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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE and ICST Sponsored Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery - CAMCD09 - co-located with ICUMT 2009]
by Lars Wolf 21 Jun '09

21 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE and ICST Sponsored Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery - CAMCD09 - co-located with ICUMT 2009 Datum: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:39:29 +0300 Von: Vasos Vassiliou <vasosv(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> An: Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies *** *** TWO weeks to submission deadline !!! *** CAMCD '09 - International Workshop on Context-Aware Multimedia Content Delivery October 12 - 14, 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/camcd09 Technically Sponsored by ICST and IEEE Thematically supported by EU ICT FP7 project CCAST in connection with The International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications - ICUMT 2009 http://www.icumt.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS OVERVIEW: A major factor in the success of the convergence of future networks to 4G, All-IP technology is the efficient support of content-rich multimedia applications and services in mobile networks. There are many applications that will be enabled by new standards for mobile networking, such as triple services for mobile networks, digital television in a converged environment, video streaming, interactive gaming, navigation services, context aware services, emergency and healthcare applications, and immersive communications in virtual environments. The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the technologies needed for Context-aware Multimedia Content Delivery. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following research areas: * Development of new techniques for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; * Definition of methods to utilize the situation and environment of a user (context) to initiate multimedia-rich content delivery; * Deployment of broadcast/multicast adaptive content delivery technologies to mobile users with diverse QoS requirements. Within this scope, the CAMCD workshop aims to provide a unique international forum and foster interaction among researchers by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue for academic and industrial participants to discuss in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. TOPICS OF INTEREST • Multimedia Services Emerging and visionary multimedia applications for wireless mobile networks, Multimedia Services over Wireless LAN, WAN and Ad-hoc Networks, Context aware techniques for enhancing multimedia service support Multim• edia semantic characteristics • Context Context Representation Context Collection Context Reasoning • Wireless delivery models Broadcast/multicast/simulcast P2P mobile video Vehicular video delivery • Video Encoding and Processing Wireless video coding techniques Adaptive media coding Compression techniques, standards and evaluation Error resilience and concealment Scalable multimedia delivery over wireless Joint source-channel coding and adaptive media delivery • Wireless network architectures and technologies Architectures for Wireless Multimedia Communications New network architectures for wireless communications (IEEE 802.11v, 802.11k, CAPWAP) Use of existing technologies for multimedia services (802.11 WLAN/802.11n, 802.16 WiMAX, 3G cellular networks, MBMS,DVB- H) Wireless multimedia terminal and devices QoS support for wireless multimedia networks QoS signaling and protocols for wireless multimedia Cross-layer interaction and optimization • Experimentation Design and implementation of testbeds for multimedia over wireless Field trials, experimental measurements and results Measurements-based models for multimedia over wireless Testing of protocols and standards for multimedia over wireless IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 30, 2009 Acceptance notification: July 30, 2009 Camera ready: August 15, 2009 SUBMISSIONS The papers should be submitted as a PDF file through EDAS system (http://edas.info/).The maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures. The total length of a paper should not exceed 6 pages/ IEEE proceedings style. See workshop website for more instructions. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, published in IEEE Xplore. CHAIRS Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus Massimo Valla, Telecom Italia Labs TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Josephine Antoniou, University of Cyprus Nigel Baker, University of the West of England Christos Bouras, University of Patras Andy Giefer, Deutche Welle Kaname Harumoto, Osaka University Christophe Janneteau, CEA Carlo Alberto Licciardi, Telecom Italia Pascal Lorenz, Universite de Haute Alsace Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari Boris Moltchanov, Telecom Italia Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra Telma Mota, PT Inovacao Jordi Pallares, FhG Fokus Giovanni Pau, University of California Los Angeles Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus Nadav Ramati, BigBand Martin Reisslein, Arizona State university Susana Sargento, IT Aveiro Hans Schotten, University of Kaiserslautern Katarina Stanoevska, University of St. Gallen Ralf Toenjes, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Cyprus University of Technology George Xylomenos, Athens University of Economics and Business -- Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D. Lecturer Networks Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus Tel.: +357 22892750 Fax: +357 22892701 Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy url: http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] MUM09 CfP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] MUM09 CfP Datum: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:33:46 +0100 Von: Cecilia Mascolo <cecilia.mascolo(a)cl.cam.ac.uk> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Apologies for multiple copies of this CFP -- MUM'09 The 8th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia November 22-25, 2009, Cambridge, England Paper submissions deadline: August 3, 2009 http://www.mum2009.org/ We invite you to submit original and unpublished work to MUM 2009, the 8thInternational Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. This year the conference will take place at the historic city of Cambridge in England. It is co-organized by Microsoft Research, Nokia Research, and University of Cambridge, which is known for its academic excellence and celebrates its 800thanniversary this year. We will be pleased to welcome you to the Conference. Kind regards from Jon Crowcroft, Jonna Häkkilä, Cecilia Mascolo, Natasa Milic-Frayling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUM (International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia) is a distinguished forum for advances in research and technologies that drive innovation in mobile and multimedia systems, applications, and services. At MUM, academics and practitioners gather to discuss challenges and achievements from diverse perspectives, in a comfortable and effective single track conference format. MUM invites submissions on * User research and methods for user-centred design of new concepts, applications, and services in mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, ethnographic research and case studies * Enabling technologies for novel mobile and ubiquitous multimedia applications, including protocols, algorithms, architectures, and middleware for mobile roaming, bandwidth and connectivity management, media streaming, storage, user authentication, identity and profile management * Innovative designs and implementations of user interfaces, applications, and systems that address challenging issues in mobile interaction and ubiquitous media access across devices with different form factors, seamless transition between computing platforms,context aware UI, content presentation, management of large user populations and complex service interactions for mobile and ubiquitous multimedia * Applications of research methods and techniques from social network analysis, machine learning, information retrieval, computer graphics, computer vision, speech processing, user interfaces and interaction design to mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. Important Dates =============== August 3, 2009 Deadline for Long and Short Paper submission August 3, 2009 Proposals for Tutorials Sept 21, 2009 Poster and Demo submissions Sept 21, 2009 Applications for Doctoral Consortium due Oct 2, 2009 Deadline for camera-ready submissions Conference dates: Nov 22, 2009 Conference starts with Doctoral Consortium and Tutorials Nov 23-25, 2009 Main conference program ORGANIZERS: Conference Chairs: Natasa Milic-Frayling Microsoft Research Jonna Häkkilä Nokia Research Center Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge Program Chair: Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge -- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~cm542 "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" T. Edison _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[InternetTC] Call for Participation: SensorNets 2009
by Habib Ammari 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SensorNets 2009: The First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009 http://www.sensornets-school.org/ EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2009 OVERVIEW It is a common belief that computing has been increasingly integrating our life. It results that the philosophy of networking is currently reaching a new frontier, where the physical processes directly impact the logical information for the sake of pervasive and ubiquitous control of the surrounding environment. This objective can be achieved by means of massively networked embedded systems, also known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). The Wireless Sensor Network paradigm is known as the most prominent enabling technology for CPS. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has also been a pioneer technology in defining the new concept of Internet-of-Things. There is, as consequence, a tendency to change the concept of the Internet from a network a data to a network of physical objects. The objective of the the SensorNets 2009 School is to present a comprehensive state-of-the-art of the enabling technologies for the concept of Cyber-Physical Systems, such as Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), RFID, wireless standard protocols, etc. The lectures of this school span the basic concepts as well as the latest achievement and the future challenges in the related research areas. GOALS The goals of the SensorNets 2009 School are as follows: * Provide a basic survey of the current research works and challenges on cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Provide an overview of the current enabling technologies for cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Provide a good opportunity to meet people and distinguished scholars working on cyber-physical and sensor-based systems. * Establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future. AUDIENCE The expected audience are: * Post-graduate students, PhD students, and young researchers from universities: SensorNets 2009 will provide a very thorough and comprehensive background for young researchers starting their work in the areas of WSNs and CPS. * Researchers and engineers from academic and industrial laboratories around the world. We expect hosting 60 participants. SATELLITE EVENTS * Demos & Posters session: This session will be dedicated to the demonstrations and presentations of preliminary and ongoing works of PhD students dealing with WSNs and CPS. Demo and Poster papers must be submitted to the session chair and must not exceed two pages. * Awards: Best Master/Ph.D. Awards: Ph.D. dissertations and Master theses already defended can be submitted to participate to the awards competition. LECTURERS - Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, (USA) - Mario Alves , CISTER Research Unit, (Portugal) - Sajal K. Das , University of Texas at Arlington, (USA) - Gianluca Dini , University of Pisa, (Italy) - Vlado Handziski , Technical University of Berlin, (Germany) - Jan Hauer, Technical University of Berlin, (Germany) - Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University/CISTER Research Unit, (KSA/Portugal) - Luca Mottola, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), (Sweden) - David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA/LIFL, (France) - Hichem Snoussi, University of Technology of Troyes, (France) LOCATION The city of Monastir is located in the central eastern part of Tunisia on the Mediterranean coast. Located at 160 km from the capital (Tunis). Monastir is a nice coastal resort, covering an area of 6,614 ha along a 6 km long shore. PARTICIPATION Text Box: Application deadline: 15 June 2009Participation is open to all interested applicants from academia and industry. Registration fees are:  EUR 350 for early registration before 15 July 2009 fo EUR 400 for normal registration after 15 July 2009 and before 15 August (+ total supplement Euro 70 for single room).  EUR 480 for registration for industry.  Group registration: 20% reduction for a group of 4 participants or more from the same institute. The fees cover registration, accommodation in the hotel hosting SensorNets 2009 (4 /5 star hotel), food, coffee breaks, and social event excursions. ORGANIZATION General Co-Chairs: Mohamed Abid, David Simplot-Ryl Program Co-Chairs: Anis Koubâa, Habib M. Ammari

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[Fwd: [Cost290] CFP: U-NET'09 (User-provided networking) workshop, co-located with ACM CoNext]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Cost290] CFP: U-NET'09 (User-provided networking) workshop, co-located with ACM CoNext Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:00:28 +0100 Von: Paulo Mendes <pmendes(a)inescporto.pt> An: cost290(a)cs.tut.fi (Appologies if you get this twice) ACM U-NET'09 — User-provided Networking: Challenges and Opportunities Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009 Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/unet/ Submission Deadline: July 17, 2009 Submit at: http://edas.info/N7753 *(Now with a Technical Panel)* *Motivation* This workshop is dedicated to the debate of concepts, challenges, and opportunities concerning user-provided networking, i.e., scenarios where users cooperate by sharing wireless resources as well as Internet services. To provide a specific example that relates to Internet access (connectivity), the end-user (or a community of end-users) is a micro-operator in the sense that he/she shares his/her subscribed broadband Internet access based on some form of incentive scheme. In addition, the end-user may or may not provide other network functionality such as local mobility management, or persistent storage and forwarding services. This new role is disruptive in what concerns Internet service models, since there is no distinction between what is today known as end-user device and network device: in the future, end-user devices will actively participate as part of the network. In contrast, the Internet has been up to now mostly the means for end-users to obtain some form of network service, originally related to connectivity, person-to-person communication, or information retrieval. Such user-centric provider role is also disruptive given that the regular network boundaries of trust have to be extended in a way that should mimic social behavior: there is the need to form networks of trust in order to accommodate a robust network growth, given that the key to such growth is the willingness to cooperate. Another disruptive aspect of user-provided networking is that due to the nature of the wireless media and the way that humans move, support for intermittent connectivity as well as fast and transparent roaming between micro-operators needs to be considered. Finally, and given that user-provided networking spreads dynamically having as network elements regular end-user devices, there is the need to consider cases where information is opportunistically relayed instead of routed based on topological information. Due to the disruptive aspects mentioned, user-provided networking seem to have the potential to provide a paradigm shift in Internet communication models, given that such novel functionality allow wireless networks to operate in a completely autonomic way and also given that the end-user becomes a provider of Internet services (e.g. connectivity) based upon cooperation incentives or rewards and based upon his/her own mobility and social patterns. Services are established on the fly, and do not necessarily imply the use of multihop technology or routing. For instance, connectivity may be, in most cases, simply relayed. The workshop program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers and a discussion panel with guests from industry and academia. We envision U-NET as a forum aiming to ignite a debate concerning technical challenges and impact (negatively or positively) that user-provided networking may have on Internet communication models. *Topics* U-NET'09 solicits high quality technical contributions within the context of user-provided networking. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Challenges and opportunities for access providers. * Impact on Internet architectures. * Internet connectivity. * Trust models, incentives to share broadband access. * Human behaviour and mobility patterns. * Self-organization. * Wireless cooperation. Papers submitted are expected to be highly innovative and may incorporate early stage ideas; position papers (clearly identified as such) pointing to new directions and capable of generating discussion are also welcome. Submission must be original and not already published in any other conference proceeding or journal. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *Technical Panel Discussion* U-NET'09 aims to be a forum to debate the technical challenges and impact of deploying user-provided networking technology. For this propose, this first edition of U-NET will host a technical discussion panel constituted by: * Shivendra S. Panwar, Professor at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, USA * James Kempft, Senior Architect at Ericsson Research, USA * David Kennedy, Director at Eurescom GmbH, Germany * Jordi Vallejo, CTO at FON Wireless Ltd, Spain * David Trossen, Chief Researcher at British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom *Submissions* Submitted papers must be at most 6 (six) pages long (including figures, tables and references) in the standard ACM double column format. All text must use font sizes of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submissions will be done via EDAS at http://edas.info/N7753. *Important Dates* Submissions due: July 17, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 4, 2009 Camera ready version due: October 1, 2009 Workshop date: December 1, 2009 *Program Committee* PC Chairs Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, Portugal Olivier Marcé, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France Technical Program Committee Rute Sofia, INESC Porto, Portugal André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Vassilis Kostakos, University of Madeira, Portugal Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Dirk Trossen, British Telecom Innovate, United Kingdom Prosper Chemouli, France Telecom, France Martin May, Thomson Paris Research Laboratory, France Karen Sollins, MIT, USA Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA James Kempf, Ericsson Research, USA Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgders University, USA Bernhard Plattner, ETH, Switzerland George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Maria Papadopouli, FORTH/University of Creete, Greece Anand Prasand, NEC, Japan Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Marcus Brunner, NEC, Germany Petri Mähönen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany -- ----------------------------------------------------- Paulo Mendes, Ph.D Area Leader, Internet Architectures and Networking Telecommunication and Multimedia Unit INESC Porto Tel. +351 22 209 4264 Fax. +351 22 209 4050 http://ian.inescporto.pt _______________________________________________ Cost290 mailing list Cost290(a)cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/cost290

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[Fwd: [MM-INTEREST] Final CfP - 1st ACM Int. Workshop on Events in Multimedia *** one week left for submission ***]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [MM-INTEREST] Final CfP - 1st ACM Int. Workshop on Events in Multimedia *** one week left for submission *** Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:56 +0200 Von: Ansgar Scherp <scherp(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> Antwort an: Ansgar Scherp <scherp(a)UNI-KOBLENZ.DE> An: MM-INTEREST(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS *** one week left for submission *** 1st ACM International Workshop on Events in Multimedia (EiMM09) http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/eimm09/ held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= *** Apologies for any cross-postings *** *** Submission site open: *** http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7895&track=7575 Important Dates --------------- *** Submission of papers: June 24th, 2009 *** Notification of acceptance: July 10th, 2009 Camera ready papers: July 24th, 2009 Workshop at ACM Multimedia : October 23rd, 2009 Workshop Description -------------------- Humans think in terms of events and entities. Events provide a natural abstraction of happenings in the real world. The concept of events has a long history in foundational sciences such as philosophy and linguistics. After first developing objects-based and entity-based approaches, computer science research is now addressing the concept of events and building many applications that consider events at least as important as objects. Consequently, we find many different solutions and approaches for modeling, detecting, and processing events. In addition, we find different applications that are based on events and make use of events. Conferences and workshops on events in computer science typically deal with the capturing, processing, and management of low-level events such as publish/ subscribe-approaches, middleware-based architectures, complex event processing, and event stream processing. Although this work is very essential for an efficient execution of the applications build on top of such approaches, the understanding of the concept of events is disconnected from the domain-level of events that the actual users of such applications have to deal with. However, considering multimedia data, its semantics is naturally closely tied to the event(s) it documents. The workshop focuses on how to detect, model, and process domain-level events and applications that make use of domain-level events in the context of multimedia data. We aim at bringing together researchers from the different fields that are interested in understanding the concept of events on domain-level. We invite original work in the areas of domain event modeling, detection of events from multimedia data, processing of events, organization of multimedia data using events as unifying mechanism, and applications of these techniques. The submissions should explicitly explain how they deal with the events of the considered domain and what kind of benefit is provided to the users by using events. Example application areas for events are multimedia-based experience sharing, lifelogs, emergency response, cultural heritage, news, surveillance, and others. The participants of the workshop will gain an insight into the current state-of-the-art of computer science research on domain-level events. They will get concrete examples of how events can be leveraged for human-centered research and how it can be detected, processed, modeled, and used for creating human- centered applications. They will also have the opportunity to discuss their approach with other researchers from the multimedia community in the hands-on part of the workshop. Topics ------ Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: O Event Detection and Processing in Multimedia Data o Recognition of events from large scale, unreliable and/or noisy media data and media streams o Event clustering towards domain level-events o Combining low-level events with domain-level events O Event Representation and Event Models o Modeling of events on domain-level o Ontology-based representation of events o Languages for events o Formal modeling of events, activities, accomplishments, achievements, context, and other related concepts o Reasoning with events under consideration of causality, uncertainty, similarity, and others o Semantic description and annotation for events and event sources O Events in the Context of Web 2.0 o Collaborative event creation and sharing o Events in social networks o Event syndication (e.g., RSS) and attention management O Architectures for Event Management o Middleware solutions for event management o Event-driven architectures o Experimental methodologies o Domain-specific solutions for event management such as for emergency response O Applications and Tools o Event-based applications and tools o Authoring of events o Events in mobile computing and ubiquituous computing o Applications that show benefits of using events in practical settings o User experience, requirements, use cases, and evaluations of event-based applications Paper Submission, Review, and Publication ----------------------------------------- Submissions for the workshop must follow the standard style guidelines of the ACM Multimedia conference. They shall be submitted in PDF format and not be longer than 8 pages. Papers will be submitted using the EDAS system of ACM Multimedia. In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another workshop, conference, or journal. All submitted papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process. At least three reviewers from the PC members and external reviewers will evaluate the originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance, and technical contents of the submitted manuscripts. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2009 conference. Based on the quality of the manuscripts, selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of a top journal in the multimedia area (tbd). Program Committee ----------------- Pradeep Atrey, University of Winnipeg, Canada Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University, Athens, Greece Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany Pablo Cesar, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Krishna Chandramouli, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Ivan Damnjanovic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Thomas Franz, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny Andreas Girgensohn, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, CA, USA Marcin Grzegorzek, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Lynda Hardman, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Niels Henze, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany Aisling Kelliher, ASU - Tempe, USA Vita Lanfranchi, University of Sheffield, UK Artur Lugmayer, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Phivos Mylonas, National Technical University, Athens, Greece Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klara Nahrstedt, University at Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Carsten Saathoff, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Philipp Sandhaus, OFFIS Research Institute, Oldenburg, Germany Svetha Venkatesh , Curtin Univ. of Tech., Perth, Australia Utz Westermann, mercatis, Ulm, Germany Weiqi Yan, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Toni Zgaljic, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Qianni Zhang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Organizers ---------- Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine (UCI), USA Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore For questions and inquiries please contact: scherp(a)uni-koblenz.de Sponsor ------- WeKnowIt - Emerging, Collective Intelligence for Personal, Organisational and Social Use, http://www.weknowit.eu/ -- Dr. Ansgar Scherp University of Koblenz-Landau Institute for Computer Science Phone: +49(0)261/287-2717 Universitätsstraße 1 Fax : +49(0)261/287-2721 D-56070 Koblenz-Metternich Mail : scherp(a)uni-koblenz.de

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[Fwd: IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers Deadline Extended]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers Deadline Extended Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:03:09 -0400 Von: ComSoc Conferences <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> Antwort an: <Meetings(a)comsocconferences.org> An: <wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> Click here <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21641> if you can not see this message CCNC10 <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21642> IEEE CCNC 2010 Call for Papers *Deadline Extended to June * <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21643>**28* <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21644>**, 2009* <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21645> *IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21646>* - the 7th annual international conference - will present the latest developments and technical solutions in the areas of home networking, consumer networking, enabling technologies, and novel applications and services. *Technical Program <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21647>* features presentations in all areas of consumer communications and networking, including • Wireless Home Communication and Networking • Smart Spaces and Personal Area Networks for CE • Multimedia Communication and Services • Content Distribution and Peer-to-Peer Networks • Security and Content Protection for CE • Pervasive and Ambient Applications * *For a list of potential topics and submission requirements,* click here <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21648>. Important Technical Program Deadlines: *Technical Papers Due:* June 28, 2009 *Acceptance Notification:* August 23, 2009 *Camera Ready Artwork:* October 1, 2009* *Submissions are also welcomed for Special Sessions, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Short Papers, and Industry Technical Panels. <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21649>* Special Sessions Due: *July 30, 2009* Tutorials Due: *September 1, 2009* Demonstrations Due: *September 1, 2009* Short Papers Due: *September 1, 2009* Industry Technical Panels Due: *September 17, 2009* For more information on these specialized tracks, click here <http://ieee.xert.net/d.cfm?m=90204.780.0.21650>. To unsubscribe from this list, please *click here* <http://ieee.xert.net/act_optout.cfm?cid=90204&email_id=%23%249%3BO%0A>.

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Call for paper for Special Issue on: Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for paper for Special Issue on: Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks Datum: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:13:35 +1000 Von: Jinli Cao <J.Cao(a)latrobe.edu.au> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) http://www.inderscience.com/ijsnet <http://www.inderscience.com/ijsnet> Special Issue on: Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks With recent technological advances in communication and computation, new Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are growing. The emergence of low-energy and low-cost multimedia devices, such as microphones and cameras, has stimulated the development of the next generation WSN, known as Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN). WMSNs have brought unprecedented potentials especially for applications requiring ubiquitous access to the multimedia contents, such as still images, audio and video streams. The extra sensor capacity and various requirements of multimedia objects in-network processing also pose new and unique challenges. The challenges are crucial about how to energy-efficiently query, process, transfer, and store voluminous multimedia objects since most of the multimedia sensors are operated under limited battery powers. Additionally, relatively slow advancements in battery technologies make the energy constrain the fast progress in WMSNs. This special issue will bring together those leading researchers and developers in fields of data and resource management, distributed storage techniques and energy efficiency to study the particular problems and challenges of wireless multimedia sensor networks. The purpose of the special session is therefore to foster communications between various communities including distributed database management communities, multimedia communication communities and sensor networks communities, and establish a common ground for advanced research and development in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. The published papers are expected to present high quality results on state-of-the-art algorithms, novel techniques and real applications associated with Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Multimedia in-network processing in WMSN · Distributed source coding in WMSN · Multimedia aggregation and fusion in WMSN · Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN 2. WMSN architectures and applications * Scalable and flexible WMSN architecture * WMSN design for supporting heterogeneous applications * Multimedia sensor coverage * Novel WMSN applications * Experimental studies of WMSN * WMSN modelling and performance analysis 3. Emerging WMSN technologies * Hardware platform * Physical layer technologies * Energy harvesting technologies 4. Effective and energy-efficient protocols for WMSN * Real-time and reliable multimedia streaming * Routing and medium access control * Topology control and synchronization protocols * Energy efficient traffic management * QoS provisioning protocols 5. Cross-layer design in WMSN * Joint multimedia processing and communication * Cooperative communication for multimedia delivery * Effective cross-layer communication protocols * Joint optimization for WMSN design 6. Data management for WMSN * In-network and distributed storage techniques for WMSN * Lightweight multimedia encoding techniques * Collaborative in-network processing * Energy-efficient DBMS for WMSN Manuscript due: Nov 28, 2009; Acceptance/rejection notification: March 31, 2010; Final manuscript due: Jun 31, 2010; Publication date: 4th Quarter of 2010. Submitted papers should be original that are previously unpublished and not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please submit the manuscript as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to Dr. Jinli Cao at j.cao(a)latrobe.edu.au. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page:(http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf <http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf> ). Professor Xiaohua Jia Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tel: (852) 2788 9670; Fax: (852) 2788 8614 Email: csjia(a)cityu.edu.hk <https://owa.latrobe.edu.au/exchange/JCao/Drafts/csjia@cityu.edu.hk> Dr. Jinli Cao Department of Computer Science La Trobe University , Melbourne VIC 3086 Tel: (613) 94793035; Fax: (613) 94793069 Email: j.cao(a)latrobe.edu.au Dr. Leon L. Shu Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Ireland E-mail: lei.shu(a)deri.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Deadline extension for Posters and Demos - ACM PE-WASUN 2009
by Claude Chaudet 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

The submission deadline for posters and demos has been extended to June 30th. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2009 6th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (Jointly with the 12th ACM MSWiM Conference) http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun09 Tenerife, Canary Islands, SPAIN 26-30 October, 2009 CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope ----- Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice. This symposium aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Performance evaluation of vehicular networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks General Chair ------------- Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University, USA Program Co-Chairs ----------------- Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada (boukerch(a)site.uottawa.ca) Isabelle Gue'rin Lassous Universite' Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous(a)ens-lyon.fr) Poster Chair ------------ Manos Dramitinos INRIA/LIP, France (emmanouil.dramitinos(a)ens-lyon.fr) Demos Chair ----------- Claude Chaudet Telecom ParisTech, France (claude.chaudet(a)enst.fr) Publicity Chair --------------- Tahiry Razafindralambo INRIA/IRCICA/LIFL, France Program Committee Members ------------------------- Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Manos Dramitinos INRIA/LIP, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Juan-Carlos Cano Escriba UPV, Spain Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Monica Aguilar Igartua Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Richard W. Pazzi University of Ottawa, Canada Tahiry Razafindralambo INRIA/IRCICA/LIFL, France Prasan Kumar Sahoo Vanung University, Taiwan, Republic of China Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA Hwang-Cheng Wang National Ilan University, Taiwan, Republic of China Call for Posters ---------------- Posters presenting early work and preliminary results are solicited. The poster session will provide an excellent opportunity for feedback on early research results as lively discussions. Posters are solicited in all areas of mobile ad hoc networking and computing. Submission Instructions for Posters ------------------------------------ Poster descriptions of no more than 4 pages (in two-column format, ACM style - see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) should be submitted to the Poster Chair Manos Dramitinos by means of email to emmanouil.dramitinos(a)ens-lyon.fr. The poster should be self-contained, including all figures and references, as well as the names, affiliations and email addresses of the authors. Please indicate "PE-WASUN 2009 Poster Submission" as the subject of the email. All submissions will be acknowledged. Posters will be included in the symposium proceedings. Call for Demos -------------- PE-WASUN 2009 invites proposals for demonstrations of research tools dedicated to validate and evaluate performance of wireless networks. Academic and industrial institutions are welcome to demonstrate, for example, testbeds, simulators or formal methods engines and formalisms related to the general symposium topics available here. Submission Instructions for Demos --------------------------------- The proposal should include : * An article of at most 4 pages (in two-column format, ACM style - see http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), describing the tool and its benefits for performance evaluation of at least one of the aforementioned topics that will be included in the symposium proceedings. * A two-pages description text mentioning the goal of the demonstration, the space required, the setup time, network and electrical connectivity requirements as well as any other requirement. Authors may provide a reference URL if available. This description will constitute the online description of the demonstration. Demonstrations should be submitted to the Demos Chair Claude Chaudet by means of email to claude.chaudet(a)enst.fr. Important Dates --------------- Poster/Demo due June 30th, 2009 Acceptance notifcation July 6th, 2009 Camera ready due TBA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[MM-INTEREST] [EuroSSC] Call for Posters & Demos - 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context
by Clemens Lombriser 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS AND DEMOS ***** EuroSSC 2009 ***** ***** 4th IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context ***** The deadline for your 4 page submission is on 20 July 2009 16-18 September 2009 Guildford, UK http://www.eurossc.org/ ********************************************************************** We would like to invite you to present your recent and on-going work on smart sensing and context as a poster or demo at EuroSSC 2009. The annual conference explores new techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, services, and user aspects utilising context and context-aware services and applications. Topics coverage include smart sensing, context recognition, and context processing in the framework of a Real World Internet. Of growing interest are methods and principles for context abstraction and processing, quality of context, machine-interpretable representation of context, context- aware service platforms, and horizontalisation of context information access to leverage smart surroundings for a wide range of applications rather than single closed systems. Past editions were held at ETH Switzerland (2008), University of Lancaster in UK (2007), and University of Twente, Netherlands (2006). Topics of interest: ================== * Distributed smart sensing and context recognition o Smart sensing: sensors inferring context and context-aware sensing o Context-aware surroundings and infrastructures o Distributed objects and wearables inferring context o Algorithms and architectures for scalable context recognition o Quality of Context (context uncertainty, unreliable sensing) o Distributed software architectures for context awareness * Context processing and categorisation o Context reasoning, fusion, transformation, inference o Context processing given Quality of Context o Scalable context management and processing architectures o Information aspects of context-aware sensor and actuator systems o Context categorisation and classification * Context-altering actuators, interaction methods, and human aspects o Principles and methods for context-aware actuation and feedback o Distributed context-aware actuators o Interaction with context-aware objects, wearables and proactive interfaces o Quality of Actuation o Symbiosis between autonomic context-aware sensor and actuator systems and users o Social implications, user-controlled privacy, securing context * Service environment, applications, deployment, test beds and case studies o Real-world experiences with deployed systems o Applications and case studies related to smart surroundings & intelligent objects o Integration with the Internet of the Future the Real World Internet o Development tools, deployment principles, and life-cycle support o Wearable computing and pervasive computing applications o Sensor networks and information processing for new generations of context enabled devices o Intelligent sensors and sensor network systems o Context-aware service platforms Keynotes: ========= * Professor Amit Sheth from the Wright State University will talk about "Computing for Human Experience: Semantics empowered Sensors, Services, and Social Computing on ubiquitous Web". His homepage is at http://knoesis.wright.edu/amit/ * Dr. Marimuthu Palaniswami from ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), the University of Melbourne will hold a talk on "Large Scale Sensor Networks Deployment: Research Challenges and Opportunities" His homepage is at http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/staff/swami/ Submission: =========== Posters should present recent and on-going research in smart sensing and context area. The poster submissions should include a 4-page (LNCS format) description of the current research. The demonstrations also require a 4-page (LNCS format) submission to describe the presented work. Accepted submissions for posters and demonstrations will be printed in the adjunct conference proceedings with an own ISBN number. The submitted work is expected to be presented at the conference. Submission open at: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/EuroSSC2009/ For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.eurossc.org -- EuroSSC Poster & Demo Chair Clemens Lombriser, ETH Zürich lombriser(a)ife.ee.ethz.ch www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/people/lclemens/

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP E-DTN '09 - Deadline Extended to July 6th]
by Lars Wolf 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP E-DTN '09 - Deadline Extended to July 6th Datum: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:16:06 +0100 Von: <I.Psaras(a)surrey.ac.uk> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> Referenzen: <1E7B4639CA370942A3CDE4ACEC1342950FBFF9(a)EVS-EC1-NODE2.surrey.ac.uk> <1E7B4639CA370942A3CDE4ACEC1342950FC01A(a)EVS-EC1-NODE2.surrey.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, please note that the new hard submission deadline for E-DTN '09 is on the 6th of July. Regards, Ioannis Psaras. ************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on the Emergence of Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks (E-DTN) Technically Sponsored by IEEE NEW IMPORTANT DATES: Paper-submission Deadline: July 6, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Dates: TBA October, 2009, St.-Petersburg, Russia (in conjunction with ICUMT 2009) [Web: http://www.e-dtn.org/] ************************************************************************ Networking research for challenged environments has attracted a lot of attention lately. Numerous attractive protocols have been proposed, which are expected to network places and devices that currently do not have the opportunity of "going online". Such environments reside at the edges of the current Internet infrastructure. For example, public and private transport vehicles, underwater, satellite and deep-space networks are potential DTN deployments of interest. Communication in the above-mentioned challenged environments is usually infrastructureless and consists mainly of mobile battery-powered devices. Moreover, mobility patterns are usually unknown, making connectivity periods between DTN-nodes intermittent and opportunistic. To achieve communication in such environments one has to deal with several performance tradeoffs, such as end-to-end delivery delay and energy consumption, or reliability and storage congestion. Since, in most cases, end-to-end connectivity does not exist (hence the difference from ad hoc networking) current Internet protocols fail permanently. Although there have already been a lot of research proposals for routing, (storage) congestion control, error control and application design for such networks, the IRTF has focused mainly on the Bundle Protocol (BP); BP is an application layer protocol that does not include the appropriate functionalities to deal with issues such as routing or storage congestion, for example. That said, DTN research and its future directions seem to lack a stable basis. For example, it is not clear yet if a "one-fits-all" protocol stack will be deployed, or if such an approach is feasible at all. In contrast, several different protocols that each would suit the needs of its specific architecture/setup would need to be able to interoperate. This workshop seeks novel ideas in the form of preliminary or work-in-progress results as well as mature research papers for Delay-/Disruption Tolerant Networks. We also encourage position papers that address and criticize the past, current and future trends of DTN research and are intended to trigger discussions on the whole spectrum of DTNs. Topics include but are not limited to: - DTN Routing - Congestion and Storage Congestion Control - Resource Sharing in DTN environments - Network Coding techniques for DTNs - Application Development - DTN Management Platforms - Error and Flow Control - Experiences and Measurements from DTN testbeds - Privacy and Security of Information in DTNs - DTN Simulators and related tools - Performance Evaluation and Metrics for DTN Research - Performance and Design Tradeoffs for DTN Algorithms and Protocols - Social Networking through DTNs - Satellite Constellations and DTNs - Naming/Addressing and interoperability issues with the Internet architecture - DTN Architectures: -- Satellite Communications -- Deep-space Communications -- Underwater Communications -- Connectivity in Developing Countries -- Communication in Public and Private Transport Vehicles NEW IMPORTANT DATES: Paper-submission Deadline: July 6, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submitted papers must be original in content, not published or submitted to another workshop, conference or journal. Page-limits are as follows: Position Papers: 2 pages, Work-in-Progress Papers: 4 pages and Full Papers: 6 pages. Authors should prepare a PDF file following the IEEE single-spaced, double-column page-style, using 10 pt size fonts on 8.5X11 inch pages. Page-limits include text, figures, references and appendices. A selection of the best papers will be invited for a special issue on the Emergence of Delay-/Disruption-Tolerant Networks in the Journal of Internet Engineering [http://www.jie-online.org]. WORKSHOP CHAIRS General Co-Chairs: * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece/MIT, USA * Saverio Mascolo, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy TPC Co-Chairs: * Lefteris Mamatas, University College London, UK * Ioannis Psaras, University of Surrey, UK Workshop TPC: * Scott Burleigh, NASA/JPL, USA * Wei Koong Chai, UCL, UK * Stylianos Dimitriou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Wesley Eddy, Verizon/NASA GRC, USA * Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA * Peter Holliday, Cisco Systems, Australia * Pan Hui, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany * Merkourios Karaliopoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Lefteris Mamatas, UCL, UK * Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy * Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA * Paulo Mendes, INESC-Porto, Portugal * Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Lancaster University, UK * Giorgos Papastergiou, Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Greece * Ioannis Psaras, University of Surrey, UK * Christos V. Samaras, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece * Keith Scott, MITRE Corporation, USA * Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras, Greece * Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece/MIT, USA * Lloyd Wood, University of Surrey/Cisco Systems, UK * Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK * Chi Zhang, Juniper Networks, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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