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Fwd: [Tccc] t CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] t CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Datum: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:22:37 -0800 (PST) Von: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> Antwort an: xu li <easylix(a)yahoo.ca> An: TCCC mailing list <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKING SYMPOSIUM Symposium Co-Chairs Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA younis(a)cs.umbc.edu Yu Cheng, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA cheng(a)iit.edu Falko Dressler, University of Innsbruck, Austria falko.dressler(a)uibk.ac.at Xu Li, Huawei Technologies, Canada easylix(a)yahoo.ca Scope and Topics of Interest Recent advancements in wireless technologies have enabled networked solutions for many unconventional civil and military applications. In recent years, ad-hoc networks have been attracting increased attention from the research and engineering communities, motivated by applications like digital battlefield, asset tracking, air-borne safety, situational awareness, and border protection. Similarly, advances in micro-electro- mechanical devices and large-scale integration have enabled the realization of miniaturized sensor nodes that can probe their surroundings and transmit their measurements using on-board wireless transceivers. Large-scale networks of miniaturized sensor nodes may also enable new applications such as target tracking, security surveillance, elder care, and forest monitoring. Both ad hoc and sensor networks are characterized by their dynamic nature, which requires them to be adaptive to changes in the application environment, task objectives, and topological changes, among others. The last few years have witnessed the development of many innovative solutions for ad-hoc and sensor networks that are maturing to the level of commercialization and standardization. Yet, numerous challenges remain for the implementation of practical solutions that operate robustly, securely, and efficiently. The Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium of GLOBECOM'2013 opts to foster a forum for sharing ideas and recent results among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions related to ad-hoc and sensor networks. We are soliciting papers that describe original and unpublished contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New and unconventional applications of ad hoc and sensor networks * Novel architectures and operation models * Wireless sensor and actor networks * Wireless multimedia and 3-D sensor networks * Underwater and underground sensor networks * Body Area Sensor Networks * Cognitive radio networks in multi-hop environments * Wireless mesh and community networks * Wireless PANs and LANs * Pervasive and wearable computing * RFID systems * Delay-tolerant ad hoc networks * Self-organization and autonomic networking * Vehicular networks * Co-existence issues of hybrid networks * Wireless, ad hoc, and sensor devices * Ultra wide band technology for ad hoc and sensor networks * MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * Frequency and channel allocation algorithms * New standards for ad hoc and sensor networks * Energy saving and power control protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks * Energy scavenging technologies * Service discovery in ad-hoc and sensor networks * Location and context aware services * Scheduling and resource management algorithms * Deployment and coverage analysis of sensor networks * Localization algorithms and ranging technologies * Routing and multicasting protocols * Topology control and management * In-network processing and data storage * Fault-tolerance and traffic reliability issues * Cross-layer design and optimization * Mobility management and modeling * Synchronization and coordination techniques in ad hoc and sensor networks * Security for ad hoc and sensor networks * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation * Experimental prototypes and testbeds * New simulation languages, programming abstractions, and tools for ad hoc and sensor networks Submission Guidelines Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers by the deadline of 15 March 2013 for publication in the IEEE Globecom 2013 Conference Proceedings and for presentation at the conference. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures. For full details, please visit the following website: http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2013/submguide.html _______________________________________________ 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: SI OF IEEE TETC on CPS
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: SI OF IEEE TETC on CPS Datum: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 14:22:17 +0800 Von: Jiming Chen <jmchen(a)ieee.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu, tccn(a)comsoc.org Kopie (CC): Xu Li <easylix(a)gmail.com>, Liu Yunhao <liu(a)cse.ust.hk>, Nei KATO <kato(a)it.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp> Call for Papers: a Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) is seeking original manuscripts for Special Issue on Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), scheduled to be published in the January – June 2013 issue. The coordination and tight link between computational, virtual and physical resources will drive the potential of having a pervasive effect in the citizens everyday life, satisfying various needs and also creating new opportunities for the introduction of services that will enhance the quality of life of the society as a whole. Research advances in cyber-physical systems promise to transform our world with systems that will far exceed those of today in terms of: effectiveness, adaptability, autonomicity, energy efficiency, precision, reliability, safety, usability, scalability, stability and user-centric applicability. Moreover, recently the Sensor Web concept came into foreground, aiming at combining distributed sensing with the ubiquitous connectivity and accessibility of the web, therefore facilitating the close interaction of digital world with physical world. Cyber-physical systems find direct applicability in a wide range of areas and disciplines, including for instance (but not limited to): a) Smart Grid technologies: that aim at facilitating a reliable and efficient delivery of electricity to consumers using digital communications and security technologies, and intelligent monitoring and control of the delivery network and electricity consumption b) Wireless sensing, monitoring and networking: to enable distributed monitoring systems of numerous smart sensors and actuators, mobile devices, RFIDs, (ground, aerial, aquatic) robots etc., which revolutionize a variety of application areas with unprecedented density, fidelity, and scalability of environment instrumentation; c) Vehicular cyber-physical and intelligent transportation systems: that integrate computing, communication, and storage capabilities with monitoring and control of vehicles in the physical world to deal with the grand challenges of safe, green, and efficient transportation; d) Smart Living technologies: smart city (e.g. increasing security, comfort and convenience, green energy), intelligent park and space, healthcare systems. Ambient intelligence, context-awareness, data mining, embedded system and software, evolutionary computation, modeling environments and human behavior, social networks, big data, security, privacy and trust, ubiquitous computing and other technologies and methodologies applied in CPS are also welcome. Towards merging the information-centric character and node-centric physical world connectivity, well-defined analytical models, methodologies and experimental validations are required of how to build such systems capable of coping with the entire chain of operations and orchestrating the various parts together in a flexible, efficient and economic way. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Architectural framework for distributed CPS Resource Management in large scale CPS Evaluations and field trials of CPS and solutions Security, privacy, scalability, and reliability issues Design and cross-layer optimizations Vehicular CPS and intelligent transportation systems Scalable monitoring applications with sensors, actuators, smart phones, robots, and other wireless mobile devices Smart Living and Smart grid technologies Modeling and fault tolerance Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on the following web link: http://www.computer.org/mc/tpds/author.htm. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs. Please note the following important dates: Manuscript Submission Deadline: March 18, 2013 Notification of Initial Decision: April 26, 2013 Minor Revisions due (if needed): May 17, 2013 Notification of Final Decision: June 12, 2013 Final Manuscripts Due: June 19, 2013 Publication Date: September 2013 Co-guest Editors: Song Guo, The University of Aizu (coordinator) Hannes Frey, University of Koblenz-Landau Nei Kato, Tohoku University Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University Publicity Co-Chairs: Jaime Lloret, University of Valencia Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University Xu Li, Huawei Technologies Canada _______________________________________________ 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 - 16th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2013, Barcelona
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP - 16th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2013, Barcelona Datum: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 18:26:47 -0600 (CST) Von: Pan Li <li(a)ece.msstate.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [My apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message] Call-For-Papers: 16th ACM/IEEE MSWiM 2013 Conference Barcelona, Nov 3-8th, 2013 www.mswimconf.com/2013 -- IMPORTANT: Submission deadline: May 13th, 2013 ACM/IEEE* MSWiM 2013 is the 16th Annual International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. MSWiM is a premium international forum dedicated to in-depth discussion of Wireless and Mobile systems, networks, algorithms and applications, with an emphasis on rigorous performance evaluation. MSWiM is a highly selective conference with a long track record of publishing innovative ideas and breakthroughs. MSWiM 2013 will be held November 3-8, 2013, in Barcelona, Spain. Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting new research related to the theory or practice of all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Papers related to wireless and mobile network Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Simulation are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics in mobile and wireless systems: - Performance evaluation and modeling - Analytical Models - Simulation languages and tools for wireless systems - Wireless measurements tools and experiences - Formal methods for analysis of wireless systems - Correctness, survivability and reliability evaluation - Mobility modeling and management - Models and protocols for cognitive radio networks - Models and protocols for autonomic, or self-* networks - Localization, Capacity, coverage and connectivity modeling and analysis - Wireless network algorithms and protocols - Wireless PANs, LANs, LTE, 4G - Mobile Cloud Networking, Mobile P2P networks - Ad hoc and MESH networks - Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) - Sensor and actuator networks - Delay Tolerant Networks - Integration of wired and wireless systems - Pervasive computing and emerging models - Wireless multimedia systems - QoE/QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks - Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems - Algorithms and protocols for energy efficient operation and power control - Mobile applications, system software and algorithms - RF channel modeling and analysis - Design methodologies - Tools, prototypes and testbeds - Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems Paper Submission and Publication: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. More detailed instructions for paper submission can be found at www.mswimconf.com/2013 and EDAS. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM Press. Important Dates: Paper Registration (Full list of authors, title, keywords, abstract): May 13, 2013 Paper Submission (upload) Deadline: May 17, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2013 Camera Ready version due: August 1, 2013 Conference Dates: November 3-8, 2013 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Bjorn Landfeldt, Lund University, Sweden General Co-Chair: Mónica Aguilar Igartua, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain TPC Co-Chairs: Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Cheng Li, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada _______________________________________________ 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] Special Issue in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal (ETT) on "High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems"Paper Submission: 15th March 2013
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal (ETT) on "High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems"Paper Submission: 15th March 2013 Datum: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:52:25 +0200 Von: Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis <mavromoustakis.c(a)unic.ac.cy> Organisation: University of Nicosia An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ========================================================================== ========================================================================== CFP for the Special Issue in the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Journal on "High Performance Mobile Opportunistic Systems" Scope ================================== Opportunistic networks are an emerging networking paradigm where communication between the source and destination occurs on-the-fly and depends on the availability of communication resources. Opportunistic communication paradigm heavily benefits from the heterogeneous networking and communication infrastructure that currently exist, e.g., mobile networks, P2P networks, with the supporting technologies in data management and system interoperability. The SI aims at presenting state-of-the-art research and future trends in mobile and heterogeneous opportunistic networking and application paradigms, combining the mobile communication, mobility and resource management field, and scientifically presents the various concepts that contribute to enable high performance computing in these environments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: •resource management (failure-aware, high-availability, efficiency, reliability, fault tolerance, etc.) •data management (data gathering and fusion, aggregation, dissemination, source coding, signal processing, etc.) •cooperative and opportunistic algorithms (cooperative PHY, relays, distributed signal processing, etc.) •key functionalities (security, localization, privacy and authentication, self-*, synchronization, etc.) •novel protocols (PHY level, MAC level, routing aspects, congestion and admission control, communication networking paradigms, etc.) •self-adaptiveness (self-organization, self-stabilization, autonomic computing approaches, etc.) •cross-layer and cross-functionality designs (channel coding, cross-layer interaction, protocols for cross-layering, etc.) •performance evaluation and limitation (network capacity, metrics and new schemes’ evaluation through real-time or simulation, etc.) •opportunistic storage (backup techniques, autonomic- management of storage, location-aware caching, etc.) •energy consideration (optimization of energy-efﬁcient protocols/algorithms, energy-efﬁcient MAC, routing and cross-layer protocols, adaptive protocols, innovative power control techniques, novel applications, scalability issues, etc.) •mobility models (mobility modeling, management and optimization, mobility effects, efficiency, conceptual models and applied certain patterns, human mobility, mobility aware protocols, service portability, etc.) •implementation case studies (i.e. WSN, Ad-hoc, HAPs, etc. ) •simulation frameworks (tools, designs, module support and integration, novel performance analysis etc.) Articles should be of novel research nature whereas only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the ETT guidelines which can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1541-8251/homepage/For…. Instructions for submission: ================================== Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should be a substantial extension of the conference paper. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors, affiliations, complete contact information (indicating the primary contact author), a 250-word abstract, and 3-5 keywords, via the web site for the Journal’s submission system at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ett. The submission timetable is shown below. Submission page: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915 CFP URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-3915/asset/homepage…) ================================== Guest-editors ================================== Constandinos Mavromoustakis (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) Lei Shu (Osaka University, Japan) Tasos Dagiuklas (Technological Educational Institute of Mesolonghi-Greece) Yang Xiao (The University of Alabama, USA) ================================== Important Dates/deadlines: ================================== -Paper Submission: 15 March 2013 -Author Notification: 30 May 2013 -Final Versions Due: July 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 SenSys 2013 (Nov 11-15, 2013, Rome, Italy)
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM SenSys 2013 (Nov 11-15, 2013, Rome, Italy) Datum: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 15:59:44 +1100 Von: salil kanhere <salilk(a)cse.unsw.edu.au> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ************************************************************************** Call For Papers SenSys 2013---The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems November 11-15, 2013 Rome, Italy ************************************************************************** Sensing systems are changing the way computers interact with the physical world -- and are driving a host of new issues in computer system design, implementation, and performance. SenSys 2013 is the premier venue to discuss system issues raised by emerging trends in sensing systems – broadly defined to include mobile sensing, body sensing, Kinect, camera networks, RFID, and many others. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, ground breaking results and/or quantified system experiences involving sensor systems. The conference values papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than a narrow focus on individual components. Of particular interest are technical contributions that enable new and compelling sensing applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • Experience with real-world applications • Innovative sensing applications (e.g., mobile healthcare, transportation, buildings) • New models of sensor usage (e.g., mobile sensing, body sensing, RFIDs, robots) • Sensor data quality, integrity, and trustworthiness • Challenges for “Big Sensor Data” • Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing and management • Data reduction, inference, and signal processing • Fault-tolerance and reliability • Provable correctness and performance guarantees • Support for integrated sensing, actuation and control • Wireless communication systems and protocols • Energy management and energy harvesting • Resource management and OS support • Programming paradigms for sensing systems • Security and privacy in sensor networks • Time and location estimation and management Detailed submission instructions can be found at http://sensys.acm.org/2013/submissions/ Key Dates These are hard deadlines: No extensions will be granted. • Paper Registration: March 30, 2013, 11:59 pm EST. • Paper Submission Deadline: April 6, 2013, 11:59 pm EST. • Notification of Paper Acceptance: July 15, 2013. General Chair Chiara Petrioli (University of Rome "La Sapienza") Program Chairs Kamin Whitehouse (University of Virginia) Landon Cox (Duke University) Program Committee Yuvraj Agarwal (University of California, San Diego) Jan Beutel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Geoffrey Challen (University at Buffalo) Tanzeem Choudhary (Cornell University) David Chu (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech) Wen Hu (University of New South Wales) Fred Jiang (Intel Labs, China) Nic Lane (Microsoft Research, Asia) Jie Liu (Microsoft Research, Redmond) Pedro Jose Marron (University of Duisburg Essen) Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) Luca Mottola (Politecnico di Milano) Lama Nachman (Intel Labs) Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento) Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University) Anthony Rowe (Carnegie Mellon University) Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University) Silvia Santini (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University) Thomas Schmid (University of Utah) Junehwa Song (Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Niki Trigoni (University of Oxford) Lin Zhong (Rice University) _______________________________________________ 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] Extended Deadline|| WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13)
by Lars Wolf 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extended Deadline|| WiSARN 2013-Spring - || May 20-23, 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - (In conjunction with IEEE DCOSS'13) Datum: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 08:48:31 +0800 Von: LIANG HE <heliang1983(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Call for Papers The 7th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2013-Spring) http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~zhuan045/WiSARN/WiSARN2013.html To be held in conjunction with The 9th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS'13) May 20-23, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSANs, WSNs, robot networks, and robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Autonomous sensor networks * Emergent behavior in WSAN * Modeling and simulation of WSAN * WSAN architectural and operational models * Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication * Sensor-actor (robot) and actor-actor coordination * Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols * Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols * Distributed control and management in WSAN * Neighborhood discovery and mobility management * Communication protocols for swarms of mobile actors (robots) * Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots * Actor (robot) task assignment * Biologically inspired communication * Ecological systems * Architectures and topology control * Localization in WSAN * Probabilistic integration in WSAN * Quality of service, security and robustness issues * Applications and prototypes * Hybrid networks and wireless Internet * Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing Papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages, and must be formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE author guidelines. Submissions are being considered with the understanding that they describe original research, neither published nor under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the conference and included in DCOSS 2013 proceedings. Selected best papers will be invited to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: an international journal (SCIE). Important dates Paper submission (extended): March 10, 2013 Author notification: March 30, 2013 Camera ready: April 15, 2013 Workshop date: May 23, 2013 General Chair Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Program Co-Chairs: Shuhui Yang, Purdue University Calumet, USA. Hannes Frey, University of Paderbon, Germany. Publicity Co-Chairs: Liang He, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapre. Sandra Sendra, universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. Submission Chair: Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada. Technical Program Committee: Muhammad Anan, Purdue University Calumet Cailian Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xiao Chen, Texas State University, USA Shibo He, Arizona State University, USA Abdelmajid Khelil, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Calumet, USA Feng Li, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Mingming Lu, Central South University, China Rongxing Lu, University of Waterloo, Canada Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Tahiry Razafindralambo, Inria, France Sushmita Ruj, Indian Institute of Technology, India Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China For further information, please refer to the above WiSARN 2013 website, or contact the program co-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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Elsevier PMC: SI Socially-inspired Mechanisms for Future Mobility Services
by Andreas Riener 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

1st Call for Papers SPECIAL ISSUE OF PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING The Social Car: Socially-inspired Mechanisms for Future Mobility Services Submissions due: July 31, 2013 ************************************************************************* In the long tradition of driver-vehicle interaction, information systems have been socially ignorant ? they have not accounted for the fact that drivers? (humans?) emote all the time and decisions are always socially inspired. The next-generation automotive interfaces need to include the essence of social intelligence to become more effective and safer. Researchers have recently started to think about the topic of socially inspired cars and, in our comprehension, a broader discussion on the benefits and consequences of socializing cars is very likely to start in the near time. The central objective of this special issue is to provoke an active debate on the adequacy of the concept of socializing cars and the topic addressed by this special issue raises elementary questions including who can communicate what, when, how, and why? To tackle these questions we would like to invite researchers to take part in an in-depth discussion of this timely, relevant, and important field of investigation. Potential topics of interest for this SI include, but are not limited to: * Modeling techniques for handling social interaction behavior, including traffic superorganism, pheromones, stigmergic behavior * Implementation of agents/robots for improving socially-inspired communication * The subject of social-inspired vehicle-to-vehicle communications * Network issues and protocols for social cars * Crowdsourcing concepts to improve transport (driving as a "collabo- ration" of different entities) * Authentication, privacy, safety, or security issues related to social car services * Relevant parameters to describe social status or behaviors of a driver or car and plausible types of information in in-vehicle social services * Potentials of socially inspired car-car communication and benefit assessment (why should cars or drivers disclose their social status or social relationships?) * Social norm in the automotive domain * Cultural differences evident in-vehicle social services * Polarization issues between supporters and opponents * Novel applications and services enabled by social cars * Case studies * Visionary perspectives Submission Guidelines --------------------- All submissions have to be prepared according to the "Guide for Authors" as published in the Journal website at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/pmc/. - Submissions due: July 31, 2013 - Publication expected for 2014 Guest Editors of the Special Issue ---------------------------------- - Andreas Riener, Dept. of Pervasive Computing, University of Linz, Austria; Phone: +43 732 2468 ? 4473; Email: <riener(a)pervasive.jku.at> - Myounghoon Jeon, Department of Cognitive & Learning Sciences, Michigan Tech, USA; Email: <mjeon(a)mtu.edu> - Ignacio Alvarez, IT Manager for Connected Drive & Innovations, BMW Group, Beijing, China; Email: <ignacioalvmar(a)gmail.com> - Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; Email: <franco.zambonelli(a)unimore.it> For detailed information visit: http://www.pervasive.jku.at/PMCSocialCar/ or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/15741192

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Fwd: MobiCom 2013 Paper Abstract Due This Week.
by Lars Wolf 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MobiCom 2013 Paper Abstract Due This Week. Datum: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 10:06:41 +0800 Von: Pei Zhang <peizhang(a)CMU.EDU> Antwort an: Pei Zhang <peizhang(a)CMU.EDU> An: SIGMOBILE-MEMBERS(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Apologies for multiple postings. Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to this week's abstract registration deadline for MobiCom 2013. The conference will take place in Miami Florida on September 30-October 4. abstracts submission deadline is in one week:*March 8, 2013 (11:59 PM EST)* Paper submissions due: March 15, 2013 ************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS -- MobiCom 2013 http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2013/index.html ************************************** As the premier conference on mobile computing and wireless communication, MobiCom 2013 solicits papers that focus on the theory, system, practice and challenge of providing users with a successful mobile or wireless experience. This includes how mobile computing changes how people use their computer, computing resources and applications, as well the systems, services and technology enabling those applications. At its core, we expect papers to address issues related to mobile computing and communication challenges in the presence of various wireless and mobile networks, including but not limited to wireless LANs, cellular data networks, mobile social networks, delay-tolerant networks, sensor networks, personal area networks, vehicular networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad hoc networks. Successful papers will address real research challenges through theoretical analysis, novel system design, as well as real-world measurement and deployment of mobile systems and applications. MobiCom 2013 will be a diverse conference, and we strongly encourage the submission of mobile systems, experimental and theoretical papers. The program committee will evaluate each paper using metrics that are appropriate for the topic area. For example, a systems or experimental paper in the protocol area will be evaluated based on the innovations in the protocol design, practical implementation, and realistic evaluation, whereas a more theoretical paper may be evaluated mostly based on innovation within the design of the algorithm and its provable properties. At the same time, the evaluation of wireless and mobile networking technologies is challenging because of the significant impact that the physical environment has on performance. For this reason, all papers must carefully describe and justify the evaluation methodology that is used and identify its strengths and weaknesses. The program committee will referee all papers, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. * * *Paper Submission Instructions** * All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Any papers that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected: Maximum of 12 pages Font size no smaller than 10 points Double column format with each column having dimensions 9.25 inches ? 3.33 inches, a space of 0.33 inches between the two columns, and with no more than 55 lines of text per column Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches ? 11 inches) Detailed instructions on how and where to submit your paper can be found here. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Detailed instructions to authors on preparing a double-blind manuscript will be posted here shortly. Authors' names must not appear anywhere in the paper or in the PDF file. Submitted papers must be original work, and a paper with substantial similarity must neither be already published, nor be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at mobicom_pcchairsacm.org. * * *Best Paper Award * All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The winner will be selected at the conference, considering both the paper and the presentation. The winner will receive a plaque and a cash award. *Important Dates * Abstracts submission due:*March 8, 2013 (11:59 PM EST)* Paper submissions due:March 15, 2013 (11:59 PM EST) Notification of acceptance:June 9, 2013 Camera-ready version due:July 15, 2013 It is ACM policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy) not to allow double submissions, where the same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. * * *For More Information* Please feel free to contact the General Chair (mobicom_infoacm.org <http://acm.org>) or the Program Co-Chairs (mobicom_pcchairsacm.org <http://acm.org>) for more information. 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IEEE DCOSS Workshop: Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (extended deadline March 25th)
by vloscri＠deis.unical.it 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. *************************************************************************** Call for papers IEEE DCOSS International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-13) May 20-23, 2013 Boston, USA http://www.hds.utc.fr/iotip13/ *************************************************************************** Important dates Submission Deadline: March 25, 2013 Acceptance Notification: April 8, 2013 CameraReadyDue: April 15, 2013 Workshop Date: May 23, 2013 Call for papers: Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology. The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution. The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate"Big brother scenario". Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms. The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0 IoTIP features two tracks: -Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies - IoT systems and components - IoT for semantic web and personalization - Tools for developing IoT applications - Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT - Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT - Security and privacy control mechanisms - Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc) - PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications - MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT - Mobility management - Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability - Object, device and service management - RFID, sensors, actuator technologies - Middleware - Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency) - Test-beds and field trials - Standardization and regulatory issues Submission guidelines : Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Papers should be submitted through EDAS at the following address: http://edas.info/N14397. All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (6) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks: - Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation; - Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT. Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track. Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings. _Program committee members_: Yacine Challal, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France Flavio Esposito, Boston University - USA Essia Hamouda, University of Riverside, California, USA Antonio Iera, Università "Mediterranea" di reggio Calabria, Italy Abdelmajid Khwlil, Huawei European Center, Germany Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University - USA Valeria Loscri', Università della Calabria, Italy (_publicity chair_) Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille - nord Europe, France (_workshop chair_) Enrico Natalizio, Universitè de Technologie de Compiegne, France (_workshop chair_) David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France. Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands

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[CFP] Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013) - Deadline approaching
by Giuseppe Cardone 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Third Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2013) (http://mocs.disi.unibo.it) July 7th, 2013 Split, Croatia organized in association with the Eighteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013) (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/) Sponsored by (pending approval): IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Endorsed by: IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) In cooperation with: IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Green Communications and Computing (TSCGCC) (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) The vision of Cloud computing is becoming a reality thanks to the recent advances in several significant computer and communications research areas, spanning from grid/virtualization/utility computing to Web 2.0 and Service Oriented Computing (SOC). After the initial hype, at the current stage, several ongoing research efforts are focusing on the several open management aspects of the Cloud, such as interoperability, scalability, reliability, power management, and confidentiality/auditability, with the final goal to make Cloud technologies and services more mature so to boost and to facilitate a more widespread industrial uptake of Cloud systems. Despite the several recent efforts on Cloud systems, it is still unclear whether current solutions are able to withstand the abrupt and unpredictably changes imposed by the emergent Cloud application scenarios, where services and the whole software stacks (from the kernel upward) have to scale up and down fast by exploiting highly distributed and heterogeneous virtualized resources. The ambition and mission of MoCS 2013 is to put on the foreground all above issues, and to bring together different ongoing research efforts on the management of Cloud systems. This year, special focus will be on the challenging management issues related to the delivery of efficient Green solutions for the processing of real-world Big Data knowledge base and streams over the Cloud. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Novel adaptive management solutions for scalable, maintainable, cost-effective Cloud provision, at all software stack layers; * New models and paradigms for the management of Cloud services at the host level and within/between data centres (intra-/inter-domain); * Analytical and simulation models and tools to measure systems ability to scale and to achieve relevant energy savings; * New methods and tools able to identify and enforce optimal trade-offs between performance, energy consumption, safety, and security; * Emerging standards for interoperability (resource virtualization, specific computing interfaces, etc.), also between public and private Clouds; * Experimentation testbeds, field trials and empirical evaluations, and measurement studies. Important Dates Submission of research papers due: March 4, 2013 (extended deadline) Notification of paper acceptance: March 19, 2013 Submission of camera-ready papers: April 13, 2013 Workshop date: July 7, 2013 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should be no more than 7 pages, double column, IEEE style including tables, figures and references. Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format will be published with no additional charge. Please use either Word (http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/CPS/ files/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip) or LaTeX (http://www.computer.org/cms/ Computer.org/CPS/files/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip ) templates and instructions provided by IEEE. Papers must be submitted by March 4, 2013 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N14211). Papers meeting these requirements will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the workshop Web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2013 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada (kantarci(a)site.uottawa.ca) Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy (mvillari(a)unime.it) Publicity Chair Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy (giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy (antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it) -- Giuseppe Cardone, Ph.D. Student DISI-LIA - University of Bologna E-mail: giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it Web: http://middleware.unibo.it/people/gc

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