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[Fwd: [Tccc] MASCOTS 2005 - Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] MASCOTS 2005 - Call for Papers Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:21:34 +0200 From: Helen Karatza <karatza(a)csd.auth.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies -------------------------------------------------- MASCOTS 2005 - Call for Papers 13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE / ACM* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) Tutorials September 26 2005 Conference September 27-29 2005 Workshops September 30 2005 (*pending approval of ACM and IEEE sponsorship) Overview: ------------- MASCOTS will hold its 13th annual international meeting in the exciting city of Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the newly constructed Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center on the Georgia Tech campus in midtown Atlanta. We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not previously been published. The conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2005 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. The symposium scope includes, but is not limited to: * Computer Architecture * Modeling and Simulation Techniques * Parallel and Distributed Systems * Real-Time and Multimedia Systems * Internetworking Protocol and Performance * Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing * Broadband & Telecommunication Networks and Software * Network Traffic Studies * Web-Based Systems * Application areas such as Databases, Biotech, Wearables * Analysis Techniques and Formal Methods * Benchmarking and Measurement Techniques * Capacity Planning * Performance Analysis and Validation Techniques * Workload Characterization and Generation * Discrete Event Simulation Methodology and Tools * Middleware Performance * Parallel / Distributed Simulation We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance which have not previously been published. Format requirements will be forthcoming on the conference web site (http://www.mascots-conference.org). Tutorials, Workshops, Tools Session, and Posters: ------------------------------------------------------ We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials, tools presentations, and posters. Tutorials will take place on September 26, 2005; workshops will take place on September 30, 2005. Important Dates: ------------------- 6 May 2005 - Paper Submissions Due 20 June 2005 - Notification of Acceptance 11 July 2005 - Final Papers Due 25 April 2005 - Workshop and Tutorial Proposals Due 16 May 2005 - Posters & Tools Abstracts Due Conference Chair: --------------------- George Riley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (riley(a)ece.gatech.edu <mailto:riley@ece.gatech.edu>) Program Chairs: -------------------- Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece Program Committee: ---------------------- Herbert Bos, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Tzung-Shi Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Yinong Chen, Arizona State University, USA Michael Devetsikiotis, North Carolina State University, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bologna, Italy Tony Field, Imperial College, United Kingdom David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Jean-Michel Fourneau, Univ. de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France Akira Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan Kyle Gallivan, Florida State University, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, United Kingdom John Gurd, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, Scotland William Jalby, University de Versailles, France Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA, France Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Joe Kazuki, Nara Women's University, Japan George Kesidis, Penn State University, USA Madjid Merabti, John Moores University, United Kingdom Ethan Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Isi Mitrani, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Hironori Nakajo, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture & Technology, Japan David Nicol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Alex Nicolau, University of California at Irvine, USA Mohammad Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Kalyan Perumalla, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Henk Schepers, Philips Research, Netherlands Thomas Schwarz, Santa Clara University, USA Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary, Canada Robert Simon, George Mason University, USA Nigel Thomas, Univ. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Miroslav Velev, Reservoir Labs, New York, NY, USA Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada Soraya Zertal, University of Versailles, France Steering Committee: ----------------------- Dharma Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA Kallol Bagchi, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Thomas Braunl, University of Western Australia, Australia Giovanni Chiola, Universitat di Genova, Italy Doug DeGroot, University of Leiden, Netherlands Patrick Dowd, University of Maryland, USA Jozo Dujmovic, San Francisco State University, USA David Finkel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, United Kingdom Darrell Long, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Marco Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Herb Schwetman, Mesquite Inc., USA Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Jean Walrand, University of California at Berkeley, USA ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005)
by Frank Strauß 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Hanan Lutfiyya <hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca> > Date: 03. Februar 2005 0:52:43 Uhr MEZ > To: im2005tpc(a)comsoc.org > Subject: CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and > Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005) > > We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this > CFP > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Call for Papers > > > IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in > Mobile Computing (MICMC 2005) > http://www.csd.uwo.ca/MICMC2005 > > co-located with IM 2005 > http://www.im2005/org > > > Nice, France, May 15 2005 > > > Program Co-chairs > ------------------ > Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada > (hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca) > Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada (hossam(a)cs.queensu.ca) > > Scope > ----- > We are seeing an increased demand for mobilility which is seen as a way > to enhance the reach of networked services e.g., allowing mobile users > to connect to an application, enhance networked applications e.g., > using > the user's location with a resource discovery protocol to discover the > "nearest" service with respect to the user's location, and > develop new applications e.g., using mobile ad-hoc networks to exchange > information between emergency teams in disaster recovery. Providing a > management infrastructure in an environment > where increasingly the computing environments incorporate > wireless and wired components such that the distinctions are fuzzy > and that provides information not only "anytime anywhere" but > also "all the time everywhere" in a timely and seamless fashion > presents > many challenging research problems. > > > The goal of this workshop is to gather people with different > backgrounds > to analyze and discuss challenges and possible solutions in providing a > management infrastructures for mobile computing environments. Areas of > interest include location management, Quality of Service (QoS) > management, > security management, management of of handoffs among content > providers, and managing adaptive offloading. > > Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, > the > following: > > -managing the organization of MANETs and sensor networks > -adaptive offloading > -managing location and other context information > -QoS management > -resource management > -energy-aware network management > -management issues in heterogeneous networks > -policies for vertical handoff > -load balancing > -service discovery > -managing distributed commuting in mobile environments > -intrusion detection in wireless and mobile networks > > The structure of this workshop will encourage discussions and foster > future > collaborations. Attendance will be limited to 50 participants. > Authors should > submit 4-page position papers to hanan(a)csd.uwo.ca in PDF format. > Selected > papers will be available on the workshop website (no transfer of > copyright). > > > > Important Dates > ---------------- > > Submission deadline: February 15, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2005 > Final paper due: April 15, 2005 > >

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[Fwd: CFP: First International Workshop on Convergence of HeterogeneousWireless Networks (ConWiN 2005)]
by Lars Wolf 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: First International Workshop on Convergence of HeterogeneousWireless Networks (ConWiN 2005) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:38:15 -0500 (EST) From: Linda Jiang Xie <jxie1(a)uncc.edu> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** ConWiN 2005 ******** ****** ****** **** First International Workshop on **** ** Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ** * * * July 10, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary * * in Conjunction with WICON 2005 * * * * http://www.ConWiN.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Scope of ConWiN 2005: ===================== The advances in the wireless communication technologies have enabled the realization of wide range of heterogeneous wireless networks from wireless local area networks (WLANs), several generations (2G/3G) of wireless cellular networks to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). This technological evolution is further inspiring researchers to envision the next generation wireless networking architectures and even the space Internet. Next Generation Wireless Internet (NGWI) will be the convergence of these heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet to provide mobile users with a wide range of high resource demanding services such as high speed reliable data and real-time multimedia delivery. While the unique characteristics of each of these wireless networks pose diverse set of challenges, their integration severely expands the set of open research problems for seamless, efficient, and reliable communication. Therefore, there exists an urgent need for a significant research effort to focus on solving these new challenges posed by the integration and the convergence of these wireless heterogeneous networks. The objective of ConWiN 2005 is to provide a research platform where researchers bring their contributions to light by presenting their technical papers on the issues regarding the integration and the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks. Papers solicited in ConWiN 2005 spans a wide range of areas of interest including but not limited to: - Physical layer issues for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless communication technologies - Novel and adaptive communication protocols at all layers, i.e., MAC layer problems, routing, reliable and multimedia transport, for integration of diverse wireless systems such as WLANs, 3G, and WSNs - Novel and practical communication architectures for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks - Efficient mobility/handoff management protocols for seamless roaming within the converged communication architecture - Killer applications/services for the convergence towards the NGWI - Security, authentication, and billing solutions for the converged architecture Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline : February 25, 2005 Notification of acceptance : May 1, 2005 Camera-ready version : May 15, 2005 Workshop Date : July 10, 2005 Submission Details: =================== 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 12 pages of IEEE double column format. Manuscript submission should be done electronically via e-mail by sending a pdf version of the manuscript to conwin(a)eee.metu.edu.tr Papers of particular merit will also be published in Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier). Organization Committee : ======================= Workshop Chair: -------------- Ozgur Baris Akan, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Publicity Chair: ---------------- Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA For more information about the workshop, see http://www.conwin.org/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ACM MONET Special Issue on SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ACM MONET Special Issue on SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 12:09:49 -0600 (CST) From: Dr. Hongyi Wu <wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ============================================================== ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue On SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS =============================================================== ********** Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2005 ********** With Guest Editors Dr. Guohong Cao Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University TEL: 814-863-1241 FAX: 814-865-3176 E-mail: gcao(a)cse.psu.edu Dr. Dapeng Wu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Florida TEL: 352-392-4954 FAX: 352-392-0044 E-mail: wu(a)ece.ufl.edu Dr. Hongyi Wu (contact) The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette TEL: 337-482-5779 FAX: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu Dr. Junshan Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University TEL: 480-727-7389 FAX: 480-965-8325 E-mail: Junshan.Zhang(a)asu.edu With various network characteristics, a number of wireless systems have been developed over past years, targeting at different applications. While most of these wireless technologies are deployed independently for now, the service providers surely intend to own and operate overlaid heterogeneous wireless systems, which integrate multiple wireless technologies with partially overlapped coverage areas and provide ubiquitous network service to mobile users. Recent advances in reconfigurable computing have greatly advanced the design of soft radios, which enable the communication with many different radios with only a reconfiguration in software parameters. The maturation of soft radio technology is becoming one of the most important milestones for seamless integration of the heterogeneous wireless network. Serving as the "glue", the soft radio technology has its niche in in two folds: (1) the network infrastructure can be built upon soft radio, where the base stations are tunable to different frequency bands and serve as general access points for various mobile hosts (MHs), e.g., cellular handsets, laptops, and PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants); and (2) the MHs may employ soft radio, and accordingly, get access to various wireless systems (such as wireless LAN, cellular, IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.16), providing ubiquitous service for mobile users. An important design issue is to capitalize on the recent achievement in soft radio technology for providing improved and more efficient connectivity and service in heterogeneous wireless networks. With this special issue we aim at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area of soft radio-enabled heterogeneous wireless networks. We are seeking for papers reporting novel research or commercial/industrial experiences. These papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other conference, workshop, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - System optimization - Efficient spectrum allocation and management - Dynamic network topology discovery and optimization - Smart handoff and inter-system signaling - Quality of service in the heterogeneous networks - Routing and load balancing - Mobility management - System modeling and performance evaluation - Cognitive radio and testbed design * PUBLICATION SCHEDULE: o MANUSCRIPT DUE: March 1, 2005 o ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2005 o FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: July 1, 2005 o EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: First Quarter, 2006 * SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors should email an electronic (Postscript or PDF) copy of their papers to Dr. Hongyi Wu, wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu, by March 1, 2005. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email submission is impossible then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to: Dr. Hongyi Wu The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504-4330 Tel: 337-482-5779 All submissions will be reviewed following the standard procedure. --Hongyi ======================================================================== Dr. Hongyi Wu, Assistant Professor The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, U.S.A. Tel: 337-482-5779, Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu(a)cacs.louisiana.edu http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ manet mailing list manet(a)ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/manet _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: MOBIQUITOUS 2005 DEADLINE EXTENDED - Feb. 23]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MOBIQUITOUS 2005 DEADLINE EXTENDED - Feb. 23 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:50:15 -0500 From: Mobiquitous Organizers <mbq(a)cs.yale.edu> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org Dear Colleague, The deadline for Mobiquitous 2005 (ACM and IEEE Sponsorship Pending) abstract registration and full paper submission deadline has now been extended. Abstract registration is now due on Feb. 16 and full paper submission is due on Feb 23. The updated Call for Papers for the Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services, to be held in San Diego, California from July 17-21, 2005. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. For complete information about the upcoming conference, please visit: http://www.mobiquitous.org/ A printer friendly version of this CFP is available at: http://www.mobiquitous.org/MQ2005-CFP.pdf (PDF) We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. Best regards, Mobiquitous 2005 Organizing Committee *********************************************************************** MobiQuitous 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services http://www.mobiquitous.org July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California ABSTRACT REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 16, 2005 FULL PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 23, 2005 Sponsored by: CreateNet (www.create-net.it) and ICST Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (Pending) In Cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE (Pending) Technically Co-Sponsored by AAAI (Pending) Proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press and to be made available on IEEE Explore **************************************** The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere, transparently and invisibly to the user, using devices embedded in the surrounding physical environment. In this context, the communication devices, the objects with which they interact, or both may be mobile. The implementation of such a paradigm requires advances in wireless network technologies and devices, development of infrastructures supporting cognitive environments, and discovery and identification of ubiquitous computing applications and services. The second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: networking and services (Mobiquitous-05) will cover all these aspects, representing a forum where practitioners and researchers coming from the many areas involved in ubiquitous solutions design and deployment will be able to interact exchanging the cross-layer experiences needed to build the overall ubiquitous systems. Areas addressed by the conference include: applications, service-oriented computing, middleware, networking, agents, knowledge management and databases. PAPERS: Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, are solicited. The conference is interested in contributions addressing all the areas associated with mobile and ubiquitous architectures, infrastructure and services. Technical works clearly identifying how the specific contributions fit to an overall working solution are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Ubiquitous architectures and systems * Wearable computing and personal area network * Wireless technologies for mobile and ubiquitous (Bluetooth, ZigBee, 802.15.x, WiFi) * Incentive-based deployment of ad hoc networks * Reconfigurability and personalization of wireless network * Service discovery mechanisms, knowledge discovery, matching and composition mechanisms * Wireless/mobile service management and delivery * Security, privacy and social issues of mobile and ubiquitous systems * Peer-to-peer knowledge management * Emerging industrial/business scenarios * Multimodal interfaces (speech, video kinetic, tactile) * Smart spaces * Ad hoc and sensor networking * Localization and tracking * Context and location aware application * Multimedia encoding and transcoding * Middleware services * Agent technologies in ubiquitous, wearable, andmobile systems * Hardware and software platforms for ubiquitous systems, and testbeds * User interfaces * Toolkits, development environments, and languages for ubiquitous computing * Ontologies for mobile and ubiquitous computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All paper submissions will be handled electronically (see the conference web page for details). Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) or postscript version of their full paper. Papers must not exceed 8 pages double column (US Letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references. The font size must be at least 10 points. The deadline for registering the title and the abstract of the paper with our electronic submission system is February 2, 2005. The deadline for submitting the actual paper is February 9, 2005. All deadlines are 11:59PM PST. PUBLICATION: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by technical program committee members. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in a ACM/Kluwer MONET special issue. WORKSHOPS: Proposals for one-day workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include the workshop name, its scope and a list of topic of interests. Proposals should be submitted to both the Workshop co-Chairs by December 17 2004. DEMOS: Proposals for research and industrial demos are solicited. A maximum of 2 pages should be submitted which include a description of the demo and needed resources from the conference organizers. Proposals should be submitted to Dr. Ramiro Liscano (Demo Chair) rliscano(a)ieee.org by May 29th, 2005. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration deadline: February 16, 2005 Full paper submission deadline: February 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2005 Camera-ready version due: May 15, 2005 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Ramesh Rao (Univ. of California, San Diego) General Co-Vice-Chairs: Chiara Petrioli (Universit di Roma La Sapienza) Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Networking: Suresh Singh (Portland State University) Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) Services/Knowledge Management: Anupam Joshi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Ryusuke Masuoka (Fujitsu Labs of America) Publicity Co-Chairs: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) and Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Panels Chairs: TBA Workshop Chairs: Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Prithwish Basu (BBN Technologies) Demos Chair: Ramiro Liscano (University of Ottawa) Publications Chair: Antonis Kalis (Athens Information Technology) Local Arrangements Chair: Kang Wang, Qualcomm Inc. Finance Chair: Karen Decker (ICST Texas,USA) Accommodations Chair: Kathy Kunz (ICST California,USA) Registration Chair: Vishal Anand, SUNY College at Brockport Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac (CreateNet, Inc.), Chair Michele Zorzi (Universita di Padova)

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Fwd: Mobile Gaming 2005
by Frank Strauß 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Harry Grant" <harry.grant(a)visiongaingroup.com> > Date: 1. Februar 2005 16:42:06 MEZ > To: <harry.grant(a)visiongaingroup.com> > Subject: Mobile Gaming 2005 > Reply-To: <harry.grant(a)visiongaingroup.com> > > ================================================= > MOBILE GAMING 2005 > Date: 2nd & 3rd March 2005, London > Pre-conference interactive workshop: 1st March > Marriott Kensington, London, UK > ================================================= > > ++The agenda is now complete - Request your PDF copy of the brochure > TODAY++ > > SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS LISTED BELOW > > Mobile gaming is finally beginning to come of age in 2004. Advances in > handset technology, such as large colour screens, larger memory > capacity and > compact physical size as well as the developments in Java, BREW and 3G > mean > that the market can now realise the potential of mobile handsets as > fully-fledged gaming devices. This conference will cover the current > key > gaming issues and include case studies from all players of the value > chain. > > Key themes include: > +Mobile gaming from an operator's perspective - creating > interoperability > +Handset manufacturers and 3D gaming: Attracting new customers > +Case studies from game developers and publishers on established > brands and > original content > +Generating revenue with successful business models > +Success and profitability of multiplayer and 3D gaming - transforming > mobile games to a new level with Java and BREW software > +Adapting to customer's requirements for real-time, connected and > community > based gaming > +Billing issues - challenges and opportunities > +Mobile branding from a publisher's perspective > +Dedicated mobile gaming devices: Creating new technology for an > established > market > +Mobile gambling: Alternative ways for attracting the adult consumer > > KEY SPEAKERS > +Tim Harrison, Head of Games, Vodafone Group Services Ltd > +Steve Glagow, Director of Orange Partner, Orange Group Business > +Development and Partnerships, Orange > +Davide Pisano, Mobile Consumer Marketing, Wind > +Jukka Helin, Head of MediaLab, TeliaSonera > +Rick Gawdat, Director of Games, Multimedia APAC, Nokia > +Paul Maglione, Senior Vice President, Digital Bridges > +Kristian Segerstrle, Head of Products and Services, Macrospace > +Mark Lefour, EVP Player Services, IN-FUSIO > +Juan Montes, Managing Director, Jamdat Europe > +Paul Hilton, Head of Games, Gizmondo > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > This event will also feature: Pre-conference Interactive Workshops > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > What is required to ensure mobile games have a valid entertainment > value (Is > it fun?) > Led by: Tom Kelly, Founder, PurpleWisdom Consultants > > **SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES** > > This event will provide unrivalled opportunities to promote your brand > to an > audience of senior level delegates. Decision makers from all aspects > of the > wireless, content & gaming markets will be in attendance, what better > way to > elevate your product? We are continually recognised for providing > innovative > and effective means to support your marketing requirements through > sponsorship and exhibitions at our leading events. Options include: > > **Full Conference Sponsorship > **Exhibition Stands & Booths > **Cocktail Reception Sponsorship > **Promotional Inserts in Delegate Folders > **Conference Bag Sponsorship > > --------------------- > DELEGATE REGISTRATION > --------------------- > > Places at this event are strictly limited so BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW. > To make a booking on this event, please contact me via phone or email. > Book > early to secure a place. > > - PRICING - > > Attend the: > 2 Day conference with interactive workshop - ONLY GBP1600 plus VAT > 2 Day conference - ONLY GBP1299 plus VAT > Workshop only - ONLY GBP650 plus VAT > > - BOOKINGS - > > Booking is easy, simply contact Harry Grant on: > > Telephone: +44 (0)20 8767 6711 > Fax: +44 (0)20 8767 5001 > Terms and conditions apply - see below > Email: mailto:harry.grant@visiongain.com > > ========= > AGENDA > ========= > PRE-CONFERENCE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP > Tuesday 1 st March 2005 > > Morning Session: What is required to ensure mobile games have a valid > entertainment value > Led by: Tom Kelly, Founder, PurpleWisdom Consultants > > Afternoon Session: Mobile gaming viewed from the mobile perspective: > Lessons learned from 10 years of mobile services > Led by: Han Weegink, Global Market Development Manager, LogicaCMG > Wireless > Networks > > DAY ONE Wednesday 2nd March 2005 > > Conference Chair Day One > Claudia Pöpperl, Head of Business Development Europe, ucp morgen > & Board Member, Mobile Entertainment Forum > > 08:30 Registration and coffee > > 09:00 Opening remarks from the chair: > General overview of the mobile entertainment market > > MOBILE GAMING FROM AN OPERATOR'S PERSPECTIVE > > KEYNOTE > 09:15 Vodafone live!(tm) with 3G - taking mobile games to the next > level > * Vodafone live!(tm)- a brief history live!(tm) with 3G: case study > * The VFX games engine - standards-based innovation > * What 3G really means to the customer - and how providers > should respond > * The future landscape - what's coming next > Tim Harrison > Head of Games, Vodafone Group Services Ltd > > 10:00 CASE STUDY: Orange's alliances with game developers > * Analysing why games developers are important to Orange > * Examples of how Orange supports the developers to roll out the > latest mobile games > * How can developers turn their creation into value with us? > * Overview of the Orange gaming platform and API's > * What are the 3G opportunities for games developers > * Recent launch titles and successful case studies > Steve Glagow > Director of Orange Partner, Orange Group Business Development > and Partnerships, Orange > > 10:40 Coffee and discussion > 11:00 The role of mobile gaming in TeliaSonera's content > enabling strategy > * The value chain for mobile gaming and operators' role in it > * How can a mobile operator act as an enabler for content > providers and game developers? > * Overcoming platform challenges for distributing downloadable > games in a multi-device environment > * TeliaSonera's eDome portal for broadband and mobile gaming > * TeliaSonera's revenue sharing model for distributing, billing, and > marketing mobile games > Jukka Helin > Head of MediaLab, TeliaSonera > > CASE STUDIES FROM GAMES DEVELOPERS AND PUBLISHERS > 11:40 Will the player become more important than the games? > * Analysing why most operators' games portal organisation > should change > * Examine the early signs of this market change > * Overview of the implications of such changes > * Will operators leave publishers having access to the end users? > * How publishers will have to manage players' community rather > than offering (good) games (only) > Mark Lefour > EVP Player Services, IN-FUSIO > > 12:10 CASE STUDY: UNITY - Interactive content server platform > * Analysis of how the platform generates, delivers and monitors > usage of multi-device, multi-user and multi-language > entertainment content > * How has our alliance with Electronic Arts brought additional > opportunities for mobile gaming? > * Case studies: EA SPORTS(tm) and FIFA Football: How to form > strategic alliances with major media and entertainment publishers > to create globally recognised mobile entertainment > Paul Maglione, Senior Vice President , Digital Bridges > > 12:40 Networking lunch > > 13:40 CASE STUDY: ProvisionX(tm) - A cost-effective mobile gaming > solution > * Why it makes sense to consider outsourcing mobile gaming to a > specialist service provider > * The benefits for operators, publishers and media partners from a > complete end-to-end solution > * Retaining control of both customer and brand: > - Operator case studies: DiGi (Malaysia) & Sunrise (Switzerland) > - Media case studies: Cartoon Network Mobile Who Wants To Be > A Millionaire? > Kristian Segerstrle > Head of Products and Services, Macrospace > > INTERNET PORTALS AND MOBILE GAMING > > 14:10 How online portals can drive mobile gaming > * Opportunities for portals entering the mobile content market > * Yahoo's market entry strategy for mobile gaming > * Strategies for maximizing revenue from mobile gaming > * Trends and opportunities in mobile entertainment > Saurav Chopra > Business Development Manager, Mobile Services > Yahoo! Mobile, Europe > > MULTIPLAYER GAMING AND BILLING ISSUES > > 14:40 Assessing and meeting the demand for multiplayer and 3D > games > * Analyse issues with the multiplayer business model > * Managing the communities (who? how?) > * Technologies involved (off the shelf, custom built) > * Deploying the type of content that would be appropriate > * Comparison of the European and the US mobile markets from > a content provider's view > Juan Montes > Managing Director, Jamdat Europe > > 15:10 Coffee and discussion > > 15:30 Changing dynamics: The rise of the off-portal market > * Analysis of the market conditions today > * Pros and cons, making money from mobile > * Looking ahead, simplifying business models > * The power of brands, going direct to consumers > Luca Franchi, Business Manager, Southern Europe, Simpay > > 16:00 Analysing the profitability of multiplayer games > John Chasey, Director - Games Development, IOMO > > 16:30 CASE STUDY: Terraplay MOVE - Generating revenue using a > carrier grade network solution for multiplay gaming > services > * Ensuring interoperability: How the solution supports all download > enable phones > * Utilising a scaleable and cost-effective turnkey platform to provide > a multiplayer online gaming service > * How the system removes the need for content servers for almost > all games > * Enabling a high degree of service control by delivery usage > statistics > Stefan Vlachos, Sales and Marketing Director, Terraplay Systems > > 17:00 The argument for a universal Java games delivery platform > Optimising the user experience using Java > Achieving good economies of scale across multiple devices from a > single platform > Benefits of working to open industry standards > A complete and consistent Java environment avoids costly > fragmentation > Performance without penalties > Andy Bush, Director of Business Development, > SavaJe Technologies > > 17:30 Close of day one > > DAY 2 Thursday 3rd March 2005 > > Conference Chair Day Two > Claudia Pöpperl, Head of Business Development Europe, ucp morgen > & Board Member, Mobile Entertainment Forum > > 08:30 Registration and coffee > > 09:00 Opening remarks from the chair > > MOBILE GAMING FROM A HANDSET MANUFACTURER'S > PERSPECTIVE > > 09:05 Wireless mobile multiplayer gaming over GPRS > * Cross-platform gaming: How Nokia are using Symbian > platform downloadable games > * Ensuring interoperability - Rollout of games for use on the > N-Gage or PC > * Case study: Piloting of an online gaming service for Java > format games > * Enhancing the mobile entertainment experience with > successsful games: > - Pocket Kingdom and Pathway to Glory using Arena > Rick Gawdat, Director of Games > Multimedia APAC, Nokia > > TRANSFERRING BRANDS INTO MOBILE GAMING > > 09:40 Mobile games: Branded versus unbranded > * How to deploy branded games in the content service > value chain > * Role of unbranded games in an operator's games portfolio > * J2ME games: Analysing marketing strategies > * Case study: Branded versus Unbranded: Wind's experience > Davide Pisano > Mobile Consumer Marketing, Wind > > 10:20 Coffee and discussion > > 10:40 Maximising revenue on brand in the wireless space > * How can you generate revenue from single play > downloads? > * Importance of collaboration with operators and vendors > - faster time-to-market > - raising standards > * Case studies and demos: Tetris, Monopoly > * Future outlook from a publisher's perspective > Morgan O'Rahilly, CEO, i-fone > > 11:15 Managing the advancement of mobile gaming > * How to resolve complexity challenges inherent in multiplayer > gaming > * Advice on implementing enhanced branding and personalisation of > gaming content > * Strategies to resolve gaming access and policy management issues > * How to target the campaign and promotion of games, > ensuring consistent look and feel of games across > all devices > David Leichner, VP Marketing, Unipier (formerly Cash-U) > > 11:50 Disney's Approach to Mobile Content > * How to distribute content through multiple channels > * Mobile content overview > * Introduction of Starwave Mobile > Sunil Gunderia, General Manager of Mobile, Europe, > Walt Disney Internet Group > > 12:35 Networking lunch > > TV AND MOBILE GAMING > > 13:50 How fixed mobile convergence enters TV gaming - > A case study on large screen games > * Multiplayer gaming solution for TV or any other screen in > public location > * How to deploy 3D action games with real-time interaction > * Utilising large screens for shopping malls, stadiums, concert halls, > and cinemas > * Why large screen games are an added value for customers > Juan Carlos Sanchez, > Director Strategy & Business Consulting > Alcatel Mobile Communications Group > > DEDICATED MOBILE GAMING DEVICES > > 14:25 CASE STUDY: Gizmondo - next generation mobile > entertainment device > * Launch of cutting-edge gaming with nVidia > * How the Gizmondo differs to other mobile gaming > consoles: Innovative form factor and strong feature set > * Deploying an innovative device to include MP3 music > player; Mpeg4 more playing capacity; digital camera; GPRS > network link to allow wide-area network gaming > * Alliance with Microsoft Game Studios for new > software titles > * Building a releases schedule for a new handheld > * Deploying GPS gaming > * Understanding the future of handheld gaming > Paul Hilton > Head of Games, Gizmondo > TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS > > 15:00 Java and Brew games: Enhancing the mobile gaming > experience > * Analysis of Gameloft's wide portfolio for Java and Brew games > * How each mobile game can be adapted to specific features of > various devices > * Launch of portal with KDDI - Japanese mobile operator: > - Transition to a three-quarters overhead viewpoint > - New cursor-based interface > Xavier Mas Kaupp, European Manager, Gameloft > > 15:35 Coffee and discussion > > 15:50 Attracting the business customer with an interoperable > technology solution > * How (M)FORM has successfully deployed (M)Server in tier I, II and > III mobile operators, ISPs, mobile portals and media owners > * Benefits of a scaleable, fully redundant entertainment content > platform > * Strategies to ensure flexible deployment with a fully managed > turnkey solution > * How to enhance data revenues with tailored entertainment > services and content offering > * How we have increased subscriber retention with multiplayer > gaming > Dr Eric Bilange, CTO, MFORMA > > 16:25 Wireless gaming on Palm powered devices > * Overview and trends in the mobile gaming market: > Activity on Palm OS > * Analysis of advanced technologies to enrich the mobile gaming > user experience > - Wireless: BT, WiFi, GSM, CDMA > - High quality HVGA displays > - High performance 2D & 3D graphics > - Enhanced navigation systems > - Improved battery technologies > * Demo: Multiplayer via cellular network on Palm powered > smartphone > Larry Berkin, Director of Developer Marketing, PalmSource > > 17:00 Enabling multitasking on mobile devices > * Analysis of the technology that enables multitasking > (concurrent MIDlets) > * How to increase entertainment value for games with multitasking > * Deploying new multitasking games / applications > * Business and revenue opportunities > Simon Filipiak, VP Product Management, Esmertec > > 17:35 Chair's summation and close of conference > > Terms & Conditions > NB - Due to high demand, we do not 'reserve' or 'hold' places - a > request > for an invoice to be raised will be treated as an official booking and > will > be subject to the cancellation policy as outlined below. > Cancellations/substitutions and name changes: All bookings carry a 50% > liability after the booking has been made, by post fax, email or web. > There > will be no refunds for cancellations received on or after one month > before > the start of the conference (e.g. cancellation on or after 20th > January for > a conference starting on 20th February). 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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (02/01/2005)]
by Lars Wolf 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (02/01/2005) Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:21:12 -0800 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 (02/01/2005) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements SIGCOMM 2005 2005-01-30 http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/ * SRMPDS '05 2005-02-01 http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~kettimut/srmpds PODC 2005 2005-02-07 http://www.podc.org/podc2005/ SCAC 2005 2005-02-07 http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx * NOSSDAV 2005 2005-02-21 http://www.nossdav.org/2005 * EESR 2005 2005-02-22 http://www.usenix.org/events/mobisys05/eesr05/cfp * HotDep 2005-03-01 http://hotdep.stanford.edu/ iWCW05 2005-03-08 http://2005.iwcw.org/ SOSP 2005 2005-03-25 http://www.sosp-20.com * HOT Chips 17 2005-03-25 http://www.hotchips.org * QEST 2005 2005-03-28 http://www.qest.org * NSDI Poster Session 2005-03-29 http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi05/cfp/#poster SRUTI 2005 2005-03-30 http://www.research.att.com/~bala/sruti * MIDDLEWARE 2005 2005-03-30 http://middleware05.objectweb.org/ FGCS 2005-04-01 http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/staff/lars/fgcs/cfp.htm DOA 2005 2005-05-24 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements SIGOPS European Chapter and Systems Conference Operating Systems Review Online Submission 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 SIGCOMM 2005 Title: ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Abstract: 2005-01-30 Deadline: 2005-02-06 Webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2005/ Conference: August 20-26, 2005 Contact: ramesh(a)usc.edu Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Synopsis: The SIGCOMM 2005 Conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. SIGCOMM is a selective conference where papers discuss novel results, designs, or architectural paradigms typically substantiated by implementation, experimentation, analysis or simulation. As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2005 will have a poster session and a student travel grant program. SIGCOMM 2005 will also feature tutorials and workshops for which it is soliciting proposals. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! SRMPDS '05 Title: Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS'05) Abstract: 2005-02-01 Deadline: 2005-02-16 Webpage: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~kettimut/srmpds Conference: June 27 - 30, 2005 Contact: srmpds(a)mcs.anl.gov Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Synopsis: This workshop aims to bring together those working in the areas of resource scheduling and management to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Including, but not limited to: Resource allocation and management Advance resource reservation and scheduling Load sharing and Load balancing techniques Network resource allocation Fault-tolerant resource management approaches Data access and management Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues Performance implications of scheduling strategies Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes ____________________________________________________________ PODC 2005 Title: Twenty-Fourth Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2005) Deadline: 2005-02-07 Webpage: http://www.podc.org/podc2005/ Conference: July 17-20, 2005 Contact: aspnes(a)cs.yale.edu Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Synopsis: PODC continues to broaden the conference, and solicits papers on all areas of distributed systems. We encourage submissions dealing with any aspect of distributed computing, including theory and practice, systems, design, specification, verification, implementation, application, and properties of distributed systems. The common goal is to shed light on the principles of distributed computing. ____________________________________________________________ SCAC 2005 Title: International Forum on "Less is more - Simple Computing in an Age of Complexity" Deadline: 2005-02-07 Webpage: http://research.microsoft.com/ero/scat/cfpapers.aspx Conference: April 26-28, 2005 Contact: camlim(a)microsoft.com Location: Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Synopsis: Computers continue to become smaller, cheaper, more powerful, ubiquitous and more diverse and yet for many computing is still associated with the desktop device. As a consequence, the potential of computing to shape, improve and change the social, cultural and creative fabric of society is limited. This Forum seeks to understand how computing will be able to affect the way we all live, work, learn and play. By thinking about computing for all rather than some, the Forum hopes to help define how computing and computers could become a "natural resource."for any and all, wherever they and whatever they do. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! NOSSDAV 2005 Title: 15th ACM International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video Abstract: 2005-02-21 Deadline: 2005-02-28 Webpage: http://www.nossdav.org/2005 Conference: June 12-14, 2005 Contact: kmp(a)cs.unc.edu Location: Skamania, Washington (near Portland) Synopsis: NOSSDAV invites submissions on all areas of multimedia computing and networking and strongly encourages work in progress in emerging areas. The workshop environment encourages lively discussion among participants and invites strong feedback for work in progress. For 2005, NOSSDAV will take place in Skamania, Washington. Located along the beautiful Columbia River about 30 miles east of Portland, Oregon, Skamania offers a variety of outdoor activities including golf, river rafting, kayaking, hiking, and quaint riverfront towns steeped in Lewis-and-Clark-era history. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! EESR 2005 Title: Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services (EESR'05) Deadline: 2005-02-22 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/mobisys05/eesr05/cfp Conference: June 5, 2005 Contact: eesr05chairs(a)usenix.org Location: Seattle, WA, USA Synopsis: Intelligent sense-and-respond (S&R) systems will enable existing end-to-end applications and service offerings to become more efficient, nimble, and capable of reacting to new situations dynamically, and, furthermore, will result in a new generation of applications and services not previously imagined. S&R systems will impact applications and services used by a multitude of organizations and professions, with the objectives of improving their operations, reducing costs, providing better customer service, and increasing yield. This one-day workshop brings together researchers, professionals, and practitioners to expose, formalize, discuss, and address the challenges pertinent to developing and deploying end-to-end S&R applications and services. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! HotDep Title: Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability Deadline: 2005-03-01 Webpage: http://hotdep.stanford.edu/ Conference: June 30, 2005 Contact: hotdep-chairs(a)lists.stanford.edu Location: Yokohama, Japan Synopsis: The HotDep workshop aims to identify cutting-edge research ideas in dependable systems. The program will focus on critical components of the infrastructures touching our everyday lives: operating systems, networking, security, wide-area and enterprise-scale distributed systems, mobile computing, compilers, and language design. We seek 5-page position papers that describe a novel approach to an old problem, debunk an entrenched perspective on dependability, articulate a brand new perspective on existing problems in dependability, or describe a new problem (and possible solution) that should be addressed by the dependable systems research community. We favor papers that are likely to generate healthy debate. ____________________________________________________________ iWCW05 Title: 10th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution Abstract: 2005-03-08 Deadline: 2005-03-15 Webpage: http://2005.iwcw.org/ Conference: September, 12-14, 2005 Contact: iwcw05(a)eurecom.fr Location: Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera Synopsis: The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) serves as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content distribution. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW10 plans to form a strong technical program that covers the newest and most interesting areas relating to content delivery. We encourage submissions in all caching and content distribution areas, including P2P content distribution, web caching, wireless content delivery, CDNs, multimedia content distribution, etc. Accepted papers will be either published in the LNCS Series of Springer-Verlag or as IEEE Proceedings. ____________________________________________________________ SOSP 2005 Title: 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'05) Deadline: 2005-03-25 Webpage: http://www.sosp-20.com Conference: October 23-26, 2005 Contact: program(a)sosp-20.com Location: The Grand Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom Synopsis: Authors are invited to submit papers to the 20th SOSP reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of operating systems. We seek submissions of high quality that significantly further the knowledge and understanding of the systems community. In keeping with SOSP tradition, we will favor work that explores new territory, continues a significant research dialog, or reflects on experience with practical applications of the community's knowledge. Papers of particular merit will be forwarded to ACM Transactions on Computer Systems for possible publication in a special issue. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! HOT Chips 17 Title: HOT Chips Symposium on High-Performance Chips (HOT Chips 17) Deadline: 2005-03-25 Webpage: http://www.hotchips.org Conference: August 14-16, 2005 Contact: hotpcchairs(a)atlas.cs.berkeley.edu Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA Synopsis: Since it started in 1989, HOT Chips has been known as one of the semiconductor industry's leading conference on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held once a year in August on the Stanford University campus in the center of the world's capital of electronics activity, Silicon Valley. The conference emphasis this year, as in previous years, is on real products and realizable technology. Submissions are evaluated by the Program Committee on the basis of performance of the device(s), degree of innovation, use of advanced technology, potential market significance, and anticipated interest to the audience. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! QEST 2005 Title: 2nd International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2005) Deadline: 2005-03-28 Webpage: http://www.qest.org Conference: September, 19-22, 2005 Contact: qest05-publicity(a)di.unito.it Location: Torino, Italy Synopsis: The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is a major forum for contributions on evaluation and verification of computer and communication systems, through measurements and stochastic models, possibly incorporating non-deterministic behavior. It combines three events that have discovered an increasing convergence in their interests and in their communities of researchers: the International Conference on Modeling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation (TOOLS), the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models (PNPM), and the Joint International Workshop on Process Algebras and Performance Modeling and Probabilistic Methods In Verification (PAPM-ProbMIV). ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! NSDI Poster Session Title: Poster Session: 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation Deadline: 2005-03-29 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi05/cfp/#poster Conference: May 2-4, 2005 Contact: nsdi05posters(a)usenix.org Location: Boston, MA, USA Synopsis: Do you have interesting work in progress you would like to share? The NSDI poster session is for you! Poster sessions introduce new or ongoing work, and the NSDI audience provides valuable discussion and feedback from researchers from across the networking and systems community--including computer networking, distributed systems, and operating systems. The NSDI symposium focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems and seeks to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to addressing shared research challenges. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit a poster, please send a proposal, one page or less, by March 29, 2005, to nsdi05posters(a)usenix.org. ____________________________________________________________ SRUTI 2005 Title: Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI) Workshop Deadline: 2005-03-30 Webpage: http://www.research.att.com/~bala/sruti Conference: July 7-8, 2005 Contact: dk(a)mit.edu, bala(a)research.att.com Location: MIT, Stata Center, Cambridge, MA, USA Synopsis: The Internet is under increasing attacks with unwanted traffic in the form of spam, distributed denial of service, virus, worms, etc. Unwanted traffic on the Internet has manifested itself as attacks on many protocols (IP, TCP, DNS, BGP, and HTTP) and popular applications (e.g., Email, Web). SRUTI seeks research on the unwanted traffic problem that looks across the protocol stack, examines attack commonalities, and investigates how various solutions interact and whether they can be combined to increase security. We look for ideas in networking and systems, and insights from other areas such as databases, data mining, and economics. ____________________________________________________________ * NEW THIS MONTH! MIDDLEWARE 2005 Title: ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE 2005) Deadline: 2005-03-30 Webpage: http://middleware05.objectweb.org/ Conference: November 28th - December 2nd, 2005 Contact: Gilles.Muller(a)emn.fr Location: Grenoble, France Synopsis: The Middleware conference is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of middleware. Middleware is systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware. Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 6th International Middleware Conference will be the premier event for middleware research and technology in 2005. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for future computing and communication environments. ____________________________________________________________ FGCS Title: FGCS, Intl. Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on Fault Tolerance and Failure Recovery Deadline: 2005-04-01 Webpage: http://kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de/staff/lars/fgcs/cfp.htm Conference: April 1, 2005 Contact: baron(a)cs.tu-berlin.de Location: Synopsis: In order to develop a service-oriented, reliable platform, Grid research needs to tackle the problem of failure detection and recovery which affects the applications running on the Grid as well as any component of the Grid management. Even the underlying resource infrastructure of the Grid may change dynamically during the run-time of an application. Even if the other resources work correctly, network outages may occur and obstruct the execution of a distributed application. In this special issue, we encourage the submission of papers dealing with any aspect of failure detection, propagation, recovery, and fault tolerance strategies for the Grid. ____________________________________________________________ DOA 2005 Title: International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications Abstract: 2005-05-24 Deadline: 2005-05-31 Webpage: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Conference: October 31- November 4, 2005 Contact: fedconf(a)cs.rmit.edu.au Location: Agia Napa, Cyprus Synopsis: If you are a researcher or practitioner who is building innovative distributed object systems or applications, consider contributing a practice report or research paper to this event. Existing distributed object systems such as COM, CORBA, and EJB have been generally successful, but we're still evolving them, and applying lessons learned into areas such as Web Services, CORBA Components, J2EE, and .NET. All these approaches aim to provide openness, reliability, scalability, distribution transparency, security, ease of development, and support for heterogeneity between applications and platforms. Significant research and development is required to continue to broaden the applicability of distributed object systems. ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: SIGOPS European Chapter and Systems Conference Summary: This message is to keep you informed of progress towards the foundation of a European chapter of SIGOPS and starting a new Systems conference located in Europe. A group of people met at OSDI and started the formal process of establishing a chapter. The full minutes of the meeting are available at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~smh22/sigops-ec-osdi-minutes.txt. The proposed bylaws are http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~smh22/sigops-ec-bylaws.pdf. The following interim officers were chosen (while awaiting elections, to be held by June 2005): Treasurer: Yolande Berbers (http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~yolande/) Secretary: Anne-Marie Kermarrec (http://www.irisa.fr/paris/pages-perso/Anne-Marie-Kermarrec/welcome.htm) Vice-Chair: Hermann Härtig (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~haertig/) Chair: Marc Shapiro (http://www-sor.inria.fr/~shapiro/) The new conference is tentatively named International Computer Systems Conference. Papers will be solicited and accepted on the basis of quality first. The CFP will solict and accept first-class papers from everywhere, addressing a diversity of topics beyond core OS and "hot stuff." The PC chair will be Willy Zwaenepoel. We plan to hold the conference in the spring or early summer 2006. If you want to host the conference please contact one of the officers, or the conference chair. Other activities will be planned. For instance we discussed holding a by-invitation workshop sometime in the middle of 2005. Marc ____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Title: Operating Systems Review Online Submission Summary: Submissions to Operating Systems Review (OSR) are now electronic as PDF attachments to electronic mail. Submit to the editor William M. Waite at "William.Waite(a)colorado.edu". The format should be single spaced, without a separate title page. Text and diagrams must be contained within a 6.5 inch wide by 8.5 inch high (165mm by 216mm) area with at least one inch (25mm) top and side margins, and 1.5 inch (38mm) bottom margin. Except for editorial items, all sources of material appearing in Operating Systems Review will be clearly identified. Items attributed to individuals will ordinarily be interpreted as personal rather than organizational opinions. The technical material in this newsletter is not refereed. 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[Fwd: Workshop on End-to-End Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services]
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Workshop on End-to-End Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:08:31 -0500 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ============================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON END-TO-END, SENSE-AND-RESPOND SYSTEMS, APPLICATIONS, AND SERVICES in conjunction with the MobiSys`05 Conference June 5, 2005, Seattle, WA, USA http://www.usenix.org/events/mobisys05/eesr05/cfp ============================================================================= Topics of Interest: - Architectures and technologies for next-generation/emerging end-to-end S&R middleware, applications and services - Dealing with heterogeneity of sensor, control, and actuator technologies - Effective naming and device/service discovery in end-to-end S&R systems - Event models, propagation and representation for S&R systems - Incorporating S&R systems into existing/legacy infrastructures - Interoperability of end-to-end systems (sensors data ? applications ? actuators) - Lifecycle management tools for development, debugging and deploying of S&R application and services - Light-weight agent middleware, and event-correlation services for S&R systems - Programming models/abstractions and information schemas for S&R systems - Real-life S&R applications and services: experience and assessment - Sensor data services and sensor data providers: brokering, advertisement, and access Important dates: Paper submissions due: February 22, 2005 Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2005 Camera-ready final paper due: May 6, 2005 For more information, please see the attached detailed CfP or visit the Workshop's Web-site. Sincerely, The Workshop Co-Chairs Ron Ambrosio Chatschik Bisdikian

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[Fwd: Call for Submissions: NSDI 2005 Poster Session]
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Submissions: NSDI 2005 Poster Session Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:46:10 -0500 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Call for Submissions: NSDI Poster Session Deadline: March 29, 2005 Details: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi05/cfp/#poster Do you have interesting work in progress you would like to share? The NSDI poster session is for you! Poster sessions introduce new or ongoing work, and the NSDI audience provides valuable discussion and feedback from researchers from across the networking and systems community--including computer networking, distributed systems, and operating systems. The NSDI symposium focuses on the design principles of large-scale networks and distributed systems and seeks to foster cross-disciplinary approaches to addressing shared research challenges. We are particularly interested in presentations of student work. To submit a poster, please send a proposal, one page or less, by March 29, 2005, to nsdi05posters(a)usenix.org.

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[Fwd: [itst2005] ITST2005: Deadline for abstract submission]
by Lars Wolf 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [itst2005] ITST2005: Deadline for abstract submission Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:10:37 +0100 From: nobody(a)enst-bretagne.fr Reply-To: com-itst2005(a)bscw.enst-bretagne.fr To: com-itst2005(a)bscw.enst-bretagne.fr */ Deadline for the 2-page summary submission: /_15 February, 2005 _* ********************************************************************************************************* *ITST 2005 * *The 5th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications * /" Telecommunications in a Futuristic Transport World" * in association with : IEEE, IEE, SEE, IEICE, IPSJ */ /Le Quartz/ Congress Center - Brest - FRANCE *27 - 28 - 29 June, 2005 http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/itst2005/ */ itst2005(a)enst-bretagne.fr* * /* ********************************************************************************************************* *Dear Colleague, You will find attached the Final Call for Papers of the 5th International Conference ITST 2005 on /Telecommunications in a Futuristic Transport World./ Please do not forget there are 2 weeks before the paper submission deadline so prospective authors are invited to submit a 2-page abstract on telecommunications and intelligent transport system applications before *February 15th, 2005*. I*MPORTANT DATES: *Notification of Acceptance: *March 31st, 2005 *4-page Camera Ready Paper: *April 30th, 2005 *We also would be happy to receive proposals from industrialists, suppliers or laboratories for exhibitions and demonstrations. You will find more details about exhibitions on the web site: http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/itst2005/infoscongres/exhibition.en.php We would appreciate if you could redirect this mail to anybody who you think would be interested. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact: / itst2005(a)enst-bretagne.fr /or to have a look at the website: *http://conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/itst2005/ *_ _Sincerely On behalf the Organizing Committee Gabrielle Landrac and Yvon Le Roux

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Last CFP Special issue IEEE TPDS on 'Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks']
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Last CFP Special issue IEEE TPDS on 'Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks' Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:25:24 +0100 From: David Simplot-Ryl <David.Simplot(a)lifl.fr> To: <manet(a)ietf.org>, <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu>, <seworld(a)cs.colorado.edu>, <tinyos(a)Millennium.Berkeley.EDU> CC: arp(a)cines.fr, alp-diffusion(a)univ-lille1.fr Please accept our apologies in case you receive this information from multiple sources. ================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Special Issue April Issue of 2006 IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks scheduled to appear in the April issue of 2006. This special issue covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the "hot" area of ad hoc and sensor networking. It concentrates on the network layer problems which can be divided into two groups: data communication, and topology control problems. In data communication problems, such as routing, quality-of-service routing, geocasting, multicasting, and broadcasting, the primary goal is to fulfill a given communication task successfully between nodes in ad hoc network. The secondary task is to minimize the communication overhead and power consumption by battery operated nodes. Topology control problems are further subdivided into neighbour discovery and network organization problems. In the neighbour discovery problem, the problem is to detect neighboring nodes located within transmission radius. In the network organization problem, each node should decide what communication links to establish with neighbouring nodes (an example is Bluetooth scatternet formation problem), and what power management schemes to adopt (examples are "sleep" period operations and adjusting transmission radii). Sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas and research activities are booming recently. The applications of sensor networks are envisioned primarily for monitoring the environment (e.g. motion detection, chemicals, temperature) or as embedded systems (e.g. biomedical sensor engineering). This special issue will also review ongoing research on this "hot" topic, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer. The main paradigm shift is to apply localized schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on http://www.computer.org/tpds/author_new.htm. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please feel free to contact the Peer Review Supervisor, Suzanne Werner at swerner(a)computer.org or the guest editors. Important dates: Submission Deadline: February 15, 2005 Reviews Completed: March 29, 2005 Major Revisions Due (if Needed): May 30, 2005 Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): July 14, 2005 Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): August 15, 2005 Notification of Final Acceptance: August 23, 2005 Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: September 9, 2005 GUEST EDITORS Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA olariu(a)cs.odu.edu http://www.cs.odu.edu/~olariu David Simplot-Ryl IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille, INRIA Futurs, France simplot(a)lifl.fr http://www.lifl.fr/~simplot Ivan Stojmenovic SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] CFP: IEEE Communications - Network & Service Management Series
by Frank Strauß 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "G.Pavlou" <G.Pavlou(a)surrey.ac.uk> > Date: 29. Januar 2005 22:07:03 MEZ > To: ifip_nm <ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> > Subject: [Ifip_nm] CFP: IEEE Communications - Network & Service > Management Series > > > [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] > > ******************************************************************** > > Call for Papers > > IEEE Communications Magazine - Network & Service Management Series > > First issue (deadline: March 30, 2005) > > http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag1005.html > > ******************************************************************** > > > IEEE Communications Magazine announces the creation of a new series on > Network and Service Management. The series will be published twice a > year, in April and October, with the first issue planned for October > 2005. It intends to provide articles on the latest developments in this > well-established and thriving discipline. Published articles are > expected to highlight recent research achievements in this field and > provide insight into theoretical and practical issues related to the > evolution of network and service management from different > perspectives. > The series will provide a forum for the publication of both academic > and > industrial research, addressing the state of the art, theory and > practice in network and service management. Both original research and > review papers are welcome, in the style expected for IEEE > Communications > Magazine. Articles should be of tutorial nature, written in a style > comprehensible to readers outside the speciality of Network and Service > Management. This series therefore complements the newly established > IEEE > Electronic Transactions on Network & Service Management (eTNSM) - > http://www.comsoc.org/etnsm/. > > > > General areas include but are not limited to: > - Management models, architectures and frameworks > - Service provisioning, reliability and quality assurance > - Management functions > - Management standards, technologies and platforms > - Management policies > - Applications, case studies and experiences > > IEEE Communications Magazine is read by tens of thousands of readers > from both academia and industry. The magazine has also been ranked the > number one telecommunications journal according to the ISI citation > database for year 2000, and the number three for year 2001. The > published papers will also be available on-line through Communications > Magazine Interactive, the WWW edition of the magazine. Details about > IEEE Communications Magazine can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/ci/. > > Schedule for the first issue: > - Manuscripts due: March 30, 2005 > - Acceptance notification: June 30, 2005 > - Publication date: October 2005 > > Series Editors: > Prof. George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK. > Dr. Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands. >

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] CFP: Self-Managed Systems and Services
by Frank Strauß 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "J.P. Martin-Flatin" <jp.martin-flatin(a)ieee.org> > Date: 28. Januar 2005 11:12:41 MEZ > To: ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > Subject: [Ifip_nm] CFP: Self-Managed Systems and Services > Reply-To: "J.P. Martin-Flatin" <jp.martin-flatin(a)ieee.org> > > > CALL FOR PAPERS > ** UPDATED ** > > SelfMan 2005 > IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Systems & Services > > Nice, France, 19 May 2005 > http://madyne.loria.fr/selfman2005/ > > co-located with IM 2005 > http://www.ieee-im.org/ > > Scope: > > As the distributed systems and services that sustain our day-to-day IT > and > communication infrastructures become increasingly complex, traditional > solutions to manage and control them seem to have reached their limits. > Researchers are thus testing alternate paradigms to organize and > structure > them. In recent years, self-managed systems and services have raised > much > interest in integrated management, distributed systems and software > engineering. This interest builds on the success already encountered by > self-organized and self-stabilizing systems in distributed artificial > intelligence, material science, thermodynamics, etc. > > During this workshop, we wish to gather people with different > backgrounds > to analyze and discuss the potential of self-* technologies for > managing > and controlling distributed systems and services. Areas of interest > include > self-management, self-organization, self-adaptability, self-monitoring, > self-tuning, self-repair and self-configuration. For instance, workshop > contributions could describe success stories in a specific field, while > others could make analogies between several fields, and yet others > could > propose new ideas or thought-provoking solutions to old/new problems. > > Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to, > the > following: > > - self-managed distributed systems and networks > - context awareness and self-adaptation > - self-organization in P2P applications > - self-organized MANETs and sensor networks > - self-adaptive systems > - self-repairing distributed systems > - self-configured networks > - self-organized service deployment > - self-adaptive e-business services > - autonomic systems > - goals and policies for self-managed systems > - decision making in self-* systems > > The structure of this workshop will encourage discussions and foster > future > collaborations. Attendance will be limited to 50 participants. Authors > should submit 4-page position papers to <jp.martin-flatin(a)ieee.org> in > PDF > format. Selected papers will be available on the workshop website (no > transfer of copyright). Enhanced versions of the best papers will be > published in 2006 in a special issue of Communications of the ACM. > > Co-chairs: > > Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada > Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK > Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany > > Program Committee: > > Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy > Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK > Giovanna Di Marzo, University of Geneva, Switzerland > Joe Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > Robert Laddaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA > Gero Muehl, Technical University Berlin, Germany > George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK > Jerry Rolia, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA > Juergen Schoenwaelder, International University Bremen, Germany > Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA > Morris Sloman, Imperial College > Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK > Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University, USA > Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands > Ray Welland, University of Glasgow, UK > > Important Dates: > > Submission deadline: 15 February 2005 > Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2005 > Final paper due: 15 April 2005 > > Sponsored by: > > IEEE Communications Society > > In cooperation with: > > ACM SIGOPS and IFIP > > Business Sponsors (Patrons): > > Cisco, BT, IBM Research, HP Labs > > _______________________________________________ > IFIP_NM mailing list > IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm

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[Fwd: E-NEXT.members: CFP MeshNets 2005 -- Submission deadline extended to 27 February]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: CFP MeshNets 2005 -- Submission deadline extended to 27 February Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:02:51 +0100 From: Laura Marie Feeney <lmfeeney(a)sics.se> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Apologies if you receive multiple copies In order to synchronize better with other workshops being held at WICON, the submission deadline for MeshNets 2005 has been significantly extended. (So now you have plenty of time to finish your paper and submit it...) ==== MeshNets 2005 http://www.meshnets.org In conjunction with WICON 2005 10 July 2005, Budapest, Hungary IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 27, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 05, 2005 Camera-ready Version due: May 15, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The long-term success of the Wireless Internet depends on the establishment of an architectectural framework that can meet the increasingly stringent demands place on it by our mobile, "always connected" society. Wireless mesh networks are expected to be a key element of this future. In a wireless mesh network, mobile devices or networks cooperatively establish mulit-hop, or even multi-radio communication paths in a dynamic environment, providing an alternative form of wireless connectivity. To achieve scalability and performance, such a network must manage complex tradeoffs among factors such as coverage, throughput/delay and QoS support. Many such networks must also be able to support self-organizing and self-healing modes of operation. The emergence of wireless PAN, LAN, and MAN technologies and an ever-growing demand for connectivity suggest that wireless mesh networks will play an important role in the future development of the Wireless Internet. The importance and timeliness of this topic is confirmed by the many start-up companies defining technology and products in this space, as well as the work of standards bodies such as the IEEE 802.11s Working Group. The goal of this workshop is to bring together an international group of academics, researchers, and industry practitioners to a) provide a view of the state-of-art, b) identify outstanding challenges and c) present current research on all aspects of mesh networks. The workshop will therefore include panel discussion and invited speakers, as well as papers selected through this CFP. In particular, we encourage submissions which make fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of wireless mesh networking, with emphasis on cross-layer protocol design and implementation, especially in the context of programmable and software defined radio. We solicit paper on topics including, but not limited to the following areas of relevance to mesh networks: Link and MAC layer design Cross-layer optimization Radio resource management and QoS support Programmable and software defined radios User mobility models and mobility management Topology deduction and network measurement and characterization Performance evaluation and modelling Experimental systems and test-beds Security and authentication Interworking between wireless access and the wired backbone PROPOSALS FOR PANELS Proposals for panel sessions on wireless networking and related topics are also solicited. Panel topics should address innovative, controversial, or otherwise provocative topics related to wireless mesh networking. Please submit proposals to the General Chairs <tpc.html>. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must be submitted in PostScript or Adobe PDF format. Papers must not exceed 8-10 (A4 size) pages, including text, figures and references, with a minimum font size of 11pt and reasonable margins. Submitted papers must be original and unpublished work, not currently under review for any other conference or journal. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of accepted papers. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the conference in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in the ACM Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), by Kluwer Academic Pulblishers. Electronic submission instructions will be made available shortly. ORGANIZATION: General Co-chairs: Shyam Chakraborty Helsinki University of Technology ssc(a)cc.hut.fi Sumit Roy University of Washington roy(a)ee.washington.edu IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions due: * February 27, 2005 * Notification of Acceptance: * April 05, 2005 * Camera-ready Manuscripts due: * May 15, 2005 * +++ Posted to members-istenext by Laura Marie Feeney <lmfeeney(a)sics.se> +++

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[Fwd: ACF-Members: SAACS'05 - CfP #1]
by Lars Wolf 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ACF-Members: SAACS'05 - CfP #1 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:30:47 +0100 (MET) From: Mikhail Smirnov <smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org, info-autonomic(a)autonomic-communication.org FYI: 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems "SAACS 05" A TWO day workshop, in conjunction with http://www.dexa.org Copenhagen, Denmark <http://www.copenhagenpictures.dk/> , Copenhagen Business School <http://uk.cbs.dk> ; August 22nd - August 26 2005 Brief information follows (for further details visit the web site. http://cms1.gre.ac.uk/conferences/saacs-2005/ Abstract Submission Deadline: March 12th, 2005 Full paper Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2005 Notification of paper acceptance: April 30, 2005 Deadline for camera ready (modified) accepted papers: 15 May 2005 <...> cheers Michael +++++++++ posted to acf-members by Mikhail Smirnov <smirnow(a)fokus.fraunhofer.de> +++++++++

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[Fwd: [netgame-l] ACM SIGCHI ACE2004 SUBMISSION DEADLINE FEB 15th]
by Lars Wolf 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [netgame-l] ACM SIGCHI ACE2004 SUBMISSION DEADLINE FEB 15th Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:04:58 +0800 From: ACM SIGCHI ACE2005 <diediaga(a)laboluz.org> To: Computer Scientist <netgame-l(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> Dear Computer Scientist: The field of computer entertainment technology has aroused great interest recently amongst researchers and developers in both academic and industrial / business fields as it is duly recognized as showing high promise of bringing on exciting new forms of human computer interaction. Now deemed deserving of both serious academic research, as well as major industry and business uptake, techniques used in computer entertainment are also seen to translate into advances in research work ranging from industrial training, collaborative work, novel interfaces, novel multimedia, network computing and ubiquitous computing. The purpose of this conference is to bring together academic and industry researchers, as well as computer entertainment developers and practitioners, to address and advance the research and development issues related to computer entertainment. Prospective authors are now invited to submit Papers/Posters/Demos electronically via the conference website: *http://www.ace2005.org* by* 15th February 2005* * <http://www.ace2005.org/exhibition.htm>* ACM, the world's leading computer science society will be publishing all accepted papers, and the conference is fully sponsored by the prestigious ACM SIGCHI. *The following, non exclusive, topics are called for: * Computer Entertainment and: Art and Media, Augmented / Mixed Reality, Avatars and Virtual Action, Evolutionary Platforms / Hardware, Graphics Techniques, Haptics, Interfaces, Military Training / Simulation Applications of Games, Mobile Entertainment, Mobile Phones, Narratives, Networking, New Genres, New Standards, Novel Hardware Devices, Physics / AI, Social Computing, Sound and Music. The Program Commitee and Chairs will be reviewing and judging all presentations and the following prizes will be awarded: Best Paper Award presented with SIGCHI ACE2005 Gold Medal and Certificate * *Best Demo Award presented with SIGCHI ACE2005 Gold Medal and Certificate Excellent Paper Commendations* *The top 5% of papers based on the average of the reviewers total score of the paper will be presented with signed and stamped "Excellent Paper" Certificates. Invitation for best papers The top few papers will be selected for revision/expansion and review for ACM Computers in Entertainment http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie.html _______________________________________________ netgame-l mailing list netgame-l(a)pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de http://www.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/mailman/listinfo/netgame-l

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[Fwd: CONEXT05-1st-CallForPapers]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CONEXT05-1st-CallForPapers Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:26:30 +0100 (MET) From: CONEXT05 Call for papers <conext2(a)ensica.fr> To: undisclosed-recipients:; [Please apologize for multiple receipts] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CONEXT'05 International conference on future networking technologies October 24-27, 2005 Toulouse, France http://www.co-next.net/ info(a)co-next.net Organized by IST E-NEXT in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM ----- SCOPE ----- CoNEXT aims to become a major forum in the area of future networking technologies. By bringing together - under the umbrella of the Network of Excellence E-NEXT (http://www.ist-e-next.net/) - a number of successful workshops run by various networking communities, it will encourage much needed synergies between these communities. CoNEXT is a joint conference series having its roots in QoFIS, NGC and MIPS. QoFIS and NGC are highly successful international workshops initiated by two European COST Actions, namely COST263 on Quality of Future Internet Services and COST264 on Networked Group Communications. MIPS resulted from the merging of two other major workshops, namely IDMS (concentrated on interactive and distributed multimedia services) and PROMS (focusing on protocols for networked multimedia systems); also the associated ICQT (Internet Charging and QoS Technology) workshop is integrated into CoNEXT 2005. CoNEXT is designed as an open, multi-track conference aiming to attract longer-term studies and to contribute to the integration of networking research at the international level. Examples of relevant topics are: * Autonomic Communications * Context Awareness * Crosslayer Integration * Dependable Networks * Experimental Networking * Identity Management * Internet Economics * Large Test-bed * Mobile Communication * Monitoring * Network Security * Overlay Networks * Scalability * Sensor Networks * Service Engineering * Traffic Engineering * User Perceived QoS * Wireless ----------------------- SUBMISSIONS/PROCEEDINGS ----------------------- Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the CoNEXT web site. The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. IEEE/ACM ToN will consider fast tracking the very best papers accepted for publication at CoNEXT. --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission: May 6th, 2005 Notification: July 1st, 2005 Final version: August 19th, 2005 ----------------- CONFERENCE CHAIRS ----------------- Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Patrick S�nac, ENSICA, France, (Organization chair) -------------- PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie (Paris 6), France ------------------ STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Christophe Diot, Intel research Cambridge, UK Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie-Paris, France Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, USA Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy ----------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Paul Amer, University of Delaware, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom, France Olivier Bonaventure, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, U K Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Rio, Brazil Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Univ. Polit�cnica de Catalunya, Spain Constantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Tech, USA Otto Duarte, UF Rio do Janeiro, Brazil Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Hiroshi Esaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Anja Feldman, University of Munich, Germany Jarmo Harju, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Ian Graham, Endace Group, New Zealand G�sli Hj�lmt�sson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Farouk Kamoun, ENSI Tunis, Tunisia Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, USA Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA, France Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, USA Guy Leduc, University of Li�ge, Belgium Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, USA Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kihong Park, Purdue University, USA Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy Catherine Rosenberg, Waterloo University, Canada Matt Roughan, University of Melbourne, Australia Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Cormac Sreenan, Cork Uni, Ireland Peter Steenkiste, CMU, USA Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Piet Van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Andras Veres, Ericsson, Hungary Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin, USA Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan Lars Wolf, Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - International Workshop on Context for Web Services (CWS'05)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP - International Workshop on Context for Web Services (CWS'05) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:42:43 +0400 From: Zakaria Maamar <Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae> To: <chirine.ghedira(a)iuta.univ-lyon1.fr> Call for Papers International Workshop on Context for Web Services (CWS'05) Held in conjunction with CONTEXT, the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (http://context-05.org) July 5, 2005. Paris, France http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~dbenslim/CWS05/ Keynote Speaker: =============== - David Martin, SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center, CA, USA, http://www.ai.sri.com/people/martin Sponsors: ========= - International Sponsors: AgentLink, ObjectWeb - Local Sponsors: LIRIS Laboratory, Istase. Proceedings: ============ Papers of the Workshop will be published in ELSEVIER's Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier's ENTCS). Scope: ===== Web services are nowadays emerging as a major technology for deploying automated interactions between distributed and heterogeneous applications. Various standards support this deployment including WSDL, UDDI, and SOAP. These standards respectively support the definition of Web services, their advertisement to the community of potential users, and finally their binding for invocation purposes. In general, composing Web services rather than accessing a single service is essential and provides better benefits to users. Composition primarily addresses the situation of a user's request that cannot be satisfied by any available service, whereas a composite service obtained by combining available services might be used. Several questions raise during Web services composition and execution including which businesses have the capacity to provision Web services, when and where the provisioning of Web services occurs, and how Web services from independent parties coordinate their activities during execution so that conflicts are avoided. To address some of these questions, it is recommended considering the context in which the composition and execution of Web services occur. Context is generally perceived as the information that characterizes the interaction between humans, applications, and the surrounding environment. From a Web services perspective, it is expected that context should define a set of common data about the current status of a Web service and its capability of collaborating with other peers, possibly enacted by distinct providers. For example before a Web service agrees to participate in a composite service its status in terms of current participation is assessed. Moreover, before a back-up strategy is deployed an assessment of the exception that a Web service has raised is needed. Relevant topics: =============== - Ontologies and context for Web services - Context-based semantic matching for Web services composition - Context-based Web services deployment - Software agent-based approaches for context-based Web services interaction - Context-aware Web services - Security of context during Web services interactions - Software agents and context for Web services personalization Papers and Evaluations: ====================== Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers through CONTEXT'05 Web site (http://www.context-05.org). Papers length should be between 12 and 15 pages and must be in ELSEVIER's ENTCS submission format (http://www.math.tulane.edu/~entcs). All papers will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, clarity, and technical quality. Papers of the workshop will be published as post-proceedings in ELSEVIER's Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ELSEVIER's ENTCS, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/entcs). A first hard copy will be provided at the workshop. A special issue in an international journal is expected and will be dedicated to selected papers from the workshop. At least one author of each paper should attend the workshop to present the paper. For more information, please contact the workshop chairs at chirine.ghedira(a)liris.cnrs.fr, djamal.benslimane(a)liris.cnrs.fr, zakaria.maamar(a)zu.ac.ae. DEADLINES: ========== - Submissions due: March 25th, 2005 - Acceptance notification: April 15th, 2005 - Camera-ready papers received: April 30th, 2005 - Program on line: May 5th, 2005 - Workshop: July 5th, 2005 Workshop Organizers: =================== - C. Ghedira, Lyon 1 University, France - D. Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France - Z. Maamar, Zayed University, U.A.E Scientific Committee: ==================== - K. Baina, ENSIAS, Morocco - B. Benatallah, UNSW, Australia - M. Berger, Siemens, Germany - W. Binder, EPFL, Switzerland - L. Cavedon, Stanford University, USA - R.M. Dijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands - M. Dumas, QUT, Australia - J. Fayolle, Saint-Etienne University, France - M. S. Hacid, Lyon 1 University, France - R. Khalaf, IBM research, USA - M. Khedr, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt - F. Letellier, ObjectWeb Consortium, INRIA, France - Q. Mahmoud, Guelph University, Canada - B. Medjahed, Michigan University, USA - G. Kouadri M., Fribourg University, Switzerland - S. Kouadri M., Fribourg University, Switzerland - N. C. Narendra, IBM Software Labs, India - M. Nunez, Madrid University, Spain - Q. Z. Sheng, UNSW, Australia - P. Thiran, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2005)]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS 2005) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:05:37 +0100 From: Axel Küpper <axel.kuepper(a)ifi.lmu.de> Reply-To: axel.kuepper(a)ifi.lmu.de Organization: LMU To: wmcs(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de [Sincere apologies for possible multiple copies of this message] ========================================================================= 2nd Call for Papers The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services July 18-19, 2005, Munich, Germany in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Electronic Commerce (IEEE CEC 2005) http://www.wmcs2005.org/ Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2005 ========================================================================= While wired E-Commerce has been accepted and used widely in recent years and become significantly important in our daily life, mobile commerce (M-commerce) is still an emerging discipline that is currently experiencing massive growth rates. The success of M-Commerce is basically dependent on the development and acceptance of new wireless technologies over 3G and 4G networks as well as intelligent service platforms on mobile devices. However, to fully exploit the high growth potentials of M-commerce there is a strong need to adopt existing E-commerce approaches for wireless networks and to develop new sophisticated mobile applications to meet the needs of mobile subscribers, for example in the areas of financial transactions, mobile marketing and gaming, as well as location and context-aware services. Compared with the traditional wired E-commerce, wireless networks and mobile devices impose additional constraints, challenges, and requirements on building M-commerce platforms and applications, for example content adaptation, security and privacy issues, and mobile payment mechanisms. The Second IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Commerce and Services (WMCS) brings together researchers, scientists, software architects, and industry professionals with the aim of discussing and exchanging innovative ideas and research work in M-commerce and services. The topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following fields: - Novel M-commerce applications and services - Location and context-aware M-commerce services - Service platforms for supporting M-commerce (mobile web enterprise) - Brokerage and service discovery mechanisms - Middleware, mobile components, and agent technologies supporting M-commerce - Platforms for client applications in mobile devices (J2ME, Symbian) - Digital Rights Management - Wireless security problems & solutions, and mobile privacy - Mobile payment solutions, systems and platforms - New wireless multimedia technologies and platforms for M-commerce (e.g., DVB-H) - Inter-organizational service provisioning (business models and their realization) - Wireless advertising solutions, systems and platforms - Mobile entertainment applications, services and platforms for digital mu-sic, videos and games - Case-studies and experiences (experience reports) Submissions ----------- Authors are invited to submit original and significant research contributions in the aforementioned areas. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the international program committee. It is planned to publish the proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springeronline.de). In addition, a selection of the best papers will be published in a special issue of "Electronic Commerce Research and Applications". Full papers must not exceed 16 pages and conform to the LNCS style (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). We accept papers in PDF and PS format. Authors should submit a full paper via EDAS, see http://www.wmcs2005.org/ and http://edas.info/home.cgi?c=4440 for details. Submissions of camera-ready papers must be accompanied with the complete registration and payment. Otherwise, the paper will not be able to appear at the workshop proceedings Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: February 14, 2005 Paper notification: March 31, 2005 Camera-ready papers: April 30, 2005 Workshop Date: July 18-19, 2005 Workshop Chairs --------------- Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) Axel Küpper (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) Jerry Gao (San José State University, USA) Program Committee ----------------- Uwe Baumgarten (Technical University of Munich, Germany) Michael Berger (Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany) Bernard Burg (Panasonic Research, USA) Monique Calisti (Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland) Heikki Helin (TeliaSonera, Finland) Thomas Hess (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany) Winfried Lamersdorf (Hamburg University, Germany) Jonathan C.L. Liu (University of Florida, USA) Seng Loke (Monash University, Australia) Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland) Norman M. Sadeh (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Simon Shim (San Jose State University, USA) John Shepherdson (BT Group, UK) Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Thomas Strang (German Aerospace Center) Reima Suomi (Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland) Upkar Varshney (Georgia State University, USA) Ron Vetter (University of North Carolina, USA) Contact ------- Axel Küpper Mobile and Distributed Systems Group Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Oettingenstr. 67 D-80538 Munich, Germany Tel.:+49-89-2180-9421 Fax.:+49-89-2180-9147 info(a)wmcs2005.org http://www.wmcs2005.org

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SIGMETRICS 2005 - CFP]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SIGMETRICS 2005 - CFP Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:13:47 -0200 (BRDT) From: Jussara Marques de Almeida <jussara(a)dcc.ufmg.br> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS LSNI Workshop 2005 Sigmetrics '05 Workshop on Large Scale Network Inference (LSNI): Methods, Validation, and Applications In recent years, large scale network inference has attracted significant interest within the research community. On one front, considerable progress has been made on traffic matrix estimation. Solutions have been proposed to estimate the amount of traffic flowing between any pair of ingress and egress points within an IP network simply based on the total amount of traffic recorded over IP links. On another front, efforts are being made to detect the state of the network from end to end measurements using inference techniques or to infer the traffic workload by exploiting application behavior. In essence, the full instrumentation of the state of an IP network is still considered a cost prohibitive task and inference may be the only tool we have to understand the behavior of such large scale systems. The potential benefits of the proposed estimation techniques can be great. Accurate measurement of an IP traffic matrix is essential for network design and planning. Moreover, accurate estimation of the network state can facilitate troubleshooting and performance evaluation. The focus of this workshop will be on the state of the art of large-scale network inference techniques in these areas and their potential applications. More specifically, we will solicit papers on the evaluation of the proposed techniques and their possible shortcomings. Of particular interest are papers that address the impact of estimation errors on the applications making use of traffic matrices and network tomography techniques. Lastly, we are interested in understanding the future of this area and its impact on network design and management. We solicit 6-page long papers that present work in progress related to the following topics: traffic matrix estimation techniques passive and active network tomography techniques validation methods scalability, robustness, sensitivity issues in large scale inference adaptive and continuous network inference practical applications and operational experience impact of sampling errors on estimation accuracy The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, while an extended abstract of the submitted paper will be available in a special issue of Performance Evaluation Review (PER), which is sent to all Sigmetrics members and appears in the ACM digital library. Important dates: Submission: March 25th, 2005 Author Notification: May 5th, 2005 Camera ready due: May 27th, 2005 Workshop: June 6th, 2005 (tentative) Technical Program Committee Mark Coates Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Canada Mark Crovella Computer Science Department, Boston University, U.S.A. Nick Duffield AT&T Research, U.S.A. Mikael Johansson Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Antonio NucciSprint Advanced Technology Labs, U.S.A. Konstantina Papagiannaki Intel Research Cambridge, U.K. Matt Roughan University of Adelaide, Australia Don Towsley University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. Darryl Veitch University of Melbourne/National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia Bin Yu Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, U.S.A. Yin Zhang University of Texas, U.S.A. Workshop organizing chairs: Dina Papagiannaki, Intel Research Cambridge, Yin Zhang, Computer Science Department, University of Texas _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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(FW) GMW05: Call for Papers
by Martin Gutbrod 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Call for Papers GMW05 10. Europäische Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft 13.-16. September 2005 in Rostock ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich freue mich sehr Ihnen mitteilen zu dürfen, dass die zehnte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft e.V. (GMW) vom 13. bis 16. September 2005 an der Universität Rostock durchgeführt wird. Auf der GMW05 werden unter dem diesjährigen Motto Auf zu neuen Ufern! erneut die digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre thematisiert. Die GMW05 möchte neben Neuem bewusst auch die ursprünglichen Tagungsschwerpunkte in das Blickfeld rücken und diese zukunftsorientiert weiterentwickeln. Auf der GMW05 sollen die bestehenden didaktischen Ebenen (Lernmaterialien, Lehr-/Lernszenarien, Organisation und Bildungsnetzwerke) mit den Querschnittsthemen (Strategie, Qualitätssicherung, Didaktik, Curricula- und Kompetenzentwicklung) in Verbindung gesetzt werden. Ein neues Ufer, zu dem wir aufbrechen wollen, ist die internationale Dimension: Bietet E-Learning Potentiale für die Umsetzung der Bologna-Deklaration? Auch die technische Sicht wird 2005 mit an Bord sein. Erstmalig finden die GMW05 und die E-Learning-Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik DeLFI 2005 gemeinsam statt. Die beiden Gesellschaften werden das Themenspektrum kontrovers und konstruktiv diskutieren und neue Trends in der Entwicklung von digitalen Medien an Hochschulen aufzeigen. Scharnier zwischen den Tagungen sind gemeinsame Themenschwerpunkte auf den Ebenen Lernmaterialien, Lehr- und Lernszenarien und Organisation. Diese werden in Plenarveranstaltungen durch Keynotes aus der didaktischen, bildungspolitischen und der technischen Sicht eröffnet. Wir freuen uns über die Einsendung von Full Paper Beiträgen zu den Tagungsschwerpunkten: - Lehrmaterialien - Lehr- und Lernszenarien - Integration in die Organisation - Bildungsnetzwerke der Zukunft Darüber hinaus besteht die Möglichkeit Vorschläge für Panels oder Pre-Conference Workshops zu unterbreiten. Der Termin für die Einreichung von Pre-Conference Workshop sowie Panel Proposals ist der 14. Februar 2005. Der Termin der Einreichung der Full Paper Beiträge ist der 31. März 2005. Den vollständigen CfP finden Sie zum Download unter http://www.gmw05.de/sites/organisation/cfp_gmw.pdf Alle Informationen zu dieser Tagung, einschließlich der Einreichungsrichtlinien, finden Sie auf der Konferenz-Website http://www.gmw05.de In der Hoffnung Ihr Interesse geweckt zu haben erwarten wir mit Freude Ihre Beiträge für die GMW05 in der schönen Hansestadt Rostock. Im Namen des GMW05-Organisationsteams verbleibe ich mit herzlichen Grüßen, Kristin Nölting

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICCCN 2005 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICCCN 2005 CFP Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:21:42 -0500 From: Sandy Thuel <thuel(a)lucent.com> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu ICCCN 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS October 17-19, 2005 (Tentative) San Diego, California USA Website: http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu Sponsors*: Technical Co-Sponsorship by IEEE TCCC (Technical Committee on Computer Communications), IBM, Avaya Labs, and Nokia (*pending approval of sponsorships) 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 SCOPE: The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation and applications of Computer Communications and Networks. We invite you to submit papers that address novel, challenging, and innovative results. The topics include, but are not limited to: eCommerce Internet Services/Applications Protocols Network Control and Management Intelligent Networks Data Traffic Engineering Networked Databases Optical Communication Networks Wireless/Mobile/Satellite Networks Cable Broadband Technologies Mobile and Pervasive Computing Multimedia Communication over IP Networks Voice over IP Security/Reliability/Dependability of wired/wireless networks Network Interoperability Multicasting Streaming Networks Network Performance Network Architectures Terabit Optical Technologies Wireless Multimedia Applications DSL Technologies Network Processing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) Sensor Networks SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers. Papers to be submitted should not have been previously published in another forum, and should not be currently under review by another journal or conference. All submitted papers will be refereed for quality, correctness, originality and relevance. Of particular interest are papers that address concrete experiences with computer communications/networks and applications. An accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors at the conference venue. These accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Press. All manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages with font size 10 in standard IEEE camera ready format (double column). The Program Committee reserves the right to decline without review any papers that exceed these length specifications. Submissions also must include the title, author(s) and affiliation, e-mail address, fax/phone numbers and postal address. In case of multiple authors, indicate which author is responsible for correspondence and preparing the camera ready paper for the proceedings. Electronic submission is required (ps or pdf format is preferred). Manuscripts should be submitted by April 15, 2005 to the ICCCN2005 website. STUDENT POSTER SESSIONS: The conference includes student poster sessions that highlight recent and ongoing research that has not been published elsewhere. An electronic (Postscript or PDF) version of the poster must be submitted to the conference website, along with a 200-word abstract. The first author of the poster must be a student at the time of submission; the student is expected to attend the conference and be available for discussion during the poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Students with accepted posters receive a discount from the regular conference registration fee. The paper session and poster sessions are two fully independent conference tracks, with separate review procedures. Submitted papers are not considered for poster sessions, and poster submissions are not considered for paper sessions. Submission of identical research material to both paper and poster sessions is not allowed. Please contact Program Co-Chairs below with any questions: Prof. Yuanyuan Yang Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook yang(a)ece.sunysb.edu +1 631 632 8474 (voice) +1 631 632 8494 (fax) Dr. Sandra R. Thuel Bell Laboratories, Room 4F515 Networking Techniques Research Department 101 Crawfords Corner Road Holmdel, New Jersey 07733 thuel(a)lucent.com +1 732 949 8897 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline : April 15, 2005 Poster submission deadline : April 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2005 Camera ready papers due: July 30, 2005 STUDENT FORUM: We encourage submissions from students. Some travel assistance may be available for students with top quality papers. WEBSITE: Please visit the ICCCN2005 web site http://icccn.sce.umkc.edu for more up-to-date information. GENERAL CHAIR: Prof. Luiz DaSilva Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University ldasilva(a)vt.edu ****************************************************************** BEST PAPER AWARD: ICCCN will select the best paper each year and authors of the paper will be recognized at the conference ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] LANOMS 2005 - Call for Papers
by Frank Strauß 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: Carlos Becker Westphall <westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br> > Date: 23. Januar 2005 20:32:40 Uhr MEZ > To: ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > Subject: [Ifip_nm] LANOMS 2005 - Call for Papers > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > LANOMS 2005 - 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management > Symposium > Sheraton Hotel - Porto Alegre, Brazil - August 29-31, 2005 > http://www.lanoms.org/2005/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Call for Papers in PDF format attached. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > The 4th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium - > LANOMS > 2005, to be held in Porto Alegre - Brazil, is the result of the great > success of the previous LANOMS 1999 (held in Rio de Janeiro), LANOMS > 2001 (held in Belo Horizonte), and LANOMS 2003 (held in Iguassu > Falls), as > well as the other successful events in the area of network management: > NOMS and APNOMS. > > The LANOMS 2005 is promoted by the Federal University of Rio Grande do > Sul > (UFRGS) and by the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). The > main > goal of LANOMS 2005 is to create a forum more specific to the > necessities of > > Latin American in the area of network management involving networking > and > telecommunications companies, academic institutions and equipment > vendors. > LANOMS is an event open to participants from all over the world who are > interested in having, or already have, research or commercial liaisons > in > Latin America - one of the fastest growing regions in the world in > networking. > > Topics > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > The LANOMS 2005 invites authors to submit original and unpublished > work to > both technical and application tracks. Topics of interest include but > are > not limited to: > > - Management architectures and platforms > - Distributed and cooperative management > - Self management > - Policy and role-based management > - Security management > - Configuration management > - Adaptive and programmable management > - Context and subscriber-aware networks, mobile computing > - Management information models, ontologies > - Web Services > - Smart homes, Personal Area Networks > - Multisensor and RFID-enabled networks > - Ad hoc and self organizing networks > - WLANs, metro Ethernet, optical networks > - Overlay networks, virtual topologies > - QoS management > - IPv4/v6 networks and services > - VoIP and video distribution management > - Storage Area Networks, content hosting > - Utility computing, virtualized resources > - Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer management > - Converged networks and services > > Important dates: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > - Deadline for receipt of papers: April 18, 2005 > - Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2005 > - Final camera ready paper due: June 06, 2005 > > Paper format and submission instructions > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > Scientific papers should not exceed the limit of 12 pages. Sample > files and > templates can be downloaded from the LANOMS 2005 Web site. Application > papers should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the > explanatory > text in the lower half, following the current IM/NOMS format, and > should > not exceed 12 visuals. A PowerPoint template and a sample PDF file can > be > downloaded from the LANOMS Web site as well. All selected papers will > be > published in the LANOMS proceedings. Authors of scientific papers > should > submit a PDF file at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/lanoms2005. Authors > of > application papers should submit at > https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/lanoms2005_app. Submission implies the > willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the > paper, if accepted. > > Organizing Committee > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: > - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville > Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil > - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary > University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil > > TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: > - Bruno Schulze > National Laboratory on Scientific Computing, Brazil > - José Neuman de Souza > Federal University of Ceará, Brazil > > APPLICATION PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: > - Iara Machado > National Research Network, Brazil > - Michael Stanton > Fluminense Federal University, Brazil > > PUBLICITY CHAIR: > - Carlos Becker Westphall > Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil > > Steering Committee > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. > Federal University of Paraná, Brazil > - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira > State University of Caminas, Brazil > - José Marcos Silva Nogueira > Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > - Antônio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro > Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > > Technical Program Committee > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > - Abdelmalek Benzekri > Université Paul Sabatier, France > - Ahmed Karmouch > University of Ottawa, Canada > - Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro > Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > - Benjamín Barán > Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay > - Bruno R. Schulze > LNCC, Brazil > - Carlos Becker Westphall > Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil > - Carlos de Castro Goulart > Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil > - Elias Procópio Duarte Jr. > Federal University of Paraná, Brazil > - Edmundo Monteiro > University of Coimbra, Portugal > - Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira > State University of Campinas, Brazil > - Edward L. Pinnes > Telcordia, USA > - Florencio Utreras > Cooperacion Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, Chile > - Germán Goldszmidt > IBM, USA > - Hanan Lutfiyya > University of Western Ontario, Canada > - Iara Machado > RNP, Brazil > - James Won-Ki Hong > POSTECH, Korea > - Javier Diaz > University La Plata, Argentina > - Jauvane de Oliveira > LNCC, Brazil > - José Marcos Silva Nogueira > Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > - José Neuman de Souza > Federal University of Ceará, Brazil > - Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco > Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil > - Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville > Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil > - Luciano Paschoal Gaspary > University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil > - Lundy Lewis > Verizon, USA > - Manu Malek > Stevens Institute of Technology, USA > - Masayoshi Ejiri > Fujitsu, Japan > - Mehmet Ulema > Manhattan College, USA > - Nazim Agoulmine > Univ. of Evry, France > - Thomas Magedanz > IKV++ Technologies AG, TU Berlin, Germany > - Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz > Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > - Paulo Simões > University Coimbra, Portugal > - Raouf Boutaba > University of Waterloo, Canada > - Rossana Andrade > Federal University of Ceará, Brazil > - Tereza Carvalho > University of São Paulo, Brazil > - Yezid Donoso > Universidad del Norte Barranquilla, Colômbia > _______________________________________________ > Cnom mailing list > Cnom(a)orion.lrg.ufsc.br > http://orion.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/cnom >

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Fwd: [Ifip_nm] Cfp: End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services Workshop (E2EMON)
by Frank Strauß 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Ehab Al-Shaer" <ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu> > Date: 23. Januar 2005 22:57:19 Uhr MEZ > To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> > Cc: <ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, > <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net>, <cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br>, > <ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> > Subject: [Ifip_nm] Cfp: End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services > Workshop (E2EMON) > > > E2EMON - CALL FOR PAPERS > ------------------------ > > Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) > 15th May 2005, Nice-Acropolis, Nice, France > http://www.ieee-im.org/e2emon > In conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated > Network Management (IM2005) > > E2EMON is a workshop focusing on advances in monitoring technology, and > particularly new distributed monitoring techniques for emerging > technologies such as Grid, overlay, p2p and Ad hoc networks, and > end-to-end path measurements. E2EMON offers a unique opportunity for > researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences to develop > next-generation monitoring systems. The workshop also provides an > intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group > work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing > research in the area of e2e monitoring. Accepted papers will be > published in the workshop's preceedings and a selection may be > published > in an international journal (details will be provided later). The > participants in this workshop will have the added advantage of meeting > a > lot of the attendees of IM2005, which draws many leading researchers in > the field of Network and Systems Management. > > TOPICS: > Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services > Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring > Monitoring Grid & pervasive computing environment > Path characteristics monitoring > Large-scalable monitoring techniques > Adaptive monitoring systems > Monitoring embedded systems & pervasive environment > Active and programmable monitoring > Correlation-based monitoring > Traffic monitoring and data mining > Real-time monitoring > High-speed network monitoring > Multicast network/service monitoring > Overlay monitoring services > Monitoring of service level agreement > Distributed application steering > Monitoring and measurements > Open monitoring platforms > Monitoring models, architectures and systems > Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes > Languages for packet and distributed monitoring > Visualization of monitoring information > Distributed application steering > Monitoring and measurements > Open monitoring platforms > Monitoring models, architectures and systems > Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes > Languages for packet and distributed monitoring > > IMPORTANT DATES > Submission deadline: February 15, 2005 > Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2005 > Final version: April 5, 2005 > > PAPER SUBMISSION > The paper must be original material that is not currently under review, > and has not been previously published by another conference or journal. > The paper must be formatted as PDF format. Paper length should be > limited to 10 pages with reasonable margins and a font size of no less > than 11pt. To submit your paper, go to the EDAS system at > https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2005-E2EMON. For submission > details, see the E2EMON website. > > Co-Chairs: > > Ehab Al-Shaer: ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu > Aiko Pras: pras(a)cs.utwente.nl > Philippe Owezarski: owe(a)laas.fr > > TPC members: > > Ahsan Habib, University of California Berkeley > Aiko Pras, University of Twente > Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University > Dina Papagiannaki Intel Research > Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University > Evangelos Markatos, ICS Forth > Fulvio Risso, Politecnico di Torino > Gerald Combs, Ethereal > Henk Uijterwaal, RIPE > Herbert Bos, VU Amsterdam > James Hong, POSTECH > Jordi Domingo-Pascual, University Polytechnic of Catalunya > Kamil Sarac, The University of Texas at Dallas > Kave Salamatian, LIP6 > Keith Ross, Polytechnic University > Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd. > M. Y. Sanadidi UCLA > Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland > Olivier Festor, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine > Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS > Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine > Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo > Salvatore d'Antonio, CINI > Simon Leinen, Switch > Taesang Choi, ETRI > > > Co-Chairs: Ehab Al-Shaer, Aiko Pras and Philippe Owezarski > > > > _______________________________________________ > IFIP_NM mailing list > IFIP_NM(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca > http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/ifip_nm >

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[Fwd: CFP: First International Workshop on Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (ConWiN 2005)]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: First International Workshop on Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (ConWiN 2005) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:25:07 -0500 From: Linda Jiang Xie <jxie1(a)UNCC.EDU> Reply-To: Linda Jiang Xie <jxie1(a)UNCC.EDU> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** ******** ConWiN 2005 ******** ****** ****** **** First International Workshop on **** ** Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks ** * * * July 10, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary * * in Conjunction with WICON 2005 * * * * http://www.ConWin.org * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * ********************************************************************** Scope of ConWiN 2005: ===================== The advances in the wireless communication technologies have enabled the realization of wide range of heterogeneous wireless networks from wireless local area networks (WLANs), several generations (2G/3G) of wireless cellular networks to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and wireless sensor networks (WSN). This technological evolution is further inspiring researchers to envision the next generation wireless networking architectures and even the space Internet. Next Generation Wireless Internet (NGWI) will be the convergence of these heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet to provide mobile users with a wide range of high resource demanding services such as high speed reliable data and real-time multimedia delivery. While the unique characteristics of each of these wireless networks pose diverse set of challenges, their integration severely expands the set of open research problems for seamless, efficient, and reliable communication. Therefore, there exists an urgent need for a significant research effort to focus on solving these new challenges posed by the integration and the convergence of these wireless heterogeneous networks. The objective of ConWiN 2005 is to provide a research platform where researchers bring their contributions to light by presenting their technical papers on the issues regarding the integration and the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks. Papers solicited in ConWiN 2005 spans a wide range of areas of interest including but not limited to: - Physical layer issues for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless communication technologies - Novel and adaptive communication protocols at all layers, i.e., MAC layer problems, routing, reliable and multimedia transport, for integration of diverse wireless systems such as WLANs, 3G, and WSNs - Novel and practical communication architectures for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks - Efficient mobility/handoff management protocols for seamless roaming within the converged communication architecture - Killer applications/services for the convergence towards the NGWI - Security, authentication, and billing solutions for the converged architecture Important Dates: ================ Submission deadline : February 25, 2005 Notification of acceptance : May 1, 2005 Camera-ready version : May 15, 2005 Workshop Date : July 10, 2005 Submission Details: =================== 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 12 pages of IEEE double column format. Manuscript submission should be done electronically via e-mail by sending a pdf version of the manuscript to conwin(a)ece.metu.edu.tr Papers of particular merit will also be published in Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier). Organization Committee : ======================= Workshop Chair: -------------- Ozgur Baris Akan, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY TPC Co-Chairs: -------------- Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Publicity Chair: ---------------- Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA For more information about the workshop, see http://www.conwin.org/

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[Fwd: CFP: AD HOC NOW 2005]
by Lars Wolf 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: AD HOC NOW 2005 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:14:39 -0500 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG We apologize if you receive the CFP more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - AD HOC NOW 2005 4th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Cancun, October 6-8, 2005 http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find a PDF version of this CFP at: http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/doc/cfp.pdf IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2005 Camera-ready versions due: August 1st, 2005 Panel and demo proposals due: August 1st, 2005 SCOPE ----- Ad hoc networks are self-organising, wireless systems, formed by co-operating nodes equiped with wireless interfaces. Communications among nodes which are not directly reachable, are carried out through multihop paths. Their topology is dynamic, decentralized and ever changing due to the arbritarily movement of ad hoc nodes. We are interested in work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Ad-hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Topics of interest for which we are soliciting papers include, but are not limited to, the following: *Access control, scheduling *Ad hoc and sensor networks *Analytic methods and modelling for performance evaluation, optimization... *Auto-configuration *Incentives and pricing *Location awareness, discovery, dependence, and management *Mesh networks *New applications *Power management, power control, and energy-efficiency *Quality-of-service, resource allocation, multimedia *Routing (unicast, multicast, etc.) *Security and privacy *Service discovery *Systems and testbeds *Wireless Internet, and data management PROCEEDINGS ----------- The proceedings of Ad hoc Now 2005 will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Nnotes in Computer Science (LCNS) series. PAPER SUBMISION INSTRUCTIONS ---------------------------- Authors should prepare a full paper not to exceed 14 pages in Springer Verlag LNCS format. This page budget must contain all figures, tables, and references. The paper should also include a brief abstract of up to 150 words, three keywords, and full contact information for the corresponding author. Submissions not in the appropriate format will be rejected without review. All paper submissions will be handled electronically at the conference website. PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------- Proposals for panels that examine controversial or otherwise provocative issues are solicited. Panel proposals should not exceed 3 pages, including biographical sketches of the panelists. Potential panel organizers should contact the Panel Chair, S.S. Ravi (mailto:ravi@cs.albany.edu). Proposals for demonstrations are solicited. Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment to be used. Potentialdemonstrators are requested to submit a proposal to the Demo Chair, Antonio Garcia Macias (mailto:jagm@cicese.mx). TECHNICAL COMITTEES ___________________ Program Co-Chairs: Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico Steering Comittee: Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Ioanis Nikolaidis, Univ. of Alberta, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Publicity Chair: Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Panel Chair: S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Demonstration Chair: Antonio Garcia Maccias, CICESE, Mexico Technical Program Comittee: Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada Rida Bazzi, Arizona State Univ., USA Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Edgar Chavez, Univ. Michoacana, Mexico Jorge Cobb, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA Marco Conti, CNR-IIT, Italy Andras Farago, UT Dallas, USA Antonio Gomez-Skarmeta, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Admela Jukan, Georgia Tech, USA Goran Konjevod, Arizona State Univ., USA Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada Sven Krumke, Univ. Kaiseslautern, Germany Stefan Dobrev, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada Danny Drizanc, Wesleyan University, USA Antonio Garcia Macias, CICESE, Mexico Jelena Misic, Univ. Manitoba, Canada Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada Lata Narayanan, Concordia Univ, Canada Ioanis Nikolaidis, U. Alberta, Canada J. Opatrny, Concordia Univ., Canada Ravi Prakash, Univ. Texas at Dallas, USA Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA Martin Reisslein, Arizona State Univ., USA Frank Rousseau, LSR-IMAG, France Pedro M. Ruiz, Univ. of Murcia, Spain Martha Steenstrup, Stow Research LLC, USA Ladislav Stacho, Simon Freiser Univ, Canada Violet R. Syrotiuk, Arizona State Univ., USA Godfried Toussaint, Mc Gill Univ., Canada Damla Turgut, Univ. of Florida, USA Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland Gergely Zaruba, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Jerry Zhao, ICSI-Berkeley, USA Rong Zheng, Univ. of Houston, USA FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATON ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accomodation, etc, please contact Edgar Chavez (mailto:elchavez@fismat.umich.mx). Questions regarding paper submissions should be addressed to Violet R. Syrotiuk (mailto:syrotiuk@asu.edu) and Edgar Chavez (mailto:elchavez@fismat.umich.mx). Other comments or questions about the conference should be addressed to S. S. Ravi (ravi(a)cs.albany.edu)

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: SPECT 2005 (Deadline Jan 31, 05 is approaching)]
by Lars Wolf 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: SPECT 2005 (Deadline Jan 31, 05 is approaching) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:06:14 -0500 From: Kejie Lu <lukejie(a)ece.ufl.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. SPECT 2005 is now co-sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society -------------------------------------------------------------------- ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS ***** International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECT) Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society July 2005 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects ** SCOPE ** This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. ** TOPICS OF INTEREST ** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems - Internet Technology - Quality of Service (QoS) - DiffServ/IntServ - MPLS - TCP - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology - Networking Techniques - Unicast and Multicast Routing - Congestion Control - Switching Techniques - Tele-traffic - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control - Network Capacity Planning - Network Architecture Evaluation - Service and QoS Pricing - Security and Authentication - Broadband Networks - High-Speed Networking - ATM - Optical Networks - Wireless Systems and Networks - Satellite Systems - UMTS - Mobile Networks/Computing - Ad-hoc networks - Multimedia Communications and Applications Computer Systems - Distributed Architectures - Client/Server - Distributed Systems and Agents - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Microprocessors/Microcomputers - Memory Systems - High Performance I/O - Real-time Systems - Scheduling Schemes - Software - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing - Parallel Algorithms and Languages - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications - Performance Optimization, Bounds, and Models - Queuing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement - On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning - Process Algebra-Based Models - Mathematical Aspects and Integrated Design of Performance - Case Studies NEW! 2005 Workshop on Performance of Wireless Networks and Communication Systems WiNCS’2005 http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~vmisic/pubs/WiNCS05.pdf ** GENERAL CHAIR ** Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu <mailto:obaidat@monmouth.edu> ** VICE GENERAL CHAIR ** Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it <mailto:franco@dist.unige.it> ** PROGRAM CHAIRS ** Mario Marchese CNIT - Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications University of Genoa Research Unit, Italy E-mail: mario.marchese(a)cnit.it <mailto:mario.marchese@cnit.it> Jose L Marzo University of Girona, Spain E-mail: joseluis.marzo(a)udg.es <mailto:joseluis.marzo@udg.es> ** VICE PROGRAM CHAIR AND SPECIAL SESSIONS CHAIR ** Imad Mahgoub Florida Atlantic University, USA E-mail: imad(a)cse.fau.edu <mailto:imad@cse.fau.edu> Vice Program Chair and Local Arrangement Chair Constantine Katsinis Drexel University, USA E-mail: ckatsini(a)ece.drexel.edu <mailto:ckatsini@ece.drexel.edu> Vice Program Chair Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace, France E-mail: lorenz(a)ieee.org <mailto:lorenz@ieee.org> ** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ** Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Maria C. Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA John Fox, Motorola Inc., UK Sebastia Galmes, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Raj Jain, Nayna Networks, Inc. & Ohio Sate Univ., USA Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Idaho, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech. Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, HP Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universitat der Bundeswehr München, Germany Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Marek Malowidzki, Military Communication Institute, Poland Pascale Minet, INRIA, France Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada Ibrahim Onyuksel, Northern Illinois University, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Elena Pagani, Università di Milano, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Antonio Pescape, University of Napoli, Italy Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee, USA Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Università di Milano, Italy Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Tracy Tung, University of Sydney, Australia Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Università di Ferrara, Italy ** WEB MASTER ** Michael J. Chinni U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC Email: mchinni(a)pica.army.mil <mailto:mchinni@pica.army.mil> ** PUBLICITY COMMITTEE ** Chair: Guoping Zeng, Nortel Networks, USA, zenggu(a)nortelnetworks.com <mailto:zenggu@nortelnetworks.com> Vice Chairs: Martin Kappes, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, kappes(a)docomolab-euro.com <mailto:kappes@docomolab-euro.com> Nouerddine Boudriga, SUPCOM, Carthage University, Tunisia, nab(a)supcom.rnu.tn <mailto:nab@supcom.rnu.tn> Susan Yi Su, President, SEEZONE INC., USA, seezonetx(a)yahoo.com <mailto:seezonetx@yahoo.com> Weiguang Shi, University of Alberta, Canada, wgshi(a)cs.ualberta.ca <mailto:wgshi@cs.ualberta.ca> Kejie Lu, Univeristy of Florida, USA, lukejie(a)ece.ufl.edu <mailto:lukejie@ece.ufl.edu> Antonio Pescapè, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, pescape(a)unina.it <mailto:pescape@unina.it> ** SUBMISSION ** Please submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chair or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch(a)scs.org <mailto:sbranch@scs.org> sbranch(a)scs.org <mailto:sbranch@scs.org>. Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2005 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Tutorial Chair. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the Vice Program Chair and special Sessions Chair, Imad Mahgoub. For more information regarding exhibits at SPECTS 2005 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. ** IMPORTANT DATES ** Submission of Papers: January 31, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2005 Final Camera-Ready Submission: May 23, 2005 ** FURTHER INFORMATION ** http://www.scs.org/summersim/spects ****** SPECTS 2005 - CALL FOR PAPERS ***** _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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(no subject)
by Muhammad Khan 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

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[Fwd: Changes in Computer Communications Review (CCR)]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Changes in Computer Communications Review (CCR) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:03:49 -0500 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG CCR is evolving! To push forward the changes successfully begun by John Wroclawski, CCR is starting a new life with the April 2005 issue, with a new editor in chief (Christophe Diot from Intel Research) and a new editorial board (see names below). The goal is for CCR to strengthen its role as the network community newsletter in which we are each involved and contribute. CCR will publish papers in the general field of data communications characterized primarily by quality of the work and timeliness of publication. CCR will encourage publication of "works in progress", provided they are of good caliber. Experience papers, system papers, and papers reproducing others' results, should find a home in CCR, as long as the quality is high enough and useful to the community. To achieve the quality and timeliness goals, the reviewing turn-over will be three months, with an implicit submission deadline every quarter. The decisions will be either accept or reject. Each paper will be published with a public review that will synthesize the reviewers' opinion. In addition to papers, CCR will publish a news-like section which will include articles based on input from research community members - faculty members, junior researchers, students, industry researchers, etc. The scope for such articles will span topics such as interviews of research scientists and industry leaders, editorials, conference reports, summary standards, NSF or European Commission user manuals, arguments on a research topic, outrageous opinion column, favorite hits, What's Worth Reading, and so on. To conclude, we ask networking researchers (and SIGCOMM members in particular) to take to heart that CCR is your newsletter and its content is made by you! Please send your short columns, editorials, articles, etc. We will review them and strive our best to publish them. Christophe Diot, Editor in Chief Jennifer Rexford, SIGCOMM chair Vern Paxson, SIGCOMM vice-chair The new editorial board is Chadi Barakat, INRIA Ernst Biersack, Eurecom Mark Crovella, Boston University Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge Constantinos Dovrolis, GaTech Serge Fdida, U. of Paris 6 Steve Gribble, U. of Washignton Roch Guerin, U. of Pennsilvania Dina Katabi, MIT Srinisivan Keshav, U. of Waterloo Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR Matt Roughan, U. of Adelaide

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Reminder - Call for papers: 10th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW 2005)]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Reminder - Call for papers: 10th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW 2005) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:16:33 +0100 From: Pietro Michiardi <Pietro.Michiardi(a)eurecom.fr> To: TCCC <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES IF YOU RECEIVE MULTIPLE COPIES Call for papers ================ 10th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) Support of IEEE pending Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera, France 12 September - 14 September, 2005 http://2005.iwcw.org/ Important Dates: March 8, 2005: Deadline for abstract submissions March 15, 2005: Deadline for paper submissions May 31, 2005: Acceptance notification June 28, 2005: Camera-ready papers due Overview: The International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW) serves as the premiere meeting for researchers and practitioners to exchange results and visions on all aspects of content distribution, and delivery. Innovations in content delivery systems continue to have strong impact in the Internet, resulting in a surge of interest in both content delivery applications and the web/network infrastructure that supports novel content delivery applications. Starting from basic caching, research in content distribution has broadened its scope to cover practically all areas related to the intersection of content and networking, including such areas as peer-to-peer, data grid computing, utility and edge computing, application networking, wireless content delivery, pervasive networking and content computing. Building on the success of the previous WCW meetings, WCW10 plans to form a strong technical program that covers the newest and most interesting areas relating to content delivery services as they move through the Internet. Call for Papers: The workshop solicits technical papers related to Internet content delivery, caching and replication, and content services networking. Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to: -Content delivery architectures -P2P file sharing, storage, and content delivery -Caching and content distribution for mobile wireless systems -Web caching and replication (protocols and architectures) -Edge services and dynamic content caching -Multimedia content distribution -Overlay networks for content delivery -Content placement and request routing -Empirical studies of deployed content delivery systems -Security in content distribution systems -Wide-area upload and content gathering -Novel applications and paradigms for caching and content distribution General Chair: Ernst W. Biersack, Institut Eurecom Program Chairs: Ernst W. Biersack, Institut Eurecom Pablo Rodriguez, Microsoft Research Local Organization Chair: Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Institut Eurecom Cyber Chair: Pietro Michiardi, Institut Eurecom Program Committee: Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology Azer Bestavros, Boston University Bobby Bhattacharjee, University of Maryland Paul Francis, Cornell University Markus Hofmann, Bell-Labs Magnus Karlsson, HP Labs Anne-Marie Kermarrec, INRIA Laurent Mathy, University of Lancaster Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Thomas Plagemann, Oslo University Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research Reza Rejaie, University of Oregon Torsten Suel, Polytechnic University Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Geoff Voelker, University of California, San Diego Craig Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research Hui Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University Guidelines: Technical papers and synopses are welcome. Technical papers describe previously unpublished research results or empirical evaluations of current systems. Synopses are summaries of interesting new problems or approaches, or of standards or development efforts in progress. Technical papers are limited to 5000 words; synopses are limited to 3000 words. We require authors to first submit a 150-word abstract to ease the process of reviewer assignment. The Program Committee will judge submitted papers on relevance, significance, originality, clarity, and technical merit. Do not submit product marketing material or material that is previously published or under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be either published in the LNCS Series of Springer-Verlag or as IEEE Proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop to present their work. Please submit technical papers and synopses in PDF format through the submission form on the conference Website. Proposals for Panels: WCW panels bring together researchers from industry and academia. These panels are an important element of WCW. This year we plan on having a panel that discusses "Ten years of Content Distribution". Please send other panel proposals in plain text by e-mail to the Program Chairs (iwcw05(a)eurecom.fr). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Cfp: End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services Workshop (E2EMON)]
by Lars Wolf 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cfp: End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services Workshop (E2EMON) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:57:19 -0600 From: Ehab Al-Shaer <ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu> To: itc(a)comsoc.org CC: <ifip_nm(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>, <itc(a)comsoc.org>, <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net>, <cnom(a)lrg.ufsc.br>, <ifip-tc6(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de> E2EMON - CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------ Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON) 15th May 2005, Nice-Acropolis, Nice, France http://www.ieee-im.org/e2emon In conjunction with IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM2005) E2EMON is a workshop focusing on advances in monitoring technology, and particularly new distributed monitoring techniques for emerging technologies such as Grid, overlay, p2p and Ad hoc networks, and end-to-end path measurements. E2EMON offers a unique opportunity for researchers in this area to exchange ideas and experiences to develop next-generation monitoring systems. The workshop also provides an intimate setting for discussion and debate through panels and group work. The program committee is soliciting original papers describing research in the area of e2e monitoring. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop's preceedings and a selection may be published in an international journal (details will be provided later). The participants in this workshop will have the added advantage of meeting a lot of the attendees of IM2005, which draws many leading researchers in the field of Network and Systems Management. TOPICS: Monitoring overlay networks and P2P services Ad-hoc and sensor network monitoring Monitoring Grid & pervasive computing environment Path characteristics monitoring Large-scalable monitoring techniques Adaptive monitoring systems Monitoring embedded systems & pervasive environment Active and programmable monitoring Correlation-based monitoring Traffic monitoring and data mining Real-time monitoring High-speed network monitoring Multicast network/service monitoring Overlay monitoring services Monitoring of service level agreement Distributed application steering Monitoring and measurements Open monitoring platforms Monitoring models, architectures and systems Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes Languages for packet and distributed monitoring Visualization of monitoring information Distributed application steering Monitoring and measurements Open monitoring platforms Monitoring models, architectures and systems Distributed and centralized monitoring prototypes Languages for packet and distributed monitoring IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2005 Final version: April 5, 2005 PAPER SUBMISSION The paper must be original material that is not currently under review, and has not been previously published by another conference or journal. The paper must be formatted as PDF format. Paper length should be limited to 10 pages with reasonable margins and a font size of no less than 11pt. To submit your paper, go to the EDAS system at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/ and select IM2005-E2EMON. For submission details, see the E2EMON website. Co-Chairs: Ehab Al-Shaer: ehab(a)cs.depaul.edu Aiko Pras: pras(a)cs.utwente.nl Philippe Owezarski: owe(a)laas.fr TPC members: Ahsan Habib, University of California Berkeley Aiko Pras, University of Twente Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University Dina Papagiannaki Intel Research Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University Evangelos Markatos, ICS Forth Fulvio Risso, Politecnico di Torino Gerald Combs, Ethereal Henk Uijterwaal, RIPE Herbert Bos, VU Amsterdam James Hong, POSTECH Jordi Domingo-Pascual, University Polytechnic of Catalunya Kamil Sarac, The University of Texas at Dallas Kave Salamatian, LIP6 Keith Ross, Polytechnic University Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd. M. Y. Sanadidi UCLA Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland Olivier Festor, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS Radu State, LORIA - INRIA Lorraine Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Salvatore d'Antonio, CINI Simon Leinen, Switch Taesang Choi, ETRI Co-Chairs: Ehab Al-Shaer, Aiko Pras and Philippe Owezarski

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[Fwd: [Tccc] SIGCOMM 2005: Deadlines extended by a day]
by Lars Wolf 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

in case someone needs just an additional day -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SIGCOMM 2005: Deadlines extended by a day Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:44:10 -0500 (EST) From: Saswati Sarkar <swati(a)seas.upenn.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SIGCOMM 2005 Philadelphia PA, USA, August 20-26, 2005 The SIGCOMM 2005 Conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Network, transport, and application-layer protocols Networking issues for Web, multimedia, and gaming applications Routing, switching, and addressing Resource management, quality of service, and signaling Operating system and other host support for networking Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks Network management and traffic engineering Experimental and measurement results from operational networks Network fault-tolerance and reliability, debugging, and troubleshooting Peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation Network security, vulnerability, and defenses Fundamental insights into network and traffic characteristics The *EXTENDED DEADLIES* follow. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper registration/abstract: January 31, 2005 (Required, hard deadline) Paper submission: February 7, 2005 (Hard deadline) Paper notification: April 30, 2005 Camera-ready papers: June 3, 2005 SIGCOMM is a selective conference where papers discuss novel results, designs, or architectural paradigms typically substantiated by implementation, experimentation, analysis or simulation. Paper formatting and submission instructions will be posted on the SIGCOMM 2005 web site (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2005). As in previous years, SIGCOMM 2005 will have a poster session, a student travel grant program, an award for the best student paper and a SIGCOMM award recognizing lifetime contribution. SIGCOMM 2005 will also feature tutorials and workshops. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. Organization Committee: General Chair: Roch Guerin, University of Pennsylvania Program Chairs: Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California Greg Minshall, Unaffiliated Conference Coordinator: Joe Touch, USC/Information Sciences Institute Local Organization Co-Chair: Jaudelice C. de Oliveira, Drexel University Honghui Lu, University of Pennsylvania Poster Chair: Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Publicity Chair: Saswati Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania Registration Chair: Andreas Terzis, Johns Hopkins University Student Travel Grants Chair: Subhabrata Sen, AT&T Labs, Research Treasurer: Christos Papadopoulos, USC Tutorial Chair: Debanjan Saha, IBM Research Web Chair: Steven Weber, Drexel University Workshop Chair: Dimitrios Stiliadis, Lucent, Bell Labs Program Committee Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs,Research Robert Braden, USC/ISI Kenjiro Cho, Internet Initiative, Japan Jon Crowcroft, Univ. of Cambridge Bruce Davie, Cisco Richard Draves, Microsoft Research Anja Feldmann, TU, Muenchen Peter Honeyman, Univ. of Michigan Larry Huston, Intel Research Hui Zhang, CMU Dina Katabi, MIT Eddie Kohler, UC Los Angeles Balachander Krishnamurthy, AT&T Labs, Research T.V. Lakshman, Lucent, Bell Labs Bruce Maggs, CMU Jeff Mogul, HP Labs Jitendra Padhye, Microsoft Research Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Geoffrey M. Voelker, UC San Diego John Wroclawski, MIT We apologize for multiple copies you may receive. Saswati Sarkar Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Email: swati(a)seas.upenn.edu Phone: 2155739071 Fax: 2155732068 Webpage: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~swati Mail: 354 Moore, 200 S. 33rd street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers GMW05]
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers GMW05 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:18:14 +0100 From: itg vde <itg(a)vde.com> To: itg vde <itg(a)vde.com> CC: vde-lebenslanges-lernen vde <lebenslanges-lernen(a)vde.com> Call for Papers GMW05 - 10. Europäische Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft 13.-16. September 2005 in Rostock Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich freue mich sehr Ihnen mitteilen zu dürfen, dass die zehnte Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft e.V. (GMW) vom 13. bis 16. September 2005 an der Universität Rostock durchgeführt wird. Auf der GMW05 werden unter dem diesjährigen Motto *Auf zu neuen Ufern!" erneut die digitalen Medien in der Hochschullehre thematisiert. Die GMW05 möchte neben Neuem bewusst auch die ursprünglichen Tagungsschwerpunkte in das Blickfeld rücken und diese zukunftsorientiert weiterentwickeln. Auf der GMW05 sollen die bestehenden didaktischen Ebenen (Lernmaterialien, Lehr-/Lernszenarien, Organisation und Bildungsnetzwerke) mit den Querschnittsthemen (Strategie, Qualitätssicherung, Didaktik, Curricula- und Kompetenzentwicklung) in Verbindung gesetzt werden. Ein neues Ufer, zu dem wir aufbrechen wollen, ist die internationale Dimension: Bietet E-Learning Potentiale für die Umsetzung der Bologna-Deklaration? Auch die technische Sicht wird 2005 mit an Bord sein. Erstmalig finden die GMW05 und die E-Learning-Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik DeLFI 2005 gemeinsam statt. Die beiden Gesellschaften werden das Themenspektrum kontrovers und konstruktiv diskutieren und neue Trends in der Entwicklung von digitalen Medien an Hochschulen aufzeigen. Scharnier zwischen den Tagungen sind gemeinsame Themenschwerpunkte auf den Ebenen Lernmaterialien, Lehr- und Lernszenarien und Organisation. Diese werden in Plenarveranstaltungen durch Keynotes aus der didaktischen, bildungspolitischen und der technischen Sicht eröffnet. Wir freuen uns über die Einsendung von Full Paper Beiträgen zu den Tagungsschwerpunkten: - Lehrmaterialien - Lehr- und Lernszenarien - Integration in die Organisation - Bildungsnetzwerke der Zukunft Darüber hinaus besteht die Möglichkeit Vorschläge für Panels oder Pre-Conference Workshops zu unterbreiten. Der Termin für die Einreichung von Pre-Conference Workshop sowie Panel Proposals ist der 14. Februar 2005. Der Termin der Einreichung der Full Paper Beiträge ist der 31. März 2005. Den vollständigen CfP finden Sie zum Download unter http://www.gmw05.de/sites/organisation/cfp_gmw.pdf Alle Informationen zu dieser Tagung, einschließlich der Einreichungsrichtlinien, finden Sie auf der Konferenz-Website http://www.gmw05.de In der Hoffnung Ihr Interesse geweckt zu haben erwarten wir mit Freude Ihre Beiträge für die GMW05 in der schönen Hansestadt Rostock. Im Namen des GMW05-Organisationsteams verbleibe ich mit herzlichen Grüßen Kristin Nölting

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[Fwd: Call for Papers 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung DeLFI 2005]
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung DeLFI 2005 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:44:45 +0100 From: itg vde <itg(a)vde.com> To: itg vde <itg(a)vde.com> Call for Papers 3. Deutsche e-Learning Fachtagung Informatik - DeLFI 2005 Rostock 13.-16. September 2005 http://www.delfi2005.de/ Die DeLFI-Tagung ist die einschlägige wissenschaftliche Tagung im deutschsprachigen Raum, auf der dem interessierten Fachpublikum neueste informatiknahe Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Praxis zum Thema e-Learning präsentiert werden. Themengebiete: Infrastrukturen, Schnittstellen und Standards - technische Aspekte des e-Learning - XML-Technologien - Metadaten - Wiederverwendbarkeit - Mobilität Lernumgebungen und Werkzeuge - Plattformen - Digitale Bibliotheken - Content Management Systeme - kooperatives e-Learning - Lernermodellierung - Adaptivität Erstellung von Lernmaterialien - Vorgehensmodelle - Autorenwerkzeuge - Ergonomie - Content Engineering - Wissensakquisition Lehr- und Lernszenarien - Fallstudien und Erfahrungsberichte - Informatik-Inhalte - Weiterbildung - didaktische Aspekte des e-Learning - interdisziplinäre Ansätze - Evaluation Integration des e-Learning in die Organisation - e-Learning und Wissensmanagement - Nachhaltigkeit von e-Learning-Ansätzen - Qualitätsmanagement - Geschäftsmodelle für e-Learning - Hochschulmanagement und e-Learning Es werden originäre Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Erfahrungsbeiträge erbeten, die einen Umfang von 12 Seiten im LNI-Format nicht überschreiten sollten. Interessierte Wissenschaftler sind darüber hinaus eingeladen, Vorschläge für Workshops oder Tutorien einzureichen Begleitend wird ein Ausstellungs- und Demonstrationsprogramm angeboten. Interessierte Aussteller und Sponsoren sind gebeten, mit der Tagungsleitung per Email direkten Kontakt aufzunehmen. Termine: 14.02.2005 Workshop / Tutorial Proposals 31.03.2005 Einreichung von Beiträgen 31.05.2005 Benachrichtigung der Autoren 30.06.2005 Abgabe der Endversion Leitung und Organisation: Leitung des Programmkomitees: Djamshid Tavangarian (Co-Chair, Uni Rostock) Jörg Haake (Co-Chair, FernUni Hagen) Organisationskomitee (Uni Rostock): Djamshid Tavangarian Ulrike Lucke Kristin Nölting Den vollständigen Call for Papers im PDF-Format finden Sie unter der Adresse: http://www.delfi2005.de/sites/organisation/cfp.pdf Die DeLFI 2005 findet unter dem Motto "Auf zu neuen Ufern!" gemeinsam mit der 10. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW05) statt. http://www.delfi2005.de/ delfi2005(a)uni-rostock.de

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CONEXT conference CFP
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

CoNEXT - Toulouse, France ------------------------------------ http://www.co-next.net info(a)co-next.net October 24-27, 2005 Organized by IST E-NEXT in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT aims to become a major forum in the area of future networking technologies. By bringing together - under the umbrella of the Network of Excellence E-NEXT (http://www.ist-e-next.net/) - a number of successful workshops run by various networking communities, it will encourage much needed synergies between these communities. CoNEXT is a joint conference series having its roots in QoFIS, NGC and MIPS. QoFIS and NGC are highly successful international workshops initiated by two European COST Actions, namely COST263 on Quality of Future Internet Services and COST264 on Networked Group Communications. MIPS resulted from the merging of two other major workshops, namely IDMS (concentrated on interactive and distributed multimedia services) and PROMS (focusing on protocols for networked multimedia systems); also the associated ICQT (Internet Charging and QoS Technology) workshop is integrated into CoNEXT 2005. CoNEXT is designed as an open, multi-track conference aiming to attract longer-term studies and to contribute to the integration of networking research at the international level. Examples of relevant topics are: * Autonomic Communications * Context Awareness * Crosslayer Integration * Dependable Networks * Experimental Networking * Identity Management * Internet Economics * Large Test-bed * Mobile Communication * Monitoring * Network Security * Overlay Networks * Scalability * Sensor Networks * Service Engineering * Traffic Engineering * User Perceived QoS * Wireless Submitted papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted to another conference or journal for consideration of publication. Papers must be submitted in electronic format following the instructions provided on the CoNEXT web site. The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM. ToN will consider fast tracking the very best papers accepted for publication at CoNEXT Important dates: Submission: May 6th, 2005 Notification: July 1st, 2005 Final version: August 19th, 2005 Conference chairs Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Patrick S=E9nac, ENSICA, France, (Organization chair) Program chairs Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie (Paris 6), France Steering Committee Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Michel Diaz, LAAS-CNRS, France Christophe Diot, Intel research Cambridge, UK Serge Fdida, University P&M Curie-Paris, France Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University, UK Jennifer Rexford, AT&T Labs, USA Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Giorgio Ventre, University of Napoli, Italy Program Committee --------------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara, USA Paul Amer, University of Delaware, USA Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ernst Biersack, Institut Eurecom, France Olivier Bonaventure, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Mark Crovella, Boston University, USA Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, U K Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Rio, Brazil Jordi Domingo-Pascual, Univ. Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya, Spain Constantinos Dovrolis, Georgia Tech, USA Otto Duarte, UF Rio do Janeiro, Brazil Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Hiroshi Esaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Anja Feldman, University of Munich, Germany Jarmo Harju, Tempere University of Technology, Finland Ian Graham, Endace Group, New Zealand G=EDsli Hj=E1lmt=FDsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland Farouk Kamoun, ENSI Tunis, Tunisia Gunnar Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, USA Anne-Marie Kermarrec, IRISA, France Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts, USA Guy Leduc, University of Li=E8ge, Belgium Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, USA Giovanni Pacifici, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kihong Park, Purdue University, USA Thomas Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway Douglas Reeves, North Carolina State University, USA Luigi Rizzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy Catherine Rosenberg, Waterloo University, Canada Matt Roughan, University of Melbourne, Australia Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia Cormac Sreenan, Cork Uni, Ireland Peter Steenkiste, CMU, USA Ralf Steinmetz, TU Darmstadt, Germany Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Piet Van Mieghem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Andras Veres, Ericsson, Hungary Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin, USA Yannis Viniotis, North Carolina State University, USA Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan Lars Wolf, Technical University at Braunschweig, Germany

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[Fwd: MED HOC NET 2005 - Call for paper -Full Paper Electronic Submission : 11 March 2005]
by Lars Wolf 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: MED HOC NET 2005 - Call for paper -Full Paper Electronic Submission : 11 March 2005 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:53:37 +0100 (CET) From: hnautra joelle <me_hocnet_05(a)yahoo.fr> To: ulfk(a)tts.lth.se, ulrich.Hofmann(a)salzburgresearch.at, uwe.schwiegelshohn(a)udo.edu, V.kollias(a)teletel.gr, vatalaro(a)radiolabs.it, vbalta(a)telecom.ntua.gr, vbi(a)tele.dtu.dk, vdperre(a)imec.be, vdthanh(a)hcmut.edu.vn, veikko.Hara(a)tele.fi, vergados(a)telecom.ntua.gr, viktoria(a)it.kth.se, villagra(a)dit.upm.es, vojcic(a)seas.gwu.edu, voos(a)e-technik.uni-kl.de, vpolr(a)ntc.upv.es, vsiris(a)ics.forth.gr, w.frohberg(a)alcatel.de, w.huang(a)eee.strath.ac.uk, wahl(a)berlikomm.net, wak(a)edm.trlabs.ca, wakamiya(a)ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, walke(a)comnets.rwth-aachen.de, walke(a)dfv.rwth-aachen.de, wang.zhhai(a)zte.com.cn, water(a)cnrs.edu.lb, wbwang(a)bupt.edu.cn, wehrle(a)telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de, wejohnston(a)lbl.gov, westphal(a)lrg.ufsc.br, wim.barbaix(a)alcatel.be, wk(a)Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE, wojsob(a)sunrise.pg.gda.pl, wojtek(a)tele.pw.edu.pl, wojtek_spiewak(a)yahoo.de, wolf(a)ecs.umass.edu, wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de, wolisz(a)ee.tu-berlin.de, xenakis(a)di.uoa.gr, xiaodong.chen(a)elec.qmul.ac.uk, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca, yamamoto(a)comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp 4th Mediterranean Workshop on Ad-Hoc Networks MED-HOC-NET 2005 Ile de Porquerolles, June 21-24, 2005 First Call for papers The fourth Med-Hoc-Net 2005 is a major annual international workshop in the Mediterrnean region. It brings together researchers, technologists and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, new ideas and research about theoretical and practical aspects of ad-hoc networking. Med-Hoc-Net 2005 will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative ad-hoc systems, prototyping efforts, case studies, and advancements in technology directly affecting ad-hoc networking and communications infrastructures. The papers solicited in Med-Hoc-Net 2005 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes, - Performance evaluation of ad-hoc network protocols through simulations, analysis, and measurements, - Metrology, Ad-Hoc network measurement Tools, - MAC protocols, scheduling, and radio resource sharing in ad hoc networks, - Power management and control, - Topology control, - Self-organization and network reconfiguration, - Unicast and multicast routing algorithms and protocols, - Energy-efficient communications in ad-hoc networks, - Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks, - Resource discovery and management, - Protocols for QoS support in ad-hoc networks, - Call admission and traffic shaping policies for ad-hoc networks, - Multimedia location services, - Security in ad-hoc networks, - Fault tolerance and error recovery, - Algorithmic challenges in ad-hoc networks, - Large scale ad-hoc networks, - Interconnection between ad hoc and wired networks, - Sensor networks: applications and protocols. After Sardinia (Italy), Mahdia (Tunisia) and Bodrum (Turkey), this year the workshop will take place in another beautiful spot on the Mediterranean Sea: Ile de Porquerolles (France). Steering Committee: Farouk Kamoun (ENSI, Tunisia) Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA) Guy Pujolle (LIP6, France) Khaldoun Al Agha (LRI, France) Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA) Program Chair: Isabelle Guérin Lassous (INRIA, France) Program Committee: Ian F. AKYILDIZ (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Khaldoun AL AGHA (LRI, France) Christian BECKER (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Brahim BENSAOU (Hong Kong University of science and technology, Hong Kong) Bharat K BHARGAVA (Purdue University, USA) Azzedine BOUKERCHE (University of Ottawa, Canada) Andrew T. CAMPBELL (Columbia University, USA) Rachel CARDELL-OLIVER (University of Western Australia, Australia) E. CAYIRCI (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) Andrea CLEMENTI (University Roma II, Italy) Marco CONTI (CNR, Italy) Laurie CUTHBERT (University of London, UK) Bertrand.DUCOURTHIAL (UTC, France) Mario GERLA (UCLA, USA) Silvia GIORDANO (University of Applied Science, Switzerland) Stephen HAILES (University College London, UK) Farouk KAMOUN (ENSI, Tunisia) P. R. KUMAR (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Pietro MANZONI (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Pascale MINET (INRIA, France) Sotiris NIKOLETSEAS (CTI/Univ. of Patras, Greece) Giovanni PAU (UCLA, USA) Guy PUJOLLE (LIP6, France) Laurent REYNAUD (FT R&D, France) Christian PREHOFER (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany) David SYMPLOT-RYL (University of Lille, France) Isabela SIQUEIRA (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Patrick THIRAN (EPFL, Switzerland) Stavros TOUMPIS (Vienna Telecommunications Research Center, Austria) Christian TSCHUDIN (University of Basel, Switzerland) Guillaume VIVIER (Motorola, France) Stefan WEBER (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Vincent W.S. WONG (University of British Columbia, Canada) Hiroyuki YOMO (Aalborg University, Danemark) Franco ZAMBONELLI (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) Authors are invited to submit electronically original contributions in the conference themes and related topics. Papers should not be longer than 12 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed and evaluated on the basis of relevance, originality, technical quality and clarity. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The official workshop oral and written language is English. Details regarding the paper format and the submission process will be posted at the conference web site. Paper Submission Deadlines Full Paper Electronic Submission : 11 March 2005 Notification of acceptance/Rejection : 15 April 2005 Camera ready submission of full papers: 13 May 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Découvrez le nouveau Yahoo! Mail : 250 Mo d'espace de stockage pour vos mails ! Créez votre Yahoo! Mail <http://fr.rd.yahoo.com/mail/taglines/*http://fr.rd.yahoo.com/evt=25917/*htt…>

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[Fwd: Fwd: MIS05]CfP MIS05
by Lars Wolf 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

-------------------------------------------------------------- Second Call for Papers for MIS 2005 International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems --The Use of "Context" in Multimedia Information Systems-- -------------------------------------------------------------- September 19, 2005 - September 21, 2005 Sorrento, Italy http://aria.asu.edu/mis2005 The International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems 2005 is the 11th of a series of workshops that started in 1995 with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of multimedia information systems, in all their diversity. This year, the workshop will be held in Sorrento, one of the most beautiful gems of the South of Italy, perched on a dramatic line of steeply rising cliffs, overlooking the Bay of Naples. MIS'05 will in particular concentrate on specific research issues related to the description and use of "context" in multimedia information systems. Selected papers will be chosen to be submitted, for further review, as full papers to a special issue on "the use of context in multimedia information systems" of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (ACM TOMCCAP) journal. The areas of interest for MIS'05 include but are not limited to - Context, user, and task description, profiling, learning, and use for multimedia information management modeling, storage, indexing, querying, retrieval, mining, and visualization. - Multimedia sensing, networking, and streaming - Multimedia document management - Multimedia databases - Multimedia description languages and standards - Distributed multimedia systems - Interactive multimedia applications, such as distance learning, virtual meetings, cultural heritage management, and, e-commerce Papers related to multimedia in context (as it relates to the gathering of media from a multitude of sensing devices, processing the media based on the context, the task, and the environment, and making the results available to the user in the most suitable form based on the capabilities and preferences of the user) are encouraged. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS: Authors are invited to submit full papers (12-15 pages long) or one-page descriptions of panel proposals by February 28, 2005 through the conference web site at http://aria.asu.edu/mis2005. Papers must be in PDF and formatted according to LNCS rules(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Each paper or panel proposal should have an extra cover page with name, title, and address(including e-mail address) of the contact author and an abstract of no more than 200 words. Each panel proposal should also include a list of proposed panelists. Papers will be selected for publication based on originality and contribution to the field. CONTACT INFORMATION: For further information please contact the MIS'05 program committee chairs: K. Selcuk Candan Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-8809, USA phone: (480) 965-2770 fax: (480) 965-2751 email: candan(a)asu.edu http://www.public.asu.edu/~candan Augusto Celentano Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia via Torino 155, I-30172 Mestre(VE), Italia phone: +39 041 2348425 fax: +39 041 2348419 email: auce(a)dsi.unive.it http://www.dsi.unive.it/~auce ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair, Angelo Chianese (University of Napoli) Program Chairs, K. Selcuk Candan (Arizona State University), and Augusto Celentano (Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia) Local Organization Committee, Antonio Picariello (University of Napoli), Steering Committee, V.S. Subrahmanian (UMCP), Satish Tripathi (UCR), and Dave Hislop (ARO) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Laurent Amseleg, IRISA, France Ramazan S. Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville Edward Chang, UC Santa Barbara, USA Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy Ombretta Gaggi, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Brigitte Kerherve, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria Robert Laurini, INSA Lyon, France Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA B. Prabhakaran, UT Dallas, USA Hanan Samet, Univ. of Maryland, USA Maria-Luisa Sapino, University of Torino, Italy Raimondo Schettini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Timos Sellis, Natl. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Grece Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California, USA Hari Sundaram, Arizona State Uiversity, USA M. Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterlo, Canada Belle Tseng, NEC Labs Cupertino, USA Vassilis Tsotras, UC Riverside, USA Can Turker, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey Clement Yu, U of Illinois at Chicago, USA Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Aidong Zhang, SUNY Buffalo, USA IMPORTANT DATES: February 28, 2005 Paper/Panel submission deadline April 30, 2005 Notification of results June 20, 2005 Camera ready versions of papers due September 19-21, 2005 Workshop

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(AW) E-Learn 2005 Call (Vancouver, Canada)
by Martin Gutbrod 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

>> Call for Participation Deadline: April 28th << * Please forward to a colleague * http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm _______________________________________________________________ E-Learn 2005 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education October 24-28, 2005 * Vancouver, Canada CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ** Submission Deadline: April 28, 2005 ** Organized by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) (http://www.aace.org) Co-sponsored by International Journal on E-Learning (http://www.aace.org/pubs/ijel) ______________________________________________________________ ** What are your colleagues saying about E-Learn conferences? ** http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/testimonials.htm COLOR POSTER--E-Learn 2005 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Available to Print & Distribute (PDF to print; 200kb) http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/EL05poster.pdf >> CONTENTS & LINKS (details below) << 1. Submission Information, Deadline April 28th: Call for Presentations: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm Submission Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm Presenter Guide: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge 2. Major Topics: www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm 3. Presentation Categories: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm 4. Proceedings & Paper Awards: http://www.aace.org/pubs 5. For Budgeting Purposes: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm 6. Vancouver, Canada: http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver 7. Deadlines: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm INVITATION: E-Learn 2005 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international, annual conference which serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in these four sectors. E-Learn Is Unique: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/unique.htm E-Learn is an innovative collaboration between the top public and private academic researchers, developers, education and business professionals, and end users from the Corporate, Healthcare, Government, and Higher Education sectors. All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected, international Executive Advisory Board (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/exec.htm) and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees. E-Learn, the premiere international, non-commercial conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit proposals for presentations. All presentation proposals are peer reviewed and selected by three reviewers on the respected international Program Committee for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES: * Keynote Speakers * Invited Panels/Speakers * Papers * Best Practice Sessions * Roundtables * Demonstrations/Posters * Research/Technical Showcases * Products/Services Showcases * Tutorials/Workshops SUBMISSION INFORMATION: For Call for Presentations, connect to: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm All authors MUST follow the submission guidelines and complete the Web form at: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/submitguide.htm For Presentation and AV Guidelines, see: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/PresenterLounge TOPICS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/topics.htm The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the e-Learning and the technologies supporting e-Learning. 1. Sectors or Application Domains: General & Cross-Domain Corporate Government Health Care Higher Education Informal Learning (Museums, Communities, Homes) K-12 Military Training Professional Associations & Non-Profits 2. Major Topics relating to or technologically supporting E-Learning: Content Development Evaluation Implementation Examples and Issues Instructional Design Policy Issues Research Social and Cultural Issues Standards and Interoperability Tools and Systems 3. Specific Topic Examples: Accessibility Asynchronous Learning Authoring Tools Building E-Learning Architectures Collaborative Learning Community Building Courseware Development Customer Training Developing an Organizational e-Learning Strategy Developing, Integrating, and Delivering E-Learning Solutions Digital Libraries for E-Learning Distance Learning Electronic Publishing Tools for E-Learning Evaluation/Performance Measurement & Assessment Good Practice Concepts & Examples Human-Computer Interaction Industry-University Partnering Infrastructure of E-Learning Environments Innovative Curriculum in E-Learning Instructional Design for E-Learning Intelligent E-Learning Technology Interactive E-Learning Systems Knowledge Management in E-Learning Learning & Content Management Systems Management of Learning Resources Marketing/Promoting Learning Activities Multimedia-based E-Learning Systems Organizational E-Learning Strategies Pedagogical & Issues Policy and Law Quality Management and Assessment in E-Learning Research Perspectives for E-Learning Simulations Societal Issues, Including Legal, Standards, & International Issues Virtual Universities, Classrooms, and Laboratories PRESENTATION CATEGORIES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/categories.htm The Technical Program includes a wide range of interesting and useful activities designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. PRODUCTS/SERVICES SHOWCASES & PRESENTATIONS: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/commercial.htm Organizations have the opportunity to demonstrate and discuss their e-learning related products and services in through Products/Services Showcases & Presentations. PROCEEDINGS & PAPER AWARDS: http://www.aace.org/pubs Accepted papers will be published by AACE in the Proceedings Book and on CD-ROM. Proceedings in this series serve as major resources in the multimedia/ hypermedia/telecommunications community, reflecting the current state of the art in the discipline. In addition, the Proceedings also are internationally distributed through and archived in the AACE Digital Library, http://www.aace.org/DL Selected papers may be invited for publication in may be invited for publication in AACE's respected journals especially in the - International Journal on E-Learning (IJEJ), - Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (JEMH), or - Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR). All presented papers will be considered for Outstanding Paper Awards within several categories. Award winning papers may be invited for publication in the AACE journals. FOR BUDGETING PURPOSES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/rates.htm The conference registration fee for all presenters and participants will be approximately $395 U.S. (AACE members), $450 U.S. (non-members). Registration includes proceedings on CD, receptions, and all sessions except tutorials. The conference dinner will be an extra fee. All conference sessions will be held at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel (http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/hotel.htm) Vancouver's premier hotel - ideally located in the heart of the city's business, financial and shopping districts - with magnificent views of the mountains and the Pacific Ocean. Special discount hotel and Delta Airlines rates have been obtained for E-Learn 2004 participants. Vancouver, Canada http://www.aace.org/conf/Cities/Vancouver Vancouver is a dynamic, multicultural city with a cosmopolitan flair set in a spectacular natural environment. Nestled between majestic mountains and sparkling ocean, Vancouver is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Explore Vancouver online at: http://www.tourismvancouver.com DEADLINES: http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/deadlines.htm Submissions Due: April 28, 2005 Authors Notified: May 28, 2005 Proceedings File Due: September 12, 2005 Early Registration: September 12, 2005 Conference: Oct. 24-28, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To be added to the mailing list for this conference, link to http://www.aace.org/info.htm If you have a question about E-Learn, please send an e-mail to AACE Conference Services, conf(a)aace.org Mailing address: AACE, P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514 USA ======================================================== To Unsubscribe from this listserv, send "unsubscribe eductech" to listserv(a)listserv.uh.edu; to Subscribe, send "subscribe eductech your_name" to the same address.

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[Fwd: [Cost290] Fwd: CFP EUNICE 2005 - Madrid Spain July 2005]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

wer hat Interesse ? (dies ist gewissermassen auch eine E-NET Veranstaltung) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Cost290] Fwd: CFP EUNICE 2005 - Madrid Spain July 2005 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:01:44 +0200 From: Yevgeni Koucheryavy <yk(a)cs.tut.fi> To: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi FYI Begin forwarded message: > > > Call for Papers > 11th EUNICE Open European Summer School > EUNICE 2005: "Networked Applications" > Colmenarejo, Spain, July 6-8, 2005 > University Carlos III of Madrid > > ------------------------------------------------------- > A pretty-printed pdf version of this CfP can be found at: > http://www.it.uc3m.es/eunice2005/eunice2005-cfp.pdf > ------------------------------------------------------- > > PURPOSE > > The EUNICE network (http://www.eunice-forum.org/) has been created > to foster the mobility of students, faculty members and research > scientists working in the field of information and communication > technologies and to promote educational and research cooperation > between its member institutions. The main goal of the EUNICE Summer > School is to give researchers and particularly Ph.D. students the > opportunity to present their work at an international level. > These research paper presentations are complemented with a number > of tutorials or invited talks by key experts in the field. > > This edition of EUNICE Summer School will also serve to disseminate > scientific results of two initiatives funded by the European > Commission: the UBISEC Project and the E-NEXT Network of Excellence. > > > CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS > > Today, the task of engineering advanced features such as ubiquitous > computing, full mobility and real-time multimedia, into real > services, applications, protocols and networks is a fundamental > research challenge. In this context, EUNICE Summer School 2005 will be > a unique forum for young scientists to show their groundbreaking > contributions to a networked world. > > The EUNICE Summer School is open to researchers from any institution > in the world working in the area of telematics, both from academia > and industry. Researchers and Ph.D. students from institutes > affiliated with the EUNICE network and from the member institutes of > E-NEXT Network of Excellence are especially invited to contribute. The > topics of interest include: > > - Evolution of Internet Protocol Architectures, Networks and > Applications > - Middleware for Mobile and Pervasive Computing > - Context Awareness and Service Discovery > - Service platforms and Service design methodologies > - Security, Trust, Access Control and Authorization in Ubiquitous > Computing > - GRID computing, Peer-to-Peer systems and Overlay Networks > - Adaptive Applications and Architectures > - Web Services and Semantic Web > - E-learning technologies > - Performance Evaluation and Measurement > - Evaluation and usage > - Home Networks: standards, service platforms, and remote management > of service gateways > - Real-time languages, operating systems, and middleware > - Networks & Protocol design and implementation > - Routing protocols and algorithms > - Mobile and Wireless Networking and Applications > - Ad-hoc and sensor networks > - Multimedia Networks: Quality of Service, multicasting, content > delivery & convergence architectures. > - Next Generation Networks: IPv6 transition, operation, design & > management > - Programmable Networks: policy-based networking, fault-tolerance, > multi-homing, traffic engineering, node architectures > > Authors are invited to submit original papers, which will > be peer reviewed by program committee members. All accepted papers > will be presented in the sessions of the Summer School, and published > in the conference proceedings. > > > EUNICE or E-NEXT member institutes are cordially invited to > present tutorials (approx. 50 minutes) at the Summer School. > Prospective tutorial speakers are kindly asked to submit proposals > covering one or more of the technical areas indicated above. > The tutorial proposals should include a brief outline and the > speaker's full postal address, phone and fax numbers and e-mail > address. > > > PAPER SUBMISSION > > Only electronic submissions will be accepted; the format should be > PDF or Postscript (PS). An author's kit is available at: > > http://www.it.uc3m.es/eunice2005 > > > IMPORTANT DATES > > Submission Deadline: February 4, 2005 > Notification of Acceptance: March 7, 2005 > Camera-ready Paper due: April 5, 2005 > Early Registration Deadline: April 7, 2005 > > > VENUE > > The conference will take place in the campus of Colmenarejo of > University Carlos III of Madrid, 40 kilometers away from Madrid city. > > > TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITEE > > Carlos Delgado-Kloos, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain > (Conference Chair) > David Larrabeiti, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) > Andrés Marín, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) > Sebastian Abeck, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany > Finn Arve Aagesen, University of Trondheim, Norway > Arturo Azcorra, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain > József Bíró, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary > Rolv Braek, University of Trondheim, Norway Tomas de Miguel, Technical > University of Madrid, Spain > Irek Defee, Tampere University of Technology, Finland > Jörg Eberspächer, Technical University of Munich, Germany > Serge Fdida, U. Paris Pierre et Marie Curie, France > Olivier Festor, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy, France > Edit Halász, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary > Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland > Tamas Henk, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary > Sandor Imre, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary > Yvon Kermarrec, ENST Bretagne, France > Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland > Paul Kühn, University of Stuttgart, Germany > Frank Li, University of Oslo, Norway > Pedro Lizcano, Telefonica I+D, Spain > Pekka Loula, Tampere University of Technology, Finland > Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland > Maurizio Munafo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy > Joao Orvalho, University of Coimbra, Portugal > Zdzislaw Papir, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland > Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands > Andras Racz, Ericsson Research, Hungary > Sebastià Sallent, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain > Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal > Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece > Mikhail Smirnov, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany > Ioannis Stavrakakis, U. of Athens, Greece > Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland > Samir Tohme, Universite de Versailles St Quentin, France > Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands > Giorgio Ventre, University of Naples, Italy > Gennady Yanovsky, St. Petersburg State University of > Telecommunications, Russia > > ORGANISING COMITTEE > > Celeste Campo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) > Ricardo Romeral, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) > Iria Estévez-Ayres, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain > Manuel Urueña, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain > > More information: > > EUNICE2005 Secretariat > Dept. de Ingeniería Telemática > Av. Universidad, 30 > 28911 Leganés (Madrid) > SPAIN > > > e-mail: eunice2005(a)inv.it.uc3m.es > Web site: http://www.it.uc3m.es/eunice2005 _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: IWQoS 2005 Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: IWQoS 2005 Call For Papers Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:17:28 +0100 From: IWQoS <iwqos(a)fmi.uni-passau.de> To: itc(a)comsoc.org *** Call for Paper *** Thirteenth International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2005) University of Pasau, Germany, on June 21-23, 2005 IWQoS has emerged as the prime annual event on Quality-of-Service (QoS)-related research and technologies. Building on the successes of previous workshops, the objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners working in this area to discuss recent and innovative results, and identify future directions and challenges. IWQoS has a long standing tradition of being highly interactive while maintaining highest standards of competitiveness and excellence. This characteristic will be re-emphasized by intercepting the regular paper sessions with stimulating discussion events about controversial and cutting edge topics. The program will include the following highlights: * Key Note by Industrial Speaker * A Panel on "Self-Organization and QoS" by David Hutchison, Lancaster Univ, U.K. * A Position Paper Session on "The Impact of QoS: Where Industry meets Academia" by Francois Le Faucheur, Cicso Systems France and Georgios Karagiannis, Twente Univ., The Netherlands. * A Works in Progress Session focusing on emerging research * Key Note and Invited Paper by Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, U.S.A. * Industrial Exhibition and Demonstration of Tools and Methods related to Quality of Communication <http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/lehrstuehle/demeer/iwqos/cfexhib.html> by Jan de Meer, Institute for High-performance Microelectronics GmbH, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany The panel and the short paper sessions will be highly interactive and leave much time and space for the audience to get involved. The position and short papers will go through the general reviewing process but the papers must specifically be submitted to fit the track. Short versions of regular technical papers will not be accepted here. It is rather encouraged to submit work that is either stimulating with a long term vision or that points to immediate relevance with need for controversial debate to address the foremost experts at the venue. Technical Program Quality of Service principles can be applied to a large number of domains. Our goal is to broaden the areas that QoS research can be pulled from by recognizing the multi-disciplinary aspect to much of the research. In addition to the traditional areas, the call for papers does solicit, but is not limited to, papers in such areas as: * QoS in mobile/wireless environments, Sensor networks, 4G (IP for 3G) * QoS in overlays and peer-to-peer networks * QoS in GRID environments * SLA: end-to-end QoS, QoS in large scale, heterogeneous environments * QoS-aware software components: QoS for Web Services * QoS and self-organizing systems * New frontiers of QoS * QoS measurement versus control * QoS adaptation versus resource reservation * Hidden QoS issues, have we just learned to ignore QoS problems? * QoS in context aware systems (also related to mobility) * User perception/user interfaces for QoS * QoS and distributed systems * QoS and middleware * Fault tolerance and QoS * QoS in ad hoc networks * Economics and QoS * Security, trust and QoS * QoS in the home and everywhere * QoS and new media * QoS and haptics , virtual environments * QoS in buisiness processes, workflows Further Information: Web Site: http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/iwqos Contact: iwqos(a)fmi.uni-passau.de Important Dates: * Paper abstract deadline: February 16th , 2005, 11:59pm CET * Full paper submission deadline: February 22th , 2005, 11:59pm CET * Short paper submission deadline: March 7th, 2005, 11:59pm CET * Notification of acceptance: March 24th , 2005 * Camera-ready papers due: April 8, 2005 * Hotel reservation cut-off date: May 19th , 2005 * Early registration deadline: April 8th, 2005 * Workshop dates: June 21-23 , 2005 * Workshop reception and welcome party: June 20th, 2005 Program Chairs: Hermann De Meer University of Passau Passau, Germany mail: demeer(a)fmi.uni-passau.de <mailto:demeer@fmi.uni-passau.de> Nina Bhatti Hewlett Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, California USA email: nina.bhatti(a)hp.com <mailto:nina.bhatti@hp.com> Organisation Chair: Silvia Lehmbeck University of Passau Passau, Germany email: iwqos(a)fmi.uni-passau.de <mailto:iwqos@fmi.uni-passau.de>

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[Fwd: Deadline extension: Workshop "Self-Organization and Emergence" / ARCS 2005]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Deadline extension: Workshop "Self-Organization and Emergence" / ARCS 2005 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:04:14 +0100 (CET) From: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> To: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the organic computing mailinglist, upon request we extend the deadline for submissions to the workshop "Self-Organization and Emergence" at ARCS 2005 to *January 23*. Authors who have already sent their submission may of course use the additional time and resubmit their contribution. Below you can find the call for papers once more. For further information please visit the conference's homepage at http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/overview.html. Regards, Fabian Rochner --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers ARCS 2005 Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) - System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/overview.html WORKSHOP SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCE: ORGANIC COMPUTING IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS NEIGHBORING DISCIPLINES (PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ECONOMY...) March 17, 2005, Innsbruck *EXTENDED* Deadline for submissions: January 23, 2005 *EXTENDED* Organization and Program Committee Dietmar Fey, University of Jena Thomas Martinetz, Universität zu Lübeck Christian Müller-Schloer, Institute of Systems Engineering, University of Hannover Hartmut Schmeck, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Theo Ungerer, Institute of Computer Science, University of Augsburg Rolf Würtz, Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr University Bochum Organic Computing has emerged recently as a challenging vision for future information processing systems. Organic Computing is based on the insight that it won't be long before we are surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems equipped with sensors and actuators to be aware of their environment, to communicate freely, and to organize themselves in order to perform the actions and services that seem to be required. This presence of networks of intelligent systems in our environment opens fascinating application areas but, at the same time, bears the problem of their controllability. Hence, we have to construct these systems - which we increasingly depend on - as robust, safe, flexible, and trustworthy as possible. In particular, a strong orientation of these systems towards human needs as opposed to a pure implementation of the technologically possible seems absolutely central. In order to achieve these goals, our technical systems will have to act more independently, flexibly, and autonomously, i.e. they will have to exhibit life-like properties. We call those systems "organic". Hence, an "Organic Computing System" is a technical system, which adapts dynamically to the current conditions of its environment. It will be self-organizing, selfconfiguring, self-healing, self-protecting, self-explaining, and context-aware. The vision of Organic Computing and its fundamental concepts arose independently in different research areas like Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Computer Engineering. Self-organizing systems have been studied for quite some time by mathematicians, sociologists, physicists, economists, and computer scientists, but so far almost exclusively based on strongly simplified artificial models. Central aspects of Organic Computing systems have been and will be inspired by an analysis of information processing in biological systems. It is the objective of this workshop to bring together computer scientists with researchers from neighboring disciplines - like physics, chemistry, economics, biology - to allow them to benefit from their knowledge in the fields of self-organization and emergence. This is an interdisciplinary workshop. This means that breadth and understandability beyond the own special interest group is highly encouraged. Invited topics include but are not limited to: - self-organization and emergent behavior (general) - complex adaptive systems - dissipative systems - self-organization in production and logistics - self-organization in biological systems - self-organization in nano structures - bio-inspired computing - artificial life - multi-agent systems and cellular automata - technical usage and controllability of emergence Paper Selection and Workshop Format Authors will be required to submit papers with a maximum of 10 pages until January 23, 2005. Extended abstracts (3 pages) are also welcome. Contributions (pdf format) should address the following topics: - Characterization of the project(s), main research goals and results, problem areas - Aspects of technical application and controllability - Self-organization and emergence as general phenomena: Communalities and differences Workshop proceedings will be published by the VDE-Verlag. Please follow the Guidelines for Authors: http://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/tagungd.html Papers will be selected through a peer-review based on contribution to the overall topic, originality, and scientific value. All selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (and should be presented at the workshop). To maximize the outcome of the workshop there will be space for extensive discussions in small groups (2-4 people) and a wrapup phase at the end. The proposed preliminary timeline for the workshop is: 09:00 - 12:30 Presentations and discussion of the presented papers 13:30 - 15:00 Group discussions with specific questions 15:30 - 17:00 Presentation of group results and discussion of research directions and cooperations Deadline for submissions: January 23, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 28, 2005 Camera-ready paper: February 11, 2005 Please send electronic submissions (in pdf) to: Dipl.-Ing. F. Rochner rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Institut für Systems Engineering - System- und Rechnerarchitektur (SRA) Universität Hannover Appelstr. 4 D-30167 Hannover Tel. +49 511 762 19732 www.sra.uni-hannover.de

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Infocom Student Workshop - Call for Abstracts]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Infocom Student Workshop - Call for Abstracts Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:18:15 -0200 (BRDT) From: Jussara Marques de Almeida <jussara(a)dcc.ufmg.br> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this message. We ask faculty to kindly let their students know about the workshop below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFOCOM 2005 Student Workshop http://www.land.ufrj.br/~stw05-infocom/site March 14, 2005 Held in conjuction with Infocom 2005 Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Miami, FL - USA The Infocom 2005 Student Workshop organizing committee is encouraging the submission of abstracts describing on going thesis research in all areas of computer networking and data communications, (for a list of topics, please refer to the Infocom 2005 call for papers at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2005/call_for_papers.htm#Technical%20Papers.) Student authors are asked to submit 1-2 page abstracts before the deadline below, using Infocom 2005 format (see http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/confpub/infocom05/authors/layout.htm) Abstracts should be submitted electronically, as e-mail attachments, to stw05-infocom(a)land.ufrj.br, in PDF format. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee, from which a number of abstracts will be selected for inclusion in the workshop program. The workshop abstracts will appear in the 2006 Infocom CDROM. IMPORTANT DATES January 27: Abstract Submission Deadline February 04: Acceptance Notification February 10: Upload the final version of the abstract Instructions to upload the final versions of the abstract will be posted later in the workshop webpage, http://www.land.ufrj.br/~stw05-infocom/site. For more information about the workshop, please contact stw05-infocom(a)land.ufrj.br. ------------------------------------------------------------ Jussara Marques de Almeida Associate Professor Federal University of Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte - Brazil jussara(a)dcc.ufmg.br - http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/~jussara/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Preliminary CFP: IEEE ICNP 2005, Boston, Nov 6-9, 2005]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Preliminary CFP: IEEE ICNP 2005, Boston, Nov 6-9, 2005 Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:58:59 -0500 From: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> Reply-To: Erich Nahum <nahum(a)turing.acm.org> To: SIGCOMM-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Boston, Massachusetts November 6-9, 2005 http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005 E-mail: icnp2005-org(a)cs.bu.edu ICNP is a highly selective single-track conference covering all aspects of network protocols including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. On its thirteenth anniversary, ICNP 2005 will return to Boston, the Intellectual Hub of The Universe, where it will be held in the historic Backbay area. Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Selected top papers from ICNP 2005 will be forwarded to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible publication. In addition, a "Best Paper Award" will be given to the outstanding paper presented at the conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Protocol testing and analysis Protocol design and implementation Network measurement and monitoring Security and resiliency Peer-to-peer/Overlay protocols Routing protocols Wireless and mobile networks Ad hoc and sensor networks QoS and signaling Flow and congestion control Multimedia Distributed gaming ICNP 2005 will feature tutorials and workshops for which it is soliciting proposals. Also, plans are underway for a student poster session and a student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission: May 6, 2005 Workshop/Tutorial proposals: July 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005 Camera ready version: August 5, 2005 STEERING COMMITTEE: =================== Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA * Ken Calvert, U. of Kentucky, USA * Mohamed Gouda, U. of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka U., Japan * Simon Lam, U. of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State U., USA * Mike T. Liu, Ohio State U., USA Raymond Miller, U. of Maryland, USA * Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA * Executive Committee Member ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ===================== GENERAL CHAIRS: Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA PANEL & TUTORIAL CHAIRS: Debanjan Saha, IBM research, USA Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, USA STUDENT POSTER CHAIR: Michalis Faloutsos, U. of California at Riverside, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State U. Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara Paul Amer, U. of Delaware Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech Anish Arora, Ohio State U. Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U. Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Bobby Bhattacharjee, U. Maryland Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint Labs Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs John Byers, Boston U. Andrew Campbell, Columbia U. Ana Cavalli, INT, France Jorge Cobb, U. Texas at Dallas Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine Sonia Fahmy, Purdue university Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Tim Griffin, Intel Research Cambridge Liang Guo, Motorola Labs Khaled Harfoush, NCSU Teruo Higashino, Osaka University Jennifer Hou, UIUC Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve U. Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State U. Ahmed Helmy, USC/ISI Chin-Tser Huang, U. South Carolina Kevin Jeffay, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill TV Lakshman, Lucent, Bell Labs Simon Lam, U. Texas at Austin David Lee, Ohio State U. Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia U. Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC Prashant Pradhan, IBM Kihong Park, Purdue U. Sambit Sahu, IBM Medy Yahya Sanadidi, UCLA Udaya Shankar, U. Maryland Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, U. Athens, Greece Peter Steenkiste, CMU Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Don Towsley, Umass Amherst Joe Touch, USC/ISI Hasan Ural, U. of Ottawa, CA Geoffrey Xie, Naval Post Graduate School Richard Yang, Yale U. David Yau, Purdue U. Zhi-Li Zhang, U. Minnesota Lixia Zhang, UCLA Ty Znati, NSF and U. Pittsburg _______________________________________________________________ === Ibrahim Matta, Associate Professor Computer Science Department Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Tel: (617) 358-1062, Fax: (617) 353-6457 matta(a)cs.bu.edu http://www.cs.bu.edu/~matta

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[Fwd: CfP - Symposium on Cooperative Networks in WirelessCom 2005]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - Symposium on Cooperative Networks in WirelessCom 2005 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:13:52 +0100 From: Antonella Molinaro <molinaro(a)deis.unical.it> To: multicomm(a)comsoc.org CC: Mischa Dohler <michael.dohler(a)kcl.ac.uk>, Andrej Stefanov <stefanov(a)duke.poly.edu> [Apologies for multiple copies] Dear Colleagues, Antonella Molinaro, Mischa Dohler and Andrej Stefanov wish to invite you to submit high-quality papers to the Symposium on Cooperative Networks, part of WirlessCom 2005, to be hold in Hawaii from June 13-16 2005. For more details, please, consult the call-for-papers below or the website <http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet>http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet. Kind regards, Antonella, Mischa, Andrej. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium on Cooperative Networks <http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet>www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet WirelessCom 2005 Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui Hawaii, USA, June 13-16 2005 Technical Sponsorship IEEE TCCC, TCPC, and SSCTC Scope Cooperative Networks are gaining increasing interest from the wireless community as a means to allow mobile devices to communicate in networks composed of heterogeneous technologies. A special Working Group on Cooperative Networks (CoNets) has been established within the WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) to undertake these issues. Seamless Communication: Heterogeneity in CoNets refers to service support, user devices, network access, resource and mobility management, medium access control, baseband algorithms, radio technology, and so on. In this scenario, the main challenging goal is to allow a mobile user to seamlessly communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks (cellular, wireless and wired networks, including "moving" and "ad-hoc" networks), and to enjoy multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different administrative domains. Self-Organization & Cross-Layer Design: Certainly there are particular cooperation and coordination problems found in CoNets that significantly differ from those in more traditional domains. The future cooperative network is, in fact, expected to self-organize dynamically in an optimum manner in order to offer seamless services with agreed quality to users and devices irrespective of location and network connection. This implies careful optimization across the entire protocol stack. Ideally, cooperative connectivity shall be transparent to the various transport technologies used among nodes in the network. New APIs: Relations between cooperative networks are expected to be established dynamically, always providing a securely protected environment to users. Mobile terminals should be able to discover candidates available networks, therefore new APIs should enable applications to detect available access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location, context, and QoS. Cooperative Networking: Special kinds of wireless networks included in CoNets are the so-called "moving networks" (NEMO), consisting of one or more mobile routers with connected devices changing their point of attachment to other networks while physically moving or changing topology. New resource management schemes for cooperative heterogeneous wireless access networks are required. Cooperative Access Control & PHY Technologies: Furthermore, recently, the idea of using a mobile station as a relay between a source and a destination node is making CoNets a new diversity enabler. Cooperating users transmit their own information towards the destination node as well as optimally processed relaying information from other users. In this way, CoNets also offer a viable fading countermeasure and a shadowing alleviation means. The increased traffic requires entirely novel mechanisms at the MAC, as well as new approaches to distributed coding and transceiver design. Topics of Interest Original papers are invited in the area of interoperability between different wireless networks and fixed-wireless co-operation. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of Cooperative Networks: Architectural Principles Multiple Service Support Network Control and Maintenance Mobility Management QoS Provisioning Security Naming & Addressing Moving Networks Ad-hoc Networking and Internetworking Technology Multihop Routing Multi-Access Capability Radio Access Technologies Resource Management Cooperative & Distributed Relaying Ambient Network Technologies Cognitive Networks User devices Cooperative Processing Cooperative Sensor Environments Self-Organizing Networks Submission Guidelines All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the symposium co-chairs. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005 Co-Chairs Antonella Molinaro University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria - Italy <mailto:antonella.molinaro@ing.unirc.it>antonella.molinaro(a)ing.unirc.it Mischa Dohler CTR, King's College London - UK <mailto:michael.dohler@kcl.ac.uk>michael.dohler(a)kcl.ac.uk Andrej Stefanov Polytechnic University, New York - USA <mailto:stefanov@duke.poly.edu>stefanov(a)duke.poly.edu Technical Program Committee Hamid Aghvami, UK Sergio Barbarossa, Italy Daniel Beimborn, Germany Aggelos Bletsas, USA Helmut Bolcskei, Switzerland Antonio Capone, Italy Carla Chiasserini, Italy Javier R. Fonollosa, Spain Vasilis Friderikos, UK Hesham El Gamal, USA Michael Gastpar, USA Monisha Ghosh, USA Georgios B. Giannakis, USA A. Roger Hammons Jr, USA Jadwiga Indulska, Australia Antonis Kalis, Greece Mos Kaveh, USA Hong-Yon Lach, France Geert Leus, Netherlands Yonghui Li, Australia Youjian Liu, USA Fabio Massacci, Italy Gianluca Mazzini, Italy Rohit Nabar, USA Ian Oppermann, Finland Ashutosh Sabharwal, USA Cem Saraydar, USA Ali H. Sayed, USA Anna Scaglione, USA Andreas Schieder, Germany Hans-Peter Schwefel, Denmark Sergio Servetto, USA Yantai Shu, China Rahim Tafazoli, UK Vahid Tarokh, USA Sirin Tekinay, USA Ozan Tonguz, USA Matthew Valenti, USA Mahesh Varanasi, USA Josep Vidal, Spain Branimir Vojcic, USA Tim Weitzel, Germany Hyunsoo Yoon, Korea

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[Fwd: Call For Papers: Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks (IEEE WirelessCom 2005)]
by Buschmann, Carsten 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call For Papers: Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks (IEEE WirelessCom 2005) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:22:30 -0800 From: Marco Zuniga <marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Marco Zuniga <marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com> To: marco.zuniga(a)gmail.com Dear Colleagues, This is the Call For Papers for the Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks to be held at Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii, USA in conjunction with IEEE WirelessCom 2005, June 13-16, 2005. http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/WirelessComm05/WSNsymposium/ We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. Scope Wireless Sensor Networks have received tremendous attention over the past few years. These systems can potentially benefit a variety of scientific, military and commercial applications. Recent years have seen tremendous advancement to this vision and have offered the ability to deploy networks of densely deployed, inexpensive sensor nodes. The vast potential for this research area has been demonstrated by numerous scientific and commercial applications that have emerged in recent years, as well as by the number of industrial and research institutions working in this area. Sensor networks combine distributed sensing, computation, storage, and wireless multi hop communication. Many challenges need to be overcome in this research area to realize its potential. Original papers are invited on a broad range of research topics relating to wireless sensor networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Communication techniques and protocols * Scalable architectures and programming models * Energy and resource management * In-network processing and data aggregation * Distributed query processing and data storage * Applications of wireless sensor networks * Localization, time-synchronization and calibration * Simulation tools, operating systems and middleware * Collaborative signal processing * Distributed control and actuation * Security * Cross-layer design and optimization Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005 Committee: * Co-Chairs Rajgopal Kannan, LSU, rkannan(a)bit.csc.lsu.edu Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, bkrishna(a)usc.edu Yi Pan, Georgia State University, cscyip(a)techie.cs.gsu.edu Pingzhi Fan, Southwest Jiaotong University, p.fan(a)ieee.org * Vice Chairs Deepak Ganesan, U Mass Amherst, dganesan(a)cs.umass.edu Chiti Francesco, Universit di Firenze, chiti(a)lenst.det.unifi.it Narayanan Sadagopan, USC, narayans(a)usc.edu * Publicity Chairs Shuangqing Wei, LSU, swei(a)ece.lsu.edu Marco Zuniga, USC, marcozun(a)usc.edu More details can be found at: http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/WirelessComm05/WSNsymposium/ Regards, Organizing Committee (Symposium on Wireless Sensor Networks)

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[Fwd: VTC2005 Fall Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '05

14 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: VTC2005 Fall Deadline Extended Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:15:52 EST From: ieee-enotice(a)ieee.org Reply-To: j.m.irvine(a)ieee.org To: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de References: <A11056365526615506799.wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> 62nd IEEE VTC - VTC2005-Fall 2005 Joint Rail Conference Dear Collegue, Happy New Year! Due to numerous requests to move the submission deadline for 62nd IEEE VTC - VTC2005-Fall September 25-28, 2005 in Dallas, TX to allow a little more time after the new year festivities, the deadline has been moved back to Monday 31 January 2005. However, further extensions cannot be accommodated. Submissions, in form of 1500 word extended abstact should be received by the EDAS system by 5pm CT 31 January 2005. All information regarding the conference and paper submissions can be found at <http://www.vtc2005fall.org>. Alternatively, send a blank email to vtcinfo(a)ieeevtc.org <mailto:vtcinfo@ieeevtc.org> to receive a copy of the call for papers by email. We look forward to receiving your submission and to see you in Dallas in September. With best regards, Bob Shapiro, General Chair _____________________________________________________ You may unsubscribe to this mailing list at http://www.ieee.org/ra/e-notice/vts.html Be sure to include your IEEE member number of 41604359

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP ICNP 2005]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP ICNP 2005 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:00:45 -0500 From: Ibrahim Matta <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ICNP 2005 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols Boston, Massachusetts November 6-9, 2005 http://csr.bu.edu/icnp2005 E-mail: icnp2005-org(a)cs.bu.edu ICNP is a highly selective single-track conference covering all aspects of network protocols including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance. On its thirteenth anniversary, ICNP 2005 will return to Boston, the Intellectual Hub of The Universe, where it will be held in the historic Backbay area. Papers describing significant research contributions to the field of network protocols are solicited for submission. Papers must be neither previously published nor under review by another conference or journal. Selected top papers from ICNP 2005 will be forwarded to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for possible publication. In addition, a "Best Paper Award" will be given to the outstanding paper presented at the conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Protocol testing and analysis Protocol design and implementation Network measurement and monitoring Security and resiliency Peer-to-peer/Overlay protocols Routing protocols Wireless and mobile networks Ad hoc and sensor networks QoS and signaling Flow and congestion control Multimedia Distributed gaming ICNP 2005 will feature tutorials and workshops for which it is soliciting proposals. Also, plans are underway for a student poster session and a student travel grant program. Details will be posted on the conference web site as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission: May 6, 2005 Workshop/Tutorial proposals: July 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2005 Camera ready version: August 5, 2005 STEERING COMMITTEE: =================== Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA * Ken Calvert, U. of Kentucky, USA * Mohamed Gouda, U. of Texas, USA Teruo Higashino, Osaka U., Japan * Simon Lam, U. of Texas, USA David Lee, Ohio State U., USA * Mike T. Liu, Ohio State U., USA Raymond Miller, U. of Maryland, USA * Krishan Sabnani, Bell Labs, USA * Executive Committee Member ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ===================== GENERAL CHAIRS: Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Jim Kurose, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA PROGRAM CHAIRS: Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA PANEL & TUTORIAL CHAIRS: Debanjan Saha, IBM research, USA Nina Taft, Intel Research, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR: Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, USA STUDENT POSTER CHAIR: Michalis Faloutsos, U. of California at Riverside, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Sudhir Aggarwal, Florida State U. Kevin Almeroth, UC Santa Barbara Paul Amer, U. of Delaware Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech Anish Arora, Ohio State U. Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U. Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Bobby Bhattacharjee, U. Maryland Supratik Bhattacharyya, Sprint Labs Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs John Byers, Boston U. Andrew Campbell, Columbia U. Ana Cavalli, INT, France Jorge Cobb, U. Texas at Dallas Mootaz Elnozahy, IBM Austin Research Lab Magda El Zarki, UC Irvine Sonia Fahmy, Purdue university Michalis Faloutsos, UC Riverside Tim Griffin, Intel Research Cambridge Liang Guo, Motorola Labs Khaled Harfoush, NCSU Teruo Higashino, Osaka University Jennifer Hou, UIUC Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve U. Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State U. Ahmed Helmy, USC/ISI Chin-Tser Huang, U. South Carolina Kevin Jeffay, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill TV Lakshman, Lucent, Bell Labs Simon Lam, U. Texas at Austin David Lee, Ohio State U. Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University Nick Maxemchuk, Columbia U. Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC Prashant Pradhan, IBM Kihong Park, Purdue U. Sambit Sahu, IBM Medy Yahya Sanadidi, UCLA Udaya Shankar, U. Maryland Michael Smirnov, FOKUS, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, U. Athens, Greece Peter Steenkiste, CMU Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada Don Towsley, Umass Amherst Joe Touch, USC/ISI Hasan Ural, U. of Ottawa, CA Geoffrey Xie, Naval Post Graduate School Richard Yang, Yale U. David Yau, Purdue U. Zhi-Li Zhang, U. Minnesota Lixia Zhang, UCLA Ty Znati, NSF and U. Pittsburg _______________________________________________________________ === Ibrahim Matta, Associate Professor Computer Science Department Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA Tel: (617) 358-1062, Fax: (617) 353-6457 matta(a)cs.bu.edu http://www.cs.bu.edu/~matta _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP-Special Section of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP-Special Section of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:48:36 +0200 From: Polychronis Koutsakis <polk(a)telecom.tuc.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear all, We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ************************************************************* Call for Papers Special Section on "Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks" ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Theme With the pervasive presence of mobile personal wireless computing devices, wireless communication technologies are rapidly evolving and influencing our daily way of life. The new wireless data and multimedia services that are added and supported on wireless networks alongside the traditional voice services pose formidable challenges to these networks in their effort to satisfy strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. These challenges are further exasperated by the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links (fading, noise) and user mobility. To cope with the challenges related to supporting both the existing and the ever increasing new services, next generation wireless technologies will need to fine tune and/or incorporate new sets of traffic control procedures. This special section will be focusing on two such control procedures related to wireless medium sharing and network overload. A well designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol reduces system costs by maximizing system capacity while successfully integrating different classes of traffic (e.g., voice, data, multimedia) and optimally allocating the limited radio channel bandwidth among them. Congestion control poses yet additional set of challenges to wireless network providers. Network congestion is difficult to resolve when real-time traffic, sensitive to both latency and packet loss, is present, without jeopardizing the QoS expected by the users of that traffic. Call Admission Control (CAC) is a strategy used to limit the number of call connections into the network in order to reduce network congestion, therefore enabling the system to provide the desired QoS to newly incoming as well as existing calls. The mobility of users adds challenging requirements to the Call Admission Control Mechanism. When mobile users change their point of attachment, the end-to-end path may be changed while they still expect to receive the same QoS. This implies that the new end-to-end path should also support the existing QoS (i.e., a reservation on the new path may be required). Topics of interest This highly selective special section of the ACM MC2R aims at providing a state-of-the-art reference of the current research in the fields of Medium Access Control Protocols and Call Admission Control Algorithms for next generation wireless networks. Previously unpublished, original papers of very high quality that are not currently under review by another conference or journal are solicited focusing on representative topics related to this special section, such as: > Medium Access Control Protocols and Transmission Scheduling Mechanisms. > Call Admission Control and Traffic Policing Mechanisms for wireless networks. > Channel Allocation. > CDMA/TDMA wireless systems. > QoS issues for multimedia traffic over wireless networks. > Performance evaluation of wireless networks. > Mobile service and QoS management. > Wireless multimedia services. > Handoff algorithms for mobility support. > Protocols and algorithms coping with limited bandwidth and intermittent connectivity of wireless networks. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2005. Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2005. Submission of final version: July 15, 2005. Submission Instructions Prospective authors should submit their paper electronically to the email address of one of the three guest editors. All material submitted must be in PostScript or PDF format. If using PostScript, only version 2 or later should be used, and reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe fonts (Courier, Times Roman, or Helvetica); other PostScript type 1 and type 2 fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file. Type 3 fonts should not be used as they reproduce poorly in the digital library and on many printers. Paper length should be the equivalent of no longer than 12 pages in MC2R format (two columns, 11pt font). Guest Editors Prof. Michael Paterakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: pateraki(a)telecom.tuc.gr Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA. Email: bisdik(a)us.ibm.com Dr. Polychronis Koutsakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: polk(a)telecom.tuc.gr _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ICOST 2005 Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

zur Information -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ICOST 2005 Call For Papers Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:37:07 +0100 From: Mounir Mokhtari <Mounir.Mokhtari(a)int-evry.fr> To: <mounir.mokthari(a)int-evry.fr> CC: Daqing <daqing(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg>, Sylvain Giroux <Sylvain.Giroux(a)USherbrooke.ca> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20041111203511.026ca958(a)merle.it.northwestern.edu> Dear Colleagues, Sorry if you receive this message more than once. This is an invitation to submit a paper to the 3rd International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics: ICOST'2005. After ICOST'2003 held in Europe, and ICOST'2004 in Asia, next ICOST'2005 is moving to North America and will be hosted by Sherbrooke University in Canada (http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/). Please note that deadline for abstract submission is fixed to 7th February, 2005, and that all selected paper will be published in IOS Press "Assistive Technology Reserach Series". For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 (9th International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics) will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005). Please find attached ICOST'2005 call for paper. Looking forward to welcome your contributions, Sylvain Giroux, Daqing Zhang and Mounir Mokhtari ICOST'2005 Chairs *************************** Call for Papers Third International Conference on Smart homes and health Telematics ICOST'2005 http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/ July 4-6, 2005 Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada Organizer DOMUS Laboratory, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Co-organizers Institut National des Télécommunications, Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications, Paris. France Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore The first edition of ICOST in 2003 took place in Europe. The second edition was hosted in Asia. With a third edition in North America, ICOST reaches the status of a de facto world wide conference. ICOST aims at creating an active research community dedicated to explore how smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. On the one hand, smart homes are augmented environment with embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from computer. We believe in a near future elderly and disabled people will resort to smart assistive technology to carry out daily living activities, socialize, and enjoy entertainment and leisure activities. On the other hand, health telematics makes the most of networks and telecommunications to propose health services, expertise and information at distance. It changes at root the way health related services (diagnosis, therapy, and assistance) can be conceived and used. For instance, telemonitoring can secure relatives and help medical staff to provide for better care. Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. They are becoming available anywhere, anytime. Current advances in such enabling technologies let foresee novel applications and services for improving the life of elderly and disabled people in their home and outside. The conference will present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and enabling technologies. Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: § Intelligent Environments / Smart Homes § Human-Machine Interface / Ambient Intelligence § Middleware Support for Smart Home and Health Telematics Services § Tele-Assistance and Tele-Rehabilitation § Context Awareness / Autonomous Computing § Wearable Sensors / Home Health Monitoring § Medical Data Collection and Processing § Modeling of Physical and Conceptual Information in Intelligent Environments § Vision / Hearing / Cognitive Devices § Personal Robotics and Smart Wheelchairs § Home Networks / Residential Gateways § Social / Privacy / Security Issues Each year, ICOST has a specific flavor. ICOST2003 focused on usability. The theme was «Independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly people». ICOST 2004 theme was «Toward a Human-Friendly Assistive Environment». ICOST 2005 aims to address the link between objects, assistance, and cognition. How smart objects may be designed, improved and used to provide personalized assistance? Thus papers or special sessions addressing the following topics are most welcomed: · Cognitive Orthotics /Assisted cognition a.. Location-based services / Personalization b.. Pervasive computing c.. Smart objects / Tangible interfaces d.. RFID / smart tags In combination with presentations, posters, exhibits and technology demonstrations, you are invited to organize special sessions in any related fields to tackle the new technical challenges. Full details on the conference are available at: http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca or by e-mail icost2005(a)usherbrooke.ca. IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract (2-4 pages) Notification of acceptance Final Version / Camera ready Paper February 7th, 2005 February 28th, 2005 March 28th, 2005 For your planning: Note that ICORR'2005 will be held in Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2005 just before ICOST 2005 (http://www.smpp.northwestern.edu/ICORR2005). Conference Chair Sylvain Giroux Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 2027 Sylvain.Giroux(a)USherbrooke.ca Co-Chairs Mounir Mokhtari GET/INT Institut National des Télécommunications Telecommunication Network and Services Department 9, rue Charles Fourier 91011 Evry Cedex, France Tel: +33-1-60-76-47-55 Fax: +33-1-60-76-42-91 Mounir.Mokhtari(a)int-evry.fr Daqing Zhang Acting Manager Context Aware Systems Department Institute for Infocomm Research 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Singapore 119613 Tel: +65 6874 7860 Fax: +65 6775 5014 daqing(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg Program Chair Hélène Pigot Université de Sherbrooke 2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1 Tel.: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 3078 Helene.Pigot(a)USherbrooke.ca International Scientific Committee a.. Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology , USA b.. Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, University of Putra Malaysia c.. Chris Nugent, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, UK d.. Zeugnam Bien, Korea advanced institute of science and technology, Korea e.. Jit Biswas, Infocom Institute, Singapore f.. Diane Cook, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA g.. Sajal Das, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, USA h.. Bart Driessen, TNO-TPD Delft, The Netherlands i.. Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA j.. Nick Hine, University of Dundee, UK k.. Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, University of Linz, Austria l.. Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia m.. Robert S. H. Istapanian, Kingston University, UK n.. Jaime Lopez Krahe, University Paris VIII, France o.. Abdallah M'hamed, Institut National des Telecommunications INT/GET, France p.. Alex Mihailidis, University of Toronto, Canada q.. Gilles Privat, France Telecom, France r.. Tharek ABD Rahman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia s.. Olivier Remy-Neris, CHU of Brest-INSERM, France t.. Dimitar Stefanov, University of Wales Cardiff, UK u.. Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan v.. Machiel Van Der Loos, VA Palo Alto, USA w.. Zhou Xingshe, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., P.R. China _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Network: CFP Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Network: CFP Special Issue on Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:05:07 +0100 From: Marco Conti <marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu, CaberNet Events <CABERNET-EVENTS(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>, ifip-tc6(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on: Multimedia over Broadband Wireless Networks http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/cfpnetwork2006.htm **** Submission Deadline --- June 10, 2005 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, the wireless Internet provides access primarily to Web-based content and services. However, the emergence and adoption of broadband wireless access standards, such as IEEE 802.16, 802.16a and 802.11a/g, offers new possibilities for wireless delivery of rich multimedia content and services, like video mail, video streaming, audio conferencing, interactive games, conversational navigation services, and future immersive communications in virtual environments. Advances in technology are enabling a world of converged wireless and mobile communications, where users access a variety of media formats using a single device. Some of these novel networking protocols and technologies include IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, UWB, Mobile IP and its variants, IP paging, wireless IP QoS and SIP. Similarly, newer multimedia standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC provide significant improvements in compression, and specifications such as 3GPP Version 6 provide the ability to adapt the multimedia delivery for wireless networks with varying transmission characteristics and mobile devices with different capabilities. The goal of this special issue is to present a concise reference of state-of-the-art efforts in delivering multimedia over emerging packet-based broadband wireless networks. Specifically, the special issue is intended to present tutorials, survey and original research articles (in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) on emerging architectures, protocols and services for delivering multimedia over single-hop or mesh broadband wireless networks. It also focuses on the protocols needed to integrate the application layer requirements, such as QoS, security, etc., with the base functionality offered by the standardized 802.16/11 and other WLAN and WMAN interfaces. Of particular interest is the inter-play between newer techniques of multimedia encoding and streaming and the network-layer features to exploit these techniques. Following are the topics of interest for which we solicit contributions for this special issue: * IP-based multimedia delivery and services over WLANs and WMANs * QoS for real-time voice and video in broadband wireless networks * Media multicasting and broadcasting problems and solutions for wireless links * Caching and content management in WLANs, WMANs and 3G Networks * VoIP over wireless networks * Multimedia over single-hop and mesh-based wireless networks * Multimedia delivery for broadband vehicular networks * Multimedia services for ambient intelligent and pervasive environments * Broadband multimedia prototypes and system experiences * Broadcast and point-to-point multimedia in indoor & outdoor environments, e.g. homes, convention centers, sports arenas Manuscript Submission ===================== Papers should be submitted in PDF format at http://colibri.iit.cnr.it. For any questions or clarification, please contact any of the guest editors. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html Important Dates =============== * Submission Deadline: June 10, 2005 * Reviews Completed: September 30, 2005 * Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2005 * Publication of Special Issue: 1st Quarter, 2006 Guest Editors ============= John Apostolopoulos HP Labs 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1181 Palo Alto, CA, 94306, USA japos(a)hpl.hp.com Marco Conti IIT-CNR Via G. Moruzzi,1 56124 Pisa Italy marco.conti(a)iit.cnr.it Archan Misra IBM Research 19 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10533, USA. archan(a)us.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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