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[Tccc] First CFP - IEEE SASN '09 - The International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
by Sara Cacciapuoti 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

================================================================================ Call For Papers SANS 2009 The International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks http://www.ieee-sasn.org St. Petersburg, Russia, 12 - 14 Ottobre 2009 technically sponsored by IEEE co-located with ICUMT 2009 The International Conference On Ultra Modern Telecommunications http://www.icumt.org ================================================================================ Aims and Scope: ------------------------------ The scope of the International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN '09) is to bring together a highly qualified group of researchers and developers interested in the design, development and evaluation of scalable ad hoc and sensor networks, so that they can share their results and experiences, exchange innovative ideas, and establish potential collaborations expecially between the Academia and the Industry. With the explosive proliferation of mobile communication and computing devices, the scalability property is becoming an increasingly popular issue in wireless communication research, as it has been recognized as one of the key features for supporting pervasive networking scenarios. The scalability concept involves several dimensions, like the node number, the data load, the user/application number, etc, and it is the basis to break up the cellular concept enriching it by multi hop communications. The workshop will focus on fundamental challenges and issues in the fields of scalable ad hoc and sensor networks, and it will highlight the newest trends in this emerging area. Topics of Interest: ------------------------------ Original, unpublished contributions addressing application and architectures, systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to scalable ad hoc and sensor networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - congestion, scheduling and admission control - routing, broadcasting and multicasting protocols - transport-layer protocols for SASN - data transportation, dissemination, aggregation, replication and management - resource allocation, discovery and management - context and location-aware services - power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design - security and privacy - Quality of Service (QoS) and fairness provisioning - cross-layer design and optimization - joint source-channel coding and asymptotic scalability - integration of ad hoc/sensor networks with infrastructure-based networks - information-theoretic analysis of ad hoc/sensor networks - scalable mobile, mesh and vehicular ad hoc networks - opportunism and cooperation for SASN - peer-to-peer and delay-tolerant networks - modeling and simulation methodologies for large scale networks - prototypes and testbeds design to investigate scalability - challenges arising from new technologies (UWB, MIMO, beam forming, Cognitive Radio, etc.) Important dates: ------------------------------ Abstract submission due: June 19, 2009 Paper submission due: June 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2009 Camera-ready version due: September 11, 2009 Submissions: ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research, unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal, via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7701). The manuscripts should be written in English and follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including all text, figures and references. All submitted manuscripts will be judged based on the correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation through a review process. Proceedings: ------------------------------ All the accepted papers will be included in the ICUMT 2009 main conference proceedings and published by IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). Committees: ------------------------------ Workshop Chair: Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Technical Program Chair: Luigi Paura, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Technical Program Committee Members: Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) Franco Davoli, Università di Genova (Italy) Mieso Denko, University of Guelpg (Canada) Misha Dohler, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain) Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame (USA) Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba (Canada) Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sideny (Australia) Tara Javidi, University of California San Diego (USA) Matti Lavta-Aho, University of Oulu (Finland) Scott Midkiff, VirginiaTech (USA) Sudip Misra, Indian Istitute of Technology Kharagpur (India) Antonella Molinaro, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania (Italy) Anna Scaglione, University of California Davis (USA) Michele Zorzi, Univeristy of Padova (Italy) ================================================================================ Angela Sara Cacciapuoti Ph.D., Assistant Researcher Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering University of Naples Federico II via Claudio 21 I-80125 Naples, Italy Phone: +39-0817683154 Fax: +39-0817683149 Email: angelasara.cacciapuoti(a)unina.it _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: PMSN 2009 (Extend to April 30th, 2009)
by Shu, Lei 19 Apr '09

19 Apr '09

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Call for Papers 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN 2009) http://lei.shu.deri.googlepages.com/pmsn2009 (In conjunction with EUC 2009) http://cse.stfx.ca/~euc09/ August 28th~31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada Call for Papers The 2009 International Workshop on Pervasive Multimedia Sensor Networks (PMSN'09) will be held in conjunction with the 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09), August 29th-31st, 2009, Vancouver, Canada. Having the development of low-cost imaging sensors, CMOS cameras, sensitive microphones, PMSN have been proposed and drawn lots of attention from the research community. PMSN are a new and emerging type of sensor network that contains sensor nodes equipped with cameras, microphones, and other sensors producing multimedia content. These networks have the potential to enable a large class of applications ranging from assisting elderly in public spaces to border protection that benefit from the use of numerous sensor nodes that deliver multimedia content, e.g., multimedia surveillance networks, target tracking, environmental monitoring, and traffic management systems. PMSNs require effective harvesting and communication of event features in the form of multimedia such as audio, image, and video. Comparing with traditional wireless sensor networks, a lot of new challenges are faced by PMSNs, e.g., energy efficient multimedia processing and communication, heterogeneous multimedia reliability definitions, tight QoS expectations, and high bandwidth demands. This workshop is intended to provide a forum for presenting, exchanging and discussing the most recent advances in different aspects of pervasive multimedia sensor networks and applications. In particular, this workshop will bring together leading researchers, industry professionals, and research students to study the special problems and challenges of multimedia mobile and wireless environments. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): *New PMSN architectures, deployments, and applications *New middleware, system, and underlying infrastructure for PMSN *Integrating PMSN with all IP Networks *Semantic annotation for multimedia streams in PMSN *Multimedia stream processing and management for PMSN *Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming in PMSN *Energy-efficient multimedia gathering and transmission in PMSN *Cross-layer design and optimization for effective communications in PMSN *Context aware approaches for facilitating multimedia streaming in PMSN *Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission control in PMSN *Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery in PMSN *Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools for PMSN *Information fusion and multimedia aggregation in PMSN *Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions for PMSN *Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for PMSN *Distributed source coding and multimedia processing in PMSN *PMSN capacity modeling and theoretical analysis *Delay-tolerant networking for PMSN *Physical layer technologies for efficient PMSN Publication of Proceedings PMSN 2009 accepted and registered paper will be published (indexed by EI) in the EUC 2009 proceedings and available through IEEE Xplore digital library. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in PMSN 2009, after further revisions, will be published in the special issues of the following journal: * ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Multimedia Intelligent Services and Technologies" (indexed by SCI-E) * Inderscience International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Special Issue on "Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks" * Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on "Multimedia Computing and Communications" (indexed by EI) * Journal of Communications (JCM), Special Issue on "Dependable Computing for Ubiquitous Services (DCUS)" (indexed by EI) * International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications (IJSEIA), Special Issue on "Workflow Management in the Grid Era". * International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJMAI), Special Issue on "Semantic Intelligence". Important Dates * Submission due: Extend to April 30th, 2009 * Acceptance notification: June 1st, 2009 * Camera-ready due: June 15th, 2009 * Conference date: August 28th~31st, 2009 Submission Guidelines: Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) in PDF format to: pmsn2009(a)gmail.com Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in proceedings of the EUC-09 conference by IEEE Computer Society. Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * Yanxiang He, Wuhan University, China * Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, South Korea * Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Program Co-Chairs * Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland * Yong Zhu, Wuhan University of Science and Engineering, China Publication Co-Chairs * Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China * Jinli Cao, La Trobe University, Australia * Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Technical Program Committee # Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA # Nicolas Sklavos,Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece # Fan Zhai, Texas Instrument, USA # Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan # Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada # Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan # Lei Ye, University of Wollongong, Australia # Ming Li, California State University, Fresno, USA # Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China # Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK # Lu Yan, University of Hertfordshire, UK # Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China # Lu Liu, University of Leeds, UK # Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Wei Yu, Nanjing University,China # Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada # Ruhan He, Wuhan Univeristy of Science and Technology, China # Zheng Yan, Nokia Research Center, Finland # Dan Yu, Beihang University, China # Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea # Chuan Lin, Wuhan University, China # Wanqing Tu, Glyndwr University, UK # Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China # Jie Xiang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway # Fei Yan, Wuhan University, China # Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada # Weiqiang Xu, Zhejiang University, China # Zhangbing Zhou, National University of Ireland, Ireland # Deok Gyu Lee, ETRI, Korea # Xu Xia, Huawei Technologies Co., LTD, China For further information regarding the workshop and paper submission, please contact: * Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Email: lei.shu(a)deri.org * Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA Email:xiongnaixue@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM U-NET'09 (co-located with ACM CoNEXT)]
by Lars Wolf 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM U-NET'09 (co-located with ACM CoNEXT) Datum: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:55:03 +0100 Von: Paulo Mendes <pmendes(a)inescporto.pt> Antwort an: Paulo Mendes <pmendes(a)inescporto.pt> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu 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 *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. *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 b e 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 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'09)
by Michael.Rohs＠telekom.de 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

(We apologize for possible multiple copies.) ********************************************************* *** Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'09) *** *** Workshop @ Informatik 2009 in Lübeck *** *** http://www.hcilab.org/events/meis09 *** ********************************************************* OVERVIEW Interaction with mobile devices and embedded systems has become a part of everyday life. As mobile devices get more complex and embedded systems consist of different components that are networked the creation of usable interactive software poses many new challenges. Issues arise from emerging novel paradigms in user interfaces. In particular tangible interaction, device and interfaces ecologies, and implicit interaction create new requirements for user centered design and system development The workshop on Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'09) seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are concerned with envisioning, creating, and implementing mobile and embedded interactive systems. The workshop will provide a venue to present novel research in this field and to openly discuss ideas and problems on the topic. By bringing together different viewpoints, in particular embedded systems, complex software systems, mobile interaction, and user centered design, a broader understanding can emerge. The overall aim of the workshop is to foster a community in mobile and embedded interactive systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite research contributions describing original and high quality research work as well as problem statements which are providing a basis for discussion including the following topics: - novel tangible user interfaces and interaction metaphors - new interaction techniques for mobile and embedded interactive systems - new interface technologies and concepts - interactions with handheld and embedded micro projectors - sensing and actuator technologies for mobile and embedded interactive systems - camera-based mobile interaction techniques - alternative sensory modalities, e.g. auditory and tactile feedback - ad-hoc user interfaces for multiple device orchestration - ad-hoc interaction with embedded systems via handheld devices - methods, tools, models and design guidelines for emerging user interfaces - evaluation methods and tools for novel user interfaces - prototyping mobile and embedded interactive systems - experience of creating everyday objects that become user interfaces - experience reports on building, using, and deploying mobile and embedded interactive systems - embedded interaction in vehicular information systems DATES AND DEADLINES Submissions are due: Apr 26, 2009 Notification of authors: May 25, 2009 Camera ready version due: Jul 1, 2009 Workshop at Informatik 2009: Sep 29, 2009 SUBMISSION Participants will be selected based on their submission by a program committee. We invite two types of submissions: - Research contributions describing original and high quality research work in the area of mobile and embedded interactive systems. For full papers with oral presentations papers should be up to 6 pages long; for posters we expect 2-page papers. - Problem statements, research questions, or claims on a topic should be accompanied by max. 1 page outlining the problem, question, or claim which is providing a basis for discussion. Submissions are required to follow the GI author guidelines and have to use the LaTeX or Word template available at: http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-infor… Please submit your contributions via: https://www.itm.uni-luebeck.de/conftool-gi09 For details see the workshop webpage at: http://www.hcilab.org/events/meis09/ General information about submissions to Informatik 2009 is available at: http://www.informatik2009.de/einreichung.html PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in the Workshop Proceedings of Informatik 2009. The proceedings will be published by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). ORGANIZERS The workshop is jointly organized by: Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU Berlin Paul Holleis, DoCoMo Euro Labs Matthias Kranz, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Heinrich Hussmann, Universität München Paul Lokovicz, Universität Passau PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elisabeth André, Universität Augsburg, Germany Patrick Baudisch, HPI, Universität Potsdam, Germany Susanne Boll, Universität Oldenburg, Germany Sebastian Boring, Universität München, Germany Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München, Germany Tom Gross, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany Andreas Holzinger, Medizinische Universität Graz, Austria Christian Kray, Newcastle University, UK Antonio Krüger, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Marc Langheinrich, Universität Lugano, Switzerland Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK Albrecht Schmidt, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany CONTACT DETAILS Workshop web page: http://www.hcilab.org/events/meis09 Please contact the workshop chairs at meis09(a)hcilab.org. _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[Tccc] CFP WiMob 2009 at Marrakech, Morocco
by Mieso Denko 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

=== Our apologies if you receive multiple copies === ------------------------------------------------------- WiMob'2009 5th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on Wireless & Mobile Computing, Networking & communication ------------------------------------------------------- Marrakech, Morocco October 12-14, 2009 http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2009 SCOPE: ------ The research area of mobile computing has become more important following the recent widespread drive towards mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks tracking technologies and their applications. The availability of the high bandwidth 3G infrastructures, and the pervasive deployment of low cost WiFi infrastructure and WiMAX to create hotspots around the world serve to accelerate the development of mobile computing towards ubiquitous computing. WiMob-09 addresses three main areas: Wireless Communications Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications This conference aims to stimulate interactions among participants and enable them to exchange new ideas and practical experience. WiMob?8 is the fourth in a series of annual conferences: two times in Montreal (QC) Canada in 2005 and 2006, in New York USA in 2007 and the last one in Avignon France in 2008. This conference will be comprised of the following three symposia: Wireless Communications ----------------------- Broadband Wireless Communication Systems Wireless Personal Communications Advances in Satellite Communication Broadband Wireless Communications Modulation and Coding Channel Measurement and Characterization OFDM and CDMA Technologies and Systems MIMO Channels Multiuser Detection Signal Separation and Interference Rejection Multimedia Communications over Wireless DSP Applications to Wireless Systems Adaptive Antennas for Wireless Systems Multiple Access Techniques Location Estimation and Tracking Resource Allocation and Interference Management Multirate and Multicarrier Communications Link and System Capacity Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ------------------------------------------ Mobile IP Networks Cellular Systems, PCS Modeling and Configuration Multimedia over Wireless Mobility and Location Management Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols Design and Analysis of Wireless LAN/WAN Designing and Modeling High Availability Mobile Networks Mobile Network Modeling and Simulation Architectures and Protocols for Mobile Networks Security, Privacy and Authentication in Mobile Environments Wireless Sensor Networks Cross-layer Design and Optimization Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Autonomic Networking and Communications Mobile Internet Home and Ubiquitous Networks Smart Sensors and Sensor Networks Inter-working of 2G, 3G and 4G Wireless Networks Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications ----------------------------------------------- Distributed Computing and Distributed Databases Location-based Services Virtual Home Environments (VHE) M-Commerce M-Learning Streaming Applications Portable Devices and Wearable Computers Web Services Home and Office Appliances Enabling Technologies for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Security, Privacy and Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services (e.g. Mobile satellites, WLANs) Security and Privacy for Ubiquitous Computing Home and Ubiquitous Networks Mobile Ad-Hoc Computing Gaming Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Passive, Active and Smart Tags for Ubiquitous Computing Location-dependent and Context-aware Computing Software Architecture for Home/Smart Appliances Human Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Full papers must be submitted for review. Only original papers, unpublished nor submitted for publication elsewhere, can be submitted. Please visit http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2009 for details and submission information. Only timely submissions through EDAS at http://edas.info will be accepted. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Abstract submission due: May 6, 2009 Paper submission due: May 16, 2009 Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2009 Final manuscripts due: August 20, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Journal of Communications Special Issue on Multimedia Computing and Communications
by Zhai, Fan 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Call for Papers: ============================================================================ Journal of Communications, Special Issue on Multimedia Computing and Communications Manuscript Submission Deadline: September 1, 2009 http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/ ============================================================================ The growing momentum behind the deployment of broadband networks worldwide and the convergence of voice, image, video, and data offer unprecedented opportunities for various modern multimedia applications and services such as mobile TV, video conferencing, Internet gaming, interactive TV, IPTV, Open Internet video and multimedia visualization, navigation, search and retrieval. Also, the rising demand for quality service by consumers has expedited the advance of numerous new technologies for computing and communication over wired and wireless networks, ranging from video coding, communication infrastructure, content distribution protocols, quality of service (QoS) management, visual content analysis, post-processing, to interactive models. Novel video source and channel coding techniques such as scalable video coding, multiple description codes, transcoding, and network coding can certainly improve the efficiency of video transmission over the Internet. New communication architectures such as overlay network, content delivery network (CDN), peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed network can further improve video distribution and enable new services. On the other hand, IPTV over managed IP networks not only holds the promise for high quality video viewing experience that is at least as good as what is offered by today's cable/satellite TV, but also introduces new service functionalities such as time-shift viewing and interactivity. In addition, the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) provides a unified framework for multimedia service creation and deployment and supports interoperability and network convergence. Last but not the least, new wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and the 3G and 4G cellular systems become strong alternatives to their wired counterparts, allowing users to access and produce video at any time and from anywhere. In view of these advances in modern multimedia applications and services, this special issue is soliciting papers with fundamental contributions to multimedia computation and communications, in particular those addressing the challenges due to the limited computation power of client devices, the explosive growth of rich media, the complexity of content analysis and understanding, and the heterogeneity of the transport network. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the following: * Multimedia coding, streaming, and networking * Multimedia transmission networks, systems, and applications * Novel Internet architectures, protocol and algorithms for video distribution * P2P multimedia coding, architecture, and networks * Innovative Internet video, mobile video, and IPTV services * IPTV architectures and standards * QoS management for video streaming and IPTV * Video coding, transcoding, and multiview coding * Joint source-channel video coding * Video quality assessment * Multimedia content analysis, representation, and understanding * Multimedia indexing and retrieval * Multimedia summarization and abstraction * Multimedia and multimodal signal processing, user interfaces, and interaction models Submission: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. Submissions should follow the author guidelines of Journal of Communications and the complete instructions for prospective authors can be found at http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/forauthors.html. For further questions or inquiries, please contact the corresponding guest editor (fzhai(a)ti.com<mailto:fzhai@ti.com>). Important Dates: Submission deadline: September 1, 2009 Author notification: November 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: January 15, 2010 Tentative publication date: 2Q, 2010 Guest Editors: Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA (fzhai(a)ti.com) Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (homer(a)cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw) Thomas Stockhammer, Nomor Research, Germany (stockhammer(a)nomor.de) Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland (touradj.ebrahimi(a)epfl.ch) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[ISCC] UBIROADS Workshop cfp (within GIIS'09)
by Paolo Bellavista 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

[apologies for multiple postings] --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- UBIROADS 2009 =========== 2st IEEE International Workshop on ITS for an Ubiquitous ROADS http://www.ieee-giis.org/Workshops/ubiroads2009 co-located with IEEE GIIS 2009 http://www.ieee-giis.org/ Tunisia Submission: May 07, 2009 Workshop: June 26, 2009 ===================================================================== UBIROADS 2009 workshop Overview The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program is a universal initiative whose objective is to add information and communication technology to transport infrastructure and vehicles. It aims to manage different factors in order to improve safety and comfort to drivers/passengers, and reduce transportation times and fuel costs. With the advances in wireless communications technology and positioning systems many applications could become a reality. ITS topics are attracting more and more academic and industrial players. The goal of UBIROADS'2009 is to offer a unique forum to bring together researchers and professionals from academia, government and industry to share and discuss ideas, visions, applications and new results related to ITS issues. Relevant topics ---------------- Topics of interest for this workshop include but are not limited to the following: 1. Wireless transmission: physical layer, RF level technologies for ITS communications, radio resource management, media access control and QoS support in ITS, antenna technologies for ITS communications. 2. Integration: embedded systems for ITS, system architectures, network architectures, cross-layer designs in ITS communications, real-time issues, sensors for ITS. 3. Networking: vehicle-to-vehicle V2V communications, vehicle-to-infrastructure V2I communications, Vehicle-to-Person (V2P) communications, algorithms and protocols for ITS and VANET, Internet access. 4. Simulation/emulation: models of traffic, scenarios and models of simulations for the road, emulation tools for ITS. 5. Experimentations: experimental platforms and testbeds for ITS, demonstrations, projects reviews, work-in-progress reports. 6. Security: authentication issues, PKI, distributed key management in VANET, confidence in VANET. 7. Applications: business models, active safety applications, passenger-oriented applications, new services for VANET, Advanced and Distributed Driver Assistance Systems, impact on road safety. Submission Instructions ------------------------ Authors are encouraged to submit original contributions (maximum 6 pages, IEEE two-column conference style) in English and in a PDF format. Paper submissions for the workshop should follow the submission guidelines for regular IEEE papers, and be submitted electronically before submission deadline, via JEMS under the GIIS 2009 symposium "IPTV Workshop" track. Instructions and guidelines are available in GIIS 2009 Web site (http://www.ieee-giis.org/). Submitted papers will undergo a peer review process and accepted papers will be published in the special section of the IEEE GIIS 2009 conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. For all questions about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Chairs : (djamel.khadraoui(a)tudor.lu). Important dates ---------------- Submission Deadline: May 7, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 21, 2009 Final paper due: June 7, 2009 Workshop Chairs --------------- - Djamel KHADRAOUI, CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Timo SUKUVAARA, FMI, Finland TPC members --------------- Sidi-Mohammed SENOUCI, sidimohammed.senouci(a)orange-ftgroup.com, Orange Labs Nadjib ACHIR, nadjib.achir(a)l2ti.univ-paris13.fr, University of Paris 13, France Hossam AFIFI, hossam.afifi(a)int-evry.fr INT Evry, France Nazim AGOULMINE, nazim.agoulmine(a)iup.univ-evry.fr, University of Evry, France Mosa ALI ABU-RGHEFF, mosa(a)plymouth.ac.uk, Plymouth University, UK Christian BETTSTETTER, Christian.Bettstetter(a)uni-klu.ac.at, University of Klagenfurt, Austria David BINET, david.binet(a)orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France Khaled BOUSSETTA, Khaled.Boussetta(a)l2ti.univ-paris13.fr, University of Paris 13, France Raouf BOUTABA, rboutaba(a)uwaterloo.ca, University of Waterloo, Canada Andrea CONTI, a.conti(a)ieee.org, University of Bologna, Italy Mischa DOHLER, mischa.dohler(a)orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France Bertrand DUCOURTHIAL, Bertrand.Ducourthial(a)hds.utc.fr, University of Technology of Compiegne, France Fethi FILALI, Fethi.Filali(a)eurecom.fr, Eurecom, France Mohamed Nazim GANNA, mganna(a)neotilus.com, Neotilus, France Yacine GHAMRI-DOUDANE, ghamri(a)iie.cnam.fr, IIE Evry, France Athanasios GKELIAS, a.gkelias(a)imperial.ac.uk, Imperial College, UK Rolf KRAEMER, kraemer(a)ihp-microelectronics.com, IHP microelectronics, Germany Marc LACOSTE, marc.lacoste(a)orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France Wasim Q. MALIK, wasim.malik(a)eng.ox.ac.uk, University of Oxford, UK Rahul MANGHARAM, rahul(a)cmu.edu, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Hassnaa MOUSTAFA, hassnaa.moustafa(a)orange-ftgroup.com, France Telecom R&D, France Sooksan PANICHPAPIBOON, kpsooksa(a)kmitl.ac.th, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand Guy PUJOLLE, guy.pujolle(a)lip6.fr, University of Paris6, France Bernhard RINNER, rinner(a)iti.tugraz.at, University of Klagenfurt Athanasia TSERTOU, atsertou(a)staffmail.ed.ac.uk, University of Edinburgh, UK Jean-Pierre EBERT, ebert(a)ihp-microelectronics.com, IHP Microelectronics, Germany Djamel KHADRAOUI, djamel.khadraoui(a)tudor.lu, Centre Henri TUDOR, Luxembourg Zineb HABBAS, zineb@univ-metz, University of Metz, France Timo SUKUVAARA, timo.sukuvaara(a)fmi.fi, FMI - Finland Carlos GALVEZ, carlos.galvez(a)uma.sp, University of Malaga, Spain Salem OSMAN, osman.salem(a)mi.parisdescartes.fr, Paris Descartes, France ===================================================================== Paolo Bellavista, Ph. D. Associate Professor in Computer Science Engineering EB Member of IEEE Communications and IEEE T. Services Computing DEIS - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Tel# +39-051-2093866; Fax# +39-051-2093073 Email: paolo.bellavista(a)unibo.it Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/PaoloBellavista/ _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[ISCC] CFP: AWSN-09 - DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Alessio Vecchio 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

************************************************* * SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to APRIL 30 2009 * ************************************************* [Apologies for possible multiple copies] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks (AWSN-09) http://tweb.ing.unipi.it/awsn09 In Conjunction with The 7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2009) Vancouver, Canada, August 29-31, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are networked embedded systems that rely on wireless communication. WSNs are supposed to run long-lived applications. During operation, applications are likely to experience unpredictable environment conditions that require to dynamically change their behavior. With current reprogramming technology, such an adaptation is still an open issue, as it can be achieved either at the expense of significant energy consumption or through software complexity. The challenge is to achieve WSN systems that not only embed intelligence into environments, but also have embedded intelligence for reprogramming themselves after their deployment. The workshop aims at stimulating researchers and practitioners in embedded and ubiquitous computing, autonomic computing, ad-hoc networking and all other relevant areas to present their ideas and work in progress for advancing the technologies that enable adaptive WSN applications. * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Re-configurable, adaptive applications * Context-awareness * Self-healing, self-protection, self-configuration, self-optimization * Agents and distributed computing * Embedded Virtual machines * Viral programming * Opportunistic computing * Intelligent power management and coverage * Adaptive wireless communication and networks * Security and fault-tolerance ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION The program committee encourage original, high-quality submissions from researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. All papers will be reviewed according to their originality, significance, correctness, presentation and relevance. Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers of the workshop will be considered for a special issue in International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS, www.inderscience.com/ijaacs) Please follow the submission instructions that will be made available at the workshop's website (http://tweb.ing.unipi.it/awsn09) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): April 30, 2009 Authors Notification: May 25, 2009 Camera-ready Paper due: June 15, 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS Marco Avvenuti, University of Pisa, Italy (m.avvenuti(a)iet.unipi.it) Alessio Vecchio, University of Pisa, Italy (a.vecchio(a)iet.unipi.it) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia, Australia Mario Giovanni C.A. Cimino, University of Pisa, Italy Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK G.M.P. O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland _______________________________________________ ISCC mailing list ISCC(a)mail.ing.unibo.it https://calvin.ing.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/iscc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: ACM ReArch'09 (co-located with ACM CoNEXT)]
by Lars Wolf 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: ACM ReArch'09 (co-located with ACM CoNEXT) Datum: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:46:33 +0300 Von: Lars Eggert <lars.eggert(a)nokia.com> Antwort an: ReArch'09 TPC Co-Chairs <rearch09(a)fit.nokia.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu ACM ReArch'09 - Re-Architecting the Internet Co-located with ACM CoNEXT 2009 Rome, Italy, December 1, 2009 http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/workshops/rearch Submission Deadline: August 6, 2009 Submit at: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7673 Motivation The Internet architecture has been remarkably successful in allowing a planet-scale internetwork to form. However, this architecture is losing its original simplicity and transparency as new classes of applications, business models, security mechanisms, scalability enablers and operational and management requirements give rise to point solutions that extend the architecture without regards to its original design principles. Although these developments are necessary in the short term to allow the Internet to continue to operate under the present economical, technical and social conditions, in combination, they have significantly reduced the potential for longer-term evolution of the Internet architecture. This loss of flexibility is already being felt as the number of Internet nodes grows by another order of magnitude. Several substantial Future Internet initiatives are underway in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and the vendor and network operator communities are also actively discussing the limitations of the current Internet architecture as well as its potential evolution. The first solution proposals in this space have already started to be analyzed. ReArch'09 - the second instance of this workshop since its very successful debut at CONeXT 2008 - will discuss the underlying problems of the Internet architecture and protocols and debate how we might fix them in a way that regains us the original architectural simplicity and clarity of the Internet for another 30+ years. This workshop solicits original, high-quality papers that analyze and discuss ideas for a new Internet architecture, including specific improvements to current Internet protocols, especially at the internetworking, transport and application layers, new internetworking components that integrate into the existing architecture and ideas for clean-slate internetworking architectures. Topics ReArch'09 covers all aspects related to the current and future Internet architecture including, but not limited to, the following impact: * New networking paradigms * New business models * New routing architectures * New traffic engineering and congestion control mechanisms * Measurements and analyses that characterize and quantify architectural limitations * New architecture proposals and their implications for research and operations * New protocols to address specific architectural limitations * Studies of interactions between stakeholders of the Internet and the architecture itself * Design principles and interfaces to accommodate the conflicting interests of stakeholders in the architecture * Principles of evolving future architectures * Discussions on interworking with the existing Internet and deployability Papers that present interesting, fresh ideas at an early stage are more suitable for this workshop than highly polished results or incremental refinements of previous work. Submissions may include position papers that point out new directions and attempt to stimulate discussion; position papers should be clearly marked as such. Submission must be original and not already be published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions Submitted papers must be at most six (6) pages long, including all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc. They must be formatted according to the standard ACM double column format *except* that *all* text must use a font size of 10 points or larger. Longer submissions will not be reviewed. The review process is single-blind. Submit papers via EDAS at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7673 Submission Deadline: August 6, 2009 Notification Deadline: September 10, 2009 Camera Ready Deadline: October 1, 2009 ReArch'09: December 1, 2009 Committees Workshop Co-Chairs Lars Eggert, Nokia Research Center & TKK, Finland Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts, USA Technical Program Committee Bengt Ahlgren, SICS, Sweden Mark Allman, ICSI, USA Bob Briscoe, BT Group, United Kingdom Brian Carpenter, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Kevin Fall, Intel Research, USA Pierre Francois, UC Louvain, Belgium James Griffioen, University of Kentucky, USA Robert Hancock, Roke Manor Research, United Kingdom Mark Handley, University College London, United Kingdom Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan Daniel Massey, Colorado State University, USA Martin May, Thomson Research, France Akihiro Nakao, Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan Pekka Nikander, Ericsson Research Nomadiclab, Finland Craig Partridge, BBN Technologies, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Christian Vogt, Ericsson Research, USA Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany Rolf Winter, NEC Network Labs, Germany Martina Zitterbart, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Steering Committee Marcelo Bagnulo, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Olivier Bonaventure, UC Louvain, Belgium Kenjiro Cho, IIJ, Japan Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[All at car-2-car.org] IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks"
by Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Dear all, Please find below information about a special issue very related to the C2C-CC activities. Thank you very much, Carlos IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks" Background Vehicular communications are being applied to improve safety, decrease fuel consumption, and increase the capacity of existing roadways. Both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications are used to implement a number of promising applications such as local hazard warning, efficient route planning and coordination of traffic flows. Even truly cooperative and, therefore, extremely challenging applications like cross traffic collision avoidance are being considered. In the last years a number of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) related projects and initiatives have been carried out (or will be completed soon). In Europe, for example, the European Commission initiated the eSafety Program to reduce the road fatalities by 50% before 2010 and to improve traffic efficiency. These R&D projects have created a solid technical basis for vehicular communications, and some of them have also performed some preliminary experiences, from what some important results have been obtained ("lessons learned"), as for example the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) in the US as well as several projects in Europe. All the aforementioned research efforts and initiatives can be considered as the 'phase 1' in the development of vehicular communications networks. This phase represents an initial and very important step towards the goals of improving road safety and traffic efficiency, and providing Internet services to the vehicles. Important achievements, architectural decisions and conclusions have been the outcome of this 'phase 1', such as the development of wireless physical and MAC protocols suited for the vehicular environment (e.g. IEEE 802.11p), new network architectures (some of them not based on classical TCP/IP), etc. We are now witnessing the 'phase 2' of research and development in vehicular communications networks, a new phase in which standardization and field trials will play a key role, as well as the refinement and extension of the network architectures and protocols defined in the 'phase 1'. Scope and Contributions The goal of this special issue is to share the research developments and efforts of this new phase ('phase 2') in the vehicular communications area. Paper submissions are invited on the following topics: * Overview of state-of-the-art for vehicular communication technologies and open challenges. * Network protocols for cooperative vehicular communications, such as geonetworking (geographical routing and addressing). * Networking aspects for use of 2G/3G cellular systems for vehicular communications. * New system architectures enabling the provision of safety, traffic efficiency and infotainment services in vehicular scenarios. * Security, location privacy and reliability issues. * Integration of IP protocols into the vehicular scenario. * Standardization for vehicular communications worldwide, interoperability and harmonization issues. * Field operational tests (FOTs) for cooperative systems employing vehicular communications networks. * Regulatory aspects. Submission Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the speciality of the article. Prospective authors must prepare their article in accordance with the IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Authors should submit their manuscript to the guest editors according to the schedule below (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days before deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title, abstract, authors and keywords). All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Schedule for Submission Manuscript submission: July 15, 2009 Acceptance notification: September 15, 2009 Final manuscript due: November 1, 2009 Publication date: January 2010 Guest Editors Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos (corresponding editor) Associate Professor, Department of Telematics Engineering Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Leganes, Spain cjbc(a)it.uc3m.es Dr. Andreas Festag NEC Europe Ltd. - NEC Laboratories Europe Network Research Division Heidelberg, Germany festag(a)nw.neclab.eu Dr. Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University New York, USA and Chief Researcher IMDEA Networks Madrid, Spain nick(a)ee.columbia.edu Dr. Carolina Pinart Gilberga Telefónica I+D Head of the Networked Vehicles Division Madrid, Spain cpg(a)tid.es Dr. Christian Weiß Daimler AG Group Research and Advanced Engineering Manager Vehicle-Centric Communication Sindelfingen, Germany Christian.A.Weiss(a)daimler.com -- Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano http://www.netcoms.net GPG FP: D29B 0A6A 639A A561 93CA 4D55 35DC BA4D D170 4F67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE Network Special Issue on Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/cfp/cfpnetwork0110.htm +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ All mailing list All(a)car-2-car.org http://lists.car-2-car.org/mailman/listinfo/all

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