent, full papers can be accepted by the program committee as an extended (8-page) paper. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the International Program Committee. EXTENDED ABSTRACT (at least five pages) Participants may also submit a 5 page extended abstract for a regular (5 pages) or short (3 pages) paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2006 Conference Proceedings. SHORT ABSTRACT (at least three pages) Participants may also submit a 3 page abstract for a short paper or poster, which will be reviewed by the International Program Committee. All accepted papers will be published in the GAMEON'2006 Conference Proceedings. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. All EUROSIS Proceedings are indexed by ISI-Thomson and IEE-INSPEC DEADLINES AND REQUIREMENTS Send all submissions in an ELECTRONIC FORM ONLY in uuencoded, zipped Microsoft Word format, PDF or Postscript format indicating the designated track and type of submission (full paper or an extended abstract) to EUROSIS (Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be). Please provide your name, affiliation, full mailing address, telephone / fax number and Email address on all submissions as well. For submissions please put in the subject of your Email the following indications: GAMEON2006 and designated track or USE THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION SITE!! Only original papers, which have not been published elsewhere, will be accepted for publication SUBMISSION DEADLINES EARLY BIRD SUBMISSION: JULY 31 SEPTEMBER 15 2006: Submit contributed full-papers (5 to 8 proceedings pages) not previously published. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular or extended papers, depending on their quality. Submit extended abstracts (5 abstract pages) or short papers (3 abstract pages), reports of industrial projects and summaries of posters. These submissions, when accepted will be published as regular, of up to 5 proceedings page papers. Submit one -to -three page proposals to present tutorials, to organise and chair panel sessions, to organise user meetings, vendor sessions or to exhibit software SEPTEMBER 15, 2006: Submit abstracts for student and poster session LATE PAPER SUBMISSION DATE: SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 15, 2006: Notification of Acceptance or Rejection NOVEMBER 10, 2006: Authors provide camera-ready manuscript NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 1, 2006: Conference OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD The 2006 GAMEON Conference Committee will select the Outstanding Paper of the Conference. The author of this paper will be awarded a free registration for a EUROSIS conference. Only papers SUBMITTED AS FULL papers will be eligible for the Outstanding Paper Award. LANGUAGE The official conference language for all papers and presentations is English. REPLY CARD First Name: Surname: Occupation and/or Title: Affiliation: Mailing Address Zip code: City: Country. Telephone: Fax: E-Mail: Yes, I intend to attend the GAMEON'2006: [ ] Presenting a paper, by submitting a full paper [ ] Presenting a short paper (by submitting an extended abstract) [ ] Participating in the industrial program [ ] Organizing a vendor session [ ] Proposing a panel discussion (please mention names of panellists) [ ] Contributing to the exhibition [ ] Without presenting a paper The provisional title of my paper / exhibited tool is: With the following highlights: The paper belongs to the category (please tick only one): [ ] Artificial Intelligence [ ] Physics and Simulation [ ] 3D Scalability [ ] Facial Animation [ ] Skeletal Animation and Fully Scaled Rendering [ ] 3-D in Game Animation [ ] Tools [ ] Design [ ] Rendering [ ] Security [ ] Voice Interaction [ ] Cognitive Psychology [ ] Artistic Input [ ] Wargaming [ ] Applications [ ] Games Console Design [ ] Networked Gaming [ ] AIBO Based Gaming [ ] European Projects [ ] Exhibition [ ] Poster session [ ] Student Session Other colleague(s) interested in the topics of the conference is/are: Name: Address: Name: Address: If you would like to receive more information about EUROSIS and its activities, please tick the following box: [ ] YES, I would like to know more about EUROSIS [ ] NO, please remove me from your database. Please email your reply or send or fax this card immediately to: (fax: +32.9.264.58.25) CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS Philippe Geril EUROSIS European Simulation Office Ghent University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept.of Industrial Management, Technologiepark 903 , B-9052, Zwijnaarde-Ghent, Belgium. Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Email: philippe.geril(a)biomath.ugent.be www.eurosis.org -- Philippe Geril Tel: +32.9.264.55.09 EUROSIS -ETI Fax: +32.9.264.58.25 Ghent University E-mail: Philippe.Geril(a)biomath.ugent.be Dept.of Industrial Mgmt. E-mail: pgeril(a)yahoo.co.uk Technologiepark 903 E-mail: philippe.geril(a)eurosis.org Campus Ardoyen URL: http://www.eurosis.org B-9052 Ghent-Zwijnaarde URL: http://biomath.ugent.be/~eurosis Belgium URL: http://www.sim-center.net ********************************************************************* * Your Scientific information site on * * Computer Simulation - Concurrent Engineering - Multimedia- Games * * WWW.EUROSIS.ORG * *********************************************************************

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: ACM PE-WASUN'06]
by Lars Wolf 02 May '06

02 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM PE-WASUN'06 Datum: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:28:47 -0400 Von: CFP ACM PE-WASUN 2006 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM* PE-WASUN 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd ACM* International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06 Torremolinos, Malaga, SPAIN, October 2-6, 2006 Jointly with the 9th ACM/IEEE * MSWiM Symposium http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 *ACM/IEEE Pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modeling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop brings together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Probabilistic or predictive performance models and analysis of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Mobility modeling and management - Analytical modeling - Simulation methods - Tracing and trace analysis - Performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Software tools for automatic network performance and evaluation - Network performance improvements by optimization algorithms - Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: Lichun Bao University of California, Irvine, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous INRIA/CITI, Lyon, France Technical Program Committee Members: Khalid Al-Begain Univ. of Glamorgan, UK Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, USA Paolo Bellavista University of Trento, Italy Brahim Bensaou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mario Gerla UCLA, USA Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Ben Liang University of Toronto, Canada Zhen Liu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain Kenichi Mase Niigata University, Japan Jelena Misic University of Manitoba (Canada) Mohamed Naimi University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Guy Pujolle UniversitÃ©aris 6, France Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil Mineo Takai University of California, Los Angeles, USA Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Fabrice Valois Insa de Lyon, France Publicity Chair: Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present his paper. Paper should be submitted on PE-WASUN web site: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06/authors.html. Paper length should be no mo re than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) ca n be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/tem plate.html. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. A special issue will be planned in a scholarly journal to include selected high-quality papers from the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 10th, 2006 Camera ready due: TBA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet 2006) Datum: Mon, 01 May 2006 10:05:30 -0700 Von: Wei Ye <weiye(a)ISI.EDU> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Our Apologies if you have received multiple copies of the CFP. Volkan Rodoplu and Wei Ye WUWNet 2006 Publicity Co-Chairs ----------------------------------------------------- The First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet 2006) http://wuwnet.engr.uconn.edu/ In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 September 29, 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE ----------------------------------------------------- Overview & Scope **************** The oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and represent one of the least explored frontiers, yet the oceans are integral to climate regulation, nutrient production, oil retrieval and transportation. As such, there is significant interest in monitoring aquatic environments for scientific, environmental, commercial, safety, and military reasons. While there is a need for highly precise, real-time, fine grained spatio-temporal sampling of the ocean environment, current methods such as remote telemetry and sequential local sensing cannot satisfy current needs, let alone future needs. The notion of an underwater network is relatively new due to the lack of maturity of underwater acoustic communication. However, networks are necessary in order to achieve the monitoring goals noted above. The physical challenges of acoustic underwater communication require us to completely re-think how a network should be designed and deployed in this environment. Challenges to be overcome by underwater acoustic modem and network designers include: severely limited range-dependent bandwidth and attenuation, extensive time-varying multipath propagation, and low speed of sound propagation in water resulting in long propagation delays. Moreover, a unique feature of underwater networks is that the environment is constantly mobile, naturally causing the node passive mobility. All the above distinct features of underwater networks yield new challenges for every level of the network protocol suite. The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers and practioners in areas relevant to underwater networks. Thus, many layers of the "stack" from the physical layer to the application layer will be represented. The objective is to serve as a forum for presenting state of the art research, exchanging ideas and experiences, and facilitating interaction and collaboration. The workshop will span one day, including presentations of technical papers, tutorial/survey papers, a panel session and a poster/demo session. Submissions for regular technical papers and poster/demo extended abstracts should describe original research, not published or currently under review for other workshops, conferences, or journals. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Network architecture design - Efficient acoustic communications - Cooperative underwater communications - Medium access control - Routing and forwarding - Reliable data transfer - Security and robustness - Power management - Data storage and management - Localization and synchronization - Data fusion, dissemination, tracking - Network modeling and simulations - Capacity analysis - New techniques for aquatic applications - New applications for underwater networks Submission Guidelines ********************* All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be in PDF format, no longer than 8 pages for regular papers (10 pages for tutorial/survey papers and 4 pages for poster/demo papers), and must follow ACM single-space, double-column format, 10 pt. Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and novelty through a rigorous review process. Over-length papers will be automatically rejected. Detailed instructions for paper submission are posted on the workshop website. Important Dates *************** Submission deadline: June 30, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 28, 2006 Camera-ready version: August 11, 2006 Workshop date: September 29, 2006 Organizing Committee ******************** General Co-chairs: Jun-Hong Cui (University of Connecticut) Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California) Technical Program Co-chairs: Kevin Fall (Intel Research, Berkeley) Milica Stojanovic (MIT/WHOI) Publicity Co-chairs: Volkan Rodoplu (University of California, Santa Barbara) Wei Ye (USC/ISI) Treasurer: Shengli Zhou (University of Connecticut) Publications Chair: Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University) Technical Program Committee *************************** Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology) Lee Freitag (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles) João Pedro Gomes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal) John Heidemann (USC/ISI) Ronald A. Iltis (University of California, Santa Barbara) Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore) Joseph A. Rice (Naval Postgraduate School) Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles) Yongguang Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Michele Zorzi (Universita'di Ferrara, Italy) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP -- IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07), Jan. 2007]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP -- IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07), Jan. 2007 Datum: Mon, 01 May 2006 09:57:54 -0500 Von: Yi Shang <shangy(a)missouri.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE COPIES ******************************************************************************************* - 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 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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CHINACOM2006 deadline has been extended to May 15th, 2006
by Yabin Ye 01 May '06

01 May '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, We have received a very large number of submissions and also a large number of requests for extension. Consequently the deadline has been extended to May 15th, 2006. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Submission Deadline, May 15th, 2006) CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China October 25-27, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> All accepted papers will be indexed by Engineering Information (EI) and be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. Extended Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2006 Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net, ICST In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE, VTS, APS, CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE (pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Dongjin Wang, USTC, China Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., China Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA Tan Wong, Univ. of Florida, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research 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. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks OSS/BSS/NGOSS Data mining Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 15th, 2006 (Extended) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Special issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine: IP Multimedia Subsystem]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Special issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine: IP Multimedia Subsystem Datum: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:41:01 +0800 Von: Dr. Daniel Wong <daniel_wong(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *Call For Papers* * Special Issue on IMS as Service Delivery Platform for Converged Networks: Architecture, Protocols, and Applications * *IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine* The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is globally considered as the common platform for providing a unified session control on top of various access network technologies for realizing flexible multimedia applications. IMS is also driving the notion of Next Generation Networks and Fixed Mobile Convergence by merging the fixed and mobile telecommunication networks with the Internet and the adoption of IP technologies within the telecom domain. >From a technology perspective the IMS represents conceptually a combination of fixed and mobile networks from the telecom domain with emerging VoIP and Internet applications in order to implement a seamless multimedia service environment. The international standardization of IMS was initiated by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in 2000 and has resulted in first commercial implementations and first trial deployments around the world providing first experiences. The introduction of IMS is challenged today by the questions around business cases, IMS killer applications, migration strategies and interworking issues with existing and upcoming network and service platforms in converging networks. *Topics* In this special issue we would like to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in IMS platform and applications development and deployment around the world. In addition, we want to identify upcoming research areas around IMS and investigate potential solutions in these areas. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to: - IMS applications: IMS vs. Internet services, new IMS enabled multimedia applications, application servers, feature interactions, service orchestration, 3rd party interfaces, service creation toolkit, experiences with IMS combinational services - IMS and multimedia telephony, IMS and network convergence - IMS in mobile networks: PoC/PTT to IMS evolution, voice call continuity between IMS and legacy mobile networks - IMS and triple play, IMS/IPTV/iTV integration, IMS for broadcasting - IMS and access network integration and QoS issues for 3G, WLAN, WIMAX, WiBro, etc. - IMS core issues: security, performance/scalability, benchmarking, interoperability - Global IMS standards updates: IETF, 3GPP, ETSI TISPAN, OMA, etc. - IMS client standardization and implementation, IMS SIM card issues - Introduction strategies around the world for network operators Papers should be of tutorial nature and contain state-of-the-art research and development materials. Authors must follow the IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript format. For further information, please refer to IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine website at * http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/* <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/>. All papers should be submitted with email attachment (in PDF format) to one the editors listed below. *Important Dates:* Manuscript submission due: July 1, 2006 Acceptance notification; September 30, 2006 Final manuscript due: November 1, 2006 Publication: February, 2007 Associate Editor Guest Editor Guest Editor Vijay K. Varma Telcordia USA vvarma(a)telcordia.com Thomas Magedanz TU Berlin / FhG FOKUS Germany Magedanz(a)fokus.fhg.de K.C. Chua ECE / National University of Singapore chuakc(a)nus.edu.sg _______________________________________________ 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 WMuNeP'06]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM WMuNeP'06 Datum: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:13:09 -0400 Von: CFP ACM WMuNeP 2006 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM* WMuNeP 2006 Second ACM International Workhop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP '06) http://www.dc.ufscar.br/wmunep06/ To be held jointly with the 9th ACM MSWiM 2006 October 2-6th, 2006 Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 *ACM Pending Approval -------------------------------------------------------------------- Due date: June 10th, 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Selected papers will be published on a special issue of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Second ACM International Workhop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP '06) will be a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 9th Annual ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiMÂŽ06). The demand for wireless multimedia communications thrives in today's consumer and corporate market. The need to evolve multimedia applications and services, and their associated protocols for emerging networks is at a critical point given the proliferation and integration of wireless systems to intelligent and broadband networks, mobility of people, data/voice convergence and the integration of computing and communication in mobile devices. This workshop is devoted to cover different aspects of wireless multimedia networking and performance modeling for WLANs, WPANs, WMANs, WWANs, MANETs and sensor networks such as wireless video and wireless streaming, systematic design methodologies, algorithms, synchronization, analysis and performance modeling. The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above high-level aspects. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Wireless multimedia network management - Wireless multimedia traffic modeling - Middleware and reflective systems support for wireless multimedia - Proxy-based systems for video transcoding and content distribution - Performance modeling, monitoring and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks and systems - Multipoint, multicast wireless multimedia services - Deployment of wireless multimedia applications, services and networks - Protocols for wireless multimedia networks - QoS in wireless multimedia networks - Integration of wireless multimedia networks to broadband networks - End-to-end IP multimedia wireless communications - Coding and transmission for wireless multimedia networks - Distributed wireless multimedia services - Content-based wireless multimedia information retrieval tools - Video, streaming, real-time wireless multimedia communications and applications - Security in wireless multimedia networks - Wireless multimedia right protection and watermarking - Pricing mechanisms for wireless multimedia networks - E-Commerce and related applications for wireless multimedia networks - Multimedia evaluation and processing for wireless networks - Cross layer design for wireless multimedia networks - Analytical modeling of wireless multimedia networks - Software tools for system performance and evaluation of wireless multimedia networks - Performance comparison of wireless multimedia networks - Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of systems --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: Submission deadline: June 10th, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2006 Camera ready papers: TBA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present his/her paper. Paper length should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) can be found here. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Papers must be submitted electronically via the JEMS system (Brazilian EDAS). Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: - a paper title - a short abstract - a complete list of authors and their affiliations - a contact person for correspondence (please check the correct e-mail is configured on JEMS system) WMuNeP 2006 electronic submission is now active on the JEMS system (Brazilian EDAS) at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/wmunep2006. Once you are a registered JEMS user, this link will address you directly to the WMuNeP 2006 Paper Submission page. Important - For any question or problem related to WMuNeP 2006, please contact wmunep2006(a)dc.ufscar.br --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Co-Chairs: Prof. Regina B. Araujo Federal University of S?o Carlos S?o Carlos, SP, Brazil regina(a)dc.ufscar.br Prof. Hussein M Alnuweiri University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada hussein(a)ece.ubc.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: Hussein Alnuweiri, University of British Columbia, Canada Rossana Andrade, Federal University of Ceara, Brazil Regina Araujo, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno, CNR, Italy Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Zihua Guo, Lenovo Corporate R&D, China Anna Hac, University of Hawaii, USA Hai Jiang, University of Waterloo, Canada Victor Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada Wei Li, University of Toledo, USA Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Antonio A. F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Andreas Meissner, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jander Moreira, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil Mirela S. M. Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Jianping Pan, NTT MCL, USA Bjorn Pehrson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan Murat Uysal, University of Waterloo, Canada Qi Xue, Qualcomm Inc., USA Yang Yang, University College London, UK Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: ACM Q2SWinet'06]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: ACM Q2SWinet'06 Datum: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:03:16 -0400 Von: CFP ACM Q2SWinet 2006 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM Q2SWinet 2006 2nd ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks http://137.122.93.16/qoswinet2/ October 2-6, 2006 Torremolinos, (Malaga), Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In Conjunction with the 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. (www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DUE DATE: June 10th, 2006 ========================= Scope The 2nd ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet) will take place in Torremolinos,Malaga,Spain, in conjunction with MSWiM 06, the 9th ACM Int'l Symposium International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. Call for Papers In recent years, wireless and mobile communication systems have become increasingly popular as an inexpensive and promising means for ubiquitous communications. However, without creating a new set of issues and trade-offs, QoS and Security management of wireless and mobile communication systems are becoming a very crucial phase for future generation of wireless and mobile networks. This workshop focus upon the study of all aspects of QoS and Security, for wireless and mobile networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o- Wireless and mobile network security o- QoS for wireless networks (WLAN, PCS, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Wireless Mesh, etc. ) o- Intrusion detection in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks o- Privacy and authentication o- QoS and Security for Heterogenous Networks o- Fault Tolerant and Energy Aware Issues o- QoS for wireless multimedia systems, VoIP QoS o- Quality of control of wireless networks o- Power and energy management o- Wireless video surveillance networks o- QoS in the Wireless Internet o- QoS and Routing o- QoS Metrics o- QoS of Wireless Network Services o- Wireless Network Survivability o- QoS and Reliability o- Image Quality in Wireless Video-Surveillance Networks o- QoS provisioning in wireless multimedia systems o- Wireless and mobile systems and applications o- Performance Modeling and Simulation Techniques o- Real-time and QoS-aware wireless sensor networks o- VoIP Management and Security o- Peer-to-peer security issues for VoIP deployments Q2SWinet Paper submission related dates: Paper submission deadline: June 10th, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2006 Camera-ready paper due: TBA IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY Submission Guidelines High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present its paper. Paper length should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables, figures and references. Papers must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info/). For any question or problem related to Q2SWinet 2006 submission, please Check http://137.122.93.16/qoswinet2/ Additional questions can be directed to Q2SWinet Program Co-Chairs, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Co-Chairs Prof. A. Boukerche Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen SITE, University of Ottawa, National Sun Yat-Sen University Ottawa, Canada Tawain, ROC boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca hshwchen(a)mail.nsysu.edu.tw Mirela Sechi M. A. Notare Barddal University, Florianapolis, Brazil mnotare(a)computer.org Program Committee Dharma Agrawal, (Univ. Of Cincinnati, USA) S. Aggarwal, (Florida State University) F. Anjum, (Telcordia Tech.) M. Barbeau, (Carleton University, Canada) G. Bianchi, (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) K. El-Khatib, (National Research Council of Canada) E. Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada) Y. Hu (Anhui University, P. R.. China) A. Loureiro, (UFMG, Brasil) A. Mellouk (University of Paris XII, France) G. Min (Univ. of Bradford, UK) M. Notare (Barddal Univ., Brasil) T. Huang, (University of Ottawa, Canada) N. Abu-Ghazaleh, (State University of New York, Binghamton) S. Fahmy, (Purdue University, USA) S. Kartalopoulos, (University of Oklahoma, USA) N. Nasser, (University of Guelph) S. Nikoletseas, (Univ. of Patras and CTI, Greece) S. Olariu, (Old Dominion University, USA) G. Pujolle, (University of Paris) K. Sivalingam, (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA) V. Syrotiuk, (Arizona State University, USA) A. Zomaya (Univ. of Sydney, Australia)

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[Fwd: CFPs The 14th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM2006) 31]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFPs The 14th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM2006) 31 Datum: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:10:15 -0500 Von: bezalel Gavish <gavishb2000(a)sbcglobal.net> Antwort an: bezalel Gavish <gavishb2000(a)sbcglobal.net> An: bgavish <gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com> *The 14th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems - Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM2006) * *October 5-8, 2006* *Penn** **State** **University** Berks, **Reading** ,** **PA* *http://atsma.org/ICTSM2006/* *Description of the Conference: * The ICTSM 2006 takes an interdisciplinary approach to Telecommunications in that both researchers and practitioners from industry and academia are encouraged to present on a wide area of telecommunication-related research issues. The objective is to advance the state of the modeling and analysis in telecommunications by stimulating research activity on new and important problems. This conference will mark the first where undergraduate research in telecommunications will be given its own track to highlight the work being done in smaller institutions and on class research projects with industry. Listed below are topics covered in past conferences; these are not meant to be an exclusive list and novel ideas/topics are encouraged: *Telecom technologies/networks* * Mobility and nomadicity * IPv6 and related issues * Cellular and MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc) networks * Topological design and network configuration problems * Low, medium, and geostationary earth orbit satellite communication systems * Broadband wireless networks * Telecommunication network availability and survivability * Network design problems in gigabit and Terabit networks * Artificial intelligence/heuristics in telecommunication systems * Fiber-optics and photonics * Protocols for telecommunications *Telecom policies * * Pricing and the economic analysis of telecommunications * Policies for transitioning between telecommunication technologies * Telecommunication standards * Impact of telecommunications on the industrial organization * Convergence regulations *Telecom management* * Nature of trust in telecommunication-based systems * Quantitative methods in network management * Reliability of telecommunication systems and components * LAN, WAN global network interconnection * Performance evaluation of telecommunication systems * Internet and its impact on commerce * Decision support technologies in telecommunications *Social issues of telecom * * Organizational impact of modern telecommunication systems * International aspects of telecommunications * Security and privacy issues in telecommunications * Telecommunication to support healthcare systems * Telecommunications in Transportation * Global Internet infrastructure issues with respect to the global war on terrorism ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Organizers: * The ICTSM was founded and organized by Professor Bezalel Gavish, Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business at Southern Methodist University. Drs. Mike Bartolacci, Abdullah Konak, and Dong-Hee Shin will be responsible for the local organization of the conference at Penn State Berks. In the past, the conference has been held at Vanderbilt (Nashville , TN ), Southern Methodist ( Dallas , TX ), and the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, CA ).* * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Contributed Submissions Papers and Abstracts: * Submissions may be of one of two types: 1. One to two page extended abstract (after acceptance a full paper may be substituted for inclusion in the proceedings) 2. Five to fifteen page full paper Full papers relating to wireless communications will be considered for a special issue of the International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation to be edited by Dr. Bartolacci. Other papers will be considered for the journal Telecommunication Systems edited by Dr. Gavish. All contributed submissions will be reviewed by members of the conference program committee for their applicability/potential interest for conference attendees and merit. Formal announcements of acceptance will be sent out following the end of the review period. Authors can submit an abstract or full paper by e-mail to Dr. Bezalel Gavish at gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com <mailto:gavishb2000@yahoo.com>.* * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Organized Sessions * Researchers may organize sessions with three to four presentations and associated abstracts or papers. Organized sessions require that all presentations/abstracts/papers deal with a similar research area or theme. A researcher may email Dr. Gavish (gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com <mailto:gavishb2000@yahoo.com>) or Dr. Bartolacci (mrb24(a)psu.edu) with details for the proposed organized session in order to get approval for its inclusion. Organized sessions are particularly attractive for faculty in research centers or groups of students working on similar research topics. Once approved, the organizer of the session is responsible for ensuring that all presenters submit their abstracts or papers by the deadline and register.* * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Formatting for Accepted Paper/Abstract Submissions * Final guidelines for the formatting of papers and abstracts will be available on the conference website following the acceptance process. Even if an extended abstract is submitted and accepted for the conference, a full paper may then subsequently submitted for inclusion in the printed proceedings and for journal consideration. *Important Dates:* May 15, 2006 : Deadline for contributed paper or abstract submission June 15, 2006 : Notification of acceptance decisions on contributed papers and abstracts, *Deadline for proposals of organized sessions:* August 1, 2006 : Deadline for organized sessions August 15, 2006 : Deadline for final versions of papers and abstracts for proceedings August 15, 2006 : Deadline for early registration Professor Bezalel Gavish Eugene J. and Ruth F. Constantin Distinguished Chair in Business Editor-in-Chief Electronic Commerce Research Journal Editor-in-Chief Telecommunication Systems Journal Edwin L. Cox School of Business Southern Methodist University POB 750333 Dallas, TX 75275-0333 E-mail: gavishb2000(a)yahoo.com <mailto:gavishb2000@yahoo.com> Tell: (214) 750-8474 FAX (775) 860-7130 skype gavishb2000 (no blanks)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] First International Workshop on "Wireless mesh: moving towards applications" (WiMeshNets 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 01 May '06

01 May '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] First International Workshop on "Wireless mesh: moving towards applications" (WiMeshNets 2006) Datum: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:15:28 +0200 Von: Nicola Scalabrino <nicola.scalabrino(a)iit.cnr.it> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, manet(a)ietf.org, sigmobile-l(a)acm.uiuc.edu CALL FOR PAPERS WiMeshNets 2006 (http://wimeshnets.org) First International Workshop on "Wireless mesh: moving towards applications" (Co-located with QShine 2006, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) August 10, 2006 Recent advances in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) provide promising opportunities in communication paradigms. WMNs do not depend on wired communication infrastructure and their mesh connectivity provides inherent built-in redundancy. This makes them also good candidates for providing an alternative communication mechanism in the face of disasters when normal communication infrastructure is destroyed. WMNs build upon multi-hop forwarding of data packets from access nodes towards gateways to the fixed network and thus share many properties of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. So far almost all existing research effort related to Mobile Ad Hoc networks has been based mostly on the assumptions that the nodes are highly mobile and are mainly battery operated. Thus, most of the protocols and mechanisms try to conserve energy and cope with frequent topology changes. In WMNs these assumptions can be relaxed which enables the design of new protocols and services for WMNs. Supporting any application over wireless mesh networks is however a challenging task due to the multi-hop forwarding of packets which also limits the scalability of WMNs. Nevertheless, WMNs have promising commercial potential as they are supposed to provide cheap wireless network coverage and access. Towards this aim the traditional approaches to routing and to service provisioning should be reconsidered taking into account the intrinsic characteristics of WMNs and those of new and emerging applications. This could pave the way to the assessment of this technology which is expected to conquer new markets in the next few years by taking advantage of the growth of heterogeneous networks. Authors are invited to submit original full papers not currently under review by other conferences on any aspect of “Wireless mesh: moving towards applications”. 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: • Architectures for Wireless Mesh Networks • Middleware support in Wireless Mesh Networks • Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks • Fairness Issues for Wireless Mesh Networks • Multicasting and Broadcasting issues in Wireless Mesh Networks • Security and Intrusion Detection for Wireless Mesh Networks • Handoff and mobility management in Wireless Mesh Networks • System prototypes and experimental evaluation of Wireless Mesh Networks • Scheduling and Queuing mechanisms to provide QoS in Wireless Mesh Networks • Gaming applications over Wireless Mesh Networks • Service level agreement and mesh organization • Modeling and Performance Evaluation • Seamless internetworking with other type of networks (like sensor networks) • Cross Layer Design and Interactions in Wireless Mesh Networks • Transport Layer Protocols over Wireless Mesh Networks • Deployment and configuration management • Voice and Video over Wireless Mesh Networks • Traffic Modeling • Mesh Networking Proposal Standards for IEEE 802(R) Wireless Lans • Authentication, Charging and Cooperation for Wireless Mesh Networks Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent experts in the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the same manner as those of QShine, and will be available from the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers will be required to register in order for the paper to appear in the workshop proceedings. Important dates Full paper manuscript due: May 12, 2006 Midnight US EST Acceptance Notification: June 13, 2006 Camera ready manuscripts due: June 30, 2006 Workshop date: August 10, 2006 Submission Instructions Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in English language. Papers are limited to 5 two-column pages, in a font no smaller than 10-points, IEEE conference proceedings format. Papers should be submitted to the respective symposium through COCUS systems at http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Authors of accepted papers are required to register at regular registration rates in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Organizing Committee Workshop Chair: Giovanni Iacovoni, CreateNet, Italy (giovanni.iacovoni(a)create-net.it) Technical Program Committee Chair: Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden (kassler(a)ieee.org) Publicity Chair: Nicola Scalabrino, CreateNet, Italy (nicola.scalabrino(a)create-net.it) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Spam:*****] CFP Reminder: 9th ACM/IEEE MSWiM Symposium 2006]
by Lars Wolf 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Spam:*****] CFP Reminder: 9th ACM/IEEE MSWiM Symposium 2006 Datum: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:09:26 -0400 Von: CFP ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2006 <conf(a)site.uottawa.ca> An: undisclosed-recipients:; CC: rshaikh(a)site.uottawa.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers The 9th ACM/IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems Torremolinos, SPAIN October 2--6, 2006 http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ACM and IEEE pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline: May 8th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Scope and Overview: ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2006 is the Ninth Annual International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. MSWiM is an international forum dedicated to high level discussion of Wireless and Mobile systems, networks, algorithms and applications, with an emphasis on rigorous performance evaluation. MSWiM is a highly selective conference that is recognized as one of the most prestigious sources of innovative ideas and breakthroughs in the field. MSWiM 2006 will be held October 2 to 6, 2006, in sunny Terremolinos, in Spain. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. *Topics of Interest. Papers related to wireless and mobile network Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Simulation are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics: - Analytical Models - New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems - Design methodologies - Performance evaluation and modeling - Formal methods for analysis of wireless systems - Wireless Network Protocols - Wireless Multimedia Systems - Tools, Prototype and Testbeds - Wireless PANs, LANs - Survivability and reliability evaluation - Ad Hoc Networks - Traffic measurements and models for wireless networks - Sensor and Actuator Networks - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Pervasive computing and emerging models - QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks - Integration of wired and wireless systems - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Mobility modeling and management - Algorithms and protocols for energy efficent operation and power control - Mobile applications, system software and algorithms - Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems Submission instructions and publication will be published on the conference web site shortly (http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM press. * Submission instructions and publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Instructions for paper submission will be posted at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006/ Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by ACM. A Journal Special Issue will be planned which will contain selected papers from MSWiM. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Important Dates: Paper submission deadline May 8 2006 Notification of acceptance July 5 2006 Tutorial submission deadline July 5th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs: Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini(a)polito.it Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain Email: eat(a)lcc.uma.es Program Committee Chairs: Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Email: cigno(a)dit.unitn.it Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Email: nael(a)cs.binghamton.edu Poster Co-Chairs: Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patra, Greece Email: nikole(a)cti.gr Steve Olariu Old Dominion University, USA Email: olariu(a)cs.odu.edu Tutorial Chair Mineo Takai University of Los Angeles, California, USA Email: mineo(a)cs.ucla.edu Local Organization Chair: Enrique Alba, University of Malaga, Spain Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada

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[Fwd: WiCOM 2006 Call for Papers Deadline: 30 May 2006]
by Sven Lahde 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: WiCOM 2006 Call for Papers Deadline: 30 May 2006 Datum: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:57:12 -0400 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org WiCOM 2006 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING AND MOBILE COMPUTING (formerly WCNM) www.arcst.whu.edu.cn/wicom 22-24 September 2006 \ Wuhan City, China Sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society and Wuhan University, China CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: 30 May 2006 Relevant topics of interest include, but not limited to the following: Wireless Communication Technology OFDM, MIMO, space time coding UWB and impulse radio Wireless and mobile channel modeling 3G & 4G technologies and applications Software radio design and applications Bluetooth, 802.11a/b/g technology and applications RFID technology and applications Design, implementation, and evaluation of wireless systems Networking and System Wireless sensors networks Ad Hoc networks QoS in wireless networks Handoff in mobile networks Network protocols for mobile and wireless networks Mobile gateway design and development Application and Value Added Services Mobile Computing systems, applications and services Mobile network security, privacy, authorization, and billing Voice over IP Multimedia encoding, decoding, and transmission scheme Data management for mobile and wireless applications Operating systems for mobile devices and embedded systems You can obtain more information about submitting papers at www.ieee-wicom.org. To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: CFP: VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks]
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP: VANET 2006, The Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks Datum: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:20:11 -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 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 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 Hubeaux, 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] Mobicom Demos (fwd)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Mobicom Demos (fwd) Datum: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Von: Prasant Mohapatra <prasant(a)cs.ucdavis.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for Research Demonstrations and Exhibits Mobicom 2006 September, Los Angeles, USA. ACM MobiCom 2006, the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is the twelfth in a series of annual conferences sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE dedicated to addressing the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking. MobiCom is a highly selective conference focusing on all issues in mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking at the link layer and above. MobiCom 2006 will be held in September 2006 in Los Angeles, California. 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: Paper submissions due: 1st June 2006 Notification of acceptance: 30th June 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Reminder: WCAN'06 - 2nd Workshop on Cryptography for Ad hoc Networks - deadline in less than a week]
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Reminder: WCAN'06 - 2nd Workshop on Cryptography for Ad hoc Networks - deadline in less than a week Datum: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Von: Giovanni Di Crescenzo <giovanni(a)research.telcordia.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu *Apologies for multiple copies* WCAN'06 2nd Workshop on Cryptography for Ad hoc Networks July 16th, 2006 location: S. Servolo Island, Venice, Italy A Satellite Workshop of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2006) web page: http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/wcan06/wcan06page.html ________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless ad hoc networks are today receiving a lot of attention for militar, commercial and civilian applications, thus raising several challenging security, privacy and anonimity research questions. The security research community has mainly focused on securing routing and is only recently widening its scope of analysis to other security areas. The cryptography research community has mainly focused on abstract models of networks like the Internet; however, cryptographic protocols for the Internet face serious challenges to be adapted to the ad-hoc, partial-connectivity, mobile, resource-constrained and infrastructureless nature of ad-hoc networks. The aim of this workshop is to help bridging this gap, towards a more comprehensive investigation of security and cryptographic tools, analysis and modeling methodologies over ad hoc networks, by bringing together the cryptography, network security, and wireless networking communities. We seek submissions containing original research on all aspects of cryptology that are motivated by their applicability to ad hoc networks, including wireless, cellular, sensor, mesh, peer-to-peer and RFID-based networks. Short surveys of related sub-areas are also encouraged. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics that are of interest to this workshop, when clearly motivated by and clearly focusing on ad hoc networks (cryptology papers not focusing on or not describing applications to ad hoc networks do not fit in the workshop interest area): - Modeling of cryptographic tasks - Solutions to cryptographic tasks under party mobility - Solutions to cryptographic tasks under resource constraints - Secure routing - Bootstrapping of security associations - Distributed public-key infrastructures - Key-agreement, key-management and key-(pre)distribution - Entity authentication - Trust establishment - Privacy-enhancing technologies - Threshold cryptography - Identity-Based cryptography - Policy-based cryptography - Secure multi-party protocols - Security in distributed algorithms and protocols ________________________________ Important Dates: Paper submissions due:April 30th, 2006 Notifications to the authors:May 30th, 2006 Camera-ready papers dueJune 14th, 2006 ICALP 06 ConferenceJuly 9-16 2006 WCAN 06 WorkshopJuly 16th, 2006 ________________________________ Author Instructions: Two Paper Categories: Regular papers and Surveys. (Please explicitly specify category in the title, for example "Survey Paper: All Cryptographic Schemes for Ad Hoc Networks".) Submission Instructions: Submissions need to be at most 8-page long in a standard one-column format (suggested format: LaTeX, in article style), excluding appendices. Authors can e-mail their submission (including title, abstract, and keywords in the first page) in .pdf or .ps format to wcan06chair(a)research.telcordia.com, specifying in the e-mail title and authors of the submission Submitted papers must be original work that is authorized to be released and does not substantially duplicate work that has been previously published or is currently being refereed for publication in another workshop, conference or journal. Papers accepted to this workshop will be published on the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS). Authors of accepted papers will need to write their final version in LaTeX, using ENTCS style files, and send the resulting .pdf file ________________________________ Program Chairs: Giovanni Di Crescenzo (Telcordia Technologies, NJ, USA). Luigi V. Mancini (Universita' degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy). ________________________________ Program Committee: Giuseppe Ateniese (Johns Hopkins University) David Carman (Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab) Yvo Desmedt (University College London) Giovanni Di Crescenzo (co-chair, Telcordia Technologies) Roberto Di Pietro (Universita' degli Studi di Roma) Renwei Ge (University of Delaware) Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland) Luigi V. Mancini (co-chair, Universita' degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza) Refik Molva (Eurecom Institute) Sanjeev Setia (George Mason University) Ravi Sundaram (Northeastern University) Gene Tsudik (University of California Irvine) Serge Vaudenay (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) Sencun Zhu (Pennsylvania State University) ________________________________ Contact: wcan06chair AT research DOT telcordia DOT com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc _______________________________________________ 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 Mobile Video - Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (Elsevier)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Mobile Video - Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal (Elsevier) Datum: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:18:01 +0300 Von: Ozgur B. Akan <akan(a)ece.gatech.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies for the multiple copies of this CFP. ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS SIGNAL PROCESSING: IMAGE COMMUNICATION JOURNAL (ELSEVIER) Special Issue on MOBILE VIDEO http://www.MobiMedia.org/MobileVideo ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* Video communication over wireless networks is destined to become pervasive in daily life and a pillar for key emerging telecommunication services. The success of advanced services in mobile environments requires integrative approaches embracing video signal processing and networking technology. The interlinking of these research fields is fostering the development of underlying technology and workflows for mobile video. These technologies, generally hidden to the user, will be pre-requisite to allow for efficient multimedia support of digital communication and leisure time over wireless channels. This special issue will report the results of latest research efforts on video communication in mobile environments. The main goal of this special issue is to collate and disseminate the most relevant achievements of researchers working on video signal processing and communication for mobile applications. High quality contributions addressing related theoretical and practical aspects are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Low-bit rate video coding * Scalable video coding for wireless communication channels * Error control resilience and concealment * Multiple video descriptions for wireless communications * Video transcoding for heterogeneous wireless channels interoperability * Video streaming over wireless channels * Video communication in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks * Mobile video multicast * Quality measurement for mobile video * Mobile video testbeds and applications Submission Procedure -------------------- Prospective contributors are invited to submit papers according to the instructions in the ''Information for Authors'' on the back cover of a recent issue of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal. Authors should submit their manuscripts in PDF format through the COCUS Conference Management System. If you are not a COCUS user yet, you need to register at first. Then, select SPIC-MobileVideo from the ''Events' list'' page and follow the instructions to submit your manuscript. Selected papers on mobile video submitted to MobiMedia 2006 (www.MobiMedia.org) will also be considered for publication in this special issue. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for Manuscript Submission: May 12, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006 Camera-Ready Papers Due: September 15, 2006 Publication Date: January 2007 Guest Editors ------------- Luigi Atzori (l.atzori(a)diee.unica.it) DIEE, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy Ebroul Izquierdo (ebroul.izquierdo(a)elec.qmul.ac.uk) Multimedia and Vision Lab, Queen Mary, University of London London, UK Pascal Frossard (pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch) EPFL, Signal Processing Institute Lausanne, Switzerland Ozgur B. Akan (akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr) Dept. of Electrical Eng. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey -- Dr. Ozgur B. Akan Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey 06531 Tel: +90-312-210 2353 Fax: +90-312-210 1261 E-mail: akan(a)eee.metu.edu.tr http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~akan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT Papers to China Communications Magazine]
by Lars Wolf 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT Papers to China Communications Magazine Datum: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:50:05 +0200 Von: Arturo Azcorra <azcorra(a)it.uc3m.es> Antwort an: <azcorra(a)it.uc3m.es> An: <members(a)ist-e-next.net> Dear Friends, Please find enclosed below a call for papers for a special number of China Communications. This is a magazine with extensive circulation in China, in which I think that the results of our workgroups in E-NEXT would fit very well. This would also imply "reaching out" and try to disseminate the results of E-NEXT in such a booming and promising place as China. I received the news today, but the deadline is quite short: 15th May. I make advantage of this e-mail to give you the latest news on the review. I was told that we would receive the results tomorrow, so I will circulate them as soon as I get them. Best regards, Arturo ========================================================== China Communications Call for Papers Feature Topic: Next Generation Networks Guest Editors: Houjie Bi, Shiduan Cheng, Leping Wei, Andrzej Jajszczyk Submission deadline: May 15, 2006 Publication date: late June 2006 Submit papers to Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Email: jajszczyk(a)kt.agh.edu.pl China Communications (Bimonthly) is an international English language journal launched by China Institute of Communications with the objective of academic exchange around the world. China Communications is open to the whole world with the purpose of achieving an open forum for discussing and sharing information on communications. To achieve this ambitious goal, a strong Editorial Board has been established and a group of authoritative and knowledgeable national and international experts have been invited to provide guidance and support. China Communications takes a broad view of the information and communications development and provides the latest internal and external information. Major columns include: China report, Global vision, Policy forum, Technology forum, Special features, News and statistics, etc. It covers a variety of topics, including communications development policies, standards, planning, designing, enterprise management success stories, as well as the latest development of technologies, applications, services, solutions, and marketing. We are looking for innovative technical papers and academic thesis pertinent to ICTs. We are also looking for content types such as technical and white papers, best practices and solutions, lessons learned, and case studies. Each issue is provided with a Feature Articles column which focuses on a particular area of ICT. You are welcome to contribute to China Communications. Please submit your paper with a brief biography and contact information as well as key words and an abstract for your contribution. There is basically no word limit for an article, but an article of about 3000 words is most preferred. =================================================================== +++ Posted to members-istenext by "Arturo Azcorra" <azcorra(a)it.uc3m.es> +++

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[Fwd: [MobiMedia] ONE WEEK REMINDER - paper submission]
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MobiMedia] ONE WEEK REMINDER - paper submission Datum: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:47:27 +0200 Von: Luigi Atzori <l.atzori(a)diee.unica.it> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Dear Colleagues: in the following please find a reminder for MobiMedia paper submission. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of the cfp. Thanks Luigi _________________________________________________________________ ******* M o b i M e d i a 2006 **************** Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (formerly MSAN) September 18-20, 2006 :: Alghero, Sardinia, Italy http://www.mobimedia.org ------------------------------------------------- ******** IMPORTANT DEADLINES ******************** ------------------------------------------------- Submission of extended summaries: April 30, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006 Submission of camera-ready papers: July 10, 2006 ******** IMPORTANT NEWS ************************** -------------------------------------------------- keynote speeches: - Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision - Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia Publication of accepted papers: - Conference proceedings will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending) - Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. Workshops/symposiums/special sessions: - International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access for ubiquitous Networking (BWAN 2006) - European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EuMob 2006) - Special Session on 4G FORTHCOMING STANDARS AND MOBILE MULTIMEDIA SERVICES SCOPE -------------------------------------- The successful development of multimedia services and applications in mobile environments requires adopting an interdisciplinary approach where both multimedia and networking issues are addressed jointly. Multimedia data characteristics, coding standards functionalities, as well as network protocols performance and channel behavior are some of the key aspects that need to be carefully examined when proposing new solutions. Many are the applications that are going to be enabled by the new standards for mobile networking, such as packet telephony, video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive gaming, conversational navigation services, digital television, infomobility, and immersive communications in virtual environments. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11 (infrastructured, mesh, and sensor networks), 802.15, 802.16, UWB, DVB-H, Bluetooth, Mobile IP and its variants. Within this scope, MobiMedia is intended to provide a inique international forum for researchers working in multimedia and mobile networking fields to study new applications, solutions, and standards. Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the knowledge and practice in the integrated design of efficient technologies and the relevant provision of advanced mobile multimedia applications. TECHNICAL PROGRAMS -------------------------------------- The technical program features two key-note speeches: from Roberto Cencioni (Head of Unit INFSO E2, EC) and Albert Gauthier (DG Information Society, EC) on the 7th Work program and the EU IST vision and from Leonardo Chiariglione on future standards on mobile multimedia. The conference will also include invited panels, to facilitate for exchanging ideas and discussion, and specific sessions and workshops on focused interest areas. Submissions of proposals on workshops and special sessions on emerging topics are invited. Please submit proposals to Technical Program Chairs and Workshop Chairs. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION -------------------------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit extended summaries of not more than five pages including figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the conference web site. Conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and will be available through IEEExplore (approval pending). Extended versions of high quality papers on mobile video will be reviewed and considered for a special issue in the Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. STUDENT AWARD AND GRANTS -------------------------------------- A student prize of 1000Euros will be awarded to the best paper authored by a full time student as first author. Travel grants will be provided to students attending the conference. Additional information can be found at the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Luigi Atzori, University of Cagliari, ITA Ebroul Izquierdo, University of London, UK Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, ITA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, TUR Pascal Frossard, EPFL, SUI Publications Chair: Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Workshops Chair: Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Radha Poovendran, University of WA, USA Panels Chair: Daniele D. Giusto, University of Cagliari, ITA Local Chair: Giaime Ginesu, University of Cagliari, ITA Publicity Co-Chairs: Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University, TUR Ali Bilgin, The University of Arizona, USA Conference Management: Anna Rieger, ICST, Europe PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------------------------------- Ishfaq Ahmad, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Fatih Alagoz, Bogazici University Tricha Anjali, Illinois Tech., USA John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs, USA Mauro Barni, University Siena, ITA Gary Chan, HK University Raouf Boutaba, University Waterloo, CAN Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Trista P. Chen, Intel Corporation, USA Reha Civanlar, Koc University, TUR Ed Delp, Purdue University, USA U.B Desai, IIT Bombay Christos Douligeris, University Piraeus, GRE Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Minoru Etoh, Docomo Labs Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, FIN Zhihai He, University of Missouri, USA Paola Hobson, Motorola Research Labs, UK Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, GER Reginald Lagendijk, Delft University, NED Juan-Carlos de Martin, Politecnico Torino, ITA Giacomo Morabito, University Catania, ITA Jaudelice De Oliveira, Drexel University, USA A. Pakstas, London Metrop. University, GBR Fernando Pereira, IST, POR Beatrice Pesquest-Popescu, ENST, FRA Ramon Puigjaner, University Balears, SPA Guy Pujolle, LIP6, FRA Thomas Sikora, Technical University Berlin, GER Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech, USA Eckehard Steinbach, TUM, GER Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, GER M. Tekalp, Koc University, TUR Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, TUR Haohong Wang, Qualcomm Inc, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Yao Wang, Polytechnic University, USA Jiang Xie, University North Carolina, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic Research, USA Avideh Zakhor, UC Berkeley, USA Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine, USA Qian Zhang, HK University, HK -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.5/321 - Release Date: 21/04/2006

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Call for Papers - DIME 2006 (fwd)
by Oliver Wellnitz 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

------------ Forwarded Message ------------ Date: 24. April 2006 02:51:07 +0800 From: DIME Conference Secretariat <secretariat(a)acadresearch.org> To: wellnitz(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: Call for Papers - DIME 2006 Call for Papers 1st International Conference on Digital Interactive Media Entertainment & Arts (DIME 2006) 25-27 October 2006 Bangkok, Thailand www.dime2006.org Organised by: Association of Computer Machinery SIGCHI (Singapore) Dear Oliver Wellnitz, Please ignore this message if you have receive this message more than once. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. We are inviting potential authors to submit papers for the forthcoming conference through the conference website at www.dime2006.org DIME 2006 is intended to be the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers and academic and industrial researchers. This conference is targeted at both the research and commercial communities, promoting research and practice in the context of interactive digital entertainment systems with an emphasis on commercial computer and video games. Computer entertainment and network gaming's ability to generate a culture which immerses and absorbs its participants has made it an object of new millennial 'moral panic'. And in many ways, it is. The phenomenal success of popular culture to initiate a mass audience in patterns and practices of its own consumption has supported the evolution of an enormously powerful mass entertainment industry extending deeply into every aspect of our lives. This conference is dedicated to building common ground between research, design and development, learning and collaboration in its myriad forms: its object is the exploration of 'education & play', demonstrating new arenas and applications for digital gaming and incorporating leading edge technologies, designs and models in our changing views about what is involved in gaming. This conference will bring together academics, technologists, artists, designers, and industry representatives to help define, refine, and advance the leading edge of new digital and interactive media art and technology. Authors are to submit their full papers by the 7 May 2006. Papers (up to eight pages) will be published in the proceedings. The following, non exclusive, topics are called for: (1) Entertainment Art and Technology Location and Pervasive Gaming, Mobile Entertainment, Using Digital Games in Practice, Computer Entertainment Research, Open-Source Gaming Engines, Implications for Multimedia and Web Design, Serious Games, Artistic Games, Commercial Games, Games as Pedagogy, Analysis of Games (2) New Media Emerging Technologies Personal Broadcasting (Podcasting and Vlogging), Novel Applications for Cell Phones, Social and Interactive Computing Applications, Collaborative Spaces/Environments, Innovative Applications of Technology in the Arts, Mixed Reality and Enhanced Visualization, Context-aware Environments and Devices, Immersive Learning Experiences (3) Code Art Algorithmic Art, Software Art, Net Art, Installation Art, Tangible Computing, Sonic Art (4) Digital Visual Media Digital Photography, Digital Imaging as Art, New Topics in 3-D Modeling, Digital Printing, Non-Photorealistic Rendering (5) Moving Media Digital Video, Distance Collaboration/Performance, Animation, Interactive Movies (6) Culture of New Media Network Culture, Philosophy of New Media, Digital Identity (7) Interactive Stories Digital Narrative, Digital Asset Management, Semantic Web, Interactive Cinema Kind regards, Adrian David Cheok Conference General Chair if you have any questions please contact us at secretariat(a)acadresearch.org If you wish to unsubscribe this service please inform us at secretariat(a)acadresearch.org ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] FW: Autonomic-networking Conference CFP]
by Lars Wolf 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] FW: Autonomic-networking Conference CFP Datum: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:18:59 -0500 Von: Ehab Al-Shaer <ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu> Antwort an: ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu Organisation: DePaul Univeristy An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <itc(a)comsoc.org> Autonomic-Networking conference will take place in Paris, September 25-29, 2006 Deadline for submission is April 24. All information is on the web site: www.Autonomic-Net.org You can submit through EDAS to: INTELLCOMM (Autonomic Management and Services) and also to: SMARTNET (Tools for the Autonomic Networking) IWAN (International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks) WAC (International Workshop on Autonomic Communication) _____ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] deadline extended -CfP: 3rd Int. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2006) at London, UK]
by Lars Wolf 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] deadline extended -CfP: 3rd Int. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2006) at London, UK Datum: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:31:06 +0100 Von: Kun Yang <kunyang(a)essex.ac.uk> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <ukubinet-announce(a)doc.ic.ac.uk>, <pervasive(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at>, <announcements(a)ubicomp.org>, <sigcomm(a)postel.org>, <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> CC: ck Toh <ck_away(a)hotmail.com>, kitasuka(a)f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Deadline extended to May 9, 2006! ======================================================================== C A L L F O R P A P E R S ======================================================================== The Third International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2006) October 11-13, 2006 BCS London Office, London, UK http://www.icmu.org/icmu2006/ Sponsored by: IPSJ SIG-MBL (Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group of Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking) Technically co-sponsored by: BCS (British Computer Society), IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers), and IEEE ITS Society, Technical Committee on Mobile Communications & Applications Supported by: ICF (International Communications Foundation) and SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation) SCOPE: Mobile computing aims at ubiquitous user access to computer application. To make it possible, networking technology which enables Internet access anytime and everywhere, i.e. ubiquitous networking is necessary. It is obvious that with the accelerating trends towards mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, and wireless networks, mobile computing and ubiquitous networking will play an important role in future network. This conference is aimed at providing researchers and practitioners in this hot research area a forum for discussion and collaboration. Authors are invited to submit papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics: - Network management for ubiquitous networking - Data management for mobile computing - Mobile device management - Performance evaluation for mobile computing and ubiquitous networking systems - Broadcast communications - Network architectures, protocols, or service models for ubiquitous networking - Security in mobile computing and ubiquitous networking - Mobile OS - Wireless and mobile communications - 4G wireless communications - Mobile Internetworking - Ad-hoc networks - Network mobility - Mesh networks - Sensor networks - Location-based services SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Papers are solicited as full papers of no more than 8 pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submission should already follow the author guidelines as specified in the web site below. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory. Please check the web site of the conference http://www.icmu.org/icmu2006/ for further submission instructions. After the conference, a selected number of papers will be published as special issues in IPSJ journal and IPSJ Digital Courier. Please check the web site of IPSJ http://www.ipsj.or.jp/08editt/dc/index.html for the details of IPSJ Digital Coulier. IMPORTANT DATES: ########################################################## # Deadline for submissions : May 9, 2006 # # Notification of acceptance: July 8, 2006 # # Camera ready due: July 31, 2006 # ########################################################## ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Chai-Keong Toh (University of London, UK) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University, Japan) Eiji Kamioka (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Publication Co-Chairs: Gen Kitagata (Tohoku University, Japan) Yang Yang (University College London, UK) Publicity Co-Chairs: Teruaki Kitasuka (Kyushu University, Japan) Kun Yang (University of Essex, UK) Local Arrangement Chair: David Martland (Kingston University London, UK) Hiroshi Mineno (Shizuoka University, Japan) Treasurers: David Martland (Kingston University London, UK) Tomohiko Yagyu (NEC, Japan) Registration Co-Chairs: Jindong Hou (France Telecom, UK) Homare Murakami (NICT, Japan) ICMU STEERING COMMITTEE: Tadanori Mizuno (Shizuoka University, Japan) Osamu Takahashi (Future University-Hakodate, Japan) Takashi Watanabe (Shizuoka University, Japan) Miki Yamamoto (Kansai University, Japan) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA) Xiuzhen Cheng (George Washington University, USA) We Duke Cho (Ajou University, Korea) John Gardiner (Bradford University, UK) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan) Choong Seon Hong (Kyung Hee University, Korea) Russell Hsing (Telcordia Technologies, USA) Chung Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Joseph Hui (Arizona State University, USA) Masugi Inoue (NICT, Japan) Masahiro Ishiyama (Toshiba Corporation, Japan) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany) Hughes Kester (Qinetiq Ltd, UK) Dongkyun Kim (Kyungpook National University, Korea) Peter Langendoerfer (IHP Microelectronics, Germany) Madjid Merabti (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Isabelle Moreau (Mitsubishi Electric ITE, France) Hiroyuki Morikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yasuto Nakanishi (Keio University, Japan) Ken Ohta (NTT DoCoMo, Japan) Ryouji Ono (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan) Mohamed Ould-Khaoua (University of Glasgow, UK) Antonio Pescape (University of Napoli, Italy) Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark) Jeremy Randles (British Telecom, UK) Ichiro Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Winston Seah (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University, Japan) Biplab Sikdar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) David Simplot-Ryl (University of Lille 1, France) Tatsuya Suda (University of California Irvine, USA) Shinta Sugimoto (Nippon Ericsson, Japan) Keisuke Suwa (Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan) Kevin W. Tsai (University of California, Irvine, USA) Xin Wang (Fudan University, China) Neil Williams (ERA Technology Ltd, UK) Nik Van den Wingaert (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Kun Yang (Essex University, UK) Yang Yang (University College London, UK) Masashi Yano (Hitachi Ltd, Japan) Hidetoshi Yokota (KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan) Ekio Yoneki (Cambridge University, UK) Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS) DEADLINE EXTENSION]
by Lars Wolf 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS) DEADLINE EXTENSION Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Von: Kevin C. Almeroth <almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Do to numerous requests, we are extending the submission deadline for CHANTS. However, authors interested in submitting should note, that ************************************************************************* PAPERS MUST STILL BE REGISTERED IN EDAS BY THE ORIGINAL DEADLINE. ************************************************************************* ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Sigcomm 2006 - Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS-06) Pisa, Italy - September 15, 2006 http://chants.cs.ucsb.edu/ ===================================================================== Technical Area: Challenged networks include those found in mobile and in-motion networking, dynamic wireless networks, heterogeneous and mobile sensor networks, interplanetary networking, and networks providing rural connectivity. Such networks are not well served by standard TCP/IP solutions, due to the prevalence of disconnection, disruption, intermittency, large delays, or other factors. Today, the most successful network architecture is that of the Internet. It has scaled well beyond the original plan of its designers, and the Internet Protocol has been carried on a great number of underlying protocols, including itself. However, the Internet's protocol architecture suffers some problems when implemented on classes of networks for which it was not originally designed. For example, when disconnection and reconnection is common, or link performance is highly variable or extreme, one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop, we wish to explore physical networks that operate significantly differently from wired, connected networks and the protocol architectures and algorithms used to deal with such situations. Techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are also in scope. More specifically, we solicit papers in the following areas: - Characterization of performance-challenged networks, e.g. network measurements. - Networking systems operating over unusual/challenged networks. - Protocol design and evaluation of operations over challenged networks. - Robust network application design and implementation techniques. - Delay tolerant and disruption tolerant networks (DTN). - Situated and autonomic communications for challenged networks. - Handling user concerns in challenged networks such as usability, privacy, security and incentives to cooperate. Submissions may include presentations of specific systems or performance measurements, as well as more general, philosophical position papers. Papers that bring out interesting and novel ideas at an early stage in their development are favored over highly polished, journal-style results. Selected papers will be forward-looking, with impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to accept around 15 papers, and to have a highly interactive workshop focusing on broader issues and community development. Paper Format and Submission: All submitted papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG proceeding template found here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html In particular, this format uses 9pt font in two columns with particular margin sizes. Papers must be no longer than eight pages and must be in PDF format. Papers will be reviewed single blind, which means be sure to include author information on the first page after the title and before the abstract. Papers that do not adhere to these requirements exactly (or attempt to cheat on spacing or fonts) will not be accepted for submission. All papers should be submitted via EDAS. For more details please visit the CHANTS webpage: http://chants.cs.ucsb.edu/ Important Dates: Abstract Registration Deadline: 21 April 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Submission Deadline: 28 April 2006 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of Acceptance: 2 June 2006 Camera Ready Deadline: 16 June 2006 Workshop Date: 15 Sept 2006 Organizing Committee: Technical Program Co-chairs: Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara Email: almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu James Scott, Intel Research Cambridge Email: james.w.scott(a)intel.com Program Committee Members: Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego Aruna Senevirante, National ICT Australia Cecilia Mascolo, University College London Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California, Irvine Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles Ellen Zegura, Georgia Institute of Technology J?rg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology Kaustubh Phanse, Lule? University of Technology Kevin Fall, Intel Research Berkeley Mooi-Choo Chuah, Lehigh University Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology Srinivasan Keshav, University of Waterloo Silvia Giordano, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland Scott Burleigh, Jet Propulsion Labs Timur Friedman, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie Webmaster: Khaled Harras, UC-Santa Barbara ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 Call for Papers (Deadline Extended to Friday, May 1, 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] ICCCN 2006 Call for Papers (Deadline Extended to Friday, May 1, 2006) Weitersenden-Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:02:14 -0500, Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:06:19 -0400 Weitersenden-Von: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Weitersenden-An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:56:54 -0500 Von: Nasir Ghani <nghani(a)tntech.edu> An: 'Byrav Ramamurthy' <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> Dear Colleagues, Our apologies if you get multiple emails of this message. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE ICCCN 2006 Paper submission deadline has been EXTENDED to Friday, May 1, 2006 Submissions website is now open: http://www.EDAS.info/Conferences.cgi +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ICCCN 2006 CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/icccn06/ October 9 - 11, 2006 Arlington, Virginia, USA Sheraton Crystal City Hotel (near Washington DC) Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC and Nokia (*pending approval) ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of novel and fundamental advances in the field of Computer Communications and Networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving Computer Communications and Networks. SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation,and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that present challenging and innovative results. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking . Network Security and Dependability . Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks . Optical & High-Speed Networking . Wireless Mobile Networking . Network Architecture & Hardware . Internet Services & Network Management IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission deadline: May 1, 2006 Poster paper submission deadline: May 1, 2006 Notification of acceptance: June 26, 2006 Camera ready papers due: July 28, 2006 SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS: Submitted manuscripts may NOT exceed 8 pages and must be submitted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Files should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format and formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to NOT review papers that either exceed the above length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include the title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address(es), fax/phone number(s), and postal address(es). In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence about the submission. REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF MANUSCRIPTS: All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, correctness, relevance, quality of presentation, and technical strength and significance. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue and must be limited to 6 pages (with an allowance of up to two extra pages at a cost of US$150 per extra page beyond 6 pages if the paper is accepted for publication) in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). ICCCN06 proceedings will be published by the IEEE Communications Society. STUDENT POSTER PAPER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are NOT considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are NOT considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not permitted. STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. The student must be the first author of accepted paper and must attend and give presentation to be qualified. BEST PAPER AWARDS: ICCCN plans to award one best paper in each of the three following areas: .Theory & Simulation .Systems Software .Hardware and Architecture The authors of each paper will be recognized at the conference. Please contact the Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Wu-chun Feng Department of Computer Science Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 feng(a)cs.vt.edu +1 540-231-1192 (voice); +1 540-231-6075 (fax) Dr. Katherine Guo Center for Networking & Network Management Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies 101 Crawfords Corner Road, Room 4G-506 Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 kguo(a)bell-labs.com +1 732 949 8956 (voice); +1 732 949 4513 (fax) Conference Organizers: General Chair: Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY-Stony Brook; yang(a)ece.sunysb.edu +1 631 632 8474(voice); +1 631 632 8494 (fax) Program Chairs: Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech; Katherine Guo, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies Publicity Chair: Dr. Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, +1 931 372-3046, nghani(a)tntech.edu Local Arrangement Chair: E.K. Park, UMKC, ekpark(a)umkc.edu +1 816 235-1497 Vice-Program Chairs: 1. Internet Services & Network Management: Xiaodong Zhang, The Ohio State University, http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhang zhang(a)cse.ohio-state.edu 2. Network Security and Dependability Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/dxu dxu(a)cs.purdue.edu 3. Peer-to-Peer, Grid, and Overlay Networks: Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland, http://www.cs.umd.edu/~bobby/ bobby(a)cs.umd.edu 4. Optical & High-Speed Networking: Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech, feng(a)cs.vt.edu 5. Wireless Mobile Networking: Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wwang/ wwang(a)eos.ncsu.edu 6. Sensor & Ad-hoc Networking: Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, http://www.eas.asu.edu/~junshan/ junshan.zhang(a)asu.edu Sherman Shen, U. Waterloo, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca 7. Network Architecture & Hardware: James P.G. Sterbenz University of Kansas (US) and Lancaster University (UK) http://www.ittc.ku.edu/~jpgs jpgs(a)comsoc.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP for RTN'06 (Deadline extended to May 1st)]
by Lars Wolf 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: Autonomic-networking Conference]
by Lars Wolf 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACF-Members: Autonomic-networking Conference Datum: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:34:58 +0200 (MEST) Von: Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org STRONG ADVISE to submit your work to the FIRST Autonomic-Networking conference that will take place in Paris, September 25-29, 2006 Deadline for submission is April 24. www.Autonomic-Net.org You can submit through EDAS to : WAC (International Workshop on Autonomic Communication) SMARTNET (Tools for the Autonomic Networking) INTELLCOMM (Autonomic Management and Services) IWAN (International Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks) +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <Mikhail.Smirnov(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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The deadline of CHINACOM2006 is only 10 days away
by Yabin Ye 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

(Apology for duplicates) Dear Colleague, The deadline of CHINACOM2006 is approaching (May 1st, 2006). Do NOT wait until the last minute to submit your papers in order to avoid server congestion problems. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission Deadline, May 1st, 2006) CHINACOM 2006: First International Conference on Communications and Networking in China October 25-27, 2006 Beijing, China http://www.chinacom.org <http://www.chinacom.org/> All accepted papers will be indexed by Engineering Information (EI) and be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. Paper Submission Deadline, May 1st, 2006 (Monday) Jointly co-sponsored by: Create-Net, ICST In cooperation with: ACM, SIGMOBILE, SIGSAC Technical co-sponsored by: IEEE, IEEE APS, IEEE CVTC, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), University of Science and Technology of China, OBS/OPS Forum, and IEE (pending), IEEE CS (pending), IEEE CSS (pending) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CHINACOM 2006 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ================================================== INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ================================================== Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Tech., USA Yeheskel (Zeke) Bar-Ness, New Jersey Institute of Tech., USA Bob Brodersen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Junliang Chen, BUPT, China Roberto Coisson, Italian Embassy in China, Italy Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, USA Hisashi Kobayashi, Princeton University, USA Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Guangnan Ni, Institute of Computing Technology, China Hequan Wu, Chinese Academy of Eng., China Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft, USA ================================================== STEERING COMMITTEE ================================================== Imrich Chlamtac (Chair), Create-Net, Italy Bo Li (Co-Chair), HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jintong Lin, BUPT President, China Khaled Ben Letaief, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== GENERAL Vice CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zheng Zhou, BUPT, China Yabin Ye, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== TPC CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Dongjin Wang, USTC, China UK Laurie Cuthbert, Queen Mary, Univ. of London, UK Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada Chunming Qiao, SUNY at Buffalo, USA ================================================== WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Jing (James) Yang, UTstarcom, USA T. Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA ================================================== INDUSTRY SPONSORSHIP CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Xiongyan Tang, CNC, China Wenwu Zhu, Intel, USA ================================================== PANELS CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., China Stephan Steglich, TU Berlin, Germany ================================================== PUBLICATION CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Zhensheng Zhang, San Diego Research Center, USA Tan Wong, Univ. of Florida, USA ================================================== PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Tee Hiang Cheng, NTU, Singapore Zhongcheng Hou, CIC, China Honggang Zhang, Create-Net, Italy ================================================== LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR ================================================== Luyong Zhang, BUPT, China SYMPOSIA CO-CHAIRS ================================================== Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Haniph A. Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, China Boon Sain Yeo, Wavex Technologies, Singapore ================================================== Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Yuanyuan Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Xue Chen, BUPT, China Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada ================================================== Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== Andreas F. Molisch, MERL,USA /Lund Univ. Sweden Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Kazem Sohraby, University of Arkansas, USA Jianhua Lu, Tsinghua University, China ================================================== Advances in Internet ================================================== Hai Jin, HUST, China Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China ================================================== Communications Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================== Ahmed H. Tewfik, Univ. of Minnesota, USA Jing Tiffany Li, Lehigh University, USA ================================================== Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK Thomas Woo, Bell labs, USA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and International players in networking and communications under one roof, building a showcase in communications and networking research in China. China's information technology industry and research have been developing at an enormous pace in the last 20 years. Currently China has the largest wireless mobile and the second largest Internet subscriber population in the world. By the end of 2005, the mobile phone users have reached 388 million (19% of the world market), and the number will be over 500 million by 2008 and over 150 million will be multimedia applications. Internet users have exceeded 100 million (half of them are broadband service subscribers). The total sale of optical cables & fibers reached 15 million kilometers in 2004, with the sale of the whole optical communication facility market reaching 1.5 billion USD. Furthermore, business/market factors in this area in China are unique since they are Government driven and mixed with culture, technology, and market forces. CHINACOM is being positioned as the premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research 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. PAPERS: The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to: ================================================== Symposium-Frontiers on Communications and Networking ================================================== Bio-inspired networks Nano-Networks OSS/BSS/NGOSS Data mining Future internet architecture design Linear network coding Cooperation diversity and cooperative coding Autonomic communications/networking principles Multimedia broadband networking for smart homes Theory and algorithms of networking such as routing, congestion control, traffic engineering, peer-to-peer/overlay and security Power-line communications Detection and iterative processing techniques Theoretical foundations for network autonomics Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic networks and systems Adaptive security and safety mechanisms for self-protection and self-healing Applications and services such as location-based services, VoIP, IPTV, content services, L2/L3VPNs, Cognitive communications and networking ================================================== Symposium-Optical Communications and Networking ================================================== Routing and wavelength assignment ASON/GMPLS control plane Traffic grooming and traffic engineering Multicasting in optical networks Optical Packet /Burst Switching (OPS/OBS) Optical network protection and restoration Optical switches architecture and performance Optical grid Passive optical networks (A/B/G/EPONs) Optical network test beds and field trials Hybrid wireless-optical metro/access networks Signaling and monitoring in optical networks Ultra-high-speed transmission systems (>40 Gb/s) Modulation formats and coding Signal processing and forward error correction DWDM and CWDM transceivers and Transponders Optical regeneration (including all-optical) Fixed and reconfigurable OADMs Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation Optical systems design and simulation OE and passive devices' applications Optical Ethernet and new service paradigms Impact of the physical-layer impairments on optical network design and traffic engineering ================================================== Symposium-Wireless Communications and Networking ================================================== PCS, GPRS, EDGE, 3GPP, UMTS, IMT2000 CDMA, TDMA, OFDM, air interfaces Handoff protocols & management Smart Antennas, cell & capacity planning Wireless LANs, mobile Internet Network topology control Flow & congestion control TCP over wireless Wireless multicasting Chaotic broadband (wireless) communications B3G/4G mobile network architectures Wireless multimedia Multiple and wireless access techniques Wireless switching and routing techniques Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Cognitive Radio Resource allocation and interference management Propagation and channel characterization MIMO techniques, Space-time coding Sensor and Ad hoc wireless networks WiMAX and beyond WiFi ================================================== Symposium-Advances in Internet ================================================== Provisioning and management of IP services Distributed Internet applications Novel applications and new paradigms Handling Internet dynamics/heterogeneity Traffic measurement, analysis, modeling China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) Multimedia and Internet application Pervasive/GRID computing Platforms for rapid creation and deployment of network services Design methodologies for Internet services Emergency services Services enabling protocols and extensions Peer-to-Peer applications and technologies leveraging/supporting peer-to-peer applications Middleware for new Internet based applications Converged networks and applications (including VoIP and 3G/NGN telecom networks) Applications leveraging content networking technologies delivering applications on the Internet Services over the wireless Internet Security and privacy management in hosted Internet applications ================================================================= Symposium-Communication Theory and Signal Processing for Communications ================================================================= Adaptive Antennas Adaptive Modulation and coded modulation Broadcast channels Channel estimation and modeling Communications electronics Channel Capacities Equalization Error Control Coding and ARQ Interference mitigation and signal separation Multiple access channels Multiuser systems and multiuser detection Network coding Receiver techniques Source coding and joint source-channel coding Space-Time codes and MIMO Speech and video signal processing Synchronization Signal processing algorithms Signal processing for UWB OFDM and multicarrier systems Image processing for communications Relay channels and user cooperation Signal processing for data storage Signal processing in wireless communications Speech and video signal processing Signal processing for multimedia ================================================== Symposium-Networking Security and Information Assurance ================================================== Power-reliability-security trade-offs in wireless networks Cross-layer approaches to security Mobile network security Location aware security in mobile networks Throughput-Security trade-offs in wireless networks Secure group multimedia communications Secure PHY/MAC/routing protocols Distributed security systems Secure cooperation in wireless networks Jamming and counter measures Attacks on security and vulnerability analysis Application layer encryption Digital watermarking and biometrics for secure information access Capacity and security analysis of covert channels Security Engineering Security in large-scale environments Security protocols Security of ad-hoc/sensor networks WORKSHOPS: Proposals for workshops are solicited. Potential chairs are requested to submit a workshop proposal of at most 5 pages, including a biographical sketch of each chair, to one of the Workshop Chairs by June 6th, 2006. Evaluation of workshop proposals will be based on the relevance of the subject matter, and the expertise and experience of the chair. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Conference language is English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a PDF version of the full paper in IEEE conference proceedings format, which are limited to 5 two-column pages in a font no smaller than 10-points. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please submit the paper through the COCUS System, http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/welcome.do. Please visit the conference website http://www.chinacom.org/submissions.html for detailed submission requirements and procedures. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will go through a peer review process. All accepted papers will be included in the CHINACOM 2006 Conference Proceedings. All accepted papers will be made available in IEEE Xplore and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and then be indexed by Engineering Information (EI). Accepted papers will also be recommended for a special issue of a top journal. ================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ================================================== Paper Submission Due, May 1st, 2006 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance, June 30th, 2006 (Friday) Camera Ready Versions Due, July 31st, 2006 (Monday) Conference Dates, October, 25-27, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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[Fwd: CCNC 2007 – Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CCNC 2007 – Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:10:58 -0400 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: conferencesx(a)comsoc.org **/ */Don’t miss the 4^th annual/* IEEE CONSUMER COMMUNICATIONS and NETWORKING CONFERENCE "SEAMLESS CONSUMER CONNECTIVITY" - *CALL FOR TECHNICAL SESSION PAPERS* - Visit: http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007 /** IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 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 *Awards and Grants * * 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. * Also, several Student Travel Grants will be made available. *Preliminary Schedule: * Technical paper submission deadline and Special session proposal submission deadline: 30 June, 2006 Technical application panel submission deadline: *1 September, 2006* Paper acceptance notification deadline: *15 September, 2006* Final camera ready paper submission deadline: *10 October, 2006* Author registration deadline: *8 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. *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 o Multimedia Networking: Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute, USA o Enabling Technologies: Alan Messer, Samsung, USA o Novel Applications: Bin Wei, AT&T Research Lab, USA * Special Sessions Chair: Hang Liu, Thomson, USA, Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech * Workshop Coordinator: 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 * Technology Applications Panels Chair: Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, USA * Demo Chair: Dave Marples, Telcordia * Tutorial Chair: Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland * Career Forum Chair: Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs, USA * Publication Chair: Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada 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 * Finance Chair: Mike Kincaid, MSK Associates, USA * Treasurer: Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA * IEEE Society Liaison: Doug Zuckerman, IEEE ComSoc VP Society Relations * IEEE Communications Society Project Manager: Diane Williams, IEEE Communications Society, USA *Please visit the CCNC 2007 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 * To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (VEE'06 Call for Participation)]
by Lars Wolf 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (VEE'06 Call for Participation) Datum: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:25:42 -0700 Von: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Antwort an: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> An: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Second International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments -- VEE'06 -- June 14-16 2006 Call for Participation VEE is a forum that brings together leading practitioners and researchers in the broad area of virtualization, which includes topics such as high-level language virtual machines (JVM, CLR, etc.), process and system virtual machines, translators, machine emulators, and simulators. VEE'06 will be co-located with PLDI'06 in Ottawa, Ontario from June 14-16, 2006. This year's program includes 17 technical papers, a panel session, and keynote talks by Jim Larus and Leendert van Doorn. For more information on VEE'06, including registration and the conference program see http://www.veeconference.org/vee06. VEE is sponsored by ACM SIGOPS and SIGPLAN in cooperation with USENIX. ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs). Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in monthly mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop (V2VCOM 2006)- Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop (V2VCOM 2006)- Deadline Extended Datum: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:15:45 +0900 Von: Onur Altintas <onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ------------------------------------ Submission Deadline Extended to May 1st ------------------------------------ Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications 2006 (V2VCOM 2006) July 21, 2006 - San Jose, California, USA http://www.v2vcom.org to be held in conjunction with MOBIQUITOUS 2006 (The 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services) Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and the IEEE Digital Library Scope of the Workshop Following the success of the First V2VCOM held in 2005, this one-day workshop intends to bring together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to discuss and address recent developments and challenges in deploying vehicle-to-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle networking technologies, as well as their subsequent applications. Specifically, we solicit original research contributions addressing the following areas: * Vehicular mobile ad-hoc networks * Potential applications of vehicular networks * Vehicle-to-infrastructure communications * Role of V2V communications in Intelligent Transportation Systems * Routing protocols for V2V communications * High-speed mobility management for V2V communications * MAC layer technologies for V2V communications * Physical layer and RF level technologies for V2V communications * Antenna technologies for V2V communications * Security and authentication issues in V2V communications * Cross-layer designs in V2V communications * Radio resource management and QoS support in V2V communications * Experimental systems and testbeds for V2V communications * Algorithms, protocols and systems for data dissemination in V2V communications Submission Instructions Paper submission will be handled electronically by the COCUS Conference Management System. In order to submit a paper you must first create a COCUS account. - Please go to the COCUS website: http://cocus.create-net.it/cocus/ - Click on “Register”. Once you have an account, login and click on “Events’ list”. - Scroll down to find V2VCOM 2006. - Choose the “Submit a paper” link. - Once the paper has been registered, please upload the manuscript by clicking “submit” on the right-hand side. After the paper has been uploaded successfully, the status of the manuscript will change to "submitted", and you will also receive a confirmation email generated by the system. Questions regarding the submission procedures can be sent to: Onur Altintas onur(a)jp.toyota-itc.com or Wai Chen wchen(a)research.telcordia.com Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2006 Notification of Acceptance: May 22, 2006 Camera-Ready Submissions: June 7, 2006 Workshop Chairs Onur Altintas Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies, USA Program Advisor Tadao Saito Professor Emeritus Univ. of Tokyo, Japan Technical Program Committee Stephane Amarger, Hitachi Europe, France Richard Bishop, Bishop Consulting, USA Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA Jasmine Chennikara-Varghese, Telcordia Technologies, USA Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Marco Gruteser, WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Wieland Holfelder (TBC), DaimlerChrysler Research & Tech, USA Hisato Iwai, Doshisha University, Japan Jae Hong Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Thomas Luckenbach, FOKUS, Germany Ken'ichi Mase, Niigata University, Japan Carsten Metz, Bell Labs/Lucent, USA Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA Sadao Obana, ATR, Japan Umit Ozguner, Ohio State University, USA Dipankar Raychaudhuri, WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA Sumit Roy, University of Washington, USA Behcet Sarikaya, U. of Northern British Columbia, Canada Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan Daniel Wong, Malaysia U. of Science and Technology Tomoyuki Yashiro, Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: 5. Fachgespraech Sensornetze, 17.-18.07.06, Universitaet Stuttgart]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: 5. Fachgespraech Sensornetze, 17.-18.07.06, Universitaet Stuttgart Datum: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:02:55 +0200 Von: marronpo(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [Wir bitten mehrfache Zustellung dieses Calls zu entschuldigen] ********************************************************************** 5. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch "Drahtlose Sensornetze" Universität Stuttgart, 17./18. Juli 2006 Drahtlose Sensornetze bestehen aus einer großen Zahl von kleinen Rechnersystemen (Sensorknoten), die in der Regel mittels einer drahtlosen Kommunikationstechnologie miteinander vernetzt sind. Jeder Sensorknoten ist dabei mit einem eigenen Prozessor, Speicher und anwendungsabhängigen Sensoren ausgestattet. Die Eigenschaften dieser Sensorknoten und Netze implizieren eine Vielzahl von neuartigen Herausforderungen, die sich in einer regen Forschungsaktivität widerspiegeln. Ziel dieser Reihe von Fachgesprächen ist es, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus diesem Gebiet die Möglichkeit zu einem informellen Gedankenaustausch zu geben und die Kooperation in diesem Forschungsbereich zu verstärken. Beiträge: ======== Im Rahmen des Fachgesprächs soll die Diskussion gegenüber der Vortragspräsentation Vorrang haben. Als Beiträge sind daher lediglich kurze Themenvorstellungen von ca. 10-15 Minuten vorgesehen, die Anstoß zur Diskussion geben sollten. Mögliche Themen reichen von Hardwareaspekten und Betriebssystemtechniken über Kommunikationsaspekte, Daten- und Signalverarbeitung, Programmierparadigmen, Systemarchitekturen bis hin zu Anwendungen und Integration von Sensornetzen in bestehende Systeme. Auch Querschnittsthemen wie Energie- und Ressourceneffizienz, Sicherheitsaspekte und allgemein Dienstgütemechanismen sind mögliche Themenbereiche. Beiträge sollten in Form von Extended Abstracts (2-5 Seiten im Springer LNCS-Format, siehe http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) bis zum 26.05.2006 eingereicht werden. Die PDF-Datei sollte per E-Mail an fgsn2006(a)ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de geschickt werden. Die angenommenen Beiträge werden als technischer Bericht publiziert. Weitere Informationen werden unter www.fachgespraech-sensornetze.de bereitgestellt. Wichtige Daten: ============== Frist für die Einreichung: 26. Mai 2006 Benachrichtigung: 16. Juni 2006 Anmeldung bis: 05. Juli 2006 Tagung: 17./18. Juli 2006 Veranstaltungsort: ================= Universität Stuttgart Fakultät Informatik, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik Universitätsstr. 38 70569 Stuttgart Organisation: ============ Dr. Pedro José Marrón Universität Stuttgart Insitut für Parallele und Verteilte Systeme Universitätsstr. 38 D-70569 Stuttgart E-Mail: fgsn2006(a)ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de Leitungsgremium: =============== Dr. Thomas Fuhrmann (Universität Karlsruhe) Prof. Dr. Kurt Geihs (Universität Kassel) Prof. Dr. Holger Karl (Universität Paderborn) Prof. Dr.-Ing. Friedemann Mattern (ETH Zürich) Dr. Hartmut Ritter (FU Berlin) **********************************************************************

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Wireless Technologies in Factory and Industrial Automation"]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Special Section on "Wireless Technologies in Factory and Industrial Automation" Datum: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:08:33 +0200 Von: Andreas Willig <awillig(a)tkn.tu-berlin.de> Organisation: Telecommunication Networks Group An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Repost, deadline was wrong. Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------ Wireless technologies have the potential of providing significant benefits in factory and industrial automation systems. The wireless way of communicating makes plant setup and modification easier, cheaper and more flexible. It provides a natural approach towards communication with mobile equipment where wires are in constant danger of breaking. It enables new applications where wireless transmission is the only option, e.g., measurements and control of rotating or highly mobile devices, and provides a novel approach to existing applications, e.g., localization and tracking of goods. Wireless technologies do, however, suffer from time-varying error rates, interference and security problems. This imposes a number of problems, especially in the industrial application field, where often tight constraints in terms of reliability, safety, dependability and real-time requirements have to be fulfilled in order to avoid severe financial losses or even damage to equipment or life. Several other issues may arise, including the interconnection of wireless systems with legacy industrial communication systems, the provisioning of support for proper system planning, configuration and commissioning of wireless industrial communication systems as well as power feeding problems. The goal of this special section is to attract theoretical and practical papers attacking the main issues and challenges concerning the adoption of wireless technologies in industrial communications; reporting about implementation experiences; describing and evaluating the design of new applications of wireless technologies in industrial and automation systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Lower-layer protocols for ensuring efficient, reliable and timely data transmissions in industrial environments: physical layer, coding, MAC / link-layer techniques. - Wireless fieldbus systems, including hybrid wired/wireless systems and wireless extensions of wired configurations. - Wireless-aware, industrial type, higher-layer protocols. - Middleware for wireless industrial applications. - Standardization activities with special emphasis on wireless technologies for factory and industrial automation systems. - Security of wireless communication systems in industrial environments. - Applications of wireless technologies (incl. RFID) in factory/industrial automation systems, including innovative applications like wireless-based localization, tracking. - Field trials and low-level measurements (e.g., channel properties, interference) for the characterization of industrial environments. - System-level tools for wireless network planning and configuration in industrial settings. - Wireless power transmission in industrial environments. We seek original contributions not currently under review by other journals. All contributions must focus on industrial applications and requirements. Results obtained by simulations must be validated in bounds by experiments or analytical results. The novelty of the contributions should be clearly indicated and related to the current state of the art. Manuscript preparation and submission: Follow the guidelines in "Information for Authors" in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ies/tii/ Submit using Manuscript Central only http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii Key dates: Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2006 Expected publication date: August 2007 Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final approval by the Editor in Chief and Editor at Large for special sections. Some papers may be published outside the special section, at their discretion. Special Section Guest Editors: Daniele Miorandi CREATE-NET Trento, Italy daniele.miorandi(a)create-net.org Elisabeth Uhlemann Centre for Research on Embedded Systems Halmstad University, Sweden elisabeth.uhlemann(a)ide.hh.se Stefano Vitturi Italian National Council of Research, IEIIT-CNR Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova Padova, Italy vitturi(a)dei.unipd.it Andreas Willig Telecommunication Networks Group Technical University Berlin Berlin, Germany awillig(a)ieee.org -- Dr.-Ing. Andreas Willig Telecommunication Networks Group (TKN),Technical University Berlin fon: +49-30-31423836, fax: +49-30-31423818 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: WiNTECH Workshop with ACM MobiCom 2006 Datum: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:53:50 -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 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 TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS * Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA) * Mahesh Marina (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: [Tccc] CFP 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP 3rd ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks Datum: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:54:01 +0200 Von: Marcelo Dias de Amorim <Marcelo.Amorim(a)lip6.fr> An: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Please apologize for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM* PE-WASUN 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd ACM* International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06 Torremolinos, Malaga, SPAIN, October 2-6, 2006 Jointly with the 9th ACM/IEEE * MSWiM Symposium http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2006 *ACM Pending upon Approval ------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modeling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This workshop brings together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Probabilistic or predictive performance models and analysis of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Mobility modeling and management - Analytical modeling - Simulation methods - Tracing and trace analysis - Performance measurement, monitoring and evaluation tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Software tools for automatic network performance and evaluation - Network performance improvements by optimization algorithms - Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks Workshop Co-Chairs: Lichun Bao University of California, Irvine, USA Isabelle Guerin Lassous INRIA/CITI, Lyon, France Technical Program Committee Members: Khalid Al-Begain Univ. of Glamorgan, UK Prithwish Basu BBN Technologies, USA Paolo Bellavista University of Trento, Italy Brahim Bensaou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Mario Gerla UCLA, USA Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Ben Liang University of Toronto, Canada Zhen Liu IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic University of Valencia, Spain Kenichi Mase Niigata University, Japan Jelena Misic University of Manitoba (Canada) Mohamed Naimi University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Mohamed Ould-Khaoua University of Glasgow, UK Guy Pujolle Université Paris 6, France Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil Mineo Takai University of California, Los Angeles, USA Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Fabrice Valois Insa de Lyon, France Publicity Chair: Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published by ACM press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the conference to present his paper. Paper should be submitted on PE-WASUN web site: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/pe-wasun06/authors.html. Paper length should be no mo re than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MS Word) ca n be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/tem plate.html. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. A special issue will be planned in a scholarly journal to include selected high-quality papers from the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates Full paper due: June 10th, 2006 Acceptance notification: July 10th, 2006 Camera ready due: TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CCNC2007 CfPs]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CCNC2007 CfPs Datum: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:01:31 -0600 Von: Wenjun Zeng <zengw(a)missouri.edu> An: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Dear friends, ** ** **Thanks to the support from many of you, CCNC 2006 was a great success, with over 370 **attendants. We are looking forward to your continuing support for another great year for CCNC. Please feel free to re-distribute the CfPs to your colleagues and friends. Thanks and best. -Wenjun Zeng CCNC2007 TPC Chair**** ** ** **------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------** *Call for Papers* * * *CCNC2007 – IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference * *11 - **13 January 2007** ~ **Las Vegas**, **NV**, **USA** - Harrah’s Hotel & Casino ~ www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007/* *"Seamless Consumer Connectivity"* IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 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 consumer networking, multimedia networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. The conference will include a peer-reviewed program of technical sessions, special sessions, business application sessions, tutorials, workshops, 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 (http://edas.info/ ), 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 (Note: move to here from wireless networking track) * Session, User and Service Mobility (Note: move to here from wireless networking track) * 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: *30 June, 2007* Special session proposal submission deadline: *30 June, 2007* Notification of acceptance for special session proposals: *7 July 2006* Technical application panel submission deadline: **1 September, 2006** Paper acceptance notification deadline: **15 September, 2006** Final camera ready paper submission deadline: *10*** ****October, 2006** Author registration deadline: *8*** ****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. *Please visit the CCNC 2007 website <http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007> (*http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007/) for more info on the: *· *Call for Tutorial Proposals *· *Call for Special Session Proposals *· *Call for Workshop Papers * * *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 o **Multimedia Networking:** Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Stevens Institute, USA o **Enabling Technologies:** Alan Messer, Samsung, USA o **Novel Applications:** Bin Wei, AT&T Research Lab, USA · **Special Sessions co-Chair:** Hang Liu, Thomson, USA; Qian Zhang, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Tech **· ****Workshop Coordinator****: 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, · **Technology Applications Panels Chair: ****Stan Moyer, Telcordia Technologies, ****USA** · **Demo Chair:** Dave Marples, Telcordia · **Tutorial Chair:** Mario Kolberg, University of Stirling, Scotland · **Career Forum Chair:** Zhu Liu, AT&T Labs, USA · **Publication Chair:** Yingtao Jiang, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA · **Publicity 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 · **Finance Chair: **Mike Kincaid, MSK Associates, USA · **Treasurer:** Bruce Worthman, IEEE Communications Society, USA · **IEEE Society Liaison:** Doug Zuckerman, IEEE ComSoc VP Society Relations · **IEEE Communications Society Project Manager: **Diane Williams, IEEE Communications Society, USA

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT.all: CONEXT 2007]
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: E-NEXT.members: E-NEXT.all: CONEXT 2007 Datum: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:41:58 +0200 Von: Serge Fdida <serge.fdida(a)lip6.fr> An: Serge.Fdida(a)lip6.fr Our apologies for multiple copies. ====================================== ..:: CoNEXT2006 - Changing Internetworking Paradigms ::.. ======================================= Lisbon, Portugal 4-7 December, 2006 In cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM http://www.co-next.net <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 ADETTI ISCTE IST Information Society Technologies FCT Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia e-NEXT http: <http://www.co-next.net/> //www.co-next.net <http://www.co-next.net/>info(a)co-next.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Fdida http://www.lip6.fr/rp/~sf

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[Fwd: Call for Papers! Situation Management Workshop (SIMA) @ MILCOM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers! Situation Management Workshop (SIMA) @ MILCOM 2006 Datum: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:31:06 -0400 Von: ComSocConferences(a)comsoc.org Antwort an: <Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org> An: Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org * * *MILCOM 2006* *2nd IEEE Workshop on Situation Management - SIMA 2006 **24 October 2006 \ Washington, DC* *In conjunction with MILCOM Call For Papers* *Many domains, such as modern battlefield operations management, disaster response and crisis management, physical infrastructure and cyber security monitoring, and mobile/autonomic robotics, are characterized by heightened mobility, large number of distributed heterogeneous information sources, and existence of complex, often incomplete and unpredictable dynamic situations. As a result, there is need for effective methods of situation recognition, prediction, reasoning and control -- operations collectively identifiable as Situation Management. Often situations involve a large number of inter-dependent dynamic objects that change their states in time and space, and engage each other into fairly complex relations. >From a management viewpoint it is important to understand the situations in which these objects participate, to recognize emerging trends and potential threats, and to undertake required actions. Understanding of dynamic situations requires complex cognitive modeling of situations, building situation ontologies, and continuous collection, perception, and fusion of signal and human intelligence events and reports. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and decision makers from government, industry and academia to present the state of their research, development and systems needs in situation management, to discuss fundamental issues and problems, and to identify future R&D directions. Technical papers are invited in areas including but not limited to the following topics: * * *Situation Calculus * * *Situation Modeling * * *Situation Ontologies and Semantics * * *Situation Specification Languages and Tools * * *Situation Monitoring and Awareness * * *Reasoning about Situations * * *Learning and Situation Discovery * * *Predictive Situation Modeling * * *Cognitive Models of Information Fusion * * *Situation Management Architectures * * *Agents, Grids and Distributed Situation Management * * *Situation Management in Autonomic and Self-Organizing Systems * * *Net-Centric Warfare and Battlespace Situation Management * * *Disaster Response & Crisis Management * * *Infrastructure and Cyber Security Situation Management * *Please submit a title and a brief abstract of your paper at http://www.milcom.org/2006/index.htm <http://www.milcom.org/2005/>. For inquiries regarding SIMA 2006 use sima(a)comsoc.org <mailto:sima@comsoc.org>. Important Dates: Abstracts Due: 21 April 2006 Draft Papers Due: 31 May 2006 Author Notifications: 7 July 2006 Final Papers Due: 4 August 2006 Workshop Chair: Gbriel Jakobson, Altusys Corporation TPC Co-Chairs: Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University John Salerno, Air Force Research Lab * To unsubscribe from this IEEE Communications Society Meetings and Conferences mailing list, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/unsubscribe.html or send a blank email message to conferencesx-remove(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (Conferencesx(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Final call for journal paper / due May 1]
by Lars Wolf 14 Apr '06

14 Apr '06

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Final call for journal paper / due May 1 Datum: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:43:33 -0400 Von: Bush, Stephen F (GE, Research) <bushsf(a)research.ge.com> An: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> ...sorry to contribute to CFP overflow, but here's another one... --- WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING Special Issue Announcement Advances in Resource-Constrained Device Networking Mobile communication devices of the next generation are expected to have an increasingly diminishing form-factor but at the same time are expected to be capable of universal network access. This leads to numerous challenges due to limited resources, such as battery power and radio size and limited transmission range. To obtain universal connectivity such devices must be able to recognize and connect to networks in their vicinity by forming ad hoc networks until data reaches a backbone network. This should be accomplished instantaneously and seamlessly with or without the support of a pre- existing infrastructure. These devices should have the capability for self-organization, support for multiple levels of quality of service, and high security. This special issue seeks contributions in the area of wireless and ad hoc networking with special emphasis on resource-constrained communication devices. Papers should describe original and previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Topics of interest, with special emphasis on resource-constrained devices/networks, including but not limited to are the following: ? Techniques for self-organization ? 1/f Noise and power-law indicators of organization ? Boolean Networks and Attractors ? Active network, algorithmic information theoretic, and compression-based approaches ? Swarm and emergent behavior approaches ? Energy management ? Security ? Synchronization ? Robust transport protocols ? Quality-of-service aware routing and prioritization, cross-layer optimization ? Performance evaluation ? Testbed environments ? Scalability The guest editors encourage the authors to submit their manuscripts as an email attachment to one of the guest editors, or to provide a URL with a PDF or postscript version of their manuscript. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html Schedule: Guest Editors Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research, USA bushsf(a)research.ge.com and Amit B. Kulkarni, GE Global Research, USA kulkarni(a)research.ge.com Submission Deadline: 1 May 2006 Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2006 Camera-ready papers: 31 October 2006 Publication: First half of 2007 http://www.research.ge.com/~bushsf/wcmc_bush_cfp.pdf _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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