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[Tccc] CFP: GreenMetrics 2009 Workshop (in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009)
by Niklas Carlsson 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

CALL FOR PAPERS -- GreenMetrics 2009 -- May 4 Deadline GreenMetrics 2009 Workshop Held in conjunction with SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 June 15, 2009 - Seattle, Washington, USA http://conferences.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics/2009/ Global climate change is a topic of increasing importance in modern society. The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how improvements to or new uses of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can contribute towards efforts to minimize climate change. In particular, this workshop will provide a forum for discussions on how to reduce the environmental impact of ICT. According to a recent report from the Climate Group, the ICT sector is responsible for 2% of the worldwide carbon footprint. This is roughly equivalent to the carbon footprint of the airline industry. Furthermore, an increase of 50% is predicted for the ICT sector.s carbon footprint by 2020. As regulatory and social pressures increase, organizations will need to take steps to reduce their environmental impact. ICT is expected to be a key sector in the effort to combat climate change, reducing overall carbon emissions by 15% by 2020 (smart2020.org). The workshop will provide an opportunity to explore opportunities for ICT applications or services to reduce the environmental impact of existing non-ICT processes. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers from the (traditional) SIGMETRICS community with researchers and practitioners in relevant areas, to exchange technical ideas and experiences on how to lessen the environmental impact of ICT, or how to utilize ICT to lessen the environmental impact of other sectors. Improvements are to be quantified in terms of sustainability metrics such as reduction of carbon emissions. Improvements in sustainability should ideally also demonstrate that acceptable Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can be maintained. This workshop will serve as a forum for the SIGMETRICS community to apply general measurement, analysis and modeling techniques to this important area. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Measurement and evaluation of the sustainability of existing ICT systems * Definition and demonstration of useful sustainability metrics * Methods that systematically improve the efficiency of existing ICT systems * Tools that facilitate the design of more sustainable ICT systems * Development of models that pertain to the sustainability of ICT systems * Case studies of efforts to improve the sustainability of production ICT systems * Use of ICT systems to improve the sustainability of existing non-ICT processes Preference will be given to work on large-scale systems, e.g., entire data centers or enterprise-scale applications. Important Dates * May 4, 2009: Paper Submission (hard deadline) * May 18, 2009: Author Notification * May 25, 2009: Final Versions Due Submission Guidelines Papers must not exceed five double-column pages in the standard ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submissions must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form, via the EDAS system (http://www.edas.info/). The EDAS system requires you to register the title and abstract of your paper before you can upload the manuscript of the paper. The deadline for the final version of submissions is May 4, 2009, 23:59 EST. Organizing Committee: - Martin Arlitt, HP Labs and University of Calgary (martin.arlitt(a)hp.com) - Niklas Carlsson, University of Calgary (niklas.carlsson(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca) - Jerry Rolia, HP Labs (jerry.rolia(a)hp.com) Program Committee: - Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Virgilio Almeida, Federal University of Minas Gerais - Paul Barford, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota - Gyorgy Dan, Royal Institute of Technology - Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan - Anja Feldmann, Deutsche Telekom Laboratory - Joe Hellerstein, Google - Krishna Kant, Intel - Jeff Kephart, IBM - Jim Larus, Microsoft - Anirban Mahanti, NICTA - Laurent Marchand, Ericsson - Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit - Calton Pu, Georgia Tech - Michael Rabinovich, Case Western Reserve University - Amip Shah, HP Labs - Joel Sommers, Colgate University - John Stanley, Uptime Institute - Jia Wang, AT&T Research - Adam Wierman, CalTech Additional information about the GreenMetrics 2009 Workshop can be found at the SIGMETRICS/Performance 2009 web site: http://conferences.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics/2009/ or by emailing the workshop organizers: greenmetrics09-chairs-l(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Cfp: ACM HotNets-VIII
by Xiaoming Fu 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

(forwarded on behalf of ratul(a)microsoft.com) ACM HotNets-VIII October 22-23, 2009 New York City, NY http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2009/ Call for Papers The Eighth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets-VIII) will bring together people with interest in computer networks to engage in a lively debate on theory and practice of networking. Continuing the HotNets tradition, the workshop will provide a venue for presenting and discussing innovative ideas that have the potential to significantly influence the community. The goal is to promote community-wide discussions of those ideas. We invite researchers as well as practitioners to submit a short position paper describing such an idea. The paper could, for example, expose a new problem, advocate a new approach, re-frame or debunk existing work, report unexpected results from a deployment, or propose new evaluation methodologies. We especially encourage submissions of early-stage work and enticing but unproven ideas. Once fully developed and evaluated, the work may be relevant to conferences such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, SenSys, MobiCom, PODC, or Infocom. HotNets takes a broad view of networking research. This view encompasses all kinds of modern day computer networks, including (but not limited to) home and enterprise networks, ISP networks, sensor and personal area networks, wireless and acoustic networks, data center networks, peer-to-peer networks, and disruption-tolerant networks. It also encompasses all aspects of such networks, including (but not limited to) resource management, economics and evolution, robustness and security, mobility, interactions with applications, energy, measurement and diagnosis, and hardware. Position papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion at the workshop, and technical merit. Accepted papers will be posted online prior to the workshop and a workshop summary will be published in ACM SIGCOMM's Computer Communication Review (CCR), widely disseminating the ideas discussed at the workshop. Workshop Participation HotNets is an invitation-only workshop. To ensure an interactive atmosphere, attendance will be limited to around 60 people. Invitations will be extended per the following priorities: * the Program and Steering Committees, one author per paper, and any speakers invited by the Program Committee * co-authors of accepted and submitted papers, preferring students as available travel support allows * event-sponsor representatives and additional authors of submitted papers at the discretion of the Program Committee Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages (10 point font, 1 inch margins). All submissions must be blind: submissions must not indicate the names or affiliations of the authors in the paper. Only electronic submissions in PDF will be accepted. Submissions must be written in English, render without error using standard tools (e.g., Acrobat Reader), and print on US-Letter sized paper. HotNets-VIII reviews will follow standard academic practice, although some rejected papers may not receive full-length reviews. Information on how to submit papers is available at http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2009/ Important Dates Abstract registration: July 17, 2009 (11:59pm EDT) Paper submission: July 24, 2009 (11:59pm EDT) Notification of decision: September 15, 2009 Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2009 Workshop dates: October 22-23, 2009 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Lakshmi Subramanian (New York University) Program Chairs: Will Leland (BBN Technologies) Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research) Program Committee: Mark Allman (ICSI) Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin) Kevin Fall (Intel Research) Krishna Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) Sachin Katti (University of California, Berkeley) Arvind Krishnamurty (University of Washington) Brian Lyles (Telecordia Technologies) Rick McGeer (HP Labs) Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research) Vern Paxson (University of California, Berkeley) Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University) Renata Teixeira (LIP6) Xiaowei Yang (Duke University) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - MONAMI 2009: Call for Papers
by ICST ASSYST 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CfP: Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing (IMC2009)]
by Lars Wolf 23 Apr '09

23 Apr '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CfP: Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing (IMC2009) Datum: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:23:52 +0200 Von: Dr. Ulrike Lucke <ul(a)informatik.uni-rostock.de> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Dear TCCC members, as requested please receive this re-formatted version of our CfP. My apologies for mismatched character encoding in the first message. We'd be glad to receive your interesting contributions! Best regards, Ulrike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Please, forward this message to persons possibly interested in this topic! We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CfP! ====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================== International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Assistance and Mobile Multimedia Computing 2009 (IMC2009) November 9-11, 2009 Rostock-Warnemuende, Germany http://www.imc-conference.org technical co-sponsorship: German Chapter of the ACM, IEEE Germany Section, GI, VDE, and ITG ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 1, 2009 Proposals for Tutorials and Discussion Groups: July 1, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2009 Camera-Ready Papers: August 1, 2009 IMC2009: November 9-11, 2009 ====================================================================== SCOPE OF CONFERENCE IMC2009 is going to explore the design space of innovative approaches and technical visions for future assistive systems. We solicit original papers, state of the art reviews, and technology demonstrators looking at these aspects with respect to topics such as: * enabling the electronic assistant to understand the user's goals and preferences as well as the individual strategies employed by the user for achieving these goals * sensing and understanding the user's personal environment and the ways the environment influences his activities and strategies * providing intuitive interaction by supporting novel input technologies as well as tailored information visualization techniques * making this support available in the user's environment, like smart home, smart office, etc. * modeling, simulating, and rapidly deploying new scenarios, architectures, and tools for interactive mobile appications * managing security, privacy, and trust in sensor-rich dynamic environments IMC2009 is the successor of a series of workshops and symposia originating in 1996, spanning the gap between interactive graphics, intelligent assistance, and system technologies for mobile computing. ====================================================================== SUBMISSION OF PAPERS We kindly invite authors to submit original and unpublished full papers until June 1, 2009. Papers must be written in English and should not exceed 12 pages in Springer style. Papers may be submitted in either Adobe PDF (preferred) or Postscript format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to fully register for IMC2009 and present the paper on-site. Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNCS series (confirmation pending). ====================================================================== CALL FOR TUTORIAL / DISCUSSION GROUP PROPOSALS The main IMC2009 tracks are going to be complemented with state-of-the-art tutorials and targeted discussion groups on hot topics of intelligent interactive assistance and mobile multimedia computing. Interested organizers are kindly asked to submit a one-page proposal by email not later than July 1, 2009. ====================================================================== GENERAL CHAIR * Djamshid Tavangarian (Rostock) PROGRAM CHAIRS * Thomas Kirste (Rostock) * Dirk Timmermann(Rostock) ====================================================================== ORGANIZATION * Ulrike Lucke * Daniel Versick imc2009(a)imc-conference.org http://www.imc-conference.org _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[cfp] [Tccc] CFP: IEEE UBIROADS Workshop - 26 June 2009 - Hammamet, Tunisia, colocated with GIIS 2009
by Moungla Hassine 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------- UBIROADS 2009 =========== 2st IEEE International Workshop on ITS for an Ubiquitous ROADS http://www.ieee-giis.org/Workshops/ubiroads2009 June 26, 2009, Hammamet, Tunisia co-located with IEEE GIIS 2009 http://www.ieee-giis.org/ ===================================================================== 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 University Paris Descartes,France =============================================================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP - The Fourth International Symposium on Smart Home - Deadline 26 April, 2009
by Jongsung Kim 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students -- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: 26 April 2009 -- ============================================================= The fourth International Symposium on Smart Home (SH-09) http://www.ftrg.org/SH09 to be held on June 5, 2009 Toronto, Canada in conjunction with The Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2009, http://www.mobiquitous.org/ ) ============================================================= Smart Home Environments (SHEs) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including ubiquitous, grid, and peer-to-peer computing to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere. To full realize the advantages of the paradigm, we require a host of suitable security services and their applications. They will offer the user remote access to all information about appliances in the workplace as well as at home, and help easily and conveniently use various services to enable working from home, and facilitate remote education, remote diagnosis, virtual shopping, network gaming, and portal & high quality VOD with no limitations on space and time. SH-2009 is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of SHE including business models, security services, and novel applications associated with its utilization. As a follow-up of the symposium, we plan to publish high quality papers, covering the various theories and practical applications related to smart home. The published papers are expected to present the high level results to solve the application services and various problems in the various SH fields. In addition, we expect they will trigger further related research and technological improvements of the SH. The goal of the SH-2009 is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Information Technology. * Topics We invite new and original submissions addressing theoretical and practical topics in information technology and intelligent computing fields including (but not limited to these topics): A. SH Applications - Smart home (Building) applications and services - Smart home network middleware and protocols Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Commercial and industrial application for SH - Mobile / Wearable intelligence - Frameworks for integrating AI and data mining - Context awareness model for smart home services - Wireless sensor networks (WSN) / RFID application for SH B. SH Security - Multimedia Security and Services in SH - Smart home security issues and model - Access control and privacy protection in SH - Forensics and Security Policy in SH - WSN/ RFID Security in SH - Security Protocol for smart home service C. SH Embedded Hardware and Software - Embedded Hardware Support for SH - Embedded Software for SH - Embedded System Architecture for SH - Real-time OS for SH - Smart and Personal Devices for SH - Power-Aware Computing for SH - Middleware for SH - Specification, Validation and Verification of Embedded Software - Computational Models Organization * Steering Co-chairs: Jong Hyuk Park (Kyungnam University,Korea) Laurence T. Yang (StFrancis Xavier University, Canada) * General Co-chairs: Sajid Hussain (Acadia University, Canada) Ankur M. Teredesai (University of Washington, USA) * Program Co-chairs: Senol Erdogan (Maltepe Univeristy, Turkey) Deok Gyu Lee (ETRI, Korea) Mieso Denko (University of GUELPH, Canada) * Publicity Chairs: TBA Jongsung Kim (Korea Universtiy, Korea) Firdous Kausar (NUST, Pakistan) * Steering Committee (TBA): Ching-Hsien Hsu (Chung Hua University,Taiwan) Daqing Zhang (Institut TELECOM - TELECOM & Management SudParis, France) Keith C.C. Chan (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Shiuh-Jeng Wang (Central Police University, Taiwan) Alex Mihailidis (University of Toronto, Canada) Minyi Guo (University of Aizu, Japan) Tatsuya Yamazaki (NICT,Japan) Sang-Soo Yeo (BTWorks, Korea) * Program Committee: (TBA) Giannis Antoniou (University of Melbourne, Australia) Te-Shun Chou (East Carolina University, U.S.A.) Serhan Dagtas (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, U.S.A.) Hakan Duman (Centre for Information & Security Systems Research, BT Innovate, England) Jeffrey Fan (Florida International University, U.S.A.) Mukhtar Hussain (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan) Ammar Jaffri (National Response Center for Cyber Crimes, Pakistan) Ashraf Masood (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan,) Ayesha Naureen (National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan) Rabia Riaz (Ajou University, Korea) Panagiotis Tsakalides (University of Crete, Greece) Bo Zhang (Rice University, USA) * Important Dates Paper submission: April 26, 2009 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2009 Camera-ready version: May, 2009 Conference dates: July 13 - 16, 2009 * Paper Submission (TBA) * Previous Workshops SH-08: http://www.sersc.org/SH08/ SH-07: http://www.sersc.org/SH08/ IWSH-06: http://www.sersc.org/IWSH2006/ --------------------------- Jongsung Kim CIST, Korea University http://cist.korea.ac.kr/~joshep/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] 5th Mobicom Workshop on Challenged Networks (Chants 2009)]
by Lars Wolf 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] 5th Mobicom Workshop on Challenged Networks (Chants 2009) Datum: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:19:51 +0200 Von: May Martin <Martin.May(a)thomson.net> An: <tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu> ------------------------------------------------------- CHANTS 2009 ACM MobiCom 2009 Workshop on Challenged Networks -------------------------------------------------------- Beijing, China September 25, 2009 http://www.thlab.net/chants2009 Scope: ------ Challenged networks are characterized by a heterogeneous mix of nodes, nodal churn, intermittent connectivity, and widely varying network conditions. Conventional Internet access in performance-limited environments such as developing countries with insufficient infrastructure and severe power shortage can be regarded as challenged networks, as can be ad-hoc communication between personal mobile devices; even an overlay network relying on fixed infrastructure might be challenged by a high degree of churn. Challenges are also posed by a very heterogeneous and potentially resource limited nodes, such as mobile phones, space-based nodes, and sensor and actuator nodes. Performance of the network paths interconnecting such nodes can be highly unreliable and varying in terms of bandwidth, latency, disruption characteristics and security requirements. The Internet protocol architecture suffers when used in a challenged network setting. For example, when connectivity is intermittent, or the link performance is highly variable or extreme, then one or more of the traditional Internet protocols do not work well. In this workshop following CHANTS 2008, CHANTS 2007, CHANTS 2006 and WDTN 2005, we wish to explore ongoing efforts in dealing with networks that operate under significant challenges as exemplified above; techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions, churn and high delays are also of interest. The focus of this year's workshop will be on experiences with challenged networks, such as experimental results, measurements, implementations, full-system and large-scale simulations, operational experiences, deployment problems, and applications for challenged networks. We specifically solicit papers in these respects for the following areas: * Architecture, design and evaluation of systems that are robust to high rates of nodal churn, unreliable infrastructure, and intermittent connectivity due to for instance high mobility, power saving. * Characterization of performance and security challenges and measurements of challenged networks; performance metrics and measurements thereof; benchmark tests and scenarios of network challenges. * Protocol and application design and evaluation with respect to robustness, security and privacy, as well as quality of service and experience. * Configuration, management, monitoring and adaptivity of systems for challenged networks. Submissions may include presentations of specific systems or performance measurements, as well as architectural papers addressing new concerns. Papers that bring out problems in the existing proposals for challenged networks or that report operational experience will be favored. Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or future research. We aim to accept approximately 12 papers, and to have a highly interactive workshop focusing on evolving this area of network research and continuing to build its community. In addition, we seek submission of demo proposals, also to be reviewed by the TPC. The demo proposals shall present recent practical results from the area of challenged networks. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply not practical to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are acceptable, too. Paper Format and Submission: ---------------------------- Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages long, two columns, with no characters in smaller than 10 point fonts, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins must be of 1 inch on all edges (top, bottom, left, and right) of each page. Demo proposal abstracts (to be published as part of the proceedings) shall not be longer than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements. All paper submission will be handled via EDAS. Papers will be reviewed single blind. Click here to submit your paper via EDAS: http://www.edas.info/conference.php?c=7760 Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract registration Deadline: 22 May 2009 Submission Deadline: 29 May 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 26 June 2009 Camera Ready Due: 16 July 2009 Date of the Workshop: 25 September 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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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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