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[Tccc] IFIP MedHocNet'09 CFP - 3 days left for submission (Due on February 15, 2009)
by Hanan Shpungin 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

--- Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message --- CALL FOR PAPERS The 8th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2009 Technically sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society and Euro-NF Network of Excellence http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm June 29-July 2, 2009 Haifa, Israel IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009 Final version due: April 15, 2009 Conference dates: June 29-July 2, 2009 OVERVIEW Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now, that some of the fundamental issues and challenges have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, and service creation and support. Moreover, new and exciting challenges are posed by closely related networks such as wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, and vehicular networks. Med-Hoc-Net is a major annual international workshop, aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry. Following Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), and Palma de Mallorca (2008), Med-Hoc-Net 2009 will take place in Haifa (Israel). It will be held at the Viterbi Computech Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. PAPERS The papers solicited cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, and mesh networks, including but not limited to: * Routing algorithms and protocols * MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation * Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Application driven architectures and protocols * Sensor network applications and protocols * Vehicular networks * Cognitive radio networks * Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks * Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes * Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.) * Self organization and network reconfiguration * Optimization models and algorithms * Resource and service discovery * Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.) * Security and privacy Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS or IFIP Series. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers should address original work not published or under review elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (http://springer.com/series/6102) and should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/7056). All submissions will be reviewed by members of the TPC and experts in the field. TRAVEL GRANTS Graduate students with accepted papers will receive travel grants to partially cover travel expenses. Members of the Euro-NF network will be able to use their mobility budget to attend the workshop. GENERAL CHAIR Adrian Segall, Technion TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS Reuven Cohen, Technion Gil Zussman, Columbia University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University Chen Avin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Amotz Bar-Noy, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp Steven Borbash, University of Maryland Sem Borst, Eindhoven University of Technology Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Francesco De Pellegrini, CREATE-NET Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus Alon Efrat, University of Arizona Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London Isabelle Guerin-Lassous, Universite de Lyon - LIP Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester Neeraj Jaggi, Wichita State University Liran Katzir, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Long Le, MIT Emilio Leonardi, Politecnico di Torino Lavy Libman, NICTA Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Ibrahim Matta, Boston University Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo Pascale Minet, INRIA Gabi Nakibly, Israel's National EW Research Center Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University Yoram Ofek, Universita di Trento Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Dario Pompili, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Danny Raz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Zvi Rosberg, CSIRO, ICT Centre Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo Izhak Rubin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Starobinski, Boston University Hwee Pink Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech. Stefan Weber, Trinity College Dublin Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck Murtaza Zafer, IBM Research Michele Zorzi, Universita degli Studi di Padova STEERING COMMITTEE Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano Farouk Kamoun, Escole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique Giovanni Pau, University of California at Los Angeles Guy Pujolle, Universit? Paris 6 For more information, please visit http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm, or contact the General Chair, Adrian Segall (segall(a)ee.technion.ac.il), or the Publicity Chair, Hanan Shpungin (shpungin(a)cs.bgu.ac.il). _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] DEBS 2009 - Call for Papers
by Vana Kalogeraki 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Call for Papers 3rd ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-based Systems (DEBS 2009) July 6-9, 2009, Nashville, TN, USA Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Conference web site: http://debs09.isis.vanderbilt.edu Sponshorship ------------ ACM SIGSOFT and SIGMOD Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract submission: February 23, 2009 Paper submission: March 2, 2009 Author notification: April 27, 2009 Final manuscript: May 18, 2009 Scope ----- Event-based systems are rapidly gaining importance in many application domains ranging from real time monitoring systems in production, logistics and networking to complex event processing in finance and security. The event based paradigm has gathered momentum as witnessed by efforts in areas including publish/subscribe systems, event-driven architectures, complex event processing, business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services notifications, information dissemination, event stream processing, and message-oriented middleware. The various communities dealing with event based systems have made progress in different aspects of the problem. The DEBS conference attempts to bring together researchers and practitioners active in the various sub communities to share their views and reach a common understanding. The scope of the conference covers all topics relevant to event-based computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g., coordination, software engineering, peer-to-peer systems, Grid computing, and streaming databases), over domain-specific topics of event-based computing (e.g., workflow management systems, mobile computing, pervasive/ubiquitous computing, sensor networks, user interfaces, component integration, Web services, and embedded systems), to enterprise related topics (e.g., complex event detection, enterprise application integration, real time enterprises, and Web services notifications). The topics addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to): Models, Architectures and Paradigms * Event-driven architectures * Basic interaction models * Event algebras, event schemas and type systems * Languages for event correlation and patterns, streaming and continuous queries, data fusion * Models for static and dynamic environments * Complex event processing * Design and programming methodologies * Event-based business process management and modeling * Experimental methodologies * Performance modeling and prediction based on analytic approaches Middleware for Event-Based Computing * Federated event-based systems * Middleware for actuator and sensor networks * Algorithms and protocols * Event dissemination based on p2p systems * Context and location awareness * Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and recovery * Security issues * (Self-)Management * Mobility and resource constrained device support * Streaming queries, transformations, or correlation engines Applications, Experiences, and Requirements * Use cases and applications of event-based systems * Real-world application deployments using event-based middleware * Domain-specific deployments of event-based systems * Real-world data characterizing event-based applications * Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds * Application requirements for next-generation event-based solutions * Relation to other architectures * Enterprise application integration * Event-driven business process management * Information logistics * Seamless integration of event-based mechanisms into middleware platforms Author Instructions ------------------- Three types of paper submissions will be accepted: research papers, industry papers, and demo papers. Submitted papers should clearly indicate their type. Papers must not exceed the given number of pages for the respective paper type: Research Papers (max. 12 pages): a research paper describes new results that advance the state-of-the-art in basic or applied research. Industry Papers (max. 8 pages): an industry paper describes the design, the experience (in building, deploying and running), or the performance of an industry system. Commonly, the majority of authors on the paper are from industry. Product marketing material will not be accepted as papers. Demo Papers (max. 4 pages): a demo paper reports on an existing research prototype by clearly identifying the original contributions and ideas demonstrated. The authors are expected to prepare a poster and perform a live software demonstration on their own laptop during an exhibit-style conference reception. Any special requirements should be identified in the appendix of the paper. Submitted papers should clearly indicate on the first page the submission type. Industry submissions will be evaluated by an Industry Committee. The conference proceedings will be published as part of the ACM International Proceedings Series and will be disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. The conference adopts a double blind review process, where neither authors nor reviewers know each others' identities. Papers must not exceed the given number of pages for the respective paper type. The required format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Style. The author kit containing templates for the required style can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-references should be in the third person. This is to facilitate a double-blind review process. Please apply the ACM Computing Classification categories and terms, which can be found at http://www.acm.org/class/1998/. Conference Location ------------------- Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA Conference Organization ----------------------- General co-Chairs: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA) Dr. Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA) Program co-Chairs: Dr. Calton Pu (Georgia Tech, USA) Dr. Bugra Gedik (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA) Industry Chair: Dr. Opher Etzion (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel) Tutorial Chair: Dr. Peter R. Pietzuch (Imperial College London, UK) Publicity co-Chairs: Dr. Vana Kalogeraki (University of California, Riverside, USA) Dr. Beth Plale (Indiana University, USA) Dr. Patrick Eugster (Purdue University, USA) Local Arrangements: Dr. Jules White and James Hill (Vanderbilt University, USA) Web Chair: Kevin Webb (ISIS, Vanderbilt University, USA) Program Committee: ------------------ Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland Raman Adaikkalavan, Indiana University South Bend, USA Paulo Alencar, University of Waterloo, Canada Henrique Andrade, IBM T.J. Watson, USA Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, India Marin Bertier, IRISA/INSA-Rennes, France Antonio Carzaniga, University of Lugano, Switzerland Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas Arlington, USA Gregory Chockler, IBM Haifa, Israel Mariano Cilia, Intel Cordoba, Argentina Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano University, Italy Renato Ferreira, Ohio State University, USA Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology, Germany Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Research, USA Manfred Hauswirth, DERI, National University of Ireland, Ireland Annika Hinze, University of Waikato, New Zealand Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research, USA Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada Boris Koldehofe, University of Stuttgart, Germany Charles Krasic, University of British Columbia, Canada Pedro Jose Marron, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany Peter R. Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK Beth A. Plale, Indiana University, USA Leonardo Querzoni, Roma University, Italy Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA Kurt Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany Maarten Van Steen, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Sasu Tarkoma, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Nokia Research Center, Finland Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras, Greece Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway Seth White, BEA Systems / Oracle, USA Alexander L. Wolf, Imperial College, England Jianwei Yin, Zhejian University, China Industrial Program Committee: ----------------------------- Rainer von Ammon - CITT Jerry Baulier - Aleri Brian Connell - WestGlobal Eliezer Dekel - IBM Dieter Gawlick - Oracle Serge Mankowskii - CA Peter Niblett - IBM Guy Sharon - IBM Richard Tibbetts - Streambase Paul Vincent - TIBCO _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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ICST - MobiCASE 2009 Call for Papers - The First International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services
by info＠icst.org 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call for papers] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS MobiCASE 2009 The International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services http://www.mobicase.org October 26-29, 2009 San Diego, California, USA Sponsored by ICST Technically co-sponsored by Create-Net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Researchers and engineers face new challenges stemming from consumer habits that continue to shift to encompass both a desktop-centric work environment as well as a smartphone-centric lifestyle. MobiCASE, the International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, will allow scientists and practitioners from both academia and industry to highlight their best work in mobile wireless applications and service provisioning. MobiCASE is specifically focused on application-layer research and development in mobile computing: applications, application management, and application services. We seek novel submissions in mobile applications and systems research in domain topics above the OSI transport layer with an emphasis on complete end-to-end systems and their components. The conference will be organized into two broad categories, with topics of interest including, but not limited to: Mobile applications: * Mobile social networking, such as crowd-sourcing or twittering * Healthcare, such as emergency notification or body monitoring systems * Transportation, such as nav-sat systems or traffic congestion management * Personalization * Context-aware applications * Online mobile targeted advertising * Novel user experience and interfaces * Mobile Web 2.0 and mobile web application frameworks (such as Mobile Ajax, Mobile Flash, J2ME, and others) * Supporting development toolkits, programming languages, or libraries * Use of hardware features such as accelerometers, touch sensing, and GPS * Applications for enterprise environments Service provisioning for mobile users: * Application lifecycle management and distribution models * Application management * Smartphone platforms (Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, and others) * Adaptive, self-configuring applications * Context-modeling and ontologies * Support for large-scale, scalable messaging and event processing * End-user network monitoring and management * Middleware and distributed systems in support of mobile applications In addition to scientific research papers, MobiCASE will also host an industry paper track where industry product groups in the mobile computing space can share best practices, real-world observations, and projected near- and long-term expectations that will hopefully help guide and focus all attending researchers and practitioners. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal. Research papers should focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of complete systems and components. Papers will be limited to 10 single-spaced, double-column, 8.5" x 11" pages with 10-point font. Industry papers are limited to 8 pages. MobiCASE requires that all papers (both research and industry) describe novel, unpublished work, not concurrently under review elsewhere. PANELS/WORKSHOPS: We are soliciting proposals for panels/workshops. Interested parties are encouraged to submit a proposal to the workshop chair. Please see the MobiCASE webpage (www.mobicase.org) for further information. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract due: May 1, 2009 Full papers due: May 8, 2009 Acceptance notification: June 29, 2009 Camera-ready version due: August 1, 2009 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Co-General Chair: Rebecca Montanari, University of Bologna, Italy Co-General Chair: Petros Zerfos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net Technical Program Chair: Thomas Phan, Microsoft Corporation, USA Industry Track Chair: Jatinder Pal Singh, Deutsche Telekom, Inc. and Stanford University, USA Demo/poster Chair: Angela Dalton, Johns Hopkins University, USA Workshop Chair: Benjamin Greenstein, Intel Research, USA Web and Publicity Chair: Alessandra Toninelli, University of Bologna, Italy -------------------------------------------------- You are reading ICST conference newsletter. To report any kind of abuse, please contact admin at icst.org. To unsubscribe, please visit the following page: http://ipool.icstserver.org/unsubscribe.php?p=qqoifbgave and enter your email address.

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[Tccc] CFP RWI2009 at IEEE DCOSS'09
by Srdjan Krco 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.] CALL FOR PAPERS *********************************************************************** International Workshop on Integration of the Real World and the Future Internet (RWI 2009) Marina del Rey, California, June 10, 2009, co-located with DCOSS'09 http://www.deri.ie/research/events/rwi2009 *********************************************************************** Recently, Future Internet research has attracted a lot of attention across the globe with a number of initiatives such as the Future Internet Assembly in Europe, GENI in the US and AKARI in Japan. A common theme is the requirement to adopt an all encompassing approach taking into account requirements and views from a number of angles: networking protocols, socio-economics, services, security, etc. The ubiquity of mobile devices and proliferation of wireless networks will allow everyone permanent access to the Internet at all times and all places. Trillions of heterogeneous network enabled devices such as sensors and actuators located in open space or attached to existing objects, RFID enabled items, robots and generally many heterogeneous devices with communication and computational capabilities are integrated into the fabric of the Internet, providing an accurate reflection of the real world, delivering fine-grained information and enabling almost real time interaction between the virtual world and real world. The increased computational power of these devices has the potential to empower people to generate their own applications for innovative social and cognitive activities in any situation and anywhere. This wireless connection is not limited to user devices, almost any artefact from clothing to buildings can be connected and collaborate as a network enabled device. Furthermore new sensor technologies and wireless sensor networks provide environmental intelligence and the capability to sense, reason and actuate. This leads to the exciting vision of the interconnection of artefacts embedded in our real environment, forming a society of "intelligent things" and "smart spaces" and thus making the real world "clickable". The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing the Future Internet and in particular the real world aspect of it. The workshop should serve as a place to exchange ideas between different national and regional initiatives as well as research projects and researchers. The main topics of interest include the following: * Management, scalability and heterogeneity of devices and users: how can a vast number of devices be managed and networked efficiently? Will current naming and addressing be efficient and sufficient? How does IP scale to low complexity (e.g. with the use of 6LoWPAN)? How can we integrate more data centric services on the Internet (in contrast to address centric mechanism)? In particular wireless sensor and actuator networks will be unreliable, dropping off and connecting fluently to the Internet - can we design efficient Plug and Play (PnP) mechanisms to manage these edge networks? * Networked knowledge and context - What are the means to describe this information? What are the mechanisms that we need to manage search, and interpret this knowledge (semantics). How can we integrate it with other information sources? What will be the traffic patterns that we have to deal with in addition to the commonly seen data traffic (email, web-browsing, IPTV) on the Internet and will the collective use of the Real World Internet impact these services? How can this data be modelled and represented? How can we compose new context information on the fly? * Privacy, security and trust - How to implement fast and secure cryptographic algorithms and protocols in devices highly limited in resources? How can we design usable and privacy friendly identity management tools that enable users to stay in control of their data? How can we provide anonymity, unobservability, unlinkability and pseudonymity properties? How can we anonymise data generated by individuals? How can we design transparency and feedback mechanisms that educate users and raise security and privacy awareness? How can we protect the infrastructure from adversaries carrying traffic analysis attacks on the communication system? * Impact of RWI traffic - What is the RWI traffic model(s)? What quality of service requirements the RWI applications' have for the underlying transport networks? How to serve large number of RWI traffic sources? How to reduce the network resource utilization while preserving the quality of service? The following topics in the context of the Real World Internet are also of interest: * Standardisation * Social and legal implications. * Service understanding / automatic composition and modeling e.g. ontologies Cross-layer collaboration (business systems / network services / devices) Self-sustainability (self-* features e.g. self-management, self-healing etc.) Business models - context based solutions (no one size fits all approach) Ease of use / application modeling / toolkits Infrastructure management (HW & SW set-up/maintenance etc) Devices Identification Interoperability among systems and objects Important Dates Submission deadline: April 10, 2009 Acceptance notification: April 25, 2009 Workshop: June 10 ******************************** Submission Details Papers should be submitted in PDF format via email to srdjan.krco(a)ericsson.com. Page limit is 12 and the paper should follow the IEEE Transactions Journal and conferences style (http://www.ieee.org/pubs/authors.html). All accepted papers will be published in a separate DCOSS 09 Workshops Volume, with ISBN. ******************************** Organization Committee Program Co-Chairs: Manfred Hauswirth (DERI Galway, Ireland) Mirko Presser (University of Surrey, UK) Srdjan Krco (Ericsson Ireland) Technical Program Committee (TBC) Ivan Stojmenovic (Univ. of Ottawa) David Simplot-Ryl (INRIA Lille) Sotiris Nikoletseas (CTI Patras) Nigel Baker (UWE Bristol) Takahiro Hara, (Osaka University) Curt Schurgers (UCSD) Marimuthu Palaniswami (Univ. of Melbourne) Inoue Masugi (NICT Japan) Antonio Ruzelli (UCD Dublin) Eduardo Tovar (ISEP-IPP) Karl Aberer (EPFL) Manolis Koubarakis (Univ. of Athens) Oscar Corcho (UPM) Amit Sheth (Wright) Andreas Wombacher (Univ. of Twente) Konrad Wrona (NATO C3 Agency) Theodore Zahariadis (Synelixis) Telma Mota (PT inovacao) Neeli Prasad (Aalborg University) Stefan Fischer (Univ. of Luebeck) Alex Gluhak (Ericsson Ireland) Asunción Gómez Pérez (UPM) Costas Constantinou (University of Birmingham) Richard Brooks (Clemson University) Dimitrios Serpanos (Univ. of Patras) Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich) Koen Langendoen (TU Delft) Alfredo Cuzzocrea (Unical) Jan Beutel (ETH Zurich) Andreas Terzis (JHU) Veljko Milutinovic (ETF Belgrade) Slawomir Kuklinski (WUT Warsaw) _______________________________________________ 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 (JCM) Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications
by Guan-Ming Su 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Call for Papers Journal of Communications (JCM) Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/si/jcmsi_mcna.html With the advancement of multimedia signal processing/compression technology and the wide deployment of wired/wireless networks, there is an increasing demand for multimedia communication services. However, advanced multimedia processing often attempts to optimize the coding efficiency and introduces higher dependency between the processed data, resulting in a fundamental challenge to robust data communication. On the other hand, modern communication networks often exploit multi-dimensional diversity, such as user, frequency, and location, and finer granularity of resources, such as power and spectrum, for multimedia communications that have seldom been explored in multimedia signal processing. Therefore, we are facing unprecedented challenges in multimedia communications, networking, and applications. Many critical issues need to be addressed to improve the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) for multimedia networks, for example, how to deploy the cross-layer design methodology that leverages the characteristics of multimedia signal processing and communication networks, how to optimize the QoS subject to available resources, and, in particular, how to allocate resources to individual nodes and sources when a network involves multiple nodes and sources of multimedia. Topics: The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art research contributions that address the various aspects of multimedia communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Cross-layer architecture design for multimedia transmission * Content/Network-aware cross-layer design and optimization * QoS-driven resource management, scheduling, and admission control * Performance evaluation of cross-layer multimedia transmission design * Joint source and network coding and decoding * Cross-layer design for P2P streaming * Ad hoc and infrastructure-based overlay network communication * Cross-layer design for multimedia sensor networks * Distributed wireless video communications * Multimedia delivery over wireless mesh network * Noncollaborative/collaborative resource management for multi-stream transmission * Cooperative multimedia communications in multihop wireless networks * Error resilience and error concealment techniques for multimedia communications Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009 Acceptance Notification: May 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: June 30, 2009 Publication Date: September 2009 Submission: Submissions should follow the guidelines of Journal of Communications. Prospective authors should submit high quality, original manuscripts that have not appeared, nor are under consideration, in any other journals. Further information on Journal of Communications can be found at: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/. For further questions or inquiries, please contact corresponding editor Dr. Guan-Ming Su Guest Editors: Dr. Guan-Ming Su Marvell Semiconductor, USA Prof. Ivan V. Bajić School of Engineering Science Simon Fraser University, Canada Prof. Homer H. Chen Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University, Taiwan Dr. Huifang Sun Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [Tccc] CFP: GeoSensor Networks 2009, Oxford, UK]
by Lars Wolf 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: GeoSensor Networks 2009, Oxford, UK Datum: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:38:58 +0000 Von: Andrew Markham <acmarkham(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <1c1bc1f60812080316n70689053o6b4c169c525d1641(a)mail.gmail.com> *** Apologies for multiple and cross posting *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS GEOSENSOR NETWORKS 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13-14 July 2009, Oxford, United Kingdom Website: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/geosensornetworks/ Sponsored by: University of Oxford Papers to be published by Springer in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series. They will also be indexed electronically on SpringerLink. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geosensor networks shift the traditional centralized paradigm of monitoring a geographical area from the macroscale to the microscale, by using distributed sensors to measure variables of interest (such as environmental, biological and chemical variables, seismic activity and geolocated videofeeds). Whilst having the ability to provide data with unparalleled temporal and spatial resolution, geosensor networks have pushed the frontiers of traditional GIS research into the realms of computer science, introducing issues such as data fusion, geolocated queries, energy efficient data collection and data mining and interpretation. The incorporation of mobile devices into these networks allows data acquisition to be undertaken on a spatially varying sampling resolution, introducing new research avenues such as co-operative sensing and dynamic coverage. Furthermore, geosensor networks are not only constrained to passively monitor a region, through actuators, they also have the ability to influence or modify their environment. Research in geosensor networks spans multiple fields, ranging from strategies for intelligent data acquisition to virtual reality interactions with environmental dynamics. Of particular interest are applications of geosensor networks, such as environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, early warning systems and wildlife tracking. This workshop seeks to address these issues, by bringing together leading experts in a two day forum to present novel research and exchange ideas relating to the state of the art and its future directions. Real world results are particularly welcomed, as are reports of interesting or challenging deployments. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Andreas Savvides (Yale) IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission: 3 April 2009 Notification of Acceptance: 27 April 2009 Camera Ready Papers Due: 5 May 2009 Conference: 13-14 July 2009 TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following as they relate to spatio-temporal applications and geosensor networks: * Data mining across sensor themes * Modeling spatio-temporal data streams * Data stream processing * Handling uncertainty and imprecision in geospatial data * Intelligent sensors/sensor fusion * Location-based queries * Middleware for pervasive computing * Mobile computing * Co-operative sensing and organization * Peer-to-peer collaboration strategies using geospatial information * Queries (aggregate and statistical) and reasoning over data streams * Query optimization over sensor networks * Real-time updating of geospatial databases * Sensor information management systems * Spatiotemporal sensor data mining * Video and motion imagery analysis for real-time scene and event modeling and monitoring * Virtual modeling of large geographic areas * Time geography * Privacy, geo-privacy * Sensor networks and interaction with actuators * Applications of geosensor networks (e.g. disaster management, early warning systems, environmental monitoring) * Real world deployments, issues, challenges and results ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General chair: - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Steering committee: - Silvia Nittel, University of Maine - Alex Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford Publicity chair: - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge, UK - Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras, Greece - Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece - Dinos Ferentinos, University of Athens, Greece - Alvaro Fernandes, University of Manchester, UK - Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA - Yannis Kotidis ,Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece - Antonio Kruger, University of Muenster, Germany - Lars Kulik, University of Melbourne, Australia - Andrew Markham, University of Oxford, UK - Kirk Martinez, University of Southampton, UK - Cecilia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, UK - Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK - Monika Sester, LUH, Germany - Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne, Australia - Theodore Tsiligiridis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece - Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford, UK (Chair) - Peter Widmayer, ETH, Switzerland - Mike Worboys, University of Maine, USA - Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK -- Dr Andrew Markham Postdoctoral Research Assistant Room 502 Oxford Computing Laboratory Wolfson Building, Parks Road OX1 3QD +44 1865 273 869 http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Andrew.Markham/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

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IEEE CommMag CFP: Consumer Communications & Networking
by Bin Wei 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Folks, > > Here (and attached) is the Call-for-Papers for the next issue in the > /IEEE Communications Magazine/ Consumer Communications and Networking > Series (to be published in December 2009). > > Please feel free to share this CFP with others and encourage people to > submit. > > Thanks, > Stan Moyer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Call for Papers > > > /IEEE Communications Magazine/ > > > Consumer Communications and Networking Series > > Recent trends in consumer networking are that consumers are both > creators and producers of content (albeit of varying quality!) and > peer distribution is the natural model. This is one of the emerging > trends that impact how consumers can use devices to create, > manipulate, store, and access content --- and is surely a much > different view compared to only five years ago where most experts > still viewed the world in terms of servers and clients, producers and > consumers as distinct and separate entities....indeed, there are still > dinosaur organizations out there today who are fighting a rearguard > action to protect their dwindling revenue streams because they haven't > been brave enough to embrace this new model. Trends like this are > ones that papers for the consumer communications and networking series > should address. > > We have also seen the technological reach of existing solutions being > applied in unconventional ways where all aspects of our digital lives > are being consumed to provide novel platforms where interoperation > between disparate technologies is now possible. For example, the > automotive industry is now producing cars that include ad hoc networks > designed to provide multimedia solutions as well as links to wide area > communications via satellite networks. Using these networking > capabilities and interfaces such as USB we see automobile > functionality being extended. In this sense the boundaries between the > car and conventional consumer devices are beginning to blur. > > Perhaps the sole technology responsible for the many technological > advances we see today is communications. Example communications > technologies include the emergence of 3G and 4G, LTE and WiMax, > Bluetooth, Zigbee, Ultrawideband, TV-band, and Powerline and Free > space optical. Applications of these technologies include personal > and body area networking, home networking, game networking, ad-hoc > networking, and sensor networking. These networks may be connected > through networking layers that are cognitive, peer-to-peer enabled, > and have the properties of self organisation and management. These > networks will become key enablers where we are already seeing > ubiquitous content distribution models, for example, television can > now be viewed wherever we are and on any devices capable of connecting > to one of the many networking paradigms defined above. With these > networks we can expect a platform for true innovation where content > distribution will overlay these networks using compression, rights > management, delivery, and appropriate quality of service mechanisms > that can be seamlessly moved over these next generation networks. All > of this is made possible by networking, software and middleware that > present to the service designer the tools to provide ease of use, > security, and stunning interactivity to the end consumer. > > With this in mind the /IEEE Communications Magazine /is seeking papers > that emphasize consumer networking in whatever physical environment it > finds itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the > following: > > *Scope of Contributions * > > * Wireless Multimedia Networks > * Body and Personal Area Networks > * Mobile Networks and Multimedia > * Emerging Wireless Technologies (Ultra Wideband, OFDM, RFID, > Zigbee, etc.) > * Distributed Network Protocols for Multimedia High Definition > Audio/Video Networking > * Networked Appliances > * Entertainment Networks > * P2P Algorithms and Architectures for Consumer Electronics Peer > Streaming, Networking and Applications > * Home Networking and Automation > * Next Generation Networks > * Pervasive Computing and Contextual Systems > * Middleware for Networked Consumer Devices > * Media and Device Adaptation > * Architecture, Platforms and Protocols for Networked Games and > Virtual Worlds. > * Social Networking and Home Entertainment > * Music and Movie Distribution Models > * Augmented Reality > * Task Computing and the Home > * Home Sensor Networks > * Autonomic Home Networking > * Zero Configuration Networking > * Digital Rights Management > * Trust in Social Networks > * Voice/Video of IP > > **** > > *Submission* > > Articles should be /tutorial/ in nature, with the intended audience > being all members of the communications technology communities. They > should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the > specialty of the article. Articles should not exceed 4500 words. > Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. > Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found at: > http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html and a brief > summary is available at > http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/edbd-web/reviewformintro.html. Please > submit a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper by May 1, 2009 via > Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). > Register or log in, and go to the Author Center. Follow the > instructions there. Select the topic "December 2009/Consumer > Communications and Networking Series." > > *Schedule for Submissions:* > > Submission Deadline: May 1, 2009 > Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2009 > Final Manuscript Due: September 15, 2009 > Publication Date: December 1, 2009 > > *Series Editors:* > > Professor Madjid Merabti > > Liverpool John Moores University > > Liverpool, England > > L3 3AF > > M.Merabti(a)ljmu.ac.uk > > > > Stanley Moyer > > Telcordia Technologies > > One Telcordia Dr. > > Piscataway, NJ 08854 > > USA > > stanm(a)research.telcordia.com > > > > Dr. Mario Kolberg > > Stirling University > > Stirling, Scotland > > mko(a)cs.stir.ac.uk > > > > >

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[Tccc] Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (held at IPSN 2009)
by Panangadan, Anand V 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

Workshop on Sensor Networks for Earth and Space Science Applications (ESSA 2009) Held in conjunction with ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) San Francisco, CA, USA April 16, 2009 Wireless sensor networks and their applications have grown steadily during the past decade as a result of the convergence of various technologies spanning wireless, data processing algorithms, computing hardware, storage, and sensor capabilities. The pervasive nature of static and mobile sensors scattered throughout the environment enables multi-resolution capture of environmental or ambient information that serve as the basis of intelligence for knowledge inference and decision-making. Information processing for sensor networks enables new capabilities to operate autonomously and learn, perceive, reason, and react intelligently to their environments. Large scale sensor networks are now being used in a number of Earth and Space Science applications, including large-area terrestrial systems for geologic monitoring, volcano/plume monitoring, seismic (earthquake) monitoring, large-scale ocean monitoring for tsunamis, storm surges, plumes, algae blooms, and weather forecasting systems comprised of aerial and ground/coastal nodes. Such Earth and Space sensor networks are now evolving from "passive observation and reporting systems" to "active and reactive systems" that dynamically evolve in response to complex and rapid spatio-temporal events. This workshop is a forum for scientists and researchers to present new ideas and papers on sensor networks applications in the areas of Earth and Space Science. Papers on all aspects of Earth and Space Applications can be submitted to this workshop. We expect this workshop to have invited papers as well as contributed papers. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, are: - Monitoring of long range and large-scale phenomena - Geologic and Seismic monitoring - Chemical plumes and other atmospheric events - Oceanic events prediction and monitoring - Sensor networks applications in near space and deep space - Data fusion, compression, and processing for sensorwebs - Simulation, emulation, and experiments on sensor networks for Earth and Space Science - Databases, data search/mining technologies and knowledge extraction mechanisms from sensor networks in Earth and Space Science - Information management, and data visualization and display techniques for sensor networks - Signal processing, control, and resource management solutions for sensor networks - AI and machine learning for sensor networks - Intelligent networking and routing protocols for optimal operation of large-scale sensor networks Dates: Submission: February 28, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2009 Final Version Due: April 2, 2009 Webpage: http://viterbi.usc.edu/ESSA2009 General Chair: Srikanta Kumar, BAE Systems Program Co-Chairs: Ashit Talukder, JPL (Ashit.Talukder(a)jpl.nasa.gov) and Cauligi Raghavendra, USC (raghu(a)usc.edu) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: Special Issue on Sensor Network for Building Monitoring: From Theory to Real Application
by Malka Nishanthi Halgamuge 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

CALL FOR PAPERS EJSE Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering Special Issue on Sensor Network for Building Monitoring: From Theory to Real Application http://www.ejse.org EJSE invites contributions on the above subject to the first issue of an ongoing series of special ssues in building monitoring using sensor networks. Monitoring and automatic control of building environment is a crucial application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The investigation of efficient sensor network design that minimizes energy dissipation in a battery of the sensor node with limited battery power is a vital consideration for sensor network lifetime. Therefore careful scheduling of battery power in sensor networks has become a critical issue in network design. Recent technological developments have permitted miniaturization and power efficiency of sensors, and integration of data into applications for building monitoring and computer interaction. Sensor networks illustrate an exceptional improvement over traditional sensors. However, there are still many challenges to be met before we see more widespread use of WSN in building monitoring applications. The principal objective of this special issue is to assemble papers on recent advances made in the area of sensor networks for monitoring buildings. Authors are specially invited to submit contributions in, (but not restricted to), the following topics: - Practical experience and knowledge gained with real life deployment of sensor networks for building monitoring for examples temperature, light intensity, CO and CO2 level - Novel techniques for actual sensor deployment, data gathering in building monitoring - Effects on activity monitoring, reliable communication, quality of service and security - Power efficient communication: miniaturization, system integration and energy scavenging Submission Details: Papers Deadline: 30th June 2009 Acceptance Notification: 31st July 2009 Final Manuscript Due: 31st August 2009 Publication Date: October 2009 Guest Editors: Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia malka.nisha at unimelb.edu.au A/Prof Nick Haritos Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia nharitos at unimelb.edu.au Series Editor: Editor-in-Chief, EJSE Prof Priyan Mendis Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne, Australia pamendis at unimelb.edu.au Submitted papers should be of high quality and not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts should be submitted online at: http://www.ejse.org. Please read the author guidelines, which are located at http://www.ejse.org. For further questions or inquiries, please contact Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge (malka.nisha at unimelb.edu.au) Best Regards Malka ====================================== Dr. Malka N. Halgamuge Melbourne School of Engineering The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia. Phone: +61 3 8344 6769 Email: malka.nisha(a)unimelb.edu.au Home Page: http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/~malkah/ ====================================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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