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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2014 (Deadline in September)
by Lars Wolf 24 May '13

24 May '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2014 (Deadline in September) Datum: Fri, 24 May 2013 09:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Von: bhoh(a)ovi.com Antwort an: bhoh(a)ovi.com An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS PerCom 2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications 24-28 March 2014, Budapest, Hungary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IEEE PerCom, now in its twelfth edition, is established as the premier annual scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications. Pervasive computing and communications has evolved into an active area of research and development, due to the tremendous advances in a broad spectrum of technologies and topics including wireless networking, mobile and distributed computing, sensor systems, RFID technology, and the ubiquitous mobile phone. PerCom 2014 will be held in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary and one of the most idyllic and historic cities of Europe. PerCom 2014 will provide a leading edge, scholarly forum for researchers, engineers, and students alike to share their state-of-the art research and developmental work in the broad areas of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of interactive forums: core technical sessions of high quality cutting-edge research articles; targeted workshops on exciting topics; live demonstrations of pervasive computing in action; insightful keynote speeches; panel discussions from domain experts; and posters of emerging ideas. Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: - Innovative pervasive computing applications - Data management for pervasive computing - Programming paradigms for pervasive systems - Architectures, protocols, and technologies for pervasive communications - Software evolution and maintenance in pervasive systems - Middleware for pervasive services and applications - Adaptive, autonomic and context-aware computing - Participatory and social sensing - Opportunistic networking and sensing in pervasive systems - Mobile/wearable computing systems and services in pervasive computing - Energy-efficient and green pervasive computing - Positioning and tracking technologies - Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems - Multimodal sensing and context for pervasive applications - Machine learning for activity recognition - Smart devices and intelligent environments - Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems - User interface, interaction, and persuasion - Context modeling and reasoning - Cognitive computing in pervasive systems - Virtual immersive communications - Pervasive computing aspects of social networks - Social and economic models for pervasive systems Workshops and Affiliated Events Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the main conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2014 will also feature a PhD Forum, Work-in-Progress Posters, and Live Demonstrations. Please visit the conference website for details. Important Dates Paper Registration: Sep. 20th, 2013 Paper submission: Sep. 27th, 2013 Notification: Dec. 11st, 2013 Camera Ready: Jan. 24th, 2014 Best paper award The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of the Elsevier journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Guidelines for preparing and submitting the manuscript will be made available on the conference website. All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Additional author names cannot be added after acceptance. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs: Károly Farkas, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington Program Chair: George Roussos, Birkbeck College, University of London Vice Program Co-Chairs: Shin'ichi Konomi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo, Canada Kay Römer, University of Lübeck, Germany Workshops Co-Chairs: Franca Delmastro, National Research Council of Italy Steering Committee Chair: Jadwiga Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia Christine Julien, The University of Texas, Austin For additional information, please visit the website www.percom.org or contact the PC chair at percom2014(a)dcs.bbk.ac.uk _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CoNext short paper deadline ADVANCED to June 14th.
by Lars Wolf 24 May '13

24 May '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CoNext short paper deadline ADVANCED to June 14th. Datum: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:34:16 -0400 (EDT) Von: Sanjay G Rao <sanjay(a)ecn.purdue.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu As previously announced, the 9th edition of the ACM CoNext conference includes an explicit call for 6-page short papers, in addition to the normal 12 page full length papers. This email is to announce that the paper submission deadline for the short papers has been ADVANCED to June 14th, to coincide with the full paper submission deadline. The CoNext Organization Committee sincerely regrets any inconvenience this may cause to authors. However, this was necessitated by the need to avoid conflicts in submission dates with HotNets, an ACM Sigcomm sponsored workshop. Regardless of these teething problems, the Organization Committee believes the short paper track will greatly add to the vibrancy of ACM CoNext as it seeks to serve the needs of the research community. For more information, and the complete Call for Papers, please visit the conference web-site: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2013 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM CHANTS 2013 (co-located with ACM MobiCom) - Only 3 days left to submit your abstract!
by Lars Wolf 23 May '13

23 May '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: Fehmi Ben Abdesslem <fb375(a)cam.ac.uk> Gesendet: Wed May 22 17:55:02 MESZ 2013 An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM CHANTS 2013 (co-located with ACM MobiCom) - Only 3 days left to submit your abstract! [Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ______________________________________________________________________ ACM CHANTS 2013 - 8th Workshop on Challenged Networks co-located with ACM MobiCom 2013 September 30-October 4, Miami, Florida, USA www.acm-chants.org/13 ______________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW __________________ Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired, but traditional Internet protocol architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Common examples of challenged networks include high delay environments such as inter-planetary networks, limited power environments such as sensor and wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, and communication in settings that lack infrastructure such as rural and remote areas, and military battlefields. Challenged networks also find application in everyday settings, when access to traditional infrastructure is restricted, expensive, overly complex, or rapidly changing. This workshop builds on the success of the seven previous CHANTS workshops, and WDTN 2005. CHANTS provides an ideal venue for researchers and engineers to present cutting-edge work and results, as research papers or demos, in the following topics: • Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs) • Opportunistic communication and computing • Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks • Modeling, analysis and characterization of challenged networks and protocols • Security/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks • Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in various stages of development or use • Applications for challenged networks (e.g. disaster relief and emergency management, vehicular networks, mobile social networking, censorship evasion, crowd-sourcing, sensor networks) • Green and energy-efficient communication using challenged networks • Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments • Network science methods for challenged networks • Mobile data offloading and content-centric approaches via challenged networks • Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems • Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks • Applications of challenged networking techniques to communication in daily life • Mobile cloud solutions in challenged networks Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to accept approximately 12 papers, and to have a highly interactive workshop, including a keynote speaker and a panel. In addition, demos have been an integral part of CHANTS, and we aim to accept up to ten demos. Paper authors who can also run a demo of their work are encouraged to do so. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable. PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ________________________________________ Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, and should adhere to the standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposal abstracts (to be published as part of the proceedings) shall not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements. Please follow the submission link at: http://www.acm-chants.org/13 IMPORTANT DATES _______________ Abstract Registration: 25 May 2013 Submission Deadline: 1 June 2013 Authors Notification: 25 June 2013 Camera Ready Due: 10 July 2013 Workshop: 30 September 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ____________________ Program Committee Chairs • Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Institut Eurecom, France) • Anders Lindgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden) Publicity Chair • Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (University of Cambridge, UK) Technical Program Committee • Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) • Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA) • Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR Pisa, Italy) • Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL, USA) • Guohong Cao (Penn State, USA) • Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University, USA) • Vania Conan (Thales Architecture Framework Centre, France) • Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA) • Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) • Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK) • Theus Hossmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) • Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) • Stratis Ioannidis (Technicolor Palo Alto, USA) • Merkourios Karaliopoulos (University of Athens, Greece) • Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC, USA) • Giovanni Neglia (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France) • Melek Onen (Institut Eurecom, France) • Joerg Ott (AALTO University, Finland) • Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy) • Andreea Picu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) • Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Business and Economy, Greece) • Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK) Steering Committee • Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara, USA) • Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) • Christophe Diot (Technicolor, France) • Deborah Estrin (UC-Los Angeles, USA) • Kevin Fall (Intel Research Berkeley, USA) • Jeorg Ott (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland) • James Scott (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK) Find out more at www.acm-chants.org/13 _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Extended deadline - Deadline Approaching]: 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)
by Cristina Alcaraz 23 May '13

23 May '13

** Apologies for multiple copies ** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013) Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 16-18, 2013 http://www.critis2013.nl The annually held CRITIS conference is devoted to Critical (Information) Infrastructure security, protection and resilience. The 8th edition will be held from 16-18 September 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The CRITIS 2013 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers and critical infrastructure stakeholders who wish to present their papers at the conference. More information can be found at: www.critis2013.nl. Modern societies increasingly depend on critical infrastructures. Those themselves increasingly depend on and are entangled with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Disruption or loss of (ICT-based) critical infrastructures may result in serious consequences for the functioning of the society, the economy, the functioning of governments, the ecology and social well-being of people, and in the most unfortunate cases loss of human lives, livestock and other animals. As a consequence, the security, reliability and resilience of these infrastructures are critical for the society. Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection (C(I)IP) is therefore a major objective for governments, companies, operators of these infrastructures and the worldwide research community. CRITIS 2013 is set to continue a well-established tradition of presenting innovative research and exploring new challenges for the protection of critical information-based infrastructures (CIP/CIIP). CRITIS brings together stakeholders from industry, operators and governments as well as researchers and professionals from academia, applied research organisations and industry interested in all different aspects of C(I)IP. One focus of CRITIS 2013 is on the new challenges of Resilience of Smart Cities, a topic that will be highlighted by thought provoking and visionary keynote speeches and by conference papers. The second day of CRITIS 2013 will be a meeting place between the diverse set of C(I)IP stakeholders with their short, medium and long term needs and the academic and applied research communities. CRITIS2013 intends to foster collaboration, to find common, collaborative approaches towards solutions and to boost R&D to address the identified needs. On the third day, the focus will be on the (academic) advances in C(I)IP R&D. A (virtual) multi-disciplinary community of new talented PhD students and junior researchers in the field of C(I)IP will be build: YOUNG CRITIS. Young CRITIS appeals to the scientific C(I)IP communities at national, European and global level. Given the focus areas above, the programme committee will select papers per topic category (or track) mentioned below. Therefore, authors need to state which topic category they address. Researchers are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting research papers, work-in-progress reports, R&D project results, surveying works and industrial experiences describing significant advances in C(I)IP. Stakeholders from governments, Critical Infrastructure operators, and industry are encouraged to submit papers which describe their current and future challenges to be engaged by researchers and multidisciplinary research teams. Important Dates Extended deadline for submission of papers: June 15, 2013 Notification to authors: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready papers: August 16, 2013 The CRITIS 2013 Scientific Committee invites papers for the following four topic categories: Topic category 1: Resilience of Smart Cities Topic category 2: Requirements for C(I)IP by C(I)I Stakeholders Topics of interest for category 2 include: C(I)IP requirements for Resilient Smart Cities C(I)IP requirements posed as future (near, mid and long term) challenges, e.g. mobility and smart grids Requirements for Resilient (Information) Infrastructures C(I)I Survivability requirements The use of clouds for C(I)I operations Economics, Investments and Incentives of C(I)IP C(I)I Exercises & Contingency Plans Trust Models in Normal Situations and During Escalation C(I)IP Polices at National and Cross-border levels C(I)IP R&D Agenda at National and International levels Stakeholders include Industry, CI operators, government agencies, EU Directorates) and integrated solution directions by CIP/CIIP-related R&D communities and disciplines. Papers submitted for topic categories 1 and 2 that do not fit the focus of the category, may be reassigned by the Scientific Committee to topic categories 3 or 4. Topic category 3: Advances in C(I)IP and Topic category 4: YOUNG CRITIS Topics of interest for categories 3 and 4 include all topics mentioned under topic category 2 as well as topics like: Resilient C(I)I and C(I)I Survivability Resilience of interacting C(I)I Cyber Defence of C(I)I Self-healing, Self-protection, and Self-management Architectures C(I)I dependency Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Validation Protection of Complex Cyber - Physical Systems Cyber security related threats & vulnerabilities, modeling and analysis Cyber Security of Smart Grids, Process Control and SCADA Advanced Forensic Methodologies for C(I)I Public - Private Partnership for C(I)I Resilience Instructions for Paper Submission All submissions will be subjected to a thorough blind review by at least three reviewers. Papers should be in English and no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. As in previous years, it is planned that post-proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Workshop and present the paper. Paper submission will be done via EasyChair. The submitted paper (in PDF or PostScript format) should follow the respective template offered by Springer. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. However, the submission should be anonymised and all author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and obvious traceable references should be eliminated. Extended and fully revised versions of the best papers accepted for CRITIS 2013, after a further peer-reviewed process, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (Inderscience). Programme Committee Co-Chairs Pieter Hartel (TU Twente & TNO, Netherlands) Eric Luiijf (TNO, The Netherlands) Programme Committee (Invitations are sent out, confirmations partly pending) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Geert Deconinck (K. U. Leuven, Belgium) Paulo Maciel (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Andre Samberg (Sec-Control, Finland and IMG-S TA2, European Union) Arslan Brömme (Vattenfall, Germany) Jurge Cuellar (Siemens, Germany) Christoph Krauss (Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany) Stefan Pickl (Bunderswehruniversität München, Germany) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Neeraj Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Stelios Dritsas (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Panos Kotzanikolaou (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Evangelos Ouzounis (European Network and Information Security Agency, Greece) Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Marianthi Theoharidou (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Gregorio D'Agostino (ENEA, Italy) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Emiliano Casalicchio (Università di Tor Vergata, Italy) Giovanna Dondossola (RSE, Italy) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Stefano Panzieri (University Roma Tre, Italy) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Eiji Okamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Janne Hagen (Proactima, Norway) Katrin Franke (Gjøvik University Collage, Norway) Margrete Raaum (CERT University of Oslo, Norway) Ketil Stølen (SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) Janusz Gorski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Paolo Verissimo (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal) Christina Alcaraz (University Malaga, Spain) Jorge L. Hernandez-Ardieta (INDRA, Spain) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Barend Taute (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Stefan Brem (Federal Office for Civil Protection, Switzerland) Myriam Dunn (ETH Centre for Security Studies, Switzerland) Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Marcelo Masera (EU Joint Research Centre Petten, The Netherlands) Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Chris Johnson (Glasgow University, UK) Adrian Gheorghe (Old Dominion University, USA) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Steven M. Rinaldi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Angelos Stavrou (George Mason University, USA) Steering Committee Chairs Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Steering Committee Members Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK)

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Fwd: 10. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste"
by Lars Wolf 23 May '13

23 May '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Von: "Jörg Roth" <Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de> Gesendet: Thu May 23 08:35:54 MESZ 2013 An: Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de Betreff: 10. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" CALL FOR PAPERS 10. Fachgespräch der GI/ITG-Fachgruppe KuVS Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste (Location based Applications and Services) 16./17. September 2013, FSU Jena http://www.lbas2013.uni-jena.de Deadline für Extended Abstract: 05. August ===================================================================== Das Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" verfolgt das Ziel, Wissenschaftlern und Praktikern aus der Informatik und angrenzenden Bereichen einen Erfahrungsaustausch auf dem Gebiet der ortsbezogenen und mobilen Anwendungen und Dienste zu ermöglichen. Dazu werden alle Interessierten aufgerufen, wissenschaftliche Beiträge einzureichen. Zu den relevanten Themengebieten gehören: * Ortsbezogene Dienste des Mobilfunks * Ortsbezogene Dienstvermittlung und -suche * Modellierung von Mobilität und des Benutzerkontextes * Middleware-Plattformen für ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste * Datenbanken für ortsbezogene Dienste, Geodatenbanken, GIS * Positionsbestimmung, auch auf der Basis mobiler Netzwerke * Sensorik bzw. Sensornetze zur Erfassung von Kontextdaten * Umsetzungen konkreter Anwendungen aus diesem Bereich, z.B. Tour Guides, Friend Finder * Navigation * Sicherheitsaspekte mobiler und ortsbezogener Dienste * Nutzerinterfaces mobiler und ortsbezogener Anwendungen * Generische Frameworks und Bibliotheken * Neuartige Anwendungsbereiche (Gaming, Entertainment, Sicherheit, Frühwarnsysteme, Katastrophenmanagement) * Verteilte Algorithmen und Simulationsmodelle * Angrenzende Themen z.B. aus dem Bereich der Geoinformatik Aufgrund der breiten Zustimmung, die das Fachgespräch in den letzten Jahren erfahren hat, wird es dieses Jahr wieder zwei Präsentations-formen geben. Neben den klassischen Vortragsprogramm wird es eine Postersession geben, in der den Teilnehmern die Gelegenheit gegeben, die präsentieren Themen interaktiv zu diskutieren. Beiträge sollen in Form eines Extended Abstract bis zum 05. August über Easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lbas2013 eingereicht werden. Es sind Beiträge in deutscher oder englischer Sprache erwünscht. Nach dem Fachgespräch werden Teilnehmer aufgefordert, ihre Beiträge als Vollpublikation einzureichen, die in einem Tagungsband mit ISBN veröffentlicht wird. Weitere Informationen sind auf der Webseite des Fachgesprächs zu finden: http://www.lbas2013.uni-jena.de Kontakt: - Volkmar Schau, volkmar.schau(a)uni-jena.de - Gerald Eichler, gerald.eichler(a)telekom.de - Jörg Roth, Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de -- * Prof. Dr. habil. Joerg Roth * Faculty of Computer Science * Nuremberg Institute of Technology * Tel. +49-911-5880-1169 Email: Joerg.Roth(a)th-nuernberg.de * Fax +49-911-5880-5666 Web: http://www.wireless-earth.de * Postal address: Kesslerplatz 12, 90489 Nuremberg, Germany * Office address: Hohfederstraße 40, 90489 Nuremberg

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Fwd: [Tccc] WBAN special issue
by Lars Wolf 22 May '13

22 May '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Sana Ullah <sanajcs(a)gmail.com> > Datum: 21. Mai 2013 23:33:54 MESZ > An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] WBAN special issue > > Special Issue of Information Sciences on Cloud-Assisted Wireless Body Area > Networks > > Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have emerged as a promising technology > for medical and non-medical applications. WBANs consist of a number of > miniaturized, portable, and autonomous sensor nodes that are used to > monitor the body function and the surrounding environment. These sensor > nodes continuously collect vital signs of patients, which are used for > ubiquitous health monitoring including real-time diagnosis and > prescription. In addition, WBANs may be used for managing catastrophic > events and increasing the effectiveness and performance of rescue forces. > Other potential applications include interactive gaming, social computing, > entertainment, and military applications. The huge amount of data collected > by WBAN nodes demands scalable, on-demand, powerful, and secure storage and > processing infrastructure. Cloud computing is expected to play a > significant role in achieving the aforementioned objectives. The cloud > computing environment links different devices ranging from miniaturized > sensor nodes to high-performance supercomputers for delivering > people-centric and context-centric services to the individuals and > industries. The possible integration of WBANs with cloud computing > (WBAN-cloud) will introduce viable and hybrid platform that must be able to > process the huge amount of data collected from multiple WBANs. This > WBAN-cloud will enable users (including physicians and nurses) to globally > access the processing and storage infrastructure at competitive costs. > Because WBANs forward useful and life-critical information to the cloud – > which may operate in distributed and hostile environments, novel security > mechanisms are required to prevent malicious interactions to the storage > infrastructure. Both the cloud providers and the users must take strong > security measures to protect the storage infrastructure. > > The aim of this special issue is to invite high quality unpublished > research articles in the development of cloud computing environments for > WBANs, articulate new perspectives, and highlight open issues and > challenges. Particulary, this special issue will show the most recent > advancements in WBAN-cloud computing domain. Original review and survey > articles in this area will be appreciated. Topics of interest include, but > are not limited to: > > - Cloud computing algorithms for resource allocation > - Fault tolerance and reliability > - Scalability in processing and storage infrastructure > - Models for supporting mobility in WBAN-cloud environment > - Cloud monitoring and maintenance > - Traffic and load balancing in the WBAN-cloud environment > - Security and privacy > > *Submission Guidelines* > > All manuscripts should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System > (EES). The authors must select as “cloud-assisted wireless body area > networks” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission > process. The EES website is located at: http://www.ees.elsevier.com/ins > > *Important Dates:* > Paper submission:July. 1, 2013Review notification:Nov. 1, 2013Revision:Jan. > 1, 2014Final acceptance notification:Feb. 25, 2014Publication:Mid-2014 > > > > *Editor-in-Chief* > > *Prof. Witold Pedrycz* > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta > Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Facility, Edmonton, T6G 2V4, > Canada > Email: pedrycz(a)ualberta.ca > > *Guest Editors* > > *Prof. Athanasios Vasilakos* > Department of Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait > Email: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr > > *Prof. Han-Chieh Chao* > College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science > National Ilan University, I-Lan, Taiwan > Email: hcchao(a)gmail.com > > *Dr. Sana Ullah* > College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Riyadh > Email: sullah(a)ksu.edu.sa > > *Prof. Jun Suzuki* > University of Massachusetts, Boston > Email: jxs(a)cs.umb.edu > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP Special Sessions: DS-RT' 2013 - Delft, October 30- November 1, 2013
by Lars Wolf 22 May '13

22 May '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: Robson De Grande <robson.degrande(a)gmail.com> > Datum: 21. Mai 2013 22:16:39 MESZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] CFP Special Sessions: DS-RT' 2013 - Delft, October 30- November 1, 2013 > > Dear Colleagues and Researchers, > > Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. > > > ********** CALL FOR PAPER ********** > > DS-RT 2013, the seventeenth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed > Simulations and Real Time Applications, is running three special sessions > this year: > - Simulation and Real Time Applications for Road Traffic Management > - Recent Advances in WSN's design and Deployment for Real-Time > Applications > - Agent-based Modelling and Simulation > > Those special sessions cover three important areas of the field of > distributed simulations and real time applications, and many papers were > accepted in previous editions of DS-RT on the same topics. See below for > more detailed descriptions of those special sessions. > > > ***** PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW ***** > > Submitted manuscripts must be in standard IEEE two-column format that is > used for IEEE conference proceedings and must not exceed "8 pages" (2-page > extension allowed), including figures, tables and references. Standard IEEE > templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at: > - > http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html > > A submission may present preliminary results, propose new research > direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative > viewpoint on important wireless and mobile networks topic. Papers will be > selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical > discussions at the special session and influencing future research. > Relevant attributes include originality, technical merit, clarity, and > technical relevance. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through EDAS ( > https://edas.info/N14613 - ("DS-RT 2013")). All papers will be peer > reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. Consistent with > standard scholarly practice, the authors should not have substantially > similar work in review anywhere else. The accepted papers are to be > included into IEEE Xplore. > > > ***** IMPORTANT DATES ***** > > Full paper submission deadline: June 15th, 2013 (23:59 EDT) > Paper acceptance notification: July 20th, 2013 > > > > ***** FOR MORE INFORMATION ***** > > For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact > the session organisers - find all relevant information on the corresponding > web pages below. > > > ***** DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS ***** > > * Special Session on Simulation and Real Time Applications for Road Traffic > Management > > This special session focuses on simulation tools and real time applications > in relation to road traffic management and prediction for smart cities, > from both the decision maker perspective as well as the end user point of > view. Loads of data (e.g. real-time traffic information) and new facilities > (e.g. communication devices) are available out there and force engineering > companies, road authorities, and communications experts to redesign their > solutions. We aim at bringing together industrial experts and researchers > from academia to present their results and discuss the challenges related > to real time traffic management and simulation for Intelligent > Transportation Systems (ITS). > > DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/srtartm_2013.htm > > > * Special Session on Recent Advances in WSN's design and Deployment for > Real-Time Applications > > Over the last decade,researchers and engineersfrom industry and academia > were focusing their efforts mainly on energy saving strategies to maximize > the Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) lifetime. However, new emerging > applications, which consider critical and multimedia flows, are gaining > more and more popularity in various activity domains. Those WSN-based > applications have strict requirementsin terms of security, fault tolerance, > and Quality of Service (QoS). The various types of constraints to consider > make the design, implementation, and validation of such applications very > challenging. > QoS and real-time support in WSNs face severe challenges due to the > wireless nature of the channel, limited resources, low node reliability, > distributed architecture and dynamic network topology in some applications. > This special session seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and > engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners who > face the challenges of QoS and Real-time support in WSNs applications. They > are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas, > simulation tools and applications, and discussthe key unresolved > challengesin the topics of this special session. > > DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/rawd_2013.htm > > * Special Session on Agent-based ModelLing and Simulation > > > This special session focuses on general aspects and special properties for > agent-based modeLling and simulations that allows them to be applied on > several scientific domains, such as sociology, physics, chemistry, biology, > ecology, and economy. The session is intended to bring together researchers > and practitioners, so they can present the current status of their work and > discuss the challenges they face in developing solutions and applications > for agent-based simulations. Consequently, the design of these simulations > aims not only to social contexts but also to more technical domains, which > involves highly complex interactive systems. > > DS-RT 2013 Special Session web page: http://ds-rt.com/2013/abms_2013.htm > > > Best Regards, > DS-RT 2013 Special Session Chairs > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Fwd: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communication (PCSC)
by Lars Wolf 22 May '13

22 May '13

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail: > Von: "CFP" <cfp(a)samrg.org> > Datum: 16. Mai 2013 17:33:19 MESZ > An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communication (PCSC) > Antwort an: cfp(a)samrg.org > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > Workshop on People Centric Sensing and Communications (PCSC) > (www.samrg.org/pcsc/2014) > at IEEE CCNC 2014, Las Vegas, NV, USA - Jan 10, 2014 > (www.ieee-ccnc.org) > > Networked consumer devices are equipped for personal and environmental > sensing, collection, and delivery of sensed information. The workshop > addresses a range of research issues involving networking, sensing, data > collection, aggregation and processing, knowledge discovery in sensing > data, security/privacy, scalability, contextual/situational adaptation and > dynamics. > > Papers are max 5 pages in length and conform to the IEEE conference format. > Paper submissions are via EDAS (see the conference web site later). > Papers receive at least 3 independent reviews from workshop TPC. > > Important Dates: > > - Submission deadline: Sept 1, 2013 > - Acceptance notification: Sept 30, 2013 > - Final version due: Oct 10, 2013 > - Workshop presentation: either Jan 10, 2014 > > Topics of interest include: > - Phone sensing and applications > - Sensing using eye-wear > - Body mounted sensing > - Mobile cloud infrastructure for mobile sensing > - Participatory and collaborative sensing > - Mixed sensor networks and people-centric sensing > - Mobile sensing for sports and entertainment > - Sensor overlays and sensor web for mobile sensing > - Mobile social networks and sensing > - Mobile healthcare and sensing > - Context awareness and situation awareness > - User interface > - Privacy and security > - Data storage and management > > Journal Special Issue: > > Selected papers from the workshop will be considered for a journal > special issue on People Centric Sensing that is being organized by the > workshop chairs. > > Organizers: > > - John Buford (Avaya Labs Research, USA) > - Raghu K. Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA) > - Hosub Lee (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Korea) > > > _______________________________________________ > IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications > (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. > Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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Paper Submission Deadline Approaching: 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013)
by Cristina Alcaraz 22 May '13

22 May '13

** Apologies for multiple copies ** C a l l F o r P a p e r s 8th International Workshop on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS 2013) Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 16-18, 2013 http://www.critis2013.nl The annually held CRITIS conference is devoted to Critical (Information) Infrastructure security, protection and resilience. The 8th edition will be held from 16-18 September 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The CRITIS 2013 Call for Papers is addressed to all researchers and critical infrastructure stakeholders who wish to present their papers at the conference. More information can be found at: www.critis2013.nl. Modern societies increasingly depend on critical infrastructures. Those themselves increasingly depend on and are entangled with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Disruption or loss of (ICT-based) critical infrastructures may result in serious consequences for the functioning of the society, the economy, the functioning of governments, the ecology and social well-being of people, and in the most unfortunate cases loss of human lives, livestock and other animals. As a consequence, the security, reliability and resilience of these infrastructures are critical for the society. Critical (Information) Infrastructure Protection (C(I)IP) is therefore a major objective for governments, companies, operators of these infrastructures and the worldwide research community. CRITIS 2013 is set to continue a well-established tradition of presenting innovative research and exploring new challenges for the protection of critical information-based infrastructures (CIP/CIIP). CRITIS brings together stakeholders from industry, operators and governments as well as researchers and professionals from academia, applied research organisations and industry interested in all different aspects of C(I)IP. One focus of CRITIS 2013 is on the new challenges of Resilience of Smart Cities, a topic that will be highlighted by thought provoking and visionary keynote speeches and by conference papers. The second day of CRITIS 2013 will be a meeting place between the diverse set of C(I)IP stakeholders with their short, medium and long term needs and the academic and applied research communities. CRITIS2013 intends to foster collaboration, to find common, collaborative approaches towards solutions and to boost R&D to address the identified needs. On the third day, the focus will be on the (academic) advances in C(I)IP R&D. A (virtual) multi-disciplinary community of new talented PhD students and junior researchers in the field of C(I)IP will be build: YOUNG CRITIS. Young CRITIS appeals to the scientific C(I)IP communities at national, European and global level. Given the focus areas above, the programme committee will select papers per topic category (or track) mentioned below. Therefore, authors need to state which topic category they address. Researchers are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting research papers, work-in-progress reports, R&D project results, surveying works and industrial experiences describing significant advances in C(I)IP. Stakeholders from governments, Critical Infrastructure operators, and industry are encouraged to submit papers which describe their current and future challenges to be engaged by researchers and multidisciplinary research teams. Important Dates Extended deadline for submission of papers: June 1, 2013 Notification to authors: June 30, 2013 Camera-ready papers: August 16, 2013 The CRITIS 2013 Scientific Committee invites papers for the following four topic categories: Topic category 1: Resilience of Smart Cities Topic category 2: Requirements for C(I)IP by C(I)I Stakeholders Topics of interest for category 2 include: C(I)IP requirements for Resilient Smart Cities C(I)IP requirements posed as future (near, mid and long term) challenges, e.g. mobility and smart grids Requirements for Resilient (Information) Infrastructures C(I)I Survivability requirements The use of clouds for C(I)I operations Economics, Investments and Incentives of C(I)IP C(I)I Exercises & Contingency Plans Trust Models in Normal Situations and During Escalation C(I)IP Polices at National and Cross-border levels C(I)IP R&D Agenda at National and International levels Stakeholders include Industry, CI operators, government agencies, EU Directorates) and integrated solution directions by CIP/CIIP-related R&D communities and disciplines. Papers submitted for topic categories 1 and 2 that do not fit the focus of the category, may be reassigned by the Scientific Committee to topic categories 3 or 4. Topic category 3: Advances in C(I)IP and Topic category 4: YOUNG CRITIS Topics of interest for categories 3 and 4 include all topics mentioned under topic category 2 as well as topics like: Resilient C(I)I and C(I)I Survivability Resilience of interacting C(I)I Cyber Defence of C(I)I Self-healing, Self-protection, and Self-management Architectures C(I)I dependency Modeling, Simulation, Analysis and Validation Protection of Complex Cyber - Physical Systems Cyber security related threats & vulnerabilities, modeling and analysis Cyber Security of Smart Grids, Process Control and SCADA Advanced Forensic Methodologies for C(I)I Public - Private Partnership for C(I)I Resilience Instructions for Paper Submission All submissions will be subjected to a thorough blind review by at least three reviewers. Papers should be in English and no longer than 12 pages, including bibliography and well-marked appendices. As in previous years, it is planned that post-proceedings are published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the Workshop and present the paper. Paper submission will be done via EasyChair. The submitted paper (in PDF or PostScript format) should follow the respective template offered by Springer. The paper must start with a title, a short abstract, and a list of keywords. However, the submission should be anonymised and all author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, and obvious traceable references should be eliminated. Extended and fully revised versions of the best papers accepted for CRITIS 2013, after a further peer-reviewed process, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (Inderscience). Programme Committee Co-Chairs Pieter Hartel (TU Twente & TNO, Netherlands) Eric Luiijf (TNO, The Netherlands) Programme Committee (Invitations are sent out, confirmations partly pending) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Geert Deconinck (K. U. Leuven, Belgium) Paulo Maciel (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Andre Samberg (Sec-Control, Finland and IMG-S TA2, European Union) Arslan Brömme (Vattenfall, Germany) Jurge Cuellar (Siemens, Germany) Christoph Krauss (Fraunhofer AISEC, Germany) Stefan Pickl (Bunderswehruniversität München, Germany) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Neeraj Suri (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Stelios Dritsas (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Panos Kotzanikolaou (Univ. of Piraeus, Greece) Evangelos Ouzounis (European Network and Information Security Agency, Greece) Christos Xenakis (University of Piraeus, Greece) Marianthi Theoharidou (Athens Univ. of Economics & Business, Greece) Gregorio D'Agostino (ENEA, Italy) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Emiliano Casalicchio (Università di Tor Vergata, Italy) Giovanna Dondossola (RSE, Italy) Fabio Martinelli (CNR, Italy) Stefano Panzieri (University Roma Tre, Italy) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Eiji Okamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Janne Hagen (Proactima, Norway) Katrin Franke (Gjøvik University Collage, Norway) Margrete Raaum (CERT University of Oslo, Norway) Ketil Stølen (SINTEF and University of Oslo, Norway) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, U. of London, UK) Janusz Gorski (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland) Paolo Verissimo (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal) Christina Alcaraz (University Malaga, Spain) Jorge L. Hernandez-Ardieta (INDRA, Spain) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Barend Taute (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) Stefan Brem (Federal Office for Civil Protection, Switzerland) Myriam Dunn (ETH Centre for Security Studies, Switzerland) Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Marcelo Masera (EU Joint Research Centre Petten, The Netherlands) Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Chris Johnson (Glasgow University, UK) Adrian Gheorghe (Old Dominion University, USA) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Steven M. Rinaldi (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) Angelos Stavrou (George Mason University, USA) Steering Committee Chairs Bernhard M. Hämmerli (University of Applied Sciences Lucerne, GUC Gjøvik and CEO Acris GmbH) Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) Nils Kalstad Svendsen (Gjøvik University College, Norway) Steering Committee Members Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) Sandro Bologna (AIIC, Italy) Sokratis Katsikas (University of the Aegean, Greece) Reinhard Posch (Technical Univ. Graz, Austria) Saifur Rahman (Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA) Roberto Setola (Università CAMPUS Bio-Medico, Italy) Erich Rome (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany) Stephen Wolthusen (Gjøvik University College, Norway and Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK)

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Fwd: [Mitglieder-info] CfP: Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS'13) at ICNP-2013
by Lars Wolf 21 May '13

21 May '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Mitglieder-info] CfP: Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS'13) at ICNP-2013 Datum: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:57:03 +0000 Von: Dirk Kutscher <Dirk.Kutscher(a)neclab.eu> An: mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de <mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de> [apologies if you receive multiple copies of this] =========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ----------------------------------- Capacity Sharing Workshop (CSWS'13) ----------------------------------- In conjunction with ICNP'13, 7-11 October, Goettingen, Germany. Internet data traffic continues to grow rapidly. The challenge that operators face, especially in the mobile Internet, is to support more subscribers with higher bandwidth demands and a large variety of services with different requirements. Therefore, operators need to seek for new technologies to efficiently utilize the available network resources, in particular, this concerns resource allocation and flow management. At the same time, network virtualization in data centers and carrier networks enables a more flexible and efficient resource management - but creates new challenges for sharing capacity among tenants and users of those networks, e.g, scaling up network resources transparently based on the congestion level. In wireless networks, capacity sharing is particularly relevant due to the inherently limited resources, which render a simple "throwing bandwidth at the problem" solution impossible. This change in network operation and the strong growth and continual changes in the traffic characteristics and usage behavior raises questions on how to share limited capacity resources fairly and more efficiently. While efficiency is most important when resources are spare, fairness need to be evaluated based on the different quality requirements of the various Internet services that we have today. While the Internet, especially the mobile Internet, was mostly engineered to provide a low loss service, low-latency services are not well supported today. In addition, there is regulation that can impose additional requirements in some markets, such as availability requirements, network neutrality etc. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the area of transport protocols, system designers of data centers, fixed and mobile access networks, and their applications to advance the state of research on capacity sharing. We solicit contributions on the state-of-the-art, results of ongoing research, open issues, trends and new ideas. We solicit contributions on the state-of-the-art, results of ongoing research, open issues, trends and new ideas. We want to encourage researchers to consider integrated consideration of the problem space over all layers. Topics ------ Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to * Context-aware resource allocation and cross-layer adaptation * Network protocols to exchange information on the network state * Support low-latency services and Transport layer solutions * Possible interactions with cellular/fixed access networks * Application-layer adaption especially for mobile and interactive services * Network Function Virtualization and SDN to implement capacity sharing * QoE and fairness definitions, metrics and evaluation * Data traffic characteristics in fixed and mobile Internet * Economic aspects on capacity sharing and business models * Related standardization activities, projects and regulatory constraints Submission ---------- Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, and appendices in IEEE Computer Society format. Please see the workshop webpage for further submission guidelines: http://icnp13.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/csws13/ Important Dates ---------------- Paper submission deadline: June 21, 2013 Acceptance notification: August 2, 2013 Camera-ready paper: August 9, 2013 Workshop date: October, 2013 (to be announced) Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Mirja Kühlewind, IKR University of Stuttgart, Germany Dirk Kutscher, NEC Europe Labs Heidelberg, Germany _______________________________________________ Mitglieder-info mailing list Mitglieder-info(a)kuvs.de http://mail-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/mitglieder-info

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