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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Issue on “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook”
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Special Issue on “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook” Datum: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:45:52 +0800 Von: Xiaokang Wang <wangxiaokang1002(a)163.COM> Antwort an: Xiaokang Wang <wangxiaokang1002(a)163.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Dear Colleagues: Please accept our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for paper. CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing and Communications Special Issue on “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook” http://static.springer.com/sgw/documents/1608720/application/pdf/SCAC-CFP-S… SCOPE: Scalable Computing and Communications invites papers for a special issue on “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook”. Recently, as the future vision of urban development, smart city is attracting growing attention from both academia and industry. In particular, incorporating various information and communication technologies, smart city aims to offer many smart services (e.g., smart parking, smart street lighting, smart journey planning) for people. However, to achieve this goal, on the one hand, there are many issues to be coped with. For example, from the perspective of data, a variety of data generated by our city needs to be collected accurately, stored securely, and processed efficiently. On the other hand, with emerging computing technologies (e.g., social computing, edge computing, fog computing), there might also be new paradigms regarding smart city. Therefore, to address the challenges and outlook of smart city, this special issue solicits original technical papers with novel contributions on the challenges/outlook of smart city. Tutorial or survey papers are also welcome. For each submission, the review process will begin immediately once the submission is received and the final decision will be made within 3 months. Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their work once it is ready. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Big data for smart city - Sensor network for smart city - Data mining for smart city - Greenness for smart city - Data center for smart city - Security for smart city - Social computing for smart city - Communication for smart city - Edge computing for smart city - Middleware for smart city - Fog computing for smart city - Automation for smart city - Cloud computing for smart city - Hardware for smart city - Testbed for smart city - Novel application for smart city IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission deadline: December 31, 2017 - Author notification (first round) due: January 31, 2018 - Revised articles due: February 28, 2018 - Author notification (second round) due: March 31, 2018 GUEST EDITORS: Dr. Chunsheng Zhu (cszhu(a)ece.ubc.ca), The University of British Columbia, Canada Dr. Lei Shu (lei.shu(a)live.ie), Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China/University of Lincoln, UK Dr. Guangjie Han (hanguangjie(a)ieee.org), Hohai University, China Dr. Xiaokang Wang (wangxiaokang(a)hust.edu.cn), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China PAPER SUBMISSION: - Papers must be prepared following the Journal guidelines: www.springer.com/41122 - Submit manuscripts via: http://SCAC.edmgr.com - Choose “Smart City: Challenges and Outlook” as the article type. -- Best regards Xiaokang Wang ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2018) - co-located with IEEE Percom 2018
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: IEEE Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2018) - co-located with IEEE Percom 2018 Datum: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:45:47 +0200 Von: Luca Bedogni <luca.bedogni4(a)UNIBO.IT> Antwort an: Luca Bedogni <luca.bedogni4(a)UNIBO.IT> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The Ninth IEEE International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IEEE IQ2S-2018) (in conjunction with IEEE Percom 2018) March 19-23, 2018, Athens, Greece http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/iq2s-2018 **** Paper Submission Deadline --- November 11, 2017 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER: Pervasive computing provides an exciting paradigm for supporting anywhere anytime services, and is built on the tremendous advances made in a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless communication, wireless and sensor networking, mobile and distributed computing, as well as signal and information processing. Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world in a ubiquitous and natural manner. Quality of service (QoS), related to transmission delay, bandwidth, or packet loss, has been studied in various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks; the notion of computational QoS is used for parallel processing. The emerging pervasive computing paradigm, however, is application-driven and mission-critical and the existing QoS notions to do not really match. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ) of sensor-originated information relates to the fitness of the information for a sensor-enabled application. Harnessing and optimizing QoI of information derived from sensor networks will be key to bringing together information acquisition and processing systems that support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of smart, sensor-enabled applications such as remote real-time habitat monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control, supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance (ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to mention a few. The proliferation of smartphone has also enabled the possibility to retrieve data also by users on the move. This data collection paradigm is often called crowdsensing, or crowdsourcing, and builds upon the willingness of users to share data together, which eventually gets aggregated to provide novel services to the community. Although fascinating, and potentially disruptive, this paradigm inherently carries a set of technical challenges, at various levels and which should be studied by different research communities. At first, to make the data granularity spread enough, the crowd should be sufficiently large. This means that the application which runs on the users’ device has to be optimized, and should not interfere with the normal activity the users want to perform. This raises the challenge of having smart interfaces which communicate with the user only when necessary, along with the battery efficiency, which plays a crucial role being these devices almost always battery powered. Another technical challenge comes from the heterogeneous data aggregation, as data can be in many different shapes, formats, and labeled in different languages. Hence, automatically linking data that comes from different platforms becomes challenging, and again clustering techniques, supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms have to be developed to perform such task efficiently. Achieving the desired “pervasiveness” of mobile applications, which in turns enable to retrieve data for the community, and the assessment of the QoI itself is key. The objective of this workshop (which is unique venue in its scope for the pervasive community) is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, present results, share experience, and enhance collaborations among researchers, professionals, and application developers in various aspects of QoI, QoE, QoS for pervasive computing and crowdsensing in network contexts including wireless, mobile and sensor networks. Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of QoI and QoE provisioning in pervasive computing and mobile crowdsensing are solicited. Papers describing experience on real prototype implementations are particularly welcome. Topics of interest addressing the challenging joint aspects of QoI and QoE include: Joint QoI- & QoS-driven system design and architectural principles Network services (time sync, QoS) for target/event detection, localization, tracking and classification QoI-aware wireless sensor networking Energy-efficient data fusion, sensor fault analysis, sensor data cleansing for task mapping and scheduling Coordinated QoS for cross-layer, cross-application, and cross-node integration (including QoI-QoS integration) Query optimization for event processing in pervasive environments Data and query models for QoI-aware event processing Adaptive QoI and QoS under dynamic environments Trust, security, privacy, and data provenance issues in QoI and QoS QoI characterization, representation, performance metrics, and evaluation QoI and QoS for emerging pervasive computing applications Models of semantics and context in QoI-aware applications Market-based mechanisms to influence QoI Quality of Experience (QoE) issues for pervasive applications Value of information (VoI) and quality of action for sensor/actuator networks Prototype test-bed design, implementation, and field trials Energy efficiency in crowdsensed services and applications Protocols enhancement for crowdsensed services Social Internet of things Big data semantic Data science for crowdsensed services Opportunistic crowdsensed services Rewarding mechanism for crowdsensed services Crowdsensed testbeds and platforms Fog computing for IoT Heterogeneous data aggregation NLP techniques for crowdsensed services Machine learning techniques for data aggregation Machine learning techniques for data classification Privacy for crowdsensed data User behavior classification from public data User activity recognition User profiling Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). PAPER SUBMISSION All paper should be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23942 Selected high quality papers will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal. ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chairs Sajal K. Das, Missouri S & T, USA Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia TPC Co-Chairs Luca Bedogni, University of Bologna, Italy Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA -- Luca Bedogni, PhD Department of Computer Science University of Bologna, Italy http://lbedogni.web.cs.unibo.it ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE IPSN 2018: Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE IPSN 2018: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:29:47 +0500 Von: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> Antwort an: Muhammad Hamad Alizai <hamad.alizai(a)LUMS.EDU.PK> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks ***Note: Earlier submission deadline this year*** April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 =================================================================== The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. =================================================================== Key Dates: Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: Februray 16, 2018 ***Note: IPSN deadline this year is a week earlier than its past versions.*** =================================================================== Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS) regards, Hamad Alizai web.lums.edu.pk/~alizai ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE WoWMoM 2018 -- 19th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
by Lars Wolf 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE WoWMoM 2018 -- 19th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks Datum: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 00:41:47 +0000 Von: Koutsonikolas, Dimitrios <dimitrio(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Koutsonikolas, Dimitrios <dimitrio(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE WoWMoM 2018 19th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks http://it.murdoch.edu.au/wowmom2018/ sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Missouri University of Science and Technology, IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Communications (TCCC) June 12-15, 2018 Chania, Crete, Greece ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission due: November 23, 2017 Full manuscript due: November 30, 2017 Acceptance notification: March 15, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND OVERVIEW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE WoWMoM 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems. The evolution of wireless networking technologies and their key role in future Internet scenarios offer an increasing wealth of opportunities for distributing multimedia contents over wireless networks, enabling dissemination of professional contents to mobile users as well as sharing user-generated contents among them. Users will be able to retrieve, publish, and manage information, communicate with other users or devices, access and author services, and create and exploit context-awareness. Papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis, are solicited. Practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field-trials, or real deployments, are also welcome. Papers are invited which address new and previously unpublished results in the areas: – Ad-hoc, sensor, mesh and vehicular wireless networks – Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Context-awareness in wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Cognitive communications and networking – Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Energy-efficiency for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Internet/Web of Things – Localisation, tracking, and mobility management and services – Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Mobile applications and services over 5G networks – Mobile big data networking and services – Mobile cloud computing – Mobile applications and services over 5G networks – Mobile edge computing – Mobile health networking – Mobile network traffic characterization and measurements – Mobile social networks – Modelling, analysis, and performance evaluation - Network virutalisation and software-defined wireless networks – Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks – Participatory, mobile and urban sensing – Resource management for QoS/QoE provisioning – RFID, NFC, and Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications – Satellite and space networking – Seamless inter-networking and self-organisation – Security, trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences – Underwater wireless, mobile and multimedia networks – Virtual mobile infrastructure – Wireless BAN, PAN, LAN, MAN and WAN – Wireless multimedia systems, services and applications - Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS, using the link:https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23975 Authors can submit papers falling into two distinct paper categories (please select the appropriate one when submitting): Regular Papers Regular papers submissions may be up to 9 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. For the camera ready, authors can buy one additional page up to 10 pages. Work in Progress papers Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance (up to 4 pages). ********************************************************************************* For accepted papers, attendance and presentation by one of the authors is mandatory. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the conference and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2018 and submitted for publication to IEEE Xplore. All conference proceedings must meet IEEEÆs quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. WoWMoM organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference. Selected Papers will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) ********************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Abstract submission deadline: November 23, 2017 * Full manuscript due: November 30, 2017 * Acceptance notification: March 15, 2018 * Camera-Ready version due: April 22, 2018 * Conference Dates: June 12-15, 2017 WORKSHOPS AND AFFILIATED EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WoWMoM 2018 will offer a four-day technical program including keynote speeches, hot-topic panel sessions, tutorials, demonstrations, and PhD forum. Several workshops will be held in conjunction with the symposium. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEE Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. The conference also provides a high quality social events program, including a welcome reception, a gala dinner, and a guided tour of the historical part of Macau. DEMOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technical demonstrations in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems are solicited. Instructions for submitting a demo proposal will be posted in due time on the conference website. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL CHAIRS Polychronis Koutsakis, Murdoch University, Australia TPC CHAIRS Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Vasilios Siris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece STEERING COMMITTEE Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIRS Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada PUBLICATION CHAIRS Victoria Manfredi, Wesleyan University, USA Rita Tse, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China DEMONSTRATION CHAIRS Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Stefanos Papadakis, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIRS Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University of Buffalo, USA Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland Suranga Seneviratne, Data61 CSIRO, Australia PANEL CHAIRS Yue Gao, Queen Mary University of London, UK Mario Papadopouli, University of Crete, Greece PHD FORUM CHAIRS Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal Angelos Marnerides, Lancaster University, UK FINANCE & REGISTRATION CHAIR Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIRS Spyros Psychis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Marios Kastrinakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece WEB CHAIR David Murray, Murdoch University, Australia TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (not yet complete) Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabrück, Germany Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Albert Banchs, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Maryland, USA Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA Luca Bedogni, University of Bologna, Italy Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy Manoj BS, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Claudio Cicconetti, MBI, Italy Igor Curcio, Nokia, Finland Debraj De, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA Swades De, Indian Institute of Technology, India Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo, Italy Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy Mario Di Francesco, Aalto University, Finland Roberto Di Pietro, Bell Labs, France Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey Serge Fdida, UPMC, France Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy James Gross, KTH, Sweden Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University, UK Mahbub Hassan, UNSW Sydney, Australia Matthias Hollick, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Peizhao Hu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Wen Hu, UNSW Sydney, Australia Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Raja Jurdak, Data61-CSIRO, Australia Karl Holger, University of Paderborn, Germany Andreas J. Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Adrian Loch, IMDEA Networks, Spain Tony Luo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Angelos Marnerides, Lancaster University, UK Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal David Murray, Murdoch University, Australia Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA Vinayak Naik, IIIT Delhi, India Elena Pagani, University of Milano, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece James Pope, University of Bristol, UK Ioannis Psaras, University College London, UK Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland Damith Ranasighe, University of Adelaide, Australia Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA Jorge Sa Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Anand Seetharam, California State University, USA Shamik Sengupta, University of Nevada, USA Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky, USA Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, Canada Ioannis Stavrakakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Chen-Khong Tham, National University Singapore, Singapore Kanchana Thilakarathna, Data61-CSIRO, Australia Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Joerg Widmer, IMDEA Networks, Spain Andreas Willig, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin, Germany Hongyi Wu, Old Dominion University, USA Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA Zimu Zhou, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Cliff Zou, University of Central Florida, USA Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong, China ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IPSN 2018 Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 20:22:29 +0800 Von: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> Antwort an: Yuan He <heyuan(a)GREENORBS.ORG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Apology for cross-posting. Please note that the IPSN deadline this year is one week earlier than its past versions. ============================================================== The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks April 11-13, 2018 Porto, Portugal IPSN'18 is part of CPS Week 2018, co-locating with conferences HSCC, ICCPS and RTAS. http://ipsn.acm.org/2018 ============================================================== The International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is a leading annual forum on research in networked sensing and control, broadly defined. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects and the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas. Like prior years, IPSN'18 will continue its strong focus on algorithms, theory, and systems for information processing using networks of embedded, human-in-the-loop, or social sensors, as well as new hardware and software platforms, design methods, architectures, modelling, implementation, evaluation, deployment experiences, and tools for networked embedded sensor systems and the Internet of Things. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing - Streaming sensor system tasking and operation - Coding, compression, and information theory - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - Sensor tasking, control, and actuation - Theoretical foundation and fundamental bounds - Network and system architectures and protocols - IoT gateway platform architecture and services - Outdoor, wide-area sensing systems - Location, time, and other network services - Programming models, languages, and systems - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Embedded systems software frameworks - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools - Operating systems and runtime environments - User interfaces for sensing apps and systems - Cloud, mobile, participatory, and social sensing - Applications in health, wellness & sustainability - Applications in smart cities and urban health - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - Security and privacy in heterogeneous systems - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards - Wearable systems and data processing algorithms - Evaluation/deployment of industrial sensor systems - Sensor-enabled drone platforms and algorithms In addition to IPSN's traditional focus, IPSN 2018 will also include two new special tracks: Internet of Things (IoT), and Data and Machine Learning (DML). The IoT track will concentrate on issues related to the Internet of Things. Submission should refer to specific IoT-related issues including, but not limited to: - Programming models for IoT ensembles - Hardware, software, and system design for IoT - Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services - IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The DML track will concentrate on data and machine learning related issues in the traditional IPSN topic areas above. Topics can include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning and deep learning on sensor data - New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data - Novel machine learning algorithms (e.g., new techniques for modeling, optimization, signal processing, interpretation, evaluation, etc.) - Data related issues (e.g. structure, management, database, methods, tools, analysis, etc.) - Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards The entire program committee is eligible to review any submitted paper, but to aid in reviewer selection, authors are encouraged to indicate in the submission site if their papers are related to any of the special tracks IoT or DML. All accepted papers will be presented in the main conference. Response Process: New this year, IPSN will elicit a review and response process. After the initial review, the technical program committee may request a short (1-page) response from selected papers for additional clarifications. The authors will get a short time window of roughly 24 hours to respond. Participation in the response process is not mandatory. ============================================================== Key Dates Paper Abstract Registration: September 29th, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: October, 6th 2017 Response Period: January 8-10, 2018 Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline: Februray 16, 2018 ============================================================== Organization Committee - General Chair: Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano and SICS) - Technical Committee Co-Chairs: Jie Gao (Stony Brook University) and Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) - Publicity Chair: Yuan He (Tsinghua University), Hamad Alizai (LUMS) ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom)
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Huber Flores <000000b88e64d002-dmarc-request(a)comsoc.org> Gesendet: 7. September 2017 10:38:11 MESZ An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] Call for Papers: IEEE PerCrowd 2018 (co-located with IEEE PerCom) ************************************* [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************* ______________________________________________________________________ IEEE PerCrowd 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Multi-Device Pervasive and Mobile Computing Co-located with IEEE PerCom 2018, March 19-23 March 19, 2018 Athens, Greece - http://percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ - - SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ - Pervasive and mobile systems are constrained by energy and performance issues when they operate in isolation. Yet, several studies have shown that smart devices are frequently co-located in proximity to at least one other device throughout the day, suggesting that devices can potentially collaborate to reduce the effort of resource intensive tasks, e.g., sensing, offloading, networking, storage, etc. However, merging the resources of multiple devices to work together is a tough challenge as it requires a common understanding of the context of each device. In addition, since smart devices function in multiple roles, understanding what really constitutes context becomes difficult as different types of contexts need to be modeled depending on the type of task. - Context information is critical in multi device setups, e.g., for the formation of collaboration groups, and for negotiating responsibilities between the devices. Any misunderstandings in context can thus be extremely counterproductive for the collaboration between devices. Consider, for example, a computational task, e.g., game puzzle, whose execution can be accelerated by dividing computations between two or more devices. To distribute the task, we first need to understand the processing capacity of each device to ensure devices with insufficient resources are not harnessed for this task as they would turn into bottleneck for execution. By detecting the context for harnessing collaborative and opportunistic resources in proximity, it is possible to reduce the cost of executing tasks in the constrained resources of smart devices, and to diffuse the presence of smart devices beyond their existing computing isolated behavior. - The goal of PerCrowd 2018 is to explore the impact of context in collaborative and opportunistic computing. More in detail, the goal of this workshop is to explore the use and effect of contexts on multi-device settings, whose computational behavior can be propagated within a community of devices for optimizing their energy and performance. - Original papers addressing theoretical, practical, and technical aspects of opportunistic and collaborative self-organization of devices are solicited. Papers describing prototype implementations and deployment of such applications and systems are particularly welcome. The submission of informative surveys of the state of the art as well as position papers on controversial issues is also encouraged. - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Context-aware collaborative systems and applications - Resource extension of pervasive and mobile applications - Opportunistic context modeling - Pervasive computing applications harnessing multiple devices - Data-driven techniques for community formation - Self-organizing community construction and evolution - Crowdsensing and crowdsourcing models for data acquisition and fusion - Applications of crowdsensed models, e.g., incentive models, decision making models, and privacy models. - Infrastructure, architectures, and platforms for collaborative systems - Lessons and experiences of evaluating multi device context-aware systems and applications - Emerging applications for multi device environments. - - PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ - Papers should contain original material and not be previously published or currently under consideration elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines. - Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2018 Workshop Proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. There is no workshop-only registration. An oral presentation at the workshop is strictly required. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings as well as from the IEEE Xplore. - - IMPORTANT DATES _______________ - Abstract Registration: October 21, 2017 Submission Deadline: October 29, 2017 Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2017 Camera Ready due: January 12, 2018 Workshop: March 19 - - ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ - Program Committee Chairs - Huber Flores (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Pan Hui (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) - Vassilis Kostakos (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - Workshop Web Chair - Rajesh Sharma (Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia) - Publicity Chairs - Aaron Yi Ding (Technical University of Munich, Germany) - Chu Luo (The University of Melbourne, Australia) - - For more information, please check out percrowd.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking
by Lars Wolf 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [CFP] IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking Datum: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:46:48 -0700 Von: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> Antwort an: Huan Zhou <zhouhuan117(a)GMAIL.COM> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------- IEEE Access Special Section on Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking. *http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing-networking/ <http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/cyber-physical-social-computing…>* Submission Deadline: 31 December 2017 TOPIC SUMMARY: ------------------------- Recently, due to the rapid proliferation of sensors and intelligent devices, a new revolution in computing and communication has been witnessed. The next generation of computing and networking will utilize a wide variety of resources with significant sensing capabilities. Such computing and networking will extend beyond physically linked computers to include multimodal information from biological, cognitive, semantic, and social networks. This paradigm shift will involve symbiotic networks of human (social networks), intelligent devices, and mobile portable devices (e.g., smart phones, PDAs, iPads), that will form Cyber-Physical-Social Computing and Networking (CPSCN). These devices and the network will be constantly sensing, monitoring, and interpreting the environment, which is referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). The symbiosis of IoT and social networks will have significant implications for both the market for advanced computing and communication infrastructure and future markets – for approximately 5 billion people — that CPSCN will create. Many researchers have paid much attention to CPSCN since it still faces many challenges (e.g., architecture, security, privacy, incentive mechanism, etc.). This Special Section in IEEE Access is inviting researchers who are working on related research areas to contribute high quality articles to present the most recent advances on emerging technologies in CPSCN, applications, architectures, and big data challenges. Both original practical work and review articles are welcome. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Architectural, modeling and simulation of CPSCN - Incentives mechanism design for CPSCN - Routing protocol, data dissemination and offloading algorithms design for CPSCN - Security, privacy and trust for CPSCN - Community detection and network evolution analysis for CPSCN - Mobile social sensing for CPSCN - Social network analysis and social influence analysis for CPSCN - Big Data mining and analytics for CPSCN - Cloud computing and fog computing for CPSCN - Machine learning models and methods for CPSCN - Smart worlds, smart cities and smart medicines for CPSCN - Green computing and sustainable computing for CPSCN - Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration for CPSCN - New applications on CPSCN *Associate Editor:* Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada *Guest Editors:* Huan Zhou, China Three Gorges University, China Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Houcine Hassan, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Vincenzo Piuri, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ------------------------------------- Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: ltyang(a)gmail.com *===============* 周欢湖北省“楚天学者”/校聘教授/硕士生导师三峡大学计算机与信息学院湖北省宜昌市大学路8号，443002 *===============* Huan Zhou, PH.D, Chutian Scholar, School Hired Professor College of Computer and Information Technology China Three Gorges University Daxue Road 8#, Yichang, P.R.China, 443002 Tel:+86 13972554059 Email: zhouhuan117(a)gmail.com; hzhou(a)ece.ubc.com ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium
by Lars Wolf 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: ACM SenSys 2017: Doctoral Colloquium Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:30:03 +0200 Von: Carlo Alberto Boano <cboano(a)tugraz.at> Antwort an: iti.announcement(a)mlist.tugraz.at An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2017) November 5-8, 2017 Delft, The Netherlands http://sensys.acm.org/2017/ *CALL FOR DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM ABSTRACTS* The Doctoral Colloquium of SenSys 2017 seeks to provide a friendly, supportive, and constructive environment where PhD students can present their research in progress for an open discussion guided by a panel of experienced researchers. The Doctoral Colloquium will be structured as a series of short presentations by the students followed by individual discussions, feedback, and advice. Students with the most inspiring topics will also be invited to present a poster during the main conference to leverage further interaction with SenSys attendees. Current PhD students in the early stages of their career are encouraged to submit a 2-pages research summary describing the work in progress and including a 100-word abstract. Things to consider for inclusion in the research summary might be: the expected contribution to the field; the original idea or thesis statement; the problem domain and the specific problem addressed; a brief overview of related work; the methodological approach; research carried out and results so far. The abstract shall also include a one-paragraph biography of the student, including the names and affiliations of the research advisor(s), and expected date of dissertation submission.The student should be the sole author, although contributions of the advisor and others should be acknowledged. The Doctoral Colloquium committee will review submissions to ensure quality, relevance, and potential benefit from attendance. Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in person to the Doctoral Colloquium. There will be no separate registration fee for the Doctoral Colloquium. Submissions Research summaries will be reviewed by the chairs and panel members. If the work is accepted, a student may be expected to make clarifications and improvements to the research summary by the camera-ready deadline. Submissions must be received no later than September 29th via web submission form <https://sensys2017.es.ewi.tudelft.nl/sensys/doctoral/>. Submissions must be in PDF format, be written in English, of no more than two pages in length (all inclusive), and adhere to the Sensys formatting styles found here <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>.The abstract should include the author’s name, affiliation, and email address. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 29th, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: October 6th, 2017 Camera-Ready: October 13th, 2017 Colloquium: November 5th, 2017 Doctoral Colloquium Panelists Hae Young Noh (Carnegie Mellon University, US) Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia, US) Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology, NL) Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba, CA) Doctoral Colloquium Chairs Marco Cattani (Graz University of Technology, AT) Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA) -- ................................................. Ass.Prof. Boano Carlo Alberto Graz University of Technology Institute for Technical Informatics Inffeldgasse 16, Room: IE01144 / E.2.12 A-8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 (0) 316 873-6413 Fax: +43 (0) 316 / 873 - 6903 E-Mail: cboano(a)tugraz.at http://www.carloalbertoboano.com .................................................

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2018) Call for Papers Datum: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:24:02 +0000 Von: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> Antwort an: Tan Rui (Asst Prof) <tanrui(a)NTU.EDU.SG> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG ================================================================================ Call for Papers ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/ Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. ================================================================================ Important (Preliminary) Dates Abstracts due: September 29th, 2017 Full papers due: October 6th, 2017 Author notification: January 15th, 2018 The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) is a premier venue on IoT. In 2018, IoTDI will be held for the third time and topics span the entire ecosystem revolving around IoT, such as cloud and edge computing, data analytics, sensor networks, mobile devices, Internet architecture, middleware and numerous IoT applications. To reflect the interconnection of IoT with both cloud computing and cyber-physical systems, IoTDI is co-located in even years with IEEE IC2E and in odd years with CPS Week. Plan to submit your best papers to ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018 (deadline 2017/10/6) and see you in Orlando, Florida, in April 2018, where IoTDI will be co-located with IEEE IC2E. A confluence of technological advances marks the advent of a new era. World data volume is growing at an unprecedented pace, much of it from embedded devices. Smart cities are expected to grow, fed by millions of data points from multitudes of human and physical sources. Cyber-attacks grow more nefarious, bringing down physical systems. Social networks are becoming ubiquitous, offering information on physical things. The separation between cyber, physical, and social systems is blurring. Collectively, these developments lead to the emergence of a new field, where the networking and physical realms meet. It is the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). This conference is an interdisciplinary forum to discuss challenges, technologies, and emerging directions in system design and implementation that pertain to this Internet of Things. This conference invites researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, and accepts original, previously unpublished work on a range of topics related to the Internet of Things. * Analytic foundations and theory of the Internet of Things * Reliability, security, timeliness, and robustness in IoT systems * Novel protocols and network abstractions * Data streaming architectures * IoT-motivated cyber-physical and Industrial Internet systems * Novel quality requirements and their enforcement mechanisms * Cloud back-ends and resource management for IoT applications * Personal, wearable, and other embedded networked front-ends * Social computing and human-in-the-loop issues * Applications and drivers for the Internet of Things * Industrial deployment experiences, case studies, and lessons learned * Evaluation and testbeds General Chair * Chenyang Lu (Washington University in St. Louis) Program Co-Chairs * Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology) * Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Hui Lei (IBM Watson Health Cloud) Finance Chair * Tarek Abdelzaher (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Publicity Co-Chairs * Simon Duquennoy (Swedish Inst. of Computer Science) * Mo Sha (Binghamton University) * Rui Tan (Nanyang Technological University) Poster Chair * Abusayeed Saifullah (Wayne State University) Demo Chair * Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology) Web Chair * Chao Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -- ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth: Print only when necessary. Thank you. ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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Fwd: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS
by Lars Wolf 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] [EWSN 2018] CALL FOR COMPETITORS Datum: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:38:36 -0400 Von: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> Antwort an: Zhi Sun <zhisun(a)BUFFALO.EDU> An: tccc-announce(a)COMSOC.ORG --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Competitors 3rd Dependability Competition at the Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) February 14-16, 2018 - Madrid, Spain https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the success of the 2016 and 2017 editions, the Intl. Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) will host also this year a competition to compare the performance of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments. FORMAT: This year's dependability competition will have a new format compared to the past two editions, the most prominent changes being that it will take place remotely over a longer time window, and that it will involve the reporting of multiple events from several nodes. Interested participants should first submit an abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline. Accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to remotely access the competition infrastructure and enter the preparation phase, after which each team needs to provide one binary that will be used for the final evaluation. A poster session entirely dedicated to the dependability competition will take place during the evening of the first conference day. All competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other conference attendees. The winners of the competition will be awarded during a dedicated plenary session on the second conference day and will hold a 10-minutes talk preseting their solution, followed by a short discussion. COMPETITION SCENARIO AND EVALUATION PROCEDURE: The competition scenario emulates the operation of a sensor and actuator network monitoring discrete events in an industrial setting where several co-existing wireless devices are crowding the RF spectrum. A complete description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure can be found at: https://ewsn2018.networks.imdea.org/call-for-competitors.html ELIGIBILITY Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to program the sensor nodes. The competition will take place if at least 5 teams respond to this preliminary call for competitors. Depending on the nature and number of submissions, multiple categories may be defined. The winning teams in each category will receive cash awards and present their approach at EWSN in a 10-minutes plenary talk. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Interested participants should first submit a two-page abstract describing their approach by the competition entry deadline, following the formatting requirements described on the competition Webpage. The abstracts will be used to pre-select the participants to the competition. Accepted contestants will have the chance to edit their abstract and submit a camera-ready version by the end of the competition's preparation phase. Accepted abstracts will appear in the ACM Digital Library, unless authors explicitly mark their submission as confidential. IMPORTANT DATES: Competition entry deadline (Abtract submission): Oct. 11, 2017 Notification of acceptance: Oct. 18, 2017 Camera-ready abstract submission: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's preparation phase: From mid-Nov. 2017 until Jan. 7, 2018 Submission of final software: Jan. 7, 2018 Competition's evaluation phase: From mid-Jan. until Feb. 7, 2018 Competition panel and poster session: Feb. 14, 2018 Competition awards and winners' presentations: Feb. 15, 2018 ORGANIZERS: Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz Markus Schuss, TU Graz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call --------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce(a)comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/

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