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[Call for Papers]: Special Issue on Multimedia Communications and Networking, Journal of Communications
by SI.MCNA JCM 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Call for Papers Journal of Communications (JCM) Special Issue on Multimedia Communications, Networking and Applications URL: http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/si/jcmsi_mcna.html With the advancement of multimedia signal processing/compression technology and wide deployment of wired/wireless networks, there is an increasing demand of multimedia communication services. Advanced multimedia processing often aims at optimizing the satisfaction of human perceptual system and introduces higher dependency among its processed data, which exhibit different requirement from traditional data communication. Besides, modern communication networks explore multi-dimensional diversity, such as user, frequency, and location; and utilize finer granularity of resources, such as power and spectrum. When transmitting multimedia over communication networks, there are many issues needed to be investigated to improve the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) requirement. For example, how to deploy the cross-layer design methodology to explore the characteristics in the multimedia signal processing unit and communication networks; and optimize the QoS subject to available resources. When multiple nodes and multimedia sources are involved in the networks, one potential issue is how to allocate resources to each node and source to enhance the end-to-end QoS requirement. == 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 * 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/. == 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

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[Fwd: [Tccc] Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications]
by Lars Wolf 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications Datum: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:08:32 +0000 Von: Lingyang Song <lingyang.song(a)gmail.com> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu Referenzen: <27879fdd0809251708x13424cddgf3bd952554af9b29(a)mail.gmail.com> <27879fdd0809260816q40895125la346108745d11a2c(a)mail.gmail.com> <8F9B308633F39143BFED17C4C569F7680EA628FA57(a)astana.unik.no> <27879fdd0812220205n54d41161p462ca70aa58bfc5d(a)mail.gmail.com> We apologize for multiple receipts of this CFP. ------------------ Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley Publication) Special Issue: Emerging Techniques for Wireless Vehicular Communications ------------------ Wireless vehicular communications have attached much attention for improving road safety, intelligent management and data exchange services, and providing Internet access on the move to ensure wireless pervasive and ubiquitous connectivity. Throughout the world, many national or international projects in government, industry, and academia have been devoted to the establishment of ambitious research programs, such as the European eSafety initiative, the German Ministry of Education and Research sponsored Wheels project, the US programs derived from the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative, and the Japanese InternetITS and AHS programs. The field of wireless vehicular communications can be typically identified as vehicle-to-person communications, vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and vehicular communication networks. The combination of unique features of wireless vehicular communications and networking issues opens new opportunities for many interesting research areas, for example, real time safety applications, and intelligent diver information services. In order for universal realization of wireless vehicular communications, many research challenges still need to be addressed to create good-performance, highly scalable, robust and secure vehicular technologies. ------------------ Topics ------------------ The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality research papers that report the latest research advances and surrey the-state-of-the-art in this fast developing field. Original papers are solicited in all aspects of vehicular communications, including physical layer issues, architectures, protocol designs, enabling technologies, theoretical studies, practical applications, and experimental prototypes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Architectures for wireless vehicular communications *RF technologies and antenna design *Channel measurements and modeling *Signal processing techniques *Physical and MAC layer technologies *Radio resource management and QoS support *High-speed mobility management *Routing protocols and congestion control schemes *Cross-layer design and optimization *Ad-hoc networks and other novel network configurations *Security and authentication issues in vehicular communications *Doppler shift study, evaluation and estimate, time and frequency synchronizations, and channel estimation *Cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access technologies *Digital maps and location technologies *In-car electronics and embedded integration for wireless vehicular communications *Regulation and business models *Testbed, experiment, implementation standards, and practical applications ------------------ Schedule ------------------ Submission due date: 31 January 2009 Notification of first round review: 30 April 2009 Submission of revised paper: 31 May 2009 Notification of final acceptance: 31 July 2009 Final manuscript due date: 31 August 2009 Publication date: 4th quarter, 2009 ------------------ Submission & Review Instruction ------------------ Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing operates an online submission and peer review system that allows authors to submit articles online and track their progress via a web interface. Papers may be submitted electronically (Postscript or PDF files only) to the following addresses http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wcm and navigate to the Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing online submission site. Authors must specify the special issue title they are submitting to, in the box designated for that. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html ------------------ Guest Editors ------------------ Lingyang Song Philips Research Cambridge UK, CB4 0FY Email: lingyang.song(a)philips.com Athanasios Vasilakos Department of Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Western Macedonia GR 50100 Kozani, GREECE Email: vasilako(a)ath.forthnet.gr Bingli Jiao Department of Electronics Beijing University Beijing, 100871, P. R. China Email: jiaobl(a)pku.edu.cn Junyi Wang Ubiquitous Mobile Communication Group National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-4 Hikarino-oka Yokosuka, 239-0847, Japan Email: junyi.wang(a)nict.go.jp Wai Chen Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Applied Research One Telcordia Drive, RRC-1T209 Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-4157, USA Email: wchen(a)research.telcordia.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] INFOCOM Workshops - Deadline Jan. 31st 2009
by jussara＠dcc.ufmg.br 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Apologies for multiple copies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We are pleased to announce the lineup of workshops that will be held in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-24, 2009. * High-Speed Networks Workshop (HSN 2009) * Global Internet Symposium * Workshop on Network Science for Communication Networks * Mobile Video Delivery Workshop (MoVID 2009) Workshop Call-for-Papers and detailed information can be found at: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/workshops.htm All workshops will be held on Friday, April 24, 2009, all day, and will provide forums for discussion and technical presentations on the current researches and future research directions related to different communication aspects. The paper submission deadline for all workshops is January 31, 2009. Claudio Casetti, Antonio Loureiro IEEE INFOCOM Workshop Co-Chairs _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: IEEE ICME 2009: Paper Deadline Extended to 01/15, Workshop CFP Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:49:20 -0600 Von: ICME 2009 Publicity <icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com> An: wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ======================================================================= IEEE ICME 2009 CALL FOR PAPERS regular/plenary paper submission due: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time workshop submissions see details below 2009 The 10th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) June 28 - July 3, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico http://www.icme09.org ======================================================================= Overview IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. ICME serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of multimedia systems, technologies and applications. ICME is co-sponsored by four IEEE societies, including the Circuits and Systems Society, the Communications Society, the Computer Society, and the Signal Processing Society. The conference will feature world-class plenary speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations. Paper submissions Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in IEEE double-column format including authors' names, affiliations, and a short abstract. Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please visit the conference website, www.icme09.org for the instructions to submit papers. Topics covered include but are not limited to: * Audio, image, video processing * Signal processing for media integration * Virtual reality and 3-D imaging * Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction * Multimedia Communications and networking * Multimedia security and content protection * Multimedia databases * Multimedia computing systems and appliances * Multimedia analysis and social media on the Internet * Hardware and software for multimedia systems * Multimedia standards and related issues * Multimedia applications A number of awards generously sponsored by industry and academic institutions will be presented to the Best Papers / Best Student Papers at the conference. In addition to the traditional regular 4-page papers, we are soliciting submissions of plenary (8 page) papers. Accepted (top) plenary papers will be given single-track 30 minutes time slots to present their work to the whole conference. If a paper of good quality cannot be placed in the mere few single track presentation slot, it may be accepted as a long paper and presented in a parallel session. Multimedia is known for its diversity and the broad spectrum it covers. To encourge cross-field collaborative researches, in ICME 2009, we invite our sponsoring technical committees to host workshops to introduce the emerging technology in their respective field. Thanks to the sponsoring technical committees, the following workshops have been confirmed: * Emerging Multimedia Signal Processing Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSP TC) * Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technology Workshop (by IEEE MMSA TC) * Emerging Multimedia Communications Workshop (by IEEE MM Communications TC) * Multimedia Technology Workshop (by ACM SIG Multimedia 2009 MM TPC) Tutorials and Demos Brief tutorial proposals should be submitted by January 31, 2009, to Dr. Deepa Kundur at deepa {at} ece.tamu.edu, and must include title, outline, contact information for the presenter, and a description of the tutorial and material to be distributed to participants. Proposals for Demonstrations should be submitted to Dr. Hari Sundaram at hari.sundaram {at} asu.edu by January 31, 2009. Important Dates: Regular Paper / Plenary Paper Submission: Jan 15, 2009, 23:59 Hawaii time Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2009 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2009 Accepted Workshops include: Community driven Mobile Multimedia Workshop chairs Carlos Enrique Palau Salvador, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland Noel Crespi, Intitut TELECOM, France Nazim Agoulmine, University of Evry, France Internet Multimedia Search and Mining Workshop chairs Xian-Sheng Hua Microsoft Research Asia, China Marcel Worring University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications Workshop chairs Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA Susanto Rahardja, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare Workshop chairs B. Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Multimedia Research in a Serious Game Context Workshop chairs Iris Wegmann, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Arnd Steinmetz, University of Applied Science Darmstadt, Germany Stefan Göbel, ZGDV Darmstadt, Germany Gearoid O'Suilleabhain, CIT Cork, Ireland Multimedia Security and Content Protection Workshop chairs Xin Wang, ContentGuard, Inc., USA Li Zhao, Tsinghua University, China Hongxia Jin, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop on Emerging Applications and Many-Core Architecture Workshop chair Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel, USA Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee chair Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Labs, USA Emerging Multimedia Circuits and Systems Technologies Workshop chair Oscar Au, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Multimedia System and Applications Technical Committee chair Kevin Yang, Natl. Cheng-Kung U., Taiwan Emerging Technologies on Multimedia Communications and Networking Workshop chairs Zhu Li, HK Polytech U, Hong Kong, China Bin Wei, AT&T Labs, USA Multimedia Communications Technical Committee chair Qian Zhang, HKUST, Hong Kong, China Advances in Multimedia Computing Technologies Workshop chair TBD ACM Multimedia 2009 General chairs Wen Gao, Peking U, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China Alan Hanjalic, Deft U. of Technology, Netherlands ACM Multimedia 2009 Program chairs Changsheng Xu, Academy of Sciences, China Eckehard Steinbach, Tech U. of Munich, Germany Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, U. of Ottawwa, Canada Michelle Zhou, IBM Research, China Organization General Chairs: Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research, USA Ingemar Cox, U. College London, UK Technical Program Chairs: Qibin Sun, Hewlett-Packard, China Yong Rui, Microsoft, China --- WORKSHOP CFP 1st IEEE Workshop on Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W'MAPS 2009) <http://www.icme09.org/workshop/WMAPS09> July 3rd, 2009 Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) The proliferation of mobile multimedia devices and social networks has led to an explosion of digital media content being created, resulting in large personal and public multimedia databases in which it has become increasingly difficult to retrieve specific content and browse the large collections. In the absence of manual annotation specifying the content of the media (in the form of captions or tags), most current content management software only allow simple browsing and navigation options; which severely limits the search and other advanced functionality. This is complicated by the available types of media such as images, video, music, speech, text, and graphics, and the relationship and interactions among them. In addition to personal collections located at home PCs and laptops, the wide spread popularity of media and social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Easyshare Gallery has enabled users to share and browse images and videos. However, due to the huge magnitude and variety of media content, it is increasing difficult for users and consumers to easily navigate, search, compose, and share their content and memories. When we consider the multimedia information available on public web sites, we will be confronting with a big scalability issue with many existing techniques and algorithms. Solutions that address the broad spectrum of personal and social multimedia applications are needed. The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum for researchers from academy and industry to discuss the advances and challenges of information processing, analysis, and retrieval for multimedia applications in personal and social domains. We propose to explore emerging areas of research such as cross-media and cross-domain information analysis and extraction, which will enhance current capability of information management applications and enrich the overall multimedia experience. Another area is to leverage rich metadata and contextual information associated with the media content. These include GPS, date/time, captions/tags, camera settings, face and other biometric information. The advances in user interface technologies incorporating speech and gesture recognition will also play an important role in enabling more user friendly and easy to use multimedia applications in the consumer domain. We welcome papers that address fundamental research issues in this challenging area, with emphasis on personal and social applications. We also encourage papers to report on system level research related to multimedia and cross-media analysis, processing, and retrieval. A number of invited papers will also be solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cross-media information analysis and extraction - Machine learning algorithms for media information analysis and extraction - Object, feature, and relation extraction from media - Semantic content understanding and recognition - Context-aware analysis of media and cross-media content - High dynamic range image processing and retrieval - Reasoning and cross-domain learning methodologies - Intra- and inter-media representation and ontology for cross media - Multimedia browsing/visualization tools and cross-media query - Metadata analysis for semantic annotations of multimedia content - Semi-automatic and automatic annotation methods for media content - Media information processing, delivery, and management - Synchronization of media objects for cross media analysis - User interface method for media browsing and search - Speech and gesture interface for consumer multimedia applications - System level research for media and cross-media applications Important Dates (Please note that dual submissions to both the main ICME conference and workshop will not be accepted.) Paper submission deadline: Feb. 14, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2009 Final camera-ready paper deadline: March 31, 2009 Workshop date: Friday, July 3, 2009 Alexander Loui and Susanto Rahardja Workshop Co-Chairs Lekha Chaisorn and Daniel Gatica-Perez Technical Program Co-Chairs --- http://www.icme09.org ---------------------------- (3394 wolf(a)ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) TO BE REMOVED FROM THIS LIST You are receiving this email because you have participated previous ICME events. If you would like to be removed from this email contact list, please reply to this message, including the text of the entire message above in the body of your email message, and the words 'REMOVE ME' in the subject line. This email should be addressed to: icme2009_publicity(a)cmsworkshops.com. You will be removed from this list when we receive your reply.

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[Tccc] CFP: Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009)
by Luca Foschini 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= Fourth Workshop on multiMedia Applications over Wireless Networks (MediaWiN 2009) (http://mediaWiN.it.teithe.gr) July 5th, 2009 Sousse, Tunisia organized in association with the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009) (http://www.comsoc.org/iscc/2009) Contributions to MediaWiN 2009 should address the technical challenges arising from novel networking scenarios. Visionary, early-stage works that are rigorously presented and can steer discussion to new topics are particularly welcome. We are actively encouraging researchers to share their views, research proposals and solutions for multimedia applications over wireless networks. Since the first workshop edition in 2006, the proliferation of wireless access technologies and multimedia applications over IP networks is leading to a growing interest in the convergence between wireless networks and multimedia applications. However, the strict requirements of multimedia applications, the unreliability of wireless media and the cost of wireless resources make this convergence very challenging. MediaWiN2009 offers the opportunity to leading researchers, industry professionals, and academics around the world to meet, present their work, and discuss the latest advances about multimedia services over wireless technology. All accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2009 Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally indexed by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Multimedia Services over Wireless Networks * Multimedia Applications and Protocols over Wireless Networks * Experimentation: Testbeds, Field Trials and Empirical Evaluations, Measurement Studies * Emerging Standards, Technologies and Novel Paradigms for Wireless Multimedia Communications Important Dates Submission of research papers due: 31 January 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: 28 February 2009 Submission of camera-ready papers: 13 April 2009 Workshop date: 5 July 2009 Paper submission Papers should be written in English. Manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE proceedings style, including all figures, tables and references, and must be submitted by January 31 2009 using EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7092). Papers meeting these require- ments will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, including a TPC member. Papers must present original and unpublished work and should not be currently under review by any other conference or journal. To submit a paper, please follow the instructions on the Workshop web site. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the ISCC 2009 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Organizing Committee Workshop Co-Chairs Kostas Pentikousis, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland (kostas.pentikousis(a)vtt.fi) Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy (ilenia.tinnirello(a)tti.unipa.it) Publicity Chair Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy (luca.foschini(a)unibo.it) Steering Committee Chair Periklis Chatzimisios, TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece (pchatzimisios(a)ieee.org) Technical Program Committee (not finalized): Rui Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Leonardo Badia (IMT Lucca, Italy) Hussein Badr (Stony Brook University, USA) Albert Banchs (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Paolo Bellavista (University og Bologna, Italy) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Anthony Boucouvalas (University of Peloponnese, Greece) Christos Bouras (University of Patras and RACTI, Greece) Raffaele Bruno (Institute for Informatics & Telematics, Italy) Hind Castel (Inst. National des Tlcommunications, France) Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University, Korea) Chrysostomos Chrysostomou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta, Canada) Martin Fleury (University of Essex, UK) Luca Foschini (University og Bologna, Italy) Ladan Gharai (USC Information Sciences Institute, USA) Stein Gjessing (University of Oslo, Norway) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento, Italy) Ibrahim Habib (City University of New York, USA) Stathes Hadjiefthymiades (University of Athens, Greece) George Karetsos (CTR of Thessaly, Greece) Ferhat Khendek (Concordia University, Canada) Adlen Ksentini (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France) Lambros Lambrinos (Cyprus Univ. of Technology, Cyprus) Michael Logothetis (University of Patras, Greece) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland) Ioannis Mavridis (University of Macedonia, Greece) Georgios Papadimitriou (Aristotle University, Greece) Roberto Riggio (University of Trento, Italy) Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy) Susana Sargento (University of Aveiro, Portugal) Luca Scalia (University of Palermo, Italy) Antonio Servetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Pietro Zanuttigh (University of Padova, Italy) Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA) -- _________________________________________ Luca Foschini, Ph.D. DEIS-LIA - Università degli Studi di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 - 40136 Bologna (ITALY) Ph.: (+39) 051 20 93541 Fax: (+39) 051 20 93073 E-mail: luca.foschini(a)unibo.it <mailto:luca.foschini@unibo.it> or lfoschini(a)deis.unibo.it <mailto:lfoschini@deis.unibo.it> Web: http://lia.deis.unibo.it/Staff/LucaFoschini/ _________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR]
by Lars Wolf 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CfP MMVE09 at IEEE VR Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:12 +0100 Von: Gregor Schiele <gregor.schiele(a)UNI-MANNHEIM.DE> Antwort an: Mailing List der GI FG 3.3.1 "Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" <KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE> An: KUVS-L(a)LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE -------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd International Workshop on Massively Multiuser Virtual Environments (MMVE 2009) at the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality 2009 (VR09) March 15th, 2009 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ -------------------------------------------------------- With the increasing number of potential users of virtual and augmented reality systems, as indicated by the recent boom of massively multiuser online societies, the design of distributed, massively multiuser virtual environments becomes more and more important, posing new requirements on both distribution platforms and virtual reality systems. Facing these challenges is a community- spanning effort, necessitating the pooling of the resources and experiences of the virtual reality and the networking and distributed computing communities. The aim of this workshop is to provide a link between these communities to foster the development of highly distributed, flexible and robust virtual environments. Following up on last year's very successful workshop (MMVE'08) at IEEE VR, we aim to gather the practitioners and researchers in these fields under one roof to discuss their findings, incite collaboration, and move the state of the art forward. Topics ------ The main topic of this workshop is to provide a critical analysis of existing distribution approaches for virtual environments and to identify key challenges and techniques that are required for bringing VR systems into the global Internet, interconnecting thousands of users in a single environment. More specifically, the workshop addresses the following issues: 1. Scalability, i.e. the ability to handle thousands of (possibly nearby) users at the same time, interacting via the global Internet. 2. Interoperability, i.e. the ability to integrate multiple virtual worlds and/or service providers, e.g. using common protocols or universal clients. 3. Interactivity, i.e. how to provide highly responsive environments with near real time interaction despite network delay and jitter. 4. Bandwidth restricted (mobile) end user devices, e.g. the integration of mobile devices for nomadic augmented reality applications. 5. Dynamic and flexible distribution architectures, e.g. self-adapting client/server, peer-to-peer and hybrid architectures. 6. Content streaming, e.g. sound and 3D streaming. 7. Consistency, i.e. providing consistency guarantees to users of the distributed environment, despite the high level of responsiveness necessary and the experienced network delay. 8. Persistency, i.e. the ability to save and access the state of the virtual environment despite disconnections and faulty components. 9. Security and privacy, e.g. distributed authentication algorithms that allow users to participate in the environment securely and without fear of being spied on. 10. Implementation issues, e.g. novel approaches to effectively manage the complexity of developing applications for such environments. Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Paper submissions must cover one of the topics listed above, or a closely- related one. Submitted papers should be about 5-6 pages long, use the IEEE proceedings format and *must be blinded*. Research papers must be original prior unpublished work and not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be peer- reviewed (double-blind) and selected based on their originality, merit, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions in PDF format must be submitted online through the workshop page at http://peers-at-play.org/MMVE09/ no later than January 30th, 2009. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication (IJAMC), subject to addressing all reviewer comments from MMVE and reformatting according to IJAMC formatting guidelines. If you have any questions, please email us at mmve(a)peers-at-play.org. Workshop Format -------------------------------------------- The workshop will have three parts. The first part will be an invited keynote talk. In the second part, we will have multiple sessions, each consisting of about 3 talks. The last part of the workshop will consist of a common panel discussion including all participants. Important Dates --------------- Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2009 Acceptance Notification: February 5th, 2009 Camera Ready Version: February 15th, 2009 Workshop Date: March 15th, 2009 Organizers ---------- * Gregor Schiele, University of Mannheim, Germany * Shun-Yun Hu, National Central University, Taiwan * Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore Program Committee (prelim.) ----------------- * Maha Abdallah, University of Paris VI, France * Christian Bouville, IRISA, France * Sonja Buchegger, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany * Romain Cavagna, University of Paris VI, France * Kuan-Ta Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan * Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * Chris GauthierDickey, University of Denver, USA * Aaron Harwood, University of Melbourne, Australia * Jehn-Ruey Jiang, National Central University, Taiwan * Stephan Krause, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany * Jauvane C. Oliveira, LNCC, Brazil * Peter Quax, Hasselt University, Belgium * Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy * Ingo Scholtes, University of Trier, Germany * Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada * Gwendal Simon, TELECOM Bretagne, France * Shinichi Ueshima, Kansai University, Japan * Suiping Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore -- Dr. Gregor Schiele Chair of Information Systems II University of Mannheim, Germany http://becker.bwl.uni-mannheim.de/9.html

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[Tccc] LoCA 2009: Submission Deadline Change (Abstracts are due January 9th, 2009. Papers are due January 16th, 2009)
by walex＠cs.toronto.edu 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

************************** 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ********************** NOTE: SUBMISSION DEADLINE CHANGE LoCA 2009 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness May 7th-8th, 2009. Tokyo, Japan http://loca2009.context-aware.org Abstract submission deadline: January 9th, 2009 Paper submission deadline: January 16th, 2009 ********************************************************************* LoCA 2009 (May 7-8, Tokyo Japan) is the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, with proceedings published in the LNCS series by Springer-Verlag. LoCA 2009 is co-located with Pervasive 2009 the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, which will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan. The 2009 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA) seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological, environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition, context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning, human computer interaction, and design. We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. We are especially interested in submissions in the following areas but welcome submissions from other areas that are relevant to the theme of the symposium: * New hardware platforms for sensing location and context * Machine learning techniques for inferring user location and context from low-level sensor data * Location and context representation, management, and distribution * Privacy policies and communication protocols for location and context information * User studies of location- and context-aware systems * Industrial case studies of end-to-end systems One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee and is designed to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Both awards will be made during the symposium. Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers will be reviewed by our international program committee. LoCA 2009 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or present concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system. All accepted papers will be contained in the symposium proceedings which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Therefore submissions must conform to the LNCS LaTeX stylesheets. We solicit papers of up to 18 pages in LNCS style but explicitly welcome shorter papers for presentation of pointed results. All paper submissions will be treated as full papers but it is important that their length is appropriate for their content. Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Tokyo. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6603. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee. Best Paper and Presentation Awards: One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee to recognize outstanding work. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium. Symposium Website: http://loca2009.context-aware.org Program Chairs: Tanzeem Choudhury, Dartmouth College USA, Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin Ireland International Program Committee: Hamid Aghajan, Stanford University, USA Christian Becker, Universitat Mannheim, Germany Hung Bui, SRI International, USA Andrew T. Campbell, Dartmouth College, USA Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland Anind Dey, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Simon Dobson, University College Dublin, Ireland Dieter Fox, University of Washington, USA Mike Hazas, Lancaster University, UK Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research Seattle, USA Johan Hjelm, Ericsson Research Tokyo, Japan Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Minkyong Kim, IBM Research Watson, USA John Krumm, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Rene Mayrhofer, University of Vienna Nuria Oliver, Telefonica Research, Spain Shwetak Patel, University of Washington, USA Matthai Philipose, Intel Research, USA Matthew Reynolds, Duke University, USA Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab, USA James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Chris Wren, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), USA Danny Wyatt, University of Washington, USA Local Chair: Koji Suginuma, Sony Corporation, Japan General Chair: Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK Publicity Chairs: Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs, USA Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research, Redmond USA Important Dates: 9 January 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline 16 January 2009 Paper Submission Deadline 27 February 2009 Author Notifications 6 March 2009 Camera Ready Copy 7-8 May 2009 Symposium (Tokyo, Japan) Sincerely, Alexander Varshavsky <varshavsky(a)research.att.com> LoCA 2009 Publicity Chair _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ...]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Call for Papers: Digital Ecosystems ... Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:00:45 +0100 Von: Bernardo Wagner <wagner(a)rts.uni-hannover.de> An: NTH-School für IT Ökosysteme <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, vielleicht sind Sie ja an beliegendem Call for Papers interessiert. Ansonsten wünsche ich Ihnen frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr. B. Wagner ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <it-oekosysteme-all(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <it-oekosysteme-all-off(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-digest(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <it-oekosysteme-all-index(a)in.tu-clausthal.de> Send administrative queries to <it-oekosysteme-all-request(a)in.tu-clausthal.de>

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[Fwd: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] IEEE Mobile Video Delivery (MoViD) 2009: Call for Papers Datum: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:57:19 -0500 (EST) Von: Shamik Sengupta <Shamik.Sengupta(a)stevens.edu> An: tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu (Apologies for multiple copies. Appreciated if you can forward to potentially interested persons) ************* CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** ---------- MoViD 2009 ---------- 2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2009 http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ 24 April 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *********************************************** The focus of this workshop is to present and discuss recent advances in the wireless network technologies and video delivery mechanisms for supporting the broad spectrum of emerging video-centric applications. The workshop will have the goal of understanding the research and deployment challenges in building the Next Generation Mobile Video Internet. Specifically, the workshop intends to address the following topics: a) Research challenges in developing new methods for delivering rich video experience to users over existing wireless technologies; b) New visions and concepts that will drive evolution of wireless access technologies to support high definition video content with diverse QoS requirements; c) Deployment challenges in new video delivery models (broadcast/multicast) to mobile users. The workshop aims to foster interaction among researchers and exchange new ideas by bringing together members of the video and networking communities. The workshop will provide an interesting venue to discuss widely varying beliefs and understanding being formed among the academic and industrial communities in terms of how next generation mobile video content should delivered to end-users. The technical program committee invites the submission of original, unpublished technical papers in the following areas (but not limited to): Application-specific technologies in supporting **Mobile VoD, SDV, IPTV **Mobile video conferencing **Mobile video gaming **Video surveillance and sensing Performance **Quality of experience metrics **Video quality measurement **Performance analysis **Experimental results from testbed/deployments Encoding and Transport **Wireless video coding techniques **Adaptive media coding **Link adaptive transport mechanisms Wireless network techniques and protocols **802.11 WLAN/802.11n **802.16 WiMax **3G cellular networks **DVB-H **MAC/PHY layer techniques Wireless delivery models **Broadcast/multicast/simulcast **P2P mobile video **Vehicular video delivery Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should contain original material and not previously published, or currently submitted elsewhere. Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Communications Society author guidelines. All submissions will be handled electronically through EDAS. Important Dates =============== Submission Deadline: Jan 30 Accept/reject notification: Feb 28 Camera ready paper due: Mar 15 Workshop date: Apr 24 Workshop Organizers =================== Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Samrat Ganguly, NEC Corporation of America Technical Program Committee (List incomplete) =========================== Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Google, Inc. Yi Cui, Vanderbilt University Polychronis Koutsakis, McMaster University Dilip Krishnaswamy, Qualcomm Research Center Athina Markopoulou, University of California, Irvine Sourav Pal, Microsoft Research Amy R Reibman, ATT Research Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles Deepak Turaga, IBM Research, Watson Thierry Turletti, INRIA Stephan Wenger, Nokia Research Magda El Zarki, University of California, Irvine Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore Publicity Chair =============== Shamik Sengupta, Stevens Institute of Technology Web Chair ========== Wenjing Wang, University of Central Florida =============================================== http://eecs.ucf.edu/movid/ _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] Infocom Student Workshop - Deadline Jan 9, 2009
by Renata.TEIXEIRA＠lip6.fr 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Abstracts IEEE INFOCOM Student Workshop Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 20, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Infocom 2009 Student Workshop organizing committee is encouraging the submission of abstracts describing on going thesis research in all areas of computer networking and data communications, (for a list of topics, please refer to the Infocom 2009 call for papers at http://www.ieee-infocom.org/call_for_papers.htm). Accepted abstracts will appear in the Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings and the student will present a poster during the workshop. The Infocom Student Workshop is a forum for graduate students all over the world to interact with their peers, publicize and get feedback on their work. It is an excellent opportunity to exchange experiences, make contacts, and learn how other students are furthering Networking research. Students will also be able to interact with well-established researchers in the field who will participate in the workshop as mentors and organizers. The workshop will be a day-long program consisting mainly of panel discussions and poster sessions. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Abstract Submission Deadline : January 9, 2009, 23:59 PST * Acceptance Notification : January 19, 2009 SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- We are soliciting abstracts, submitted in the Infocom 2009 format (Please refer to http://www.ieee-infocom.org/paper-layout.htm), that do not exceed 2 pages. Accepted abstracts will be available via IEEE Xplore and will be published as part of Infocom 2009 workshop proceedings. Note that the submitted version of accepted abstracts will be published in the proceedings. To submit an abstract go to: http://www-rp.lip6.fr/crp-sw-infocom09/ CO-CHAIRS --------- Renata Teixeira, CNRS and UPMC Paris Universitas (France) Ranjita Bhagwan, MSR (India) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech (USA) Augustin Chaintreau, Thomson (France) Carla Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Rene Cruz, UCSD (USA) Ramesh Govindan,USC (USA) Jim Kurose , UMass (USA) Vishnu Navda, MSR (India) Alex Snoeren, UCSD (USA) Rui Zhang, Princeton (USA) Ben Zhao, UCSB (USA) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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