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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP ASWN 2006]
by Lars Wolf 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP ASWN 2006 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:58:52 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Call for Papers: ASWN2006 What: 6th IEEE International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks When: May 29-31, 2006 Where: Berlin, Germany Info: http://www.aswn2006.org Please apologise cross/multiple posting, and please feel free to distribute this CfP further ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ASWN 2006 is the Sixth International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks following successful events in France (Paris 2001, 2002, 2005), Switzerland (Berne 2003) and the US (Boston 2004). The workshop addresses the challenges and advanced technologies supporting future wireless applications and services in mobile systems that span all wireless architectures and technologies, such as cellular, WLAN, WPAN, ad hoc, and sensor networks. The 2006 special theme is the integration of latest technological advances to realize ubiquitous service environments for innovative Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. Special attention will be given to sensor network applications, peer-to-peer communication and system interworking aspects including emerging issues like cross layer optimization. The format of the workshop is based on three-day single-track sessions, with presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers in the scope of the workshop, describing theoretical and practical recent results or developments. Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services on Wireless Networks include, but are not limited to the following topics: * Sensor networks and applications * Peer to peer communication for infrastructure-less environments * Nomadic Services * Emergency communication * Personalized services and applications * Context acquisition, interpretation, and awareness * Platforms and service support for ubiquitous service provisioning * Middleware for handhelds and mobile services nodes * Mobile service interworking * Service discovery: protocols and frameworks * Naming and addressing * Audio-visual and Mobile Multimedia Applications * Media & content distribution over wireless networks * Cross-layer design * Cooperative Networks & Self Organizing Systems * Reconfigurable Systems and Networks * Advances in WPAN, Personal Services and Networks * Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks and Multi-hop Wireless * Performance of Wireless Networks and Systems * QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS All submissions, including invited papers, will undergo a thorough review process and will be judged on quality, originality, clarity, and topical content. Submitted papers should not have been previously published, in part or in full, or be under consideration of another conference or journal. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN number. Important Deadlines: 1. Full paper submission: December 15th, 2005 2. Notification of acceptance: February 1st, 2006 3. Camera ready due: March 1st, 2006 The CfP is also available for download (http://www.aswn2006.org/download/ASWN2006_CFP.pdf) For further information about ASWN2006, please visit www.aswn2006.org We are looking forward to seeing you in Berlin for ASWN2006! With best regards The Technical Program Committee ASWN2006 Best regards Wolfgang Kellerer ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ - ASWN2006 - The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Berlin, May 29-31, 2006 http://www.aswn2006.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Surveillance and Monitoring Systems (AIISMS'06)
by Dimitrios Vergados 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Call for Papers Special Session on "Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Surveillance and Monitoring Systems (AIISMS'06)" http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/aiai2006/call/aiisms.htm 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Innovations & Applications (AIAI 2006) June 7-9, 2006, Athens, Greece You are cordially invited in the Special Session on "Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Integrated Surveillance and Monitoring Systems (AIISMS'06)" organized within the "3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2006)". This session invites original scientific research activities that have not been presented elsewhere in the field of Artificial Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Expert Systems and Genetic Programming including, but not limited to the following topics: * Computer Vision applications * Object recognition, target recognition and face recognition * Intelligent Transportation Systems * Telecommunication Systems * Web analysis, semantic web * Video image processing * Industrial applications * Vehicular Technologies * Wireless intelligent sensor networks * Mobile data networks management * Multimedia analysis, processing, and retrieval * Multimedia networking and systems support * Multimedia tools and applications Important Dates: Manuscript submission deadline: November 10, 2005 Notification due date: December 10, 2005 Camera-ready manuscript: January 04, 2006 Paper information: Interested authors should submit an electronic version of the manuscript, in PDF format, as an email attachment to both Session Program Chairs. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the Proceedings of the Conference in the Main IFIP Series by Springer Academic Publishers - Springer LNCS. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the conference and present the paper. Submitted papers must present unpublished work, not submitted to other journals or conferences for consideration of publication. Maximum length is eight (8) pages, formatted according to Springer LNCS instructions. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the correct document style from the Springer web site for their initial submission, so that preparation of the final ready for accepted papers is simplified. This sample paper in PDF format can be used as an example of the style. The font family used is Times (also for mathematics) and the line spacings are 12pt with 10pt font size for main text and 11pt with 9pt font size for passages in small print. Additional instructions may be found at http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/aiai2006/submit/author.htm Session Program Chairs: Dr. Dimitrios D. Vergados (University of the Aegean, Greece) vergados(a)aegean.gr Dr. C.N. Anagnostopoulos (University of the Aegean, Greece) canag(a)ct.aegean.gr

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[Fwd: [Tccc] RFP: ITNG 2006 Track on Grid Computing]
by Lars Wolf 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] RFP: ITNG 2006 Track on Grid Computing Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:01 -0400 From: Li, Jiang (Leo) <lij(a)ustc.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu The following information is also available at http://138.238.148.24/itng06_grid Third International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations ITNG 2006 April 10-12, 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA www.itng.info DEADLINES: Submission : October 28, 2005 (no extensions) Author Notification: December 16, 2005 Camera Ready (6 pages): January 13, 2006 Track on Grid Computing THEME: In the last few years, the Grid community has been growing very rapidly and many new technologies and components have been proposed. This, along with the growing popularity of web-based technologies, and the availability of cheap commodity components is changing the way we do computing and business. The Grid Computing Track at ITNG 2006 is intended to provide a high-quality forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest theoretical and practical work in this rapidly-changing area. Original papers are solicited in all aspects of grid computing. TOPICS: * Internet-based Computing Models * Interactive Grid Computing * Grid Architectures and Fabrics * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues * Grid Middleware and Toolkits * Grid Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools * Grid Information Services * Grid Security Issues * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Remote Data Access and Management * Grid Object Metadata and Schemas * Grid Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications * Virtual Instrumentation and eScience * Data Grids, including Distributed Data Access and Management * Networking * Resource Management and Scheduling * Grid Economy * Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids * Performance Evaluation and Modeling * Cluster and Grid Integration Issues * Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers should be original and contain contributions of theoretical or experimental nature, or be unique experience reports. Interested authors should submit a 6-page summary of their original and unpublished work including 5 keywords in the IEEE format electronically, or EMAIL to blegand(a)scs.howard.edu with the subject line set as "ITNG 2006". Electronic submission in the PDF, PS or MS Word format is strongly encouraged. EVALUATION PROCESS: Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Per ITNG policy, except for invited papers, all papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings with an ISBN. Selected papers presented in the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of an international journal. BEST STUDENT PAPER: The Best Student Paper will be awarded at the conference. To be eligible, the student must be the sole author of the paper, or the first author and primary contributor. (The winner of the award will present the paper in a plenary session at the conference). A cover letter to the General Chair/Track Chair must identify the paper as a candidate for this competition at the time of submission. CALL FOR REVIEWERS: The Grid Computing Track is in need of reviewers that are knowledgeable in the field.We plan to send a list of abstracts to each reviewer to select some papers to review. If you are willing to review some number of papers, (preferably between two and four, but any number will do!), please send a email to blegand(a)scs.howard.edu with the subject line set as "ITNG 2006 REVIEWER". The deadline for reviewers is early October 1, 2005. DEADLINES: Submission : October 28, 2005 (no extensions) Author Notification: December 16, 2005 Camera Ready (6 pages): January 13, 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Monthly reminding the Call for papers: INFOSCALE2006]
by Lars Wolf 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Monthly reminding the Call for papers: INFOSCALE2006 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:14:36 +1000 From: Jinli Cao <J.Cao(a)latrobe.edu.au> Organization: "OptimaNumerics" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE 2006) Co-sponsored by IEEE CS Society (pending approval) 30 May - 1 Jun 2006, Hong Kong http://www.infoscale.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS As the data volumes continue to increase and the ways of information dispersion across the globe continue to diversify, new scalable methods and structures are needed for efficiently processing those distributed and autonomous data. Grid computing, P2P technology, distributed information retrieval technology, and networking technology all must be merged to address the scalability concern. This forum focuses on this key merged domain and looks for new integrated solutions for this diversifying world of information. Conference Scope: Parallel Information Retrieval Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Scalable Grid Information Systems P2P Systems Scalable Mobile/Sensor DB Systems Index Compression Methods Architectures for Scalability Networking for Scalable Information Systems Scalable Information System Applications (medicine, biology, military, etc.) Evaluation Metrics for Scalability VLDB Data Mining Information Security Important Deadlines (tentative): Paper submission: 1 Nov 2005 Notification: 15 Jan 2006 Final version: 15 Feb 2006 Publications: Original and previously unpublished technical papers are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published by IEEE Press and available online through IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be published in journal special issues. General Chair Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong PC Chairs Abdur Chowdhury, AOL Francis Lau, The University of Hong Kong Frank Zhigang Wang, Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facilities Steering Committee Chairs Imrich Chlamtac, CreateNet Research Consortium, Chair Ophir Frieder, Illinois Institute of Technology, Co-chair Publicity Chair Jinli Cao, La Trobe University Publications Chair Scott Huang, City University of Hong Kong Workshops Chair Niki Pissinou, Florida International University, Chair Tirthankar Ghosh, Vice Chair Hao Zhu, Vice Chair Local Arrangement Chair Victor Lee, City University of Hong Kong Program Committee Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, Wales David Al-Dabass, University of Nottingham Trent, UK Mohand Boughanem, University Paul Sabatier, France Andrei Broder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Wentong Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel Jose Manuel Garcia Carrasco, University of Murcia, Spain Scott Cost, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Arjen de Vries, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands David Doermann, University of Maryland, USA Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen, Cairo University, Egypt Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA Nazli Goharian, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Siegmar Gross, University of Applied Sciences, Germany David Grossman, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA David Hawking, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia Andreas Henrich, University of Bamberg, Germany Otthein Herzog, University of Bremen, Germany Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, Netherlands Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada George Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany Narayana Jayaram, London Metropolitan University, UK Guojun Jin, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK Paul Kantor, Rutgers University, USA Stefan Kirn, University of Hohenheim, Germany Aleksander Kolcz, AOL, USA Peter Komisarczuk, University of Wellington, New Zealand Axel Korthaus, University of Mannheim, Germany Donald Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London, UK Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China Tao Li, University of Rochester, USA Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, UK James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, USA Massimo Melucci, University of Padova, Italy Lingkui Meng, Wuhan University, P. R. China Charles Nicholas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Greg Pass, AOL, USA Yale Patt, University of Texas, USA Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University London, UK Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer Integrated Publication and information Systems Institute, Germany Ingo Timm, University of Bremen, Germany Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University London, UK Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Herman Vandermulen, AOL, USA Zhichen Xu, Yahoo, USA Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jim Yip, University of Huddersfield, UK Clement Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Zhu Zhang, University of Arizona, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 12th European Wireless Conference 2006 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] 12th European Wireless Conference 2006 - Call for Papers Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:39:21 +0300 From: Rouskas Aggelos <arouskas(a)aegean.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Call for Papers 12th European Wireless Conference (EW2006) Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications April 2-5, 2006, Athens, Greece National Technical University of Athens http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/EW2006 Wireless communications is today one of the most dynamic sectors of our global economy. The introduction of third generation mobile communications is no longer imminent but incident in Europe, and throughout the world. At the same time, research for wireless communication systems beyond the third generation is in full swing. The 12th European Wireless 2006 Conference continues its long tradition in promoting the latest technical results in wireless communications and focuses on technologies, protocols, services and applications that will enable a full seamless and nomadic user access to new classes of multimedia services with a user-centric focus. Service provision will occur at the home, at the workplace, at leisure and during travel. The vision is to integrate the wireless local area and next generation cellular networks and develop the next generation of future wireless communication. Such networks will enable the provision of ubiquitous wireless services, which will become more and more innovative as they are driven by the consumer demands of the user and as a result of competition between the service providers. The main theme chosen for the European Wireless 2006 Conference, will be the technical challenges which need to be met in order to make the vision of Wireless Multimedia Communications a reality. EW2006 will be hosted by National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece, on April 2-5, 2006. PAPERS Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration and Evolution * B3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand * Radio Channel Modelling (Wave Propagation and Measurements) * Coexistence of Mobile Radio Networks * Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration and Interworking * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Location-based Services and Positioning * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Multiple Access Schemes * Power and Interference Control * Power Management for Small Terminals * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Radio Resource Management * Radio Transmission Technology * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Smart Antennas, Adaptive Antennas, MIMO and Beam Forming * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Ultra-Wideband and Short-range Networks * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, MANET * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless LAN/PAN PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically, using the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info), following the instructions found at: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/EW2006/authors.php IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: November 11, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2006 Camera Ready due: February 24, 2006 CONFERENCE CHAIR Emmanuel Protonotarios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, protonot(a)cs.ntua.gr STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Walke, RWTH, Aachen University of Technology, Germany, walke(a)comnets.rwth-aachen.de TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS George Karetsos, Center for Technological Research of Thessaly, Greece, karetsos(a)teilar.gr Angelos Rouskas, University of the Aegean, Greece, arouskas(a)aegean.gr WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, stefan.mangold(a)swisscom.com TUTORIAL CHAIR Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, alexiou(a)lucent.com LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Nikos Dragios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Groustiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charis Kechagias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Elias Tragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks Journal]
by Lars Wolf 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Special Issue of Ad Hoc Networks Journal Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:21:25 -0500 From: Jelena Misic <jmisic(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> To: <TC-comswtc(a)comsoc.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, "ITC" <List(a)comsoc.org> CC: ian(a)ece.gatech.edu, "Dr. Mukesh Singhal" <singhal(a)cs.uky.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS A SPECIAL ISSUE on "SECURITY IN AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS" Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/ Guest editors: Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba Mukesh Singhal, University of Kentucky There is an increasing demand of measures to guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, of transmitted data as well to ensure availibility of ad hoc and sensor networks all the time. Ad Hoc networks are characterized with power-efficient protocols with cross-layer interactions where sensor networks are even more restricted with the requirement for the simplicty and power efficiency of hardware and protocol design which require stronger interactions among the protocol layers. It is therefore, necessary to evaluate security of ad-hoc and sensor networks and come up with efficient tradeoffs between design complexity, power efficiency and security aspects. The main purpose of this Special Issue is to promote further research interests and activities on security in ad hoc and sensor networks. We are interested in analytical, experimental, and systems-related papers in all aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks security. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 1) Authenication and authorization 2) Key distribution and management 3) Secure routing 4) Vulnerability analysis 5) Trust management 6) Intrusion detection (cross-layer modeling and analysis of misbehavior) 7) Intrusion response and tolerance 8) Cross layer study of Denial of Service attacks 9) Study of attack strategies and attack modeling 10) Performance analysis of secure medium access control 11) Evaluation of security architectures supported by IEEE 802.15.1, 802.15.3 and 802.15.4 protocols 12) Study of tradeoffs between security and system performance Paper Submission Submit full papers as PDF files by email to siadhoc(a)cs.umanitoba.ca. The papers must be less than twenty single-column, double-spaced pages, excluding figures, tables, and references, using a 12-point font size. For detailed formatting instructions,please refer to the guidelines available at the AD HOC Networks journal web site, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc/. In addition to the paper in PDF format, your submission should include the title of the paper, the names of the authors and their affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the corresponding author, an abstract with up to 200-250 words, and up to five keywords describing the contents of the paper. Key Dates: Submission of Papers December 22, 2005 Notification of Acceptance April 15, 2006 Final Camera-Ready Submission May 15, 2006 Publication Date: October 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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CFP: 6th International Conference ITST2006
by Lars Wolf 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

ITST 2006 The 6th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications 21 - 22 - 23 June, 2006, Chengdu –CHINA http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn Email: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn ************************************************************************************************************ We are pleased to announce this 6th International Conference ITST 2006 on /Telecommunications in a Futuristic Transport World /and we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. We welcome submissions of a full-length paper (4 pages normally and 6 pages maximum) on telecommunications and intelligent transport system applications before February 28^th , 2006. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact: itst2006(a)uestc.edu.cn or to have a look at the website: http://www.itst2006.uestc.edu.cn

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: 12th EUROPEAN WIRELESS CONFERENCE (EW2006), APRIL 2006, ATHENS, GREECE]
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: 12th EUROPEAN WIRELESS CONFERENCE (EW2006), APRIL 2006, ATHENS, GREECE Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:19:15 +0300 From: George T. Karetsos <karetsos(a)cs.ntua.gr> Organization: NTUA To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Call for Papers 12th European Wireless Conference (EW2006) Enabling Technologies for Wireless Multimedia Communications April 2-5, 2006, Athens, Greece National Technical University of Athens http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/EW2006 Wireless communications is today one of the most dynamic sectors of our global economy. The introduction of third generation mobile communications is no longer imminent but incident in Europe, and throughout the world. At the same time, research for wireless communication systems beyond the third generation is in full swing. The 12th European Wireless 2006 Conference continues its long tradition in promoting the latest technical results in wireless communications and focuses on technologies, protocols, services and applications that will enable a full seamless and nomadic user access to new classes of multimedia services with a user-centric focus. Service provision will occur at the home, at the workplace, at leisure and during travel. The vision is to integrate the wireless local area and next generation cellular networks and develop the next generation of future wireless communication. Such networks will enable the provision of ubiquitous wireless services, which will become more and more innovative as they are driven by the consumer demands of the user and as a result of competition between the service providers. The main theme chosen for the European Wireless 2006 Conference, will be the technical challenges which need to be met in order to make the vision of Wireless Multimedia Communications a reality. EW2006 will be hosted by National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece, on April 2-5, 2006. PAPERS Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results are solicited. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * 2G - 3G - 4G Migration and Evolution * B3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand * Radio Channel Modelling (Wave Propagation and Measurements) * Coexistence of Mobile Radio Networks * Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet * Cross-layer Design in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Fixed/Mobile Networks Integration and Interworking * Heterogeneity in Future Networks * High Altitude Platforms and Satellites * Interference Mitigation and Management Techniques * Location-based Services and Positioning * Mobile and Wireless Applications * Mobile/Wireless Networks Modelling and Simulation * Mobility Management and Billing Technologies * Multiple Access Schemes * Power and Interference Control * Power Management for Small Terminals * Protocols for Air Interfaces and Networks * QoS and Resource Allocation in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Radio Resource Management * Radio Transmission Technology * Security and Robustness in Wireless Networks * Sensor Network Planning and Deployment * Smart Antennas, Adaptive Antennas, MIMO and Beam Forming * Software Defined Radio & Re-configurability * Spectrum Efficiency Analyses * Transport Layer Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks * Ultra-Wideband and Short-range Networks * Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, MANET * Wireless Broadband Mobile Access * Wireless LAN/PAN PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS All paper submissions will be handled electronically, using the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info), following the instructions found at: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/EW2006/authors.php DEADLINES Full papers due: November 11 , 2005 Notification of Acceptance: February 1 , 2006 Camera Ready due: February 24 , 2006 CONFERENCE CHAIR Emmanuel Protonotarios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Bernhard Walke , RWTH, Aachen University of Technology , Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS George Karetsos, Center for Technological Research of Thessaly, Greece Angelos Rouskas, University of the Aegean, Greece WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Mangold, Swisscom, Switzerland TUTORIAL CHAIR Angeliki Alexiou, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, UK LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Nikos Dragios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Evangelos Groustiotis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Charis Kechagias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Elias Tragos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP, deadline approaching - Special Issue on Cooperation in Wireless Networks - Springer, Wireless Personal Communications]
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP, deadline approaching - Special Issue on Cooperation in Wireless Networks - Springer, Wireless Personal Communications Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:37:43 +0200 From: Antonella Molinaro <molinaro(a)deis.unical.it> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org [Apologies for multiple copies] This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the Special Issue on "Cooperation in Wireless Networks" Springer, Wireless Personal Communications, is rapidly approaching (*October 1st*). The call for papers can be found at _http://kom.aau.dk/~ff/CfPCoNet.html _SCOPE OF SPECIAL ISSUE Cooperation between devices in wireless networks has been identified as one of the key technology enablers required to facilitate next generation wireless communication systems. Much of the existing research in wireless networking assumes a communication between one sender and one or multiple receiver(s). For reasons of self-interest, users may however allow terminals to engage in cooperative behavior, resulting in improved overall network performance. For cooperation, terminals will connect to each other using a short range communication link and simultaneously being connected to the centralized access point. This configuration allows many forms of cooperation. For this special issue, we distinguish between altruism and cooperation by requiring that cooperation benefit each entity involved. From this perspective, pure relaying is an example of altruism and not cooperation. Cooperation is not limited to a single ISO/OSI protocol layer, but can be addressed across multiple protocol layers. The focus of this call is to solicit novel papers addressing cooperation over all protocol layers from physical to application layer. SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Original papers should be send by submission deadline to *cooperation(a)kom.aau.dk *Submission deadline 1st October 2005 Notification 15th January 2006 Final version 15th February 2006 Planed Issue 2nd half 2006 TOPICS OF INTEREST Original papers are invited in the area of cooperation in wireless networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of cooperative wireless networks: Architectural Principles Multi–Access Capability Network Coding Radio Access Technologies Cooperative Processing Resource Management Distributed Radio Cooperative Channel Coding Heterogenous Networks Terminal design Self–organizing networks Cognitive Networks Middle-Ware Grid–Computing Source coding for cooperation Cooperating Services GUEST EDITORS Frank H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark, ff(a)kom.aau.dk Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D, mischa.dohler(a)francetelecom.com Ian Opperman, CWC, Oulu, Finland, ian(a)ee.oulu.fi Antonella Molinaro, University ”Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy, antmolin(a)ing.unirc.it Marcos Katz, SAMSUNG, Korea, marcos.katz(a)samsung.com Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, bettstetter(a)docomolab-euro.com

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[Fwd: [Tccc] JSAC Sampling the Internet: deadline approaching]
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] JSAC Sampling the Internet: deadline approaching Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:28:49 +0100 From: Iannaccone, Gianluca <gianluca.iannaccone(a)intel.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the IEEE JSAC Special Issue on "Sampling the Internet: Techniques and Applications" is rapidly approaching (October 1st). The call for papers can be found at http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/sampling_internet.html Submission can be done online at the following website: http://como.intel-research.net/jsac Submission must be in PDF. You may use the JSAC submission style (see http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html) or the JSAC camera ready style (IEEE Transactions style, two column, single spaced, 10pt font, 13 pages max including figures and tables). Please forward this email to your colleagues and students working on related topics. We look forward to your submission. Guest Editors Chadi Barakat Gianluca Iannaccone Jim Kurose Darryl Veitch _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for papers fo a workshop on security and privacy]
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Call for papers fo a workshop on security and privacy Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:37:02 +0300 From: Christos Douligeris <cdoulig(a)unipi.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Attach pls find a call for papers for a workshop on research challenges for security and privacy in mobile and wireless networks (which we're shortening to WSPWN 06 for most purposes). Thanks Christos Douligeris _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP ACM Transactions on Internet Technology: Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing]
by Lars Wolf 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CfP ACM Transactions on Internet Technology: Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:47:31 +0200 From: Peter Langendoerfer <langendoerfer(a)ihp-microelectronics.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org> References: <28F05C819859B042BBF585C4997D5A476828C2(a)deex.docomolab-euro.com> Please apologize cross/multiple posting, and please feel free to distribute this CfP further ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing Middleware is a distributed software layer that sits above the network operating system and below the application layer and abstracts the heterogeneity of the underlying environment. It provides an integrated distributed environment whose objective is to simplify the task of programming and managing distributed applications, and to provide value-added services such as naming and transactions to enable easier development and integration of applications and services. Middleware is about integration and interoperability of applications and services running on heterogeneous computing and communications devices. The role of middleware will continue to become increasingly important especially in emerging technologies such as mobile- and service-oriented computing and web services, where the integration of different applications and services from different wired and wireless businesses and service providers become increasingly important. Service-oriented computing is based on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is an architectural style for building software applications that use services available in a network such as the web. It promotes loose coupling between software components so that they can be reused. Applications in SOA are built based on services, which is an implementation of a well-define business functionality, and such services can be consumed by clients in different applications or business processes. SOA provides a level of flexibility that was not possible before in the sense that services are software components with well-defined interfaces that are implementation independent, that services can be dynamically discovered, and composite services can be built from aggregates of other services. Especially applications running on mobile devices can benefit from the flexibility which is provided by SOA. All those benefits, however, raise challenges that need to be addressed by middleware. Middleware will play an essential role in managing and provisioning service-oriented applications. As a result, middleware will be everywhere! The aim of this special issue is be to present most recent research findings on "middleware for service-oriented computing". We are seeking papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or other journals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: - Middleware for selection and interaction among services - Middleware for dynamic selection and composition of services/applications - Middleware for dynamic coordination of services/applications - Middleware for context-aware services/applications - Middleware for managing services/applications - Middleware for provisioning QoS-enabled services/applications - Middleware for interoperable services - Performance evaluation of middleware for service-oriented computing Submission Guidelines All papers must be submitted by the midnight (EST) of December 1, 2005. The page limit is 50 double-spaced pages, with a 12pt font size. Please email your paper in PDF format to papers(a)cis.uoguelph.ca . Important Dates Papers are due: December 1, 2005 Notifications: March 1, 2006 Revised papers: May 1, 2006 Notifications of final acceptance based on Editor-in-Chief' comments: July 1, 2006 Final papers: September 1, 2006 Publication: First available issue (possibly third or fourth quarter of 2007) Guest Editors Qusay H. Mahmoud Dept. of Computing & Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada qmahmoud(a)cis.uoguelph.ca http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud Peter Langendoerfer IHP-Microelectronics Frankfurt (Oder), Germany langendoerfer(a)ihp-microelectronics.com http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/~langend/home.html _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ARCS'06 CFP] - Deadline Extended!
by Muhammad A Khan 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

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[Fwd: CFP, deadline approaching Journal JNSM special issue WAHN and WSN (fwd)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP, deadline approaching Journal JNSM special issue WAHN and WSN (fwd) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:16:19 -0400 (WST) From: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CALL FOR PAPERS- JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/ Special Issue on Management of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks A real revolution is taking place in wireless networking with fundamentally different architectures and services. Wireless Ad hoc networks (WAHNs) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are two leaders in this paradigm shift where the "network" is autonomously formed among many nodes (PDAs, lap-tops, sensors, etc.) with varying functionalities and power levels. These networks will be the enablers for ubiquitous computing and communications, as well as they can perform significant functions during natural disasters where pre-existing communications infrastructures may be destroyed. An ad hoc network configures itself dynamically depending on the environment, requiring perhaps a management approach that also dynamically adapts itself. In a wireless sensor network, nodes are assumed to be discardable, requiring fault management to have a totally different approach than for a traditional wired network. Given that WSNs and WAHNs will be dominant networks in not so distant future, what are the challenges for managing these complex and dynamic environments? This special issue intends to include articles describing the results of the latest work in the management of WSNs and WAHNs. The focus of this special issue will include (not limited to) the following topics: · Management architectures for WAHNs and WSNs · Management protocols for WAHNs and WSNs · Security management for WAHNs and WSNs · Configuration and policy-based management for WAHNs and WSNs · Resource allocation and resource discovery for WAHNs and WSNs · Topology discovery for WAHNs and WSNs · Network auto-reconfiguration and self organization for WAHNs and WSNs · Scalability, reliability, and performance issues of WAHNs and WSNs · Call admission and traffic control policies for WAHNs and WSNs · Congestion control for WAHNs and WSNs · Fault management. fault tolerance and error recovery for WAHNs and WSNs · Power management and control algorithms for WAHNs and WSNs · Data management and representation for WAHNs and WSNs · Interoperability with overlay fixed and wireless networks · Applications and services specific network management approaches for WAHNs and WSNs · Service discovery and management for WAHNs and WSNs · Management issues in pilot projects, test beds, implementations for WAHNs and WSNs Instructions to Contributors: We invite prospective authors to submit high quality, unpublished papers in Word, PDF or PS via e-mail to one of the guest editors, depending on their geographic zone. Please prepare the manuscript in single-column, double-spaced format. Paper preparation instructions can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the JNSM Web site at http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/. Guest Editors: Mehmet Ulema Barcin Kozbe José Marcos Nogueira Manhattan College Ericsson Inc, F. University of M. Gerais Riverdale, New York, Redmond, Washington Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil mehmet.ulema@manhattan.edu-barcin.kozbe@ericsson.com-jmarcos@dcc.ufmg.br Schedule: Manuscript due: September 30, 2005 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2006 Final manuscript due: March 31, 2006 Publication: 3rd Quarter 2006 On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Carlos Becker Westphall wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:58:56 -0300 > From: jmarcos <jmarcos(a)dcc.ufmg.br> > To: Carlos B.Westphall <westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br>, > Jose Marcos Nogueira <jmarcos(a)dcc.ufmg.br> > Subject: CFP, deadline approaching Journal JNSM special issue WAHN and WSN > > Carlos, > > Could you please advertise the attached journal special issue CFP in > your lists? The deadline is approaching. > > Thank you in advance, > > Jose Marcos Nogueira > > *CALL FOR PAPERS* > > *JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT* > > */http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm//* > > *Special Issue on Management of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless > Sensor Networks* > > *Schedule:* > > Manuscript due: *September 30, 2005* > > Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2006 > > Final manuscript due: March 31, 2006 > > Publication: 3^rd Quarter 2006 > > -- The complete CFP is attached ---- > > _______________________________________________ > Lacomsoc mailing list > Lacomsoc(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br > http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/lacomsoc >

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[Fwd: CFP: Journal of Computer Communications Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)"]
by Lars Wolf 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Journal of Computer Communications Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 23:04:18 -0400 From: Moustafa Youssef <moustafa(a)cs.umd.edu> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) ------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Journal of Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Sensor-Actuator NETworks (SANETs) are comprised of networked sensor and actuator nodes that communicate among each other using wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation tasks. The recent few years have witnessed an increasing interest in the potential use of SANETs in many applications ranging from healthcare to warfare. In these applications, sensors are engaged in gathering information about the physical environment, while actuators are involved in taking decisions and then performing appropriate actions in the area of interest. This enables SANETs to provide remote sensing and actuation services to their users. SANETs are heterogeneous networks having widely differing sensor and actuator node characteristics; while sensor nodes are small, inexpensive, usually static devices with limited computation, communication and energy resources, actuator nodes are resource-rich and usually mobile. Also, the number of sensor nodes deployed may be in the order of hundreds or thousands. In contrast, actuator nodes are smaller in number due to the different coverage requirements and physical interaction methods of actuation. Typically, a deployed SANET is expected to operate autonomously in unattended environments. Operational requirements of SANETs may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, intrusion detection and mitigation), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. In SANETs, depending on the application, there may be a need to rapidly respond to sensor input. Moreover, so as to provide right actions, sensor data must still be valid at the time of acting. Consequently, the issues of real-time communication and coordination are vital in SANETs. Finally, to realize their potential, dependable, secure, application-aware design and operation of SANETs have to be ensured. Apparently, research is needed to resolve the many complicating issues that may impede wide-scale SANET adoption. This special issue of the Journal of Computer Communications will be designated for reporting on recent research results on SANETs. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to the characteristics of SANETs need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary in order to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on aspects such as dependability, security, and QoS. Papers presenting original and unpublished work are being solicited. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Sensor-actuator coordination and communication - Architectural and operational models - Robust routing and MAC protocols - Fault and attack resilience middleware - Models, metrics and measurements - Self-aware and autonomous networks - Localization and mobility - Energy-efficient cross-layer protocols - Security, dependability, privacy and QoS issues - Network management - Formal representation and verification - Network inference (tomography, etc.) - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Novel applications of sensor and actuator networks ** Submission deadline: February 15 , 2006 ** Decision notification: May 15, 2006 ** Final manuscript due: July 31, 2006 ** Publication date: 1st Quarter 2007 ** Submission instructions: Prospective authors should submit their paper and inquiries electronically to toweissy(a)vt.edu. The manuscript should not exceed 30 double-space pages in PDF. The manuscript should be in a single column font size 11 or larger format. The first page should include title, authors’ contact information, an abstract and five keywords. Authors should include the paper abstract in their message. ** Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy: The Bradley Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Virginia Tech, USA, toweissy(a)vt.edu Silvia Giordano: Dept. of Informatics & Electronics, Univ. of Applied Sci., Switzerland, silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch Stephan Olariu: Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA, olariu(a)cs.odu.edu David Simplot-Ryl: IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France, David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE IPCCC 2006-- 25th Anniversary]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE IPCCC 2006-- 25th Anniversary Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:21:35 -0400 From: Nidal Nasser <nasser(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP, but please forward to anyone you believe may be interested -- thanks] CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 25th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) April 10-12, 2006, Mesa Hilton Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona http://www.ipccc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the past 25 years the International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC) is a premiere IEEE conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. Over the years, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. In 2006, we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the IEEE IPCCC. We encourage you to submit high-quality papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Wireless Sensor Network Wireless Resource Allocation Performance Evaluation Network Management and Control Quality of Service Switch, Router and Network Architecture Routing and Multicast Protocols Network Security High-Performance Computing Performance of Web Servers Power-Aware Design Grid Computing Embedded Systems Storage Systems Traffic Measurement, Analysis and Engineering Information Assurance Network Computing Optical Networks Network Pricing and Charging Network Processors Submitted manuscripts must not exceed 20 pages with 11-point font size. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format via EDAS (http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4597). In addition, proposals are solicited for the following: (Contact the program co-chairs listed at http://www.ipccc.org for details) Panel sessions on topics of timely importance. Student Poster sessions on current research. Important dates: Full papers are due Oct. 4, 2005. Panel proposals and Student Posters are due: Nov. 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance of conference papers: December 20, 2005 Camera-ready manuscripts and registrations due: Feb. 7, 2006 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms - CFP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Mobile Service Platforms - CFP Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:43:01 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org> CC: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Communications Magazine Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems Call for Papers http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag906.htm Background Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment. Scope of Contributions The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects: - Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) - Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) - Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) - Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) - Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) - Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu. Schedule of Submissions Manuscript submission: December 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 2006 Publication date: September 2006 Guest Editors Wolfgang Kellerer DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-56824-222 Email: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Stefan Arbanowski Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197 Email: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ IEEE Communications Magazine Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems Call for Papers Background Mobile communications has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and application providers taking new software technologies into account. New paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all means to allow innovative services to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs. For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure contextual knowledge about the userís environment. Scope of Contributions The papers of this feature topic will focus on advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following aspects: - Open service architectures (open interfaces, transition of OSA/Parlay/IMS towards B3G/4G) - Advanced IP-based service signaling architectures and protocols (including session mobility) - Concepts and realization of emerging features for B3G/4G mobile service platforms (context awareness, personalization, agents, service adaptation) - Decentralized, self-organized service platforms (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) - Ubiquitous service platforms (smart cards, sensor networks) and their integration with mobile systems service platforms (service gateways) - Service discovery and service composition, including the application of semantic information Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/ by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down menu. Schedule of Submissions Manuscript submission: December 31, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: June 15, 2006 Publication date: September 2006 Guest Editors Wolfgang Kellerer DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel: +49-89-56824-222 Email: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Stefan Arbanowski Fraunhofer FOKUS Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49-30-3463-8197 Email: arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (OS Review Changes, CFP for PlanetLab special topics issue)]
by Lars Wolf 15 Sep '05

15 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (OS Review Changes, CFP for PlanetLab special topics issue) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:11:26 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Operating Systems Review Starting with the January 2006 issue, the publication policy of the Operating System Review is changing. In particular, each issue will be organized around a theme and submissions will be solicited for that theme. Guest editors will often be chosen to solicit and review submissions for a special topics issue. We are interested in having a broad range of special topics reflecting both academic and industrial interests. Please send suggestions for special topics issues to the OSR editor, Jeanna Matthews (jnm(a)clarkson.edu). The first special topics issue will be related to PlanetLab and Marc Fiuczynski (mef(a)cs.princeton.edu) will the guest editor. For this issue, we seek submissions on all aspects related to PlanetLab. Topics of interest, but not limited to, include: - Mature long-running services currently operating on PlanetLab - Management tools that ease the deployment of PlanetLab slices - Network measurement tools - Infrastructure services - Debugging and monitoring related to PlanetLab - Resource management, discovery, etc. Papers will be evaluated by a review committee. The primary criteria for acceptance will be clarity of explanation and relationship to PlanetLab. This special issue does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers, but there is a soft cap of roughly 84 pages of text devoted to papers. Papers should be double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format and submitted in printable postscript or pdf. If you are interested in submitting to this issue of OSR, please send email to mef(a)cs.princeton.edu with a brief description of your submission by November 1st 2005. The final submission will be due November 15 2005. Continuing the PlanetLab thread, the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting will be at EPFL in Lausanne, conveniently timed immediately after SOSP in Brighton: PlanetLab Everywhere - "PlanetLab - future directions" ====================================================== Call for participation in the 2nd European PlanetLab meeting hosted jointly by EPFL and the Evergrow EU project. Oct 27-28, 2005 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland Workshop website: http://lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere Workshop outline: This workshop will explore several new directions to expand PlanetLab's user base to literally every researcher or student who wants to conduct a wide-area experiment and expand its hardware base to every machine on the planet. Topics at this workshop include merging clusters with PlanetLab, developments of private PlanetLab configurations, operating PlanetLab @ HOME via Xen/VMware/Intel-VT, and issues related to federating PlanetLab. The goal of this meeting is to bring together users, developers, and researches interested in these topics and develop plans to independently or collaboratively move forward with projects to develop working prototypes in each area. Further it is intended to let participants discuss technical problems and exchange their experiences to improve the quality of cooperation in the PlanetLab community. Workshop structure: We suggest a mix of talks, panel discussions, case study presentations, experience reports, demonstrators, and "bird-of-a-feather" sessions. Participants are invited to submit proposals until Oct 13, 2005 Please visit the workshop website (lsirwww.epfl.ch/PlanetLabEverywhere) for further information. ____________________________________________________________ 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://ramp.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)"]
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:29:06 -0400 From: <toweissy(a)vt.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, manet(a)ietf.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Journal of Computer Communications (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom) Special Issue on "Sensor-Actuator Networks (SANETs)" Sensor-Actuator NETworks (SANETs) are comprised of networked sensor and actuator nodes that communicate among each other using wireless links to perform distributed sensing and actuation tasks. The recent few years have witnessed an increasing interest in the potential use of SANETs in many applications ranging from healthcare to warfare. In these applications, sensors are engaged in gathering information about the physical environment, while actuators are involved in taking decisions and then performing appropriate actions in the area of interest. This enables SANETs to provide remote sensing and actuation services to their users. SANETs are heterogeneous networks having widely differing sensor and actuator node characteristics; while sensor nodes are small, inexpensive, usually static devices with limited computation, communication and energy resources, actuator nodes are resource-rich and usually mobile. Also, the number of sensor nodes deployed may be in the order of hundreds or thousands. In contrast, actuator nodes are smaller in number due to the different coverage requirements and physical interaction methods of actuation. Typically, a deployed SANET is expected to operate autonomously in unattended environments. Operational requirements of SANETs may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g., hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g., monitoring, tracking, intrusion detection and mitigation), mode of operation (e.g., normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. In SANETs, depending on the application, there may be a need to rapidly respond to sensor input. Moreover, so as to provide right actions, sensor data must still be valid at the time of acting. Consequently, the issues of real-time communication and coordination are vital in SANETs. Finally, to realize their potential, dependable, secure, application-aware design and operation of SANETs have to be ensured. Apparently, research is needed to resolve the many complicating issues that may impede wide-scale SANET adoption. This special issue of the Journal of Computer Communications will be designated for reporting on recent research results on SANETs. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to the characteristics of SANETs need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary in order to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on aspects such as dependability, security, and QoS. Papers presenting original and unpublished work are being solicited. Topics of interest include, although not limited to, the following: - Sensor-actuator coordination and communication - Architectural and operational models - Robust routing and MAC protocols - Fault and attack resilience middleware - Models, metrics and measurements - Self-aware and autonomous networks - Localization and mobility - Energy-efficient cross-layer protocols - Security, dependability, privacy and QoS issues - Network management - Formal representation and verification - Network inference (tomography, etc.) - Testbeds, simulation and visualization - Novel applications of sensor and actuator networks ** Submission deadline: February 15 , 2006 ** Decision notification: May 15, 2006 ** Final manuscript due: July 31, 2006 ** Publication date: 1st Quarter 2007 ** Submission instructions: Prospective authors should submit their paper and inquiries electronically to toweissy(a)vt.edu. The manuscript should not exceed 30 double-space pages in PDF. The manuscript should be in a single column font size 11 or larger format. The first page should include title, authors’ contact information, an abstract and five keywords. Authors should include the paper abstract in their message. ** Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy: The Bradley Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Virginia Tech, USA, toweissy(a)vt.edu Silvia Giordano: Dept. of Informatics & Electronics, Univ. of Applied Sci., Switzerland, silvia.giordano(a)supsi.ch Stephan Olariu: Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, USA, olariu(a)cs.odu.edu David Simplot-Ryl: IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France, David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ICC 2006 Paper submission deadline extension!]
by Xiaoyuan Gu 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

1b0797b7.gif 1b0797b7.jpg 1b0797d5.jpg Urgent Announcement: ICC 2006 Paper submission deadline extension. The paper submission deadline for ICC 2006 (Istanbul, Turkey) has been extended until 25 September 2006, 11:59 PM EST. The new deadline is firm and there will no more extension. You can find more information on submitting papers at www.icc2006.org <http://www.icc2006.org/>.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline Extended to Sep. 25: ICC 2006 Optical Systems and Networks Symposium]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline Extended to Sep. 25: ICC 2006 Optical Systems and Networks Symposium Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:28:44 -0500 From: Byrav Ramamurthy <byrav(a)cse.unl.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, ontc(a)comsoc.org Dear Colleagues, The deadline for the ICC 2006 paper submissions has been extended to 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST) Conference website: http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html Please also note the expanded scope of the OSN symposium and the possibility of POSTER presentations. Attached is the CFP with the latest changes. Thanks Byrav -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Byrav Ramamurthy Associate Professor Room 363, Avery Hall Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. Phone: (402) 472-7791 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Fax: (402) 472-7767 Lincoln NE 68588-0115 Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Web: http://www.cse.unl.edu/~byrav ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call for Papers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (part of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006) to be held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11-15 June 2006) SPONSORED BY : Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) Technical Committee on Transmission, Access, and Optical Systems (TAOS) Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing (TC CSR) SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Piet Demeester, Ghent University, Co-Chair Email: piet.demeester(a)intec.ugent.be Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Co-Chair Email: byrav(a)cse.unl.edu Stefano Bregni, Politecnico di Milano, Co-Chair Email: bregni(a)elet.polimi.it Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Tech University, Vice Chair Email: nghani(a)tntech.edu IMPORTANT DATES Complete Paper Manuscripts Due: 25 September 2005; 11:59 PM (EST) Acceptance Notification: 31 December 2005 Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 15 February 2006 Conference Dates: 11 - 15 June 2006 SCOPE Optical communication systems and networks will continue to play a significant role in the development and deployment of emerging network infrastructures. Such systems and networks are expected to support the diverse requirements of a broad range of applications including services for residential users, business communications, grid computing, storage area networks (SANs), multimedia content distribution networks, etc. Optical networks are evolving dramatically in terms of technology and architecture towards a more flexible, intelligent and reliable optical network layer utilizing new optical switching architectures and technologies as well as advanced control and management protocols. Optical component technology is rapidly maturing offering cost-effective solutions to a point where optical networks are currently being deployed in core backbone networks, and are gaining increased interest for deployment in metro and access environments. The widespread deployment of optical communication networks provides many significant challenges. The purpose of this symposium is to provide a forum for researchers in academia and industry to present and discuss issues and possible solutions as well as emerging standards for the development, deployment, and application of optical networks. The symposium will focus on optical systems and networking for traditional telecommunications applications with emphasis on network and system design, traffic modeling and routing, network management, control and signaling etc. The symposium will also address topics related to optical network solutions suitable to support new applications and services such as storage networks, global grid computing, disaster recovery etc. The symposium will consist of peer-reviewed research papers covering a broad range of issues related to optical communication systems and networks. TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE * Optical access, metro and core networks * Optical transmission and systems * Multilayer network architectures (IP/MPLS/GMPLS/optical) * IP-WDM integration * Optical circuit, burst and packet switching * Multigranular and waveband-switching optical networks * Broadcast, multicast and anycast * Multiple access * Hybrid wireless-optical networks * Wireless optical systems * Optical access (PON/EPON bandwidth allocation, scheduling) * Layer 1 virtual private networks (VPNs) * Network modeling and design (routing, wavelength assignment, grooming, ...) * Network performance evaluation * Network element architectures and their performance (OXC, OADM, packet switches, ...) * Recovery strategies : efficiency, cost, performance, single and multilayer * Network control and management * Next generation SONET/SDH * Data over SONET/SDH and OTN * Support of advanced applications: grid computing, content storage and distribution, multimedia streaming, etc. * Techno-economical comparison between different network architectures * Optical network experiments (interoperability demonstrations, test beds and field trials) * Standardization TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Andrea Bianco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Franco Callegati, Università di Bologna, Italy Hakki Candan Cankaya, Alcatel, USA Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Tibor Cinkler, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary Tarek El-Bawab, Alcatel, USA George Ellinas, City University of New York, USA Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Wales Swansea, UK Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Christoph Gauger, University of Stuttgart, Germany Aysegul Gencata, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Ashwin Gumaste, Fujitsu Labs, USA Mohan Gurusamy, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ibrahim Habib, City University of New York, USA Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo, Canada Jason Jue, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Wojciech Kabacinski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Young-chon Kim, Chonbuk National University, Korea Youngseok Lee, Chungnam National University, Korea Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Guido Maier, Corecom, Italy Marco Mellia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Biswanath Mukherjee, University of California, Davis, USA Michael O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK Tim Ozugur, Alcatel, USA Mario Pickavet, Ghent University, Belgium Chunming Qiao, State University of New York, USA Srini Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA Martin Reisslein, Arizona State University, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Roberto Sabella, Ericsson, Italy Chava Vijaya Saradhi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ken-Ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan Dominic A. Schupke, Siemens AG, Germany Abdullah Shami, University of Western Ontario, Canada Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA Arun Somani, Iowa State University, USA Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University, USA Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia, USA Vinod Vokkarane, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA Jing Wu, Communications Research Center, Canada Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA Jun Zheng, University of Ottawa, Canada Wende Zhong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore PAPER SUBMISSION Authors MUST submit their papers electronically using EDAS. A link is provided to the EDAS web site at the end of this page. The submission process involves the following three steps: 1. Creation of a personal account on EDAS (if the author does not already have one) 2. Registration of the paper (requiring a title and short abstract of up to 150 words) 3. Upload of the paper. Only in pdf format Papers must be written in English. Preferred maximum paper length is 6 printed pages including figures. Accepted papers that are longer than 6 pages will be charged with an over-length fee of $100 per page for the 7th and 8th pages. Under no circumstances may any submission exceed 8 pages. Papers in excess of 8 pages shall not be considered for review or publication. IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Authors will be notified of acceptance and given a chair's summary of reviewer comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers. Accepted manuscripts should be revised per the comments and final camera-ready papers be submitted by the deadline. The accepted papers, depending on their number versus conference rooms' availability, may be split among orally presented and poster presented papers without any relation to the paper evaluation process and without any distinction as far as printing in the proceedings is concerned. The authors must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference and that one presenter must register at the FULL or LIMITED rate per IEEE ComSoc policy. For authors presenting multiple papers, one FULL or LIMITED registration is valid for up to three papers. Copyright forms will be required for accepted papers. The Symposium on Optical Systems and Networks website is http://www.icc2006.org/index/OpticalSystemsandNetworks.html The EDAS web site for the Symposium is http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4590 For additional paper submission details, please visit http://www.icc2006.org/index/paper.html Please contact us if you need additional information. Best regards, Piet Demeester Byrav Ramamurthy Stefano Bregni Nasir Ghani -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 1 Call for Papers)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting (EuroSys 1 Call for Papers) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:24:45 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for papers EUROSYS 1 Leuven April 18-21, 2006 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ Important dates: Registration of abstracts October 8, 2005 (mandatory) Paper submission October 15, 2005 (hard deadline) Acceptance notification January 15, 2006 Final papers due March 1, 2006 Conference April 18-21, 2006 EuroSys 1 is the first of a series of system conferences located in Europe. It welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, April 18-21, 2006. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences. As a result, we seek papers on all aspects of computer systems. We especially seek papers that cross the divide between areas and address: * All areas of operating systems and distributed systems * Systems aspects of: - Programming language support - Databases - Distributed algorithms - Middleware - Parallel and concurrent computing - Clusters and grids - Mobile and pervasive computing - Embedded computers and tiny devices - Novel user interfaces - Real-time computing - Security - Dependable computing - Novel uses of information technology - Management, measurement and monitoring * Experience with existing systems * Reproduction of previous results * Negative results * Early ideas Papers should report, where possible, on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of such systems. However, at least one session of the conference will be reserved for "idea" papers. These papers may not be held to the same standards in terms of evaluation as other submissions. Similarly, one session of the conference will be reserved for "experience papers", reflecting on the use or the lack of use of earlier concepts. For such papers, novelty of the concept is less of an issue, but depth of evaluation is of paramount importance. Authors may but need not designate their paper for one of these sessions. To encourage diversity, any single author will be limited to at most two submissions. To avoid conflict of interests, papers authored by program committee members will be held to a significantly higher standard, and their number in the final program will be severely restricted. Reviewing will not be blind. Authors should feel free to include their affiliation in the paper, and include all references in full. Papers will be reviewed by the program committee with the help of outside referees. The primary criterion for acceptance will be the impact of the work on the systems community and the extent to which the papers bridge gaps between different communities. Novelty, clarity of explanation and thorough evaluation will be additional criteria. Papers may be provisionally accepted, subject to further shepherding by a member of the program committee before final acceptance. The conference does not have a predefined format or a target number of accepted papers. Papers will be accepted or rejected based on their merits, and the conference will be organized in a format that accommodates the number of papers that meet that criterion. Papers should not exceed 14 pages double column including figures and tables in standard ACM format. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected without consideration of their merit. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable postscript or pdf form. For detailed submission instructions, refer to the submission web site. Program committee Anastassia Ailamaki CMU Amnon Barak Hebrew University Brian Bershad University of Washington Alan Cox Rice University Thomas Gross ETHZ Steve Hand Cambridge University Maurice Herlihy Brown University Christof Fetzer Technical University of Dresden Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg Gilles Muller Ecole des Mines, Nantes Krithi Ramaritham IIT Bombay Ant Rowstron Microsoft Research Cambridge Karsten Schwan Georgia Tech Leendert Van Doorn IBM Research Hawthorne Werner Vogels Amazon Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (chair) Organizing Committee Yolande Berbers KU, Leuven (general chair) Willy Zwaenepoel EPFL (programm chair) Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA-Rennes(publicity chair ____________________________________________________________ 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://ramp.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] PerEL 2006: Deadline Extension]
by Lars Wolf 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] PerEL 2006: Deadline Extension Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:02:33 +0200 From: Ulrike Lucke <ul(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de> Reply-To: perel06(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. Please feel free to forward the message to interested colleagues. >> Please note: PerEL 2006 Deadline has been extended. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2nd IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2006) March 17, 2006 in Pisa, Italy http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with the 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2006) www.percom.org SCOPE ~~~~~ The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2006) aims to address the issues of pervasive computing in combination with new types and possibilities of learning, teaching and working. Pervasive learning is to be seen as a key technology for tomorrow's e-knowledge society. Here, content, context and community as well as a technical basement are equally important aspects for the realization of a global campus. High-producing discussions at PerEL 2005 showed out that technical pre-requisitions of pervasive learning as well as a research roadmap are given. First prototypical experiences are already available, but yet no full solution. PerEL 2006 covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of pervasive learning forcing innovative learning environments by utilization of wireless communication and wearable computing. In combination with session and service mobility as well as device independency, the arising learning environments should have the potential to be accessed by anyone at any place and any time. Learning wherever and whenever needed is to become possible. PerEL 2006 addresses technologies, algorithms, tools, architectures, organization policies, and applications as well as didactical and pedagogical aspects and trends of pervasive eLearning. After all, it aims at an examination of future visions in that area. It will present original papers that demonstrate new results of research and development in the field of pervasive learning. We are looking for results of theoretical, empirical, and practical studies. Topics of interest are all aspects of pervasive learning as mentioned above. This includes, but is not limited to: - mobile communication (asynchronous, synchronous) - service and session mobility - document, knowledge, and service management - tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous eLearning - smart devices and device-independent presentation - techniques for cooperative learning or working - pervasive gaming for learning, eLearning networks - realization of pervasive learning scenarios - best practice studies and experiences PerEL 2006 will discuss new techniques for the support of mobile teaching, learning and working from a pervasive point of view. As started by its predecessor in 2005, the workshop continues to bring together researchers and developers from different technical and educational disciplines. Its intension is to assemble outstanding work in order to enable the realization of improved pervasive learning arrangements. SUBMISSIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~ We kindly invite authors to submit full papers on original and unpublished work. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 5 pages in IEEE proceedings style. Papers may be submitted in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Postscript format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to fully register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Submission of Full Papers: September 30, 2005 *extended* Notification of Acceptance: November 22, 2005 Camera-ready Papers due: December 19, 2005 CONTACT ~~~~~~~ Program Chair: Djamshid Tavangarian Organization: Heiko Kopp, Ulrike Lucke For further information please contact the organizers at: University of Rostock Dpt. of Computer Science Albert-Einstein-Str. 21 18059 Rostock Germany Phone: (+49) 381 - 498 75 23 Fax: (+49) 381 - 498 75 22 perel06(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SAINT 2006 Workshop CFP: Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006)]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SAINT 2006 Workshop CFP: Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:09:59 +0200 From: Kellerer, Wolfgang <kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <wg2(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <wg3(a)wireless-world-research.org>, <p2prg(a)irtf.org>, <sig3(a)wireless-world-research.org> CC: uesugi.mitsuru(a)jp.panasonic.com, arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de, ohashi(a)kddilabs.jp Second Call for SAINT 2006 workshop papers (please note the updated paper format) 2nd Workshop on Next Generation Service Platforms for Future Mobile Systems (SPMS 2006) (see also: http://www.saintconference.org/, http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint06/, SAINT 2006: Phoenix, Arizona, USA, January 23-27, 2006) The enormous success of the Internet results to a large extent from the flexible and easy to use platform it provides to create innovative services and applications that quickly find acceptance and customers. In parallel to the Internet, mobile communications also has evolved to an integral component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services. Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate multimedia applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous radio and network technologies. The success of the next generation mobile telecommunication systems will again depend on the services and applications that can be provided. These future systems are expected to integrate the paradigms of traditional mobile telecommunication systems with the Internet protocols and software engineering methods. New paradigms will emerge. For example, the customer acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is in. Ubiquitous services receive increased user acceptance (e.g., Peer-to-Peer). A well engineered next generation service platform should provide all capabilities to allow innovative services to be created and deployed in short time addressing user needs. Third party interfaces allow a chaining of expertise in service provisioning. Semantic technologies may help to structure knowledge about the user environment. Researchers, practitioners and developers are invited to submit original unpublished papers in the following areas: * Open Service Architectures (open interfaces, third party providers) * Mobile Service Platforms (incl. terminal aspects and mobile middleware) * Service Platforms for ubiquitous communication and P2P * Capabilities and features for next generation mobile services (context-awareness, personalization/personal agent, high quality multimedia, information distribution, adaptation) * Service Building Blocks (service modelling, semantic technologies, service creation, service discovery, service composition, service management) * Privacy and trust as enabling technologies for future service platforms * Mobile service platform prototypes and evaluation * Innovative applications and services This workshop is open to contributions from all experts in service technologies from industry and academia, including bodies such as mITF and WWRF, but not being limited to those. The Mobile IT Forum (mITF) and the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) are both organizations working towards the next generation of mobile communication systems. The two bodies represent each more than 140 member organizations (including companies, universities, and research institutes). Both bodies have dedicated working groups to the architecture/platform challenge. This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss service architecture/platform issues on a highly international level with experts from both bodies. Submission Guidelines Page limit: 4 pages in IEEE Conference format. Description: The submitted paper should contain authors names and affiliation and postal address, and fax number Format: Paper should be submitted in .pdf or .ps or .doc. Papers should be submitted to the workshop organizers. All papers will be reviewed by at least three expert reviewers. Important dates Paper submission: Thursday, September 15, 2005. Camera ready due: Tuesday, November 1, 2005. Workshop organizers Stefan ARBANOWSKI, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany, WWRF WG2 Service Architecture, Chair, arbanowski(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de Wolfgang KELLERER, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, WWRF WG2, Vice Chair kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com Masayoshi OHASHI, KDDI, Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Chair ohashi(a)kddilabs.jp Mitsuru UESUGI, Panasonic Japan, mITF Service Platform WG, Vice Chair uesugi.mitsuru(a)jp.panasonic.com ------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kellerer Manager Ubiquitous Services Platforms Future Networking Lab DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH Landsberger Str. 312 80687 Munich, Germany Tel. +49-89-56824-222 Fax. +49-89-56824-300 E-mail: kellerer(a)docomolab-euro.com i-mode: kellerer(a)imail.de http://www.docomolab-euro.com ------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICNSC Special Session CFP: Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICNSC Special Session CFP: Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:25:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chi Zhang <czhang(a)cs.fiu.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers 2006 IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 06) Special Session: Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication Energy consumption in wireless networks is an important design consideration due to the limited battery capacity of mobile devices. Advances in hardware and software technologies have not been matched by corresponding improvements in battery technologies. Since wireless communication is a major contributor to the total energy consumption on many battery-powered mobile devices, the success of new wireless technologies is contingent on their power-conservation techniques. It is important to understand and characterize the energy-consumption behaviors of the communication components in mobile devices. Furthermore, considerable research has been devoted to low-power design of the entire network protocol stack of wireless networks, in an effort to enhance energy efficiency. The goal of this special session is to bring together researchers in the field of energy-efficient wireless communications and networks, and provide a forum for the state-of-the-art research and development. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, power-conservation techniques on the following aspects of wireless computing: -Power-aware network architectures -Power management and control -Energy consumption modeling -Antennas and RF subsystems -Coding and modulation -Media access control -Routing and Mobile IP -Transport protocols -Middleware and applications -Wireless sensor networks -Heterogeneous (wired/wireless) networks Important Dates Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2005 Camera-ready copy due: December 15, 2005 Web Site and Further Information 2006 IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 06) http://web.umr.edu/~icnsc06/ Special Session on Energy-Efficient Wireless Communication http://bluehawk.monmouth.edu/~jwang/Wireless.html For additional information, please contact Prof. Chi Zhang (czhang AT cs dot fiu dot edu). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE TridentCom 2006: 15 October Deadline Announcement!]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE TridentCom 2006: 15 October Deadline Announcement! Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:35:14 -0400 From: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org To: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org 789371b.jpg 7893725.jpg 789372f.jpg 7893739.jpg 7893743.jpg* 2**nd International Conference on Testbeds & Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2006) 1-3 March 2006 / Barcelona, Spain /* _http://www.tridentcom.org _ <http://www.tridentcom.org/>TridentCom 2006, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society in partnership with Create-Net, Inc., is a major annual international conference focused on experimental activities on high-performance telecommunication network infrastructures that creates an important forum where industry and academic researchers, developers, vendors, service managers and providers can exchange ideas on past experience, requirements, needs and creative visionary solutions for the establishment of such infrastructures; particularly in the areas of testing, verification and deployment based on a business model that optimizes the operational price/performance ratio. Featured topical programming includes the following subject areas: · Social Impacts of Infrastructures and Real-Life Applications · Business Models for Infrastructure Budgeting & Planning · Infrastructure Renting & Pricing Policies · Vendor and Provider Partnerships · Next Generation Internet Testbeds · Next Generation Wireless & Optical Network Testbeds · Ubiquitous Network Testbeds · Wireless Sensor Testbeds · Testbed Operation & Management for User & Research Communities · Testbed Cooperation & Integration · Innovative Measurements, Methodologies & Tools · Traffic Measurement Testbeds · Software Tools to Support Distributed Testbeds / Virtual Laboratories · Management of Massive Databases of Experimental Data · Knowledge & Technology Transfer Procedures · Security (AAA) Testing on Open Testbeds *Full technical paper submission deadline: **15 October 2005 (firm date; no extensions) Demonstration proposal submission deadline: 15 October 2005 Best Testbed Award: *To be presented the research infrastructure that will best implement the open infrastructure model representing the greatest service to the public, and the most sustainable business model to the infrastructure managers. *For more TridentCom 2006 details & updates, visit**: _http://www.tridentcom.org _ <http://www.tridentcom.org/>/IEEE ComSoc M&C Author Registration Policy:/*/ All accepted TridentCom 2006 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.* */ To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA

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[Fwd: Call For Participation: NPSec]
by Lars Wolf 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Participation: NPSec Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 16:18:18 -0400 (EDT) From: James Minseok Kwon <jmk(a)cs.rit.edu> To: tcgn(a)comsoc.org References: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0504041610050.15949(a)rainier.cs.rit.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0505200741080.16744(a)rainier.cs.rit.edu> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ========================================================================== ******* Early registration ends October 12th, 2005. ******* See http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/npsec/ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) Boston, Massachusetts, USA November 6, 2005 http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/npsec/ In conjunction with ICNP 2005: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols SCOPE: The first workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) is a one-day event held in conjunction with IEEE ICNP 2005. NPSec focuses on two general areas. The first focus is on the development and analysis of secure or hardened protocols for the operation (establishment and maintenance) of network infrastructure, including such targets as secure multidomain, ad-hoc, sensor or overlay networks, or other related target areas. This can include new protocols, enhancements to existing protocols, protocol analysis, and new attacks on existing protocols. The second focus is on employing such secure network protocols to create or enhance network applications. Examples include collaborative firewalls, incentive strategies for multiparty networks, and deployment strategies to enable secure applications. WORKSHOP PROGRAM: 8:30 Welcome and Introductions 8:45 Keynote, Hari Balakrishnan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 L3A: A Protocol for Layer Three Accounting. Alwyn Goodloe, Matthew Jacobs, Gaurav Shah (University of Pennsylvania), Carl Gunter (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 10:50 Mitigating DoS Attack Through Selective Bin Verification. Micah Sherr, Michael Greenwald, Carl Gunter, Sanjeev Khanna, Santosh Venkatesh (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 11:10 On Design Tradeoffs between Security and Performance in Wireless Group Communicating Systems. Jin-Hee Cho and Ing-Ray Chen (Virginia Tech) 11:30 Detecting and Filtering Instant Messaging Spam -- A Global and also Personalized Approach. Zhijun Liu, Weili Lin, Na Li, David Lee (The Ohio State University) 11:50 Analysis of IPSec Overheads for VPN Servers. Craig Shue, Youngsang Shin, Minaxi Gupta, Jong Youl Choi (Indiana University, Bloomington) 12:10 Lunch Break 1:30 Practical Security for Disconnected Nodes. Aaditeshwar Seth and Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo) 1:50 Achieving K-Anonymity in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Xiaoxin Wu and Elisa Bertino (Purdue University) 2:10 Phyllo: A Peer-to-Peer Overlay Security Framework. William Heinbockel (MITRE) and Minseok Kwon (Rochester Institute of Technology) 2:30 Identity Theft Protection in Structured Overlays. Lakshmi Ganesh and Ben Y. Zhao (UC Santa Barbara) 2:50 Coffee Break 3:30 An Effective Intrusion Detection Approach for OLSR MANET Protocol. M. Wang, L. Lamont (Communications Research Centre), P. Mason, M. Gorlatova (DRDC) 3:50 The Attackers' Influence on the Tactical Assessments Produced by Standard Alert Correlation Systems. Stephen Neville (University of Victoria) 4:10 Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing. Adel El-Atawy, Khaled Ibrahim, Hazem Hamed, Ehab Al-Shaer (DePaul University) 4:30 A Distributed Reputation Approach to Cooperative Internet Routing Protection. Harlan Yu, Jennifer Rexford, Edward Felten (Princeton University) 4:50-5:00 Closing Remarks and Discussion ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University Technical Program Committee Chairs: George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University Nicholas Weaver, International Computer Science Institute Publicity Chair: James Minseok Kwon, Rochester Institute of Technology Web Chair: Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Marco Ajmone-Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University Joseph Evans, U.S. National Science Foundation Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Carl A. 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[Fwd: WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE COMPOSITIONS (WESC'05)]
by Lars Wolf 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE COMPOSITIONS (WESC'05) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:19:10 +0200 From: W. Lamersdorf <lamersd(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-HAMBURG.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] -------------------------------------------------------------------- E X T E N D E D C A L L F O R P A P E R S 1ST INT. WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE COMPOSITIONS (WESC'05) In conjunction with the 3rd Int. Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005) http://www.icsoc.org/ <http://www.icsoc.org/> December 12, 2005 Amsterdam, The Netherlands WESC Workshop Website http://fresco-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/ <http://fresco-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/> Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2005 SYNOPSIS ======== The emerging paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) introduces ground-breaking concepts for distributed- and e-business processing that are radically changing the way software applications are designed, architected, delivered and consumed. Services, which constitute the heart of SOC, are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered and accessed over the Web using standard protocols. Service-oriented architectures (SOA) leverage the foundational capabilities of computational service models to provide technological as well as conceptual frameworks for a new class of cooperative business applications: agile networks of collaborating business applications distributed within and across organisational boundaries. Consequently, SOA not only includes software technologies to aggregate atomic services into composite services (a.k.a. service composition) but also the software engineering methodology to turn composite services into cooperative business applications (a.k.a. service engineering). In fact, service composition and software engineering are highly interrelated. Service composition not only developed towards the major software technology approach for composing multiple coarse-grained applications over the Web but also originated pioneering concepts such as orchestration and choreography. Such concepts introduce significantly different ways of managing business connectivity, thus making a strong impact on application semantics and vice versa. In order to guarantee a certain quality level of SOA-based cooperative business applications with respect to functional and non-functional requirements, software engineers have to take into account the impacts of service composition models. In the emerging discipline of service engineering, that generally benefits from former research on component- and aspect-oriented software engineering methodologies, there are already promising results on novel conceptual and technological tools to support the development processes of cooperative business applications. However, such tools need to be increasingly aligned with service composition technology. Still, joint approaches on engineering service compositions face several open problems and challenges. Concerning the technology side there is still neither an agreement on service composition models and languages nor on their scope of application; let alone experiences on mission critical operation. As regards methodology , reference architectures of service-oriented cooperative information systems taking into account particularities of the service composition lifecycles are just at the beginning. This is just to name a few of the challenges. GOAL ==== Accordingly, the workshop is intended to bring together experts from service composition technology and service engineering methodology; researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. It is meant to foster discussions about problems and challenges that particularly arise during the practical combination of both fields of expertise for the realisation of service-based, cooperative business information systems. TOPICS ====== WESC'05 welcomes research submissions on all topics related to engineering service compositions, including but not limited to those listed below: Models for composing software applications from services - Models and languages for composition, coordination and aggregation of application software services - Programming abstractions for service composition - High-level abstractions for service composition (workflows, rules, policies...) - Scope and applicability of service composition standards (e.g. BPEL, WSCI) w.r.t. software composition - ... Themes/paradigms for conceptualising service compositions - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as composition framework - Service composition as a form of programming in the large - Software services as building blocks for componentware and component-oriented software engineering - Service composition for product line software e.g. in an application service provision (ASP) context - Service composition as a link between software engineering and enterprise application integration (EAI) - Service composition in agent-based software engineering - ... Methodology for engineering service compositions - Reference architectures for composite service-based applications - Lifecycle models for service composition - Impacts of service composition on requirement engineering - Methods for design and analysis of service compositions - Dependability of service compositions - Quality models and measures for service compositions - Methods for validation and verification of service compositions - Refactorisation of service compositions - ... Technology for developing/implementing service compositions - Pattern techniques and service composition patterns - Framework architectures for service composition - Aspect-oriented composition of software services - Applying/adopting UML and MDA for service composition - Testing of service compositions - CASE-tools for service composition - Industrial case studies - ... WORKSHOP FORMAT =============== The workshop will be held on a single day, consisting of a keynote speech*, peer-reviewed paper presentations and a closing panel. Keynote and panel will be held jointly with the workshop on Design of Service-oriented Applications. * To be announced SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not exceed 8 pages strictly following Springer's LNCS style ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Prospective authors are supposed to submit full papers not later than **** September 30th, 2005 **** electronically to: http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/ <http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/ > PDF format is preferred but portable Postscript format is also acceptable. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program-committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be distributed electronically to all participants before the workshop. They will also be included in the workshop proceedings and formally published as IBM research report. Authors of accepted papers are supposed to participate in the workshop. Publication is subject to receipt of a participation confirmation via e-mail to: wesc05(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de until *** September 30th, 2005 **** which confirms that at least one author is going to attend the Workshop in case of paper acceptance. Workshop attendees are not required but are, of course, encouraged to register for the core ICSOC conference. IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Paper Submission & Participation Confirmation Due: September 30th, 2005 * Notification of Acceptance: October 21st, 2005 * Camera-Ready Copy Due: November 4th, 2005 * Workshop: December 12th, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE* ================= M. Aiello (University of Trento, Italy) B. Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia) F. Casati (HP Palo Alto, USA) A. Colyer (IBM Hursley, UK) F. Cubera (IBM Watson, USA) V. D'andrea (University of Trento, Italy) E. Deelman (ISI, USA) K. Duddy (DSTC, Australia) S. Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) W. Emmerich (University College London, UK) G. Feuerlicht (Technical University of Sydney, Australia) W. Gentsch (Sun, Germany) P. Goldsack (HP Bristol, UK) M. Hauswirth (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland) J. Hernandez (University of Extremadura, Spain) W. Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany) F. Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany) S. McIlraith (Stanford University, USA) M. Mecella (University of Rome, Italy) N. Medvidovic (University of Southern California, USA) G. Ortiz (University of Extremadura, Spain) M. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) P. Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) G. Piccinelli (University College London, UK) T. Risse (Fraunhofer Society, Germany) C. Roland (University of Paris, France) S. Shrivastava (University of Newcastle, UK) C. Szyperski (Microsoft Research, USA) S. Tai (IBM Watson, USA) M. Weske (HPI at University of Potsdam, Germany) A. Wolf (University of Boulder, USA) J. Yang (Macuquarie University, Australia) C. Zirpins (University of Hamburg, Germany) *Candidates, confirmation pending ORGANISING COMMITTEE ==================== Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Emmerich University College London, UK Email: w.emmerich(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk Prof. Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf University of Hamburg, Germany Email: lamersdorf(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de Guadalupe Ortiz University of Extremadura, Spain Email: gobellot(a)unex.es Christian Zirpins University of Hamburg, Germany Email: zirpins(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to send an e-mail to the workshop contact: wesc05(a)informatik.uni-hamburg.de WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU ALL AT WESC/ICSOC IN AMSTERDAM! --------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP IEEE WoWMoM 2006]
by Lars Wolf 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP IEEE WoWMoM 2006 Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:01:29 +0900 From: Sunghyun Choi <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Sunghyun Choi' <schoi(a)snu.ac.kr> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM 2006) June 26-29, 2006, Niagara-Falls/Buffalo, New York, USA http://ieee-wowmom.cse.buffalo.edu/ (Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TCCC and Univ. of Texas at Arlington). **** Submission Deadline --- November 19, 2005 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of broadband wireless access standards, such as 3G/UMTS, 802.16, 802.11a/g and UWB, offers exciting new possibilities for delivering rich multimedia content over wireless networks. The delivery and transport of rich multimedia in such wireless environments, including sensor and mesh networks, requires innovation and advances in better MAC and routing protocols, session establishment and signaling architectures, QoS provisioning and adaptive transmission techniques, autonomic network management capabilities and middleware frameworks, among others. *** Topics of Interest*** The IEEE WoWMoM 2006 technical program committee is soliciting papers addressing the research challenges and advances towards a world of wireless, mobile, and multimedia pervasive communications. Papers must present original and previously unpublished work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. Practical experiences and experimental efforts, including submissions from industry, are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - System prototypes and experiences - QoS for voice.video in wireless networks - Middleware support for QoS provision - Differentiated services for wireless multimedia - IP-based wireless multimedia services - Multimedia session signaling in wireless environments - Networking services for pervasive systems - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Handoff and mobility management - Seamless internetworking - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Network management and troubleshooting- IP-based mobile networks - Context-aware wireless multimedia application - Location mechanism and services - Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, and MAN - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Wireless mesh networks - Vehicular wireless networks - Third and fourth generation systems - Wireless security and dependability - Content Management and Distribution - Pricing and billing - Modeling and Performance evaluation Two types of papers will be considered. "Full Papers" must present original, previously unpublished, complete work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. "Position Papers" must be visionary, innovative and forward-looking, and offer new perspectives on future research directions. Only a limited number of slots will be available for position papers that will be reviewed primarily for relevance and originality. ***Submission Dates and Guidelines**** Submission Deadline: November 19, 2005. Acceptance Notification: February 21, 2006 Camera Ready Due: March 17, 2006. Submitted manuscripts should adhere to the IEEE double-column standard format, except the font size, which must be Times Roman 11pt (or greater). Authors should use only standard fonts, i.e., Times Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Helvetica, or equivalent. The maximum length of the manuscript is 12 pages. This limit includes figures, appendix, bibliography, etc. Papers that will be significantly exceed this limit will be automatically rejected. **Contact Details**** For any questions or clarifications, please contact either of the TPC Chairs below: Marwan Krunz, Univ. of Arizona, USA (krunz(a)ece.arizona.edu) Archan Misra, IBM Research, USA (archan(a)us.ibm.com) For more information, please visit http://ieee-wowmom.cse.buffalo.edu/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICCCN'05 - Call for participation]
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICCCN'05 - Call for participation Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:07:53 -0400 From: Sandy Thuel <thuel(a)lucent.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear Colleagues, We would like to cordially invite you to join us at the ICCCN 2005 to be held in San Diego, California USA on October 17-19, 2005. The event will provide you with the latest results on research, development and application of computer communications and networks ! We are looking forward to welcoming you in San Diego ! From: ICCCN 2005 General Chair and Program Chairs Luiz DaSilva, Sandra Thuel, and Yuanyuan Yang ----------- Highlights of the ICCCN 2005 Conference -------------- ICCCN 2005 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS October 17-19, 2005 San Diego, California USA Marriott Hotel San Diego Mission Valley Conference Website: http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu Sponsors: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE ComSoc/TCCC (Technical Committee on Computer Communications), IBM and Nokia ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of original 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 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Three keynote speakers, one per day: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, Oct. 17, 2005: Keynote I: “Network Diversification - Enabling Innovation in Network Architecture and Services” Professor Jonathan Turner Washington University in St. Louis ----------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2005: Keynote II: "Security and IP-Based 3G Wireless Networks" Professor Thomas La Porta Pennsylvania State University ----------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2005: Keynote III: "Future of Wireless Networks" Dr. George Rittenhouse, Lucent Technologies Vice President, Bell Laboratories Wireless Research Lucent's CTO for Corporate Strategy ------------------------------------------------------------------- PANEL SESSION: October 17, 2005 Monday 16:45 – 18:15: Title:"The Next Big Bang in Wireless and Mobile Communication" Chair: Dr. Sandra Thuel, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Moderator: Professor Rene Cruz, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Panelists: Dr. Rajiv Laroia, Flarion Technologies Founder and CTO of Flarion Technologies Dr. Preston Marshall, DARPA Program Manager, Next Generation Communications and Connectionless Networking, Advanced Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Department of Defense Dr. Joseph Evans, NSF Program Director of Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation (NSF NeTS program) Professor Ramesh Rao, UCSD Professor and Qualcomm endowed chair, ECE department at UCSD Director of UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Panel Abstract: Cognitive radios, MIMO antennas, wireless mesh networks, self-configuration support, seamless and context mobility, mobile user agents, and mobiquitous, multimedia, always-on, location-based communication services, are just some of the terms that have become part of the emerging lexicon to describe the future wireless communication technology landscape for 4G and beyond. From the mobile device, airlinks, and internet access network to the applications and services that next generation mobile service providers are to support, only one point seems to enjoy global consensus: we have barely begun to scratch the surface in creating the networks to serve the communication needs of a future media-hungry world equipped with an ever-increasing number of wireless devices. At the core of all this anticipated growth lies the following question: what technology enablers or application drivers will provide the incentive to fuel all these innovations? This panel will elicit thought-provoking discussions on the evolution and/or revolution of wireless and mobile networking technology. Technology experts from government, industry and academia will share their perspectives on which are the key drivers that are likely to support the introduction of innovations. They will also propose technology roadmaps highlighting research, industrial, and political challenges to be addressed. Those who can predict where the next big bang is likely to occur will have a running start in the race to untether the communication services of future generations. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM: There are 26 technical sessions! Research papers cover a large set of topics such as Ad Hoc Routing, Mobility, Energy Efficient Sensors, WWANS/WLANS/WPANS, Multicast, Ad Hoc Networking, Flow Control, Switching & Scheduling, Optical Networks, Denial-of-Service, MANET Performance, WDM Networks, Internet Security, QoS and Security in Ad Hoc Networks, Video Transport, Overlay Networking, Sensor Networks, Voice over IP (VoIP), Network Management, Sensor Network Location and tracking, and Streaming and Coding. Please visit the conference website for more details. As part of this exciting technical/research program, ICCCN2005 includes 3 sessions of presentations of top 9 papers (selected by Program Committee) and one of these papers will be selected to receive the "Best Paper Award" to be announced at the conference banquet. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBSITE and REGISTRATION: The deadline for early registration is SEPTEMBER 20, 2005. Please visit the web site (icccn.sce.umkc.edu) for the registration form and for more up-to-date information. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WiOpt 2006, Boston: Final Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] WiOpt 2006, Boston: Final Call for Papers Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:10:18 -0400 From: Ibrahim Matta <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - LESS THAN A MONTH TO SUBMISSION DEADLINE!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------- WIOPT 2006 4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'06) Boston, Massachusetts, April 3-7, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE OF THE SYMPOSIUM The complexity of mobile, ad hoc, and wireless networks requires thoroughly founded models capturing their essential characteristics and new optimization techniques building upon such models. Insights into both the theoretical aspects of these problems as well as practical methods and tools are necessary. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization issues from different perspectives, including performance analysis, mobile networking, wireless communication, and optimization theory. Contributions to this conference should show new modeling and optimization techniques suitable for mobile/wireless networks or innovative applications of these techniques to improve network operation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Modeling techniques and tools for wireless networks * Performance characterization & optimization of wireless networks * Wireless network optimization: Applications, algorithms, and tools * Protocol design for optimal wireless network utilization * Models and optimization approaches for energy efficiency, QoS, bandwidth economy and other aspects of wireless networks * Models and optimization techniques for non-standard network paradigms like sensor, vehicular, body area networks * Security and co-operation models for mobile and ad hoc networks * Pricing and incentives in wireless networks * Game theoretic techniques for mobile/wireless networks SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts of up to 8 pages, single column format; and contain sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. The final manuscript will be 10 pages in double column format. Selected papers from WiOpt 2006 will appear in a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Monet. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Oct. 5, 2005 (5pm EST) Notification of acceptance: Dec. 5, 2005 Camera-ready copy: Jan. 5, 2006 Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through the EDAS system (http://edas.info). For more details, please visit http://www.wiopt.org SPONSORSHIP ------------------ WiOpt is sponsored by Create-net, ICST, Boston University, INRIA, and Intel, and technically sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory and Control Systems Societies and IFIP TC6, WG 6.3 (Performance of Communication Systems). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] WONS 2006 - deadline extended to Sep. 19, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] WONS 2006 - deadline extended to Sep. 19, 2005 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:51:15 +0200 From: Claude Chaudet <Claude.Chaudet(a)enst.fr> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Dear colleagues, First of all, please accept our apologies for multiple receptions of this message. Please note that the submission deadline for Third International Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2006) has been extended to Monday, September 19th, 2005. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/wons2006 For the organization committee, Claude Chaudet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ CALL FOR PAPERS - WONS 2006 The Third International Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services Les Ménuires, FRANCE, January 18-20, 2006 http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/wons2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ SCOPE ----- Wireless networks, be it Wi-Fi access, mobile ad hoc as well as sensor networks, aim at providing ubiquitous connectivity and network centric services to the masses and to massively networked systems. An important attribute of such networks is that they can be deployed "on demand" with minimal planning and management effort as well as with little dependency on existing network infrastructures. Concepts like ambient intelligence and disappearing computers that are part of a global and fully self-organized Internet hint at the scope of this vision, but also at the formidable challenges that come with it. For this conference we request submissions of high quality research papers on "wireless on demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modelling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models, practical implementations, service level aspects and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks comprise, but are not limited to: * Architecture and Design * Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation * Modeling * Internet integration * Social and economic aspects * Pervasive / ubiquitous computing * Localization and mobility management * Security * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Applications and Service Support * Data dissemination and peer2peer systems PAPER INSTRUCTIONS ------------------ Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit full/short papers. Short papers should present future research directions, on going work, visionary, innovative ideas. Further submission instructions will be published on the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full Paper Submission: Monday, September 12th, 2005 Acceptance notification: Monday, October 17th, 2005 Camera-ready due: Monday, November 7th, 2005 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- General Chair Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Isabelle Guérin Lassous, INRIA, France Program Committee Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Edward Knightly, Rice University, USA Organization Commitee Claude Chaudet, ENST, France Daniele Herzog, INRIA, France Program Committee Arup Acharya IBM Research Eitan Altman INRIA Victor Bahl Microsoft Research Chadi Barakat INRIA Michel Barbeau Carleton University Dominique Barthel France Telecom R&D Roberto Battiti University of Trento Christian Bettstetter DoCoMo Euro-Labs Giuseppe Bianchi University of Roma Tor Vergata Torsten Braun University of Berne Levente Buttyan Budapest University of Technology and Economics Antonio Capone Politecnico di Milano Sunghyun Choi Seoul National University Marco Conti CNR-IIT Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Francesca Cuomo University of Roma "La Sapienza" Christophe Diot Intel Research Andrzej Duda LSR-IMAG Laboratory Laura Feeney Swedish Institute of Computer Science Luca Gambardella IDSIA Silvia Giordano SUPSI of Lugano Enrico Gregori CNR-IIT Paul Havinga University of Twente Thomas Hou Virginia Tech Holger Karl University of Paderborn Xiang-Yang Li Illinois Institute of Technology Renato Lo Cigno Universita` di Trento Martin Mauve Heinrich-Heine University Michela Meo Politecnico di Torino Jelena Misic University of Manitoba Giacomo Morabito University of Catania Amiya Nayak SITE, University of Ottawa Gian Paolo Rossi Università di Milano Bahareh Sadeghi Intel Corp. Mariagiovanna Sami Politecnico di Milano Puneet Sharma Hewlett Packard Labs David Simplot-Ryl University of Lille Ioannis Stavrakakis University of Athens Ivan Stojmenovic University of Ottawa Violet Syrotiuk Arizona State University Csaba Szabo Budapest University of Technology and Economics Stavros Toumpis Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien Ljiljana Trajkovic Simon Fraser University Phuoc Tran-Gia University of Wuerzburg Menzo Wentink Conexant Prudence Wong University of Liverpool Boon Sain Yeo Institute for Infocomm Research Martina Zitterbart University of Karlsruhe Michele Zorzi Università degli Studi di Padova _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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CFP EuroSys2006
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

<http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/cfp/CfP_EuroSys2006.txt>

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[Fwd: CFP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing]
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: ACM TOIT Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 10:52:24 -0400 From: Qusay H. Mahmoud <qmahmoud(a)cis.uoguelph.ca> Organization: "OptimaNumerics" To: Computational Science Mailing List <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com> Call for Papers ACM Transactions on Internet Technology http://www.acm.org/toit Special Issue on Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud/soa-middleware-cfp.pdf Middleware is a distributed software layer that sits above the network operating system and below the application layer and abstracts the heterogeneity of the underlying environment. It provides an integrated distributed environment whose objective is to simplify the task of programming and managing distributed applications, and to provide value-added services such as naming and transactions to enable easier development and integration of applications and services. Middleware is about integration and interoperability of applications and services running on heterogeneous computing and communications devices. The role of middleware will continue to become increasingly important especially in emerging technologies such as mobile- and service-oriented computing and web services, where the integration of different applications and services from different wired and wireless businesses and service providers become increasingly important. Service-oriented computing is based on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is an architectural style for building software applications that use services available in a network such as the web. It promotes loose coupling between software components so that they can be reused. Applications in SOA are built based on services, which is an implementation of a well-define business functionality, and such services can be consumed by clients in different applications or business processes. SOA provides a level of flexibility that was not possible before in the sense that services are software components with well-defined interfaces that are implementation independent, that services can be dynamically discovered, and composite services can be built from aggregates of other services. Especially applications running on mobile devices can benefit from the flexibility which is provided by SOA. All those benefits, however, raise challenges that need to be addressed by middleware. Middleware will play an essential role in managing and provisioning service-oriented applications. As a result, middleware will be everywhere! The aim of this special issue is be to present most recent research findings on “middleware for service-oriented computing”. We are seeking papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review by workshops, conferences, or other journals. Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following: Middleware for selection and interaction among services Middleware for dynamic selection and composition of services/applications Middleware for dynamic coordination of services/applications Middleware for context-aware services/applications Middleware for managing services/applications Middleware for provisioning QoS-enabled services/applications Middleware for interoperable services Performance evaluation of middleware for service-oriented computing Submission Guidelines --------------------- All papers must be submitted by the midnight (EST) of December 1, 2005. The page limit is 50 double-spaced pages, with a 12pt font size. Please email your paper in PDF format to papers AT cis.uoguelph.ca. Important Dates --------------- Papers are due: December 1, 2005 Notifications: March 1, 2006 Revised papers: May 1, 2006 Notifications of final acceptance based on Editor-in-Chief’ comments: July 1, 2006 Final papers: September 1, 2006 Publication: First available issue (possibly third or fourth quarter of 2007) Guest Editors ------------- Qusay H. Mahmoud Dept. of Computing & Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1 Canada qmahmoud AT cis.uoguelph.ca http://snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca/~qmahmoud Peter Langendoerfer IHP-Microelectronics Frankfurt (Oder), Germany langendoerfer AT ihp-microelectronics.com http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/~langend/home.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: computational.science-unsubscribe(a)optimanumerics.com For additional commands, e-mail: computational.science-help(a)optimanumerics.com Computational Science mailing list hosting is provided by OptimaNumerics (http://www.OptimaNumerics.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [ICEC] CFP for Edutainment-2006 (E-Learning and Games)]
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ICEC] CFP for Edutainment-2006 (E-Learning and Games) Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 09:33:28 +0200 From: Rauterberg, G.W.M. <G.W.M.Rauterberg(a)tue.nl> To: <icec(a)listserver.tue.nl> CC: edutainment06 <edutainment06(a)cad.zju.edu.cn> ======================================================================== == Call for Papers Edutainment 2006 International Conference on E-learning and Games April 16-18, 2006, Zhejiang University, China Homepage: http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/vrmm/edutainment E-mail: edutainment06(a)cad.zju.edu.cn INTRODUCTION Edutainment-2006 is an international conference on research and development on E-Learning and digital entertainment. The main purpose of the conference is the discussion, information and opinions exchange on development and use of such systems. It will provide a very interesting opportunity for researchers that want to attend or present communications at these events. The conference will include plenary invited talks, workshops, tutorials, paper presentation tracks and panel discussions. Participation is open to everyone, not requiring submission of a paper. The conference is sponsored by Zhejiang University, and China Society of Image and Graphics. It is co-sponsored by EUROGRAPHICS (pending), and IFIP SG on Entertainment Computing (pending). Edutainment-2006 will be hosted by the Digital Entertainment and Animation Center, Zhejiang University, China. The Proceedings will be published by Springer as Lecture Notes on Computer Science (SCI indexed). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Edutainment-2006 will present traditional technical sessions in the respective areas with a lineup of plenary sessions, invited talks, tutorials, poster sessions, workshops, and exhibits. Papers Papers related to the following topics are solicited. However, any paper dealing with a pioneered or significant development in animation, virtual reality and multimedia is also encouraged. Affective Interaction in Games Animation techniques Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality Collaborative Environments Collaborative Learning Digital Heritage Digital Museum Education and remote classrooms Effectiveness of VR for education E-Learning Platforms and Tools E-Learning Standards Game AI and Artificial Life Game Design and Development Game Engine Development and Customization Game Physics Game Rendering/Animations Learning Resource Management Life Long Learning Mobile learning Online/Mobile Game/Video Game Practice and Experience Sharing Remote Group Simulations Storytelling and Game Narrative Virtual Characters/Agents Virtual Reality in Education Papers should describe original and unpublished work about the above or closely related topics and should not exceed 10 pages single-spaced in length including images, figures, tables and references. Each paper should also include the title of the paper, authors names, affiliations, postal addresses, e-mail addresses and the contact person for the paper. Important dates Submission Deadline: Nov. 15, 2005. Notification of acceptance: Dec. 20,2005 Camera-ready papers: Jan. 15, 2005 Conference: April 16-18, 2006 ======================================================================== ==== _______________________________________________ icec mailing list icec(a)listserver.tue.nl http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec

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[Fwd: CFP:IEEE GLOBECOM 2005Workshop - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN).]
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP:IEEE GLOBECOM 2005Workshop - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN). Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:46:24 -0400 From: Mohamed A. Haleem <mhaleem(a)stevens.edu> Reply-To: Mohamed A. Haleem <mhaleem(a)stevens.edu> Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology To: comm-theory(a)ieee.org, tcc(a)comsoc.org, multicomm(a)comsoc.org, itc(a)comsoc.org CC: mhaleem(a)stevens.edu, mouli(a)stevens.edu If you have received this call for paper for the "IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 - Workshop, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN)" before, disregard this email. Please accept our appologies for any multiple copies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE GLOBECOM 2005Workshop 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (AWiN) November 28th, 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, USA http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2005// Adaptation in mobile wireless networks is motivated by several factors such as time-varying channel conditions, network traffic, mobility, resource constraints, vulnerability to attacks etc. An adaptive algorithm/protocol makes decisions for the future based solely on past and current information. These decisions could be, for example, choosing the transmission band in a spectrum agile wireless network, user scheduling and/or routing depending on link and traffic conditions, wake-up/sleep decisions in a battery constrained sensor network etc. Adaptive protocols have been observed to improve the throughput, utilization and other performance factors. The intent of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present their ideas on using adaptive/online/real-time algorithms for optimizing mobile wireless computing and networking. The topics of interest include (but not limited to): Adaptive link layer error control Dynamic spectrum access Cognitive radio Online algorithms and competitive analysis Intelligent resource allocation (e.g., battery power-aware techniques) Dynamic routing protocols Mobility based adaptation Wireless security Application layer rate control (e.g., image/video streaming) Ad hoc and sensor network applications Adaptive scheduling algorithms Adaptive cross-layer optimization Middleware support Test beds, experimentation and standards Submission Instructions: Authors must submit original, not previously published contributions via email to mouli(a)stevens.edu with subject line “AWiN Submission”. Manuscripts must be in PDF format and are limited to 5 pages (max) in two column IEEE style format. Important Dates: Manuscript due: September 15th, 2005; Author notification: October 1st, 2005; Final manuscripts due: October 7th, 2005. Program Co-Chairs: R. Chandramouli, Department of ECE Sajal Das, Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engg. Stevens Institute of Technology University of Texas at Arlington Hoboken, NJ 07030 Arlington, TX 76019 Email: mouli(a)stevens.edu Email: das(a)cse.uta.edu Publicity Co-Chairs: M.A. Haleem, Stevens Institute of Technology and N. Sai Shankar, Qualcomm Technical Program Committee: Bob Askwith, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Saad Biaz, Auburn University, USA Nilanjan Banerjee, Motorola Research Lab, India Subir Biswas, Michigan State University, USA Milind Buddhikot, Lucent Bell Laboratories, USA Kiran Challapali, Philips Research, USA Dirceu Cavendish,NEC Labs, USA Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research, USA Aloknath De, STMMircorelectronics, India Andras Farago, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mario Freire, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Pascal Frossard, EPFL,Switzerland Xiaoyuan Gu, Tech. Univ. of Braunschweig, Germany Mahbub Hassan, University of New South Wales, Australia Markus Kampmann, Ericsson Research, Germany Ulas Kozat, DoCoMO Labs, USA Andreas H. Kassler, Karlstad University, Germany Haitao Lin, Nortel, USA Hang Liu, Thomson Inc., USA Stefan Mangold, Swisscom, Switzerland Nader Mohamed, Stevens Inst. of Tech., USA Bala Natarajan, Kansas State Univ., USA Kamesh Namuduri, Wichita State University, USA N.S. Narayanaswamy, IIT Madras, India Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University, USA Ashish Pandharipande, Samsung Advanced Insitute of Technology, Korea Symeon Pappavasiliou, NJIT, USA Algirdas Pakštas, London Metropolitan University, UK Yi Shang, University of Missouri, USA N. Sai Shankar, Qualcomm, USA Jinglun Shi, Seoul National University, Korea K.P. Subbalakshmi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Duc A. Tran, University of Dayton, USA R.N. Uma, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA Jiang Xie, Univ. of N. Carolina Charlotte,USA Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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[Fwd: IEEE VTS Conferenc]
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IEEE VTS Conferenc Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:54:16 -0400 From: ieee-enotice(a)ieee.org Reply-To: j.m.irvine(a)ieee.org To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de References: <A11256836567313695343.wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> IEEE VTC2006-Spring =================== Join us making history! The submission deadline for the first VTC to be held in the Southern Hemisphere is approaching fast. Papers for VTC2006-Spring to be held in Melbourne, 7-10 May 2006, should be submitted by 16 September 2005. Full details on <http://www.vtc2006spring.org> IEEE VTC2005-Fall ================= Meet your colleagues in Dallas 25-28 September 2005 to participate in a top-class technical programme, featuring over 500 papers from across the world, as well as an extended 3-day plenary programme featuring Pertti Korhonen, Senior VP & CTO of Nokia, Raj Singh, CEO of Telecom Ventures, Dr. Ted Rappaport, UT Austin and Prof Jerry Gibson from UCSB. Advance registration closes 5 September 2005. Full details on <http://www.vtc2005fall.org> 2005 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion (VPP) Conference ======================================================= Last call for the 2005 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion (VPP) conference, co-located with the 2005 SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) International Future Transportation Technology (FTT) Conference at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, 7-9 September 2005. Details at <http://vpp.iit.edu/> __________________________________________________________ Manage your subscription at: <http://ewh.ieee.org/enotice/options.php?ID=41604359&SN=WOLF&LN=CONF>

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: IEEE ISM 2005 Workshop on Multimedia Technologies over Wireless Networks (WMoW 2005) CFP]
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Deadline approaching: IEEE ISM 2005 Workshop on Multimedia Technologies over Wireless Networks (WMoW 2005) CFP Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 01:24:20 -0700 (PDT) From: LI BO <luse1998(a)yahoo.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu In this mail, we remind interesting authors that the deadline (Sept 5th, 2005) for the IEEE ISM 2005 Workshop on Multimedia Technologies over Wireless Networks (WMoW 2005) CFP is approaching. IEEE ISM 2005 Workshop on Multimedia Technologies over Wireless Networks (WMoW 2005) Call for Papers December 12-14, 2005 Irvine, California, USA Scope of WMoW 2005: ================= The rapid convergence of technologies, such as, wireless networks and Internet, provides a promising direction for supporting multimedia services over the future IP based networks. It is anticipated that subscribers will enjoy multimedia services anywhere and at any time in the next generation networks. However, before the implementation of such kind of IP based networks, lots of technical challenges need to be solved. Technical challenges mainly stem from the following facets: 1, Bandwidth of the wireless access networks available so far is still very limited; 2, Characteristics of wireless channels and topologies of some wireless networks are highly dynamic; 3, Various wireless assess networks coexists, which makes the supporting of seamless roaming very difficult; 4, Only best effort service is supported in the traditional Internet protocols suits, which is not enough for providing QoS guarantee for different multimedia applications. The workshop solicits high quality and previous unpublished work in the field of multimedia over wireless networks, such as, WLAN, WPAN, 3G (B3G). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Issues on coding techniques: + Joint source-channel coding + Advanced video coding techniques, such as, scalable video coding, and multiple description coding + Video transcoding techniques Issues on multimedia delivery over IP based wireless networks: + End-to-end QoS guarantee + Cross-Layer design + Error control, error resilience and error concealment techniques + Adaptive rate control + Packet scheduling over wireless networks + Efficient resource allocation + Energy efficient techniques for multimedia traffic delivery over wireless networks + Multimedia delivery using high-speed wideband transmission techniques, such as, UWB and MIMO Issues on multimedia networking architectures and protocols: + Multimedia networking architectures and protocols for WLAN, WPAN, and 3G (and beyond) + Integration and interoperability of WLAN, WPAN, and 3G (and beyond) + Seamless roaming + Performance modeling, analysis, and simulations Important Dates: ============= Manuscript Submission: Sept 5, 2005 Acceptance Notification: Sept 13, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: Oct 1, 2005 Submission Guidelines: ================= The workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than 6 pages of IEEE double column format. Manuscript submission should be done electronically via e-mail by sending a pdf version of the manuscript to Dr. Bo LI (bo_li(a)mail.xidian.edu.cn with cc to bli(a)pcn.xidian.edu.cn). For more information about the workshop, see the web page at http://ISM2005.eecs.uci.edu/ ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CFP: EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 02:26:35 -0500 From: Dr. Deepa Kundur <deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu> To: comm-theory(a)ieee.org, tccc(a)comsoc.org, multicomm(a)comsoc.org, itc(a)comsoc.org CC: Deepa Kundur <deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu>, Ching-Yung Lin <chingyung(a)us.ibm.com>, Chun-Shien Lu <lcs(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing Special Issue on Visual Sensor Networks Call for Papers Research into the design, development, and deployment of networked sensing devices for high-level inference and surveillance of the physical environment has grown tremendously in the last few years. This trend has been motivated, in part, by recent technological advances in electronics, communication networking, and signal processing. Sensor networks are commonly comprised of lightweight distributed sensor nodes such as low-cost video cameras. There is inherent redundancy in the number of nodes deployed and corresponding networking topology. Operation of the network requires autonomous peer-based collaboration amongst the nodes and intermediate data-centric processing amongst local sensors. The intermediate processing known as in-network processing is application-specific. Often, the sensors are untethered so that they must communicate wirelessly and be battery-powered. Initial focus was placed on the design of sensor networks in which scalar phenomena such as temperature, pressure, or humidity were measured. It is envisioned that much societal use of sensor networks will also be based on employing content-rich vision-based sensors. The volume of data collected as well as the sophistication of the necessary in-network stream content processing provide a diverse set of challenges in comparison with generic scalar sensor network research. Applications that will be facilitated through the development of visual sensor networking technology include automatic tracking, monitoring and signaling of intruders within a physical area, assisted living for the elderly or physically disabled, environmental monitoring, and command and control of unmanned vehicles. Many current video-based surveillance systems have centralized architectures that collect all visual data at a central location for storage or real-time interpretation by a human operator. The use of distributed processing for automated event detection would significantly alleviate mundane or time-critical activities performed by human operators, and provide better network scalability. Thus, it is expected that video surveillance solutions of the future will successfully utilize visual sensor networking technologies. Given that the field of visual sensor networking is still in its infancy, it is critical that researchers from the diverse disciplines including signal processing, communications, and electronics address the many challenges of this emerging field. This special issue aims to bring together a diverse set of research results that are essential for the development of robust and practical visual sensor networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Sensor network architectures for high-bandwidth vision applications o Communication networking protocols specific to visual sensor networks o Scalability, reliability, and modeling issues of visual sensor networks o Distributed computer vision and aggregation algorithms for low-power surveillance applications o Fusion of information from visual and other modalities of sensors o Storage and retrieval of sensor information o Security issues for visual sensor networks o Visual sensor network testbed research o Novel applications of visual sensor networks o Design of visual sensors Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.info/asp/ . Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript tracking system at journal's web site, according to the following timetable. Manuscript Due December 1, 2005 Acceptance Notification April 1, 2006 Final Manuscript Due July 1, 2006 Publication Date 3rd Quarter, 2006 GUEST EDITORS: Deepa Kundur, Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; deepa(a)ee.tamu.edu Ching-Yung Lin, Distributed Computing Department, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, USA; chingyung(a)us.ibm.com Chun Shien Lu, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; lcs(a)iis.sinica.edu.tw

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 21:12:41 -0700 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (1-September-2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements EWSN 2006 2005-09-02 http://www.ewsn.org EUROSYS 2006 2005-10-08 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ NSDI 2006 2005-10-10 http://www.usenix.org/nsdi06/ WWW 2006 2005-11-04 http://www2006.org (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements SOSP'05 Registration SOSP'05 Work-in-Progress Session 3. About this list How to subscribe, unsubscribe, and submit requests for announcements. More information about SIGOPS can be found at the SIGOPS webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigops To view the HTML version of this page, go to: http://www.acm.org/sigops/announce/current.html ____________________________________________________________ Announcements EWSN 2006 Title: European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks Deadline: 2005-09-02 Webpage: http://www.ewsn.org Conference: February, 13-15, 2006 Contact: thiemo(a)sics.se Location: Zurich, Switzerland Synopsis: EWSN 2006, the European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, is the third of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in the rapidly growing area of wireless sensor networks. EWSN 2006 will be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on February 13-15, 2006. Previous workshops were held in 2004 in Berlin, Germany, and in 2005 in Istanbul, Turkey. ____________________________________________________________ EUROSYS 2006 Title: 1st EuroSys Conference (EUROSYS 2006) Abstract: 2005-10-08 Deadline: 2005-10-15 Webpage: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/EuroSys2006/ Conference: April 18-21, 2006 Contact: eurosys_conf(a)cs.kuleuven.be Location: Leuven, Belgium Synopsis: EuroSys2006 is the first of a series of system conferences located in Europe. It welcomes submissions and attendance from all over the world. It will be held in Leuven, Belgium, April 18-21, 2006. EuroSys aims to bring together researchers from different areas of computer systems, who are otherwise spread over multiple conferences. As a result, we seek papers on all aspects of computer systems. We especially seek papers that cross the divide between areas. Papers should report, where possible, on the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of such systems. ____________________________________________________________ NSDI 2006 Title: 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '06) Abstract: 2005-10-10 Deadline: 2005-10-17 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/nsdi06/ Conference: May 8-10, 2006 Contact: nsdi06chairs(a)usenix.org Location: San Jose, CA, USA Synopsis: NSDI 2006 focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems. Systems as diverse as scalable Web services, peer-to-peer file sharing, sensor nets, and distributed network measurement share a set of challenges. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community--including operating systems, distributed systems, and computer networking--to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to our shared research challenges. NSDI seeks a broad variety of work that furthers the knowledge and understanding of the networking and systems community as a whole, continues a significant research dialog, or pushes the architectural boundaries of large-scale network services. ____________________________________________________________ WWW 2006 Title: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'06) Abstract: 2005-11-04 Deadline: 2005-11-04 Webpage: http://www2006.org Conference: May 22-26, 2006 Contact: chase(a)cs.duke.edu Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Synopsis: The WWW conference series is the prime venue for the latest ideas and developments about the Web. WWW2006 seeks original papers describing research in all areas of the Web. Topics include but are not limited to: Performance, Reliability and Scalability, Pervasive Web and Mobility, Search, Security, and Privacy. Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. New for WWW2006: We solicit submissions of "position papers" articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or critiquing current design wisdom. ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: SOSP'05 Registration Summary: The 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'05) will be held at The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom on October 23-26, 2005. Register now at: http://www.sosp-20.com/registration.htm Early registration ends September 23, 2005. Online registration ends October 17, 2005. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: SOSP'05 Work-in-Progress Session Summary: As in previous years, SOSP 20 will include a "Work in Progress" session. This session is intended to highlight the very latest, not-quite-ready-for-prime-time, research - including new approaches, new results, partial experiences, etc. Presentations will be selected in advance, based on an extended 1-page abstract describing the main points to be covered in the presentation. The WIP review committee will evaluate submissions according to the following criteria: * Contains new, interesting work, not previously presented. * Represents early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal. * Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be explicitly favoured; however, submissions are not limited to just students. Deadline for WIP submissions (extended abstract): September 22, 2005 Notification of decisions: October 8, 2005 Information on how to submit a WIP can be found by following the link off of the SOSP web page, available at the following URL: http://www.sosp-20.com/wip.htm SOSP'05 WIP Review Committee Chair Liuba Shrira ____________________________________________________________ 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 these mailings, go to http://sysnet.ucsd.edu/sigops/acm.html ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: PERVASIVE 2006: 2nd Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PERVASIVE 2006: 2nd Call for Papers Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:25:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Rene Mayrhofer (PERVASIVE 2006 Publicity Co-Chair) <rene(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at> To: <lars.wolf(a)rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> [We apologize if you receive this email multiple times. It is posted to a few mailing lists worldwide.] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS PERVASIVE 2006 The 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing The Burlington Hotel Dublin, Ireland May 7--10, 2006 http://www.pervasive2006.org/ PERVASIVE 2006 -------------- PERVASIVE 2006 one of the premier conferences in Pervasive Computing invites submissions for the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing to be held in Dublin Ireland from the 7th to the 10th of May 2006. PERVASIVE is an international conference held annually which aims to present significant research contributions in the area of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The last three conferences in this series were held in Munich (May 2005), Linz/Vienna (April 2004) and Zurich (August 2002). It provides a forum for researchers, developers, and users throughout the world to present advances in computing technology toward new modes of operation (ubiquitous, continuous, and self-organised) and toward new usage models (ambient, context-aware, and closely integrated into human activities and environments). In addition to a highly selective single-track program for technical papers, PERVASIVE 2006 will include a keynote address, late breaking results, videos, poster presentations, workshops, demonstrations, an outreach public lecture and a doctoral colloquium. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research work in all areas. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Device, communication, and interaction technologies for pervasive computing. * Pervasive sensing, perception and inference for context technologies. * Software infrastructure, middleware and frameworks for pervasive computing systems and environments. * Analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of pervasive systems and applications. * Deployment and management of pervasive systems and services and emerging industrial scenarios. * Pervasive computing interaction models, user interfaces * Personalisation and user experience reports in pervasive computing. * Privacy, security and trust in pervasive computing. Important Dates: ---------------- September 30, 2005 : Paper Submission Deadline December 16, 2005 : Notification of Acceptance/Rejection February 10, 2006 : Camera-Ready Paper Deadline May 7, 2006 : Workshops May 8 - 9, 2006 : Main Conference May 10, 2006 : Doctoral Colloquium Paper Submission: ----------------- For PERVASIVE 2006 we are soliciting high quality technical papers that describe original, unpublished research on pervasive computing. Submissions should report concrete, significant, and transferable results that help advance the state of the art in pervasive computing. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the PERVASIVE 2006 program committee and by additional expert reviewers from relevant research communities. PERVASIVE 2006 requires that submissions have not been published previously and that papers submitted are not under simultaneous review for any other conference, journal or other publication. Papers for PERVASIVE 2006 should be formatted according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS style. We solicit papers of up to 15 pages. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be allowed to submit revised versions upto 18 pages in their camera ready copy. Paper submissions have to be anonymized according to our Anonymous Submission Policy to facilitate blind review. Authors should take care throughout their paper that their identity and their institution's identity is not revealed. Ensure you read and follow the PERVASIVE 2006 Anonymous Submission Policy, before submitting. Full papers should be submitted via the EDAS system. Once logged in select the Pervasive 2006 conference to submit your paper. If you do not already have an account with EDAS you can register at http://www.edas.info/Conferences.cgi Conference Committee -------------------- General Chair Paddy Nixon, University College Dublin, Ireland Conference Chair Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin, Ireland Program Co-Chairs Ken Fishkin, Google Research, USA Bernt Schiele, Darmsadt University of Technology, Germany Late Breaking Results Co-Chairs Tom Pfeifer Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Albrecht Schmidt Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany Woontack Woo KJIST, S. Korea Workshops Co-Chairs Vinny Cahill Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Thomas Strang German Aerospace Centre, Germany Video Co-Chairs Gavin Doherty Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Frederic Vernier l'Universite Paris-Sud, France Demonstrations Co-Chairs Kieran Delaney Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Bill Yerazunis MERL, USA Doctoral Colloquium Co-Chairs Matthew Chalmers University of Glasgow, UK Joe Kiniry University College Dublin, Ireland Volunteers Co-Chairs Lorcan Coyle University College Dublin, Ireland Steve Neely University College Dublin, Ireland Publicity Co-Chairs Simon Dobson University College Dublin, Ireland Rene Mayhofer Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria Webmaster Graeme Stevenson University College Dublin, Ireland Organising Committee Vinny Cahill Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Simon Dobson University College Dublin, Ireland Gareth Jones Dublin City University, Ireland Paddy Nixon University College Dublin, Ireland Gregory O'Hare University College Dublin, Ireland Tom Pfeifer Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Steering Committee Alois Ferscha Johannes Kepler Universitaet Linz, Austria Hans Gellersen Lancaster University, UK Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland Albrecht Schmidt University of Munich, Germany Roy Want Intel Research, USA Program Committee Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech) Matthew Chalmers (Glasgow) Michael Beigl (Karlsruhe) Nigel Davies (Lancaster) Anind Dey (CMU) Hans Gellersen (Lancaster) Ken Hinckley (Microsoft) Antonio Krueger(Muenster) John Krumm (Microsoft) Hideki Koike (University of Electro-Communications, Japan) Anthony LaMarca (Intel Research) Marc Langheinrich (ETH) Paul Lukowicz (ETH) Chandra Narayanaswami (IBM) Brian Noble (Michigan) Don Patterson (UC Irvine) Dan Russell (Google Research) Albrecht Schmidt (Munich) Paris Smaragdis (MERL) Thomas Strang (DLR, Germany) Joshua Smith (Intel Research) Mirjana Spasojevic (Yahoo) Yoshito Tobe (Dendai) Khai Troung (Toronto)

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[Fwd: September SigComm-Members Monthly Digest]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: September SigComm-Members Monthly Digest Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:08:50 -0400 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Dear SIGCOMM Community Members: This is the September 2005 List Digest. If you want an announcement relevant to the computer networks research community to appear in this forum, please send me a message before the 1st of each month. - Erich Nahum infodir_sigcomm (at) acm.org SIGCOMM Information Services Director ------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGCOMM News SIGCOMM's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) has decided to relocate from New Orleans due to the events from Hurricane Katrina. The new location has not yet been chosen but will be announced as soon as possible here and at the conference Web site at: http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/ People wishing to contribute to relief efforts can call 1-800-HELP-NOW or donate via the American Red Cross Web site at: http://www.redcross.org Thanks to everyone for making SigComm 2006 a great success, particularly Roch Guerin and the organizing committee. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming deadlines of Conferences and publications financially supported and planned by SIGCOMM: Call for Papers -- NSDI 2006 Submission Deadline: Oct 10, 2006 Conference Dates: May 8-10, 2006 Location: San Jose, California, USA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi06/ Call for Participation -- IMC 2006 Conference Dates: Oct 19-21, 2005 Location: TBA URL: http://www.usenix.org/events/imc05/ Call for Participation -- HotNets 2005 Conference Dates: Nov 14-15, 2005 Location: College Park, Maryland, USA URL: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jac22/cfp/hotnets05/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of Conferences planned in cooperation with SIGCOMM: (Remember that you, as a SIGCOMM member, are eligible for the conference "member rate" even it it's an IEEE or USENIX conference.) Call for Participation -- Co-NEXT 2005 Conference Dates: October 24-27, 2005 Location: Toulouse, France URL: http://www.co-next.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming deadlines of other conferences and journals related to the data communications area: Call for Papers -- Workshop on Emerging Services Delivery Platforms Submission Deadline: Sep 23, 2005 Location: New Delhi, India URL: http://www.softplatforms.org Call for Participation -- MASCOTS 2005 Conference Dates: Sep 26-29, 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA, USA URL: http://www.mascots-conference.org Call for Papers -- Advanced International Conf. on Telecommunications Submission Deadline: Sep 30, 2005 Location: Guadeloupe, French Caribbean URL: http://www.iaria.org/conferences/SubmitGuadaAICT06.html Call for Participation -- IEEE BroadNets 2005 Conference Dates: Oct 3-7, 2005 Location: Lovely Boston, MA, USA URL: http://www.broadnets.org Call for Participation and Student Posters -- ICNP 2005 Conference Dates: November 6-9, 2005 Location: Lovely Boston, MA, USA URL: http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005/ Call for Participation -- IWAN 2005 Conference Dates: Nov 21, 2005 Location: Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera URL: http://www.iwan2005.net Call for Participation -- IEEE Create-Net 2006 Conference Dates: Mar 1-3, 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain URL: http://www.tridentcom.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- Removing Yourself from SIGCOMM Mailing List If your email address exactly matches the email address recorded on the SIGCOMM list (no forwarding), you can remove yourself with: mail listserv(a)acm.org with message body (not subject): unsubscribe SIGCOMM-MEMBERS If your email address does *not* match, mail me at infodir_sigcomm(a)acm.org, and I will work to remove you from the list.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP FAWN 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 2006: extended deadline]
by Lars Wolf 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP FAWN 2006, Pisa, Italy, March 2006: extended deadline Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 01:04:04 +0200 From: David Simplot-Ryl <David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr> Organization: IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1 To: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <arp(a)cines.fr>, <tarot(a)hds.utc.fr>, <rhdm(a)lip6.fr>, <alp-diffusion(a)univ-lille1.fr> Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS -- FAWN 2006 1st International Workshop On Foundations And Algorithms For Wireless Networking In conjunction with Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Pisa, Italy, March 13, 2006 http://ares.insa-lyon.fr/fawn2006/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ----- Mobile computing and communications devices will have an enormous impact on our lifestyle over the next several decades. Wireless connectivity with mobility support is an important enabling technology for pervasive computing and communications. The emergence of multi-hop wireless network (wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks) and The mobility of distributed computing components raise a number of interesting, and difficult theoretical and algorithmic issues and will play a key role in development and progress of these emerging paradigms. FAWN 2006 is devoted to algorithms, theory and modeling in the context of mobile and wireless computing and networking. It is intended to be a lively meeting, covering many of the algorithmic aspects of this field ranging from optimization, computational geometry, spatial stochastic models for wireless communications, graph, random graphs, spatial point processes and stochastic geometry, discrete and continuum percolation, theory combinatorics and approximation algorithms. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation among researchers in mobile computing and researchers in discrete and distributed algorithms and offer an opportunity to discuss and express their views on the current trends challenges and state of the art solutions addressing issues in wireless computing and networking. The aim of FAWN 2006 is to show how theoretical and algorithmic aspects in the context of mobile and wireless computing and communications can be used to analyze and optimize key features of wireless networks like coverage, mobility, routing, capacity, scheduling, power control etc. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to mobile and wireless computing and communications where discrete algorithms and methods are used, including, but not limited to: * Ad hoc networks * Channel assignment and management * Distributed algorithms * Distributed wireless sensor networks * Dynamic graph algorithms * Localization and location tracking * Media access techniques and protocols * Modeling and performance evaluation * Power aware protocol * Quality-of-service issues * Scheduling * Security/fault-tolerance issues * Self-configuration * Selfish behavior and cooperation * Spatial stochastic models * Synchronization * Topology control PAPER INSTRUCTIONS ------------------ Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Submission instructions are published on the conference web site. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full Paper Submission: October 1, 2005 *** NEW DEADLINE *** Acceptance notification: November 22, 2005 Camera-ready due: December 19, 2005 TECHNICAL COMMITTEES -------------------- General Chairs Pr. Eric Fleury, INSA Lyon/INRIA, France Pr. Shay Kutten, Technion, Israel Pr. Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chair David Simplot-Ryl, LIFL, France Organization Chair Guillaume Chelius, INRIA, France Program Committee Francois Baccelli, INRIA/ENS, France Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Univ., USA Claude Chaudet, ENST Paris, France Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge, UK Pilu Crescenzi, U. Firenze, Italy Timur Friedman, Univ. P.\&M. Curie, France Isabelle Guerin Lassous, INRIA, France Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, Netherlands Zvi Lotker, Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica, Netherlands Stephan Olariu, McGill University, Canada David Peleg, Weizmann Institute, Israel Andrea Richa, Arizona State Univ., USA Maria Jose Serna, Technical U. of Catalonia, Spain David Simplot-Ryl, LIFL, France Martha Steenstrup , Clemson Univ., USA Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Patrick Thiran , EPFL, Switzerland Christian Tschudin, Univ. Basel, Switzerland Jennifer Welch, Texas A\&M University, USA Peter Widmayer, ETHZ, Switzerland Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Janez Zerovnik, Slovenia _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: MultiSec 2005]
by Lars Wolf 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: MultiSec 2005 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:41:10 -0300 From: Laurence T. Yang <lyang(a)stfx.ca> To: discuss <discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org>, tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: zhliu(a)uncc.edu ---------------------------------------------- The first IEEE International Workshop on Security and Pervasive Multimedia Environments (MultiSec 2005) (http://coitweb.uncc.edu/~zhliu/MultiSec05) to be held in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005) December 12-14, 2005 Irvine, California, USA http://ISM2005.eecs.uci.edu/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society in cooperation with University of California at Irvine Pervasive multimedia environments provide users to access multimedia services anytime and anywhere. The resources limitations of pervasive devices and huge data amount make security a challenge. On the other hand, pervasive multimedia services enhance the mission of security and protection. For example, the collection of video surveillance data and/or sensor video data is useful for monitoring. This workshop provides an international forum for academic, industry and government professionals to discuss recent progress in the above emerging research areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Privacy and anonymity Trust management Video surveillance Quality of protection and QoS Secure multimedia information sharing Access control Cryptographic algorithms Information hiding and multimedia watermarking Key management and authentication Network security issues and protocols Case studies Risk and vulnerability assessment Commercial and industrial experiences Testbed and evaluation Biometrics Forensics Submissions The written and spoken language of MultiSec2005 is English. All submissions will be electronic, and details will be available on the web site. Full papers must not exceed 12 pages printed using at least 11-point type and double spacing. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF) or PostScript format. The paper should have a cover page, which includes a 200-word abstract, a list of keywords, and author's phone number and e-mail address. The accepted papers will be published along with Conference Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Important Dates August 30, 2005 (extension: September 5) Submission of papers due September 14, 2005 Notification of acceptance of papers October 2, 2005 Camera-Ready copy of accepted papers due _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: Distributed Multimedia Streaming at CCNC 2006]
by Lars Wolf 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers: Distributed Multimedia Streaming at CCNC 2006 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:53:22 +0200 From: Pascal Frossard <pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch> To: <multicomm(a)comsoc.org> Please ignore if you already received this message ===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006) January 7-10, 2006 - Las Vegas, USA Special Session on Distributed Multimedia Streaming Multimedia streaming is one of the most popular services on the current Internet. Its already-high demand is even on the rise as the Internet users have started to be familiar with peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies which enable them to share contents between one another directly. Streaming in the P2P manner, in contrast to the traditional client/server approach, takes advantage of existing end-system computational and networking resources, thus allowing economical clients to leverage their collective power to benefit the entire service community. However, multimedia content is resource demanding while user computing devices are not as powerful as are content servers. Consequently, designing a good decentralized streaming scheme in a large-scale peer-to-peer environment is challenging. The problem becomes more of a challenge due to the ad hoc behavior of peers; they can leave and join the system freely at any time. As people tend to work beyond their office desk, it is also expected that the next generation of communication networks includes rapid deployments of independent mobile users. With the emergence of wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, mobile users are enabled to connect to each other directly without any networking infrastructure such as the Internet and infrastructure-based wireless LANs. In other words, the users form a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). As multimedia streaming becomes an integrated part of an increasing number of applications and wireless networks are emerging to dominate the communication environment of the future, it is interesting and worthwhile to investigate multimedia streaming solutions for MANETs. There are many open issues regarding this investigation due to the deviation between the resource, energy, and bandwidth availability of ad hoc networks and the quality of service desired by multimedia streaming users. This special session seeks original contributions of high-quality papers that address novel systems challenges towards the success of multimedia streaming deployment in peer-to-peer, content distribution, and wireless ad hoc networks. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Signal processing/compression/information theories to support ad hoc multimedia streaming * Modeling, measurement, and performance study on ad hoc multimedia streaming * Internet P2P multimedia streaming * P2P multimedia content distribution networks * Ad hoc overlay solutions for multimedia streaming * Live streaming, video on demand, and video conferencing in wireless ad hoc networks * Network and transport protocols for streaming in wireless ad hoc networks * Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks * Streaming applications in sensor networks * Implementations of multimedia streaming in ad hoc networks Important Dates Paper submission deadline: September 5th, 2005 --- EXTENDED Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2005 Camera-ready version due: October 14, 2005 Special Session Co-Chairs Thinh Nguyen, Oregon State University (thinhq(a)eecs.orst.edu) Duc A. Tran, University of Dayton (duc.tran(a)notes.udayton.edu) Pascal Frossard, EPFL (pascal.frossard(a)epfl.ch) Information for Authors Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft papers preferably through EDAS (http://edas.info/), or by email to one of the co-chairs. Submitted papers must be original, unpublished work, and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The first page of the paper should include the authors' names, affiliations, fax/telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. The first page should also include a less-than-200-word abstract. The camera-ready version for an accepted paper will be no more than 6 pages in IEEE double-column standard format. Contributions will be reviewed by at least three referees from both the program committee and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical contents on basis of papers.

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[Fwd: IEEE ComSoc Conferences Update]
by Sven Jaap 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ComSoc Conferences Update Datum: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:47:03 -0400 Von: CommunicationsSociety(a)comsoc.org An: IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed"> d471e5.jpg d47358.jpg The conferences listed below, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society, have imminent deadlines. Go to <http://www.comsoc.org/confs>http://www.comsoc.org/confs for complete program information. d47362.jpg 2nd Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks 26 - 29 September 2005 / Santa Clara, California, USA <http://www.ieee-secon.org/2005>http://www.ieee-secon.org/2005 Early Registration Deadline: 2 September 2005!! Hotel Reservation Deadline: 9 September 2005!! Preliminary program, registration & hotel information now available! Program highlights include: Tutorials Technical Papers Poster Papers Demos Panels WiMesh 2005 Workshop Don't Delay - Register Today! d473b2.gif IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference 3 - 6 April 2006 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA IEEE WCNC 2006 seeks original contributions of papers encompassing 3G/B3G systems, WMAN, WLAN, WPAN, WBAN, broadband satellite systems, broadband fixed wireless systems, ad hoc and sensor networks. Tutorial and Technology / Business Applications Panel proposals are also sought. Submission deadline: 18 September 2005 For further details and/or a complete listing of topical tracks and submission instructions, please visit: <http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/>http://www.ieee-wcnc.org d473b2.jpg IEEE International Conference on Communications 11 - 15 June 2006 / Istanbul, Turkey <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006/>http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006/ Submission deadline: 15 September 2005 Under the theme of 'Bridging Continents Through Communications, the technical program will consist of a general topic symposium, eight specific symposia, Business Applications and Executive Sessions, Tutorials, and Workshops. For the technical sessions, the ICC 2006 program committee is soliciting original papers describing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of communications and networking. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral or poster presentations at ICC 2006 and publication in the Conference Proceeding. Proposals for Tutorials and Workshops are also invited. Visit <http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006>http://www.ieee-icc.org/2006 for the complete scope and symposia topics of ICC 2006. To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-remove(a)comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society M&C mailing list send a blank email message to IEEEM&C-join(a)comsoc.org. You can also request removal by mail. Please send a note with your email address and the list name (IEEEM&C(a)comsoc.org) to ComSoc List Removal - IT 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor New York, NY 10016 USA </div>

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[Fwd: CFP: Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation Wireless Networks Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:53:08 -0400 From: Carlos Cordeiro <carlos.cordeiro(a)philips.com> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Please distribute. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. **************************************************************************************** * IEEE CCNC 2006 Special Session on * * * * Agile Radios and Cooperative Networking for Next Generation * * Wireless Networks (ARCON'2006) * * * * * * In conjunction with * * IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) * *(http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2006/call_papers/spec_sessions/index.htm) * * Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 7-10 January 2006 * * * * Call for Papers * **************************************************************************************** SCOPE: ------ Agile or cognitive radios are being considered as one of the promising technologies for next generation wireless networks. Devices equipped with these smart radios can monitor and adapt to the radio environment in real time to optimize their performance. They may scan and opportunistically utilize unused radio spectrum bands, thus significantly increasing spectrum access and unleashing tremendous capacity for a plethora of new applications. Coupled with cooperative communication capabilities, these devices may interact with each other to provide spatial diversity so as to achieve higher throughput or save power. In this workshop, papers describing original and significant research contributions to the field of agile/cognitive radios, cooperative networking, and their applications are solicited. All submissions must describe original results that are not published nor currently under review by any another conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Software defined radio (SDR) - Platform or prototype of agile/cognitive radios - Spectrum agile (SA) communications - Signal and feature detection - Coexistence and Interference mitigation - Medium access control (MAC) for SA communication - Network architecture for SA communication - Code and modulation design for spatial diversity - Partner detection and selection in cooperative communications - MAC for cooperative communications - Modeling and performance evaluation - Applications for SA or cooperation-based communications IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 1st Oct 2005 Notification of Acceptance: 31st Oct. 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 30th Nov. 2005 SUBMISSION: ----------- Papers should be submitted in PDF format through EDAS at http://edas.info/Paper.cgi?c=4602. Paper length must not exceed 5 pages. Please see author information page for submission guidelines at CCNC'06 website (http://www.ieee-ccnc.org). Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. When submitting the paper through EDAS, be sure to select "Agile radios and cooperative networking for next generation wireless networks" from the Track pull down at the bottom of the submission form. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register at the full registration rate. CO-ORGANIZERS: -------------- Sai Shankar N, Qualcomm Inc. (nsai(a)qualcomm.com) Carlos Cordeiro, Philips Research USA (Carlos.Cordeiro(a)philips.com) Chun-Ting Chou, Philips Research USA (Chun-Ting.Chou(a)philips.com) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ---------------------------- Chun-Ting Chou (Philips Research, USA) Carlos Cordeiro (Philips Research, USA) Elza Erkip (Polytechnic University, USA) Jennifer Hou (UIUC, USA) Xin Liu (UC Davis, USA) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ashish Pandharipande (Samsung, Korea) Kang Shin (University of Michigan, USA) Andrej Stefanov (Polytechnic University, USA) Haitao Zheng (Microsoft Research, China)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wireless Measurements Workshop CFP]
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Wireless Measurements Workshop CFP Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:17:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin C. Almeroth <almeroth(a)cs.ucsb.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt) April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/ WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another hard environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location,weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables.Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement. The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006 Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10. Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie) Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2006]
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2006 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:12:55 -0400 From: Kang-won Lee <kangwon(a)us.ibm.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Forwarded message from Mark Allman... Kang-Won Lee, Ph.D. Research Staff Member IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 Tel: 914-784-7228, Fax: 914-784-6205 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kangwon/ ----- Forwarded by Kang-won Lee/Watson/IBM on 08/29/2005 02:11 PM ----- mallman(a)icir.org wrote on 08/29/2005 01:50:19 PM: > Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2006 > Preliminary Call For Papers > > > Conference Information > > The sixth Passive and Active Measurement conference will be held > March 30-31, 2006 in Adelaide, Australia. This event focuses on > research and practical applications of network measurement and > analysis techniques. The conference's goal is to provide a > forum for current work in its early stages. Original papers are > invited from the research and operations communities on topics > including, but not limited to: > > * Active Network Measurements > * Passive Network Measurements > * Performance Metrics > * Traffic Statistics > * Measurement Visualization > * New Measurement Approaches & Techniques > * Deployment of Measurement Infrastructure > * New Measurement Initiatives > * Applications of Network Measurements > * Network Measurements and Security > * Network Troubleshooting using Measurements > * New Network Measurement Tools > > The PAM steering committee believes that releasing measurement > data allows for better science to be conducted in the field of > network measurement. Therefore, for the first time, an award > will be given at PAM 2006 for the best paper based on a new > dataset that the authors are releasing for community use in > subsequent research. To qualify, a paper must significantly > utilize a dataset that has been collected for the work presented > in the paper. Further, the dataset must be freely available to > any researcher. Authors should flag papers they wish to be > considered for this award with a footnote on the first page of > the paper. Novel datasets are especially encouraged. The > awarded paper will be chosen from the set of qualifying papers > accepted for the conference by a committee made up of a subset > of the program and steering committees. > > Conference Web Page > > http://www.pam2006.org/ > > Submission Information > > To ensure PAM 2006 is fresh and interesting, we are soliciting > short papers. Unlike in previous years, authors are asked for > full papers and not extended abstracts. No additional space > will be given once a paper has been accepted. > > Papers must be submitted in the Springer LNCS format and must > not exceed 10 pages. Formatting guidelines are available here: > > http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-164-2-72376-0,00.… > > Authors are, as always, asked to refrain from submitting papers > submitted to PAM to other venues during the reviewing period. > > Paper submission instructions to be announced. > > Important Dates > > Paper Registration: October 2, 2005 > Paper Submission: October 9, 2005 (HARD deadline) > Author Notification: December 9, 2005 > Camera Ready: TBD (likely mid-late January 2006) > Conference: March 30-31, 2006 > > Conference Organization > > General Chair: Matt Roughan, University of Adelaide > > Program Committee > > Mark Allman, chair ICSI > Grenville Armitage Swinburne University of Technology > Steven Bellovin Columbia University > Ethan Blanton Purdue University > Randy Bush IIJ > Mark Claypool WPI > Anja Feldmann Technical University, Muinch > Timur Friedman University P. & M. Curie > Simon Leinen SWITCH > Z. Morley Mao University of Michigan > Alberto Medina BBN Technologies > David Meyer University of Oregon/Cisco > Andrew Moore University of London > David Moore CAIDA > Shawn Ostermann Ohio University > Dina Papagiannaki Intel > Matt Roughan University of Adelaide > Anees Shaikh IBM TJ Watson Research Center > Nina Taft Intel > Steve Uhlig Universite catholique de Louvain > > Steering Committee > > Mark Allman ICSI > Chadi Barakat INRIA > Nevil Brownlee University of Auckland > Mark Crovella Boston University > Constantine Dovrolis Georgia Tech > Ian Graham Endace > Ian Pratt University of Cambridge > Matt Roughan University of Adelaide > > For any additional information, please contact Mark Allman > (mallman(a)icir.org). > > > > [attachment "att5kdum.dat" deleted by Kang-won Lee/Watson/IBM] _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: NOMS 2006]
by Lars Wolf 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: NOMS 2006 Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:05:20 +0200 (MEST) From: Mikhail Smirnov <smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org Dear colleagues, the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), April 3-7, 2006 in the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Center, Vancouver, Canada www.noms2006.org ACF Relevance: Self-managing networks (self-healing, self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring); the event is being organised with the participation of ACF members Until Spt.15 an application, paper, poster, workshop, etc. can be submitted - you need submit an ABSTRACT only, go to https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/noms2006_app regards Michael +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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