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MoCS 2011: Call For Papers
by Mario Fanelli 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS 2011) (http://mocs.deis.unibo.it) June 28th, 2011 Kerkyra (Corfu), Greece organized in association with the Fifteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2011) (http://www.ieee-iscc.org/2011) Sponsored by (pending approval) IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Endorsed by the IEEE Technical Committee on Communications Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM) 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 2011 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 computing solutions 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: 28 February 2011 Notification of paper acceptance: 28 March 2011 Submission of camera-ready papers: 13 April 2011 Workshop date: 28 June 2011 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references, and must be submitted by February 28 2011 using EDAS (http://edas.info/N9903). 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 2011 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (ivona(a)infosys.tuwien.ac.at) Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy (mvillari(a)unime.it) Publicity Chair Mario Fanelli, University of Bologna, Italy (mario.fanelli(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Antonio Corradi, University of Bologna, Italy (antonio.corradi(a)unibo.it) Web Chair Giuseppe Cardone, University of Bologna, Italy (giuseppe.cardone(a)unibo.it) _________________________________________ Mario Fanelli, Ph.D. Student DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 209 3541 Fax: (+39) 051 209 3073. E-mail: mario.fanelli(a)unibo.it or mario.fanelli(a)gmail.com Web: http://www-lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/MarioFanelli/ _________________________________________

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Fwd: [Tccc] BSN2011 Call for Contributions - The 8th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] BSN2011 Call for Contributions - The 8th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks Datum: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:10:19 -0800 Von: Ghasemzadeh, Hassan <hghasemzadeh(a)gmwhi.org> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.) ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - BSN 2011 The 8th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2011) ---------------------------------------------------------- May 23-25, 2011 Dallas, TX http://www.bsn2011.org IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Paper Abstract Due: January 10, 2011 Full Paper and Poster Due: January 17, 2011 Acceptance Notice: March 15, 2001 Camera ready/Early registration: April 1, 2011 Following the successes of seven annual BSN workshops held at Imperial College in London (2004, 2005), MIT in Boston (2006), RWTH Aachen University (2007), Chinese University in Hong Kong (2008), the University of California at Berkeley (2009), and Singapore (2010), BSN 2011 will be held in Dallas, TX, at the University of Texas at Dallas. Body Sensor Networks (BSN) technology has gained tremendous international interest in recent years from researchers both in academia and industry. With the development of innovative wearable/wireless/implantable biosensors, the applications for BSNs extend from in-vivo monitoring and intervention to everyday healthcare as well as fitness, sport, and security. This conference will address the fast-growing BSN research field, and offers participants a unique forum to discuss the key issues and innovative solutions in current BSN research. We invite submissions of novel, original, and unpublished works in (though not limited to) the following areas: * Networking, security and wireless communications * Smart fabrics and wearable computers * Lower power electronics, power sources and energy harvesting * BSN architecture and platforms * Hardware and software development environments for BSN * Medical applications * Sport and leisure applications * Sensor technology and biocompatibility * Home monitoring and assisted living applications * Debugging, and testing of BSN platforms and applications * Clinical trials and experiences of BSN platforms This year, BSN features a new submission track called Wild And Crazy Ideas (WACI). A WACI paper would present less developed, but highly innovative ideas. We highly encourage submissions of tutorial proposal on all topics in the general areas of the BSN, especially tutorials bridging these areas, or presenting new perspectives in these areas. Proposals will be considered for half-day tutorials. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and are not under consideration elsewhere, with the exception of internal technical reports. Submissions should be no more than 6 pages formatted to the two-column IEEE conference style for regular and WACI papers. Two page poster submissions are also welcome. All submissions will be subjected to a rigorous double-blind peer-review process. Authors must take special care not to reveal the identities. For accepted papers, at least one of the authors (with no double-counting allowed) must register for the conference by the early registration deadline in order for the paper to be included in the conference and its proceedings. Please see the conference website (http://www.bsn2011.org) for other details of this event. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -------------------- Tutorial Proposal Due: November 30, 2010 Proposal Acceptance Notice: December 15, 2010 Paper Abstract Due: January 10, 2011 Full Paper and Poster Due: January 17, 2011 Acceptance Notice: March 15, 2001 Camera ready/Early registration: April 1, 2011 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -------------------- General Chair Dinesh Bhatia, UT Dallas Technical Program Co-Chairs Roozbeh Jafari, UT Dallas John Lach, Univ. of Virginia Tutorial & Special Sessions Chair S. Venkatesan, UT Dallas Publicity Chair: Hassan Ghasemzadeh, West Wireless Health Institute Publications Chair Gayatri Mehta, University of North Texas STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Paolo Bonato, Harvard Medical School, USA Thomas Falck, Philips Research, Achen, Germany Steffen Leonhardt, RWTH Achen University, Germany Joseph Paradiso, MIT, USA Paul Wright, UC Berkeley, USA Guang-Zhong Yang, Imperial College, London, UK Eric Yeatman, Imperial College, London, UK Yuan-Ting Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------- Alireza Seyedi, University of Rochester, USA Andreas Trezis, Johns Hopkins University, USA Anuj Batra, Texas Instrument, USA Benny Lo, Imperial College London, UK Bill Kaiser, UCLA, USA Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Daniel Berckmans, K.U. Leuven, Belgium DK Arvind, University of Edinburgh, UK Emil Jovanov, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Gang Zhou, William & Mary, USA Gert Cauwenberghs, UC San Diego, USA Giancarlo Fortino, Università della Calabr, Italy Hari Garudadri, Qualcomm, USA John Stankovich, University of Virginia, USA Jorg Habetha, Philips, The Netherlands Keck-Voon Ling, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lawrence Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lei Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Leo Estevez, Texas Instrument, USA Lorenzo Turicchia, MIT, USA Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA, USA Marco Sgroi, UC Berkeley, USA Mark Hanson, BeClose, USA Mongkol Ekpanyapong, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Morris Sloman, Imperial College London, UK Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine, USA Paul Lukowicz, Universitat Passau, Germany Peter Koo, Ericsson, USA Samarjit Chakraborty, Technical University of Munich, Germany Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Scott Drawer, UK Sport, UK Steffen Leonhardt, RWTH Aachen University, USA Steven L. Garverick, West Wireless Health Institute, USA Thomas Lindh, KTH, Sweden Toshiyo Tamura, Chiba University, Japan Weng-Fai Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Winson Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, 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] Deadline extended: December 15, 2010 - CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Future Internet Architectures: Design and Deployment Perspectives
by Lars Wolf 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Deadline extended: December 15, 2010 - CFP: IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Future Internet Architectures: Design and Deployment Perspectives Datum: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:57:55 -0500 Von: Arjan Durresi <durresi(a)cs.iupui.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *Deadline extended: December 15, 2010 * *Call for Papers* *IEEE Communications Magazine* *Future Internet Architectures: Design and Deployment Perspectives* http://dl.comsoc.org/ci1/info/cfp/cfpcommag0711.htm The evolution of the Internet is one of the most intriguing and magnificent engineering feats in the history of technological innovations. The Internet mirrors and enhances all aspects of our lives, by creating unprecedented opportunities for advancing knowledge in all fields of human activities. However, the 21st century society's needs may not be met by the current trajectory of incremental changes to the current Internet. Furthermore, the continued success of the Internet is increasingly threatened by increased and sophisticated security attacks and by the lack of performance reliability of Internet services. Therefore, the research community worldwide is engaged in exploring new architectures and solutions for the future Internet. The goal of this special issue is to feature diverse architectural design ideas for the future Internet based on a broad spectrum of design perspectives, motivations for change, and sound design principles. While research on future Internet design has been underway over the last several years, it is particularly challenging to be able to bridge the gap between pure academic pursuit and affecting real technological contribution through actual deployment. *Scope* This IEEE Communications Magazine special issue (feature topic issue) aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in research and technology for "Future Internet", and present a holistic view of research challenges and opportunities in the coming Internet era. Original research on overarching architectures for the future Internet with deployment plans is solicited. Suggested topics include but not limited to the following: * Requirement modeling of future Internet services/applications * Service oriented architectures for the future Internet * Security architectures for the future Internet * Energy efficient protocol/architecture designs * Future Internet devices * Economic Models for the future architectures and solutions * Mobility in future Internet, effects of wireless and location awareness * Role of network virtualization and cloud computing * Future Internet and its social benefits * Management, tools, and regulations * Quality of Services * Standardizations, policies and legislation * Cyber-physical, where the digital and real lives overlap * Flexibility and Programmability *Submission Guidelines* Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the field. Authors must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/ci1/info/sub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred) or MS WORD formatted paper to Manuscript Central ( http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com), resister or log in, go to the Author Center and follow the instructions there. *Important Dates* Manuscript submission deadline: December 15, 2010 (Extended) Author notifications: April 1, 2011 Final manuscripts due: April 15, 2011 Expected publication date: July, 2011 *Guest Editors* Raj Jain, Washington University in Saint Louis Email: jain(a)cse.wustl.edu Arjan Durresi, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Email: durresi(a)cs.iupui.edu Subharthi Paul, Washington University in Saint Louis Email: spaul(a)wustl.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] M2MCN 2011 Deadline Extension: January 10, 2011
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] M2MCN 2011 Deadline Extension: January 10, 2011 Von: "farah kandah" <farah.kandah(a)ndsu.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: ----- M2MCN 2011 DEADLINE EXTENSION: January 10, 2011 ----- In consideration of numerous requests, theIEEE INFOCOM 2011 workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networking (M2MCN) full paper submissiondeadline is now extended to January 10, 2011 Place: Shanghai, China. Website: http://viscomp.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/M2MCN/M2MCN.htm Important Dates: + Full Paper Submission: January 15, 2011 + Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2011 + Final Version: March 10, 2011 Topics of Interest: Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications and Networking enables intelligent interconnecting of physical things or objects and eventually creates Internet of Things or Web of Things. M2M allows device-to-network, network-to-device and device-to-device communications and networking through wireless and/or wired. The workshop solicits original contributions that were not previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: + M2M System and Functional Architecture + M2M Access Network Technologies and Optimization + M2M MAC Protocols + M2M Network Protocols + M2M Transport and Application Protocols + M2M Security and Privacy + M2M Performance Management (QoS, Scalability, Reliability, etc) + M2M Network Management + M2M Address Management and End-to-End Addressability + M2M Session and Mobility Management + M2M Data Management + Emerging Technologies for M2M (RFID, Sensing, Actuating, etc) + Energy-Efficient M2M + M2M Gateway Technologies + Web Technologies for M2M + Cloud Computing for M2M + M2M Applications, Services and Test-beds + M2M Standardization Activities Paper Submission: ·The workshop welcomes full papers describing original and complete work. All submissions should be written in English and follow IEEE INFOCOM 2011 manuscript format listed on IEEE INFOCOM 2011 website (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2011/submission.html). ·The page limit for the workshop is 6 pages. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format via EDAS INFOCOM 2011 -- M2M submission page (TBD). All accepted and presented papers will be included in the INFOCOM 2011 Conference Proceedings and appear in IEEE Xplore (EI Indexed). IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if it is not presented at the conference. Organization Committee General Co-Chairs + Tao Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China + Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Spain TPC Co-Chairs + Weiyi Zhang, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA + Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA _______________________________________________ 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] MDM 2011 New Extension: Paper Due Dec 10, 2010
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MDM 2011 New Extension: Paper Due Dec 10, 2010 Datum: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:43:23 +0000 Von: ZHENG Baihua <bhzheng(a)smu.edu.sg> An: 'tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu' <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ======================================================== MDM 2011 - Call for Papers 12th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2011) June 6-9, 2011 Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden (www.mdmconferences.org/mdm2011) ======================================================== MDM 2011 to be held in Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden (June 6-9, 2011) solicits innovative research contributions related to data management in ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile cloud computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Adaptability and stability of pervasive computing systems * Context-aware computing and location-based services * Data management in sensor and mobile ad hoc networks * Data management in mobile peer-to-peer networks * Data Management in the Mobile Cloud * Data mining for mobile applications * Data replication, migration and dissemination in mobile environments * Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks * OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing * Indexing and query processing for moving objects * Query processing and optimization for mobile users * Resource advertising and discovery techniques * Theoretical foundations of data-intensive mobile computing * OS and middleware for mobile and pervasive computing * Security and privacy issues for ubiquitous systems * Data stream security for mobile sensor networks * Web data processing and security on mobile devices * Mobile Web 2.0 * Pervasive Data Management * Transactions and workflows in mobile environments * Location and Trajectory data management * Publish/subscribe and Query processing middleware for mobile data * Mobile Cloud Computing * Mobile Semantic Data Management * Human-centric Activity Recognition * Augmented Reality systems, data issues * Managing pervasive data, sensor data streams and user devices * Data Management of Mobile/ephemeral Social Networks * People-centric mobile sensing networks and smart urban spaces * Management of community sensing/participatory sensing data * Management of Real-time Data in Converged Networks * Mobile social applications and services IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract registration: December 10, 2010 * Paper submission: December 10, 2010 * Acceptance notification: February 21, 2011 * Camera-ready paper submission: March 21, 2011 PAPER SUBMISSION The conference invites original, unpublished work, not exceeding 10 pages, including figures, tables and references. Papers must be in IEEE camera-ready format www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/conferenceTem…. Submissions in PDF are to be uploaded to the conference submission site at https://cmt2.research.microsoft.com/MDM2011/Default.aspx. Best papers from MDM 2011 will be invited to submit an extended version with significant additional content (min 30%) to a special issue on Mobile Data Management of The Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD). OTHER ACTIVITIES A number of events (workshop, demos, panels, seminars, PhD forum, and special industrial forum) will be organized to cater for all academic activities, apart from research track activities. - Workshops are for fast track publications of papers - Demos will present state of the art prototypes - Panels will review current research activities and explore new frontiers - PhD forum to encourage student participation - Industrial forum for companies to present their research and development works. Please check the website for upcoming announcements regarding these. _______________________________________________ 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: DRCN 2011 8th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks
by Lars Wolf 30 Nov '10

30 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: DRCN 2011 8th International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks Datum: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:49:13 +0100 Von: Piotr Cholda <cholda(a)agh.edu.pl> Antwort an: piotr.cholda(a)agh.edu.pl Organisation: AGH University of Science and Technology An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ************************************************************************* * * * Call for Papers * * * * 8th International Workshop on * * DESIGN OF RELIABLE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (DRCN 2011) * * * * October 10-12, 2011 Krakow, Poland * * * * Technical Co-Sponsorship: IEEE Communications Society, * * IEEE Poland Section * * * ************************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2011 Acceptance notifications: May 31, 2011 WEBPAGE http://www.drcn2011.net/ CONTACT conference(a)drcn2011.net OVERVIEW DRCN is a well established biennial forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners from industry, government and academia who have interests in the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. The conference covers topics from equipment and technology for survivability to network management and public policy, through theory and techniques for survivable and robust networks and application design. Papers of special merit will be considered for a fast track publication in the Computer Communications journal. TOPICS We seek original papers that address theoretical, experimental, systems-related and regulatory issues in the area of dependability and survivability of communication networks, end-systems and infrastructure. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: * Operational aspects * Services * Theory and modeling * Broad context for network reliability ORGANIZATION General Chair Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Steering Committe Piet Demeester (Steering Committee Chair), Ghent University - IBBT - IMEC, Belgium Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Roberto Clemente, Telecom Italia, Italy Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs, USA Joerg Eberspaecher, Technical University of Munich, Germany Wayne D. Grover, TRLabs, University of Alberta, Canada Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Technical Program Committee Chairs Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Bjarne E. Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway _______________________________________________ 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 Issue on Localization in Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks
by Lars Wolf 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: Special Issue on Localization in Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks Datum: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:07:25 +0100 Von: Henk Wymeersch <henkw(a)chalmers.se> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ************************************************************************************* *** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. *** ************************************************************************************* Call for Papers Special Issue on Localization in Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/lmsn.html http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/lmsn.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- !! Submissions open till January 1, 2011 !! ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: Accurate localization and tracking of wireless devices is a crucial requirement for many emerging location-aware systems and services. Fields of applications include emergency/medical care, intelligent transportation, location-based billing, environmental monitoring, energy efficient buildings, location-assisted gaming, and social networking. During the last few years, there have been intensive research activities on this topic, and several solutions have been investigated. The main trend today is towards the integration of heterogeneous technologies to ensure global coverage and high accuracy in all possible scenarios, leading to a seamless localization system available anywhere anytime. While satellite-based navigation is well consolidated for open sky scenarios, localization in harsh environments (indoor or urban canyon) is still an open issue that requires complementary wireless networks such as cellular systems, local/personal area networks, ad-hoc or wireless-sensor networks (UWB, ZigBee, RFID, etc.). Indoor positioning is particularly challenging due to severe multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. In this context, advanced signal processing algorithms must be employed to guarantee positioning robustness, such as NLOS identification and mitigation, fusion of data from different sources, and Bayesian methods to enclose any a priori information (e.g., dynamic models for mobile positioning). An important area of research is that of cooperative localization which is expected to highly improve accuracy and coverage by exploiting all the available measurements exchanged on a peer-to-peer basis; efficient protocols/procedures have to be designed to minimize communication overheads and energy consumption. Measurement campaigns are fundamental for calibrating signal models, either analytical ones or digital maps for fingerprinting. Analysis of fundamental performance bounds is a valuable tool for benchmarking algorithms and providing guidelines for the design of efficient positioning systems. The objective of this special issue (whose preparation is carried out under the auspices of the EC Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications NEWCOM++) is to gather recent advances, in both signal processing and communications areas, for localization in wireless networks. Papers are solicited on all related aspects, ranging from new algorithms/methodologies, system design and configuration, performance analysis and experimental studies. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Static and dynamic positioning algorithms based on multilateration/angulation, fingerprinting, and range-free solutions - Cooperative localization and distributed systems - MAC protocols for efficient localization - Bayesian location estimation and tracking - Optimization-based localization and tracking - Hybrid techniques (e.g., combining satellite navigation and wireless communication networks) and data fusion (delays, angles, signal strength, ...) - Fundamental limits analysis - Measurement campaigns, experiments, and statistical channel modelling Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due January 1, 2011 First Round of Reviews March 1, 2011 Publication Date June 1, 2011 Guest Editors: - Monica Nicoli, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy - Sinan Gezici, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey - Zafer Sahinoglu, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA, USA - Henk Wymeersch, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden _______________________________________________ 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 WiSec 2011 *** Deadline extended *** December 8, 2010, 11:59pm (PDT)
by Lars Wolf 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: ACM WiSec 2011 *** Deadline extended *** December 8, 2010, 11:59pm (PDT) Datum: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:12:46 +0100 Von: Ivan Martinovic <martinovic(a)informatik.uni-kl.de> Organisation: disco | distributed computer systems lab An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. *** Deadline extended: December 8, 2010 11:59pm (PDT) *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security ACM WiSec '11 June 14-17, 2011 Hamburg, Germany http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** As wireless and mobile networking becomes ubiquitous, security and privacy gains in importance. The focus of ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (ACM WiSec) is on exploring attacks on (and threats facing) wireless communication as well as techniques to address them. Settings of interest include: cellular, metropolitan, mesh, local-area, personal-area, home, vehicular, sensor, ad hoc, satellite, and underwater networks as well as cognitive radio and RFID. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Naming and addressing vulnerabilities * Key management in wireless/mobile environments * Secure neighbor discovery / Secure localization * Secure PHY and MAC protocols * Trust establishment * Intrusion detection, detection of malicious behavior * Revocation of malicious parties * Denial of service * User privacy, location privacy * Anonymity, unobservability, prevention of traffic analysis * Identity theft and phishing in mobile networks * Charging & secure payment * Cooperation and prevention of non-cooperative behavior * Economics of wireless security * Vulnerability and attack modeling * Incentive-aware secure protocol design * Jamming/Anti-jamming communication * Cross-layer design for security * Monitoring and surveillance * Cryptographic primitives for wireless communication * Formal methods for wireless security * Mobile/wireless platform and systems (OS and application) security The proceedings of ACM WiSec are published by the ACM. Two types of submissions are solicited: * Full papers (up to 12 pages in the ACM conference style) that report on weighty and mature research results and * Short papers (up to 6 pages in the ACM conference style) that describe pithy results or exciting work-in-progress Authors of full paper submissions must indicate whether they want their submission to be considered for the short paper category in the event of non-acceptance as a full paper. Submissions must be thoroughly anonymized for double-blinded reviewing. Detailed submission instructions will appear on the conference website (http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2011/). IMPORTANT NOTE: It is a policy of the ACM (http://www.acm.org/pubs/rights.html) to disallow double submissions, where the same (or substantially similar) paper is concurrently submitted to multiple conferences/journals. Any double submissions detected will be immediately rejected from all conferences/journals involved. Important Dates * Paper submission: December 8, 2010 11:59pm (PDT) (extended) * Notification of acceptance: February 18, 2011 * Camera-ready version: March 18, 2011 * Conference: June 14 - 17, 2011 General Chairs: Dieter Gollmann (TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany) Dirk Westhoff (HAW Hamburg, Germany) Program Chairs: Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine, US) N. Asokan (Nokia Research Center, Finland) Publicity Chair: Ivan Martinovic (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) Publication Chair: John Solis (Sandia National Labs, US) Poster/Demo Chair: Frank Kargl (University of Twente, Netherlands) _______________________________________________ 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: [ISCC] POLICY 2011 Final Call for Papers
by Lars Wolf 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ISCC] POLICY 2011 Final Call for Papers Datum: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:48:33 +0000 Von: Wishart, Ryan <r.wishart(a)imperial.ac.uk> An: cfp(a)mmlab.snu.ac.kr <cfp(a)mmlab.snu.ac.kr>, comm-theory(a)ieee.org <comm-theory(a)ieee.org>, comswtc(a)comsoc.org <comswtc(a)comsoc.org>, info-confs(a)comsoc.org <info-confs(a)comsoc.org>, MOBICOM(a)acm.org <MOBICOM(a)acm.org>, access(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu <access(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu>, admin(a)ai-gakkai.or.jp <admin(a)ai-gakkai.or.jp>, agents(a)cs.umbc.edu <agents(a)cs.umbc.edu>, ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca <ahsntc-mailing-list(a)list.trlab.ca>, announcements(a)gridforum.org <announcements(a)gridforum.org>, bblisa-announce(a)bblisa.org <bblisa-announce(a)bblisa.org>, colt(a)cs.uiuc.edu <colt(a)cs.uiuc.edu>, computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org <computational.science(a)lists.iccsa.org>, computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com <computational.science(a)lists.optimanumerics.com>, conferences(a)gridtoday.com <conferences(a)gridtoday.com>, conferences(a)newsmaster.tgc.com <conferences(a)newsmaster.tgc.com>, conference-services(a)ieee.org <conference-services(a)ieee.org>, connectionists(a)cs.cmu.edu <connectionists(a)cs.cmu.edu>, coregrid(a)inria.fr <coregrid(a)inria.fr>, cost-ic0804(a)irit.fr <cost-ic0804(a)irit.fr>, cphc-conf(a)Jiscmail.ac.uk <cphc-conf(a)Jiscmail.ac.uk>, csc(a)lists.purdue.edu <csc(a)lists.purdue.edu>, DAI-LIST(a)CSE-HUHNS1.ENGR.SC.EDU <DAI-LIST(a)CSE-HUHNS1.ENGR.SC.EDU>, DAI-List(a)mcc.com <DAI-List(a)mcc.com>, Dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu <Dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu>, discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org <discuss(a)ieeetcsc.org>, GRUPO(a)GSD.INESC-ID.PT <GRUPO(a)GSD.INESC-ID.PT>, hipeac-publicity(a)hipeac.ac.upc.edu <hipeac-publicity(a)hipeac.ac.upc.edu>, info(a)autonomic-communication.org <info(a)autonomic-communication.org>, info(a)npaci.edu <info(a)npaci.edu>, INVESTIGADORES(a)INESC-ID.PT <INVESTIGADORES(a)INESC-ID.PT>, ml(a)ics.uci.edu <ml(a)ics.uci.edu>, pdcemail(a)ee.uwa.edu.au <pdcemail(a)ee.uwa.edu.au>, planning(a)asu.edu <planning(a)asu.edu>, podc-related(a)acm.org <podc-related(a)acm.org>, remarks(a)psc.edu <remarks(a)psc.edu>, research-ds-pt(a)di.fc.ul.pt <research-ds-pt(a)di.fc.ul.pt>, sc-netsuper(a)siam.org <sc-netsuper(a)siam.org>, siam-sc(a)siam.org <siam-sc(a)siam.org>, cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca <cse-cfp(a)cse.stfx.ca>, ukubinet-announce(a)doc.ic.ac.uk <ukubinet-announce(a)doc.ic.ac.uk>, news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net <news-announce-conferences(a)uunet.uu.net>, itannounce(a)mail.it.usyd.edu.au <itannounce(a)mail.it.usyd.edu.au>, ontoweb-list(a)lists.deri.org <ontoweb-list(a)lists.deri.org>, bull_i3(a)univ-tln.fr <bull_i3(a)univ-tln.fr>, daml-all(a)daml.org <daml-all(a)daml.org>, kaw(a)swi.psy.uva.nl <kaw(a)swi.psy.uva.nl>, www-rdf-logic(a)w3.org <www-rdf-logic(a)w3.org>, www-rdf-interest(a)w3.org <www-rdf-interest(a)w3.org>, www-rdf-rules(a)w3.org <www-rdf-rules(a)w3.org>, dai-list(a)mcc.com <dai-list(a)mcc.com>, aiia(a)dis.uniroma1.it <aiia(a)dis.uniroma1.it>, cipher-cfp(a)ieee-security.org <cipher-cfp(a)ieee-security.org>, colognet(a)ucy.ac.cy <colognet(a)ucy.ac.cy>, dip-all(a)lists.deri.org <dip-all(a)lists.deri.org>, editor(a)agentlink.org <editor(a)agentlink.org>, editor(a)knowledgeboard.com <editor(a)knowledgeboard.com>, elsnet-list(a)elsnet.org <elsnet-list(a)elsnet.org>, end2end-interest(a)postel.org <end2end-interest(a)postel.org>, epontell(a)cs.nmsu.edu <epontell(a)cs.nmsu.edu>, irlist-editor(a)acm.org <irlist-editor(a)acm.org>, iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it <iscc(a)mail.ing.unibo.it>, kaw(a)science.uva.nl <kaw(a)science.uva.nl>, kweb-all(a)lists.deri.at <kweb-all(a)lists.deri.at>, project(a)aktors.org <project(a)aktors.org>, public-sws-ig(a)w3.org <public-sws-ig(a)w3.org>, public-owl-dev(a)w3.org <public-owl-dev(a)w3.org>, sw-ergo(a)gui-design.de <sw-ergo(a)gui-design.de>, w3c-policy(a)apps.ietf.org <w3c-policy(a)apps.ietf.org>, www-mobile(a)w3c.org <www-mobile(a)w3c.org>, www-ws(a)w3.org <www-ws(a)w3.org>, PlanetKR(a)kr.org <PlanetKR(a)kr.org> (apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Symposium on POLICIES FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (POLICY 2011) 6-8 June 2011 Pisa, Italy http://ieee-policy.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS, PANEL AND STUDENT GRANTS We are delighted to announce: * three distinguished invited speakers: - Jeffrey Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre. - Alexander Pretschner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Pierangela Samarati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano * A panel discussion on the second day led by Morris Sloman from Imperial College London. * Some student grants will be available to encourage attendance by PhD and masters students. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION The symposium brings together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application domains including policy-based networking, privacy, trust and security management, autonomic computing, pervasive systems and enterprise systems. POLICY 2011 is the 12th in a series of successful events, which have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS POLICY 2011 invites unpublished novel contributions on all aspects of policy-based systems. This year we specifically encourage contributions on policy-based techniques in support of Cloud computing and Enterprise Service Oriented applications as well as the use of reasoning, verification and learning techniques in policy-based systems. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. Submitted papers will be evaluated for technical contribution, originality, and significance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: Privacy and Security: - Frameworks and tools for managing the privacy and the security policy life-cycle - Architectures for deployment and enforcement of privacy and security policies - Refinement of high-level privacy/security requirements into policies - Detection and resolution of inconsistencies in privacy and security policies - Usability of policy-based privacy and security management tools Policy Models and Languages: - Abstract models and languages for policy specification - Semantic Web rule languages for policy reasoning - Policy standards, their extensions and refinements - Formal semantics of policies - NLP and policy specification - Methodologies and tools for specifying, analyzing, refining, and evaluating policies - Detection and resolution of policy conflicts - Policy negotiation models and techniques - Representation of belief, trust, and risk and their use in conjunction with policy-based systems - Systems and tools for the management of policies - Policy visualization - Usability of policy languages and representations Policy Applications: - Federated policy management in heterogeneous organisational contexts and control domains - Case studies of applying policy-based management in different application domains - Application of policies for resource allocation, autonomic computing, systems management, QoS adaptation and security - Policy-based systems for cloud computing, and service oriented applications - Policy-based networking, including collaborative security, pervasive computing, and mobile systems - Policy-based Semantic Web applications - Business rules and organizational modelling - Policy Metrics: evaluation of the effectiveness of policies - Policy applications in on-demand, utility based computing - Resource virtualization and policy-based collaboration - Cross-domain policy coordination and negotiation - Scalability of policy-based management - Architectures of policy-based management systems - Policy Learning and automated policy generation System demonstration submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their technical merit and novelty. Of particular interest are systems that illustrate research contributions and innovative applications of policy-based technologies. Those interested in demonstrating a system/application should submit a description following the instructions in the submission information section. Commercial products are eligible, but sales and marketing activities are not appropriate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATE Paper Registration deadline: 8 December 2010 Paper submission deadline: 15 December 2010 Author notification: 18 February 2011 System demonstration submission deadline: 20 January 2011 System demonstrator notification: 18 February 2011 Camera ready copy due: 18 March 2011 (for both technical papers and demos) Symposium dates: 6-8 June 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION DETAILS Papers under review elsewhere must NOT be submitted to Policy 2011. Proceedings from the Symposium will be published by IEEE Computer Society; submissions must be in IEEE Proceedings 2-Column format (http://ieeeformats.notlong.com), and must satisfy the following page limits: Policy 2011 invites contributions in the form of either: - Technical papers (max. length 8 pages). - Short position papers describing preliminary experimental results, experiences with deployed policy systems, new applications or new policy research challenges (max. length 4 pages) - System demonstration descriptions illustrating innovative applications of policy-based technologies (max length 2 pages, not including references). We particularly encourage contributions from industry in the form of long or short papers. Technical papers, short papers and demonstration descriptions should be submitted via EasyChair ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=policy2011 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Fabio Martinelli, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy Program Chairs: Daniel Olmedilla, Telefonica R&D Spain Alessandra Russo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Publicity Chair: Ryan Wishart, Imperial College London, United Kingdom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Benzeka Abdelmalik, IRIT Dakshi Agrawal, IBM Research Gail-J. Ahn, Arizona State University Arosha Bandara, Open University Moritz Becker, Microsoft Research Cambridge Elisa Bertino, Purdue University Claudio Bertolini, HP Labs Piero Bonatti, Universita' di Napoli Federico II Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Jeffrey Bradshaw, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Seraphin Calo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs Ritu Chadha, Telcordia Marinos Charalambides, University College London Gregory Cirincione, Army Research Lab Bruno Crispo, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam Grit Denker, SRI Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London Sandro Etalle, Technical University of Eindhoven David Eyers, Cambridge University Olivier Festor, INRIA Nancy - Grand Est Weili Han, Fudan University Anandha Gopalan, Imperial College London Shinichi Honiden, National Institute for Informatics Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Helge Janicke, De Montfort University Lalana Kagal, MIT CSAIL Adam Lee, University of Pittsburgh Kang-won Lee, IBM Research Ninghui Li, Purdue University Peter Linington, University of Kent Jorge Lobo, IBM Research, US Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania Emil Lupu, Imperial College London Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario Naftaly Minsky, Rutgers University Ken Moody, Cambridge University, UK Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Prasad Naldurg, Microsoft Research India Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham Babak Sadighi, Axiomatics Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan Andreas Schaad, SAP Constantin Serban, Rutgers University Morris Sloman, Imperial College London Angelos Stavrou, GMU Roshan Thomas, Sparta Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo Mahesh Tripunitaria, University of Waterloo Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University, USA Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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Fwd: EWSN11 Call for Posters and Demos
by Lars Wolf 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: EWSN11 Call for Posters and Demos Von: "Luca Mottola" <luca(a)sics.se> An: "Luca Mottola" <luca(a)sics.se> CC: Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. -- The European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2011), to be held in Bonn (Germany), February 23-25 2011, is now accepting poster and demo proposals! Call for Posters: The poster session at EWSN provides a forum for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from experts attending the conference. The areas of interest are the same of the main track (see http://www.nes.uni-due.de/ewsn2011/cfp/) . We explicitly encourage submissions from students! Call for Demos: The demonstration session at EWSN is typically one of the highlights of the conference. If you are a systems researcher who is bored with producing slides, and you would rather show off great code, working systems, useful tools, crazy flying objects, new platforms, and any other technologies related to EWSN, then the demo session is the place for you! Submissions from industry and universities are encouraged! Submission instructions are at the EWSN website: http://www.nes.uni-due.de/ewsn2011/home/ . Deadline is December 17th! For further information, please contact the EWSN Poster/Demo chairs Luca Mottola (SICS) and Daniel Minder (University of Duisburg-Essen) at ewsn2011-poster-demo(a)nes.uni-due.de. -- Luca Mottola www.sics.se/~luca

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