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[Fwd: [Tccc] Elsevier Computer Networks Journal -Special Issue on Network Modeling and Simulation]
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Elsevier Computer Networks Journal -Special Issue on Network Modeling and Simulation Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:49:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Jennifer Hou <jhou(a)cs.uiuc.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu (Apology if you receive duplicate messages.) ---------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special Issue on "Network Modeling and Simulation" Elsevier Computer Networks Journal Theme ===== The rapid proliferation and integration of computer and network systems have connected infrastructures to one another in a complex network of interdependence. In addition, network systems themselves are undergoing dramatic changes in the underlying technologies and services provided, in order to keep up with the growing demands from new applications and users. Scalable network modeling and simulation approaches that can analyze and predict network behavior with known accuracy, at varying time scales and for different network sizes and composition, have emerged to be important (and in some cases critical) techniques in designing, deploying, and managing such complex networks. Abnormal conditions such as congestion storms, network meltdown, and behavior of badly designed protocols and policies can be detected with analytically sound and scalable modeling and simulation tools and corrective actions can be designed and deployed accordingly. In the past few years, quite a number of new models of traffic, network, and control have been created that exploit fluid flow models, discrete event dynamical systems theory, stability theory, statistics and measurement, and approximation theory to solve the problem of capturing both wired and wireless network phenomena. These models, with varying levels of abstraction, have been incorporated to develop scalable network simulation techniques to expedite simulation of extremely large networks (of size >= 100K nodes), rendering more than an order of magnitude of performance improvement. These models have also been used to devise a wide spectrum of both passive and active measurement techniques so as to infer, with high accuracy, various network attributes and conditions. Moreover, all the models and techniques, along with an appropriate on-line network measurement methodology, have also provided a basis for on-line network control, dramatically reducing the time and cost required for functions such as parameter tuning, fielding new and situation specific protocols, and QoS provisioning. These techniques can also be harnessed to significantly improve the efficiency of network operational functions such as planning, service provisioning, and failure analysis. Topics of Interest ================== This special issue calls for articles that address the most recent technical advances in network modeling and simulation and its use in network measurement and control. Of particular interests are 1. Innovative models of traffic, network, and control. Manuscripts are sought that document innovative research on (i) the theory and the creation of models that characterize network traffic and/or network behavior over a broad range of network sizes and time scales; (ii) evaluation and validation of various models with respect to their analysis and prediction capability; and (iii) development of methods that establish conditions under which models are trustworthy. Also of interest is the development of models of control that can be deployed on top of a given network and traffic model. Control issues of interest include, but are not limited to: network and protocol parameter setting, distributed quality of service assignment based on priority, dynamic selection of protocols, and distributed implementation of control algorithms. 2. Scalable network simulation techniques. This technical area seeks for manuscripts that report fast simulation techniques that incorporate advances in various traffic/network models and scaling methods to expedite network simulation of extremely large scale. Of particular interest are all aspects concerning (i) the development and deployment of models that can be used to realize faster-than-real-time simulation, while not compromising its fidelity; and (ii) use of faster-than-real-time simulation techniques to provide feedback to network control. 3. Model-based active and passive network measurement. Challenges of network measurement research are to define and develop (i) sampling techniques to support model development as well as model validation; (ii) models that relate, with high accuracy, measurement results with network attributes; (iii) both active and/or passive measurement approaches that are non-intrusive and yet render high-fidelity results; and (iv) on-line mechanisms that leverage measurement results for network control. Publication Schedule ==================== Manuscript due: September 15, 2004 Acceptance notification: November 30, 2004 Final manuscript due: December 31, 2004 Expected publication date: Approximately April 2005 Submission Instruction ====================== Each submission should include a cover page with the title of paper, name and affiliation of all authors, name and contact address, fax, and email address of the corresponding author, a list of five key words, and a short abstract of maximum 200 words. Please send PDF (preferred) or postscript formatted papers to Jennifer C. Hou (jhou at cs.uiuc.edu) according to the above timetable. All papers will be reviewed by experts for technical merit, correctness, relevance, and a clear exposition of English. Submissions must meet the following criteria: - A paper must be material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. - Each submitted paper should be no longer than the equivalent of 25 double space pages excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations. Guest Editors ============= Jennifer C. Hou Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign jhou at cs.uiuc.edu P. R. Kumar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign prkumar at control.uiuc.edu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Wireless Communications - Special Issue : Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE Wireless Communications - Special Issue : Call for Papers Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:12:31 +0900 From: 이기동 <kdlee(a)etri.re.kr> To: 'tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu' <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Our apologies if you have received multiple copies ============================================================================ ************ CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** The Synergy of Spatial and Terrestrial Communications in Next-generation Hybrid Wireless Systems Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine URL http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/ ============================================================================ In the last few years mobile radio communications have experienced great transformations and are still rapidly changing. The main "fuel" of this evolutionary process is, undoubtedly, represented by the strong user request for new conception multimedia applications (not only with a point- to-point nature, but also broadcast and even multicast) to be accessed in a "ubiquitous" fashion. An obvious solution to this challenging issue is represented by enhancing platforms based on the synergic inter-working of different technologies and algorithms, including the satellite ones. By this we mean that it is important to carry to its extremes the concept of "hybrid wireless platform" by including also satellite segments not only acting as mere bent-pipes, but acting as an additional radio access segment to be overlapped to the terrestrial ones. Broadband Satellite systems for Personal Communication Systems (PCS) are the last generation of satellites, characterized by the possibility of providing the user with direct connections without an intermediate link to a gateway and usually able to support broadband traffic coming from a wide range of multimedia applications. These systems can be either GEO or LEO satellites, use very high frequency bands, such as the Ku, Ka, and W bands, and, in any case, are equipped with sophisticated on-board switching and signal processing functionality, and high-capacity inter-satellite links. The way these systems interact with the terrestrial (preferably based on the TCP/IP protocol) networks is manifold. Whichever the way is, the new generation of satellite constellations is going to become an integral part of the network. In the highlighted communication scenario it shall not be neglected that a valid prospective alternative (or a complement) to satellites is represented by stratospheric platforms, called High Altitude Platforms (HAPs). Several advantages derives from Satellite and Terrestrial system integration, but numerous as well are the issues which remain still open and need further investigations. In the USA, Europe, and Japan great efforts are being taken to develop prototypes of new conception satellite platforms, ready for future telecommunication scenarios. Many projects currently aim at contributing to the design and deployment of so-called "global mobile broadband system" (GMBS), a unique satellite/terrestrial infrastructure ensuring nomadic users access to multimedia services with a negotiated QoS. Notwithstanding the many researches conducted on the topic, it still seems that a comprehensive analysis of the impact on the offered services deriving from the presence of HAP/Satellite platforms in hybrid wireless communications systems is still lacking. In the guest editors' opinion, a feasibility study on this argument is extremely important. Furthermore, many difficulties that Satellites/HAPs are still experiencing are more related to the lack of a clear understanding of their "killer" utilization in a next generation communications scenario than to technological limitations. Therefore, main objectives of the present Special Issue consist in: analyzing the main features that characterize the different satellite platforms currently available on the market; highlighting their intrinsic points of strength and limitations when they are integrated with terrestrial segments and thus called to handle multimedia traffic with different QoS constraints and requirements; describing how most of the emerging problems have been successfully faced by novel technological and protocol solutions; and making clearly emerge what is still under way of definition, what still needs further research efforts to come to a solution, and which is the frontier of the next few years research in the field of satellite and terrestrial networks integration. This will, hopefully, give the readers a complete vision of the state-of-the-art in such a strategic field as well as the instruments to understand the role of HAPs and/or satellites in the cited multimedia hybrid wireless scenarios, contribute to the understanding of their actual potentiality and limitations, highlight where there is still margin of research and development for the academic/industrial community, and contribute to the activities of deployment and/or to the design and implementation of effective terrestrial-satellite platforms. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to: * New Technologies, Algorithms, and Protocols for Next Generation Communications via Satellite * HAP based systems and applications and their internetworking with terrestrial systems * Integrated positioning/communications platforms based on Satellite/HAP for future applications * Novel services in Hybrid Wireless Systems * Evolutionary Scenarios for Hybrid Wireless Systems * Challenges and solutions for QoS provisioning to next generation multimedia services in Hybrid Wireless Systems * MBMS (Multicast and Broadcast Multimedia Services) architectures and protocols in Hybrid Wireless Systems * Demonstrator and prototypes resulting from relevant projects and research activities * New conception terminals for Hybrid Wireless Systems * The role of new band (Ka, W, etc.) payloads in future internetworked scenarios * Interplanetary Satellite Missions * Standardization activities and project reports All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly encouraged and should be sent to one of the Guest Editors at the addresses indicated below. If electronic submission is not possible, please contact the guest editors. Important Dates: Manuscript Due December 15, 2004 Acceptance Notification March 15, 2005 Final Manuscript Due May 15, 2005 Publication Date August 2005 Guest Editors Antonio Iera University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria Faculty of Engineering, Dept. D.I.M.E.T. Via Graziella (Feo di Vito) 89100 Reggio Calabria ITALY Phone: +39-0965-875286 Fax: +39-0965-875220 E-mail: iera(a)ing.unirc.it Antonella Molinaro University of Calabria Dept. D.E.I.S. 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) ITALY Phone: +39-0984-494703 Fax: +39-0984-494713 E-mail: molinaro(a)deis.unical.it Apostolis Salkintzis Motorola 32 Kifissias Ave. GR-15125 Maroussi, Athens GREECE Phone: +30-210-8172335 E-mail: salki(a)motorola.com Ki-Dong Lee Electronics & Telecom. Res. Institute (ETRI) Digital Broadcasting Res. Division Daejeon, 305-350 KOREA Phone: +82-42-860-5225 E-mail : kidian(a)ieee.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: International Infrastructure Survivability Workshop (IISW'04)]
by Lars Wolf 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: International Infrastructure Survivability Workshop (IISW'04) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:16:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Calin Curescu <calcu(a)ida.liu.se> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu Apologies if you receive multiple copies... Dear Colleagues, The Deadline for the International Infrastructure Survivability Workshop (IISW04) is approaching. The theme of the workshop is "Overloads, Attacks and Failures: the Trade-off against Time". On behalf of the program committee we would like to invite you to consider the workshop for a paper submission. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 25th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium, Lisbon Portugal. Submissions will be reviewed by three members of the distinguished program committee and selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (IJCIS). Submission deadline: 4th September. For more details please refer to: www.ida.liu.se/~calcu/iisw04 Regards, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani and Calin Curescu _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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IFIP/IEEE IM'2005 Submission Deadline Extension
by Frank Strauß 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Begin forwarded message: > From: Olivier Festor <Olivier.Festor(a)loria.fr> > Date: 23. August 2004 14:31:49 MESZ > To: im2005tpc(a)comsoc.org > Subject: IFIP/IEEE IM'2005 Submission Deadline Extension > Reply-To: Olivier.Festor(a)loria.fr > > [Our apologies for possible duplicates of this message] > > Due to a number of requests for extensions, the submission deadline > for IM'2005 has been extended by 2 weeks. The new and final > submission deadline is SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2004, 12PM GMT > > > CALL FOR PAPERS WITH DEADLINE EXTENSION > > ********************************************************************** > - DEADLINE EXTENSION - DEADLINE EXTENSION - DEADLINE EXTENSION - > ********************************************************************** > > 9th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON > INTEGRATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT > (IM'05) > 15-19 May, 2005 > Nice, France > http://www.im2005.org/ > ********************************************************************** > > IMPORTANT DATES > SUBMISSION > : SEPTEMBER 7, 2004, 12PM GMT > Notification : November 26, 2004 > Camera Ready : January 15, 2005 > > ********************************************************************** > > "Managing New Networked Worlds" > > The Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network > Management (IM 2005) will be held 16-19 May 2005 in Nice, France. IM > 2005 will present the latest technical advances in the area of > management, operations and control of networks, networking services, > networked applications, and distributed systems. Held in odd-numbered > years since 1989 and taking turns with its sibling conference NOMS, IM > 2005 will build on the successes of its predecessors and serve as the > primary forum for technical exchange among the research, standards, > vendor and user communities in the network management field. The > symposium is sponsored by the International Federation for Information > Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Management of Networks and > Distributed Systems, and by the IEEE Communications Society Technical > Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). > > We are witnessing the dawn of a new era in networking. New networked > worlds emerge in which connectivity becomes increasingly ubiquitous > and the infrastructure blends in seamlessly with business functions, > applications, and the supported environment. These new worlds are no > longer only characterized by the increasing heterogeneity and number > of devices, but also by properties such as convergence, context > awareness, accelerated service lifecycles, virtualization of > resources, massive P2P infrastructures, unprecedented security > challenges, and much more. Further, new types of networks are > emerging such as sensor networks, agent networks, storage-area > networks, and grid-based networks. All of this incurs new challenges > and opportunities for network management and the ways in which it is > approached, requiring management technology to evolve as rapidly as > the new networked worlds. > > IM 2005 will be organized into technical sessions, panels, and > tutorials. In addition, it will feature application sessions focusing > on practical lessons learned by the user and vendor communities, > posters, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and vendor exhibits. In the > tradition of previous events, we strive to make the IM 2005 Symposium > the highest quality professional event of the year. Paper submissions > will undergo a stringent review process implemented by the Technical > Program Committee which includes many of the most respected experts in > the field. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > TECHNICAL PROGRAM > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are > not under review in any other conference or journal, as well as > proposals for tutorials, panel discussions, poster demonstrations, or > birds-of-a-feather sessions. Topics of interest include but are not > limited to the following: > > (-) Management paradigms, models, and algorithms > > * Integrating control and management, cooperative control > * Self management and management automation > * Policy and role based management > * Advanced management instrumentation > * Adaptive and programmable management > * Information modeling > * Management ontologies > > (-) Management functions and operational challenges > > * Security management, defense against security threats > * Network and service monitoring, event correlation, filtering > * Network and service diagnostics, proactive management > * Business and operational processes > * Traffic engineering and measurement > * Service creation, deployment, and provisioning > * Accounting, charging and billing > * Service portability and mobility > * SLAs, service level monitoring, QoS management > * Managed services management > * Scalability, resilience and survivability > > (-) Management standards, platforms and technologies > > * Next-generation Operations Support Systems > * Internet management standards and technologies > * Open source software and their application to management > * Management and the Web > * Component based management and management plug&play > * Case studies & integration experiences with management platforms > and COTS > > (-) Management of new networked worlds > > * Wireless sensor networks and RFID-enabled networks > * Overlay networks, virtual topologies, VPN services > * Virtualized resources > * Context and subscriber aware networks, mobile computing > * Ad hoc and self organizing networks > * Smart homes, Piconets, PANs > * Storage Area Networks and ASP server farms > * Web services, content hosting, switching, delivery > * Resource-aware applications, power constrained resources > * Converged networks and services > * IPv4/v6 networks and services, VoIP, video distribution > * Powerline Internet, optical networks, metro Ethernet, WLANs > * Grid, peer-to-peer networks and services > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Technical Papers > > Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are > not under review in any other conference or journal. Authors are > requested to submit long papers (up to 14 single-spaced single-column > pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are > available from the Conference web site. > > SUBMISSION : SEPTEMBER 7, 2004, 12PM > Notification : November 26, 2004 > Camera Ready : January 15, 2005 > > Application Sessions > > Papers for the Application Sessions should be written in English. The > paper format should have a visual in the upper half of a page and the > explanatory text in the lower half. Paper submissions should consist > of no more than 15 visuals in PDF or PowerPoint. Detailed Author > Instructions are available from the Conference web site. Authors are > also invited to contact the Application Sessions Chair, Joseph Betser > (betser(a)aero.org). > > SUBMISSION : SEPTEMBER 7, 2004, 12PM > Notification : November 26, 2004 > Camera Ready : January 15, 2005 > > Posters > > The symposium also offers poster sessions for more informal > interactions and presenting work in progress. Extended abstracts can > be submitted for consideration as poster presentations. Posters will > be selected from these extended abstracts and regular papers. Posters > proposals should be submitted to the Technical Program Co-Chairs > (im2005tpcchairs(a)loria.fr): > > SUBMISSION : SEPTEMBER 7, 2004, 12PM > Notification : November 26, 2004 > Camera Ready : January 15, 2005 > > Tutorials > > The symposium includes tutorials on the days before and after the > technical program. A proposal to present a tutorial should contain > the following information: > > Tutorial Title, Full Name of the Instructor > Biography of the Instructor (100-200 words) > Outline and Extended Abstract (500-1000 words) > > If the tutorial or its earlier version has been given before, please > indicate the events, dates and contents. Tutorial proposals should be > sent to the Tutorial Chair, Masum Hasan (masum(a)cisco.com). > > Submission : September 30, 2004 > > Panels > > We will also consider proposals for Panels. Proposals > should include the following information : > > Panel Title, Names of the Organizer and Panelists, Abstract > (200-300 words) > > Proposals should be submitted to the Panels Chair, Gautam Kar > (gkar(a)us.ibm.com). > > Submission : September 30, 2004 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > GENERAL CHAIR > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Seraphin Calo > IBM Research, USA > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS (im2005tpcchairs(a)loria.fr) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Alexander Clemm Olivier Festor Aiko Pras > Cisco Systems INRIA CTIT, U. of Twente > USA France The Netherlands > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE & OC MEMBERS > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany > Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France > Kevin Almeroth, UCSB, USA > Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul University, Chicago, USA > Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > Finn Arve Aagesen, NTNU, Norway > Joseph Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA > Prakash Bettadapur, Cisco Systems, USA > Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada > Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland > Nevil Brownlee, The University of Auckland, CAIDA, New Zealand > Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany > Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway > Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > Tom Chen, SMU, USA > Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada > Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA > Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA > Marc Dacier, Eurecom, France > Markus Debusman, FH Wiesbaden > Luca Deri, NETikos S.p.A., Italy > Petre Dini, Cisco, USA > William Donnelly, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland > Gabi Dreo Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany > Masayoshi Ejiri, Fujitsu, Japan > Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland > Olivier Festor, LORIA-INRIA, France > Nobuo Fujii, NTT laboratories, Japan > Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany > German Goldszmidt , IBM USA > Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do > Sul, Brazil > Heinz-Gerd Hegering, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany > Takeo Hamada, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA > Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA > Peer Hasselmeyer, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany > Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA > James Won-Ki Hong, POSTECH, Korea > Cynthia Hood, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA > Gabriel Jakobson, Altusys, USA > Gautam Kar, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA > Martin Karsten, University of Waterloo, Canada > Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA > Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan > Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire University, USA > Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK > Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK > Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada > Alan Marshal, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland > Ian W. Marshall, University of Kent, UK > Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland > Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya Labs Research, USA > Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil > Philippe Owesarski, LAAS-CNRS, France > George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK > Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands > Guy Pujolle, LIP6 University of Paris 6, France > Jurgen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany > Christian Rad, USA > Danny Raz, Technion, Israel > Enrico Ronco, Telecom Italia, Italy > Lionel Sacks, University College London, UK > Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA > Jürgen Schönwälder , International University Bremen, Germany > Joan Serrat, University Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain > Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware, USA > Michelle Sibilla, University Paul Sabatier, France > Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK > Rolf Stadler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden > Radu State, LORIA-INRIA, France > John Strassner, Intelliden, USA > Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany > Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland > Joe Sventek, University of Glasgow, UK > Mehmet Ulema, Manhattan College, USA > Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands > John Vicente, Intel, USA > Vincent P. Wade, Trinity College Dublin,Ireland > Robert Weihmayer, Verizon, USA > Andrea Westerinen, Cisco Systems, USA > Bert Wijnen, Lucent, USA > Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil > Felix Wu, University of California at Davis, USA > Makoto Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan > Douglas Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA >

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[Fwd: ICDCS2005: Call For Papers]
by Verena Kahmann 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

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[Fwd: Call for Papers, INTERWORKING 2004]
by Lars Wolf 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Papers, INTERWORKING 2004 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 10:15:14 +0200 From: Paulo.Desousa(a)cec.eu.int To: ... <<Call for paper Interworking>> Dear All, You may be aware of the biannual INTERWORKING conference held around the world, which was initiated through the broadband projects (called High-Speed Networking at the time) of the RACE Programme in 1994. The next INTERWORKING conference will take place in Ottawa, Canada on November 29-December 1, 2004. Please find enclosed the Call for Papers. The web site is: _www.interworking-2004.org_ Best regards Paulo ================================================== Paulo T. de Sousa European Commission Head of Sector Information Society Directorate General, Unit D1 Phone: +32 2 296 35 50 Fax: +32 2 296 39 10 E-mail: paulo.desousa(a)cec.eu.int Mailing address: Bureau : BU29, 3/04 - Commission Européenne - B-1049 Brussels, Belgium Office -Avenue de Beaulieu 29 - Office 3/04 - B-1160 Brussels ==================================================

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[Fwd: Cfp ARCS '05]
by Lars Wolf 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cfp ARCS '05 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:49:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Fabian Rochner <rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de> To: rochner(a)sra.uni-hannover.de Dear subscribers of the organic computing mailinglist, below you can find the call for papers of the 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems - System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing - (ARCS '05). This conference will take place at Innsbruck, Austria March 14 –17, 2005. For further information please visit the conferences homepage at http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/. Regards, Fabian Rochner ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers 18th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) - System Aspects in Organic and Pervasive Computing Innsbruck, Austria, March 14-17, 2005 http://www.teco.edu/arcs05 Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2004 =============================================== Future computer systems will be much more integrated into the fabric of everyday life than today's computers are. They will become smaller, more appropriate for their use, integrated into everyday objects and often virtually or physically invisible to the users. They will be also deployed in a much higher quantity and penetrate many application areas. To provide such features and functionality, computer devices become tinier yet still increase in complexity; they must consume less power, while still supporting advanced computation and communications, such that they are highly connected yet still operate as autonomous units. This brings several research topics to the fore, including ultra-low power consumption, self-awareness, adaptive networking, smart behavior of systems, scalability and complexity of devices and systems. Pervasive and ubiquitous computing research addresses such issues by developing concepts and technology for interweaving computers into our everyday life. The principle approach is to enhance system functionality and adaptability by recognizing context and situations in the environment. Organic computing then addresses high system complexity by drawing analogies from complex biological systems, with the human-centered goal of self-organization. Organic computing investigates the design and implementation of self-managing systems that are selfconfiguring, self-optimizing, self-healing, self-protecting, context aware, and anticipatory. ARCS 2004 will emphasize the design, realization and analysis of the emerging computing systems for organic and pervasive computing and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. The conference focuses on system aspects of organic and pervasive computing in software and hardware. In particular, system integration and self-management of hardware, software and networks are in the centre of interest. ARCS 2005 continues and replaces the biennial series of German Conferences on Architecture of Computing Systems. This 18th conference in the series serves as a forum to present current work on all aspects of computer and systems architecture. Besides its main focus, the conference is open for more general and interdisciplinary themes in operating systems, networking, and computer architecture. Papers pertaining to aspects of computer and systems architecture, in particular in the field of organic and pervasive computing are sought, including: Enabling Technologies and Infrastructure - operating systems - middleware for organic, pervasive and peer-to-peer computing - multi-agent and mobile agent systems - bio-analogue and artificial-life systems - context and locality - low power systems design - machine-learning, prediction, pro-activity - system design and simulation - reconfigurable hardware and software systems - safety, security, reliability - self-managing service configuration Architectures and Systems - computer and system architecture - modular distributed devices - self-managing, self-healing and fault-tolerant systems - real-time systems - mobile and wearable devices - embedded systems (consumer electronics, automotive) Applications - scenarios for ubiquitous and pervasive computing - autonomic environments - network server architectures and network based applications - semantic networks - ubiquitous, home and wireless networking The conference is organized by the special interest group on Computer and Systems Architecture of the GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik - German Informatics Society) and ITG (Informationstechnische Gesellschaft- Information Technology Society), supported by OCG (Austrian Computer Society), OVE/GIT (Austrian Electrotechnical Associastion) and electrosuisse (ITG), and held in cooperation with IFIP, ACM and IEEE (approval requested). In addition to technical sessions of contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer invited presentations, workshops, and tutorials. The conference proceedings will be published in the 'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' series by Springer-Verlag. Papers should not exceed 15 pages (approximately 5000 words) in Springer LNCS style. We accept only electronic submissions in postscript or pdf format. The URL of the submission site is http://www.teco.edu/arcs05/ . Selected papers will be published in the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. Workshops are intended to discuss themes related to the conference and should be open to all ARCS attendees. Workshop and Tutorial proposals should be submitted in GI Lecture notes style and should not exceed 2 pages. Important Dates =============== September 20, 2004 Conference paper submission due October 1, 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal due December 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance/rejection January 10, 2005 Camera-ready paper due Official Address ================ Web: http://www.teco.edu/arcs05 General inquiries: arcs05(a)teco.edu General Chair: Paul Lukowicz, University for Health Science, Medical Informatics and Technology, Innsbruck, Austria, paul.lukowicz(a)umit.at Program Chair: Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, michael(a)teco.edu Workshop and Tutorial Chair: Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Karlsruhe, brinks(a)ira.uka.de

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems: Call for Papers Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:48:11 -0400 From: Raouf Boutaba <rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> Reply-To: rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> **CALL FOR PAPERS*** **IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications *** *AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS * The ubiquitous explosion of the Internet and the fast proliferation of networked devices and applications such as sensor networks, mobile systems, Grids, and Peer-to-Peer communications create a unique challenge for network and system administrators. Future applications will involve mobile users, possibly with on-body sensors interacting with a pervasive computing environment that detects their activity, current context and adapts accordingly. Innovative solutions are required for managing the plethora of network devices and systems, multiple inter-connected networking technologies -- wired and wireless, and the complexity of distributed applications. The promise of pervasive computing environments will not be realized unless these systems can effectively "disappear"; and for this they need to become autonomous by managing their own evolution and configuration changes without explicit user or administrator action. The term Autonomic communications and computing is used for this form of self-managing systems able to support self-configuration, self-healing and self-optimization. The importance of this research area has been recently stressed by the increasing demand for securely programmable and autonomous network elements. The ultimate aim is to assist in the design of next generation self-organizing, context-aware pervasive systems and service-oriented computing environments so as to better support highly dynamic and mobile users and vitual organizations. In this context, original contributions are solicited in all relevant areas, including but not limited to: * Theoretical foundations of autonomic communication systems * Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building autonomic systems and networks * Adaptive security for self protection of systems and networks * Economic, biological and social models used for autonomic communications * Advanced information processing techniques for autonomic communications including policies, context-awareness, machine learning, statistical and optimization techniques, control theory, knowledge bases, planning, and goal driven role based management * Enabling technologies for self-managing systems and networks including Service-oriented Architectures, Web Services, XML, Peer-to-Peer and Open Grid Services * Sensing, monitoring and measurements for self-managing systems and networks * Languages, development and securely programmable environments for autonomic communications systems * Human interaction with autonomic communication systems Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the IEEE J-SAC format described in the Information for Authors <http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html>. Authors should submit an electronic version (PDF format) to jsac-sp-issue(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:jsac-sp-issue@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> according to the following schedule: Manuscript submission: **OCTOBER 1, 2004** Acceptance notification: March 1, 2005 Final manuscript due: June 1, 2005 Publication: 4th Quarter 2005 Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo School of Computer Science rboutaba(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Germán Goldszmidt IBM Research - Hawthorne tpccim2003(a)hotmail.com Heinz-Gerd Hegering Leibniz Supercomputing Center Munich University Heinz-Gerd.Hegering(a)lrz-muenchen.de Jürgen Schönwälder International University Bremen j.schoenwaelder(a)iu-bremen.de Morris Sloman Imperial College London m.sloman(a)imperial.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:34:30 +0100 From: Yong XU <y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> IJCIA Special Issue Call For Papers Topic: Nature Inspired Approaches to Networks and Telecommunications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS (IJCIA) SPECIAL ISSUE ON NATURE-INSPIRED APPROACHES TO NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (http://www.cercia.ac.uk/news/events/IJCIA_Special_Issue.htm) ======================================================= SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2004 Guest Editors: Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, and Prof. Xin Yao *Aim* The rapid growth of telecommunication networks and technologies, as well as their applications, has led to a massive amount of design and other problems, difficult to be solved by traditional methods. The newly emergent computational heuristics inspired by nature are an appealing option, as they have provided very good results for tackling these problems. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA) will focus on the application of nature-inspired approaches to telecommunication/networking problems, and would be a forum for scientists and engineers from academia and industry to present their state-of-the-art research results on this topic. High-quality contributions are solicited. Contributed papers must be the original work of the authors and should not have been published or under consideration by other journals. *Scopes* * * Contributed papers should be relevant to the applications of any kind of nature-inspired approaches, e.g., evolutionary algorithm, ant colony optimisation, particle swarms, tabu search, simulated annealing, etc., to problems in telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not be limited to: - *General Network Design Problems* o Physical Topology Design Problems o Survivability and Reliability o Quality of Service o Protection and Restoration o Network Management o Congestion Control o Simulation and Queuing Models - *Optical networks* o Routing and wavelength assignment o Traffic grooming o Placement of wavelength converters o Placement of optical amplifiers o Protection and Restoration on Optical Layer - *Fixed Networks Design Problems* - *Cellular and Wireless Networks* - *Satellite Communications Networks* - *Other Topics* o Ad Hoc networks o Bluetooth/Personal Area Networks o IP/WDM o GMPLS and MPLS o Internet Applications * * *Submission of Papers:* * * The authors are advised to follow the guidelines on IJCIA’s website http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/mkt/guidelines.shtml in preparing their papers. All the papers should be in PDF, PS or WORD format and be submitted to either Dr. Y. Xu at y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk> or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz at sss(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:sss@cs.bham.ac.uk> via email as an attachment. Any inquiries please send to Dr. Y. Xu or Dr. S. Salcedo-Sanz. *Important dates* Paper submission deadline: 15 November 2004 First notification to the authors: 14 February 2005 Submission of revised papers: 14 March 2005 Expected publication date: October 2005 * * *The IJCIA Journal* The International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, IJCIA, is a refereed journal dedicated to the theory and applications of computational intelligence (artificial neural networks, fuzzy systems, evolutionary computation and hybrid systems). The main goal of this journal is to provide the scientific community and industry with a vehicle whereby ideas using two or more conventional and computational intelligence based techniques could be discussed. For more information about the journal, please visit the journal’s website at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcia/ijcia.shtml. *Guest Editors’ Address:* * * Dr. Yong Xu, Dr. Sancho Salcedo-Sanz, Prof. Xin Yao The Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA), School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom E-mails: y.xu(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:y.xu@cs.bham.ac.uk>; sss(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:sss@cs.bham.ac.uk>; x.yao(a)cs.bham.ac.uk <mailto:x.yao@cs.bham.ac.uk> Tel: +44 121 414 3734; Fax: +44 121 414 2799 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [CFP] GI/ITG-KuVS Fachgespraech "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing"]
by Lars Wolf 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CFP] GI/ITG-KuVS Fachgespraech "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing" Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:55:00 +0200 From: Christian Becker <christian.becker(a)INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE> Reply-To: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> To: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Bitte entschuldigen Sie, falls Sie diese Nachricht mehrfach erhalten. Aufruf zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ---------------------------------------------------------- "Systemsoftware für Pervasive Computing" Fachgespräch der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme Universität Stuttgart, 14.-15. Oktober 2004 http://www.nexus.uni-stuttgart.de/syssoft04/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Computing ist durch die spontane Vernetzung von eingebetteten Systemen im Verbund mit existierenden Rechnerinfrastrukturen gekennzeichnet. Sensorplattformen erfassen den Zustand der realen Welt und bieten somit die Möglichkeit, Kontext in die Ausführung von Anwendungen einzubeziehen. Aktoren erlauben die Beeinflussung von physischen Vorgängen, etwa im Bereich der Gebäudesteuerung. Die Vielzahl von Plattformen - von eingebetteten Systemen über mobile Endgeräte bis hin zu klassischen Computern - in solchen Pervasive-Computing-Umgebungen stellt eine Herausforderung an geeignete Systemsoftware für die Unterstützung von Anwendungen dar. Die hohe Dynamik in solchen Umgebungen, beispielsweise durch Benutzermobilität, erfordert eine dauernde Anpassung von Anwendungen an ihre Ausführungsumgebung. Weitere Herausforderungen ergeben sich durch beschränkte Ressourcen, durch die Einbettung in die reale Welt, durch Echtzeit-Anforderungen, sowie durch die geforderte Zuverlässigkeit dieser Systeme. Ziel dieses Fachgesprächs ist eine Bestandsaufnahme von Forschungsaktivitäten, die im deutschsprachigen Raum bearbeitet werden. Mittelfristig sollen diese Treffen die Kooperation der beteiligten Gruppen stärken und damit die internationale Visibilität der deutschsprachigen Forschung auf diesem Gebiet im internationalen Umfeld erhöhen. Insbesondere der Einbezug von Forschern, die in angrenzenden Gebieten - wie beispielsweise Systemsoftware für eingebettete Systeme oder selbstkonfigurierende Systeme - arbeiten, ist zur Bereicherung der Diskussionen auf dem Treffen erwünscht. Mögliche Themen sind: - Betriebssysteme für eingebettete Systeme des Pervasive Computing - Programmierabstraktionen, sowie entsprechende Tools und Frameworks - Dienste und Dienstinfrastrukturen - Systemarchitekturen für das Pervasive Computing (Smart Environments, Peer-to-Peer Ansätze) - Anwendungen: Berichte über Prototypen und Anforderungsanalysen - Sicherheitskonzepte für das Pervasive Computing Beiträge sollen von ihrem Umfang zwischen 2 und 6 Seiten A4 mit 12pt Schrift liegen. Neben Berichten über bereits erzielte Ergebnisse sind aber auch Vorstellungen von neuen Projekten und laufenden Arbeiten erwünscht. Eingereichte Beiträge werden von den Organisatoren in Hinblick auf ihre Tauglichkeit zu Diskussionen und ihren Beitrag zu einem repräsentativen thematischen Querschnitt ausgewählt. Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache sind gleichermaßen erwünscht. Einreichungen als PDF bitte per email an becker(a)informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Wichtige Daten: --------------- Frist für Einreichungen: 17.9.2004 Benachrichtigung: 1.10.2004 Tagung: 14.10.-15.10.2004 Organisatoren: -------------- Christian Becker, Universität Stuttgart Kay Römer, ETH Zürich Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Universität Erlangen -- Dr. Christian Becker - IPVS - Universitaet Stuttgart http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/de/people/beckercn/

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