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[Fwd: [Tccc] SPECTS 2004!!!]
by Lars Wolf 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] SPECTS 2004!!! Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:28:33 +0000 From: zgp(a)comcast.net To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: shabib(a)eve.usc.edu, obaidat(a)monmouth.edu, imad(a)cse.fau.edu Dear Colleagues: 2003 is really a troublesome sheep. Some of us became the scapegoats of the struggling global economy. Like it or not, 2004 is a year of Monkey at least in the Chinese lunar calendar. Monkeys are fun-loving, curious, vivacious, clever, colorful, sociable and lovable. The Monkey represents revolution, movement and changes. Let's prepare for positive revolution, smooth movement, and good changes. Try the following Mathemagician formula: Learning + Understanding + Communication + Kindness = LUCK. Besides LUCK, you may also expect SATISFACTION and SUCCESS. Please continue to subscribe your papers to SPECTS 2004 - International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems. You will be guaranteed SPECTS - Satisfaction, Promise, Expectation, Confidence, Trust, Success. When: July 25-29, 2004 Where: San Jose, California, San Jose Hyatt Website: http://www.scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc04/cfp/spects04.htm Submission of Papers: By January 31, 2004 Guoping Zeng Vice Chair, Publicity Committee, SPECTS 2004 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP IEEE Micro, Special issue on “Network Processors for future high-end Systems and Applications”]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP IEEE Micro, Special issue on “Network Processors for future high-end Systems and Applications” Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:56:06 +0200 From: Nikos A. Nikolaou <nikolaou(a)ellemedia.com> Reply-To: nikolaou(a)ellemedia.com Organization: Ellemedia Technologies To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu My apologies if you have already received this cfp, --------------------------- IEEE Micro Call for Papers Special issue on “Network Processors for future high-end Systems and Applications” Submission deadline: 1 March 2004 Revision requests to authors: 1 June 2004 Accept/reject notification: 1 July 2004 Publication Date: September-October 2004 More information can be found at: http://www.computer.org/micro/articles/CFP/cfpsi0504.htm --------------------------- --- Nikos A. Nikolaou Ellemedia Technologies 223 Sygrou Ave. & 2 Tralleon St. GR-171 21, Athens, Hellas Tel: (+30) 210 9373 093 Fax: (+30) 210 9370 386 Email: nikolaou(a)ellemedia.com nikolaou(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: IEEE IWQoS 2004]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE IWQoS 2004 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:54:28 -0500 (EST) From: Baochun Li <bli(a)eecg.toronto.edu> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu We sincerely apologize if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The Twelfth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2004) June 7-9, 2004, Montreal, Canada Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society, in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMOBILE Since 1994, IWQoS has been a very successful series of workshops providing an international forum for the presentation and discussion of new research and ideas on Quality of Service (QoS). 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 in developing practical systems where predictable and controlled performance is a central requirement. In particular, we look to reconsider and expand the scope of the workshop to include all work related to QoS --- in networking (wired, wireless and sensor networks), operating systems, servers, advanced middleware services (such as grid computing and peer-to-peer systems), and to address relevant technical issues such as availibity, reliability, security, pricing, incentives as well as performance. Therefore, in addition to traditional IWQoS topics such as service guarantees and resource management, papers offering research contributions related to robustness, resilience, dependability, predictability, security, and incentive engineering in both networking and distributed environments are particularly solicited. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): We particularly solicit papers in these aspects: QoS in peer-to-peer, grid and application-layer overlay networks QoS and security in distributed computing environments Dependability, availability, resilience and robustness Rationality, incentives, microeconomics and self-interests QoS in infrastructure-based and ad hoc wireless networks QoS in mobile environments QoS in wireless sensor networks Adaptations and evolutions of QoS Measurement-based QoS estimation and verification QoS in Intranets and VoIP systems Service Level Agreements and QoS Server-side QoS and its roles in end-to-end QoS provisioning We also solicit papers in the following aspects: QoS architectures and protocols QoS analysis and modeling Resource management and admission control QoS routing QoS pricing and billing Measurements, evaluation and experiences with QoS metrics Content delivery networks with performance and service guarantees QoS in web systems and storage systems Programmability and language aspects supporting QoS QoS in multimedia systems QoS-aware middleware frameworks and services Integrated and differentiated services in wide-area networks IWQoS aims to allow rapid dissemination of research results and to provide fast turnaround. The deadline for papers is therefore as close to the conference as the publishers allow. In the past the workshop has been cross-disciplinary, well focused, with the emphasis on innovation. As a result, a considerable amount of time is devoted to informal discussions. The workshop is a single-track forum spanning two and a half days. It values both theoretical contributions and practical experiences. Web: http://iqua.ece.toronto.edu/iwqos04/ Important Dates: Paper abstract deadline: February 17, 2004, 11:59pm PST Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2004, 11:59pm PST (hard deadline, no extensions) Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 Camera-ready papers due: April 13, 2004 Workshop dates: June 7-9, 2004 Best Student Paper Award Award will be given at the conference to the best student paper, whose first author is a current student. Paper Submission IWQoS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research results, and that have not been previously published or currently under review by another conference or journal. Any previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be explicitly noted in the submission. Submissions should be full-length papers that are no longer than 20 double-spaced single-column pages with font sizes of 11 or larger, including all figures and references, and must include an abstract of 100 -- 150 words. All papers must be submitted in either Postscript or the Adobe PDF format, and no other formats are accepted by the paper submission web site. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must present the paper at IWQoS 2004. Hot Topics Session IWQoS 2004 introduces a new Hot Topics Session that serves as a forum to present opinions, views and ongoing work that reflect emerging research directions within the scope of the workshop. The objective of the session is to promote community-wide discussions of ideas that will influence and foster continued research in the field. The session will provide a venue for researchers to present new ideas that have the potential to significantly impact the community in the long term, especially those that are architectural or design-oriented in nature. To organize this session, we solicit short papers describing such an idea; the paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new solution (that may be work-in-progress in nature), or discuss existing work with an original viewpoint. The short papers are limited to five double-column, single-spaced pages. Accepted papers will be presented in a 15-minute time period, and will be included in the conference proceedings. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ASWN 2004 CFP]
by Lars Wolf 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ASWN 2004 CFP Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:01:45 -0500 From: Ibrahim Matta <matta(a)cs.bu.edu> To: <aswn2004-list(a)cs.bu.edu> Call For Papers http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Boston, Massachusetts, USA August 9-11, 2004 ASWN 2004 is the fourth workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks. The previous events were held in France and Switzerland, and in 2004 the workshop will take place in the United States for the first time. ASWN 2004, to be held in Boston, aims at investigating new developments in wireless networks focusing on applications and services. The workshop will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of leveraging wireless and mobile environments. Tutorial proposals are also requested. All papers, including invited papers, will go through a thorough review process. TOPICS Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services on Wireless Networks include, but are not limited to: * Media Distribution over Wireless Networks * New Data Services for Wireless Networks * Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business * Mobile Multimedia * Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services * Service Execution Environments * Service Creation * Mobile Service Interworking * Service Discovery * Location-based Services * Context Awareness and Personalization * Service Development, Validation, Testing & Deployment * Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility * QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS * Security and AAA Aspects * Nomadic Services, Interface Management * Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Nets, Sensor Nets * Wireless Personal Area Networks * Reconfigurable Systems and Networks * Self Organizing Systems * Enabling 3G and Beyond Technologies and Architectures * Performance of Wireless Networks and Systems * Cooperative Networks PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, papers that neither have been previously published nor are under review by another conference or journal. Priority will be given to original contributions describing recent and innovative research results or developments in the scope of the workshop. Papers must be written in English, using font no smaller than 10 points and not exceed 10 pages. Only PDF and PostScript formats will be accepted. All submissions will be handled electronically. Further details on submission available on the Applications and Services in Wireless Networks Workshop main page: http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Additionally, the best papers of the workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full paper submission: March 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004 Camera ready due: May 7, 2004 ORGANIZATION The workshop is sponsored by IEEE and its Communications Society (IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications), and WWRF-WG2 on Applications and Services. The workshop is organized by the Web and InterNetworking Group (WING) from the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The workshop will be held on the BU campus. GENERAL Co-CHAIRS Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburg, USA Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, STEERING COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Hossam Afifi, INT, France Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA Nancy Alonistioti, University of Athens, Greece Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Stefan Arbanowski, FOKUS, Germany Chadi Barakat, INRIA, France Khaled Ben Letaief, Hong Kong U. of Science & Technology Elizabeth Belding-Royer, UCSB, USA Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA François Carrez, Alcatel, France Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA Sajal Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA Olaf Droegehorn, University of Kassel, Germany Henk Eertink, Telematica Institut, Netherlands Jeremy Elson, UCLA, USA Anthony Ephremides, Univ. Maryland College Park, USA Ioannis Fikouras, University of Bremen, Germany Savo Glisic, University of Oulu, Finland Nada Golmie, NIST, USA Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Wolfgang Kellerer, NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA Peter Langendoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Whay Lee, Motorola Labs, USA Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA Luis Munoz, University of Cantabria, Spain Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Guy Pujolle, Université Paris VI, France Jochen H. Schiller, Freie University, Germany Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece Hector Velayos, KTH, Sweden Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden Cedric Westphal, Nokia Research, USA Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, CA Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - ACM/Kluwer MONET Journal Special Issue on Wirless Sensor Networks]
by Lars Wolf 07 Jan '04

07 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP - ACM/Kluwer MONET Journal Special Issue on Wirless Sensor Networks Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:35:29 +0800 From: Jiangchuan Liu <ljc(a)cse.cuhk.edu.hk> Reply-To: ljc(a)cse.cuhk.edu.hk Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong To: tccc <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this. *** The deadline is appoaching (Jan 15, 04) !! CALL FOR PAPERS ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on "Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks" Wireless sensor networks have been undergoing a revolution that promises to have a significant impact throughout society, one that could quite possibly dwarf previous milestones in the information revolution. These networks consist of battery-powered nodes that are endowed with a multitude of sensing modalities. The demand for these networks is spurred by numerous applications that require in-situ, unattended, high-precision, real-time observation over a vast area. Such networks are more than simply the next step in the evolution of the personal computer or the Internet. Instead, wireless sensor networks operate under a set of unique constraints and requirements that demand more than merely incremental improvements in, or modifications of, traditional technologies. In particular, although there have been significant improvements in processor design and computing, advances in battery technology still lag behind, making energy resource the ultimate bottleneck in wireless sensor networking. The purpose of this issue is to disseminate state-of-the-art approaches and novel techniques that will advance basic knowledge and understanding of wireless sensor networks. We are particularly interested in soliciting papers that study fundamental performance limits and tradeoffs that are brought about by energy constraints and that are unique to the wireless sensor networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - New performance metrics and considerations due to energy constraints - Network lifetime limits due to energy constraints - Network lifetime-aware protocols and algorithms - Infrastructure and topological considerations for performance enhancement, e.g., relaying node/base station placement, impact of network geometry - Performance enhancement with power control and directional antennas - Network capacity limits due to energy constraints - Energy provisioning considerations for network lifetime guarantee - Energy consumption consideration for the design of control plane (e.g., centralized or distributed implementations) - Application of directional antennas in energy conservation Publication Schedule: - Manuscript Due: January 15, 2004 - Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2004 - Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2004 - Publication Date: 3rd Quarter, 2004 Submission Guidelines: Only original, unpublished research papers will be considered. Submission should be limited to 25 double space pages. Prospective authors should submit, via email, their manuscript as a PDF file to EDAS at http://edas.info/ according to the publication schedule. Guest Editors: Bo Li, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., bli(a)cs.ust.hk Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, USA, thou(a)vt.edu Jiangchuan Liu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, csljc(a)ieee.org Gam D. Nguyen, Naval Research Lab, USA, nguyen(a)itd.nrl.navy.mil Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburgh & NSF, USA, znati(a)cs.pitt.edu 2004-01-07 ====================================================================== Jiangchuan Liu, Assistant Professor Tel: +852 2609-8436 Department of Computer Sci. & Eng. Fax: +852 2603-5024 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Email: ljc(a)cse.cuhk.edu.hk Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ljc/ ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (2-January-2004)]
by Lars Wolf 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (2-January-2004) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:01:34 -0800 From: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> Reply-To: Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)CS.UCSD.EDU> To: SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE(a)ACM.ORG SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting (2-Jan-2004) ____________________________________________________________ Contents 1. Announcements SIGCOMM 2004 30-Jan-2004 http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 * PODC 2004 15-Feb-2004 http://www.podc.org/podc2004/ * CARDIS 16-Feb-2004 http://www.wcc2004.org NOSSDAV 2004 23-Feb-2004 http://www.nossdav.org/2004/ * SIGOPSEW 2004 01-Mar-2004 http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/SIGOPSEW04/ ASPLOS-XI 05-Mar-2004 http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 * Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence 12-Mar-2004 http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~pjpf/CFP-Ambient-Intelligence.htm * IEEE Pervasive Computing 15-Mar-2004 http://www.computer.org/pervasive/edcal0704.htm OSDI 2004 14-May-2004 http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/ * DOA 2004 30-May-2004 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf (* = new this month) 2. Special Announcements SOSP Video Archive 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 Title: ACM SIGCOMM 2004 Deadline: 30-Jan-2004 Webpage: http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2004 Conference: August 30 - September 3, 2004 Location: Portland, OR, USA Synopsis: SIGCOMM 2004 seeks papers describing significant research contributions to the field of computer and data communication networks. We invite submissions on network architecture, design, implementation, operations, analysis, measurement, and simulation. We welcome both full papers (14 pages) and position papers (8 pages). Tutorials and workshops will be held as part of the program, and proposals will be gladly accepted. The conference will also include Poster sessions, primarily aimed at student submissions, a Student Paper Award, Student Travel Grants, and a SIGCOMM Award recognizing lifetime contributions. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: Twenty-Third Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing Deadline: 15-Feb-2004 Webpage: http://www.podc.org/podc2004/ Conference: July 25-28, 2004 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada 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. This year, we have a special track to emphasize the area of Algorithms and Data Structures for the Internet. We also continue to actively seek papers in areas emphasized in recent PODCs, such as the implementation, analysis, evaluation, and deployment of real systems and the intersection of security and distributed computing. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: The 6th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Deadline: 16-Feb-2004 Webpage: http://www.wcc2004.org Conference: August 23-26, 2004 Location: Toulouse, France Synopsis: The 6th Smart Card Research and Advanced Application IFIP Conference, organized by IFIP Working Groups WG8.8 and WG11.2. Since 1994, CARDIS has been the premier international research conference dedicated to smart cards and their applications. The smart card, or, by extension, smart device with its processing power and link to its owner, is the good candidate for the person representation in the Information Society. CARDIS conferences gather researchers and technologists who are focused in all aspects of the design, development, deployment, validation and application of smart cards or smart personal devices. ____________________________________________________________ Title: 14th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video Deadline: 23-Feb-2004 Webpage: http://www.nossdav.org/2004/ Conference: June 16-18, 2004 Location: Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland Synopsis: NOSSDAV, now in its 14th year, is a well-established workshop that has traditionally attracted researchers and practitioners working at the cutting edge of multimedia systems, networking, and applications. NOSSDAV 2004 seeks to build on this foundation while also expanding into emerging areas such as network gaming, peer-to-peer streaming, and mobile multimedia. The workshop will provide an interactive forum for presenting and discussing early-stage work and speculative ideas. The workshop venue is located on the scenic southern coast of Ireland and is within easy reach of major European and U.S. cities. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: Eleventh ACM SIGOPS European Workshop Deadline: 01-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/conference/SIGOPSEW04/ Conference: September 20-22, 2004 Location: Leuven, Belgium Synopsis: Authors are invited to submit position papers to the 11th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop reporting on original research related to the design, implementation, and analysis of computer systems. We seek contributions from all fields of systems practice. ____________________________________________________________ Title: Eleventh International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Deadline: 05-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/asplos2004 Conference: October 9-13, 2004 Location: Boston, MA, USA Synopsis: ASPLOS is a multi-disciplinary conference that seeks cross-fertilizing research in areas of hardware, architecture, compilers, operating systems, networking, and applications. It has captured some of the major computer systems innovations of the past 15 years. Today multi-disciplinary research is becoming even more important, as boundaries between hardware/software and local/network computing blur, as the form and capabilities of computing devices becomes ever more varied, and as the user-base and applications expand exponentially. Like its predecessors, the eleventh ASPLOS conference will focus on ground-breaking multi-disciplinary research. In addition, the program committee welcomes research papers on a wide range of non-traditional topics that emphasize the multi-disciplinary aspects of their work. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence -- Mobility, Ubiquity and Wearables Get Together Deadline: 12-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~pjpf/CFP-Ambient-Intelligence.htm Conference: Special Issue for Computers & Graphics (Elsevier) Synopsis: High quality original manuscripts are sought for a special issue of Computers & Graphics on Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence -- Mobility, Ubiquity and Wearables Get Together. Ambient Intelligence is a keyword that suggests an ambitious vision of the future: a world in which computers adapt to people, instead of being the other way round, as it happens today. This vision requires high quality research in a large number of computer science topics that range from hardware specific devices and operating systems to advanced multimodal user interfaces. (More details in the web page). ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: Building and Evaluating Ubiquitous System Software Deadline: 15-Mar-2004 Webpage: http://www.computer.org/pervasive/edcal0704.htm Conference: Synopsis: IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine invites articles relating to system software for ubiquitous computing environments. We welcome papers that provide new software paradigms or algorithms, or relate implementation experience that other researchers can build upon. Successful submissions will clearly address an explicit ubiquitous system model and problem statement, which the authors relate to existing research. They will evaluate the proposed solution and so contribute to our knowledge of software for these systems in general. ____________________________________________________________ Title: The 6th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation Deadline: 14-May-2004 Webpage: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/ Conference: December 6-8, 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Synopsis: OSDI 2004 will bring together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. Emphasizing both innovative research and quantified experience, OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from all fields of systems practice including, but not limited to: operating systems, networking, file and storage systems, distributed systems, mobile systems, secure systems, embedded systems, and the interaction of hardware and software development. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas or groundbreaking results that push the frontier of systems research. ____________________________________________________________ *NEW THIS MONTH! Title: 6th International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2004) Deadline: 30-May-2004 Webpage: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Conference: October 25-29 2004 Location: 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: SOSP Video Archive Summary: The video archive of talks at SOSP 2003 is now available at the conference Web page: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/videoarchive.shtml ____________________________________________________________ About SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE The SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE mailing list is intended to provide a low-volume channel that provides operating systems researchers and practitioners with information about upcoming events or other important announcements. In general, a message containing a group of such announcements will be sent about once per month with the subject line "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE monthly posting". On rare occasions, announcements of particular interest or urgency will be sent out with a different subject line, starting with "SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE supplemental posting" (for readers who wish to use mail filtering programs.) Finally, this mailing list is made available for use by publicity chairs of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and the SIGOPS officers. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command (paste it!) in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To unsubscribe, send mail to LISTSERV(a)ACM.ORG with the following command in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE To get more information about manipulating your subscription to this list, go to http://www.acm.org/infodir/services/listserv/doc.html To contact the owner of the list or to report a problem with the list, email SIGOPS-ANNOUNCE-request(a)ACM.ORG To request that an announcement be included in these mailings, go to http://www.cs.duke.edu/~albrecht/acm.html. ____________________________________________________________ Geoff Voelker <voelker(a)cs.ucsd.edu>, SIGOPS Information Director

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[Fwd: [Tccc] JCN Special Issue on Mobile Ad hoc Wireless Networks]
by Lars Wolf 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] JCN Special Issue on Mobile Ad hoc Wireless Networks Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 07:42:49 -0800 From: Mario Gerla <gerla(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> Organization: UCLA To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> CC: 'Mario Gerla' <gerla(a)CS.UCLA.EDU> My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement */ /* */ /* */ JCN SPECIAL ISSUE ON/* * MOBILE AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS* * * * PUBLICATION DATE: DECEMBER 2004* The Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) will publish a Special Issue dedicated to leading-edge topics on Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. High-quality contributions are solicited by the Guest Editors: *Prof. Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, /gerla(a)cs.ucla.edu/* *Prof. Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, /chiasserini(a)polito.it/* *Prof. Kenichi Mase, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, /mase(a)ie.niigata-u.ac.jp/* *Prof. Eytan Modiano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, /modiano(a)mit.edu/* *Dr. Jason Redi, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, /redi(a)bbn.com/* The issue of mobility is central in ad hoc networks and sets them apart from wireless infrastructure networks and static sensor nets. Mobility affects several layers from radio to applications. In this special issue we solicit papers that deal with mobility in wireless ad-hoc networks. The topics include but are not limited to the following: ü Impact of mobility on various protocols layers ü Performance of mobile ad hoc networks ü Mobility and scalability trade-offs ü Mobility models for ad hoc wireless networks ü Simulation of mobility in ad hoc networks ü Influence of mobility on protocol design ü Effect of mobility on protocol performance ü Exploiting mobility for protocol scalability ü Radio and antenna designs for mobility ü Antenna Diversity and mobility ü Mobility and MAC layer ü Mobility and network layer ü Mobility and transport layer ü Cross layer interaction to handle mobility ü Mobile ad hoc network applications ü Mobile ad hoc net measurements Continuing JCN's tradition of fast turnaround together with full peer reviews, the following schedule has been set: * **July 1, 2004** *Electronic manuscript (.ps or .pdf) submission to JCN website [An earlier note to editors with intent to submit will be appreciated.] *October 15, 2004** *First reviews returned to author *December 15, 2004** *Special Issue published Electronic submissions will be made to JCN website. Information about submissions is available on the JCN web site, *http://jcn.or.kr*. Please direct inquiries and intent to submit notifications to any one of the Guest Editors. JCN is a high-quality quarterly archival journal, published by the Korean Institute of Communications Sciences with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society, covering the fields of Communication Theory and Systems, Wireless Communications, and Networks and Services. JCN began publication in March 1999. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Fw: ECUMN'04]
by Lars Wolf 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: ECUMN'04 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:50:26 -0000 From: Mario Freire <mario(a)di.ubi.pt> Reply-To: Mario Freire <mario(a)di.ubi.pt> To: <itc(a)comsoc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04) October 25-27, 2004 - Porto, Portugal URL: http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html *GENERAL INFORMATION* The European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN) was born in Colmar, France, under the sponsorship of SEE (Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information). After the first two successful venues in Colmar in 2000 and in 2002, the 3rd European Conference on* *Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN '04) is moving to Portugal and will take place at Hotel D. Henrique, in Porto (Oporto) from Monday 25 to Wednesday 27 October, 2004. The conference is jointly organized by Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) and OE (Ordem dos Engenheiros), with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Portugal Section, EUREL and SEE. The goal of the ECUMN conference is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address network and service convergence issues. The conference will provide a forum where the academia shall be able to present up-to-date research results and the industry describe emerging technologies and new research problems related to them. The conference scope has been extended to deal to put specific emphasis on Service Provisioning, and Service differentiation issues. Graceful evolution of Networks, new access schemes, flexible protocols, increased variety of services, hybrid networks reliability, are some of the present and future challenges that have to be met by the various technologies that will be discussed during the conference. A competition for the best student paper will be organized to recognize and encourage excellence in graduate studies. ** *TOPICS OF SPECIAL INTEREST* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: - Evolution of Telecommunication Networks Architecture: Next Generation Networks (NGN) Active Networks Optical Networks Access Networks Mobile Networks Storage Area Networks Network measurements and testbeds - Protocols issues: Multicast Switching and routing Signalling Mobility management Security and privacy Real time and multimedia - Service provisioning and deployment in a heterogeneous environment: Intermediation Network design and planning Network management and control Traffic engineering Interfaces and Reference points Flow control - Service differentiation Real time services over IP/IPv6 Pricing and real time billing Traffic control and QoS Service reliability, availability Congestion and admission control Replication system (caching, mirroring, CDNs, etc). *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2004 Authors notification: June 15, 2004 Deadline for full-length camera ready paper: July 15, 2004 *INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS* * * Papers must use single-column per page, double spacing, Times New Roman style characters with 12-point font size, and should not exceed 4,000 words. The top of the first page of each paper must include the title of the paper, authors' names, position, address, telephone, e-mail of the author responsible for correspondence and a list of four keywords. Submissions must be made electronically through the paper submission page <http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04/submission.html>. All the manuscripts must be written in English. Acceptable formats are Postscript, Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word. Please use A4 paper format when formatting your submission. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full-length manuscripts for inclusion in the proceedings with ISBN. For more information please contact: Mario Freire Institute of Telecommunications Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Coimbra - Site II, P-3030-290 COIMBRA PORTUGAL Tel.: + 351 239 79 62 36 Fax: + 351 239 79 62 93 E-mail: ecumn04(a)co.it.pt <mailto:ecumn04@co.it.pt> Check our Web page at http://www.co.it.pt/ecumn04.html for the latest information concerning the conference. *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* *General Co-Chairs* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Mario Freire (Portugal)- Univ. Beira Interior/Instituto de Telecomunicações *Steering Committee* Prosper Chemouil (France) - France Telecom R&D Annie Gravey (France) - Groupement des Ecoles des Télécommunications Pascal Lorenz (France) - University of Haute Alsace Jean-Gabriel Rémy - (France) Cegetel Sylvie Ritzenthaler - (France) Alcatel Pierre Rolin (France) - France Telecom R&D *Technical Program Committee * P. Bertin (France) - France Telecom R&D F. Boavida (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Bregni (Italy) - Politecnico Milano P. Brown (France) - France Telecom R&D E. Carrapatoso (Portugal) - University of Porto P. Castelli (Italy) - Telecom Italia Labs T. Chahed (France) - INT M. Diaz (France) - LAAS-CNRS N. Fonseca (Brazil) - Campinas University A. Jamalipour (Australia) - Univ. of Sydney N. Kamiyama (Japan) - NTT S. Karnouskos (Germany) - GMD FOKUS L. Lancieri (France) - France Telecom R&D M. Maknavicius-Laurent (France)- INT Z. Mammeri (France) - University of Toulouse E. Monteiro (Portugal) - University of Coimbra S. Oueslati (France) - France Telecom R&D G. Petit (Belgium) - Alcatel M. Pioro (Poland) - Warsaw University of Technology S. Ritzenthaler (France) - Alcatel A. Santos (Portugal) - University of Minho R. Valadas (Portugal) - University of Aveiro M. Villen-Altamirano (Spain) - Telefonica I+D J. Yan (Canada) - Nortel *Organizing Committee* Carlos Salema (Portugal) - IST/Ordem dos Engenheiros/Institute of Telecommunications Luís Sá (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Mário Freire (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Henrique Silva (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Joel Rodrigues (Portugal) Univ. Beira Interior/Institute of Telecommunications Fernando Perdigão (Portugal) - Univ. Coimbra/Institute of Telecommunications Rui Rocha (Portugal) - IST/Institute of Telecommunications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Marques Freire Assistant Professor Networks and Multimedia Group, Institute of Telecommunications Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal FAX: +351 275 319 888 Phone: + 351 275 319 891 Email: mario(a)di.ubi.pt <mailto:mario@di.ubi.pt>, mfreire@acm.org,mfreire@ieee.org <mailto:mfreire@acm.org,mfreire@ieee.org> URL: http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario

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WG: Workshop "Interoperable Software-Infrastrukturen fuer selbstorganisierende Multimedia-Appliances"
by Stefan Fischer 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Christian Elting [mailto:christian.elting@eml-d.villa-bosch.de] Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Dezember 2003 10:37 Betreff: Workshop "Interoperable Software-Infrastrukturen fuer selbstorganisierende Multimedia-Appliances" Liebe Kollegen, anbei sende ich Ihnen die Vorankündigung eines Workshops zum Thema Interoperabilität von Multimedia-Infrastrukturen, die vielleicht den einen oder anderen interessieren könnte. Viele Grüße und frohe Feiertage, Christian Elting ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Workshop Interoperable Software-Infrastrukturen für selbstorganisierende Multimedia-Appliances und Konstituierende Sitzung des GI-Arbeitskreises Interaktive Anwendungen für mobile und ubiquitäre Systeme Vorankündigung Dienstag, 27. April 2004, 10:0017:00 am Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung Darmstadt Inhalt: Schlagworte wie Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive Computing und Information Appliances versprechen für die Zukunft eine allgegenwärtige Verfügbarkeit von Informationstechnik und Multimedia-Informationen. Unsere alltägliche Umwelt wird in die Lage versetzt, unsere Ziele und Bedürfnisse zu erkennen und kann uns intelligent und situationsgerecht unterstützen. Projekte wie Oxygen am MIT, Ambience in der EU oder die BMB+F-Leitprojekte EMBASSI und SmartKom entwickeln Beispiele für solche Umgebungen. Die Realisierung intelligenter Umgebungen im praktischen Einsatz außerhalb der Labore erfordert jedoch die Interoperabilität von Diensten und Geräten, die Fähigkeit zur dynamischen Vernetzung und zur Selbstorganisation. Technologien wie UPnP, Rendezvous und JINI bilden hierfür wichtige Grundlagen. Darüber hinaus ist aber die Fähigkeit zur semantischen Selbstorganisation notwendig, zur spontanen und automatischen Kooperation multimedialer Dienste und Geräte zur Erkennung und Erfüllung der Nutzerbedürfnisse. Die Entwicklung von hierfür geeigneten Software-Technologien ist Gegenstand aktueller Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten. Ziel: Ziel dieses Workshops ist die Vorstellung und kritische Diskussion aktueller Lösungsansätze für selbstorganisierende Multimedia-Appliances vor dem Hintergrund der Einsetzbarkeit in der Praxis. Wir wollen ein Anforderungsportfolio für die praxisorientierte Weiterentwicklung dieser Konzepte entwickeln und Strategien für die Koordination der verschiedenen Entwicklungsaktivitäten identifizieren. Im Anschluss an den Workshop ist die konstituierende Sitzung des GI-Arbeitskreises Interaktive Anwendungen für mobile und ubiquitäre Systeme geplant, in dessen Rahmen dieses Thema weiter verfolgt werden soll. Adressaten: Dieser Workshop wendet sich an Software-Ingenieure, Systemarchitekten, Systemdesigner und Wissenschaftler, die sich mit vernetzten Multimedia-Systemen, -Geräten und -Infrastrukturen, mit Unterhaltungselektronik sowie mit intelligenter Umgebungen befassen. Veranstalter: Dieser Workshop ist eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Graphische Datenverarbeitung in Darmstadt, des European Media Lab Heidelberg und des Loewe-Kompetenzzentrum Hannover im Rahmen des BMB+F Projektes DynAMITE (Dynamisch Adaptive Multimodale IT-Ensembles). Kontakt und weitere Informationen: Thomas Kirste, Fraunhofer IGD (thomas.kirste(a)igd.fhg.de) Rainer Malaka, European Media Lab (rainer.malaka(a)eml.villa-bosch.de) Jens Neumann, Loewe Kompetenzzentrum (jneumann(a)loewe-komp.de) -- Christian Elting European Media Laboratory GmbH Web: http://www.eml-development.de/english/homes/elting/index.html Tel: +49/6221/533-244 Fax: +49/6221/533-298 Email: christian.elting(a)eml-d.villa-bosch.de "No matter where you go, there you are."

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WG: [Pervasive2004] CfP: Pervasive 2004 Workshops
by Stefan Fischer 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: pervasive2004-bounces(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at [mailto:pervasive2004-bounces@soft.uni-linz.ac.at] Im Auftrag von Pervasive 2004 Publicity Chair Gesendet: Freitag, 19. Dezember 2003 10:20 An: pervasive2004(a)soft.uni-linz.ac.at Betreff: [Pervasive2004] CfP: Pervasive 2004 Workshops Subject: Workshops at Pervasive 2004, Call for Papers --- At the conference on Pervasive Computing 2004 in Vienne, Austria the following workshops will be held. W1: Workshop on Gaming Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/pervasivegaming W2: Toolkit Support for Interaction in the Physical World http://media.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/tuit W3: Memory and Sharing of Experiences http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~sumi/pervasive04 W4: First International Workshop on Computer Support for Human Tasks and Activities http://www.daimi.au.dk/pervasive2004workshop W5: Benchmarks and a database for context recognition http://www.wearable.ethz.ch/pervasive04_workshop.html W6: SPPC: Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/events/sppc04/ W7: Sustainable Pervasive Computing http://www.diuf.unifr.ch/pai/spc2004 For further information see the web pages of the workshops and the details below. ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W1: Workshop on Gaming Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments --- Organizers: * Carsten Magerkurth, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany * Regan Mandryk, imon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada. * Steve Benford, University of Nottingham, UK * Johan Sanneblad, FAL, Viktoria Institute, Goteborg, Sweden. --- Theme: Gaming has been a hot topic and innovating force in most cultures for thousands of years. In contrast to traditional gaming, computer entertainment still lacks rich human-to-human interaction and is not grounded in our physical world. With the emergence of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technology, we are now facing a radical paradigm shift in which the computer as a medium steps back and weaves itself into the fabric of our physical and social environments. Combining pervasive computing technologies with gaming applications many people enjoy and are used to, will have a positive effect on the dissemination of the pervasive computing paradigm and may help creating new and revolutionary forms of experiences. With this workshop we bring together researchers who are interested in interactive entertainment and the opportunities and risks that pervasive computing might introduce to it. We want to discuss initial results from this emerging field and share our experiences and v! isions to identify relevant research questions and future research directions. --- Submission Deadline: 15. Feb 2004 --- Further Information: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/pervasivegaming magerkurth(a)ipsi.fraunhofer.de --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W2: Toolkit Support for Interaction in the Physical World --- Organizers: * Rafael Ballagas, RWTH Aachen University * Scott Klemmer, UC Berkeley * Jennifer Sheridan, University of Lancaster --- Theme: Pervasive computing continues to push computer technology off the desktop and into the physical world. However, building physical interfaces is non-trivial, requiring knowledge of low-level hardware and software details. These difficulties echo the experiences of the GUI community twenty years ago. Tangible user interface (TUI) toolkits have the potential to simplify physical prototyping just as GUI toolkits have improved graphical prototyping. This workshop will be a collaboration between tangible user interface designers and toolkit developers. TUI designers should give perspectives on the domain they are designing for, prototyping techniques they use, and difficulties they encounter. Toolkit developers should present their toolkit solution or project, and its particular strengths and weaknesses for rapidly prototyping TUIs. We will address several fundamental issues in toolkit support for interaction in the physical world: * Creating a taxonomy of existing prototyping techniques for TUIs * Deriving required features and characteristics of potential TUI toolkits from this taxonomy * Mapping out the design space of TUI toolkits, and placing existing toolkits into it * Defining ways to evaluate TUI toolkits * Identifying opportunities for future collaboration --- Submission Deadline: January 26, 2004 --- Further Information: http://media.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/tuit --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W3: Memory and Sharing of Experiences --- Organizers: * Kenji Mase, Nagoya University / ATR * Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University / ATR * Sidney Fels, University of British Columbia --- Theme: Pervasive computing environment will become a strong infrastructure to record experiences of people in the real world because it will network a lot of wide spread sensors that can capture the activities of people continuously in various aspects. The experiences here include activities such as writing, drawing, speaking, meeting, sports, traveling etc., in personal or group context, and interactions with other people and/or artifacts. Recorded experiences by means of digital video, tactile sensors, location tracking device, etc. can be used as a source for various tasks in daily life, business, education and security. They include, for example, multi-media memory aids, reference for context recognition, creation of a model of person's activities and story-telling of life. The useful and computational log can be obtained by ubiquitous sensor networks and effective tagging systems. --- There are many research projects on ubiquitous sensor network for recording events, wearable device for personal event recording, real-world oriented CSCW, interaction analysis by ethnological approach, and privacy issues. The researchers who are engaged in this theme are welcome. --- Please send electronic submissions to: pervasive04(a)atr.jp Submission Deadline: January 19, 2003 --- Further Information: http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~sumi/pervasive04 mase(a)itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W4: First International Workshop on Computer Support for Human Tasks and Activities --- Organizers: * Jakob E. Bardram, University of Aarhus, Denmark * Henrik Bærbak Christensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark * David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, * João Sousa, Carnegie Mellon University, USA --- Theme: The term task-based or activity-based computing has been proposed as a new paradigm for computing more suited for ubiquitous and pervasive computing than the traditional application- and file-centered computing paradigm, which are oblivious to a notion of a user task spanning multiple applications, services, and information sources. This situation is worse in work environments where users, rather than sitting at a desk all the time, would like to use whatever devices are available at each location for carrying out their work and for impromptu collaboration. This workshop aims at exploring issues related to improving the computational support for human tasks and activities, with a special focus on infrastructures, software architectures, models of user tasks, and on the challenges associated with designing and implementing those. The goal is to build a network of researchers and practitioners working on aspects of task- /activity-based computing. The workshop will focus on ex! ploring this potential by discussing the constraints and possibilities of existing and emerging technologies for supporting human activities, and focusing on identifying current and future research directions. These goals will be accomplished through presentation of the participants' visions and research, brainstorming sessions, and small-group breakout sessions. --- Submission deadline: 1. March 2004 --- Further Information: http://www.daimi.au.dk/pervasive2004workshop bardram(a)daimi.au.dk --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W5: Benchmarks and a database for context recognition --- Organizers: * Paul Lukowicz, Institute for Computer Systems and Networks, UMIT Innsbruck * Jani Mäntyjärvi, Technical Research Center of Finland, VTT * Holger Junker, Wearable Computing Lab, ETH Zurich --- Theme: The aim of the workshop is to foster the generation of standard, publicly available data sets for context recognition. Such data sets and benchmarks have proven to their value in many other fields such as speech recognition, image recognition and computer architectures. They allow initial tests of new methods and algorithms without the need for time consuming data collection.Even more important, they provide an objective basis for the evaluation and comparison of algorithms. As the field of context recognition grows and becomes more mature, the need for such publicly available, standard data sets and benchmarks is becoming more and more obvious. The organizers see the workshop as a first step towards generating such data sets and benchmarks. To this end, we invite all interested researchers to present their views on relevant scenarios, sensors sets, data formats, mechanism for repository management and other related issues. We would also like to encourage presentations of existing data sets, that could be contributed to an initial database version. The output of the one-day workshop will be a consensus on the above issues. Ideally, this shall contain concrete steps and a time schedule for the establishment of the envisioned database and benchmark sets. --- Submission Deadline: 13 Feb 2004 --- Further Information: www.wearable.ethz.ch/pervasive04_workshop.html junker(a)ife.ee.ethz.ch --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W6: SPPC: Security and Privacy in Pervasive Computing --- Organizers: * Philip Robinson (TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) * Harald Vogt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Waleed Wagealla (University of Strathclyde, Scotland) --- Theme: When someone asks you to use your office, what goes through your mind? Is it the probability that they may make an overseas call? Is it the fear that they may browse your high profile or confidential documents lying on the table? Or in the case of a total stranger, how did they know that your office was available in the first place? In this workshop we build on a notion that decisions influenced by trust, privacy, security and context are not treated in isolation, rather there exists a system of balanced reasoning that interrelates these concerns. The aim of this workshop is to explore the properties of this system, by defining the interfaces between trust, privacy, security and context, the data that is interchanged between their identifiable mechanisms, and how this knowledge can be best applied in pervasive computing applications. --- Submission deadline: 14 February 2004 --- Further Information: http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/events/sppc04/ --- ---------------------------------- ********************************** ---------------------------------- W7: Sustainable Pervasive Computing --- Organizers: * Siegfried Behrendt, Institute for Futures Research and Technology Assessment, Berlin, Germany * Danielle Bütschi, Center for Technology assessment, TA-Swiss, Berne, Switzerland * Michèle Courant, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland * Lorenz Hilty, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, St. Gallen, Switzerland --- Theme: The technology of pervasive computing is now ready for a large-scale everyday use. Such a widespreading may have a strong impact on society and environment, by the way equipments and technical infrastructures for everyday life will be designed, and by the way the social and environmental issues of technology will be managed. Despite the promising facilities it will bring on, pervasive computing has indeed some darks sides, which must be early taken into account if we want to achieve a sustainable development. The goal of the workshop is then to bring together interdisciplinary contributors for enabling to set up the foundations of a sustainable pervasive computing. People from any discipline concerned by pervasive computing deployement (e.g. from computer science, business, urbanism, architecture, mobility, health care and medicine, energy, waste management, ethics, technology assessment, law, etc), and interested in sharing their works, experiences, or ideas for reaching this goal are welcome to the workshop. Two aspects will be considered : (1) analysis and evaluation of the implications of pervasive computing for the society and the environment; (2) design and applications for a sustainable pervasive computing. --- For submission, 1 to 2 pages abstracts should be sent no later than January 29, 2004. --- Further Information: http://www.diuf.unifr.ch/pai/spc2004 michele.courant(a)unifr.ch ---

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