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[Fwd: [tcgn] IEEE PERCOM 2003, Call for Part.]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] IEEE PERCOM 2003, Call for Part. Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:12:42 -0500 (EST) From: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ECE.NEU.EDU> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org To: tcgn(a)ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------- PerCom 2003 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications ---------------------------------------------------- Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas, March 23-26, 2003 Visit the web site for advance program and registration details. http://www.PerCom.org ---------------------------------------------------- Co-sponsors: IEEE Computer Society and The University of Texas at Arlington ***************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***************************************************** Conference Scope: Pervasive computing and communications is emerging as an exciting new paradigm with a goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere. This emergence is a natural outcome of research and technological advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, distributed computing and agent technologies. PerCom is the annual IEEE conference on pervasive computing and communications and as such it will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present their latest advances in the field of pervasive computing and communications. PerCom2003 will also feature special tracks on intelligent environments and mobile agents, as well as 2 keynote addresses and 2 panels on exciting topics. Program Highlights ? 53 Full Papers ? 11 Short Papers ? 2 Keynote Addresses ? 2 Panels ? 4 Tutorials ? Demonstrations Important Dates ? Advance Registration February 28, 2003 ? Demonstration Proposals January 31, 2003 ? Conference Dates March 23-26, 2003 General Chair: Behrooz A. Shirazi (UTA) General Vice Chair: Sajal K. Das (UTA) Technical Program Committee Chair and Contact Person: Mohan Kumar University of Texas at Arlington Box 19015, Arlington TX 76019-0015 Phone: 817 272 3610, Fax: 817 272 3784 Email: kumar(a)cse.uta.edu Special Track Chairs: Diane Cook (UTA) for Intelligent Environments Anand Tripathi (Uni. Minnesota) for Mobile Agents Local Organization and Registrations Chair: Gergely Zaruba (UTA) -- Stefano Basagni, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 312 Dana Research Center Northeastern University 360 Huntigton Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970 E-mail: basagni(a)ece.neu.edu

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Reminder: IEEE J-SAC CFP: issue on "QUALITY OF SERVICE IN VARIABLE TOPOLOGY NETWORKS"]
by Lars Wolf 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Reminder: IEEE J-SAC CFP: issue on "QUALITY OF SERVICE IN VARIABLE TOPOLOGY NETWORKS" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:57:01 +0100 From: Nicola Blefari Melazzi <blefari(a)uniroma2.it> To: tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu CC: kb(a)mitre.org Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. _http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/variable_topology_qos.html _ *CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications QUALITY OF SERVICE IN VARIABLE TOPOLOGY NETWORKS * About 25 years ago the first routing protocols that have become known as Variable Topology Routing Protocols that were not simply random routing or flooding appeared. Their objective is to maintain and continue the delivery of message traffic in a network where the topology of the network (the router connections) is variable. In recent years this has become an area of great interest with sessions at ICC, Infocom, Globecom, and Milcom, as well as papers in both IEEE and ACM Journals. There is also an Internet Engineering Task Force group studying a subset called Ad Hoc routing, which is based upon a common broadcast channel, an outgrowth of packet radio, and an active worldwide researcher mail-list. There are literally tens of new protocols proposed every quarter. There are, however, limited numbers of papers describing performance of such protocols and fewer still describing comparative performance with meaningful statistical analysis of operation (steady-state and learning modes). As such a reader/user/organization wishing to employ such a protocol has little to go on in making a selection choice. Furthermore, many methods seek only to deliver traffic but do not consider timeliness, priorities, and other features that users might desire. Likewise quality of service is also a subject of great interest in conferences and journals as users want predictable performance. Here again there are many ideas and little to go on in terms of performance, methods of evaluation, or standards, which would allow a user to select an approach that maximizes his capacity or performance or gives guarantees of delivery performance. It is the objective of this issue to publish papers presenting methodology, performance, comparative performance, and methods for providing/increasing user capacity and performance in variable topology networks, and quality of service alternatives, which will allow potential users to gain the necessary information to make real world implementation comparisons and choices. This performance can be shown by analysis, simulation or implementation with preference being given to papers providing comparisons of alternatives. Our goal is that there be one source for current information to aid users in the decision making process. New methodologies will be considered if they are in papers that also compare their performance to other well-known approaches and demonstrate improved value. Papers that show other methods including architectural, reconfigurable, and topological approaches and MAC features to increase user capacity and performance are also desired. But again, these papers must show comparative advances in performance. Call for Papers Topics of keen interest today in networking technology include methods of delivering services over variable topology networks, such as variable point-to-point and Ad Hoc networks, in which the user is mobile and inter-router connections are time varying. We seek here to gather a body of work that reports the state of the art and practice in assessment of the quality of service (QoS) that can be delivered over such networks. We specifically seek contributions that will be of value to system architects in selecting collections of technologies and methodologies that meet their needs and establish standards for user responsive system performance. We are especially seeking contributions that report QoS delivery in clearly defined network settings under clearly defined metrics for a specific service or collection of services. Such contributions might focus specifically on comparing alternative technological or methodological approaches to delivering services with quality guarantee, such as bi-directional versus unidirectional connectivity, source-based versus dynamic routing, proactive versus reactive organization, transmission control at the transport layer versus the MAC layer, retransmission versus forward error correction and the relation of these to timeliness and priority. Variable topology peer-to-peer and Ad Hoc constructions in both flat and hierarchical environments are of interest. Alternatively, a contribution might focus on the performance that can be achieved using a single technological and methodological approach, but varying key factors of interest, such as the number of end systems, end-system density, or the delivery physical environment. Throughout, the central theme should be service delivery, and the metrics used should enable potential users to clearly see patterns of performance in one or more of the following dimensions: cost, complexity, timely delivery, traffic handling capacity, or the number of end systems the system can handle. Methods for achieving quality of service under conditions of varying topology, and new concepts for providing quality of service are likewise of interest. In this context, the topics for this issue include: Subjects of Interest * * Variable Point-to-Point and Ad Hoc Routing * * o New methodologies * o Bi-directional vs. unidirectional connectivity * o Source based vs. dynamic routing * o Unicast vs. multicast, content-based routing * * * *Variable Topology Network Architectures and Reconfiguration Techniques * * o Flat vs. hierarchical organizations * o Proactive vs. reactive reconfiguration * o MAC vs. upper layer implementations * o Self-configurations * o Distributed algorithms (group and resource management) * * * *Quality of Service (QoS) Delivery * * o Methodologies for timely message delivery * o Providing predictable performance * o Error coding for achieving Quality of Service * o Methods of measuring QoS in operational networks * * * *Performance Analysis * * o Comparative study (analysis, simulation, emulation and/or implementation) * o New analytical approaches * o Definition of performance metrics * o Optimizing the system performance (capacity, response time, throughput, etc.) * * * *Testbed and Applications * * o Testbed descriptions and objectives * o Experimental results based on testbeds * o Unique applications of testbeds * * * *Standards * * o Definition of common and desirable features of standards * o Matching current and emerging standards to applications * o Applications requirements versus features provided by standards Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The call for papers is for extended abstracts that propose development of papers to meet the goals of the issue. The proposal shall comprehensively describe the area of the paper relative to the areas of interest of the call. These extended abstracts will be reviewed and the editors will invite final papers, which will be refereed. Extended abstracts not to exceed 5 pages in .pdf format should be submitted by April 1, 2003. To submit your extended abstract 1) go to http://edas.cs.columbia.edu <http://edas.cs.columbia.edu/>, 2) establish an account, 3) receive an e-mail from edas with your password, 4) login to the edas system, 5) select the J-SAC issue, 6) click on view, 7) click on submit paper and follow the instructions. Upon invitation papers should be submitted in .pdf format. Papers should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors <http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Guidelines/info.html>, and be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages, excluding illustrations and graphs. The name of the submitted file should be aaaaJsacVtn.pdf, where aaaa is the first four letters of the author's surname. If an author submits more than one paper then aaaa shall be replaced by aaaan where n is a sequential paper number (e.g. 1, 2, ...). All submissions must be electronically generated. Scanned documents are not acceptable. All papers will be peer reviewed and revisions of acceptable papers may be required prior to publication. The following timetable will apply: *Extended Abstract Submission Deadline:* *April 1, 2003 *Acceptance Notification of Proposed Paper: June 1, 2003 Submission of Invited Papers: October 1, 2003 Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2004 Final Revised Manuscript Due: March 1, 2004 Publication of Issue: 3rd-4th Quarter 2004 Guest Editors: Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, University of Perugia, Italy, blefari(a)diei.unipg.it Kenneth Brayer, The MITRE Corporation, USA, k.brayer(a)ieee.org John N. Daigle, The University of Mississippi, USA, wcdaigle(a)cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, jean-yves.leboudec(a)epfl.ch Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China, BLI(a)cs.ust.hk _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [tcgn] CfP: 28th LCN, October 20-24, 2003 in Bonn, Germany]
by Lars Wolf 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tcgn] CfP: 28th LCN, October 20-24, 2003 in Bonn, Germany Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:58:44 +0100 From: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch> Reply-To: tcgn(a)majordomo.ieee.org Organization: ETH Zürich, TIK To: Alan D. George <george(a)hcs.ufl.edu> CC: Burkhard Stiller <stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch> ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please distribute to interested people. Sorry for any duplicates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LCN 2003 The 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) Bonn/Königswinter, Germany October 20-24, 2003 URL: http://www.ieeelcn.org The IEEE LCN conference serves as the premier conference on leading edge and practical computer networking. This approach stimulates a highly interactive environment and enables an effective interchange of results and ideas among local network researchers, developers, and users. During the 27 years of this conference, major advancements have been achieved in local computer networks driven by application demands associated of the global Internet, the Web, etc. This year we are targeting the realm of embedded networks, wireless networks, high-speed networks, ubiquitous computing, and security as well as management aspects surrounding them. Papers covering these areas are explicitly sought and will be given preference. We encourage you to submit original papers describing research results or practical solutions. Paper topics include but are not limited to: - Personal-Area Networks - Sensor Networks - Wearable Networks - High-Speed Networks - Wireless Networks - Network Management - Mobility Management - Network Security - Location-Dependent Services - Network Reliability - Local-Area Networks - Network to the Home - Home Networks - Quality-of-Service/Congestion Control - Small-Office Networks - Adaptive Applications - Embedded Networks - Performance Evaluation/Measurements - Storage-Area Networks - Network Traffic Characterizations - Optical Networks - Overlay Networks Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers (no more than 10 camera-ready pages) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 2 camera-ready pages in length. A best paper will be selected based on the quality of research and results, as well as on the quality of presentation by the primary author. Several student travel scholarships may be available courtesy of the LCN corporate supporters. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. The corresponding author must be clearly identified. Important Dates --------------- Paper submission deadline: April 27, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2003 Camera-ready paper due: July 25, 2003 Author registration deadline: July 25, 2003 Paper submission: Papers must be submitted electronically. Manuscript submission instructions will be posted at the LCN web page at http://www.ieeelcn.org. In case of questions, please contact the program chairs: Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller University of Federal Armed Forces Munich Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39 D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany E-mail: stiller(a)tik.ee.ethz.ch Prof. Dr. Alan D. George University of Florida, ECE Department 216 Larsen Hall, POB 116200 Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A 32611 E-mail: george(a)hcs.ufl.edu Organizing Committee General Chair: T. Strayer, BBN Finance Chair: F. Hübner, AT&T Labs Local Arrangements Chair: P. Martini, Univ. of Bonn Workshop Chair: K. Christensen, Univ. of South Florida Webmaster: G. Kessler, Champlain College Overseas Advisors: S. Jha, Univ. of New South Wales, (Asia/Pacific) H. Hassanein, Queen's Univ. (North America) Standing Committee: J. Bumblis, Purdue Univ. G. Kessler, Champlain College M. McKee, Univ. of Minnesota, Rochester E. Nolley, Strategic Growth H. Salwen, Audeon Networks -------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ITRE2003]
by Lars Wolf 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ITRE2003 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:34:51 -0500 From: Ansari, Nirwan <Nirwan.Ansari(a)NJIT.EDU> To: 'tccc(a)cosmos.cs.columbia.edu' <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the ITRE 2003 Organizing Committee, we would like to remind you these deadlines are approaching: January 15, 2003: speical session or workshop submission due February 1, 2003: Panel proposal February 1, 2003: Original, full-length, unpublished papers due ITRE 2003 is the first year of this international conference dedicated to Information Technology with specific focus on its applications in research and education. The Proceedings will be published by IEEE. A student best award will be selected and awarded at the conference. Authors of selected papers will be invited to publish their extended version on the special issues of two international journals. All further information can be found on the website http://web.njit.edu/itre2003 Ying Peng James McHugh ITRE 2003 Publicity Chair ******* 2nd Call for Participation -- IEEE ITRE 2003 ******* IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE 2003) August 10-13, 2003, Newark, New Jersey, USA http://web.njit.edu/itre2003 ******* Call for Paper Information Technology (IT) plays a vital role in today's global economy. Besides its phenomenal impact on financial and industrial sectors in the past decade, Information Technology is also rapidly changing the landscape of research and education. Research in advanced telecommunications, networking and computing, calls for innovative data representation tools, high-speed simulation platforms, and analytical instrumentation with which to explore and enhance both experimental and existing methodologies. Education is changing with the advent of new interactive on-line learning technologies, multimedia electronic libraries and collaborative workspaces, improving knowledge sharing and education practices. ITRE2003 invites proposals for peer-reviewed individual papers, full panels, special sessions, demonstrations and workshops for the first international conference dedicated to Information Technology with specific focus on its applications in research and education. The mission of ITRE2003 is to provide a forum for IT professionals, theoretical researchers, and practical educators in which to share insights and experiences of the current state-of-the-art information technologies, pedagogy and academic-industry collaborations, and to contribute to a vision of the future of IT that will shape the emerging high-tech workforce. Topics of interested areas include but not limited to: -- Research/Education Methodology: * Impacts of on-line learning to high level education * Practical and new models of on-line learning * Web-based Software Engineering for on-line learning * Simulation tools to support virtual lab * CSCW tools to support joint research activities * Open technology for collaborative participant design -- Information Networking: * Network management and measurement * Quality of service and network protocols * Information and network security * Wireless and multimedia communication systems * Internet and Intranet * Peer-to-peer technology and networking * Optical switches and WDM networks -- Systems and Applications: * Tutoring and learning systems * Collaborative systems -- Multimedia Technology: * Multimedia server and proxy design * Real-time multimedia signal processing * Multimedia indexing and retrieval * Multimedia application system infrastructure * Multimedia security -- Human-Computer Interface: * Multimodal interface * Mobile collaboration * Usability interface and designs * Augmented virtual reality * Interactive video conferencing -- Information Management: * Intelligent agents and mobile agents * Parallel and mobile computing * Monitoring of information and network flow * Information retrieval and visualization * Data mining and data warehouse * Knowledge acquisition and representation ******* Important Dates: January 15, 2003: Special session or Workshop proposal due. February 1, 2003: Panel proposal due. February 1, 2003: Original, full-length, unpublished papers due. March 1, 2003: Demo/Exhibition proposal due. April 1, 2003: Notification of acceptance. May 1, 2003: Final camera-ready manuscript due. ******** General Chair: Nirwan Ansari, NJIT Technical Program Chairs: Fadi Deek, NJIT Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Watson Heather Yu, Panasonic Special Session Chairs: Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Research Uf Tureli, Stevens Ins. of Tech Plenary/Panel Chairs: Yucel Altunbask, Georgia Tech Chang Wen Chen, Sarnoff Demo/Exhibition Chairs: Bartel Van De Walle, NJIT K.P.Subbalakshmi, Stevens Technical Track Chairs: Research/Edu Methodology Track: -- Timothy Shih, TamKang Univ. -- Danielle Kaplan, Columbia Univ. Info. Networking Track: -- Gary Chan, Hong Kong U Sci &Tech -- Nasir Memon, Polytechnic Univ. Info. Management Track: -- Symeon Papavassiliou, NJIT -- Chris Yang, Chinese U of Hong Kong Multimedia Technology Track: -- R. Chandramouli, Stevens -- Jacob Baal-Schem, Comsoc Human Computer Interface Track: -- Belle Tseng, IBM Watson -- Marilyn Tremaine, NJIT Systems and Applications Track: -- Haniph Latchman, Univ. of Florida -- J. DeFranco-Tommarello, NJIT Finance Chair/Treasurer: Durga Misra, NJIT Publication Chair: Robert Friedman, NJIT Publicity Chair: James McHugh, NJIT Local Arrangements Chair: Mengchu Zhou, NJIT Award Committee Chair: Ying Tang, Rowan Univ. Registration Chair: Edwin S.H. Hou, NJIT Australia Liason: A. Jamalipour, Sydney U., Australia Asia Liason: Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT, Japan Europe Liason: P. Lorenz, U. de Haute Alsace, France South America Liason:N. Fonseca, State U. Campinas, Brazil Middle East Liason:O. Hadar, Ben-Gurion U. Negev, Israel Advisory/Steering Committee: T. Clarkson, Radiocomm Agency, UK Edward J. Delp, Purdue U., USA Alexander D. Gelman, Panasonic, USA Joseph Hui, Arizona State U., USA Hisashi Koboyashi, Princeton U., USA G.S. Kuo, Natl Chengchi U., Taiwan H. Mouftah, Queens U, Canada Stan Moyer, Telcordia, USA Guy Omidyar, Natl. U. of Singapore Huifang Sun, Mitsubishi Research, USA W.S. Wong, CUHK, HK D. Zuckerman, D Zuckerman Assoc., USA Technical Program Committee: Yucel Altunbasak, Georgia Tech, USA Nirwan Ansari, NJIT, USA Jacob Baal-Schem, Comsoc, Israel Gary Chan, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Hong Kong R. Chandramouli, Stevens, USA Timothy Chang, NJIT, USA Chang Wen Chen, Sarnoff, USA Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan Henry Chu, University of Louisiana, USA Franco Davoli, University of Genoa, Italy Fadi Deek, NJIT, USA J. DeFranco-Tommarello, NJIT, USA Manuel Duque-Anton, FH Kaiserslautern, Germany Jaafar Elmirghani, Swansea University, UK Yuguang "Michael" Fang, University of Florida, USA Aly A. Farag, University of Louisville, USA Bernard Fong, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Nelson Fonseca, The State U. of Campinas, Brazil Robert Friedman, NJIT, USA Pascal Frossard, IBM, USA Roch Glitho, Ericsson, Canada Allen Gorin, AT&T Research Lab, USA Mohsen Guizani, University of Western Florida, USA Ibrahim Habib, CUNY, USA Ofer Hadar, Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Israel Mounir Hamdi, HKUST, Hong Kong Edwin Hou, NJIT, USA Abbas Jamalipour, Sydney University, Australia Yunde Jia, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Guofei Jiang, Dartmouth University, USA Aleksandar Kolarov, NEC Lab, USA Deepa Kundur, U. of Texas A&M, USA Haniph Latchman, Univ. of Florida, USA Xiaoou Li, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico Chia-Wen Lin, Natl. Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan Ching-Yung Lin, IBM, USA Sven Loncaric, NJIT, USA Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace, France Chun-Shien Lu, Sinica Academia, Taiwan James McHugh, NJIT, USA Nasir Memon, Polytechnic Univ., USA Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Tech, USA Durga Misra, NJIT, USA Eiji Oki, NTT, Japan Teunis Ott, NJIT, USA Symeon Papavassiliou, NJIT, USA Andreas Schrader, NEC Europe, Germany Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Yun Q. Shi, NJIT, USA Eunsoo Shim, NEC Labs, USA Benhard Sitohang, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia Aleksandra Smiljanic, AT&T Research Lab, USA Daby Sow, IBM Watson, USA K.P.Subbalakshmi, Stevens, USA Qibin Sun, LIT, Singapore Marilyn Tremaine, NJIT, USA Belle Tseng, IBM, USA Uf Tureli, Stevens Tech., USA Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA Jason T.L. Wang, NJIT, USA Shi-Chun Wang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Edward Wong, Polytechnic Univ., USA Min Wu, Univ of Maryland, USA Naoaki Yamanaka, NTT, Japan Christopher Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Peng Yin, Thomson Multimedia, USA Heather Yu, Panasonic, USA Hongbin Zha, Peking University, China Dongming Zhao, University of Michigan, USA Mengchu Zhou, NJIT, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP SPCTS 2003]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP SPCTS 2003 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:22:02 +0900 From: Jie Li <lijie(a)is.tsukuba.ac.jp> To: <tccc(a)comsoc.org> CC: <obaidat(a)monmouth.edu>, <fang(a)ece.ufl.edu>, <franco(a)dist.unige.it> References: <1202.194.165.132.155.1042397899.squirrel(a)hawkmail.monmouth.edu> <013301c2bb8f$b385e810$0100a8c0@george> <1096.194.165.133.224.1042524866.squirrel(a)hawkmail.monmouth.edu> Dear Colleagues, Please kindly note that the deadline for the paper submission is approaching. Please forward the following info to the proper candidates. I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. Sincerely, --- Dr. Jie Li Institute of Infomation Sciences & Electronics University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305-8573 Japan Call For Papers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 2003 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS 2003) July 20-24, 2003 Montreal, Canada http://scs.org/confernc/ssimc/ssimc03/cfp/spects03.htm Submission Deadlines Submission of Papers: January 31, 2003. Notification of Acceptance - April 25, 2003 Final Camera-Ready Submission - May 23, 2003 This annual international conference is a forum for professionals involved in performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Evaluation of computer systems and networks is needed at every stage in the life cycle of the product including design, manufacturing, sales/purchase, use, upgrade, tuning, etc. The discipline of performance evaluation has progressed rapidly in the past decade, and it has now begun to approach maturity. Significant progress has been made in analytic modeling, simulation, and measurement approaches for performance evaluation of computer and telecommunication systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Networking and Telecommunication Systems - Internet Technology - Quality of Service (QoS) - DiffServ/IntServ - MPLS - TCP - World Wide Web (WWW) Technology - Networking Techniques - Unicast and Multicast Routing - Congestion Control - Switching Techniques - Teletraffic - Network Protocols - Network Management and Control - Network Capacity Planning - Network Architecture Evaluation - Service and QoS Pricing - Security and Authentication -Broadband Networks - High-Speed Networking - ATM - Optical Networks - Wireless Systems and Networks - Satellite Systems - UMTS - Mobile Networks/Computing - Ad-hoc networks - Multimedia Communications Computer Systems - Distributed Architectures - Client/Server - Distributed Systems and Agents - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Massively Parallel Systems - Cluster Computing - Grid Computing - Interconnection Networks - Computer Architectures - Microprocessors/Microcomputers - Memory Systems - High Performance I/O - Real-time Systems - Scheduling Schemes -Software - Software Performance, Evaluation and Testing - Parallel Algorithms and Languages - Hardware and Software Monitors - High-Performance Computing - Workload and Traffic Characterization - Scientific Computing Algorithms - Reconfigurable Computing - Electronic Commerce Tools, Methodologies and Applications - Parallel and Distributed Simulation - Verification and Validation - Performance Tools and Methodologies - Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications to High Performance Computing/Networking - Performance Optimization - Queueing Systems and Networks - Scalability Studies - Integrated Modeling and Measurement - On-Line Performance Adaptation and Tuning - Process Algebra-Based Models - Performance Bounds - Integrated Design and Performance - New Performance Models - Mathematical Aspects of Performance - New Performability Schemes and Models - Case Studies General Chair Mohammad S. Obaidat Dept. of Computer Science, Monmouth University W. Long Branch, NJ 07764, USA Tel +1-732-571-4482 Fax +1-732-263-5202 E-mail: obaidat(a)monmouth.edu Senior Program Chair Franco Davoli DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy Tel +39-010-353-2732 Fax +39-010-353-2154 E-Mail: franco(a)dist.unige.it Program Co-Chairs Ibrahim Onyuksel Dept. of Computer Sciences, N. Illinois Univ., USA E-mail: onyuksel(a)cs.niu.edu Erina Ferro ISTI, Institute of National Research Council (C.N.R.) C.N.R. Pisa Research Area, Building B, Room 73 Via G. Moruzzi, 1 56124 Pisa, Italy E-mail: erina.ferro(a)cnuce.cnr.it Vice Program Chair and Tutorial Chair Raffaele Bolla DIST-University of Genoa Via Opera Pia 13, I-16145 Genoa, Italy E-mail: lelus(a)dist.unige.it Vice Program Chair and Web Master Imad Mahgoub Department of Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 E-mail: imad(a)cse.fau.edu Industrial Track and Special Sessions Chair J. Fox, Motorola Inc., UK E-mail: fox.ijcs(a)btinternet.com Technical Program Committee Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech., USA Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Louis G. Birta, University of Ottawa, Canada Abdullah Abonamah, Zayed University, UAE Noureddine Boudriga, University of Tunis, Tunisia Hasan Cam, Arizona State University, USA Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA Nedo Celandroni, ISTI-CNR, Italy Haitham Cruickshank, University of Surrey, UK Hassan B. Diab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Radio Systems, Sweden Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Aura Ganz, University of Massachusetts, USA Erol Gelenbe, University of Central Florida, USA Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Sami Habib, Kuwait University, Kuwait Omar Hammami, ENSTA, France Jarmo Harju, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Herman Hughes, Michigan State University, USA Andrzej Jajszczyk, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Poland Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Ingemar Kaj, Uppsala University, Sweden Krishna Kant, Intel, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Greece Demetrios Kazakos, University of Louisiana, USA Ulrich Killat, Tech Univ. of Hamburg, Germany Tag Gon Kim, KAIST, Korea Kevin Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Veronica Lagrange M. Reis, Compaq Computers Corp., USA Axel Lehmann, Universit舩 der Bundeswehr M・chen, Germany Daniel C. Lee, USC, USA Mike T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA Erich Lutz, DLR, Germany Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Krzysztof Malinowski, Warsaw Technical University, Poland Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy Jose L. Marzo, Universitat de Girona, Spain Xiannong Meng, Bucknell University, USA Hussein Mouftah, Queen's University, Canada Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Sergio Palazzo, Universit・di Catania, Italy Georgios I. Papadimitriou, Aristotle University, Greece Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Krzysztof Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Gregory D. Peterson, University of Tennessee Steven Pink, University of Arizona, USA George Polyzos, AUEB, Greece Ramon Puigjaner, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Kaliappa Ravindran, CUNY, USA Gian Paolo Rossi, Universit・di Milano, Italy Izhak Rubin, UCLA, USA Vicente Santonja, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Donald Schilling, CUNY, USA Jens B. Schmitt, TU Darmstadt, Germany Harald Skinnemoen, Nera, Norway Tatsuya Suda, UCI, USA Iwao Toda, Fujutsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Kishor Trivedi, Duke University, USA Kenneth S. Vastola, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Villen-Altamirano, Telefonica, Spain Bernd E. Wolfinger, Hamburg University, Germany Michele Zorzi, Universit・di Ferrara, Italy Publicity Chair: Yuguang (Michael) Fang, University of Florida, USA Publicity Committee: Vice Chair: Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Chiara Petrioli, Universita` di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Chuck Song, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ahmed Nuseirat, Al-Isra University, Jordan International Liaisons B. Sadoun, Al-Balqa' Applied University, Jordan Bsadoun(a)go.com.jo M. Sawan, Montreal Poly, Canada Sawan(a)vlsi.polymtl.ca N. Tchamov, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland Nikolay(a)cs.tut.fi Paper Submission Submit your complete papers electronically to: http://scs.proceedingscentral.com/ All required instructions will be posted on this web site. Submissions should not exceed 25 double-spaced, 8.5x11 inch pages (including figures, tables, and references) in 10-12 point font. Include five to ten keywords, complete postal and e-mail addresses, and fax and phone numbers of corresponding author. If you have difficulty in electronic submission, contact the Web Master, Program Chairs or the Conference Coordinator, Mr. Steve Branch, The Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 4838 Ronson Court, Suite L, San Diego, CA 92111, USA, Tel 858-277-3888, Fax 858-277-3930, E-mail sbranch(a)scs.org Extended versions of selected accepted papers in SPECTS 2003 will be considered for possible publication in scholarly journals. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to the Conference Vice Program Chair, Raffaele Bolla. Proposals for special sessions and panel sessions should be submitted to the special Sessions Chair. For more information regarding presentations or exhibitions at SPECTS 2002 contact: Mr. Steve Branch at the address shown above. Sponsored by The Society for Modeling and Simulation International. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] ANWIRE Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile & Always Best Connected"]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ANWIRE Workshop on "Wireless, Mobile & Always Best Connected" Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:29:59 +0200 From: Nikos Passas <passas(a)di.uoa.gr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive this multiple times -------------------------------------------------------------- ANWIRE Workshop on "WIRELESS, MOBILE & ALWAYS BEST CONNECTED" University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, April 22, 2003 (In conjunction with EPMCC '03) -------------------------------------------------------------- "Always Best Connected" (ABC) has been the slogan for the "always-on" vision of next generation networks. While the significant advances in today's technologies are transforming the vision into a reality, great challenges still remain. New advanced services require an underlying network capable of supporting the increased requirements in terms of connectivity and Quality of Service (QoS). This can be achieved by the convergence, integration, and/or interworking of existing and emerging wired and wireless networks. The IP technology is a possible solution to this challenge. However, the structure and functionalities of the IP layer model may not be sufficient and/or efficient enough for meeting the requirements of such integrated networks. Wireless IP systems are considered access systems to the core network and, for this reason the proposed QoS mechanisms can be used, taking into account the peculiarities of the wireless medium. It is now clear that one unique access technology would not be sufficient for next generation wireless systems. The wide range of services, environments and user requirements to be covered asks for a family of access systems that seamlessly interoperate with each other, forming the overall system. Seamless mobility support is a key issue in Wireless Internet, especially concerning QoS provision during handover. For IP micromobility (mobility within the same access network) a considerable number of proposals exist in the literature. On the contrary, new solutions are required to support QoS during handover between different access networks, which may be also based on different access technologies. The aim of this workshop is to identify the key issues and present possible solutions by experts from all over the world, active in the area of the "Always Best Connected" concept. Organized by ANWIRE (http://www.anwire.org), a Thematic Network in the area of Wireless Internet, funded by the EC in the framework of the IST programme, the workshop will also reflect the views of the ANWIRE partners in this area. Organized in conjunction with EPMCC '03, the workshop is expected to attract a considerable number of attendants. Some of the main areas that will be covered are: - End-to-end QoS - Seamless mobility support - IP performance improvements - Security issues - Access systems - Ad-hoc architectures - Internetworking - Reconfigurable solutions for ABC - The role of middleware - System integration - Heterogeneous Wireless Systems SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Besides key presentations from invited experts in the area, the workshop seeks for high quality presentations from the international research community. Prospective presenters are invited to submit a 2-page extended abstract through email in PDF or PS format. The submissions must include name, complete return address, telephone and fax numbers, and the email address of the author(s). Abstracts should be submitted to workshop_submission(a)anwire.org <mailto:workshop_submission@anwire.org> by 21 February 2003. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop's proceedings. More information about ANWIRE can be found at http://www.anwire.org IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstract submission: 21 February 2003 Notification of acceptance: 24 March 2003 Camera-ready slides: 7 April 2003 ---------------------------------- Dr. Nikos Passas Communication Networks Laboratory Dept. of Informatics & Telecommunications University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia 15784, Athens - Greece Tel: +30 210 7275651 Fax: +30 210 7275601

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WG: [Fwd: Call for Papers: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003]
by Stefan Fischer 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" [mailto:KUVS-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE] Im Auftrag von Kurt Geihs Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Januar 2003 08:58 An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Betreff: [Fwd: Call for Papers: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003] Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON _/ DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS _/ October 20-22, 2003 _/ Heidelberg, Germany _/ http://www.dsom2003.org _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" The fourteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management will be held October 20-22, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop location is the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EURESCOM), beautifully situated above the romantic city of Heidelberg with its unique blend of river landscape, historic town, and hillside castle. WORKSHOP SCOPE The scope of this workshop will be on the operations and management of distributed systems, networks, application software, and services and the impact of advanced computing and network technologies on management. The theme of this workshop will be "Self-Managing Systems". Recent activities in distributed processing and network management aim at building self-managing and self-organizing computing systems and networks whose purpose is to automate some or all of the tasks typically carried out by an administrator or management system. This concept takes the distributed management paradigm one step further by providing managed resources with a very high degree of autonomy. Self-managing systems will be able to detect failures or performance degradations, initiate diagnostic procedures and carry out corrective actions on their own. Their ability to discover changes in the environment will enable Self-managing Systems to adapt and optimize their behavior. Self-management is particularly important for mobile systems, since mobile environments are highly dynamic and consist of a very large number of managed systems. The workshop will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems, as well as research results on other topics related to distributed management. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks and Platforms for Self-managing Systems * Case Studies and Experiences with Self-managing Systems * Self-healing Systems and Networks * Using Peer-to-peer Technologies for Management * Management Issues in Grid Computing and Grid-based Management Systems * Application of Service oriented Architectures (Web Services, Open Grid Services Architecture) to Self-managing Systems * Implementation and Integration of Self-managing Systems with standardized frameworks, management architectures and APIs (OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, WBEM/CIM, JMX) * Experiences with Distributed Management of Systems, Applications and Services * End-to-end Service Provisioning * Monitoring, Event and Fault Handling * QoS Management in Distributed Systems and Networks * Transaction Monitoring and Management * Automated Instrumentation of Distributed Applications * Management Information Models * Inter-Domain Management * Adaptive Services and Applications * Active Technologies for Management * Policy-based Management * Configuration Management and Self-Configuration * Security and Trust Issues in Distributed Management * Mobility Management WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The workshop is an effort to bring together people actively working in the management area. This international workshop is the 14th in a series of highly successful annual workshops on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM)". Recent DSOM workshops were held in Zurich (1999), Austin (2000), Nancy (2001), and Montreal (2002). Selection of contributions will be based on reviews of the papers submitted. We also plan to hold a work-in-progress session where early work will be presented. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2003. *** Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2003 *** Authors are requested to submit: - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Workshop web site http://www.dsom2003.org/. The Proceedings of the Workshop, comprising both the accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. If accepted, the camera-ready copy of each paper will have to comply with the instructions available from the Springer web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Note that a paper does not have to follow this style for submission; however, being aware of the LNCS requirements may help save extra work later. A Best Paper Award will be presented. Candidates for the award will be identified during the regular review process; an independent awards committee will evaluate the candidate papers together with their presentations and select the best paper. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Receipt of Full Papers: April 18, 2003 Notification of acceptance mailed: June 30, 2003 Author Registration and Final Camera Ready Papers Due: July 31, 2003 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marcus Brunner Alexander Keller NEC Europe Ltd. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kurfuersten-Anlage 34 P.O. Box 704 D-69115 Heidelberg Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Germany USA Email: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Email: alexk(a)us.ibm.com TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Metin Feridun, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Olivier Festor, LORIA/INRIA, France Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany German Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gautam Kar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryotaro Kawamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya, USA Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA Juergen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Radu State, LORIA/INRIA, France Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil GENERAL INFORMATION For tourist information on Heidelberg and directions to the workshop location, please visit the following web sites: Heidelberg Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de EURESCOM (workshop location): http://www.eurescom.de Heidelberg City Information: http://www.heidelberg.de _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Sincerely, The co-chairs, Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany, brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, alexk(a)us.ibm.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin, EN6, Einsteinufer 17, 10587 Berlin -- Tel/Fax +49 30 314-79333 / -24573 http://www.ivs.tu-berlin.de

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[Fwd: CFP: DEBS'03 Workshop on Event-Based Systems and Publish/Subscribe]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP: DEBS'03 Workshop on Event-Based Systems and Publish/Subscribe Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:45:16 +0100 From: Ludger Fiege <fiege(a)RBG.INFORMATIK.TU-DARMSTADT.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 Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS'03) Sunday, June 8th, 2003 in San Diego, California. In conjunction with: The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference. As part of the Federated Computing Research Conference 2003. The workshop is in cooperation with SIGMOD. SCOPE Research on event-based systems and publish/subscribe systems has recently gained increasing attention. It has been recognized that loosely coupled asynchronous communication mechanisms are necessary to build complex distributed systems. Comparable mechanisms are already used in existing products, including enterprise application integration platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, application servers, and database management systems. Moreover, event service features have been included in many middleware platforms, such as J2EE, CORBA, and COM+. Although these services provide some basic functionality, there are still many open problems, ranging from design and integration to scalability issues. Technical and algorithmic solutions that increase scalability must be supported by solutions providing models of coordination, programming abstractions, usage patterns, and data management support. Furthermore, robust enterprise solutions will be integrated with legacy systems in heterogeneous environments, raising data management and security issues. Future application scenarios, including web-based services, support for mobility, and location-based services, will stress all of these topics. New requirements for event-based systems, especially high availability, auditing and tracking requirements from enterprise application integration, have shown the increasing importance of databases in event-based computing, especially in large-scale application integration. The need to track changing business information reflected in databases has driven the need for active database technology and continuous query management in this context. Research on event-based systems and publish/subscribe systems is dispersed among different areas of computer science including data management, distributed systems, networking, software engineering, and programming languages. Moreover event-based concepts are applied in commercial software. The objectives of this workshop are to bring together participants from academia and industry that work in areas related to event-based systems and publish/subscribe systems to discuss problems in distributed event management in the context of large-scale applications, including, but not limited to, application integration, web server farms, network management, data dissemination, location-based services, mobile networks and to identify relevant research problems and directions in this emerging field. The intend is to keep the meeting highly interactive and encourage discussions among participants. Suggested topics for research and position papers include, but are not limited to: * publish/subscribe technology * messaging middleware * continuous query management * active databases and trigger management * integration with databases and storage systems (e.g. active database and transactions processing systems) * relationship to stream-based data management * relationship to tuple spaces * networks of publish/subscribe systems, their applications, and content-based routing * algorithms for distributed event processing (e.g. filtering, routing, composition, ordering) * event notification protocols and delivery mechanisms * efficient use of IP-multicast and publish/subscribe communication techniques * push-based event dissemination mechanisms * fault-tolerant event distribution * event-based systems and peer-to-peer networks * performance issues of distributed subscription and event processing * design, architecture, and engineering of event-based applications * case studies of challenging applications and requirement analysis We explicitly solicit industrial participation, presenting experiences with event-based systems, messaging middleware, publish/subscribe systems, the use and provision of event models in existing products, and the backgrounds of commercially available event-based systems. Industrial papers should be indicated as such. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: Monday, March 31st, 2003 Notification of acceptance: Wednesday, April 30th, 2003 Final papers due: May 25th, 2003 Conference date: Sunday June 8th, 2003 WEB PAGE http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/debs03/ LOCATION San Diego, California, in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference and in cooperation with SIGMOD. AUTHOR INFORMATION and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers should describe original, unpublished research or experience and be no longer than 8 pages and adhere to the ACM proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html). Templates are available for major text processing systems. Papers should start with title, authors and affiliations, abstract, and keywords. Papers previously published or already being reviewed by another conference are not eligible. Papers should be made available electronically in PDF format . Submission instructions will be posted on the workshop web page (http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/debs03/). All papers must be written in English and will be reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be included in the online proceedings of the workshop published on the workshop web site and the SIGMOD DiSC. The publication of revisions of selected papers after the workshop in a special issue of a journal is being considered. Some papers may not be selected for presentation, and some may be selected for presentation in shorter talks than their paper length would otherwise command. We will limit the length of paper presentations and the number of papers presented to make sure that there is enough time for discussion. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop in order to present the work. The tentative program of the workshop will consist of an invited talk, a set of paper presentations and discussions. For further details, contact the program chair at jacobsen(a)eecg.toronto.edu. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Program Chair: * Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto Program Committee Members: * Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland * Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK * Sumeer Bhola, IBM T.J. Watson, USA * Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany * Antonio Carzaniga, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA * Edward Cobb, BEA Systems, USA * Patrick Eugster, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne * Ludger Fiege, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany * Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley, US * Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, US * Rachid Guerraoui, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland * Ken Moody, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom * Gero Mühl, Berlin University of Technology, Germany * David Rosenblum, PreCache, Inc. USA * Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece

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[Fwd: [Fwd: Call for Papers: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003]]
by Lars Wolf 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fwd: Call for Papers: IFIP/IEEE DSOM 2003] Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:58:03 +0100 From: Kurt Geihs <geihs(a)IVS.TU-BERLIN.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 Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies. _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ 14th IFIP/IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON _/ DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS: OPERATIONS & MANAGEMENT (DSOM 2003) _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS _/ October 20-22, 2003 _/ Heidelberg, Germany _/ http://www.dsom2003.org _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ "SELF-MANAGING SYSTEMS" The fourteenth IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management will be held October 20-22, 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. The workshop is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on Network Management for Communication Networks with technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society, Technical Committee on Network Operations and Management (CNOM). The Workshop location is the European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications (EURESCOM), beautifully situated above the romantic city of Heidelberg with its unique blend of river landscape, historic town, and hillside castle. WORKSHOP SCOPE The scope of this workshop will be on the operations and management of distributed systems, networks, application software, and services and the impact of advanced computing and network technologies on management. The theme of this workshop will be "Self-Managing Systems". Recent activities in distributed processing and network management aim at building self-managing and self-organizing computing systems and networks whose purpose is to automate some or all of the tasks typically carried out by an administrator or management system. This concept takes the distributed management paradigm one step further by providing managed resources with a very high degree of autonomy. Self-managing systems will be able to detect failures or performance degradations, initiate diagnostic procedures and carry out corrective actions on their own. Their ability to discover changes in the environment will enable Self-managing Systems to adapt and optimize their behavior. Self-management is particularly important for mobile systems, since mobile environments are highly dynamic and consist of a very large number of managed systems. The workshop will explore infrastructures, techniques, and methods that can be used to design and implement such self-managing systems, as well as research results on other topics related to distributed management. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Frameworks and Platforms for Self-managing Systems * Case Studies and Experiences with Self-managing Systems * Self-healing Systems and Networks * Using Peer-to-peer Technologies for Management * Management Issues in Grid Computing and Grid-based Management Systems * Application of Service oriented Architectures (Web Services, Open Grid Services Architecture) to Self-managing Systems * Implementation and Integration of Self-managing Systems with standardized frameworks, management architectures and APIs (OSI/TMN, SNMP, CORBA, WBEM/CIM, JMX) * Experiences with Distributed Management of Systems, Applications and Services * End-to-end Service Provisioning * Monitoring, Event and Fault Handling * QoS Management in Distributed Systems and Networks * Transaction Monitoring and Management * Automated Instrumentation of Distributed Applications * Management Information Models * Inter-Domain Management * Adaptive Services and Applications * Active Technologies for Management * Policy-based Management * Configuration Management and Self-Configuration * Security and Trust Issues in Distributed Management * Mobility Management WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The workshop is an effort to bring together people actively working in the management area. This international workshop is the 14th in a series of highly successful annual workshops on "Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM)". Recent DSOM workshops were held in Zurich (1999), Austin (2000), Nancy (2001), and Montreal (2002). Selection of contributions will be based on reviews of the papers submitted. We also plan to hold a work-in-progress session where early work will be presented. PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to DSOM 2003. *** Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted to DSOM 2003 *** Authors are requested to submit: - Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages) or - Short papers describing work-in-progress (up to 2 pages) in PDF or Postscript format. Detailed Author Instructions are available from the Workshop web site http://www.dsom2003.org/. The Proceedings of the Workshop, comprising both the accepted long and short papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. If accepted, the camera-ready copy of each paper will have to comply with the instructions available from the Springer web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Note that a paper does not have to follow this style for submission; however, being aware of the LNCS requirements may help save extra work later. A Best Paper Award will be presented. Candidates for the award will be identified during the regular review process; an independent awards committee will evaluate the candidate papers together with their presentations and select the best paper. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for Receipt of Full Papers: April 18, 2003 Notification of acceptance mailed: June 30, 2003 Author Registration and Final Camera Ready Papers Due: July 31, 2003 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Marcus Brunner Alexander Keller NEC Europe Ltd. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Kurfuersten-Anlage 34 P.O. Box 704 D-69115 Heidelberg Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 Germany USA Email: brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Email: alexk(a)us.ibm.com TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sebastian Abeck, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Nikos Anerousis, Voicemate, USA Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Mark Burgess, Oslo University College, Norway Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany Metin Feridun, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Olivier Festor, LORIA/INRIA, France Kurt Geihs, Technical University Berlin, Germany German Goldszmidt, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Heinz-Gerd Hegering, University of Munich, Germany Joseph Hellerstein, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Gabriel Jakobson, Smart Solutions Consulting, USA Gautam Kar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Ryotaro Kawamura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan Lundy Lewis, Lundy Lewis Associates, USA Antonio Liotta, University of Surrey, UK Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, CERN, Switzerland Subrata Mazumdar, Avaya, USA Jose Marcos Nogueira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands Danny Raz, Technion, Israel Akhil Sahai, HP Laboratories, USA Juergen Schoenwaelder, University of Osnabrueck, Germany Adarshpal Sethi, University of Delaware, USA Morris Sloman, Imperial College, UK Rolf Stadler, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Radu State, LORIA/INRIA, France Burkhard Stiller, UniBw Munich, Germany and ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kurt Tutschku, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Carlos B. Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil GENERAL INFORMATION For tourist information on Heidelberg and directions to the workshop location, please visit the following web sites: Heidelberg Convention and Visitors Bureau: http://www.cvb-heidelberg.de EURESCOM (workshop location): http://www.eurescom.de Heidelberg City Information: http://www.heidelberg.de _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Sincerely, The co-chairs, Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany, brunner(a)ccrle.nec.de Alexander Keller, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, alexk(a)us.ibm.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Prof.Dr. Kurt Geihs, TU Berlin, EN6, Einsteinufer 17, 10587 Berlin -- Tel/Fax +49 30 314-79333 / -24573 http://www.ivs.tu-berlin.de

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IPCN 2003 (IP-based Cellular Networks)]
by Lars Wolf 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] IPCN 2003 (IP-based Cellular Networks) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:37:02 +0100 From: Peter Lewis <peter.lewis(a)upperside.fr> To: <tccc(a)cs.columbia.edu> IPCN 2003 (IP-based Cellular Networks) will take place in Paris on June 17 to 20, 2003. One of the most interesting new areas of IPCN is the relationship between the licensed 2.5/3G services and 802.11 hot spots. How can optimal use be made of both environments such that a realistic business service is possible? The objectives of the fourth edition of IPCN is to provide detailed responses to this question. The dead line for papers submission has been extended to *February 15th*. More details at: http://www.upperside.fr/ipcn03/ipcn03intro.htm

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