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[Tccc] [CFP] AASN'2008: Call for Paper
by Youssef IRAQI 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] CALL FOR PAPERS First International Workshop on Autonomous and Automated Sensor Networks, AASN http://sigappfr.acm.org/cstst08/workshops/aasn/ To be held in conjunction with The 5th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’2008), Cergy-Pontoise/Paris, FRANCE, October 26-30, 2008. Summary and Topics: Thanks to technological advances, wired and wireless sensor networks are attracting an increasing attention that promotes their large-scale deployments in many applications, such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and scientific exploration. Continuous improvements are motivating works in addressing specific sensor network issues spanning hardware, network protocols, architecture, operating systems, and applications. Furthermore, emergent needs to fulfill a variety of heterogeneous requirements are highlighting the importance of multidisciplinary networks that control their processing and manage their resources by means of self-organizing techniques. These techniques particularly require sharing the decision-making process over hundreds of low-power, short lifetimes sensors. The achievement of this goal is still facing an urgent and challenging question on how to provide these spatially distributed sensors with reasonable autonomy that help them in performing the right action, at the right time for the sake of fulfilling current requirements while increasing the lifetime of the entire sensor network and guaranteeing reliable and enduring pathway communications. Automating the sensor network activities is also an urgent and challenging issue especially that commonly sensing devices are operating unattended in remote and hostile areas where manual maintenance is nearly impossible. Since predefined and late decisions do not help much in improving the efficiency of networked sensing devices, automation and autonomy are very important mechanisms in addressing upcoming developments that target multi-services, collaborating, or competing sensor networks. To reach these goals, the first International Workshop on Automated and Autonomous Sensor Networks is seeking novel ideas in the following topics that include, but not limited to: - Heterogeneous sensor networks - Multi-service sensor networks - Sensor network control - Automated sensing activities - Competing sensors or sensor networks - Collaborating sensors and sensor networks - Semantic-based management of sensor networks - Resource management in sensor networks - Context awareness in sensor networks - Self-organization and self-adaptation in sensor networks - New architectures and protocols for sensor networks - New sensor network applications - Sensor network maintenance - Intelligent sensors and sensor networks - Data management in sensor networks - Data and resource sharing in sensor networks Important Dates: Submission deadline: August 17th 2008 Acceptance notification: September 07th 2008 Camera ready papers: September 17th 2008 Submission Guidelines: (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cstst08) This Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF or MS Word files and should be uploaded using the conference website. Full paper submissions should be in ACM format with a limit of 6 pages. Papers that fail to comply with length limit will be rejected. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers of the PC. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Preference will be given to submissions that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. At least one author should attend the workshop to present the paper. The conference Proceedings will be indexed by ACM Digital Libraries and published with an ISBN. Program Co-Chairs: Nafaâ Jabeur, Dhofar University (nafaa_jabeur(a)du.edu.om) Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University (y_iraqi(a)du.edu.om) Technical Program Committee: Athanasios Gkelias, Imperial College, UK Bernard Moulin, Laval University, Canada Gianluca Moro, University of Bologna, Italy Gregory S. Yovanof, Athens Information Technology, Greece Ingo J. Timm , Institute of Computer Science Information Systems and Simulation, Germany Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Khalil El-Khatib, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Michael Lauer, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany Nabil Sahli, Telematica Institute, Netherlands Nafaa Jabeur, Dhofar University, Oman Phil Graniero, University of Windsor, Canada Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy Vasilis Friderikos, King's College London, UK Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, ENSIIE, France. Youssef Iraqi, Dhofar University, Oman _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE CCNC Special Session on Virtual Worlds
by Krishna Dhara (Kishore) 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Special session on "Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds" Part of 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference CCNC 2009, 10 - 13 January 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ The conference is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society Paper Deadline: July 31, 2008. ************** Call for Papers ************** Special Session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds combine 3D web technologies with social networking techniques to offer new models of user interactions, collaborative learning, information sharing, and present new business opportunities. Collaboration and communication in virtual worlds are key to the success of these models. Using advances from various studies on virtual reality environments, existing virtual worlds provide a rich environment for users to provide new and innovative end user services. These end user services depend on multiple users collaborating in shared spaces, interaction with other users and with other worlds, real time nature of user interactions in virtual environments, collaboration and communication tools in virtual environments, scalability, and security. The goal of this special session on Collaboration and Communication in Virtual Worlds is to provide a forum for researchers, architects, and practitioners for discussing these and other related issues to collaboration and communication in virtual worlds and virtual environments. We solicit papers covering various topics that include (but not limited to) the following: * Sharing Spaces in VR environments * User Interactions in VR * Real-time or immediacy of interactions * Chat, voice, or video communication in virtual worlds * Collaboration tools and techniques in VR applications * Social networking in VR environments * Collaborative learning in Virtual Worlds * Consumer-business interactions * Enterprise collaboration in VWs * Scalability, security, and persistence of VR Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author Information on the CCNC web site. Important Dates: Papers submission: July 31, 2008 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2008 Camera-ready versions: Oct 10, 2008 Session Organizer: Krishna Kishore Dhara Avaya Labs Research 1N275, 307 Middletown-Lincroft Rd Lincroft, NJ, USA. dhara(a)research.avayalabs.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CALL FOR PAPERS
by Thanos Vasilakos 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

============== ICAS 2009 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICAS 2009, The Fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain General page: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICAS09.html Call for Papers: <http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html> http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/CfPICAS09.html Submission deadline: November 1, 2008 Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: <http://www.iariajournals.org> http://www.iariajournals.org Extended versions of selected papers will also be published in the Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems: <https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf> https://www.inderscience.com/www/IJAACS_leaflet.pdf Please note the Poster Forum special submission with on progress and challenging ideas. ICAS 2009 Special Areas (details in the CfP on site): SYSAT: Advances in system automation AUTSY: Theory and practice of autonomous systems AWARE: Design and deployment of context-awareness networks, services and applications AUTONOMIC: Autonomic computing: design and management of self-behavioral networks and services MCMAC: Monitoring, control, and management of autonomous self-aware and context-aware systems CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SO SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems KUI: Knowledge-based user interface ================= ICAS 2009 Technical Program Committee Chairs Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, UK Mauricio Marin, Yahoo!, Chile ICAS Advisory Chairs Petre Dini, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA / Concordia University, Canada Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece ================== _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Mycolleagues] CFP: JISE Special Issue on V-Winets and V-ITSs
by Chih-Yung Chang 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

****************************************************************************** We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ****************************************************************************** Call For Papers Journal of Information Science and Engineering (indexed by SCIE) Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems Aim and Scope: -------------- With the rapid development of wireless technologies, the Vehicular Wireless Networks (V-Winet) and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems (V-ITS) have recently received much attention. V-Winets and V-ITS aim to ensure traffic safety for drivers, provide comfort for passengers and reduce transportation time and fuel consumption with many potential applications. For instance, vehicular safety applications include automatic collision notification, heavy fog detection and notification, remote diagnostics, emergency management, and other assistances for safe driving. Non-safety applications include real-time traffic congestion notification, location-based driver information services, high-speed tolling, vehicle tracking, automobile high speed Internet access, in-place traffic view, and many others. To facilitate these applications, many different types of communications and networking would be involved, including intra-vehicle, vehicle-to-vehicle (V-to-V), vehicle-to-roadside (V-to-R) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V-to-I) communications for V-Winet and V-ITS to provide timely information or Internet access to vehicles, drivers, and passengers. Consequently, V-Winet and V-ITS need to integrate existing networking technologies, such as IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11p, DSRC, 3G, IEEE 802.16, Bluetooth, Sensor networks, and ZigBee for easy, accurate, effective and simple communications among vehicles, users, and infrastructure networks. This special issue aims to foster the dissemination of high-quality, original, unpublished research covering all aspects of V-Winet and V-ITS communications, networking, and applications. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the followings: - Network Architecture of V-Winet/V-ITS - V-Winet/V-ITS Services and Applications - Cooperative Aspects of V-Winet/V-ITS - Availability and Scalability Issues in V-Winet/V-ITS - Mobility, Traffic Models and Network Management for V-Winet/V-ITS - Cross-layer Optimization Techniques for V-Winet/V-ITS - Modulation, Coding, and Channel Modeling for V-Winet/V-ITS - Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Protocols - Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication Protocols - Simulation Framework and Real-World Testbeds for V-Winet/V-ITS - Driving Safety and Related Applications and Services - Green Technologies and V-Winet/V-ITS Submission Guidelines ---------------------- Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the JISE (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts (pdf and source files) must be directly emailed to the Guest Editors, Prof. Chih-Yung Chang, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw , or Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw, with clear indication that submission is for the Special Issue on Vehicular Wireless Networks and Vehicular Intelligent Transportation Systems, Journal of Information Science and Engineering. All manuscripts should include a title page containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Important Dates: ------------------ Paper Submission Deadline: March 30, 2009 Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: August 31, 2009 Publication Date: May, 2010 (Tentative) Guest Editors --------------- Chih-Yung Chang, Tamkang Univ., Taiwan, cychang(a)mail.tku.edu.tw Chien-Chung Shen, University of Delaware, USA, cshen(a)mail.eecis.udel.edu Xuemin(Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, xshen(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan, yctseng(a)cs.nctu.edu.tw _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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[IFIP-EC-NEWS] Call for Papers Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play
by Rauterberg, G.W.M. 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

** IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING NEWS SERVICE ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** Send all news to: icec(a)listserver.tue.nl **************************************************** ** NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, ** not this IFIP EC News Service **************************************************** Workshop on Design for social interaction through physical play at International Conference on Fun and Games Wednesday October 22, 2008 Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/m.m.bekker/WorkshopSPG.htm Organizers Emilia Barakova, e.i.barakova(a)tue.nl Tilde Bekker, m.m.bekker(a)tue.nl Janienke Sturm, j.sturm(a)tue.nl Advancements in technology determine several trends in today's society that pose serious threats to social interaction. At present, more people interact through media and less in a face-to-face manner. Another trend is that people lead less active lifestyles. At the same time, new technologies provide novel entertainment and interaction opportunities. We aim to combine these trends and explore the opportunities that technology-driven physical play offers for enhancing and stimulating real social interaction (as opposed to virtual interaction through a computer). This can be beneficial for diverse reasons: For children to counter the trend of playing computer games and watching television on their own, for elderly to socialize more when making new contacts becomes more difficult and for autistic children because they particularly like technological toys. The main goal of the workshop is to share information and experiences among researchers in the area of social interaction through physical play. We invite position papers addressing social and physical issues including (but not restricted to) the following fields: - Social robotics - Design for diverse user groups, such as children and elderly - Social games - Creative toolkits - Exertion interfaces - Pervasive and head-up games - Embodied facilitation - Spatial and tangible interaction Paper contributions should be submitted by email to one of the organizers. Papers should be 4-6 pages in PDF format LNCS style. Contributions will be reviewed by an international program committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop notes (with ISBN number), distributed at the workshop, and published on the workshop's web site. The organizing committee intends to organize a special issue in an international journal. Workshop participants are required to also register for the main conference. Program Committee Nadia Berthouze, University College London, UK Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK Berry Eggen, TU/e, The Netherlands Loe Feijs, TU/e, The Netherlands Newton Fernando, National University of Singapore Ole Sejer Iversen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Narcis Peres, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Matthias Rauterberg, TU/e, The Netherlands Ben Robins, University of Hertfordshire, UK Important dates September 1, 2008: Deadline paper submission September 22, 2008: Notification of acceptance September 29, 2008: Deadline final version October 22, 2008: Workshop **************************************************** ** To send and receive IFIP-EC-NEWS, go to ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/listinfo/icec ** and subscribe directly **************************************************** ** News archives: ** http://listserver.tue.nl/mailman/private/icec/ **************************************************** ** To join the IFIP ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING Group ** contact: g.w.m.rauterberg(a)tue.nl ****************************************************

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[Tccc] Deadline extended: Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008
by T. S. Eugene Ng 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Internet Network Management Workshop (INM) 2008 Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Communications Society Co-located with ICNP 2008 Orlando, Florida October 19, 2008 http://www.cs.rice.edu/~eugeneng/inm08 ======================================================================= New extended deadlines: Paper registration: 5:00pm EDT, July 7, 2008 Paper submission: 5:00pm EDT, July 14, 2008 Notification of acceptance: August 6, 2008 Camera ready submission: September 5, 2008 In many ways, computer network management remains the least understood aspect of computer networking. There is a lack of well-established principles for guiding the design of networks for manageability. There is also a lack of scientific theories for analyzing the state of a network and for the evolution of network state. The Internet Network Management (INM) workshop provides an opportunity to elevate participants' collective experience with IP networks into ideas, principles, and theories that can be leveraged in today's networks, or can be carried forward into the clean-slate design of future networks that intrinsically support management, rather than treating management as a bolted-on afterthought. The INM workshop seeks original and thought provoking ideas, case studies, experimental results, position papers, and clean-slate designs. Submissions concerning special-purpose networks, such as VoIP, content distribution, or mobile wireless networks are welcome. The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of experience and work-in-progress discussions. Topics of Interest: * new abstractions for network configuration management * new control plane architectures * data plane mechanisms to support management * autonomous network management systems with predictive/proactive behaviors * ensuring stability and coherent behavior in distributed and/or autonomous systems * management of backbone, access, enterprise and home networks and network-based applications * techniques and experiments for evaluating network management architectures * experimental platforms that support network management research * comparisons between IP network management and ATM, SONET, or telephony management * defining and enforcing network borders * automatic and adaptive control of networks * cross-layer interactions, including IP/optical or applications/IP * hitless planned maintenance * fault and performance management Program Chairs: Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge) T. S. Eugene Ng (Rice University) Steering Committee: Albert Greenberg (Microsoft Research) Chuck Kalmanek (AT&T Labs) David Maltz (Microsoft Research) Richard Mortier (Vipadia) Geoffrey Xie (Naval Postgraduate School) Hui Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Fwd: [acf-members] WONS 2009: Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers]
by Lars Wolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [acf-members] WONS 2009: Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers Datum: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:29:58 -0400 (EDT) Von: Stefano Basagni <basagni(a)ece.neu.edu> An: acf-members(a)autonomic-communication-forum.org Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. ----------------------------------------------------------- PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS: WONS 2009 # # ####### # # ##### # # # # # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## # # ## ## ####### # # ##### ##### ### ### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ####### ### ### ##### The Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (IEEE/IFIP sponsorship pending) February 2-4, 2009. Snowbird, Utah, USA http://wons09.cs.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------ Scope of the conference ----------------------- As more and more users become increasingly dependent on wireless and mobile communications, it is necessary to secure a reliable and dependable technology support for "on-demand" services through any of the wireless architectures that have been in development recently, such as mesh networks, WiMAX, WiFi, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, etc. However, there are serious challenges to overcome, such as the integration of infrastructure-based and ad hoc networks, robust algorithms for self-organizing, reconfigurable wireless networks, on-demand service models and their provision in a highly-volatile interconnection environment, and smooth interoperability of architectures. WONS, now in its sixth edition, has established itself as a high-quality forum to address these challenges in the context of a workshop that is rich in intense interactions and based on innovative contributions by experts in the field. This announcement solicits original submissions of high-quality research papers on "wireless on demand networks" that provide novel insights on protocol and network design, modeling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models, practical implementations, service level aspects and Internet integration of wireless networks. Topics related to wireless ad hoc networks, mesh networks, vehicular networks and sensor networks comprise, but are not limited to: * Architecture and Design * Analysis through simulation and experimental evaluation * Modeling * Internet integration * Social and economic aspects * Pervasive / ubiquitous computing * Localization and mobility management * Security * Energy-efficient protocols and power management * Applications and Service Support * Data dissemination and Peer-to-Peer systems * Middleware aspects * Self-X and network management Manuscript submission --------------------- Submitted papers should not have been published before or they should not be currently under review at another conference or journal. Authors are invited to submit double-column full (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) in PDF format. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Short papers should present future research directions, ongoing work, visionary and innovative ideas; accepted short papers will populate poster sessions at the conference and will be included in the conference proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper if accepted. Conference proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore library. Further submission instructions will be published on the conference web site. Important Dates --------------- Full Paper Submission: October 2nd, 2008 Acceptance notification: November 17th, 2008 Camera-ready due: December 7th, 2008 Organization - Executive Committee ---------------------------------- General Chair Violet R. Syrotiuk (Arizona State University) Technical Program Co-Chairs Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland) Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino) Publicity and Web-Chairs Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University) Dae-Ki Cho (UCLA Network Research Lab) Gaia Maselli (Univ. of Roma "La Sapienza") Steering Committee Renato Lo Cigno, Chair (University of Trento) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Technical Program Committee [to be completed] Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Tech) Eitan Altman (INRIA) Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Roma, Tor Vergata) Ernst Biersack (Institute EURECOM) Matteo Cesana (Politecnico di Milano) Andrzej Duda (LSR-IMAG Laboratory) Azadeh Faridi (Pompeu-Farba University in Barcelona) Jorge Garcia (UPC, Polytechnic University of Catalonia) Mario Gerla (UCLA) Silvia Giordano (SUPSI of Lugano) Fabrizio Granelli (University of Trento) Martin Haenggi (Notre Dame) Hannes Hartenstein (University of Karlsruhe) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn) Gunnar Karlsson (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Edward W. Knightly (Rice University) Sastry Kompella (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC) Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC) Renato Lo Cigno (University of Trento) Stefan Mangold (Swisscom) Pietro Michiardi (Institute Eurecom) Giacomo Morabito (University of Catania) Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens) Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe) _______________________________________________ acf-members mailing list acf-members(a)cs.tcd.ie https://lists.cs.tcd.ie/mailman/listinfo/acf-members

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[Tccc] AlPACa 2008 deadline extended
by Imad Aad 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email ----------------------------------------------------- AlPACa 2008 Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications (in conjunction with Securecomm 2008) September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.alpaca-workshop.org/ ----------------------------------------------------- During the last few decades we have seen a tremendous number of activities (and publications) regarding anonymous communication systems, how to make them better, various attacks, defenses etc. Even though the implicit assumption of any anonymity work is to have it applied in a real world, few of those activities focus on actual practical systems, and the questions remain if we are doing research on the right thing? how far we are from dealing with the real issues? and are the goals that we try to achieve with these systems those that we are optimizing for? This workshop solicits papers concerned with what happens on top of and around the anonymizing layer, with a view of how this affects the anonymity system. That is in some ways the user's, operator's, ISP's, etc. view of and experience with anonymity systems and how anonymity systems need to be improved. Topics of interest are (but not limited to): * Use cases for anonymous communication systems * Practical experiences with anonymous communication systems * Case studies * Novel applications of anonymous communication systems * Economic incentives / business models for using or deploying anonymous communication systems * Performance and evaluation tools of real systems * Usability * Feedback from real users * Legal issues with running anonymous communication Important dates: ---------------- * Submission deadline: (extended to) 6 July 2008 * Notification date: 24 July 2008 * Camera ready submission deadline: 10 August 2008 * Workshop: 22 September 2008 Submission instructions: ------------------------ Only PDF formats are accepted for all submissions. Paper submissions must not exceed 8 pages in IEEE conference style, two-column format, including the bibliography and appendices. The Authors' kit can be found on the workshop webpage. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper. Submitted papers must not be currently under review for any other publication. Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the Program Co-Chairs at: aad(a)docomolab-euro.com ; zugenmaier(a)docomolab-euro.com Submissions can be made at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alpaca2008 Program Committee: ------------------ Imad Aad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany (co-chair) Andrew Adams, University of Reading, UK Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France George Danezis, Microsoft Research, UK Claudia Diaz, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Adolf Hohl, SAP Research, Germany Dogan Kesdogan, University of Siegen, Germany Christopher Soghoian, Indiana University, USA Alf Zugenmaier, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany (co-chair) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE PerCom 2009
by Qi Han 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE PerCom, now in its seventh year, is the premier scholarly venue in the areas of pervasive computing and communications, which aim at providing a ubiquitous platform for supporting exciting anytime and anyplace services paradigms. Pervasive computing and communications is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances of a broad spectrum of technologies including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2009 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present state-of-the-art research in the respective fields of pervasive computing and communications. The conference will feature a diverse mixture of presentation forums including core technical sessions, several targeted workshops, demonstrations, keynote speeches and panel discussions from domain experts. The conference will take place in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, one of the leading technology centers of the United States. Topics: Research contributions are solicited in all areas pertinent to pervasive computing and communications, including: Ad hoc networks for pervasive communications Autonomic computing and communications Context-aware computing Enabling technologies (e.g., wireless BAN, PAN) Low power and green pervasive computing Middleware services and agent technologies Mobile/Wireless computing systems and services in pervasive computing Novel/innovative pervasive computing applications Pervasive computing and communication architectures Pervasive computing in the automotive domain Pervasive opportunistic communications and applications Pervasive sensing, perception and semantic interpretation Positioning and tracking technologies Programming paradigms for pervasive systems Sensors and RFID in pervasive systems Smart devices and intelligent environments Trust, security and privacy issues in pervasive systems User interfaces and interaction models Virtual immersive communications Wearable computers Workshops and affiliated events: Many workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE PerCom. As in the past, PerCom 2009 will also feature a PhD Forum, Demonstrations and a Work-in-Progress Session. Please check the conference website frequently for more details. Submission Guidelines: Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Papers must show a significant relevance to pervasive computing and networking. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. The page limit is 10 IEEE conference proceedings format 2-column pages (including references, figures and tables, at least 11pt font). Detailed electronic submission procedures will be available at http://www.percom.org. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process managed by the technical program committee. IEEE Press will publish the conference proceedings. The best paper will receive the prestigious Mark Weiser best paper award. Papers of particular merit will be considered for a special issue of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. Organizing Committee: General Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA General Vice-chair: Gergely Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Chair: Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Program Vice-chairs: Silvia Giordano, SUSPI, Switzerland Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Workshops Co-chairs: Ben Lee, Oregon State University, USA Hao Chu, National Taiwan University Panels Chair: Christian Becker, Universität Mannheim, Germany Steering Committee Chair: Mohan Kumar, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Important Dates: Paper registration: September 15nd, 2008 Paper submission: September 22nd, 2008 Workshop proposal: May 23rd, 2008 Author notification: December 12th, 2008 Camera-ready due: January 7th, 2009 _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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[Tccc] [CFP] IEEE ICPADS workshop P2PNVE'08 2 weeks left
by publication acnlab 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments in conjunction with The 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008) December 8 -10, 2008 Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2008/ PURPOSE AND SCOPE The rapid growth and popularity of networked virtual environments (NVEs) such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs) in recent years have spawned a series of research interests in constructing such large-scale virtual environments. For increasing scalability and decreasing the cost of management and deployment, more and more studies propose using peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures to construct large-scale NVEs for games, multimedia virtual worlds and other applications. The goal of such research may be to support an Earth-scale virtual environment or to make hosting virtual worlds more affordable than existing client-server approaches. However, existing solutions for consistency control, persistent data storage, multimedia data dissemination, and cheat-prevention may not be straightforwardly adapted to such new environments, novel ideas and designs thus are needed to realize the potential of P2P-based NVEs. The 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments (P2P-NVE 2007) was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2007. To adhere to the theme of P2P-NVE 2007, the theme of P2P-NVE 2008 is to solicit original and previously unpublished new ideas on general P2P schemes and on the design and realization of P2P-based NVEs. The workshops aim to facilitate discussions and idea exchanges by both academics and practitioners. Student participations are also strongly encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *P2P systems and infrastructures *Applications of P2P systems *Performance evaluation of P2P systems *Trust and security issues in P2P systems *Network support for P2P systems *Fault tolerance in P2P systems *Efficient P2P resource lookup and sharing *Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) and related issues *Constructions of P2P overlays for NVEs *Multicast for P2P NVEs *P2P NVE content distribution *3D streaming for P2P NVEs *Voice communication on P2P NVEs *Persistent storage for P2P NVEs *Security and cheat-prevention mechanisms for P2P games *Data structures and queries for P2P NVEs *Consistency control for P2P NVEs *Design considerations for P2P NVEs *Prototypes of P2P NVEs *P2P control for mobile NVEs *P2P NVE applications on mobile devices IMPORTANT DATES Submission: July 5, 2008 Notification: August 15, 2008 Camera ready: September 12, 2008 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original, unpublished manuscripts, not to exceed 6 double-columned, single-spaced pages, to web site http://acnlab.csie.ncu.edu.tw/P2PNVE2008. Submitted papers should be in be in PDF format in accordance with IEEE Computer Society guidelines (ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings). All submitted papers will be refereed by reviewers in terms of originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation. _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc(a)lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc

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